The History Department would like to congratulate senior Heidi Hansen on winning the 2020 Kouguell Prize for her senior thesis, “Prayer and Personal Identity: The Book of Hours and the Middle Class […]
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2020 Butler and Ditz Prize Winners
Congratulations to Arthur Lee on winning this year’s Butler Prize for his paper “‘Illustrating’ the Haitian Revolution: Prints and the Politics of Visuality”! The Butler Prize is awarded annually to […]
KSAS Excellence in Teaching and Advising Awards
Congratulations to History PhD candidate, Alan van den Arend, on winning this year’s Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award! The Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award is one of four Excellence in Teaching and […]
Professor Johnson Joins Eighth Class of W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows
“We are happy to welcome one of our most distinguished and exciting cohort of W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows,” says Gates. “We look forward to an extraordinary […]
Hard Work Pays Off!
Congratulations to History juniors, Sophia and Anthony, on your recent accomplishments! Sophia Laughlin’s revised essay, “James Baldwin in Paris: Liberation, Alienation, and Existentialism,” will be published in the Vanderbilt Historical […]
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows
Congratulations to, History PhD candidate, Constance de Font-Reaulx, on being awarded a 2020 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her dissertation titled, “The Power of Water: The Politics of the Parisian […]
W. Caleb McDaniel awarded Pulitzer Prize
Congratulations to W. Caleb McDaniel, 2006 PhD alumnus, on receiving the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book titled, “Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and […]
2020 AHA Research Grant Winner
Congratulations to PhD candidate, Lauren Feldman, on receiving the Albert J. Beveridge Grant, a 2020 AHA Research Grant, for her paper, “Debating and Constructing Legal Marriage and State in New […]
Inequality by design: How redlining continues to shape our economy
During a visit to the “Undesign the Redline” exhibit at Impact Hub Baltimore, Professor Nathan Connolly discussed with Marketplace the impact of redlining in 1930s Baltimore and how, although it […]
Jessica Levy awarded the 2020 Herman E. Krooss Prize
Congratulations to PhD alumna, Jessica Levy, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Virginia, on receiving the 2020 Herman E. Krooss Prize for her work entitled “Black Power, Inc.: […]