Faculty Awards
Loyola History Faculty Awards, Grants and Fellowships
2023 - 2024
- Robert Bucholz:
- Research Leave
- John Donoghue:
- Research Grant, Rose Library, Emory University
- Timothy Gilfoyle:
- Research Leave
- Edin Hajdarpasic:
- Rule of Law Research Fellowship, Loyola University Law School
- Benjamin Johnson:
- Organization of American Historians Germany Residency Fellowship, University of Tubingen
- Theodore Karamanski:
- Advisory Board, Public Humanities Journal, Cambridge University Press
- Suzanne Kaufman
- Research Leave
- Michelle Nickerson:
- Committee of Scholars, Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum
- Stephen Schloesser, SJ:
- Alpha Sigma Nu, Honorary Member
- Noah Sobe:
- Senior Fellow, World in 2050 Diplomatic Courier
- Historical Collections Fellowship, UNESCO International Bureau of Education
- Alice Weinreb:
- 2024-2025 Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities
- Research Support Grant, Loyola
2022 - 2023
- Christopher D. Cantwell:
- Luce/AAR Advancing Public Scholarship Grant
- Elizabeth Fraterrigo:
- Research Leave
- Timothy Gilfoyle:
- Sujack Award for Excellence in Teaching, Loyola
- Bradford Hunt:
- Openlands Oral History Project Grant
- Theodore Karamanski:
- National Park Service Battlefield Protection Fund Grant for a traveling exhibit about Camp Douglas Civil War POW Camp
- Research Leave
- Michael Khodarkovsky:
- Research Leave
- Stephen Schloesser, SJ:
- Ignatius Loyola Chair, Fordham University (2022-23)
- Elizabeth Tandy Shermer:
- Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair, Carleton University (2023-24)
- Princeton School of Historical Studies, Member Alternate (2023-24)
- Alice Weinreb:
- Inaugural Intra-University Visiting Fellowship (2022-2023), Loyola
2021 - 2022
- Benjamin Johnson:
- Research Leave
- Theodore Karamanski:
- 2021 Herbert Feis Award, American Historical Association, in recognition for his distinguished contributions to the field of Public History
- Michael Khodarkovsky:
- Special Research Support Grant, Loyola
- Gema Kloppe-Santamaría:
- Global Fellow, The Wilson Center in Washington, DC.
- Honorable Mention, María Elena Martinez Book Prize in Mexican History
for In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico - Honorable Mention, 2021 Best Book in Social Sciences, Latin American Studies Association for In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
- 2021 Best Article in the Social Sciences Latin American Studies Association for “Deadly Rumors: Lynching, Hearsay, and
Hierarchies of Credibility in Mexico,” Journal of Social History (Vol. 55, No. 1) - Sujack Award for Excellence in Research, Loyola
- Elizabeth Tandy Shermer:
- History Book Award, Honorable Mention
Society of Midland Authors for Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt
- History Book Award, Honorable Mention
- Alice Weinreb:
- Special Research Support Grant, Loyola
2020 - 2021
- John Donoghue:
- The History of Rum lecture series named one of 2021’s Best New Slavery Audiobooks, BookAuthority
- Benjamin H. Johnson:
- 2021 OAH Friend of History Award, Organization of American Historians for "Refusing to Forget" [with Sonia Hernandez (Texas A&M), Trinidad Gonzales (South Texas College), John Moran Gonzalez (UT Austin), and Monica Munoz Martinez (Brown)]
- Theodore J. Karamanski:
- Superior Achievement Award, Illinois St. Historical Society for Mastering the Inland Seas: How Lighthouses, Navigational Aids, and Harbors Transformed the Great Lakes and America
- Public History Program:
- 2021 Founders Award, National Council on Public History, recognizing four decades of leadership by Loyola historians in nurturing, growing, and transforming the practice of public history in the United States
- Gema Kloppe-Santamaría:
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Research Grant
- Marie S. Curie Visiting Fellow, University of Freiburg
- 2021 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader for In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
- 2021 Best Article in the Humanities, Latin American Studies Association for "The Lynching of the Impious: Violence, Politics, and Religion in Postrevolutionary Mexico (1930s-1950s)," The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History (Vol. 77, No. 1)
- Sujack Award for Research Excellence
- Research Leave
- Marek Suszko:
- Sujack Master Teacher Award
2019 - 2020
- John Donoghue:
- 2020-21 Huntington Library Research Exchange Grant
- Aidan Forth:
- 2019 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize from the Canadian Historical Association for Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876 – 1903 (Univ. of California Press, 2017)
- Benjamin H. Johnson:
- 2020 Herbert Feis Award, American Historical Association, for “Refusing to Forget” [with Sonia Hernandez (Texas A&M), Trinidad Gonzales (South Texas College), John Morán González (UT Austin), and Monica Muñoz Martinez (Brown)]
- Theodore Karamanski:
- 2019-2020 Erasmus Grant providing exchange opportunities between and the Akademia Ignatianum in Kraków, Loyola
- Suzanne Kaufman:
- 2018 Mansfield Prize from the Religious History Association for her article: “Les Miraculées de Lourdes: Sacred Celebrities in the Age of Mass Spectacle.”
- Michelle Nickerson:
- 2020-2021 Sabbatical Grant for Researchers, Louisville Institute
- 2020 Hank Center Research Funding Award for: “Catholic Resistance: How the Camden 28 put the Vietnam War on Trial”
- Gema Kloppe-Santamaría:
- 2020 Project Launch Grant, Global Religion Research Initiative, Notre Dame for “Religion, Violence, and the Secular State in Mexico”
- 2020 Hank Center Course Development Award for “Religion, Violence, and Martyrdom in Latin America."
2018 - 2019
- Theresa Gross Diaz:
- Research Leave
- Aiden Forth:
- 2018 Stansky Prize for the Best Book in British Studies for Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876 –1903 (Univ. of California Press, 2017)
- Research Leave
- Timothy J. Gilfoyle:
- Faculty Member of the Year, Loyola
- Benjamin H. Johnson:
- 2019 Roger D. Bridges Distinguished Service Award Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
- Suzanne Kaufman:
- Research Leave
- Christopher Manning:
- Fellow, 2019-2020 ACE Fellows Program with the American Council on Education
- Patricia Mooney-Melvin and Dr. Kyle Roberts:
- 2018-2020 Career Diversity Implementation Grant, American Historical Association
- Michelle Nickerson:
- Fulbright Core Fellowship, Summer 2020, Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg
- Kyle Roberts:
- Lapidus Initiative Fellowship for Digital Collections, The Omohundro Institute
- Research Leave
- Gema Kloppe Santamaría:
- 2019-2020 Research Grant Hank Center for Catholic Intellectual Heritage
- Elizabeth Tandy Shermer:
- Obama Fellow, Summer 2019, Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, University of Mainz
- Fellowship, 2019-2020, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
- Fulbright U.S. Scholar, 2019-2020, University of Hong Kong
- Alice Weinreb:
- Inaugural WCGS Book Prize (2018), Waterloo Centre for German Studies, University of Waterloo for Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany (Oxford University Press, 2017)
2017-2018
- John Donoghue:
- Fellowship, Michael J. Connell Foundation, Huntington Library
- Fellowship, Barbara S. Mosbacher Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
- Aiden Forth:
- Sujack Master Researcher Award, Loyola
- Benjamin Johnson:
- Lloyd Lewis Fellowship, Newberry Library
- Autry Public History Prize, Western History Association, for Refusing to Forget” Public History Project
- Honorable Mention, President’s Book Prize, Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, for Escaping the Dark, Gray City: Fear and Hope in Progressive Era Conservation (Yale University Press, 2017)
- Theodore Karamanski:
- Cook County Forest Preserve District Contract for “Historical Research and Interpretation for Gateway Signage at Palos Preserves, North Branch Preserves, and Calumet Preserves.”
- Michael Khodarkovsky:
- Research Leave
- Patricia Mooney-Melvin and Dr. Kyle Roberts:
- American Historical Association: 2017-18 Career Diversity For Historians Faculty Institute & 2018-20 Career Diversity Implementation Grant
- Kyle Roberts:
- Elected Fellow of the New York Academy of History
- 2018 Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History, New York Academic of History, for Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860 (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
- Master Researcher Award, Loyola
- Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
- Visiting Research Fellow, Faculty of History, Cambridge
- Visiting College Research Associate, Wolfson College, Cambridge
- Academic Writing Residency, Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center
- Italy Travel Assistance Award, Rockefeller Foundation & the Institute of International Education
- Elena Valussi
- Fellowships at Universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Groningen
- Taiwanese Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Grant for “Mapping Religious Diversity in Modern Sichuan” (2017-2020)
- Alice Weinreb:
- Ernst Fraenkel Prize, the Wiener Library, London, UK, for Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany (Oxford University Press, 2017
- Sujack Family Award for Excellence in Faculty Research, Loyola
Pre-2017
2016:
- Eden Hajdarpasic:
- Sujack Award for Excellence in Research, Loyola
- Suzanne Kaufman:
- Sujack Master Teacher Award, Loyola
- Kyle Roberts:
- Sujack Award for Excellence in Teaching, Loyola
2015:
- Robert Bucholz:
- Faculty Member of the Year, SGLC and “Maroon and Gold” Society
- David Dennis:
- Provost’s Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Freshmen, Loyola
- Suzanne Kaufman:
- Sujack Master Teacher Award, Loyola
- Stephen Schloesser, S.J.
- Sujack Award for Excellence in Research
2014:
- Dina Berger:
- Sujack Master Teacher Award, Loyola
- John Donoghue:
- Langerbeck Award for Undergraduate Mentorship, Loyola
- Kyle Roberts:
- Sujack Master Teacher Award, Loyola
- Elizabeth Tandy Shermer:
- Sujack Award for Excellence in Research, Loyola
2013:
- Robert Bucholz:
- Provost’s Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Freshmen, Loyola
- Michael Khodarkovsky:
- Master Researcher Award, Loyola
2012:
- John Donoghue:
- Sujack Master Teacher Award, Loyola
2011:
- Anthony Cardoza:
- Sujack Master Teacher Award, Loyola
2010:
- Marek Suszko:
- Sujack Master Teacher Award, Loyola
2007:
- Anthony Cardoza:
- Faculty Member of the Year, Loyola
2003:
- David Dennis:
- Sujack Master Teacher Award, Loyola
- Theodore Karamanski:
- Faculty Member of the Year, Loyola
2002:
- Patricia Mooney Melvin:
- Graduate School Faculty Member of the Year, Loyola
2001-2006:
- Barbara Rosenwein:
- Loyola University Faculty Scholar, Loyola
2000-2005:
- Robert Bireley, S.J.:
- Loyola University Faculty Scholar
2000:
- David Dennis:
- Sujack Master Teacher Award, Loyola
1998:
- Robert Bucholz:
- Teacher of the Year, Loyola Honors Program
1997:
- Robert Bucholz:
- Teacher of the Year, Loyola Honors Program
1996:
- Joseph A. Gagliano:
- Faculty Member of the Year Award, Loyola
1994:
- Robert Bucholz:
- “Excellence in Teaching” Award, Lake Shore Student Government Association
- Sujack Award for Excellence in Teaching (inaugural winner), Loyola
- Theodore Karamanski:
- Graduate School Faculty Member of the Year. Loyola
1993:
- Robert Bucholz:
- “Excellence in Teaching” Award, Lake Shore Student Government Association
1988:
- John McManamon, S.J.:
- Teacher of the Year, Loyola Honors Program
1987:
- John McManamon, S.J.:
- Teacher of the Year, Loyola Honors Program
1979:
- William R. Trimble:
- Faculty Member of the Year, Loyola
1973:
- Paul S. Lietz:
- Faculty Member of the Year, Loyola