Deans & Staff

While at Stanford University, Susannah studied social and cultural anthropology with a focus on visual arts and conducted fieldwork among the Chagga people of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. After graduating, Susannah was a curatorial researcher at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art for exhibitions on African feminisms and contemporary female artists. She then shifted to the Himalaya to conduct fieldwork for Umea University School of Business and Economics, studying decision-making in extreme environments while documenting mountaineers' ascents to Mount Everest's summit. She was a program director for Putney Student Travel for four years, overseeing programs in France, Nepal, and Bhutan, and leading programs in Thailand, Italy, and Greece. For the past three years she has been working as an education researcher in Bhutan, helping to build a new holistic education system for the Kingdom based in Bhutanese values and Buddhist philosophy.

Tom is the head of the arts division at Middlesex School, a boarding school in Concord, Massachusetts, where he teaches theater. A graduate of Northwestern University and the American Conservatory Theater, Tom enjoys working with high school students and using theater as a lens to examine the bigger world. When not creating imaginative worlds, Tom enjoys traveling in the actual world. He has led and directed trips with high school students in Oxford, London, Paris, Florence, and Vermont.

While at California Institute of the Arts, Julian focused on experimental theater performance where he worked and collaborated with many international directors and performers from France, Mexico, China, and Poland. During his tenure at CalArts he devised an original piece with his professor which toured internationally and performed at the 8th Theater Olympics in India, workshopped at the Grotowski Institute in Poland, and performed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. In addition to performing, he has been able to lead workshops at the University of Hyderabad, and Summerhall in Edinburgh. Julian has lived in London, Paris, and Mexico and has been a keen student of everything international cities have to teach. Currently, he is a school administrator and a French bilingual substitute teacher at the Lycée International de Los Angeles. This fall, Julian will be teaching several acting courses to freshman undergraduate students and high school students. He is fluent in French and Spanish, and proficient in Italian.

While at New York University, Camille focused on studying French sociology and history through the lens of women and class structures. She went to Paris to study the gentrification of the city and examined history through the lens of underrepresented populations. Camille studied mathematics and French in her undergraduate degree. After finishing her master’s, she moved to Brooklyn and began teaching math and French at various prep schools in New York City. Camille now works at the Nightingale Bamford School in Manhattan and teaches mathematics. Born in a French-speaking family, Camille has lived and traveled in France since she was a child. This fall, she will continue to teach mathematics at Nightingale Bamford.