Graduate Awards 2021鈥�2022
Kiara Kharpertian Award
This award was established to honor the memory of our colleague Kiara Kharpertian, who earned her doctorate in English in 2015. Open to M.A. and Ph.D. students, it encourages and supports graduate students who take intellectual and professional risks that extend the limits of their interests. Graduate students can be nominated by 艾可直播or can submit proposals on their own to support travel, research, or any aspect of a scholarly project or endeavor.
Cash award. Deadline: December 1.
- 2021-22 recipient: Chandler Shaw
Von Hendy Award for Graduate Writing
This award honors our longtime colleague Andrew Von Hendy. Designed to recognize the high quality of graduate student writing, it is given to the best paper written by a graduate student. Two prizes are awarded each year, one for an M.A. student and one for a Ph.D. student.
2021-22 M.A. recipient: Katherine Gwydir, 鈥淒raginess in Whitman: Tracking the Fairy through Spatial Cross-Dressing鈥�
- 2021-22 Ph.D. recipient: Julia Woodward, 鈥溾�榃ho Watches the Watchers?鈥�: Unearthing the Tulsa Race Massacre in HBO鈥檚 Watchmen鈥�
Donald White Teaching Award
This award is given in recognition of outstanding teaching by a M.A. and Ph.D. student.
2021-22 M.A. recipient: Mali Barker & Kate Gwydir
2021-22 Ph.D. recipient: No毛l Ingram & Julia Woodward