ALUMNI/AE CAREERS
This listing shows some of the many careers in which Wesleyan German majors since the early 1970's are making meaningful contributions:
Mark Gelber ’72: Professor and Director, Research Center for Austrian and German Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Douglas Morris ’76: Attorney, Federal Defenders of New York, Southern and Eastern District; author of Justice Imperiled: The Anti-Nazi Lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar Germany
James Lyons ’77: Author and theater director in Germany
Ellen Fleischmann ’77, Professor of History, University of Dayton
Joyce Sidman ’78: Children’s book author
Andrea Gabor ’78: Bloomberg Professor of Journalism, Baruch College, author of The Capitalist Philosophers, The Man who Discovered Quality, and Einstein’s Wife
Wolfgang Natter ’78: Vice President for Academic Affairs, The College of St. Scholastica, Minnesota
Heidi Mastrogiovanni ’79: Writer for film, radio, and television, author of Lala Pettibone: Standing Room Only and Lala Pettibone: Part Two
Joseph Blum ’79: Partner and General Counsel, Global Infrastructure Partners
Alice Cronin-Golomb ’79: Professor of Psychology, Director, Vision and Cognition Laboratory, and Co-Director, Center for Clinical Biopsychology, Boston University
Philip Boehm ’80: Theater director and literary translator, St. Louis
Ingrid Roehl Schmidt ’82: Associate Vice Provost for External Relations and Development in the Office of Global Engagement, North Carolina State University
Karen Donfried ’84: President, German Marshall Fund of the United States; Trustee, Wesleyan University
Douglas Rooney ’84: Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey
John Brooks ’85: Medical epidemiologist, Director of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Bellamy Pailthorp ’89: Environmental reporter, KNKX, Seattle
Christine Lotze ’86: Partner, Heidrick and Struggles International
Angela Gulielmetti ’86: German Teacher, Cheshire CT Public Schools
Sherry Lehr Föhr ’89: Instructor, Writing Center, University of Heidelberg
Rolando Montecalvo ’91: Freelance writer, editor, translator
Maria Snyder ’91: Associate Professor of German and French, Central College, Iowa
Keri Cascio ’94: Executive Director, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), A Division of the American Library Association (ALA)
Amanda Palmer ’98: Performance artist
Ilya Marritz ’99: Reporter, WNYC, New York
Kannan Vasudevan ’01: Tenor, Los Angeles Opera
Justin Gundlach ’03: Staff Attorney, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia University Law School
Gregory Heller ’04: Executive Director, Pennsylvania Redevelopment Authority
Annika Brink ’04: Regional Director of Energy Efficiency, National Housing Trust
Damon Jenkins ’05: Deputy Public Defender, Kern City CA Public Defender’s Office
Emrah Yildiz ’05: Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Middle East & North African Studies, Northwestern University
Rory Bradley ’07: Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies, Colby College
Lirra Schiebler Hill ’07: Senior Planner, Erwin Penland, Chicago
Elisabeth Lauffer ’07: Children’s book editor and literary translator
Leif Weatherby ’07: Assistant Professor of German, New York University
Marianna Foos ’08: Associate Developer, Biogen, Inc., Cambridge MA
Jason Kavett ’09: Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies, Bard College
William Krieger ’11: Ph.D. Candidate in German Studies, Cornell University
Catherine Steidl ’11: Ph.D. Candidate in Archaeology, Brown University
James Gardner ’13: Project Manager, BERBUS|A, Berlin
Avery Trufelman ’13: Producer, 99% Invisible
Maxwell Kaplan ’13: M.A. Candidate in Applied Linguistics and researcher, Boston University
Adam Baltner ’13: High school teacher of English at a bilingual high-school in Vienna, Austria and freelance translator.
Mari Jarris ’14: Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature, Princeton University
Wy Ming Lin ’16: Mater program in Neurosciences, Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen, Germany
Jack Guenther ’18: PhD. Program in History, Princeton University
Christina Sickinger ’18: municipal credit analyst at Aberdeen Standard Investments in New York City
Caroline Adams ’19: Master program in American Studies, Brown University
Anna Apostolidis ’19: Covey Law in New York City, a firm that provides legal aid to artists and musicians
Lizzie Whitney ’19: Master program in Kulturelle Grundlagen Europas, University of Konstanz in Konstanz, Germany