2022 Graduate Student Fellowships, Prizes, and Publications

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  • Faisal Abualhassan, SSRC Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship.
  • Yuri Amano, research fellow and upcoming postdoc at the Center for Pacific and American Studies. 
  • Halle-Mackenzie Ashby, Library Company of Philadelphia Fellowship; 2022 Lapidus–OI Early American and Transatlantic Print Culture Fellowship with the Omohundro Institute (W&M). 
  • Sam Backer, article published in the Business History Review “The Informational Economy of Vaudeville and the Business of American Entertainment” and a piece in the Washington Post’s “Made By History” called “What the Neil Young-Joe Rogan dust-up tells us about the music industry.”
  • Jacob Bruggeman, monthly author Q&A series on history and culture for The Nation; an upcoming chapter entitled “The Rise and Fall of Freenet: The Rust Belt Movement to Make Internet Free for All” in Hearing the Heartland: Essays on the New Midwestern History, ed. Jon K. Lauck, (University of Illinois Press, 2024).
  • Jilene Chua, Marilyn Blatt Completion Fellowship. 
  • Lauren Feldman, Penn State Pre-Doctoral Fellowship.
  • Kalina Hadzhikova, Ditz Prize for Graduate Teaching for her course “Love, Sex, and Marriage in Medieval Europe.”
  • Dominique Hazzard, 2022 Smithsonian Award for Excellence in Exhibitions for “Food for the People: Eating and Activism in Greater Washington.”
  • Kevin Kind, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library in Taiwan. His article, “Musulman Knowledge, Local History, and the Making of the Qing Nation-State,” was published in the December 2021 issue of Late Imperial China. 
  • Arthur Lee, Bourse Jeanne Manadon Fellowship. 
  • Vincenza Mazzeo, Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ; Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) Linda Souter Humanities Award, 2021-2022; Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Assistant Award, 2021-2022; Doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Medical Humanities and Social Science, 2021-2022; Alexander Grass Humanities Institute Co-Sponsorship Award, 2021-2022, with Thomas Keegan; 2020-2021 Prize Committee, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 
  • Kelsey Moore, UVA Pre-Doctoral Fellowship,2022–2023; Crossroads Fellow; Carter G. Woodson Predoctoral Fellow, 2022-2024. 
  • Jessica Newby, Butler Prize for her First Year Paper, “Country Name Molia: in Motion in 18th Century Rural Jamaica
  • Ellie Palazzolo, LifexCode/Center for the Digital Humanities Digital Dissertation Fellow.
  • Christina Thomas, Predoctoral Fellowship for Excellence Through Diversity in African American History at the University of Pennsylvania. 
  • Pelia Werth, Graduate Travel Fellowship from the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe; Stulman Research Grant from the Jewish Studies program; Visiting Research Fellow at the Rothberg International School, Hebrew University.
  • Julia Wu, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Academia Sinica, Institute of History and Philology.  Alexander Young, The American Institute for Maghrib Studies Grant.