It’s been an exciting year for HSS students and alumni.
- 25 External Awards (including 3 Fulbright and 2 Boren Awards)
- 19 Conference Presentations at Non-TCNJ conferences, including one international at a conference co-sponsored by the Sorbonne and Harvard Medical School
- 15 Publications in Non-TCNJ venues based on work written at TCNJ
In the 2013 calendar year we saw a 41% increase in students participating in credit-bearing internships (from 95 students in 2012 to 134 students in 2013). In fall 2013, 53% of our seniors reported having participated in a study abroad experience, compared to only 32% of our seniors reporting this in 2011. Indeed, in 2013-2014 517 of our students had a study abroad experience and contributed nearly 15,000 of hours of service in community-engaged learning projects. We have seen similarly dramatic increases in the numbers of students participating in the Celebration of Student Achievement, both in the all-College event in the late spring and in the HSS-only event in early December. Thanks to Jason Dahling (Psychology) for his work in tracking this information.
This was the third year in a row in which an HSS student won a Pickering Fellowship.
All three our Pickering winners had won Fulbright awards before going on to the Pickering: Esther Tetruashvili (Fulbright in Azerbaijan, Soros Fellowship, Pickering at Harvard University), Carolina Chica (Fulbright in India, Pickering at George Washington University), and Bryan Furman (Fulbright in Tajikistan, Pickering at Georgetown University).
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Criminology
One criminology alumnus is now a research analyst with the Nevada Supreme Court; another is now in law school at the College of William and Mary; one alumnus is in an MBA program in accounting at Rutgers; and yet another alumna has entered a master’s program in Criminal Justice at Temple University.
English Liberal Arts and English Secondary Education
An alumna has entered a doctoral program in speech pathology at Washington University with a fellowship and another is working for the law firm Dilworth Paxson LLP; one alumnus is teaching in Phoenix through Teach for America. One alumnus is a publications assistant for the Electrochemical Society; one alumna is a Digital Assistant for ADDitude Magazine and Adoptive Families Magazine at New Hope Media; another alumna is a public relations intern at TerraCycle; and finally, we have one alumna interning at the Princeton University Press and in law school at NYU. In addition, we have had many placements in Secondary school across the state.
One English secondary education graduate has accepted a position as a teaching assistant in France through the French Ministry of Education. In addition, our 5-year MA graduates in English have won jobs in Metuchen and Mooreston. One of our recent English secondary education alumni, just accepted a 2-year teaching position at the Raffles Institution, a very prestigious high school in Singapore.
English – Journalism and Professional Writing
Once again, we’ve had remarkable successes for our journalists. One journalism major is working at NBC News for Richard Engel, the chief foreign correspondent, after having done an internship with him. Another journalism major, landed a job with Seventeen Magazine, also following an internship there. One journalism alumnus was hired by his internship employer, Vertical Health, and is writing for them from Melbourne Australia.
History
One alumnus who was a double major with Russian Studies) has a Wilson Center Fellowship for 2014-2015; An alumna is at Georgetown in a master’s program on international conflict resolution; Another alumnus with a double major with Chinese has full funding for a master’s in international relations at Peking University; One of our graduates is working with AmeriCorps in Princeton and another has a fellowship to study public history at Temple University.
Then, naturally, a many of our History-Secondary Education graduates have been placed all over the state in high schools for short-term teaching positions.
International Studies
One of our 2014 graduates has a Fulbright-adjacent teaching assistantship to Austria; another graduate, with a double major with Political Science, is a data analyst at Bloomberg; one alumna is at the George Washington University Law School; and alumnus is a Research Analyst at MID Jersey Chamber of Commerce in Hamilton, NJ.
Philosophy
As always, several graduates are attending law school. One of our graduates is working at H&R Block as a tax preparer while preparing to continue her education. In addition, one alumnus is attending the PhD program in Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center with funding; and another graduate is now working at our very own Bonner Center.
Political Science
Impressively, one 2014 graduate recently declined his spot at the University of Chicago Law School to accept an invitation to study at Harvard Law School; another alumnus is at the University of Colorado at Boulder Law School; one 2014 alumna is at Seton Hall Law School; and another graduate is a Digital Marketing Intern at Resound Marketing.
Furthermore, one of our recent graduates (a double major with Women’s & Gender Studies) has accepted a position in the Office of the Governor of the State of New Jersey. Another received a large scholarship and is attending law school at Lewis & Clark, one of the top environmental law programs in the US. Another graduate has accepted a paid internship with a defense contractor in their government relations office, thanks to his networking experience at the TCNJ / Washington Center. Two of our graduates from recent years are both pursuing Master’s of Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.
Psychology
This past year, graduates in several similarly directed yet distinct programs of study. Two entered 1/0 psychology doctoral programs, one is in a Counseling Psychology doctoral program at Lehigh, and another is beginning her doctorate in physical therapy at Long Island University. Two other alumna are beginning master’s in speech and language pathology at NYU and Teachers College, respectively. Another alumna is in a Clinical Psychology doctoral program with a fellowship at Suffolk University.
Sociology and Anthropology
One recent graduate is now working for JP Morgan in their Corporate Analyst Development Program in New York, while another is pursuing a Master’s in public Policy at the Bloustein School at Rutgers. Another sociology major is enrolled in an MA program in occupational therapy at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. We are also very proud of a self-designed Anthropology major who is pursuing a joint MD/PhD program at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in conjunction with both Rutgers and Princeton and is the first student in the medical school to pursue the joint PhD in Cultural Anthropology.
World Languages and Cultures
One very ambitious alumna will be a Princeton in Latin America Fellow teaching ESL in Parramos, Guatemala; another alumna will be teaching ESL at the University of Cartagena in Colombia; and one alumnus who graduated with a self-designed Russian and History double major has an internship at the Wilson Center and is applying to doctoral programs in Russian history for fall 2015.
Women’s & Gender Studies
One WILL (Women in Learning and Leadership) student will be in medical school at Rowan University’s School of Osteopathic Medicine; one alumna of 2014 has won a summer teaching fellowship through the Uncommon Charter School Network and will be teaching at Roxbury Prep once she finishes her MA at TCNJ in Spring 2015; and an alumnus of the major will be at the University College of Dublin in the MA program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Another alumna (a double major with English) is an intern at Princeton University Press and finally, an alumnus of the department will be at the University College of Dublin in the MA program in Gender and Sexuality Studies.