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Ph.D. Student Anna Marisa Schoen Wins Dissertation Award
Anna Marisa Schoen, Ph.D. recently won the UH Outstanding Dissertation Award. This award was given to only one humanities dissertation across the entire University, along with a $1,000 prize. Schoen鈥檚 dissertation examined the concept of the 鈥渘ation鈥� in pre-modern political theory texts. It argued that the medieval notion of nationalism is in some ways an improvement on our contemporary approach to nationalism.