GRADUATE
Ph.D. Awards and Honors
Please send news of new jobs, awards, fellowships, publications, and admissions to other graduate programs to Laurie O'Neill at lponeill@uncg.edu. We will include your career news on this web site and in the fall department newsletter. Thanks!
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Jennifer Bratyanski, Ph.D. 2012: 2010-2011 Outstanding Faculty Member at Queens University of Charlotte, Hayworth College
Margaret Williams Carmack, Ph.D. 2016: Virginia Social Sciences Association Henry Abraham Best Graduate Student Paper Award, 2015.
Hannah Dudley-Shotwell, Ph.D. 2016: Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians for Revolutionizing Women's Healthcare: The Feminist Self-Help Movement in America (Rutgers University Press, 2020), 2021; UNCG Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2017; UNCG Women and Gender Studies Graduate Work Award, 2016; Linda and Richard Kerber Travel Grant for Research in the Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa, 2014; Sophia Smith Travel-to-Collections Fund Grant, Smith College, 2014; Graduate Student Research Travel Grant, UNCG, 2014; Award for Outstanding Work in Women's and Gender Studies, UNCG, 2012
James Findley, Ph.D. 2015: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) Travel Grant, 2013; winner of the Humanities section of the UNCG Graduate School Research Expo., 2012; Grant-in-aid to the Folger Shakespeare Library, 2012; UNCG Atlantic World Research Network research prize, 2010
Christine Flood, Ph.D. 2015: 3rd-place Student Essay Contest, North Carolina Museum of History, 2011
Marjorie Foy, Ph.D. 2013: Semi-Finalist for Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, 2006; Scholar-Athlete Graduate Fellowship, LifeScan of Johnson & Johnson, 2007-2009; Schlesinger Dissertation Fellowship, Harvard University, 2009-2010
Ashley Gilbert, Ph.D. student: Cofflet Fellowship from Colonial Williamsburg, 2023
Arlen Hanson, Ph.D. 2021: UNCG Atlantic World Research Network research prize, 2015
Matthew Hintz, Ph.D. student: Oberlin College Frederick B. Artz Summer Scholar Research Grant Award, 2017
John Kaiser, Ph.D. 2015: UNCG Atlantic World Research Network research prize, 2009; Archie K. Davis Fellowship, North Caroliniana Society, 2012
Brian Lee, Ph.D. 2015: Kennedy Research Grant, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, 2008
Justina Licata, Ph.D. 2020: College of Arts and Sciences and History Department Teaching Assistant Awards, 2017; Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grant, 2016; Travel Fellowship to Sophia Smith Collections, 2016.
Stuart Marshall, Ph.D. 2023: UNCG Allen W. Trelease Fellowship, 2022-2023; Archie K. Davis Fellowship, North Caroliniana Society, 2022-2023; Pryor Fellowship, Alpha Chi National College Honor Society, 2022-2023; Russell F. Weigley-U.S. Army Heritage Center Foundation Award, James A. Barnes Graduate Student History Conference, Temple University, 2021; Helen Hornbeck Tanner Student Conference Paper Award/Digital Ethnohistory Projects, American Society for Ethnohistory Conference, 2020; UNCG Hayes Excellence Fellowship, 2019-2020; UNCG Moore Fellowship, 2019-2020.
Sarah McCartney, Ph.D. 2018: Betty Sams Christian Fellowship in Business and Economic History at the Virginia Historical Society, 2014; College of Arts and Sciences and History Department Teaching Assistant Awards, 2015; Best Graduate Student Paper at the Virginia Forum, 2015; UNCG Atlantic World Research Network research prize, 2015.
Alyce Miller, Ph.D. 2012: 2020 William M. E. Rachal Award from the Virginia Museum of History & Culture for the best article to appear in the Virginia Magazine of History & Biography (with Brian Daugherity); 2015 Outstanding Faculty Award, John Tyler Community College
Ian Michie, Ph.D. 2018: UNCG Atlantic World Research Network research prize, 2011
Joseph Moore, Ph.D. 2011: Visiting Scholar, University of Notre Dame 2009; Visiting Research Associate, Queens University Belfast 2010; John Hope Franklin Collection for African and African American Documentation Travel Grant (Duke University), 2010; John Higham Travel Grant (OAH/IEHS) 2011; UNCG Atlantic World Research Network research prize, 2009
Eric Oakley, Ph.D. 2017: College of Arts and Sciences and History Department Teaching Assistant Awards, 2014
Tiffany Packer, Ph.D. 2012: American Historical Association Equity Award, 2018.
Jewel Parker, Ph.D. student: Bernard Dissertation Fellowship by UNCG College of Arts & Sciences, 2022-2023; Allen W. Trelease Graduate Fellowship by UNCG History Department, 2022; Kentucky Historical Society Short-Term Research Fellowship, 2022; Atlantic World Research Network Graduate Student Research Grant, 2021-2022; Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research, American Philosophical Society, 2021; Outer Banks History Center Summer Research Stipend, 2021; Joseph Bryan Jr. Fellowship by the UNCG Graduate School, 2021-2022; UNCG College of Arts and Sciences and History Department Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards, 2021; COVID Graduate Student Grant by the Southern Historical Association, 2020; Appalachian State University Graduate Student Outstanding Thesis Award in Arts and Humanities, 2018.
Steven Peach, Ph.D. 2016: Bernard Dissertation Fellowship for 2014-15 by the UNCG College of Arts and Sciences; Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research, American Philosophical Society, 2014; 1st place, UNCG Atlantic World Research Network research prize, 2012
Keri Petersen, Ph.D. 2017: UNCF Mellon Faculty Doctoral Fellowship, 2013.
Timothy Reagin, Ph.D. 2020: UNCG Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2021.
Joseph Ross, Ph.D. 2018: UNCG Graduate Research and Creativity Expo Humanities Division winner, 2016; Harry S Truman Library Institute Research Grant, 2015. People's Choice Award, UNCG Three-Minute Thesis competition, 2015.
Robert Skelton, Ph.D. student: Chase Family Grant, University of Florida, 2023.
Therese Strohmer, Ph.D. 2016: Bernard Dissertation Fellowship for 2013-14 by the UNCG College of Arts and Sciences.
Jason Stroud, Ph.D. 2019: Archie K. Davis Fellowship, North Caroliniana Society, 2016.
Susan Thomas, Ph.D. 2011: UNCG Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2012.
Andrew Turner, Ph.D. student: Virginia Center for Civil War Studies Research Grant, 2023.
Kaitlyn Williams, Ph.D. student: UNCG College of Arts and Sciences and History Department Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards, 2019 and 2022.
