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

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am55 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. 

   

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

  Apr 17, 2014 8:00 am28 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).

• Michael Silvers awarded ACLS Fellowship

  Jul 22, 2015 8:00 am28 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.

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

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am24 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.

• Tariq Ali wins Sardar Patel Dissertation Prize

  May 1, 2014 8:00 am23 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).

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

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am22 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.

• Matthew Thibeault receives Outstanding Emerging Researcher Award

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am21 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. 

• Leslie Reagan receives the Arthur J. Viseltear Award

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am17 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.

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

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am17 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.”

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

  Oct 16, 2014 8:00 am16 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). 

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

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am16 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).

• Yasemin Yildiz receives Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am16 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.

• Daniel Schneider receives George Perkins Marsh Prize

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am15 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.

• Edna Viruela-Fuentes Receives Fulbright

  Feb 9, 2017 2:00 pm14 views

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

• Valleri Hohman wins a Fulbright Award

  Apr 1, 2014 8:00 am14 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).

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

  Apr 28, 2017 3:15 pm14 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]

• Symes and McDuffie receive NEH fellowships

  Dec 15, 2016 8:00 am14 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]

• Dr. Lisa Cacho awarded John Hope Franklin Publication Prize

  Feb 3, 2014 8:00 am13 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).

• Feisal Mohamed awarded Irene Samuel Memorial Award

  Mar 18, 2014 9:00 am13 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).

• Cecily Garber named Public Fellow by ACLS

  Jun 5, 2014 8:00 am13 views

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

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

  Dec 1, 2015 8:00 am13 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)

• James Brennan awarded 2013 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize

  Dec 6, 2013 8:00 am13 views

  James Brennan (History) has been awarded the 2013 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize for his book, Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania, published by Ohio University Press in 2012. The prize is given out by the African Studies Association for the best book on East African studies published the previous calendar year (Source).

• Kenny Cupers awarded Humboldt Fellowship

  Jul 8, 2014 8:00 am12 views

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

• Scott Poole wins McGrath lifetime Achievement Award

  Jul 24, 2013 8:00 am12 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)

• Bruno Nettl receives the inaugural Taichi Traditional Music Award

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am12 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. 

• Leslie Reagan receives NEH Summer Stipend

  Mar 23, 2015 8:00 am11 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).

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

  May 21, 2014 8:00 am11 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. 

• Bruno Nettle gives ACLS Haskins Lecture

  Aug 20, 2014 8:00 am11 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. 

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

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am11 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. 

• Martin Manalansan wins Crompton-Noll Award

  Dec 15, 2015 8:00 am11 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)

• John Karam and Tamara Chaplin recieve NEH Summer Stipends

  Apr 4, 2016 8:00 am10 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)

• Clifford Christians wins Louis Forsdale Award for Outstanding Educator

  May 14, 2014 8:00 am10 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).

• Dean Edward Feser receives Edgar Fellowship

  Jun 14, 2013 8:00 am10 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) 

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

  Aug 7, 2017 8:00 am10 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)

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

  Aug 30, 2013 8:00 am10 views

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

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

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am10 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. 

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

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am10 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. 

• Tere O’Connor receives Doris Duke Artist Award

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am10 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.”

• Elena Delgado receives French National Research Center grant

  Feb 25, 2016 8:00 am9 views

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

• Five Illinois professors named 2014 Guggenheim Fellows

  Apr 14, 2014 8:00 am9 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).

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

  Apr 27, 2017 3:00 pm9 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]

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

  Jul 24, 2017 3:15 pm9 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]

• Karen Flynn wins Lavinia L Dock Award

  Aug 14, 2013 8:00 am9 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) 

• James Kilgore Awarded 2017 Soros Justice Fellowship

  Aug 29, 2017 3:15 pm9 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]

• Lori Kendall elected President of the Association of Internet Researchers

  Oct 30, 2013 8:00 am9 views

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

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

  Nov 25, 2013 8:00 am9 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.

• Six Illinois faculty members awarded NEH Fellowships

  Dec 14, 2017 9:00 am9 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)

• Alistair Black receives the Library History Essay Award for 2013

  Dec 20, 2013 8:00 am9 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).

• Soo Ah Kwon and Nancy Abelmann Receive Spencer Foundation

  Feb 3, 2014 8:00 am8 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). 

   

• Wäil Hassan receives ACLS Fellowship

  Feb 25, 2016 8:00 am8 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)