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Todd Shepard awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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.


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.


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 […]


‘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 […]