November 26, 2007
Young liberal arts alumni recognized with award
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Amanda Brown Lopez, Aram Goudsouzian and Emily Rosko were the recipients of the 2007 Emerging Voice Award, given by the College of Liberal Arts Alumni Board.
"This is the first year for such an award, which is directed to Purdue liberal arts alumni who are 40 years old and younger and are making great strides toward accomplishing their goals and dreams," said Chris Sharp, director of alumni relations and special events for the College of Liberal Arts. "The alumni board is honoring people who have shown true potential and initiative in their respective fields."
Brown Lopez earned her bachelor's degree in law and society from Purdue in 2001 and a master's degree from the University of Michigan in 2004. She is the child welfare policy director for the Association of Community Human Service Agencies in Los Angeles. She represents 83 child welfare, mental health and probation private, nonprofit member agencies, as well as manages the policy direction of child welfare in Los Angeles County.
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Goudsouzian earned his doctorate in history from Purdue in 2002. He earned a bachelor's degree from Colby College in 1994 and a master's degree from the University of Massachusetts at Boston in 1997. Goudsouzian is an assistant professor at the University of Memphis. After completing his doctorate, he taught at Suffolk University, the University of Massachusetts at Boston and Hamilton College before joining the Memphis faculty. He is the author of two books, "The Hurricane of 1938" and "Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon."
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Rosko earned her bachelor's degree in English in 2001 from Purdue and a master's degree in 2003 from Cornell University. She is in the doctoral program at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Before starting the doctoral program, she was chosen from 1,300 applicants to be one of 10 to receive the Wallace Stegner Writing Fellowship in Poetry at Stanford University, where she studied for two years. Emily has received numerous awards, fellowships and grants, including the Iowa Poetry Prize for her first book of poetry, "Raw Goods Inventory."
More information about the alumni award nomination process is available online at https://www.cla.purdue.edu/alumnifriends/.
Writer: Amy Patterson Neubert, (765) 494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu
Source: Chris Sharp, (765) 494-7884, ctsharp@purdue.edu
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