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ALUMNI
With heavy hearts, we say goodbye to John Klear, a 2002 graduate of the Department of Communication and a longtime UToledo employee. There will be a memorial service for him Friday, Nov. 10, 2023, at St. Patrick’s Historic Catholic Church, with visitation at 10 a.m. and mass at 11 a.m.
AWARDS
Kim Nielsen (Disability Studies) won the William Best Hesseltine Award for Best Wisconsin Magazine of History Article of the Year for 2022. The article is: "Ott v. Ott: Family Violence, Divorce, and Women’s Agency in Nineteenth-Century Wisconsin." Published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, Winter 2022 edition. (October 2023)
Anthony Edgington (Department of English Language and Literature) received the 2023 John Hollow Award from the College English Association of Ohio for his "outstanding, long -term service to the organization." (October 2023)
Renee Heberle (Law and Social Thought Program) helped spearhead the successful effort to win a Spark grant from the Ohio Humanities Council for People for Change, the Inside-Out Alumni organization. Members of People for Change include alumni of Inside-Out classes. UToledo students and incarcerated students make up the membership of People for Change. To see their work, visit the Inside-Out website.
Suzanne Smith (Department of English Language and Literature) received the University Women's Commission Alice H. Skeens Award for "exceptional contributions and achievements to UT, involvement and support in the UT community, active support of women, and longevity."
PUBLISHING AND CREATIVE WORK
Barry Jackisch (Department of History) presented a paper entitled "Rebuilding a 'Green' City in the Rubble: Conceptions of Urban Nature in the Reconstruction of East and West Berlin" at the conference Urban Narratives: Reconstructing and Re-Branding European Cities from the 20th Century until Present Day at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg, Germany. (October 2023)
Madison Waldvogel, a second-year history M.A. student, presented a paper entitled: "The Curious Case of Mtoro Bakari: Intermarriage and Identity in Germany, 1905-1927" at a conference called Modernization or Persistence? Society and Politics in the Weimar Republic organized by the Research Center for the Weimar Republic at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. (October 2023)
Undergraduate history major Katie Blandford co-authored an article, "Childcare Assistance Not a Major Draw for Most Employees," in the American Journal of Management.
Rebecca Monteleone (Disability Studies) developed and facilitated a conference in Washington D.C. as part of the Plain Truth Project. The Plain Truth Project is a collaboration between journalists, researchers, and self-advocates with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The event brought together about 40 attendees, including self-advocates with intellectual and developmental disabilities, journalists, and representatives from disability organizations, including the National Down Syndrome Congress and the National Center for Disability and Journalism. (October 2023)
Dr. Shingi Mavima (Department of History) published an article "Africana Digital Pedagogy: Cultural Exchange, Learning, and Innovation" (Co-authored with Drs. Clarence George of California State University, Sacramento, and Ja’La Wourman of James Madison University) in the Journal of African American Studies. Vol 26. (February 2023)
Dr. Charles Beatty Medina (Department of History) published a chapter, "African Maroons and Native Peoples on the 'Atlantic' Borderlands of Colonial Quito," in "At the Heart of the Borderlands: Africans and Afro-Descendants on the Edges of Colonial Spanish America," edited by Cameron D. Jones and Jay T. Harrison. Published by University of New Mexico Press, 2023.
For a complete list of recent achievements, visit our website.
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