Arts and Humanities
Michel Gobat was named a finalist for the PROSE Award
The associate professor of history is being honored for his book, “Empire by Invitation.”
Justin Phillip Reed was named a Center for African American Poetry and Poetics fellow
A South Carolina native, the “Indecency” author won the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry and was a finalist for the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
Undergraduate John R. Starr won a Beinecke Scholarship
The $34,000 award will fund graduate studies for the Bachelor of Philosophy student.
The Pitt News business staff won 8 national college media awards
Rachel Buck earned second place in the Best Advertising Manager category; Kyle Guinness took home third for Best Sales Representative.
Dawn Lundy Martin won the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
She is a professor in the Writing Program and the co-founder of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.
Marcus Rediker examined the historical context of a Spielberg film in a new essay
The distinguished professor compared “Amistad” to his own extensive research on the 19th-century rebellion.
Linda Wharton Boyd was named a top woman in public relations
The former president of Pitt’s African American Alumni Council is the director of communications, external affairs and strategic stakeholder engagement for the DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority.
Oscar Swan translated a Holocaust-era diary written by a Warsaw ghetto survivor
Leokadia Schmidt’s son recently contacted the Pitt professor about publishing his translation from 1972.
A University of Pittsburgh Press publication is in the running for an America Literary Award
Shauna Barbosa’s “Cape Verdean Blues” is a semifinalist in the PEN Open Book Award category.
A Pitt PhD student will debut a new opera
On Dec. 14 and 15, Jazz Studies scholar Benjamin Barson will present “Mirror Butterfly: the Migrant Liberation Movement Suite” at the Kelly Strayhorn Theatre.