Yoder receives dissertation research award

Sarah Yoder, a 2002 humanities and writing and rhetoric graduate, has been awarded a 2006 Nokia Research Award by Texas Christian University (TCU), where she is a rhetoric graduate student. The Nokia Research Awards are given for research related to gender studies. Yoder plans to use the funds to travel to the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth to conduct research for her dissertation, entitled "Thinking of Wales as Her?: Investigating the Intersection(s) of Gender and Nation in Welsh Nationalist Discourse." Yoder also holds one of TCU's prestigious Radford Fellowships.