Winter 2001-2002
Awards and accolades
Faculty & Staff | Students
Faculty and staff
Three College of Liberal Arts (CLA) faculty were named 2001-2002 grantees of the U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program: Daphne Berdahl (anthropology), Victoria Bomba Coifman (Afro-American and African studies), and David Wilkins (American Indian Studies).
Ron Aminzade (sociology) was elected vice president of Books for Africa, a non-profit organization that has shipped millions of books to twenty-three African countries since 1988.
Patricia Crain (English-profiled in the summer-fall 2001 issue) received the 2001 Modern Language Association (MLA) Prize for a First Book, for her book The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America. MLA is the premier national organization for scholars of language and literature. The citation calls the work "brilliant and imaginative," and "a deeply original, thoroughly researched work of scholarship."
Marco Bassetto (economics) was awarded a 2001-04 National Science Foundation grant for his book Inflation and Policy Rules.
Assistant professor of sociology Elizabeth Boyle received a 2001-2003 research grant from the National Science Foundation for her book Gender and Naturalization Among Somali Refugees in Minneapolis/St. Paul.
John Fraser Hart (geography) was awarded the Vouras Medal from the American Geographical Society of New York for his outstanding research in regional geography.
Kathryn Kohnert, assistant professor of communication disorders, was named the first recipient of the Harriet Green Kopp Doctoral Dissertation Award by the San Diego State University-University of California, San Diego, Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders.
Candace Kruttschnitt (sociology) was recently elected vice president of the American Society of Criminology, an international organization embracing scholarly, scientific, and professional knowledge concerning the etiology, prevention, control, and treatment of crime and delinquency.
Elleni Fellows, CLA info tech professional, was featured in the July 2001 issue of Filemaker Pro for her development of HelpDesk 2000. HelpDesk 2000 is a program to track computer support calls, hardware and software inventory, and departments and employees.
Christopher Uggen (sociology) and Richa Nagar (women's studies) were awarded a 2001-2004 McKnight Presidential Fellow Award by the University of Minnesota. The award recognizes the accomplishments and supports the research of especially promising newly promoted and tenured associate professors.
School of Journalism and Mass Communication professor Daniel Wackman received the 2001 Harold L. Nelson Award.
Kirt Wilson (Communication Studies, profiled in the summer-fall 2001 issue) was granted the 2001 Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division New Investigator of the Year Award.
Students
Sociology graduate student Pamela Wald won first prize in the Graduate Level Sociologist of Minnesota (SOM) Student Paper Competition. Her paper is titled "Cycles of Protest, Movement Continuities and Frames: The Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/Redistribute America Movement and Welfare Rights." She presented her paper in October at the SOM Annual Conference, "Sociology at Various Levels."
And the winners are...
For the second consecutive year, students in the School of Journalism received four Emmy nominations from the Minnesota chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. "Black Hair," which won in the College: Non-News Entertainment Programming category, was created by Rebecca Nathan, Kathy Ohm, and Lola Okusami. "Getting Yardley," which won in the College: News Informational Programming category, was created by Nathan Berndt, Mahi Palanisami, and Dorothy Ibes. These projects were created in documentary production classes taught by adjunct instructor Melody Gilbert.
Kristin Gustafson, a SJMC senior, received the Mark of Excellence award in the In-Depth Reporting category from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the nation's largest journalism organization. Gustafson won for her in-depth "Balancing the Budget" series published in the Minnesota Daily. The award honors collegiate journalists for their work in 36 categories for print, radio, and television.
Recipients of the CLA Undergraduate Internship Grant for Fall 2001 are: Hatti Guske (psychology), Hillary Hittner (psychology major/drug and alcohol counseling, deaf studies, and bio psychology), Jolaine McNamara (child psychology and sociology), and Erin Turner (Spanish and psychology).
Jenny Carrier, political science and sociology student, was named one of Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College Women of 2001. She was profiled in the October 2001 issue of Glamour and received a cash prize and trip to New York.
Sociology graduate student Colman Titus Msoka was awarded a 2002-03 Compton Peace Fellowship. Compton Peace Fellows are a select group of sub-Saharan African scholars in American universities who are committed to issues of peace and conflict resolution in contemporary Africa.