A Blast to the Past

A few years ago, professor Rosana Vivar met up with some of her old college friends, as they all gathered around to watch a friend’s documentary. The documentary was for a final project at their university and captured the goals and aspirations of all his peers, including Vivar. As she gathered around her friends, her head flooding with old memories of her youth, she stared in utter disbelief. On the screen was none other than 21-year-old Vivar saying she wanted a PhD and a job teaching at a university.

“Like, did I say that at 21,” Vivar wondered.

How fitting then that she was able to see her goals come true. Have you ever wondered who our professors are behind the desk? What lives they lived before becoming our professors and mentors? Before their PhDs, our professors were students, like us, living exciting lives and navigating their youthful 20s. Join SLU-Madrid in a retrospective profile of three faculty members in their 20s: philosophy professor Jawara Sanford, theology professor Philip Porter, and lastly, program director of Communication, Vivar.