New books out and forthcoming by Laura Edwards, Anthony Grafton, and Harold James.
Commencement for the Class of 2023 will take place at Princeton Stadium on Tuesday, May 30. Duval will give the salutatorian address in Latin.
She is among the nearly 270 leaders in academia, the arts, business, government and public affairs elected this year in their respective fields.
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.
Laura F. Edwards won the Merle Curti Social History Award, and Elizabeth Ellis received honorable mention for the Frederick Jackson Turner Award.
Mota was awarded a fellowship for her project "On Their Own Terms: Literacy, Slavery, and the Archives of Afro-Brazilian History." Mitchell was awarded a fellowship for her project "Morbid Geographies: Enslavement, Epidemics, and Embodiment in the Early Modern Atlantic World."
The Shelby Cullom Davis Center is delighted to announce the recipients of its fellowships, as it continues with the theme of “Environment and Climate.”
The grant is for researching and writing a book, “Making Paper in Mexico: A Material, Political and Environmental History,” spanning pre-Columbian times to the present.
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.
Every few years, students in HIS 283: War in the Modern Western World and select members of Princeton's Army ROTC travel to Normandy, France, to visit D-Day sites.
His first book provides an exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for trade.
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.
On March 28 at 7:30 pm in Betts Auditorium, join the Department of History for a panel discussion with alumni. Reception to follow.
New books out and forthcoming by Michael A. Blaakman, Michael D. Gordin, and Max Weiss.
Princeton University seniors Austin Davis and Ella Gantman are the recipients of the 2023 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.
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.
Assistant professor Elizabeth Ellis, the first specialist in Native American studies to join Princeton’s history department, describes her "haphazard" path to becoming a historian and her current research projects.
The Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship is one of Princeton University's highest awards.