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Susanna Sacks Graduates from Haverford College

Belmont High School graduate in 2009.

Haverford College is pleased to announce the graduation of Susanna Sacks, daughter of Marc and Naomi Sacks of Belmont and a graduate of Belmont High School in 2009.

One of 296 members of Haverford’s Class of 2013, Sacks received a bachelor’s degree with honors in English and sociology during commencement ceremonies in Haverford, Pa., on Sunday, May 19.

Sacks’ senior theses, the culmination of the Haverford academic experience, are entitled, “Building a Plot of Belonging: The Poetics of Self and Space in Audre Lorde’s The Black Unicorn” and “A Carnival of One’s Own: Contemporary Rap and the Commercial Appropriation of the Neoliberal Carnivalesque.”

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While studying at Haverford, Sacks was co-head of the Student Political Network. She spent the summer of 2010 working with Prof. of English Kim Benston on the production of "Norton's Anthology of Africa-American Poetry."

For a recap of Haverford’s 2013 Commencement ceremony go to: http://hav.to/qf

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