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