History students recognized for great research
On Tuesday, April 5, the Department of History held its annual spring reception where they recognized the great research of undergraduate and graduate students. Here is a complete list of the awards and recipients.
Undergraduate awards
Mark and Linee Diem Endowed Scholarship
Delbert Trafny
F. Richard Place Endowed Memorial Award
Derek Robertson for "The Great Society under Siege: The Struggle for Housing in a Polarized Detroit."
Jay Williams for "The Harlem Hellfighters: America's Broken Promise."
Rolf and Jennie Johannesen Endowed Memorial Award
Jonathan Howlett for "Engineering Tactics in the Gallic Wars."
Sterne-Lion Research Scholarship in History
Matthew Reesman for "The Role of Material Culture in Determining Hunnic Identity."
Baiardi Family Foundation Endowed Scholarship
Manuel Cohen
Graduate merit awards
Dr. Gerald R. Deslinki Award
Nicholas Garlinghouse for "Cultural Chameleons: Identity and Adaptability in Colonial America."
Joe L. Norris Endowed Award
Lillian Wilson for "Crafting a Gilded Age Mansion: The Charles Lang Freer House, Detroit."
Richard D. Miles Endowed Award
Mitchell Fleischer for "Origins of the North-South Divide in Italy."
Rolf and Jennie Johannesen Endowed Memorial Award
David Dobbins for "Pride after the Fall: An Examination of Sidonius Apollinaris and Ruricius of Limoges and the Aristocracy in Post-Rome Gaul."
Graduate research awards
Dr. Gerald R. Deslinski Research Award
Kaitlin CooperCooper will be going to Canberra, Australia to investigate aboriginal interactions with British settlers at the National Archives of Austrialia and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Michael D. Patterson Memorial Award
Nathan KuehnlKuehnl will be examining the research collections at the Chicago Public Library and University of Illinois-Chicago Library for information on African American medical activism in the postwar era.
Charles F. Otis and Jeffrey L. Reider Scholarship in the History of Gender and Sexuality
Nicholas GarlinghouseGarlinghouse will be visiting the Gerber Hart Library and Archives in Chicago and the LGBT Collection at the New York Public Library to research LGBT rights.
Alfred H. Kelly Memorial Award
Lillian WilsonWilson will be traveling to the archives of the Freer Art Gallery in Washington D.C. for her work on Charles Lang Freer.
Thomas H. Bonner Graduate Research Award
Miriam Borenstein will travel to New York City to conduct archival research on Jewish American masculinity.
Samuel Hogsette will travel to Chicago to conduct archival research on the former Illinois Chapter Black Panther Party Deputy Minister of Defense and current U.S. Congressman Bobby L. Rush.
Amanda Hoover will travel to Kansas City, Missouri, to conduct archival research in the National Archives Western Division on Western Native American boarding schools, run by the U.S. government.
Michael Varlamos will travel to New York City to conduct research on the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and its involvement in supporting the civil rights movement in the 1960s.