Ellie Dawson '15 fell in love with anthropology after taking an introductory course with Maria Mendonça, an ethnomusicologist who leads Kenyon's gamelan ensemble, featuring Indonesian gongs and other percussion instruments. Dawson also helps edit the campus literary magazine Persimmons. Another favorite professor: Kim McMullen of the English faculty. “She wrote tons of comments on everything we turned it. It was really helpful, especially the first semester of freshman year.”