• Our outstanding graduate students have received numerous awards during the 2021-2022 academic year. D. student Archie Crowley was awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant; Ph.D. student Lesley Smith was awarded a 2021 Duolingo Research Grant; Ph.D. students Archie Crowley and John (Spud) McCulloughwere awarded a David G. Ellison Fellowship in Southern Studies; Ph.D. student Sarah Wilsonwas awarded the Alpha Kappa Alpha Educational Advancement Foundation merit scholarship; Ph.D. students Drew Crosby and Archie Crowley were each awarded a Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellowship; Ph.D. student Archie Crowley was awarded a C.C. Royal Fellowship from the Graduate School.