The following CCAS faculty members received top awards in recognition of their efforts in the classroom: Denver Brunsman (Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Teaching Excellence); Diane Cline (Morton A. Bender Teaching Award); and Katharine White (Philip J. Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Award).
A cohort of University Writing Program tutors presented at the Mid-Atlantic Writing Center Association’s 2018 Conference, including graduate students Kimberly Clark and Soo-Jin Kweon and undergraduates Simone Hunter-Hobson and Daniel Israelsson.
Junior theater major Jonathon Benjamin won the Astere E. Claeyssens Prize for the best original work in playwriting by a GW student.
Michael Bradley was awarded a $122,000 contract from the United States Postal Service for research on product costing under the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.
Dana Tai Soon Burgess was awarded the 2018 Paul Re Peace Prize by the University of New Mexico Foundation for bridging communities around the globe through choreography.
Jennifer Chang received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Robert Entman was awarded a $32,000 contract from Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. for his study of TVN news practices assessment supplemental funding.
Samuel Goldman authored God’s Country: Christian Zionism in America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).
Eric Grynaviski published the book America's Middlemen: Power at the Edge of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Andy Johnson curated the exhibit Queer(ed) Performativity at the District of Columbia Arts Center.
David Karpf authored the chapter “We All Stand Together or We All Fall Apart: On the Need for an Adversarial Press in the Age of Trump” in the book Trump and the Media.
Michele Kimball presented her research on military family support programming in forums at the White House, Pentagon and on Capitol Hill.
Chryssa Kouveliotou was awarded a $46,320 grant from The Smithsonian Institution for her work on Chandra ToO observations of swift galactic plane survey sources.
Eric Kramon wrote the book Money for Votes: The Causes and Consequences of Electoral Clientelism in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Cody Lindquist, BA ’02, is the voice of Melania Trump in the Showtime animated series Our Cartoon President.
Cynthia McClintock authored Electoral Rules and Democracy in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Shannon McFarlin received a $20,444 grant from the National Science Foundation for research on weaned-age variation in mountain gorillas using trace element distributions in teeth.
Bibiana K. Obler published the essay “Lynda Benglis Recrafts Abstract Expressionism” in American Art.
Jason Osder held a screening and discussion of his documentary Let the Fire Burn at Temple University and at Bucknell University's spring lecture series "Erasure: Blackness and the Fight Against Invisibility."
Chemistry PhD candidate J. August Ridenour was among the winners of the 2018-19 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists.
Nina Seavey was recognized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation with a Sunshine Week Award.
Frank Sesno moderated the forum “Central Dialogue: Science Can Save the World (But Only If We Let It)” at The Food Effect conference.
Janet Steele delivered talks in Jakarta, Indonesia, on her book, Mediating Islam: Cosmopolitan Journalisms in Muslim Southeast Asia (University of Washington Press, 2018) at the National Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah and the U.S. Embassy American cultural center.
Cheryl W. Thompson moderated a panel on “Uncovering Inequity in Property Taxes” at the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting conference.
Phillip Troutman was awarded a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Nikki Usher authored the chapter “How interactivity can build transparency: What tech can teach us about rebuilding journalism trust” in the book Trump and the Media. Her research was featured by NewsLab in “Understanding how news startups have changed the media landscape.”
Silvio Waisbord presented at the University of Wisconsin conference “The Politics of Contention: Communication, Populism and the Crisis of Communication.” He co-authored the chapter "Trump and the great disruption in public communication" in the book Trump and the Media with Tina Tucker, MA ’17, and graduate student Zoey Lichtenheld. He also published the article "Why populism is troubling for democratic communication” in Communication, Culture & Critique and “From Health to Humanitarian Crisis in Venezuela: Options for the International Community” in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs.