Awards and honors received

(List begun February 2001. Awards given by the History Department are on the main news page. Please report any omissions or corrections to history@history.umass.edu.)

2009-10 Academic Year

Caitlyn Burns (History major): Fulbright English teaching assistantship in South Korea! Read the full story....

Prof. Jane Rausch: two awards from the Colombian parliament and the city of Villavicencio: La Condecoracion “Orden de la Democracia Simon Bolivar” en el Grado de: Cruz Gran Caballero by the Camara de Representantes of the Republic of Colombia in Bogota on June 22, 2009, and La Condecoracion “Orden Lanza Llanera” categoria Oro for contributing to the cultural knowledge of the Villavicencio region on July 22, 2009.

Prof. Marla Miller: Patrick Henry Writing Fellowship at the C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, Washington College, Md.

Prof. José Angel Hernández: Lilly Teaching Fellowship

Yveline Alexis (Ph.D. student): Diversity Dissertation Assistantship from the Graduate School

Harry Franqui (Ph.D. student): Diversity Dissertation Assistantship from the Graduate School

2008-09 Academic Year

Margo Shea (Ph.D. student): University Fellowship.

Yveline Alexis (Ph.D. student) and Andrew Dausch (Ph.D. student): Bauer-Gordon Research Fellowship.

Michael Shapiro (Ph.D. student): Leonard Richards Award.

Yveline Alexis (Ph.D. student): Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies Summer 2008 and Latino Studies Summer 2008 Pre-dissertation Research Award.

2005-06 Academic Year

Prof. Francoise Hamlin: C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize for 2004. The award is given for the best dissertation in southern history completed and defended in a given year, and is awarded by the Southern Historical Association.

2003-04 Academic Year

Prof. Brian W. Ogilvie: Fellowship, Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall, Paris, and affiliation with the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 2004-05 (May 2004).

Kelly Basner (Class of 2006): Class of '45 Award, UMass Amherst Alumni Association (April 2004).

Prof. Brian Bunk: 2004 Bernadotte Schmitt Grant for research in the history of Europe, Asia, and Africa, American Historical Association (April 2004).

Prof. Laura L. Lovett: 2004-05 Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University; Professor Lovett will be located at the institute on "Hinterlands, Frontiers, Cities, and States: Transactions and Identities" (April 2004).

Prof. Anne F. Broadbridge: 2004-05 Lilly Teaching Fellow, Center for Teaching, University of Massachusetts Amherst (March 2004).

Prof. Anne F. Broadbridge: 2004 Outstanding Teacher Award from the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts Amherst (February 2004).

David Cline (M.A. alumnus, Public HIstory): New Professional Travel Award from the New Professional Award Committee of the National Council on Public History (February 2004).

Prof. Brian W. Ogilvie: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2004-5 (December 2003)

2002-03 Academic Year

Dinah Mayo (Ph.D. student): Michael Kraus Research Grant, from the American Historical Association, for summer research.

Courtney De Blieck, Alyssa J. Hinkell, Andrea Ponte, Monica Sateriale, and Brian Zahora (Class of 2004); Robert O. Blakely, Michael P. Franck, Jesse Greenspan, Russell P. Hansen, Paul S. Kitchin, Jennifer V. Nickerson, Jorge L. Oliver, Sara L. Pearson, and Terence J. Reilly (Class of 2003): History majors elected to Phi Beta Kappa this year (April 2003)

Prof. Carlin Barton: 2003 Distinguished Teaching Award, UMass/Amherst (April 2003)

Prof. Alice Nash: 2003-04 Fulbright Professor, Université de Montréal (March 2003)

Heather Murray (Ph.D. student): Sexuality Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council (March 2003) (Read more in the Campus Chronicle)

Babette Faehmel (Ph.D. student): Sexuality Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council (March 2003) (Read more in the Campus Chronicle)

2001-02 Academic Year

Prof. Ron Story: 2002 Distinguished Teaching Award, UMass/Amherst (May 2002)

Prof. Gerald McFarland: 2002 Outstanding Teacher Award, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, UMass/Amherst (May 2002)

Prof. Stephen Nissenbaum: 2002 Samuel R. Conti Faculty Research Fellowship, UMass/Amherst (May 2002)

Sandra C. Lubben, Patrick Toomey, Nicole M. Yukna (Class of 2003); Jacqueline Cadman, Jason Kass, Jennifer Pesce, Joseph Quintero, Stephanie Rodgers, and Katharine Seizer (Class of 2002): History majors elected to Phi Beta Kappa this year (March 2002)

Karen Ferola, Sarah Lawton, Jonathan Olly, Laura Siciliano, and Jay Turner (Class of 2002): History majors elected to Phi Beta Kappa last year (March 2002)

Moira Bowen, Jennifer DeChambeau, and Laura Siciliano, senior History majors: UMass Alumni Association Senior Leadership Awards (February 2002)

Kristin Harper, Ph.D. candidate: Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellowship (June 2001)

Spring 2001

Prof. Kevin Boyle: fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Guggenheim Foundation (March-April 2001)

Prof. Leo Richards: second place in the annual Lincoln Prize competition, sponsored by Gettysburg College, for his book The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860 (February 2001)