Fall 2009 Department News
College news
- Professor Paula Marie Seniors is winner of the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize from the Association of Black Women Historians for her monograph Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing.
- M.A. student Ashley Tomisek is the 2009 graduate winner of the Woman in Leadership Award.
- Doctoral recipient Jill Harrison was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University’s Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research. With 22 million dollars in funded research, the center is nationally prominent in researching the diverse health and social service needs of elderly and other persons with chronic illnesses.
- Doctoral recipient Tugrul Keskin accepted a tenure-track post at Portland State University.
Dr. Keskin was also awarded the Sociologists without Borders' Distinguished R.H. Tawney Award for 2009.
- Doctoral candidate Michelle McLeese has received 4 years doctoral assistantship funding for work on an NSF funded research project (under the direction of Deborah Tatar of the Computer Science Department) examining the effectiveness of SimCalc software in teaching math concepts to 7th graders.
- Professor Michael Hughes is listed among Thompson Scientific’s “Highly Cited Researchers” on www.ISIHighlyCited.com, which honors researchers whose collected publications have received the highest number of citations in the past two decades.
- Professor Don Shoemaker is co-PI on a grant funded by NSF: “CTRNET: Integrated Digital Library Support for Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery." The project begins August 15, 2009 and runs for three years. The total amount of the grant is $500,000. Edward Fox is PI.
Assistant Professor Kwame Harrison published his monograph Hip Hop Underground, on Temple University Press.
Assistant Professor Paula Marie Seniors published her monograph Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing, on Ohio State University Press.
Assistant Professor Minjeong Kim published her co-edited collection Global Gender Research, on Routledge.
