The Cream Of McMicken s Crop

Story by Holly Holmes, A&S Journalism Intern

If recognition of students by external organizations is a measure of an institution’s excellence, McMicken College is clearly a winner. The following are simply a few examples of the outstanding individuals who represent the college at home and abroad.

PhD student Haimanti Roy has accepted a tenure track position in South Asian history at MIT. Recipient of the Taft Graduate Fellowship, University of Cincinnati Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship, and grants from the Social Science Research Council and English Speaking Union, Roy says her research “focuses on issues of identity and citizenship in South Asia in the context of the Bengal Partition of 1947 and post independent India.”

Classics PhD students Ryan Ricciardi and Sean Lockwood will travel halfway around the world after being awarded fellowships to Athens and Turkey. Ricciardi received a Fulbright Fellowship to the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. She plans to study Greek art, archaeology, and history from prehistoric to modern times. Sean Lockwood was offered two fellowships, both the Crake Doctoral Fellowship at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada, and a resident fellowship at the new Anatolian Civilizations Institute in Istanbul, Turkey. He accepted the one at the institute in Istanbul, which is the first of its kind.

Bridget Smith, an undergraduate linguistics and English major, has been awarded a Fulbright to study in Germany. She has also been accepted by the linguistics department at Ohio State with a full fellowship. She has a 4.0 average in her English and linguistics classes and a 3.90 overall.

Spanish graduate students Marcelo Rioseco and Arturo Guitierrez were invited to read their poetry at the XII Maratón de la Poesía (12th Poetry Marathon) at George Mason University on April 2 and 3 and will do so again at the International Poetry Convention in May in Bogotá, Columbia.

Women’s studies MA alumnae Georgine Getty and Ahoo Tabatabai were named in City Beat’s “Best of Cincinnati 2005.” Getty, executive director of the Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless, was recognized as best advocate for the homeless. Tabatabai was acknowledged for having the best open door policy in the city as director of UC’s diversity office in the student affairs division.

Undergraduate student Anne Fitzgerald won the Charles J. Ping Community Service Award for the 2004/5 school year. This honor is given to students who demonstrate exemplary service on their campuses and within their communities. Only ten students were selected out of candidates from 46 organizations participating in the Ohio Campus Contact, which gives the award.