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1960s

Sheila Fitzpatrick (DPhil Modern History, 1969) has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Melbourne.

1970s

Lewis Siegelbaum (DPhil History, 1976) is the recipient of the Distinguished Achievements award from the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) to be presented at its annual convention in November 2024.

1980s

David Cleary (DPhil Anthropology, 1988) has been awarded the 2024 Marsh Prize (Royal Anthropological Institute) for contributions to the public sphere by someone trained in anthropology.

Iftikhar Haider Malik (Senior Member, 1989) won the UBL Award for the best book in English in Pakistan in 2023 for his volume The Silk Road and Beyond: Narratives of a Muslim Historian.

Banuta Rubess (DPhil Modern History, 1982) was granted a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023 from the Anšlavs Eglītis and Veronika Janelsiņa Foundation. This was an award of $20,000 US, for her contributions to Latvian culture while living abroad.

1990s

David E. Hoffman (Russia Studies, 1995) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for the series Annals of Autocracy, published in 2023.

Michael Ignatieff (Visiting Fellow 1993-95, Honorary Fellow 2017) has been conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Cambridge University and has been awarded the Princess of Asturias Prize, Spain, 2024.

John Bosco Lourdusamy (DPhil Modern Indian History, 1995) has been awarded the World History Association’s Bentley Prize (given for ‘significant contribution’ to World History), for the co-authored book Moving Crops and the Scales of History. The same book has also been selected for the 2024 Sidney Edelstein Award from the Society for History of Technology (SHOT) - given for ‘an outstanding book’ on the history of technology published in the last three years.

Tim A. Mau (DPhil Politics, 1993) is the recipient of the 2024 Pierre DeCelles Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration.

2000s

Melanie Griffiths (DPhil Anthropology, 2007) has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, to run in 2025. This will allow her to conduct repeat interviews with mixed citizenship families in the UK facing a member's deportation or removal from the country, and to publish a book from this longitudinal research.See Less

Alvaro Herrero (DPhil Politics, 2002) was awarded a Fulbright Visiting Research Fellowship to conduct research on judicial innovation at Georgetown University.

Manzil e Maqsood (DPhil Education, 2008) has been awarded the Commonwealth Alumni Community Engagement Fund (ACEF) 2024 award and is the only recipient of this award from Pakistan this year. She has also been invited to ADB's CAREC Women Business Forum to take part in a panel discussion on Empowering Women in STEAM and Leadership.

Dr Artemis Papatheodorou (MPhil Modern Middle Eastern Studies and DPhil Oriental Studies, 2007) was awarded a Global Fellowship with her project Modern Mediterranean Archaeological Regimes in a Global Context (MMARe) in the latest round of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). This fellowship will allow her to investigate the Mediterranean legislation on antiquities from 1789 to 1945 individually and comparatively.

Ilan Peleg (Senior Associate Member, 2002) has received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association for Israel Studies (the largest international organization for the study of Israeli history, culture, society and politics).

Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm (Visiting Student, Modern History, 2003) was awarded the American Academy of Religion ‘Excellence in the Study of Religion (Constructive-Reflective Studies)’ book award for his 2021 monograph Metamodernism: The Future of Theory (University of Chicago Press).

Sally Tomlinson (MSc Environmental Change and Management, 2002) has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Glasgow.

2010s

Immaculata Abba (MSt Global and Imperial History, 2019) won the inaugural Abebi Award in Afro Non-fiction for an essay she wrote on the aftermath of the 2005 Sosoliso Plane Crash in her community.

Federico Bonomi (MPhil Politics (European Politics and Society), 2018) has received a prestigious award from the Italian House of Representatives for Asimov AI, the legis-tech startup he founded, for an application of AI to parliamentary works.

Jun Han (DPhil Sociology, 2017) received the For Good Awards of Top 10 Annual Academic Research, issued by the China Social Enterprise and Impact Investing Forum, for two of his co-authored books in 2022 and 2023.

Fusako Innami (DPhil Oriental Studies, 2011) received the Fulbright Scholar Award 2024-25 to conduct her book-length research, Gestural Writing: Performance, Topography, Trace at UC Berkeley (Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies).

Andrew Littlejohn (MPhil Social Anthropology, 2010) was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his new project of 'climate citizenship'.

Sheng Peng (DPhil History, 2015) was named the 2024-25 Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Dr Becky Self (MSc Sociology, 2019) received two awards for fundraising for DigDeep: ‘Patient Experience Advocate of Tomorrow Runner-up’ with the Patient Experience Network and the ‘Charitable Work Outside of LJMU Award’ at the Schools of Public and Allied Health and Nursing and Advanced Practice Student Awards 2023. She put together a team of 30 to climb Kilimanjaro (20 climbed) to raise money for the charity DigDeep while completing her PhD and raised £37,000.