Meet the Admissions Team
Below is an alphabetical listing of the Tufts admissions officers and you may reach out to an admissions officer by e-mailing them at the address provided. If you need immediate assistance with your application, please contact the Admissions Office directly at undergraduate.admissions@tufts.edu. If you have questions about applying as a transfer student, e-mail transfer.admissions@tufts.edu instead.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Indigenous Center
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
“A party without cake is just a meeting.” - Julia Child
Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist by Franchesca Ramsey
Elephants create their own sunscreen by using mud and wet sand to protect their skin from the sun!
The African elephant is the world's largest land mammal – with males on average measuring up to 3m high and weighing up to 6 tonnes.
“There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.” - Derek Jeter
Ellie/Elly is one of the most popular names in English for Elephants!
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
Anything with Dr. Jennifer Eyl – her class, History of Christianity 1, changed my life!
Bendetson Hall – it’s where I get to partner with an extraordinary team of colleagues to read the applications (and stories, and aspirations, and journeys, and worldviews) of some of the nation’s, and the world’s, most promising and compelling students as we build each incoming class.
If I had to pick just one: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. But with books, you never have to pick just one, so some close seconds include: The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.
Julia Dudley-Kramer
Senior Assistant Director of Admissions She, Her, Hers julia.dudley_kramer@tufts.eduWomen of Paris: The Circus Lover by James Jacques Joseph Tissot is one of my favorite lesser-known paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts permanent collection.
Dumbo was recognized as Time Magazine’s “Mammal of the Year” in December 1941.
Roussel, Walser, Proust, Stein, Lispector, Michaux, Huysmans, Artaud, Pynchon, Borges, Sterne, Rabelais, Kharms, Vvedensky, Pizarnik, Seneca, Sun Ra, Trakl, Carrington, Mallarmé, Bataille, Celan, Howe, Sarraute, Zürn, any book that has a lot of long lists in it, etc.
Laura Owens, Glenn Ligon, James Ensor, Sigmar Polke, Mike Kelley, Fischli+Weiss, Theaster Gates, Tauba Auerbach, Hanne Darboven, John Rafman, Charline von Heyl, Christian Marclay, Isa Genzken, Guy de Cointet, Ree Morton, R.H. Quaytman, Dieter Roth, Adolf Wölfli, Rachel Harrison (did I mention that I’m enthusiastic about a lot of things?)
I have always loved Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. In a more academic context, my favorites are When Should Law Forgive by Martha Minow, The Privileged Poor by Anthony A. Jack, and The End of Adolescence: The Lost Art of Delaying Adulthood by Nancy E. Hill and Alexis Redding.
My favorite works of art are Portrait of Madame X and Lake O’Hara by Sargent, Gloucester Harbor at Sunset by Lane, Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight in the Fog by Monet, Winter Sunshine by King, and Leander’s Tower on the Bosporus by Gilford.
Painting the cannon because not only does it allow students to express themselves, but needing to guard it until sunrise adds a bit of a fun challenge
"Don’t believe in yourself. Believe in me. Believe in the me who believes in you."
Elephants “talk” to each other using low-frequency sounds that humans cannot hear.
Art Matters by Neil Gaiman
Recently: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. All time: Persuasion by Jane Austen or The Secret History by Donna Tartt.
The benches at the top of the President’s lawn -- you get a great view of the Boston skyline and see lots of students around enjoying the outdoor space.
In addition to the familiar trumpet blast sound they're known for, elephants also purr much like cats do.
MUS-44: History of Rock 'n Roll...again
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
The midnight organ concert on Halloween!
The elephant brain is roughly four times larger than the human brain!
There are so many good works of art to choose from, but Martha Graham’s “Lamentation” will always be one of my favorite pieces to watch.
The SMFA Welding Shop
The Visitors by Ragnar Kjartansson
Elephants say hello to each other by “hugging” their trunks – that’s so cute!
The Privileged Poor by Anthony Abraham Jack
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Elephants can drink up to 50 gallons of water in a day, and can hold 2.5 gallons in their trunk. That’s one heck of a water bottle!
Bendetson Hall. This is not only where I get to meet students on paper in their applications, but also where I connect with them in person once they are on campus!
Painting the cannon, because it gives students an outlet to express themselves in a creative and nontraditional way.
Lucy the Elephant is a six-story tall structure that was modeled after Jumbo by inventor James V. Lafferty in 1881. Residing in Margate City, New Jersey, Lucy is one of the oldest surviving roadside tourist attractions in America and a National Historic Landmark.
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
EC-144 Income Inequality, Poverty, and Economic Justice
Misery by Stephen King
Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (It’s in the MFA collection!)
Michael Scott’s The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series has to be one of my favorite personal reads but Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed is one of my favorite academic reads ever. If you want to begin your understanding of how educational structures are formed, operate, and continue to inequitably thrive in our society, then Freire’s work is a must.
I know this is cheesy but “Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you’ll land amongst the stars” has always motivated me to do my best.
Baby elephants don’t learn to control their trunks until they are about 1 year old.
As a lover of the outdoors, I really enjoy basically anything by Albert Bierstadt and Paul Signac.
Upstairs in the Campus Center (couches, pool tables, and The Sink)!
Not stepping on the Jumbo logo in the lobby of the athletic center
Elephants have great memories! Their brains' temporal lobes are proportionally larger compared to humans.
Tisch Library Roof (the Boston skyline views are amazing!)
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
The top floor of the Campus Center