Arts and Humanities
A musical collaboration by Mathew Rosenblum was performed in Poland and Boston
“Lament/Witches’ Sabbath” tells the story of Rosenblum’s grandmother, whose family fled Proskurov, Ukraine, in 1919 during that town’s massacre.
Jeanne Marie Laskas penned an essay on Mr. Rogers in The New York Times Magazine
“Fred believed that the creative process was a fundamental function at the core of every human being,” the Distinguished Professor of English wrote.
Alumna Rachel Ann Brickner received the Miller Audio Prize
The MFA graduate is also a part-time instructor in Pitt’s Department of English.
Michel Gobat was honored for his book by the American Historical Association
Gobat will receive the Friedrich Katz Prize for “Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America.”
Ervin Dyer received a Pulitzer Center international reporting grant
Pitt Magazine’s senior editor will use the grant to report from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on an emerging and innovative urban church and its pastor.
2 Pitt faculty members won a documentary feature award
Robert Clift and Hillary Demmon were recognized for “Making Montgomery Clift.”
2 Pitt people received grants from National Endowment for the Humanities
David Birnbaum and Kathryn Haines earned funding in digital humanities and American history, respectively.
Professor Emerita Toi Derricotte earned a Modern Language Association award
Derricotte received the award along with the colleague with whom she founded Cave Canem, a national poetry organization that cultivates “the artistic and professional growth of African American poets.”
Sylvia Rhor Samaniego was selected for a Getty Leadership Institute program
The University Art Gallery director was among 35 museum leaders selected for the Executive Education for Museum Professionals cohort this year.
A new Hillman Library exhibit chronicles Holocaust-era French Jews
See the exhibit by alumnus David L. Rosenberg on display throughout August.