PhD student Vincenza Mazzeo (Advisors: Thornberry, Shepard) received the KSAS award for excellence in undergraduate teaching by a graduate student.  

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 […]

Kelsey Moore has been named a 2022-2023 cohort of Crossroads Fellow. Crossroad Fellows represent scholarly, artistic, activist, and religious communities, and their projects will take a variety of forms, including documentary […]

Kelsey Moore has been awarded a 2022-2024 Carter G. Woodson Predoctoral Fellowship at the Carter G. Woodson Institute (UVA). Her dissertation, “Clearing Black Knowledges in Jim Crow South Carolina,” focuses on […]

Elena Palazzolo has been awarded a Sid Mintz Research Fellowship. 

Graduate students Thomas Keegan and Vincenza Mazzeo have won the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute Sponsorship award for an event they are planning for Fall 2022 entitled, From Africa to the World: Rethinking […]

Kevin Kind received a Center for Chinese Studies pre-doctoral fellowship from the National Central Library in Taiwan.  His article, Musulman Knowledge, Local History, and the Making of the Qing Nation-State, was […]

Julia Man-chu Wu was awarded a Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers Grant to support her dissertation research.  

JHU Undergraduate Daphne Tang (IS major) was the recipient of this year’s Arnold Prize for Outstanding Writing on Baltimore’s History awarded by the Baltimore City Historical Society. Daphne’s award-winning paper […]