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Kelsey Moore has been named a 2022-2023 cohort of Crossroads Fellow

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 awarded a 2022-2024 Carter G. Woodson Predoctoral Fellowship

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 awarded a Sid Mintz Research Fellowship

Elena Palazzolo has been awarded a Sid Mintz Research Fellowship. 

Keegan and Mazzeo receive AGHI Sponsorship Award

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 receives Center for Chinese Studies pre-doctoral fellowship

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 awarded a Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers Grant

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

Daphne Tang receives Arnold Prize for Outstanding Writing on Baltimore’s History

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 […]

Lurtz awarded NEH Summer Stipend

Lurtz awarded NEH Summer Stipend

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Casey Lurtz who was awarded a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)! NEH Summer Stipends for scholars will support and enable archival […]

Graduate Student wins 2022 Smithsonian Award for Excellence in Exhibitions

Graduate Student wins 2022 Smithsonian Award for Excellence in Exhibitions

Congratulations to Dominique Hazzard, the junior curator of “Food for the People: Eating and Activism in Greater Washington” at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum (Senior Curator, Dr. Samir Meghelli).  Dominique Hazzard […]

Biden’s push for an infrastructure presidency risks sacrificing Black communities

Biden’s push for an infrastructure presidency risks sacrificing Black communities

Infrastructure has a long history of cloaking racism and preventing justice, writes JHU historian N.D.B. Connolly in The Washington Post.