The North American Conference for British Studies (NACBS) Pre-Dissertation Grants are awarded to Ph.D. candidates to pursue preliminary research on potential…
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The North American Conference for British Studies (NACBS) Pre-Dissertation Grants are awarded to Ph.D. candidates to pursue preliminary research on potential dissertation-length studies related to any…
Kayra Guven, a Stanford University PhD student in History, developed Empires in Plane Sight: Airline Routes & Worldmaking, a proposal that examines maps of the global network of commercial airline…
Congratulations to Mathew Ayodele , Stanford History Ph.D student, on receiving the Lagos Studies Association Best Graduate Student Paper Award for his paper, “ Transactional Agency: Nigerians…
The History of Economics Society is delighted to announce the winner of this year's Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize. The Spengler Award committee – consisting of Steve Meardon (chair), Juan Pablo…
Jordan Virtue, of Stanford University, won the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award for her paper, " 'The Lyre of War': Black Civil War Memory in Paul Laurence Dunbar." Andrew L. Slap, Chair of…
This dissertation examines the entangled geography of mineral extraction from the 1870s through the onset of the “Great Acceleration” in the mid-20th century. Focusing on sulfur, a key input to…
Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin is a PhD candidate of history at Stanford University and current Thomas D. Dee II Graduate Fellow with Stanford's Bill Lane Center for the American West. Her research examines…
Dr. Gil-li Vardi was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award by Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest academic honor society, which is given to teachers nominated by their students.
Since 1997 the Friends of the German Historical Institute have awarded the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize for the best doctoral dissertation on a topic in German history written at a North American…
The American Philosophical Society (APS) is proud to welcome our new Members elected to the Society in 2026. Election to the American Philosophical Society honors extraordinary accomplishments in all…