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• Punk’s Roots in the Blues: New Book by Alum Looks at How the Genre Was Shaped by Changing Ideas About Race

  

  Punk music album covers and the cover of alumnus Evan Rapport's book, "Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk"

  Alumnus Evan Rapport's book explores punk’s debt to what many might consider an unconnected genre, the blues, and the ways that punk emerged during the turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s.  Read more

• Alumni Book: Michael Munn

  Valliappa Lakshamanan, Sara Robinson, Michael Munn
  Machine Learning Design Patterns
  (O'Reily Media, Inc., 2020)
  
  
  
   

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• Alumni Book: Evan Rapport

  Evan Rapport
  Damaged
  (University Press of Mississippi, 2020)
  
  
  
   

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• Alumna Alyssa Loorya Digs New York City

  

  Alyssa Loorya (Ph.D. '18, Anthropology) is the founder and president of Chrysalis Archaeological Consultants. (Credit: Chrysalis Archaeological Consultants)

  The founder and president of Chrysalis Archaeological Consultants turned her academic interest in public archaeology into a career in cultural resource management. Read more

• How Alumna Angie Waller, an Artist and Designer, Landed Her New Role Supporting Data-Driven Journalism

  

  Angie Waller (Photo courtesy of Waller)

  Waller explains how her Graduate Center training in computational linguistics led to a new role and award-winning research, and she offers advice for prospective students.  Read more

• Alumna Katerina Harvati-Papatheodorou Is Awarded Germany’s Highest Scientific Prize, for her Breakthrough Findings on Human Evolution

  

  Harvati has gained “crucial new insights into the processes of human evolution” through a combination of field research and 3D morphometry imaging techniques, DFG said in its prize announcement. Read more

• Best of 2020: 10 Stories about Solving Mysteries, Saving Lives, and Seeking a Safer, More Equitable Future

  

  Deborah Cullen-Morales, Maurice Vann, Linnaea Tillett, and Fernand (Dean) A. De Los Reyes

  Despite the challenges of 2020, our students, alumni, and faculty have made achievements that we are happy to look back on. Read more

• A Scholar and Educator, Outside of the Academy: Brian Jones Is in the Conversation

  

  Brian Jones (Photo courtesy of Jones)

  Alumnus Brian Jones explains how he took an unexpected path to a fulfilling career at the Schomburg Center for Black Culture. Read more

• Google Earth and a Bar Conversation Yield an Archaeological Breakthrough and ‘Times’ Coverage for Alumnus Pablo Crespo

  

  Pablo Crespo helped archaeologist Gino Caspari map Scythian burial sites across a huge swath of territory in present-day Russia, Mongolia and China using Google Earth images. (credit: Pablo Caspari)

  Crespo, an economics Ph.D., applied his machine learning knowledge to create a tool that allows archaeologists to access hard-to-reach sites.  Read more

• Putting Her Ph.D. to Work: Alumna Ovita F. Williams Named Executive Director of the Action Lab at Columbia University

  

  Ovita F. Williams (Photo courtesy of Williams)

  "Know why you're getting into this and stay true to that," says alumna  Ovita F. William. Read more