| 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. |
| 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. |
| History faculty members Stephen Berry, Shane Hamilton, and Claudio Saunt were all recently awarded 2008-2009 Willson Center Research Fellowships. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 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." |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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." |
| 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. |
| Ph.D. student James Gigantino was recently awarded the Samuel Smith Fellowship from the New Jersey Historical Commission. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
