Awards
Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs Jeff Blomster received a $267,605 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research work at Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico, to explore the emergence and dynamics of the people of the Nochixtlán Valley between 1150 and 850 BC.
Political Science graduate student Kerry Crawford won a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
Jake Haselswerdt, a graduate student in political science, received the award for best poster by the American Political Science Association's Public Policy Section.
Political Science graduate student Lisel Hintz received a Critical Language Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State, enabling her to conduct dissertation research in Turkey.
Ruth Weintraub Professor of Biology Gustavo Hormiga received an award of $424,002 from NSF to examine the taxonomy and systematics of selected Neotropical species of spiders.
Senior journalism and mass communication major Haley Lesavoy won a Gracie Award for her work as host of the GWTV show "Select Seven."
Assistant Professor of American Studies Suleiman Osman received the American Council of Learned Societies/Oscar Handlin Fellowship to support his new project "The New Localism: Neighborhood Activism and Slow-Growth Politics in North America and Europe in the 1970s."
Brian Richmond, chair of the Department of Anthropology, received a NSF grant to conduct fieldwork in Koobi Fora, Kenya, relating to fossil bones and footprints of human ancestors and relatives from 1.4-1.6 million years ago.
Political science doctoral candidates Ajay Verghese and Rachel Whitlark were selected, respectively, for a Shorenstein Fellowship in Contemporary Asia at Stanford University and a Stanton Nuclear Fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Recognition
Seven geography graduate students— Eric Ashcroft, Emiko Guthe, Ellen Hatleberg, Amanda Osborne, Genevieve Parente, Colin Reisser, and Maianna Voge—and two geography undergraduate students—Kathleena Mumford and Kelsey Nyland— presented papers at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers.
The Maryland Theatre Guide featured Zack Colonna, BA ’07, in the article, “A Quick 5 with Zack Colonna.” He will appear as the title character in “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown” at the Olney Theatre Center through March 18.
Five communication majors—Madison Cooke, Ashley Huffman, Alya Ibrahim, Risa Langelo, and Tess Leibowitz—authored senior theses that were accepted for presentation at the Theodore H. Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate Honors Conference in San Antonio, Texas.
Sociology graduate students Scott Grether, Amanda Hayes, Allison Helmuth, Kai Jenkins, Jee Jee Kim, and Gerilyn Slicker presented papers at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society Conference in New York.
Gabrileel Demczuk, who is majoring in fine arts and minoring in journalism, wrote and edited the video “Saving Madagascar’s Forests” published on the National Geographic website.
Professor of Mathematics Valentina Harizanov presented an invited paper "Pi-0-1 Equivalence Structures and Their Isomorphisms" at the international meeting on Computability Theory at the Oberwolfach Mathematical Institute in Germany.
Patrick McDonough, MFA ’10, is one of the artists participating in the award-winning Arts in Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit that will be on display April 21 through October 20 in the Foggy Bottom Historic District.
I Am, a documentary short created by junior political communication major Sara Snyder and alumnus Stephen Molldrem, BA '11, will be screened at the 2012 Undergraduate Ethics Symposium at DePauw University.
Patricia Phalen, associate professor of media and public affairs, traveled to Sweden’s annual TV Drama Vision Seminar, presenting research on Hollywood writers and leading a discussion on the differences between European and American production.
Doctoral candidate in economics Pingkang Yu appeared on the daily news program Biz Asia America discussing the G20 Mexico Meetings on February 24.
Selected Published Works
Brandon Bartels, assistant professor of political science, published “Politics at the Checkout Line: Explaining Political Consumerism in the U.S.” in Political Research Quarterly.
David Hildebrand, MA ’87, is the primary music historian for a documentary in production, entitled Anthem, about music of the War of 1812 in America and the true story of the birth of "The Star-Spangled Banner." It is scheduled for release this summer on Maryland Public Television.
Hugo Junghenn, professor of mathematics, authored Option Valuation: A Frist Course in Financial Mathematics.
Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs Albert May co-authored a chapter in the new book Citizen 2.0: Public and Governmental Interaction through Web 2.0 Technologies that explores how social media technologies affect the interaction between Congress and the American people.
Professor of English Robert McRuer co-edited the collection of essays Sex and Disability.
Rani Parker, PhD ’04, was featured in the Maryland Entrepreneur Quarterly.
Jozef Przytycki, professor of mathematics, authored the article "Distributivity Versus Associativity in the Homology Theory of Algebraic Structures" published in Demonstratio Mathematica. Several doctoral candidates in mathematics worked on problems proposed in the paper and will present it (in posters) at GWU Research Days 2012 March 28-29.
Daniel B. Schwartz, assistant professor of history, authored The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image.
Assistant Professor of Art Therapy Elizabeth Warson authored the article “Healing Pathways: Art Therapy for American Indian Cancer Survivors” published in the Journal of Cancer Education.