Morgan Kennedy ’07
Morgan Kennedy ’07 traces her interest in religious studies back to a freshman seminar she took with Professor Valerie Smith called “Religion and Resistance in the Narratives of Slavery.” Smith and Kennedy bonded immediately. “She’s become a mentor and a friend,” says Kennedy. Eventually, the native of Washington, D.C., focused on Islamic family law, specifically the place of women in post-revolution Iran.
After that freshman seminar, Kennedy also took a graduate seminar with Smith and finished her Princeton career taking one last class with her on Toni Morrison. “She’s just very, very approachable,” says Kennedy of Smith. “Even when she was on leave at the Institute for Advanced Study, she took me to lunch there.”
Speaking of meals, Kennedy was a member of Tower eating club, where the majority of her socializing took place. “I ate three times a day there and went to parties there,” says Kennedy. “Every night I spent at least an hour at dinner talking to friends.”
But perhaps the biggest part of Kennedy’s Princeton experience, aside from academics, was the independent student newspaper where she served as business manager. Kennedy coordinated the selling and placement of ads, managed the paper’s budget, corresponded with the printer and the delivery trucks and oversaw a staff of 24.
Kennedy spent an average of 25 to 35 hours a week at the paper’s office and says, “It was the most challenging, satisfying and instructive activity for me at Princeton.”
After that freshman seminar, Kennedy also took a graduate seminar with Smith and finished her Princeton career taking one last class with her on Toni Morrison. “She’s just very, very approachable,” says Kennedy of Smith. “Even when she was on leave at the Institute for Advanced Study, she took me to lunch there.”
Speaking of meals, Kennedy was a member of Tower eating club, where the majority of her socializing took place. “I ate three times a day there and went to parties there,” says Kennedy. “Every night I spent at least an hour at dinner talking to friends.”
But perhaps the biggest part of Kennedy’s Princeton experience, aside from academics, was the independent student newspaper where she served as business manager. Kennedy coordinated the selling and placement of ads, managed the paper’s budget, corresponded with the printer and the delivery trucks and oversaw a staff of 24.
Kennedy spent an average of 25 to 35 hours a week at the paper’s office and says, “It was the most challenging, satisfying and instructive activity for me at Princeton.”