Good News About Graduate Students - Spring 2009

S. Marina Jones received a six-month doctoral fellowship in the history of African Americans and Germans/Germany from the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC (starting in the fall of 2009).

The following students will be honored at the 11th Annual Graduate Student Recognition Celebration on Monday, April 20th at the Carolina Club/Alumni Center:

Emily Baran

Devyn Spence Benson

Waitman Beorn

Randy M. Browne

Enver Casmir

Joshua Clark Davis

Georgina Gajewski 

Elizabeth Gritter

Rachel Hynson

Anna Louise Krome-Lukens

Ricky W. Law

Michael Meng

Kelly Anne Morrow

Sarah Elizabeth Summers

Glebb Tsipurksy

Sarah Vierra

Graeme Alexander Ward

Timothy Joseph Williams

David Christopher Williard

Mikaela Adams has been selected as UNC's participant in the Newberry Library Consortium in Native American Studies seminar this summer. She also published an article in The Florida Historical Quarterly.  Adams, Mikaela M. "Savage Foes, Noble Warriors, and Frail Remnants: Florida Seminoles in the White Imagination, 1865-1934." The Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 87, No. 3 (Winter 2009): 404-435.

Randy M. Browne will present a paper entitled: "'This Bad Business on the Estate': Obeah, Violence, and Authority in the British Caribbean in the Early Nineteenth Century" at the 2009 Society for Caribbean Studies annual conference in Hull, UK, in July 2009.

Chris Cameron has been awarded the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Fellowship to do research in New York City during the summer of 2009. He has also been awarded a Research Fellowship from the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. In June 2009, he will present a paper at the Black New England Conference in Durham, NH  entitled "The Problem of Slavery in Puritan Culture: Religion, Community, and Black Abolitionism in Colonial Massachusetts." He also has a book review that will be published in the fall issue of the Journal of the Early Republic on Donald Reynold's Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South.

Joshua Davis received a UNC Graduate Education Advancement Board Impact Award for 2009 for his project "The Selling of Soul: African American Consumers, Music Businesses, and Community empowerment in 1970s North Carolina."

Michael Meng received the Linda Dykstra Dissertation Award in the Humanities.

Kelly Morrow has been awarded the Spencer Dissertation Fellowship.

Patrick O'Neil published "Bosses and Broomsticks: Ritual and Authority in Antebellum Slave Weddings," The Journal of Southern History, LXXV, 1 (February 2009), 29-48.

Jenifer Parks organized a panel entitled "Sportsmenka: The Role of the Female Athlete in the Soviet Union," at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual conference in November 2008.  She also presented a paper, "A Question of Principle? Male Soviet Sports Administrators and Women's Participation in International Sport," as part of the panel.

Michael Paulauskas received a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship for one year of dissertation research in Moscow, Russia and a Kennan Institute Short-Term Grant for one month of research in Washington, D.C.

Laura Premack had an article on Brazilian Pentecostalism accepted for publication by The Journal of Religious History and will present a paper on the same subject at the Tepoztlan Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas in Mexico this July. She also presented a paper on Nigerian Pentecostalism at the Department Research Colloquium in February. This summer she will conduct research in Nashville with a Mellon Dissertation Fellowship from the UNC Institute for the Study of the Americas and a study grant from the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives. In the fall she will continue to conduct dissertation research with an Off-Campus Research Fellowship from the Graduate School.

Benjamin Reed has been accepted into the Huntington Mellon Summer Institute in Spanish Paleography.  He was awarded a Medieval and Early Modern Studies fellowship for archival research in Mexico. He was also awarded the James R. Scobie Memorial award for research in Latin American history.

Julie Reed was awarded the Phillips to conduct research in Oklahoma.  She also received the Frances C. Allen Award from the Newberry Library to conduct research at the D'Arcy McNickle Center.

Eliot Spencer presented a paper entitled ³Symbols of Commerce: Exploring the Place of the United States in the Late Nineteenth-Century Venezuelan Consumer Imaginary" at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities in Honolulu in January 2009.  He also will present this paper in February 2009 at the ILASSA XXIX Conference on Latin America at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.  He received a conference travel grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support his participation in this conference.

Gleb Tsipursky published a panel review of a Conference Panel Series from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, entitled "Rocking the Bloc: Rock Music and Youth Identities in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe," in the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth Newsletter # 13, Winter 2009. He also published a book review of Catriona Kelly, Children's World: Growing up in Russia, 1890-1991, in Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 60, no. 6, (2008). He presented "Coercion and Consumption: The Soviet Campaign against Youth Deviancy in the Khrushchev Era," at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

Brian Turner was awarded a Student Undergraduate Teaching Award at the Chancellor's Awards Ceremony on April 15, 2009. Brian also received a grant from the Association of Ancient Historians to offset the cost of attendance at their annual conference (May 14-16, 2009) to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia. He will present a paper titled "The Clades Variana and Roman Responses to Defeat" at this meeting.

Jessie Wilkerson was awarded the Weiss Urban Livability Fellowship for 2008-2009. She also published "Out Front and Strong: Local Women of the Tennessee Committee on Occupational Safety and Health" in Working USA: Journal of Labor and Society 11, no. 4 (December 2008), 477-498.

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