Awards

Angelica Lawson Awarded Inaugural CHA Reparative Faculty Fellowship

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:40:31 +0000

Angelica Lawson Awarded Inaugural CHA Reparative Faculty Fellowship Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 09/17/2024 - 12:40

Angelica Lawson, Ethnic Studies and Cinema & Moving Image Studies Assistant Professor, has been awardedan the Inaugural Reparative Faculty Fellowship to Address Settler Colonialism from the Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA). “Enacting Our Futures: Resistance and Resilience in Indigenous Women’s Resurgence Media,” explores the intersections of Indigenous digital studies, literature, and ecocinema through Native American women’s creative works using resurgence theory—an Indigenous feminist framework most notably developed in the work of Anishinaabe scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Indigenous resurgence specifically refers to political strategies and cultural practices aimed at strengthening Indigenous peoplehood in ways that elevate Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies while interrogating legacies of colonialism in our societies, especially inequities along lines of gender and sexuality. Historically, art served both practical and ceremonial purposes, richly layered with symbolic meaning and deeply rooted in Indigenous thought systems. Today’s writers and filmmakers are doing similar work, invoking new modes for insuring continuance, and while the last three decades have seen a proliferation of Indigenous women’s literature, film, and digital media using Indigenous languages created by women who are heavily invested in community engagement—both of which are elements central to Indigenous resurgence, these works have received scant attention in literary and film scholarship. Dr. Lawson's project seeks to reverse this trend, and to contribute to Indigenous feminist resurgence theory by engaging the work of four lesser-known Native women writers and filmmakers. She demonstrates how, through their community engagement and creative cultural productions, they assert Indigenous presence and futurity in the face of ongoing settler-colonial forces of erasure.

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Dr. S.N. Nyeck awarded the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship

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Dr. S.N. Nyeck awarded the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 05/03/2024 - 00:00

Department of Ethnic Studies professor, Dr. S.N. Nyeck, has been awarded the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship. This program funded by the Carnegie Corporation supports projects that allow African scholars in the U.S. to invest in Higher Education in Africa. Professor Nyeck's fellowship will contribute to womanist curriculum co-development that will strengthen the mission and vision of the Center for Women and Gender Studies (Mandela University, South Africa) and the SARCHI Chair in Sexualities, Gender, and Queer Studies (University of Fort Hare, South Africa). Congratulations, Dr. Nyeck!

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PhD student Lau Malaver receives honorable mention for the American Studies Association (ASA) Critical Ethnic Studies Committee prize for their essay “(Dis)Proving Pain & Performing A Commons of Pain

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PhD student Lau Malaver receives honorable mention for the American Studies Association (ASA) Critical Ethnic Studies Committee prize for their essay “(Dis)Proving Pain & Performing A Commons of Pain Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 01/24/2022 - 13:07

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Dr. Aldama's book awarded runner up for best non-fiction by International Latino Book Awards

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 22:14:36 +0000

Dr. Aldama's book awarded runner up for best non-fiction by International Latino Book Awards Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 09/08/2021 - 16:14

Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities, Arturo J. Aldama and Frederick Luis Aldama, eds, (The University of Arizona Press, 2020), was recently awarded runner up for best non-fiction by Empowering Latino Futures “International Latino Book Awards." The awards ceremony will be held virtually on October 16 and 17, 2021. Congratulations Arturo and Frederick!

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Dr. Nishant Upadhyay Receives Best Should Teach Gold Award!

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Dr. Nishant Upadhyay Receives Best Should Teach Gold Award! Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 05/07/2021 - 00:00

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Nishant Upadhyay for winning the BEST SHOULD TEACH GOLD AWARD from the Center for Teaching& Learning!

The Best Should Teach Initiative strives to acknowledge excellence in teaching and academic leadership. The initiative is managed by the Center for Teaching & Learning in coordination with the School of Education, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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PhD student Raúl Melgoza awarded prestigious Mellon / ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship!

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PhD student Raúl Melgoza awarded prestigious Mellon / ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship! Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 04/06/2021 - 13:39

Raúl Melgoza, has been awarded a Mellon / ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for AY 2021-22. This highly competitive program awards only 65 fellowships annually. We’re incredibly proud of Raúl’s accomplishment in receiving this high-level, prestigious fellowship.

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships support a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing. This program is made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Dr. Sepúlveda's Book Wins Outstanding Book Award for 2020 by the Council for Anthropology and Education (CAE)

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Dr. Sepúlveda's Book Wins Outstanding Book Award for 2020 by the Council for Anthropology and Education (CAE) Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 01/15/2021 - 18:33

Congratulations to Ethnic Studies Professor Dr. Enrique Sepúlveda and Education Professor Dr. Andrea Dyrness for Winning the Outstanding Book Award for 2020 by the Council for Anthropology and Education (CAE), a sub-section of the American Anthropological Association. Their book, Border Thinking: Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship, was published by the University of Minnesota Press and offers rich accounts and critical insights of how Latinx migrant youth experience belonging across borders.

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Lau Malaver receives Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award!

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Lau Malaver receives Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award! Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/06/2020 - 14:37

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2019-2020 DES Undergraduate Awards Announced

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2019-2020 DES Undergraduate Awards Announced Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 07/15/2020 - 15:40

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the DES undergraduate awards. Jessica George was awarded the Minoru Yasui Community Leader Scholarship; Gabriela Mejía won the George F. Rivera Social Justice Scholarship; Jaiea Ramirez recieved the Carlotta Walls LaNier Civil Rights Scholarship; and Jaqueline Rangel was awarded the Ella Cara Deloria Endowed Scholarship. Congratulations to our amazing students!

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Dr. Nishant Upadhyay Receives Integrity Award!

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 20:47:55 +0000

Dr. Nishant Upadhyay Receives Integrity Award! Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 07/09/2020 - 14:47

Assistant Professor Nishant Upadhyay was selected for the Staff Integrity Award from the Center for Student Involvement for the outstanding impact that they have made on the CU Boulder campus! The selection committee was impressed by their efforts and hard work to make CU Boulder a better place. Congrats, Nishant, for this well-deserved award!
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