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2019 IRT Cohort Matriculation

Congratulations to the 2019 IRT Cohort as they begin their journey to graduate school. Our students will be matriculating to the consortium and non-consortium institutions listed in the chart below. For additional details by student, refer to our earlier post –A Big Congratulations to the 2019 IRT Cohort!

2019 IRT Student Matriculation

Boston College - 2
Boston University - 1
Brown University - 4
Brown University/University of Wisconsin - 1
California State University, Long Beach* - 1
Central Michigan University* - 1
City University of New York* - 1
Columbia University - 2
Duke University - 2
Emory University - 1
George Washington University - 1
Harvard University - 4
Harvard Divinity School* - 1
Howard University* - 1
London School of Economics* - 1
Michigan State University, Education - 1
New York University - 3
Northwestern University - 3
Pennsylvania State University* - 2
Princeton University - 1
Purdue University - 2
Rutgers University - 1
San Francisco State University* - 1
Seattle University* - 1
Stanford University - 5

SUNY Albany* - 1
Teachers College, Columbia University - 3
The Ohio State University* - 2
University of California, Berkeley - 2
University of California, Davis - 5
University of California, San Diego - 2
University of California, San Diego/San Diego State University* - 1
University of California, Los Angeles* - 4
University of California, Santa Cruz* - 1
University of Georgia* - 1
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign* - 1
University of Kansas* - 1
University of Maine - 1
University of Maryland, College Park - 3
University of Michigan - 6
University of Minnesota* - 1
University of Pennsylvania - 4
University of Rhode Island - 1
University of Rochester - 2
University of Vermont - 1
University of Virginia - 2
University of Washington - 1
University of Wisconsin-Madison - 2
Vanderbilt University - 2
Washington State University - 2
Yale University - 2

* denotes non-consortium institution. 100 students from the 2019 cohort are matriculating to graduate school.13 students are not matriculating; 12 students' plans are unknown; Total of 125 students in the 2019 cohort.

IRT 2020 Cohort

IRT Welcomes 2020 Cohort

For the safety and wellbeing of our scholars, the IRT has made the difficult decision to cancel this year’s summer workshop. Instead of our average 30 interns and 100 associates, we will be supporting a total of 139 scholars for the 2020-2021 cohort! 58% of the class will be pursuing fields in the Arts & Sciences while 42% are pursuing Education tracks.

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Reflections from J.T. Roane, IRT ’08

I have the honor of serving as the co-editor of Black Perspectives, the award-winning digital platform of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) along with Dr. Sasha Turner. Dr. Keisha Blain founded the site in 2017 with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi serving as associate editor. Black Perspectives emerged as an outgrowth of the original AAIHS blog founded by Dr. Chris Cameron in 2014 as part of his efforts to build AAIHS. I began writing for the platform in 2017, in 2018 I became an associate editor, and in January 2019, I assumed the role of senior editor.

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Balancing Work and Life Commitments

IRT’s Associate Director and Manager of Programs Kate Slater shares her insights on time management.

Over the course of the past few years, I’ve been working full-time while also enrolled as a full-time doctoral student, and I’ve learned a thing or two about time management over those years. In 2016, it felt like a near-impossible undertaking to be advising a cohort of 45 students at the IRT, going on the road to recruit, and also attending three hour seminars three days a week at the University of New Hampshire. I floundered for a few months as I came to terms with a new piece of my identity, and as a super Type-A human being, it was a profoundly humbling experience to realize that, quite frankly, I couldn’t do it all.

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Alumni Accolades – July 2020

~2014 Cohort~

Jonathan Cortez, IRT ‘14 accepted the César Chávez Fellowship pre/post doc from Dartmouth College starting in fall 2020. Jonathan will be working in the department of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies until 2022.

Joshua Abreu, IRT ’14 received a Doctor in Philosophy – Educational Leadership after successfully defended his dissertation at UConn’s Neag School of Education in the Department of Educational Leadership in March 2020. A brief bio is included below:

My research interest centers on how college professors across different academic disciplines learn to teach and navigate academia—particularly professors who teach and research issues of diversity and equity. I believe my scholarship contributes to understanding and support of the professional success of faculty committed to equity. For my dissertation, I studied how Criminology/Criminal Justice professors have learned to include critical and marginalized perspectives of crime and crime control into their teaching. I particularly focused on professors responsible for teaching the students most impacted by the unjust criminal justice system (e.g., Black, Latinx, and low-income students).

Prior to UConn, I worked as a retention specialist and adjunct instructor at Northern Essex Community College (NECC) in Lawrence, MA. At NECC, I helped establish the Student Success Center, which provided retention counseling and culturally-sustaining supports to Latinx college students. Before NECC, I worked as a sworn part-time police officer in New Hampshire and then became a licensed social worker for Massachusetts Department of Children and Families. My experiences in law enforcement, social work, and education has positioned me to take an interdisciplinary and practical approach to teaching and researching social inequities in higher education. I earned a bachelor’s and master’s in Criminal Justice from the University of Massachusetts – Lowell.

~2011 Cohort~

Congratulations to Dr. Anthony Urena, IRT ’11 who successfully defended his dissertation and will be joining Princeton as a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the fall.

Aria Halliday, IRT ’11 was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship for a year dedicated to research with no service or teaching responsibilities for 2020-2021. Aria also accepted an Assistant Professor position at the University of Kentucky in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and African American and Africana Studies program.

~2008 Cohort~

Adom Getachow, IRT ‘08 was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education in the article, “Prominent Scholars Threaten to Boycott Colleges That Don’t Support Contingent Faculty During Pandemic.”

~2007 Cohort~

Heather Moore Roberson, IRT ‘07/’10 is a recipient of the 2020 Thoburn Award for Excellence in Teaching. The Thoburn Award for Excellence in Teaching is presented to a faculty member who has been at Allegheny College for 10 years or less.

~2004 Cohort~

Jessica Bardill, IRT ‘04 has received tenure and a promotion to Associate Professor of Indigenous Literature and Cultures at Concordia University.

Thank you to IRT for your brilliance, support, and endurance…I am making sure to give back to many of the places and people that got me here. Keep lifting, keep climbing, keep fighting, keep changing.

~2000 Cohort~

Sherri Ann Charleston, IRT ’00 was named chief diversity and inclusion officer at Harvard University beginning. Read article in the Harvard Gazette.