Hromadzic and McCormick win Meredith Teaching Recognition Awards
Assistant professors Azra Hromadzic of Anthropology and
Gladys McCormick of History have received a Meredith Teaching Recognition
Award, given to non-tenured faculty members for teaching innovation,
effectiveness in communicating with students, and the lasting value of courses.
Dean James Steinberg observed that “Maxwell faculty are
known for their fine teaching and dedication to students. Azra and Gladys
have enhanced the reputation of the School with their excellent accomplishments
in the classroom.”
| Azra Hromadzic is a cultural anthropologist with research
interests in the anthropology of international policy in the context of
peace-building and democratization. Her book manuscript in preparation, titled
“Empty Nation: Youth, Education and Democratization in Post-Conflict Bosnia and
Herzegovina,” is an ethnographic investigation of the internationally directed
post-conflict intervention policies in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the response
of local people, especially youth, to these policy efforts. Hromadzic is
focusing future research on a new project that will ethnographically research
aging in the context of postwar and post-socialist Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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| Gladys
McCormick specializes in the histories of Latin America and the Caribbean and
19th- and 20th-century Mexico. She is currently working on a manuscript titled
“The Political Economy of Desire in Rural Mexico: Revolutionary Change and the
Making of a State, 1935-1965.” This work studies the establishment of a
political order that became arguably the most successful instance of
authoritarian modernization in 20th-century Latin America. Her research
interests include political and economic history, comparative history,
questions of historical memory and political violence, gender and the
experiences of rural peoples. 04/22/14
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