On March 26th, 2015, Dr. Cynthia Lintz will receive the "Outstanding Dissertation Award" from Virginia Tech in the category of "Social Science, Business, Education and Humanities" for her dissertation, "Understanding the Construction of National and Regional Identity: Perceptions of One Another along the Bulgarian-Macedonian Border".  She conducted the research for her dissertation during the fall of 2013 as part of her fellowship with ARCS.