by Jessica Newby In March of 2021, I visited the department as a recently admitted prospective student. Shortly after an introductory meeting, one of my prospective advisors, Dr. Jessica Marie […]
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‘Wicked Flesh’ wins Berkshire Conference Book Prize
Jessica Marie Johnson’s book, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World, has won the Berkshire Conference Book Prize for a first book that deals substantially with […]
An Uncommon, Unconquerable Mind: Our Friend, Julius S. Scott III (1955–2021) by Professor Connolly
Professor Connolly reflects and shares his interview with the late Julius S. Scott III, an eminent historian of the Afro-Caribbean and Haitian Revolution in Public Books.
Undergraduate Alanna Margulies wins 2022 Kouguell Memorial Prize
Alanna Margulies has won this year’s Arthur Kouguell Memorial Prize for her undergraduate senior thesis, “Baltimore School for the Arts and the City that Built It.” Thanks to her sophisticated scholarship […]
Black Beyond Data
Historian and Assistant Professor Jessica Marie Johnson leads several teams tapping into the power of datasets to uncover new truths about Black history. Read more about her work, her teams, and why her ability to see new perspectives with data in the spring 2022 issue of the Krieger School’s Arts & Sciences Magazine.
Graduate student Jessica Newby receives the Butler Prize
Graduate student Jessica Newby received the Butler Prize for her Outstanding First Year Paper!! “Country Name Molia: in Motion in 18th Century Rural Jamaica.” The Butler Prize is awarded annually […]
PhD student Vincenza Mazzeo receives teaching award
PhD student Vincenza Mazzeo (Advisors: Thornberry, Shepard) received the KSAS award for excellence in undergraduate teaching by a graduate student.
Halle-Mackenzie Ashby awarded a 2022 Lapidus–OI Early American and Transatlantic Print Culture Fellowship
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
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 […]