Sanjay Subrahmanya Gave Short Interview In “History Today”
Sanjay Subrahmanyam gave a short interview in “History Today” that is now available online. Links: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/interview/spot-sanjay-subrahmanyam
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Ph.D Student Ethan Mefford Winner of the 2022 Marjorie and Lancelot Farrar Award
Ph.D student Ethan Mefford has been named winner of the 2022 Marjorie and Lancelot Farrar Award, which is conferred by the Society of French Historical Studies, to support an outstanding in-progress dissertation on any period in French history by students enrolled in a history doctoral program in the U.S. or Canada. Ethan is currently on […]
Teren Sevea Wins Association for Asian Studies’ Harry J. Benda Prize for Best First Book on Southeast Asian Studies
Alumni Teren Sevea (now Assistant Professor at Harvard Divinity School) won the Association for Asian Studies’ Harry J. Benda Prize for best first book on Southeast Asian Studies for the book Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Teren’s dissertation (upon which the book is based) previously won […]
Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy (PhD 2021) Named to Post of Maitre de Conferences
Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy (PhD 2021) has been named to a post of Maître de Conférences (Associate Professor) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Professor Emeritus Giorgio Buccellati Receives 2021 Balzan Prize
Professor Emeritus Giorgio Buccellati, along with Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, received the 2021 Balzan Prize for Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. They received this award “For their achievements in the study of Hurrian culture and for highlighting its importance as the foundation of a great urban civilization, among the most flourishing in the ancient […]
Robin Kelley Featured in NPR’s Throughline
Robin Kelley was featured in an entire episode of the Public Broadcasting Corporation’s show Throughline. The episode is titled “There are No Utopias – Robin D. G. Kelley Discusses Black Radical History, Liberation, and Capitalism”. Links: https://www.npr.org/2022/02/20/1082030426/there-are-no-utopias
David Myers’ Recent Book Reviewed by The New Yorker
David Myers’ recent book American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York was reviewed by The New Yorker. Links: https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/an-extraordinary-account-of-a-hasidic-enclave
Brian J. Griffith Published an OpEd with The Washington Post
Brian J. Griffith, currently the Weber Postdoc in European History, just published an OpEd with The Washington Post’s “Made by History” series on the comparisons between the Ethiopian Crisis (1935-36) and the ongoing Ukrainian Crisis. Please note: A subscription to The Washington Post may be needed to read this article. Links: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/02/24/failure-respond-strongly-putins-aggression-could-prove-catastrophic/
Maia Ferdman Selected As Landecker Democracy Fellow
Maia Ferdman, Assistant Director of the Luskin Center of History and Policy, has been selected as a Landecker Democracy Fellow – one of 30 changemakers with inclusive and innovative ideas for social cohesion. Each year, the Fellowship brings together young leaders from the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States who spend one […]
David N. Myers’ new book American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York reviewed in the New York Review of Books
David N. Myers’ new book American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York was reviewed in the New York Review of Books. Links: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/02/24/strangers-in-a-strange-land-hasidic-brooklyn-upstate/
