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2024 Recipients

2024 International Awards: Katie Carline

Gill-Chin Lim Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Global Studies

 

Published: Tuesday, 26 Mar 2024   Author: Jonathan Gibson

 

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Katie Carline

Katie Carline is the 2024 recipient of the Gill-Chin Lim Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Global Studies, which recognizes one graduate student each year for their outstanding MSU doctoral dissertation focusing on global studies, including its intellectual contributions and innovative methodology.

Carline is a historian of gender, religion, cities and consumer culture in South Africa. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Her current research and book manuscript investigate the history of Black women's church-based organizing in urban South Africa. This project uses oral histories and written records to examine how members of popular women's religious associations practiced their shared identities as "Christian public mothers" in ways that transformed the physical and cultural shapes of a segregated city. Her research engages with similar themes on a transnational scale as well, tracing African women's involvement in ecumenical religious organizations during the era of decolonization in Africa.

Carline also maintains an interest in digital methods for historical research and the history of digital technology. Her scholarship has been published in The Journal of African History, the Canadian Journal of African Studies and the Journal of Southern African Studies.

 

“As an historian, it's important to me to examine Africa's connections and contributions to global history in my teaching and scholarship, because this helps me and my students understand the challenges and possibilities of our own world today.” - Katie Carline

 

Carline was nominated by Peter Alegi, a professor in the Department of History. “Dr. Katie Carline is a brilliant emerging scholar, an enterprising researcher, a magnificent writer, and an ethical person with an impeccable work ethic,” said Alegi.

 

2024 Award Recipients

 

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Edward D. Walker

University Distinguished Professor, Department of Microbiology, Genetics, and Immunology


College of Natural Science

 

Ralph H. Smuckler Award for Advancing International Studies and Programs at MSU

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Yadu Pokhrel

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering


College of Engineering

 

John K. Hudzik Emerging Leader in Advancing International Studies and Programs

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Jing Wang

Ph.D., Physics (1999)


Cofounder and Chairman, FinTell Inc.

 

Joon S. Moon Distinguished International Alumni Award

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Lei Chen

Ph.D., Statistics (1997)


Managing Director, Head of Fraud Risk for Lending and Fraud Data Science for the Consumer and Community Banking, JPMorgan Chase

 

Joon S. Moon Distinguished International Alumni Award

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Peter Lemmer

Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Counsel


GreenStone Farm Credit Services

 

Glen L. Taggart Award for Community Contributions to International Understanding

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Katie Carline

Ph.D., History (2023)


College of Social Science

 

Gill-Chin Lim Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Global Studies

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George W. Bird

Professor Emeritus, Department of Entomology

 

College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

 

Special Recognition Award for Promoting International Understanding

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Callista B. Rakhmatov

Global Network Specialist


College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

 

Charles A. Gliozzo International Award for Public Diplomacy

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Rochisshil Varma

President, International Students Association

 

Undergraduate student, College of Engineering and Honors College

 

Homer Higbee International Education Award

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Ishwari Kapale

Vice President, International Students Association

 

Undergraduate student, College of Engineering

 

Homer Higbee International Education Award

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Mary Hennessey

Past Director, Volunteer English Tutoring Program

 

International Studies and Programs

 

Homer Higbee International Education Award

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Gail A. Vander Stoep

Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Community Sustainability

 

College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

 

MSU Award for Outstanding Service to Education Abroad

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Jonathan Choti

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures


College of Arts & Letters

 

MSU Award for Outstanding Service to Education Abroad

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Lisa Tiemann

Associate Professor, Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences


College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

 

Carl K. Eicher International Development Award