Honors and Awards

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University of Washington is a top producer of Fulbright recipients
(February 21, 2019)
Freedman Remak
With Diverse Fellowship Opportunities, Husky Historians Excel. 2019-20 Undergraduate Fellowship Application Now Open!
(November 20, 2018)
Professor Joel Walker
Professor Joel Walker receives UW Honors Excellence in Teaching award.
(June 4, 2018)
Outstanding Students Recognized at Annual Department of History Awards Ceremony.
(May 28, 2018)
Award Winnning Faculty Quintard Taylor and Laurie Marhoefer
Home of Award-Winning Faculty
(April 6, 2018)
The History Honors students present their research.
Encouraging the Historians of the Future
(April 6, 2018)
Department of History Chair, Professor Anand Yang
Spring Message from Anand Yang, Chair, Department of History
(April 6, 2018)
Department of History, Doctoral Candidate Michael Aguirre
Graduate Students Working Towards a More Democratic Society 
(March 6, 2018)
Serafin and Kum Cha at the Annual Awards of Excellence ceremony
Smith Hall Staff Recognized for Excellence
(March 3, 2018)
Quintard Taylor
Department of History's Quintard Taylor wins lifetime achievement award.
(February 23, 2018)
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Award Winning Faculty: Congratulations Laurie Marhoefer!  
(January 8, 2018)
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Professor Emeritus Quintard Taylor Awarded Robert Gray Medal by WA State Historical Society
(September 14, 2017)
Professor Emeritus Quintard Taylor
Professor Emeritus Quintard Taylor Awarded Robert Gray Medal by Washington State Historical Society
(September 1, 2017)
Twenty-nine undergraduate and four graduate students were recognized for their scholarship, teaching and service to the field at the Department of History Awards on May 10, 2017
Department of History Celebrates Student Achievements at Annual Awards Ceremony
(June 13, 2017)
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History Major Awarded Bonderman Travel Fellowship
(June 8, 2017)
Mr. and Mrs. Shih with Vincent Y.C. Shih Professor of China Studies Madeleine Yue Dong and Professor Resat Kasaba, Director JSIS
Professor Madeleine Yue Dong Awarded Vincent Y.C. Shih Endowed Professorship in China Studies
(June 6, 2017)
Distinguished Teacher Awards 2017
Of the highest grade
(June 5, 2017)
Faculty and graduate students accepting awards and fellowships
Faculty and Graduate Student Awards, Fellowships and Publications
(May 4, 2017)
Graduate students attend the Digital Humanities Summer Institute
Faculty, Graduate Students Win Fellowships to Attend Digital Humanities Summer Institute
(April 20, 2017)
Arbella Bet-Shlimon
Professor Arbella Bet-Shlimon Honored with Distinguished Teaching Award
(April 17, 2017)
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Professor Joshua Reid Awarded Four Major Book Prizes
(March 26, 2017)
Quintard Taylor teaching
Quintard Taylor Featured in Pacific NW Magazine
(February 26, 2017)
Adam Warren
Adam Warren Receives ACLS Grant
(February 16, 2017)
Professor Linda Nash
Linda Nash Awarded NEH Grant
(February 16, 2017)
Turkiya Lowe
Turkiya Lowe Named Chief Historian of the National Park Service
(February 6, 2017)
Graduate students Sarah Zaides and Eric Johnson
2016 Hanauer Fellows: Eric Johnson and Sarah Zaides
(March 3, 2016)
2016 Honors in History Presentations agenda
Winter 2016 Honors in History Presentations
(March 1, 2016)
Sarah Zaides
Sarah Zaides named 2015-16 Newcombe Fellow
(October 21, 2015)
Cathleen Buzan
Congratulations to Cathleen Buzan for Harry W. Fritz Award!
(October 13, 2015)
Glenna Roderick receiving the Pressly Prize for Excellence in Secondary Education
The Department Recognizes Glenna Roderick for Excellence in Secondary Education
(October 12, 2015)
Sara Leonetti
Sara Leonetti awarded UW President's Medal
(May 19, 2015)
Richard Ruoff
UW History Student Selected for Fulbright Scholarship
(May 14, 2015)
Professor James Gregory
James Gregory wins Barclay Simpson Prize
(April 26, 2015)
Quintard Taylor
Quintard Taylor Named Washington State Jefferson Award Grand Winner
(April 13, 2015)
Eleanor Mahoney
Graduate Student Profile: Eleanor Mahoney
(July 7, 2014)
Organization of American Historians distinguished lecturers
Distinguished Lecturers
(July 7, 2014)
Kathleen Noll (Photo credit: Isaiah Brookshire)
History Student Kathleen Noll Named 2014 Dean's Medalist in Social Sciences
(June 27, 2014)
Award recipients
History Department Celebrates Excellence, Awards $200,000 in Scholarships and Prizes
(May 15, 2014)
Professor Elena Campbell
Professor Campbell Awarded Summer Research Grant
(May 1, 2014)
2014 Award of Excellence recipients
Three History Faculty Members to Receive Awards of Excellence
(March 25, 2014)
Professor Margaret O'Mara
Prof. Margaret O'Mara Awarded Burkhardt Residential Fellowship
(March 22, 2014)
Arbella Bet-Shlimon
Prof. Arbella Bet-Shlimon awarded best dissertation prize
(March 10, 2014)
Professor James Gregory
Professor James Gregory elected vice-president of the Labor and Working-Class History Association
(February 18, 2014)
2013 awardees
Calling all History Majors! Applications for History Fellowships, Scholarships, and Prizes are Due March 14, 2014.
(February 7, 2014)
Professor Patricia Ebrey receiving award
Patricia Ebrey honored by the American Historical Association with Award for Scholarly Distinction
(January 29, 2014)
Mira Green
Congratulations to History Graduate Student Mira Green
(January 12, 2014)
Cover of "Contracting Colonialism"
Professor Vincente Rafael's Contracting Colonialism Honored with 25th Anniversary Celebration
(November 11, 2013)
Professor Jordanna Bailkin
Jordanna Bailkin's The Afterlife of Empire Awarded Multiple Prizes
(November 1, 2013)
Amanda Swain
Recent PhD Completes Innovative Dissertation
(October 25, 2013)
Smith Hall viewed from the Quad
Congratulations to History Graduate Student Micaela Campbell
(September 18, 2013)