United States
Higher education professional passionate about diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Experienced at writing for diverse audiences on a variety of platforms.
AWARDS:
Communication Innovator Award, American Women in Communication Bloomington/Normal Chapter Spring 2019
Alumni Community Service Award, Multicultural Leadership Institute, April 2022
Faculty and center awards
Tserenchunt Legden, senior lecturer for Mongolian in the Hamilton Lugar School Department of Central Eurasian Studies (CEUS), recently received the prestigious Order of the Red Banner of Labour from the Mongolian government. The award was presented on October 21 by O. Batbayar, Mongolian ambassador to the U.S., in a ceremony at the 2023 Mongolia Society...
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn named Jean Monnet Chair of Migration and Refugee Studies The Hamilton Lugar School's Institute of European Studies (EURO) recently received two prestigious three-year awards from the Erasmus+ program of the European Union-a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence grant, and a lump-sum award to establish Elizabeth Cullen Dunn as the Jean Monnet Chair...
The American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR) Winter 2022 and Spring 2023 Newsletter highlighted awards the organization had presented to Mark Trotter and Ani Abrahamyan of the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute (REEI) and recognized recent graduate Nicholas "Niko" Siambekos for his scholarship in Russian.
Asma Afsaruddin, professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures in the Hamilton Lugar School (HLS) has been named the Class of 1950 Herman B Wells Endowed Professor by Indiana University in recognition of her extraordinary scholarship and teaching, her deep concern for the well-being of students and her devotion to diversity, inclusion, and academic excellence....
The Hamilton Lugar School's Wendy Leutert is one of three recipients of the 2022 Emerging Scholars Policy Prize from Foreign Affairs and University of Pennsylvania Perry World House. The prize recognizes original research presented in an essay that is easily accessible to policymakers and the broader public.
The Rich and the Pure cited as 'a major influence on future studies' Hamilton Lugar School (HLS) Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Daniel Caner's book, The Rich and the Pure: Philanthropy and the Making of Christian Society in Early Byzantium (University of California, 2021), has been awarded the 2022 Philip Schaff Prize by the...
Student success
Jennifer Byrne recently completed a seven-month Boren Graduate Fellowship in Riga, Latvia, preparing her for a career in public diplomacy. The fellowship provided the opportunity for her to spend a year in Latvia with a goal of improving her fluency in both Russian and Ukrainian while studying Russian propaganda, disinformation, and media censorship.
Seven students from Indiana University (IU) Bloomington participated in the U.S. Department of State's Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program during the summer of 2023. They are among approximately 500 competitively selected American students at U.S. colleges and universities who received a CLS award in 2023. The award, funded by the U.S.
Maddie Butler's advice to incoming first-year students is to "value community over competition." She learned from experience - after four years of community leadership, Butler graduated from the Hamilton Lugar School (HLS) in May 2023 with a B.A. in International Law & Institutions, a B.A. in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures on the Arabic language...
Hamilton Lugar School (HLS) graduate Kyle Tucker has been named as a fall 2023 Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow, placing him in a highly selective program where he will spend a year as a researcher for a think tank or NGO (non-governmental organization) in Washington, D.C.