Awards and Recognition
Stephanie Leigh Batiste, PhD ’02, received the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize for her first book Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in the Depression-Era African American Performance (Duke University Press, 2011). Batiste will return to campus on April 5 as the keynote speaker of the Department of American Studies’ annual Collected Stories Conference.
Grigsby Crawford, BA '08, authored his first book The Gingo: A Memoir.
Ramzi Fawaz, PhD '12 , and an American studies professorial lecturer and postdoctoral fellow, received the 2012 Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Fellowship Award from the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Garett Howardson, doctoral candidate in industrial/organizational psychology, wrote the essay “Assessing Self-Regulatory Constructs in Personnel Selection: A Possible Solution to the Proximity Generalizability Tradeoff,” which was selected by the Personnel Testing Council of Metropolitan Washington as the Outstanding Student Essay on the Science and Practice of I/O Psychology.
Llewelyn Hughes, assistant professor of political science and international affairs, won an Abe Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council for his project on firm structure and the politics of climate change.
Jason Jorgenson, PhD student in economics, received a U.S. Association of Energy Economics Fellowship and National Capital Area Council Fellowship to present his research on "A Meta-Analysis of U.S. Residential, Industrial, and Commercial Electricity Demand” at the 31st USAEE North American Conference in Austin, Texas.
Kimberly Morgan, associate professor of political science and international affairs, and graduate student Alexander Reisenbichler, co-authored "From 'Sick Man' to 'Miracle' : Explaining the Robustness of the German Labor Market During and After the Financial Crisis 2008-09" in the most recent issue Politics and Society.
Kim Munsamy, the 2010 International Emerging Filmmakers Fellow from South Africa, is a finalist in the Focus Forward Film Competition for her work, Bones Don't Lie and Don't Forget. The competition will award $200,000 in prizes ($100,000 for the Grand Prize Winner) to be announced at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. The GW Documentary Center's new instructor, Chithra Jeyaram, was a semi-finalist.
Assistant Professor of American Studies Elaine Peña's first book, Performing Piety: Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe (University of California Press, 2011), was named the Honorable Mention recipient for the 2012 Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award.
University trustee Deborah Ratner Salzberg, BA ’75, was honored at the 9th Annual Women Who Mean Business Award Program. The event, presented by the Washington Business Journal and Capital One Bank, recognizes the region’s most influential business women of 2012.
Mike Suh, master’s candidate in the High Technology Crime Investigation graduate program, placed 21st in the National Cyber League Challenge.
Akos Vertes, professor of chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology, won the Chemical Society of Washington's Hillebrand Prize. Vertes is the fourth member of the Department of Chemistry to receive the award; previous winners are Professors Nicholae Filipescu, David Ramaker, and Akbar Montaser.
Tristan Volpe, a graduate student in political science, has been named a Lawrence Scholar at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Cheryl Wood, professorial lecturer of communication, received Professor of the Year Award from Catholic University.