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Justin McCrae Rose
Birdsall Fellow for the Miller Center of Public Affairs Department of Politics Rutgers University (B.A.) Baylor University (M.A.) Miami, Florida
Justin continues to work towards his Ph.D. in political theory. In addition to his studies, Justin has been an active participant in his department’s political theory colloquiums, in which he was a discussant for two visiting faculty members’ papers over the course of the year. He has expanded beyond his political theory background to become a teaching assistant for several of the Politics Department’s American Politics courses. Outside of the classroom Justin continues to demonstrate a commitment to university diversity by working for the Office of Graduate Student Diversity Programs, where he is a doctoral intern. He has participated in the office’s recruiting efforts, program implementation, and as a host for the Second Annual Graduate Student Diversity Visitation Weekend. As a result of the weekend, several prospective students of diverse backgrounds have decided to pursue their graduate studies at the University of Virginia. During the summer Justin continued his role in the university community as a Graduate Assistant for the university’s Summer Transition Program, where he assisted incoming first-years in making a smooth transition into the academic and social aspects of college life.
Lanier Lee Sammons
Edgar Shannon Fellow Department of Music Columbia University (B.A.) Macon, Georgia
Lanier has remained active as a composer and a performer in addition to completing his qualifying exams. His piece, “Each” for chamber ensemble and electronics, was selected for performance at the 2010 Society of Composers, Inc. National Student Conference in March. The renowned percussion quartet Talujon premiered “D.C. Home” at Old Cabell Hall in February. Lanier presented “Marbles,” a piece for dancers and interactive electronics developed with choreographers from the U.Va. dance program, in a series of four performances at Culbreth Theater. Lanier has continued to perform extensively on both classical and electric guitar. As part of Dzian!, he helped fuel fundraisers for earthquake relief in Haiti and typhoon relief in Taiwan. Dzian! performed in New York’s Union Square as part of the Passport to Taiwan festival. Lanier has also played improvisational sets around Charlottesville and remained an active member of the University’s New Music Ensemble. His research this year focused on the act of composition as play, the use of the electric guitar by composers, and intersection and overlap between popular music and art music in the 20th and 21st centuries. He will begin work on his dissertation in the coming year.
Stacie Lynne Thyrion
Jefferson Scholars Foundation Fellow Department of Philosophy
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (B.A.) Green Bay, Wisconsin
In the fall of 2009 Stacie transferred from the UVA Classics Department to the UVA Philosophy Department. She has broadened her education in modern and contemporary philosophy and continued her studies in ancient Greek philosophy. She plans to continue her work with the Platonic dialogues in her dissertation research, most notably the Phaedrus and the Symposium. Her work focuses most intently on Plato’s attitudes towards his own written philosophy, in relation to his attitudes towards the writings and speeches of other Greek poets and intellectuals, and in relation to his attitudes towards the spoken, dialectical philosophy of his teacher, Socrates. She continues to enjoy Greek reading groups with colleagues in both departments as well as teaching Greek to fellow graduate students and community youth.
Lanier Sammons, the Edgar Shannon Fellow (Music), jams at a Chinese New Year celebration in Charlottesville.
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