The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities invites you to be our guest for our annual award reception on May 3 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.

IPRH PRIZES FOR RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES, 2015–16 

FACULTY PRIZES

Co-Winners: 

Eduardo Ledesma (Spanish and Portuguese), "The Poetics and Politics of Computer Code in Latin America: Codework, Code Art, and Live Coding," published in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 49.1 (March 2015).   

Andrew Gaedtke (English), "Neuromodernism: Diagnosis and Disability in Will Self's Umbrella," published in Modern Fiction Studies 61.2 (Summer 2015): 271-294.

Honorable Mention:

Michael Silvers (Music: Musicology), "Birdsong and a Song About a Bird: Popular Music and the Mediation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Northeastern Brazil," published in Ethnomusicology 59.3 (Fall 2015): 380-397.

GRADUATE STUDENT PRIZES

Winner:

Elizabeth Tavares (English), "A Race to the Roof: Cosmetics and Contemporary Histories in the Elizabethan Playhouse, 1592–1596," forthcoming in Shakespeare Bulletin 34.2 (Summer 2016) and written for English 599: Thesis Research, directed by Professor Curtis Perry.

Honorable Mention:

Ethan Madarieta (Comparative and World Literature), "Unbordering the Body: Raúl Zurita’s Utopian Performance Under Dictatorship," written for Spanish 590/ Comparative and World Literature 581: Borders, taught by Professor Eric Calderwood. Nominated by Professor Brett Kaplan.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PRIZES

Winner: 

Patricia J. Fleming (English major), "The Gods in Men and the Sinners in Women," nominated by Mara Wade, prepared for German 199: Emblematica Oniline, taught by Professor Mara Wade. Nominated by Professor Wade.

Find out more information about these prizes.