| Aaron Fogleman |
Aaron Fogleman, Distinguished Research Professor, was named 2024 Board of Trustees Professor in recognition of his national and international record of excellence in teaching, scholarship, service and outreach. Fogleman also received the 2025 MAC Outstanding Faculty Award for Student Success, becoming the second NIU faculty member to earn this prestigious honor. |
| Sean Farrell |
Sean Farrell was named one of the Queen's University Belfast Global Fellows for 2024–25. He was also appointed vice president of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland and named a member of NIU's Presidential Commission on Interfaith Initiatives. |
| Julie Yarmolovych |
Julie Yarmolovych, the office administrator, was a recipient of the 2024 Rising Huskie Staff Award for her outstanding work, dedication and support of the department. |
| Taylor Atkins |
Taylor Atkins received the 2024 Outstanding International Educator Award and was also the CLAS nominee for the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. |
| Andrea Smalley |
Professor Emerita Andrea Smalley published The Market in Birds: Commercial Hunting, Conservation, and the Origins of Wildlife Consumerism, 1850–1920 in 2024. |
| Natalie Joy |
Natalie Joy was awarded the Bonn-Yale-Anton-Wilhelm-Amo Fellow at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies at the University of Bonn in Bonn, Germany for academic years 2023-2025. |
| Christine Worobec |
Christine Worobec, Professor Emerita, Board of Trustees Professor and Presidential Research Professor, was honored with a CLAS Distinguished Award during the college’s 2023 annual event for her significant contributions to the college, its mission and its reputation for excellence. |
| Damián Fernández |
Damián Fernández coedited the book Rome and Byzantium in the Visigothic Kingdom: Beyond imitatio imperii (with Molly Lester and Jamie Wood), published by Amsterdam University Press in 2023. |
| Christina Abreu |
Christina Abreu, who directs the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies, was awarded an NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant that will allow the center to work with the NIU Libraries to digitize nearly 300 oral history interviews gathered as part of the NIU Latinx Oral History Project. |
| Anne Hanley |
Anne Hanley received a short-term grant from the Luso-American Development Foundation for her research to spend a month in Portugal’s National Archive Torre de Tombo in the fall for her research on the 18th-century rice trade between colonial South Carolina and Lisbon. |