Graduate students Liz Bryant and Kevin Uhler won Fulbrights to Poland for 2012-3. Liz will study the experiences of homosexual men in Auschwitz-Birkenau, and will be affiliated with Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Kevin will teach English. Both are students of Jim Jones. Congratulations also to Kate Layton, a recent BA graduate, for winning a Fulbright for 2012-2013 to Brazil. Kate also received the Anna Mae Ford Memorial Fellowship for an MA in Latin American Studies at UT Austin.

A bumper crop of university teaching awards this year: Undergraduate Teaching Awards for Alex Aviña, Neil Jumonville, and Pam Robbins, and a Graduate Teaching Award for Kristine Harper. Congratulations!

The Walbolt Dissertation Fellowship Committee is proud to announce that Maureen MacLeod is the winner of this semester's competition for her research proposal "A Society in Flux: Female Education and Societal Transition in Early Nineteenth-Century France, 1799-1830." Maureen will receive funding to conduct her dissertation research. She will also receive funding to cover travel expenses.

Thanks to a generous gift from Dan and Sylvia Walbolt, the department is able to provide this level of funding for one graduate student's dissertation research every semester.

Congratulations to Maureen on this excellent achievement.