December 1, 2019
- The Western History Association honored Dr. Maria E. Montoya (BA, MA, ‘93 PhD) as its incoming President-Elect. She is the Dean of Arts and Sciences at NYU Shanghai and an Associate Professor of History at NYU New York. She will serve as WHA President- Elect until next October.
- Williamson (Wick) Murray (‘75 PhD) received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History.
- Henry Clements was selected to receive an award this year under the Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources program, administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources.
- Gregory Roberts (‘13 PhD) published Police Power in the Italian Communes, 1228-1326 from Amsterdam University Press.
- The Graduate School awarded 2019 Porter and Field prizes to two History PhDs: Flynn Cratty won the Theron Rockwell Field Prize for his dissertation, “The Soul in Paraphrase”: Prayer and the Changing Mental Worlds of Early Modern France and England” and Catherine Mas was awarded the John Addison Porter Prize for her dissertation, “The Cultural Brokers: Medicine and Anthropology in Global Miami”.
- Timothy Lorek’s dissertation, “Developing Paradise: Agricultural Science in the Conflicted Landscape of Colombia’s Cauca Valley, 1927-1967,” won the Gilbert C. Fite prize for best dissertation from the Agricultural History Society (2019).
- Andra Chastain received the Michael Katz Award for best dissertation in urban history in 2018 (awarded by the Urban History Association) for her dissertation: “Vehicle of Progress: The Santiago Metro, Technopolitics, and State Formation in Chile, 1965-1989.”