- Congratulations to the 15 Public Anthropology Award Winners in Professor Rick Wilk's Culture and Society Anth-E 105 (Culture and Society) class: Kwang Hyuk An, Iveta Kancs, Carolan York, Jenna Seel, Kaitlin Talley, Amanda Oberbroeckling, Stephanie Hamilton, Laura Boyle, Sylvia Smith, Katherine Quinn, Joseph Presnell, Alex Tanner, Grant Churchill, Katelin Nading, and Hillary Visscher
- History graduate student Kevin Coleman received the Shriver Practical Idealist Award, given in honor of Sargent Shriver, founder of the Peace Corps, Special Olympics, Head Start and various other social programs and organizations. This award is presented annually by the Shriver Peaceworker Program to an alumnus who exemplifies the program’s goal of building peace and community through service and scholarship. At the award ceremony, Kevin gave the keynote address: "A Chance for Real Democracy in Honduras."
- Anthropology graduate student Maureen Boyle received the best graduate student paper award in the student paper competition at the annual Plains Anthropological Society meetings in Oklahoma City in October.
- History graduate student Siobhan Carter-David presented a paper, “African American Print Media and the Politics of Dress and Adornment, 1970-1993,” at the Association of Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- History graduate student Kevin Coleman received the Shriver Practical Idealist Award, given in honor of Sargent Shriver, founder of the Peace Corps, Special Olympics, Head Start and various other social programs and organizations. This award is presented annually by the Shriver Peaceworker Program to an alumnus who exemplifies the program’s goal of building peace and community through service and scholarship. At the award ceremony, Kevin gave the keynote address: "A Chance for Real Democracy in Honduras."
- History graduate student Brendan Fay received the 2009 Walter Salz Family Award through the IU Department of Germanic Studies for the essay "Judging Performance, Performing Judgments: Race, Ethnicity and Authenticity in Weimar Musical Discourse, 1920-1932".
- History graduate student Tanisha Ford gave a talk titled "The Natural Soul: Black Women's Hair Politics and the Global Black Liberation Movement" as part of the University of London's Institute for the Study of the Americas lecture series. She is a Visiting Dissertation Fellow at the Institute this semester.
- History graduate students Ramajana Hidic Demirovic and Susan Williams served on a panel at the AAASS in Boston on November 13. The title of the panel was Writing and Performing Identity in East Europe and Russia. Ramajana also presented a paper on “Performing Tradition in the Public Arena: Laura Papo Bohoreta and the Sephardi Identity in the Inter-War Bosnia.”
- History graduate student Andrei Miroiu published “Oil: The Doom of Communist Romania?” in Romanian Political Science Review. Studia Politica, Vol. IX, No. 4 (2009), 629-646 and a review at Fareed Zakaria “The Post-American World” in Journal of East European and Asian Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (November 2009), 283-285.
- Hsiu-Wen Wang, a graduate student in Geological Sciences, has received the 2009 Mineralogical Society of America's Edward H. Kraus Crystallographic Research Award for Research in Crystallography. The grant awards up to $5,000 for research in the field of mineralogical crystallography. In particular, this grant targets projects within the areas of mineralogy, crystal chemistry, petrology, mineral physics, biomineralization, and geochemistry for which research bearing on crystal structure is an explicit and integral element. The competition for this award is international, and this is one of the highest awards in the field of mineralogy in the world.
- Brad Kroupa, Anthropology graduate student, was selected as the recipient of the Native American award at the annual Plains Anthropological Society meetings in Oklahoma City in October.
- Fresh from completing her Ph.D. in nuclear physics at Indiana University, Crystal Bailey assumed the position of Education and Careers Program Manager at APS this summer.
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