Honors

Rhett Miller, 2026 Kathwari Spring Seminars

Nicole Jabanoski — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:23:05 +0000

On April 24, Rhett Miller visited campus as part of the 2026 Kathwari Honors Spring Seminar series. An icon of Americana and contemporary songwriting, Miller has released 13 albums with Old97s and 10 solo albums, most recently A lifetime of riding by night. Miller is also the creator of the Wheels Off podcast, for which he has interviewed many of the greats of contemporary Americana music and…

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HON 498 Crossing the Danger Water Explores the Middle Passage’s Cultural Significance

Nicole Jabanoski — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:42:25 +0000

Dr. Donald Gagnon teaches HON 498 Crossing the Danger Water and recently led three field studies that were essential to student learning. Professor Gagnon writes, “All semester, we’ve been studying The Middle Passage, the central part of the Atlantic slave trade, in order to discover common phenomena and the centrality of its significance in African American culture. Students then are taking our…

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Dr. Leslie Lindenauer, Incoming Honors Director, Is Excited to Step into a New Role

Nicole Jabanoski — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:25:08 +0000

Dr. Lindenauer, Professor of History, Philosophy & World Perspectives, will serve as Director of the Kathwari Honors Program starting in Fall 2026. As an Honors Faculty member who has worked with the program for over a decade, she is excited to step into this role. Dr. Lindenauer writes, “I know I have big shoes to fill; Dr. Clements’ leadership over the past three years has strengthened…

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Kathwari Honors Students Anja Westenberg & Patrick Keegan Accepted to Partners in Peace

Nicole Jabanoski — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:03:27 +0000

The Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway Honors students Anja Westenberg (Class of 2028) and Patrick Keegan (Class of 2027) have been accepted to Partners in Peace for Fall 2026. This program is a collaboration between the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) and the Nobel Peace Center, located in Oslo, Norway. The semester-long study includes weekly virtual sessions as well as two…

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Kathwari Honors Student Karrina Furtado Engages with Academics and Culture in Greece

Nicole Jabanoski — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:24:05 +0000

During the fall semester, Karrina Furtado, senior Public Health major and Kathwari Honors student, studied abroad in Thessaloniki, Greece. Furtado chose this program because it offered a variety of courses in the Humanities and Psychology, her minor, as well as options to fulfill prerequisites for graduate study in Occupational Therapy. The program also gave Furtado the opportunity to experience…

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Honors Capstone Students Submit Projects to International Design Competition

Nicole Jabanoski — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:04:30 +0000

Students in Professor Clements’ HON 400 – Honors Capstone Seminar completed projects for 120 Hours, an international student architectural design competition based in Norway. The competition is centered around a sustainability issue. This year, the focus was on an Arctic area in Norway where tourism is invading the territory of a native bird called the Kittiwake. The winning team will receive 30…

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Kathwari Honors Student Razi Naouali Makes An Impact on Campus in His First Year

Nicole Jabanoski — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:26:56 +0000

Razi Naouali is in his first year at �Թ�ͷ��, but he is already very involved on campus as a Kathwari Honors student, a member of the men’s soccer team, an SGA senator, and now as a student ambassador in the president’s office. Naouali learned about the Honors Program at the beginning of the fall semester and decided to apply. He has appreciated his experiences so far, especially the smaller class…

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Conversing with the Devil

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:37:07 +0000

The first half of this honors course will explore the social, political, economic, and religious context for Salem Witch Trials, with an emphasis on the construction of gender in the seventeenth century. The second half of the course will examine changing representations of the Salem Trials from the seventeenth century to the present and include field study in Salem and a group project addressing…

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Queer Art of Failure

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:17:53 +0000

In a culture obsessed with success, failure has a bad rap. We pay lip service to the importance of failure, but it has no place in our lives beyond our private shame. Yet, failure has been a recurring theme in art for centuries, whether it emerges as a failure of craft or ideology. One could argue that every shift in artistic style and expression has been a kind of failure to adhere to the…

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Kathwari Honors Alumna Mikayla Silkman Developed Her Passion for Teaching at �Թ�ͷ��

Nicole Jabanoski — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:13:06 +0000

12/1/2025 After completing her BA and MFA at �Թ�ͷ��, Mikayla Silkman is now an adjunct professor teaching in the Kathwari Honors Program and the Department of Creative & Professional Writing. During the spring semester, Silkman will serve as Interim Assistant Director of the Honors Program until April. Silkman credits her own Honors Program experience with developing her passion for…

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