History Faculty Fellowships, Prizes and Awards
2020-2021
Christy Chapin – American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship
Anne Rubin – National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Constantine Vaporis – Institute for Advanced Study, Residential Fellowship
2019-2020
Susan McDonough – National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Derek Musgrove – Dresher Center for the Humanities, Faculty Residential Fellowship
2018-2019
Constantine Vaporis – CAHSS Research Fellowship
Constantine Vaporis – Selected for ASIANetwork’s Speakers Bureau, 2017-2019
Rebecca Boehling – Dresher Center for the Humanities, Faculty Residential Fellowship
Anne Rubin — Strategic Award for Research Transitions Fellowship, UMBC
Marjoleine Kars – Huntington Library Long Term Fellowship
Marjoleine Kars – National Humanities Center Fellowship
Marjoleine Kars – Newberry Library Long Term Fellowship
Marjoleine Kars – CAHSS Research Fellowship
Denise Meringolo – Whiting Foundation, Public Engagement Fellowship
Denise Meringolo — Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lectureship (2018-2021)
2017-2018
Kate Brown – Carnegie Foundation Fellowship
Christy Chapin –Library of Congress Kluge Fellowship
Amy Froide – Short-term Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, DC.
Amy Froide – Dresher Center for the Humanities, Residential Fellowship, UMBC
Marjoleine Kars – 2017 Kimberly Hanger prize, Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association, for the best article appearing in the fields of Latin American, Caribbean, American Borderlands and Frontiers, or Atlantic World history, for “Dodging Rebellion: Women and a Politics of Gender in the Berbice Slave Rebellion,” American Historical Review 121, 1 (Feb. 2016), 39-69.
Marjoleine Kars – 2017 Vanderwood Prize, Conference on Latin American History, for “Dodging Rebellion: Women and a Politics of Gender in the Berbice Slave Rebellion.”
Marjoleine Kars – 2017 Carol Gold Best Article Award, Coordinating Council for Women in History, for “Dodging Rebellion: Women and a Politics of Gender in the Berbice Slave Rebellion.”
Susan McDonough – Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (MIPAR) Summer Faculty Fellowship, UMBC
Derek Musgrove and Michelle Scott – CAHSS Pedagogy and Teaching Grant, UMBC
Meredith Oyen – Hrabowski Innovation Grant, UMBC
Meredith Oyen – Dresher Center Summer Fellowship, UMBC
Daniel Ritschel — CAHSS Dean’s Research Fund, UMBC
Daniel Ritschel — Supplement for Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE) Award, UMBC
Michelle Scott – Leticia Woods Brown Article Prize, Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH) for “These Ladies Do Business with a Capital B: The Griffin Sisters AS Black Businesswomen in Early Vaudeville,” The Journal of African American History 101, 4 (2016): 469-503.
Constantine Vaporis – Selected for ASIANetwork’s Speakers Bureau, 2017-2019
2016-2017
Rebecca Boehling – Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin
Kate Brown – Carnegie Foundation Fellowship
Kate Brown – Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin
Kate Brown – Braudel Fellowship, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Christy Chapin- Ed Snider Center History of Capitalism Fellowship, Dept. of History and Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland College Park
Christy Chapin – Ralph Gomory Prize for best book “on the effects of business enterprises on the economic conditions of the countries in which they operate,” awarded by Business History Conference for Ensuring America’s Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Marjoleine Kars – Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Marjoleine Kars – 2016-2017 Biennial Article Prize, Forum on EuropeanExpansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI), for ““Dodging Rebellion: Women and a Politics of Gender in the Berbice Slave Rebellion,” American Historical Review 121, 1 (Feb. 2016), 39-69.
Susan McDonough – Dresher Center Summer Fellowship, UMBC
Derek Musgrove –Strategic Award for Research Transitions, CAHSS, UMBC
Andrew Nolan — Kendall Service Award for Program Director of the Year at the Universities at Shady Grove
Meredith Oyen – Sosland Fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, DC
Meredith Oyen – NEH Summer Institute Stipend, “Veterans in Society: Ambiguities and Representations,” Blacksburg, Virginia
Anne Sarah Rubin, CAHSS’s Lipitz Professor of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (2016-2017), UMBC
Nianshen Song – Korean Studies Grants, The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (NEAC), in conjunction with the Korea Foundation
Nianshen Song – The American Geographical Society Library Fellowship, UW-Milwaukee Library
Nianshen Song – Supplement for Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE) Award, UMBC
Michelle Scott –CAHSS Research Fellowship, UMBC
Constantine Vaporis – Residential Faculty Fellow, Dresher Center for the Humanities, UMBC
2015-2016
Terry Bouton, CAHSS Research Fellow, UMBC
Kate Brown – American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
Kate Brown – John H. Dunning Prize, biennial award for best book in history of the Americas, American Historical Association, for Plutopia
Kate Brown – Election to the Society of American Historians
Kate Brown – University of Maryland Board of Regents Award for Excellence in Research
Kate Brown – Imaging Research Center Grant, UMBC
Christy Chapin — Visiting scholar, Johns Hopkins University, History of Capitalism grant funded by the Kaufman Foundation (2015-2018)
Christy Chapin — Hoover Library & Archives Seminar on Political Economy, Summer 2016
Christy Chapin — Woodrow Wilson Nancy Weiss Malkiel Junior Faculty Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 2016
Amy Froide – Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (MIPAR) Fellowship, UMBC
Marjoleine Kars – Dresher Center for the Humanities Residential Faculty Fellow, UMBC
Susan McDonough – NEH Summer Fellow; Barcelona, Spain
Susan McDonough – CAHSS Dean’s Research Fund, UMBC
Denise Meringolo – Humanities Council of Maryland, grant
Denise Meringolo – Dresher Center Residential Faculty Fellowship, UMBC
Denise Meringolo – Hrabowski Innovation Fund, UMBC
Meredith Oyen – Taiwan Fellowship (Declined)
Michelle Scott – Presidential Teaching Faculty Award, UMBC (2015-2018)
Michelle Scott – University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring
2014-2015
Kate Brown – Albert J. Beveridge Award in American History, American Historical Association, for Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Kate Brown – Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American Historians for best book in Political History, for Plutopia
Kate Brown – George Perkins Marsh for best book in Environmental History, Association for Environmental History, for Plutopia
Kate Brown – Heldt Book Prize, The Association of Women in Slavic Studies for Plutopia
Kate Brown – Wayne S. Vucinich Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, for Plutopia
Kate Brown – Robert G. Athearn Prize, Western History Association, for Plutopia
Christy Chapin – Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (MIPAR), Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, UMBC
Denise Meringolo – Entrepreneurship and Innovation Curriculum Grant, Alex Brown Center, UMBC
Denise Meringolo – “Doing Digital History” NEH Workshop, Office of Digital Humanities, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History in New Media
Meredith Oyen –SRAIS Fellowship, UMBC
Anne Rubin – Hrabowski Innovation Fellowship, UMBC
Anne Rubin –Imaging Research Center Summer Faculty Fellowship, UMBC
2013-2014
Christy Chapin – Summer Faculty Fellowship, UMBC
Christy Chapin – Alex Brown Center for Entrepreneurship, UMBC
Amy Froide – Short-term Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, DC
Amy Froide – CAHSS Research Fellowship, UMBC
James Grubb – University System of Maryland Board of Regents’ Award for Excellence in Teaching
Marjoleine Kars – Dresher Center for the Humanities Summer Fellowship, UMBC
Denise Meringolo – National Council on Public History Book Award for the best book about or growing out of public history published within the previous two calendar years for Museums, Monuments and National Parks: Toward a New Genealogy of Public History (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012)
Daniel Ritschel – CAHSS Dean’s Faculty Research Fellowship, UMBC
Michelle Scott – Smithsonian Institution, Senior Scholar Fellowship,
National Museum of American History
Constantine Vaporis – UMBC Presidential Research Professor (2013-2016)
Constantine Vaporis – “India’s Past and the Making of the Present”. Participant in NEH Summer Institute, New Delhi, India
Constantine Vaporis – Franklin R. Buchanan Prize (of the Association for Asian Studies) for Curricular Materials for Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns
2012-2013
Terry Bouton – UMBC Presidential Teaching Award (2012-2015)
Christy Chapin — Finalist, Herman E. Krooss Prize for the Best Dissertation in Business History, 2012
Amy Froide – Short-term Research Fellowship, The Huntington Library, CA
Marjoleine Kars – Middle States Council for Social Studies, Social Studies Program of Excellence Certificate for TAH grant project on London Town
Denise Meringolo – Breaking Ground Faculty Innovation Award, UMBC
Anne Rubin –CAHSS Research Fellowship, UMBC
2011-2012
Terry Bouton – Huntington Library Short-Term Fellowship
Kate Brown – National Council for East European and Eurasian Research Grant
Amy Froide – Short-term Research Fellowship, The Huntington Library, CA
Susan McDonough – SRAIS Grant, UMBC
Susan McDonough – Audrey Lumsen Kouvel/Mellon Fellow, Newberry Library, Chicago
Meredith Oyen – UMBC Summer Faculty Fellowship, Beijing, China,
Daniel Ritschel – $997,869 U.S. Department of Education, “Making American History Master Teachers” (Center for History Education in partnership with Anne Arundel County Public Schools).
Anne Rubin – Donald Creighton Outstanding Faculty Award from UMBC Graduate Student Associatio
2010-2011
James Grubb – CAHSS’s Lipitz Professor of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (2010-2011)
Susan McDonough – Audrey Lumsen Kouvel/Mellon Fellow, Newberry Library, Chicago
Susan McDonough – SRAIS grants, UMBC
Denise Meringolo — CAHSS Faculty Fellowship, UMBC
Daniel Ritschel – U.S. Department of Education, “History Labs: Inquiry-Based Teaching and Assessments of American History in Howard County Public Schools” (Center for History Education in partnership with Howard County Public Schools)
2009-2010
Terry Bouton – Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lectureship (2009-2018)
Kate Brown – Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
Kate Brown – National Council for East European and Eurasian Research Grant
Kate Brown – International Research and Exchange Board (IREX) Travel Grant
Daniel Ritschel – U.S. Department of Education, “History Labs: Inquiry-Based Teaching of Traditional American History in Baltimore County Public Schools” (Center for History Education in partnership with Baltimore County Public Schools).
Anne Sarah Rubin –Special Research Fund, UMBC