FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 28, 2009
COLLEGE PARK, MD - Kirsten Crase, a doctoral candidate in American Studies, has won two awards from the Graduate School in an annual, University-wide competition.
Crase has been awarded the Phi Delta Gamma Graduate Fellowship, which recognizes a student whose work "best exemplifies interdisciplinary scholarships achievement." She has also won the Dr. James W. Longest Memorial Award for Social Science
Research, established to "assist students engaged in applied or
interdisciplinary dissertation research in the social sciences with potential
benefits for small and/or disadvantaged communities."
Kirsten's dissertation, which is in progress, is titled "Practicing Place:
Heeding 'Home' and Expanding 'the Environment' in Contemporary Appalachia
and Anacostia, a Relational Ethnographic Study."
Dr. Nancy Struna, chair of American Studies, said, "Kirsten's work is outstanding, and she is most deserving of these prestigious and competetive awards." Struna also noted that it is unprecedented for a one student to receive both of these awards in the same calendar year. Complete information about these awards is available from the Graduate School's Web site (www.gradschool.umd.edu).
The American Studies Department and Program at the University of Maryland is one of the oldest such programs in the United States, having operated continuously since 1945. For much of its history, the Program has been nationally recognized for its contributions to the field, which initially entwined history and literature. The Department offers B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. For more information about American Studies at UMD, please contact americanstudies@umd.edu or visit www.amst.umd.edu.
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