News & Announcements Archive

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.

Launching of the special issue of Brésil(s) on John Russell-Wood

Launching of the special issue of Brésil(s) on John Russell-Wood

Roundtable celebrates the publication of a special Issue of the journal Bresil(s) honoring the life of our colleague, the late John Russell Wood, and edited by current colleagues Erin Rowe and Jean […]

Spring 2022 @ LifexCode (Calendar of Events)

Come one, come all! Image caption: New Orleans, May 1961. Langston Hughes Papers. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. […]

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $2 million grant to the Digital Solidarities Lab co-led by Jessica Marie Johnson

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $2 million grant to the Digital Solidarities Lab co-led by Jessica Marie Johnson

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $2 million grant to the Digital Solidarities Lab (DSL) co-led by Jessica Marie Johnson.  This multi-institutional Black feminist digital humanities partnership will include […]

New York Times, “We Still Can’t See American Slavery for What It Was”

Assistant professor Jessica Johnson and Jennie Williams, a recent History PhD alumna and postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz, were quoted in the New York Times […]