Graduate student research has been supported in recent years by new endowments given or bequeathed by former faculty, or given by others in their honor. These funds highlight the notably […]
Generous Gifts Support Graduate Research
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Toby Ditz Prize for Teaching Excellence, Fall 2023
The Ditz Prize for excellence in Teaching is awarded annually in recognition of outstanding teaching on the part of a graduate student either in a DTF course of their own […]
Pearsall awarded NEH Public Scholars grant
Enthusiastic congratulations to our colleague, Sarah Pearsall, who has been awarded an NEH Public Scholars grant to support the completion of her book, Freedom Round the Globe: A New History of […]
2023-24 William and Willie Lee Rose Fellowships Awarded
The History Department is very pleased to award two William and Willie Lee Rose Fellowships this spring to Halle-McKenzie Ashby and Wesley Sampias. Halle-McKenzie Ashby will pursue archival work in London for a […]
Lurtz receives a 2023 Catalyst Award
Congratulations to our colleague, Casey Lurtz who has been selected as a 2023 Catalyst Award Recipient. Granted by the Office of the Provost, the Catalyst Award “recognizes the work of exceptional […]
Jean Hébrard Graduate Student Fellowship for Summer Research
The History Department received a generous gift to endow “The Jean Hébrard Graduate Student Fellowship for Summer Research.” Starting next year, the fellowship will support the exploratory pre-dissertation research travel […]
2023 Butler Prize awarded to Sheridon Ward
2023 Butler Prize awarded to Sheridon Ward for her First Year Paper “Lettered Women, Midwives, and Cursyde Calets: Navigating Ways of Knowing in Reproductive Healthcare Practice.” The paper interprets a complex […]
2023 Undergraduate Awards
Congratulations to Holly Nelson, winner of the 2023 Arthur Kouguell Prize for her outstanding senior thesis, “’A Rare Standing Ovation”: Ballet Diplomacy, Russian Myth, and Black Transnationalism in the Dance […]
“Reclaimed” wins two Webby Awards
Congratulations to our colleague, Leah Wright Rigueur, narrator and production consultant for the ABC podcast, Reclaimed: The Story of Mamie Till Mobley. “Reclaimed” (ABC) won two Webby awards: for Best […]
Senior Thesis Dinner
This year, for the first time and thanks to the Dean’s new Faculty-Student Engagement and Enrichment Fund, all of the students who completed a Senior Honors Thesis in the History Department—Hanan […]