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Now accepting applications for Graduate Travel Grants: Deadline - April 4, 2011
Dean Kratz and the faculty of the School of Arts & Humanities wish to encourage graduate students in all 5 degree programs to present their creative or scholarly work at professional conferences, symposia, and workshops. To that end, we will award 6 to 8 travel grants of $250 in the Spring 2012 semester.
Graduate Travel Grants take the form of reimbursement for travel expenses.
Graduate students who have applied to participate or have been accepted to participate in a professional conference, symposium, or workshop should submit the application by the Spring 2012 deadline, April 4, 2012.
Claire Myers Owens Travel and Research Award: Application Deadline - March 15, 2012
The School of Arts and Humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas is pleased to announce the Claire Myers Owens Travel and Research Award. Drs. Miriam Kalman Friedman BA'80, MA'85, PhD'97 and Robert H. Friedman established this award to honor Claire Myers Owens (1896-1983). The award will assist qualified doctoral students with travel expenses to professional conferences or travel expenses to archives and/or places of interest relevant to their doctoral research.
Award Details and Award Application
Eight Doctorates Awarded at December Ceremony
Congratulations to Majed Al-Lehaibi, Patrick Dennis, Diana Gingo, Fariborz Hadjebian, Michelle Henry, Christopher Manes, Laura Mohsene, and Nina Serebrianik, who will be awarded the Ph.D. in Humanities at the December hooding ceremony!
Spring 2011 Aesthetic Studies Research Grants Awarded
Congratulations to the following graduate students who have been awarded Spring 2011 Aesthetic Studies Research Grants. These grants, supported by private funds munificently raised by Dr. Richard Brettell, permit HUAS concentrators to undertake advanced research outside of Texas.
This semester's recipients are:
April Collie - Research in California and Washington state on Pearl Jam and fan culture
Debra D. Gibney - Research on 19th-century French drawings in New York City museum collections
Cristian Panaite - Research in Washington, D.C. collections on commemoration in post-Communist Eastern Europe
Aditi Samarth - Research on medieval Burgundian art and culture in Dijon, France
Special thanks to Dr. Brettell and our donors for fostering graduate education in the arts within the School of Arts & Humanities.
Spring 2011 Graduate Travel Grants Awarded
Congratulations to the following students who have been awarded Graduate Travel Grants for the Spring 2011 semester to support participation in professional conferences and events:
Michael Austin - 2011 International Conference on Modern Music in Austin
Julienne Greer - Third Global Conference on Videogame Cultures, Oxford University, U.K.
Matthew Hinckley - Annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Christine H. Jones - Annual meeting of the Popular Culture/American Culture Associations in San Antonio
Sobia Khan - Annual meeting of American Comparative Literature Association in Vancouver, Canada
Amanda Ledwon - Annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies in Santa Fe, New Mexico
LeeAnn Olivier - Annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association in San Antonio
Sumathi Ramanath - Annual British Scholar Conference in Austin
Cindy Renker - Conference on Myths in German Literature, History, and Culture at Brown University
Michael Stone - (Im)Mobile Identities: German Graduate Student Conference at Georgetown University
Barbara Vance - South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival in Austin
Doctoral Candidates Receive UTD Dissertation Research Grants
This year the University's Office of Research initiated a pilot program of small grants in support of doctoral research. Four doctoral candidates in A&H were awarded grants to underwrite research crucial to the completion of their dissertations:
Bart Chaney: research in the Gregory Bateson Collection at the McHenry Library of the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Anne Healy: research in special collections at the New York City Library for the Performing Arts.
Celucien Joseph: research at the Michel Fabre archives of African-American arts and letters at Emory University in Atlanta.
Megan Malone: redaction of official records held by the Richardson Independent School District.
New Graduate Advisor in Humanities
Pia Jakobsson is the new Graduate Advisor in Humanities. Her main responsibility is to be available to students in the graduate programs in Humanities, History, and Latin American Studies. She will meet students either by appointment or during scheduled office hours to answer questions and advise students about degree plans, program requirements, course selection, academic progress, and professional development.
Pia's office is Jonsson 4.128, her phone number is 972-883-4706, and her email is: pia.jakobsson@utdallas.edu
Recent Achievements by Graduate Students
Lilian Calles Barger (PhD program in Humanities) published "Backlash: From Nine To Five to The Devil Wears Prada" in the April/May 2011 issue of Women's Studies.
Sarah Bowman (PhD in Humanities 2008) published The Functions of Role-Playing Games in 2010 with MacFarland & Co.
Jumanne Donahue (PhD program in Arts & Technology) presented a paper, "The Cultural Connection: Capturing and Applying Cultural Values in Games with a Purpose," at the Global Conference on Videogames Culture held at Oxford University in July.
Valeria Forte (PhD program in Humanities) published "Martin Buber's Response to the Historical and Cultural Context of the First World War" in issue 4 of Studia Universitatis.
Julienne Greer (PhD program in Humanities) presented a paper, "Digital Companions: Analyzing the Emotive Connection Between Players and Non-Player Character Companions in Video Game Space," at the Global Conference on Videogames Culture held at Oxford University in July.
Megan McDowell (MA in Humanities 2009) translated Alejandro Zambra's novel, The Private Lives of Trees, which was published by Open Letter at the University of Rochester in 2010.
Jacob Naasz (MA in Arts & Technology 2011) presented a paper, "The Rapid State of Mind: Rapid Prototyping and What It Has To Teach Us," at the Global Conference on Videogames Culture held at Oxford University in July.
Lily Ounekeo (PhD program in Arts & Technology) presented a paper, "Driving Forces of Narrative in Video Games," at the Global Conference on Videogames Culture held at Oxford University in July.
Claude Pruitt (PhD program in Humanities) published "'This is Jefferson's Trouble': An Alternative Reading of Community in Faulkner's Light in August" in the Fall 2010 issue of The Faulkner Journal.
Elizabeth Ranieri (MA program in Humanities) won the Award for Best Presentation at the University of North Texas Art History Society's Visual Culture Symposium in April for her paper, "The Life of Madonna Properzia De' Rossi, Sculptress from Bologna."
Blake Remington (PhD program in Humanities) was accepted as a participant in the 15th annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, held at Northwestern University in June and July of 2011.
Sherri Segovia (PhD program in Arts & Technology) presented a paper, "Brave New Media Games: Digital Play with Real World Outcomes," at the Global Conference on Videogames Culture held at Oxford University in July.
Wei Shao (PhD program in Humanities) published the Chinese version of her memoir, Homeland, with the New Century Publishing House in Taiwan in the Fall of 2010.
Distinction between MA and PhD courses effective Fall 2010
Effective Fall 2010, the School of Arts & Humanities will institute a distinction between master's and doctoral courses. We believe that this change will strengthen doctoral education. See more details.
Changes to Doctoral Field Examinations
Effective August 1, 2009, two changes have been made to the procedures for the doctoral field examinations. First, a form is now required in order to schedule the examinations. Second, examination questions and answers will be distributed electronically. See more details.
