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Awards and Scholarships

The English Department seeks to encourage remarkable achievements throughout the year, but officially recognizes its outstanding students at the end of Spring semester during the Awards Ceremony. Here are application forms and the awards granted during the past few years, several of which are not given every year; some include monetary awards, while others do not.

In addition to these opportunities, the department's Graduate Student Advisory Board and the university's Office of Research and Sponsored Programs offers travel and research grants. All scholarships and awards are given to deserving and promising students at the discretion of the department, and will be awarded without regard to race, sex, religion, color, national origin, physical or mental handicap, age, or status as a Vietnam era veteran.

Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award

2007: Dr. Fred Johnson, “Net Work: Social Networks, Disruptive Agency, and Innovation in Howells, Fitzgerald, Heller, Pynchon, and Gibson.”

2006: Dr. Carmen Siering, “Rhetorical Vision: Resistance, Fantasy, and the Work of Texts in Creating and Sustaining Subculture"

2004: Dr. Luz Rincon, "Middle-Class Spanish of the City of Bucaramanga, Columbia"

2003: Dr. Carolyn Goffman, “`More Than the Conversion of Souls’: Rhetoric and Ideology at the American College for Girls, Istanbul, 1871-1923”

Distinguished Master's Thesis Award

2004: Doyle Haessler

University Graduate Fellowships

Recipients for 2007-2008

  • Kathleen Champlin
  • Stephen Jones

Recipients for 2005

  • Heidi Skurat Harris
  • Aaron Housholder
  • Shu Ping Nall
  • Timothy Nall
  • Daneryl Nier-Weber
  • Yuli Wang

Recipients for 2004

  • Amber Buck
  • Carrie Conley
  • Jamie Mellen

Creative Arts and Research Graduate Awards

Recipients for 2004

  • Fahad Alqurashi
  • Ali Bogun
  • Shizuko Ozaki
  • Theodore Plothe

Frances Mayhew Rippy Scholarship

This scholarship was established by the family, friends, and students of Dr. Frances Mayhew Rippy in honor of her forty-two years of teaching English at Ball State University (1959-2001).  The purpose of the fund is to assist outstanding graduate students majoring in literature in English at Ball State University.

Recipients for 2008

  • Jill Leisgang
  • Corby Roberson

Recipients for 2007

  • Aaron Householder
  • Patricia Leaf
  • Murray Montague

Dr. Janet Ross Scholarship

Application deadline: February 27, 2009

The Dr. Janet Ross Scholarship for Teachers of English as a Second Language is a merit award. The amount may be divided among several students, if so recommended by the selection committee. The recipient must be enrolled in one of the following programs: Teaching Major in English/Language Arts in combination with English as a Second Language Licensure Program; M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL); or M.A. in Linguistics and TESOL. The recipient shall display those characteristics of scholarship, character, and leadership which, in the judgment of the selection committee, are considered essential for success in the field of teaching English as a second language.

Recent Scholarship Winners

2009: 

  • Hilary Brown
  • Phillip Call

2008: 

  • Karen Broo
  • Kathleen Ulrey

Voss English Research Award

This award was established by Drs. Gert and Anemarie Voss to support applied or theoretical research in literature in the Department of English.  Any M.A. or Ph.D. candidate with a concentration in literature or a M.A. general concentration in the Department of English is eligible.

Recent Award Winners:

2009:

  • Nathan Myers
  • Ryan Stryffeler

2008:

  • Stephen Jones
  • Nathan Myers

2007:

  • Heidi Skurat Harris
  • Andrea Powell Jenkins
  • Rebecca Norman

2006:

  • Rachel Baumgardner
  • Abigail Comber

2005:

  • Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick

 

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