New Students - Fall 2015

After a successful 2014 recruitment season, which included open houses and trips to graduate-school fairs all over the country, the admissions cycle culminated in an entering class for the fall of 2015 that includes three new PhD students and eighteen new MA students.


Entering PhD Cohort

Julie Bellemare

McGill University (BA), Oxford University (MSt)

Sarah Scaturro

University of Colorado (BA), Fashion Institute of Technology (MA)

Xiaoyi Yang

Minzu University (BA), Columbia University (MA)


Entering MA Cohort

Persephone Allen

University of Edinburgh

Alexandra Beuscher

Connecticut College

Anne Carlisle

Iowa State University

Michael Dewberry

Trinity College

Ana-Matisse Donefer-Hickie

University of King’s College

Anna Mikaela Ekstrand

Stockholm University (BA and MA)

Emily Field

Michigan State University

Margaret Frick

The College of Wooster

Amanda Hinckle

College of William and Mary

Irene Jaramillo-Velez

Fashion Institute of Technology

Elizabeth Muir

Illinois Wesleyan University

Leela Outcalt

Reed College

Michael Parker

Hampshire College

Grace Reff

East Tennessee State University

Catherine Dickson Stergar

Davidson College

Darienne Turner

Stanford University

Alyssa Velazquez

Washington College

Nadia Westenburg

Fordham University