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Alumni Spotlights

  • Bergen graduated from the MAEUS program in 2012.  Did you receive any awards or honors during your time in the program? (FLAS, Fulbright, other scholarships, etc…) FLAS Fellowship for Swedish What is your current position/job title? Staff Assistant to the U.S. State Department Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Please provide a brief overview of what you have done...
  • Javier graduated from the MAEUS program in 2020.  Did you receive any awards or honors during your time in the program? (FLAS, Fulbright, other scholarships, etc…) I was a recipient of FLAS in the Summer of 2018 and the academic year of 2019-2020 I also participated in the attendance of the study trip to KU Leuven and Brussels in Belgium on March 17-23, 2019. with the Jean Monet Network,...
  • Brent Rosenstein is an alum from the MAEUS program and a two-time FLAS Fellowship Recipient.  Did you receive any awards or honors during your time in the program? (FLAS, Fulbright, other scholarships, etc...) FLAS Fellowship in Arabic (Summer 2013), FLAS Fellowship in French (AY 2013-14) What is your current position/job title? Just finished my Ph.D. program. Please provide a brief...
  • Did you receive any awards or honors during your time in the program? Twice awarded a FLAS Fellowship for the study of Intermediate and Advanced Swedish. What is your current position? Program Director for the PhD & MACRM programs in the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago How has the MAEUS program helped you in your current career? The interdisciplinary nature of...
  • Christopher Jackson is a MAEUS and FLAS alumni who graduated from the program in 2015.  Did you receive any awards or honors during your time in the program? (FLAS, Fulbright, other scholarships, etc…) FLAS 2014-15 What is your current position/job title? Faculty Instructor (Teaching Professor) of International Relations, Loyola Marymount University Please provide a brief overview of...
  • Jordan Evans-Kaplan graduated from the MAEUS program. Since graduation, he has continued to focus his skills in data science, visualization, and analysis by trading stocks using similar predictive models as implemented in his thesis, and then applying these same techniques to his new job in a FinTech startup. How has the MAEUS program helped you in your current career? By providing the...
  • Genie is a 2019 MAEUS graduate.  Did you receive any awards or honors during your time in the program? (FLAS, Fulbright, other scholarships, etc…) I received FLAS to continue studying German. What is your current position/job title? International Admissions Advisor Please provide a brief overview of what you have done academically and/or professionally since graduating from the MAEUS...
  • Francesca Robinson is a 2020 graduate of the MAEUS program. Her thesis focused on migrant integration in the European Union. Francesca was a 5-year BA/MA student and worked as a graduate research assistant for the EUC from 2019 to 2020. In 1-2 sentences, can you tell us more about your MAEUS thesis topic? For my thesis research, I used data from the Migrant...
  • Allison Wheeler is a 2020 graduate of the MAEUS program and successfully defended and completed her research on populism for her master's thesis project. She was a 5-year BA/MA student, a 2019-2020 FLAS Fellow, and a graduate research assistant for the EUC from Spring 2019 to Spring 2020. After graduation, Allison was chosen to be a part of the inaugural class of...