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Philathia Bolton received a year-long Purdue Research Foundation award.
Heidi Freeman was awarded the Brown-Forman Travel Grant last fall to attend the National Council of Black Studies conference in Atlanta this past March, where she gave a paper titled, "The Petrified Monkey and His Canaries in the Coal Mine: An Examination of Father-Daughter Relationships in Danzy Senna's Caucasia," on a panel with Dr. Venetria Patton. She was invited to be a panel participant for "Difficult Dialogues on Race and Queer Identity," a project AMST co-sponsors with the Black Cultural Center at Purdue. She was the keynote speaker for the first annual Women's Studies Awards Banquet at Purdue in April, 2009, where she gave a talk on "The Tarajia Project: Bringing Hope for the Future," an after-school program at Jefferson High School in Lafayette.
Heidi's paper titled "Sometimes a Soldier Falls on His Own Sword': Examining Father-Daughter Relationships in Kasi Lemmons' Eve's Bayou" was accepted for the 2009 National Women's Studies Association annual conference in Atlanta this November.
Rachel Smederovac was accepted to attend the Byron Fellowship, a course in Sustainable Community Building, from May 17-22, 2009, with a full scholarship. It was held at Turkey Run State Park and is in partnership with Yale University.
Erik Wade received an Honorary Award from the Black Cultural Center for his service as co-scholar-of-residence for the inaugural year of the Black Thought Collective, a black think tank comprised of undergraduate and graduate students.