Awards & Prizes

University of Minnesota Awards

Department of History—Graduate Student Teaching Award

  • 2018 Instructor Award: Emma Snowden
  • 2018 Teaching Assistant Award: Alexander Steele
  • 2018 Teaching Assistant Award: Heather Collins
  • 2019 Teaching Assistant Award: Heather Collins

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

2018-19

  • Adey Almohesen 
  • Loren Cowdery
  • Jessica Farrell
  • Allison Schwartz

2022-23

  • Sultan Toprak Oker

2023-24 

  • Sultan Toprak Oker

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship

2018-19

  • Ketaki Jaywant 

2021-22

  • Sultan Toprak Oker

CSPW Dissertation Development Fellowship

Spring 2018

  • Noam Sienna

Fall 2020

  • Heather Collins 

Spring 2021

  • Heather Collins

William Stout and Thomas Wallace Fellowship

2018-19

  • Michael Kadow

Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP)

Summer 2018:

  • Eric Becklin
  • Michael Kadow
  • Katherine Pierpont
  • Sultan Toprak
  • Katherine Tuley
  • Heider Tun
  • Ana Vergara

Diversity of Views and Experiences (DOVE) Fellowship

2018-19 

  • Elizabeth Caldaza

Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC) Fellowship

2018-19

  • Catherine Ulep

Thesis Travel Research Grant

Summer 2018

  • Fikri Cicek
  • Jazmine Contreras
  • Janeke Thumbran

Hella Mears (Center for German and European Studies)

Summer 2018

  • Jan Volek

Erickson Graduate Fellowship in Law and History

  • Alison Schwartz

Center for Educational Innovation Recognition

Summer 2020

  • Heather Collins

Aaron and Anna Beek Graduate Student Teaching Award

Spring 2018

  • Heather Collins

Summer Language and Research Travel Scholarship

Summer 2022

  • Sultan Toprak Oker

Paul Murphy Legal History Scholarship

Summer 2022

  • Sultan Toprak Oker

External Awards

  • Adey Almohsen, Research Fellowship in Palestinian Studies 2017–8 from Palestinian American
  • Jazmine Contreras, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellowship
  • Melissa Hamption, 2018-2019 Goizueta Graduate Research Fellowship at the University of Miami Cuban Heritage Collection
  • Loren Cowdery, Leon Levy Foundation Grant for attending the Society for Classical Studies’ “The Use of Art and Material Culture in Scholarship and Teaching.” University of Illinois
  • Margie Tang-Oxley, Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship, 2023-2024.
  • Sultan Toprak Oker, Research Fellowship, American Research Institute in Turkey (Spring 2022)
  • Shinya Yoshida, Japanese Association of American Studies Student Travel Grants for the OAH Annual Conference, the OAH-JAAS collaborative project with generous funding support from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission(March 2024).
  • Shinya Yoshida, Huntington Library Fellowship, The Huntington Library(February 2024).
  • Shinya Yoshida, The Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education Research Grant, The Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education(January 2024)

Awards & Prizes

  • Adey Almohsen, Partnership for Affordable Content Grant, University Elizabeth Badger, Henry DuPont Exploratory Grant, Hagley Museum
  • John Manke, McNally Research Travel Grant
  • Scott McDowell, William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Early Career Scholar Fellowship, American Society for Legal History
  • Scott McDowell, Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies (BIASS) Research Grant
  • Ai Miller, 2017 Travel Research in Equity Collections (TREC) Fellow, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
  • Alison Schwartz, Mary Lily Research Grant at Duke University’s Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture
  • Alison Schwartz, Schlesinger Library’s Dissertation Grant
  • Nick Williams, Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Grant
  • Tianxiao Zhu, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Research Travel Grant, Gerald Ford Presidential Library
  • Myra Billund-Phibbs, Estelle Freedman Award, LGBTQ+ History Association (Formerly the Committee on LGBT History), January 2024. 
  • Myra Billund-Phibbs, Invited presenter, "Emerging Voices in LGBTQIA History," Organization of American Historians Conference, April 2025. 
  • Heather Collins, Adjunct Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Getty College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio Northern University, May 2023
  • Myra Billund-Phibbs,  KFAI's Minneculture podcast about the histories of '70s lesbian feminism and trans women in the Twin Cities
  • Shinya Yoshida,  Italian American Immigration Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship, The Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Post-Docs

  • Evan Taparata, Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy/Jack Miller Center Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania