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• Shelley Weinberg awarded Best Book in the history of philosophy

  Feb 27, 2018 3:15 pm |  1 View

  Shelley Weinberg (Philosophy) has been awarded the annual best book in the history of philosophy by the Journal of the History of Philosophy for her 2016 book, Consciousness in Locke. JHP Books is devoted publishing works in textual and archival history, scholarly editions and translations, and interpretive and contextual studies of philosophers and philosophical movements. [Source]

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• A. Naomi Paik Awarded Best Book in History Prize

  Feb 27, 2018 3:15 pm |  1 View

  A. Naomi Paik of Asian American Studies has been awarded the Best Book in History Prize by the Association for Asian American Studies for this year. Her book, Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II, will be awarded at the annual meeting. [Source]

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• Mara Wade Appointed Vice President of the Renaissance Society of America

  Dec 29, 2017 3:15 pm |  1 View

  Mara Wade (Germanic Languages and Literatures) has been approved as the Vice President of the Renaissance Society of America. According to the selection committee, Mara's appointment was based on her work in "bridging the world of the digital humanities with the world of scholarship on emblems, her broad connections in many fields, the historic depth of her commitment to the RSA, her strong record of receipt of international fellowships, and her dedication to teaching and lecturing widely." [Source]

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• Six Illinois faculty members awarded NEH Fellowships

  Dec 14, 2017 9:00 am |  1 View

  Donna Buchanan (music), Elizabeth Hoiem (information sciences), Candice Jenkins (English), Paul Kapp (architecture), D. Fairchild Ruggles (landscape architecture) and Craig Williams (classics) have been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for 2018. (Source)

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• D. Fairchild Ruggles Awarded Grant from the Getty Foundation

  Sep 29, 2017 3:15 pm |  1 View

  D. Fairchild Ruggles (Medieval Studies) has been awarded a grant from The Getty Foundation as part of its Connecting Art Histories initiative. Fairchild's project is entitled "Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval and Early Modern Cities." [Source]

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• John Vasquez Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award

  Sep 25, 2017 3:15 pm |  1 View

  John Vasquez (Political Science) has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association. Founded in 1903, the Association is the leading professional organization for the study of political science and serves more than 12,000 members in more than 80 countries. [Source]

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• James Kilgore Awarded 2017 Soros Justice Fellowship

  Aug 29, 2017 3:15 pm |  2  Views

  James Kilgore, a research scholar in the Center for African Studies, the Center for Global Studies, and in LAS Global Studies, has been awarded an Open Society Foundation 2017 Soros Justice Fellowship. It will allow him to lead an effort to advance more effective and less punitive policies on the use of electronic monitoring in the criminal justice system. [Source]

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• John Lynn Awarded Public Scholar Award

  Aug 28, 2017 3:15 pm |  1 View

  John Lynn (History) has been awarded a Public Scholar award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The award is one of only 28 such awards totaling $1.3 million given out this year, the third year for the program. This is the first such award for a U of I faculty member.

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• John Lynn receives NEH Public Scholar award and Samuel Eliot Morison Prize

  Aug 7, 2017 8:00 am |  3  Views

  John Lynn (History, emeritus) has received a Public Scholar award from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the 2017 Samuel Eliot Morison Prize, the highest career award in the field of military history. (Source)

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• Beverly Smith Accepted into Higher Learning Commission Peer Corps

  Jul 28, 2017 3:15 pm |  1 View

  Beverly Smith, assistant director of the Native American House, has been accepted to be a member of the Higher Learning Commission Peer Corps. The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) was founded in 1895 as an independent corporation. It serves as one of six regional institutional accreditors in the United States. [Source]

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