Honors, Grants and Prizes Archive

Departmental Honors

2003
Todd Buell, "Locke and Lessing, from the theorist to the dramatist : the interconnectedness of enlightenment tolerance"
Bethany Dittmar, "Identity and community : two generations of Afro-Germans through their poetry, prose, and performance"
Maggie Fritz-Morkin, "Localizing and vocalizing within the ether : place, parenthesis, and dialogue in Paul Celan's Atemwende"
Mark Lutte, " Translating Otto Emersleben's In den schründen der Arktik : a perspective on Karl May, Robert Peary and the presentation of historical identity"
Colleen Mathews, "The theme of liminality in Ilse Aichinger's imaginative writing, 1948-1957 : from novelist to dialogist"
Emilie Schlegel, "...und da ging etwas Großartiges in mir vor." : Agency and the New Woman in Irmgard Keun's Das kunstseidene Mädchen"

2002
Paul DeLuca, "The return of the repressed: the postwar crisis of German identity and the global virus of national socialism"
Katherine Grote, "Lola's Berlin: investigating Tom Tykwer's millenial portrait of the city" "
Margaret Magee, "From reluctant to committed witness: the 1933-1945 diaries of Viktor Klemperer"
Lindsay Pettingill, "Wir woll'n die Eisbärn seh'n: East German identity and sport in Pepe Danquart's documentary Heimspiel"
John Yost, "Dürrenmatt's Emmenberger as composite portrait: Nazi physicians as sadistic careerists"

2001
Christine DeTroy, "Retrieving the past: the role of memory and the Holocaust in the novels of W.G. Sebald"
Catherine Kelley, "Perfect justice?: four works by Dürrenmatt"
Kirsten Partenheimer, "Coming of age in GDR Society: Brussig's Helden wie wir and Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee"
Miriam Platzer, "Living out loud: identity and Heimat in works by Alev Tekenay, May Ayim, Zehra Cirak, Fatima El-Tayeb, and Angelina Maccarone"
Russell Sherwood, "Battling voices: R.W. Fassbinder's self-referential reading of Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz"
Barbara Thurston, "Documentary to melodrama: Max Färberböck's film adaptation of Erica Fischer's Aimèe und Jaguar"

2000
Dessislava Dimitrova, "The role of justice and death in Dürrenmatt's criticism of the post- World War II society"
Andrew W. Gould, "The reception of Beethoven from Weimar through to the Third Reich and into exile: wrestling the composer away from the Nazis"
Lisl K. Hacker, "Bearing witness: a thematic study of Grete Weil's Meine Schwester Antigone and Generationen as counterworks"
Christopher Henry, "Oskar and Owen : John Irving re-creates Gunter Grass"
Anand Mahadevan, "Switching heads in India and Germany : an analysis of Thomas Mann's Die vertauschten Köpfe as a cross-cultural text"
Donald H. Wells, "Feelin' blue: post-modern malaise and dysfunction in Judith Hermann's Sommerhaus später"

1999
Claire Adams, "Fantasy and protest: East and West German feminist literature from the 1970s."
Peter Dorthe, "Deviancy and irreducibility in Weimar film"
Warren Gasper, "Identity splits and splinters: interventionist dialectics in Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Müller, and Christa Wolf"
Jason Roswig, "Final doom versus the perpetual round: a comparative mythological examination"

1998
Megan Allen, "Killing combinations: intersections of modernity and gender in Ingeborg Bachman's Simultan"
Markus Kamm, "Liebe, Ehe und Patriarchat bei Bachmann, Böll und Fassbinder"
Ryan Naujoks, "Max Frisch in America: the search for identity in a foreign land"
Adrienne I. Weiner, "Peepholes: a dramatic adaptation of The Trial by Franz Kafka"

1997
Hiram Andrews, "Faber's Entschluß anders zu leben: the role of Hermes and Hermes-Baby in Homo faber"
Brendan Matz, "Framing the post-war landscape: literary form and the Holocaust in the work of Max Frisch"
Sarah Titus, "Humor as critical space: Doris Dörrie's Männer and Keiner liebt mich! "

Fulbright Teaching Grants and other International prizes

2003-2004
Todd Buell '03 Austria
Bethany Dittmar '03 Germany
Mark Lutte '03 Germany
Matthew Roberts '03 Germany

2002-2003
Katherine Grote '02 Germany
Lindsay Pettingill '02 Germany
John Yost '02 Germany

2001-2002
Kirsten Partenheimer '01 Germany
Miriam Platzer '01 Germany
Russell Sherwood '01 Germany
Lindsey Tethal '01 Germany
Barbara Thurston '01 Germany

2000-2001
Johanna Babb '00 Germany
Peter Dorthe '99 Germany
Lisl Hacker '00 Germany
Yanina Globurt '00 Germany
Ted Senior '00 Germany

1998-1999
Megan Allen '98 Germany
Amy Ray '98 Germany
Kimberley Soroko '98 Germany
Adrienne Weiner '98 Germany

1997-1998
Karen Baur '97 Germany
Hiram Andrews '97 Austria
Katherine Snyder '97 Austria

1996-1997
Joanna Reininger '96 Germany

1995-1996
Paul Connelly '94 Germany
Robin Rosen '95 Germany

1994-1995
Melissa Quinby '91 Germany
Brian Clifford '93 Germany
Andrea Harthorne '93 Germany
Elizabeth Bester '94 Germany

1993-1994
Anna Glass '92 Germany

1992-1993
Elizabeth Van Tuyl '88 Germany
Kathleen Devaney '89 Germany
Joanna Dunn '91 Germany

Congress-Bundestag Apprenticeships 1999-2000
Jeffrey Chen Berlin, Germany

DAAD Grants (German Academic Exchange Service) 1999
Anand Mahadevan '00 Germany

Old Broad Bay Prizes in Reading German

old broad bay prize for german

2003 Laura Blacker '03, Matthew B. Roberts '03, Mark William Lutte '03
2002 Katherine A. Grote '02, Laura M. Hilburn '02, Robin L. Jensen '04
2001 Maggie Fritz-Morkin '03, Brandon W. Rolerson '01, Russell T. Sherwood '01
2000 Paul S. Deluca '02, Dessislava D. Dimitrova '00, Emilie D. Schlegel '03
1999 Leah Fasulo '99, Warren Gasper '99, Lydia A. Herring '01
1998 Megan L. Allen '98, Michael K. McDonnell '98, Amy E. Ray '98
1997 Hiram R. Andrews '97, Carrie A. Endries '97, Adrienne Weiner '97,
1996 Jeffrey Chen '99, Rachel Otis Clapp '96, Richard Michael Miller, Jr. '96
1995 Nicole Devarenne '95, Camille Sykes-Casavant '95, Jennifer L. Willette '95
1994 Elizabeth M. Bester '94, Elizabeth K. Ranagan '94, George K. Stratev
1993 David Lee Simmons '96, Hassan Ghazi '93, Andrea Kristina Harthorne '93
1992 James C. Morrill '92, Thea L. Stocker '92, Michael J. Trucano '92
1991 Laurie A. Ford '91, William G. Hutfilz '91, Richard D. Lassen '91
1990 Cheray L. Hogan '90, John S. Peters '93, Muzafar A. Qazilbash '90
1989 Timothy B. Gutmann '89, Shameem Hashmi '91, Laura R. Rasor '89
1988 Peter T. Chipman '91, Renate L. Scholz '90, Elizabeth K. Snodgrass '88
1987 Charles Q. Kamps, Jr. '87, Laura A. Lambert '88, Augstinus B. Lembong '88
1986 John Meienhofer '86, Mary T. Ortiz '86, Ellen M. Petingill '89
1985 Margo R. Levine '85, Susan E. Philbrick '87, David A. Shermann '87
1984 David G. Pohle '87, John D. Welch '85, Kristen A. Woodbury '86
1983 Madeleine V. Biber '86, Donald W. Wiper, III '83, Eleanor F. York '83
1982 Daniel J. Stanish '83, Charlotte A. Tate '82, Meredith J. Taylor '84
1981 Camille M. Babineau '84, David A. Beal '81, Danial M. Hays '83
1980 Victoria L. McClure '83, Barbara B. Walter '80, Suzanne M. Wehrs '81
1979 Barrett Fisher, II '80, Thomas C. MacCormick '78, Jeffrey C. Wickham '79
1978 Nancy C. Maguire '78, Christopher F.D. Ryder '79, Benjamin H. Walter, Jr. '80
1977 Jane Curtin '77, George G. Garrett '79, Timothy H. Hiebert '79
1976 Christopher M. Franceschelli '79, Mary F. Pettingill '77, Stephen A. Potter '76
1975 David E. Birnbaum '75, Christopher R. Hermann '75, Paul G. Most '76
1974 Mario Brossi '74, Bruce B. Campbell '77, Paul D. Glassman '74
1973 Evelyn Miller '73, William P. Shelley, III '73, Patricia A. Small '73
1972 Scott H. Melvin '72, Michael K.H. Riedner '74, John H. Seeler '75
1971 William M. Menning '71, James D. Block '71
1970 William M. Menning '71, Roger V. Homer '70
1969 David D. Rust '69, Richard Ingerowski '69
1968 Kenneth R. Walter '68, Michael C. Morris '68
1967 Kenneth R. Walter '68, Eben W. Graves '67
1966 Tommy J. Waiz '67, Richard A. VanVarick '66
1965 Craig L. Whitman '65, Eric Boesch '65

German Consular Prize in Literary Interpretation

consular prize for german

2003 Maggie A. Fritz-Morkin
2002 Paul S. Deluca
2001 Miriam E. Platzer, Russell T. Sherwood
2000 Anand Mahadevan
1999 Daniel Mandle
1997 Brendan A. Matz
1996 David Lee Simmons
1995 Katherine Schei Gill
1994 Elizabeth K. Ranagan
1993 Andrea Kristina Harthorne
1992 Joanna E. Dunn
1991 William G. Hutfilz
1990 Kathleen S. Devaney
1989 Timothy B. Gutmann
1988 Elizabeth K. Snodgrass
1987 Andrew D. Zacks
1986 Wrenn Flemer