Alumni and Student News

Brian Marrs ’05 is an energy professional at the Robert Bosch Foundation in Berlin working with "new" renewable energy systems, particularly offshore wind, and writing a comprehensive thesis on clean energy businesses and technical development in the US and Europe. He encourages more Politics grads to apply for the Bosch fellowship he holds.

Sarah Strong Goss ’08 is working as a national security analyst for Science Applications International Corporation, providing technical and analytic research support for the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Jessica Jeanty ’08 plans to head to law school next year; this year she’s working as a Legal Assistant in Fredericksburg.

Anderson Koeniger ’08 is a Development and Alumni Assistant at Stuart Hall School in Staunton.

Brenan Richards ’08 returned to Grounds in August to complete his MPP at Batten School. He spent the summer in D.C. working on counter-terrorism for the Under Secretary of Defense.

Jonathan Robins ’08 is working at Stonebridge International in DC, after an internship at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Sean Rowan ’08 is working as a web builder for a large Norfolk company and deciding whether to pursue a public policy or law degree.

Sara Stinson ’08  is deferring her admission to Cornell Law School for one year, working as a paralegal in DC and travelling, first to China and then to France.

Joseph Toner ’08 is heading to Washington and Lee School of Law this Fall.

Kelly Webster ’08 starts this fall at the University of Richmond School of Law, training to work with victims of sexual and domestic violence .

Tom Wonder ’08 is teaching English for a year in Moscow, Russia.

Graduate Student News

Alice Ba, Ph.D.’00, returned to Grounds in September to give a talk on “China Engaged: Comparative Institutions and Processes.” Ba is a Professor at the University of Delaware and a leading expert on the international relations of ASEAN and China. She recently completed a Fulbright grant in Beijing. Her book, Negotiating East and Southeast Asia, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press.

This fall second-year Ph.D. student Davis Brown's book, The Sword, the Cross and the Eagle: The American Christian Just War Tradition will appear from Rowman & Littlefield publishers.

Anne Mariel Peters has been awarded a Governing America in a Global Era (GAGE) Fellowship at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. Peters' dissertation examines the effect of U.S. aid on developmental institutions in four American client states: Egypt, Jordan, South, Korea, and Taiwan. John Waterbury, formerly of the American University of Beirut, will serve as Anne's GAGE mentor.

Hilde Restad has a fellowship from the University’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture to write her dissertation American exceptionalism and American unilateralism.