The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities is pleased to announce the winners of its 2012–13 Prizes for Research in the Humanities. The awards will be presented to the following winners at a ceremony on Wednesday, May 1. The Prizes honor excellence in humanities research by faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students.

FACULTY PRIZES:

Andrew Gaedtke (English)
“Cognitive Investigations: The Problems of Qualia and Style in the Contemporary Neuronovel,” published in NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, 45.2 (Duke University Press, 2012).

Robert Morrissey (History)
“Kaskaskia Social Network: Kinship and Assimilation in the French-Illinois Borderlands, 1695-1735,” published in The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Serial, 70, number 1, January 2013.

HONORABLE MENTION:
Michael Rothberg (English)
“Progress, Progression, Procession: William Kentridge and the Narratology of Transitional Justice,” published in Narrative 20.1 (January 2012): 1-24.

GRADUATE STUDENT PRIZES:

Kathryn Walkiewicz (English)
“Running the Land,” written for English 599: Dissertation Research and Writing in Fall 2012, under the direction of Trish Loughran.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Benjamin Bascom (English)
“Imperial Balloons and Museum Empires: The Last American and the Politics of Culture,” written for English 599: Dissertation Research and Writing in Fall 2012, under the direction of Trish Loughran.

T.J. Tallie (History)
“White Liquor: Settler Colonialism and the Racial Politics of Alcohol in Colonial Natal, 1856-1897,” written for History 599: Dissertation Research and Writing in Fall 2012, under the direction of Antoinette Burton.