Congratulations to graduating senior
Kristin
Novak, whose honors
thesis, "Overfishing and Environmental Justice in Marine
Fisheries," was named this year's best thesis in the social
sciences, by the Renee Crown
Honors Program. Congratulations also to Kristin's advisor
Tom
Perreault.
Congratulations to graduating seniorKatie Gill, University Scholar and
chosen to deliver the student speech on behalf of the
graduating class of ’08. She is also the recipient
of the 2008 National Council for Geographic Education
Outstanding Student Award.
Don Mitchell
was
awarded the Wassertrom Award for Graduate Advising by the
College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University.
Don Mitchell
has been awarded a
prestigious
Guggenheim Fellowship for next year.His project
is called “Bracero: Remaking the California Landscape,
1942-1964.”
This is one of only three Guggenheim awards given
this year to geographers. (190 total awards given to 2600
applicants) Other SU geographers who have won this award
include: David Robinson (1991-92),
Mark Monmonier (1984-85) and
Don Meinig (1966-67).
Jamie Winders
has received the Maxwell School Moynihan Award. This is a
highly competitive award for both teaching and research
excellence for untenured faculty in the Maxwell School.
David Robinson
was appointed Executive Director of the Conference of Latin
Americanist Geographers
(CLAG) in November, 2007. CLAG is the leading Latin American
geography specialist group in the U.S. with more than 200
members.
Two Syracuse University Geography students have been awarded
2008 National Geographic Society internships:
Geography minor Stevie Sigan
has been awarded an NGS internship for Spring, 2008, and
Geography major Hallie
Stiller has been awarded an internship for
Summer, 2008.
NGS internships are highly selective, and this is a huge
honor both for the students and for the department.
Congratulations, Hallie and Stevie!
Matt Himley has been awarded a Fulbright-IIE grant
*and* a Fulbright-Hays grant for his dissertation research in
Peru, "Frontiers of Capital: Mining, Mobilization and Resource
Governance in the Peruvian Andes."
Jamie Winders has been awarded a "Meredith Teaching
Recognition Award" for 2007. This is the most prestigious
teaching award an untenured faculty member can receive.
Jeremy Bryson's paper "Hazardous Waste on the 18th
Green: Ecological Modernization and the Superfund
Redevelopment Program" was accepted for publication by The
Maxwell Review.
Ben Mosianehas won a prestigious research
scholarship from the South African National Research
Foundation (equivalent to the US NSF) to support his
dissertation research.
Geography major
Veena Muthusamy has been
selected as a National Geographic Society Intern for next
year. She will likely be working in the children and
education department.
Jim
Newman, Imperial Footprints: Henry
Morton Stanley's African Journeys has been released in the
French language as STANLEY Entre Couronne et Empire (Luc Pire)
and also in the Dutch language as STANLEY ONTDEKKINGSREIZIGGER
IN AFRIKA (Lannoo). In celebration he was invited to Brussels
by the King Baudouin Foundation for interviews with De Morgen,
De Tijd, Le Soir, Mo-magazine, The Bulletin, and VRT Radio.
Jim also gave a presentation entitled Stanley and the Congo at
the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, where he is a
member of the King Baudouin Foundation's Stanley Archives
Scientific Committee.
Claudia
Sawyer,
PLACA/Goekjian grant for research
in Mexico. Claudia also a Goekjian Scholar for academic year,
2006-2007.
Elvin Delgado, has
been awarded a Fulbright-IIE fellowship to conduct his
doctoral dissertation research in Venezuela.
Sarah Ryman, a
geography minor, has been named a Remembrance Scholar for
2006-07.
