The 2004-2005 Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Graduate Research reception was held on April 28, 2005, at the Zimmerli Art Museum. The Graduate School-New Brunswick annually presents the awards —the Excellence in Teaching Award, the Excellence in Administration Award, the Dean's Award for Excellence in Research by a Graduate Student, and the Dissertation Teaching Award—to outstanding students, faculty, and staff members.

Also announced at the reception were the 2005-2006 University and Bevier Fellows. In addition to the University and Bevier Fellowships, GSNB students were awarded over 125 national awards, honors, and distinctions in 2004-2005.

Honored for Excellence in Teaching

Honored for Excellence in Administration

Dean's Award for Excellence in Research
by a Graduate Student

Dissertation Teaching Award

Mona Bhan
Anthropology
The Anthropology of Conflict: Perspectives from South Asia

Sascha Scott
Art History
Constructing an American Identity: Paintings of the American West and Popular Culture

Alexandra Socarides
Literatures in English
How to Make a Poem: The History, Theory and Practice of American Poetry

Aya Tanaka
French
Imagining the World in Eighteenth-Century France