Professor James H. Sweet has been selected as the new President-elect of the American Historical Association. In the 2020 balloting for officers and committee representatives, AHA members voted to elect James Sweet as the next …
Awards
History Department Announces 2019-2020 Undergraduate Awards
The Department of History would like to congratulate this year’s undergraduate award recipients! We were fortunate to be able to award over $25,000 to undergraduates this year to support scholarships, writing prizes, research awards, and …
Professor Emerita Florence Bernault’s New Book Selected as a Choice Magazine 2019 Outstanding Academic Title
Professor Emerita Florence Bernault’s recent book, Colonial Transactions: Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon (Duke University Press, 2019), has been selected as a Choice Magazine 2019 Outstanding Academic Title! According to the reviewer, “this should …
Professor Lynn Nyhart Receives WARF Named Professorship
Congratulations to Professor Lynn Nyhart, who has been appointed a WARF named professorship! “These awards, which come with $100,000, honor faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge, primarily through their research …
History Undergraduate Commencement Celebration – Class of 2020
We are proud of our undergraduate majors and wish we could celebrate with them in person. The class of 2020 has demonstrated great resilience and accomplished so much! View our virtual graduation celebration.
Professor Louise Young Elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
The Department of History is proud to announce that Professor Louise Young has been elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! Professor Young is one of the nearly 250 outstanding individuals to have …
History Alumna Katie Jarvis Receives Major Book Prize
Alumna Katie Jarvis (Ph.D. 2014) has received the Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS). The Louis Gottschalk Prize recognizes an outstanding historical or critical study on the eighteenth century. For …
Alumna Anna Zeide Receives 2019 James Beard Award
Anna Zeide (Ph.D. 2014) an alumna and current Assistant Professor of History at Oklahoma State University has received the 2019 award for best Reference, History and Scholarship book from the James Beard Foundation! Zeide won …
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s Book Makes Washington Post’s Top 50 Nonfiction Reads of 2019
Please join us in congratulating Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, whose most recent book The Ideas that Made America: A Brief History (Oxford University Press, 2019) was featured in the Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction …
Professor Nan Enstad Receives AHA’s Beveridge Award for Cigarettes Inc.
Professor Nan Enstad has been awarded the prestigious Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association for her recent book Cigarettes Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism (University of Chicago Press, 2018). The …