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Congratulations for receiving Ph.D. degree:

  • Gwyn Mellinger - April 4, 2006
    “Members of the Club: A Genealogy of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Diversity Initiative”
  • Chico Herbison - May 25, 2006
    “Members of the Club: A Genealogy of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Diversity Initiative”

Congratulations for passing Ph.D. comprehensive exams

  • Monique Laney - October 24, 2006
  • Luba Guinzbourg (with honors) - May 18, 2006
  • Thomas Thirlkel - April 27, 2006

Congratulations for defense of M.A. theses

  • Liz Miller (with honors) - December 8, 2006
    "Women Helping Women: The Battered Women's Movement in Lawrence, Kansas. A Case Study."
  • Milton Wendland (with honors) - June 9, 2006
    "With less noise than expected: The disappearing feminine in all-male spaces" (with honors)
  • Megan Williams (with honors) - April 18, 2006
    “Imaging Lena Horne: Race and Representation in 1940s America”
  • Lindsey Feitz - May 12, 2006
    “Manufacturing the Myth of Marlboro County: A Cultural History of Phillip Morris Asia, Leo Burnett Hong Kong Advertising, 1976-1981”
  • Gbaike Ajayi - May 15, 2006
    “Identity, Immigration, and Religion: Young African Christians in the Midwest”

Awards

  • Zanice Bond de Pérez receives the
    LaTina Sullivan Student Leadership Award
    for her work as co-director of the Shifting Borders of Race & Identity Project
  • Undergraduate Lauren Albani has been awarded the
    Harley Nelson Scholarship
  • Milton Wendland receives
    Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Service
  • Monique Laney has been appointed for a
    Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship

Faculty Achievements

  • Professor David Katzman receives the
    2006 Louise Byrd Graduate Educator Award
  • Professor Ann Schofield receives the
    Elizabeth Kolmer Award for Teaching and Mentoring (MAASA)
    and has been elected the
    Honorary Member of Phi Beta Kappa
  • Professor Bill Tuttle receives the
    2006 Steeples Service to Kansans Award
    and has been chosen as the 2007 John Adams Distinguished Fulbright Chair in American History, The Netherlands