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Awards

Faculty

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Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies Natalia Aleksiun received the Dalck and Rose Feith Family Fellowship from the Herbert D. Katz Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She will use the yearlong fellowship to work on the history of Eastern Europe’s “cadaver affair,” the controversy over Jews’ use of Christian bodies for medical education in the interwar period.

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Professor Florin Curta was named to the Romanian Academy in the fall of 2023.

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Assistant Professor Max Deardorff won two awards for his 2023 book, A Tale of Two Granadas: Custom, Community, and Citizenship in the Spanish Empire, 1568–1668 (Oxford UP). The book won the Bandelier/Lavrin Book Prize from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies and the Alfred B. Thomas Book Award from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies.

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Distinguished Professor and Rothman Family Chair Jack E. Davis was named Florida House Distinguished Author at the institution’s 50th-anniversary dinner in April 2024.

Graduate

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Daniel Fernandez’s 2023 dissertation, “Comrades and Internationalists: Forging Identity and Cuban Solidarity with the Other Spain, 1902-1961” (supervisor Professor Lillian Guerra), won the Best Dissertation prize of the Latin American Studies Association’s Cuba section.

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Ph.D. candidate Jeffrey Jones received a Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

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Mosunmola Ogumolaji received an ATBL-New York Public Library Transatlantic Fellowship from the American Trust for the British Library.

Undergraduate

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Zoe Golomb received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Slovakia.