Graduate Program in History:Students:Awards and Achievements

Awards and Achievements

Recent Awards and Achievements

ANGELES, Amiel

Published Article entitled "The Battle of Mactan and the Indigenous Discourse on War" Philippine Studies Journal, Vol 55, number 1, by Ateneo de Manila University, a peer-reviewed journal, 2007.
Conference at Michigan State University, spoke from published article entitled "The Battle of Mactan and the Indigenous Discourse on War" November 10, 2007.
Conference with the Philippine Studies Journal and the Ateneo de Manila University in Manila, Philippines. Spoke from article "The Way of War: Culture in Combat" July 27, 2007.

CHEN, Zhihong

"Frontier in Crisis: Constructing/Enacting a National Chinese Geography." Paper presentation at the WCAAS & SWCAS conference, University of Utah, September 2007.
"The Historical and Geographical Society (Shidi yanjiuhui, 1920-1926) and Disciplinary Formations in Early Republican China." E-ASPAC (a fully peer-reviewed annual electronic journal in Asian Studies), 2007.
University of Oregon Humanities Center Graduate Research Fellowship ($750) 2006-2007
Society of Women Geographers Dissertation Fellowship for ($10,000) 2006-2007
Richard Maxwell Brown Dissertation Fellowship ($3,000) 2005-2006.
University of Oregon History Department Graduate Research Grant ($3,000) June 2005
Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund Graduate Fellowship for International Research ($12,000) May 2005.
University of Oregon General Scholarship ($1,800) April 2005.
Jean Tattersal Student Scholarship ($2,700) April 2005.
University of Oregon, Department of History, Thomas T. Turner Award ($2,500) 2004.
University of Oregon Scholarship ($2,100), 2003-2004.
Pressman Family Scholarship ($750), 2003-2004.

DUNCAN, Jennifer

University of Oregon, Department of History, Thomas T. Turner Memorial Award ($2,500), 2005.
University of Oregon Department of History Richard Maxwell Brown Dissertation Fellowship ($3000) 2004.
University of Oregon Graduate School Research Award ($500), Feb. 2004.
Center for the Study of Women and Society, Graduate Student Research Award 2003-2004.
University of Oregon Department of History Leah Kirker Graduate Student Teaching Fellow Award ($250), Spring 2003.
Council for European Studies, Florence Gould Pre-Dissertation Grant, 2002 .

FURTADO, Michael

Ray Kaegler Scholarship, 2006-7 ($850)
Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities Grant ($2,000) , June 2006
Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund Graduate Fellowship for International Research ($6,000), June 2006
University of Oregon, Department of History, Thomas T. Turner Memorial Award ($2,500), 2006
University Club Foundation 2006 Fellowship Award ($5000)
Columbia University Council for European Studies 2006 Fellowship ($4000)
Maria C. Jackson / General George A. White Scholarship ($650), 2005-2006
Leon Culbertson Scholarship ($1800), 2005-2006
Conference Paper: "A Dread of the Deep: Images of the Sea in Las Cantigas de Santa Maria," 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Charleston, S.C., March 2005.
Conference Paper. "In the Wake of Seville: The Castilian Turn to the Sea and its Effect on Islamic Spain," Transparent Borders: Movement, Migration, and Globalization in the Romance World, University of Oregon, November 2004.
Edwin K. Starr Scholarship ($1800), 2002-2003 and 2003-2004

KAISER, Austin

Eugene Masonic Lodge #11 Grant ($1,000/annually) 2007-2010

LI, Guannan

CAPS Small Professional Grant ($300), Summer 2005.
Gary E. Smith Summer Grants ($3,000), Summer 2005.

McKENZIE, Beatrice

University of Oregon dissertation award ($18,000 plus full tuition waiver), 2005-2006.
Conference Paper. "Race and National Boundaries:United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) " American Historical Association, Seattle, January 2005.
University of Oregon Humanities Center Fellowship, 2004.
University of Oregon John L. and Naomi M. Luvaas Fellowship in Arts and Sciences, 2004.
University of Oregon Department of History Leah Kirker Graduate Student Teaching Fellow Award ($300), 2004.
University of Oregon, John L. and Naomi M. Luvaas Fellowship in Arts and Sciences, Spring 2004.
University of Oregon, 2004-5 Humanities Center Fellowship (Spring 2004).
University of Oregon Thomas T. Turner Memorial Fund Award ($2,500), Spring 2003.
University of Oregon Graduate School Research Award ($500), March 2003.
Conference Paper. "U.S. Children's Citizenship Rights." Society for the History of Children and Youth Conference, Baltimore, June 2003.
University of Oregon Graduate School Research Award, 2003.
Conference Paper. "A Reexamination of the Repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans from 1930-1937." Exhibiting Culture/Displaying Race Conference, UO, April 2001.

NEILSON, David

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Grant, December 2003.
Center for Asian and Pacific Studies Personalized Learning Grant, May 2003.
Conference Paper. "The Potential Effects of Syphilis on Sixteenth Century East Asian History," Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science Conference, New Orleans, February 2002.
University of Oregon Department of History Thomas T. Turner Memorial Fund ($2000), 2002.
Conference Paper. "The Battle of Okehazama: Nobunaga's Secret Strategy," Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, University of Montana, October 2001.
Conference Paper. "Games Samurai Played: Cross-dressing, Social Inversion, Liminal Play and the Creation of a Wabi-Sabi Theme Park in Sixteenth Century Japan, " University of Colorado East Asian Graduate Association Conference,
October 2001.
Conference Paper. "Methods in Madness: The Last Years of Toyotomi Hideyoshi," Assn. for Asian Studies on the Pacific Conference, University of Oregon, June 2000.

ORIQUE, David

Lecture: "What Seemed to be or not to be a 1528 Letter of Bartolome' de las Casas to Charles V: Historiographical Opinions about the Parecer," Kluge Center, Library of Congress, October, 2007.
Lecture: "The Unheard Voice of Law from the Often Heard Text: A New Rendition of Bartolome' de las Casas' Brevisima Relacion de la destruicion de las Indias, Department of Modern Languages and Literature, Catholic University of America, September, 2007.
Conference: Twenty-seventh International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, September, 2007.
Kislak Foundation Fellowship at the Library of Congress ($8,000), August-October,2007.
Conference: Ninth International Congress of Dominican Historians, Oaxaca, Mexico, July, 2007.
Archival research: Oaxaca, Mexico, July, 2007.
Translation and English edition: Dominicos en Oaxaca: Historia y guia de Convento de Santo Domingo, 2007.
Conference Paper. "Journey to the Headwaters: Bartolome' de las Casa in a Comparative Context," The Sixteenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Interdisciplinary Symposium, University of Miami, February 2007.
Book review: Daniel Castro's, Another Face of Empire: Bartolome' de las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007). Accepted for publication by The Catholic Historical Review.
Article: "Journey to the Headwaters: Bartolome' de las Casas in a Comparative Context." Accepted for publication by The Catholic Historical Review, 2007.
Conference Paper: "Journey to the Headwaters: Bartolome' de las Casas' Theological Voice in a Comparative Context," The Ninth Annual History Graduate Student Symposium: Historical Voices of Change, California State University, Fresno, April, 2007.
Conference: International Congress on the 500th anniversary of Columbus' death, De Avila a la Espanola: Una mirada desde la otra orilla, Avila, Spain, September, 2006.
Archival research (Archivos de las Indias, Seville) and scholarly consultations: Avila, Seville, Madrid, Salamanca, September, 2006.
Article: "La Pasion Segun San Marcos: A Spiritual Perspective," Journal of the Oregon Bach Festival, June, 2005.
Conference Paper. "Flames of Prophetic Religious Activism: Legacies and Lessons, "Latin American Studies Program Symposium: "Smoldering Ashes: Revisiting the Legacy of the Cold War in Central America," University of Oregon, May, 2005.

RUCKABERLE, Jurgen

Introduction for Consumer Movement Chapter in Heather Thompson (ed), "Speaking Out With Many Voices: Documenting American Activism and Protest in the 1960s and 1970s" (to be published in 2007 by Prentice Hall) .
Richard Maxwell Brown Dissertation Fellowship ($3,000 + one term tuition waiver) 2006-2007
University of Oregon History Department Graduate Award of a Fourth Year of GTF Funding, June 2006-2007
Visiting Instructor at Willamette University teaching African American History Seminar (1865-present) Spring 2006
University of Oregon History Department Graduate Research Grant ($2,400) June 2005
University of Oregon History Department Graduate Research Travel Award ($300) March 2005
Research Assistant for Professor Martin Summers' publication:" Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930" (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2004).

SCHLIMGEN, Veta

John & Dora Haynes Foundation Research Stipend, Historical Society of Southern California, 2007
Center on Diversity and Community Graduate Summer Research Award for 2007-08.
Conference Paper. "The Politics of Obligation: U.S. Filipinos from 'Wards' to 'Aliens,'" the Citizenship Studies 4th Annual Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. March 2007
Doctoral Research Award, Department of History, University of Oregon, ($250) 2006
Graduate School Research Award, College of Arts & Sciences, Universtiy of Oregon, ($800) 2006
Invited Speaker. "Citizenship, Alienation, and Filipino Americans, 1930-1946, " for the Department of History, College of Wooster; Wooster, Ohio. October 2006
Invited Speaker. "Filipino Americans & the Pacific Northwest, "at the Museum of History & Industry, Seattle, Washington. July 2006
Conference Paper. "'Combating Backwardness and Deplorable Bigotry': Contestations Over Filipino American Identity and American Nationalism in the Pacific Northwest, 1928-1934," the History Guild, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. May 2004
Conference Paper. "From Colonial Subject to 'Americans': Pacific Northwest Filipino Americans during the Interwar Period," the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild Annual Conference. Seattle, Washington; November 202
Conference Paper. "Displaying Femininities at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition," the 16th Annual Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Eugene, Oregon. May, 2001

WALSH, Camille

University of Oregon, Department of History, Doctoral Research Award ($3,000), 2007-2008.
University of Oregon, Risa Palm Graduate Fellowship ($1,500), Fall 2007.
University of Oregon, Department of History, Thomas T. Turner Memorial Fund Award ($2,500), Spring 2007.
Conference Paper: "Impossible Histories: Can the Legal Subject Speak?" Conference on Law, Culture and the Humanities, Georgetown Law School, March 2007.
Conference Paper: "'The Poor People Have Lost Again'-- The Essentialization of Race and Poverty in Civil Rights Era Jurisprudence." History and Theory Conference, University of California, Irvine, January 2006.
Conference Paper: "Race and Poverty in Civil Rights Era Jurisprudence on De Facto Segregation." Ideology and State Conference, University of Oregon, May 2005.
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship Humanistic Studies ($17,500 plus tuition) 2004-2005.
Conference Paper. "Constructing Voices: Legal Narrative, Precedent, and Pleasing the Court." (Saru Matambanadzo) Women's and Gender Symposium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 2005.