MIIS Winter 2021 Commencement Program_final

winter commencement monterey, california saturday, december 18, 2021

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MIDDLEBURY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AT MONTEREY Commencement Exercises and Conferring of Degrees

5 PROCESSIONAL

Please rise for the processional WELCOME

Jeff Dayton-Johnson Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Institute Laurie L. Patton Middlebury President COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS

Philipp C. Bleek Associate Professor, Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies, and Coordinator, Cyber Collaborative Graduate School of International Policy and Management STUDENT SPEAKER

Hsinyun “Kiki” Shen MAIEM ’21 CONFERRING OF DEGREES

President Laurie L. Patton

P R E S E N TAT I O N O F C A N D I DAT E S F O R D E G R E E S

Fernando DePaolis, Dean Graduate School of International Policy and Management Laura Burian, Dean Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education C L O S I N G R E M A R KS

Vice President Jeff Dayton-Johnson RECESSIONAL

Please remain seated for the recessional RECEPTION

Please join us for a celebration at the Samson Student Center

5 P R E S I D E N T ’ S PA R T Y

Laurie L. Patton Philipp C. Bleek Hsinyun “Kiki” Shen MAIEM ’21 Laura Burian Fernando DePaolis Jeff Dayton-Johnson GRAND MARSHAL

Jason Martel TESOL/TFL Program Chair and Associate Professor Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education FAC U LT Y M A R S H A L

Katherine Punteney Faculty Senate President and Professor Graduate School of International Policy and Management

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL POLICY AND MANAGEMENT

MASTER OF ARTS IN I N T E R N AT I O N A L E D U C AT I O N M A N AG E M E N T

Paula S. Adams Katriya Claire Burkdoll Anahi Castaneda Alonso Cruz Wenonah Cecilia Cooley Echelard* Abigail Elizabeth Gray Anna Mei Elizabeth Gubbins* Femi Higgins Amanda Jew* Hannah Nicole-Akins Neher Jaylon Harold Rhodes Kathryn Elizabeth Roberts Emilie M. Schartner* Hsinyun Shen* Hayley Alice Singleton Christina P. Tran Eleanor Vogt Asa B Waterworth* Katie Elise Wells

United States Visalia, California San Diego, California Portland, Oregon Winona, Minnesota Freeport, Maine Beverly, Massachusetts Brooklyn, New York Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts Modesto, California Fayetteville, Georgia Fort Worth, Texas Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin Fremont, California Tyngsborough, Massachusetts Charlotte, North Carolina Minneapolis, Minnesota Rutland, Vermont Newberg, Oregon

MASTER OF ARTS IN I N T E R N AT I O N A L E N V I R O N M E N TA L P O L I CY

Logan Nigh

Claremont, California

MASTER OF ARTS IN I N T E R N AT I O N A L P O L I CY A N D D E V E L O P M E N T

Daniel Enrique Delgado Lincoln Ngaboyisonga Andrew Roth Daniella Bianca Saint-Phard Jerome Ferrer Siangco* Heather Amy Smith Nancy-Margaret Wehby Miho Camille Yoshimura

San Diego, California Kigali, Rwanda Lancaster, Pennsylvania Berrien Springs, Michigan Renton, Washington Salinas, California Nashville, Tennessee California

MASTER OF ARTS IN I N T E R N AT I O N A L T R A D E A N D E C O N O M I C D I P L O M ACY

Camille Moulédoux Bryan James Phillip Garrett Madeleine Palesa King Julius C. Moye Lincoln Ngaboyisonga Nur Robleh Lawrence Anthony Sinkewich Jr. Hannah Jane Sutterfield Zachary Michael Tomatz Nancy-Margaret Wehby

Nashville, Tennessee Santa Cruz, California Auburn, California Chatham, Massachusetts Kigali, Rwanda Apex, North Carolina Cleveland, Ohio Sacramento, California Alexandria, Virginia Nashville, Tennessee

MASTER OF ARTS IN N O N P R O L I F E R AT I O N A N D T E R R O R I S M S T U D I E S

Carlton D. Dorrough Emma Flückiger Alexandro Antonio Granata Jacob Daniel Haider Charles Jenkins IV Artur Kachberuni Sean Clark Kitson Antone R. LaRosa Chloë Margaret Marette Julius C. Moye Aram Shabanian

Jasper, Alabama Clark Fork, Idaho East Hanover, New Jersey Forest Lake, Minnesota Arlington, Texas Moscow, Russia San Jose, California San Francisco, California Phoenix, Arizona Chatham, Massachusetts Oregon City, Oregon

M A S T E R O F P U B L I C A D M I N I S T R AT I O N

Seth Anderson Katriya Claire Burkdoll Kelli M. Catey Kyla R. Grau Abigail Elizabeth Gray Naomi R. Moore Lawrence Anthony Sinkewich Jr. Jasmine R. Sturdifen Hannah Jane Sutterfield

Napa, California Visalia, California Greenup, Illinois Des Moines, Iowa Freeport, Maine Tracy, California Cleveland, Ohio Chase City, Virginia Sacramento, California

B AC H E L O R O F A R T S I N I N T E R N AT I O N A L S T U D I E S

Jasmine R. Sturdifen+

Chase City, Virginia

C E R T I F I C AT E I N T E R R O R I S M S T U D I E S

John McLellan Gray * With Distinction + Magna Cum Laude

Great Falls, Virginia

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF TRANSLATION, INTERPRETATION, AND LANGUAGE EDUCATION

MASTER OF ARTS IN T E AC H I N G E N G L I S H T O S P E A K E R S O F O T H E R L A N G UAG E S

Stephanie Rae Chamberlain* Gregory S. Ford Jr. Drew Layne Kunard Yanci Kennedy Lewis* Hannah Malone Mollie W. Messick Rita Alexis Mora Sarah Linnea Worley

Roseville, Michigan Ten Sleep, Wyoming Sellersburg, Indiana Wyoming, Michigan Santa Cruz, California Soldotna, Alaska Lucerne Valley, California Fort Collins, Colorado

M A S T E R O F A R T S I N T E AC H I N G F O R E I G N L A N G UAG E

Jooeun Kim Meilian Wu Sydney Jo Zamudio* * With Distinction

Seoul, Republic of Korea Beijing, China San Diego, California

F L AG S O F M A N Y H O M E L A N D S

Today’s color guard represents 63 students from five countries.

China Republic of Korea Russia Rwanda United States of America

FAC U LT Y C O M M E N C E M E N T S P E A K E R PHILIPP C. BLEEK, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Philipp C. Bleek is an associate professor in the Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies Program, a fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, and the coordinator of the Cyber Collaborative, all at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. He works on the causes, consequences, and amelioration of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons threats at the intersection of academia, nongovernmental organizations, and government. Philipp has been on the faculty since 2011, but in 2012–13 he took a leave to serve as senior advisor to the assistant secretary of defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs, supported by a Council on Foreign Relations fellowship. He has served as an advisor to several political campaigns and as a consultant to the U.S. government and nongovernmental organizations, and regularly participates in Track II dialogues, a form of diplomacy that occurs outside official governmental channels.

Philipp came to Monterey from a research fellow position at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Before that he was in Washington, D.C., where, while completing his doctoral studies, he taught both at Georgetown and in the Department of Defense Senior Leader Development Program. During that time, he also served as a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and as a nonresident fellow at the Center for a New American Security.

Philipp is a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of the Truman National Security Project. He is a former emergency medical technician (New Jersey).

STUDENT SPEAKER HSINYUN SHEN MAIEM ’21

Hsinyun “Kiki” Shen is graduating from the International Education Management (IEM) program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of the Pacific with a double major in international affairs and commerce and Chinese language and studies. She also studied Chinese while abroad at the National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taiwan. After graduation, she participated in the Japan Exchange and Teaching ( JET) Program, living and teaching English in Tokyo for three years. She has made lifelong friends in both countries and looks forward to seeing them again as soon as borders reopen.

During her 18 months at the Institute, Kiki copresented research on developing intercultural competence through virtual exchange (COIL) programs at a Region XII NAFSA conference and partnered with San Jose State University on a collaborative project on reentry programming. She has also worked with the IEM faculty as a graduate research assistant for the Changing TIDES project and completed an internship with UC Santa Cruz’s Global Learning Division. She hopes to continue working in international education at higher education institutions; open doors to education abroad or away for first-generation and underrepresented students; and incorporate her languages of Mandarin Chinese and Japanese in her career.

PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS O F M I D D L E B U RY C O L L E G E 2 0 21– 2 0 2 2 PRESIDENT

Laurie L. Patton CHARTER TRUSTEES

Kirtley Horton Cameron ’95 Allan R. Dragone Jr. ’78 Catherine Lee ’92 George C. Lee II ’88 Caroline Sneath McBride ’75

Dennis D. Parker ’77 Helen Riess Richard T. Scanlon ’93 Karen A. Stolley ’77 William F. Truscott ’83

TERM TRUSTEES

Belinda L. Badcock Joseph W. Brown ’90 Leilani McClellan Brown ’93 Eve B. Burton Barbara Griffin Cole Janine Feng ’92 Graham Goldsmith ’89 Parker Harris III ’89 Lucienne M. Ide ’97

Carol L. Jones Alice Jane (A.J.) Murphy ’98 Suzanne Reider ’87 Henry J. Simonds ’97 Mark D. Spence ’98 John S. Weinberg Larry Yarbrough Kashif Zafar ’92

ALUMNI TRUSTEES

Koby Altman ’04 Zachary Bourque ’01 Denver G. Edwards ’88

Anne Davis Peterson ’85 Elizabeth Cromwell Speers ’86 Danielle S. Virtue ’82

TRUSTEES EMERITI

Dort A. Cameron III ’67 James S. Davis ’66 Churchill G. Franklin ’71 Frederick M. Fritz ’68 Nancy Coffrin Furlong ’75 Claire Waterhouse Gargalli ’64 Robert C. Graham Jr. ’63 Willard T. Jackson ’51 William H. Kieffer III ’64 Roxanne McCormick Leighton ’67 John M. McCardell Jr.

C. Irving Meeker ’50 Garrett M. Moran ’76 Patricia Judah Palmer ’57 Kimberly Collins Parizeau ’79 Elisabeth Robert ’78 Frank W. Sesno ’77 Deborah G. Thomas ’75 John R. Tormondsen ’82 J. Edward Virtue ’82 Marna C. Whittington Linda Foster Whitton ’80 Kendrick R. Wilson III

M I D D L E B U RY I N S T I T U T E B OA R D O F A DV I S O R S TRUSTEES

Catherine Lee ’92, Chair Lucienne M. Ide ’97, Vice Chair Kirtley Horton Cameron ’95 Parker Harris III ’89 Caroline Sneath McBride ’75 Henry J. Simonds ’97 Karen A. Stolley ’77 John S. Weinberg EMERITI

Churchill G. Franklin ’71 Frederick M. Fritz ’68 Kimberly Collins Parizeau ’79 Frank W. Sesno ’77 Linda Foster Whitton ’80 PA R T N E R S

Alison Geballe Deborah Hicks Elaine White Gómez ’93 Rich Wolfson CONSTITUENTS

Ashley Arrocha Mahabat Baimyrzaeva Morgan Moore

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A FEW NOTES G R A D UAT I O N W I T H H O N O R S

Undergraduate students completing all degree requirements with a record of high academic achievement are awarded traditional Latin honors: cum laude (3.50–3.74), magna cum laude (3.75–3.89), and summa cum laude (3.9–4.0). Master’s degree recipients completing with a cumulative GPA of 4.00 graduate with distinction. Recipients of distinction honors and summa cum laude are awarded honors cords.

COMMENCEMENT RECEPTION

The Middlebury Institute has a long tradition of sustainable practices and innovative initiatives. In 2015, we adopted a policy of featuring at least 50 percent plant-based food at all official Institute events where food is served. In that spirit, and in an effort to meet our sustainability policy goals, we are proud to serve 100 percent plant-based foods at today’s Commencement reception.

PHOTOS

For safety reasons, please remain in your seats during the ceremony.

As graduates will be required to keep their masks on while receiving their diploma, we have arranged for a photographer to take photos as each graduate crosses the stage. Photos can be viewed and downloaded at go.miis.edu/gradphotosdec21. An opportunity to take photos with Vice President Jeff Dayton-Johnson at a photo station will be available during the reception on the Samson Center patio following the ceremony.

AC K N O W L E D G M E N T

Special thanks to Professor Mike Gillen for playing the bagpipes leading the processional. And special thanks to our students for providing interpretation during the ceremony.

SUPPORTING THE MIDDLEBURY INSTITUTE A N N UA L F U N D

We are grateful to the generous alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends who support the many facets of an Institute education by donating to the Annual Fund. Your contributions allow future students the opportunity to pursue their dreams and lead purposeful lives. Visit go.miis.edu/give to learn more about how to make a gift.

G A M A L I E L PA I N T E R ’ S C A N E

Gamaliel Painter’s cane is one of the most treasured artifacts of the College. Once the walking stick of the founder of both the town of Middlebury and the College, today it is carried by the president in the Commencement ceremony. It serves as a symbol of institutional strength and character.

M I D D L E B U RY I N S T I T U T E O F I N T E R N AT I O N A L S T U D I E S The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey offers its students a wide range of professional degrees to prepare them for careers in fields including international business, development, education, environmental policy, language teaching, and translation and interpretation. The Institute’s 700 students come from more than 50 countries around the world and, together with the faculty, share a deep interest in, and commitment to, global engagement and crosscultural communication.

Since its founding in 1955, the Institute has developed leading programs in these diverse fields of study. Today it is home to a wide range of research centers and initiatives, including the renowned James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, the Center for the Blue Economy, and the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, among others.

Founded in 1800, Middlebury College has long been recognized as one of the finest liberal arts colleges in the country. The College provides its 2,500 undergraduate students with a rigorous liberal arts education and a wide range of opportunities to pursue interests and experiences outside the classroom.

The Institute became affiliated with Middlebury College in 2005 and was fully integrated as a graduate school of Middlebury in 2010. It was formerly known as the Monterey Institute of International Studies (1979 to 2015) and the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies (1955 to 1979).

Other Middlebury schools and programs include the Middlebury Language Schools, the Middlebury C.V. Starr Schools Abroad, the Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English, the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences, and the Middlebury School of the Environment.

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