The graduate program rounds out the 2022-2023 academic year with a list of impressive scholarship and awards. Even more significant are our students’ accomplishments in the classroom: as Teaching Fellows and Teaching Assistants, graduate students in the department taught hundreds of UNC undergraduates. Combining their deep historical knowledge and extensive scholarship with innovative methodologies, they conveyed to students the intrinsic excitement of the historian’s craft at a time when the profession, and discipline, face unprecedented challenges. The department celebrates our graduate students’ pathbreaking work in archives, libraries, in publishing, in the classroom, and in vital public-facing work.
Among the many prestigious awards received by our graduate students, the following are some representative highlights:
- Two of our graduate students were awarded competitive Fulbright-Hays Fellowships. Alma Huselja will spend the year in Croatia, while Nicole Harry is headed to Lithuania.
- Our program’s venerable tradition of supporting public-facing scholarship is exemplified by students’ success in obtaining Adams Fellowships from Carolina Public Humanities. This past year, Kylie Broderick and Matthew Gibson received the award.
- The Royster Society of Fellows Dissertation Completion Fellowship is among the most prestigious awards offered to graduate students at Carolina. This past year, Jose Moreno Vega held the fellowship, while Mira Markham has received it for the upcoming academic year.
- Jennifer Standish and Pasuth Thothaveesansuk received Dissertation Completion Fellowships from the Graduate School.
- Sarah Miles was named Yao Ming Endowed Scholar.
- Nurlan Kabdylkhak received the Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship for Ph.D students in the humanities and social sciences, offered by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars.
- Kylie Broderick, Susannah Haury, and Aaron Pattillo-Lunt received awards from the Committee on Teaching based on enthusiastic nominations submitted by our undergraduates.
The full list of awards received by our graduate students will be available in the Annual Review, to be published later this Fall.
In other news, the department received 306 applications for admission to the graduate program, which will admit 14 students in the Fall. Check out the Fall edition of the Department Historian for a full list.
I am thankful to the department’s outgoing chair, Professor Lisa Lindsay, and to my predecessor as DGS, Professor Sarah Shields, for tirelessly assisting me in my first year as DGS. I am most especially grateful to Corrinna Corrallo, Graduate Student Service Manager, who has done much of the heavy lifting of supporting our graduate program this year.
I wish all our readers a relaxing summer. See you in the Fall!
Eren Tasar