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History Senior Sánchez Awarded ReachOut Fellowship for Public Service

Princeton senior Emily Sánchez has been awarded a fellowship from ReachOut 56-81-06, an alumni-funded effort that supports year-long public service projects after graduation. Sánchez will develop a podcast series on the history of Latino communities across New Jersey.

Zelizer Awarded New-York Historical Society Fellowship

Julian Zelizer will spend a year at the New-York Historical Society, beginning September 2022, writing “The Compromise”: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Betrayal of Racial Justice, 1964.

New Faculty Books: March and April 2022

Twelve Theses on Attention, edited by D. Graham Burnett and Stevie Knauss, The Friends of Attention
The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment, edited by Julian E. Zelizer

French Revolutionary Lives: Davis Center Conference

April 8-9, 2022
211 Dickinson Hall

Why Einstein Wouldn’t Think of March 14 as Pi Day, and More on His Life and Times

Historian of science Michael Gordin is teaching "The Einstein Era" at Princeton. The course covers the famous scientist's achievements and his involvement with the monumental issues of his day.

"Only the Clothes on Her Back" Named to The National Book Review's 5 Hot Books List

Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the 19th-Century United States is an innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society.

Qayyum Wins S.S. Pirzada Dissertation Prize in Pakistan Studies

The prize is bestowed by the Institute for South Asia Studies at University of California - Berkeley and recognizes her dissertation "The Demographic State: Population, Global Biopolitics, and Decolonization in South Asia, c. 1947-71."

Bian Receives Honorable Mention from Association for Asian Studies Book Prize

The Joseph Levenson Prizes are awarded to the English-language books that make the greatest contribution to increasing understanding of the history, culture, society, politics, or economy of China.

Spencer Weinreich Awarded Jacobus Fellowship

The fellowships support the students’ final year of study at Princeton and are awarded to one Ph.D. student in each of the four divisions (humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering) whose work has exhibited the highest scholarly excellence.

Keith Wailoo: Framing Health Challenges Through a Historical Lens

Keith Wailoo spoke with The Lancet about how history intersects with health and health policy and his latest book, Pushing Cool.

History Senior Siddiqui Awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship

He intends to use the award to study the history of medicine in the modern Muslim world at the University of Cambridge.

Marina Rustow Awarded Medieval Academy of America’s Haskins Medal for ‘Astonishing’ Book on Cairo’s ‘Lost Archive’

The Haskins Medal is awarded annually by the academy for a distinguished book in the field of medieval studies. It is the organization’s most prestigious award.

Linda Colley's Latest Book Awarded Top Prize by the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism

Her book, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World, was named 2021 Book of the Year by the organization.

New Faculty Books: February 2022

Defining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours, edited by Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States, by Laura F. Edwards
Le culte des chefs: Charisme et pouvoir à l'époque des révolutions, by David A. Bell

Elizabeth Baxter Awarded Koren Prize

 The Koren Prize recognizes outstanding departmental work during the junior year.

Pravilova and Warren Awarded NEH Grants to Support Advanced Research in the Humanities

The grants will support their book projects. Pravilova is writing about knowledge, authenticity, and truth in late 19th-century Russia, and Warren is writing about imprisonment in colonial North America.

Benjamin Bernard Receives Honorable Mention for Gregory Sprague Prize

The Gregory Sprague Prize (American Historical Association) recognizes an outstanding published or unpublished paper, article, book chapter, or dissertation chapter on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual, and/or queer history completed in English by a graduate student in 2020 or 2021.

Pushing Cool Named a Finalist for the 2021-2022 Book Prize of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Spanning a century, Keith Wailoo's new book reveals how the twin deceptions of health and Black affinity for menthol were crafted—and how the industry’s disturbingly powerful narrative has endured to this day.

History Senior Julia Chaffers Awarded Marshall Scholarship for Graduate Study in the UK

The Marshall Scholarship offers intellectually distinguished young Americans the opportunity to develop their abilities as future leaders by studying at a U.K. university of the recipient’s choice.

Ana Sekulic *20 Wins Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Prize

Her dissertation, "Conversion of the Landscape: Environment and Religious Politics in an Early Modern Ottoman Town," was praised for its "imaginative and sophisticated exploration of Muslim-Christian interactions in the early modern Ottoman Balkans."