Written by: Camelia.Trahan@unt.edu
Faculty and a graduate student in the Department of History have earned a collection
of significant awards and fellowships to help in teaching and informing new perspectives
on the past ranging from American humanitarian relief post World War I to German migration
during the 19th century.
Associate Professor Andrew Torget, who specializes in Texas history, migration and
American slavery, has earned a U.S. Fulbright Scholar Award. He will travel to Germany
in 2023 for a four-month teaching fellowship at the University of Bremen, where he
will teach courses on American history, the history of slavery in the U.S. and the
history of German migration to Texas during the 19th century. While there, Torget
will advance his research on German migration to Texas in the German Emigration Center
archives for his forthcoming book about how the rise and fall of 19th century Galveston
was key to the development of the American Southwest.
Additionally, Torget was named a recipient of a $50,000 Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship, which supports collaborative humanities projects with public engagement. The fellowship
will help to further develop the Texas History for Teachers project. TX4T is a digital
portal for fourth through seventh grade social studies educators featuring authoritative,
evidence-based historical content and best-practice pedagogical resources for teaching
Texas history. It builds on existing resources through UNT Libraries' free online
archive, The Portal to Texas History. The project unites Torget with professionals in UNT Libraries, Humanities Texas
and a team of master teachers throughout the state.
Assistant Professor Christopher Todd, a historian of slavery in the Americas, will
be a faculty fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University in the upcoming academic year. The Warren Center Faculty Fellowship
will focus on the general theme of "Capitalism's Hardwiring: Money, Credit, and Finance
in a Globalizing World, 1620-2020."
Todd will use his time at Harvard to expand the scope of his study exploring how the
earning and spending of money by Jamaica's enslaved men and women helped to shape
their subjectivity and politics from 1776-1832, a period known as the "Age of Revolutions."
The research will culminate in a book titled The Slaves' Money: Bondage, Freedom and
Social Change in Jamaica, 1776-1832.r
Finally, Andrew Huebner, a doctoral student in history, has become the first UNT graduate
student to be named a Boren Fellow. The highly competitive Boren Fellowship, funded by the National Security Education Program, is open to U.S. graduate students
and funds research and language study in "world regions critical to U.S. interests."
Huebner will spend a full academic year learning Russian at Russian Language Academy
in Latvia, as well as conducting archival research in the Baltic Sea region for his
dissertation examining how American humanitarian relief operations in the Baltic states
(Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) during the years immediately following WWI played a key
role in the rise of new nation-states and the development of humanitarian relief.
As a Boren Fellow, Huebner will work for at least one year in a federal agency after
completing his doctoral degree at UNT.
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