A hearty congratulations to FMS PhD Certificate student Frauke Thielecke for winning a 2026 Mendel Sato Research Award for her research paper, “Between Brushstroke and Cut: Editing Leon Golub’s Persona in Kartemquin’s Golub (1988),” written for FMS professor John Powers’s class, Film Historiography, in fall 2025. As Powers writes, the paper is "exemplary of the research process. Throughout its composition, Thielecke committed herself to the hypothesis formation, testing, refining, and reflection that are essential components of historical argumentation.” Read about the award and her paper here.