Loyola University Chicago

Department of History

Faculty Awards

Loyola History Faculty Awards, Grants and Fellowships

  • Robert Bucholz:
    • Research Leave
  • John Donoghue:
    • Research Grant, Rose Library, Emory University
  • Timothy Gilfoyle:
    • Research Leave
  • Edin Hajdarpasic:
    • Rule of Law Research Fellowship, Loyola University Law School
  • Benjamin Johnson:
    • Organization of American Historians Germany Residency Fellowship, University of Tubingen
  • Theodore Karamanski:
    • Advisory Board, Public Humanities Journal, Cambridge University Press
  • Suzanne Kaufman
    • Research Leave
  • Michelle Nickerson:
    • Committee of Scholars, Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum
  • Stephen Schloesser, SJ:
    • Alpha Sigma Nu, Honorary Member
  • Noah Sobe:
    • Senior Fellow, World in 2050 Diplomatic Courier
    • Historical Collections Fellowship, UNESCO International Bureau of Education
  • Alice Weinreb:
    • 2024-2025 Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities
    • Research Support Grant, Loyola
  • Christopher D. Cantwell:
    • Luce/AAR Advancing Public Scholarship Grant
  • Elizabeth Fraterrigo:
    • Research Leave
  • Timothy Gilfoyle:
    • Sujack Award for Excellence in Teaching, Loyola
  • Bradford Hunt:
    • Openlands Oral History Project Grant
  • Theodore Karamanski:
    • National Park Service Battlefield Protection Fund Grant for a traveling exhibit about Camp Douglas Civil War POW Camp
    • Research Leave
  • Michael Khodarkovsky:
    • Research Leave
  • Stephen Schloesser, SJ:
    • Ignatius Loyola Chair, Fordham University (2022-23)
  • Elizabeth Tandy Shermer:
    • Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair, Carleton University (2023-24)
    • Princeton School of Historical Studies, Member Alternate (2023-24)
  • Alice Weinreb:
    • Inaugural Intra-University Visiting Fellowship (2022-2023), Loyola
  • Benjamin Johnson:
    • Research Leave
  • Theodore Karamanski:
    • 2021 Herbert Feis Award, American Historical Association, in recognition for his distinguished contributions to the field of Public History
  • Michael Khodarkovsky:
    • Special Research Support Grant, Loyola
  • Gema Kloppe-Santamaría:
    • Global Fellow, The Wilson Center in Washington, DC.
    • Honorable Mention, María Elena Martinez Book Prize in Mexican History
      for In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
    • Honorable Mention, 2021 Best Book in Social Sciences, Latin American Studies Association for In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
    • 2021 Best Article in the Social Sciences Latin American Studies Association for “Deadly Rumors: Lynching, Hearsay, and
      Hierarchies of Credibility in Mexico,” Journal of Social History (Vol. 55, No. 1)
    • Sujack Award for Excellence in Research, Loyola
  • Elizabeth Tandy Shermer:
    • History Book Award, Honorable Mention
      Society of Midland Authors for Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt
  • Alice Weinreb:
    • Special Research Support Grant, Loyola
  • John Donoghue:
    • The History of Rum lecture series named one of 2021’s Best New Slavery Audiobooks, BookAuthority
  • Benjamin H. Johnson:
    • 2021 OAH Friend of History Award, Organization of American Historians for "Refusing to Forget" [with Sonia Hernandez (Texas A&M), Trinidad Gonzales (South Texas College), John Moran Gonzalez (UT Austin), and Monica Munoz Martinez (Brown)]
  • Theodore J. Karamanski:
    • Superior Achievement Award, Illinois St. Historical Society for Mastering the Inland Seas: How Lighthouses, Navigational Aids, and Harbors Transformed the Great Lakes and America
  • Public History Program:
    • 2021 Founders Award, National Council on Public History, recognizing four decades of leadership by Loyola historians in nurturing, growing, and transforming the practice of public history in the United States
  • Gema Kloppe-Santamaría:
    • Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Research Grant
    • Marie S. Curie Visiting Fellow, University of Freiburg
    • 2021 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader for In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
    • 2021 Best Article in the Humanities, Latin American Studies Association for "The Lynching of the Impious: Violence, Politics, and Religion in Postrevolutionary Mexico (1930s-1950s)," The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History (Vol. 77, No. 1)
    • Sujack Award for Research Excellence
    • Research Leave
  • Marek Suszko:
    • Sujack Master Teacher Award
  • John Donoghue:
    • 2020-21 Huntington Library Research Exchange Grant
  • Aidan Forth:
    • 2019 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize from the Canadian Historical Association for Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876 – 1903 (Univ. of California Press, 2017)
  • Benjamin H. Johnson:
    • 2020 Herbert Feis Award, American Historical Association, for “Refusing to Forget” [with Sonia Hernandez (Texas A&M), Trinidad Gonzales (South Texas College), John Morán González (UT Austin), and Monica Muñoz Martinez (Brown)]
  • Theodore Karamanski:
    • 2019-2020 Erasmus Grant providing exchange opportunities between and the Akademia Ignatianum in Kraków, Loyola
  • Suzanne Kaufman:
    • 2018 Mansfield Prize from the Religious History Association for her article: “Les Miraculées de Lourdes: Sacred Celebrities in the Age of Mass Spectacle.”
  • Michelle Nickerson:
    • 2020-2021 Sabbatical Grant for Researchers, Louisville Institute
    • 2020 Hank Center Research Funding Award for: “Catholic Resistance: How the Camden 28 put the Vietnam War on Trial”
  • Gema Kloppe-Santamaría:
    • 2020 Project Launch Grant, Global Religion Research Initiative, Notre Dame for “Religion, Violence, and the Secular State in Mexico”
    • 2020 Hank Center Course Development Award for “Religion, Violence, and Martyrdom in Latin America."
  • Theresa Gross Diaz:
    • Research Leave
  • Aiden Forth:
    • 2018 Stansky Prize for the Best Book in British Studies for Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876 –1903 (Univ. of California Press, 2017)
    • Research Leave
  • Timothy J. Gilfoyle:
    • Faculty Member of the Year, Loyola
  • Benjamin H. Johnson:
    • 2019 Roger D. Bridges Distinguished Service Award Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
  • Suzanne Kaufman:
    • Research Leave
  • Christopher Manning:
    • Fellow, 2019-2020 ACE Fellows Program with the American Council on Education
  • Patricia Mooney-Melvin and Dr. Kyle Roberts:
    • 2018-2020 Career Diversity Implementation Grant, American Historical Association
  • Michelle Nickerson:
    • Fulbright Core Fellowship, Summer 2020, Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg
  • Kyle Roberts:
    • Lapidus Initiative Fellowship for Digital Collections, The Omohundro Institute
    • Research Leave
  • Gema Kloppe Santamaría:
    • 2019-2020 Research Grant Hank Center for Catholic Intellectual Heritage
  • Elizabeth Tandy Shermer:
    • Obama Fellow, Summer 2019, Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, University of Mainz
    • Fellowship, 2019-2020, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
    • Fulbright U.S. Scholar, 2019-2020, University of Hong Kong
  • Alice Weinreb:
    • Inaugural WCGS Book Prize (2018), Waterloo Centre for German Studies, University of Waterloo for Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany (Oxford University Press, 2017)
  • John Donoghue:
    • Fellowship, Michael J. Connell Foundation, Huntington Library
    • Fellowship, Barbara S. Mosbacher Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
  • Aiden Forth:
    • Sujack Master Researcher Award, Loyola
  • Benjamin Johnson:
    • Lloyd Lewis Fellowship, Newberry Library
    • Autry Public History Prize, Western History Association, for Refusing to Forget” Public History Project
    • Honorable Mention, President’s Book Prize, Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, for Escaping the Dark, Gray City: Fear and Hope in Progressive Era Conservation (Yale University Press, 2017)
  • Theodore Karamanski:
    • Cook County Forest Preserve District Contract for “Historical Research and Interpretation for Gateway Signage at Palos Preserves, North Branch Preserves, and Calumet Preserves.”
  • Michael Khodarkovsky:
    • Research Leave
  • Patricia Mooney-Melvin and Dr. Kyle Roberts:
    • American Historical Association: 2017-18 Career Diversity For Historians Faculty Institute & 2018-20 Career Diversity Implementation Grant
  • Kyle Roberts:
    • Elected Fellow of the New York Academy of History
    • 2018 Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History, New York Academic of History, for Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860 (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
    • Master Researcher Award, Loyola
  • Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
    • Visiting Research Fellow, Faculty of History, Cambridge
    • Visiting College Research Associate, Wolfson College, Cambridge
    • Academic Writing Residency, Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center
    • Italy Travel Assistance Award, Rockefeller Foundation & the Institute of International Education
  • Elena Valussi
    • Fellowships at Universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Groningen
    • Taiwanese Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Grant for “Mapping Religious Diversity in Modern Sichuan” (2017-2020)
  • Alice Weinreb:
    • Ernst Fraenkel Prize, the Wiener Library, London, UK, for Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany (Oxford University Press, 2017
    • Sujack Family Award for Excellence in Faculty Research, Loyola

2016:

  • Eden Hajdarpasic:
    • Sujack Award for Excellence in Research, Loyola
  • Suzanne Kaufman:
    • Sujack Master Teacher Award, Loyola
  • Kyle Roberts:
    • Sujack Award for Excellence in Teaching, Loyola

2015:

  • Robert Bucholz:
    • Faculty Member of the Year, SGLC and “Maroon and Gold” Society
  • David Dennis:
    • Provost’s Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Freshmen, Loyola
  • Suzanne Kaufman:
    • Sujack Master Teacher Award, Loyola
  • Stephen Schloesser, S.J.
    • Sujack Award for Excellence in Research

2014:

  • Dina Berger:
    • Sujack Master Teacher Award, Loyola
  • John Donoghue:
    • Langerbeck Award for Undergraduate Mentorship, Loyola
  • Kyle Roberts:
    • Sujack Master Teacher Award, Loyola
  • Elizabeth Tandy Shermer:
    • Sujack Award for Excellence in Research, Loyola

2013:

  • Robert Bucholz:
    • Provost’s Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Freshmen, Loyola
  • Michael Khodarkovsky:
    • Master Researcher Award, Loyola

2012:

  • John Donoghue:
    • Sujack Master Teacher Award, Loyola

2011:

  • Anthony Cardoza:
    • Sujack Master Teacher Award, Loyola

2010:

  • Marek Suszko:
    • Sujack Master Teacher Award, Loyola

2007:

  • Anthony Cardoza:
    • Faculty Member of the Year, Loyola

2003:

  • David Dennis:
    • Sujack Master Teacher Award, Loyola
  • Theodore Karamanski:
    • Faculty Member of the Year, Loyola

2002:

  • Patricia Mooney Melvin:
    • Graduate School Faculty Member of the Year, Loyola

2001-2006:

  • Barbara Rosenwein:
    • Loyola University Faculty Scholar, Loyola

2000-2005:

  • Robert Bireley, S.J.:
    • Loyola University Faculty Scholar

2000:

  • David Dennis:
    • Sujack Master Teacher Award, Loyola

1998:

  • Robert Bucholz:
    • Teacher of the Year, Loyola Honors Program

1997:

  • Robert Bucholz:
    • Teacher of the Year, Loyola Honors Program

1996:

  • Joseph A. Gagliano:
    • Faculty Member of the Year Award, Loyola

1994:

  • Robert Bucholz:
    • “Excellence in Teaching” Award, Lake Shore Student Government Association
    • Sujack Award for Excellence in Teaching (inaugural winner), Loyola
  • Theodore Karamanski:
    • Graduate School Faculty Member of the Year. Loyola

1993:

  • Robert Bucholz:
    • “Excellence in Teaching” Award, Lake Shore Student Government Association

1988:

  • John McManamon, S.J.:
    • Teacher of the Year, Loyola Honors Program

1987:

  • John McManamon, S.J.:
    • Teacher of the Year, Loyola Honors Program

1979:

  • William R. Trimble:
    • Faculty Member of the Year, Loyola

1973:

  • Paul S. Lietz:
    • Faculty Member of the Year, Loyola