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• Yasemin Yildiz receives Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am7 views

  Yasemin Yildiz (Germanic Languages and Literatures) received the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for her book Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition (Fordham, 2011). The Modern Language Association of America (MLA) awards this prize biennially for an outstanding scholarly work on the linguistics or literatures of the Germanic languages. Professor Yildiz received the prize in January at the MLA annual convention in Boston. Professor Yildiz received an IPRH Prize for Research in the Humanities in spring 2012.

• 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). 

• 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]

• 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)

• Valleri Hohman wins a Fulbright Award

  Apr 1, 2014 8:00 am4 views

  Valleri Hohman (Theatre) won a Fulbright Award from The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to work with Nikolai Kolyada at the Kolyada Theatre in Ekaterinburg, Russia in 2014 (Source).

• Valeria Sobol receives NEH Summer Stipend

  Apr 1, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Valeria Sobol (Slavic Languages and Literatures) has received an NEH Summer Stipend for her work The Haunted Empire: The Russian Literary Gothic and the “Imperial Uncanny,” 1793–1844 (Source).

• Timothy Pauketat awarded NEH Collaborative Research Grant

  Jul 29, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Timothy Robert Pauketat (Anthropology/Medieval Studies) has been awarded a 2014 NEH Collaborative Research Grant for the project Cahokia’s Richland Farmers: Agricultural Expansion, Immigration, Ritual and the Foundations of Mississippian Civilization (Source). 

• Tere R. O’Connor elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  May 1, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Tere R. O'Connor (Dance) has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Source). 

• Tere O’Connor receives Doris Duke Artist Award

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am5 views

  Tere O’Connor (Dance) has received a Doris Duke Artist Award for 2013. Professor O’Connor brings metaphor, memory, and aspects of consciousness to the forefront in many of his works. Funding from the Doris Duke Artist Award will allow him to both explore projects that connect writing, teaching, experiencing dance, mentoring, and advocacy and move farther away from the concept of authorship toward dances that are structured to allow for external ideas from the performers and the audience to shape them. The award includes an unrestricted grant of $250,000 over three to five years, $25,000 toward a retirement account, plus the possibility of additional funds for outreach and audience engagement. The ten-year Doris Duke Artist Award program is designed to “recognize the potential of individual artists and insure their future viability.”

• Tariq Ali wins Sardar Patel Dissertation Prize

  May 1, 2014 8:00 am11 views

  Tariq Ali (History) was awarded the Sardar Patel Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation written on South Asia in any institution of higher learning in the United States for 2012 (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]

• Stephanie Foote launches "Resilience: A Journal of Environmental Humanities"

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  

  Outgoing IPRH Advisory Committee Member Stephanie Foote (English and GWS) has launched Resilience: A Journal of Environmental Humanities, with co-editor Stephanie LeMenager, an Associate Professor of English at University of California, Santa Barbara. A digital, peer-reviewed journal of the Environmental Humanities, Resilience provides a forum for scholars from across humanities disciplines to speak to one another about their shared interest in environmental issues, and to plot out an evolving conversation about what the humanities contributes to living and thinking sustainably in a world of dwindling resources. Volumes will be published in digital form by the University of Nebraska Press. The journal can be visited at www.resiliencejournal.org. 

• Soo Ah Kwon and Nancy Abelmann Receive Spencer Foundation

  Feb 3, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Soo Ah Kwon and Nancy Abelmann (Assian American Studies), as well as their co-principal investigators Adrienne Lo and Tim Liao have recieved a grant from the Spencer Foundation for their proposal for “The American University Meets the Pacific Century (AUPC).”  The project examines how the escalating number of degree-seeking international undergraduates is transforming the understanding and meaning of race and diversity at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (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)

• 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)

• 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]

• 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).

• Scott Poole wins McGrath lifetime Achievement Award

  Jul 24, 2013 8:00 am5 views

  Marshall Scott Poole (Communications) won the 2013 Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups from the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (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]

• Robert Morrissey wins 2013 Lester J. Cappon Award for Best Article in the William and Mary Quarterly

  May 21, 2014 8:00 am4 views

  Robert Morrissey (History) won the 2013 Lester J. Cappon Award for Best Article in the William and Mary Quarterly for "Kaskaskia Social Network: Kinship and Assimilation in a French-Illinois Borderland” published in The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Serial, 70, number 1, January 2013 (Source). Morrissey also received a 2012-13 IPRH Prize for Research in the Humanities award for the same article. 

• Rebecca Ginsburg wins 2012 Abott Lowell Cummings Prize

  Nov 21, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Rebecca Ginsburg (EPOL, Landscape Architecture, and Director EJP) won the 2012 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize from the Vernacular Architecture Forum for her book At Home With Arpartheid: The Hidden Landscapes of Deomestic Service in Johannesburg (Virginia, 2011). The prize recognizes a significant contribution to the study of vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes of North America.

• Provost Fellows

  Dec 20, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Three faculty members were appointed Provost Fellows for this academic year. The faculty members are Lauren Goodlad (Professor of English and director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory), Wendy Heller (professor of psychology and of gender and women’s studies), and Kelly Tappenden (the Kraft Foods Human Nutrition Professor in the department of food science and human nutrition).

  The program provides academic leadership experience in key campus administrative roles for distinguished faculty members. For more information, please visit http://news.illinois.edu/ii/13/1219/ach.html.

• Paul Hardin Kapp and Paul J. Armstrong receive the 2013 Historic Book Preservation Prize

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Paul Hardin Kapp (Architecture) and Paul J. Armstrong (Architecture, emeritus), received the 2013 Historic Book Preservation Prize for SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City (Illinois, 2013), which they co-edited. Presented by the University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation, the yearly award goes to the book selected by a jury “for the most significant contribution to the intellectual vitality of historic preservation” in the United States.

• 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.

• Michael Rothberg recognized by the International Society for the Study of Narrative

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am39 views

  Michael Rothberg (English, Comparative and World Literature, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, and IPRH Fellow 2003–04) was recognized by the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) for his essay, “Progress, Progression, Procession: William Kentridge and the Narratology of Transitional Justice,” which was selected as the best of the year’s publications in the journal Narrative, published by the ISSN. The article appeared in the January 2012 issue of Narrative. 

   

• Matthew Thibeault receives Outstanding Emerging Researcher Award

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am6 views

  Matthew Thibeault (Music Education, IPRH Fellow 2012–13) received the Outstanding Emerging Researcher Award from the Center for Music Education Research at the University of South Florida. The award honors music education researchers at an early stage of their careers who are producing high-quality research. Professor Thibeault’s paper, “The Shifting Locus of Musical Experience From Performance to Recording to New Media: Some Implications for Music Education,” will be published in the center’s journal and republished in a book. 

• Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert awarded 2013 Spur Award by the Western Writers of America

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert (American Indian Studies) was awarded a 2013 Spur Award by the Western Writers of America, in the category of Best Western Short Nonfiction, for “Marathoner Louis Tewanima and the Continuity of Hopi Running, 1908–1912,” which appeared in the Autumn 2012 issue of Western Historical Quarterly. Western Writers of America, Inc., was founded in 1953 to promote the literature of the American West and bestows Spur Awards for distinguished writing in the Western field.

• 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)

• 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]

• Mahir Şaul receives Utne Reader magazine’s Visionaries Award

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Mahir Şaul (Anthropology) received Utne Reader magazine’s Visionaries Award for his role as a “debunker of African stereotypes.” For 15 years, Şaul has taught a course on African film and society, emphasizing their vast intellectual and cultural accomplishments. Last winter, he introduced the first African film series to Instanbul Museum of Modern Art audiences.

• Lori Kendall elected President of the Association of Internet Researchers

  Oct 30, 2013 8:00 am1 views

  Lori Sue Kendall (Library and Information Science) became President of the Association of Internet Researchers (Source).

• Lisa Lucero named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am9 views

  Lisa Lucero (Anthropology) was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Election as a fellow is an honor bestowed upon members of the association by their peers. Lucero was honored for “distinguished service in the field of archaeology, with emphasis on the role of water management in Maya society and its contemporary implications.”

• Lindsay Russell awarded 2013 Rhetoric Society of America Dissertation Award

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am1 views

  Lindsay Russell (English) was awarded the 2013 Rhetoric Society of America Dissertation Award for her dissertation, “Women in the English Language Dictionary” (University of Washington, co-chairs Anis Bawarshi and Colette Moore). The award recognizes the best of the previous year's doctoral dissertations in the field of rhetoric and rhetorical studies. Professor Russell joined the Illinois faculty in fall 2012.

• 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 the Arthur J. Viseltear Award

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am9 views

  Leslie Reagan (History and IPRH Fellow 2011–12 & 2001–02) received the Arthur J. Viseltear Award for her book Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America (California, 2010). The annual award is given by the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association to a historian for outstanding contributions to the history of public health.

• 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).

• LeAnne Howe wins USA Ford Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am14 views

  LeAnne Howe (American Indian Studies and English) won a USA Ford Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists. The organization honors 50 of America’s finest artists each year with individual fellowship awards of $50,000. Howe joins a class of 2012 awardees that includes Annie Proulx, Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, David Henry Hwang, Edgar Heap of Birds, Adrienne Kennedy, and many others. In 2012, Professor Howe was also the winner of the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas.

• Kristin Hoganson receives the 2012 Ray Allen Billington Prize from the Western History Association

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am2 views

  Kristin Hoganson (History), who delivered the 2013 IPRH Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities this fall, received the 2012 Ray Allen Billington Prize from the Western History Association for her article, “Meat in the Middle: Converging Borderlands in the U.S. Midwest, 1865–1900,” published in the Journal of American History. The association is dedicated to promoting the study of the North American West in its varied aspects and broad sense. 

• Kristin Hoganson named Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor at Oxford University

  Apr 17, 2014 8:00 am21 views

  Professor Kristin Hoganson (History) has been invited to hold the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professorship in American History at Oxford University for 2015-2016 (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]

• Kenny Cupers awarded Humboldt Fellowship

  Jul 8, 2014 8:00 am4 views

  Kenny Cupers (Architecture) has been awarded a Humboldt Fellowship for 2014-2015.

• 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)

• Karen Fresco named Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Karen Fresco (French, Medieval Studies & GWS) was named Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques. This prestigious title is awarded to members of the international community for outstanding contributions to French pedagogy, scholarship, and culture, as well as to the French language. L’Ordre des Palmes Académiques was instituted by founded by Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte on March 19, 1808. 

• Karen Flynn wins Lavinia L Dock Award

  Aug 14, 2013 8:00 am2 views

  Karen Flynn (Gender and Women’s Studies / African Studies / African American Studies) won the Lavinia L. Dock Award for Exemplary Historical Research from American Association for the History of Nursing for her book Moving Beyond Borders (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).

• 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]

• Junaid Rana receives Association of Asian American Studies Book Award for the Social Sciences

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am1 views

  Junaid Rana (Asian American Studies, IPRH Fellow 2005–06)received the Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS) Book Award for the Social Sciences, for Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora (Duke, 2011). The award was conferred at the AAS Annual Conference in Seattle in April 2013.

• J. Stephen Downie and HathiTrust Research Center awarded NEH grant

  Aug 6, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the two-year project “Exploring the Billions and Billions of Words in the HathiTrust Corpus with Bookworm: HathiTrust + Bookworm.” The project will be directed by J. Stephen Downie (Co-Director of the HTRC and Professor and Associate Dean of Research at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science) in collaboration with multiple internal and external partners (Source).  

• Joy Harjo wins Creative Nonfiction Prize for memoir "Crazy Brave"

  Aug 22, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Joy Harjo (American Indian Studies / English) won the 2013 Creative Nonfiction Prize for her memoir “Crazy Brave” from PEN Center USA. (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).