ISU professor wins American Studies Association Dissertation Prize

Illinois State Professor Erin Durban-Albrecht (right) at the 2015 American Studies Association Awards Ceremony.

Illinois State’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program is proud that Professor Erin Durban-Albrecht has been honored with the Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize 2015 awarded by the American Studies Association (ASA) for her dissertation, Postcolonial Homophobia: United States Imperialism in Haiti and the Transnational Circulation of Antigay Sexual Politics.

Decipher History: Explore the past through letters and diaries

Photograph of Emily Vecchi Noble, Circus and Allied Arts Collection

Reading other people’s diaries and mail might be frowned upon by many, but not by Milner Library’s Special Collections Librarian, Maureen Brunsdale. Of course, the letters and diaries she peruses are over 100 years old, and part of the Decipher History project.