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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.
Student Achievements
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.
Student Achievements
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.
Student Achievements
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.
Student Achievements
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.
Student Achievements
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.
Student Achievements
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.
Student Achievements
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
Student Achievements
Quanteisha Benjamin (Undergraduate Student,
English/Sociology) won a 2011 Juno Award for best
R&B/soul recording of the year.
Student Achievements
B.R. Cinnamon, an undergraduate student in the
Department of English & Film Studies, was awarded the
2010 Mactaggart Writing Award.
Student Achievements
2010 Roger S. Smith Undergraduate Student
Researcher Awards
Student Achievements
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
In 2010, twenty-seven researchers from the Faculty of Arts
were awarded grants from the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC):
• 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
In 2010, twenty-seven researchers from the Faculty of Arts
were awarded grants from the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC):
• 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)
Faculty & Staff Achievements
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)
Faculty & Staff Achievements
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.
Faculty & Staff Achievements
The Canadian Society for Brain,
Behaviour, and Cognitive
Science has elected Peter
Dixon (Psychology) as their
newest president.
Faculty & Staff Achievements
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.
Faculty & Staff Achievements
Lisa Given (Humanities
Computing) is an
appointed member of the
Interagency Advisory Panel
on Research Ethics.
Faculty & Staff Achievements
Lois Harder (Political Science)
is the recipient of the 2010
Graduate Students‟ Association
Academic Staff Award.
Faculty & Staff Achievements
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.
Faculty & Staff Achievements
Takahiko Masuda
(Psychology) is the
recipient of the award for
International Contributions
to Psychology from the
Japanese Psychological
Association.
Faculty & Staff Achievements
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.
Faculty & Staff Achievements
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.
Faculty & Staff Achievements
Andy Knight (Political
Science) received the 2010
Harry Jerome Trailblazer
Award from the Black
Business & Professional
Association of Canada.
Faculty & Staff Achievements
David Quinter (East Asian
Studies, Religious Studies)
received the Postdoctoral
Fellowship for Foreign
Researchers from the Japan
Society for the Promotion of
Science.
Faculty & Staff Achievements
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.
Faculty & Staff Achievements
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.
Faculty & Staff Achievements
“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