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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

 

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