Spring 2021 Highlights of Accomplishments
We've been keeping busy--and this list is not exhaustive!
Student and Alumni Accomplishments:
Jordan Zimberoff (alumnus) was named Kane County High School Teacher of the Year
Emily LaBarbera Twarog (alumnus) received a John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award
Sophia Escobar (undergraduate) received the Gordon Lee Goodman Award from the UIC History Department
Abdul Basith Basheer (undergraduate) received the Lillian Edinger Scholarship from the UIC History Department
Joanna Dobrowolska (graduate student) received a research grant from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
Joanna Dobrowolska (graduate student) received a Provost's Graduate Internship Award from UIC
Avash Bhandari (graduate student) received a Provost's Graduate Internship Award from UIC
Adan Meza (graduate student) received a Provost's Graduate Internship Award from UIC
Zukhra Kasimova (graduate student) received a Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)
Caterina Scalvadi (graduate student) received a National Academy of Education (NAEd) Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
Sekordri Ojo (graduate student) received the Grace Holt Memorial Award from the Black Studies Department at UIC
Ismael Biyashev (graduate student) received a Dean's Scholar Fellowship from UIC
Jose Ramirez (graduate student) received a Graduate Access Retention Fellowship from UIC
Kimberly Beaudreau (graduate student) received a Graduate Research Award from UIC
Katy Evans (graduate student) received a Graduate Research Award from UIC
Ajapa Sharma (graduate student) received a Graduate Research Award from UIC
Marla McMackin (graduate student) received the UIC Department of History Graduate Internship Award
Faculty Accomplishments:
Prof. Jeff Schuhrke received a 2021 Kenneth May Media Award from the Labor and Employment Relations Association
Prof. Jeff Schuhrke received the Shirley A. Bill Award for Excellence in Teaching from the UIC History Department
Prof. Julie Peters received the Shirley A. Bill Award for Excellence in Teaching from the UIC History Department
Prof. Julie Peters received an Honoring Our Professors’ Excellence (HOPE) Award from UIC
Prof. Junaid Quadri received an Honoring Our Professors’ Excellence (HOPE) Award from UIC
Prof. Jonathan Connolly received a fellowship to participate in the 2021 Hurst Institute summer workshop from the American Society for Legal Historians
Student, Alumni, and Faculty Publications:
May 2021:
- Prof. Jonathan Daly's book, The Rise of Western Power, came out in a Chinese edition
April 2021:
- Prof. Young Richard Kim's op-ed in Newsweek
- Tim Herbert's (PhD candidate) and Lauren Braun-Strumfels's (MA 2004, PhD 2010) article in AHA Perspectives
- Graduate student Caleb Hardner's article was accepted for publication in Diplomatic History
March 2021:
- Prof. Young Richard Kim's op-ed in the New York Daily News
- Prof. Joaquín Chávez's interview on The Historias podcast discussing his magnificent Poets and Prophets of the Resistance: Intellectuals and the Origins of Civil War in El Salvador
- PhD candidate Ismael Biyashev's article in Ab Imperio
February 2021:
- Prof. Adam Goodman's article in the Washington Post
- Prof Emeritus John D'Emilio is featured in an NPR show on Bayard Rustin and the March on Washington
- Prof. Barbara Ransby's comments in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution profile of civil rights icon Ella Baker
- Prof. Adam Goodman's interview in Jacobin on The Deportation Machine
January 2021:
- Prof. Barbara Ransby's article in The Nation