TU Senior Wins 2004 Phi Kappa Phi Greey Fellowship

Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Amanda Sigler, a senior from Bartlesville who will graduate in May from The University of Tulsa, has been awarded a Kathleen Greey graduate fellowship from the Phi Kappa Phi honor society.
Established in 1932, Phi Kappa Phi awards 60 fellowships of $5,000 annually for graduate study. Sigler, a senior English and German major with a certificate in political philosophy, was awarded the fellowship for her research on literary modernism. Her senior honors thesis at TU involved researching the papers of James Joyce’s biographer Richard Ellmann in the McFarlin Library’s Special Collections at TU. She will present her finished work on the Ellmann archive at the International James Joyce Symposium in Dublin this summer.
Sigler has received fellowship offers from seven graduate schools, including the University of Virginia, Brown University, and the University of California, Irvine.
Sigler presented a paper on Finnegan’s Wake at the 2003 North American James Joyce Conference. In the summer of 2003, Sigler was one of 15 students selected nationwide for an internship at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C.
As a student in the Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge, she used TU’s Special Collections compare T.S. Eliot’s draft copies of “The Waste Land” to the poem’s final version. She has been involved with archival research since her freshman year at TU when she read a 1602 edition of Chaucer’s works alongside a John Dryden’s 1700 translation.
Sigler was named to the TU chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and was the Outstanding Senior in the German program. She received the Norman Award for Greek Composition, the Kimberly Hanger Award from the history department and the Chair’s Prize for Outstanding Achievement in English Studies.
The Greey Fellowship was created to honor the late Kathleen Greey, a longtime chapter officer at Portland State University, who provided funds for the award.