A Message from Dean Catharine Stimpson

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCE SPRING 2010, ISSUE NUMBER 06

On the Square is a newsletter about students A Message from Dean Catharine Stimpson
at GSAS for all students, faculty, staff and
friends of GSAS. “A discerning mind seeks knowledge, but the stupid man feeds on folly.”

IN THIS ISSUE —The New English Bible, “Proverbs 15:14”

A Message from Dean Catharine In May of 2010 the Graduate School of Arts and Science (GSAS), our community of
advanced inquiry, is awarding its doctoral and master’s degrees for the academic year at
Stimpson cover, 2–3,8-9 its convocation. The event marks a time of transition for our graduates. Because earning a
graduate degree is a major achievement, convocation is a time of pride and happiness.
The Torch Fellowship Program I also admire our students’ courage and resilience as they enter a recession-wracked
Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary 4-5 job market.

Master’s College Update 5 A few weeks before, a GSAS alumnus had asked me, “Well, how is the graduate school
doing?” His question had the directness that is one of the virtues of GSAS alumni and
Graduate Student Council 6 alumnae. “Here’s a fact that points to a truth,” I answered. “We were founded in 1886.
We have survived. We have been scrappy and ambitious. We now have 54 degree-granting
Observing and Theorizing the 7-8 programs with over 200 tracks.”
Diversity of Human Experience
from a Holistic Perspective Then I paused because I was still amazed at what I was about to say. “This spring we
are processing about 13,000 applications. The number goes up every year. But we have only
Graduate Students Honors 10–15 about 250 slots for entering doctoral students, about 950 for entering master’s students. You
and Awards 2009-2010 do the math.”

Produced by the Office of Academic The truth of the “math” is that our community of advanced inquiry is growing —
and Student Life quantitatively, qualitatively. As we both prepare to welcome a new class and celebrate a
graduating class, let us pause and reflect upon the special nature of our community.
Designed by the Arts and Science
Office of Communications Our members are far-flung. They are inside and outside of NYU. They live on Sullivan
Street and in Shanghai, the five boroughs of New York City and six of the continents of the
Edited by Karen Baar world. They are students, faculty, staff, friends, alumni and alumnae. During my deanship,
we have reached out to our tens of thousands of living alumni and alumnae. They are our
Top: Graduate School of Arts and history and our ambassadors of excellence.
Science Convocation, Spring 2009
Photo by Island Photography Binding us all together is a vision of graduate education. When I came to NYU in 1998,
the university often seemed like a college of arts and science surrounded by professional
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www.gsas.nyu.edu schools. Now, I hope, graduate education is brightly
visible. For a graduate school is the nerve center
OFFICE OF THE DEAN of the research university. The more robust the
6 Washington Square North, 1st Floor neurons and synapses of a graduate school, the
(212) 998-8040 better the university is. Here in the graduate school
[email protected] we question, probe, lay bare, and reform existing
Catharine R. Stimpson bodies of knowledge. Here we test and retest, submit
Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Science ourselves to trials and error. Here we exhume the
Dale Rejtmar “sophistry and illusion” that the great philosopher
Executive Assistant to the Dean David Hume excoriates. Here we seek to understand
Allison Arnold nature, culture, society, and each other as deeply as
Special Projects Coordinator possible. Here we struggle against stupidities and
Anna Antoniak folly, including our own.
Assistant to the Dean
Singularly, a graduate school brings together
OFFICE OF THE VICE DEAN fundamental research and teaching. We are neither
6 Washington Square North, 2nd Floor a research laboratory nor research library isolated from the classroom. Nor are we a classroom
(212) 998-8030 isolated from the splendid rigors of basic research. We fuse elements of both. As a result, we
[email protected] exude the energy of generations learning from each other — undergraduates, graduate students,
Malcolm N. Semple post-graduate students, faculty, staff, and the travelers who pass through our community. One
Vice Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Science of our most common events is the “brown bag lunch.” Members of the community and their
Allan Corns guests gather around a table. The food is modest: sandwiches, yogurt, an apple, chips. But the
Assistant to the Vice Dean conversation, the ideas, can be richly transformative.
Suzanne Collado A set of values also binds the fusible materials of research and teaching. Without these values
Administrative Aide inquiry can still happen, but it lacks moral resonance. We can argue and disagree, and we do,
about academic and political matters. But as we do so, we must act with intellectual honesty and
GRADUATE ENROLLMENT SERVICES academic integrity. We cannot trim and pillory the truth to win an argument, or to make a buck.
One-half Fifth Avenue, Garden Level We must be trustworthy. On those rare occasions when I have been told of a graduate student
(212) 998-8050 being asked to fudge the findings of an experiment, even just a tiny bit, I have gone ballistic.
[email protected] Recall another proverb, “Accept instruction and not silver, / knowledge rather than pure gold; /
Roberta S. Popik for wisdom is better than red coral / no jewels can match her.” (8:10-11)
Associate Dean for Graduate Enrollment Services Academic freedom protects our ability to be honest and to act with integrity. Because
and GSAS Administration academic freedom does so, we must in turn protect it. Although integrity and academic freedom
David Giovanella are necessary, they are not sufficient. We must also treat each other with mutual respect.
Assistant Dean of Enrollment Services and Disrespect, and its cognates bullying and harassment, have no place here.
Director of the Master’s College Although built upon a shared vision and values, our community of advanced inquiry is
David Langkamp exceptionally diverse. We belong to a cosmopolitan university within a multicultural city and
Administrative Aide nation that has a global reach. My office in a beautiful 19th-century townhouse overlooks
Washington Square Park. Each time I look out, I marvel at the inexhaustible human variety that I
OFFICE OF ACADEMIC AND STUDENT LIFE see, including the film crews that are using the realities of our campus, the Park, as the setting for
6 Washington Square North, 2nd Floor their fictions and fantasies.
(212) 998-8060 The members of our community differ by nationality. The permanent residence of about 40%
[email protected] of our students is outside of the United States. They bring us their talents and promise. After
Kathleen T. Talvacchia 9/11, I argued as forcefully as I could against myopic restrictions on the visas of these students
Assistant Dean for Academic and Student Life that would damage both them and the United States. We also differ by age, race, religion, gender,
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Kristofor Larsen
Program Facilitator
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sexuality, economic circumstances, and language — not to mention is whether a society — like the United States — that proclaims to
convictions, temperament, perspectives, and academic disciplines. believe in mass higher education will pay for it.
Yet, despite our diversity, it gnaws at me that we are not diverse
enough. We still have too few students from United States minority Third, research, development, and innovation have brought
groups, a flaw that we must continue to seek to remedy. us the magnificent new technologies of information and
communication. I started using e-mail shortly before I came to
Diversity can challenge the construction of a community. It can NYU. I was then such a naïf that I wrote out @ as “at,” and
be initially easier to respect people who mirror one’s self rather wondered why messages bounced back after I hit “send.” The new
than people who seem to look and act differently. However, when technologies are transforming the ways in which we acquire, store,
we are psychologically nimble and generous, our community is and manipulate information; the ways in which we teach locally
an exemplar of the ideal of living together respectfully. Moreover, and globally; and the ways in which we create communities.
a vibrant community of advanced inquiry needs diversity. Ditto Those 13,000 applications to GSAS for the class entering in fall
marks and copies do not generate new questions and ideas. Ditto 2010 are all online. What would our classrooms be like without
marks and copies do not grasp the survival issues of the day and Blackboard and its equivalents? What would our labs be like
devise humane responses to them. Only the curious mind, capable without computers? What would my networks be like if I were not
of articulating and listening to many perspectives, does so. [email protected]?

Our purpose and principles should be stable. Yet, all Fourth and finally, “Global Society” has joined “The
institutions must change. Being alive means balancing continuity Knowledge Society” and “The Information Society” as a name for
and change. In part, the changes to which GSAS has responded our time. When we look at satellite photographs of Planet Earth,
and created are intrinsic to NYU. Aspirational, gritty, determined, we see how vitally we share land, water, and air. Knowledge,
boldly led, NYU is now a great global research university, what information, art, and people flow across national borders. Yet,
President John Sexton has named the Globally Networked the nation state is still powerful. Immediately after World War II,
University. NYU’s stature makes graduate education even more United States’ universities with their graduate schools were the
important. Moreover, because of the Partners Initiative, the Faculty most compelling in the world. Now, other nations — among them
of Arts and Science has recently grown by over 25%. The key to Australia, Canada, China, Great Britain, and India — are building
graduate education is the faculty. My mantra is “Great faculty, and rebuilding their universities. No United States graduate school
great students, great ideas.” can lazily expect Automatic Supremacy. Globally, universities now
both collaborate and compete.
In part, the changes GSAS is experiencing are affecting all of
higher education, not just NYU. Four are of particular relevance: In response, GSAS works hard to keep on attracting
international students, but it also reaches out and enters into
First, we live in “The Knowledge Society” and “The research and graduate exchange agreements with carefully selected,
Information Society.” A number of careers, inside and outside of major universities abroad. They include Peking University, Tokyo
the academy, ask for advanced degrees. More and more societies University, the University of Capetown, and institutions in France
link knowledge and information to innovation, and then link and Italy. More agreements are to come. We are both a community
innovation to economic strength. They turn to their universities of advanced inquiry located in New York City and a spinner of
to generate the knowledge and information that will fuel resilient webs of inquiry around the world.
innovation and economic growth. Universities should accept this
responsibility, but not at the risk of reductionism, of over-investing This is our purpose, our identity, and our historical moment.
in science, engineering and technology and under-investing in the What other programs do we have that embody them?
social sciences, humanities, and the arts.
Remember my mantra, “Great faculty, great students, great
Second, because we live in a Knowledge Society and an ideas.” In order to attract great students from around the globe to
Information Society, people want access to the higher education work with our faculty, we have invested in them and transformed
that promises to provide them the benefits of such a society. financial aid. My predecessor, the anthropologist Annette Weiner,
Everyone deserves the educational opportunities that lead to higher was a visionary who started the Henry Mitchell MacCracken
education. If these opportunities exist, more and more well-trained program, which then offered full funding to a minority of doctoral
and open-minded students will bring their talents and promise to students. Now, after a series of reforms, the MacCracken program
graduate education. However, higher education costs money for is a national pioneer.
faculty, services, and facilities. The daunting, haunting question
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The Torch Fellowship Program Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary

Created in 2004 by a generous donation from Elizabeth Roth and Ron Katz, the Torch Fellowship Program
has sent three GSAS students abroad each year to conduct their doctoral dissertation research. Each of these
students has furthered the founding intention of the fellowship — “the belief in the power of scholarship,
research and ideas, and their ability to shape a multilateral and better world.”

Ron Katz graduated from the University Heights for his work as a writer on the topics of international
campus of NYU in 1967 and received his M.A. in politics, affairs, national politics, urban affairs and education. He
philosophy, and economics from Balliol College, Oxford. was introduced by John Sexton, NYU President. His most
He went to Indonesia following Law School at Harvard recent book is The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must
to work for the Minister of Justice as an International Spread Democracy (Just Not the Way George Bush Did).
Legal Center Fellow. Elizabeth Roth taught as an English
professor in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1972, before A contributing writer for The New York Times
entering the field of law. She has long been interested in Magazine and a member of the Council on Foreign
international issues and education. Working with NYU, Relations, Traub spoke about the history of multilateralism
they started the Torch Fellowship Program in order to in the United States — from Woodrow Wilson to the
facilitate global thinking and a multilateral approach to formation of the United Nations to the present. In the
solving global problems. Marking five years of sending years following World War II, when the U.S. was riding
GSAS students around the world, the Torch Fellowship high, it could embrace multilateralism without giving up
Program furthers the work of NYU becoming a Global any significant amount of power, he noted. Today, there
University and gives students the opportunity to work appears to be much more for the U.S. to lose.
cross-culturally.
At the end of the evening, Elizabeth Roth shared that
The Torch Fellowship Program held its fifth she was the recipient of a similar fellowship during her
anniversary celebration on Thursday, February 25, 2010. years as a student. By helping to create this program she
Opening remarks were given by Catharine R. Stimpson, feels that she is now able to give back what was once
Dean of GSAS; Ulrich Baer, Vice Provost for Globalization given to her. She is hopeful that the Torch recipients
and Multicultural Affairs; and Joaquín M. Chávez, a would one day be in a position to give back to the next
2006–2007 Torch Fellow. The inaugural Torch Award generation of scholars.
for Global Understanding was awarded to James Traub
Over the past five years, Torch Fellows have traveled
to India, Israel, Russia, Poland, the Philippines and

2009-2010 Torch Fellowship Recipients

Oksana Chefranova Marta Kaluza

Cinema Studies Spanish and Portuguese
Russia Poland

Oksana’s dissertation research focuses Marta’s dissertation research
on the works of filmmaker Evgenii explores the work of twentieth-
Bauer and the relationship between century Polish-born émigré writer
early Russian film and other visual Witold Gombrowicz, who is
arts — an alternative vision of modernity in Russia and recognized internationally.
the proliferation of images during that period.

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Japan, among others. Dissertation topics have ranged Master’s College Update
from architecture and urban planning to music and
performance to studies on call centers and American The GSAS Master’s College was created to recruit,
outsourcing. retain, and help to sustain community among master’s
students. The Master’s College provides access to
A unique aspect of the Torch Fellowship is that information, advisement and resources for prospective
it gives special consideration to applicants who are and current master’s students. It works with academic
returning to the regions from which their families came. departments and programs, the University, and
The fellowship allowed Joaquín Chávez to return to his GSAS support offices to provide the highest quality
family’s homeland, El Salvador, to conduct research for master’s education.
his dissertation. When asked about how the fellowship
was able to help him with his research, he responded, One venture of which the Master’s College is
“With the support of the Torch Fellowship I conducted particularly proud is the newly-formed Program
50 in-depth interviews with popular intellectuals (e.g. Board. Comprised of more than a dozen master’s
peasant leaders, teachers, Catholic priests, and university students who represent all three of the GSAS divisions,
students) who played major roles in the mobilizations the Program Board hosts many events and much-
that preceded the civil war in El Salvador (1980–1992). needed study breaks throughout the year in line with
I also conducted extensive research in private and public its mission:
archives in that country. The information emerging from
the interview sessions and the archival material I obtained The Graduate School of Arts & Science Master’s
while working in El Salvador constitute a unique source College Program Board is committed to building
for examining the origins of the Salvadoran insurgency, community for master’s students through
which allowed me to complete my dissertation research educational and social programming and civic
and will facilitate further research on this topic.” engagement. Responding to the needs and
wants of the student body, the Master’s College
For the 2009-2010 academic year, the Torch Fellows Program Board serves as a resource to develop,
are Oksana Chefranova from Cinema Studies, Marta inform, support, and enrich an active and vibrant
Kaluza from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese student community. Their goal is to enhance the
Languages and Literature, and Yael Zeira from the educational experience of GSAS master’s students
Department of Politics.  by providing activities that build a sense of
unity among students beyond their field of study
throughout the global NYU community.

Yael Zeira This year, the Program Board sponsored ice-
skating, grant-writing workshops, theater, sightseeing
Politics in NYC, and participation in civic engagement in the
Israel-Palestine and Jordan community. There is also a full calendar of events
planned for the spring semester.
Yael’s dissertation research asks
about identity development To learn more about the GSAS Master’s College
among Palestinians by or to get the specifics about an event, please visit
investigating the mobilization www.gsas.nyu.edu/object/gsas.mc.calendar.
practices and popular support for different armed
opposition groups participating in the Israeli- If you are a GSAS master’s student and would like
Palestinian conflict. to become a member of the GSAS Master’s College
Program Board, please email: gsas.masterscollege@
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Graduate Student Council

The Graduate Student Council (GSC) aims to enhance Top row: Lily Vosoughi, Fatima-Zahra Belkady, Katherine Lau, Regan Lin
student life throughout GSAS by serving as a forum for the Bottom row: Pengcheng Song, Aviv Madar, Israel Rodriguez
interests of graduate students across academic departments. It
includes representatives from student organizations associated The Executive Board is encouraging wider participation
with the various departments and programs of GSAS. The of GSAS students by designing new initiatives and programs.
Council strives to foster a sense of community among For example, the Board has hosted a monthly series of happy
graduate students and to offer a venue for participation on a hours at a local restaurant in the Village. Frequently drawing
graduate school-wide level. a turnout of more than 100 students, the happy hours have
become a favorite pastime because they present students with
The GSC Executive Board is comprised of a President, the opportunity to engage in conversation with other students
Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary, Student Senator and over food and drink.
Alternate Senator, all of whom are elected each year by GSAS
students to facilitate Council initiatives. The Executive Board The Graduate Student Council also manages GSAS
achieves its community-building goals in three important involvement in the All University Games (All U-Games), an
ways: administration of the Student Life Grant (SLG), service annual sporting event where NYU school-based teams enter
on Graduate School and University committees, and student into friendly competition against one another. To encourage
life programs. broad participation, the All U-Games include basketball,
foosball, tug-of-war and volleyball, to name a few. The
Departmental student organizations may apply to the GSC Executive Board designed a T-shirt to advertise the All
Executive Board for funds through the Student Life Grant U-Games and to foster a stronger connection among students
(SLG) application. SLGs support lectures, conferences, as they compete. The GSC plans for the end of the spring
brown bag lunches and mixers that benefit graduate students 2010 semester include an exciting boat cruise on the Hudson
within and across departments. Criteria considered for the River, where students will be able to enjoy the panoramic
grants include interdisciplinary participation, professional New York City skyline while dancing the night away.
development, social significance, quality of life and diversity.
The six members of the Executive Board represent a variety Under the mentorship of Israel Rodriguez, GSAS Director
of disciplines, including Economics, Journalism, Chemistry, of Student Affairs, the Graduate Student Council Executive
Biology, Psychology and Politics at the master’s and doctoral Board offers the students of GSAS support for programs
degree levels. This diversity of training and experience helps and initiatives through the Student Life Grant, meaningful
the Board members with the distribution of Student Life representation on Graduate School and University committees
Grant funds. and a collection of social networking experiences and
community that will remain with them long beyond their
Each member of the Executive Board attends Graduate studies at GSAS and NYU. 
School and University committee meetings, including the
University Committee on Student Life, the Student Senators
Council, the NYU Library Liaison Committee, and the
GSAS Financial Aid and Graduate Curriculum Committees.
At these meetings Board members have the opportunity to
voice students’ concerns to the faculty and administration,
such as the need for increased financial aid, more reasonably
priced housing, input on new and existing programs, or
more dedicated study space for graduate students at NYU’s
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Observing and Theorizing the Diversity of Human Experience
from a Holistic Perspective

What can the material remains of ancient societies tell us about the past behavior of humans? In what ways does genetic
research and medical intervention affect a cultural group? How is gender mediated through popular culture and artistic
forms? What are the uses of language to create and maintain ideological identity within a cultural grouping? These kinds
of questions are fundamental to many types of research in a university. The distinctive vision of the NYU Department of
Anthropology, one of the nation’s most important, is to incorporate all of these questions in one department.

While some departments of anthropology have fractured along Natural Science Meets Social Science:
the lines of biological and sociocultural anthropology, faculty in Archaeological and Physical Anthropology
the Department of Anthropology train their students to respect Based in the research methods and laboratory techniques of the
and understand the way knowledge about human beings and natural sciences, the programs in Archaeological Anthropology
social life is produced and understood through the lenses of the and Physical Anthropology (Biological Anthropology) examine the
field’s traditional subdisciplines: Archaeological Anthropology, cultural material remains and biological aspects of humans. The
Physical Anthropology, Socio-Cultural Anthropology and Linguistic academic program is based in The Center for the Study of Human
Anthropology. Department requirements emphasize intensive Origins, under the direction of Terry Harrison. Center faculty work
training in one of these subdisciplines. However, in the conviction to enhance and facilitate research broadly related to the study
that students of the human species need to recognize and be able to of human origins and evolution from a biological and cultural
engage usefully with the different kinds of knowledge focused on perspective. As an innovation, the Center aims to promote a greater
the complexity and diversity of society and experiences, all students understanding and appreciation of the study of human origins for
are required to take an inter-subfield departmental seminar in their both the academy and the general public.
first year of coursework. Rather than posing either an integrated
framework of subdisciplines or a grab bag of perspectives, these The Center’s offerings include training in prehistoric
seminars — co-taught typically by a physical anthropology and archaeology, primatology, molecular anthropology and human
social anthropology faculty member — expose students to the evolution. It is affiliated with the New York Consortium
interplay of subfield perspectives in a focused shared topic for in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP), a long-standing
which each subfield has produced significant research subjects such interdisciplinary training program. With funding from the National
as genetics, race, sexuality, or nutrition and food. Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research
Traineeship (IGERT) grant, the consortium of five neighboring
A Creative Tension institutions (Lehman College/CUNY, American Museum of Natural
Many graduate anthropology programs struggle with internal History, Columbia University, Wildlife Conservation Society, and
tensions among the subdisciplines and, thus, specialize in one or NYU) provides training for students in Biological Anthropology
two subfields. But NYU’s vision, formed in part by former chair that combines both academic and professional skills. The M.A.
and Dean of GSAS, Annette Weiner, seeks to hold these areas Program in Skeletal Biology, under the direction of Susan Antón,
together in a creative tension. Long-time department chair Fred trains students in osteology and forensic anthropology.
Myers, a major architect in creating and implementing this idea,
maintains that this intentional emphasis on melding the four Social and Cultural Approaches:
subfields in this way creates both a faculty and a student body Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology
steeped in collegial relations and a sense of common enterprise.
Study and research in the subfield of Socio-Cultural Anthropology,
Situated at the intersection of social science, natural science which includes the subfield of Linguistic Anthropology, is firmly
and humanities, anthropology is uniquely suited to function as a rooted in a rigorous training in social and cultural theory.
bridge discipline in the university. The four subfield model allows Fundamentally, this subfield has evolved out of a concern with the
anthropologists to create links between themselves and their problem of difference and similarity within and between human
work, thereby modeling the collegiality necessary for effective populations and has entered into a range of more experimental
collaboration across the wider university curriculum. explorations of emerging cultural practices that shape people’s
lives. These include the social impact of genetic testing; human

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This program provides all arts and science doctoral students
rights and gender violence; the cultural dimensions of the sciences; with full funding for four or five years (tuition and fees, a stipend
the ethnographic study of media worlds, the shaping of memory, that is now minimally well over $22,000, health insurance, and a
history and heritage; material culture; sexuality; diasporic processes; start-up stipend of $1,000). Teaching is no longer a requirement of
race and ethnicity; language ideologies; the politics of indigenous financial aid. We enthusiastically encourage doctoral students to
peoples; contemporary art worlds. This work involves extensive teach, and GSAS has a teaching-how-to-teach program. Both art
fieldwork from remote regions of the world to cosmopolitan centers and craft, teaching nurtures academic, psychological, and moral
in order to expand contemporary anthropological theory. growth. However, students freely choose, in conversations with
their programs, whether they will teach, and when they do, they
In partnership with the Department of Cinema Studies at receive compensation above and beyond their financial aid.
NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the Program in Culture and Media,
headed by Faye Ginsburg, trains students in the critical history of The doctoral degree is the pinnacle of graduate education.
cross-cultural filmmaking, the anthropological study of media, and However, our community is committed to the master’s degree
ethnographic documentary production. The program is especially as well. A building block of the Knowledge Society, the master’s
well known for its pioneering work in indigenous media, as well as degree is a site of academic vitality as well as a portal to the
the study of other “media worlds,” and regularly sponsors lectures, doctorate. Not surprisingly, it is the fastest growing degree in the
screenings/discussions, and film festivals. The groundbreaking United States.
Center for Religion and Media, directed by Faye Ginsburg and
Angela Zito, seeks to develop interdisciplinary, cross-cultural I feared when I arrived that around Washington Square the
knowledge of how religious ideas and practices are shaped and master’s degree, despite the vigor of individual programs, was too
spread through media. often treated like a stepchild. It was desired for the money it might
bring in, but otherwise left to languish between the bachelor’s and
Medical Anthropology/Science Studies represents another doctoral degrees.
distinctive departmental strength. It has developed through the
leadership of Emily Martin, who has catalyzed the study of science We have been determined to change this situation. We have
and medicine as an anthropological project and Rayna Rapp important new doctoral programs such as Atmosphere Ocean
who, with Ginsburg, is researching the transformation in our Science, but we have also transformed our master’s degrees in
understanding of learning disabilities in education, scientific labs, Museum Studies and Journalism, and have created master’s degrees
media and in the reshaping of kinship and family life. in Bioethics, Creative Writing in Spanish (the first in the nation),
Irish Studies, Mathematics in Finance, and Trauma and Violence
Almost all the faculty regard public outreach as fundamental to Transdisciplinary Studies. Crossing the borders among NYU
the discipline, from museum exhibitions and conferences, to work schools, the faculty has also established combined degrees with the
with genetic counselors and medical professionals, to film outreach Wagner School, the Steinhardt School, and the Palmer School of
to the disabled community, to teaching in prisons, to human rights Library Science. In 2007, GSAS opened a national innovation, the
work and indigenous land claims, to opening opportunities for Master’s College, an office devoted to enhancing the academic and
disadvantaged, minority and disabled high schoolers. Emily Martin communal experience of master’s students.
has recently launched an exciting new journal, Anthropology Now,
to bring cutting edge work to broader audiences. Because we are a community of advanced inquiry, the greatest
service we offer all our students is an education that is rigorous,
Together, the subfields cover a remarkable spectrum of responsible, adventurous, appropriate, useful, and accountable.
humanity from the Paleolithic to the present and from almost every GSAS has, without being mechanistic, developed a set of
corner of the planet. They are held together by a common drive metrics — placement, for example — in order to understand
among anthropologists to understand the emergence, diversity and ourselves. But students need and deserve assistance beyond their
complexity of the species, deploying both biological and cultural academic programs.
frameworks. Few other fields have the theoretical ambition to take
into account so broad a range of research in ways that can reframe Over the years, sophisticated offices of student life have
fundamental assumptions about human nature and its mutability. evolved in American colleges and universities. They sponsor
Its holistic perspective allows the Department of Anthropology to a range of activities that include athletics, career counseling,
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community building, health and wellness programs, and housing. magnet to attract the support of foundations, philanthropists, and
During my deanship we have reconceptualized the services we alumni and alumnae. When I became dean, GSAS fund-raising was
want to offer to reflect the academic nature of our community. paltry. I am thrilled and appreciative to report that by May 2010,
Moreover, our students are older than most undergraduates. I tease over $58,000,000 has been raised for graduate education and
my counterpart in the College of Arts and Science, the esteemed GSAS students, an increase of 350% over the past. These dollars
Matthew Santirocco, by saying that his students have parents, but are more than material support, invaluable though that is. They
our students are parents. represent an act of faith in our works and dreams.

Symbolically, we have named our student service office the May 2010 is a time of transition for me as well as for our
Office of Academic and Student Life (OASL). In part, OASL graduating class. On February 1, 1998, I had the honor of
co-operates with strong university-wide student life offices — the becoming the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science
Wasserman Center for Career Development, for example, or the at New York University. On August 31, 2010, I will leave the
Student Health Center. In part, OASL offers familiar student deanship and become a full-time University Professor at NYU. I
services that are inflected specifically for graduate education: have loved and do love my school. I have loved and do love this
working with student government; hearing out grievances and University. My change is wholly voluntary and amicable. Simply
problems; organizing orientation programs; providing information and truthfully put, I feel that after nearly 13 years as your dean, I
about fellowships and grants; administering a housing program for have made my contribution. I now feel the tug of the future. My
first-year doctoral students. Another of my mantras is the need for spirit is one of profound gratitude for the opportunity to have
more housing for graduate students and their families, a mantra been your dean, for the devotion and energies of the thousands of
that must be repeated over and over again. people with whom I have worked, and for the privilege of dwelling
among your discerning minds.
Finally, in part OASL works with the Dean’s Office to nurture
intellectual activities. One of my favorites is another national This May, I will again close our convocation with a quotation
innovation, the Graduate Forums. Two now exist: one devoted to from The Book of Tao, the ancient Chinese philosophical text,
interdisciplinarity; the other, held in conjunction with the Institute “He (or she) who knows others is learned, He (or she) who knows
of Fine Arts, to forms of seeing. Each brings together graduate the self is wise.” I am confident that our community of advanced
students from across NYU to share and develop their ideas with inquiry will flourish in its quest for both learning and wisdom.
each other. I like to think that the antecedents of the Forums
include Plato’s Symposium in classical Greece, where people dined Catharine R. Stimpson
and spoke about philosophy together, and John Gardner’s picture Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Science
of “seed beds” of the modern United States, where small groups
within large institutions provide beginnings of self-renewal. As University Professor, Catharine R. Stimpson can teach
across NYU. After September 1, 2010, she will continue
The Forums are one answer to an incessant question: how to be a member of the Faculty of Arts and Science and
can we deepen our community of inquiry? Can we join with the an affiliated member of the faculty of the Law School.
Philosophy Department to bring the leading philosophers in the Her office will be in the Steinhardt Institute for Higher
world to NYU as Lewis Burke Frumkes lecturers? Let’s do it. Can Education Policy, which Professor Ann Marcus directs,
we accept an invitation to house the Center for Creative Research, at the Steinhardt School. Professor Malcolm N. Semple,
which supports research projects done jointly with artists and a neuroscientist who has served with great distinction
academic researchers? Let’s do it. Let’s experiment smartly. as Vice Dean of GSAS, will become Acting Dean. The
Let’s learn. announcement of her transition from President John
Sexton and Provost David McLaughlin can be found at
Wisdom is better than red coral, but no graduate degree is free. www.gsas.nyu/object/gsas.ne.openletter.
NYU as a whole is under-endowed. Endowment income alone
will not sustain our community of advanced inquiry. Instead, we
must call on faculty grants that support graduate students. We
must encourage graduate students themselves to seek external
awards. We must thank master’s students for their contribution
through their tuition and offer them a degree that justifies their
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Graduate Student Honors and Awards 2009–2010

Except for 2009 FLAS summer fellowships and 2009 GSAS summer fellowships and graduation prizes, honors and
awards are received in the period from September 1, 2009, through August 31, 2010. A guide to the abbreviations is

available at the end of this listing.

American Studies Johanna Lenkner Department of State Critical Languages Scholarship

Miabi Chatterji Arts and Science Prize Teaching Fellowship Andres Link Conservation International Research grant
Miles Parks Grier Skellig Fellowship from the Clinton Institute for
American Studies – University College, Dublin, Yasmin Moll Mainzer Summer Fellowship (Summer 2009)
2010-2012 Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship,
Duke University Alba Morales Jiminez
Zenia Kish GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship
Manijeh Moradian C.V. Starr Center for Asian/Pacific/American Studies Primate Conservation Inc. Fieldwork Grant
Conference Grant
Jan Padios NYU Council for Media & Culture Dissertation and Hyejin Nah CLACS Summer Research Grant
Thesis Grant
Dawn Peterson Consortium Dissertation Fellowship, McNeil Center Sneh Patel Claire G. Goodman Fellowship, Bertram Salwen
for Early American Studies, University of
Pennsylvania, GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship Archaeological Fellowship
Khary Polk Mainzer Summer Fellowship (Summer 2009)
Sujani Reddy Dean’s Outstanding Dissertation Prize Thomas Rein GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, Wenner-Gren
Chinua Thelwell Northeast Consortium for Faculty Diversity
Predoctoral Fellowship, Allegheny College Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

Maja Seselj Margaret and Herman Sokol Travel/Research Award

for Predoctoral Students in the Sciences, Dissertation

Fieldwork Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation, NSF

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

Matthew Spigelman Dissertation Research Fellowship, Fulbright

Fellowship

Chantal White GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship

Anna Wilking Annette B. Weiner Graduate Fellowship in Cultural

Anthropology

Anthropology Basic Medical Sciences

Barbara Andersen Andrew Sauter Fellowship for Predoctoral Students in Brian Clark NIH NRSA
the Humanities & Social Sciences
Julie Anidjar James Arthur Fellowship Jennifer Choi NIH NRSA
Dwai Banerjee SSRC, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, NYU Garrett Daniels US DOD, NIH, NCRR
Council for Media and Culture Thesis Grant
Christina Bergey NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Melissa Fernandez NIH NRSA
Anna Bernstein Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship,
Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Scott Drutman NIH NRSA
Fellowship
Lucas Bessire Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship Zayra Garavito-Aguilar
Emily Cohen Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Alison Cool NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, SSRC American Heart Association
International Dissertation Research Fellowship,
Fulbright Fellowship Sean Hagerty NIH NRSA
Joseph Crescente Department of State Critical Languages Scholarship
Lily Defriend CLACS Summer Research Grant Ji Li US DOD
Eugenia Kisin Smithsonian Institute Summer Institute in Museum
Anthropology Fellowship Priscilla Maldonado NIH NRSA
Amy Lasater CLACS Summer Research Grant
Rachel Lears Council for Media and Culture Dissertation Research Karolina Malecek American Heart Association
Grant, Instituto de Cine y Audiovisual del Uruguay
Dissertation Research Grant, Montevideo Socio Farron McIntee NIH, NCRR
Audiovisual Program Dissertation, Research Grant,
CLACS Summer Research Grant Melissa McKenzie NIMH
Tate Lefevre Annette B. Weiner Graduate Fellowship in Cultural
Anthropology, Pacific Studies Research Group Xiaosong Meng NIH NRSA
Research Grant
Paolo Mita US DOD

Andrea Nans NIH NRSA

Laurie Nondorf NIH, NCRR

Sondra Nemetski NIH NRSA

Alicia Pinderhughes NIH NRSA

Edwin Vazquez-Cintron

NIH NRSA

Biology Biology Teaching Award I
Steve Kazianis Research Award
Ashley Bate Mark Ehrman Fellowship
Paul D’Agostino Mark Ehrman Fellowship
Shengbo Fu
Hui-Yi Hsiao

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David Jukam GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship Monica Wendel Starworks Writing Fellowship
Axel Wilhite Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellowship
Desirea Mecenas Biology Department Service Award

Matthew Nelson Horizon Fellowship, Gladys Mateyko Research

Award Draper (Humanities and Social Thought)

Chung-Yi Nien GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, Charlotte Andrei Boutyline Hirschhorn Award

Pann Research Award Sarah E. Broderick Draper Tuition Scholarship

Nathan Poslusny Andrew J. Perlman Fellowship in Genomics and Emily Colucci Draper Tuition Scholarship

Systems Biology Elisabeth Ginsberg Fulbright from Denmark

Kahn Rhrissorrakrai Biology Teaching Award II Scott Kaplan Draper Tuition Scholarship

Chemistry Luke Martin Hirschhorn Award

Andrea Jochim Salvador Olguin Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Technología
Alejandro Perez
Chunhua Liu GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship Fellowship (Mexico)
Horizon Fellowship
International Society for Nanoscale Science, Heather Paulson Institute of Museum and Library Services Grant
Anne Young Computation and Engineering, Best Student Paper
Award Kathleen Reeves Draper Tuition Scholarship
Dean’s Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching
Award Jacqueline M. Simonovich

Draper Tuition Scholarship

Economics

Cinema Studies Marina Agranov GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship

Jau-er Chen C.V. Starr Center Fellowship

Sueyoung Park-Primiano Joan Farrre Mensa American Finance Association Grant

GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship Alua Muhlenbach Award for Excellence in Macroeconomics

Oksana Chefranova Torch Fellowship Ani Gesheva Fulbright from Bulgaria

Ji Hoon Kim GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship Mashfiqur Rahman Khan

Fulbright from Bangladesh

Comparative Literature Fernando Leibovici Canadian SSHRC Award

Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra Astika Nagrah Fulbright from Pakistan

CLACS Summer Research Grant Breno Neri Department of Economics Third Year Paper Award

Michiel Bot GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship César Martín Peñaranda

Robyn Creswell ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Fellowship Fulbright from Peru

Patrick Gallagher Penfield Fellowship Gaetano Vecchione Roberto Marrama Award (awarded by Fondazione

Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz Banco di Napoli & I.P.E. Istituto per Ricerche Ed

Deutsche Forschsgemeinschaft Fellowship Attività Educative)

Anna Krakus GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship Emanuel Vespa Department of Economics Third Year Paper Award,

Anne Mulhall Fulbright from Ireland NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

Beata Potocki GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship Peng Wang Department of Economics’ Award for Excellence in

Erica Weitzman Deutsche Forschsgemeinschaft Fellowship Master’s Level Microeconomics

Shimin Wang Award for Excellence in Macroeconomics

Cheng Joyce Wong Department of Economics Third Year Paper Award

Creative Writing Eduardo Zilberman Department of Economics Third Year Paper Award

Amy Bonnafons Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellowship

James Byrne Starworks Writing Fellowship English

Tusia Dabrowska Starworks Writing Fellowship James Brooke-Smith GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship

Delana Dameron Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellowship Adrienne Ghaly Penfield Fellowship

Sarah Dimmick Starworks Writing Fellowship Christian Gerzso Millicent Bell Fellowship

Thomas Dooley Starworks Writing Fellowship Zachary Holbrook Halsband Fellowship

Giles Harvey Starworks Writing Fellowship Spencer Keralis Tuttleton Fellowship

Caroline Hohmann Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellowship Albert Laguna Richardson Fellowship

Jennifer Hyde Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellowship John Melillo GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship

Sativa January NYU Veterans Writing Fellowship Rachel O’Connell Buckler Fellowship

Noor Mayal Starworks Writing Fellowship Jennifer Spitzer Rosenthal Fellowship

Angelo Nikolopoulos Lenora Warren Carnwath-Callender Fellowship

Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellowship

Martin Rock Starworks Writing Fellowship

Sarah Sala Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellowship

Eileen Talone Rona Jaffe Foundation Graduate Fellowship continued

Kimberly Faith Waid Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellowship

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Environmental Health Sciences Lauren Kinnee Frank Brown/Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Helen M.

Yana Chervona NIH/NIEHS Training Program in Environmental Woodruff Fellowship of the Archaeological Institute
Toxicology
Kevin Cromar NIH, TL1 Scholar, Clinical and Translational of America Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize, The American
Research, Fellowship for Advancement in Doctoral
Studies Academy in Rome, The Solow Dissertation Research
Azita Cuevas NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service
Award Fellowship, The American School of Classical Studies
Patricia Gillespie NIH/NIEHS Training Program in Environmental
Toxicology in Athens
Eric Liberda Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Doctoral
Researcher Award (CIHR-DRA) Abigail Kornfeld Chester Dale Fellowship, The Metropolitan Museum
Lisa Passantino NIH/NIEHS Training Program in Environmental
Toxicology of Art, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture

Fellowship

Yulin Lee Lim Pen-Yuan Foundation Fellowship

Rebecca Long Allen Whitehill Clowes Fellowship, The Indianapolis

Museum of Art

Abby McEwen J. Clawson Mills Fellowship, The Metropolitan

Museum of Art

Kathryn Moore Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome

European and Mediterranean Studies Prize, The American Academy in Rome

Sarah Montross Louise Hart Van Loon Fellowship, Vassar College

Jennifer Carden FLAS Fellowship Nicole Myers Theodore Rousseau Fellowship, The Metropolitan
Felicity Palma FLAS Fellowship
Museum of Art

Elizabeth Nogrady Moore Curatorial Fellowship, Morgan Library and

Fine Arts Museum

Mark Abbe Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Fellowship Judith Noorman Theodore Rousseau Fellowship, The Metropolitan
Jennifer Babcock Hagop Kevorkian Fellowship, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art Museum of Art
Esther Bell Theodore Rousseau Fellowship, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art Jeremy Ott Graduate Fellowship, The American Research Center
Denise Birkhofer Morse Academic Plan Preceptorship
Michael Brown Mayer Curatorial Fellowship, The Denver Art in Sofia
Museum
Luis Castañeda Morse Academic Plan Preceptorship Jessica Pace Antonina S. Ranieri Summer Travel Award, Center for
Michael Chagnon Iran Heritage Foundation Travel and Research Grant
Liam Considine National Gallery of Art Summer Intern Award, Ancient Studies, NYU
Helena Rubinstein Fellow for Critical Studies,
Whitney Museum of Art AnnMarie Perl Language Course Grant (DAAD)
Rachel Federman Morse Academic Plan Preceptorship
Ross Finocchio Morse Academic Plan Preceptorship Maggie Popkin Antonina S. Ranieri International Scholars Fund
Erik Gustafson Samuel H. Kress Foundation Predoctoral Rome Prize,
The American Academy in Rome Travel Grant, Center for Ancient Studies, NYU
Lindsay Harris Joan and Stanford Alexander Award, Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston Amy Raffel Curatorial Internship, Whitney Museum of Art
John Hawley Jacob K. Javits Fellowship
Keely Heuer The Dietrich von Bothmer Fellowship, The Jodi Roberts Travel Award, Pinta Fund for Latin American Studies
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lauren Jacobi Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Andrew W. Patrick Salland William Kelly Simpson Summer Internship, The
Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies
Research Fellowship, The Dutch Institute in Florence Metropolitan Museum of Art
Grace Johnstone Summer Intern, The National Gallery of Art
Yumiko Kamada Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship, The Margaret Samu Anne Louise Barrett Fellowship, Wellesley College
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lorraine Karafel Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial University of Illinois Summer Research Grant
Fund Fellowship, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sasha Suda Research Fellowship (DAAD), Andrew W. Mellon

Fellowship, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rosemarie Trentinella

Antonina S. Ranieri Summer Travel Award, Center for

Ancient Studies, NYU

Jason Vrooman Curatorial Internship, The New York Historical

Society

Michael Waters Traveling Fellowship, Sir John Soane’s Museum

Foundation Library Research Grant, Getty Research

Institute

Lori Waxman The Warhol Foundation Fellowship

Shannon Wearing GSAS Summer Predoctoral Fellowship

Derek Weiler Chester Dale Fellowship, The Metropolitan Museum

of Art

French Penfield Fellowship
Dartmouth Summer Institute, French Dissertation
Clarissa Behar Fellowship
Willemijn Don Cornell School of Criticism & Theory Summer
Program, École Normale Supérieure Exchange-Paris
Niamh Duggan


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Kari Evanson Dulau Fellowship Elena Bellina GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, Humanities
Kathryn Kleppinger Marandon Award, École Normale Supérieure
Exchange-Paris Initiative Fellowship
Rubidge Award
Raluca Manea Dulau Fellowship Catherine Ches Marcello Spatafora Fellowship
Michael Ritchie Lagaffe Fellowship
Rachel Wimpee Grand Marnier Fellowship Stephanie De Paola Marcello Spatafora Fellowship
Manoah Finston American Society of the French Legion of Honor
Virginie Lauret Rosalinda Garcia Marcello Spatafora Fellowship

Kathleen Giles Marcello Spatafora Fellowship

Jessica Goethals GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, FAI Research

Fellowship

Shannon McHugh Jacob K. Javits Fellowship

French Studies Jamie Lee Michelson Marcello Spatafora Fellowship

Vanessa Agard-Jones CLACS Summer Research Grant, NSF Graduate Jonathan Mullins Marietta Di Croce Fellowship

Research Fellowship Veronica Scheidler Marcello Spatafora Fellowship

Suzanna Denison M.A. Research Assistantship Gabrielle Sims Arts and Science Prize Teaching Fellowship

Elizabeth Hartnett Istel Master’s Fellowship Alberto Zambenedetti

Scott Kelly M.A. GSAS Summer Scholarship Marietta Di Croce Fellowship

Ahjin Kim M.A. Research Assistantship Journalism

Charlotte Legg Entente Cordiale Scholarship

Lindsey Long M.A. GSAS Summer Scholarship Kathleen Bolger Sidney Award, The Sidney Hillman Foundation

Mary-Elizabeth O’Neil Kathryn Carlson Diamond Award

Lurcy Fellowship Joanna Foster Stenbeck Fellowship

Jessica Pearson GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship Jennifer Hendrix Stenbeck Fellowship

Paul Sager Humanities Initiative Fellowship Mary Godfrey Sydney Gross Scholarship for Investigative Reporting

Joy Schaefer M.A. GSAS Summer Scholarship Andrew Hongo Dean’s Fellowship

Nicholas Truesdale M.A. Research Assistantship Elissa Lerner Alexander and Brooke Goren Fellowship

Matthew Wendeln GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, Jenson Joan Magee New York Financial Writers Association Scholarship

Fellowship Andrew Marantz Stenbeck Fellowship

Marta Martinez-Martinez

German Caixa Catalunya Award

Chadwick Smith GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship James Matthews Overseas Press Club Scholarship
Nicola Behrman Mainzer Summer Fellowship (Summer 2009)
Thorsten Carstersen GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship Ryan McLendon Associated Press Summer Internship

Bolanle Omisore National Association of Black Journalists Scholarship

Priti Patnaik Foreign Press Association Scholarship

Lisa Peterson de la Cueva

Hebrew and Judaic Studies Dow Jones Fellowship

Aarong Tugendhaft Humanities Initiative Graduate Student Fellowship Nesil Staney Wall Street Journal Asia Fellowship at NYU
Zachary Levine Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellow in Jewish Culture
Center for Jewish History Chavon Sutton New York Financial Writers Association Scholarship
Andrea Cooper NYU-University of Cambridge Mainzer Fellowship in
Gender Studies Marie Thibault New York Financial Writers Association Scholarship
Alexandria Frisch First-year graduate fellow at The Yeshiva University
Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization Jodi Xu New York Financial Writers Association Scholarship
at Cardozo Law School
Shira Klein Rockefeller Archive Center Fellowship Law and Society
Sara Milstein ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Wendy Paler Wexner Graduate Fellowship/Davidson Scholarship Gabrielle Clark GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship
Mihaela Serban GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship

History Linguistics NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship
Jennifer Adair Simon Charlow
Yuko Miki Jason Shaw
Lauren Gutterman
Jerusha Westbury Elaine Brody Fellowship Mathematics
Peter Wizbicki GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship
Mainzer Summer Fellowship (Summer 2009) Ivan Corwin Wilhelm Magnus Prize
GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship
GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship Juliana Faus da Silva Dias

GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship

Carl Gladish Moses A. Greenfield Research Prize

Italian Studies Miranda Holmes Kurt O. Friedrichs Prize

Anna Bagorda FAI Research Fellowship, Penfield Fellowship Caroline Kerr M.S. Thesis Prize
Franco Baldasso Marietta Di Croce Fellowship
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Samantha Kleinberg Sandra Bleistein Prize Benjamin Tausig Fulbright Fellowship
Tes Slominski The Society for Ethnomusicology Wong Tolbert
Oren Louidor Kurt O. Friedrichs Prize Student Paper Prize
Sentienla Toy GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship
Andras Pataki Harold Grad Memorial Prize

Dian Shen Bella Manel Prize

Andrew Suk GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship

Emmanuel Schertzer Dean’s Outstanding Dissertation Prize Neural Science

Giulio Trigila Moses A. Greenfield Research Prize Christopher Henry GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship

Daniel Wichs Harold Grad Memorial Prize Mimi Trinh NRSA

Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Performance Studies

Lale Can GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship Frank Leon Roberts Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Award

Omar Cheta SSRC (Egypt) CLAGS Fellowship

Aaron George Jakes CASA Award, SSRC Dissertation Proposal Aniko Szucs GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship

Development Fellowship, GSAS Andrew Sauter

Fellowship for Predoctoral Students in the Humanities

and Social Sciences, GSAS Predoctoral Summer Philosophy

Fellowship Jonathan Cottrell Frankel Fellowship
Melis Erdur GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, Humanities
Susynne McElrone ACOR - CAORC Fellowship (Turkey) Initiative Graduate Fellowship
Sharon Hewitt Dean’s Outstanding Dissertation Prize
Amir Moosavi CASA Fellowship Colin Marshall GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship

Katayoun Shafiee Selected to participate in the National History

Center’s 2009 Seminar on Decolonization

Peter Valenti NYU Humanities Initiative Research Fellowship

Museum Studies Physics

Lyndsey N. Anderson Jeffrey Allen Mark Leslie Graduate Award, Sokol Predoctoral

Pat Tillman Military Scholarship Fellowship

Maria Claudia Barragan Arellano Jo Bovy Horizon Fellowship

Fulbright from Mexico, Garcia Robles/Fundación Kwan Chuen Chan James Arthur Graduate Award

Jumex Scholarship, Beca Complemento de Excelencia, Gabriel Chaves GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship

Secretario de Educación Pública (Mexico) Ilias J. Cholis Mark Leslie Graduate Award

Anna Follo Fulbright from Italy Lang Feng Kessler Fellowship

Blanca Llanes Parra The Arts Administration and Curatorial Studies Grant Emmanouela Filippidi

from the Marcelino Botin Foundation Kessler Fellowship

Raul Martinez Arranz David Pirtskhalava James Arthur Graduate Award

Fulbright from Spain Bo Sun Kessler Fellowship

Marina Mellado Corriente Long Zhao Horizon Fellowship

Fulbright from Spain Jonathan Zrake James Arthur Graduate Award

Bronwynne T. Pereira Politics

Ford Foundation International Fellowship from South

Africa Simon Chauchard GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship

Ximena Marta Pezoa Aguilera Pablo Fernandez-Vazquez

Fulbright from Chile La Caixa Fellowship

Pilar Pertusa San Martín Gokce Goktepe Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance

Fulbright from Spain, Spanish Ministry of Culture Postdoctoral Fellowship in Regional Political

Award Economy, GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship

Kayla Rakowski Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums Fellowship Ji Yeon Hong Fulbright Fellowship

Leyla Ipek Ulusoy Fulbright from Turkey Kristin Michelitch Holmes Travel/Research Award (Summer 2009)

Yael Zeira Torch Fellowship

Music GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship Psychology Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2010
American Society of Composers Authors and Conference Poster Award
William Boyer Publishers ASCAPlus Award Rick Andrews Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2010
Ryan Carter Dean’s Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Conference Poster Award
Award Kyle G. Ratner International Society for Infant Studies Dissertation
Alexander Ness National Book Award (Philippines) Award
FLAS Summer Fellowship Kasey Soska
Grace Nono
Peter Roda

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Sociology GUIDE TO ABBREVIATIONS

Jenna Appelbaum Holmes Travel/Research Award (Summer 2009) US United States
NYC New York City
Daniel Cohen SSHRC Award (Canada) NYS New York State
NYU New York University
Jane Jones NSF Dissertation Grant GSAS Graduate School of Arts and Science
AY Academic Year (September to May)
Sara Beth Kaufman GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship

Suzy Lee Ford Fellowship

Brian McCabe Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, U.S. WITHIN GSAS:

Department of Housing and Urban Development BMS Basic Medical Sciences
CLACS Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Michael McCarthy NSF Dissertation Grant CNS Center for Neural Science
CWP Creative Writing Program (Poetry, Fiction)
Jennifer Peterson Dean’s Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching EHS Environmental Health Sciences
GSAS-GSC GSAS-Graduate Student Council. Comprised of representatives
Award from GSAS departmental student organizations, GSAS-GSC

Doreet Preiss Institute of Education Sciences Fellowship serves as a forum to address the interests of graduate students at
both the GSAS and the university levels.
Emily Rauscher Institute of Education Sciences Fellowship IFA Institute of Fine Arts
IFS Institute for French Studies
Poulami Roychowdhury

GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship

Melissa Velez Institute of Education Sciences Fellowship

David Wachsmuth SSHRC Award (Canada)

Owen Whooley NSF Dissertation Grant, GSAS Dean’s Dissertation WITHIN NYU:

Fellowship CAS College of Arts and Science
CSGS Center for Sexuality and Gender Studies
Spanish and Portuguese CTE Center for Teaching Excellence
FLAS Foreign Language and Area Studies. Fellowships available to
Kahlil Chaar Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship
full-time graduate students who are studying a modern foreign
Mariama Ifode Fulbright from the United Kingdom language as part of their academic program in preparation for a
career that will utilize their language studies.
Marta Kaluza Torch Fellowship IFA-GSAS NYU Institute of Fine Arts-Graduate School of Arts and Science
Forum on Forms of Seeing
Mariano Lopez Seoane ICAS International Center for Advanced Studies
IHPK Institute for the History and Production of Knowledge
GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship SRC Student Resource Center

Claudia Salazar CLACS Summer Research Grant

Emmy Smith Institut Ramon Llull Catalan Language Study

Grant BEYOND NYU:

Christopher van Ginhoven AAUW American Association of University Women
ACLS American Council of Learned Societies
Lane Cooper Fellowship ACOR-CAORC
American Center of Oriental Research and Council of American
GSAS Expects to Graduate Overseas Research Centers
1,678 Students for ARCE American Research Center in Egypt
ARIT American Research Institute in Turkey
Academic Year 2009–2010. CASA Center for Arabic Study Abroad
CASVA Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
September 2009: 396 Graduates DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst/German Academic

(134 Ph.D.s, 252 Master’s, 10 Certificates) Exchange Service
DDRA Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (Fulbright-Hays)
January 2010: 452 Graduates DDRI Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement
DOD Department of Defense
(61 Ph.D.s, 365 Master’s, 26 Certificates) FAI Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano/National Trust of Italy
IDRF International Dissertation Research Fellowship
May 2010*: 830 Graduation Candidates IMF International Monetary Fund
JCC Jewish Community Center
(199 Ph.D.s, 609 Master’s, and 22 Certificates) NCRR National Center for Research Resources
NDSEG National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate
*Denotes students who have registered with the University Registrar’s Office NEA National Endowment for the Arts
indicating intent to graduate by May 2010 but does not guarantee will be NIEHS National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
recipient of May 2010 degree. NIDA National Institute on Drug Abuse
NIH National Institutes of Health
NRSA National Research Service Award
NSERC Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
NSF National Science Foundation
NYPL New York Public Library
SSRC Social Science Research Council
SSHRC Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

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