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Dominique Blom (BA 1993) Dominique Blom is currently working at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as a senior manager overseeing the redevelopment of dilapidated public housing across the country. Her most important project is redeveloping the storm-ravaged public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Public housing apartments that were unsuitable for living prior to the storm due to years of disrepair will now be redeveloped into mixed-income neighborhoods, where families of different incomes can live side by side, connected to the greater New Orleans community. Through her studies at Stanford in social anthropology, Dominique appreciates the struggle between institutions and social movements. Her senior thesis focused on how women in the shantytowns of Santiago, Chile organized to build new homes for themselves, garnering resources from the government and non-profit organizations, while at the same time fighting for autonomy. The great efforts of the Chilean women and those of the residents of New Orleans are strikingly similar. As a result of her field work in Chile, she stresses the importance of listening to the locals in the redevelopment of public housing in New Orleans, while being aware of the biases of institutional players, including her own.
the Analysis of Kinship Terminologies (in press, University of Illinois Press), Culture, Society, and Cognition: Collective Goals, Values, Action, and Knowledge (in press, Berlin (etc.): Mouton Series in Pragmatics).
Kelsey, Mary (AB 1971) Artist and consultant, self-employed. I’m working on creating an arts program that facilitates intensive learning as early stage therapeutic intervention for memory-impaired adults.
Van Rheenen, Fredric J. (MA 1970) Clinical professor in Psychiatry at Stanford. Teaching young physicians on the Stanford oncology and hematology services that empathy and warmth may be as important as chemotherapy and radiation in the treatment of life-threatening diseases.
Rompf, Bill (BS 1972) VP/Director of Tennis, International Tennis Hall of Fame. Current interest: Staying alive/Enjoying life.
Belton, Tim (BA 1971) President of Architecture firm: Malone Belton Abel P.C. Designing university, K-12, commercial, and corporate buildings mainly in the area of Wyoming. Blackmer, Hugh A. (MA, PhD 1971) Retired. Current interests: cyberanthropology of the Weschian flavor, ethnomusicology, human geography, vernacular photography. Bond, Carolyn (AB 1971) Owner, Editorial Arts. Current project: freelance editor for nonfiction authors, specializing in books in current culture, body/mind/spirit, women, spirituality and religion, autobiography and memoir, some history, anything exciting and cutting-edge. Eisenlauer, Joseph (AB 1971) Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology, Pierce College (Woodland Hills, CA). Director, Tatavian Archaeological Research Project. Graham, Kathryn L. (BA 1971) Executive Director of Public Affairs, Sutter Marin. Current project: volunteer communications consulting to nonprofit organizations; senior issues.
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Shepherd, Diane (BA 1972) Owner, Shepherd Veterinary Clinic. Certification in American Association of Veterinary Practitioners: feline. Smith, Carol A. (PhD 1972) Professor, UC Davis. Current projects: Reinterpreting Guatemala’s Revolutionary Project. Thornton, Robert (BA 1972) Professor, U of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. New publication: Unimagined Community: Sex, networks and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press). Bethune, Ann [Anna Rendall] (BA 1973) Primate behavior. Burling, David (AB 1973) Furniture designer/maker; self employed. Three commissions to design and make funriture for the new Santa Fe Civic Center. DeBernardi, Jean (BA 1973) Professor, U of Alberta; Acting Director, Program in Religious Studies. I am now completing a research project on religious and cultural pilgrimage from Singapore and Malaysia to the spectacular Daoist temple complex at Wudang Mountain in South-central China. I recently gave lectures on the modernization of Daoism at a meeting of the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions at the 2008 Association for Asian