Awards

University of Minnesota Awards

David Chang (2018)
Ericka Lee (2016)
Jean O'Brien (2015)
Barbara Welke (2013)
Steve Ruggles (2000)
Eric Weitz (2007) 
Sara Evans (1997)

Ruth Karras, 2008

Saje Mathieu, 2011-2012
Erika Lee, 2010-2011
Patrick McNamara, 2008-2009

Ruth Karras, 2010

Anna Clark—Samuel Russell Chair in the Humanities, 2005 - 2011

Michael Lower, 2014-2015
David Chang, 2012-2014

Katharine Gerbner, Fall 2014
David Chang, Fall 2012
Erika Lee, Fall 2010
Giancarlo Casale, Fall 2008

Zozan Pehlivan (2021-2023)

Katherine Gerbner (2018 - 2020)

Giancarlo Casale (2009-2011)

JB Shank (2004 - 2006)

Erika Lee (2003 - 2005)

Barbara Welke (2001 - 2003) 

Ajay Skaria (2000)

Lisa Norling (1993)

Jean O'Brien (1992)

Steve Ruggles (1987) 

Ann Waltner (1988) 

Kirsten Fischer, 2007-2010

Malinda Linquist (2020) 
JB Shank (2016)
Giancarlo Casale (2014)
Kirsten Fischer (2011) 

Barbara Welke (2006)
Theofanis Stavrou (2000)
Edward Farmer (1989)
George Green (1986)

Ann Waltner (2020)
Barbara Welke (2018)
Kay Reyerson (2017) 
Kevin Murphy (2013)
Ruth Karras (2009)
Jean O'Brien (2006)
Sarah Evans (2002) 
Mary Jo Maynes (2001) 

Jean M. O’Brien, 2014
Michael Lower, 2009-2010
Michael Lower, 2009

Allen Isaacman (2011)
Steve Ruggles (2008)
Anna Clark (2006)
Sara Evans (2004)
Ruth Karras (2003) 
Bernard Bachrach (2000)

MJ Maynes (1999)
Elaine May (1996)
James Tracy (1993) 
Carla Phillips (1987)

Jean M. O’Brien, 2014
Erika Lee, 2012

Barbara Welke, 2011-2014

External Faculty Awards

Zozan Pehlivan, Ömer Lütfi Barkan Article Prize for the best article in Ottoman and Turkish Studies, 2021

J. David Hacker, John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History, 2011

Allen and Barbara Isaacman, Martin A. Klein Prize, American Historical Association, 2014
Allen and Barbara Isaacman, Melville Herskovits Award, African Studies Association, 2014
Kevin Murphy, LGBT Studies Category, 2009 (Political Manhood)
Jeani O’Brien, Best Subsequent Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Native American and Indigneous Studies Association, 2012 (Firsting and Lasting)
Ruth Karras, Joan Kelly Prize for Best Book in Women’s History, American Historical Association, 2012
Tracey Deutsch, Best Book in Food Studies, American Society for Food Studies, 2011
Erika Lee, Best Book in Western History, Caughey Western History Association, 2010 (Angel Island)
Erika Lee, Adult Non-Fiction Award, American Librarians Association, Asian Pacific American Caucus, 2010 (Angel Island)
Erika Lee, “Best Book of 2010,” San Francisco Chronicle, 2010 (Angel Island)
Erika Lee, Honorable Mention--History Book Award, Association of Asian American Studies, 2010 (Angel Island)
Erika Lee, Choice Outstanding Academic Title for Angel Island, 2010
Kevin Murphy, Lambda Literary Award Finalist, 2009

Evan Roberts, Australian Economic History Review paper prize, Australia-Pacific Economic & Business History Conference, 2010

Christopher Isett, August, 2011-June 2012
Kirsten Fischer, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2011-2012
Sarah Chambers, Spain, January-June, 2011

Elaine Tyler May, 2015-2016

Jean M. O’Brien, American Indian History Lifetime Achievement Award, Western History Association, 2014

Michael Lower, New Directions Fellowship Supplemental Award, 2012
Michael Lower, New Directions Fellowship, 2010-2011

2014, David Chang
2013-2014, Elaine Tyler May
2012-2013, Sarah Chambers

Daniel J. Schroeter, Ina Levine Invitational Scholar Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC. 2014-2015
Christopher Isett, Erasmus Mundus Fellowship of the EU, London School of Economics, Department of Economic History, March 18-29, 2013
Christopher Isett, Chiang Ching-Kue Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Grant for Professors, September 2010-August 2013
Ruth Karras, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2012-2013
Ruth Karras, American Council of Learned Societies, 2010-2011
Giancarlo Casale, Koc Senior Research Fellow in Anatolian Civilizations, Spring 2009

Kathryn Reyerson, Kindrick CARA Award, Medieval Academy of America, 2013

Christopher Isett, Visiting Scholar, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, August 15, 2011-June 15, 2012
Kirsten Fischer, Deutsche Bank Junior Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2008-2009

Zozan Pehlivan, The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar, 2020-2021

J. David Hacker, Principal Investigator, NICHD Career Development Award, “The Decline of Fertility in the United States, 1790-2000”, 2006-2011

Steve Ruggles, Warren E. Miller Award, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2009

Steve Ruggles, Platinum Medallion, Delta Airlines, 2009