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“Publication” Class Notes

John Muir (Law ’64)

Publication announcement on May 5, 2022

J. Dapray Muir (Law ’64) has more than 35 years of experience in corporate and securities law. His practice included counseling a wide range of commercial enterprises with respect to securities law, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, investment transactions, contracts and litigation. He has served as lead counsel in numerous public and private offerings of securities.

Mr. Muir served one year as law clerk to a federal trial judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and two years as Assistant Legal Adviser for Economic and Business Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. From 1981 to 1985, he was chairman of the D.C. Securities Advisory Committee. He was a member of the American Arbitration Association’s Panel of Commercial Arbitrators from 1995 to 2015, serving as sole arbitrator or panel member in more than 40 proceedings.

 

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Johanna Kahn (Arch ’10)

Publication announcement on May 4, 2022

Johanna Kahn (Arch ’10), a practicing architectural historian in the San Francisco Bay Area, has published an essay in the anthology Julia Morgan: The Road to San Simeon, Visionary Architect of the California Renaissance. The anthology is a companion to a forthcoming traveling museum exhibition about architect Julia Morgan and her design for the monumental Hearst Castle.

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John Howard (Col ’83 CM)

Publication announcement on April 14, 2022

John Howard (Col ’83 CM) has published the first critical biography of radio broadcaster, stage director and auteur filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis, best known for triple-Oscar-winner Zorba the Greek. Howard is Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities, King’s College London.

Paul Lombardo (Grad ’82, Law ’85)

Publication announcement on April 5, 2022
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Paul A. Lombardo (Grad ’82, Law ’85) of Georgia State University College of Law has published a new edition of Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Ashley Bartley (Col ’06 CM)

Publication announcement on April 5, 2022
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Ashley Bartley (Col ’06 CM) has released her third children’s book in a social emotional learning series published by Boys Town Press. Remi in Overdrive offers children struggling with ADHD, hyperactivity, impulsivity and/or inattentiveness ideas and strategies they can implement both at home and at school. Remi in Overdrive is available on Amazon, Boys Town Press, Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, along with her other two books, Diamond Rattle Loves to Tattle and Opal Octopus is Overwhelmed. Ashley is a school counselor, author and curriculum writer who now lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with her husband and three young boys.

Elliot Felix (Arch ’99)

Publication announcement on March 31, 2022
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Elliot Felix (Arch ’99 CM) helps students and families get the most out of college with his new book. Felix founded brightspot strategy and has helped more than 100 colleges and universities use design thinking to improve what they offer, how they are organized and how they operate. In his new book, How to Get the Most Out of College (Alinea Learning, 2022), he shares what he’s learned about how colleges and universities work so that students and families can make it work for them, because it’s not just where you go to college but how you go to college.

How to Get the Most Out of College is the top new release in the academic development category on Amazon and was recently featured in Forbes. Having done hundreds of consulting projects to help attract and retain students, the book is a chance to give back and help level the playing field, including a “buy one, give one” model where for every copy sold, one is donated to a student in need.

Michael Goodwin (Col ’78)

Publication announcement on March 15, 2022
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Michael Goodwin (Col ’78 CM) has recently published his fourth novel, Vice Versa.

It can be purchased on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Vice-Versa-Michael-Goodwin/dp/1633635651/

Emily Thiede (Col ’04)

Publication announcement on March 12, 2022
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Emily (Bean) Thiede (Col ’04 CM) sold her debut novel, This Vicious Grace, and an unnamed sequel in a six-figure deal to Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press and Macmillan Publishing. The first in a planned young adult fantasy duology, This Vicious Grace will be published June 28, 2022 in the U.S. and in the United Kingdom by U.K. publisher Hodder & Stoughton, with translations announced for Germany (LYX Verlag), Russia (Eksmo), Romania (Storia) and the Czech Republic (Host).

BuzzFeed calls Thiede’s debut “remarkable” and “one of the best YA fantasies of the year,” and it is listed amongst Goodread’s “68 Most Anticipated YA Novels of 2022” and Nerd Daily’s “24 Debut Releases To Get Your Hands On In 2022.”

Launch events are to be announced in the Virginia/D.C. area for summer 2022, and This Vicious Grace will be available wherever books are sold on June 28.

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Katya Davydova (Col ’15)

Publication announcement on March 4, 2022

Katya Davydova (Col ’15 CM) will publish her first book, Joy in Plain Sight, in May 2022. The collection of stories and essays explores the celebration of wonder in the ordinary, especially against the backdrop of a busy, noisy world.

As a professional leadership facilitator for companies like Google, Netflix and Twilio, she is offering customized workshops on how to build behavior-based habits of joy, tailored book talks and private one-on-one coaching for individuals and organizations. Davydova’s mission is to make the world a more joyful place, starting with uncovering what’s right in front of us.

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Jill Tietjen (Engr ’76 CM)

Publication announcement on March 4, 2022

Jill Tietjen (Engr ’76 CM) has an upcoming book titled Over, Under, Around, and Through: How Hall of Famers Surmount Obstacles, which will be released May 3, 2022 by Fulcrum Publishing. The book provides the secrets of how Hall of Famers overcame the obstacles in their lives to become stronger, smarter and more resilient. The stories in the book show how the fifty successful women, inductees into Halls of Fame in the U.S. and around the world, used ten key characteristics either singly or in combination to surmount the many obstacles that they faced in their lives: mental intelligence, emotional intelligence, social support, moral compass/spirituality, determination/perseverance/persistence, optimism, creativity, resilience, action-orientation and passion.

Richard McGonegal (Col ’75)

Publication announcement on February 22, 2022
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Richard F. McGonegal (Grad ’75 CM) has published the novel Ghoul Duty with Cave Hollow Press.

The mystery is the second in the Sheriff Francis Hood series, which began with publication of Sense of Grace in 2020.

McGonegal is a 1975 graduate of the University of Virginia, where he received a master’s degree in English Language and Literature. While attending UVA, he studied creative writing with Peter Taylor, who later won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

“Ghoul Duty” is the unofficial moniker for the task of recovering corpses unearthed by Missouri River flooding. After the sheriff and his chief deputy retrieve a body, they learn it did not come from the cemetery.

The revelation begins the process of determining who the man is and how he died. Complicating Hood’s efforts are his early recovery from alcoholism; his separation from his wife and daughter; a new twist on a relationship from his past; and the puzzling behavior of an ex-convict, whose father was killed by Hood in a shootout.

McGonegal is also a 1973 graduate of Rutgers University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and Literature.

He retired in 2017 after a 41-year journalism career at the Jefferson City News Tribune, a daily newspaper in Missouri’s capital city. McGonegal and his wife, Kristie, live in Jefferson City, Missouri, where their two adult daughters, Heather and Jane, also reside.

Print and Kindle versions of his books are available online at Amazon.com.

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Patrick McCreesh (Col ’02 CM)

Publication announcement on February 2, 2022

Patrick McCreesh (Col ’02 CM) recently announced the acquisition of his company, Simatree, by Galway Holdings, a financial services distribution company.  Patrick will continue to serve as the Managing Principal for Simatree under Galway.  Additionally, Patrick will be releasing a new book, Stuck, How to WIN in Business by Understanding LOSS, on March 1, 2022Patrick resides in Vienna, Virginia with his wife Courtney Lodge McCreesh (Col ’03 CM) and four daughters.

Paul Gaston (Grad ’66, Grad ’70 CM)

Publication announcement on January 28, 2022

Paul L. Gaston (Grad ’66, ’70 CM) has published Credentials, a study of the academic and employment connection, with co-author Michelle Van Noy, director of the Education and Employment Research Center at Rutgers University. His other recent books include The Challenge of Bologna (2010), about European higher education reform, and Higher Education Accreditation (2014). All are published by Stylus Publishing, LLC. He is the author also of Ohio’s Craft Beers (2016) published by Kent State University press. Gaston is a former provost of Kent State and a former acting dean of Trinity Cathedral (Episcopal) in Cleveland. At UVA he was elected to the Raven Society and to Phi Beta Kappa.    

Jon Blankenship (Col ’08)

Publication announcement on January 17, 2022

J. Ross Blankenship (Col ’08 CM) published his first book, Assessing CEOs and Senior Leaders: A Primer for Consultants with the American Psychological Association in 2021. Written for graduate students, psychologists and other professionals interested in better understanding how to work with executives, the book builds on theory, research and practice to provide an overview of senior leadership assessment, the contexts in which this work takes place and the tools and methods used. It also discusses ethical issues and future directions for practice.

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Richard Miller (Col ’75 CM)

Publication announcement on January 3, 2022

Richard B. Miller (Col ’75 CM) published Why Study Religion? with Oxford University Press. Miller’s book argues that scholarship in religious studies, especially work in “theory and method,” is preoccupied with matters of value-neutral procedure and thus inarticulate about the goals that can justify scholarship in the field.  The book assesses six methodologies that symptomatize this inarticulacy and then offers an alternative framework for thinking about the purposes of the discipline. Miller’s framework, Critical Humanism, rests on four values toward which work in the study of religion can aim: Post-critical Reasoning, Social Criticism, Cross-cultural Fluency, and Environmental Responsibility. Mr. Miller is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Religion, Politics, and Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School and in the College.  He is the author of five other books and numerous articles on matters of religion, ethics, and public life.

 

Anne Hampford (Col ’83 CM)

Publication announcement on December 4, 2021
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Anne Hampford (COL ’83 CM) published a poetry chapbook Everywhere Is North in October 2021. The poems of Everywhere Is North are both self-portraits and portraits of the Antarctic continent—its ice, its creatures, and the ocean that surrounds it. They are meditations on home and rootedness in a most inhospitable but alluring place.

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Brandon Thompson (Col ’20)

Publication announcement on November 25, 2021

Brandon Richard Thompson (Col ’20), Donald Cooper (Col ’20) and Joanne Lee (Com ’21 CM) are contributing authors to Social Class Supports: Programs and Practices to Serve and Sustain Poor and Working-Class Students through Higher Education. Their chapter was based on the Hoos First Look program and how similar institutions can adopt the program into their universities. Thompson has been working in the consultant space since graduating in May 2020 and will be pursuing Ed-Tech based jobs going into 2022. 

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Casey Chalk (Col ’07, Educ ’07)

Publication announcement on November 23, 2021

Casey Chalk (Col ’07, Educ ’07) published his first book, The Persecuted: True Stories of Courageous Christians Living Their Faith in Muslim Lands. (Sophia Institute Press)

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Jim Ambuske (Grad ’16)

Publication announcement on November 15, 2021

Jim Ambuske (Grad ’16) is co-creator and co-writer of the new podcast series, Intertwined: The Enslaved Community at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Intertwined is an eight-part docuseries that tells the story of the more than 577 people enslaved by George and Martha Washington,  through the lives of Sambo Anderson, Davy Gray, William Lee, Kate, Ona Judge, Nancy Carter Quander, Edmund Parker, Caroline Branham, and the Washingtons. It is available wherever you get your favorite podcasts and at www.georgewashingtonpodcast.com

Carole Sargent (Grad ’92, Grad ’94 CM)

Publication announcement on November 10, 2021

Carole Sargent (Grad ’92, ’94 CM) has written Transform Now Plowshares, a book about the nun who committed the largest breach in U.S. nuclear security history. It will be published in December 2021 by Liturgical Press. In August, 2020, in time for the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Georgetown University Press published A World Free From Nuclear Weapons – The Vatican Conference on Disarmament, co-edited by Sargent under the guidance of one of Georgetown’s Jesuits who advises the Holy See on disarmament issues. Their article on the book in The Conversation was published in hundreds of newspapers worldwide. Sargent’s article in The Conversation about Sister Ardeth Platte, who inspired the character of Sister Jane Ingalls in Orange is the New Black was also published in hundreds of newspapers. Sargent  is a literary historian of early modern women’s political thought and founding director of Georgetown University’s Office of Scholarly Publications.


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