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This past year was a truly exceptional year for the Department, and there have been many successes and accomplishments.
First, as many of you know, Eleanor Kaufman was awarded the prestigious Mellon New Directions Fellowship. Please join me in congratulating her on this most impressive achievement.
I am also delighted to report that, in spite of the dearth of academic positions this past year, our students did extremely well on the job market. Several received tenure-track and adjunct positions as well as postdoctoral positions. These include:
Tenure-track Positions
Ryan Kernan (Rutgers)
David Gabriel (Yale)
Julie Townsend (Univ of Redlands)
Brian Martin (Williams)
Postdocs
David Fieni (Cornell) Jeannine Murray-Roman (Mellon)
Adjunct Positions
Carole Viers (Tulane)
Joe Jenkins (UCI)
Jennifer Gully (Claremont)
Indra Mukhopadhyay (USC)
I congratulate all of them in their successes and again express my gratitude to Efrain Kristal, Nouri Gana, and Kirsite McClure for their consummate mentorship as members of the Placement Committee.
Finally, I should note that many other students received prestigious grants and fellowships this year. Please join me in congratulating them all on these wonderful awards:
Mangasar M. Mangasarian Fellowship Tamar Boyadjian Will Rogers Memorial Fellowship Theri Pickens
Dissertation Year Fellowship Guilan Siassi Rachelle Okawa
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant Theri Pickens Graduate Research Mentorship Hoda El Shakry Duncan Yoon
Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Nasia Anam Zen Dochterman Leah Feldman Inkoo Kang Michelle Lee
Collegium of University Teaching Fellows (CUTF) Award Tamar Boyadjian
FLAS - Portuguese Inkoo Kang
Lenart Travel Award Shad Naved
International Institute Fellowship Nahrain Al-Mousawi
Middle East FLAS - Summer Michelle Lee UCLA/Mellon Program in Holocaust in American and World Culture Research Fellowships Simchi Cohen Noa Bar Kirk Sides Philip and Aida Siff Education Foundation Scholarship Simchi Cohen UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Interdisciplinary Grant Katherine McLoone Best, Ali Behdad, Department Chair
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