GINSP is pleased to announce a new graduate scholarship in honor of Bernard A. “Bud” Hirsch. Professor Hirsch was also one of our most active affiliated faculty members. He was a valued member of our community and generously gave of his time to students, faculty, and staff since the program’s commencement in 1995. When Hirsch passed away in 2006, he endowed a scholarship for graduate students of GINSP. The scholarship will be awarded for the first time in Fall 2010.
Hirsch began his career in academia and taught at the Northern Illinois University and the University of Illinois at Urbana before settling down at the University of Kansas in 1976. At KU he held a number of administrative and service positions including professor of English as well as two appointments as the interim chair of the English Department and Vice Chancellor’s Fellow.
His interests included humor in Native American literature, and oral and contemporary Native American traditions, especially Coyote tales. He was a writer and script adviser for several documentaries on Native American history and culture filmed in the 1980s. He taught classes on British romantic literature and American Indian literature. As a result of Professor Hirsch’s scholarship on American Indian literature and culture, the GINS program presented him with the Crystal Eagle Award in 2006. Other honors include his being a recipient of a W.T. Kemper Award for Teaching Excellence, which was awarded by KU in 2006.
The GINS program thanks his mother, Mollie Bernover, his brother, Arnold Hirsch, and his stepbrother, Neil Bernover for their support of this Scholarship.
