DREW: Caspersen School of Graduate Studies

01/03/2025

Anyone at AHA this year?

12/02/2022

Please check the link below and submit your abstract!!!

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09/01/2022

Please join us to kick off the Fall semester at the Drew Archives 💃🏻🪩🕺

09/01/2022

Welcome back to Drew University. Wishing you all a wonderful start of the semester!!!! Follow us on IG (Caspersenatdrew)

05/12/2020

Kristen Turner, Professor and Director of Teacher Education, is the winner of the Thomas H. Kean Scholar/Mentor of the Year Award. Dr. Turner has developed teacher education programs at Drew in ways that benefit Drew students and also the surrounding communities. One of the students in the program noted that Dr. Turner has worked tirelessly to ensure that Drew’s Teacher Education program works with diverse school districts so that her students have the skills and experience to meet the needs of all the communities they will serve as educators. Another student expressed feeling “so lucky to be able to take advantage of Dr. Turner’s expertise for strategies and planning on digital pedagogy in my future classroom.” Dr. Turner’s expertise is digital literacies and is the author of The Ethics of Digital Literacy: Developing Knowledge and Skills across Grade Levels. Dr. Turner earned a BA from Bucknell University, MA from Columbia University and a PhD from Rutgers University.

Brianne Barker, Kathie Brown and Kristen Turner represent all three schools

05/08/2020

May 9 at 10:30 am, Drew will hold its virtual commencement.

Virtual Commencement on May 9 at 10:30 a.m. With pride and excitement, we will celebrate and honor the achievements of the graduates from the College of Liberal Arts, Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, and Theological School and enthusiastically invite all members of the Class of 2020 and their f...

05/07/2020

The Lisa Nocks Student Award recognizes service to the graduate community at Drew. It is awarded to Rebecca Miller. Becca has served the graduate student community in various ways as GSA president and H&C student convener. She co-organized the 5th annual Dean hopper conference ***rAF: (Re)Presenting Gender & Sexuality in History and Cultural Studies, which brought early scholars, faculty and grad students from around the world to Drew to explore intersections in history, cultural studies, and contemporary activism. In her role as H&C student convener, she organized community events, H&C areas meetings, and a colloquium with former Drew professor and guest speaker Edmong Chang, “Love Is in the Air: Q***r (Im)Possibility and Straightwashing in FrontierVille and World of Warcraft.” Becca also served as the graduate student representative on the Diversity Committee and participated in the search committee for the Director of diversity, equity and inclusion at Drew. This award is given in recognition of her service to the graduate community and dedication to issues of representation and equality.

05/07/2020

Dean Pain Community Service Award goes to Sharon Williams, Faculty Coordinator at the Theological School. Sharon is a doctoral student in the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies Doctor of Letters program, a candidate for the D. Litt degree in the Studies in Religion and the Fine Arts, and a Student Research Associate for the Religion and Global Health Forum, which is a newly formed partnership between Drew University and the Global Health Catalysts Summit at Harvard Medical School. She has been a regular contributor to the GHC Summit at Harvard Medical since 2019 and speaks for the Catalyst at Harvard on a regular basis. Her research for this Religion and Global Health partnership is divided into two major areas: 1) Religion and Global Health and the Arts and 2) Religion, Health and Culture.

05/07/2020

Dean Robert Ready Award for Putting the Humanities to Work goes to Amy Hester. Amy Hester has served at the Morristown National Historical Park and teaches critical engagement with museum practices through exhibit planning, evaluation and ex*****on. The internship is also a practical exercise in collections processing and maintenance. Since beginning her relationship with the museum, she has had the opportunity to work directly with the public at special programs and events. She is also a representative in a library committee and serves as the History and Culture student convener.

05/07/2020

The Merrill Skaggs Award for Excellence in Teaching goes to Merel Visse, Director of the Medical Humanities Program.
Merel works in the interdisciplinary fields of care ethics, care theory and qualitative and artistic inquiry.

05/07/2020

The Mary Pennywitt Lester Dissertation Award: This accolade is awarded to an outstanding PhD dissertation in History and Culture. It is awarded to Jordan Reed. Jordan has produced an exceptionally penetrating study of what may be the most widely assigned American history textbook, Thomas A. Bailey’s The American Pageant. First published in 1956, it is still a bestseller, long after Bailey’s death. Jordan has made himself an expert in a field we need to know much more about — the history of textbooks — and he persuasively explains how Bailey crafted a book that has shaped our understanding of American history across several generations.

05/07/2020

Dean Pain Award: This accolade is awarded for the best interdisciplinary doctoral dissertation that is singularly distinguished by creative thought and prose style. This prize was endowed by the family, friends and colleagues of Dean Pain upon his retirement as dean of the Caspersen School. It is awarded to Bruce Dalziel. Bruce Dalziel’s dissertation, “Roadside America”, is “singularly distinguished by creative thought and prose style.” It is also a Creative Dissertation. In the last ten years, the Pain Prize has been awarded only to one other Creative Dissertation (in 2011); the time is ripe for awarding the Prize to a Creative Dissertation student in 2020. “Bruce’s creative dissertation provides a wonderfully unique experience: a contemporary, relevant short story collection that is at times unflinching, daring and yet striving to hope for radical empathy in our current political, ideological. challenging world. He experiments with genre throughout his collection as a way of addressing these themes. He accompanies the literary collection with a fully realized visual collection of watercolors that extend beyond illustration and engage in the writing/reading/creative process. In this way alone, his project is interdisciplinary and speaks to complex dimensions of the creative process: a true nexus of arts and letters. Also, his critical portion of the dissertation is razor sharp in its observations, one of the best we’ve read in the recent past, top 5% of last 25 years.”