BYU College of Humanities Meeting 2021
COLLEGE PROFESSORSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS Dawan Coombs
Humanities+ Public Humanities Award
Dawan Coombs teaches courses in English/language arts methods, adolescent reading, and young adult literature. Her research explores adolescent reader identity, preservice teacher identity, and dialogical approaches to literacy education. Her coauthored book, Novice Teachers Embracing Wobble in Standardized Schools: Using Dialogue and Inquiry for Self- Reflection and Growth, was published by Routledge in 2020. The Humanities+ Public Humanities Award recognizes Dawan's contributions to public education and her influence at BYU and in the community. In addition to her her many students and working with English teachers in the public school system, she currently serves as the BYU Secondary Education Coordinator, working with the BYU Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education (CITES), BYU's Education Preparation Program, partnership school districts, and all the faculty members at BYU responsible for preparing future teachers.
Jill Rudy
Humanities+ Student-centered Research Award
Jill Terry Rudy has received university and college support since 2013 for mentored student research on fairy tales and media, involving superb graduate and undergraduate students: Madeleine Dresden, Kristy Stewart, Jessie Riddle, Megan Armknecht, Lauren Matthews, Grace Taito, Ariel Hubbard, Lauren Redding, Preston Wittwer, Gigi Valentine Knapp, Eliza Schow, Logan Groll, Jacqueline Smith, Cortlynd Olsen, Erica Smith, and Claire Gillett. Four graduate students, Emma Nelson, Ashley Walton, Christa Baxter, and Becca Hay, published two coauthored chapters in her book Channeling Wonder: Fairy Tales on Television coedited with Pauline Greenhill. The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures, coedited with Greenhill, Naomi Hamer, and Lauren Bosc, includes a chapter by Jessie Riddle. Fairy-Tale TV, a Routledge Television Guidebook coauthored with Greenhill, was published in 2020. For more student work, visit fttv.byu.edu.
Spencer Scoville
Humanities+ Experiential Learning Educator Award
As Arabic Section Head in the Department of Asian & Near Eastern Languages, Spencer Scoville was faced
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