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History profs David Hancock and Mrinalini Sinha win 2012 Guggenheim Fellowships.
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Regents name Brian Porter-Szucs Thurnau Professor of History.
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Scott Kurashige was interviewed on WDET-FM's "The Craig Fahle Show" about how U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra's campaign ad is part of a trend in political advertising that portrays Asians as the enemy.
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Deborah Dash Moore has been named recipient of the National Jewish Book Award for Gender & Jewish History (Indiana University Press, 2011).
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Inside Higher Ed reported on comments made by Juan Cole during the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, in which he discussed the role historians should play in analyzing current events.
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Juan Cole interviews Nobel Peace Prize winner, Yemeni human rights activist Tawakkul Karman
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Paul Edwards was awarded the 2011 Computer History Museum Book Prize for A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
Science, Technology & Society (STS) director, Paul Edwards, has been recognized by the SHOT special interest group on Computers, Information, and Society for his 2010 book with MIT Press.
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Tiya Miles has won the Erminie Wheeler-Voeglin Book Award for The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story
Tiya Miles' 2010 book is again recognized, this time by the American Society of Ethnohistory.
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Thomas Trautmann has been awarded a Mellon Emeritus Fellowship
This award recognizes officially retired faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who continue to be active and productive in their fields.
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Farina Mir has won the John F. Richards Book Prize for The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab
Farina Mir has been recognized by the American Historical Association with its inaugural John F. Richards Prize for outstanding scholarship on the history of South Asia.
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Rebecca Scott is Honored as 2012 Henry Russel Lecturer
Rebecca Scott, considered one of the foremost Latin American historians in the country, has been selected as the Henry Russel Lecturer for 2012 — one of the university's highest honors for a senior member of its active faculty.
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Tiya Miles is named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Professor Miles is a public historian and history professor who has researched the relationships between African and Cherokee people in colonial America.
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Douglas Northrop receives Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize
Douglas Northrop (Associate Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies) received one of five 2011 Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prizes for his course Zoom: Teaching Time, Space, and Approaches to Knowledge (History 238).
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Martha Jones wins 2011 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Award
Martha Jones (Associate Professor of History and in the Center for Afro American and African Studies and a visiting professor in the Law School) has been honored with a 2011 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award
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Rebecca Scott wins the John D ‘Arms Award for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities.
Rebecca Scott has been honored as the 2011 recipient of the John D ‘Arms Award for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities.
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