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Juan Pablo Ardila-Falla received the 2018 Nancy M. Farriss Graduate Student Paper Awar
Mon, 04/30/2018
Juan Pablo Ardila-Falla received the 2018 Nancy M. Farriss Graduate Student Paper Award from the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania for his paper, “The Proclaimed City: Oral and Written Culture during the Comunero Revolt in Colonial New Granada.”
The award committee found the paper’s analysis of the interplay of oral and written culture and its impact on the Comunero revolt fascinating and compelling, and noted that the paper is beautifully written, meticulously researched, and well framed.
Peter Holquist Receives Two Fellowships
Mon, 04/30/2018
Congratulations to our colleague Peter Holquist who will enjoy a much-deserved leave next year thanks to two fellowships:
He’ll spend the Fall of 2018 at the Helsinki Collegium, where he will be affiliated with the The Aleksanteri Institute for Russian and East European Studies and the The Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights. In the Spring of 2019, he will be a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He’ll spend the year working on his book project, “’By Right of War’: The Discipline and Practice of...
Kelsey Salvesen received a Dissertation Fellowship from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Mon, 04/30/2018
Kelsey Salvesen received a Dissertation Fellowship from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies for the academic year 2018-19.
Kelsey’s dissertation is entitled "The Word Became Flesh and Was Stitched Among Us: Gender, Religion, and Empire in Early America." Her committee is: Professor Daniel Richter (primary advisor); Prof. Sally Gordon; and Prof. Kathy Brown.
Juan Pablo Ardila was awarded a Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students
Mon, 04/30/2018
Juan Pablo Ardila, who was one of ten graduate students across all schools in the university—not just SAS!—to be awarded a Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students. The award “recognizes the profound impact of graduate students on education at Penn. Nominations come directly from undergraduate and graduate students.”
Juan Pablo’s committee is: Prof. Ann Farnsworth-Alvear (Advisor); Prof. Roger Chartier; Prof. Antonio Feros; and Prof. Amy Offner.
The award is a real...
Alex Chase-Levenson receives the 2018 Richard S. Dunn Award for Distinguished Teaching
Thu, 04/26/2018
The Department of History’s Undergraduate Advisory Board (HUAB) is pleased to announce the winners of this year's departmental undergraduate teaching awards. After an initial round of nominations from all History Majors, HUAB has selected Alex Chase-Levenson as the recipient of the 2018 Richard S. Dunn Award for Distinguished Teaching by Standing Faculty.
Juan Pablo Ardila and Lacy Feigh receive Teaching Assistant of the Year Awards
Thu, 04/26/2018
The Department of History’s Undergraduate Advisory Board (HUAB) is pleased to announce the winners of this year's departmental undergraduate teaching awards. After an initial round of nominations from all History Majors, HUAB hasnamed two winners of the Teaching Assistant of the Year Award: Juan Pablo Ardila and Lacy Feigh.
Lacy Feigh received the Fulbright US Student Program and an SSRC IDRF!
Thu, 04/26/2018
Lacy Feigh receives not one, but two highly prestigious dissertation awards—the Fulbright US Student Program and an SSRC IDRF!
Lacy received the Fulbright US Student Program Fellowship and will spend October of 2018-Spring of 2019 in Ethiopia. For all of 2019, she will be splitting time between Ethiopia, Oman, Qatar, and the UK with funding from the SSRC Mellon IDRF.
Lacy’s dissertation is currently titled: “Navigating Labor: Networks of Slavery, Migration, and Consumption in the Northwest Indian Ocean, 1919-...
Ayelet Brinn and Tina Irvine were awarded Dissertation Completion Fellowships (DCFs)
Thu, 04/26/2018
Ayelet Brinn and Tina Irvine were awarded Dissertation Completion Fellowships (DCFs). These are university-wide, highly competitive grants.
Ayelet Brinn’s dissertation is entitled “Miss Amerike: The Yiddish Press’s Encounter with the United States.” Her committee is: Prof. Beth Wenger (advisor); Prof. Kathy Peiss; Prof. Kathryn Hellerstein (Germanic Languages and Literatures); and Prof. Tony Michels (University of Wisconsin-Madison) . Ayelet also received an external dissertation completion fellowship from the Association for Jewish Studies, and has declined the DCF.
Tina...
Drew Starling received a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship
Wed, 04/25/2018
Drew Starling received a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for Doctoral Research Abroad for 2018-2019. The Fulbright will provide funding for research for his dissertation, entitled, "'Theological Quarrels and Wars of the Pen': Jansensism, the Rise fo Mass Media, and the Fall of the Old Regime," in France next year.
His committee is: Prof. Sophia Rosenfeld (advisor), Prof. Roger Chartier, Prof. Alan Charles Kors, and Prof. Joan DeJean (French and Francophone Studies).
Emma Teitelman was awarded a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Tue, 04/24/2018
Emma Teitelman, was awarded a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in American History at Cambridge University, UK, beginning in October 2018. The fellowship runs from 2018 to 2021.
Emma’s dissertation is entitled “Governing the Peripheries: The Social Reconstruction of the South and West After the American Civil War.” Her committee is: Prof. Stephanie McCurry (dissertation supervisor); Prof. Steve Hahn; Prof. Kathy Brown; and Prof. Rogers Smith (Political Science).