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To remove your Honors First Year MAP Hold, you will need to attend your First Year Learning Community CHARGE or Year One discussion group during the week of September 25, 2023.

If you are unable to attend your discussion group during that week, schedule an appointment with an Honors Advisor to have your hold Honors MAP hold removed.

You will need to connect with your major advisor (or the Academic Advising Center, if undecided or still exploring majors) to have your Major MAP hold removed.

Honors Academic Advising


Madison Abele (She/Her)

Honors Advising and Eccles Scholarship Program Manager

Madison Abele (She/Her)

Honors Advising and Eccles Scholarship Program Manager
Madison Abele is a Student Program Manager in the Honors College. She manages the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Distinguished Scholarship, the Honors Milestone Advising Program, the second year learning community, and the transfer student process. Madison works with and advises all Honors students, but is specifically the Honors College liaison to the College of Social Behavioral Science and the College of Health. Madison was born and raised here in Salt Lake. She received both her honors bachelor's degree in Social Work and her master's degree in Social Work here at the University of Utah. In her spare time, Madison enjoys reading, exploring museums, and spending time with her husband, Garrett, and their dog, Dave.
 m.abele@honors.utah.edu

Anna Chuaqui (She/Her)

Honors Advising Program Manager

Anna Chuaqui (She/Her)

Honors Advising Program Manager

 a.chuaqui@honors.utah.edu

Jeff Badger (He/Him)

Honors Advising Program Manager

Liam Hammons (He/Him)

Honors Advising Program Manager

Liam Hammons (He/Him)

Honors Advising Program Manager

 l.hammons@honors.utah.edu

Karleton Munn (He/Him)

Associate Director of Honors Advising

Karleton Munn (He/Him)

Associate Director of Honors Advising
Karleton returned to the University of Utah and joined the Honors College in the Summer of 2019. After completing his undergraduate degree in English at Weber State University, he worked as an academic advisor here at the U in the Department of History. During this time, he also completed a master's degree in Educational Leadership and Policy. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Ohio State University with plans to finish Spring 2022. Karleton enjoys spending time with family and works with all honors students but is the Honors College liaison to the Academic Advising Center, College of Humanities, College of Science, and the College of Education.
 k.munn@honors.utah.edu

Kristal Studer (She/Her)

Honors Advising Program Manager

Integrated Minors


Dominic Pecoraro

Integrated Minors Program Manager

Dominic Pecoraro

Integrated Minors Program Manager
Dominic Pecoraro is a Program Manager in the Honors College aiding in the oversight of admissions, recruitment, and student experience. He also is the Honors College’s liaison to Housing and Residential Education. Dominic advises all Honors students, but serves as the liaison for Transform, Business, Medicine, and Mines and Earth Sciences. Originally from the St. Louis, Missouri, area, Dominic earned an HBS in Intercultural Communication and Diversity and an MA in Communication from Missouri State University. In the field of interpersonal communication, he studies the intersection of communication, identity, and difference and teaches courses in Communication as an Associate Instructor. Previous Honors courses Dominic has taught include HONOR 2211 (Writing with Honors) and HONOR 3214 (Communication, Identity, and Difference). Dominic enjoys spending his free time with his partner, Dylan, and their Siberian Husky, Madee.
 d.pecoraro@honors.utah.edu

Thesis Mentoring Consultation


Virginia Solommon (They/Them/Their)

Honors Advising Program Manager and Faculty

Virginia Solommon (They/Them/Their)

Honors Advising Program Manager and Faculty
Dr. Virginia Solomon: B.A. Stanford University, 2004, Studio Art and Feminist Studies; M.A. 2007, Ph.D. 2013, Art History and Gender Studies, University of Southern California Dr. Solomon’s research interests include contemporary art, curation, gender studies, queer theory, visual culture, subcultures, and alternative forms of politics. Solomon’s research has been supported by a Canadian Art Research Fellowship at the National Gallery of Canada and a Helena Rubenstein Critical Studies Fellowship at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, among others. Their curatorial work includes the exhibition Tainted Love (2009) at the La Mama La Galleria in NYC and Shary Boyle and Emily Duke: The Illuminations Project (2011), realized while serving as the Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Before joining the faculty at the University of Utah, Solomon was an Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Memphis and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual Studies in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons The New School for Design. They teach FF courses in the college around ideas of art, politics, culture, and their points of intersection, and they also are the faculty director for the Thesis Mentoring Community.
 virginia.solomon@honors.utah.edu