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.
Jun 9, 2019
André De Shields (MA ’91) won the 2019 Tony Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as Hermes in Anais Mitchell’s Broadway production of Hadestown. The show also won Best Director and Best Musical, taking home eight trophies in total. De Shields was featured in The Daily Beast article “Broadway Star André De Shields on ‘Hadestown,’ Tony Awards, Racism, Sexuality, and Fulfilling His Parents’ Dreams”.
May 1, 2019
Molly Felder (BA ’02, MA ’05)’s children’s book, Henry the Boy, based on Felder’s own experience as someone born with cerebral palsy, was released by Penny Candy Books in April 2019.
May 1, 2019
Hayden Dunham (BA ’11)’s newest installation “HA: no name no sides :TH” was on display at Artspace in Sydney, Australia, from April 4 through 28.
May 1, 2019
We Call Them Beautiful, the first collection of poetry from Assistant Director of Communications, KC Trommer, has just been released by Diode Editions. She was interviewed about reading, writing, and telling stories by Girls at Library.
May 1, 2019
Michelle Dorrance (BA ’01)’s Dorrance Dance performed at the New York City Center from March 28 through 30, 2019, and was reviewed in The New York Times: “Michelle Dorrance Happily Shares the Spotlight.”
May 1, 2019
Natalie Zutter (BA ’11) was awarded a Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency in Nebraska City, Nebraska, for the month of March 2019. Her most recent production Shotz: Choose Your Own Shotz! was held on April 3, 2019, in San Francisco, California.
May 1, 2019
Cole Sprouse (BA ’15) plays Will, a surly teenager with cystic fibrosis, in Five Feet Apart, which was reviewed in The New York Times: “‘Five Feet Apart’ Review: Ailing Teenagers Live Dangerously for Love.”
May 1, 2019
Beowulf Sheehan (MA ’96)’s exhibition Vignettes: Portraits of Writers from and Beyond the Pages of Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan was recently on view at the new Center for Fiction in Brooklyn.
May 1, 2019
Mickey and the Bear, Annabelle Attanasio (BA ’15)’s feature directorial debut premiered at South by Southwest and was featured in Variety and Women’s Wear Daily.
May 1, 2019
Ethiopian artist and researcher Salome Asega (BA ’11) was included in OkayAfrica's 100 Women list.
May 1, 2019
Courtney McGovern (BA ’18), Co-Founder and Executive Director of Hope’s In, an organization that sets out to empower families in Guatemala City, made Chicago Scholar’s 35 Under 35 Making an Impact list for 2019.
May 1, 2019
NYU's Annual Service Awards winners included New Major Records for Student Leadership and Campus Programming, for service on campus; Maame Boatemaa for Community Service and Civic Engagement, for service in the wider community; Jakiyah Bradley for Student Leadership and Campus Programming, for service on campus; Iris Carbonel for Student Leadership and Campus Programming, for service on campus; Louise Crawford for Student Leadership and Campus Programming, for service on campus; Jonathan Ji for Community Service and Civic Engagement, for service in the wider community; Sophie Khan for Student Leadership and Campus Programming, for service on campus; Keyli Peralta for Student Leadership and Campus Programming, for service on campus; and Brian Ruiz for Community Service and Civic Engagement, for service in the wider community.
May 1, 2019
Kevin Donaldson (BA ’22) will participate in the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program in Advanced Mandarin for the 2019-2020 school year. The CLS Program is an intensive overseas language and cultural immersion experience.
May 1, 2019
Bojana Coklyat (MA ’19) will travel to Prague, Czech Republic, on a 2019 Fulbright and Jillian Castoro (BA ’19) and Hannah Williams (BA ’19) are 2019 Fulbright Grant Recipients to Indonesia and Laos, respectively. KD Harbeck (BA ’19) is a 2019 Fulbright Grant alternate to Hong Kong.
May 1, 2019
On April 18, 2019, Slightly Altered States theater company and DMNDR at The Arc presented a reading of Sari Caine Glickstein (BA ’04)’s new play, Ty Rex, an autism-inclusive production.
May 1, 2019
Matthew Stanley’s latest book, Einstein’s War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I (Dutton, 2019), was given starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. Stanley was featured in the March 22, 2019, Publishers Weekly feature “Only Human: PW Talks with Matthew Stanley.”
May 1, 2019
Matthew Stanley has been awarded NYU’s 2018-2019 Distinguished Teaching Award. The Award, established in 1987, is presented annually to outstanding full-time faculty members in recognition that one of NYU's primary institutional priorities, along with research, is exceptional teaching inside and outside of the classroom setting.
May 1, 2019
Lise Friedman hosted a screening of her film, If the Dancer Dances, on April 27 at the Quad Cinemas. The film was written and produced by Friedman and Maia Wechsler and was directed by Wechsler. The Quad screening included a post-screening Q&A with Friedman and Wechsler, moderated by faculty Julie Malnig.
May 1, 2019
Leila Buck’s American Dreams, an immersive play staged as a US government game show in which the audience votes on which contestant will become the next US citizen, premiered at Cleveland Public Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio, and ran from February 16 to March 8, 2019.
Mar 1, 2019
Gallatin student Sophie Jones, along with George Danias, launched Trail Mix, a podcast about sustainability.
Mar 1, 2019
Hailed as “brilliant, hysterical, truthful and real” by actress Reese Witherspoon and edited by Gallatin student Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don’t Wear Pink and Other Lies: Amazing Women on What the F Word Means to Th (Penguin, 2018) is a collection of essays written by women all over the globe on their definitions of feminism.
Mar 1, 2019
Rachel Naomi Hilson (BA ’18) has been cast in the recurring role of Teenage Beth in the NBC series This Is Us. Her role was covered by Essence in "'This Is Us' Guest Star Rachel Hilson Talks Working With Phylicia Rashad And Playing Teenage Beth: 'Behind Every Strong Woman Is Some History'".
Mar 1, 2019
At the 61st Grammy Awards, Jesse Shatkin (BA '01) was awarded the Grammy for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for his work as an engineer on Beck's album, Colors.
Mar 1, 2019
Bahar Atvur (BA '08, Stern MBA '14) was named a 2019 Presidential Leadership Scholar.
Mar 1, 2019
Readings and performances of Judith Sloan's It Can Happen Here, were held at City Lore in New York in February 2019, featuring performances from Sloan as well as Meah Pace, Lisette Santiago, Bianca Vitale, and Emily Wexler.
Mar 1, 2019
Nina Katchadourian’s exhibition IFICATION is on display at the Fridman Gallery in New York through March 31, 2019. Katchadourian hosted a live
event, “On-Hold Music Dance Party”, at the gallery on March 7. This is the artist's first exhibition with the gallery and the show spans her career and includes selections from her recent traveling retrospective, Curiouser.
Mar 1, 2019
The New York Times announced that playwright Kristoffer Diaz (BA '99; TSOA MFA '02) has written the book for the stage adaptation of the Disney film Hercules, which will be performed at the Delacorte Theater in New York's Central Park, from August 31-September 8, 2019.
Feb 13, 2019
Darrel Alejandro Holnes has been awarded a 2019 Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is among 35 recipients chosen from nearly 1,700 eligible applicants selected through a highly-competitive, anonymous, nationwide process. Works are judged solely on the artistic excellence of the work sample provided. Holnes is the first Panamanian-American to receive this fellowship.
Jan 29, 2019
Gallatin student Benjamin Weinger was named a 2019 YMA-FSF Case Study Competition Winner.
Jan 29, 2019
The NYU 2018 Influencers list includes Gallatin students Aree Worawongwasu and Kat Facchini.
Jan 29, 2019
Urban Democracy Lab (UDL) Director Gianpaolo Baiocchi's project “The Political Empowerment of the Disenfranchised: A Multi-Sited Ethnography” has been funded by the Research Collaborative Fund to help map out processes through which social justice activism can build the collective identities, civic skills, and sense of efficacy that translate to participation in voting and electoral politics.
Jan 29, 2019
The work of artist and Gallatin faculty member Meleko Mokgosi was exhibited at Honor Fraser gallery and reviewed in the LA Times. Mokogi’s exhibition of new work, Double Bind, was on view at The Gallatin Galleries from December 3, 2018 through January 2019.
Jan 29, 2019
Daniel Seara (BA ’14) is first author on a new paper published in the November 2018 issue of Nature, “Entropy production rate is maximized in non-contractile actomyosin”.
Jan 29, 2019
Things You Can Do, a play by Kristen Palmer (MA ’04), was published by Original Works Publishing.
Jan 29, 2019
Alysa Nahmias (BA ’01) joins seven other emerging filmmakers of the 2018 cohort of Sundance Momentum Fellows.
Jan 29, 2019
With Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Catherine E. McKinley (MA ’16) co-curated the exhibition “Aunty!” which was reviewed in The New York Times's November 14, 2018 article “How Photography Has Shaped Perceptions of African Women”.
Jan 29, 2019
Gun Love, the 2018 novel by PEN International President Jennifer Clement (BA ’82), was named one of the top 10 books of 2018 by TIME Magazine. The novel was also finalist for the 2018 National Book Awards.
Jan 29, 2019
Rockaway, a feature film written and directed by John J. Budion (BA ’03), had its premiere at the Village East Cinema on January 11, 2019.
Jan 29, 2019
Sushi Noz, the Upper East Side establishment of chef Nozomu Abe co-owned by Josh Foulquier (BA ’15), was awarded a 2019 Michelin star.
Jan 2, 2019
In addtion to Gallatin faculty member Frank Leon Roberts, alumna Hannah Dehradunwala (BA '16), co-founder of Transfernation, was named a 2019 Roddenberry Fellow by the Roddenberry Foundation. The award is one of twenty given annually to activists across the United States whose work impacts the country’s most vulnerable communities.
Jan 2, 2019
Frank Leon Roberts was named a 2019 Roddenberry Fellow by the Roddenberry Foundation. The award is one of twenty given annually to activists across the United States whose work impacts the country’s most vulnerable communities.
Dec 15, 2018
Carol Zoref is the recipient of the 2018 Harold U. Ribalow Prize for Fiction for her novel Barren Island.
Dec 15, 2018
2019 Grammy Nomination, Best Album Notes
Amanda Petrusich, album notes writer (Bob Dylan): “Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series Vol. 13"
Ben Ratliff, album notes writer (Sonny Clark Trio): “The 1960 Time Sessions”
Dec 1, 2018
Kim Coleman Foote, Assistant Director of Global Programs at Gallatin, was one of nine writers named by the Center for Fiction as a 2018 Emerging Writers Fellow.
Dec 1, 2018
Michael Dinwiddie (BA ’80) was elected as one of the 2018 fellows of The College of Fellows of the American Theatre, a high honor bestowed on select educators and professionals of America’s educational and theater community.
Dec 1, 2018
Filmmaker, artist, and curator of The Gallatin Galleries, Keith Miller, was awarded a Summer 2018 BAU Institute Residency Award at The Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.
Dec 1, 2018
Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (Metropolitan Books, 2017) by Kim Phillips-Fein was named as a 2018 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.
Dec 1, 2018
Nina Katchadourian was a 2018 Artist-in-Residence through the The Rauschenberg Foundation and stayed on Captiva Island, Florida, at the former site of Rauschenberg's home and studio.
Jul 1, 2018
Open Me, the debut novel of Lisa Locascio (BA ’07), is included on the Village Voice round up “5 Great Debut Novels to Help Get You Through This Summer." In the fall of 2018, Locascio will join Mendocino College and serve as Executive Director of the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference.
Jul 1, 2018
Beowulf Sheehan (MA ’96)’s first book, AUTHOR: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan, will be published in October 2018 by Black Dog & Leventhal and will feature some 200+ photographs of authors from 35 countries, with a foreword by Salman Rushdie.