KU News Release

June 13, 2007
Contact: Anne Tangeman, Kress Foundation Department of Art History, (785) 864-4713.

KU art history students receive awards

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LAWRENCE — The Kress Foundation Department of Art History at the University of Kansas recently gave awards to 59 students for excellence during the 2006-07 academic year.

Raechell Smith, director of the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, was guest speaker at the recognition event in May at the Spencer Museum of Art. KU Endowment administers funds for the awards, which were presented by art history faculty members to their outstanding students.

Stephanie Fox Knappe, Baldwin City doctoral student, received the Marilyn J. Stokstad Spencer Museum of Art Student Award, given for the first time this year to honor undergraduate and/or graduate students who have made major contributions to the mission of the Spencer Museum of Art.

Stokstad, the Judith Harris Murphy Professor Emerita of Art History, created the annual award in February. The recipient is selected by museum staff members.

The Marilyn Stokstad Award recognizes graduate students in art history who have made major contributions to the educational mission of the department. Stokstad established the award in 1995. Recipients were Clair Robertson, Lawrence doctoral student; Shuli Han, Xi’an Shaanxi, China, doctoral student; and Maureen Warren, Garden City master’s degree student.

Ellen O’Neil Rife, Lawrence doctoral student, received the Art History Associates Award, given for the first time this year to recognize graduate students in art history who have made major contributions to the educational mission of the department.

Sooa Im, Goyang-shi Gyeunggi-do, South Korea, doctoral student, received the Scholarship for Academic Excellence in Asian Art History funded by an anonymous benefactor.

Lara Kuykendall, Lawrence doctoral student, received the Tim Mitchell Memorial Art History Award that recognizes outstanding academic performance in the graduate program and honors Mitchell, a KU art history faculty member from 1979 until his death in 1993.

The Eglinski Scholarships for Study Abroad, named for Edmund Eglinski, professor emeritus of art history, went to Valerie Smith, Lenexa senior, and Jonathan Gripka, Tonganoxie senior.

Abby Flores, Lawrence master’s degree student, and Ghichul Jung, Lawrence doctoral student, received the Morris Family Scholarship established by Mark and Bette Morris of Topeka in honor of their daughter Cynthia, a 1987 KU graduate in art history and German.

Shu-Yun Ho, Keelung, Taiwan, doctoral student, received the Laurence Sickman Award that recognizes an outstanding student specializing in Chinese art. It honors the former curator of Chinese art and director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo.

Katherine Logan, Merriam senior, received the Jeanne Stump Outstanding Graduating Senior Award that honors a KU art history professor emerita and consists of a cash award and a book.

The Amsden Book Awards were established in 1976 by the late Floyd and Barbara Amsden of Wichita. Faculty members and graduate teaching assistants selected winners based on classroom excellence regardless of class level or major. Forty-six students received books on subjects in which they excelled.

Award recipients are listed below by hometown, major, level in school or degree received, parents’ names and previous schools.

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