Congratulations to you all! Your accomplishment is all the more impressive given these times which test and try us in all manner of ways. I am grateful to you all for your example of perseverance.
To Sarah, Alicia, Christine, and Colin, whose defenses I chaired over Zoom: thank you for your brilliant intellectual engagement. And Colin, I will miss our chats about Simone Weil and the Uncut Gems soundtrack!
I wish you all every good thing in what we have to hope will be a brighter future. – Travis