Events and Announcements
Prof. Matthew J. Garcia Hornored For Mentoring At Doctoral Scholars Institute
Date Released: November 3, 2006
Contact: Alan Richard, (404) 879-5544 or (202) 641-1300
MIAMI – Dr. Matthew J. Garcia received the prestigious Faculty Mentor of the Year Award at the recent national conference that annually gathers the nation’s largest group of minority Ph.D. students, doctoral graduates and faculty mentors.
Dr. Garcia, an associate professor of American civilization at Brown University in Providence, was nominated by doctoral student Mario Sifuentez for his mentoring and support as the doctoral student pursued his degree.
The award, one of only five presented to faculty mentors from across the nation, was given at the Compact for Faculty Diversity’s 13th Annual Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, held here. The event brought together doctoral scholars and faculty mentors who participate in several different programs that support minority students as they pursue Ph.D.s, with the goal of vastly increasing the number of minority faculty members at colleges across the United States.
The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) is one of the key participants in the Compact for Faculty Diversity’s annual institute. The SREB-State Doctoral Scholars program has provided assistance to more than 650 doctoral students in the past 13 years, greatly expanding the number of students from racial/ethnic minority groups who have earned a doctorate. The program aims to boost the number of minority faculty members throughout the South and across the nation, as shortages of such faculty members continue.
For more information about the award winners from your area, and the work to increase the number of minority faculty members and doctoral graduates, please contact SREB Communications.
SREB, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization based in Atlanta, Georgia, advises state education leaders on ways to improve education. SREB was created in 1948 by Southern governors and legislatures to help leaders in education and government work cooperatively to advance education and improve the social and economic life of the region. SREB has 16 member states: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. Each is represented by its governor and four gubernatorial appointees.
Prof. Ralph E. Rodriguez Receives the Modern Language Association Award
We also want to congratulate four of our students who have won year long (or more) fellowships for Academic Year 2006-2007.
- Marcia Chatelain, Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Department of Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Stephanie Larrieux, Mellon Mays University Fellows Dissertation Grant, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
- Ani Mukherji, Dissertaiton Fellowship, New York University, Center for the Study of the Impact of the Cold War on the United States
- Carlos Vazquez, Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, United States Department of Education
The 2006 Department of American Civilization
Lunchtime Speakers Series
12:00 - 1:30 pm in the Waggoner Room
This lunch-time colloquium brings faculty and students from AmCiv together to discuss the research of the presenters. Speakers will present their projects and each presentation will be followed by a period of questions and answers. Through this colloquium department members will share their research interests and improve their own work through feedback. The colloquium, which is voluntary and informal, provides a pleasant and friendly way to learn what grad students and faculty are working on, meet with each other and provoke discussion.
February 23
Gabriel Mendes, PhD Student
"'Harlem is Nowhere': The Lafargue Clinic and the Struggle for Mental Healthcare in Harlem, NY, 1946-69"
Susanna Rankin-Bohme, PhD Student
"The National and the Transnational in Pesticide-Affected Farmworkers' Struggles in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and the United States"
March 16
Mell Bolen, PhD Student
"American Women and 19th Century Study Abroad"
Matthew Delmont, PhD Student
"The Local Origins of National Youth Culture: Race, Media, and Education in Postwar Philadelphia"
April 6
Joseph Clark, PhD Student
"'Canned history': American Newsreels and the Commodification of Reality, 1911-1950"
Sarah Wald , PhD Student
"Helena Maria Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus: Examining Place, Identity and Mobility in New Visions of the US West"
April 27
Robert Lee, Associate Professor of American Civilization
TBA
May 11
James T. Campbell, Associate Professor of American Civilization and Africana Studies
"Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005"
Open to American Civilization Students and Faculty. For more information contact: Gill_Frank@brown.edu
Thank you to all of those who made the 2005 Department of American Civilization Lunchtime Speakers Series a success!
September 28, 2005
Karen Inouye, PhD Student
“Disciplinarity as Lens: Aims, Means, and Questions of Adequate Description."
Aslihan Tokgoz, PhD Student
"CocaColonization? The Reception of American Popular Culture in Turkey"
October 19, 2005
Susan Smulyan, Associate Professor, American Civilization
“Fairy Tales for the Radium Age: Hollywood Film in Occupied Japan ”
November 9, 2005
Pat Malone, Associate Professor, American Civilization and Urban Studies
“Time and Waterpower”
November 30, 2005
Robert Emlen, Senior Lecturer, American Civilization, and University Curator
"Slave Labor at the College Edifice: Building University Hall in 1770"