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State of the Faculty 2011 / 2012April 7, 2011

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”

- Mark Van Doren

Teaching Excellence

2010 Rutherford Award for Excellence in

Undergraduate Teaching

• Stuart Landon, Economics

• Connie Varnhagen, Psychology

Teaching Excellence

2011 Faculty of Arts Undergraduate

Teaching Awards

• Cecily Devereux, English & Film Studies

• Lise Gotell, Women‟s Studies

• Janet Scott Hoyt, Music

Teaching Excellence

2010 Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Teaching Awards

• Stuart Landon, Economics

• Mark Simpson, English & Film Studies

Teaching Excellence

2011 Faculty of Arts Contract Instructor Teaching

Awards

• Samuel Hillier, Philosophy

• Elzbieta Ostrowska, English & Film Studies

• Crystal Sawatzky, MLCS

Teaching Excellence

2010 Faculty of Arts Contract

Instructor Teaching Awards

• Alison Dunwoody, Sociology

• Helen Gerritzen, Art & Design

• Elizabeth Gordon, English & Film

Studies

Teaching Excellence

2011 Faculty of Arts Graduate Student Teaching

Awards

Teaching Excellence

Judith Andreson, English & Film

Studies

Katie Biittner, Anthropology

Mitchell Cushman, Drama

Adrien Guyot, MLCS

Anna Marie House, Art & Design

Mai Hussein, MLCS

Bartlomieji Lenart, Philosophy

Heather Macleod, English & Film

Studies

Tyler Myroniuk, Sociology

Nina Paulovicova, History & Classics

Barbara Pausch, MLCS

Amie Shirkie, English & Film Studies

Jason Taylor, Philosophy

Katherine Zwicker, History &

Classics

2010 Faculty of Arts Graduate Student Teaching

Awards

Teaching Excellence

Justine Huet, Modern Languages &

Cultural Studies

Laura Monerris Oliveras, Modern

Languages & Cultural Studies

Mickey Vallee, Music

Kristin Rodier, Philosophy

Nisha Nath, Political Science

Anne Winkler, Sociology

Allison Murray, Art & Design

Cory Sincennes, Drama

Thrasivoulos Petras, Drama

Theo Finigan, English & Film Studies

Matt Bouchard, Humanities

Computing

Julia Babicheva, Modern Languages

& Cultural Studies

Jana Grekul (Sociology) is

the recipient of the 2010/11

Kathleen W. Klawe Prize for

Excellence in Teaching of

Large Class Sizes.

Teaching Excellence

Douglas Wardell (Psychology)

received a 2010 Students‟ Union

Award for Leadership in

Undergraduate Teaching

(SALUTE), which promotes

excellence in teaching based on

student nominations and

adjudication.

Teaching Excellence

Lois Harder (Political Science)

was awarded the 2010

Graduate Students‟ Association

Academic Staff Award. The

award recognizes an academic

staff member whose work in

teaching and supervising

graduate students has been of

exceptionally high quality.

Teaching Excellence

In February, the Faculty unveiled a Teaching Wall of

Excellence. The wall, which is located in the Humanities

Centre, honours all of the Arts teachers who have won

awards in the past 25 years.

Teaching Excellence

There were two winning Faculty of Arts applications to the

Teaching Learning and Enhancement Fund (TLEF) this year:

Teaching Excellence

Jana Grekul, Sociology –

“Community Service-Learning

in a large Introductory

Sociology Class”

Robert Wilson, Philosophy –

“Building Collaborative

Communities for Critical

Inquiry”

“No student ever attains very

eminent success by simply

doing what is required of them:

it is the amount and excellence

of what is over and above the

required, that determines the

greatness of ultimate

distinction.”

- Charles Kendall Adams

Student Achievements

Jasmine Thomas (Graduate Student,

Sociology) received a $10,000 Alberta

Award for the Study of Canadian

Human Rights and Multiculturalism

from the Human Rights Education and

Multiculturalism Fund.

The scholarship supports her doctoral

research, which explores the type of

employment assistance immigrants

need to gain meaningful employment.


Sevan Beurki Beukian (Political Science) and Kathleen

Danser (Music) both earned the Margaret Brine Graduate

Scholarships in Arts from the Canadian Federation of

University Women.

The scholarships are awarded to women graduate students

who have demonstrated academic excellence and

commitment to the pursuit of knowledge, the improvement

of the status of women and human rights, and active

participation in public affairs.


Ben Giroux (Undergraduate

Student, Sociology) placed in

the top 10 in the 2010

Canadian Aboriginal Writing

Challenge hosted by the

Historica Dominion Institute, a

creative writing contest for

young Aboriginal Canadians.


Mariya Karpenko (Undergraduate

Student, Art & Design) was recognized

with an Applied Arts Magazine Scholarship

from the Society of Graphic Designers of

Canada. The scholarship, which was

awarded for Mariya‟s design of luxury

soap packaging, recognizes emerging

excellence in design achievement and

encourages students in taking their design

education to a level that will better prepare

them for professional practice.


Tamara Sorenson-Duncan (PhD student, Linguistics) was

one of 15 U of A doctoral students who received the 2010

Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

Vanier scholars receive $50,000 annually for up to three

years, and are chosen as a result of their demonstrated

leadership skills and high standard of scholarly achievement

in graduate studies within social sciences, humanities,

natural sciences and engineering and health research.


Libe García Zarranz (English & Film

Studies) became the Faculty‟s fourth

Trudeau Scholar last May. Trudeau

Scholarships are among the most

prestigious in the country and are

awarded to graduate students in

Canada who are expected to

become national and international

leaders in their fields.


Graduate students Cindy Couldwell

(Art & Design), Andrea Hasenbank

(English & Film Studies) and Matt

Levitt (Anthropology) won the first

ever “Let‟s Talk: Making Arts

Research Public” competition, judged

by MLA Laurie Blakeman, journalist

Todd Babiak, and Works Director

Amber Rooke.


The following graduate students won Faculty of Arts

International Travel Awards of $1,000 each in 2010:

• H.M. Ashraf Ali, Anthropology

• Kathleen Danser, Music

• Jory Debenham, Music

• Chris Dyck, Political Science

• Marco Katz, English & Film Studies

• Mariya Melentyeva, History & Classics

• Temitope Oriola, Sociology

• Elizabeth Sawchuk, Anthropology

• Maxwell Zhira, History & Classics


Quanteisha Benjamin (Undergraduate Student,

English/Sociology) won a 2011 Juno Award for best

R&B/soul recording of the year.


B.R. Cinnamon, an undergraduate student in the

Department of English & Film Studies, was awarded the

2010 Mactaggart Writing Award.


2010 Roger S. Smith Undergraduate Student

Researcher Awards


Faye Campbell, English & Film Studies

Adele Courchesne, Psychology

Charles Crittenden, History & Classics

Sarah Dawson, English & Film Studies

Emily Dymock, Art & Design

Elizabeth Elliott, Linguistics

Niall Fink, Anthropology

Iqbal Noor, MLCS/History

Jennifer Kentel, Criminology

Gianna Krohman-Vacirca, Drama

Hannah McFadden, Anthropology

Caeleigh Moffat, English & Film Studies

Pablo Retamozo Landeo, Criminology

Corey Smith, Music

Lulu Yu, East Asian Studies

“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to

think what nobody else has thought.”

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Research Excellence

John-Paul Himka (History &

Classics) was the recipient of a

2010 J. Gordin Kaplan Award

for Excellence in Research,

the most prestigious University

of Alberta research awards.

Research Excellence

The Baikal Archaeological Project, led by Andrzej Weber

(Anthropology), was the recipient of an unprecedented third

SSHRC grant when it was awarded a $2.5 million Major

Collaborative Research Initiatives (MCRI) Grant earlier

this year.

Research Excellence

Onookome Okome (English

& Film Studies) received a

2010 Humboldt Research

Award for his research on

Nigerian cinema.

Research Excellence

Linda Trimble

(Political Science)

received a 2010 McCalla

Professorship.

Research Excellence

Janine Brodie

(Political Science) was named the

University‟s first Trudeau Fellow

in 2010. Fellowships are awarded

to researchers from across

Canada who have set themselves

apart through their research

achievements, creativity and

social commitment.

Research Excellence

In 2010, twenty-seven researchers from the Faculty of Arts

were awarded grants from the Social Sciences and

Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC):

• Amy Kaler (Sociology)

• Lisa Philips (Anthropology)

• Marisa Bortolussi (MLCS)

• Peter Dixon (Psychology)

• Ehud Ben Zvi (History & Classics)

• Dominique Clément (Sociology)

• Jennifer Welchman (Philosophy)

• Johanne Paradis (Linguistics)

• Mikael Adolphson (East Asian Studies)

• Willi Braun (History & Classics)

Research Excellence




• Katalin Bimbo (Philosophy)

• Harvey Krahn (Sociology)

• Nancy Galambos (Psychology)

• Elizabeth Boone (Art & Design)

• Gary Kelly (English & Film Studies)

• Amanda Boetzkes (Art & Design)

• John Ives (Anthropology)

• Susan Brown (English & Film Studies)

• Isobel Grundy (English & Film Studies)

• Geoffrey Rockwell (Philosophy)

Research Excellence




• Stan Ruecker (Humanities Computing)

• Corrinne Harol (English & Film Studies)

• Cecily Devereux (English & Film Studies)

• Takahiko Masuda (Psychology)

• Karyn Ball (History & Classics)

• Lisa Given (Humanities Computing)

• Susanne Luhmann (Women‟s Studies)

Research Excellence

“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and

importance and should be undertaken with painstaking

excellence.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faculty & Staff Achievements

Administrative and Professional Officers

Recognition Award

• Trevor Buckle, International Advisor

Outstanding Student Services Award

• Janey Kennedy (Office of Interdisciplinary

Studies)

Non-Academic Staff Award

• Salena Kitteringham (Drama)

• Giovanni Trapasso (Arts Resource Centre)


Outstanding Administrative Award

• Joanne McKinnon (Anthropology)

Information Technology Unsung Hero Award

• Alex Schwarzer (Arts Resource Centre)

Educational Achievement Award (The

Canadian Institute of Theatre Technology)

• Alan Welch (Drama)

Support Staff Research Enhancement Award

• Elizabeth French (Linguistics)


Bev Dahlby (Economics) is an

appointed member of the federal

government‟s Research and

Development Review Expert Panel.

The six-member panel of

distinguished experts is leading a

comprehensive review of all federal

support for business research and

development.


The Canadian Society for Brain,

Behaviour, and Cognitive

Science has elected Peter

Dixon (Psychology) as their

newest president.


The International Society for

Quality of Life has honoured

David Feeny (Professor

Emeritus, Economics) with their

2010 President's Award, the

highest honour given to recognize

outstanding contributions to the

advancement of the

quality-of-life field.


Lisa Given (Humanities

Computing) is an

appointed member of the

Interagency Advisory Panel

on Research Ethics.


Lois Harder (Political Science)

is the recipient of the 2010

Graduate Students‟ Association

Academic Staff Award.


David Marples (History &

Classics) is the newest elected

president of the North

American Association for

Belarusian Studies, a non-profit

scholarly organization which

seeks to promote research,

study, and teaching in all

aspects of Belarusian studies.


Takahiko Masuda

(Psychology) is the

recipient of the award for

International Contributions

to Psychology from the

Japanese Psychological

Association.


André Plourde (Economics)

is a member of the Royal

Society of Canada Expert

Panel on the Environmental

Health Impacts of Canada's

Oil Sands Industry.


Avenue Magazine named their

„Top 40 under 40‟ for 2010 and

Aidan Rowe (Art & Design)

made the cut.

Rowe stands out in the city of

champions for his commitment

to showcasing Edmonton art

and design to the world.


Andy Knight (Political

Science) received the 2010

Harry Jerome Trailblazer

Award from the Black

Business & Professional

Association of Canada.


David Quinter (East Asian

Studies, Religious Studies)

received the Postdoctoral

Fellowship for Foreign

Researchers from the Japan

Society for the Promotion of

Science.


Sean Gouglas (History &

Classics, Humanities Computing)

was part of the team recognized

with The Alan Blizzard Award

(Honourable Mention) from the

Society for Teaching and Learning

in Higher Education (STLHE) for

their work in the creation of the

course CMPUT 250.


The Faculty of Arts Alumni

Magazine, WOA (Work of

Arts), received the Bronze

Award for Magazine

Publishing Improvement in

the 2010 CASE Circle of

Excellence Awards.


“Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the

fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands

great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill.”

- Edmund Morrison

Writing Success

Sarah Carter (History &

Classics) was a 2010 WILLA

Literary Award Finalist in the

Scholarly Nonfiction category

for her book Montana Women

Homesteaders: A Field of

One’s Own.

Writing Success

Mary Ingraham (Music) and Michael MacDonald (Music) both

received The Cambridge University Press Award of the Society for

American Music for the collaboratively written paper “Headhunters,

War Canoes, and the Reciprocal Negotiation of Ritual

Performance”.

Writing Success

Liza Piper (History &

Classics) received the 2010

Clio Prize – the North from

the Canadian Historical

Association for her book The

Industrial Transformation of

Subarctic Canada.

Writing Success

Jane Samson (History &

Classics) is the recipient of a 2010

Best Article Prize from the

Canadian Historical Association

for her article Christianity,

masculinity, and authority in the

Life of George Sarawia.

Writing Success

Bev Dahlby (Economics)

received a 2010 Doug Purvis

Memorial Prize, honouring

contributions to Canadian

economic policy, for his

article Once on the Lips, Forever

on the Hips: A Benefit-Cost

Analysis of Fiscal Stimulus in

OECD Countries.

Writing Success

Derek Walcott, the U of A‟s first Nobel laureate faculty

member, has won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for his

collection of poems, White Egrets.

Writing Success

Eighteen Bridges, a literary

and cultural magazine

supported by the Canadian

Literature Centre, was named

the winner in the Best New

Magazine category at the

Alberta Magazine Publishers

Association gala event in

Calgary last month.

Writing Success

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the

chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

Milestones

Kule Institute for Advanced

Study (KIAS)

KIAS celebrated its official launch

in November 2010. Established by

a $4 million pledge from Drs. Peter

and Doris Kule, the Institute‟s

mandate it to advance humanity

and to lift the human spirit through

the critical exploration of the most

significant issues we face.

Milestones

Community Service-Learning

(CSL) program’s 5th Anniversary

The CSL program, which links

academic coursework to

community-based projects by

connecting students with local non-

profit organizations, celebrated its

5th anniversary last fall.

Milestones

The Wirth InstituteThe Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies celebrated a

highly-anticipated agreement between the Croatian government, the Alberta

government and the University of Alberta in November. The Institute‟s director,

Franz Szabo, welcomed Croatian delegates along with members of the

Canadian Croatian Congress to campus for the signing, which formally

established the Croatian Research Doctoral Fellowship at the Wirth Institute.

Milestones

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