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Please join us in congratulating Samuel Thomas Crowe in being announced as the latest Rhodes Scholar.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-student-latest-rhodes-scholar?utm_...
Please join us in congratulating Sarah Milov as The Knight First Amendment Center has published her research article "Gags ang Grievance: The Labor Origins of Whistleblowing".
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/gags-and-grievance-the-labor-origins-...
Congratulations to Professor Elizabeth Varon! Her book "Longstreet: The Confederate General who Defied the South" has received several awards in just the first year of it's publication.
https://www.georgiahistory.com/georgia-historical-society-honors-dr-eliz...
Congratulations to Justene Hill Edwards who has been selected as a College of Arts & Sciences Dean's Research Fellow for the '24-'25 and '25-'26 academic years. The Dean's Research Fellows program recognizes a small cohort of exceptional scholars in Arts and Sciences who are outstanding in their respective fields.
Please join us in congratulating Professor Justene Hill Edwards. Her recent publication, Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank, has earned a spot on The New York Times "I Recommend This Week" list.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/books/review/new-books-recommendation...
Postdoctoral Research Associate Justin McBrien has written an article for TIME that shows Hurricane Helene's damage is not unprecedented and "How America Forgot a Crucial Lesson From Hurricane Disasters of the Past".
https://time.com/7072620/hurricane-lesson-helene-camille-history/
Congratulations to recent UVA Department of History PhD Crystal Luo for receiving the best dissertation award from the Urban History Association.
Please click HERE for more infomation.
Please welcome our new Visiting Associate Professor, Melissa Vise!
Vise received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in medieval and early modern history (2015) and her master’s in theological studies from the University of Notre Dame (2008).
She has written articles for the Speculum, Viator and American Journal for Legal History. She also has a book release, The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy (University of Pennsylvania Press), scheduled for January 2025.
Full profile can be read here: https://as.virginia.edu/faculty-profile/melissa-vise
Congratulations to Professor Joseph Seeley, who was selected for the 2024-2025 U.S.-Korea NextGen Scholars Program.
An initiative by the CSIS Office of the Korea Chair and the USC Korean Studies Institute with support from The Korea Foundation to help mentor the next generation of Korea specialists in the United States.
These scholars were selected in a national competition. The scholars all displayed exemplary scholarship in wide-rangingdisciplines, from American studies, ethnomusicology, history, political science, philosophy, to international relations.
Learn more about the program here: https://www.csis.org/programs/korea-chair/projects/us-korea-nextgen-scholars-program
The inaugural $50,000 American Battlefield Trust Prize for History has been awarded to historian Elizabeth Varon for “Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South,” a richly reported biography of the complicated Civil War leader who after the war encouraged an examination of the roots of the conflict and advocated for racial reconciliation.
Dr. James McPherson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of “Battle Cry of Freedom” and one of the prize’s three judges, called Varon’s work “a literary and research achievement.” “The special virtue of this book is it tells us the whole story of Longstreet, for the decades after the war as well as the war itself,” said McPherson, professor emeritus at Princeton University. “It’s beautifully crafted and original in its good many insights.”
Varon’s work was selected from among nearly 100 entries for the new prize, which seeks to underscore the irreplaceable perspective and primary research value of preserving the battlefields on which our nation was forged – during conflicts which we still seek to better understand today.
The works of two other authors also were recognized with $2,500 honorable mentions: D. Scott Hartwig’s “I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign” and Friederike Baer’s “Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War.”
Full announcement can be read here: https://www.battlefields.org/news/historian-elizabeth-varons-longstreet-biography-wins-inaugural-american-battlefield-trust
Professor Joseph Seeley discussed the significance and legacy of "6-25" on its 75th Anniversary for UVA Lifetime Learning.
"On this day, 74 years ago, the Korean War began, a conflict often overlooked in history. Join us in reading “June 25th: Remembering the Forgotten Korean War”, an exploration of the war’s enduring impact and significance in our UVA community. Let’s remember and learn together."
The article can be read here: https://engagement.virginia.edu/learn/thoughts-from-the-lawn/20240625-Seeley?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2SGwKaURpW-mNbLOllNkQTV7KWX8WP7TZpxmLQF_0yeDIif3QNTWDzK_Q_aem_hkMeEO1pFEWoGgSRs4EITQ
Professor S. Deborah Kang was featured in Tim Murphy's article, "The Border Patrol Is an Engine of Crisis—and Has Been Since the Beginning," for Mother Jones. Kang discussed the history of the Border Patrol.
Read the article here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/border-patrol-turns-100-anniversary-cb-hudspeth/
Professor Justene Hill Edwards was featured in WalletHub's recent article about State Economies with the Most Racial Equality!
You can find it here: https://wallethub.com/edu/state-economies-with-most-racial-equality/75810#expert=Justene_Hill_Edwards
Professor S. Deborah Kang discuss the Border Patrol involvement in asylum processing in Public Books
Professor S. Deborah Kang details how the US Border Patrol's fraught, seemingly mismatched involvement in asylum processing is, in fact, a matter of design in "The Board Patrol and Asylum Exclusion." This article is a part of the Public Books' series "The Border is the Crisis."
Read here: https://www.publicbooks.org/the-border-patrol-and-asylum-exclusion/
Congratulations to Professor Neeti Nair, who will be 2024-25 residential fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center!
Congratualtions to Professor Erik Linstrum, who will be a residential fellow at the Huntington Library! Linstrum is the 2024-25 Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow!
See announement here: https://huntington.org/awarded-fellowships
In his New York Times opinion piece, It's Time to End the Quiet Cruelty of Property Taxes, Professor Andrew Kahrl explains the problem with the property tax system and offers solutions. Read here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/opinion/property-taxes-racism-inequality.html
Kirt von Daacke (History, American Studies) is co-editor, with Andrea Douglas, of the new book, After Emancipation: Racism and Resistance at the University of Virginia (University of Virginia Press). The book's 15 essays include contributions by Sylvia Chong and Kasey Jernigan (American Studies); Andrew Kahrl, Christian McMillen and Liz Varon (History); and A&S alumni James H. Hershman Jr. (History Ph.D., 1978), Countess Hughes(Psychology B.A., 1982; Assoc. Dir. of Assignments, UVA Housing & Residence Life); Scot French (History Ph.D., 2000) and Andrea Douglas (Art History Ph.D., 2001).
Kirt von Daacke is an Assistant Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. Andrea Douglas is Executive Director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. Together they serve as Co-Chairs of the UVA President’s Commission on the University in the Age of Segregation.
About the book:
This anthology reckons with the University of Virginia’s post-emancipation history of racial exploitation. Its fifteen essays highlight the many forms of marginalization and domination at Virginia’s once all-white flagship university to uncover the patriarchal, nativist, and elitist assumptions that shaped university culture through the late nineteenth century and well into the twentieth. Including community responses ranging from personal reflections to interviews with local leaders to poems, this accessible volume will be essential reading for anyone with ties to UVA or to Charlottesville, as well as for anyone concerned with the legacy of slavery and segregation in America’s universities.
Link to book here: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5925/
Professor Penny Von Eschen was interviewed about the themes of her new book, Paradoxes of Nostalgia, on The Nation's podcast American Prestige: https://www.thenation.com/podcast/world/amprest-040224-pveschen/
On this episode of American Prestige, part 1 of a discussion on post–Cold War malaise of the 1990s. |
Congratulations to Loretta Dredger, who was awarded the Harrison Undergraduate Research Award!
Loretta will use the funds to support her work with the Access to Justice Lab at Harvard Law School. At the Law School, she will be studying the efficacy of self-help materials designed to increase access to public services among those in need. Based on her findings, she plans to employ these materials in her volunteer work with various Charlottesville organizations, including the Haven and PACEM. The title of her project is “Exploring the Efficacy of Self-Help Materials.” Loretta's faculty mentor for this award is Professor S. Deborah Kang.