Faculty Awards
The department is proud of our record of winning awards at all levels, both from within and from outside of the university.
Ash, Stephen
- University of Tennessee College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professorship in Humanities, 2008-10
Bast, Bob
- Faculty Award for Academic Outreach, College of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tennessee, 2006.
Black, Monica
- Fellowship,
Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton
University, 2010-11
- National Endowment for
the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend, 2009
- American Council on Germany, Dr. Richard M. Hunt Fellowship for the Study of German Politics, Society, and Culture, 2008
Brummett, Palmira
- ACLS Fellowship, 2009-2010, project on the Ottoman Adriatic.
- U. of Tennessee, Dept. of History, LeRoy P. Graf Award for Faculty Excellence, 2006-7.
- NEH Fellowship awarded Feb. 2003 for research at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Spring 2004
Burman, Thomas
- Jacque Barzun Prize for Cultural History awarded by the American Philosophical Society, 2008, 2009
Dessel, J.P.
- Fellowship at The Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, 2009
Feller, Daniel
- Betty Lynn Hendrickson Professorship, 2009
- College of Arts
and Sciences Faculty Academic Outreach Award, UT, 2008
- Department of History Leroy P. Graf Award for Faculty Excellence, 2007-2008
Freeberg, Ernest
- U. of
Tennessee, Dept. of History, LeRoy P. Graf Award for Faculty Excellence, 2009-10
- Eli M Oboler Memorial
Award from the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Round
Table
- Lindsay Young Professorship, 2009
- David J. Langum, Sr. Book Prize in American Legal History, 2009
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, 2009
- Scribes Book award, Honorable Mention, Am. Soc. Of Legal Writers, 2009
- Award for New Creative Projects in the Arts and Humanities, University of Tennessee, 2008
- John H. Dunning Prize, American Historical Association, 2002
Freeberg, Ernest
- U. of
Tennessee, Dept. of History, LeRoy P. Graf Award for Faculty Excellence, 2009-10
- Eli M Oboler Memorial
Award from the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Round
Table
- Lindsay Young Professorship, 2009
- David J. Langum, Sr. Book Prize in American Legal History, 2009
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, 2009
- Scribes Book award, Honorable Mention, Am. Soc. Of Legal Writers, 2009
- Award for New Creative Projects in the Arts and Humanities, University of Tennessee, 2008
- John H. Dunning Prize, American Historical Association, 2002
Gomez, Miguel
- Spring 2009, William Anderson Award, University of Tennessee
Liulevicius, Vejas
- Lindsay Young Professorship, 2009-2013
- Hendrickson Professorship in the College of Arts and Sciences, 2005-2007, 2007-2009
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2005-2006
- Univ. of Oregon’s Center for Educational Policy Research College Board Best Practices Course Study Best Practices Course, with Specific Elements Exemplary for History 335, 2006
- University of Tennessee College of Arts and Sciences Award for Research and Creative Achievement in Arts and Humanities, 2003-2006
- University of Tennessee Provost’s Excellence in Teaching Award, 2003
Norrell, Robert J.
- Booker T. Washington Legacy Prize, 2006
Magra, Christopher P.
- Winslow House Book Prize, 2010
McIntosh, J.L.
- American Historical Association Gutenberg-e Prize, 2004
Piehler, G. Kurt
- Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection, Popular Culture/American Culture Association, 2010.
- Eva R. Dave Fellowship, Jacob Rader Marcus Center, American Jewish Archives, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2010-2011
- Fulbright Fellowship, Japan, 2008
- Public Service Award, National Alumni Association of the University
of Tennessee, 2004
Phillips, Denise
- Herzog Ernst Fellowship of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, August – September 2011
- Fulbright Scholar Award, Spring and Summer 2012
- DAAD Research Visit Grant, Fall 2011
- Fulbright Fellowship, Japan, 2008
- Public Service Award, National Alumni Association of the University of Tennessee, 2004
Rubenstein, Jay
- MacArthur Fellowship, 2007
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2007-2008
- American Council of Learned Societies Burkhardt Fellowship, 2006-2007
Sacco, Lynn
- 2010-2011 Thomas
Jefferson Prize, UT QUEST Scholar of the Week,
UT, 2009
- Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, UT, 2008
- David V. and Kathryn G. White Undergraduate Teaching Award, UT, 2008
- Herzog Ernst Fellowship of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, August–September 2011

