Elda Maria Roman - Ernesto Galarza Prize Winner
Congratulations to 4th-year PhD student, Elda Maria Roman, who was recently announced the winner of the Ernesto Galarza Prize for Excellence in Graduate Student Research. Elda Maria received a plaque and a check for $500 for the paper she submitted entitled "Putting the Go in Gomez: The Movement Towards Wider Class Diversity in Chicana/o Popular Culture".
This annual prize was initiated in 1986 to pay tribute to the pioneering scholarly work published by Dr. Ernesto Galarza, a Stanford alumnus who is generally regarded as the Dean of Chicano Studies. Through his research and activism on behalf of Chicanas/os that spanned five decades, Dr. Galarza inspired others to write about the condition of Latina/o people in the U.S. and his example inspired others to follow in his footsteps to promote social justice and equality. The Galarza Prizes are awarded to Stanford undergraduates and graduate students whose research reflects the spirit of Dr. Galarza.
Lee Konstantinou's Novel Pop Apocalypse: A Possible Satire
Congratulations to current PhD student, Lee Konstantinou, who has just had his first novel published. Pop Apocalypse: A Possible Satire is a political satire about celebrity, pop culture, and the End of the World. It was recently published by Ecco/Harper Perennial.
This playful and witty novel takes our celebrity-obsessed and media-hijacked culture, mixes in geopolitics and a dash of cyberpunk dystopia to create an intelligent and blistering what-if.
–Publishers Weekly
Abusing the future to make hash of the present, Lee Konstantinou has fashioned one hell of a satire, one hell of a world. The writing is stunning, every sentence so packed with knowledge and wit that one’s laughter can barely catch up with the story. Konstantinou has shown us the future, and it doesn’t work. But this novel sure does.
–Roger Rosenblatt, author of Lapham Rising and Beet
“There’s a good deal of rattle and a certain amount of hum in this novel; rattle in the hailstorm of cool ideas, plot twists and one liners… [A] mighty impressive debut: I’m envious. In a good way.”
–Adam Roberts, author of On and Yellow Blue Tibia