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Scottsdale, AZ – The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) has awarded the 2011 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities to Dr. George C. Grinnell, Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. The awards ceremony was held during the CGS 51st Annual Meeting.
The Arlt Award is given annually to a young scholar-teacher who has written a book deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to scholarship in the humanities. Dr. Grinnell becomes the award’s 40th recipient for The Age of Hypochondria: Interpreting Romantic Health and Illness (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He received a Ph.D. in English from McMaster University in 2005.
The Age of Hypochondria is a result of interdisciplinary research; by examining medical and literary writings from the Romantic period, Dr. Grinnell offers readers insight into hypochondria, “a disorder of the very ability to distinguish between illness and health.” Hermione de Almeida, Pauline Water Chair in Comparative Literature at the University of Tulsa noted that the book’s “choice of subject and authors treated will give it a distinct and original place among the roster of good books on Romantic medicine published in recent years.”
Created in 1971, the Arlt Award honors the first president of CGS. The winner must have earned a doctorate within the past seven years from, and currently be teaching at, a North American university. Nominations are made by CGS member institutions and are reviewed by a panel of scholars in the field of competition, which rotates annually among seven disciplines within the humanities. This year’s field was English and North American Language and Literature. The winner receives a $1,000 honorarium, a certificate, and travel to the awards ceremony.
The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) is an organization of over 500 institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada engaged in graduate education, research, and the preparation of candidates for advanced degrees. Among U.S. institutions, CGS members award 92% of the doctoral degrees and 77% of the master’s degrees.* The organization’s mission is to improve and advance graduate education, which it accomplishes through advocacy in the federal policy arena, research, and the development and dissemination of best practices.
* Based on data from the 2010 CGS/GRE Survey of Graduate Enrollment and Degrees
As the national advocate for graduate education, CGS serves as a resource for policymakers and others on issues concerning graduate education, research, and scholarship. Based in Washington, DC, the organization provides its members with regular updates and analyses of legislative and regulatory proposals and policies that affect graduate education.
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