Associate Professor Cynthia M. Blair has just won the Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association for her new book, I've Got to Make My Livin': Black Women's Sex Work in Turn-Of-The-Century Chicago, from University of Chicago Press.
Graduate student Anne Parsons is the recipient of a 2011-12 Humanities Institute dissertation fellowship for her project, "Our Brothers' and Sisters' Keepers: Psychiatric Hospitals, Prison and the Institutionization of Twentieth Century America."
Associate Professor Jennifer Brier is the co-curator of "Out in Chicago," an exhibition opening May 21, 2011 at the Chicago History Museum that will explore 150 years of LGBT life in the city.