Nick Barone, Jonathon Catlin *23, Disha Karnad Jani *22, and Natasha Wheatley participated in a roundtable, "The Return of Political Economy in Modern European Intellectual History", at the 138th annual meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA) on January 5, 2025. Richard Calis *20 published a book.
Nick Barone published a review, and Min Tae Cha *23 was awarded a dissertation prize from the ASLH. Will Holub-Moorman was selected for the ASLH Graduate Student Research Colloquium, and Elena Telles Ryan and Maia Silber were awarded fellowships.
Meet the twenty-two new faces of the incoming cohort.
Niya Bates, Emily Chesley, and Anna Speyert received junior fellowships from Dumbarton Oaks. Julian Weideman *21 received an honorable mention for an article.
Joseph Bishop published an article.
Joseph Bishop received an essay prize.
Hasan Hameed published an article. Nikianna Dinensis and Jiya Pandya were named Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows.
His multimedia installation, ”Neighbours: Forms of Trauma (1945-1989),” takes visitors inside a chapter of Bulgarian history that has been largely absent from textbooks, museums and public debate — the forced labor and political violence in the Bulgarian gulag under Communist rule from post-WWII through the late 1980s before the fall of the Soviet Union.
On April 17, the Graduate School hosted a Tribute to Teaching Reception, hosted by Rodney D. Priestly, dean of the Graduate School.
Jonathan Victor Baldoza and Sean Silvia published articles, and Alice Hong received a fellowship. Jennifer Dominique Jones *14 received honorable mention for the Rawley Prize for her book.
A. Brad Schwartz published an article, and Maia Silber received a fellowship.
John Alekna *20 published his first book, Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society.
Geneva Smith is one of four named to the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University’s top honor for graduate students.
Julian Chehirian was selected to represent Bulgaria at the Venice Bienniel, and Jaime Sánchez, Jr.*22 accepted a position as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Berkeley.
Joseph Bishop published a book review. Emily Chesley presented a paper. José Edwin Argueta Funes *23 accepted a tenure-track position. Caitlin Harvey *21 published an article. Isabela Morales *19 won two book prizes.
Meher Ali published two articles, and Emily Chesley won an essay prize.
Siobhan Barco and Haris Durrani were awarded fellowships. Joseph Bishop won an essay prize. Bennett Nagtegaal published an article, and Joseph Puchner presented a paper.
The prize, for her book, "The Arts of the Microbial World: Fermentation Science in Twentieth-Century Japan," is awarded to outstanding publications in the field of Asian Studies.
Congratulations to Nick Barone, Emily Chesley, Adhitya Dhanapal, Anin Luo, R. Isabela Morales, Tomer Nisimov, Jeremy R. Schneider, Hannah Stamler, and Robert Yee.
Siobhan Barco and Anin Luo were selected for the American Society for Legal History Graduate Student Research Colloquium, and R. Isabela Morales *19 received the Tom Watson Brown Book Award.
Olivier Burtin *17 won the Richard E. Neustadt Book Prize. Haris Durrani and Blake Grindon received fellowships, and Hannah Stamler won an article prize.
News about talks, fellowships, internships, and awards from graduate students Meher Ali, Emily R. Chesley, Zheng Guan, Hasan Hameed, Anastasiia Lystsova, Michael Mandelkorn, Jiya Pandya, Maia Silber, Liya Xie, and Robert Yee.
News from our graduate students and alumni about fellowships, grants, dissertation prizes, and awards: Nicholas Barone, Emily R. Chesley, Hasan Hameed, Liane Hewitt, Ben Lindquist, Will Theiss, Julian Weideman, and Robert Yee.
News from our graduate students and alumni about fellowships, grants, dissertation prizes, and awards: Siobhan Barco, Kathryn Maxson Jones, Jonathan Victor Baldoza, Jonathan Catlin, David Robertson, Blake Grindon, and Anna Speyart.
History of Science Ph.D. student Justine Holzman and her collaborators are documenting disappearing sea ice and icebergs in the Arctic.
Kreiner’s book and its applications to modern life have earned mainstream praise.
The review committee for the prize described Happy Dreams of Liberty as “beautifully written and utterly engrossing” and “a work of prodigious research.”
Graduate alumna Paris A. Spies-Gans examines the role of women in the history of art in her new book A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France 1760-1830.
The book explores the role played by military veterans in the growth of social policy in the mid-twentieth century United States.
The selection committee recognized a graduate student assistant in instruction (AI) from each of the four divisions with a special commendation for their outstanding abilities as teachers. Shelby Sinclair is recognized in the social sciences division.