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Celebrating Excellence: 2025 ARHU Graduate Student Awards

May 21, 2025 American Studies | Art | Art History and Archaeology | College of Arts and Humanities | Communication | English | History | School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Graduates with faculty members

Congratulations to the 2025 graduate student awardees.

On May 15, the College of Arts and Humanities held its second annual reception to recognize outstanding graduate students who received awards and fellowships this year. Associate Dean for Graduate Education Quincy Mills hosted the event and recognized students for their outstanding scholarship, service and creativity. Dean Stephanie Shonekan and former Dean Bonnie Thornton Dill also attended to congratulate the honorees and highlight the importance of their contributions. These awards honor individuals who have made significant contributions to their fields and the broader university community. 

ARHU Nominees to the Grad School's Outstanding GA Award: 

  • Christina Bishop, HIST
  • Jin Choi, COMM
  • Ashley Cope, ARTH
  • Karina de Sande, SLLC
  • Anh Duong, AMST
  • Dominique Garcia, HIST
  • Umisha KC, COMM
  • JooHee Kim, COMM
  • Varvara Tokareva, ARTT 

James F. Harris Arts & Humanities Visionary Scholarship: 

  • Erin Green, ENGL
  • Grace Dahye Kwon, AMST
  • Alisa Hardy, COMM
  • Lenora Knowles, WGSS 

Bonnie Thornton Dill Dean's Graduate Research Award: 

  • Jin Choi, COMM
  • Christin Washington, AMST 

2025 ARHU Graduate Awards Reception

ARHU Nominees to the Grad School's Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award: 

  • Dallas Donnell, AMST, "Black Nightmare Imaginary: Popular Music, Collective Trauma, and the Intransigence of Antiblack Violence"
  • Annemarie Mott Ewing, ENGL, "Speculative Citizenship: Race, National Belonging, and the Counterfactual Imagination in the Literature of the Long Reconstruction" - Awarded by the Graduate School
  • Diego Hurtado Torres, HIST, "The Economics Discipline and Profession and U.S. Power in Chile, 1930s-1990s"
  • Megu Itoh, COMM, "Tracing Transcolonial Intimacies: Relational Resistance Through the Occupation of Japan (1945-1952)" 

Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowships: 

  • Diana Proenza, ENGL, "Thick Scum of Life: Modernism’s Resistant Ecologies of Filth"

Photo at top: Stephanie Shonekan, Annemarie Mott Ewing (ENGL, Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award), Diana Proenza (ENGL, Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship), Erin Green (ENGL, James F. Harris Arts and Humanities Visionary Scholarship), Christin Washington (AMST, Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship and Bonnie Thornton Dill Dean's Graduate Research Award), Anh Duong (AMST, Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award), Dominique Garcia (HIST, Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award), Jin Choi (COMM, Bonnie Thornton Dill Dean's Graduate Research Award and Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award), Quincy Mills

 Photo at bottom: Christin Washington (AMST, Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship and Bonnie Thornton Dill Dean's Graduate Research Award), Bonnie Thornton Dill, Jin Choi (COMM, Bonnie Thornton Dill Dean's Graduate Research Award and Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award)