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Volume 3, Issue 20: February 12, 2007
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Dr. Kimberly A. Nance | Kimberly A. Nance, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, has won the Choice Outstanding Book Award for Can Literature Promote Justice? Trauma Narrative and Social Action in Latin American Testimonio. This award comes from one of the preeminent library journals in the United States. The book, an exploration of the relationship between ethics and literature, was published just after the 40th anniversary of testimonio, a genre loosely defined as political autobiography of Latin American activists who hope to bring about change by telling their life stories. Testimonial narrative has generated a great deal of excitement by scholars who posited it as a radical new form of literature. “Choice reviewed over seven thousand books last year. Of those, Kimberly Nance's book, Can Literature Promote Justice? Trauma Narrative and Social Action in Latin American Testimonio, is among the few that Choice named an Outstanding Academic Book of 2007,” said Betsy Phillips, Editorial Coordinator at Vanderbilt University Press. “In simple terms, this means that Choice believes Nance's book makes such an important contribution to her field that every academic library should own it."
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Volume 3, Issue 20: February 12, 2007
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Dr. Paula Ressler accepts the Strand Award | Paula Ressler, Associate Professor of English Education, is the 2007 recipient of the David Strand Diversity Achievement Award at Illinois State University. She is the 14th recipient of the award, which was established and endowed by President Emeritus David Strand to honor a current Illinois State University faculty or staff member who is instrumental in extraordinary curricular or program activities that assist the University in responding to its commitment to diversity.
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Dr. Linda Wedwick | Dr. Linda Wedwick, Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, wins this year's Clarence W. Sorensen Distinguished Dissertation Award for “Socialization of Readers: The Literary Treatment of Fatness in Adolescent Fiction.” Her dissertation analyzes 18 adolescent novels to examine how fatness is represented. Her analysis of these texts has many important and interesting conclusions about the social and emotional development of fat characters, the most significant of which is that fat characters themselves demonstrate fatophobic behaviors. “I’m very pleased and proud that Dr. Linda Wedwick has won the Sorenson Award,” said CAS Associate Dean Sally Parry, who served as a member of Wedwick’s dissertation committee. “I’ve seen her ideas about fatness and its portrayal in children’s and adolescent literature grow from a paper in a graduate course on series fiction that I team taught with Dr. Roberta Seelinger Trites, to a very well researched and intelligent dissertation. I am glad to have served on her dissertation committee, and even more pleased that it has been recognized by the larger university community.”
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Jamie Esler | Jamie Esler and Jared Breuning, students in the Department of Geography-Geology, are the charter recipients of the Louis E. Miglio Scholarship. These are among the most prestigious student awards conferred by the Department of Geography-Geology. The award will be given annually to teacher education majors in the department who are of high character, have a financial need, and demonstrate a strong academic record. Overall, the aim of this scholarship is to encourage more outstanding students to pursue careers in the teaching of Geography and Earth Science. The Louis Miglio Scholarship carries a stipend of $5,000.
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Volume 3, Issue 20: February 12, 2007
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Dr. Bernard Ivan Tamas | Dr. Bernard Ivan Tamas, Department of Politics and Government, received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1999. During the upcoming Founders Day Convocation on February 15th, Tamas will be recognized for receiving the University Teaching Initiative Award. He will also be honored at the CAS Awards Ceremony on February 28th. “Bernie is a superb teacher and a maturing scholar," said Dr. Jamal Nassar. "He is the ideal faculty for any department that aims for excellence.”
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