Michael Ginnetti, a Masters student in the Graduate Program in Policy History at BGSU, received the Jill Carr Outstanding Graduate Student from the BGSU Graduate Student Senate on March 24. The Jill Carr Outstanding Graduate Student Award is named for former Dean of Students at BGSU, and is awarded to a graduate student who best exemplifies five core values: Respect for one another, Cooperation, Intellectual and Personal Growth, Creativity and Innovation, and Pursuit of Excellence.

Ginnetti is writing his Masters thesis, titled “The Rusty Curtain: Anatoly Chernyaev, Georgi Arbatov, and the Foundations of the Soviet Collapse, 1970-1979,” and is advised by Dr. Douglas Forsyth and Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle.