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With President Biden’s announcement that he will not run for re-election in November, all eyes have turned to his replacement. Many top Democrats, including Biden, have endorsed Vice-President Kamala Harris, leading to…
For several years in the 1990s, the company that brought you the Marlboro Man rolled billions of cigarettes on the grounds of the most notorious concentration camp. How could it be that cigarettes came to be made in a former death camp?…
Kathryn Olivarius, an assistant professor of history in the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences, recently received the Dan David Prize in recognition of her work on disease, citizenship, and economics in the 19th-century…
As the national conversation around former President Trump’s vice presidential pick intensifies, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) stands out as the only woman left on the reported shortlist. A pro-Israel, anti-abortion congresswoman…
Professor Dorin's first book, No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe, has won the following prizes:
Salo Baron Book Prize | American Academy for Jewish Research
The Baron Prize…
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,…
