News & Announcements Archive

Vincenza Mazzeo awarded CFUW 2021 Linda Souter Humanities Award

Congratulations to History PhD candidate, Vincenza Mazzeo, on being awarded the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) 2021 Linda Souter Humanities Award, the largest award in Canada for women in […]

Todd Shepard awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Todd Shepard, professor of history, is among 184 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists to be awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship. Sheoard is a scholar of modern European and colonial North African history and was recognized with a fellowship in the category of European and Latin American History.

Two History Projects win 2020 Garfinkel Prize in Digital Humanities

Two projects run by Assistant Professor Jessica Marie Johnson, Taller Electric Marronage and LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure, have been awarded the 2020 Garfinkel Prize in Digital Humanities from the […]

Washington Post: “She sued her enslaver for reparations and won. Her descendants never knew.”

W. Caleb McDaniel, a 2006 History PhD alumnus, was recently featured in the Washington Post regarding his research into the extraordinary life of Henrietta Wood.

Professor emeritus Mack Walker dies at 91

Mack Walker, professor emeritus in the Department of History, died February 10, 2021, of COVID-19. An esteemed historian of German intellectual history, Walker spent 25 years at Johns Hopkins.

Electric Laboratory: A Taller Electric Marronage x Dark Laboratory Event – LifexCode: DH Against Enclosure

Taller Electric Marronage has an exciting slate of events this term. Please join us for our first spring 2021 gathering Electric Laboratory: A Taller Electric Marronage x Dark Laboratory Event. […]

Lester receives NEH 2020-2021 Fellowship

Lester receives NEH 2020-2021 Fellowship

Anne E. Lester was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for the 2020-2021 year. She will be on research leave in the Spring and Fall semesters of 2021 […]

History’s Connolly and Jackson on Team that wins $4.4 Million Mellon Grant

Profs. Nathan Connolly and Lawrence Jackson belong to a team of Johns Hopkins University recipients of a $4.4 million Just Futures grant from the Mellon Foundation.  In tandem with Drs. […]

‘Wicked Flesh’ wins a 2020 Caribbean Readers Award

‘Wicked Flesh’ wins a 2020 Caribbean Readers Award

Congratulations to Assistant Professor, Jessica M. Johnson, on winning a 2020 Rebel Women’s Lit Caribbean Readers’ Award for Best Non-Fiction Book for Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in […]

Fall 2020 Lab Notes from the Director of LifexCode

Fall 2020 Lab Notes from the Director of LifexCode

“This summer, I (Jessica Marie Johnson, Assistant Professor) had the pleasure of launching LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure, a digital practice lab committed to exploring and creating public scholarship at the […]