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.
Mar 5, 2020
Judith Sloan had a reading/performance on March 7 at the Queens Theater of the work-in-development of It Can Happen Here, a play with music written by Sloan.
Mar 5, 2020
Nina Katchadourian and Brooklyn-based guitarist Lisa Liu form the sTans, which is also the name of their first album that was released on March 6, 2020.
Mar 5, 2020
Michelle Dorrance (BA ’01) and her company, Dorrance Dance, will take over Jacob’s Pillow July 1-5, 2020, as part of the 2020 festival, debuting several new works in addition to curating a week of Inside/Out outdoor performances beginning August 3, 2020.
Mar 5, 2020
Current resident of the I AM SOUL - Playwright Residency Program, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, wrote Bayano, the story of an escaped African slave in 16th century Panama, performed on March 11-15, 2020 at the Dr. Barabara Ann Teer’s National Black Theatre Institute of Action Arts.
Feb 21, 2020
Rebecca Amato was awarded a grant from Humanities New York to facilitate a Reading and Discussion Program on the topic of "Serving," particularly in relation to civic engagement.
Feb 21, 2020
Peder Anker was awarded an Abu Dhabi Washington Sqaure North Faculty Fellowship for Spring 2020.
Feb 5, 2020
Alexis Williams (BA ’17) is the Associate Producer for the Netflix documentary, The Pharmacist, which was released on February 5, 2020.
Jan 26, 2020
On January 26, 2020, Tony Award-winning artist André De Shields (MA ’91) was awarded a Grammy at the 62nd Grammy Awards for Best Musical Theater Album: Hadestown.
Jan 4, 2020
Jake Weinstein (BA '12) and Sarah Naughton returned to Feinstein's/54 Below to present Javanka! on January 4, 2020.
Jan 1, 2020
Kimberly Phillips-Fein was awarded a Russell Sage Foundation Fellowship for her current book project which analyses the defenses of economic inequality advanced by American business leaders and economic writers.
Jan 1, 2020
Millery Polyné, co-editor - with Laurent Dubois, Kaiama L. Glover, Nadève Ménard, and Chantalle F. Verna The Haiti Reader: History, Culture, Politics which was published by Duke University Press in 2020.
Jan 1, 2020
The latest episode of President Andy Hamilton's podcast, Conversations, included a discussion between Hamilton and SeaStraws co-founder and Creative Director Echo Chen (BA '20) and CEO and Co-founder Antonio DiMeglio (Stern '20).
Jan 1, 2020
Lisa Goldfarb was awarded a 2020 NYU Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship to support her current book project, Proustian Poetics and the Modern Lyric.
Dec 26, 2019
Libertad Guerra (MA ’11) was named the new Executive Director of The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center. She is also the recipient of the Lower East Side Community Hero Award and the NY ACKER Award for Avant-Garde Excellence in 2019.
Dec 12, 2019
For The Nation, Doctoral Fellow in Urban Practice Nantina Vgontzas co-wrote the December 2019 piece "Amazon's Bullshit Environmentalism."
Dec 12, 2019
Michelle Dorrance (BA '01) and her dance company's performances were featured in The New York Times: "11 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend," "A Breakout Year for Tap," and, "Review: A 'Nutcracker' Taps and Swings."
Dec 5, 2019
Peder Anker is the winner of the American Scandinavian Society's Crystal Award for Cultural Achievement.
Nov 18, 2019
Gina Pollack (BA ’10) co-produced the short film, "Jewel’s Hunt," about Alaskan Inupiat subsistence hunters, which premiered on PBS.
Nov 12, 2019
Nō Studios founder, John Ridley (BA ’87), hosted the innaugural Social Justice Summit, Art Activated, at Nō Studios, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin alongside Michael Dinwiddie, Kristin Horton, and Millery Polyné.
Nov 12, 2019
On November 12, 2019, Adam Weinart (MA ’15) will perform "Monuments: Echoes in the Dance Archive," at the New York Public Library.
Nov 12, 2019
Sharon Attia (BA '17) co-edited The New York Times book, "This Is 18," an expansion of a Times project and the subject of Attia's colloquium.
Nov 11, 2019
Tony Award-winning Hadestown star André De Shields (MA ’91) was awarded the 2019 Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theater by the New York Theater Company at their annual gala.
Nov 10, 2019
D.B. Gilles independently published Bitten! My Days as Donald Trump's White House Dog.
Nov 7, 2019
Meena Kandasamy's Exquisite Cadavers was published by Atlantic Books.
Nov 1, 2019
Seoul resident, Candace Lunn (BA ’05), held a women’s film festival in collaboration with KU Cinematheque called, “I/SHE/YOU,” in November 2019 that screened a small selection of international and local Korean films about women redefining gendered expectations.
Nov 1, 2019
Ben Mankoff (MA ’18) co-directed the 2019 feature film Cubby, the story of the friendship between a 26-year-old Midwestern man living in New York City and a precocious six-year-old. The film screened at New York's Cinema Village in early November.
Oct 17, 2019
Ali Mirsepassi's Iran's Quiet Revolution: The Downfall of the Pahlavi State (The Global Middle East) was published by Cambridge University Press.
Oct 4, 2019
Artist Nina Katchadourian has joined Pace Gallery, a leading contemporary art gallery, which just unveiled its new eight-floor headquarters in New York City.
Oct 2, 2019
Sarah Moonves (BA ’07) has been named the first female Editor-in-Chief of W Magazine.
Oct 1, 2019
In the summer of 2019, Kim Foote received fellowship writing residencies from the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire and Anderson Center in Minnesota, where she worked on her novel about Ghana and the trans-Atlantic slave trade as well as her short fiction collection about her mother's family's experience of the Great Migration and the Great Depression and its aftermath in New Jersey.
Oct 1, 2019
Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP) welcomes Madeline Sayet (MA ’12) as Executive Director.
Oct 1, 2019
Martha Diaz (MA ’10) was invited to be a MacArthur Civic Media Fellow at the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab where she will support her community archiving project and the development of the first online hip-hop school.
Oct 1, 2019
Natalie Cook (MA ’18) wrote, directed, and produced the short film, Backwards God, which was screened in October as a part of the 2019 Reel Sisters Film Festival and Lecture Series and reviewed inThe Bushwick Daily.
Oct 1, 2019
Rebecca Amato was also recently appointed to the Manhattan Borough President's Task Force on Religious Facilities. Amato won a grant from Humanities New York to facilitate a reading and discussion program on the topic of "Serving," particularly in relation to civic engagement.
Sep 24, 2019
Engaged Urbanists Working Group participant Stephen Duncombe and Silas Harrebye (Rothskilde University) published The Copenhagen Experiment, a report on artistic activism.
Sep 17, 2019
Saul Austerlitz's Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show that Defined a Television Era was published by Dutton.
Sep 17, 2019
Magogodi oaMphela Makhene (MA ’10) was awarded a 2019 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, which recognizes and supports women writers of unuasal talent and promise in the early stages of their writing careers.
Sep 1, 2019
John Searles (MA '94)'s novel Strange But True is now a feature film from Lionsgate.
Sep 1, 2019
Jane Rosenthal (BA '77) was nominated for an Emmy as an Executive Producer on When They See Us. This is Rosenthal's second Emmy nomination; her first was in 2017 for her role as an Executive Producer for HBO's Wizard of Lies.
Sep 1, 2019
Alysa Nahmias (BA '01), a 2019 Sundance Momentum Fellow, was invited to join the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In October 2019, The New Bauhaus, a film directed, written, and produced by Nahmias, was screened at the New York Architecture and Design Film Festival and the Chicago International Film Festival.
Sep 1, 2019
Irene Mamiye (BA '10)'s interactive installation, I Hear You, opened at Harvest Works in September 2019.
Sep 1, 2019
Julie Tseselsky Kirschner (BA '02) was nominated for an Emmy for her work as an Editor on RuPaul's Drag Race.
Sep 1, 2019
Maria Sofia Hernandez (BA '19), who concentrated in Theater as an Expression and Agent of Social Change, is an Artist-in-Residence at Gallatin this fall. Hernandez will be organizing and producing MicroTheater@NYU, a theater group that devises 15-minute plays about different themes to raise awareness through art.
Sep 1, 2019
Michelle Dorrance (BA '99) will choreograph a new Lincoln Center production about LSD.
Sep 1, 2019
Gregory Vargo's book, An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction: Chartism, Radical Print Culture, and the Social Problem Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2018), won the North American Victorian Studies Association Prize for the best book of the year in Victorian Studies.
Sep 1, 2019
In September, Kathryn Posin's dance troupe, The Kathryn Posin Dance Company, premiered three new works at the 92nd Street Y as a part of the Dig Dance series. Pointe Magazine reviewed the works in "Kathryn Posin's New Ballet Explores the Letters of Charles Darwin."
Aug 27, 2019
Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, Jane Smiley and Kate Bolick's March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women was published by Library of America.
Aug 22, 2019
Cheryl Black and Sharon Friedman's Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1990's: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations, was published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.
Jul 6, 2019
Peder Anker and Mitchell Joachim’s research and collaborative work was displayed at the Global Design NYU Berlin exhibition titled Berlin Collapse: Climate, Cities and Culture in Berlin, Germany from July 6-11, 2019.
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”.