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• 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]

• Alex Shakar named a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am2 views

  Alex Shakar (English) was named a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction for his novel Luminarium, which focuses on the roles of technology and spirituality in shaping people’s reality. 

• Alistair Black receives the Library History Essay Award for 2013

  Dec 20, 2013 8:00 am1 views

  Alistair Black (GSLIS) received the Library History Essay Award for 2013 for his essay "Organizational Learning and Home-Grown Writing: The Library Staff Magazine in Britain in the First Half of the Twentieth Century"  (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]

• 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)

• Areli Marina wins the Marraro Prize

  Nov 29, 2013 8:00 am2 views

  Areli Marina (Art History / Medieval Studies) won the Howard R. Marraro Prize for best work in Italian history for her book, The Italian Piazza Transformed, from the American Catholic Historical Association and the American Historical Association (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]

• 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] 

• 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]

• 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)

• Bruce Michelson named Fulbright grantee for 2013-2014

  Mar 18, 2014 8:00 am2 views

  Bruce Michelson (English / Director of the Campus Honors Program / President of the American Humor Studies Association) has been named a Fulbright grantee for 2013-2014. He will serve as Fulbrigh Professor of American Studies with the University of Antwerp (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. 

• Bruno Nettl receives the inaugural Taichi Traditional Music Award

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am2 views

  Bruno Nettl, Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology, is one of four international musicians who received the inaugural Taichi Traditional Music Award, given by the China Conservatory and the Taichi Traditional Music Foundation. Professor Nettl was chosen for his achievements in the field that he helped establish: ethnomusicology, the study of social and cultural aspects of music in local and global contexts. The prize recognizes individuals or social groups who have made “outstanding and original contribution toward the performance, inheritance, theoretical studies or dissemination of traditional music.”

  Professor Nettl has also been awarded the Charles Homer Haskins Prize, presented annually to a distinguished humanist by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). This honor includes a cash award and asks the recipient to deliver the Haskins Prize Lecture reflecting on “a lifetime of work as a scholar and an institution builder” at the ACLS annual meeting in May 2014. Named for the first chairman of ACLS, the Haskins Prize Lecture series is entitled “A Life of Learning” and celebrates scholarly careers of distinctive importance. 

• 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)

• Carole Palmer wins a Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award

  May 14, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Carole Palmer (Library and Information Science) won a Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award from the Association for Information Science and Technology (Source).

• Cecily Garber named Public Fellow by ACLS

  Jun 5, 2014 8:00 am5 views

  Cecily R. Garber, recent English PhD, has been named as one of 20 ACLS Public Fellows (Source).

• Charles D. Wright wins the Medieval Academy CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching

  Apr 17, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Charles D. Wright (English) won the Medieval Academy of America's CARA Award for Teaching Excellence (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)

• Clifford Christians wins Louis Forsdale Award for Outstanding Educator

  May 14, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Clifford Christians (Research Professor Emeritus of Communications/Professor Emeritus of Media Studies/Journalism) won the Louis Forsdale Award for Outstanding Educator in the Field of Media Ecology from the Media Ecology Association (Source).

• Craig Koslofsky's "Evening’s Empire" cited by Atlantic magazine as one of best 2012 books

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Evening’s Empire (Cambridge, 2011) by Craig Koslofsky (History, IPRH Fellow 2013–14) was cited by Atlantic magazine as one of the 15 best books reviewed by the magazine or published in 2012. Benjamin Schwarz, the magazine’s literary editor, assembled a top-five list for the year, followed by a list of ten runners-up, which included Koslofsky’s book. The book was reviewed in the April 2012 issue of Atlantic magazine. Evening’s Empire was also named the Longman-History Today Book of the Year for 2011 in January 2012. One criterion for the award is accessibility for the general reader of history. 

• Daniel Schneider receives George Perkins Marsh Prize

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am4 views

  Daniel Schneider (Urban and Regional Planning) received the George Perkins Marsh Prize, for Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial Ecosystem (MIT, 2011). Bestowed by the American Society for Environmental History, the prize is awarded to the best book in the field.

• David M. Chasco named a fellow by the American Institute of Architects

  Dec 6, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  David M. Chasco (Director of the School of Architecture) was named a fellow by the American Institute of Architects. The fellowship program was developed to recognize architects who have made a significant contribution to architecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession (Source). 

• David Roediger and Elizabeth Esch awarded the International Labor History Association 2012 Book of the Year Award for 2012

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am8 views

  David Roediger (History and IPRH Fellow 2012–13) and Elizabeth Esch have been awarded the International Labor History Association (ILHA) Book of the Year Award for 2012 for The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History (Oxford, 2012).

• David W. Plath receives 2013 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am14 views

  David W. Plath, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Asian Studies, received the 2013 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies. Plath was the leader of the Media Production Group, for which he has designed, scripted, hosted, narrated, edited, directed, and often filmed productions. In 2000, the Society for East Asian Anthropology established the David Plath Media Award, given biennially for the best new educational media project on Asian societies and cultures. Professor Plath taught at the U. of I. for 35 years, is perhaps best known for Long Engagements: Maturity in Modern Japan(Stanford UP, 1980). The 2013 Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies award celebrates his long engagement and many contributions to teaching about Japan at all levels and through many media.

• Dean Edward Feser receives Edgar Fellowship

  Jun 14, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Dean Edward Feser (Urban and Regional Planning) received a 2013 Edgar Fellowship from the Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar/Institute of Government and Public Affairs (Source) 

• Dearborn and Stallmeyer win EDR Achievement Award

  Aug 30, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Lynne Dearborn (Architecture / Urban and Regional Planning) and John Stallmeyer (Architecture) won the 2013 EDR Achievement Award from the Environmental Design Research Association for their book Inconvenient Heritage. (Source)

• Debra Richtmeyer receives North American Saxophone Alliance Honorary Lifetime Member Award

  May 21, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Debra Richtmeyer (Music) became the first woman to receive the North American Saxophone Alliance Honorary Lifetime Member Award (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]

• 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)

• 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)

• Dr. Lisa Cacho awarded John Hope Franklin Publication Prize

  Feb 3, 2014 8:00 am4 views

  

  Dr. Lisa Cacho's Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected has received the the 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for best book in American Studies from the American Studies Association (Soruce).

• 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]

• 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]

• 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)

• Elenora Stoppino awarded 2012 AAIS Book Prize

  Nov 25, 2013 9:00 am0 views

  The American Association for Italian Studies awarded Eleonora Stoppino and her book Genealogies of Fiction: Women Warriors and the Dynastic Imagination in the Orlando furioso one of two 2012 Book Prizes for best books in Italian studies published in 2012. Professor Stoppino is an Associated Professor of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese as well as a member of the 2013–14 IPRH Advisory Committee.

• 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) 

   

• Ellen Swain named a fellow of the Society of American Archivists

  Aug 30, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Ellen Swain (Library) was name a fellow of the Society of American Archivists (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]

• Erik McDuffie Awarded Research Fellowship at the Newberry Library

  Jun 9, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Erik McDuffie (African American Studies) was awarded a short-term research fellowship from the Newberry Library in Chicago (Source). 

• Erik McDuffie receives the Wesley-Logan Prize

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am1 views

  Erik McDuffie (African American Studies, IPRH Fellow 2010–11) received the Wesley-Logan Prize from the American Historical Association for his book Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism (Duke, 2011). The Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history is jointly sponsored by the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of African American Life & History, and is is awarded annually for an outstanding book on some aspect of the history of the dispersion, settlement and adjustment, and/or return of peoples originally from Africa. 

• 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]

• Eyamba Bokamba receives Walton Award

  Apr 30, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Eyamba Bokamba (Linguistics) received the Walton Award from the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (Source).

• Feisal Mohamed awarded Irene Samuel Memorial Award

  Mar 18, 2014 9:00 am6 views

  

  Feisal Mohamed (English) was awarded the Milton Society of America’s Irene Samuel Memorial Award, the highest honor from the society for a collection of essays, for his co-edited collection Milton and Questions of History (2012). This is the second consecutive year that he has received an award from the MSA (Source).

• Fellowships and Grants, 2012–13

  Nov 25, 2013 8:30 am0 views

  

   

  AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES (ACLS)

  ACLS Fellow
  D. Fairchild Ruggles
  Project: Shajar al-Durr: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of a 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen

  Digital Innovation Fellow
  Ted Underwood, English
  Project: Understanding Genre in a Collection of a Million Volumes

  Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow
  Carol Symes, History
  Project: Public Acts: Performance, Popular Literacies, and the Documentary Revolution of Medieval Europe
  For residence at the National Humanities Center during academic year 2013–14

  New Faculty Fellow
  Susan N. Johnson-Roehr, Architecture PhD, 2011
  Dissertation: "The Spatialization of Knowledge and Power at the Astronomical Observatories of Sawai Jai Singh II, c. 1721–1743 CE"
  Appointed in Art at University of Virginia, 2013–14 and 2014–15.

   

  NATIONAL CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES

  Residential Fellowship
  Heather Hyde Minor, Architecture
  Project:Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Lost Words

   

  

   NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES (NEH)

  Summer Stipend
  Mireya Loza, Latina/o Studies and History
  Project: The Bracero Program: A History of the U.S.-Mexico Guest Worker Program, 1942–1964

  Digital Start-Up Grant
  Ted Underwood, English
  Project: Understanding Genre in a Collection of a Million Volumes

  Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
  Mara Wade, Germanic Languages and Literatures
  Project: Emblematica Online II

   

    FULBRIGHT PROGRAM

  Eda Derhemi, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
  Fulbright Scholar for 2013–14, Albania, Spring 2014

  Bruce Michelson, English, Emeritus
  Fulbright Professor of American Literature, University of Antwerp, Spring 2014

  Zohreh Sullivan, English, Emerita
  Fulbright Scholar for 2013–14, University of Jordan
  Project: Writers and the Battlefield of History

   

   

  INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES (IAS), U OF BRISTOL

  IAS Colston Research Fellow &
  Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor
  Sharon Irish

   

  AMERICAN THEATRE & DRAMA SOCIETY

  Faculty Research Travel Award
  Valeri Hohman, Theatre
  Project: Cold War Performances: Soviet Performances in America after Stalin

   

  CANADIAN SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL

  Insight Development Grant
  Jeananne Nichols, Music Education
  Louis Bergonzi, Music Education
  Project: To collect quantitative and qualitative data over a two-year period in order to investigate tenure status, gender/sexuality, and race/ethnicity in Canadian and US post-secondary music schools.
  

   

  COUNCIL FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES (CES)

  Mellon-CES Dissertation-Completion Fellowship
  Diana Georgescu, Ph.D. Candidate, History, and IPRH-Nicholson Fellow 2012–13
  Project: Ceauşescu’s Children': The Making and Unmaking of Romania’s Last Socialist Generation (1965–2005)

   

  DUMBARTON OAKS RESEARCH LIBRARY AND COLLECTION

  Junior Fellow, Garden and Landscape Studies
  Rachel Koroloff, Ph.D. Candidate, History (declined 2013–14 IPRH Fellowship)
  Project: "Seeds of Exchange: Russia's Apothecary and Botanical Gardens in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century"

• 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). 

• 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. 

• Five Illinois professors named 2014 Guggenheim Fellows

  Apr 14, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Five professors at the University of Illinois — Asef Bayat (sociology), Joy Harjo (American Indian studies), Cathy Prendergast (English), Stephen Taylor (music composition and theory), and Deke Weaver (Art + Design) — are among 178 Guggenheim Fellows named this year by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Fellowships are appointed to a to a diverse group scholars, artists, and scientists on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise (Source).

• Frederick Hoxie elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Frederick E. Hoxie, Swanlund Chair and Professor of History, was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in April 2013. Hoxie is a Center for Advanced Study Professor of history and holds appointments in the College of Law and the American Indian Studies Program. The AAAS is one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, and a leading center for independent policy research.

  In October 2012, Professor Hoxie was also honored with the Western History Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in American Indian History. He was recognized for his years of advancing the field of American Indian history, through publications, commitment to helping Native and other students in the field, and through service that includes working with tribal communities. His award was given at the annual meeting of the Western History Association. Professor Hoxie has published more than a dozen books on U.S. Indian policy, the history of Native American communities and the meaning of indigenous history in modern society. His most recent book is This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made (Penguin, 2012).

• Fred Hoxie wins 2013 Caughey Western History Association Prize

  Mar 18, 2014 8:45 am0 views

  Fred Hoxie’s (Swanlund professor of history) book, This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made has won the 2013 Caughey Western History Association Prize for the most distinguished book on the history of the American West (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).