The School of Computer, Data, & Information Sciences recently published a student spotlight on Chloe Foor that detailed how Chloe is using her interdisciplinary education to study the human-centered aspects of technology. Chloe is a senior majoring in Computer …
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Marla Ramírez and Undergraduates Present at Oral History Conference
Professor Marla Ramírez and two undergraduate students, Lezly Vejar and Zevdah Drizin, presented on their original research at the 2023 Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland this October. The presentation, titled “Latinxs in …
Grad Student Verenize Arceo Receives Two WHA Awards
Congratulations to graduate student Verenize Arceo, who has received two awards from the Western History Association! Verenize received the 2023 WHA Graduate Student Prize and the 2023 Trennert-Iverson Conference Scholarship. The WHA Graduate Student Prize …
Professor Ashley Brown Receives Book Award for Althea Gibson Biography
The Association of Black Women Historians has awarded its 2023 Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize to Professor Ashley Brown for her book, Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson. Bestowed since 1984, the …
Viren Murthy’s Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution was just published with University of Chicago Press
Viren Murthy’s Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution was just published with University of Chicago Press. Recent proposals to revive the ancient Silk Road for the contemporary era and ongoing Western interest in …
Kathryn McGarr’s City of Newsmen Reviewed in New York Times
Associate Professor Kathryn McGarr, a History Department affiliate, was featured in The New York Times in a review of four new books on journalism. Read the review of City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional …
Pablo Gómez Awarded NEH Collaborative Grant
Professor Pablo Gomez, in collaboration with Adriana Chira from Emory University, was awarded a highly competitive National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) collaborative grant for his project “Value, Self-Worth, and the Market in the Black …
Thongchai Winichakul Awarded Fukuoka Prize
Professor Emeritus Thongchai Winichakul has been awarded the 2023 Fukuoka Grand Prize. The Fukuoka Prize was established in 1990 to honor the outstanding work of individuals, groups, and organizations in preserving and creating the unique …
Professor Marla Ramirez Won the Oral History Association’s Article Award
Professor Marla Ramirez won the Oral History Association’s Article Award for her essay titled, “Gendered banishment: Rewriting Mexican repatriation through a transgenerational oral history methodology.” This award was created to recognize an article or essay …
Alum Tamara Feinstein Publishes New Book
Alum Tamara Feinstein (Ph.D., 2013) recently published a new book titled, The Fate of Peruvian Democracy: Political Violence, Human Rights, and the Legal Left. Description: Tamara Feinstein investigates the bloody Shining Path conflict’s effect on …