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Grants in Aid Awarded to Recipients

Congratulations to recipients of previous grants in aid from the IHRC

2012-2013

Denise Jenison, "In Accordance with the Finest Traditions of American Democracy": Arab Americans, Zionists, and the Debate over Palestine, 1940-1948"
Emily Pope-Obeda, "Deportation from the United States, 1910s-1930s"
Margaret J. Rencewicz, "Conflict and Schism in Catholic America, 1870-1939"
Gulsah Torunoglu, "The Historical Roots of Muslim Women's Social and Political Activism during the Arab Spring"

2011-2012

Melissa Borja, "'To Follow the New Rule or Way': Hmong Refugee Resettlement and Religious Change, 1975-1990"
Yehonathan Brodski, "Philip Hitti and the Making of the Modern Middle East"
Irene Elksnis Geisler, "The Gendered Plight of Terror: Annexation and Exile in Latvia 1940-1953"
Volodymyr Iushkevych, "Ukrainian Displaced Person'Relief: Assistance of American Government and National Emigrant Organizations to Ukrainian DPs"
Maria Kaliambou, "The Book Culture of Greek-Americans"
John Tofik Karam, "Area Studies through Diasporic Eyes: Philip Hitti and the AUB Alumni Network in Brazil"
Heather Lee, "Inventing Chinese Food: Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Consumer Culture in the United States, 1882-1965"
Ji-Hye Shin, "Insanity on the Move: The 'Alien Insane' in Modern America, 1882-1930"

2010-2011

Ulla Aatsinki, "Finnish Roots, American Wings? Efforts to Socialize Finnish-American Children by American Schools”
Rachel A. Batch, (Croatian-American)
Joel Brady, “Religion & Austro-Hungarian Migration”
Dezeree Hodish, (Ukrainian-American) "Slavs and Steel: The Role of Social Organizations in the Construction of Industrial Cities"
Shira Klein, "The Migration of Italian Jews between 1938 and 1950"
Adam Krowka, "Estonian Immigration History and Language Use in the U.S."
Louie Milojevic, (Yugoslav-American) "You-Go, You-Stay: Yugoslav-Americans, Brotherhood and Unity in Cold War America"
Hanna Numilla, Finnish-American identity as expressed in ethnic press
Sylvia P. Onusic, “Slovenes Along the Little Conemaugh: Coal Mining to a Better Life”
Yannis Papadopoulos, (Greek-American) "Ethnic Elites and the Making of
“Homeland”: The Case of Greek and Jewish Americans"
Carl Rahkonen, “Music Composed and/or Published by Finnish-Americans”
Janet Reilly, “Diasporas as Peacemakers: The Impact of Home and Host State Policies in the Liberian Diaspora's Participation in Homeland Peacebuilding”
Hauke Siemen, “The Baltic Emigres’ Political Activities During the Cold War”
Ann J. Toumi, "Historical Novel about Finnish American Women"

2009-2010

Michele De Gregorio, "From the Shipyards of Trieste to the Streets of New York: The Triestini Dockers and the Italian Roots of Antifascist Movement in the United States”
Jüri Estam, "Estonian World Council and Estonaian American National Council Tallinn, Estonia"
Stacey Fahrenthold, “Defining Ourselves, Teaching the Youth: The Arab-American Federation Movement and Diaspora Nationality, 1935-1950"
Aleksandra Loewenau, "Polish Catholic Priests in Dachau Concentration Camp"
David Palter, "A Shared Project: Race and Education in Early-Twentieth Century San Francisco"
Ellen Pozzi, "Immigrant Libraries"
William Samonides, “Greek Immigrants in Urban Northeast and Midwest”
Joseph T. Sciorra, “Allessando Sisca and Internationally Popular Neapolitan Music Composed in the US”
Kristel Tammik, “Digital Archives of Estonia”
Kathryn Wegner, “Constructing Citizenship: Education Immigrants, and Americanization in Chicago, 1910-1940”

2008-2009

Karl Altau, “Joint Baltic American National Committee”
Joao Fabio Bertonha
Carl Rahkonen
Adam Seipp

2007-2008

Halyna Sarancha
Kenyon Zimmer

2006-2007

Danielle Battisti
Ieva Zake

2005-2006

Kathleen DeHaan

Susan Larson, “Women’s Maintenance of Finland-Swedish Identity in North America"
Anne Rasmussen

1995

Francois Avenas, “The Image of Italians in the Press”
Lucilla Briganti, “The Role of Italian Immigrants in the Third International, between the Years of 1919 and 1941”
Nicoletta Franchi, “The Presence of the Tuscans in the Order of the Sons of Italy in America”
Mary Anne Trasciatti, “A Rhetorical Analysis of the Americanization of Italian Immigrants”

1991

Eeva Salonen, “Finnish American Cooking during Waves of Immigration Compared to Today”

1990

Judy Chesen, " Cultural History of Food as it Affected African-American, German Immigrant and Italian Immigrant Women in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, in the Nineteenth Century”
Peter D’Agostino, “Americanism Through the Prism of Ethnicity: The Rise of Ethnic Nationalism in the Italian-American Community of Chicago Between the Two World Wars”
Ivan Dubovickŷ, “Czech American Activity During the Two World Wars and the Struggle for Independence at the Turn of the 20th Century”
Fraser M. Ottanelli, “Migration and Militancy: Italian Anti-Fascist Immigrant Workers, 1919-1941”
Maria Parrino, “Italian-American Women’s Autobiographies”
Michael Topp, “Italian-American Syndicalism and Federazione Socialista Italiana, 1909-1922”

1989

Madeline Goodman, “Evolution of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Fascism”
Carole Rozzonelli, “Emigration from Piedmont to the United States”

1986-1987

Alexander, June Granatir, “Immigrants and Great Depression”
Boelhower, William, “Expanded Edition of Immigrant Autobiography in the United States”
Lynda DeLoach, “IHRC Research Collections Analysis”
Dietsche, Mry Lynn, “La Festa: Transmission and Change in the Religious Culture of Chicago’s Catholic Italians, 1900-1980”
Susanna Garroni, “Immigrants' Politics. The Case of Italians in Buffalo, New York and Barre, Vermont, at the Turn of the Century”
Joseph T. Hapak, “Recruiting a Polish Army in the United States, 1917-19”
Matjaž Klemenčič, “Slovene Immigration in the U.S.A.”
Susan Catherine Lews, “Ethnicity Among Descendents of Immigrants from Finland in Astoria, Oregon”
Donald Edward Pienkos, “Efforts of Polish Americans on Poland's Behalf-Resettlement Activities of Polonia Organizations following World War II”
Libuše Volbractová, "Cultural Identity, National Consciousness, Political Culture, and Homelife in a Process of Acculturation and Accommodation of Various Czech Minority Groups"

1985-1986

Mildred Beik, “Immigrants and Class Consciousness in a Twentieth-Century Company Town, Windber, PA, 1897-1940”
Jean-Christophe Coffin, “The Italian Immigrants and the French and American Labor Movement, 1890-1920”
Andrzej Kapiszewski, “Polish-Jewish Relations in the United States”
Adria Bernardi, “Working Toward and Oral History of Highwood, Illinois”
Adam Walaszek, “Polish Immigrants in Industrial America, 1880-1930: Ethos of Work, Attitude toward the Labor Movement”
Peter Kivisto, “Crisis in the Homeland and Ethnic Mobilization: Finnish American Responses to the ‘Help Finland’ Campaign”
Fred Gardaphe, “Fact in Fiction: Research in Italian American Fiction” and “The First Generation: Historical Study of Italians in Chicago and the Midwest”
Alaine Pakkala, “The Music of Finnish Americans, 1880-1930”
Peter Melnycky, “The Trauma of Immigration: The Canadian Writings of Sava Chernetsky”
Stanislaus Blejwas, “Politics and Culture—The Adam Mickiewicz Chair of Polish Studies at Columbia University: 1948-1954”
Mark Hutter, “The Study of Identity and Family Reconceptualizations through Immigrant Autobiographies”
Ewa Morawska, “Insecure Prosperity: Jews in Smalltown Industrial America, 1880-1940"
Maria Parrino, “Italian American Immigrant Autobiography”
Elizabeth Szabo, “Hungarian Lutherans in America”
M.B. Biskupski, “The Political Geography of American Polonia, 1912-1918”

Grants in Aid Awarded to Recipients

Congratulations to recipients of previous grants in aid from the IHRC

2012-2013

Denise Jenison, "In Accordance with the Finest Traditions of American Democracy": Arab Americans, Zionists, and the Debate over Palestine, 1940-1948"

Emily Pope-Obeda, "Deportation from the United States, 1910s-1930s"

Margaret J. Rencewicz, "Conflict and Schism in Catholic America, 1870-1939"

Gulsah Torunoglu, "The Historical Roots of Muslim Women's Social and Political Activism during the Arab Spring"

2011-2012

Melissa Borja, "'To Follow the New Rule or Way': Hmong Refugee Resettlement and Religious Change, 1975-1990"

Yehonathan Brodski, "Philip Hitti and the Making of the Modern Middle East"

Irene Elksnis Geisler, "The Gendered Plight of Terror: Annexation and Exile in Latvia 1940-1953"

Volodymyr Iushkevych, "Ukrainian Displaced Person'Relief: Assistance of American Government and National Emigrant Organizations to Ukrainian DPs"

Maria Kaliambou, "The Book Culture of Greek-Americans"

John Tofik Karam, "Area Studies through Diasporic Eyes: Philip Hitti and the AUB Alumni Network in Brazil"

Heather Lee, "Inventing Chinese Food: Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Consumer Culture in the United States, 1882-1965"

Ji-Hye Shin, "Insanity on the Move: The 'Alien Insane' in Modern America, 1882-1930"

2010-2011

Ulla Aatsinki, "Finnish Roots, American Wings? Efforts to Socialize Finnish-American Children by American Schools”

Rachel A. Batch, (Croatian-American)

Joel Brady, “Religion & Austro-Hungarian Migration”

Dezeree Hodish, (Ukrainian-American) "Slavs and Steel: The Role of Social Organizations in the Construction of Industrial Cities"

Shira Klein, "The Migration of Italian Jews between 1938 and 1950"

Adam Krowka, "Estonian Immigration History and Language Use in the U.S."

Louie Milojevic, (Yugoslav-American) "You-Go, You-Stay: Yugoslav-Americans, Brotherhood and Unity in Cold War America"

Hanna Numilla, Finnish-American identity as expressed in ethnic press

Sylvia P. Onusic, “Slovenes Along the Little Conemaugh: Coal Mining to a Better Life”

Yannis Papadopoulos, (Greek-American) "Ethnic Elites and the Making of “Homeland”: The Case of Greek and Jewish Americans"

Carl Rahkonen, “Music Composed and/or Published by Finnish-Americans”

Janet Reilly, “Diasporas as Peacemakers: The Impact of Home and Host State Policies in the Liberian Diaspora's Participation in Homeland Peacebuilding”

Hauke Siemen, “The Baltic Emigres’ Political Activities During the Cold War”

Ann J. Toumi, "Historical Novel about Finnish American Women"

2009-2010

Michele De Gregorio, "From the Shipyards of Trieste to the Streets of New York: The Triestini Dockers and the Italian Roots of Antifascist Movement in the United States”

Jüri Estam, "Estonian World Council and Estonaian American National Council Tallinn, Estonia"

Stacey Fahrenthold, “Defining Ourselves, Teaching the Youth: The Arab-American Federation Movement and Diaspora Nationality, 1935-1950"

Aleksandra Loewenau, "Polish Catholic Priests in Dachau Concentration Camp"

David Palter, "A Shared Project: Race and Education in Early-Twentieth Century San Francisco"

Ellen Pozzi, "Immigrant Libraries"

William Samonides, “Greek Immigrants in Urban Northeast and Midwest”

Joseph T. Sciorra, “Allessando Sisca and Internationally Popular Neapolitan Music Composed in the US”

Kristel Tammik, “Digital Archives of Estonia”

Kathryn Wegner, “Constructing Citizenship: Education Immigrants, and Americanization in Chicago, 1910-1940”

2008-2009

Karl Altau, “Joint Baltic American National Committee”

Joao Fabio Bertonha

Carl Rahkonen

Adam Seipp

2007-2008

Halyna Sarancha

Kenyon Zimmer

2006-2007

Danielle Battisti

Ieva Zake

2005-2006

Kathleen DeHaan

Susan Larson, “Women’s Maintenance of Finland-Swedish Identity in North America"

Anne Rasmussen

1995

Francois Avenas, “The Image of Italians in the Press”

Lucilla Briganti, “The Role of Italian Immigrants in the Third International, between the Years of 1919 and 1941”

Nicoletta Franchi, “The Presence of the Tuscans in the Order of the Sons of Italy in America”

Mary Anne Trasciatti, “A Rhetorical Analysis of the Americanization of Italian Immigrants”

1991

Eeva Salonen, “Finnish American Cooking during Waves of Immigration Compared to Today”

1990

Judy Chesen, " Cultural History of Food as it Affected African-American, German Immigrant and Italian Immigrant Women in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, in the Nineteenth Century”

Peter D’Agostino, “Americanism Through the Prism of Ethnicity: The Rise of Ethnic Nationalism in the Italian-American Community of Chicago Between the Two World Wars”

Ivan Dubovickŷ, “Czech American Activity During the Two World Wars and the Struggle for Independence at the Turn of the 20th Century”

Fraser M. Ottanelli, “Migration and Militancy: Italian Anti-Fascist Immigrant Workers, 1919-1941”

Maria Parrino, “Italian-American Women’s Autobiographies”

Michael Topp, “Italian-American Syndicalism and Federazione Socialista Italiana, 1909-1922”

1989

Madeline Goodman, “Evolution of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Fascism”

Carole Rozzonelli, “Emigration from Piedmont to the United States”

1986-1987

Alexander, June Granatir, “Immigrants and Great Depression”

Boelhower, William, “Expanded Edition of Immigrant Autobiography in the United States”

Lynda DeLoach, “IHRC Research Collections Analysis”

Dietsche, Mry Lynn, “La Festa: Transmission and Change in the Religious Culture of Chicago’s Catholic Italians, 1900-1980”

Susanna Garroni, “Immigrants' Politics. The Case of Italians in Buffalo, New York and Barre, Vermont, at the Turn of the Century”

Yannis Papadopoulos, (Greek-American) "Ethnic Elites and the Making of
“Homeland”: The Case of Greek and Jewish Americans"