FACULTY AND STAFF
Assistant Professor Rachel Skaggs was named the recipient of the Mulcahy Emerging Scholar Award at the annual Social Theory, Politics and the Arts (STP&A) conference held in Seoul, South Korea. The award recognizes pre-tenure faculty and scholars for their research. In 2022 Skaggs was also awarded two federal grants
from the National Endowment for the Arts. For the first, she is the sole-PI and is conducting interviews with artists across the United States about their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the second, she is the co-PI, working with Jennifer Novak-Leonard at the University of Illinois. There, they are using data from the Strategic National Arts Alumni project to write quantitative reports about the experiences of arts graduates in the United States. For Skaggs’ part in the grant, she will author a quantitative report about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on arts graduates. For more information, visit:
GRADUATE STUDENTS AND ALUMNI
PhD candidate Molly Jo Burke received a grant through the 2021-2022 Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship (AGGRS) Program. The AGGRS program provides small grants up to $5,000 to support the research and scholarship of doctoral or terminal master’s degree candidates for their dissertations or theses. Burke also received a Studio at Corning Museum of Glass scholarship to complete a two-week workshop with renowned glass artists Karina Guévin and Cédric Ginart.
PhD candidate Adéwálé Adénlé won the 2022 Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Essay Award from the Associationfor Africanist Anthropology (AfAA) section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) for his essay “Dialogue with the Spirit and the Spectacle: Re/Contextualizing Yoruba Spiritual Objects in American Art Museums.”
PhD candidate Noor Murteza received a $20,000 Arts Partnership Grant from the Ohio Arts Council and Dublin Arts Council to continue her research under the programming title “Patterns in Nature.” Murteza was also the recipient of the Council of Graduate Students Career Development Grant which helps graduate students to prepare for placement into their chosen field.
PhD candidate Megan Wanttie received the Manuel Barkan Fellowship Award. In connection with the award, Wanttie delivered a lecture at the 2022 Barkan and Marantz Award Lecture Series.
PhD candidate Gillian Kim won the Emily Mulchay Student Research Award at the annual Social Theory, Politics and the Arts (STP&A) conference held in Seoul, South Korea. The award is given to the top doctoral research presentation at the conference.
PhD student Xiaoxiao Bao received the International Leadership Scholarship. The scholarship was established in 2012 by Dr. Lu and the Asian Festival Corporation for students whose leadership activities have benefited local communities.
PhD student Polina Isurin received a 2022 John Fergus Family Scholarship. The John Fergus Family Scholarship is a juried art competition open to studio-based visual art and design students at The Ohio State University where scholarship recipients exhibited their work at the annual Fergus Scholarship Award Exhibition at Urban Arts Space.
AAEP PhD student Robin Amy Gordon was granted a $12,000 budget by the Council of Graduate Students (CGS) to fulfill her proposal as Chair of CGS’s Arts & Culture Committee to bring the Center for Artistic Activism to The Ohio State University for a week-long hybrid workshop titled Unstoppable Voters: Columbus.
PhD candidate Andrea Luque Karam was appointed the full-time position of Managing Director of the Mizzou New Music Initiative in the University of Missouri. This initiative is one of its kind, and administrates the composition area of the school of music. This job combines different passions and skills, including music composition, education and higher education.
"The amount of opportunities that we have for the community and school-age children in combination with the quality of the guests that we are able to bring to campus, are beyond what I would have envision to be a part of.”
– Andrea Luque Karam
Alum Ruth Smith received the Marantz Distinguished Alumni Lecture Award. Each year, graduate students in the department select the winner. The Marantz Distinguished Alumni Lecture Fund was established in 1999 with gifts from Harold and Kenneth Marantz to honor a distinguished alum of the program.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Bachelor of Art Education student Caroline Bootes was selected to receive the 2022 Baer scholarship.
Bachelor of Art Education students Serena DeNoto and Zach Seltzer received the 2022 Pyne scholarship.
Bachelor of Art Education students Olivia Durbin, Nicole Reiss, and Sydney Rankin received the 2022 Snow scholarship.
Bachelor of Art Education student Allie Guagenti received a 2022 Schwartz scholarship.
Bachelor of Arts Management student Braydon Tomak received a 2022 Schwartz scholarship.
