The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has awarded its annual Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowships to seven faculty members and seven graduate students from the Illinois campus for the academic year 2012–13.
Faculty Fellows are released from one semester of teaching, with the approval of their departments and college, and receive a research allocation. They are also asked to teach one course, during the award year or the year immediately following, on a subject related to their Fellowship. Graduate Student Fellows receive a stipend from the IPRH. All IPRH Fellows are expected to remain in residence on the Illinois campus during the award year, and to participate in the Program’s yearlong interdisciplinary Fellows Seminar.
The IPRH is delighted to announce the following recipients of the fellowship awards for 2012–13:
FACULTY FELLOWS
Catharine Gray
English
Unmaking Britain: War Poetry and News Culture, 1638–1665
Bonnie Mak
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Implications of a Digital Revolution
Faranak Miraftab
Urban and Regional Planning
Between Homeland and Heartland: How Migrants and their Families in Mexico and Togo Revitalize the American Midwest
Kathryn Oberdeck
History
Solution for Revolution?: Urban Blight, Domestic Hygiene, and Transnational Politics of Sanitation in Chicago, Illinois and Durban, South Africa, 1910s–1960s
Anke Pinkert
Germanic Languages and Literatures
Transforming the Humanities through Higher Education in Prison
David Roediger
History
Oh, Freedom: The Revolutionary Dreams of Emancipation, 1861–1877
Matthew Thibeault
School of Music (Music Education) and Education (Affiliate)
Spinning Sounds: 20th Century Revolutions in Music from Performance to Recording to Data
GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS
Jill Fitzgerald
English
Rebel Angels: Political Theology and the Fall of the Angels Tradition in Old English Literature
Diana Georgescu
History
“Ceauescu’s Children:” The Making and Unmaking of Romania’s Last Socialist Generation (1965–2005)
David Greenstein
History
Between Two Worlds: How Americans and Soviets Connected, Collided, and Made Each Other after the Bolshevik Revolution
Holly Holmes
School of Music (Musicology)
“Sou do mundo, Sou Minas Gerais [I am of the world. I am Minas Gerais]”: Popular Music, Politics and Regionalism in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Aimee Rickman
Human and Community Development
Living docility and dissent: U.S. small town girls’ social media use within social marginalization
Stephanie Seawell
History
The Black Freedom Movement and Community Planning in Urban Parks in Cleveland, Ohio 1945–1977