Stephanie Laudone (M.A. 2006) is currently writing Identity Work on Facebook, a doctoral dissertation about Facebook, the social networking service and website. Stephanie’s paper, on her dissertation findings, was the co-winner of the Racial and Ethnic Minorities Division Graduate Student Paper Award at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Assistant Professor Micki McGee receives National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Start-Up Grant

Assistant Professor Micki McGee received a Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant of $24,937 from the National Endowment for the Humanities in April 2011. The grant will support the Compatible Database Initiative: Fostering Interoperable Data for Network Mapping and Visualization, of which McGee is Project Director, to support workshops and the development of a consortium to generate standards for shared, interoperable data sets for humanities‑based network analysis projects.