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  • Peter Verovšek ’06

    August 18, 2015

    Peter, who majored in Government and German and was a Fulbright Scholar in Slovenia and later a DAAD Fellow in Frankfurt, finished his Yale Ph.D. in Political Science and is Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard, where he received a Certificate of Teaching Excellence from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. His has completed his book manuscript on The Past as a Resource for Political Change. This summer he was married at Lake Bled in Slovenia, surely one of the most beautiful spots on earth.

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  • Susannah Thompson ’08 and Eli Rosen ’08

    August 18, 2015

    Susannah and Eli have been living in Berlin since graduation—Susannah first with support from the DAAD and then a Dartmouth General Fellowship, followed by a few years working for the Atlantik-Brücke. She now employed by Wein & Vinos, Germany’s largest importer of Spanish wines. Eli in the meantime teaches grades 7-9 at the Freie Montessori Schule Berlin, in addition to English and bilingual Geology to the 11th and 12th graders. This summer they were married in Boston in a ceremony that included several German poems suggested by Ellis Shookman.

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  • Calder Fong ’10

    August 18, 2015

    After graduation, Calder received a Fulbright fellowship to study industrial archaeology, industrial cultural studies, and the history of science and technology at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. He is now a Ph.D. candidate in German at the University of Michigan. 

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  • Jenny Strakovsky ’09

    August 18, 2015

    Jenny spent a Fulbright year at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin before beginning her graduate program. She writes, “Things are going very well. That freshman writing seminar on the Künstlerroman turned out to have lasting consequences! I am still at Stanford, working toward a PhD in German Studies, and plan to graduate in June 2016. Currently, I’m in the thick of the dissertation-writing adventure, studying 19th-Century novelist Gottfried Keller and his depictions of romantic love and marriage.

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  • Claire Scott ’11

    August 18, 2015

    Claire E. Scott is a PhD candidate in the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies.

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