Summer 2004
Awards & Accolades
Students
Robert Frame (Ph.D. student, history) received the Josie R. Johnson Human Rights and Social Justice Award.
Fulbright Scholarships for 2004–2005 went to Kristen M. Jones (Ph.D. student, Germanic studies), Lisa A. Peschel (Ph.D. student, theatre arts), Elizabeth (Libby) Lunstrum (Ph.D. student, geography), Laura Hammond, (German and political science), and Catherine (Catie) Almirall (Spanish and economics, '04).
Honors student Kai Carlson-Wee won first place in this year's ARTWords competition for his piece "The Dull Shape."
Teri Carter's "Without the Tie that Binds" won the 2004 Best Non-fiction Award from Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.
The Minnesota Daily won nine Society of Professional Journalism Mark of Excellence Awards at the Midwest Journalism Conference, including best all-around daily college newspaper.
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Journalism Ph.D. candidate Giovanna Dell'Orto won the American Culture Association's best graduate student paper award for "‘Memory and Imagination are the Great Deterrents': Martha Gellhorn at War as Correspondent and Literary Author."
Journalism graduate student Kate Edinborg Roberts won a Crystal Clarion Award (from the Association for Women in Communications) and two Minnesota Society of Professional Journalist Page One Contest awards.
Jennifer Mary Guglielmo (history) and Michele E. Tertilt (economics) received the 2004 Best Dissertation Award from the Graduate School.
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Diana Fu (honors student, global studies and political science) received a Sullivan Scholarship to study human rights in China for a year. Fu also received an Honorable Mention in The Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize competition for her story "Metro Transit 16."
Faculty
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Sara Evans (history) has been appointed a Regents Professor, the highest faculty honor bestowed by the University of Minnesota. She was recognized for her superior and pathbreaking scholarship in women's history, her exemplary teaching, and her leadership and contributions to the University and the broader community. Evans' recent book Tidal Wave, a history of the past 50 years of feminism, has been lauded as brilliant, eloquent, inspiring, and indispensable. Evans is also a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and has been a CLA Dean's Medalist.
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Jonathan Gewirtz (psychology) received a 2004 Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression.
Allen Isaacman (history) received the University of Minnesota President's Award for Outstanding Service.
S. Douglas Olson (classical & Near Eastern studies) received the 2004 Distinguished McKnight University Professorship.
Gail Peterson (psychology) received the 2004 Minnesota Psychological Association Walter D. Mink Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher Award.
Rose Brewer (African American studies) received the Josie R. Johnson Human Rights and Social Justice Award.
Douglas Hawkins (statistics) received the 2004 Statistics in Chemistry Award from the American Statistical Association.
Robert Krueger (psychology), Kirt Wilson (communication studies), James Druckman (political science), and Erika Lee (history) were named McKnight Presidential Fellows.
Richard Leppert (cultural studies and comparative literature) is the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Humanities, and Andrea Berlin (classical and Near Eastern studies) is the Fesler-Lampert Professor in Humanities.
Magara Maeda (Asian Languages and Literatures) received the 2003–2004 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the CLA Student Board.
Alumni
Kerry Danahy, a recent Communications Disorders graduate, won the Research I Award of the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders for her M.A. thesis research.
Sheila O'Connor (B.A. '82) won a 2004 Minnesota Book Award for her novel Where No Gods Came (University of Michigan Press). Minneapolis Star Tribune reviewer Annie Betz called the novel "a touching odyssey of a girl poised between the emotional abyss and the reader's heart."
Author Maureen Gibbon says, "Sheila O'Connor's beautifully readable novel about young girls living close to the precipice is truthful, tough, and filled with delicate hope. She shows how we all survive by inches, by grace."
The book also won the Michigan Literary Fiction Award for original novel in 2003.
Caroline Evensen Lazo (B.A. '78) was nominated for the 2004 Minnesota Book Award for Leonard Bernstein: In Love With Music, a book for young adults, which was also placed on the New York Public Library's Best Books for the Teenage List 2003.
Mark Wojahn (art history, film studies) won the award for Best Film from City Pages for his film "What America Needs: From Sea to Shining Sea."
Fall 2002, Mark traveled by train from New York City to Los Angeles asking more than 500 people from different communities, "What do you think America needs?" Collectively, their stories relate an unexpected story of hope.
Check out the Web site at www.whatamericaneeds.com.
Obioma Nnaemeka (Ph.D. '89 French and Francophone Studies) has received the Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals from the University's Office of International Programs. Nnaemeka has also received the Nigerian Achiever of the Year Award for Leadership, President's Humanities Award, and Daughter of Africa Award.