April 2014

Max Fraser has been awarded the Frost Prize for the best article in the journal American Art

Max Fraser has been awarded the Frost Prize for the best article in the journal American Art in 2013.  The selection committee praised his article “Hands Off the Machine:  Workers’ Hands and Revolutionary Symbolism in the Visual Culture of 1930s America” for its skillful exploration of “the contested visual terrain of the automobile industry during the Great Depression …  At the center of this ‘labored’context of images, strikes, and industrial production, wherein themes of heroic working-class diversity competed with an emerging corporate-sponsored

New Thinking about the Old Empire: A Celebration of Laura Engelstein's Career

May 2-3, 2014
Yale University
Hall of Graduate Studies
Friday Session HGS 401; Saturday Sessions HGS 211
320 York Street New Haven, CT
The conference organizers would like to thank the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund at Yale University for their generous financial support.
 
Friday, May 2 – HGS room 401
3-5:15: Knowledge and Power

First Annual Senior Essay Symposium

Join us on Friday, May 2nd as we listen to twelve of the Department of History’s most accomplished seniors present their Senior Essays. This event will be a fun, informal, and informative opportunity to support our peers and learn from their experiences. Discussion will focus on their topic selection, research process, and obstacles along the way. There will be 3 panels, each including a question and answer session, and a reception at the end. This event is open to students from all majors as well as faculty. We hope to see you there.

First Annual Senior Essay Symposium will take place Friday, May 2nd

Join us on Friday, May 2nd as we listen to twelve of the Department of History’s most accomplished seniors present their Senior Essays. This event will be a fun, informal, and informative opportunity to support our peers and learn from their experiences. Discussion will focus on their topic selection, research process, and obstacles along the way. There will be 3 panels, each including a question and answer session, and a reception at the end. This event is open to students from all majors as well as faculty.

Drixler and Van Vleck are co-winners of the MacMillan Center’s Gaddis Smith International Book Prize

Two of our colleagues are co-winners of the MacMillan Center’s Gaddis Smith International Book Prize.  Fabian Drixler won the prize for his book Mabiki:  Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950, and Jenifer Van Vleck for Empire of the Air:  Aviation and the American Ascendancy. 

Alan Mikhail's article in the American Historical Review wins the American Society for Environmental History's Alice Hamilton Prize

Prof. Mikhail’s article, “Unleashing the Beast: Animals, Energy, and the Economy of Labor in Ottoman Egypt,” American Historical Review 118, 2 (2013) won the Alice Hamilton Prize at this year’s American Society for Environmental History annual conference.  Awards were presented in San Francisco on March 15, 2014.  Click to read the full story on the ASEH website.