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.)

2005-06 Academic Year

Francoise Hamlin has been awarded the 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 (May 2003--apologies for the late posting!).

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)