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Gallatin Undergraduate Information Sessions

Undergraduate (BA) Information Sessions

For the spring of 2023, all of the Information Sessions for NYU Gallatin will be held online. Please join us for a virtual Information Session to learn more about Gallatin’s program. In these sessions, you will meet our Director of Enrollment, who will discuss how you can create your own individualized program of study at Gallatin.

All times below are New York Local Time (ET)

Virtual Undergraduate Information Sessions

  • Thursday, November 30, 12 noon
  • Thursday, December 7, 12 noon
  • Tuesday, December 12, 12 noon
  • Monday, December 18, 12 noon

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In-Person Undergraduate Information Sessions

All in-person information sessions will be held at:

The Gallatin School of Individualized Study
1 Washington Place
Room 801
New York, NY 10003

  • Friday, December 1, 3 pm 
  • Wednesday, December 6, 11 am
  • Friday, December 8, 3 pm (CANCELLED)
  • Friday, December 15, 3 pm

All times above are Eastern Time (ET)

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Current Gallatin BA Students

Yagmur Akyurek

BA Candidate - Literature and Visual Culture: Narrative and Place

Born in Turkey and raised in Massachusetts, Yagmur has always been interested in how communities interact with the physical . . .

Ashley Elizabeth Battiste

BA Candidate - Computer Science and the Ethics of AI and Technology

Born and raised in New York, Ashley is a junior at Gallatin. She has chosen to concentrate in both . . .

Suhyla Behiry

BA Candidate - Power and Politics in the Middle East

Suhyla (pronounced soo-HEY-la) was born in New York City. A child of Egyptian immigrants and a first-generation American, Suhyla . . .

Cheyenne Bryant

BA Candidate - Healing from Sickness: Curing/Mending Colonial Trauma Through Art, Education, and Play

Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Cheyenne is in her junior year at Gallatin. Her concentration, Healing from Sickness: . . .

Anna Captain

BA Candidate - Political Communications with an Emphasis in Leadership and Rhetoric

Anna grew up in Washington state and found her home at Gallatin after transferring into the School in 2021. . . .

Yejin Chang

BA Candidate - Asian American and Zainichi History through Literature

Yejin attended a vocational high school in New Jersey, where she studied business and finance. She entered Gallatin hoping . . .

Tristan Donaldson

BA Candidate - Neuroanthropology and Philosophy within a Chinese Context

Prior to starting at NYU, Tristan spent three years living in China, an experience which was influential in shaping . . .

Sarika Doppalapudi

BA Candidate - Collective Memory in Public Spaces

Born and raised in Chicago, Sarika is in her senior year at Gallatin. Her concentration focuses on how disenfranchised . . .

Lewis Fender

BA Candidate - The Dramaturgy of Adaptation; Minor: German

Lewis studies the practice of theatrical adaptation intersecting with theories of the archive and queerness. In spring of 2019, . . .

Thea Hurwitz

BA Candidate - Art In Real Life: Transforming the Landscapes of Art Institutions Through Diversity and Accessibility

Thea is a Gallatin sophomore from Arlington, Virginia, who is designing a concentration that combines her interests in art . . .

Judy Luo

BA Candidate - Carceral Studies; Minor: Philosophy

At Gallatin, Judy is concentrating in Carceral Studies—the broad study of social control, punishment, and discipline—and minoring in philosophy. . . .

Ben Kubany

Ben Kubany - Architecture and Urban Development

Originally from Maplewood, New Jersey, Ben is now a senior at Gallatin. He is pursuing a concentration in architecture . . .

Zixin Liu

BA Candidate - Unseen

Zixin, who is originally from China, is interested in psychoanalysis, sociology, and fairy tales and folklore. He is designing . . .

Sophie Spector

BA Candidate - Infectious Disease from an Interdisciplinary Perspective

Raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Sophie is studying infectious disease at the intersection of science and humanities. Captivated by the . . .

Mariama Stevenson

BA Candidate - Health and Human Rights Through Racial and Historic Oppression

Born and raised in New York City, Mariama comes from a West African, Fulani household. At Gallatin, she focuses . . .

Jules Talbot

BA Candidate - Shakespeare in Adaptation

Jules’s concentration investigates Shakespeare’s plays and their changing relevance today. It questions the history and politics of the English . . .

Ryan Walker

BA Candidate - The Intersections of Photography & Themes of Justice; Minor: Print Journalism

Born into a military family, Ryan moved roughly every two years of her life and has lived across the . . .

Boheng Zhang

BA Candidate - In Search of Religion, Freedom, and Religious Freedom; Minor: German

Pronouns: they/them Boheng has directed their undergraduate degree at Gallatin to concentrate on contemporary religious political relationships with a . . .

Gallatin BA Alumni

Robert Clinton

BA ’16 - The Sociology and Politics of Urban Agriculture

Annabelle Attanasio

BA ’15 - An Investigation of Dramatic Writing through A Study of Theater and Film

Rachel Hilson

BA ’18 - Writing and Performing Race

Aaron Gartenberg

BA ’19 - Value and Values: The Intersection of Business and Sociology

Julie-Ann Hutchinson

BA '15 - Ethics, Public Policy, and International Development

Joosje Duk

BA ’16 - Acting, Creative Writing, and Journalism

Zachary Fine

BA ’15 - Art History and Philosophy

Josh Foulquier

BA ’15 - Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Ethics

Kafia Ahmed

MA - Social Innovation and Creative Activism

After graduating magna cum laude from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, with a BA in international studies, Kafia . . .

Angie Liao

BA ’17 - Human Rights Law and Human Expression, with a minor in Social and Cultural Analysis

Melissa Bartow

BA ’19 - The Art of Entrepreneurship

Michael Abraham

BA ’17 - Gender Theory and Modern Poetics

Fatoumata Waggeh

BA '13 - African Political Development, Colonial History, and Law

Philippe Asseily

MA – Near East History: Beirut Circa 1760

Born and raised in Beirut, Philippe left Lebanon—and the civil war there—when he was a teenager. After graduating from . . .

Michael T. Astolfi

MA '12 - Gaming Design and Psychology

Michael earned a BA in evolutionary psychology from Boston University before enrolling in Gallatin's graduate program. “Gallatin seemed like . . .

Safia Elhillo

BA '13 - Poetry as a Tool in Therapy

Sheila Bandyopadhyay

MA '11 - Theater and Movement

When Sheila entered Gallatin after earning her BA from Brandeis University, she was an actor and movement specialist with . . .

Alex Denker

BA ’13 - The Neuroscience of Art

Phillip Picardi

BA ’12 - Beauty

Kate Fritz

BA '10 - Environmental Politics, Political Theory, and China Studies

Mallory Blair

BA ’10 - Creativity and Commerce

Jon Chan

BA '12 - Complex Systems and Emergent Behavior

Lauren Bille

BA ’09 - Designing Societies: Politics, Institutions, and Culture

David Burstein

BA ’12 - Intersection of film, technology and politics with a focus on youth and social change

Emma Kaywin

BA '10 - The Philosophy of the Abnormal

Rachel Tipograph

BA ’09 - Entertainment Business and New Media

Daniel Seara

BA ’14 - The Human in Science

Eric Fuchs-Stengel

BA '14 - Ecological Sustainability and Social Change; minor in Environmental Studies

Mitch Bloom

MA '13 - Nonprofit Management

Mitch graduated from NYU’s College of Arts and Sciences in 2008 with a BA in philosophy, French, and nutrition.At . . .

Shalena Broadnax

MA - The History of the City of New York

A Brooklyn native,Shalena was looking for a graduate program that had an interdisciplinary approach to exploring big ideas. At . . .

Maya Berry

BA ’06 - Cultural Anthropology, Latin American and Caribbean History, Dance, Languages, and Post-Colonial Studies

Will Creeley

BA '03 - Political Memory and the Burden of History

Sara Moonves

BA ’07 - Journalism and Photography

Dariely Rodriguez

BA ’03 - Legal Studies and Latin American/Latinx Studies

Julian Cyr

BA ’08 - Public Policy and Community Health

Adam Mosseri

BA ’05 - Information Design

Alex Pall

BA ’08 - The Commoditization of Art Throughout History

Kareem Collie

MA Candidate - Narrative Theory and Visual Culture

Kareem graduated with honors from Pratt Institute and went on to a career in brand development, strategy, and marketing . . .

Earlene Cruz

MA – Social Entrepreneurship and Food Studies

Earlene is currently pursuing her Master's degree at Gallatin while she works to bring her startup, an online foodie social network, KitchenConnection.org, to life. . . .

Kristoffer Diaz

BA '99 - Dramatic Writing, Literature, and History

Nico Daswani

MA '09 - Artistic Collaboration and Intercultural Heritage

A graduate of the University of Westminster-London, Nico was the director of programs at the 2005 World Festival of . . .

Jennifer Clement

BA ’82 - English Literature and Anthropology

Keli Goff

BA ’01 - The Political Role of Theatre and Film in the United States

Midori Goto

BA '00 - Psychology and Gender Studies

Michelle Dorrance

BA ’01 - Concepts of American Race in Relationship to Democracy in American Culture

John Ridley

BA '87 - East Asian Languages

Yadira De La Riva

MA '10 - Performance, Psychology, and International Relations

Yadira is a poet, playwright, performer, and educator from the US-Mexico borderland of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, . . .

Benjamin Decker

MA - Interactive Media Studies

With a BA from Harvard in new media, computer science, economics, and psychology, Benjamin worked in corporate strategy at NBC before coming to Gallatin to pursue an interdisciplinary degree in interactive media studies. . . .

Jane Rosenthal

BA ’77 - Film and Television

Alphonso Saville

BA ’02 - African American/Black Studies and Creative Writing

Christy Turlington Burns

BA ’99- Comparative Religion and Eastern Philosophy

Barbara Whitman

BA ’88 - Liberal Arts

Christina Ryan

BA ’98 - Biology and Dance

Cary Goldstein

BA ’96 - Poetry and Religions

Anna Fahr

MA '10 - Film and Middle Eastern Studies

Anna is a New York-based independent film producer and director. She received her MA from Gallatin, with a focus . . .

Bryan Farrell

MA '13 - Environmental Thought and Action

After earning his BA in journalism from Penn State in 2004, Bryan worked as a researcher for The Village . . .

James Gain

MA '12 - Young Adult Literature

James earned his BA in Film/TV from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. With a background in screenwriting, his . . .

Steven Galeazzi

MA - Innovation in Public and Nonprofit Organizations

Originally from Glastonbury, Connecticut, Steve served as an Army officer in both Latin America and Afghanistan from 2004 to . . .

Victoria Geduld

MA '06 - Collaborative Dance Performance

When Victoria entered Gallatin, she was an experienced performer of contemporary and Baroque dance. A student of Martha Graham, . . .

Dina Gold

BA '09, MA '14 - Creative Consulting

Dina is an artist and scholar who studies creativity across disciplines, including design, education, psychology, art, and business. “I . . .

Morgan Grain

MA - Race and Media Studies

Morgan was raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and graduated cum laude from Florida AM University before moving to New York . . .

Flavia Grilli

MA Candidate - Contemporary Art and the Global Cultural Economy

After studying International Relations and Economics in São Paulo, Brazil, Flavia came to Gallatin to study value in globalized . . .

Sarah J. Halford

MA Candidate - Artistic Activism

Sarah graduated with honors from the New School University, where she earned a BA in theater and politics. At . . .

Claire Horn

MA '15 - Legal Studies and Gender Studies

In Gallatin, Claire found an interdisciplinary program that has allowed her to construct an academic path that combines her interests in gender and legal studies, and specifically rape culture and reproductive rights in the U.S. . . .

Erin Johnson

MA – Urban Agriculture and Community Development

Through Gallatin’s Urban Democracy Lab, Erin spent a summer in Madrid as a Global Fellow in Urban Practice researching the recent development of urban agriculture and the urban social movement there. . . .

Cornelius Jones

MA '10 - Dramatic Writing and Activism

Cornelius studied dramatic writing and activism at Gallatin, focusing on the use of writing and performance as a means . . .

Joseph Lamar Lewis

MA '07

Born and raised in Saginaw, Michigan, Joseph entered Gallatin after earning a BA in English from Hampton University. While . . .

Magogodi Makhene

MA '10 - Social Entrepreneurship in Africa

Magogodi is originally from Soweto, South Africa, and her studies at Gallatin focused on African social entrepreneurship and business . . .

Hudson McFann

MA '13 - Political Ecology

After earning a BA in geography from Ohio State University, Hudson was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct independent research at the University of Toronto, where he studied the inequity of Toronto’s waste exports to Michigan and southwest Ontario. . . .

James Middleton

MA '12 - Art History and Culture

Prior to coming to Gallatin, James earned a BFA at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and worked . . .

Lillien Nathan

MA Candidate - History and Museum Studies

Brooklyn native Lillien earned her BA at Georgetown University before coming to Gallatin for graduate school to study history . . .

Madeline Sayet

MA '12 - Art, Politics, and Post-colonial Theory

Madeline earned her BFA in theater at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts before enrolling Gallatin, where she studied . . .

Diane Selditch

MA '10 - Urban Studies

Before attending Gallatin, Dianne was a social worker, writer, reporter, editor and director of the SoundWaters Coastal Center in . . .

Harmeet Neetu Sidhu

MA '13 - Social Entrepreneurship and Fashion

Harmeet earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary in . . .

Matt Sisul

MA '11 - Economics, Public Health, and Public Administration

An engineer who attended Columbia University as an undergraduate, Matt was engaged in large-scale public infrastructure projects such as . . .

Rowan Spencer

MA Candidate - Sound, Music, and Mixed Media

Rowan Spencer is a musician, writer, and mixed media artist who holds a BA in English from McGill University. . . .

Jessica Stambaugh

BA '08, MA '13

Jessica received her undergraduate degree from Gallatin in 2008 and returned for her MA. “There is no other institution . . .

John Sumpter

MA Candidate – Media, Communications, and Social Development

After completing his undergraduate degree at Syracuse University in political science with a focus on Middle East development, John . . .

Kevin Vavasseur

MA – Theater and Media Studies

In choosing the Gallatin MA program, Kevin found a way to coalesce all of his disparate professional . . .

Alicia Waller

MA Candidate - International Relations and Music Diplomacy

A classically trained soprano from Northern Virginia, Alicia's research is centered upon the analysis of cultural diplomacy and its . . .

Nicole Watson

MA '08 - History and Theater

After earning a BA from Yale in history with a focus on African-American and Caribbean history, Nicole, who is . . .

Adam Weinert

MA '15 - Performance, Digital Technology, and Arts Activism

Adam is a New York City native as well as a dancer, choreographer, and media artist. He has danced . . .

Jeremy Wineberg

MA '11 - Entertainment Business

Los Angeles native Jeremy studied business in the entertainment industry. His independent study focused on business models that merge . . .