Sophia Loughlin has been awarded the 2021 Kouguell Prize for her thesis, “An Elusive Promise: Baltimore School Reform in the 1990s.” Loughlin’s thesis draws on oral interviews, commission reports, quantitative […]
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Martha Jones wins LA Times Book Prize in History
Congratulations to Professor Martha Jones on winning the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History for VANGUARD!
Vincenza Mazzeo awarded CFUW 2021 Linda Souter Humanities Award
Congratulations to History PhD candidate, Vincenza Mazzeo, on being awarded the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) 2021 Linda Souter Humanities Award, the largest award in Canada for women in […]
Washington Post: “She sued her enslaver for reparations and won. Her descendants never knew.”
W. Caleb McDaniel, a 2006 History PhD alumnus, was recently featured in the Washington Post regarding his research into the extraordinary life of Henrietta Wood.
Electric Laboratory: A Taller Electric Marronage x Dark Laboratory Event – LifexCode: DH Against Enclosure
Taller Electric Marronage has an exciting slate of events this term. Please join us for our first spring 2021 gathering Electric Laboratory: A Taller Electric Marronage x Dark Laboratory Event. […]
Lester receives NEH 2020-2021 Fellowship
Anne E. Lester was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for the 2020-2021 year. She will be on research leave in the Spring and Fall semesters of 2021 […]
History’s Connolly and Jackson on Team that wins $4.4 Million Mellon Grant
Profs. Nathan Connolly and Lawrence Jackson belong to a team of Johns Hopkins University recipients of a $4.4 million Just Futures grant from the Mellon Foundation. In tandem with Drs. […]
‘Wicked Flesh’ wins a 2020 Caribbean Readers Award
Congratulations to Assistant Professor, Jessica M. Johnson, on winning a 2020 Rebel Women’s Lit Caribbean Readers’ Award for Best Non-Fiction Book for Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in […]
Fall 2020 Lab Notes from the Director of LifexCode
“This summer, I (Jessica Marie Johnson, Assistant Professor) had the pleasure of launching LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure, a digital practice lab committed to exploring and creating public scholarship at the […]
WICKED FLESH and VANGUARD chosen as two of the best Black history books of 2020 by Black Perspectives
WICKED FLESH by Jessica Marie Johnson and VANGUARD by Martha Jones are chosen by editors of Black Perspectives (African American Intellectual History Society) as one of the best Black history […]