The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities invites you to be our guest for our annual award reception on May 1 honoring the faculty, graduate student, and undergraduate student recipients of this year's IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities. We are pleased to announce this year's prize winners below. Please join us in congratulating them.
 

FACULTY PRIZES

Co-Winners:

José B. Capino (English), “Figures of Empire: Documentaries in the Philippines” in The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia. Ed., Ian Aitken and Camille Deprez (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, Dec. 2016): 79-104.

Craig Koslofsky (History), “Parisian Cafés in European Perspective: Contexts of Consumption, 1660‐1730,” in French History 31,1 (2017): 39-62.

Honorable Mention:

Alistair Black (I School) “The Long Journey to Libraries of Light,” an extract from Libraries of Light: British Public Library Design in the Long 1960s. (London: Routledge, 2017).

GRADUATE STUDENT PRIZES

Winner:

Christine Hedlin (English), “Ethiopiansim and the Turn-of-the-Century African American Novel,” submitted for ENG 599: Thesis Preparation, supervised by Professor Justine Murison

Honorable Mention:

Lisa Ortiz (EPOL), “#yonomequito: Deconstructing classed and neoliberal values haunting a Puerto Rican campaign,” written for ANTH 466: Class Culture, and Society, taught by Professor Faye Harrison.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PRIZES

Winner: 

Madeline Decker (English), “What’s Love Got to Do with It: Intersections of the Personal and Political in The Bostonians and Obergefell v. Hodges,” Nominated by Professor Justine Murison, and written for ENG 300: “Inventing Privacy in 19^th-Century America,” taught by Professor Murison (English).

Honorable Mention:

Kuizhi (Lewis) Wang (Philosophy),“Role of Teleology in Kant’s Philosophy of History,” nominated by Professor Alexandra Newton and written for PHIL 501: “Seminar in the History of Philosophy,” taught by Professor Newton (Philosophy).