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Outstanding ARHU Graduate Students Honored at Awards Reception

May 15, 2024 American Studies | Art History and Archaeology | Communication | English | History | School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies | School of Music

ARHU graduate students pose for 2024 award picture

Congratulations to the 2024 graduate student awardees.

On May 9th, the College of Arts and Humanities held its first annual reception to recognize outstanding graduate students who received awards and fellowships this year. Attended by Dean Stephanie Shonekan, Associate Dean GerShun Avilez and a variety of faculty, staff and students, the event celebrated these students and their mentors. Former Arts and Humanities Dean Bonnie Thorton Dill attended to congratulate Devon Betts, the first recipient of the newly established graduate research award in her name. 

ARHU Graduate Student Awards Reception, May 9, 2024

ARHU Nominees to the Grad School's Outstanding GA Award:

  1. Kristy Li Puma, AMST
  2. Marco Polo Juarez Cruz, ARTH
  3. Alisa Hardy, COMM 
  4. Megu Itoh, COMM
  5. Annemarie Ewing, ENGL
  6. Diana Proenza, ENGL
  7. Theavy Din, SLLC 
  8. Brian Sarginger, HIST
  9. Molly Leach, School of Music
  10. Daniela Hernandez, SLLC 
  11. Christian Henrriquez, TDPS

James F. Harris Arts & Humanities Visionary Scholarship:

  1. Carolyn Robbins, COMM 
  2. Tony Cui, ARTH
  3. Melissa Sturges, TDPS 

Bonnie Thornton Dill Dean's Graduate Research Award:

  1. Devon Betts, AMST 

ARHU Nominees to the Grad School's Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award:

  1. Jeannette Schollaert, ENGL, "From Censors to Shouts: Ecologies of Abortion in American Fiction"
  2. Matthew Salzano, COMM, "Living a Participatory Life: Reformatting Rhetoric for Demanding, Digital Times"
  3. Jordan Ealey, TDPS, "Songs of Her Possibilities: Black Women-Authored Musicals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present" - Honorable Mention awarded by the Graduate School
  4. Hazim Abdullah-Smith, AMST, "Paradise Remixed: The Queer Politics of Tourism in Jamaica" - Awarded by the Graduate School

Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowships:

  1. Frederick Cherry, ENGL, "A Black Gay Sensibility: Art, Affect, and Black Male Relationality" - 2023-24 recipient 
  2. Jocelyn Coates, WGSS, "'Dark Sousveillance': Queer Intimacies and Sensorial Registers of Black/white Interraciality" - 2023-24 recipient
  3. Zachary Johnson, AMST, "Queer Specters of the Liberal Intellectual: Knowledge, Desire, and Respectability in the Poetics of Study" - Honorable Mention - 2023-24 recipient
  4. Nicole Steinberg, School of Music, "Witness Bearing in Holocaust Musical Presentation:
    Confronting Trauma in Mieczysław Weinberg’s Opera The Passenger" - 2024-25 recipient 
  5. Da Som Lee, ENGL, "Finding Asia in Asian American Literature" - 2024-25 recipient 
  6. Charlotte Joublot, SLLC, "Indigeneity and Resilience: Decolonizing Artistic and Literary Voices from Oceania through a Regional Identity (from 1970 to present)?" - 2024-25 recipient
  7. Valeria Iacovelli, ARTH,  "Planetary Visions: Photography and Environmentalism in the Age of Climate Change" - Honorable Mention -2024-25 recipient