alumni news
Robert Allen (BA ’81) earned his Ph.D. in French History at Columbia University and has received tenure at Stephen F. Austin State University. Last year Press Universitaires de Rennes published his book, Les tribunaux criminals sous la Revolution et l’Empire 1792-1811.
Tom Attanasio (BA ‘02) is finishing his D.Phil in History at Oxford and will be attending NYU Law School in August. This summer he taught in the SMU in Oxford program--the first to have been a student, program assistant and teacher in that program.
Jimmy Bryan (PhD ’06) has a one-year appointment as a senior instructor at the University of Texas, Dallas, and will present a paper at the Filson Institute’s “Comparative Perspectives on North American Borderlands” conference this fall.
Adrienne Caughfield (MA ‘99) is director of academic programs at Heritage Farmstead Museum in Plano, Texas, where she arranges public lecture series on history, genealogy and pioneer crafts. Last year she published a book through Texas A&M Press--True Women and Westward Expansion.
Joe Eaton (MA ‘94) completed his PhD in 2004 from Columbia University. For the 2005-06 academic year he is serving as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Tamkang University in Danshui, Taiwan. There he teaches American history in the Graduate Institute of American Studies and does research on early 19th century Anglo-American literary relations.
Hayden Hodges (BA ‘04) is currently working for Congressman Jerry Weller on Capitol Hill. If he can find time to prepare for the LSAT and GRE exams, Hayden plans to pursue a joint program to earn a law degree and an MA in Latin American Studies.
Lance LaGroue (BA ‘03) is finishing his post-baccalaureate degree in Classics at Columbia and has chosen the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to pursue a PhD in ancient history.
Aaron Lee (BA ’01) was accepted into the evening part-time program of SMU’s Dedman School of Law.
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According to her count, Wrenn Schmidt (BA’ 05) has been living in New York City for one year and 19 days. In the time honored fashion she found employment in a Starbucks and, then, in a story that sounds more like fiction than biography, she was cast in an off Broadway play, "Crazy for the Dog," which got a rave review in the New York Times. At the same time, she scored the female lead in the Aaron Latham (who wrote Urban Cowboy) musical "Pogo & Evie." Best of all, Wrenn has now been cast as the understudy for the character Honey in the national touring company of “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” starring Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin. She auditioned before Edward Albee for the part.
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Charles Rey Stewart (MA ’82), who earned a degree in Ibero-American history under the tutelage of Luis Martin and David Weber, has gone on to earn a PhD in Communications from Regent University (’05), writing a dissertation on “The Use of Entertainment-Education Narratives to Promote Moral and Spiritual Values.” In between degrees, he served for ten years as a member of the Committee on Bible Translation for the Spanish New International Version of the Bible (Nueva Versión Internacional, NVI, copyright 1999), and served as Managing Editor for Vida Publishers International (now the Spanish publishing arm of Zondervan).
Art Tatman (MA ‘05) will publish an article, “Grocers, Empresarias, and the Mexican Consul: Little Mexico, the Chamber of Commerce Movement, and the Founding of La Camara Mexicana de Comercio de Dallas,” in the Fall/Winter issue of Journal of the West.
Chad Wolf (BA '98) recently joined Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates in Washington, D.C., as a Senior Director. In 2005, Chad left the Transportation Security Administration, a component agency of the Department of Homeland Security after three and half years spent helping to build the agency in the aftermath of 9/11. Upon leaving TSA, Chad was the youngest Assistant Administrator responsible for policy, rulemaking and legislative initiatives. Prior to TSA, Chad worked for republican Senators Phil Gramm of Texas and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska.
Parker Worth (B.A. ‘04) will begin law school in fall ’06 at Ole Miss.
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