THE ROSE REVIEW DIRECTOR’S REPORT Kenneth P. Miller, J.D., Ph.D.
Spring 2022 3 - Student Management Report 4 - Project Updates 6 - Off-Campus Reflections 7 - Senior Farewells 10 - Alumni Spotlights 11 - BOG Spotlight 12 - Rose Institute Spring Speakers
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he Rose Institute is a relational enterprise. We do our work in groups, through various forms of collaboration. We organize ourselves in teams. Those of us on the senior staff seek to coordinate our efforts in all that we do. Similarly, the student managers form a team that spends countless hours together, serving as an essential link between senior staff and student RAs. Each year we select new RAs as a group. Through training programs and social events, we integrate them into the Rose Institute community. Many Rosies become close friends and make the Rose workroom their second home. Students rarely work individually. Instead, they establish project teams ranging from two to ten (or more), usually led by a project manager who is tasked with ensuring the team functions well together.
our ability to do so, but let me share some examples of how this year we have sustained that culture — and, in some ways, strengthened it. Most notably, we have established a new Board of Faculty Advisors, comprised of CMC Professors Andy Busch, Michael Fortner, Emily Pears ’08, Shanna Rose, and Andy Sinclair ’08. This group is designed to complement the Rose Institute’s Board of Governors in defining the Institute’s goals, while also enhancing the Institute’s intellectual life and providing students new research opportunities. The faculty advisors are delivering on that promise. Professor Rose enlisted RAs Tara Mehra ’23 and Nathan Tran PO’23 to assist with her book on the history of minimum wage policies. She then shared details about this project at a recent talk to Rose students.
Rose-affiliated faculty, board members, alumni, and other practitioners also collaborate directly with our students, offering them research training and mentorship.
Professor Fortner invited Cameron Stevens ’23, Sarah Simionas ’23, and Henry Schulz ’22 to assist his research on race, crime, and urban politics, with a focus on New York City. This research will be published in outlets including the Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics and reports for the Niskanen Center, and has already generated an op-ed in the New York Times.
For decades, the Institute has nurtured this culture of teamwork. The COVID-19 pandemic has strained
Professor Sinclair worked with Nohl Patterson ’22, Daniela Corona ’23, and a large group of RAs last fall
