Graduate Awards 2021

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

  • Kelsey Norwood

Von Hendy Award for Graduate Writing

  • MA: Evangelia Stefanakos, for “An Unrooted Nation: How Ghost Estates Altered Self, Place and Identity in Post-Crash Ireland”
  • PhD: Jocelyn Rice, for “The Radical History of the Octagon”

Donald White Teaching Award

  • MA: Kristen Walczak
  • PhD: Jocelyn Rice

Chair's Distinguished Service Award

  • Julia Woodward, in recognition of extraordinary service to the department in helping to administer the undergraduate awards and organize this celebration.