The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities is pleased to announce the winners of its 2014–15 Prizes for Research in the Humanities. The awards will be presented to the following winners at a ceremony on Monday, May 4. The Prizes honor excellence in humanities research by faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students.

FACULTY PRIZES

WINNER: Amanda Ciafone (Media and Cinema Studies)
“The Magical Neoliberalism of Network Films,” published in International Journal of Communication V. 8 2014.

HONORABLE MENTION: Andrew Gaedtke (English)
“Halluci-nation: Mental Illness, Modernity, and Metaphor in Midnight’s Children,” published in Contemporary Literature, 55.4 (2014): 701-725.

GRADUATE STUDENT PRIZES

WINNER: Utathya Chattopadhyaya (History)
“E.P. Thompson, C.L.R. James, and the Afterlives of Internationalism,” written for History 597, directed by Professor Antoinette Burton in Summer 2014. Nominated by Professor Burton.

HONORABLE MENTION: Michael King (Landscape Architecture)
“‘Papering, Paving, and Pulping—Pulverizing Through Resource Extraction” written for English 547: American Colonialism and Its Aftermath, taught by Professor Trish Loughran in Spring 2014. Nominated by Professor Loughran.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PRIZES

WINNER: Nicholas Millman (English)
“Fiction in the Guise of a ‘History of Fact’: Reading Gender and Genre in Robinson Crusoe,” written for English 429: “Eighteenth-Century Fiction,” taught by Professor Anthony Pollock.

HONORABLE MENTION: Alexandra Swanson (English)
“The Problematic Paradigm of the Public Sphere: Early and Mid-Eighteenth Century Literary Representations of Coffeehouse Culture,” written for English 206: “Enlightenment Literature and Culture,” taught by In Hye Ha.