Harvard Extension School alumni from multiple degree programs – Biology, English, Government, History, Journalism, Literature & Creative Writing, Math for Teaching, Sustainability, and more – have successfully published their work over the last several years.
They have authored books on a range of subjects including poetry, history, ancient civilizations, math and science, political subjects, and narrative fiction.
They have written newspaper articles as well as research papers, in addition to having published work in numerous journals and academic publications – Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, The New England Quarterly, Nature, The Chaucer Review, Boston University International Law Journal, Journal of Urban History, The Mathematics Teacher, and many others.
Below we have listed, by degree program, the alumni who have had work published.
Publications by Degree Program
Archaeology
Kristi Feinzig
ALM Archaeology – 2017
Kristi Feinzig has over 20 years of investment management experience in Risk Management and Quantitative Strategies, and is currently a Director at a Boston-based consulting firm.
Her strong interest in archaeology led her to pursue her ALM at Harvard Extension. She presented her master’s thesis (Tracing Sixteenth Century Beads in South America to Understand Their Impact on Indigenous Ritual Practices and Material Culture at the Time of The Spanish Conquest) at the 2018 Society for American Archaeology national conference and at the 2017 Harvard Thesis Symposium.
Biology
Rickey Shah
ALM Biology – 2017
Rickey is one of the authors of Zika virus evolution and spread in the Americas, a study published in Nature, the International Journal of Science.
Ricky was a Preceptor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, and also performed research at the Sabeti Lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He is currently studying for a degree in osteopathy.
Biotechnology
Sheryl Manganaro
ALM Biotechnology – 2017
Sheryl Manganaro is one of the authors of The Need for Anti-epileptic Drug Chronotherapy to Treat Selected Childhood Epilepsy Syndromes and Avert the Harmful Consequences of Drug Resistance, which was published in the Journal of Central Nervous System Disease in December 2017.
As manager of one of the top Epilepsy Monitoring Units in the U.S., Sheryl has had the privilege of working with and learning from an esteemed group of epileptologists and neurosurgeons and has had opportunities to contribute to research projects for the greater advancement of neuroscience.
Creative Writing and Literature
Brad Felver
ALM Literature & Creative Writing – 2009
Brad is a fiction writer, essayist, and teacher of writing. His debut collection of stories, The Dogs of Detroit, won the 2018 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
His fiction and essays have appeared in magazines such as One Story, New England Review, Colorado Review, and many others. His honors include the O. Henry Award, a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, and the Zone 3 Fiction Prize.
Kerry Garvin
ALM Literature & Creative Writing – 2020
Kerry Garvin was the recipient of the 2020 Thomas Small Prize and a Dean’s Award of Achievement upon her Harvard Extension graduation. Ms. Garvin’s first book, What Doesn’t Kill Her: Women’s Stories of Resilience, a collection of sixty survival stories written by a diverse array of women, was published in June 2021. Gloria Steinem has written that the collection “will help each of us to trust and tell our own [stories].”
Ms. Garvin works as a writer, literary editor, and college instructor of creative writing and literature in North Carolina.
Laura Rees
ALM Literature & Creative Writing – 2018
Laura was the 2017-2018 recipient of the Associates of the Boston Public Library Writer-in-Residence Fellowship.
During the fellowship, she wrote her debut novel Sunset Sultan, which is due to be published soon.
Digital Media Design
Julie Rodriguez
ALM Digital Media Design – 2015
In 2016 Julie co-authored a textbook titled Visualizing Financial Data. In the book, Julie and co-author Piotr Kaczmarek draw upon their understanding of information design and visual communication to show how to turn raw data into meaningful information.
Presented as a series of case studies, coverage includes innovative visualizations that cater to unique requirements across financial domains, including investment management, financial accounting, regulatory reporting, sales, and marketing communications.
Educational Technologies
Amie Breeze Harper
ALM Education Technologies – 2007
Amie Breeze Harper holds a PhD in the social sciences, with an emphasis in intersectionality, anti-racism and racial-gender inclusion and equity.
Dr. Harper created and edited the ground-breaking anthology, Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak On Food, Identity, Health, and Society. Her first book, Scars: A Black Lesbian Experience in Rural White New England, was published in 2014. In 2021, Dr. Harper’s second novel, Seeds of Sankofa, was published by Brill Press.
English
Anna Carroll
ALM English – 2021
Anna currently works as a career consultant at the University of Georgia. Her article, Strings of Memory: Memory Transfer and Moral Accountability through the Strings in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated, was published in the Spring 2022 issue of the journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
In the piece, she builds on the research she did for her ALM capstone essay to explore the unavoidable transfer of ethical accountability to Holocaust perpetrator descendants, by expanding the current scholarly conversation regarding post-Holocaust moral responsibility.
Christine Leunens
ALM English and American Literature & Language – 2005
Christine was a co-winner of the Dean’s Thesis Prize in the Humanities upon her graduation from Harvard Extension School in 2005. She is now based in Italy and is the author of several novels translated into over twenty languages.
Her 2004 book Caging Skies was a major international success and is the basis for the 2019 Fox Searchlight film Jojo Rabbit, starring Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell. The adaptation of her novel won the 2020 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Mo Saidi
ALM English – 2007
Mo Saidi engages themes of love, faith, and the cyclical nature of history. His debut collection, Art in the City (2008), won the Poetry Society of Texas’s Eakin Memorial Book Publication Award. He is the author of the poetry collections The Color of Faith (2010) and Between A and Z (2014) and the short story collection The Garden of Milk and Wine (2012).
His poetry has been featured in former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry,” a nationally syndicated newspaper column. Saidi also co-founded the literary journal Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine.
Government
Nicholas Patler
ALM Government – 2001
Nicholas is an adjunct professor in history at Elizabeth City State University. His book Jim Crow and the Wilson Administration presents the first in-depth study of the historic protest movement that challenged federal racial segregation and discrimination during the first two years of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency.
His forthcoming book will explore the unusual political careers of two African American leaders during the Reconstruction Era, P.B.S. Pinchback and Blanche Kelso Bruce. As a guest columnist, Nicholas published an article in USA Today in 2018 on the legacy of Robert E. Lee.
History
Mark Gabrielson
ALM History – 2015
After graduating from Princeton University, Mark Gabrielson spent 33 years in business before pursuing his ALM in History. Now he is pursuing his life-long interest in researching and writing about maritime history. Deer Isle’s Undefeated America’s Cup Crews, published in 2013 through the History Press, is the first in a planned series of books.
He is working on a new book on the history of oceanic navigation. He’s a New Englander, a licensed Coast Guard Master in the Merchant Marine and is a Trustee of the Marion-Bermuda Race.
Mark Wilkins
ALM History – 2013
Mark Wilkins is the Curator of Maritime History at Calvert Marine Museum. He is the author of Aero-neurosis: Pilots of the First World War and the Psychological Legacies of Combat. This book is an expanded version of an article published in Air & Space Magazine in 2018. Mark’s work centers on maritime and aviation history. He is also completing another book title
d German Fighter Aircraft in World War I: Design, Construction and Innovation, which was published by Schiffer Publishing in 2019.
Information Management Systems
Matthew Bullen
ALM Information Management Systems – 2017
Matthew is director of technology for a west coast-based start-up, Sandee, the world’s most comprehensive beach travel and lifestyle platform.
He is also the author of the chapter on North and South American Mythology in National Geographic’s massive overview of Essential Visual History of World Mythology.
Essential Visual History of World Mythology
Doug Walton
ALM Information Management Systems – 2018
Doug holds a PhD in Organizational Systems. His interest, and his research, in social change and technology has led him to write a book titled Generating Change.
The book offers science-backed organizational change practices that have been proven on the ground in some of the world’s most well-known and successful organizations – something Doug has first-hand experience with, having worked as an organizational change management consultant for many years.
Matt Bunch
ALM Information Management Systems – 2022
Matt is currently the Director of Software Engineering and Data Architecture in the External Education department of the Harvard Medical School.
In 2022, Matt and his fellow co-authors performed a study which sought to explore the efficacy of online learning on the development of students in the biomedical sciences. Their research, published in the journal Medical Science Educator, ultimately showed that online courses created using evidence-based learning practices can lead to significant increases in knowledge and confidence for many learners, helping prepare them for further medical education.
Online Courses Provide Robust Learning Gains and Improve Learner Confidence in the Foundational Biomedical Sciences
International Relations
Adam Fullerton
ALM International Relations – 2016
Subsequent to his ALM, Adam received a PhD in Education Studies from the University of Nebraska. He is an Adjunct Faculty member of the Marine Corps Reserve Association and is an active Marine Captain.
Adam has had work published which include scholarly research related to his higher education doctoral work, for example a chapter on the transition challenges and experiences of veterans in a 2019 publication titled Straight Talk for Veterans.
University of Nebraska PhD Dissertation “Counternarratives of Success”
Theodore R. Johnson
ALM International Relations – 2011
Theodore R. Johnson is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Fellows Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, where he undertakes research on race, politics, and American identity.
Prior to joining the Brennan Center, he was a National Fellow at New America and a Commander in the United States Navy, serving for twenty years in a variety of positions, including as a White House Fellow and as speechwriter to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His work on race relations has appeared in publications including the New York Times Magazine and others.
When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America
Allyson Reneau
ALM International Relations – 2016
Published in 2021, Allyson’s book, Moon First and Mars Second, expands on her ALM thesis to explore the technological, economic, physiological, and psychological comparisons between a journey to the Moon versus a journey to Mars.
Allyson spent several years interviewing leading space experts from around the world to learn why lunar habitats and the creation of a permanent presence on the Moon could be an essential next step to human exploration and settlement in space.
Journalism
Lisa Cox
ALM Journalism – 2018
Lisa is a research-driven creative writer and a seasoned analyst. She is currently a Communications Manager at the Sorenson Impact Center. She previously worked as a Case Writer at Harvard Business School, where she worked with faculty to research and write teaching materials including case studies and background notes.
She has had numerous articles published in Forbes Magazine on a wide range of subjects – from social impact investing to entrepreneurs working to aid international refugees.
From Refugee To Venture Capitalist To Social Impact Pioneer
An Entrepreneur Lifts Liberian Women And Children Out Of Poverty
Eva Fedderly
ALM Journalism – 2020
Eva is a freelance journalist covering travel, arts and culture, and social justice. Based in New York City, she has traveled internationally to contribute news breaking stories, features, and profiles to Architectural Digest, New York Magazine, Vogue, and the Christian Science Monitor.
She is currently writing a book on NYC’s controversial move to close Rikers Island.
Jonathan Kendall
ALM Journalism – 2016
Jonathan Kendall serves as copy/line editor at the cultural magazine LALA, where he reviews stories about the people and ideas that shape the Southern California community.
His writing appears in the print and online counterparts of Vogue, LA Weekly, Cultured, Miami New Times, Atlas Obscura, Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Common Magazine, and The Hairpin, among others. He’s also blogged on fashion, sports, and the environment for Boca Raton Magazine.
Seth Kroll
ALM Journalism – 2018
Seth oversees the Wyss Institute’s digital strategy and multimedia production. He is an award-winning filmmaker and has over a decade of experience producing documentary and informational videos for startup, non-profits, and community organizations.
Seth’s video work has been featured on CNN and Fox News, and he has had photographs published by the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Forbes and others news outlets.
Astrid Lium
ALM Journalism – 2014
Astrid is a Boston-based freelance writer and editor, avid traveler, and citizen of the world. Her work covers an array of local, regional, and international subjects – from food and music to yoga and politics.
A piece she wrote on the introduction of a new Maine wine into the New England marketplace was published in The Boston Globe in March of 2019.
Don Lyman
ALM Journalism – 2017
Don Lyman is a freelance science journalist, biologist, and hospital pharmacist. He has been published in the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, Southwest Airlines Magazine, High Country News, earthislandjournal.org, themorningnews.com, Talking Writing, and elsewhere.
He also does freelance audio segments for the Living On Earth environmental radio program on National Public Radio.
Kathryn O’Shea – Evans
ALM Journalism – 2019
Kathryn O’Shea-Evans writes about design, travel, and food. A contributing editor at House Beautiful magazine, her work is frequently published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and numerous other publications.
Her first book, Veranda: A Room of One’s Own, was published in 2019. She has appeared as a guest lifestyle expert on The Today Show, The Meredith Vieira Show, The Travel Channel, CBS, The Weather Channel, Fox & Friends, and MSNBC.
Laura Piper
ALM Journalism – 2016
Laura is a weather and environment reporter for STV News, based in Scotland. She contributes both on-air and written reporting for STV, mainly on regional and environmental stories related to the UK (previously, she was based in the Middle East and Africa).
In 2013 Laura was one of the recipients of the Next Generation of Science Journalists award at the World Health Summit (co-awarded by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting).
Peter Reuell
ALM Journalism – 2014
The Harvard Gazette Peter is a staff writer for The Harvard Gazette. In his time at the Gazette, he has written dozens of pieces on events, activities, news, and initiatives across the University which have impacted the entire Harvard community.
Some of his recent work has focused on science news gleaned from research conducted at the University – including new breakthroughs in the development of Al and advances in scientific knowledge of the evolution of mammals and insects.
Management
Robert Dieter
ALM Archaeology – 2017
ALM Management – 2020 Robert is a cardiologist and a Professor of Medicine at the Loyola University Chicago Department of Medicine. He has authored over 100 peer reviewed manuscripts, nearly 50 book chapters, and lectures internationally on cardiovascular disease.
He has co-edited five medical textbooks on vascular disease. In addition, he has written two books (yet to be published), Pheasant Hunting, God, and Shotokan Karate and The Path to Happiness, Including: Alaska, the Early Years: 1961-1963 (describing what happiness means through the diary of his parents while they lived in Southeast Alaska).
Dr. Robert S. Dieter Loyola Department of Medicine faculty page
Ryan McCreedy
ALM Biology – 2017
Ryan is currently a senior consultant at Slalom Consulting, a business and technology consulting firm in Seattle. As part of his Faculty Aide research work with Dr. Carmine Gibaldi, Ryan co-authored a paper devoted to the impacts remote work have had on job satisfaction and job performance since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The paper was published in late 2021 as the
first chapter of Work From Home: Multi-level Perspectives on the New Normal.
Math for Teaching
Reynaldo Jope
ALM Math for Teaching – 2017
Reynaldo is a secondary school mathematics teacher and was named District Secondary Teacher of the Year by McAllen Independent School District. Since 2014, he has authored a series of children’s books centered around the character of Feyesper, a young armadillo.
His 2018 book Feyesper and the Wicked Neighbor was named a Distinguished Favorite (Category: Children’s Inspirational/Motivational) at the 2018 New York City Big Book Award Ceremony. Juundaded by Floyd Ryan Yaumyamin
2018 New York City Big Book Awards – Distinguished Favorites
Eileen Mooney
ALM Math for Teaching – 2015
Eileen has been teaching mathematics for over a decade and currently teaches at Michigan State University.
She is the author of Intentional Teaching with Technology, which was published in The Mathematics Teacher journal in 2018. She is interested in creating and facilitating learning experiences that promote deeper understanding in the domain of mathematics –specifically through synchronous, online discourse.
Pedro Odon
ALM Math for Teaching – 2010
Pedro Odon is the author of A Study of Primary School Mathematics Education, which was published by Lambert Academic Publishing in 2011.
Since completing his ALM, he has obtained a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia. At UBC, he has taught courses in meteorology as well as completed research for the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences.
Museum Studies
Jess Dugan
ALM Museum Studies – 2010
Over the past fifteen years, Jess’s photographs have explored issues of gender, sexuality, identity, and community, shifting between an internally focused, subjective examination and an outwardly focused, socially and politically motivated documentation of the LGBTQ community.
Jess uses medium and large-format cameras, natural light, and a slow working method to combine a traditional style of photographing with contemporary subject matter.
Minneapolis Institute of Art Jess Dugan 2020-2021 exhibition
Psychology
Chris Brown
ALM Psychology – 2014
Chris is a middle school and special education teacher.
In 2012 he started graduate research in Dr. Sabina Berretta’s Translational Neuroscience Laboratory at McLean Hospital, studying differences in the brain among patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, as compared to healthy patients.
His research led to a co-authored paper published in 2016 – and to a scientific breakthrough.
Ryan R. Cooper
ALM Psychology – 2020
Ryan is a licensed clinical psychologist and an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona.
His research focuses on the comparison of mental health training across all prescribers and the extent to which each affects the public.
His interests include curricular comparison, professional rights, competencies, iatrogenic illness, and medical/clinician antitrust law. Ryan also serves on the Texas RxP Legislative Advisory Board.
Andres Fossas
ALM Psychology – 2013
Andres is a mixed-methods researcher, former prison chaplain, and expert in constructivedevelopmental psychology.
He works with topics which include human values, psychological maturity, growth, organizational culture, authenticity, wellbeing, suffering, and mindfulness/vipassana meditation.
He recently completed and published a study titled Psychological Maturity Predicts Different Forms of Happiness.
Psychological Maturity Predicts Different Forms of Happiness
Kris Fried
ALM Psychology – 2014
Kris is a stand-up comedian who is a regular presence on U.S. television. His spoken-word album We’re All Adults Here was one of the most successful comedy album recordings of 2017.
Kris worked with Shelley Carson (Department of Psychology, Harvard University) on his thesis The Influence of Performance Expectations and Personality on Audience Ratings of Humor, which was later published in an international online journal.
The Influence of Performance Expectations and Personality on Audience Ratings of Humor
Sustainability
Gaya Branderhorst
ALM Sustainability – 2020
Gaya Branderhorst is a Director at KPMG in the US and the implementation lead for Dynamic Risk Assessment in North and South America.
She has a varied background in the for-profit, non-profit, and government sectors in financial services, economic policy, as well as sustainability.
While expanding Dynamic Risk Assessment as a practice in the Americas, Gaya has worked with clients that include multinational financial institutions, energy companies, and large manufacturers.
Update to limits to growth: Comparing the World3 model with empirical data
Rider Foley
ALM Sustainability – 2008
Dr. Foley is an associate professor in the science, technology & society program in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia.
He is the principal investigator at University of Virginia on the ‘4C Project on Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEM education. He is also the co-leader of the ‘Nano and the City’ thematic research cluster for the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University.
Rider is a Research Collaborator with the Sustainability Science Education program at the Biodesign Institute. His research focuses on problems that arise at the intersection of society and technology.
Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia faculty page (including publications)
Yehia F. Khalil
ALM Sustainability – 2018
Dr. Khalil, currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, was previously a faculty member at Yale.
His research interests include green energy systems, environmental risk assessment, life cycle assessment (LCA) of composite materials, and waste heat harvesting technologies.
He is widely published in numerous scholarly journals, and has had two manuscripts published through his work on his ALM capstone project.
Yehia F. Khalil, Yale University faculty page (including publications)
Cesar Marolla
ALM Sustainability – 2013
Cesar is a sustainability and environmental management leader, researcher, author, and lecturer.
Cesar has brought strategy concepts to bear on many of challenging problems facing corporations and societies, including working with global organizations and NGOs as well as volunteering with the U.S. Department of Defense.
Climate Health Risks in Megacities: Sustainable Management and Strategic Planning
Socio-Political Risk Management: Assessing and Managing Global Insecurity
Visual Arts (retired field)
Dereck Stafford Mangus
ALM Visual Arts – 2012
Dereck is a Baltimore-based visual artist, graphic designer, photographer, and art history scholar.
His recent work reviewing the exhibition “Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 19632017” at the Baltimore Museum of Art won him the prestigious 2018 Frieze Writer’s Prize.
The prize is an international award to discover and promote new art critics.
Undergraduate
John Gennace
ALB – 2015
After completing his ALB, John went on to earn a Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
He is currently a Geopolitical Risk Analyst.
In 2017, John wrote a piece analyzing US-China geopolitical strategy for Modern Diplomacy magazine.
Ryan Christopher Jones
ALB – 2022
Ryan Christopher Jones is a photojournalist who regularly contributes to The New York Times, ProPublica and The Washington Post, and often works on stories of labor, environment and migration across the United States and Mexico. Two of his 2021 collaborations with the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism examined the nebulous politics of water in California’s Central Valley. Other recent work also includes in-depth reporting during the Covid-19 pandemic in New York City and Boston, the overdose crisis, NYC housing crisis, and economic mobility. He has written about the ethics of photojournalism in two 2018 op-eds for The New York Times, “How Photography Exploits the Vulnerable” and “The Deja Vu of Mass Shootings.”
In 2022 he was a judge for the Pulitzer Prizes and was also awarded the American Mosaic Journalism Prize for his coverage on under-reported communities across the U.S. He is currently a PhD student in Social Anthropology at Harvard University, where he will continue to study the political ecology of water, space and power in California.
Donald Parker
ALB – 2019
Donald is a retired technology and financial services industry executive.
He completed his ALB at Harvard Extension School and subsequently completed an ALM in Government in 2021.
He is the Executive Director of KIPP Tulsa, a Tulsa Public Schools sponsored charter school.
Vance Puchalski
ALB – 2014
Vance went on to obtain an MA from Columbia University and is now in the final stage of completing a PhD in Sociology at Princeton University.
His research focuses on resource exchange networks through which unbanked and credit invisible members of the urban poor meet their financial services needs.
His peer reviewed publication, Credit at the Corner Store, analyzes the role of Detroit-area convenience and liquor stores in providing financial services such as check cashing, informal store credit, and short-term loans to lower income customers.
Credit at the Corner Store: An Analysis of Resource Exchange among Detroit Area Urban Poor
Jill Slye
ALB – 2006
Jill works at Harvard University Extension School as an instructor, and teaches at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Jill runs her own consulting and coaching business, attracting clients from many diverse industries.
In 2020 she was honored with the Petra T. Shattuck Excellence in Teaching Award from Harvard Extension School. Jill’s first book, Reinvesting in Your Rhetoric, was published in late 2020.
Erika Wolf
ALB – 2001
After obtaining her ALB, Erika went on to receive an MA and a PhD from Boston University, where she is now a Professor at the BU School of Medicine.
Erika is a nationally renowned PTSD researcher, has had a substantial amount of work on the subject published, and was the 2nd person in history associated with the National Center for PTSD to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (an award bestowed upon her by President Obama in 2016).
Erika Wolf, PhD, Boston University School of Medicine Faculty page
Erika Wolf, PhD, National Center for PTSD profile page and publications
2016 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers press release