Student Awards

CLCS DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP

Vanessa Guerrero Jiménez (2021)

Archives of Failure: The Impossibility of Representation in Four Latin 

American Documentary Novels in the 21st Century  / Archivos del fracaso: la 

imposibilidad de la representación en cuatro novelas documentales latinoamericanas del 

siglo XXI.  Diss advisor, Prof. Violeta Lorenzo Feliciano 

 

Zane Emilija Sarma (2020)

"Analysis of Reader Response to Representations of Masculinities in Young Adult Fiction."  Diss. Advisor Dr. Susan Marren

Chenwei Wu (2020)

"We Chat over the Great Firewall of China--Overseas Chinese Motivations, Identity, and Community on WeChat"  Diss. Advisor Dr. Stephanie Schulte

James J. Hudson Doctoral Award in the Humanities

Vanessa Guerero Jiménez (2021) 

"Archives of Failure: The Impossibility of Representation in Four Latin 

American Documentary Novels in the 21st Century  / Archivos del fracaso: la 

imposibilidad de la representación en cuatro novelas documentales latinoamericanas del 

siglo XXI)

Diss. advisor, Prof. Violeta Lorenzo Feliciano

 

Samual McMillen (2020)

 "Netflix's Luke Cage: Transmedia Storytelling and the Construction of Masculinity and Race."  Diss. Advisor Dr. Robin Roberts

https://news.uark.edu/articles/53021/doctoral-student-in-comparative-literature-and-cultural-studies-receives-humanities-award

Samaher Aldhamen (2018)

 "Domestic Workers in Modern Arabic Novels." Diss. Advisor Dr. Mohja Kahf

https://news.uark.edu/articles/42036/additional-fulbright-graduate-students-win-hudson-awards

CLCS 2019 DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP

Hamed Al Alamat

"The Jordanian Novel in Postmodern Context." Diss. Advisor Dr. Keith Booker

Sturgis International Fellowship

William Loder

UA Rome Center, Fall 2020

Ketaki Deshpande

Travel to India to conduct research on the Body Politics of Dancing Girls of Bollywood, Spring 2020

National Endowment for the Arts

Kaveh Bassiri

Translation from the Persian of a collection of poems by Iranian poet Roya Zarrin. (b. 1972) 

https://news.uark.edu/articles/42662/two-university-of-arkansas-scholars-win-awards-from-the-national-endowment-for-the-arts

CLCS 2018 DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP

Hashintha Jayasinghe 

"Archive and Repertoire of the Asala Perahera Performance in Sri Lanka."  Diss. Advisor Dr. Sidney Burris

Ghyath Manhel Alkinani 

 "Iraqi and American Literary Representations of the Iraq War." Diss. Advisor Dr. Mohja Kahf

 

https://fulbright.uark.edu/departments/world-languages/news-and-events/clcs-award.php

CLCS 2017 DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP

Delailah Clark

"The Nature of Influence: Fu’ād Rifqa’s Wilderness at the Intersection of Nation and Modernity."  Diss. Advisor Adnan Haydar

 

Nicole Fares

"Sexual Citizenship: Queer Arab Writing Across Borders." Diss. Advisor Dr. Mohja Kahf