{"id":409,"date":"2018-10-17T22:51:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T22:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/?p=409"},"modified":"2018-10-18T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T16:00:12","slug":"history-class-hosts-sixth-annual-knowledge-at-work-alumni-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/2018\/10\/17\/history-class-hosts-sixth-annual-knowledge-at-work-alumni-event\/","title":{"rendered":"History Class Hosts Sixth Annual “Knowledge At Work” Alumni Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sergeant Marcus Jackson (History ’10), Sherketta Carter (History ’11 and LEST ’14), Marshall Odell (History ’15) and Kaya Abukasis (History ’18) were welcomed back to UB by students, faculty, and\u00a0Dean Spencer\u00a0on Wednesday to talk about their professional paths following graduation.\u00a0 Students in Dr. Nix’s “Historian’s Toolkit” (HIST 295) class enjoyed getting to know these terrific alumni over pizza, and asking lots of their own questions.<\/p>\n

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Sherketta, Marcus, and Marshall shared work and school stories over pizza with HIST 295 students. Alumni in the Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies division return to UB every year for the Knowledge At Work program.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jackson developed his career with the Army National Guard after graduation, and he told students that the reading, writing, and research skills he acquired in the history program applied directly to his work as a human resources manager in the Maryland Guard.\u00a0 Reading critically, he said, and learning lessons from leaders in the past, helps him develop his own leadership skills.\u00a0 Since graduating from UB, Jackson has also gotten married and now has two adorable daughters.<\/p>\n

Carter graduated from two UB programs, History (B.A.) and Legal and Ethical Studies (M.A.).\u00a0 She parleyed her legal history knowledge and networking skills into a satisfying career as a legal assistant.\u00a0 For her, internships helped her make the transition from a\u00a0student to legal professional.\u00a0 She works for the City of Baltimore Law Department – and no law school degree was\u00a0required!<\/p>\n

Odell came to the UB History program after an early career in banking and finance.\u00a0 After graduating in 2015 with experience working at our Langsdale Library, he got a job as a librarian at the U.S. Naval Academy Library in Annapolis. \u00a0 Odell works with artifacts of military history in the library, as well as budget issues.<\/p>\n

The panel was also joined by Kaya Abukasis, who began UB Law School directly after her graduation in the History program this year.\u00a0 She is still acclimating to the massive reading demands in 1-L, but assured students that the source analysis and writing assignments she completed in the History program prepared her well for the LSAT and the workload in law school.\u00a0 In her copious spare time, she is also working on her mother’s Congressional election campaign in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

A history degree opens up all sorts of careers to college graduates.\u00a0 Aside from our guests today, UB students will remember that our university president and college dean were both history majors in college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sergeant Marcus Jackson (History ’10), Sherketta Carter (History ’11 and LEST ’14), Marshall Odell (History ’15) and Kaya Abukasis (History ’18) were welcomed back to UB by students, faculty, and\u00a0Dean Spencer\u00a0on Wednesday to talk about their professional paths following graduation.\u00a0 Students in Dr. Nix’s “Historian’s Toolkit” (HIST 295) class enjoyed getting to know these terrific … Continue reading History Class Hosts Sixth Annual “Knowledge At Work” Alumni Event<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}