Honors And Awards

Jackson Bentley, a PhD student in Professor Haglund’s group, has received a graduate fellowship from the Department of Energy for 2024-2025. He will conduct his dissertation research on strongly correlated materials as photovoltaics at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Congratulations Jackson!… Read More

Eugenia Zavaleta, a 6th-year Anthropology student, took part in the Latin American Studies Association conference at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia. She participated in the panel titled “Reparations, Resistance, and Reimagining Just Futures in the Americas” and presented a paper titled “Living in Denial and Invalidation: The… Read More

JP Rojas, a 2nd year Anthropology student, led the first field season of the Proyecto Arqueológico del Municipio de Corn Island (PAMCI) in Nicaragua as the principal investigator (PI). The season involved surveys of archaeological sites on Big Corn Island and Little Corn Island, collaboration on documenting… Read More

Sylvia Cheever, a fifth-year Anthropology student, utilized her Evolutionary Studies Pilot Grant of $4750 in late May to launch her dissertation research. Her research focuses on testing mercury concentration in bone samples from Santa Barbara in collaboration with the METAL lab at ASU. Additionally, she has been invited… Read More

Nathan Blum, an MFA candidate in fiction, has published his book “Starting Over” on Ploughshares. He is also an Iowa Review Award finalist and teaches creative writing while serving as an advisory editor at Nashville Review. Congratulations Nathan!… Read More

Kumari Devarajan is a second-year MFA student in fiction from Washington DC. They were recently selected as a fellow for the Summer Workshop: Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. Congratulations Kumari!… Read More

M.F.A. student Kinsale Drake was named one of the National Poetry Series Competition – National Poetry Series winners. Her debut poetry collection THE SKY WAS ONCE A DARK BLANKET was chosen by Jacqueline Trimble for the University of Georgia Press this year. Read More

Shirley Xu, a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Education Policy and Leadership at Peabody College, has been honored as a 2024-2025 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow. This fellowship grants $27,500 to 35 fellows from various disciplines and professional fields who are working on dissertation projects that bring innovative… Read More

Mary is a PhD candidate in the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at Peabody College. Her research focuses on how policies, programs, and organizations can better support students as they transition to postsecondary education and the workforce. She has been awarded an AERA-NSF Dissertation Grant for the 2024-25… Read More

Kathryn James McGraw has recently been selected to serve on the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) Graduate Student Council. This council is responsible for creating a community for emerging educational leadership, policy, and evaluation scholars in collaboration with UCEA’s Associate Directors for Graduate Student Development. Kathryn is… Read More