Summer 2002
Awards and accolades
Faculty & Staff | Alumni/ae | Students
Faculty
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell (professor and chair, communication studies) was awarded the U of M's Distinguished Women Scholars Award by the Office of the Vice President for Research.
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Kirt Wilson (communication studies) received the New Investigator of the Year Award from the Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division, National Communication Association.
Wilson also, with Lisa Disch (political science), received the 2001-02 Arthur "Red" Motley Award for Exemplary Teaching.
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Rudolph Vecoli (history), director of the Immigration History Research Center, received the first annual Leonardo da Vinci Award of Excellence from the Order of Sons of Italy in America.
Leonard Polakiewicz, Horace Morse Distinguished Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, was awarded the Distinguished Service Award from Herzen University in St. Petersburg, Russia, for "outstanding contributions to education and for establishing and nurturing the academic linkage between the University of Minnesota and Herzen University."
Ananya Chatterjea (theatre arts & dance) was voted "Artist of the Year" for 2001 by City Pages, a Twin Cities weekly.
Richard Levins (economics) received the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing's (CISW) Faculty Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing for significant contributions to the teaching of writing and using writing in creative ways in writing-intensive courses at the undergraduate level.
Carol Miller (American studies) received the 2002 President's Award for Outstanding Service in recognition of her exceptional service and commitment to the U of M community.
Jochen Schulte-Sasse (German, Scandinavian, & Dutch) was named the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Humanities for 2002-03 in recognition of his outstanding contributions as a scholar and teacher.
Eugene Borgida (psychology) was named the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs for 2002-03, a position earmarked for a distinguished, broadly learned scholar who will stimulate interdisciplinary research and teaching.
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Hy Berman (history) and Lillian Bridwell-Bowles (English; director, CISW) received the 2002 U of M Outstanding Community Service Award. Berman's award recognizes his work as a public historian, educating Minnesotans about the far-reaching impact of Minnesota history. Bridwell-Bowles' award recognizes her commitment to improving public education in Minnesota and her success in building a community of writing teachers throughout the state.
Creative Writing Program coordinator Jill Christman won the 2001 Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction for her first book, Dark Room: A Family Exposure, forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press.
Karen Lutfey (sociology) was admitted to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, which supports postdoctoral work for the most promising graduates in economics, political science, and sociology to advance their health policy research.
Benjamin R. Munson (communication disorders) was one of five people nationally to receive a 2001 New Investigator Research Grant from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA); Kathryn Kohnert (also communication disorders) was one of only eight to receive a 2001 ASHA Grantwriting Workshop Travel Grant.
C. Lance Brockman (theatre arts and dance) has been named a fellow of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), Inc. This designation recognizes outstanding contributions to the profession of theatre and the work of USITT, the association of design, production, and technology professionals in the performing arts and entertainment industry.
Charles Nolte (emeritus, theatre arts and dance) was honored in April at a ceremony naming Rarig's Nolte Experimental Theatre. Nolte, who received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the U, joined the faculty of the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance in 1964. He mentored several generations of students and directed scores of productions for University Theatre and the Minnesota Centennial Showboat. His original plays have been performed on stages from the Twin Cities to Chicago, New York, London, Frankfurt, and Berlin.
College of Liberal Arts Staff Outstanding Service Award winners for 2001-02 are: Lynne Ackerberg (Minnesota English Center), D. Perry Bennett (German, Scandinavian, & Dutch [GSD]), Elise Brunelle (music), Kim Ellison (CLA administration), Kathleen Ganley (Spanish & Portuguese studies), Leslie Glaze (communication disorders), Julie Golias (communication disorders), Kristin Haasl (history), Pamela Leszczynski (English), Kerry McIndoo (French & Italian), Rose Miskowiec (political science), Linda Molley (psychology), Rana Murphy (art), Melody Pauling (GSD), Judy Peterson (psychology), Carol Rachac (sociology), Stephanie Treat (Language Center), and Rick Treece (Language Center, French & Italian).
Alumni/ae
Maria Schneider (music) was named Arranger of the Year for 2001 in a readers' poll in Jazz Times magazine.
Recent creative writing M.F.A. graduate Dominic Saucedo received a 2001 SASE/Jerome Fellowship for Fiction, awarded for his collection of stories.
Graduate student Tracey Gorman (music) has been awarded the 2001 Voices of Vienna scholarship.
Mark Gibson (economics '01, summa cum laude), who is completing an internship at the Federal Reserve, received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Lynn Casey (M.A. '80, mass communication; CEO, Padilla Speer Beardsley) is this year's School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) Alumni Society Award for Excellence winner in recognition of leadership in the profession.
Students
Julie Eckerle (English) received the CISW Graduate Fellowship, which is awarded annually to an outstanding graduate student whose dissertation has the potential to make a significant contribution to theories or histories of literacy, rhetoric, or writing pedagogy.
The 2002 J. W. G. Dunn, Jr., Scholarship for Foreign Research in International Peace was awarded to two Ph.D. students in CLA departments. Yvette Pye (geography) will work with African-Brazilian youth to study a model of success in Brazil. Kristin Willey (political science) will go to Japan to research her thesis, "My Way or the Highway: The Cultural Formulation of National Security Policy in the United States and Japan."
Matthew Connell (political science) received a National Security Education Program David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholarship for international research and study. He will study in China. Jennifer Dahlin (international relations, French language & literature) and Kathryn Smith (international relations) were named as alternates.
Four CLA students received Fulbrights to study abroad in the 2002-03 academic year: Thomas Haakenson (cultural studies and comparative literature), Mi Soon Burzlaff (English), Marynel Ryan (history), and Troy Osborne (history).
2002-03 recipients of the Selmer Birkelo Scholarship, CLA's most prestigious award for talented and high achieving students, are: Ryan Black, political science and Asian languages & literatures; Zachery Coelius, political science and history; Julia Curran, geography; Christopher Gregory, philosophy and theatre arts; Krista Jenkins, sociology; Jocelyne Kalanek, speech & hearing science and Spanish studies; Joshua LaBau, history; Madeline Monson-Rosen, English and Latin studies; Jeffrey Ochs, history; Christopher Park, psychology; David Simon, political science, global studies, and Russian; Jonathan Stanley, urban studies; Martha Weir, Scandinavian languages and studies in cinema & media culture; and Matthew Wolf, linguistics.
Graduate students Abinadi Meza and Jacob Lunderby (art) are two of six Minnesota college students who received Visual Literacy awards in the first ever all-state juried art competition.
Matthew J. Lorig (Spanish and civil engineering) was one of 300 undergraduates nationwide awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for study leading to a graduate degree and a research-based career in mathematics, the natural sciences, or an engineering discipline.
Holly Stiles (music) soloed with the Minnesota Orchestra in the Young People's and Family Series concerts after winning the Young People's Symphony Concert Association competition in February 2001.
"The Unicorn in the Garden," a video created by Laura Cervin, Judith Erickson, Emi Neubauer, and Robert Strand received a 2002 Media Best Award from the Minnesota Broadcasters Association.
The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities defeated 10 other regional teams to take first place and advance to the National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) National Championship, often referred to as the "College World Series of Advertising." The team was led by Zach Miller and faculty adviser and senior fellow Howard Liszt. Team presenters are Allison Bucknam, Jon Fredkove, Brian Hurley, Jason Reed, and Jenny Tracy.
School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) senior Megan Boldt earned a 12th-place tie for the prestigious William Randolph Hearst Foundation Journalism Award in the personality/profile writing competition.
Seven SJMC students won first-place honors at the regional Society of Professional Journalists' Mark of Excellence contest: Liz Kohlman, Jabari Ritchie, Kyle Bosch, Joshua Benson, Heidi Krieg, Joel Mansager, and Christina Madsen.
SJMC students also tallied four awards at the Northwest Broadcast News Association's Eric Sevareid Awards. First place for photojournalism went to Jay Premack; awards of merit went to Christina Madsen, Joshua Benson, and Jeffrey DeMars.
Sarah Mae Cooper and Laura Pett, M.A. candidates in communication disorders, received two of this year's six nationally granted American Speech-Language-Hearing Association general masters scholarships.