Achievements, February 9, 2018

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Sidnie White Crawford, Willa Cather Professor of Classics and Religious Studies, was awarded a D.Theol honoris causa, an honorary doctorate, by the faculty of theology at Uppsala University in Sweden during a Jan. 26 conferment ceremony.

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Cooper Christiancy, a senior communication studies major, has been invited to present his capstone research paper, “What Makes an American?: An Idiographic Analysis of Citizenship Rhetoric in the DACA Controversy” at the 44th DePaux University Undergraduate Honors Conference, April 5-7, in Greencastle, Indiana.

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Maureen Owens, graduate student in the Department of History, has been selected as a fellow for the summer 2018 Humanities Without Walls Pre-Doctoral Workshop in Chicago and will be receiving $5,000 in funding to attend the event. The three-week intensive residential summer workshop for humanities doctoral candidates focuses on career possibilities outside academia.