Student News
CONGRATULATIONS. . .
Graduate Program
A special congratulations to all our recent graduates:
Ph.D. - SanJoon Han and Debra Kolodczak
M.A. - Pamela James, Mohamed A. Mohamed, and Yin Song
Fellowships and Publications
Sierra Adare-Tasiwoopa api won the Diversity Fellows Program Summer Teaching Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin.
Kritika Agarwal presented "Imagining the Homeland: Nation, Nostalgia, and 'The World's Largest Talent Hunt Show'" at the 2009 Annual Conference of the Popular Cultural Association / American Culture Association.
Sophia Azeb was awarded a Schomburg Fellowship for Ph.D. study beginning in the fall of 2009.
Swati Bandi was the recipient of a Mark Diamond Research Fund award. She also screened her film, Bangalore-Buffalo-Bangalore, at UB's International Women’s Film Festival and at Flower City Flicks in Rochester, New York.
Peter Bjelskou won the Copenhagen University Internationalization Stipend and he presented a paper on cinematic fiction at the 2009 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association regional conference.
Jeff Cooper won a Grand River Post Secondary Education Grant and he gave a paper at the 2009 Crossing Borders Conference at Brock University.
Nathan Drag presented at the 2009 Great Lakes Research Consortium Student/Faculty Conference.
Nicholle Dragone was awarded a Baldy Center Dissertation Fellowship. She also presented papers at the 2008 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference and the 2009 Crossing Borders Conference at Brock University.
Ruth Goldman co-directed and edited Framing Her, which was screened at several film festivals in Western New York. She was also the producer, director, writer, and editor of Crossing the Falls.
Adrianna Hernandez-Stewart was awarded a Schomburg Fellowship for graduate study beginning in the fall of 2009.
Cait Keegan won the Humanities Institute Dissertation Fellowship. She also presented her work in the Gender Studies International Lecture Series at Central European University and at the 2008 Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference.
Katherine McMahon presented "Scaling Adversity: Cole Porter and the Empowerment of Disability" at the 2008 MAPACA conference.
Laticia McNaughton was awarded a Schomburg Fellowship for Ph.D. study beginning in the fall of 2009.
Kei Okajima received a Japanese Rotary Scholarship.
Yin Song presented at the 2008 MAPACA conference.
Breea Willingham presented papers at the Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, the Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, the National Association of African American Studies and Affiliates Annual Conference, and the Urban History Association Conference.
Hee-Yong Yang won an Educational Scholarship from the Republic of Korea Army Headquarters.
Teaching Awards
Cait Keegan was named the AMS Outstanding World Civilization Teaching Assistant of the Year.
Jeff Iovannone received the award for Outstanding AMS Instructor of the Year.
Outstanding Service
Jessica Wilkie, Jessica Perkins, Katherine McMahon, and Gregory Young were co-organizers of the Fifth Annual Storytellers Conference of the Americas, hosted by UB in 2009.
Patricia Carter was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo.
Pamela Davidson serves on the Education Committee of the Hull Family Home & Farmstead in Lancaster, NY.
Ruth Goldman is the Co-facilitator and Programmer of "PUSHing People Power," a monthly film series for the community organization, PUSH Buffalo.
Undergraduate Program
Congratulations to AMS graduates Matthew Cole, Geoffrey Millard, and Kaylee Sokol!
Matthew Cole graduated summa cum laude. He was part of the University Honors Program and a winner of the Honors Research Grant. Cole was also a member of several extracurricular groups including UB Students Against Sweatshops, Buffalo Class Action, and PUSH Buffalo.
Geoffrey Millard graduated cum laude. He was chosen as the Student Speaker at the 2009 graduation ceremony. Millard is well-known for his tireless work with the Iraq Veterans Against the War.