Student News
CONGRATULATIONS. . .
Graduate Program
A special congratulations to all our recent graduates:
Ph.D. - Luke Goble, Jeongsuk Joo, Nahirana Zambrano, Kelley Rowley, Albert Bitterman, Lisa Hayes, EunHyoung Kim, and Joshua Penfold
M.A. - Robert Antone, Peter Howard, Tamara Dixon, and Dennis Kazmierczak
Fellowships and Publications
Sierra Adare-Tasiwoopa api was awarded a prestigious Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship.
Kritika Agarwal will join the Ph.D. program with a UB Presidential Fellowship in the fall of 2008.
Robert Antone won a Tuition Scholarship from the Southern First Nations Secretariat of Ontario, Canada.
Jadaiman Baldwin was awarded a Schomburg Fellowship for M.A. study beginning in the fall of 2008.
John Burdick was awarded a UB College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Fellowship and a Schomburg Fellowship for Ph.D. study beginning in the fall of 2008.
Joe Candillo was awarded a Tribal Fellowship.
Patricia Carter was named a Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of the United States (CSUS) at the University of Toronto.
Marta Cieslak won a Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo Research Grant and a P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship.
Cristine Ditzel was awarded a Schomburg Fellowship for M.A. study beginning in the fall of 2008.
Matthew Gasquez was awarded a UB College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Fellowship and a Schomburg Fellowship for Ph.D. study beginning in the fall of 2008.
Cait Keegan was awarded a UB Humanities Institute Dissertation Fellowship for 2008-2009. Her forthcoming article, “Blood Sugar Sex Magic: Supernatural Sexuality and Melodramatic Form in Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” will appear in Queering the Fantastic (eds. Robin Anne Reid and Jes Battis).
Brandon Martin has been offered a fellowship position as the Jacob Jimeson Teaching Fellow for 2008-2009 at Hartwick College.
Katherine McMahon has been accepted into the MAPACA conference for October 2008. Her paper is entitled Scaling Adversity: Cole Porter and the Empowerment of Disability. Katie also won the Mary A. Mancuso Scholarship award from Buffalo State College.
Evelyn Navarre won a UB College of Arts & Sciences Dissertation Fellowship for 2008-2009.
Centrell Smith was awarded a Schomburg Fellowship for M.A. study beginning in the fall of 2008.
Mark Tattenbaum was named a Fulbright Senior Scholar in American Drama and Film at the Aleksander Zelweowicz State Theatre Academy, Bialystok, Poland. His forthcoming article will also appear in The Journal of Slavic and East European Performance (Winter 2008).
Breea Willingham recently published “Black Student, Black Teacher, White Campus” in Diversity & Mass Communication: Evidence of Impact (ed. Alice C. Ferguson). Her op-ed piece, “Too many blacks are simply 'stuck',” appeared in the USA Today (December 2007).
Gregory Young has been awarded a Public Humanities Fellowship from the NY Council for the Humanities.
Teaching Awards
Quan Hoang was named the American Studies Outstanding Teaching Assistant of the Year for 2007-2008.
Jeff Iovannone received the UB Excellence in Teaching Award for 2007-2008.
Outstanding Service
Amber Adams, Nichole Dragone, Nancy Napierala, and Ula Piasta were co-organizers of the Fourth Annual Storytellers Conference of the Americas, hosted by the University at Buffalo, March 28-30, 2008.
Pamela Davison served on the Education Committee of the Hull Family Home & Farmstead (c.1810), which is being developed by the Hull House Foundation into an educational interpretive site in Lancaster, New York.
Evelyn Santiago continues to do important work in promoting diversity at Buffalo State College.
Undergraduate Program
Jeffrey Shevlin received the 2008 Dean’s Medalist Award for his outstanding academic achievement.
John DeCarlo has been accepted to the M.A. program in American Studies at California State University at Fullerton.