Research and Honors is a monthly column of the Illinois State Report newsletter, celebrating recent Honors, Publications, and Presentations of faculty and staff.
Honors
Katrin Paehler, HIS, was appointed by Governor J.B. Pritzker as a member of the Illinois Holocaust and Genocide Commission.
Amy Wood, HIS, received the Roger D. Bridges Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive for her 10 years of service as the society’s executive secretary.
Ruth Burke, ART, received a grant from the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (NCR-SARE) Program, fully funding her proposal, “Re-Integration of Mixed-Power Systems in Agroecological Intensification.”
Presentations
Lindsay Stallones Marshall, HIS, co-presented with film studies scholar Thomas Parham of Palm Beach Atlantic University, a paper titled, “The Wild West Redux: Gender Roles in Neo-Westerns” at the Popular Culture Association’s annual conference in Chicago.
Taylor Soja, HIS, gave the inaugural William Storie Memorial Lecture at Lewis University in March. She also presented on her Faculty Community-Engaged Learning Grant at the annual Center for Civic Engagement Celebration in April. The grant enabled HIS 402 students to collaborate with the McLean County Museum of History.
Ali Riaz, POL, presented at a roundtable focused on “The Belt and Road Initiative in South Asia and Beyond” at the International Studies Association Convention, in San Francisco, in April. He also presented “How Countries Become Autocratic” to the Asia Committee at College of DuPage in April.
Camille Cole, HIS, gave a talk on “Properties of Belonging in the Late Ottoman Gulf of Basra” at Pomona College, as part of the Middle East History lecture series.
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