May 2019 Kudos

May 8, 2019

Hugh Gusterson (Anthropology) was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to complete a book on nuclear weapons and ethical decision making after the Cold War.

Eve Boyle (Anthropology) and Amanda Pierson (Sociology) won the university’s Philip J. Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Award; Hugh Gusterson (Anthropology) and Anthony Yezer (Economics) won the Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Teaching Excellence;  and Terrie Gale (Sociology), Carly Jordan (Biology) and Tara Scully (Biology) were among the winners of the Morton A. Bender Teaching Award. Read more.

CCAS students Ashley Atilano (English, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies), Jack Hirschman (Physics, Political Science) and Jeremy Marsh (Political Science) were recognized as the university's 2019 Distinguished Scholars.

Senior Kyrah Altman (Human Services & Social Justice Program) was featured in the WUSA9 report “George Washington University student develops health program.”

Emma Briant (Media and Public Affairs) published “Pentagon Ju-Jitsu: reshaping the field of propaganda” in Critical Sociology.

David DeGrazia (Philosophy) presented a lecture on “An Ethical Framework for the Use of Animals in Research” at the Public Workshop on the Uses of Dogs in Biomedical Research, sponsored by the National Academies and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Keryn Gedan (Biology) received a $240,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study climate drivers, dynamics and consequences of ecosystem change in coastal barrier systems.

PhD candidate Danielle Gilbert (Political Science) authored the article “Trump claims he’s the greatest hostage negotiator ever. So why did he make it harder to bring Americans home?” for The Washington Post.

Matthew Hindman (Media and Public Affairs) won the 2019 AEJMC Frank Luther Mott Research Award recipient for the best book on journalism and mass communication.

Trevor Jackson (History) had a research note on the Panic of 1825 published in the Revue d'économie financière

Randi Kristensen (Writing) was granted a 2019 Summer Repository Research Fellowship with the Institute for Advanced Study at University of Indiana, Bloomington, to work with Caribbean films and materials at the Black Film Archive.

Sharon Lambert (Psychology) was awarded a $176,902 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study development and malleability from childhood to adulthood.

Steven Livingston (Media and Public Affairs) was re-appointed as a senior fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School.

Ed McCord (History) is retiring after 24 years at GW.

Nina Seavey (Media and Public Affairs) served on the documentary jury for the Cleveland International Film Festival.

Brittany Shepherd, BA ’16, (Journalism, Mass Communication) was named national politics reporter at Yahoo News where she will cover culture and politics during the 2020 campaign.

Sana Ullah, MA ’17, (New Media, Photojournalism) was awarded a 2019 Goldziher Prize for Journalists for her photo series Places You’ll Pray.

Silvio Waisbord (Media and Public Affair) co-edited The Routledge Companion to Media and Scandal (Routledge, 2019).

Graduate student Margaret Wroblewski (New Media, Photojournalism) was featured in The Washington Post, WAMU, WUSA9 and DCist for her thesis project “Underground,” a photo series documenting harassment on public transit.