From their news release:
The Graduate School at the University of Notre Dame is pleased to announce its annual award winners for the 2025–2026 academic year. These awards include: the Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award; the Rev. James A. Burns, C.S.C., Awards; the Dick and Peggy Notebaert Award; the Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate School Awards; and the Social Justice Award. The award winners will be formally recognized for their achievements at the Graduate School Commencement Ceremony to be held at Notre Dame Stadium on May 16.
Marlene L. Daut ‘09 Ph.D., is the winner of the Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award, given each year to a graduate alumnus or alumna of the University who has contributed significantly to scholarship, research, or society. After completing her doctoral studies in English at Notre Dame in 2009, Dr. Daut held faculty positions at the University of Virginia, Claremont Graduate University, and the University of Miami. She is now a professor of French and Black Studies at Yale University, where she has cemented her reputation as a leading literary and intellectual historian of Haiti and the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). She is the author of four monographs and three edited collections, along with numerous articles and digital projects, and her award-winning work has been extremely influential in elevating the historical importance of the Haitian Revolution among scholars of the Age of Revolutions.