News & Events

• Zandria Robinson, a fourth-year graduate student, has accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Mississippi, which will begin this fall.

• Fifth-year grad student Jean Beaman was selected as the Erskine Peters Dissertation Fellow for 2009-2010 in the Africana Studies and Sociology departments at the University of Notre Dame.

• Fourth year graduate student Bin Xu was awarded a research grant from the Association for Asian Studies (China and Inner-Asia Council) to support his dissertation research.

• Umud Dalgic is the winner of the 2009 Keymna Research Award from the Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies for his dissertation research in Turkey.

• Fourth year graduate student Marcus Hunter has been awarded a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement grant.

• Graduate students Dawna Goens and Nina Johnson have been selected to receive 2009-2010 fellowship awards from the Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois Program (DFI). DFI is a fellowship initiative designed to increase the number of traditionally underrepresented faculty and staff at Illinois institutions of higher learning and higher education governing boards. More information on the DFI can be found here.

• The Social Science Research Council awarded Charlie Kim a Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) for summer 2009. He is working on the topic of pro-Japanese collaborators during the Japanese colonial rule of Korea from 1910 to 1945.

• Elizabeth Anderson has received a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award for her research "Child Labor Reformin Great Britain, Germany, and the United States.

• Alan Czaplicki's paper "'Pure Milk is Better than Purified Milk': Pasteurization and Milk Purity in Chicago, 1908-1916" has been selected as the winner of the biennial Social Science History Association Graduate Student Prize.  The prize will be awarded at the SSHA meetings in October.

• Our new Assistant Professor, Grégoire Mallard, is co-winner of the best student essay award from the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. His paper, “Can the Euratom Treaty Inspire the Middle East? The Political Promises of Regional Nuclear Communities,” will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Nonproliferation Review, and he will present and discuss this work at a November event hosted by the center’s Washington, D.C. office.  This is a great honor on the most important of current topics.