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The
Annual "Best Dissertation" Award Recipients
Each
year the University of Minnesota Graduate School recognizes the University's
top recent Ph.D. graduates by presenting ‘best dissertation’ awards.
The recipients receive an honorarium of $1,000 and a special certificate.
Winners will be honored at a June 9 lunch and ceremony at the Campus
Club. The award is given in each of four broad disciplinary areas:
Arts
& Humanities (including history
and philosophy)
Biological
& Medical Sciences
Physical
Sciences & Engineering
Social
& Behavioral Sciences & Education
The
winners in 2004 are as follows:
Arts
& Humanities — Jennifer Mary Guglielmo, History
Adviser:
Professor David Roediger
Dissertation:
“Negotiating Gender, Race, and Coalition: Italian Women and Working
Class Politics in New York City, 1880-1945”
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Current
Position: Assistant Professor, Smith College
Biological
and Medical Sciences — Jason Paul Harmon, Entomology
Adviser:
Professor David Andow
Dissertation:
“Indirect Interactions among a Generalist Predator and its Multiple
Foods”
Current
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California/Davis
Physical
Sciences and Engineering — Sherri
Weers Hunt, Chemistry
Adviser:
Professor Kenneth Leopold
Dissertation:
“Structural Studies of Partially Bonded and Hydrogen Bonded Molecules”
Current
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California/Irvine
Social
& Behavioral Sciences & Education — Michele E. Tertilt, Economics
Adviser:
Professor Larry E. Jones
Dissertation:
“Essays on Social Institutions”
Current
Position: Assistant Professor, Stanford University
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