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• 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).  

• Timothy Pauketat awarded NEH Collaborative Research Grant

  Jul 29, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Timothy Robert Pauketat (Anthropology/Medieval Studies) has been awarded a 2014 NEH Collaborative Research Grant for the project Cahokia’s Richland Farmers: Agricultural Expansion, Immigration, Ritual and the Foundations of Mississippian Civilization (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.

• Erik McDuffie Awarded Research Fellowship at the Newberry Library

  Jun 9, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Erik McDuffie (African American Studies) was awarded a short-term research fellowship from the Newberry Library in Chicago (Source). 

• Cecily Garber named Public Fellow by ACLS

  Jun 5, 2014 8:00 am5 views

  Cecily R. Garber, recent English PhD, has been named as one of 20 ACLS Public Fellows (Source).

• Debra Richtmeyer receives North American Saxophone Alliance Honorary Lifetime Member Award

  May 21, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Debra Richtmeyer (Music) became the first woman to receive the North American Saxophone Alliance Honorary Lifetime Member Award (Source). 

• 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. 

• Clifford Christians wins Louis Forsdale Award for Outstanding Educator

  May 14, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Clifford Christians (Research Professor Emeritus of Communications/Professor Emeritus of Media Studies/Journalism) won the Louis Forsdale Award for Outstanding Educator in the Field of Media Ecology from the Media Ecology Association (Source).

• Carole Palmer wins a Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award

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  Carole Palmer (Library and Information Science) won a Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award from the Association for Information Science and Technology (Source).

• 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). 

• Tere R. O’Connor elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  May 1, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Tere R. O'Connor (Dance) has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Source). 

• Tariq Ali wins Sardar Patel Dissertation Prize

  May 1, 2014 8:00 am11 views

  Tariq Ali (History) was awarded the Sardar Patel Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation written on South Asia in any institution of higher learning in the United States for 2012 (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). 

• Eyamba Bokamba receives Walton Award

  Apr 30, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Eyamba Bokamba (Linguistics) received the Walton Award from the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (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).

• 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). 

• Charles D. Wright wins the Medieval Academy CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching

  Apr 17, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Charles D. Wright (English) won the Medieval Academy of America's CARA Award for Teaching Excellence (Source).

• Five Illinois professors named 2014 Guggenheim Fellows

  Apr 14, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Five professors at the University of Illinois — Asef Bayat (sociology), Joy Harjo (American Indian studies), Cathy Prendergast (English), Stephen Taylor (music composition and theory), and Deke Weaver (Art + Design) — are among 178 Guggenheim Fellows named this year by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Fellowships are appointed to a to a diverse group scholars, artists, and scientists on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise (Source).

• Valeria Sobol receives NEH Summer Stipend

  Apr 1, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Valeria Sobol (Slavic Languages and Literatures) has received an NEH Summer Stipend for her work The Haunted Empire: The Russian Literary Gothic and the “Imperial Uncanny,” 1793–1844 (Source).

• Valleri Hohman wins a Fulbright Award

  Apr 1, 2014 8:00 am4 views

  Valleri Hohman (Theatre) won a Fulbright Award from The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to work with Nikolai Kolyada at the Kolyada Theatre in Ekaterinburg, Russia in 2014 (Source).

• Feisal Mohamed awarded Irene Samuel Memorial Award

  Mar 18, 2014 9:00 am6 views

  

  Feisal Mohamed (English) was awarded the Milton Society of America’s Irene Samuel Memorial Award, the highest honor from the society for a collection of essays, for his co-edited collection Milton and Questions of History (2012). This is the second consecutive year that he has received an award from the MSA (Source).

• Fred Hoxie wins 2013 Caughey Western History Association Prize

  Mar 18, 2014 8:45 am0 views

  Fred Hoxie’s (Swanlund professor of history) book, This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made has won the 2013 Caughey Western History Association Prize for the most distinguished book on the history of the American West (Source).

• Bruce Michelson named Fulbright grantee for 2013-2014

  Mar 18, 2014 8:00 am2 views

  Bruce Michelson (English / Director of the Campus Honors Program / President of the American Humor Studies Association) has been named a Fulbright grantee for 2013-2014. He will serve as Fulbrigh Professor of American Studies with the University of Antwerp (Source).

• Dr. Lisa Cacho awarded John Hope Franklin Publication Prize

  Feb 3, 2014 8:00 am4 views

  

  Dr. Lisa Cacho's Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected has received the the 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for best book in American Studies from the American Studies Association (Soruce).

• Soo Ah Kwon and Nancy Abelmann Receive Spencer Foundation

  Feb 3, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Soo Ah Kwon and Nancy Abelmann (Assian American Studies), as well as their co-principal investigators Adrienne Lo and Tim Liao have recieved a grant from the Spencer Foundation for their proposal for “The American University Meets the Pacific Century (AUPC).”  The project examines how the escalating number of degree-seeking international undergraduates is transforming the understanding and meaning of race and diversity at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Source). 

   

• 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.

• Alistair Black receives the Library History Essay Award for 2013

  Dec 20, 2013 8:00 am1 views

  Alistair Black (GSLIS) received the Library History Essay Award for 2013 for his essay "Organizational Learning and Home-Grown Writing: The Library Staff Magazine in Britain in the First Half of the Twentieth Century"  (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).

• David M. Chasco named a fellow by the American Institute of Architects

  Dec 6, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  David M. Chasco (Director of the School of Architecture) was named a fellow by the American Institute of Architects. The fellowship program was developed to recognize architects who have made a significant contribution to architecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession (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).

• Areli Marina wins the Marraro Prize

  Nov 29, 2013 8:00 am2 views

  Areli Marina (Art History / Medieval Studies) won the Howard R. Marraro Prize for best work in Italian history for her book, The Italian Piazza Transformed, from the American Catholic Historical Association and the American Historical Association (Source). 

• Elenora Stoppino awarded 2012 AAIS Book Prize

  Nov 25, 2013 9:00 am0 views

  The American Association for Italian Studies awarded Eleonora Stoppino and her book Genealogies of Fiction: Women Warriors and the Dynastic Imagination in the Orlando furioso one of two 2012 Book Prizes for best books in Italian studies published in 2012. Professor Stoppino is an Associated Professor of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese as well as a member of the 2013–14 IPRH Advisory Committee.

• Fellowships and Grants, 2012–13

  Nov 25, 2013 8:30 am0 views

  

   

  AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES (ACLS)

  ACLS Fellow
  D. Fairchild Ruggles
  Project: Shajar al-Durr: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of a 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen

  Digital Innovation Fellow
  Ted Underwood, English
  Project: Understanding Genre in a Collection of a Million Volumes

  Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow
  Carol Symes, History
  Project: Public Acts: Performance, Popular Literacies, and the Documentary Revolution of Medieval Europe
  For residence at the National Humanities Center during academic year 2013–14

  New Faculty Fellow
  Susan N. Johnson-Roehr, Architecture PhD, 2011
  Dissertation: "The Spatialization of Knowledge and Power at the Astronomical Observatories of Sawai Jai Singh II, c. 1721–1743 CE"
  Appointed in Art at University of Virginia, 2013–14 and 2014–15.

   

  NATIONAL CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES

  Residential Fellowship
  Heather Hyde Minor, Architecture
  Project:Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Lost Words

   

  

   NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES (NEH)

  Summer Stipend
  Mireya Loza, Latina/o Studies and History
  Project: The Bracero Program: A History of the U.S.-Mexico Guest Worker Program, 1942–1964

  Digital Start-Up Grant
  Ted Underwood, English
  Project: Understanding Genre in a Collection of a Million Volumes

  Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
  Mara Wade, Germanic Languages and Literatures
  Project: Emblematica Online II

   

    FULBRIGHT PROGRAM

  Eda Derhemi, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
  Fulbright Scholar for 2013–14, Albania, Spring 2014

  Bruce Michelson, English, Emeritus
  Fulbright Professor of American Literature, University of Antwerp, Spring 2014

  Zohreh Sullivan, English, Emerita
  Fulbright Scholar for 2013–14, University of Jordan
  Project: Writers and the Battlefield of History

   

   

  INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES (IAS), U OF BRISTOL

  IAS Colston Research Fellow &
  Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor
  Sharon Irish

   

  AMERICAN THEATRE & DRAMA SOCIETY

  Faculty Research Travel Award
  Valeri Hohman, Theatre
  Project: Cold War Performances: Soviet Performances in America after Stalin

   

  CANADIAN SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL

  Insight Development Grant
  Jeananne Nichols, Music Education
  Louis Bergonzi, Music Education
  Project: To collect quantitative and qualitative data over a two-year period in order to investigate tenure status, gender/sexuality, and race/ethnicity in Canadian and US post-secondary music schools.
  

   

  COUNCIL FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES (CES)

  Mellon-CES Dissertation-Completion Fellowship
  Diana Georgescu, Ph.D. Candidate, History, and IPRH-Nicholson Fellow 2012–13
  Project: Ceauşescu’s Children': The Making and Unmaking of Romania’s Last Socialist Generation (1965–2005)

   

  DUMBARTON OAKS RESEARCH LIBRARY AND COLLECTION

  Junior Fellow, Garden and Landscape Studies
  Rachel Koroloff, Ph.D. Candidate, History (declined 2013–14 IPRH Fellowship)
  Project: "Seeds of Exchange: Russia's Apothecary and Botanical Gardens in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century"

• 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.

• Alex Shakar named a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am2 views

  Alex Shakar (English) was named a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction for his novel Luminarium, which focuses on the roles of technology and spirituality in shaping people’s reality. 

• Craig Koslofsky's "Evening’s Empire" cited by Atlantic magazine as one of best 2012 books

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Evening’s Empire (Cambridge, 2011) by Craig Koslofsky (History, IPRH Fellow 2013–14) was cited by Atlantic magazine as one of the 15 best books reviewed by the magazine or published in 2012. Benjamin Schwarz, the magazine’s literary editor, assembled a top-five list for the year, followed by a list of ten runners-up, which included Koslofsky’s book. The book was reviewed in the April 2012 issue of Atlantic magazine. Evening’s Empire was also named the Longman-History Today Book of the Year for 2011 in January 2012. One criterion for the award is accessibility for the general reader of history. 

• Daniel Schneider receives George Perkins Marsh Prize

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am4 views

  Daniel Schneider (Urban and Regional Planning) received the George Perkins Marsh Prize, for Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial Ecosystem (MIT, 2011). Bestowed by the American Society for Environmental History, the prize is awarded to the best book in the field.

• Bruno Nettl receives the inaugural Taichi Traditional Music Award

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am2 views

  Bruno Nettl, Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology, is one of four international musicians who received the inaugural Taichi Traditional Music Award, given by the China Conservatory and the Taichi Traditional Music Foundation. Professor Nettl was chosen for his achievements in the field that he helped establish: ethnomusicology, the study of social and cultural aspects of music in local and global contexts. The prize recognizes individuals or social groups who have made “outstanding and original contribution toward the performance, inheritance, theoretical studies or dissemination of traditional music.”

  Professor Nettl has also been awarded the Charles Homer Haskins Prize, presented annually to a distinguished humanist by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). This honor includes a cash award and asks the recipient to deliver the Haskins Prize Lecture reflecting on “a lifetime of work as a scholar and an institution builder” at the ACLS annual meeting in May 2014. Named for the first chairman of ACLS, the Haskins Prize Lecture series is entitled “A Life of Learning” and celebrates scholarly careers of distinctive importance. 

• David Roediger and Elizabeth Esch awarded the International Labor History Association 2012 Book of the Year Award for 2012

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am8 views

  David Roediger (History and IPRH Fellow 2012–13) and Elizabeth Esch have been awarded the International Labor History Association (ILHA) Book of the Year Award for 2012 for The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History (Oxford, 2012).

• David W. Plath receives 2013 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am14 views

  David W. Plath, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Asian Studies, received the 2013 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies. Plath was the leader of the Media Production Group, for which he has designed, scripted, hosted, narrated, edited, directed, and often filmed productions. In 2000, the Society for East Asian Anthropology established the David Plath Media Award, given biennially for the best new educational media project on Asian societies and cultures. Professor Plath taught at the U. of I. for 35 years, is perhaps best known for Long Engagements: Maturity in Modern Japan(Stanford UP, 1980). The 2013 Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies award celebrates his long engagement and many contributions to teaching about Japan at all levels and through many media.

• Erik McDuffie receives the Wesley-Logan Prize

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am1 views

  Erik McDuffie (African American Studies, IPRH Fellow 2010–11) received the Wesley-Logan Prize from the American Historical Association for his book Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism (Duke, 2011). The Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history is jointly sponsored by the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of African American Life & History, and is is awarded annually for an outstanding book on some aspect of the history of the dispersion, settlement and adjustment, and/or return of peoples originally from Africa. 

• Frederick Hoxie elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science

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  Frederick E. Hoxie, Swanlund Chair and Professor of History, was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in April 2013. Hoxie is a Center for Advanced Study Professor of history and holds appointments in the College of Law and the American Indian Studies Program. The AAAS is one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, and a leading center for independent policy research.

  In October 2012, Professor Hoxie was also honored with the Western History Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in American Indian History. He was recognized for his years of advancing the field of American Indian history, through publications, commitment to helping Native and other students in the field, and through service that includes working with tribal communities. His award was given at the annual meeting of the Western History Association. Professor Hoxie has published more than a dozen books on U.S. Indian policy, the history of Native American communities and the meaning of indigenous history in modern society. His most recent book is This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made (Penguin, 2012).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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. 

• 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.

• 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.”

• 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.

• 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.