National Awards, Honors, and Distinctions Held by Students of
The Graduate School-New Brunswick, 2007-2008

Air Pollution Educational and Research Grant (APERG)
   Yevgen Nazarenko (Environmental Sciences)

American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship
   Tara Broccoli (Psychology)
   Christine Filippone (Art History)
   Sascha Scott (Art History) deferred

ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship
   Charles Foy (History)

American Councils Southeastern Europe Language Program Fellowship
   Michael Rossi (Political Science) (Serbia)

American Sociological Association Minority Graduate Fellowship
   Alena Singleton (Sociology)

Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program Fellowships
   Elizabeth Barron (Geography)
   Michelle LaVigne (Oceanography)

Charles Gaius Bolin Fellowship—Williams College
   Aya Tanaka (French)

Chateaubriand Fellowship
   Darcie Fontaine (History)

Coleman Memorial Fund Art History Fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art
   Mary Shay Millea (Art History)

Colorado College Visiting Scholar
   Aya Tanaka (French) declined

CONICYT Fellowship (Chile)
   Claudia Cabello-Hutt (Spanish)

Dickens Universe Program (UC-Santa Cruz)
   Sarah Balkin (Literatures in English)
   Patrick Jehle (Literatures in English)

Environmental Protection Agency NNEMS Fellowship
   Steven Gray (Ecology and Evolution)

Environmental Protection Agency STAR Fellowship
   Joseph Kardos (Environmental Sciences)

Executive Women of New Jersey Graduate Merit Award
   Florette Cohen (Psychology)

ExxonMobil Indonesia Geosciences Fellows
   Triyani Nur Hidayah (Geological Sciences)
   Ika Sulistyaningrum (Geological Sciences)

Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship
   Edgar Rivera Colón (Anthropology)

Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship
   Laura Ann Pechacek (History)

Fulbright Fellowships
   Jeremy Canwell (Art History) (Estonia)
   Francis Fletcher (Art History) (Italy)
   Darcie Fontaine (History) (France)
   Drew Gerkey (Anthropology) (Russia)
   Chaunetta Jones (Anthropology) (South Africa)

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
   Emily McDonald (Anthropology) (Argentina)

Fulbright International Fellows
   Roderigo Martins Borges (Philosophy) (Brazil/CAPES)
   Ekaterina Gots (Mathematics) (Russia)
   Shahid Zaman Khan (Industrial Relations and Human Resources) (Pakistan)
   Rodrigo Martins Borges (Philosophy) (Brazil)
   Susana Matallana Peláez (Women’s and Gender Studies) (Colombia)
   Moizza Sarwar (Political Science) (Pakistan)
   Na Mi Shin (Literatures in English) (Korea)
   Hsin-Yi Yeh (Sociology) (Taiwan)

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Fellowship
   Heather Nolin (Art History)
   Kandace Rawlings (Art History)

Harvey Fellowship
   Gabriel Bouch (Mathematics)

Inter-American Foundation Fellowship
   Fatimah Williams Castro (Anthropology)

Jacob Javits Fellowship
   Tyler Bradway (Literatures in English)
   Jessica Good (Psychology)

Joseph A. Skinner Fellowship (Mount Holyoke)
   Sara Rzeszutek (History)

Juran Fellowship
   Ying Hong (Industrial Relations and Human Resources)

Kress Foundation Fellowship at the Hertziana, Rome
   Heather Nolin (Art History)

Kress Foundation Travel Fellowship in the History of Art
   Mary Shay Millea (Art History)

Latin Letters Department, The Vatican
   Michael Masiello (Literatures in English)

Library Company (Philadelphia) Short-Term Fellowship
   Leslie Doig (History)

Luce/ACLS Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in American Art
   Sascha Scott (Art History)

Macalester College Visiting Scholar
   Aya Tanaka (French) declined

Mellon Summer Fellowships (Columbia)
   Marc Matera (History)
   Michal Shapira (History)

Mexican Government Fellowship
   Ricardo Mena Gallardo (Philosophy)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellowship
   Andrew Rodríguez (Industrial and Systems Engineering)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Harriet G. Jenkins Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Program
   Ricardo Collado Soto (Operations Research)

National Air and Space Museum Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
   Christine Filippone (Art History) declined

National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirchstein Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
   Charles Florek (Biomedical Engineering)
   Tiffany Polanco (Endocrinology and Animal Biosciences)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Estuarine Research Reserve Fellowship
   Inga La Puma (Ecology and Evolution)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Estuarine Research Reserve Social Science Fellowship
   Steven Gray (Ecology and Evolution) deferred to Fall 2008

National Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship
   Jaclyn Taylor (Ecology and Evolution)

National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant
   Drew Gerkey (Anthropology)
   Emily McDonald (Anthropology)
   Luca Morino (Anthropology)
   Kari Prassack (Anthropology)
   Elizabeth Williamson (Sociology)

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
   Natalie Obrecht (Psychology)

New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research Predoctoral Fellowship
   Jonathan Chappelow (Biomedical Engineering)
   Kerri-Ann Norton (Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics)
   Aníbal Valentín (Cell and Developmental Biology)

New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research Predoctoral Fellowship
   Shaunat Kamat (Neuroscience)
   Nuria Royo-Gascón (Biomedical Engineering)
   Eunchan Park (Neuroscience)
   Andrew Voyiadjis (Biomedical Engineering)

Organization for Tropical Studies Francis Boyssuit Fellowship
   Patricia Alvarez (Ecology and Evolution)

P.E.O. International Scholar Award
   Nancy Moinde-Fockler (Anthropology)

Philips Library Short-Term Fellowship
   Leslie Doig (History)

The Point Foundation Scholarship
   Benjamin Singer (Literatures in English)

Schlanger Ocean Drilling Fellowship
   Sindia Sosdian (Oceanography)

Schlesinger Library Summer Fellowship
   Dominique Padurano (History)

School of Criticism and Theory (Cornell)
   Tyler Bradway (Literatures in English)
   Carrie Hyde (Literatures in English)

Smithsonian American Art Museum Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
   Christine Filippone (Art History)

Smithsonian National Museum of American History Fellowship
   Emily Westkaemper (History)

Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Fellowship
   Christina Doonan (Political Science)
   Janna Ferguson (Political Science)

Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship
   Nell Balthrop-Flynn (Anthropology)
   Olivia Gruber (Art History)
   Neil Pischner (Comparative Literature)
   Sarah Wise (Anthropology)

Spain. Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores. Research Grant
   Molly Palmer (Spanish)

Special Collections Research Fellowship (University of Chicago Library)
   Ed Gitre (History)

Walter Read Hovey Memorial Fund Scholarship
   Lisa Tice Neal (Art History)

Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant
   Drew Gerkey (Anthropology)
   Nancy Moinde-Fockler (Anthropology)
   Luca Morino (Anthropology)
   Emmanuel Ndiema (Anthropology)
   Michael Pante (Anthropology)

Woodrow Wilson Center Summer Fellowship
   Kate Burlingham (History)

Continuing Fellowships

American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship
   Chelsea Booth (Anthropology)

Canon National Parks Science Scholarship
   Elizabeth Barron (Geography)

Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (Department of Energy)
   Ariella Sasson (Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics)

Fulbright International Fellows
   Gulin Cakmak (Economics) (Turkey)
   Victoria Fernández Martínez (Civil and Environmental Engineering) (Venezuela)
   Raúl Hernández Báez (Economics) (Dominican Republic)
   Sung Chul Jung (Political Science) (South Korea)
   Hoa Nguyen (Women’s and Gender Studies) (Vietnam)
   Roberto Sepúlveda Alcázar (Physics and Astronomy) (Chile)

Gates Millenium Scholar
   Jacqueline Flores-Otero (Neuroscience)

Harvey Fellowship (Mustard Seed Foundation)
   Krystal Frazier (History)

Institute for Advanced Study Research Fellowship
   Todd Riley (Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics)

Jacob Javits Fellows
   Candice Amich (Literatures in English)
   Alexander Dickow (French)
   Jennifer Nado (Philosophy)
   Julie Phelan (Psychology)
   Karen Shanton (Philosophy)

Kress Institutional Fellowship in the History of European Art
   Karen Lloyd (Art History)

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
   Kelsey Bitting (Geological Sciences)
   Kenneth Elgersma (Ecology and Evolution)
   Melitza Crespo-Medina (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics)

New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research Fellowship
   Jonathan D’Avila (Cell and Developmental Biology)
   Julia Qu (Neuroscience)

Samsung Fellowship
   Ja Yun Choi (Literatures in English)

Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Fellowship
   Stephanie Clare (Women’s and Gender Studies)
   Meghan Lau (Literatures in English)
   Patricia Young (Political Science)

Vietnam Educational Foundation Fellowship
   Ngoc Chi Le (Industrial and Systems Engineering)
   Dang Tien Tran (Civil and Environmental Engineering)

Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant
   Emmanuel Ndiema (Anthropology) (Kenya)

Alumni/ae Accomplishments and Honors

Notable Postdoctoral Appointments

   California Institute of Technology/Huntington Library
   Richard Squibbs (Literatures in English)

   Columbia University Fellowship in Affective, Anxiety, Eating and Related Disorders
   Robyn Sysko (Psychology)

   Harvard Society of Fellows
   Hilary Chute (Literatures in English)

   Institute for Southern Studies
   Danielle McGuire (History)

   Naomi Berri, Diabetes Center Research Fellow (Columbia University)
   Vidya Subramanian (Nutritional Sciences)

   National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships
   Chris Stucchio (Mathematics) (Courant Institute)
   Vincent Vatter (Mathematics) (St. Andrews)

Notable Faculty Appointments

   Assistant Professor of Art History (Queens College, CUNY)
   Christopher Atkins (Art History)

   Assistant Professor of English (Stanford)
   Saikat Majumdar (Literatures in English)

   Assistant Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature (University of Michigan)
   Tatjana Aleksic (Comparative Literature)

   Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy (Rutgers)
   Eva Halkiadakis (Physics and Astronomy)
   Vitaly Podzorov (Physics and Astronomy)

   Assistant Professor of Sociology (University of Toronto)
   Vanina Leschziner (Sociology)

   Lecturer in Film and Literature (University of Essex)
   Sanja Bahun (Comparative Literature)

Appointments to Tenure

   Stephanie Leone (Boston College) (Art History)

Notable Books

   A. Aneesh, Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization, Duke University Press
   (Sociology)

   Atina Grossman, Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany,
   Princeton University Press (History)

   Richard Keller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa, University of Chicago
   Press (History)

   Andrew Krivak, A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
   (Literatures in English)

   Edward Muir, The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera,
   Harvard University Press (History)

   Phyllis Rackin, Shakespeare and Women, Oxford University Press (Literatures in English)

   Christopher Warley, Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England,
   Cambridge University Press (Literatures in English)

   Alexander G. Weheliye, Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity, Duke University
   Press (Literatures in English)

   Andrea Weiss, In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story,
   University of Chicago Press (History)

Notable Awards

   Alexander George Award of the International Society for Political Psychology
   David Redlawsk (Political Science)

   J. Russell Major Prize (American Historical Association)
   Todd Shepard (History)

   J. Warren Nystrom Award for Best Paper Based on a Recent Dissertation
   (Association of American Geographers)
   Julie Silva (Geography)

   NEH Fellowship
   Andrea Volpe (History)

   NSF CAREER Award
   Atanas Rountev (Computer Science)

   Finalist, Council of Graduate Schools/University Microfilms International Distinguished
   Dissertation Award in Biology and Life Sciences 2007
   Alvaro Arjona (Animal Sciences)