GEO Alumni Panel Discussion
GEO Alumni Panel Discussion
This is an alumni panel discussion featuring three distinguished graduates who are making significant contributions both in academia and beyond. This is a unique opportunity to hear directly from alumni who have forged exciting and esteemed career paths and to gain valuable insights into their journeys and experiences.
Jeannette Schollaert, Project Manager, Poetry as Activism University of Delaware Library, Museums & Press
Jeannette (Jenny) Schollaert (she/her) is currently the Project Manager of the Poetry as Activism Project at the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Maryland with a certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research explores herbal abortion stories and plant knowledge in multi-ethnic American fiction, and her writing related to this topic appears in Post45: Contemporaries and The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature.
Justine DeCamillis, PhD, Associate Program Director, Justice and Legal Thought
College Park Scholars MLAW Programs
Justine DeCamillis defended her dissertation in 2021, earning her PhD in English at UMD. Her dissertation, “Attend Me: Attention and Animation in Early Modern Drama” examines how attention operates between actors, objects, and audiences in the theater as playwrights throughout the beginning of the seventeenth century began to experiment with attention as a form of creative labor and means of animating, transforming, or subjugating bodies in performance. She worked at the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Folger Institute for five years, most recently as the project coordinator for the Before 'Farm to Table': Early Modern Foodways and Culture Mellon grant. She is currently the Associate Director of Justice and Legal Thought at UMD and has won a number of accolades at the University for her work in that role including the Do Good Provost’s Innovator Award, Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars Faculty Award, a $33K Do Good Campus Fund Grant, and the Mark Wellman Most Charismatic Instructor Award.
Micaela Cameron, Advancement Communications Manager University System of Maryland
Micaela Cameron has served as Advancement Communication Manager at the University System of Maryland Foundation since 2016. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing print materials, website development, press releases, and talking points, as well as coordinating various councils and professional development programming. Micaela holds a BA in English from Providence College and an MFA from the University
of Maryland, College Park’s Creative Writing Program. Prior to joining the University System of Maryland, she held a graduate assistantship in a communications role within the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies at the English Department at the University of Maryland, College Park.