IPRH Humanities Showcase – Awards & Honors

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]

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.

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).

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.

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]

Anne Burkus-Chasson (Art history) and Prita Meier (Art history) have received fellowships with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and professor Paul Kapp (Architecture) has received a James Marston Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship. [Source]

Dr. Augusto Espiritu (Asian American Studies) won the 2017 Association of American Studies Excellence in Mentoring Award. [Source] 

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

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

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.

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]

WaÏl S. Hassan (Comparative and World Literature and English) has been elected as the American Comparative Literature Association’s second vice president. Next year, he’ll become vice president and will serve as president the year following. [Source]

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

The Association of Women in Slavic Studies has awarded their 2014 Outstanding Achievement Award to Diane P. Koenker (Chair of History, Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies). (Source)

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]

Dennis Baron (English and Linguistics), Craig Koslofsky (History and Germanic Languages and Literatures), Ralph W. Mathisen (History, Classics, and Medieval Studies), Rebecca Stumpf (Anthropology), Karin A. Dahmen (Physics), and Mei-Po Kwan (Geography and Geographic information) have all been named Guggenheim Fellows. (Souce)

Five humanities faculty members —Francois Proulx (French), Antoinette Burton (History / Gender and Women’s Studies), Valeria Sobol (Slavic Languages and Literatures), Robert Morrissey (History), Timothy Pauketat (Anthropology / Medieval Studies) — have received National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowships (Source).