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• Hans Hock awarded Gold Medal from Asiatic Society

  Feb 25, 2016 8:00 am1 views

  Hans Hock (Linguistics,Emeritus) has been awarded the Sukumar Sen Memorial Gold Medal from The Asiatic Society in Kolkata (Calcutta), India. (Source)

• Harry Liebersohn receives Humboldt Award and fellowship to American Academy in Berlin

  May 5, 2016 8:00 am0 views

  Harry Liebersohn (History) has been chosen to receive the Humboldt Research Award, honoring a career of research achievements, and an American Academy fellowship. (Source)

• James Brennan awarded 2013 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize

  Dec 6, 2013 8:00 am6 views

  James Brennan (History) has been awarded the 2013 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize for his book, Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania, published by Ohio University Press in 2012. The prize is given out by the African Studies Association for the best book on East African studies published the previous calendar year (Source).

• James D. Anderson to deliver Brown lecture in Washington, D.C.

  Oct 16, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  James D. Anderson (Education Policy, Organization and Leadership) will deliver the 11th annual Brown lecture in Education Research on October 23 (Source).

• James Kilgore Awarded 2017 Soros Justice Fellowship

  Aug 29, 2017 3:15 pm2 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]

• Janis Johnston receives Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award

  Apr 30, 2014 8:00 am1 views

  Janis Johnston (Law) is the 2014 recipient of the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award, given by the American Association of Law Libraries (Source). 

• Jennifer Monson honored at the Movement Research Gala

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Jennifer Monson (Dance and IPRH Fellow 2013–14) was honored at the Movement Research Gala on May 13, 2013. Movement Research serves as a laboratory for exploration and experimentation in movement-based art forms while capturing the diversity of artists and audiences. Each year, choreographers, dancers, and other motion-centered innovators are recognized for their contributions.

• Jennifer Monson recieves Doris Duke Impact Award

  May 1, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Jennifer Monson (Dance and IPRH 2013–14 Faculty Fellow) has been awarded a Doris Duke Impact Award (Source). 

• Jennifer Monson's work named best dance of 2013

  Apr 17, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  IPRH factuly fellow Jennifer Monson's (Dance) Live Dancing Archive has been named the best dance of 2013 by TimeOut New York (Source). 

• John Karam and Tamara Chaplin recieve NEH Summer Stipends

  Apr 4, 2016 8:00 am4 views

  John Karam (Spanish and Portuguese) and Tamara Chaplin (History) have recieved NEH Summer Stipends. John Karam will work on his project "Arabs at a South American Border Remaking the Hemisphere," a book-length study of Arab immigrants in the border region of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. Tamara Champlin will work on her project "Postwar French Media, and the Struggle for Gay Rights," a book-length study of the history of French lesbian activism since World War II. (Source)

• John Lynn Awarded Public Scholar Award

  Aug 28, 2017 3:15 pm0 views

  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.

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

  Aug 7, 2017 8:00 am3 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)

• John Vasquez Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award

  Sep 25, 2017 3:15 pm0 views

  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]

• Jonathan Ebel wins a Guggenheim Fellowship

  Apr 21, 2017 8:00 am0 views

  Jonathan Ebel (Religtion) won a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete work on a religious history of the Great Depression and the New Deal in agricultural California. [Source]

• Journal edited by Illinois History Professor recipient of 2013 Codex Award.

  Dec 6, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  The Journal of Late Antiquity, edited by history professor Ralph W. Mathisen, has been named the 2013 recipient of the Codex Award, given by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. The award is given for distinction within all disciplines and areas of the world covered in the ancient and medieval periods (Source).

• Joy Harjo receives Black Earth Institute Award

  Aug 21, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Joy Harjo (American Indian Studies) will receive the first Black Earth Institute Award, given to an artist who "best exemplifies the goals and mission of the institute in their work and life" (Source).

• Joy Harjo wins Creative Nonfiction Prize for memoir "Crazy Brave"

  Aug 22, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Joy Harjo (American Indian Studies / English) won the 2013 Creative Nonfiction Prize for her memoir “Crazy Brave” from PEN Center USA. (Source)

• J. Stephen Downie and HathiTrust Research Center awarded NEH grant

  Aug 6, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the two-year project “Exploring the Billions and Billions of Words in the HathiTrust Corpus with Bookworm: HathiTrust + Bookworm.” The project will be directed by J. Stephen Downie (Co-Director of the HTRC and Professor and Associate Dean of Research at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science) in collaboration with multiple internal and external partners (Source).  

• Junaid Rana receives Association of Asian American Studies Book Award for the Social Sciences

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am1 views

  Junaid Rana (Asian American Studies, IPRH Fellow 2005–06)received the Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS) Book Award for the Social Sciences, for Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora (Duke, 2011). The award was conferred at the AAS Annual Conference in Seattle in April 2013.

• Justine Murison and Sarah West win Humanities Council Teaching Excellence Award

  Apr 28, 2017 3:15 pm6 views

  Justine Murison (English) and Sarah West (Spanish and Portuguese) are the recipients for the Humanities Council Teaching Excellence Award. Murison and West are recognized for their efforts in humanities instruction. [Source]

• KAM Curator Allyson Purpura and Asst. Professor Prita Meier Awarded NEH Planning Grant

  Oct 6, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Krannert Art Museum curator of African Art Allyson Purpura and Professor Prita Meier (Art History) have received a National Endowment for the Humanities planning grant for the exhibition World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean (Source).

• Karen Flynn wins Lavinia L Dock Award

  Aug 14, 2013 8:00 am2 views

  Karen Flynn (Gender and Women’s Studies / African Studies / African American Studies) won the Lavinia L. Dock Award for Exemplary Historical Research from American Association for the History of Nursing for her book Moving Beyond Borders (Source) 

• Karen Fresco named Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Karen Fresco (French, Medieval Studies & GWS) was named Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques. This prestigious title is awarded to members of the international community for outstanding contributions to French pedagogy, scholarship, and culture, as well as to the French language. L’Ordre des Palmes Académiques was instituted by founded by Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte on March 19, 1808. 

• Ken Cuno awarded 2015 Albert Hourani Book Prize

  Dec 18, 2015 8:00 am0 views

  Ken Cuno (History) was awarded the 2015 Albert Hourani Book Prize for his book Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth - and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt. (Source)

• Kenny Cupers awarded Humboldt Fellowship

  Jul 8, 2014 8:00 am4 views

  Kenny Cupers (Architecture) has been awarded a Humboldt Fellowship for 2014-2015.

• Kevin Mumford's Latest Work Named Stonewall Honor Book

  Feb 9, 2017 1:45 pm0 views

  Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis, the latest work by Kevin Mumford (History), has been named a Stonewall Honor Book in the Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award category by the GLBT Round Table of the American Library Association. [Source]

• Kristin Hoganson named Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor at Oxford University

  Apr 17, 2014 8:00 am21 views

  Professor Kristin Hoganson (History) has been invited to hold the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professorship in American History at Oxford University for 2015-2016 (Source).

• Kristin Hoganson receives the 2012 Ray Allen Billington Prize from the Western History Association

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am2 views

  Kristin Hoganson (History), who delivered the 2013 IPRH Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities this fall, received the 2012 Ray Allen Billington Prize from the Western History Association for her article, “Meat in the Middle: Converging Borderlands in the U.S. Midwest, 1865–1900,” published in the Journal of American History. The association is dedicated to promoting the study of the North American West in its varied aspects and broad sense. 

• LeAnne Howe wins USA Ford Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am14 views

  LeAnne Howe (American Indian Studies and English) won a USA Ford Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists. The organization honors 50 of America’s finest artists each year with individual fellowship awards of $50,000. Howe joins a class of 2012 awardees that includes Annie Proulx, Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, David Henry Hwang, Edgar Heap of Birds, Adrienne Kennedy, and many others. In 2012, Professor Howe was also the winner of the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas.

• Leslie Reagan receives NEH Summer Stipend

  Mar 23, 2015 8:00 am5 views

  Leslie Reagan (History, EUI, Gender and Women's Studies) has received a Summer Stipend from The National Endowment for the Humanities for her project "Seeing Agent Orange in the United States and Vietnam: Quilt of Tears" (Source).

• Leslie Reagan receives the Arthur J. Viseltear Award

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am9 views

  Leslie Reagan (History and IPRH Fellow 2011–12 & 2001–02) received the Arthur J. Viseltear Award for her book Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America (California, 2010). The annual award is given by the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association to a historian for outstanding contributions to the history of public health.

• Leslie Reagan receives William H. Welch Medal

  Jun 1, 2015 8:00 am2 views

  Leslie Reagan (History, EUI, Gender and Women's Studies) has received 2015 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine for Dangerous Pregnancies:  Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion (2010).  The medal is awarded for a book of outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical. 

• Lindsay Russell awarded 2013 Rhetoric Society of America Dissertation Award

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am1 views

  Lindsay Russell (English) was awarded the 2013 Rhetoric Society of America Dissertation Award for her dissertation, “Women in the English Language Dictionary” (University of Washington, co-chairs Anis Bawarshi and Colette Moore). The award recognizes the best of the previous year's doctoral dissertations in the field of rhetoric and rhetorical studies. Professor Russell joined the Illinois faculty in fall 2012.

• Lisa Lucero named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am9 views

  Lisa Lucero (Anthropology) was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Election as a fellow is an honor bestowed upon members of the association by their peers. Lucero was honored for “distinguished service in the field of archaeology, with emphasis on the role of water management in Maya society and its contemporary implications.”

• Lori Kendall elected President of the Association of Internet Researchers

  Oct 30, 2013 8:00 am1 views

  Lori Sue Kendall (Library and Information Science) became President of the Association of Internet Researchers (Source).

• Mahir Şaul receives Utne Reader magazine’s Visionaries Award

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Mahir Şaul (Anthropology) received Utne Reader magazine’s Visionaries Award for his role as a “debunker of African stereotypes.” For 15 years, Şaul has taught a course on African film and society, emphasizing their vast intellectual and cultural accomplishments. Last winter, he introduced the first African film series to Instanbul Museum of Modern Art audiences.

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

  Dec 29, 2017 3:15 pm0 views

  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]

• Martin Manalansan wins Crompton-Noll Award

  Dec 15, 2015 8:00 am0 views

  Martin F. Manalansan (Asian American Studies) has won the Crompton-Noll Award for best essay in lesbian, gay, queer studies in the modern languages/literatures for his essay, "The 'Stuff' of Archives: Mess, Migrations and Queer Lives." (Source)

• Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert awarded 2013 Spur Award by the Western Writers of America

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert (American Indian Studies) was awarded a 2013 Spur Award by the Western Writers of America, in the category of Best Western Short Nonfiction, for “Marathoner Louis Tewanima and the Continuity of Hopi Running, 1908–1912,” which appeared in the Autumn 2012 issue of Western Historical Quarterly. Western Writers of America, Inc., was founded in 1953 to promote the literature of the American West and bestows Spur Awards for distinguished writing in the Western field.

• Matthew Thibeault receives Outstanding Emerging Researcher Award

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am6 views

  Matthew Thibeault (Music Education, IPRH Fellow 2012–13) received the Outstanding Emerging Researcher Award from the Center for Music Education Research at the University of South Florida. The award honors music education researchers at an early stage of their careers who are producing high-quality research. Professor Thibeault’s paper, “The Shifting Locus of Musical Experience From Performance to Recording to New Media: Some Implications for Music Education,” will be published in the center’s journal and republished in a book. 

• Michael Rothberg recognized by the International Society for the Study of Narrative

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am39 views

  Michael Rothberg (English, Comparative and World Literature, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, and IPRH Fellow 2003–04) was recognized by the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) for his essay, “Progress, Progression, Procession: William Kentridge and the Narratology of Transitional Justice,” which was selected as the best of the year’s publications in the journal Narrative, published by the ISSN. The article appeared in the January 2012 issue of Narrative. 

   

• Michael Silvers awarded ACLS Fellowship

  Jul 22, 2015 8:00 am20 views

  Professor Michael Silvers (Music) has been awarded an ACLS Fellowship for his project Voices of Drought: Forró Soundscapes in Northeastern Brazil. For an overview of all 2015 ACLS fellowship recipients, including two University of Illinois doctoral candidates, please refer to http://www.acls.org/fellows/new.

• Paul Hardin Kapp and Paul J. Armstrong receive the 2013 Historic Book Preservation Prize

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Paul Hardin Kapp (Architecture) and Paul J. Armstrong (Architecture, emeritus), received the 2013 Historic Book Preservation Prize for SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City (Illinois, 2013), which they co-edited. Presented by the University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation, the yearly award goes to the book selected by a jury “for the most significant contribution to the intellectual vitality of historic preservation” in the United States.

• Provost Fellows

  Dec 20, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Three faculty members were appointed Provost Fellows for this academic year. The faculty members are Lauren Goodlad (Professor of English and director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory), Wendy Heller (professor of psychology and of gender and women’s studies), and Kelly Tappenden (the Kraft Foods Human Nutrition Professor in the department of food science and human nutrition).

  The program provides academic leadership experience in key campus administrative roles for distinguished faculty members. For more information, please visit http://news.illinois.edu/ii/13/1219/ach.html.

• Rebecca Ginsburg wins 2012 Abott Lowell Cummings Prize

  Nov 21, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Rebecca Ginsburg (EPOL, Landscape Architecture, and Director EJP) won the 2012 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize from the Vernacular Architecture Forum for her book At Home With Arpartheid: The Hidden Landscapes of Deomestic Service in Johannesburg (Virginia, 2011). The prize recognizes a significant contribution to the study of vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes of North America.

• Robert Morrissey wins 2013 Lester J. Cappon Award for Best Article in the William and Mary Quarterly

  May 21, 2014 8:00 am4 views

  Robert Morrissey (History) won the 2013 Lester J. Cappon Award for Best Article in the William and Mary Quarterly for "Kaskaskia Social Network: Kinship and Assimilation in a French-Illinois Borderland” published in The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Serial, 70, number 1, January 2013 (Source). Morrissey also received a 2012-13 IPRH Prize for Research in the Humanities award for the same article. 

• Robert Rushing's New Book Wins Film and Media Studies Prize

  Apr 27, 2017 3:00 pm2 views

  Robert Rushing’s (French and Italian) new book, Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen (Indiana University Press) won the Film and Media Studies book prize from the American Association for Italian Studies. [Source]

• Scott Poole wins McGrath lifetime Achievement Award

  Jul 24, 2013 8:00 am5 views

  Marshall Scott Poole (Communications) won the 2013 Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups from the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (Source)

• Sharon Irish receives Arts Writers Grant

  Oct 24, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Sharon Irish (Library & Information Science) has received an Arts Writers Grant for her project Stephen Willats in the Yew Kay (Source).

• Shelley Weinberg awarded Best Book in the history of philosophy

  Feb 27, 2018 3:15 pm1 views

  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]