Kudos is an occasional column that recognizes Dartmouth faculty, students, and staff who have received awards or other honors. Did you or a colleague recently receive an award or honor? Please tell us about it: dartmouth.news@dartmouth.edu.
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Novelist Katie Crouch, a lecturer in English and creative writing, has been longlisted for the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, which recognizes writers mid-career. Crouch is the bestselling author of four books, including, most recently, Embassy Wife. The shortlist will be announced in March and the winner named in April.
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Melody Brown Burkins, Guarini ’95, ’98, director of the Institute of Arctic Studies, has been appointed the UArctic Chair in science diplomacy and inclusion for the next five years. Burkins, who also serves as senior associate director in the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and adjunct professor in the Department of Environmental Studies, is a polar scientist with experience in public policy, international diplomacy and Arctic science.
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Susannah Heschel, the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, in November. She also was a panelist at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day commemorative service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Dr. King’s home pulpit.
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Joanne Conroy ’77, CEO and president of Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health and a professor of anesthesiology at the Geisel School of Medicine, has been named the New Hampshire Union Leader’s Citizen of the Year for her role in leading New Hampshire’s largest medical system through the pandemic.
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Sujin Eom, a lecturer in Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages, has been named one of the five recipients of the 2022 SAH IDEAS Research Fellowship by the Society of Architectural Historians. Eom is a scholar of architectural and urban studies working at the intersection of race, migration, and the built environment.
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Fiona McEnany, a microbiology and immunology student at the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, was named 2021 Young Person of the Year by Stay Work Play New Hampshire.