Assistant Professor Fernanda Bretones Lane will join the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture (OIEAHC) at William and Mary College for seven months starting in January 2023 as the OIEAHC Fellow to work on her book project “Shores of Asylum: Fugitivity, Empire, and Slavery in the Caribbean, ca.1656-1791.”
Elizabeth Dale
Professor Elizabeth Dale won a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to spend the academic year 2022-23 working on the project “Marking the Borders of Citizenship: Rights and Intellectual Disability in Twentieth-Century Criminal Law,” which will explore the intersection of intellectual disability and the rights of criminal defendants in 20th-century U.S. law.
Nancy Hunt
Professor Nancy Hunt will have a year-long sabbatical at Aix Marseille University (IMERA) at the French Institute for Advanced Study as IMERA/AUF Chair, conducting work on the project “Postcolonial Limit Situations.”
Associate Professor Sheryl Kroen received a year-long sabbatical from the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. During the academic year 2022-23, she will work on her book project, entitled “The Recovery, 1945-1953: Lessons from the Rubble of Europe.”
Paul Ortiz
Professor Paul Ortiz was named a National Archives Distinguished Scholars Fellow for 2022-23 for the “Created (Un)equal” project by the National Archives and Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research. Under the directorship of Professor Ortiz, the Samuel Proctor Oral HistoryProgram (SPOHP), along with Smathers Library and several other UF entities, received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for “Reanimating African American Oral Histories from the Gulf South” and a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation for the “Native Oral History Revitalization Project,” which seeks to digitize Native American oral histories in the SPOHP collection.
Associate Professor Heather Vrana was awarded an External Faculty Fellowship from Stanford University. She will spend 2022-23 in Palo Alto working on her project “Guerrilla Medicine and Disability in Cold War Central America.”
Ben Wise
Associate Professor Ben Wise and Craig Smith of the School of Art and Art History received $83,900 from the UF Research Opportunity Seed Fund for a two-year project called “Stigma and Storytelling: Negotiating the Contemporary Folk Devil.” The project “explores the ways a visual artist and a historian can collaborate to communicate with a broader audience” through “a text/image/sound project that will interrogate the history of American stories about stigma, morality, and sexual politics.”
Graduate
Hélio Alves was awarded a Goizueta Foundation Graduate Pre-Prospectus Summer Fellowship to conduct pre-dissertation research at the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami.
Daniel Fernández received a McKnight Fellowship to complete his dissertation titled “Weaponizing Solidarity: Spanish Republican Exiles, Identity, and the Cuban Revolution, 1902-1976.”
Austin Nelsen was one of five PhD students to receive The James R. Scobie Memorial Award from the Conference on Latin American History. He used the funds to conduct pre-dissertation research in Lisbon, Portugal.
Our graduate students have also received a number of internal awards–check out the News section of our website for more information
Undergraduate
Aimee Clesi
History major Aimee Clesi became the first Rhodes Scholar from the University of Florida since 2000 and the first-ever woman from the university to win the award. She will pursue a fully funded PhD degree at Oxford University in the United Kingdom on the Rhodes Scholarship. She will study the phenomenon of wrongful convictions and executions.
History major Shannon Scott won Best Undergraduate non-US Paper at the Phi Alpha Theta Regional Meeting, which met at Stetson University in the Spring. Her paper was titled “‘The Jewish Danger’: An Exploration of Medieval Antisemitism in Der Stürmer‘s Children’s Books.” Shannon will continue her studies at UF as a master’s student in our department starting this fall.
