Faculty News
April 21, 2005
Thomas J. Sugrue was one of twelve artists, writers, and scholars nationwide selected as an inaugural winner of the Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship. The awards, to be given annually by the Fletcher Foundation, honor work that advances the cause of racial equality in the United States. Sugrue joins a distinguished group of Fletcher Fellows including law professor Anita Hill; critic Stanley Crouch; Harlem Dance Theater founder Arthur Mitchell; photographer Deborah Willis; former Black Panther Kathleen Cleaver; long-time civil rights activist and educator Robert Moses; and economist Roland Fryer.
November 10, 2004
Sarah Igo has won the John C. Burnham Early Career Award from the Forum for History of Human Science and the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. The Forum for History of Human Science has also awarded Professor Igo their Dissertation Prize.
October 11, 2004
Benjamin Nathans, Associate Professor of History, has won another prize for his book Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia, the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize for 2004. This award is given by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies for first books "of exceptional merit and lasting significance for he understanding of Russia's past."
October 5, 2004
Sheldon Hackney, Professor and Chair of the Department of History, has been named the David Boies Professor in SAS, in an announcment from Dean Samuel H. Preston.
June 8, 2004
Faculty Honors
The Department of History is pleased to announce the following honors awarded to members of our faculty:
Alan Charles Kors has been appointed to the George H. Walker Endowed Term Chair in History.
Mary Frances Berry was awarded an Honorary Degree - Doctor of Humane Letters from Illinois Wesleyan University on February 11.
Bruce Kuklick has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Margo Todd has been awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. These fellowships are awarded annually for distinguished scholarly achievement and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. They include substantial stipends and are among North America's most prestigious research awards.
Barbara D. Savage the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, was awarded a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University for the 2004-2005 academic year. This fellowship will enable her to complete work on her book project on African American religion and political activism in the 20th century.
Benjamin Nathans, Associate Professor of History, received two awards in December, 2003, for his book Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia (Berkeley, 2002). The book was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in History, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council, and was also awarded the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize in Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Finally, Prof. Nathans also received a research grant from the National Council for East European and Eurasian Research.
Graduate Student News
February 28, 2005
Job Market News:
Congratulations to current graduate students on this year's job market:
Paulina Alberto, Assistant Professor of History and Romance Languages, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Rahul Nair, Assistant Professor of History, University of Denver
Lauren Nauta, Assistant Professor of History, North Carolina State University
Jennifer Sessions, Assistant Professor of History, University of Iowa
Jordan Stanger-Ross, Assistant Professor of History, University of Victoria, British Columbia and SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Read a complete list of job placements, 1990 - Present
