Faculty Awards and Honors
2018 - 2019
2017 - 2018
2016 - 2017
Choice magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles of 2016, for Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1798-1998 - David Brundage2015 - 2016
Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award - Peter Kenez
Edna and Norman Freehling Fellowship, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities - Greg O'Malley
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities - Greg O'Malley
Co-winner of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies' biennial book prize - Marc Matera
Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth History - Greg O'Malley
James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History - Greg O'Malley
Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award in Southern History - Greg O'Malley
Elsa Goveia Prize in Caribbean History - Greg O'Malley
2014 - 2015
UCSC Academic Senate Excellence in Teaching Award - Grace Peña Delgado
Hellman Fellows Program Award Recipient - Jennifer Derr
UCOP, Online Education Funding - Charles Hedrick and Jennifer Lynn
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Gail Hershatter
Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award - Catherine Jones
History Bard Graduate Center Research Fellowship - Amy Lonetree
Else Goveia Prize - Greg O'Malley
IHR Faculty Fellowship - Maya Peterson
Hellman Fellows Program Award Recipient - Juned Shaikh
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant - Elaine Sullivan
2013 - 2014
UCSC Academic Senate Excellence in Teaching Award - David Anthony
UCSC Academic Senate Excellence in Teaching Award - Alan Christy
Jensen-Miller Award, Western Historical Association - Grace Peña Delgado
IHR Research Fellowship - Jennifer Derr
Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the Category of Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore from the Association for Jewish Studies - Nathaniel Deutsch
Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship in the Humanities - Marc Matera
Kimberly S. Hanger Article Prize, Southern Historical Association's Latin American and Caribbean Studies Section - Matt O'Hara
2012 - 2013
Faculty Research Lecturer Award - Gail Hershatter
Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award - Lisbeth Haas
Douglas Adair Memorial Award - Greg O'Malley
NEH Summer Scholar - Catherine Jones
IHR Research Fellowship, "Mitsukoshi at War" - Noriko Aso
2011 - 2012
47th Walter Prescott Webb Essay Prize, University of Texas at Arlington - Brian A. Catlos
Fernand Braudel Fellow in History and Civilization at the European University Institute in Florence, 2011 - Edmund Burke III
Director, N.E.H. Summer Institute for Teachers, “Production and Consumption in World History, 1450-1950,” - Edmund Burke III
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers - Dana Frank
UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship in the Humanities - Dana Frank
Special Research Grant, UC Santa Cruz Academic Senate - Dana Frank
Rawley Prize Committee, Organization of American Historians - Lisbeth Haas
Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians - Lisbeth Haas
President, Association of Asian Studies - Gail Hershatter
Academia Sinica Research Grant, 2010-13, hosted in the Institute of Modern Knowledge, Academia Sinica, Taiwan - Minghui Hu
Merrill College’s “Top Twenty Favorite Professors 2011” - Matthew Lasar
Honorary member, Golden Key Society - Cindy Polecritti
2010 - 2011
UC Humanities Research Institute Award - Alan Christy and Alice Yang
NYU Center for the US and the Cold War Travel Grant - Dana Frank
UC Presidential Chair, 2009-present - Charles Hedrick
Vice President (and President-elect) of the Association for Asian Studies, 2010-2011 - Gail Hershatter
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture - Gregory O’Malley
Pacific Rim: Research Program Faculty Initiative Award - Alan Christy and Alice Yang
Center for Information Technology: Research in the Interest of Society Award - Alan Christy and Alice Yang
UCSC Foundation Award - Alan Christy and Alice Yang
Merle Curti Award Honorable Mention, Organization of American Historians - Nathaniel Deutsch
UC MEXUS Travel Grant - Dana Frank
McGann Prize for Best Book from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies - Matthew O’Hara
American Council of Learned Societies/Oscar Handlin Fellow - Greg O’Malley
Cappon Prize for Best Article published in The William and Mary Quarterly: A Magazine of Early American History and Culture - Greg O’Malley
2009 - 2010
NEH Research Fellow - Brian Catlos
Fernand Braudel Fellow for the Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute - Edmund Burke III
National Endowment for the Humanities: Grant - Edmund Burke III
SSPHS/Julian Bishko Memorial Prize - Brian Catlos
National Endowment for the Humanities: Fellowship - Brian Catlos
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant - Alan Christy and Alice Yang
MacArthur Foundation Innovation Grant - Alan Christy and Alice Yang
David B. Gold Foundation Grant - Nathaniel Deutsch
Palmes Académiques - Gildas Hamel
UCSC Institute for Humanities Research: Fellowship - Minghui Hu
UCSC Special Research Grant - Matthew O’Hara
John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities - Cynthia Polecritti
2008 - 2009
UC Office of the President, Miguel Contreras Labor Studies Development Fund: Labor Studies Grant - Dana Frank
UC Office of the President, Labor and Employment Research Fund: Faculty Research Grant - Dana Frank
UCSC Academic Senate Excellence in Teaching Award - Alice Yang
Fulbright Alumni Association: Fulbright Award - David Anthony
UC President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities - Noriko Aso
UCSC Institute for Humanities Research: Conference Award - Brian Catlos (w/ S. Kinoshita, Literature)
UC Office of the President, Miguel Contreras Labor Studies Development Fund: Labor Studies Grant, 2006-08 - Dana Frank
UCSC Academic Senate, Committee on Research: Faculty Research Grant - Minghui Hu
UCSC, Institute for Humanities Research: Fellowship - Minghui Hu
UCSC, Center for Teaching Excellence: Course Development Fellowship - Minghui Hu
Ernestine Richter Avery Fellow, the Huntington Library - Catherine Jones
2007 - 2008
NEH Summer Institute “The Medieval Mediterranean & the Origins of the West” (Barcelona: July, 2008), Co-Director - Brian Catlos (w/ S. Kinoshita, Literature, UCSC)
UC France-Berkeley Fund, Institute European Studies UCB/Ministère des Affaires Étrangeres, France: Fellowship for International Collaboration - Brian Catlos
UCSC Committee on Research: Faculty Research Grant - Brian Catlos
UCSC Center for Teaching Excellence: Course Development Grant - Brian Catlos
UCSC Center for Teaching Excellence: Instructional Improvement Mini-Grant - Brian Catlos
UC Office of the President, Labor and Employment Research Fund: Faculty Research Grant - Dana Frank
Guggenheim Fellowship - Gail Hershatter
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford - Gail Hershatter
UCSC Academic Senate: Faculty Research Grant - Noriko Aso
Presidential Chair and Director, Center for World History, 2003-07 - Edmund Burke III
UCSC Center for Teaching Excellence: Mini-Grant, 2004-07 - Brian Catlos
UCSC Academic Senate: Faculty Research Grant - María Elena Díaz
UCSC Institute for Humanities Research: Research Grant - Dana Frank
UCSC Academic Senate, Committee on Research: Special Research Grant, 2004-07 - Dana Frank
Fellowship, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University - Lisbeth Haas
Reappointed Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians - Lisbeth Haas
Needham Research Institute, Cambridge University: Andrew Mellon Fellowship - Minghui Hu
UCSC Academic Senate: Special Research Grant - Minghui Hu
UCSC Center for Teaching Excellence: Teaching Improvement Grant - Minghui Hu
Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship at the Virginia Historical Association - Catherine Jones
James Alexander Robertson Prize for Best Article in the Hispanic American Historical Review - Matthew O’Hara
National Endowment for the Humanities, Faculty Research Award - Matthew O’Hara
UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, Small Grant - Matthew O’Hara
Academic Senate Committee on Research – Faculty Research Grant - Matthew O’Hara
UCSC Faculty Research Committee Grant: manuscript preparation for The Barricade - Mark Traugott
2006 - 2007
UCSC Academic Senate, Committee on Research: Special Research Grant - Jonathan Beecher
UCSC, Committee on Research: Faculty Research Grant - Brian Catlos
UCSC, Humanities Division Dean’s Office: ad hoc “seed” grant for Mediterranean Studies Initiative - Brian Catlos (w/ S. Kinoshita, Literature)
UCSC Academic Senate, Committee on Research: Faculty Research Grant - Dana Frank
Watson-Brown Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina - Catherine Jones
UC Santa Cruz Committee on Teaching: Honorable Mention - David Anthony
UCSC Academic Senate, Committee on Research: Faculty Research Grant - Noriko Aso
UCSC Institute for Humanities Research: Faculty Small Grant - Noriko Aso
Ministerio de Cultura y Educación (Spain): Certification (homolgación) of PhD Degree - Brian Catlos
American Historical Association: Premio del Rey Award - Brian Catlos
UCSC, Academic Senate: Special Research Grant - María Elena Díaz
Recovery Project, University of Houston: Recovering U.S. Hispanic Religious Thought and Practice Research Grant - Lisbeth Haas
UC MEXUS Research Grant - Lisbeth Haas
Chiang Ching-kuo Cultural Exchange Foundation: Junior Scholar Grant - Minghui Hu
UCSC Academic Senate Committee on Research: Faculty Research Grant - Matthew O’Hara
2005 - 2006
France-Berkeley Foundation Grant - Jonathan Beecher
UC Office of the President: President’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities - Brian Catlos
UCSC Academic Senate, Committee on Research: Special Research Grant - Brian Catlos
Institute for Humanities Research: Faculty Research Fellowship - Brian Catlos
Institute for Humanities Research: Small Faculty Grant - Brian Catlos
UCSC Academic Senate, Committee on Research: Faculty Research Grant - Dana Frank
Packard Humanities Institute one-year grant to Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection (Ray FASC), Principal Investigator (PI) - Dilip Basu
Community Foundation, Palo Alto: Grant to Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection, (PI) - Dilip Basu
Co-winner John E. Fagg Prize, The American Historical Association - Brian Catlos
UCSC John Dizikes Excellence in Teaching Award - Gildas Hamel
UCSC Academic Senate: Faculty Research Grant - Minghui Hu
Center for Pacific Rim: Small Grant - Minghui Hu
UCSC Institute for Humanities Research Fellowship - Buchanan Sharp
Summer Institute for Israel Studies Fellowship - Bruce Thompson
2004 - 2005
Pacific Rim Research Grant, University of California - Alice Yang
Instructional Improvement Major Grant, University of California, Santa Cruz - Alice Yang