2022-23 Awards, Honors & Fellowships

• Region 9 Rising Fellowship at Moreno Valley College
  • Amanda Riggle
     
• Colorado College Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Preston Waltrip

2021-22 Awards, Honors & Fellowships

• Lindon Barrett Memorial Award for Black Studies (Traise Yamamoto (Chair), Mark Minch de Leon & Emma Stapley)

  ○    Winner: Evan Duncan, “You’re not ready to be—”: Lorraine Hansberry and Les Blancs”

• Emory Elliott Memorial Award  (Vorris Nunley & Sherryl Vint)
  • Graduate Winner: Leslie Fernandez, "Do Androids Dream  of Racialization?: Techno-Orientalism and the Android Imaginary”
     
• Graduate Essay Awards (Traise Yamamoto & Armando Garcia)
  • FIRST PLACE:  Allie Reichert, “Reading Intimacy, Reading Intimately: Trauma and Response in Real Life”
  • SECOND PLACE: Amy Juarez,  ““keep us healthy”: Architectural Caretaking Leon Battista Alberti’s De re aedificatoria”
  • THIRD PLACE: K Persinger Rethinking Re-Creation: Entertainment, Active Spectatorship, and the FMV
     
• Outstanding TA Award (Andrea Denny-Brown & Keith Harris)
  • Leslie Fernandez
     
• Dissertation Year Program Fellowship (DYP)
  • Summer Sutton
  • Stef Torralba
  • Soraya Zarook 
     
• Graduate Mentorship Program (GRMP)
  • Gabriela Almendarez
     
• Barricelli Memorial Dissertation Fellowship
  • Brittany Carlson
     
• Francis Bacon Foundation Scholar, Huntington Library 
  • Tara Dybas
     
• NHC Summer Residency; Outstanding Teacher Assistant, UWP  
  • Robyn Johnson 
     
• Fellow, 2022 MCUAAAR/PRBA Summer Mentoring Workshop for Advanced Doctoral Students,  (University of Michigan)
  • Jasmine Moore
     
• 2022 Walter James Miller Award from International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts; Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant from the Univ. of California Riverside
  • Sanh Keun Yoo
     
• 2021 National Women's Studies Association's Graduate Scholarship
  • Misha Choudhry