Accolades
January 2023
Awards
Assistant Professor Aamina Ahmad (English) won the Best First Novel prize by the Writers Guild of Great Britain for her debut novel The Return of Faraz Ali - "a multi-layered tale of family, identity, and the politics of power in a caste-ridden society."
Publications & Creative Activities
Associate Professor V. V. Ganeshananthan (English) published her second novel Brotherless Night in January 2023.
Assistant Professor Megan Giddings (English) published her second novel The Women Could Fly in August 2022.
Associate Professor Douglas Kearney (English) published Optic Subwoof in November 2022.
Professor Josephine Lee (English, Asian American Studies) published Oriental, Black, and White: The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater in October 2022.
Fellowships & Grants
Professor Penny Edgell (Sociology) has been awarded a residential fellowship from the Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars Program. Professor Edgell will spend the 2023-24 academic year in New York working on her upcoming book The Reconfiguration of American Religion, 1990-present.
Professor and Raymond O. Mithun Endowed Chair in Advertising Jisu Huh (Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication) was selected by Meta for its 2022 People’s Expectations and Experiences with Digital Privacy Grant program. Professor Huh will partner with Wonsun Shin of the University of Melbourne (PhD '10) for a joint project, "Privacy and trust equilibrium of personalized social media ad acceptance."
