The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities is pleased to announce the winners of its 2011–12 Prizes for Research in the Humanities. The awards, which honor excellence in humanities research at the faculty, graduate student, and undergraduate student levels, will be presented to the following winners at a ceremony on Wednesday, April 25.

IPRH PRIZES FOR RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES

FACULTY PRIZES

WINNER:
Yasemin Yildiz (Germanic Languages and Literatures)
“Governing European Subjects: Tolerance and Guilt in the Discourse of ‘Muslim Women,’” published Cultural Critique 77.1 (2011): 70-101.

HONORABLE MENTION:
Susan Koshy (English / Asian American Studies)
“Minority Cosmopolitanism,” published in PMLA 126.3 (2011): 592-609.

Alma Gottlieb (Anthropology) and Philip Graham (English)
“Mad to Be Modern,” published in Being There: Learning to Live Cross-Culturally. Ed. Sarah Davis and Melvin Konner. (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2011); excerpted from: Braided Worlds, by Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham (University of Chicago Press, 2012--in press/expected July 2012).


GRADUATE STUDENT PRIZES

WINNER:
Derek Attig (History)
“’A Place Dedicated to Quiet’: The End of Library Segregation and the Ordering of Public Space,” written for History 599: Diss Research and Writing in Fall 2011

HONORABLE MENTION:
Ben Bascom (English)
“Loneliness, Longing, and the Queer Shape of Empire," written for English 547: The Psychic Life of Empire in Fall 2011

Pei-lin Wu (Comparative and World Literature)
“Aesop’s Fables in Ancient China," written for CWL 599 Thesis Research in Fall 2011

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PRIZE

Tara McGovern (Anthropology)
“Children of the Revolution: Youth Organization and Political Consciousness in Post War Northern Morazán, El Salvador,” written for LAST 170: Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean Studies in Fall 2011