18 Dr. Cynthia A. Gallardo, College of Education assistant professor of Educational Administration, was named the recipient of the honor recognizing early-career scholars whose research, teaching, and service demonstrate exceptional promise and impact in educational leadership. Her research explores how principal preparation, instructional leadership, and dual enrollment influence educational opportunity and outcomes across diverse learning environments in South Texas and the U.S.–México border region. Dr. Gallardo said she was honored to earn the Award. “I’m incredibly honored and elated to receive this recognition and be the first ever-recipient. Through data-driven research, reflection, and service, I’m committed to the field and preparing future school leaders who lead with purpose, think critically, and are driven by a deep sense of responsibility to those they serve,” she said. A dedicated scholar-practitioner, Gallardo serves as Principal Investigator of Project UP (Unveiling Perspectives), a TAMIU University Research Development Award-funded initiative examining dual enrollment across six school districts. Read more at go.tamiu.edu/gallardo-icpelaward. DR. KOZACKZA AWARDED YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES RESEARCH GRANT TAMIU associate professor of English Dr. Adam Kozaczka was recently awarded a highly selective Lewis Walpole Library Travel Grant by Yale University Libraries. The grant supported a fully funded two-week research residency at Yale’s prestigious Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, CT. Dr. Kozaczka’s research, “Pinkerton’s Racialism and the LawLiterature-Architecture Axis in Walpole and Scott,” focuses on 18th Century antiquarian John Pinkerton, whose arguments outlined early theories of racial and ethnic differences in the British Isles. “The project seeks to discover how Pinkerton’s ideas were influenced by the ongoing popularity of antiquarian research in an era still quite early in the history of writing history and of doing ethnographic research,” Dr. Kozaczka said. He emphasized the scholarly significance of the study. “Much of this is significant because it follows new scholarship from scholars like UCLA professor Saree Makdisi, who contends that in the 19th Century, discussions of what we now understand as race applied just as much to perceived differences among Europeans as it did to perceived differences between white and non-white people,” he said. The Lewis Walpole Library, a department of the Yale University Library since 1980, is an internationally recognized research collection in British 18th Century studies. Read more at go.tamiu.edu/kozaczka-walpolegrant. DR. MEHNAAZ MOMEN RECEIVES FULBRIGHT U.S. SCHOLAR AWARD Longtime TAMIU professor of Public Administration and author Dr. Mehnaaz Momen was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award to Canada for the 2024-2025 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Dr. Momen, professor in the TAMIU College of Arts and Sciences, department of Social Sciences, was the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digitization and Democracy, based in McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. (more on page 19) Dr. Mehnaaz Momen Dr. Adam Kozaczka Dr. Cynthia A. Gallardo
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