Past Winners
Rising Scholar Speaker Series
2007-2008
Matthew Barreto
Lorrie A. Frasure
Ismail White
Nominated by: Christina Wolbrecht
Political Science Department
Japa Pallikkathayil
Nominated by: Paul Weithman
Philosophy Department
2006-2007
Andrea Campbell
Mariah Zeisberg
Michael Owens
Nominated by: Christina Wolbrecht
Political Science Department
2005-2006
Colleen Murphy
Nominated by: Paul Weithman
Philosophy Department
2004-2005
Melanie Domenech Rodriquez
Lisa Flores & Sumie Okazai
Nominated by: Don Pope-Davis & Irene Kim
Psychology Department
2003-2004
Miguel Diaz
Recommended by John Cavadini & Timothy Matovina
Theology Department
Colleen Shogan
Recommended by Rodney Hero, Christina Wolbrecht & Peri Arnold
Political Science
2001-2002
Alberta Gloria, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nancy Hill, Duke University
Beverly Vandiver, Penn. State University
Psychology Department
Maria Franklin, University of Texas at Austin, and Senior Research Fellow
in the Department of Archaeological Research in Colonial Williamsburg
Anthropology Department
Carla O'Connor, University of Michigan
Program on the Social Organization of Schools
Raul Gomez, Sacred Heart School of Theology in Hales Corners, Wisconsin
Theology Department
Nichole Rustin, Chancellor's Minority Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, Afro-American Studies and Research Program
African American Studies Department
Xiomara Santamarina, University of Michigan
Gender Studies Program
Thomas Kelly, Society of Fellows at Harvard University
Department of Philosophy