Page of Reason - October 2024
Dispatches from your most humble servant
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Announcing the 2024-2026 Paine Scholars Program Recipients
The Institute for Thomas Paine Studies is pleased to announce the first 20 students accepted into the prestigious Paine Scholars Program at Iona University for the 2024-2026 academic years.
Inspired by the legacy of Thomas Paine, these outstanding students will develop skills that are essential for 21st-century careers, from education and activism, to social and digital media, from data science and information literacy, to law and policy. The connection between historical knowledge and individual growth, both as a scholar and in success in these many, wide-ranging career paths, is the foundation of the Paine Scholars Program.
In this brand new program, Paine Scholars will build partnerships, develop community, and gain resources to better understand the past in order to build our collective futures. Over the next two academic years, these exceptional students will participate in several on- and off-campus community events, take courses in digital humanities and public history, and receive professional training through an internship placement at distinguished institutions such as the Center for Digital History at George Washington’s Mount Vernon to the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania to the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in New York.
Congratulations to the 2024-2026 Paine Scholars:
Megan Basile
Pinak Bawankar
Timothy Carron
Sean Curry
Jordan Delaney
Andrew DeLuca
Sofia Fabrizio
Devin Gunther
Emma Lanza
Regina Lomboan
Matseliso Moeletsi
Corey Mund
Mackenzie Murphy
Nicholas Notaro
Janae Nora
Una O’Donnell
Maya Roberti
Kevin Rojas
Molly Sherlock
Geovanni Valencia
To learn more about the Paine Scholars Program, please email Dr. Nora Slonimsky, Director of the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies (nslonimsky@iona.edu).