Career Potential

Andrew Garrett ‘17 completed the master’s program in Developmental Economics at the University of Sussex. Andrew was a dual degree student at Hofstra. He was a double major (BA) in Japanese and Political Science, and (BS) in Mathematical Business Economics. Andrew also had minors in Asian Studies and International Affairs and was a 2016 recipient of a Critical Language Scholarship to study in Japan. He is now a statistician at the United States Department of Labor in Virginia.

Naomi Gunkel '15 double majored in Asian Studies and English (with a concentration in Publishing Studies and Literature) and minored in Japanese. After graduating from Hofstra, she attended Drexel University for a master’s in Library Science. She is now a lab support associate for quality control at Syneos Health.

Diana Honerkamp '14, a graduate of the Asian Studies program, lived in Tokyo teaching English and translating Japanese scripts to English until 2016. Then she returned to the U.S. as a junior recruiter at TOP Group, a Japanese recruiting agency in New York City. She works as a talent acquisition specialist for j2 Global.

Sean Kelly ’14 earned a BA in Classics and a BS in Music at Hofstra. He then earned an MA in Classics at the University of Notre Dame. Sean also studied Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford and is now the development manager at Heartbeat Opera in New York City.

Chika Okuyama '14, a dual major in Asian Studies and Film Studies and Production, received honorable mention in the Marleigh Grayer Ryan Writing Prize on Asian Studies. In the spring of 2014, her final semester at Hofstra, she presented a paper, “Francis Ford Coppola and Japanese Culture,” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies' second annual undergraduate conference at the University of Oklahoma. She now serves as the president of the Nippon Culture Society and an assistant area manager at the Zenken Corporation in Tokyo.

Jody Kass ’13 completed graduate school at CUNY Hunter, earning an MAT degree in Latin Education. She is a Latin teacher at Commack High School on Long Island.

Natalie Hoeting ’12, a Biochemistry and Classics major at Hofstra, earned an MD and MPH from Emory University School of Medicine and has published research in cardiology.

Mandie DeCamp ’08 is an executive producer at Us Weekly. She previously worked as a producer on "The Rachael Ray Show" and the Food Network.

Megan Plassman '08 earned an MAT degree in Latin Education at CUNY Hunter and teaches Latin at Maspeth High School in Queens, where she is now the Classical Languages Department Chair.

Kathleen Hunker '07 received a JD from Columbia Law School and an LLM from University College London, specializing in comparative constitutional law and human rights. She is a member of the New York State Bar and currently works as a counsel member to United States Senator Ted Cruz.

Patrick McDonald '07 earned a JD at Suffolk University Law School. He is a member of the Rhode Island Bar and the Massachusetts Bar and is an associate attorney at Roberts Carroll Feldstein and Peirce, Inc.

Mary Ellen LeBlanc '07 received a Fulbright grant to study in Bonn, Germany, and earned her PhD in German Studies at University of California-Berkeley. Her thesis was on “Inheritance and Inflectional Morphology: Old High German, Latin, Early New High German, and Koine Greek.”

Danielle Rosen '06, a dual major in Asian Studies and Philosophy with a minor in Japanese language, earned a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and is now a litigation attorney at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP.