(BA, 2014): Nick Thacker

Nick Thacker (BA, 2014) is pursuing an MA in Political Science at San Francisco State University. He is focusing on Marxist political theory and writing a thesis on the political thought of Pier Paolo Pasolini. The department awarded him the Wasserman Prize for the Best Graduate Paper in Spring 2021 for an essay on the Italian Communist Party and the Historic Compromise in the 1970s. He presented a paper on populism and the journalistic writings of Pier Paolo Pasolini at the 2021 meeting of the Western Political Science association.

(BA, 2017): Riley Jessett

As of this last year, Riley Jesset (BA, 2017) is the director of the primary science lab at Carson Academy of Science, a public school in Milwaukee, WI. In this unique program, scholars as young as three years old and as old as ten spend two hours a week doing hands-on, culturally relevant science work. They completed their Master’s in Urban Early Childhood Education at Cardinal Stritch University in 2019.