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Every so often I like to celebrate my @UOregon_History colleagues' successes, partly because it's not a department filled with big egos and many of them won't announce their good news themselves. This time, a thread about fellowships.
Last spring, Leslie Alexander won a major internal grant providing $50,000 for an interdisciplinary #digitalhumanities initiative, "Rebellions in the African Diaspora Project: Black Rebellions in the Long Nineteenth Century." https://history.uoregon.edu/profile/lalexand/ https://around.uoregon.edu/content/i3-seed-funding-program-awards-grants-five-research-teams
Steve Beda, Julie Hessler, @RyanTuckerJones, and Vera Keller will all spend a term next year as fellows of the Oregon Humanities Center. @uo_humanities
This fall Lindsay Braun will take up a fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, where he'll work on mapping and book collection in the settler colonial societies of southern Africa. @NIAS_KNAW https://history.uoregon.edu/profile/lfbraun/
Bryna Goodman will spend 2020-21 in residence at the National Humanities Center, where she will be working on yet another book, "Finance and Fortune: Economics, Individual Calculation, and the Fate of the Chinese Republic." @NatlHumanities https://history.uoregon.edu/profile/bgoodman/
From June to December 2020, @allisonmadar will be in residence at the @KlugeCtr of the Library of Congress, where she will complete research and revisions on her book manuscript, A People Between, about temporary servitude in eighteenth-century Virginia. https://history.uoregon.edu/profile/amadar/
This summer Linni Mazurek ( @effiedarling194) will use a residential fellowship from the German Archaeological Institute to start on her second book, while her first, Embodying Isis: Egyptian Cult and the Negotiation of Greekness, is in press. https://history.uoregon.edu/profile/lmazurek/
Associate Department Chair, Arafaat Valiani, will be a scholar in residence at the Wayne Morse Center @morsecenter, where he will continue his research on "Communities of Risk: Genomics, Precision Medicine and South Asian Caste Populations." https://history.uoregon.edu/profile/valiani/
With help from a $50,000 grant from the @WhitingFdn, @JulieWeise will transform episodes from her @NuestroSouth podcast into a YouTube series aimed at teens and youth. https://twitter.com/JulieWeise/status/1233147652381896704?s=20 https://history.uoregon.edu/profile/jweise/
At the Center for Environmental Futures @UO_CEF, Marsha Weisiger will continue to manage a multi-year project on environmental humanities funded by the Mellon Foundation and the ACLS. https://history.uoregon.edu/profile/weisiger/
That's just the last 10 months, and it's almost half of the department! This is an impressive group of scholars, and @uoregon, @CAScholars, @UO_Research should do all they can to support them. /fin
Adding to this thread something I already announced, but it belongs here with the others. Congrats again to Vera Keller, for winning a Guggenheim! A wonderful way to cap off a great fellowship season for this department. @UOregon_History https://history.uoregon.edu/uo-historian-receives-guggenheim-fellowship/
