Katrina Jagodinsky has been awarded the Harold and Esther Edgerton Junior Faculty Award by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The award is presented each year to honor an outstanding junior faculty member who has demonstrated creative research, extraordinary teaching abilities and academic promise.
Jagodinsky is an assistant professor of history and a rising star in her research area of the social and legal history of the American West, publishing prize-winning journal articles and securing a major book contract for publication with Yale University Press. In addition, she has published several articles in top peer-reviewed journals in her field.
She also has demonstrated extraordinary promise in research. Within a year of arriving on campus, she won the Jerome Braun Prize in Western Legal History for the best journal article submitted for a peer-review in that journal. Jagodinsky also has secured a contract with one of the best university presses for her innovative and important study of indigenous women’s uses of the law to secure and protect their property and civil rights during the expansion of the United States in the 19th-century American West.
Students comment on Jagodinsky’s high expectations as well as the guidance she provides to ensure student success. In addition to teaching courses at every level, Jagodinsky has developed innovative new courses for the curriculum, including a 100-level gateway course on making and breaking the law in U.S. history.
“In teaching, she has proven herself a gifted and dedicated instruction whose attention to pedagogy and creativity in course design has inspired her students and her colleagues,” said William Thomas, chair of the Department of History.
Jagodinsky will be recognized at Honors Convocation on April 12.
