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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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…
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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…
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The Senegal Liberations Project brings together educators from the U.S. and West Africa to address the lack of attention to slavery and freedom within Africa. For…
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Congratulations to Mathew Ayodele, Stanford History Ph.D student, on receiving the Lagos Studies Association Best Graduate Student Paper Award for his paper, “…
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…
Professor Londa Schiebinger was nominated by the President and Fellows of Harvard University to receive the Centennial Medal of the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in…
The subject of this engaging biography is the eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who is often ridiculed as a faulty precursor to Darwin. Long associated with the idea…
Professor Joel Cabrita has been named to the 101st Class of The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows.
The American Council of Learned Societies has awarded Dr. Theresa Iker ('23) a 2026 ACLS Fellowship for her project Making America Male Again: The Men’s Rights Movement, 1960–2005.
Professor Dan Edelstein has been awarded the Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for 18th Century Studies for his most recent book, The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from…
Professor Rachel Jean-Baptiste has been awarded the 2026 Judith Lee Ridge Article Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians for her article "To Be Worthy of the Name of My Father: Métis…
The Stanford Alumni Association awarded history professor Caroline Winterer the Richard W. Lyman Award on Feb. 24. According to the Alumni Association website, the award honors faculty who extend…
Thomas Mullaney, a professor in the Department of History, has been named the UNESCO Chair in Digital Futures at Stanford University. This designation is part of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Program, an…