December 2019 Kudos

December 11, 2019

Mohammed Ali, BA ’03, (History) BA ’04, (Biology) appeared on the game show Jeopardy.

Kyra Altman, BA ’19, (Human Services & Social Justice) was recognized as one of Boston’s Ten Outstanding Young Leaders by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

Senior Rachel Armani (Journalism and Mass Communication) was quoted by The Atlantic in the article “How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?

Lynne E. Bernstein (Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences) received a $494,498 grant from the National Institutes of Health for speech perception training on advanced scoring and feedback models.

Christopher Brick (History) was awarded a $246,605 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project.

Max Burns, MA ’12, (Media and Public Affairs) authored the Daily Beast article “Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Smash Facebook Could Work- and Boy, Do We Need It To.”

Michael Cherokee, MA ’21, (Interactive Design) won the DC Collimation for designing a weighted blanket made of textile waste.

Eric Cline (Anthropology) gave the plenary address at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Along with Assar Yasser-Landau (Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations), he won the G. Ernest Wright publication award at the 2019 American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting for editing The Social Archaeology of the Levant.

Thomas D. Cook (Public Policy and Public Administration) was awarded a three-year, $1.17 million grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct experiments investigating bias in research.

Kavita Daiya (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) edited the collection Graphic Narratives about South Asia and South Asian America (Routledge, 2019).

Sara Fischer, BA ’12, (Political Communication) was named to the 2020 Forbes Magazine “30 Under 30” list.

Hope M. Harrison (History) authored the book After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Nicholas Hart (Public Policy and Public Administration) was inducted into the National Academy of Public Administration.

Jasmine McGinnis Johnson (Public Policy and Public Administration) was elected to the board of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.

Nate Morris, BA ’03, (Political Science) became the youngest-ever inductee into the Kentucky Entrepreneur Hall of Fame.

Kathryn Newcomer (Public Policy and Public Administration) co-authored the book U.S. Inspectors General: Truth telling in Turbulent Times (Brookings, 2019).

Junior Spencer Shih (Political Science) contributed to the article “Impeachment in the Shadow of the Constitution” for The Wall Street Journal.