Awards & Honors
Student Awards
2020 Outstanding Senior ~ School of Interdisciplinary Studies: Margaret Tienhaara
2020 Outstanding Senior ~ Critical Disability Studies: Parker Beckman
2020 Outstanding Senior ~ Film and Video Studies, Creative Writing: Toyosi Begbaaji
2020 Outstanding Senior ~ Film and Video Studies, Theater Production: Benjamin Oliver
2020 Outstanding Senior ~ Global Studies: Margaret Tienhaara
2020 Outstanding Senior ~ Jewish Studies: Laura Galles
2020 Outstanding Senior ~ Linguistics: Esther Rivera
2020Outstanding Senior ~ Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Lauren Bellamy
Fellowships
Lynn Fellowships: 2020-21
Gwénaël Bruno Jouin (Comparative Literature)
Andrew Yost Kroninger (Comparative Literature)
Purdue Doctoral Fellowship: 2020-21
Bryonna Reed (American Studies)
Judy Lynn Fisher (American Studies)
Grants
PRF Research Grant: 2020-21
Michelle Tran (American Studies)
Lang Wang (Comparative Literature)
OIGP Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship: 2020-21
Yu Dou (American Studies)
Amy Hutchinson (Linguistics)
Dr. Faithe Day, post-doctoral fellow in African American Studies and Data Curation received Enabling Inclusion grant for her project “Data Promises and Perils in the Time of COVID: Critical Data Studies Teach-Ins and Syllabus Project for Enabling Inclusion at Purdue."
Dr. Stephanie Zywicki, assistant professor in Curriculum and Instruction, received Enabling Inclusion grant for her project "“Enabling Inclusion: Challenging Faculty to Disrupt Surveillance and Discipline of Black Women in Higher Education."
Dr. Laura Zanotti, professor in Anthropology, received Enabling Inclusion grant for her project “Next Steps – Environment Justice, Climate Change, and Racial Justice."
Dr. Lori Czerwionka, Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, received the Humanities Connections Planning Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the project "Intergrating the Humanities and Global Engineering".
Faculty Awards
Alejandro Cuza, Director of Linguistics, receives Liberal Arts' Outstanding Graduate Teacher award
Daniel W. Smith, Director of Philosophy and Literature, receives the Liberal Arts' Outstanding Graduate Teacher award
Aparajita Sagar, WGSS affiliate, receives Liberal Arts' Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching award
Derek Pacheco, American Studies affiliate, receives Charles B. Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching award
Yvonne Pitts, American Studies and WGSS affiliate, receives Charles B. Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teacahing award
Associate Professor Cheryl Cooky receives the Trailblazer Award
Sundquist receives Murphy Award
Faculty Promotions
Promotions to Professor
Cheryl A. Cooky, American Studies and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Ariel E. de la Fuente, History, Comparative Literature and Latin American Studies
John D. Sundquist, German and Linguistics
Sharra L. Vostral, History, American Studies, Critical Disability Studies and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Fabian Winkler, Design, Art, and Performance and Film and Video Studies
Laura C. Zanotti, Anthropology, American Studies, Latin American Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies
Promotions to Associate Professor
Stacey L. Connaughton, Communication and Latin American Studies
Olga Dmitrieva, Russian and Linguistics
Kim T. Gallon, History, African American Studies and American Studies
Silvia Z. Mitchell, History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Latin American Studies and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Margaret M. Tillman, History and Comparative Literature