Faculty Awards

• 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