Professor Elizabeth R. Varon recently appeared on the "Key Battles of American History" podcast to discuss her new book, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South! Check it out!
https://www.spreaker.com/user/10740198/kbah-longstreet-with-elizabeth-varon-wit
Congratulations to all the students who received department awards! These students will be contributing to so much amazing research!
The awardees are as follows:
Finger Family Undergraduate Research Award
Ella Sher, 3rd year double major in History and Environmental Thought & Practice, to research An Environmental History of the Jaffa Orange with mentor Chris Gratien
History Department Research Assistantships
Congratulations to Professor Grace Elizabeth Hale on the recent publication of her book, In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning!
Link to book here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-elizabeth-hale/in-the-pin...
Congratulations to Professor Brian P. Owensby on winning the American Historical Association's Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean history for his book, New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy (Stanford Univ. Press, 2022).
Congratulations to Professor Christian McMillen on being selected as the 2023-2024 Resident Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at UVA.
Congratulations to Olivier Zunz who was awarded the Prix littéraire de biographie historique Brantôme for the French edition of The Man Who Understood Democracy. The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville (Princeton 2022).
The French title is Tocqueville. L’homme qui comprit la démocratie (Fayard, 2022).
Congratulations to Professor Erik Linstrum whose book, Age of Emergency, was an editor's choice for September 2023 in the EuropeNow Journal published by the Council for European Studies!
The book has also been featured in a review essay in the Dublin Review of Books:
Records unearthed by Christian McMillen "shed new light on states’ vocal opposition in the 1950s to tribes claiming their share of the river." Professor Christian McMillen's research on the Colorado River and tribal water rights was recently featured in ProPublica and High County News joint article.
High County News article: https://www.hcn.org/articles/waiting-for-water-states-opposed-tribes-acc...
Congratualtions to Professor S. Deborah Kang on her recently published article, “Sovereign Mercy: The Legalization of the White Russian Refugees and the Politics of Immigration Relief” in the Journal of American Ethnic History!
Deborah S. Kang argues, "that even though these Russians were defined as refugees under international law and perceived as such by the public, their American defenders deliberately recast them as undocumented immigrants to halt their deportations to the Soviet Union and give them a pathway to citizenship."
Justin T. Winokur discusses the usage of Cold War history in policy making in his recent Foregin Affairs article,"The Cold War Trap."
Read the article here: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/cold-war-trap-america-foreign-policy
