Historians Making News

This space highlights the accomplishments of historians. Members and non-member historians are encouraged to submit news about prizes, promotions, honors, tenure, and new jobs. Entries to be considered for inclusion on "Historians Making News" can be about yourself, another historian, or group of historians. AHA staff will review all submissions.

  • Emily Rose Wins the Albert C. Outler Prize of the American Society of Church History

    Apr 17, 2018 - 

    The Albert C. Outler Prize honors the best ecumenical church history monograph, biography, critical edition or bibliography published in the two previous calendar years. The 2016 Albert C. Outler Prize is awarded to Emily Rose, visiting fellow in the Department of History at Harvard University, for her book The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015).

  • Commenting on the Great American Road Trip

    Apr 17, 2018 - 

    Drawing upon his expertise in the history national parks and early American motor travel, last summer Peter Blodgett served as one of the commentators in episode seven of the "out-LAND-ish" podcast sponsored by the United States Forest Service and the Salmon Valley Stewardship. As part of an effort to increase public awareness of and appreciation for the nation's public lands, the podcast looks at many different aspects of those spaces held in trust for the American populace.

  • Martha Hodes Receives Guggenheim and Cullman Center Fellowships

    Apr 17, 2018 - 

    Martha Hodes, professor of history at New York University, has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She will be writing a book, under contract with HarperCollins, exploring history and memory through a 1970 airplane hijacking, in which she was a 12-year-old passenger held hostage in the Jordan desert for a week.

  • ACLS Awards 2018 Fellowships to AHA Members

    Apr 12, 2018 - 

    The American Council of Learned Societies announced its list of fellows for 2018. Out of the 78 awards granted, 16 were to AHA members. The awards, ranging from $40,000 to $70,000, will support scholars for six to twelve months of full-time research and writing. For the full list of fellows, visit the ACLS website.

  • AHA Member Wins Toynbee Book Prize

    Apr 02, 2018 - 

    Lauren Benton, AHA life member and professor of history and law at Vanderbilt University, was recently awarded the Toynbee Prize for 2019. The prize is awarded biennially for contributions in the field of global history. Benton's work focuses on law in European empires, the history of international law, and Atlantic world history. Benton will accept the prize and deliver the Toynbee Prize Lecture during the AHA annual meeting in Chicago in January 2019. 

  • Historians Win ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships

    Mar 05, 2018 - 

    Twelve historians are among the scholars awarded the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars. This program, supported by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Mellon Foundation, provides $95,000 for "long-term, unusually ambitious projects" and allows winners to take residence in institutions that can support their interdisciplinary objectives. Learn more about the project online.

  • Historians Awarded Whiting Public Engagement Fellowships

    Mar 02, 2018 - 

    Historians Molly Todd (Montana State Univ.) and Denise Meringolo (Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County) were each awarded a $50,000 fellowship from the Whiting Foundation to support public-facing humanities projects. Learn more about the projects and the other awardees online.

  • ACLS Announces Recipients of 2018 Collaborative Research Fellowships

    Feb 22, 2018 - 

    The American Council of Learned Societies recently announced the recipients of its 2018 Collaborative Research Fellowships.  Several historians, including many AHA members, are among the eight teams of scholars who will receive funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support co-authored projects. According to ACLS director of fellowship programs Matthew Goldfeder, the program promotes scholars who can “ask big questions” and work across disciplinary lines. Read more about the program and the 2018 awarded projects online.

  • AHA Member Receives Anneliese Maier Research Award

    Jan 31, 2018 - 

    Alan Mikhail, AHA member and professor of Ottoman history at Yale University, was one of this year's eight recipients of the Anneliese Maier Research Award, which is granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to outstanding humanities scholars and social scientists nominated by collaborative partners at German universities and research institutions.  Each award is valued at €250,000. To see the Humboldt Foundation's full press briefing, visit the website. 

  • AHA Members Receive over $1 Million in NEH Funding

    Jan 18, 2018 - 

    In December, the National Endowment for the Humanities granted over $12.75 million in funding to support more than 250 humanities projects. Twenty-five AHA members were among the recipients, and their grants total about $1.2 million. Find the full list of NEH grant recipients online.

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