Trevor Boffone, a Languages and Cultures alumnus from 2008, taught French and Spanish in New Orleans schools.
He received his Ph.D. in Chicano Contemporary Theatre at the University of Houston (TX) in December 2015. ¡Felicitaciones, Dr. Boffone!
Leopoldo Tablante, visiting assistant professor of languages and cultures, recently published an analysis of the commercial evolution of salsa music from its origins in the Latino barrios of New York City, its intensive commercialization and exploitation in the US and the Caribbean mainly by the independent group Fania throughout the 1970s, and its more recent incorporation to the catalogue of major global labels such as Sony Music.
Dr. Carol Ann MacGregor, Department of Sociology, and Sociology Alum Brian Fitzpatrick co-authored an article titled "Catholic Schools in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina."
Dwayne Fontenette, Jr. currently serves as Dean of Students at Charter High School for Architecture and Design in Philadelphia.
Political Science major, Tiyanna Lords, currently serves as president of REACH. The goal of the REACH organization is to mentor and inspire teenagers from 8th to 12th grade by instilling in them the importance of higher education.
Dr. Terri Bednarz, RSM, was awarded funding to jump-start a textbook on humor in the Bible, which will be co-authored by students in the Honors program.
The history department's Dr. Rian Thum has penned an essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books, entitled "What is a Uyghur?" You may access the essay at the following link: https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/uyghur/. The essay explores, in brief, issues examined at length in Dr. Thum's now-available book, The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History (Harvard, 2014).
Raven Richard ’14 is the newest TV news reporter at KNDO/KNDU in Yakima, Washington.
For the past year Holly has been employed as a research engineer at Digital Reasoning (www.digitalreasoning.com ), a software company that focuses on large scale unstructured text analytics. Digital Reasoning’s machine learning platform, Synthesys, identifies threats, risks and opportunities by transforming information into a private Knowledge Graph that enables automated understanding of human communication.
Ansel Augustine '00 (sociology), M.P.S. '02 (LIMEX), Director of the Office of Black Catholic Ministries for the Archdiocese of New Orleans, was named one of Gambit Weekly's 40 Under 40.