Outstanding Faculty Mentor of Masters Students

The Outstanding Faculty Mentor of Master’s Students Award is presented each Spring at the May Doctoral Hooding and Commencement Ceremony.  This award honors one-on-one mentoring of master’s students through the direction of a thesis, supervision of a student’s research and creative activity, and/or oversight of a student’s internship, exhibition, or final professional paper.  All members of the graduate faculty who mentor students to the completion of the degree are eligible to be nominated by their chair, colleagues, or graduate students.

Dr. Angela Storey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research (ABI). In the Department of Anthropology, she teaches courses on a variety of topics at the undergraduate and graduate level, including on ethnographic research methods, environmental anthropology, urban anthropology, applied/engaged anthropology, and regional courses about sub-Saharan Africa. She has advised graduate students pursuing degrees in Anthropology and Sustainability, and served as advisor or committee member for 28 MA/MS students. 

As Director of the ABI since Jan. 2024, Storey coordinates the institute’s work to bridge scholarship and activism for social justice. This includes managing the institute’s historic book collections and other civil rights projects, leading signature events like the annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture and annual student paper awards, coordinating a robust community council and extensive network of faculty affiliates, and managing staff and graduate assistants. The ABI also coordinates and houses on-going community-engaged research projects, including the Air Justice project and the Anti-apartheid histories project. Storey began at UofL in 2016, after completing an MA and Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Previously, she worked as a community organizer for environmental organizations.

Her nominator is a graduating master’s student, who was also an undergraduate at Uofl. “I have had a blissfully long career at UofL, earning 3 bachelor’s degrees, completing a Fulbright fellowship, co-founding the Cardinal Cupboard Food Pantry, serving as the SGA Services Vice President, and flag-shipping a masters in Sustainability.  Dr. Storey served as my most impactful professor, co-author, and mentor throughout all eight years.” She goes on to say that “what makes me believe UofL is such a valuable and important academic institution is professors like Dr. Storey.  Just as she is lucky to be part of such a prominent intellectual community, our institution is lucky to have her developing the next generation of cardinals.”   Other graduate students also praised Dr. Storey for her “passion, care, and instructional style,” for demonstrating “a genuine interest and curiosity in her students and their interests,” for being “a supportive anchor in pushing students to pursue their interests.”