Outstanding Graduate Student
Instructor Award

Congratulations to Millington Bergeson-Lockwood and Rebekah Pite, recipients of the Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award for 2007-08. A small number of awards are made across the campus each year. Winners are selected for their exceptional ability and creativity as teachers, service as outstanding mentors and advisors to their students and colleagues, and growth as scholars in the course of their graduate programs.

Congratulations Millington and Rebekah!

Distinguished Dissertation Award

Rackham Graduate School and the Michigan Society of Fellows recognizes exceptional and unusually interesting work produced by doctoral students. Marti Lybeck, Ph.D. recipient in December 2007, is one of eight doctoral students to be awarded the 2007 Distinguished Dissertation Award. Her dissertation is entitled "Gender, Sexuality and Belonging: Female Homosexuality in Germany, 1890-1933." Congratulations Marti!

Miscellaneous Awards

Marti Lybeck was also awarded the 2007 Arthur Fondiler Dissertation Award in History. Her dissertation co-Chairs are Kathleen Canning and Geoff Eley. Congratulations Marti!

Please join us in welcoming the 2008 cohort! The email for this group is historians08@umich.edu.

Will Burton
Medieval Japan; Social/Cultural

Adrienne Carson
20th C United States; Labor

Jon Farr
Medieval Europe; Historiography; Soc/Cult Identity & Power

Aston Gonzalez
19th/20th C United States; South; Race Relations

Paul Hebert
Africa & Diaspora; Intellectual; Anti-colonial Movements

Amanda Hendrix-Komoto
Britain/Empire; Colonialism; Race & Gender

Ben Hicklin
17th/18th C United States; Atlantic; Economic; Political

Elizabeth Kamali
Medieval Euroope; Legal/Constitutional

Jay Kim
Imperial & Early Modern China; Borders; Migrations; Cultural

Pascal Massinon
20th C United States; Urban

Nevila Pahumi
Eastern Europe, 19th C - WWI; Balkans

Holly Rapp
19th/20th C United States; Cultural/Gender/Body

Ashley Rockenbach
Africa; Great Lakes Region; Conflict; Aid Organizations

Ronit Stahl
20th C United States; Jewish/Religious

Leann Wilson
Modern Russia; Social; Cultural; Family; Demographic

Anthropology & History Joint Program

Greek & Roman History Joint Program

Graham Claytor
Late Roman Empire; Administrative

Jonathan McLaughlin
Roman Near East

Women's Studies & History Joint Program

Last updated: 8/8/08