| Drew Swanson was awarded the Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Award and a Graduate Student Research and Performance Grant by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. |
| The Georgia Historical Society gave the 2009 James C. Bonner Master's Thesis Award to Keri Leigh Merritt, for her work "'A Vile, Immoral, and Profligate Course of Life': Poor Whites and the Enforcement of Vagrancy Law in Antebellum Georgia." |
| Claudio Saunt received the 2009 Bolton-Cutter Award from the Western History Association for the best article on borderlands history. |
| Former UGA head football coach Vince Dooley recently made an extraordinarily generous donation to the History Department. Thanks, Coach Dooley! |
| Bethany Moreton, Reinaldo Román, and Pamela Voekel recently received Willson Center Research Fellowships for 2009-2010. |
| Ari Levine was recently awarded an ACLS Fellowship for American Research in the Humanities in China, as well as a Fullbright-IIE Senior Scholarship in Chinese Studies. |
| Stephen Mihm was recently awarded an ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship. |
| The Agricultural History Society presented two prestigious awards to members of the department in 2009. Assistant professor Shane Hamilton received the Theodore Saloutos Award for Best Book in Agricultural History. Graduate student Jason Manthorne received the Edward Everetts Award for Best Graduate Student Essay. |
| Ph.D. students Darren Grem and Chris Manganiello received Dissertation Completion Fellowships from the UGA Graduate School for 2009-10. |
| Jim Gigantino was awarded the Phelps-Stokes Graduate Fellowship for the 2009-10 academic year. |
| Jen Malto was one of a handful of advanced doctoral students selected to participate in the German Historical Institute's 2009 Archival Summer Seminar in Germany. |
| Graduate student Jenny Schwartzberg has been awarded a summer internship with the United States Holocaust Museum. |
| Assistant Professor Bethany Moreton received the 2009 Emerging Scholar's Prize from the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. |
| Barton Myers' forthcoming book, Executing Daniel Bright, won the Frances and Jules Landry Award for the best book in southern studies published this year by LSU Press. |
| Bert Way won the 2009 Graduate Student Excellence in Research Award in the Humanities, which recognizes the best dissertation in the Humanities produced during the last year at the University of Georgia.
This is the second year in a row that the History Department has taken this award. John Hayes won in 2008. |
| Ph.D. student Tom Okie was awarded a Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) for summer 2009 in Critical Agrarian Studies. |
| Daleah Goodwin and Steve Nash, graduate students in History, have been awarded the highly competitive 2009 Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Awards. |
| Congratulations to Catherine Holmes, who won the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America American History Regional Scholarship, worth $3000, and John Paul Hill, who won the NSCDA American History District Scholarship, worth $2000. |
| Assistant Professor Shane Hamilton was recently profiled as a "Top Young Historian" by the History News Network. |
| Ph.D. student Christina Davis received one of thirty Dissertation Fellowships for Research Related to Education from the Spencer Foundation for her dissertation, "Reconstruction Era Pedagogies: A Blueprint for Reconceptualizing Black Learners." |
| Ph.D. student James Gigantino was recently awarded the Samuel Smith Fellowship from the New Jersey Historical Commission. |
| Dong Yu, 2008-2009 Visiting Fulbright Scholar, received the 2008 Wan Xin-hui Prize from the American Historical Association in China for the Best M.A. Thesis in American History. |
| Doctoral candidate Robby Luckett won the William F. Holmes Award given annually at the Southern Historical Association for "the best paper presented by a graduate student or junior faculty member" for his paper "Ole Miss and Racial Reconciliation: From James Silver to the Meredith Monument." |
| Paul Sutter won the 2008 Envirotech Prize, awarded to the best article examining the historical relationships between technology and the environment published over the previous three years (2005-07), for "Nature's Agents or Agents of Empire? Entomological Workers and Environmental Change during the Construction of the Panama Canal," Isis 98 (2007): 724-54. |
| The J.C. Bonner Award was presented to alum Edward A. Hatfield for his 2007 UGA Masters thesis, "MARTA and the Making of Suburban Conservatism." This award is presented by the Georgia Historical Society in conjunction with Georgia College & State University for the best Master's thesis on Georgia history in the previous year. James C. Cobb supervised the thesis. |
| Graduate student Long Di was recently informed that her undergraduate thesis on Phillys Schlafly has won the first prize during a national thesis competition among 98 essays submitted. |
| Ph.D. student Barton Myers won a Henry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Award for 2009. The $15,000 fellowship funds research on violence, aggression, and dominance. |
| Albert Way successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "Burned to Be Wild: Science, Society, and Ecological Conservation in the Southern Longleaf Pine." Dr. Way accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in southern studies at The Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina for 2008-2009. |
| Ph.D. student Christopher Lawton was selected as an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the American Philosophical Society. |
| Ph.D. student Christopher J. Manganiello received several awards recently, including a Smithsonian Institution Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, National Museum of American History; a Graduate Student Research and Performance Grant, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts; and a Thomas Pleasant Vincent, Sr. Scholarship Award for research in Georgia History. |
| Ph.D. student Min Song won a dissertation travel grant from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, as well as a a dissertation improvement grant from SHAFR. |
| John Hayes recently won the university-wide Excellence in Research by Graduate Students Award. He furthermore successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "Hard, Hard Religion: Faith and Class in the New South," which was the runner-up for the C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize given by the Southern Historical Association. Dr. Hayes accepted a Visiting Assistant Professorship at Wake Forest University for 2008-2009. |
| History faculty members Stephen Berry, Shane Hamilton, and Claudio Saunt were all recently awarded 2008-2009 Willson Center Research Fellowships. |
| Stephen Mihm's book, A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States, was recently published by Harvard University Press and has been featured in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, on National Public Radio, on the "Freakonomics" blog, and other media outlets throughout the nation. |
| Bethany Moreton, assistant professor of history, recently received the 2007 C. Vann Woodward Prize for Best Dissertation from the
Southern History Association, as well as the 2007 Herman E. Krooss Prize from the Business History Conference, and Yale University's Theron Rockwell Field Prize. A book based on her dissertation, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise, has been published by Harvard University Press. |
| Allan Kulikoff, Abraham Baldwin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, was awarded a 2006-2007 Fulbright Award to study at Nankai University, Tianjin, China. Kulikoff taught three courses on American economic history, the American Revolution, and American political history for undergraduates. Before arriving, he received a grant from the UGA President's Challenge Fund to send more than 700 books to the Nankai University Library. While at Nankai, Kulikoff helped organize the first international conference on early American history to be held in China. He also compiled a list of free, internet-based sources for American history and culture (1600-1877) to help Chinese students and colleagues find primary sources. That list will be published in the future in the on-line journal Common-place. |
