On May 1, the Department of Modern Languages & Classics inducted our latest members into Alpha Mu Gamma, the National Collegiate Foreign Language Honor Society. Friends and family members were in attendance, and a reception followed the ceremony. We celebrated the impact that language study has had on the lives of all our students. Congratulations, Class of 2025!
2025 Alpha Mu Gamma inductees include:
French:
Myles Hogan
Kiara Pierristil
Italian:
Nicholas Caruso
Sebastian Caruso
Spanish:
Emma Clark
Jaime Cochran
Grace Gillin
Asavari Gowda
Emma Harkness
Alli Kerr
Jason Lazarz
Madison Tinker

In other department news, Dr. Garcés (Spanish) was the first reader for Julia Moor’s Honor’s Thesis, and Dr. Sham (Classics) was an additional reader along with Dr. Cooper (History). Her thesis was titled “A New Cage: the Constraint of Paul Poiret’s ‘Liberating’ 20th Century Haute Couture Fashions,” and she successfully defended it on April 28, 2025.