Lindsey Bier (M.A.) received a Hayter-Young Award from the Department of History for summer 2007 to help defray the costs of research for her Master's paper.
David Burns (Ph.D.) received a Dissertation Completion Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for summer 2007 and a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate School for 2007-2008.
Coral Carlson (MA.) gave a presentation, "Food for Thought: Khmer Ceramics in the Bayon Bas-reliefs" at the International Conference on Ancient Khmer and Southeast Asian Ceramics: New Archaeological Findings, Production and the Revival of Techniques," in Siem Reap, Cambodia, December 2007.
Jeanine Clark (Ph.D.) received the Thomas C. Wiegele Interdisciplinary Dissertation Award (given by the Department of Political Science) for 2007-2008 and has been hired as an Instructor of Social Sciences at Aurora University. She also gave a paper entitled "Preserving Paradise - Reefs and Human Policy" at the Florida Conference of Historians in Orlando, Florida, March 15-18, 2007.
Timothy Draper (Ph.D.) defended his dissertation, "'A Little Kingdom of Mixed Nationalities': Race, Ethnicity, and Class in a Western Urban Community – Rock Springs, Wyoming 1869-1929," in October 2007. He also gave a presentation, "Living a Bit of McCarthyism: The Historian as Labor Leader when the Institution Attacks Academic Freedom," at the Community College Humanities Association Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, October 2007, and served on the Advisory Board of the Illinois State Historical Society in 2006-2007.
Eric Fox (Ph.D.) received a Dissertation Completion Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for summer 2007 and a large grant from the Department of History for summer 2007 to help defray the costs of dissertation research.
Amy Godfrey (Ph.D.) successfully defended her dissertation, "Divine Benevolence to the Poor: Charity, Religion and Nationalism in Early National New York City, 1784-1820," in April 2007.
Matthew Hansen (M.A.) has received a University Fellowship from the Graduate School for 2007-2008.
Michael Hawkins (Ph.D.) received a Fulbright Research Fellowship for 2007-2008 to conduct dissertation research in the Philippines and won the Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year Award for the Department of History. He has an article, "Imperial Reifications and Indigenous Agency: Dilemmas of Southeast Asian History," forthcoming in the October 2007 issue of Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (published by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore). Mike also presented a paper, "Imperial Historicism and American Political-Military Rule in the Philippines' Muslim South, 1898-1913," at the national meeting of The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in Chantilly, VA, 21-23 June 2007. Michael has had the following articles published or accepted for publication: "Imperialism and Notions of Indigenous Inadequacy in the Philippines," Siliman Journal 47, no. 1 (October 2007); "Exploring Colonial Boundaries: An Examination of the Kartini-Zehandelaar Correspondence," Asia-Pacific Social Sciences Review 7, no. 2 (December 2007); and "Imperial Historicism and American Military Rule in the Philippines' Muslim South, 1898-1913," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 39, no. 3 (October 2008).
Melissa Hayes (Ph.D.) received a large grant from the Department of History for summer 2007 to help defray the costs of dissertation research.
Nathan Hess (M.A.) received the 2007 Hugh Jameson Graduate Student Essay Prize from the Department of History for his paper "`Twas not the accident that did it; twas syphilis did it all': Syphilis, Chronic Disease, and Worker's Compensation."
Andres Hijar (Ph.D.) received research funding for fiscal years 2007 and 2008 from the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies.
Pontus Hiort (Ph.D.) successfully defended his dissertation, "Negotiating Identities: South German Catholics and the Formation of National Identity, 1871-1914," in February 2007 and recently published "Constructing Another Kind of German: Catholic Commemorations of German Unification in Baden 1870-1876," Catholic Historical Review 93, no. 1 (January 2007).
Brian Hubbard (M.A.) received a FLAS for 2007-2008.
Laura Iandola (Ph.D.) received a large grant from the Department of History for summer 2007 to help defray the costs of dissertation research.
Christopher Jaffe (Ph.D.) received a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate School for 2006-2007 and a Dissertation Completion Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for summer 2007. Christopher gave a presentation, "The Dry Movement and Ethnic Incorporation in Rockford, Illinois, 1880-1933," at the 2007 Conference on Illinois History in Springfield, Il. He has also been asked to design a course on the History of East Asia since 1600 for McHenry County Community College. This is in addition to his designing a course for them on the History of Illinois, which is in the final stages of preparation.
Candice Jones (M.A.) has received a Rhoten-Smith Fellowship for 2007-2008.
Cheryl Lemus (Ph.D.) received a large grant from the Department of History for summer 2007 to help defray the costs of dissertation research. Cheryl has received a grant from the Hagley Museum in Delaware to conduct research for two weeks on her dissertation, "The Maternal Glow: Medicine, Consumerism, and the Construction of the 'Normal' Pregnancy in Twentieth-Century America."
Kate Maley (M.A.) received a Hayter-Young Award from the Department of History for summer 2007 to help defray the costs of research for her Master's paper.
Tom Arne Midtroed (Ph.D.) received a Dissertation Completion Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for summer 2007, a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate School for 2007-2008 and a large grant award from the Department of History for summer 2007 to help defray the costs of dissertation research.
Robert Przygrodzki (Ph.D.) successfully defended his dissertation, "Russians in Warsaw: Imperialism and National Identity, 1863-1915" in February 2007 and has accepted a visiting Assistant Professorship in the Department of History and Political Science at Saint Xavier University in Chicago for 2007-2008.
Joseph J. Rembusch (M.A.) presented "Remembering Lincoln Through the Eyes of Colonel Ellsworth: A Rare View of Manuscripts, Correspondence & Artifacts" at the invitation of the MLA program of the Graham College of General Studies at the University of Chicago on March 31, 2007.
Alyson Roy (M.A.) has received a University Fellowship from the Graduate School for 2007-2008.
Ronald Shaw (Ph.D.) has accepted a one-year visiting instructorship at the University of Minnesota-Morris for 2007-2008.
Michael Spires (Ph.D.) received a large grant award from the Department of History for summer 2007 to help defray the costs of dissertation research.
Suzanne Shovlin (M.A. 2007) has been posted with the Peace Corps in Kiev, Ukraine.
Gregory Swedberg (Ph.D.) received a FLAS for 2007-2008.
T. J. Vaughan (Ph.D.) received a large grant from the Department of History for summer 2007 to help defray the costs of dissertation research.
Lily Ann Villaraza (M.A.) received the Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship to conduct research at the Library of Congress in spring 2007 and as a beginning Ph.D. student in 2007-2008 is the recipient of a FLAS.
Reid Weber (M.A.) has been awarded a four-year Alumni Fellowship from the University of Florida for the Ph.D. program in history.