By Chloe Hawkey It’s no secret that Hopkins attracts a disproportionate number of scientifically and medically inclined students. Bucking the tide, undergraduate history majors have demonstrated an increasing dedication to […]
News & Announcements Archive
The Black World Seminar
by Jessica Newby In March of 2021, I visited the department as a recently admitted prospective student. Shortly after an introductory meeting, one of my prospective advisors, Dr. Jessica Marie […]
‘Wicked Flesh’ wins Berkshire Conference Book Prize
Jessica Marie Johnson’s book, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World, has won the Berkshire Conference Book Prize for a first book that deals substantially with […]
An Uncommon, Unconquerable Mind: Our Friend, Julius S. Scott III (1955–2021) by Professor Connolly
Professor Connolly reflects and shares his interview with the late Julius S. Scott III, an eminent historian of the Afro-Caribbean and Haitian Revolution in Public Books.
Undergraduate Alanna Margulies wins 2022 Kouguell Memorial Prize
Alanna Margulies has won this year’s Arthur Kouguell Memorial Prize for her undergraduate senior thesis, “Baltimore School for the Arts and the City that Built It.” Thanks to her sophisticated scholarship […]
Black Beyond Data
Historian and Assistant Professor Jessica Marie Johnson leads several teams tapping into the power of datasets to uncover new truths about Black history. Read more about her work, her teams, and why her ability to see new perspectives with data in the spring 2022 issue of the Krieger School’s Arts & Sciences Magazine.
Graduate student Jessica Newby receives the Butler Prize
Graduate student Jessica Newby received the Butler Prize for her Outstanding First Year Paper!! “Country Name Molia: in Motion in 18th Century Rural Jamaica.” The Butler Prize is awarded annually […]
Graduate student Christina Thomas accepts Predoctoral Fellowship for Excellence Through Diversity in African American History
Christina Thomas has accepted a Predoctoral Fellowship for Excellence Through Diversity in African American History at the University of Pennsylvania where she will continue work on her dissertation, “What Shall […]
PhD student Vincenza Mazzeo receives teaching award
PhD student Vincenza Mazzeo (Advisors: Thornberry, Shepard) received the KSAS award for excellence in undergraduate teaching by a graduate student.
Halle-Mackenzie Ashby awarded a 2022 Lapidus–OI Early American and Transatlantic Print Culture Fellowship
Halle-Mackenzie Ashby has been awarded a 2022 Lapidus–OI Early American and Transatlantic Print Culture Fellowship with the Omohundro Institute (W&M) for her dissertation “Bounded by the Womb: Reproduction, Slavery, and Freedom in […]