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• Shelley Weinberg awarded Best Book in the history of philosophy

  Feb 27, 2018 3:15 pm1 views

  Shelley Weinberg (Philosophy) has been awarded the annual best book in the history of philosophy by the Journal of the History of Philosophy for her 2016 book, Consciousness in Locke. JHP Books is devoted publishing works in textual and archival history, scholarly editions and translations, and interpretive and contextual studies of philosophers and philosophical movements. [Source]

• A. Naomi Paik Awarded Best Book in History Prize

  Feb 27, 2018 3:15 pm0 views

  A. Naomi Paik of Asian American Studies has been awarded the Best Book in History Prize by the Association for Asian American Studies for this year. Her book, Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II, will be awarded at the annual meeting. [Source]

• Mara Wade Appointed Vice President of the Renaissance Society of America

  Dec 29, 2017 3:15 pm0 views

  Mara Wade (Germanic Languages and Literatures) has been approved as the Vice President of the Renaissance Society of America. According to the selection committee, Mara's appointment was based on her work in "bridging the world of the digital humanities with the world of scholarship on emblems, her broad connections in many fields, the historic depth of her commitment to the RSA, her strong record of receipt of international fellowships, and her dedication to teaching and lecturing widely." [Source]

• Six Illinois faculty members awarded NEH Fellowships

  Dec 14, 2017 9:00 am1 views

  Donna Buchanan (music), Elizabeth Hoiem (information sciences), Candice Jenkins (English), Paul Kapp (architecture), D. Fairchild Ruggles (landscape architecture) and Craig Williams (classics) have been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for 2018. (Source)

• D. Fairchild Ruggles Awarded Grant from the Getty Foundation

  Sep 29, 2017 3:15 pm0 views

  D. Fairchild Ruggles (Medieval Studies) has been awarded a grant from The Getty Foundation as part of its Connecting Art Histories initiative. Fairchild's project is entitled "Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval and Early Modern Cities." [Source]

• John Vasquez Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award

  Sep 25, 2017 3:15 pm0 views

  John Vasquez (Political Science) has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association. Founded in 1903, the Association is the leading professional organization for the study of political science and serves more than 12,000 members in more than 80 countries. [Source]

• James Kilgore Awarded 2017 Soros Justice Fellowship

  Aug 29, 2017 3:15 pm2 views

  James Kilgore, a research scholar in the Center for African Studies, the Center for Global Studies, and in LAS Global Studies, has been awarded an Open Society Foundation 2017 Soros Justice Fellowship. It will allow him to lead an effort to advance more effective and less punitive policies on the use of electronic monitoring in the criminal justice system. [Source]

• John Lynn Awarded Public Scholar Award

  Aug 28, 2017 3:15 pm0 views

  John Lynn (History) has been awarded a Public Scholar award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The award is one of only 28 such awards totaling $1.3 million given out this year, the third year for the program. This is the first such award for a U of I faculty member.

• John Lynn receives NEH Public Scholar award and Samuel Eliot Morison Prize

  Aug 7, 2017 8:00 am3 views

  John Lynn (History, emeritus) has received a Public Scholar award from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the 2017 Samuel Eliot Morison Prize, the highest career award in the field of military history. (Source)

• Beverly Smith Accepted into Higher Learning Commission Peer Corps

  Jul 28, 2017 3:15 pm0 views

  Beverly Smith, assistant director of the Native American House, has been accepted to be a member of the Higher Learning Commission Peer Corps. The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) was founded in 1895 as an independent corporation. It serves as one of six regional institutional accreditors in the United States. [Source]

• Erik S. McDuffie and Michelle M. Rivera receive ACLS Fellowships

  Jul 24, 2017 3:15 pm0 views

  Erik S. McDuffie (African American Studies) and Michelle M. Rivera (Communication) have received American Council of Learned Society (ACLS) Fellowships. McDuffie received the ACLS Fellowship, which awards fellowships to individual scholars working in the humanities sand related social sciences. Rivera was awarded the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program, which places recent humanities PhDs in staff positions at partnering government agencies and non-profits. In 2017, the ACLS will award over 300 scholars across a variety of humanities disciplines. [Source1] [Source2]

• Augusto Espiritu Wins Excellence in Mentoring Award

  May 17, 2017 3:15 pm0 views

  Dr. Augusto Espiritu (Asian American Studies) won the 2017 Association of American Studies Excellence in Mentoring Award. [Source] 

• Justine Murison and Sarah West win Humanities Council Teaching Excellence Award

  Apr 28, 2017 3:15 pm6 views

  Justine Murison (English) and Sarah West (Spanish and Portuguese) are the recipients for the Humanities Council Teaching Excellence Award. Murison and West are recognized for their efforts in humanities instruction. [Source]

• Robert Rushing's New Book Wins Film and Media Studies Prize

  Apr 27, 2017 3:00 pm2 views

  Robert Rushing’s (French and Italian) new book, Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen (Indiana University Press) won the Film and Media Studies book prize from the American Association for Italian Studies. [Source]

• Eduardo Ledesma and Catharine Fairbairn Receive LEAP Award

  Apr 26, 2017 3:00 pm1 views

  Eduardo Ledesma (Spanish and Portuguese) and Catharine Fairbairn (Psychology) have received the Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Award, which is granted to faculty based on scholarly productivity and contributions to the educational mission of their departments and the the college. [Source]

• WaÏl S. Hassan Elected as ACLA Vice President

  Apr 24, 2017 2:30 pm1 views

  WaÏl S. Hassan (Comparative and World Literature and English) has been elected as the American Comparative Literature Association’s second vice president. Next year, he’ll become vice president and will serve as president the year following. [Source]

• Erik McDuffie Awarded ACLS Fellowship

  Apr 21, 2017 8:00 am1 views

  Erik McDuffie (African American Studies and History) has been awarded an ACLS Fellowship to work on his project "Garveyism in the Diasporic Midwest: The American Heartland and Global Black Freedom, 1920-1980." [Source]

• Jonathan Ebel wins a Guggenheim Fellowship

  Apr 21, 2017 8:00 am0 views

  Jonathan Ebel (Religtion) won a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete work on a religious history of the Great Depression and the New Deal in agricultural California. [Source]

• Art and architecture faculty awarded fellowships

  Apr 10, 2017 8:00 am0 views

  Anne Burkus-Chasson (Art history) and Prita Meier (Art history) have received fellowships with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and professor Paul Kapp (Architecture) has received a James Marston Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship. [Source]

• 2017 NEH Grant Recipients

  Apr 3, 2017 8:00 am1 views

  The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has recieved three National Endowment in the Humanities grants. 

  Bethany Anderson (University Archives) has recieved a Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant to work on her project: " Cybernetics Thought Collective: A History of Science and Technology Portal Project." You can learn more about the Cybernetics Thought Collective here.

  Two different groups have recieved Digging into Data grants. Scott Althaus, Wouter van Atteveldt, and a Hatmut Wessler are working on "A Global Comparative Analysis of News Coverage about Terrorism from 1945 to present, " and Gabriel Solis, Simon Dixon, Hélène Papadopoulos, and Martin Pfleiderer are working on "Analyzing Large-Scale Data for Patterns in Jazz." [Source]

• Edna Viruela-Fuentes Receives Fulbright

  Feb 9, 2017 2:00 pm8 views

  Edna Viruell-Fuentes (Latino/Latina Studies) has been awarded a Fulbright-García Robles Fellowship to research health and migration in Mexico. [Source]

• Kevin Mumford's Latest Work Named Stonewall Honor Book

  Feb 9, 2017 1:45 pm0 views

  Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis, the latest work by Kevin Mumford (History), has been named a Stonewall Honor Book in the Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award category by the GLBT Round Table of the American Library Association. [Source]

• Symes and McDuffie receive NEH fellowships

  Dec 15, 2016 8:00 am4 views

  Two Illinois professors have received NEH Fellowships for University Teachers: Carol Symes (History / Global Studies / Medieval Studies) for her project “Activating Texts: Mediated Documents and Their Makers in Medieval Europe” and Erik McDuffie (African American Studies / History) for his project “Marcus Garvey and the American Heartland, 1920–1980.” [Source]

• Harry Liebersohn receives Humboldt Award and fellowship to American Academy in Berlin

  May 5, 2016 8:00 am0 views

  Harry Liebersohn (History) has been chosen to receive the Humboldt Research Award, honoring a career of research achievements, and an American Academy fellowship. (Source)

• Six Illinois professors named Guggenheim Fellows

  Apr 15, 2016 8:00 am0 views

  Dennis Baron (English and Linguistics), Craig Koslofsky (History and Germanic Languages and Literatures), Ralph W. Mathisen (History, Classics, and Medieval Studies), Rebecca Stumpf (Anthropology), Karin A. Dahmen (Physics), and Mei-Po Kwan (Geography and Geographic information) have all been named Guggenheim Fellows. (Souce)

• John Karam and Tamara Chaplin recieve NEH Summer Stipends

  Apr 4, 2016 8:00 am4 views

  John Karam (Spanish and Portuguese) and Tamara Chaplin (History) have recieved NEH Summer Stipends. John Karam will work on his project "Arabs at a South American Border Remaking the Hemisphere," a book-length study of Arab immigrants in the border region of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. Tamara Champlin will work on her project "Postwar French Media, and the Struggle for Gay Rights," a book-length study of the history of French lesbian activism since World War II. (Source)

• Wäil Hassan receives ACLS Fellowship

  Feb 25, 2016 8:00 am0 views

  Wäil Hassan (Comparative and World Literature and Director of the Center for Translation Studies) has recieved a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for his research project Arab Brazil: Literature, Culture, and Orientalism in the Racial Democracy. (Source)

• Hans Hock awarded Gold Medal from Asiatic Society

  Feb 25, 2016 8:00 am1 views

  Hans Hock (Linguistics,Emeritus) has been awarded the Sukumar Sen Memorial Gold Medal from The Asiatic Society in Kolkata (Calcutta), India. (Source)

• Elena Delgado receives French National Research Center grant

  Feb 25, 2016 8:00 am1 views

  Elena Delgado (Spanish and Portuguese) has received grant funding from the French National Research Center. (Source)

• Antony Augoustakis receives Award for Excellence in Teaching

  Feb 4, 2016 8:00 am0 views

  Antony Augoustakis (classics) has received an Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Society for Classical Studies. (Source)

• Ken Cuno awarded 2015 Albert Hourani Book Prize

  Dec 18, 2015 8:00 am0 views

  Ken Cuno (History) was awarded the 2015 Albert Hourani Book Prize for his book Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth - and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt. (Source)

• Five Illinois faculty awarded NEH Fellowships

  Dec 18, 2015 8:00 am0 views

  Five University of Illinois faculty members have been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for 2016. The fellowship recipients and their projects are: 

  - Eugene Avrutin (History): “The Velizh Affair: Jews and Christians in a 19th-century Russian Border Town”
  - Eric Calderwood (Comparative and World Literature): “The Memory of Al-Andalus and Spanish Colonialism in Morocco, 1859-1956”
  - Cara Finnegan (Communication): “American Presidents and the History of Photography from the Daguerreotype to the Digital Revolution”
  - Gabriel Solis (Music): “Music, Race, and Indigeneity in Australia and Papua New Guinea”
  - Derrick Spires (English): “Black Theories of Citizenship in the Early United States, 1787-1861”

  Read more about the award recipients and their projects. 

• Martin Manalansan wins Crompton-Noll Award

  Dec 15, 2015 8:00 am0 views

  Martin F. Manalansan (Asian American Studies) has won the Crompton-Noll Award for best essay in lesbian, gay, queer studies in the modern languages/literatures for his essay, "The 'Stuff' of Archives: Mess, Migrations and Queer Lives." (Source)

• Claudia Brosseder awarded 2015 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion

  Dec 1, 2015 8:00 am3 views

  Claudia Brosseder (History) has been awarded the American Academy of Religion’s 2015 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the category of Historical Studies for her book The Power of Huacas: Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru. (Source)

• Cara Finnegan wins “Outstanding Book of the Year” award

  Nov 23, 2015 8:00 am0 views

  Cara Finnegan (communication) has won the “Outstanding Book of the Year” award from the National Communication Association’s Visual Communication Division. (Source)

• Bonnie Mak named senior fellow at Center for Humanities and Information

  Aug 4, 2015 8:00 am0 views

  Bonnie Mak (GSLIS) has been named visiting senior fellow at the Center for Humanities and Information a newly-formed collaboration at Pennsylvania State University between the university’s College of the Liberal Arts and the University Libraries. (Source)

• Michael Silvers awarded ACLS Fellowship

  Jul 22, 2015 8:00 am20 views

  Professor Michael Silvers (Music) has been awarded an ACLS Fellowship for his project Voices of Drought: Forró Soundscapes in Northeastern Brazil. For an overview of all 2015 ACLS fellowship recipients, including two University of Illinois doctoral candidates, please refer to http://www.acls.org/fellows/new.

• Leslie Reagan receives William H. Welch Medal

  Jun 1, 2015 8:00 am2 views

  Leslie Reagan (History, EUI, Gender and Women's Studies) has received 2015 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine for Dangerous Pregnancies:  Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion (2010).  The medal is awarded for a book of outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical. 

• Leslie Reagan receives NEH Summer Stipend

  Mar 23, 2015 8:00 am5 views

  Leslie Reagan (History, EUI, Gender and Women's Studies) has received a Summer Stipend from The National Endowment for the Humanities for her project "Seeing Agent Orange in the United States and Vietnam: Quilt of Tears" (Source).

• Doug Kibbee receives Fulbright fellowship

  Jan 27, 2015 8:00 am0 views

  Doug Kibbee (Medieval Studies, Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education, French and Center for Global Studies) has received a Fulbright fellowship to do research in France next academic year for his project “A Missing Link in the Creation of Standard French." (Source)

• Elizabeth Lowe's translation nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

  Dec 18, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  A book translated from Portuguese by Elizabeth Lowe (professor and director of the U. of I. Center for Translation Studies) is one of five nominated by libraries worldwide in the Portuguese category for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.Lowe translated “The Only Happy Ending for a Love Story is an Accident,” by J.P. Cuenca. Overall, 142 titles have been nominated for the 2015 award. (Source) 

   

• Diane P. Koenker wins Outstanding Achievement Award from the Association of Women in Slavic Studies

  Dec 18, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  The Association of Women in Slavic Studies has awarded their 2014 Outstanding Achievement Award to Diane P. Koenker (Chair of History, Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies). (Source)

• Five faculty members receive NEH Faculty Fellowships

  Dec 9, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Five humanities faculty members —Francois Proulx (French), Antoinette Burton (History / Gender and Women’s Studies), Valeria Sobol (Slavic Languages and Literatures), Robert Morrissey (History), Timothy Pauketat (Anthropology / Medieval Studies) — have received National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowships (Source). 

• Sharon Irish receives Arts Writers Grant

  Oct 24, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Sharon Irish (Library & Information Science) has received an Arts Writers Grant for her project Stephen Willats in the Yew Kay (Source).

• James D. Anderson to deliver Brown lecture in Washington, D.C.

  Oct 16, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  James D. Anderson (Education Policy, Organization and Leadership) will deliver the 11th annual Brown lecture in Education Research on October 23 (Source).

• Gilberto Rosas wins Association of Latina/Latino Anthropologists Book Award

  Oct 16, 2014 8:00 am9 views

  Gilberto Rosas's (Anthropology / Latina/Latino Studies / Latin American and Caribbean Studies) book Barrio Libre: Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontier has won the Association of Latina/Latino Anthropologists 2012-14 Book Award (Source). 

• KAM Curator Allyson Purpura and Asst. Professor Prita Meier Awarded NEH Planning Grant

  Oct 6, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Krannert Art Museum curator of African Art Allyson Purpura and Professor Prita Meier (Art History) have received a National Endowment for the Humanities planning grant for the exhibition World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean (Source).

• Walter Feinberg honored with John Dewey Society’s Outstanding Achievement Award

  Aug 21, 2014 8:00 am1 views

  Walter Feinberg (professor emeritus of education policy, organization and leadership) was honored with the John Dewey Society’s 2014 Outstanding Achievement Award (Source). 

• Joy Harjo receives Black Earth Institute Award

  Aug 21, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Joy Harjo (American Indian Studies) will receive the first Black Earth Institute Award, given to an artist who "best exemplifies the goals and mission of the institute in their work and life" (Source).

• Bruno Nettle gives ACLS Haskins Lecture

  Aug 20, 2014 8:00 am4 views

  Bruno Nettl (Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology) gave the ACLS's 2014 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture this past May. You can view the lecture here.