The Graduate School has selected Katherine Ward’s dissertation as the UW–Madison nominee for the 2025 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Arts. The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), jointly with ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, presents two of these awards each year to individuals who, in the opinion of the award committee, have completed dissertations representing original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline. The two broad fields of competition for 2025 are biological & life sciences and humanities & fine arts, and Katherine’s dissertation has been nominated to represent our campus in the latter category. Her nomination will be forwarded to CGS, who will make the final selection to be presented in December.
Congratulations, Katherine, on this outstanding achievement!