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Achievements

See below for recent news and achievements from Gallatin students, faculty, and alumni. Over the last decade, the Gallatin community has been honored with major international awards and prizes. A full list of student academic awardees, including Fulbright, Marshall, and Rhodes Scholars, can be found on this Fellowship page. Awards for faculty and alumni include the Academy Award, Tony Awards, MacArthur "Genius" Grants, Guggenheim Fellowships, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and more.

Mon May 01 11:16:00 EDT 2023

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Mon May 01 11:16:00 EDT 2023

Chavismo Revisited

Alejandro Velasco edited Chavismo Revisited, published as a special issue of NACLA Report on the Americas 54:1.

Mon May 01 11:04:00 EDT 2023

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Mon May 01 11:04:00 EDT 2023

Holy Ground: The National Black Theatre Festival Antholog

Michael Dinwiddie edited Holy Ground: The National Black Theatre Festival Anthology, published by Theatre Communications Group.

Mon May 01 07:34:00 EDT 2023

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Mon May 01 07:34:00 EDT 2023

Through the Lens The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter

Lauren Walsh's Through the Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter was published by Routledge.

Mon May 01 07:25:00 EDT 2023

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Mon May 01 07:25:00 EDT 2023

Christian Heresy, James Joyce, and the Modernist Literary Imagination

Gregory Erickson's Christian Heresy, James Joyce, and the Modernist Literary Imagination was published by Bloomsbury Acadmemic.

Mon Jul 11 08:30:00 EDT 2022

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Mon Jul 11 08:30:00 EDT 2022

Whitelisted

In July 2022 Kristin Horton directed the world premiere of Chisa Hutchinson’s Whitelisted at the Contemporary American Theater Festival. In May 2023, Horton will direct a workshop of Leila Buck's Carry You with dramaturgy by Zeina Salame for Engarde Arts and Noor Theater. 

Fri Jul 01 08:54:00 EDT 2022

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Fri Jul 01 08:54:00 EDT 2022

Fluid Matters, Grounded Bodies: Decolonizing Ecological Encounters, Exhibition

Patricia Kim’s Exhibition: Fluid Matters, Grounded Bodies: Decolonizing Ecological Encounters, Exhibition co-curated with Anastasia Amrhein, Claudia Azalde, Cheyenne Bryant, Jasmine Buckley, Kaleah Mchawi, and Ally Swanson. engages with complex questions around impermanence, belonging, transformation, and erasure as they relate to human (and non-human) lives and the earth itself. This exhibition ran inThe Gallatin Galleries, New York City from July-August 2022.

Tue Jun 14 11:29:00 EDT 2022

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Tue Jun 14 11:29:00 EDT 2022

Keith Miller Gallatin Adviser of Distinction

Keith Miller is a filmmaker, artist and curator based in Brooklyn, and Curator of the Gallatin Galleries. His most recent feature, Five Star, premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival where it won Best Editing for a Narrative Feature, and went on to win several other awards

Tue Jun 14 11:13:00 EDT 2022

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Tue Jun 14 11:13:00 EDT 2022

Pedro Cristiani Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching

Pedro Cristiani is a director, producer, and screenwriter for film and television. Cristiani wrote the screenplay for the award-winning 1996 feature film Moebius. From 1997 to 2008, he was a prime-time television showrunner, an advertising executive producer, and a story consultant for film and TV studios. His 2009 independent short horror film Man in a Bag won five international film awards and his 2010 feature film Deus Irae won 20 international awards.

Tue Jun 14 11:10:00 EDT 2022

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Tue Jun 14 11:10:00 EDT 2022

Ben Steinfeld Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching

Ben Steinfeld is an actor, director, writer, part time faculty member  and artistic associate at NYU Gallatin. He is also co-artistic director of the acclaimed Fiasco Theater.  

Tue Jun 14 10:51:00 EDT 2022

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Tue Jun 14 10:51:00 EDT 2022

Eve Meltzer Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching

Eve Meltzer is an associate professor of Visual Studies at Gallatin and is an affiliated faculty member in NYU's Department of Art History. She received her MA and PhD in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research and teaching interests explore the intertwining of psychic life and visuality with a focus on the abiding questions of subjectivity and subjectification, particularly after antihumanism. She draws on the areas of modern and contemporary art history, the history and theory of photography, video, and film, and a range of philosophical and theoretical discourses including psychoanalysis, structuralism, phenomenology, and affect theory.  

Tue May 17 12:43:00 EDT 2022

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Tue May 17 12:43:00 EDT 2022

Alicia Waller (MA ’17) Awarded Women's Fund for Media, Music, & Theater Grant

The New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment awarded Alicia Waller (MA ’17) the Women's Fund for Media, Music, & Theater grant.

Tue May 17 12:37:00 EDT 2022

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Tue May 17 12:37:00 EDT 2022

Madeline Sayet (TSOA BFA ’10; GAL MA ’12)’s Solo Show Where We Belong To Embark on National Tour

Madeline Sayet (TSOA BFA ’10; GAL MA ’12)’s solo show Where We Belong will embark on a national tour following a successful film adaptation last summer. 

Tue May 17 12:30:00 EDT 2022

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Tue May 17 12:30:00 EDT 2022

Maya Rodale (BA ’04; GSAS MA ‘10)’s The Mad Girls of New York Published by Penguin Random House

Maya Rodale (BA ’04; GSAS MA ‘10)’s The Mad Girls of New York was published by Penguin Random House.

Tue May 17 12:21:00 EDT 2022

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Tue May 17 12:21:00 EDT 2022

Meribah Knight (BA ’04) Wins Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting

Meribah Knight (BA ’04) won the Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting for her reporting on the abuses of the juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee.

Tue May 17 12:04:00 EDT 2022

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Tue May 17 12:04:00 EDT 2022

Mamoun Friedrich-Grosvenor (BA ’20) and Rita Ruiting Wang (BA ’20)’s Phytobionic Featured in Bio Design Challenge Exhibition

Mamoun Friedrich-Grosvenor (BA ’20) and Rita Ruiting Wang (BA ’20)’s project Phytobionic was featured in the Bio Design Challenge exhibition at Philadelphia’s Esther Klein Gallery.

Tue May 17 11:48:00 EDT 2022

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Tue May 17 11:48:00 EDT 2022

Kate Folk's Out There Published by Random House

Kate Folk (BA ’07)’s story collection Out There was published by Random House in 2022.

Tue May 17 11:38:00 EDT 2022

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Tue May 17 11:38:00 EDT 2022

Mallory Blair (BA '10)'s Small Girls PR Wins Multiple Awards

Small Girls PR, founded by Mallory Blair (BA ‘10), was awarded PR Agency of the Year by Campaign US and was included in Observer’s annual list of the 50 best PR firms in America.

Mon May 16 15:48:00 EDT 2022

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Mon May 16 15:48:00 EDT 2022

Bryonn Bain (MA '99)'s Rebel Speak Published by University of California Press

Bryonn Bain (MA ’99)’s Rebel Speak was published by University of California Press in April 2022.

Mon May 16 15:41:00 EDT 2022

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Mon May 16 15:41:00 EDT 2022

Gallatin Students and Alumni Awarded 2022 Fulbright Awards

Gallatin students Yagmur Akyurek (BA ’22; English Teaching Assistantship [ETA], Turkey) and Mai Mageed (BA ’22; ETA, Greece) and recent graduates Julianna Bjorksten (BA ’20; ETA, Italy), Stephanie Holguin (BA ’22; Research Award, Brazil), and Lachlan Hyatt (BA ’21; Arts award, Estonia) have been awarded 2022 Fulbright Awards.

Mon May 16 15:20:47 EDT 2022

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Mon May 16 15:20:47 EDT 2022

Zamiya Jean (BA '25) Awarded Gilman Scholarship

Gallatin student Zamiya Jean (BA ’25) has been awarded a Gilman Scholarship from the US Department of State to support a semester abroad in Italy.

Mon May 16 15:09:00 EDT 2022

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Mon May 16 15:09:00 EDT 2022

Dean Susanne L. Wofford Awarded Colin Clout Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the International Spenser Society

In May 2022, Dean Susanne L. Wofford was awarded the Colin Clout Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the International Spenser Society, the most prestigious award given by the Society, which is presented at variable intervals to a senior scholar whose body of work represents a wide-ranging, long-standing, and distinguished contribution to the study of Spenser.

Mon May 16 13:49:00 EDT 2022

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Mon May 16 13:49:00 EDT 2022

Eiko Otake Featured in New York Times and New York Magazine

MA Alumna and Gallatin faculty member Eiko Otake (MA ’07) was featured in the New York Times article, “Bill T. Jones and Eiko Otake: Opposites Guided by ‘Too-Much-Ness’.” New York Magazine called Otake’s performance series at NYU Skirball, The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable, “visionary” and included it in the “highbrow, brilliant” quadrant of their Approval Matrix.

Mon Apr 11 18:58:00 EDT 2022

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Mon Apr 11 18:58:00 EDT 2022

Cynthia Oliver (MA '96; Tisch PhD '03) Awarded 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship

Cynthia Oliver (MA '96; Tisch PhD '03) has been awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. Oliver will use her fellowship to work on a book project about the involvement of Black artists in avant-garde and postmodern dance and experimental work. 

Mon Apr 11 17:13:00 EDT 2022

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Mon Apr 11 17:13:00 EDT 2022

Aine Nakamura (MA '20) Selected for Performance Series and Grant

A current Fulbright grantee in the arts in Berlin, Aine Nakamura (MA '20) was selected as one of the five artists/collectives for the Berliner Festspiele's 2022 Theatertreffen - Stückemarkt for her performance series, Circle hasu We plant seeds in the spring of mountains. The series first premiered at The Gallatin Galleries in 2021. Nakamura was also selected as one of two winners of the Biennale College Teatro grant; the grant will allow her to create a site-specific theater performance conceived for the outdoor spaces of Venice, with the project being staged as part of the 50th International Theatre Festival.

Mon Apr 11 17:02:00 EDT 2022

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Mon Apr 11 17:02:00 EDT 2022

MTV Documentary Films Acquires Worldwide Rights to Alysa Nahmias (BA '01)’s Film, Krimes

MTV Documentary Films acquired the worldwide rights to Alysa Nahmias (BA '01)’s 2021 documentary film, Krimes. The film had its world premiere at the Heartland Film Festival and has since been screened at DOC NYC and the Big Sky Film Fest.

Mon Apr 11 16:45:00 EDT 2022

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Mon Apr 11 16:45:00 EDT 2022

Danya Kukafka (BA '14)’s Novel, Notes on an Execution, Being Adapted into Forthcoming Series

John Wells Productions will adapt Danya Kukafka (BA '14)’s novel Notes on an Execution into a forthcoming series; Kukafka will serve as an executive producer on the project.

Mon Apr 11 16:18:00 EDT 2022

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Mon Apr 11 16:18:00 EDT 2022

Meribah Knight (BA '04) Co-Winner of John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim Award

Meribah Knight (BA '04) and Ken Armstrong won the John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim Award for Excellence in Criminal Justice Journalism for their exposé on the juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee.

Mon Apr 11 15:58:00 EDT 2022

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Mon Apr 11 15:58:00 EDT 2022

Jade Doskow (BA '00)’s Photographs Appear in New York Times Article

Jade Doskow (BA '00)’s photographs appeared in the New York Times article “Everybody Loves Red Hook. Or So They Say.”

Mon Apr 11 15:46:00 EDT 2022

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Mon Apr 11 15:46:00 EDT 2022

LaTasha Barnes (MA ’19) Featured on the Today Show

The Today show featured LaTasha Barnes (MA '19) as part of Hoda Kotb’s “Together We Rise” series. Barnes will also be honored with the Social Dance Innovator Award at the MAD HOT BALL 2022 in May.

Thu Mar 10 17:18:00 EST 2022

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Thu Mar 10 17:18:00 EST 2022

Coco Mellors (BA '11) Debuts Novel Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Coco Mellors (BA ’11; GSAS MFA ’16)’s first novel Cleopatra and Frankenstein was published by Bloomsbury in 2022.

Thu Mar 10 17:10:00 EST 2022

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Thu Mar 10 17:10:00 EST 2022

Danya Kukafka (BA '14) Published Her Second Novel with HarperCollins

Danya Kukafka (BA ’14)’s second novel, Notes on an Execution, was published by HarperCollins in January 2022, receiving great critical acclaim.

Thu Mar 10 16:47:00 EST 2022

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Thu Mar 10 16:47:00 EST 2022

Emily May Jampel (BA '17) Receives Frameline Completion Fund for Lucky Fish

For her short film Lucky Fish, Emily May Jampel (BA '17) was one of the recipients of the 2021/22 Frameline Completion Fund.

Thu Mar 10 16:20:00 EST 2022

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Thu Mar 10 16:20:00 EST 2022

Prayers For The Stolen adapted from Jennifer Clement (BA '82)'s Novel Named Best International Film

The film Prayers for the Stolen, adapted from the novel by Jennifer Clement (BA ’82), was named best international film at the Palm Springs Film Festival. It also received the Ibero-American Award.

Thu Mar 10 16:15:00 EST 2022

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Thu Mar 10 16:15:00 EST 2022

Joosje Duk (BA '16) Makes Nonfiction Debut With IK ZIE JE BIJ DE UITGANG (I’LL SEE YOU AT THE EXIT)

Joosje Duk (BA ’16)’s non-fiction debut, IK ZIE JE BIJ DE UITGANG (I’LL SEE YOU AT THE EXIT), was published by Lebowski Publishers in September 2021. The book takes the form of an ICU diary written for the author’s father as he battled COVID-19.

Thu Mar 10 16:09:00 EST 2022

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Thu Mar 10 16:09:00 EST 2022

Gregory Bonsignore (BA '05) Published Betty White Children's Book

Gregory Bonsignore (BA ’05)’s new illustrated children’s book on Betty White, That's Betty, was published by Macmillan in February 2022. The book has been reviewed to be a sweet and delightful retrospective on the life of a beloved American figure.

Fri Feb 25 16:46:00 EST 2022

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Fri Feb 25 16:46:00 EST 2022

Heather Berg (BA '08) Publishes First Book: Porn Work

Heather Berg (BA ’08)'s first book, Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalisman investigation into the sex work industry, was published by University of North Carolina Press.

Fri Feb 04 14:48:00 EST 2022

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Fri Feb 04 14:48:00 EST 2022

Estella Struck (BA ’24) Awarded a First Generation to College Founders Fellowship

Estella Struck (BA ’24), founder of Estella Struck Marketing, was awarded a First Generation to College Founders Fellowship, and is one of the program’s inaugural fellows. Struck’s agency helps established sustainable businesses expand their Gen Z reach using social media and short-form video content.

Fri Feb 04 14:45:00 EST 2022

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Fri Feb 04 14:45:00 EST 2022

Vasuki Nesiah Appointed to the Jacob K. Javits Visiting Professorship at NYU

Vasuki Nesiah was appointed to the Jacob K. Javits Visiting Professorship at NYU for the Spring 2022 semester. Nesiah teaches human rights and legal and social theory at Gallatin and is faculty director of the Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights.

Fri Feb 04 14:43:22 EST 2022

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Fri Feb 04 14:43:22 EST 2022

Reef (Robert Tewlow; BA ’92) Nominated for Two Grammies for his Work with Doja Cat

Reef (Robert Tewlow; BA ’92) was the Producer/Mixer and Songwriter for the song “Tonight” from Doja Cat’s Planet Her, which was nominated for two awards at the 2022 Grammy Awards: Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album.

Fri Feb 04 14:35:00 EST 2022

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Fri Feb 04 14:35:00 EST 2022

Stepmotherland by Darrel Alejandro Holnes Recognized with the 2022 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize

Stepmotherland (Notre Dame Press, 2022), the first full-length poetry collection from Darrel Alejandro Holnes, was recognized with the 2022 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.

Fri Feb 04 14:07:00 EST 2022

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Fri Feb 04 14:07:00 EST 2022

LaTasha Barnes (MA ’19) Featured as One of the New York Times’s Breakout Stars of 2021

Bessie Award winner LaTasha Barnes (MA ’19) was featured as one of the New York Times’s Breakout Stars of 2021. Barnes was also interviewed and profiled on an episode of NPR’s podcast Rough Translation.

Fri Feb 04 14:04:00 EST 2022

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Fri Feb 04 14:04:00 EST 2022

'Cusp,' Co-directed by Isabel Bethencourt (BA ’16) Nominated for Award

Isabel Bethencourt (BA ’16) co-directed the coming-of-age documentary Cusp, which is currently streaming on Showtime, and has been nominated for 2022 Best Documentary by the American Society of Cinematographers.

Fri Feb 04 13:50:00 EST 2022

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Fri Feb 04 13:50:00 EST 2022

John Ridley (BA ’87) has begun production on the film Shirley

Academy Award winning writer-director John Ridley (BA ’87) has begun production on the film Shirley, which tells the story of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black Congresswoman from New York. The film will star Academy Award-winner Regina King as Chisholm and will appear exclusively on Netflix

Fri Feb 04 13:29:00 EST 2022

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Fri Feb 04 13:29:00 EST 2022

Patrick Scorese (MA ’20) and Kendra Capece (MA ’20) co-authored Pandemic Performance: Resilience, Liveness, and Protest in Quarantine Times (Routledge, 2021)

Patrick Scorese (MA ’20) and Kendra Capece (MA ’20) co-authored Pandemic Performance: Resilience, Liveness, and Protest in Quarantine Times (Routledge, 2021). The book grew out of Alejandro Velasco’s 2019 Thesis Proposal Seminar.