FACULTY & STAFF NEWS

HIGHLIGHTED GRADUATE PLACEMENTS

Dane Winkler, M.F.A ’16 studio art, accepted a tenure-track position as an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Rachel Mullervy, M.A. ’14 classics, was admitted to the M.A.T. program in teacher leadership at Mount Holyoke College.

Robert Santucci, M.A. ’16 classics, was admitted to the Ph.D. program in classics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Jeff Kaplan, Ph.D. ’17 theatre, dance and performance studies, accepted a tenuretrack position as an assistant professor at Manhattanville College.

Brooke Feichtl M.A. ’17 English, is a Strategic Communications officer at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Springfield, Va.).

Violinist Audrey Wright D.M.A. music, joined the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

ACCOLADES

Assistant Professor of history Ting Zhang received a 2016 postdoctoral fellowship from the Henry Luce Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies Program in China Studies to research commercial printing in early modern China.

Hasan Elahi, associate professor of art, won the 2017 Hugh Hefner First Amendment Prize for his interdisciplinary art that examines issues of surveillance, citizenship and migration.

Three faculty from the college were named Distinguished University Professors in 2016: Arthur Eckstein (history), Steven Mansbach (art history and archaeology) and Mary Helen Washington (English).

Karen Bradley, professor of dance, received a President’s Award from the 2016 National Dance Education Organization in recognition of her exemplary career devoted to dance advocacy.

Ana Patricia Rodríguez, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and Jane Hirshberg, campus and community engagement manager at The Clarice, received inaugural Making a Difference Awards from UMD’s Office of Community Engagement.

Jon Sumida, professor of history, recieved the Commodore Dudley W. Knox Award from the Naval Historical Foundation. The award acknowledges a lifetime body of work that embraces scholarship, leadership and mentoring in the field of naval history.

OUTSTANDING AND DIVERSE NEW FACULTY

Back row L–R: Damien Smith Pfister (COMM), Shay Hazkani (JWST), John Weisweiler (HIST) | Middle row L–R: Mauro Resmini (SLLC), Emily Catherine Egan (ARTH), William Robin (MUSC) | Front row L–R: Lisa Nathans (TDPS), Maura Keefe (TDPS), Carly S. Woods (COMM), Jason Geary (MUSC), Catherine Knight Steele (COMM)