Faculty Awards & Achievements

Kathy Gill
Lecturer Kathy Gill was named one of the Top 100 women in Seattle technology by TechFlash, an online resource for Pacific Northwest technology news. Gill was also featured in freelance journalist Linda Thomas' inaugural post in her new P-I reader blog, The News Chick.

Hanson Hosein
MCDM Director Hanson Hosein’s documentary Independent America: Rising from Ruins received the Patois Award for Best Feature at the New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival. The film takes a hard yet hopeful look at the risks and rewards faced by entrepreneurs leading the recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. The film was also shown at the Seattle International Film Festival.

Dr. Ralina Joseph
Dr. Ralina Joseph received a prestigious Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Award. This is her second major national award this year, following a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship from Princeton University. The fellowships will provide support for the development of a second book project, Speaking Back: How Black Women Resist Post-Identity Culture."
         Ford awards 20 postdoctoral fellowships, which provide one year of support for individuals engaged in postdoctoral study after the attainment of the Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree between 2001 and 2008. Postdoctoral fellowships are awarded in a national competition administered by the National Research Council (NRC) on behalf of the Ford Foundation. The awards are made to individuals who, in the judgment of the review panels, have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars and teachers, and are well prepared to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.

Dr. Malcolm Parks
On April 29, Dr. Malcolm Parks delivered the Thomas M. Scheidel Annual Faculty Lecture on “Media Deeply Connected: The Science of Personal Relationships and Networks.”

Dr. Crispin Thurlow
Dr. Crispin Thurlow spoke by invitation at the Third International Roundtable on Discourse Analysis. The Department of English of City University of Hong Kong invited a small number of top scholars in the field of discourse studies and related disciplines to participate. The roundtable offered scholars from a wide range of disciplines an opportunity to engage in intensive discussions around a topic of common interest. This year's topic was "Discourse and Creativity." Thurlow presented a paper, The Price of Play: Creative License and New Media Discourse, which ties in with his July 2009 special issue of the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication on the theme of young people and communication technologies.