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Congratulations to ARHU’s thirteen winners of the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship! |
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The Fellowships reward and promote the exciting, innovative research of these outstanding Ph.D. students by funding a semester of full-time work on their dissertations. Wendy Marie Thompson, American Studies
Kristen Williams, American Studies
Rachel Leah Jablon, Comparative Literature
Belinda Southard, Communication
Jennifer Vardeman, Communication
Kathleen Barker, English
Heidi Scott, English
Elena Lozinsky, French
David Hunter, History
Philip Monahan, Linguistics
Zoe Saunders, Music
Elizabeth Schechter, Philosophy
Karen Vatz, Second Language Acquisition
Congratulations and thanks also go to the dissertation advisors, graduate program directors, department chairs and other faculty and staff who encourage students to apply, advise on applications, write letters of recommendation and in so many ways advance the high ambitions of our excellent students.
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Congratulations to the four Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship
recipients for 2008-09!
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They emerged from a group of truly exceptional applicants, all of whom
deserve congratulations for their ambitious projects, impressive c.v.s,
and the extraordinary letters of recommendation their work elicited from
chairs, graduate directors and advisors. Please pass onto them the
Fellowship Committee's kudos for their terrific applications.
Adam Greenhalgh (Art History), "Risky Business: Chance and Contingency
in American Art, 1876-1907" (Directors: Franklin Kelly, Sally Promey)
David Hunter (History), "Jim Crow Goes Abroad: Race and the American
Nation during World War II" (Director: Gary Gerstle)
Margaret Rice (English), "The Ethics of Allegory in Paradise Lost"
(Director: Marshall Grossman)
Zoe Saunders (Music), "Anonymous Masses in the 'Alamire' Manuscripts:
Toward a New Understanding of a Repertoire, and Atelier, and Renaissance
Court" (Director: Barbara Haggh-Huglo)
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Israeli Ambassador and Nobel Prize Winner on Campus |
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Shirin Ebadi returns to campus, this time to speak about the Iranica Project on Saturday, May 3, at 3 p.m. in the Howard Frank Auditorium, Van Munching Hall. Reception follows. Open to the public. Ms. Ebadi first visited Maryland in 2004, after her 2003 Nobel win.
Ambassador Meridor will give a short talk and respond to questions on Monday, May 5, at 5 p.m. in Tyser Auditorium, Van Munching Hall. Reception follows. Open to the public. Event is the first for the Richard and Elizabeth Dubin Distinguished Lecture Series.
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