IPRH Humanities Showcase – Awards & Honors

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). 

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]

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)

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]

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]

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

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)

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]

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

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

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

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.

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)

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

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).

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]

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

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

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. 

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]

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).  

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]

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.

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).

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.

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]

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]

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]

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

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]

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

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)

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

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)

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]

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).

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

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. 

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). 

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) 

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. 

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.

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). 

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).

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).

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

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

Amita Sinha (Landscape Architecture) won the Prize for the Best Article Published in the Journal of Planning History from the Society for American City and Regional Planning History for her article  “Jamshedpur: Planning an Ideal Steel City in India,” published November 2011 (Source).