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History Department Selects Finger Family Undergraduate Research Awardee and Research Assistantships

History Department Selects Finger Family Undergraduate Research Awardee and Research Assistantships

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

Sarah Ahmad, a 2nd year History & Foreign Affairs major, will work with Kevin Gaines on “Reconstructing Blackness: The World in the Civil Rights Movement” 

Carson Arnold, a 3rd year History major, will work with Grace Hale on her book project, Working Class Heroes: The Past and Future of the American Labor Movement.

Sydney Bradley-Black, a 4th year History and Foreign Affairs major and Spanish minor will work with Lean Sweeney on “Rights Without Rites: Concubinage in the Post-Colony"

Jiawen Davis, a 3rd year double majoring in History and Statistics, will work with Justene Hill-Edwards to research the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company.

Blanche Delrieu, a 4th year double major in History and Economics will work with Laurent Dubois on his comic book history about the Haitian Revolution.

Tyler Dooling, a 4th year History major and Social Entrepreneurship minor, will work with Lean Sweeney on  “Rights Without Rites: Concubinage in the Post-Colony"

Nash Ford, a 4th year American Studies major and History minor, will work with Erica Sterling on her book, Innovating Inequality, about federal education policy, Black politics, and philanthropy.

Ella Sher, a 3rd year History and Environmental Thought & Practice double major, will work with Chris Gratien on an environmental history of the Jaffa orange.

Congratulations to all the students who received department awards! These students will be contributing to so much amazing research!

The awardees are as follows:

Professor Grace Elizabeth Hale's new book, In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning!

Professor Grace Elizabeth Hale's new book, In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning!

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 Grace Elizabeth Hale on the recent publication of her book, In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning!

Professor Brian P. Owensby wins AHA's Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean history

Professor Brian P. Owensby wins AHA's Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean history

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). 

The American Historical Association offers the Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean History, which honors Friedrich Katz, an Austrian-born specialist in Latin American history, whose nearly 50-year career inspired dozens of students and colleagues in the field. Full announcement here: https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-his...

 

 

Congratulations to Professor Brian P.

Professor Christian McMillen selected as 2023-2024 IATH Resident Fellow

Professor Christian McMillen selected as 2023-2024 IATH Resident Fellow

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. 

Every year, IATH awards a two-year Resident Fellowship to UVA humanities faculty. IATH Fellows work closely with IATH staff to design and implement research projects that use digital tools and methodology to develop and publish their scholarship. His project, American Indian Land Loss: Land Sales and the Loss of American Indian Property in the Twentieth Century, will create and analyze quantitative data sets to study the tragic and deeply fraught history of land ownership by U.S. tribal nations and individual American Indians.

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. 

Publications

The Long 1989

Decades of Global Revolution

Cool Town

How Athens, Georgia Launched the Alternative Scene and Changed American Culture

The Cigarette

A Political History

Petersburg to Appomattox

Petersburg to Appomattox

The End of the War in Virginia

To the End of Revolution

The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949–1959

Black Leaders on Leadership

Black Leaders on Leadership

Conversations with Julian Bond

Taming the Unknown

Taming the Unknown

A History of Algebra from Antiquity to the Early Twentieth Century

La Frontera

La Frontera

Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile’s Frontier Territory

Tosaka Jun

Tosaka Jun

A Critical Reader

Bad Water

Bad Water

Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870–1950

Lens of War

Lens of War

Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War

The Associational State

The Associational State

American Governance in the Twentieth Century

Discovering Tuberculosis

Discovering Tuberculosis

A Global History, 1900 to the Present

Enlightenment Underground

Enlightenment Underground

Radical Germany, 1680-1720

Cold Harbor

Cold Harbor to the Crater The End of the Overland Campaign

Ruling Minds

Ruling Minds

Psychology in the British Empire

Causes Won and Lost

Causes Won and Lost

The End of the Civil War

The American War

The American War

A History of the Civil War Era

Shaper Nations

Shaper Nations

Strategies for a Changing World

When Sunday Comes

Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras

Library

Confronting Saddam Hussein

George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq

The Age of Eisenhower

The Age of Eisenhower

America and the World in the 1950s

Performing Filial Piety in Northern Song China

Family, State, and Native Place

Rooted Cosmopolitans

Rooted Cosmopolitans

Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

Piracy and Law

Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean

Singing the Resurrection

Singing the Resurrection

Body, Community, and Belief in Reformation Europe

Sea of Debt

A Sea of Debt

Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950

Armies of Deliverance

A New History of the Civil War

The Law of Strangers

Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century

To Build a Better World

Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth

Unfree Marks: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina

Ghosts From the Past?

Assessing Recent Developments in Religious Freedom in South Asia

That Tyrant, Persuasion

How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World

The Unsettled Plain

An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier

The Man Who Understood Democracy

The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville

Paradoxes of Nostalgia

Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989

The New Era In American Mathematics, 1920-1950

Hurt Sentiments

Secularism and Belonging in South Asia

Communism's Public Sphere

Corcoran Department of History

The University of Virginia's Corcoran Department of History has long been one of the anchors for liberal and humane education in the College of Arts & Sciences. Members of the Department are nationally and internationally recognized for their scholarship and teaching. As scholars, the faculty specialize in a wide range of disciplines — cultural, diplomatic, economic, environmental history, history of science & technology, intellectual, legal, military, political, public history, and social history.  Areas of interest span the globe from Africa, to East Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, and the United States. As teachers, our faculty seek above all to lead students to reflect more deeply on the role historical forces and processes play in the human condition. Offering over 100 courses a year, the faculty teach introductory surveys as well as seminars and colloquia to undergraduates and graduate students. The Department's intellectual breadth is enhanced by its close relationship with the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American & African Studies, the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), the Classics Department, an emerging Law & History nexus between the Department and the School of Law,  the Miller Center for Study of the American Presidency, and the Committee on the History of Environment, Science, and Technology (CHEST). Members of the Department are also closely involved with several interdisciplinary programs in the College of Arts & Sciences such as, American Studies, Latin American Studies, Middle-Eastern Studies, Medieval Studies Program, and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.  Others work at the convergence of humanities and digital technology, both in research and in novel approaches to historical pedagogy.