Academia
Stay up to date on the latest from your fellow Violets! Read about what alumni are up to in academia, from receiving academic awards to getting their PhD and more.
Please note: Class notes are organized first by school (you may use the links on the right to jump to a school or college you'd like to view notes from) and within each school or college, notes are organized by class year (most recent graduates to older graduates).
College of Arts & Science
Devanshi Khetarpal (CAS ʼ21, GSAS ʼ23) is currently a Graduate Teaching Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was the Truman Capote and Sonny Mehta Fellow in Fiction last year. (Summer 2024)
Philip Thomas (CAS ʼ14) is graduating from the University of Maryland with his MBA. He was recognized in Poets & Quants "100 Best & Brightest MBA's: Class of 2023". (Spring 2023)
Shahida Arabi (CAS ʼ12) is excited to announce the publication of her latest research study on narcissistic and psychopathic personality traits in the Journal of Personality and Individual Differences. She is also celebrating the sale of foreign rights to her book, The Highly Sensitive Person’s Guide to Toxic People (published by New Harbinger Publications) worldwide and the upcoming translation of her book into 12 different languages. (Fall 2022)
Caitlin Miller (CAS ʼ06) was named the Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs at Midwestern University Arizona College of Optometry. (Fall 2023)
Emily Marker (CAS ʼ04) has published her first book, Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era, which is out now with Cornell UP! The book explores how education reforms and programs promoting solidarity between French and African youth collided with transnational efforts to make young people in Western Europe feel more European after World War II. Black France, White Europe locates these competing generational projects at the center of the entangled history of African decolonization and European integration. (Fall 2022)
David Vintinner (CIMS ʼ03, STERN ʼ10) is happy to be a "Triple Violet" as Assistant Vice President of Institutional Research at New York University. (Summer 2023)
Becca Franks (CAS ʼ02) is a research scientist in the department of Environmental Studies at New York University and recently won a Refinement Grant from the Animal Welfare Institute. Dr. Franks is among four winners who will develop and test innovative methods of refinement to the care, husbandry, or housing of animals in research to improve their welfare. (Winter 2022)
Christine M. Alexander-Greene (WSUC ʼ91) successfully defended dissertation entitled 'A Case Study of Key Program Elements Supporting the Occupational Participation of Foster Youth in the Student Role' and completed the Doctor of Science degree in occupational science at Towson University. (Summer 2022)
Steven Allan Riess (ARTS ʼ68) retired as the Bernard Brommel Distinguished Research Professor, Emeritus, at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, where he taught for 35 years. He was also awarded the Guy Lewis Award for Contributions to the field of Sport History at the 50th annual meeting of the North American Society for Sport History. (Summer 2022)
Susan Pashman (ARTS ʼ63) has published her latest book, A Walk in the Park: Kinesthesia in the Arts of Landscape, with Brill. It represents 65 years of research and pondering the neural underpinnings of artistic expression. (Spring 2024)
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Thaïs Miller (GAL ʼ11) graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with her PhD in literature, creative/critical writing concentration. She accepted a tenure-track assistant professor of creative writing (fiction) position in the Department of Film, Theatre, and Creative Writing at the University of Central Arkansas. (Summer 2024)
Kristyn Goldberg (GAL ʼ06, GSAS ʼ12) received her PhD in Communication Studies from The University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in rhetoric and media, and her dissertation, “Monstrification: Celebrity Self-Othering as Alternative Narratives of Empowerment” is now available online. (Summer 2023)
Shanté Paradigm Smalls, PhD (GAL ʼ05, GSAS ʼ11) started their new job as Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Public Policy in TSOA at NYU. (Fall 2023)
Graduate School of Arts & Science
Erica Robenalt (GSAS ʼ15) is publishing her first book, The Queer Museum: Radical Inclusion and Western Museology, which looks at museums' relationships with LGBTQ+ communities. It is available on Open Access from Taylor & Francis. (Spring 2024)
Jennifer Dorothy Lee’s (GSAS ʼ14) first book, Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978-1985, is coming out with the University of California Press in Spring 2024, which looks at the Cultural Revolutionary aftermath through art. (Fall 2023)
Paul Viskanta (GSAS ʼ93) defended his dissertation titled “Teachers Who Collaborate with a Professional Writing Organization: The Importance of Critical Stance” and received his Doctor of Education (EdD) degree in December 2021 from University of Denver in Colorado. Dr. Viskanta’s focus is on supporting the teaching of writing in secondary schools. (Spring 2022)
Jerome Krase (GSAS ʼ73) coauthored COVID-19 in Brooklyn: Everyday Life during a Pandemic with Judith N. DeSena and was featured in a Fulbright Snapshot. (Spring 2023)
Martin Nass (GSAS ʼ49, ʼ54, ʼ65) has been connected with NYU since 1948. After receiving his Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in 1965, he was appointed Visiting Professor of Psychology in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, 1966-68; Visiting Professor in the Postdoctoral Program, 1969-2016, and Professor Emeritus, 2016-Present. (Summer 2022)
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development
Sharon Counts (STEINHARDT ʼ06, ʼ23) was appointed as Assistant Professor of Business and Design at the Parsons School of Design, The New School. (Fall 2023)
Lisa-Erika James (STEINHARDT ʼ02) has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in the Teachers for Global Classrooms program. (Summer 2024)
Laura Josepher (STEINHARDT ʼ88, ʼ90) wrote the textbook Performing in Contemporary Musicals with NYU Steinhardt Vocal Faculty, David Sisco. (Winter 2022)
Stern School of Business
Laura Persky (STERN ʼ90) worked in product management and advertising, then switched to academia. She recently earned a Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) in Executive Leadership from St. John Fisher College, August 2018. Ms. Persky had been working at Manhattanville College as a Graduate Program Director. Shortly after she was named Associate Dean at Manhattanville College School of Professional Studies in January 2019. (Summer 2020)
Jeffrey Jarrett (STERN ʼ68) is the former Chairperson of the Department of Management Science and Professor of Management Science and Finance at the University of Rhode Island. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan and New York University where he studied with W. Edwards Deming, among others. (Winter 2020)
Herbert A Satzman (STERN ʼ64) spent nearly three decades in the ad agency business and for the past 22 years has been teaching undergraduate Ad Copywriting at Baruch College (CUNY) and Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY). (Fall 2023)