Faculty:

Judith Allen, Walter Professor of History, has been appointed a Distinguished Professor, the most prestigious academic appointment Indiana University can offer.

During the 2021-22 academic year, Liza Black will be a fellow at UCLA’s American Indian Studies Center.

Liza Black, Arlene Díaz, and Janine Giordano Drake received Trustees Teaching Awards.

Elizabeth Grennan Browning is part of a team of interdisciplinary researchers from the Environmental Resilience Institute that received a $1.4M grant from the National Science Foundation's Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (CNH2) program to study drought, farmers' decision-making, and soil microbiology in the St. Joseph watershed. Her role in the project is conducting oral histories with farm families and translating the biologists' and social scientists' research within public history and science exhibitions.

Kalani Craig has been promoted to Clinical Associate Professor.

Kalani Craig and Tina Irvine are recipients of the 2021 Dr. James E. Mumford Excellence in Extraordinary Teaching Award, which recognizes “instructors who have demonstrated notably innovative, creative, and compassionate teaching in response to the past year’s extraordinary events.”

Arlene Díaz received the 2021 Senior Ford Foundation Fellowship for her book project “A War Beyond the Battlefield: Espionage, Information, and Representation in the Spanish-Cuban-American War.” Arlene is also an inaugural recipient of the Inclusive Excellence Award sponsored by the Bloomington Faculty Council’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.  The award “honors faculty who contribute to the continued enhancement of a diverse campus community in accord with IU Bloomington's Statement on Diversity.”

Michael Dodson has received a Fulbright Senior Nehru Research Fellowship to India.

Colin Elliott has been promoted to Associate Professor and is the recipient of the 2021 David and Cheryl Morley Early Career Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Jeff Gould has been awarded a CAHI Research Fellowship for his film project, "From Dawn to Despair."

Ke-chin Hsia received an award from the Jack and Julia Wickes Fund for the Study of War and Society to support research for his second book project, “Who Is an Austrian? Refugees and the Austrian Identity in Post-WWII China and Austria.”

Tina Irvine is the winner of the 2020 Melvin E. Bradford Dissertation Prize, which “recognizes the best dissertation written on any aspect of the American South.”

Sarah Knott has been awarded a CAHI/Kinsey Research Fellowship for her project, "Sexed: How We Became Ourselves."

In conjunction with Phoebe Wolfskill (American Studies) and Rasul Mowatt (American Studies), Alex Lichtenstein has been awarded a $25,000 IU Public Humanities Project grant for "Unmasked: The Antilynching Exhibits of 1935."

Michelle Moyd received a CAHI Research Fellowship for her book project, "Soldiering for Empire: Race, Labor, and Recruitment of Black Troops in Africa and the United States, 1865-1920." She is also the recipient of a 2021 Building Bridges Award, which recognizes recipients for their work in promoting equality, diversity, inclusion, and respect. Moyd’s award cites her central role in creating the Bloomington Peoples Market and her work as Associate Director of the IU Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society.

John Nieto-Phillips, Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, is the recipient of a Bicentennial Medal.

Eric Robinson received an award from the Jack and Julia Wickes Fund for the Study of War and Society to support further enhancement and refinement of his custom-designed historical strategy game, “Cities on the Edge of War.”

Tatiana Saburova is a recipient of a Collaborative Research Award from IU’s Institute for Advanced Study.

Carl Weinberg received a $15,000 Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) grant from the IU Office of the Vice Provost for Research. It will enable Cornell University Press to publish his book Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America (pub date: Oct. 2021) as a free, open-access download and a relatively low-cost paperback. The Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning awarded Carl Weinberg a Summer Writing-Teaching Grant of $1500 to develop his “Work in Progress” writing tool on Canvas.

Students:

Ph.D. candidates Hannah Alms, Isabel Alvarez-Echandi, Gloria Lopez, Sydney-Paige Patterson, Tommy Stephens received CAHI Awards in Support of Research and Creative Activity.

Graduate student George Andrei was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to carry out dissertation research in Romania.

Rachel Aranyi’s essay, "Politics Masquerading as Religiosity: A Look at Jerusalem Holy Sites," won the History department’s World History Prize.

History majors Samuel Bowden, Stephen Henderson, and Sydney Tomlinson were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most prestigious academic honor society in the United States.

Doctoral student Kelly Bosworth received a College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Research Fellowship.

History and AAADS double major AJ Boyd was one of ten rising seniors across the US who were awarded a prestigious Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship.

Ph.D. candidate Katy Doll has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Politics at Nova Southeastern University.

Ph.D. candidates Chris Jillson and Amanda Waterhouse  received Future Faculty Teaching Fellowships to teach at Butler University.

Ph.D. candidate Szabolcs László was awarded the 2021 Mildred Throne–Charles Aldrich Award by the State Historical Society of Iowa Board of Trustees, which selected his paper, “The Shock of Seeing the Freedom of American Life: The Iowa International Writing Program as Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War” (The Annals of Iowa, spring 2020), as the most significant article on Iowa history published in a professional history journal during the previous calendar year.

Ph.D. candidate Gloria Lopez received the Latino Studies Dissertation Fellowship for 2021-2022.

Doctoral candidate Asher Lubotzky has won the Gerda Henkel Stiftung Ph.D. Fellowship for years 2021-2023.

Ph.D. candidate Meghan Paradis received Fulbright fellowship and a German Academic Exchange Service One Year Grant for dissertation research in Europe.

Savannah Price’s "Influence Beyond Death: Martyrdom in the Murder of Marat" was awarded the European History Prize.

Ph.D. candidate Julia Riegel has accepted the position of Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern European History at Hollins University.

Lauren Schumacher received the M. Jeanne Peterson Prize for the best essay in women's history or the history of gender and sexuality for "Through His Stomach: Men's Cooking in the 20th Century."

Sydney Seigel is the winner of the William M. Locke Essay Prize for a paper on a topic related to the American Civil War.  The title of her paper is "A Moment for Education: The Confederate Veteran's Response to The Birth of a Nation."

Ph.D. candidate Nico Sillitti has accepted the position of Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Holy Cross College.

Cara Sullivan was awarded the John W. Foster Prize for best essay in United States political and diplomatic history for "The Legacies of Native American Removal in Indiana during the 1830s."

Ph.D. candidate Jazma Sutton was selected as a winner of the 2021-22 President's Diversity Dissertation Fellowship and was also awarded the 2020 Indiana Society of Pioneers Fellowship for doctoral dissertation research.

Graduate student Quentin Swaryczewski has received the Balassi Institute Graduate Fellowship in Hungarian Studies.

Graduate student Shouyue Zhang has received the Jerome M. Clubb Scholarship, awarded to graduate students interested in quantitative history, to participate in the 2021 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program.

See our 2020-21 Awards page for a complete list of student and faculty awards and honors.