IPRH Prizes for Research Winners, 2017–18
The IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities allow us to celebrate excellence in humanities scholarship. These prizes recognize outstanding humanities research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with awards given at the student and faculty levels. The awards will be presented at a reception at 4:00 on May 3, 2018 in the IPRH Lecture Hall at the Levis Faculty Center. Please join us in congratulating this year’s prize winners.
FACULTY PRIZES
Winner:
Jamie Jones (English), “Fish out of Water: The ‘Prince of Whales’ Sideshow and the Environmental Humanities.” Configurations 25, no. 2 (Spring 2017): 189–214.
Honorable Mentions:
Christopher Freeburg (English), “Past the Chokecherry Tree,” selection from Chapter Four of Black Aesthetics.Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017.
Ghassan Moussawi(Sociology), “Queer Exceptionalism and Exclusion: Cosmopolitanism and Inequalities in ‘Gay Friendly’ Beirut.” The Sociological Review(Sage Publications) 66, no. 1 (2018): 174–190.
GRADUATE STUDENT PRIZES
Co-Winners:
Emily DiFilippo (Spanish and Portuguese), “Post-Op in the Real World: Cancer and Queer Resistance in Isabel Franc and Susanna Martín’s Alicia en un mundo real(2011).” Nominated by Professor L. Elena Delgado, and submitted for SPAN 599: Thesis Preparation, directed by Professor L. Elena Delgado.
Shelby Strong (East Asian Languages and Cultures), “Should We Pass on ‘Passing Women’?: The Stakes of (Trans)gender Ontologies for Korean Namjangyeoja Dramas,” nominated by Professor Toby Beauchamp. Submitted for GWS 470: Transgender Studies, taught by Professor Toby Beauchamp.
Learn more about the IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities.
IPRH New Horizons Summer Faculty Research Fellowships, 2018
The New Horizons Fellowships are designed to help faculty at the tenured Associate Professor level maximize the summer for research at a critical juncture in the arc of their professional careers. Fellows receive research funds and support to hire an undergraduate research assistant. Please join us in congratulating this year’s fellows.
Justine Murison (English), “American Hypocrisy: The Politics of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature”
Anke Pinkert (Germanic Languages and Literatures), “Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest and Assembly”
Carol Symes (History), “Mediated Texts and Their Makers in Medieval Europe”