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
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Aaron and Anna Beek Graduate Student Teaching Award
Spring 2018
- Heather Collins
Center for Educational Innovation Recognition
Summer 2020
- Heather Collins
CLA Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
2025-26
- Tibisay Navarro-Mana
CSPW Dissertation Development Fellowship
Spring 2018
- Noam Sienna
Fall 2020
- Heather Collins
Spring 2021
- Heather Collins
Diversity of Views and Experiences (DOVE) Fellowship
2018-19
- Elizabeth Caldaza
2024-25
- Racquel Banaszak
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
2018-19
- Adey Almohesen
- Loren Cowdery
- Jessica Farrell
- Allison Schwartz
2022-23
- Sultan Toprak Oker
2023-24
- Sultan Toprak Oker
2024-25
- Joshua Althoff
- Elijah Wallace
2025-26
- Shankar CSR
Erickson Graduate Fellowship in Law and History
- Allison Schwartz
Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP)
Summer 2018:
- Eric Becklin
- Michael Kadow
- Katherine Pierpont
- Sultan Toprak
- Katherine Tuley
- Heider Tun
- Ana Vergara
Hella Mears (Center for German and European Studies)
Summer 2018
- Jan Volek
Summer 2019
- Katherine Pierpont
Summer 2020
- Luke Josiah Freeman
Summer 2021
- Alex Magnolia
Summer 2022
- Elizabeth Quillen
Summer 2023
- Tibisay Navarro-Mana
2023-2024
- Noah Neiber
Summer 2024
- John Dieck
2025-2026
- Jude Pitti
Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC) Fellowship
2018-19
- Catherine Ulep
2019-20
- Shankar CSR
2023-24
- Lindsey Smith
2024-25
- Kefuoe Makena
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship
2018-19
- Ketaki Jaywant
2021-22
- Sultan Toprak Oker
2024-25
- Dwjaun Frazier
2025-26
- Mukund Jha
- Kanha Prasad
Paul Murphy Legal History Scholarship
Summer 2022
- Sultan Toprak Oker
Summer Language and Research Travel Scholarship
Summer 2022
- Sultan Toprak Oker
Thesis Travel Research Grant
Summer 2018
- Fikri Cicek
- Jazmine Contreras
- Janeke Thumbran
UMN Graduate School Best Dissertation Award
Humanities & Fine Arts
- 2025: Jessica Farrell, Abolition through Recapture: Unfreedom, Necromancy, and RE(-formation) in Nineteenth-Century Liberia, advised by Helena Pohlandt-McCormick
William Stout and Thomas Wallace Fellowship
2018-19
- Michael Kadow
External Awards
- Adey Almohsen, Research Fellowship in Palestinian Studies 2017–8 from Palestinian American
- Jazmine Contreras, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellowship
- 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
- Melissa Hamption, 2018-2019 Goizueta Graduate Research Fellowship at the University of Miami Cuban Heritage Collection
- Margie Tang-Oxley, Marilyn Blatt Young Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year
- 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
- 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
- Myra Billund-Phibbs, KFAI's Minneculture podcast about the histories of '70s lesbian feminism and trans women in the Twin Cities
- Heather Collins, Adjunct Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Getty College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio Northern University, May 2023
- John Manke, McNally Research Travel Grant
- Keira Mac Neil, Allan Bérubé Research stipend, Summer 2026
- 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
- 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