Centers Spring 2021 Award Recipients
The Humanities Institute is pleased to announce the award recipients for the centers' Spring 2021 award programs. Links with specific information about these awards can be found below.
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Barbara A. Hanawalt Graduate Essay Award
-Maggie Wilson (Ph.D. student, Department of History of Art): “The Book of Fate Speaks Back”
Stanley J. Kahrl Undergraduate Essay Award
-Ruby Napora (English and Economics double major): “’Monstrous Hungry’: Food, The Body, and Gender in Beaumont and Fletcher’s Love’s Cure, or The Martial Maid”
Stanley J. Kahrl and Barbara A. Hanawalt Essay Awards
Center for Ethnic Studies
Asian American Studies
Latina/o Studies
CES Interdisciplinary Programs Scholarship
CES Spring 2021 Graduate Student Research Grants
Center for Folklore Studies
2021 Covid Relief Folklore Student Association Scholarship
Zahra Abedinezhadmehrabadi (Department of Comparative Studies)
Daisy Ahlstone (Department of Comparative Studies)
Emma Cobb (Department of Comparative Studies)
Sarah Craycraft (Department of Comparative Studies)
Robert Dahlberg-Sears (School of Music)
Evan DeCarlo (Department of English)
Jacob Kopcienski (School of Music)
Jordan Lovejoy (Department of English)
Mariah Marsden (Department of English)
Amelia Mathews-Pett (Department of English)
Lydia Smith (Department of Art)
Sydney Varajon (Department of English)
2021 Covid Relief Folklore Student Association Award
Center for the Study of Religion
Robert L. and Phyllis J. Iles Award for Graduate Study of Myth
-Adéwálé Adénlé (Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy): "Yorùbá: OBJECTifying and MATERIALizing Gods"
and
-Carman Romano (Department of Classics): “'And in Whom Do You Most Delight?' Poets, Im/mortals, and the Myths of the Homeric Hymns"
Savko Award for Best Undergraduate Paper
-Rose McCandless (History and Medieval and Renaissance Studies double major): "Seeing the Exceptional in the Unexceptional: Reconstructing the Josephinum Bible"
Savko Awards for Undergraduates
Robert L. and Phyllis J. Iles Award for Graduate Study of Myth
Melton Center for Jewish Studies
The Norbert and Gretel B. Bloch Scholarship Fund in Jewish Studies
-Morgan Taradash (World Politics and French & Francophone Studies double major)
The Morris and Fannie Skilken Family Foundation Endowment Fund Scholarship for Yiddish and Ashkenazi Studies
-Faye Hartman Vaeth (Jewish Studies and Anthropology double major)
and
-Katie Kuroff (Strategic Communications major)
The Reva and Sanford Lipson Student Support Fund
-Brittany Zimmerman (Hebrew major)
The Leah Metchnick Godofsky and Martin R. Godofsky Scholarship
Matthew Berman (Political Science major)
The Charlotte Susan Roth Memorial Fund Essay Contest
Undergraduate Division
1st Place - Nathan Hensley (History and Philosophy double major): “Midrash and More in Paul: The Apostle’s Rhetorical Techniques on Circumcision and Death”
2nd Place - Brittany Zimmerman (Hebrew major): "Deuteronomy 13:13-19 (The Idolatrous City) according to Mishnah Sanhedrin"
The Samuel M. Melton Graduate Fellowship in Jewish Studies
Tamara Hauser (Ph.D. student, Department of Dance)
The George M. and Renée K. Levine Graduate Fellowship in Jewish Studies
Donna Jarjour (Ph.D. candidate, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures)
Graduate Fellowships in Jewish Studies
Annual Scholarships and Awards for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
