We are thrilled to announce the winners of our English Department’s annual Honors Awards! These awards recognize the hard work and dedication of our undergraduate and graduate English students in a variety of concentrations.

Mason MFA alum Chrissy Widmayer is the director of Community Powered, a program through the Wisconsin Humanities that helps participating communities to “experience new ways to unearth and tell stories of their communities while taking concrete steps toward making their hometowns better places to live.”

Lijun Zhang, an Assistant Professor of Folklore, discusses her scholarship and her new book, Living in Heritage: Tulou as Vernacular Architecture, Global Asset, and Tourist Destination in Contemporary China.