Graduate Awards 2019
Kiara Kharpertian Award
This award was established to honor the memory of our colleague Kiara Kharpertian, who earned her doctorate in English in 2015. Open to MA and PhD students, it encourages and supports graduate students who take intellectual and professional risks that extend the limits of their interests. Graduate students can be nominated by faculty or can submit proposals on their own to support travel, research, or any aspect of a scholarly project or endeavor.
Cash award. Deadline: December 1.
2019 Award Recipient
- Nell Wasserstrom
Von Hendy Award
This award honors our longtime colleague Andrew Von Hendy. Designed to recognize the high quality of graduate student writing, it is given to the best paper written by a graduate student. Two prizes are awarded each year, one for an M.A. student and one for a Ph.D. student.
Deadline: April 7.
2019 Award Recipients
MA: Annesley Anderson, 鈥淭he Myth of Modernism: A Reception History of The Power and the Glory鈥�
PhD: Alex Moskowitz, 鈥淓conomic Imperception; or, Reading Capital on the Beach with Thoreau鈥�
Donald White Teaching Award
Award for outstanding teaching by a M.A. and Ph.D. student.
2019 Award Recipients
MA: Kathleen Clark
MA: Untara Rayeesa
PhD: Matthew Gannon
PhD: Laura Sterrett