Each year, the English Education Student Association assists in nominating and selecting recipients for the following awards:
The winners are recognized at the annual English Education spring banquet.
For 20 years, Genevieve has worked at Hamburg High School teaching regular and special education students in English 10, English 11, Film Appreciation, and Public Speaking. In addition to her work at HHS, Genevieve has taught literacy courses at the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education and public speaking at Genesee Community College. A National Writing Project Fellow in 2003, Genevieve led the Workshops for Young Writers for over a decade and also served as the co-director of the Western New York Writing Project. She has presented at conferences both locally and at NCTE and the National Writing Project. Genevieve received her Ed.M. from the University at Buffalo, holds an M.A. in film studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has a B.A. in film and a B.A. in English literature from the University of Illinois-Urbana.
Lisa Berglund joined the Buffalo State English Department in 2001, where courses she teaches include Shakespeare, the History of the Printed Book, and Dictionaries and Culture. This month she is wrapping up seven years as Chair of the English Department. In her 22 years at Buffalo State, she also has chaired or co-chaired more than 40 committees and served on a total of 117. She was Executive Director of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (2017-2021) and she previously served as Executive Secretary of the Dictionary Society of North America (2007-2013). She received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service (2013) and the Buffalo State President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Advising (2020). She is also President, principal stage director, and grant writer for Opera-Lytes, a community theater organization here in Buffalo. Next spring, she is looking forward to spending a month at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, thanks to a fellowship to work on her book on the eighteenth-century diarist Hester Lynch Piozzi, who wrote the first original English-language thesaurus.
Adam has worked throughout his life to educate students. He began working with children at the age of 15 as a camp counselor in Buffalo, NY. Adam has spent the last 18 years in education teaching all over NYS including The Bronx, Manhattan, Mt. Vernon, and his home town of Buffalo, NY. Throughout his career Adam has taught English in a variety of settings including public, charter, and private schools. In 2019 Adam was selected as one of the first recipients of the New York State Principal’s Preparation Program Grant and after a 15 year career in the classroom, became an administrator. Adam has and will always consider himself a teacher who is committed to doing whatever he can to improve the lives of his students. In his new role he hopes to take his commitment to the well-being out of the “four walls” of his classroom, and to have a significant positive impact on an entire school building and community.
