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First Ph.D. in creativity class graduates from one-of-a-kind program

Books from dissertations

2025 cohort

Kehinde Bademosi, Design in Public Health Crises: the power of empathy in visual storytelling, published by Bloomsbury in June 2025.

2022 Cohort

  • Susan H. Gordon, The Story of Prosecco Superiore (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024), 314 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1538191262
  • Eugene Hughes, Alone with Nature: The Psychology of Environmental Attunement (Bloomsbury Academic, in production, to be released in 2025)
  • Patricia E. Salkin, May It Please the Campus: Lawyers Leading Higher Education (Touro University Press, 2022), 352 pages, ISBN-13: 979-8887190082
  • Cindy Veloric, Risky Beauty: Aesthetics and Climate Change, exhibition catalogue, Nurture Nature Center, Easton, PA.

Articles, book chapters & awards from dissertations

  • Suzannah Eig
    • “Emma Smith, This is Shakespeare,” book review, The Cleveland Review (April 2021).
    • "Crossing Lines, Playing Roles," a poem, Beyond Words Magazine (October 2020).
    • "'But in this changing, what is your intent?' A Conversation with Sarah Enloe," Shakespeare Association of America (June 2020)

  • Susan H. Gordon
    • The Story of Prosecco Superiore (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024) is a finalist for Drink Books of the 30th Gourmand Drink Awards.
    • "Silvano Follador's Road of Understanding Prosecco" Forbes (March 2023).
    • Book review of Rob Arnold, The Terroir of Whiskey: A Distiller's Journey into the Flavor of Place, Cleveland Review of Books (July 2021).
    • "What a Little Hilltop in Abruzzo Can Tell Us About Words for Place," Gastronomica 20.2 (May 2020).
  • Eugene Hughes
    • Co-author, "Aesthetic Engagement as a Pathway to Mental Health and Well-being," in the Oxford Handbook of Mental Health and Contemporary Western Aesthetics, edited by Martin Poltrum, Michael Musalek, Kate Galvin, and Yuriko Saito (Oxford University Press, 2023).

  • Jessica Hunter
    • Promoted to Director of Creativity & Innovation at Colorado College in 2023
    • "When Uncertainty Becomes Possibility: VTS and Creative Problem-Solving," Visual Thinking Strategies (2023)

  • James Brandon Lewis
    • Winner of the inaugural Balvenie Fellowship, selected by Questlove,
    • On the cover of the June 2023 issue of DownBeat Magazine
    • Performed as a headliner at the Newport Jazz Festival in summers 2023 and 2024.
    • Released the five albums in 2022-2024: The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (2024), Transfiguration (2024), GIFTS (2024), For Mahalia, With Love (2023), Eye Of I (2023).

  • Frank Machos
    • Profiled in"Philly schools ‘Mic’d Up’ program reaches new heights," Metro Philadelphia (July 23, 2023).

  • Patricia E. Salkin
    • "Minority Lawyers Contribute to the Swelling Number of College and University Presidents with JDs, "American Bar Association (2023).
    • "Lawyers are Leading Higher Education as Advocates Call for More Formal Leadership Training," Legal Education (February 2021).
    • "Why Lawyers Make Excellent Academic Leaders," University Business (January 2021).
    • “Pandemic Bar Exams Left Many Aspiring Lawyers Behind" Bloomberg Law (January 2021).
    • "Should I Stay or Should I Go: Student Housing, Remote Instruction, Campus Policies and COVID-19," The Urban Lawyer (February 2021).
    • "ABA Does the Right Thing and Stands with Law School Graduates in the Midst of the Pandemic," JURIST (August 2020).
    • "INSIGHT: Your Next College President May Be the GC Next Door," Bloomberg Law, (July 2020).
    • "The Bar Exam and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Need for Immediate Action," Harvard Law Review Blog (April 2020).
    • “Licensing Lawyers in a Pandemic: Proving Competence," Harvard Law Review Blog (April 2020).
    • "From the Classroom to the Presidency: Legal Educators Tapped to Run the Campus," American Bar Association, Syllabus, newsletter (February 2020).
    • "Lawyers are leading U.S. colleges and universities more than ever before. Is that good or bad for higher education?" The Washington Post (January 15, 2020).

  • Abel Tilahun
    • Awarded a 2023-4 Guggenheim Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
    • Exhibition "Inner and Outer Space: Lalibela on the Moon," Lalibela, Ethiopia (June 2020).

  • Cindy Veloric
    • "Hiro Sakaguchi: Landscapes of a Restless Mind” presented by Arcadia Exhibitions and curated by Cindy Veloric. August 27 through Decemeber 14, 2025 in the Spruance Gallery 450 S Easton Rd, Glenside, PA 19038
    • "Multi-layered Aesthetics and Agencies in Sun and Sea (Marina)," in Women's Innovation in Theatre and Performance, volume 3(Bloomsbury, forthcoming).  
    • "Embodied Space: The Pollution Pods Experience," chapter 7, in Perspective: Selected Essays on Space in Art and Design (Vernon Press, 2023). 
    • "Joan Jonas, Moving Off the Land II, a Consideration of Strange Strangers," Issue 61, Antennae (August 2023).
    • "Aesthetic and Industrial Rupture in the Work of Edward Burtynsky and Justin Brice Guariglia" Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism (University of California Press, August 2023).
    • “Science, Sensibility and Metaphor in the Coral Reef Artwork of Diane Burko," Ocean Archive (May 2020).
    • "Joan Jonas, Moving Off the Land II: A consideration of 'strange strangers,'" Ocean Archive (April 2020). 

 

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