Student Honors, Awards, & Activities - 2007-2009

Honors and Awards

The Graduate Program in French Studies is pleased to announce the following student honors and awards.

• Sara Phenix was awarded the Dissertation Completion Fellowship to continue work on her dissertation, "Fashionable Feminity: Modernity and la Mode in the Realist Novel of the Second Empire." This fellowship provides a stipend in the amount of $21,630, health benefits, and tuition for the Academic Year 2009-10.

• Namrata Poddar was selected for the position of African Studies Graduate Research Assistant for Academic Year 2008-09.

• Kat Alexandrova, Anne Bornschein, Katherine Cardin, Jessica Garcés Jenson, Samuel Martin, Ian McConnon, Lucy Swanson, and Hervé Tchumkam won the Dean's Summer Fellowship in 2009 in the amount of $812.50 each to be used for research purposes.

• Jessica Garcés Jenson, Namrata Poddar, and Angelina Stelmach won the Dean's Summer Fellowship in 2008 in the amount of $1,750 each to be used for research purposes.

• Both Arcana Albright and Elizabeth McCartney were awarded funding ($1,500 and $4,000 respectively) for the summer of 2007 from the Penfield Fellowship to assist with expenses incurred in connection with their dissertation research.

• François Massonnat was awarded the Dean’s Summer Fellowship in 2007 in the amount of $3,500 to be used for research purposes in Paris, France.

• Angelina Stelmach was awarded $6,000 by the Center for Teaching and Learning’s Graduate Fellowships for Teaching Excellence for 2007-2008.  This fellowship will assist Angelina in fostering conversations about graduate student teaching.  Angelina was also a recipient of the Dean’s Summer Fellowship in the amount of $3,500 to be used to go to the Dartmouth Summer Program in the summer of 2007.

For Further Information

Lisbeth Dennis
Graduate Coordinator
University of Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
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