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Congratulations to Dr. Patrick Pynes, Public Humanities
Congratulations to Public Humanities Lecturer Dr. Patrick Pynes! He received the Arizona Forward 2018 Crescordia Award for Environmental Excellence for his collaborative work with the Northern Arizona Pollinator Habitat Initiative (NAPHI). NAPHI won the award for Site Development and Landscape for their innovative work in support of endangered pollinators, such as monarch butterflies, native bees, and honeybees. NAU staff, students, and faculty worked together for two years to support NAPHI's commitment to create, protect, and register pollinator habitats across northern…
Congratulations to Dr. Tara Kohn, Art History & Museum Studies
Congratulations to art historian Dr. Tara Kohn! She received an honorable mention award for her Fall 2018 essay, "Elevated: Along the Fringes of 291 Fifth Avenue", in the Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art Panorama in the competition for the Director's Essay Prize at the National Portrait Gallery.
New Faculty Publication by Dr. Gioia Woods, Public Humanities
Congratulations to Public Humanities Professor Gioia Woods on her recent publication Left in the West: Literature, Culture, and Progressive Politics in the American West (University of Nevada Press, 2018)! In this edited collection, Dr. Gioia Woods and her contributors bring together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about the literary and cultural Left in the American West—as it is distinct from the more often-theorized literary left in major eastern metropolitan centers. Left in the West expands our understanding of what constitutes the literary…