Graduate Awards 2021-2022


Kiara Kharpertian Award — to encourage and support graduate students who take intellectual and professional risks that extend the limits of their interests:

  • Chandler Shaw

Von Hendy Award for Graduate Writing

  • MA: Kaherine Gwydir, “Draginess in Whitman: Tracking the Fairy through Spatial Cross-Dressing”

  • PhD: Julia Woodward, “‘Who Watches the Watchers?’: Unearthing the Tulsa Race Massacre in HBO’s Watchmen”

Donald White Teaching Award

  • MA: Mali Barker & Kate Gwydir

  • PhD: Noël Ingram & Julia Woodward