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UVA Today published a piece about Claudrena Harold and Louis Nelson's new book, Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequality. You can read the piece online here, and you can find out more information on the book here.
Prof. John Mason participated in an interview for the Washington Post along with Vogue's Creative Director, Andre Leon Tally, discussing how it took the magazine 125 years to feature a cover photo shot by an African American photographer.
Prof. Waitman Beorn contributed this op-ed to the Washington Post about the toppling of "Silent Sam" at UNC.
Upcoming Events
9/17/2018: THE ANTISEMITIC ORIGINS OF “FAKE NEWS” AND THE FATE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
9/20/2018: THE MEMOIRS OF ULYSSES S. GRANT
9/21/2018: NEW REGISTERS FOR OLD DEBTS: MUNICIPAL COURTS AND MICRO-LENDING IN NINETEENTH CENTURY MEXICO
10/03/2018: NOTES ON THE STATE OF JUPITER: THOMAS JEFFERSON AND HIS BODYSERVANT JUPITER EVANS
10/17/2018: BEYOND JEFFERSON: THE RANDOLPHS, HEMINGSES, AND THE IDEA OF THE WEST, 1820-1900
The Digital Humanities program seeks a Curriculum Research Assistant. This is a paid position beginning in mid to late August. The expected time committment is 25 hours a week in August and 10-20 hours a week during the school year. The position is open to graduate students and pays $15 an hour. To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to mapp@virginia.edu
Please see the attached flyer for more information.
Congrats to grad student Chris Halsted, who has won a Gerda Henkel Stiftung Scholarship for 2018-2019 to support his research on 10th-century Slavic state formation!
You can find out more about the Gerda Henkel Stiftung here.
Congratulations to history grad students Monica Blair, Brian Neumann, and Abeer Saha, who have won 2018 Jefferson Scholars Foundation GSAS Fellowships! Funding from this fellowship will enable them to spend more time concentrating on their dissertation research.
In related news, grad student Justin McBrien has won a 2018 JSF National Fellowship, which will give him support for his final year of dissertation writing. Congrats everyone!
You can check out more about the Jefferson Scholars Foundation here.
Congratulations to Profs. Risa Goluboff and Joe Miller, who have been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-laws-goluboff-historys-miller-elec...
With Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony and the recent FBI seizure of Michael Cohen's legal record, concerns about privacy of information have been making a lot of headlines recently. To provide a historical perspective, Brian Balogh recently spoke (along with his BackStory co-host Nathan Connolly) on NPR's Here and Now about the long history of American privacy and infringement, stretching back to Colonial-era search and seizure and the early origins of the National Security Agency.
Check out the interview here!
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/04/12/american-privacy-history
Congratulations to L. Kent Merritt, the history department's administrative supervisor, who has won the University of Virginia Alumni Association's 2018 Distinguished Service Award!
Congratulations to history grad students Jonathan Cohen and Joey Thompson, who have won 2018-2019 Mellon / ALCS dissertation completion fellowships! These fellowships are granted annually to students in all disciplines, making them extremely competitive.
You can read more about the fellowship here.
Congratulations to Thomas Klubock, who was recently awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship to support his research! The Guggenheim is one of the most competitive academic grants that a scholar may earn. You can read more about Prof. Klubock's current project here.
Congratulations to Justin McBrien, who has been awarded the 2018 Frank Finger Graduate Fellowship for Teaching. Funded by a gift from J. Huston McCollough, II in honor of Frank Finger, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, this Fellowship is awarded annually to a teaching assistant in the College of Arts & Sciences, in recognition of stimulating and organized classroom teaching or lab instruction.
Congratulations to Swati Chawla, who has just been been named the recipient of a 2017-2018 UVa Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award! This award is given annually to three graduate teachers (one from social sciences, one from STEM fields, and one from arts and humanities, including history). It is one of the highest teaching honors that a graduate student can earn at the University of Virginia.
With the Hoos out of the Tournament, there's a good chance that the most popular team right now is 11-seed Loyola-Chicago. Why is that? Well, as Prof. Brian Balogh (and his BackStory co-host Ed Ayers) explained recently on NPR's Here and Now, Americans have a long history of supporting the underdog. Check out the interview here!
Congratulations to the following history majors, who were just recently inducted into Phi Beta Kappa!
Wilson Blythe ● Dzi-Yang Chen ● Olivia Corso ● Courtney Cuppernull ● Tess Irelan ● Grace Kim ● Samuel Lesemann ● Brett Marshall ● Cameron Tarry ● Gwendolyn Wright
Prof. Fahad Bishara recently appeared on the H-Law Podcast to discuss his new book, A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Check it out here!
Prof. Brian Balogh recently appeared, along with his BackStory co-host Joanne Freeman, on NPR's Here and Now to give some historical context for the recent firing of former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. You can listen to the interview here.
Congratulations to Chris Whitehead, grad student in the department, who has been selected as a fellow in Praxis Program of the UVa Scholars' Lab! As a Praxis fellow, Chris will receive methodological training in the digital humanities, with special emphasis on developing a new research project.
You can find out more about the Praxis Program here.
Need some context on the recent Rex Tillerson firing? The Corcoran Dept. of History's got you covered. Check out this Made by History article in the Washington Post, written by Alexandra Evans (grad student in the department) and Evan McCormick (UVa PhD '16)!
Swati Chawla, graduate student in the department, has just published a chapter in a new edited volume, Through the Diasporic Lens: Volume II. Swati's chapter is entitled "'A Long Look Homeward': Ideas of Time and Space in Tibet Museum." Congrats, Swati!
Bibliographic details:
Publisher: Authorpress (New Delhi)
Date: March 15, 2018
Book Title: Through the Diasporic Lens: Volume II
Editor: Nandini C Sen
More information and purchasing options can be found at the publisher's website.
Congratulations to Max Edelson, whose book The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence has been named a finalist for the 2018 George Washington Prize! This award is given every year to the author of the past year’s best-written work on the nation’s founding era, focusing especially on books that have the potential to advance broad public understanding of early American history.
Prof. Edelson's book is one of seven finalists for the George Washington Prize. The winner of the award will be announced, and all finalists recognized, at a black-tie gala on May 23, 2018 at George Washington’s Mount Vernon.
Congratulations to Professor (and Associate Chair) Christian McMillan, who has been named the next Associate Dean for the Social Sciences! You can read more about the announcement here.