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To celebrate the world-renowned faculty of SAIS, we are asking our alumni and friends to share their favorite memories of SAIS faculty. We invite you to share your stories about a professor that might have changed your life, affected your career or just put a smile on your face that day. Below you will find photos, stories and videos from other SAIS alumni around the world talking about some of their favorite faculty members. Please enjoy watching the videos, looking at the photos and reading the stories. We hope that you will share your memory with us!
"49 different authors and readings were the sum total we were to have memorized for the final in Dr. Grace Goodell's Social Foundation of Development class. She was "old school", so she actually demanded that her students should be able to regurgitate on the final exam 10 or so of the authors and their ideas. Pre-final, the class executed marathon study sessions in preparation. Post final, we celebrated having completed what seemed to be the impossible. Ultimately, we respect Dr. Goodell for not only the knowledge disseminated, but pushing us to achieve more than we thought we could." moreChristopher Meyer remembers Professor Grace Goodell
"Jessica Einhorn was one of my favorite people at SAIS. She had had a career that I really admired, so one day I asked her to have lunch with me to talk about it. She was more than happy to get together, and we had a great conversation about her time at SAIS and her career at the IFC. She was very candid about her time there, and willing to answer all my random questions - it probably seemed like a small thing to her, but I found our discussion very eye-opening. Getting to spend time with experienced professionals like her is what made SAIS such a special place for me." morePaul Alois remembers Dean Jessica Einhorn
"I think Southeast Asia Studies is one of the best departments…not that I am biased of course. One of my most memorable experiences is the class trip we took to Malaysia and Cambodia. In Malaysia, Professor Bridget Welsh led our group from meetings with government officials to political party leaders while teaching us about the country’s ethnic and religious struggles." moreNancy Tran remembers Professor Bridget Welsh
"I think Southeast Asia Studies is one of the best departments…not that I am biased of course. One of my most memorable experiences is the class trip we took to Malaysia and Cambodia. In Malaysia, Professor Bridget Welsh led our group from meetings with government officials to political party leaders while teaching us about the country’s ethnic and religious struggles." moreNancy Tran remembers Professor Bridget Welsh
"Betty Andretta fundamentally changed my understanding of International Development and how to work with communities overseas. As an Anthropologist, she presented ways of looking at development challenges that were substantially different from my training in Political Science. I learned an entirely new vocabulary from Betty; one which led to asking different kinds of questions and gleaning new kinds of insights. To this day I still use the skills and tools she taught me." moreAimee Breslow remembers Professor Betty Andretta
"Grace Goodell, Director of Social Change and Development during my tenure at SAIS, is hands down the best teacher I ever had. Her insightfulness, openness, curiosity, and interest in her students' thoughts and impressions of the world remain with me to this day. Grace was a caring and demanding teacher, a wonderful combination for any student. The amount of reading we had to do for her courses was legendary, but all of that reading material provided a foundation for a classroom experience filled with conversation, probing questions, and an assimilation of huge amounts of information into something that..." moreDenise Lofman remembers Professor Grace Goodell
"I took a class from Francis Orlando Wilcox who was, at that time, the Executive Director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and he often could not meet our class on Saturday mornings because he was busy on the Hill. So he would invite us to his home on Connecticut Avenue to do his class. One night we arrived and he met us at the door and he said, “Please sit down. I want to finish something.” And he sat down at his desk and was typing something. He pulled it out and said, “Take a look at this and tell me what you think.” It was the first draft of the North Atlantic Treaty Resolution." moreHans "Tom" Tuch '48 remembers Professor Francis Wilcox
"Professor Edmund Stillman had these amazing ways of conveying a sense that the world is not populated by George Washingtons and Thomas Jeffersons and that if you’re operating in the world you need to understand all these political forces. He was terrific." moreJessica Einhorn remembers Professor Edmund Stillman
"Larry Kraus, and his wife Sally, had us frequently over for dinner and one particular evening Larry talked to each of us about our plans after SAIS. I was thinking graduate school and I didn’t really want to go to law school and I didn’t know what to do and Larry said to me, ‘You know, Jessica, as a woman with professional interests, you need to get the best credential you can get and what you should do is go get a Ph.D.’ And so I got into Princeton and I went, but that PhD was really due to Larry Kraus." moreJessica Einhorn ‘70 remembers Professor Lawrence Krause
"I had come to SAIS at the mid-career point, having already served as an officer in the Army Special Forces and the CIA. Eliot Cohen provided the rigorous, historically-grounded graduate education in strategic studies that I needed to round out my professional development, and sparked the idea that became the basis for my PhD dissertation. Years later, I had the privilege of formulating and implementing national security strategy with him as a colleague during the final years of the Bush administration. He's every bit as good a practitioner of strategy as he is a professor of it." moreMike Vickers remembers Professor Eliot Cohen
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