We're in the home stretch! Congratulations are in order to Matthew Sakakeeny who has won a Whiting Fellowship -- Columbia's most prestigious internal dissertation-writing award -- for 2007-8, and to Farzi Hemmasi, who has been awarded Columbia's Lane Cooper Dissertation Fellowship for 2007-8. Farzi also won a writing fellowship at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, and Brian Karl also won an ISERP fellowship.
Congratulations to Megan Height, Charles Lawry, Victoria McKenzie, Whitney Slaten, and Simon Calle, all of whom have been awarded the MA degree. Congrats also to Marti Newland, incoming PhD student and Center associate, who has also received the MA degree in African American Studies.