Joanna Spanos is Senior Academic Advisor and Staff Assistant in the Arts and Sciences Honors Office. Joanna’s professional role involves working with undergraduate honors students on their academic programs and pre-professional and pre-graduate school preparation. She also serves as the coordinator for the Arts and Sciences Honors Peer Mentor Program and is the lead instructor for the Program’s survey courses. Joanna teaches Arts and Sciences 1100.01H (University Survey) and, upon occasion, academic courses in the Department of Comparative Studies. Joanna’s academic research interests involve festivals, historical ethnography, and medical humanities. In her professional role, she conducts research on peer-to-peer interactions, the transition to college, and the applicability of Advanced Placement credit.