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Christian S. Hartranft '12

Post-Graduate Fellow
717-358-4876
Office: CAR-619COL

Professional Biography

I am a 2012 graduate of Franklin & Marshall College with a B.A. in Government and a French minor, currently serving as a Post-Graduate Fellow in Franklin & Marshall's Office of Student & Post-Graduate Development. In this role, I am responsible for various projects designed to enhance holistic student and alumni development and for coordinating our office's efforts to track and analyze student outcomes during and after their time at Franklin & Marshall.

In addition to my work at Franklin & Marshall, I have experience working on Capitol Hill, in public legal assistance, and with immigration research/casework. My research and professional interests include higher education, student affairs and development, American politics, immigration law and policy (particularly asylum), and political/legal theory.

As an undergraduate, I conducted independent research on the right to counsel and its application to asylum-seekers in the United States and other industrialized countries and am the co-founder of an online legal resource called The Accessible Immigration Database (AID) Project which is designed to assist immigration attorneys with their case research.

I am very interested in the field of higher education, particularly student development and outcomes research, and am excited about the innovative work that Franklin & Marshall is doing in this area through the Office of Student & Post-Graduate Development. For more information, visit: http://go.fandm.edu/ospgd

Education

B.A. in Government (French minor), Cum Laude, Franklin & Marshall College, May 2012.

Grants & Awards

Sidney Wise Public Service Internship Award: $4,000 grant awarded by the Department of Government at Franklin & Marshall College in support of an internship in public service during the summer of 2010.

Publications

Contributions to "The Launchpad", the Office of Student & Post-Graduate Development blog: