Lucas Rozell (Cultural Anthropology, MA 2024)听receives the A&S amazing graduate award. 听Lucas' advice to other students: "My best piece of advice for other students is to really get to know your professors, TAs, advisors and the staff in your department! College can absolutely be tricky to navigate at both the undergraduate and graduate level, so having a supportive network of people who will advocate for you will really benefit you in the long run."
Professor Kate Golfarb praises Lucas:
Lucas Rozell鈥檚 MA research in anthropology focused on the playfulness with which transgender individuals engage with traditional gender norms, with special attention to how subverting these norms is explicitly eroticized. Lucas is smart, pragmatic, empathetic, funny and an incredible writer, mobilizing both autoethnographic insights and skillful engagement with secondary literature. He manages to convey complex concepts in a conversational style, a skill that will make his academic insights accessible to his interlocutors and to the public. He was a research assistant for two years for the Marshall Fire Story Project, a collaborative endeavor with the Louisville Historical Museum with the objective to document community members鈥� accounts of the devastating December 2021 fire. This work relied on compassionately holding space for people to share traumatic and emotional accounts. Lucas鈥檚 life has not always been easy, and his resilience and drive are assets to his professional and personal engagements.