Five University of Illinois faculty members have been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for 2016. The fellowship recipients and their projects are:
- Eugene Avrutin (History): “The Velizh Affair: Jews and Christians in a 19th-century Russian Border Town”
- Eric Calderwood (Comparative and World Literature): “The Memory of Al-Andalus and Spanish Colonialism in Morocco, 1859-1956”
- Cara Finnegan (Communication): “American Presidents and the History of Photography from the Daguerreotype to the Digital Revolution”
- Gabriel Solis (Music): “Music, Race, and Indigeneity in Australia and Papua New Guinea”
- Derrick Spires (English): “Black Theories of Citizenship in the Early United States, 1787-1861”
Read more about the award recipients and their projects.
