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The Kennedy Thesis Prize is awarded annually to the single best thesis in each of the four areas of humanities and arts, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. Recipients of this award have accomplished exceptionally advanced…
Awards Support Emerging Scholars Pursuing Pathbreaking Dissertation Research
The American Council of Learned Societies is proud to announce that Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin has been awarded a 2024 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship…
Ruth J. Simmons — former president of Brown University, Prairie View A&M University, and Smith College — discussed her book Up Home: One Girl’s Journey with James Campbell, professor of history at Stanford. Campbell was on…
Completely uncontroversial statements about Donald J. Trump are vanishingly rare these days, but I think I can propose one: Trump isn’t exactly known for his powers of attention. During his four years as president, it was nearly impossible for…
Interview with:
Professor Paula Findlen, Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of History
Hannah Johnston, PhD student, Department of History
Harleen Kaur Bagga, PhD student, Department of Art and Art History
Megan Khoury, PhD student,…
The Association of American Publishers’ annual PROSE Awards recognize ‘significant contributions’ in scholarly publishing and the 2024 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences was awarded to Professor Gabrielle Hecht's newest book, …
Mejgan Massoumi ('21) was recently awarded the 2023 Dissertation Prize by the World History Association for her dissertation entitled "The Sounds of Kabul: Radio and the Politics of Popular Culture in Modern Afghanistan, 1960-79."
Professor Joel Cabrita's most recent book, Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala, was awarded the prize for best biography by the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences.
Congratulations Professor Cabrita!
Professor Rachel Jean-Baptiste's most recent book, Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship, was awarded the David H. Pinkney Prize by the Society for French Historical Studies; this award is given to the…
Dr. Londa Schiebinger is an international leader on the intersection of sex, gender, and science. In this interview with Cell, she discusses the Gendered Innovations project, the persistent STEM gender gap, the importance of considering sex- and…
