The CUNY Baccalaureate Blog

Claire Beresford (Poetics of Space / Sound into Language, The Articulatory Gesture) received the Catalina Paez & Seumas MacManus Award for her volume of poems Music You Don’t Need Ears For.  The award is sponsored by the Academy of American Poets and administered by Hunter College.  She was also awarded the Memorial Scholarship for Students in Education or Human Services from the CUNY Baccalaureate.

Jerin Alam (Marketing and Public Relations/ Business Administration) was recently given a CUNY Student Activities Award. She was also the only student invited to speak during the Feminist Majority Foundation’s “National Young Women’s Leadership Conference: What’s at Stake in 2008?” in Washington, DC, in which she moderated a panel on global feminism. The conference drew students from all over the country and included influential activists such as Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, NOW President Kim Gandy, and Feminist Majority Foundation President Eleanor Smeal.

George Farnum (Black Literature in a Global Culture/Creative Writing) received the Ottilie Grabanier Drama Award for his playwriting from Brooklyn College, in addition to placing second for a number of other Brooklyn College writing awards.

Kayhan Irani (Theatre and Social Change) co-edited a book that has just been published by Routledge Press and is available at http://www.routledge.com/books/Telling-Stories-to-Change-the-World-isbn9780415960809 or on Amazon (among other places). “Telling Stories to Change the World: Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims” is a powerful collection of essays about community-based and interest-based projects where storytelling is used as a strategy for speaking out for justice. Contributors from across the globe—including Uganda, Darfur, China, Afghanistan, South Africa, New Orleans, and Chicago—describe grassroots projects in which communities use storytelling as a way of exploring what a more just society might look like and what civic engagement means. A book release party will take place on Friday, June 20th 2008 - 7:30 PM at The Brecht Forum, 451 West St. (on the corner of Bank St.). For more details visit http://www.artivista.org/

Jared Rodriguez (History of the Americas) has been admitted to and will attend a Summer Research Training Program at the University of Chicago where he will work with a faculty member in the history department to develop his research project on the development of Afro-Brazilian political consciousness in the post dictatorship period. In addition, he was named a Josh and Judy Weston Public Service Scholar.