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Anna Bond Estes (m.s.) Madison, Wisconsin


Anna spent several months over the past year in Tanzania, finishing field work and working as a National Geographic expert on their summer trips to Tanzania. Anna recently received a 2010-11 NASA Earth Systems Science Fellowship. She plans to complete her Ph.D. in May 2011.


Adam Scott Lovelady


(j.d., m.u.e.p.) Richmond, Virginia


Adam is an attorney with McGuireWoods LLP in Richmond, Virginia. His practice includes land use and environmental law with a focus on sustain- ability. Adam is certified as a LEED® Accredited Professional, has recently presented at conferences on topics such as land use reform and the integra- tion of preservation and sustainability, and serves on the executive committee of the Richmond Bar Association’s Energy & Environmental Law Section. Adam and his wife Tracy welcomed their second son in late summer.


Eric Ryan McDermott


(m.b.a.) Atlanta, Georgia Eric continues as a consultant at Bain & Company.


Matthew Christopher


Pawlowicz (m.a.) Henrico, Virginia


Matthew completed his Ph.D. research in December of 2008. His research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Explorers Club Washington Group, the U.Va. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Foundation. The project, an archaeological survey of the southern Tanzanian coast around the historic town of Mikindani, was successful in recovering 55 archaeological sites covering the the past two millennia of East African coastal history and is making a significant contribu- tion to our understanding of the functioning of the pre-modern “global system” which existed in the Indian Ocean. Over the past academic year Matthew started publishing the results of his research, co- authored a paper about Swahili histories, and made significant progress in writing his dissertation. He has also taught two courses in the U.Va. Anthropol- ogy Department, and helped to lead the U.Va. study abroad trip to southern Africa this summer.


Brian Russell Roberts (ph.d.) Provo, Utah


Brian is an assistant professor of English at Brigham Young University. His essay “Lost Theaters of African American Internationalism: Diplomacy and Henry


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Francis Downing in Luanda and London” received the 2009 Darwin T. Turner Award for Best Essay of the Year in the journal African American Review.


Peter Michael Traub (m.a.) Charlottesville, Virginia


Peter is currently working to finish his Ph.D. in the composition and computer technologies program. His dissertation is underway and he expects to complete it in early fall 2010. It is titled “Spatial Exploration: Physical, Virtual, and Hybrid Spaces as Compositional Parameters.” Peter received a GSAS Dissertation Year Fellowship for 2009-2010 to support his final year of dissertation work.


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Aurie Hsu (m.f.a.) Charlottesville, Virginia


Aurie continues her Ph.D. studies in the composition and computer technologies program in the music department. Recent performances of Aurie’s compo- sitions include mosaic for mixed quintet at the 2010 SCI National Student Convention, shadows no. 4 for tribal-fusion belly dancer, wireless sensor network, and electronics at SEAMUS 2010, the CHI Media Showcase 2010, and ICMC 2010, and a piece for the M&M Robot Orchestra at the Logos Foundation in Ghent, Belgium. Current projects include the expan- sion of the wireless sensor belly dance interface (a collaboration with composer Steven Kemper) and pieces for extended piano and electronics. Aurie dances with Fire in the Belly Dance Co., a profes- sional tribal-fusion belly dance company and is the director of the World and Experimental Arts Group (WeArts), an organization that seeks to promote cultural and experimental arts in Charlottesville.


Seton Gray Marshall (m.b.a.) Birmingham, Alabama


After graduation last May, Seton moved to Birming- ham, Alabama, where he now works as an associate for New Capital Partners. New Capital Partners is a private equity firm that invests in high growth, ser- vice-based companies in the Southeastern United States and Texas. Originally from Princeton, New Jersey, Seton is enjoying acclimating to the deep South, and he and his wife are having a wonderful time settling back into life in the “real world.”


Jamala Kianga Massenburg


(m.b.a.) Cambridge, Massachusetts


Jamala is a consultant at ZS Associates in Boston, Massachusetts.


Kristin M. Milone (m.b.a.) Washington, D.C.


Kristin is enjoying her job in Washington,D.C., work- ing for Perseus, a private equity firm and adjusting to life in a new city. She puts her Darden education to use as she helps grow some of Perseus’ younger portfolio companies and raise new money for the firm’s eighth fund. Kristin spent the summer busy with travel, both for work and pleasure, and she plans to stay busy running two marathons in the fall (Twin Cities and New York).


Melissa Sue Ragain (m.a.) Charlottesville, Virginia


In 2009-2010 Melissa was a curatorial assistant at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, taught Art History II at the University of Richmond, and was the Luszak-Lindner Curatorial Fellow at the U.Va. Museum, where she organized a traveling exhibi- tion on the Fourteenth Street school of painters. She also guest curated the exhibit “Conflict/Interest” at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, which opened in January 2010. She is currently writing the third chapter of her dissertation and is the exhibit’s assistant for Harrison Small Library’s upcoming exhibition “Global Collections.” In the fall she will begin a nine-month Critical Studies Residency at the Core Program, sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.


Christopher Aaron Richins


(m.b.a.) Atlanta, Georgia


Christopher is a consultant at Bain & Company in Atlanta.


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