June 4, 2013
Annual Department Awards
Marilyn R. Waldman Award for best essay by an undergraduate :
- Tamira Stephens, “Media Discourse and the Shroud of Turin,” in Comp St 651, Mike McVicar
- Honorable Mention: Jordan Kelsey, “Altering Representations: An Analysis of Afro-Latin@s in Visual Media,” in Comp St 4802, Theresa Delgadillo
Richard Bjornson Award for best essay by a graduate student:
- Matthew O’Malley, “From Romanticism to Supermodernity and Back Again: Sections on the ordinary, the uneventful, and the scenes of genre in Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism & the work of Stanley Cavell,” in Philip Armstrong’s Comp St 8866, Culture and Capital.
- Honorable Mention: Matthew Campbell, “‘Not Soundin’ like Yourself’”: Thoughts on the Adaptation of Other Communicative Genres in the Formation of an Auditory Media Ideology during the Vietnam War,” in Dorothy Noyes, CS 7350.01 Theorizing Folklore: Tradition and Transmission.
Graduate Student Teaching Award: Vidar Thorsteinsson
Faculty/Lecturer Teaching Award: Michael McVicar
Graduate Student Departmental Service Award: Joshua Kurz
Other Awards, Faculty:
- American Academy of Religion Research Grant (2012), Hugh Urban
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2013), Hugh Urban
- Arts and Humanities International Travel Grant, Julia Watson
Other Awards, Graduate Students:
- Ray Travel Award (2), Lindsay Bernhagen
- American Institute for the History of Pharmacy grant, Amy Gregg
- Visiting Scholar, University of Oulu, Finland, Joshua Kurz
- Arts and Humanities Graduate Small Research Grant, Joshua Kurz
- Ray Travel Award, Joshua Kurz
- Mershon Center for International Security Studies Graduate Student Travel Grant, Joshua Kurz
- Dr. Gordon P.K. Chu Memorial Scholarship, Joshua Kurz
- Acceptance to Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, Brian Murphy
- Arts and Humanities Graduate Small Research Grant, Brian Murphy
- OSU-Marion Teaching Grant for travel to India, Conrad Robinson
- FLAS Fellowship, Kelly Schultz
- Patrick B. Mullen Award, Joanna Spanos
- Coca Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant, Joanna Spanos
- Mortar Board and Sphinx Faculty and Staff Recognition Award, Joanna Spanos
- Daniel Walden Prize, Best graduate student paper Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association Conference, Lee Wiles
Other Awards, Undergraduate Students:
- Outstanding Senior, Ohio Union Leadership Awards, Jordan Kelsey
- Campus Impact Award, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Jordan Kelsey
- Scarlet and Gray Grant, Danielle Lang
- Election to Phi Beta Kappa, Stephen Meil
- Maximus Scholarship, William Myers
- Wolfe Study Abroad Scholarship, Katherine Petro
- DISCO Research Grant, Andrew Philip
- ASC Undergraduate Research Scholarship, Judith Rodriguez
- Harvard Divinity School Grant, Tamira Stephens
- Robert E. Reiter Prize for Critical Analysis (English Dept), Yeshua Tolle
- Rosemarie Sena Scholarship, Yeshua Tolle