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• 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)

• 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). 

   

• 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)

• 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]

• 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)

• 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]

• 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).

• 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).

• 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]

• 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).

• 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)

• Jennifer Monson's work named best dance of 2013

  Apr 17, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  IPRH factuly fellow Jennifer Monson's (Dance) Live Dancing Archive has been named the best dance of 2013 by TimeOut New York (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).

• 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]

• 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).

• Jennifer Monson recieves Doris Duke Impact Award

  May 1, 2014 8:00 am0 views

  Jennifer Monson (Dance and IPRH 2013–14 Faculty Fellow) has been awarded a Doris Duke Impact Award (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). 

• 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)

• 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).

• 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).

• 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] 

• 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). 

• 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). 

• 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) 

• 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]

• 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]

• 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). 

• 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)

• 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 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).

• 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)

• 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.

• 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)

• 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).

• 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]

• 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]

• 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).

• 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).

• 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).

• 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.

• 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)

• 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. 

• 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).

• Jennifer Monson honored at the Movement Research Gala

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am0 views

  Jennifer Monson (Dance and IPRH Fellow 2013–14) was honored at the Movement Research Gala on May 13, 2013. Movement Research serves as a laboratory for exploration and experimentation in movement-based art forms while capturing the diversity of artists and audiences. Each year, choreographers, dancers, and other motion-centered innovators are recognized for their contributions.

• 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. 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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. 

• 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"