The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities will hold its annual award reception honoring the faculty, graduate student and undergraduate student recipients of this year’s IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities at 4 p.m. May 1 at IPRH Lecture Hall, Levis Faculty Center, fourth floor, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana.
Faculty prizes
Co-winners:
José B. Capino, English, “Figures of Empire: Documentaries in the Philippines” in “The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia.”.
Craig Koslofsky, history, “Parisian Cafés in European Perspective: Contexts of Consumption, 1660‐1730,” in “French History.”
Honorable Mention:
Alistair Black, information sciences, “The Long Journey to Libraries of Light,” an extract from “Libraries of Light: British Public Library Design in the Long 1960s.”
Graduate student prizes
Winner:
Christine Hedlin, English, “Ethiopiansim and the Turn-of-the-Century African American Novel,” submitted for ENG 599: Thesis Preparation.
Honorable mention:
Lisa Ortiz, education policy, organization and leadership, “#yonomequito: Deconstructing classed and neoliberal values haunting a Puerto Rican campaign,” written for ANTH 466: Class Culture, and Society.
Undergraduate student prizes
Winner:
Madeline Decker, English, “What’s Love Got to Do with It: Intersections of the Personal and Political in The Bostonians and Obergefell v. Hodges,” Nominated by professor Justine Murison and written for ENG 300: “Inventing Privacy in 19th-Century America.”
Honorable mention:
Kuizhi (Lewis) Wang, philosophy, “Role of Teleology in Kant’s Philosophy of History,” nominated by professor Alexandra Newton and written for PHIL 501: “Seminar in the History of Philosophy.”
For more information about these prizes, please visit us online.
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