Funded Graduate Students

Hauck Auditorium and Shibles Hall closed Monday morning October 7

Posted: October 07, 2024 - 9:36 AM

Hauck Auditorium and Shibles Hall are currently without power and are closed for repairs Monday morning. Morning classes in those buildings are canceled. Power is expected to be restored this afternoon. Class of 1944 and the Collins Center for the Arts will have a power outage from 10 – 10:15 a.m. Murray Hall will also be without power during this time. Students should contact their instructors if they have any questions. A follow up message will be sent once the buildings are reopened.

Funded Graduate Students 2024-2025

Medha Bhattacharyya
CanAm Center Fellow (PHD Communications and Journalism)

Dissertation Title: “Foodways in South Asian Diaspora Literature in Canada and the United States.”

Medha.Bhattacharyya@maine.edu

David Coombs
NEAPQ (PHD History) david.coombs@maine.edu

Rachel Darling
NEAPQ (PHD Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology)

Dissertation Title: “American Woodcock Migration and Offshore Wind Energy in the Gulf of Maine.”

Rachel.darling@maine.edu

Gianna DeJoy CanAm Center Fellow (PHD Anthropology and Environmental Policy)

Dissertation Title: “Rural Maternity Care and Climate Change in the Northeastern Borderlands.”

gianna.dejoy@maine.edu

Lara Johannson
FLAS (MA French)

Joelle Kilchenmann
CanAm Fellow (PHD Ecology and Environmental Sciences)

Working Dissertation Title: “Adaptation and Risk taking in the Homarus Americanus Fishing Fleet.“

joelle.kilchenmann@maine.edu

Greyson Kurtz
FLAS (PHD Interdisciplinary)

Working Dissertation Title: “Community-based Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey Language Reclamation.”

greyson.kutz@maine.edu

Tom Pinette
FLAS (MA French)

Tom’s scholarship involves efforts to preserve and revitalize St. John Valley French in Northern Aroostook County, Maine.

tom.pinette@maine.edu

Lydia Soctomah
FLAS (PHD Peace and Reconciliation Studies) lydia.soctomah@maine.edu

Joseph Wrobleski
FLAS (PHD History)

Dissertation Title: “Wabanaki Legalities: Land, Property, and Sovereignty on the Maritime Peninsula, 1713 – present..”

joseph.wrobleski@maine.edu