Alumni Updates

Molly Castelloe's (PhD '05) documentary film "Vamik's Room," which explores 5-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Vamik Volkan and his lifetime work in applied psychoanalysis in diplomacy across the globe, was invited for in-progress screenings at The American Psychological Association in New York City and The International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education in San Francisco (2014), The North American Peace and Justice Association Conference in Washington (2015), and The International Psychohistorical Association in New York (2016).

The film garnered The Sidney Halpern Award (2016) "for furthering the discipline of psychohistory through the medium of documentary film."

Molly also runs The Me in We blog on Psychology Today.

Sarah Kozinn ('12) recently finished a Melon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theater and is now an Assistant Professor in the theater department at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

She is currently in the world premier of Jason Well's political satire "The Engine of Our Ruin" at the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank, California.

Her book "Justice Performed: Courtroom TV Shows and the Theaters of Popular Law" was published in 2015 by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.

Zena Bibler (MA '09) is finishing up 8 years at the Hemispheric Institute in order to begin a PhD at UCLA.

Along with fellow Performance Studies MA graduate, Katie Schetlick, Zena completed her 5th successful iteration of Fleet Moves Dance Festival this year. The pair also collaborated closely with Performance Studies '10 grad Hannah Krafcik.

Fleet Moves is a site-specific dance festival that makes a whole town its stage. Presented by the Movement Party, in partnership with Wellfleet Preservation Hall, this annual festival features a team of visiting and local artists who converge for a program of multi-generational dance workshops, sensory walks, and custom-made performances inspired by the unique history, culture, and landscape of Wellfleet. In dialogue with Wellfleet's overlapping summer and year-round communities, its rich history and maritime lore, and its thriving surfing and skateboarding scenes, Fleet Moves provides a rich performance experience that opens dance up to new audiences and explores how movement can enrich our daily lives.

Aside from producing Fleet Moves, Zena has been teaching regularly at Brooklyn Studios for Dance and has performed this year at Harrisburg Dance Festival, the Domestic Performance Agency, and Brooklyn Studios for Dance.