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I have general and particular roles in the Honors Program. More generally, I oversee the program mission, vision and operations. In particular, I work with Tiffany Grubb to develop the honors experience curriculum.

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Honors Staff: Cindy Klestinec

Dr. Cindy Klestinec is the new Director of the University Honors Program and is associate professor of English. She has published a book on the history of dissection, Theaters of Anatomy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), several chapters for edited volumes, and several articles on the history of medicine, gender and medicine, and Renaissance pedagogy. Currently, she is directing the Honors Program and teaching a graduate seminar on the history and representation of work. Dr. Klestinec has been awarded fellowships for research by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), the Villa i Tatti-Harvard University (Florence), and the American Council of Learned Societies. As in her research and her teaching, Dr. Klestinec will continue to cultivate interdisciplinary inquiry and engaged learning practices at all levels of the curriculum in the Honors Program.

MY BEST ADVICE:
Two things. First, be a sponge. Put yourself in new situations, in new learning environments, new conditions, and be a sponge—soak up the information, take in the experience, note as many perspectives on an idea or issue as you can. Second, make that experience meaningful. This might mean writing about it, it surely means talking about it, but it also means finding a way to create dots to connect—use your experience as a stepping stone, a bridge, a link to more. Most people in college can achieve the first, but the second is a mark of distinction. Go forth and distinguish. And read…a lot.

BY THE TIME YOU GRADUATE:
Hopefully, you will have an awareness of who you are, and the commitments (professional, personal, intellectual, political and so on) that shape your core being. I also hope you will see how your Miami honors experiences have helped you grow as a scholar, leader and person, giving you the ability (the competence) to realize your dreams.