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The latest activity of the AHA and historians in supporting history and historical thinking.

  • AHA Teaching Division VP Publishes Op-Ed on #MeToo in Academia

    May 22, 2018 - 

    Elizabeth Lehfeldt, vice president of the AHA's Teaching Division, published an op-ed for Inside Higher Ed discussing how the #MeToo movement has affected higher education and what steps are needed to improve campus working environments. Read the full article online.

  • ACLS to Provide Funding for Historical Research in China

    May 22, 2018 - 

    The American Council of Learned Societies announced the 2018 class of grantees for its Programs in China Studies. Among the list of 33 scholars who will receive funding are thirteen historians and four AHA members. With aid from The Henry Luce Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, the ACLS is providing over $720,000 to fund scholarly research in China. 

  • Craig Perrier Appointed to AHA Teaching Division

    May 17, 2018 - 

    The AHA Council has appointed Craig Perrier (Fairfax Co., Virginia, Public Schools) to fill a vacancy on the Council's Teaching Division.  Perrier has been a participant in several AHA activities and served on the AHA's Program Committee for the 2018 Washington, DC, Annual Meeting.  

  • AHA Members Awarded 2018 Mellon/ACLS Fellowships

    May 17, 2018 - 

    On April 25, the American Council of Learned Societies announced the 2018 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows. Among the 67 scholars awarded were 13 AHA members. Each fellowship provides a $30,000 stipend and up to $8,000 in research funds and university fees to graduate students in their final year of dissertation writing. To see the full list of fellows, visit the ACLS website. 

  • AHA Signs on to Letter Requesting Additional Funding for National Park Service

    May 17, 2018 - 

    The AHA Council signed onto a letter to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies urging increased funding for the National Park Service Office of International Affairs to support its World Heritage Program.  Read the full letter here.

  • Schmitt Grant Awardee Writes Op-Ed on Monument to Russian Tsar in Crimea

    May 17, 2018 - 

    Ala Creciun Graff, AHA member and recipient of one of the Association's 2018 Bernadotte Schmitt Grants, wrote an op-ed for the Baltimore Sun concerning the symbolism of the newly unveiled statue of Russian Tsar Alexander III in Crimea. Graff sees this statue as evidence of Moscow's desire "to signal historical continuities with the peninsula" and Putin's larger goal "to re-assert Russia on the global stage."

  • Historians Awarded 2018-19 Berlin Prize

    May 17, 2018 - 

    On April 25, the American Academy in Berlin awarded the Berlin Prize to four historians, including three AHA members: Jennifer Allen (Yale Univ.), Peter Holquist (Univ. of Pennsylvania), and Carina Johnson (Pitzer Coll.). Each prize grants awardees a semester-long fellowship in Berlin. To see the full press briefing, visit the academy's website. 

  • AHA Staff Quoted in Washington Post Article on Digital History

    May 14, 2018 - 

    Seth Denbo, AHA director of scholarly communication and digital initiatives, was quoted in the Retropolis blog of the Washington Post concerning digital reconstructions of the past. Denbo stated that like historical video games such as Assassin's Creed, digital projects give audiences "an idea of what these historical spaces and experiences were like for people in the past." The article also features several digital history projects, from photography colorization to an interactive topographical map of the D-Day invasion at Normandy. "It feels a little like we've been given the ability to time travel," Denbo said. 

  • AHA President-elect Awarded 2018 Heineken Prize from Royal Netherlands Academy

    Apr 26, 2018 - 

    AHA president-elect John McNeill (Georgetown Univ.) recently received the 2018 Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History for his work in "integrating two recent branches of the study of history: global history and environmental history." Each Heineken Prize is worth $200,000 and will be presented on Thursday, September 27, 2018, in Amsterdam. 

  • Historians Included in List of 2018 Carnegie Fellows

    Apr 26, 2018 - 

    The Carnegie Corporation of New York today announced the 2019 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. Among the 31 recipients are 6 historians: Lily Geismer (Claremont McKenna Coll.); Grace Hale (Univ. of Virginia); Elizabeth Hinton (Harvard Univ.); Margaret Jacobs (Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln); Erika Lee (Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities); and Talitha LeFlouria (Univ. of Virginia). Each fellow will receive up to $200,000 in funding.

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