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The College of Liberal Arts Alumnus of the Year went from being uncertain about the future of his education to being one of the top residential real estate agents in the Las Vegas Valley.
Dane Hanawahine-Gather, '18 BA Psychology, is a bioenvironmental engineering apprentice in the U.S. Air Force and is currently assigned to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. He enjoys swimming, hiking, photography, snorkeling, kayaking, and video games.
Jason B. Cooper
Jason B. Cooper, '97 MA Anthropology, is a professional archaeologist working with the Washington State Department of Transportation. He is the cultural resources lead for WSDOT's Northwest Region based in Seattle. He was recently re-elected as president of the Association for Washington Archaeology, a non-profit organization committed to the protection of archaeological and historic resources in the state of Washington. Cooper recently co-authored an archaeological monograph, Hunters of the Mid-Holocene Forest: Old Cordilleran Cultural Sites at Granite Falls, Washington, that examined the archaeological evidence recovered from two precontact sites that were being impacted by highway construction. He is married to wife, Karin, and is father of Marlene, 21, and Caleb, 18, and lives in Seattle.
Lisa Levy
Lisa Levy, '00 BA Interdisciplinary Studies and '04 MA Special Education, has spent 20 years as a special education teacher at two local high schools. She's worked in the Clark County School District for over 35 years. Levy loves traveling and watching NASCAR.
Chase Palliser
Chase Palliser, '22 BA Anthropology and BA Art History, is living in Rome, Italy, obtaining a master's degree in art history. Palliser plans to study in Rome for two years and then hopefully transition to a job there.
Robert Smale
Robert Smale, '95 BA History and BA Spanish, attended the University of Texas for his Ph.D. and now is associate professor and chair of the history department at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He will be returning to UNLV on April 13 to give a lecture in Latin American Studies at the University Forum lecture series. While at UNLV, Smale was on the swim team all four years while achieving a 3.987 GPA.
Juan Martinez
Juan Martinez, '11 Ph.D. English, is an associate professor at Northwestern University. Martinez has a new book out titled, Extended Stay.
Haunting and visceral, Extended Stay uses the language of body horror and the gothic to comment on the complicated relationship between the Latinx undocumented experience and capitalism, the erasure of those living and working on the margins, the heavy toll exacted by memory, and the queasy permeability of boundaries that separate the waking world from the world of dreams.
The book has been featured on several book lists, including Book Riot.
Amelia Davis
Amelia Davis, '22 BS Graphic Design & Media and '22 BA English, was hired shortly after graduating as a graphic designer and creative coordinator for the UNLV Foundation/Division of Philanthropy & Alumni Engagement. Davis is 26 years old and has lived in Las Vegas since 2006. She attended CSN before moving on to UNLV. Davis started as a 3-D animation major in high school before transitioning to graphic design and English.
In her spare time, she likes to read, take care of her two pet reptiles, Chirby (blue tongue skink), and Scylla (leopard gecko. Davis also likes to play video games and does freelance graphic design. She sometimes likes to try new restaurants and enjoys archery.
McKenna King
McKenna King, '18 BA History, is an associate buyer and merchandising coordinator at the University of Colorado-Boulder bookstore. King enjoys reading the classics, paddle boarding, fishing, and finding new restaurants around the city.
Alyssa LoBello
Alyssa LoBello, '16 BA Psychology and minor in human services, is a school counselor.
Chelsea Milko
Chelsea Milko, '09 BA Political Science and BS Kinesiological Sciences, recently celebrated one year as senior communications advisor in the U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition, she joined the online publication Maryland Road Trips as a contributing travel writer. She spends her spare time restoring her Victorian-era row house in Baltimore, Maryland.