Historians Making News
Historians Making News highlights the accomplishments of AHA members. Members are encouraged to submit news about prizes, honors, significant publications, media appearances, and other professional achievements. (Please note that this page does not currently feature employment-related announcements, such as those concerning hiring or promotion.) Entries to be considered for inclusion in Historians Making News can be about yourself, another AHA member, or a group of whom at least one is an AHA member. AHA staff will review all submissions; we reserve the right to reject or modify submissions that do not meet our guidelines.
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AHA Member Wins Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics (January 2021
Jan 15, 2021 -Congratulations to Bathsheba Demuth (Brown Univ.), whose book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait recently won the inaugural Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics from the Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont, in partnership with the US Society of Ecological Economics.
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AHA Member Wins Fairfax County History Commission's Mayo Stuntz Prize (January 2021)
Jan 05, 2021 -Congratulations to AHA member Todi Carnes (George Mason Univ.), who won the Fairfax County History Commission’s Mayo Stuntz Prize for her video Huntley Cultural Landscape. The video interprets the cultural landscape of Historic Huntley, a federal-period historic site owned by the Fairfax County Park Authority.
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AHA Member Featured in Washington Post (January 2021)
Jan 05, 2021 -2009 AHA Honorary Foreign Member Romila Thapar was featured in a Washington Post article that highlighted her historical scholarship—“part of the authoritative canon” in India—while discussing some of the political controversies surrounding it. In 2019, the AHA issued a statement discouraging Jawaharlal Nehru University’s review of Romila Thapar’s status as emeritus professor, citing her “extraordinary record of scholarly achievement.”
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AHA Member Named Chair of Humanities Tennessee (January 2021)
Jan 04, 2021 -Congratulations to AHA member Daryl Carter (East Tennessee State Univ.), who was elected to chair the board of directors of Humanities Tennessee after serving on the board since 2014.
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AHA Members Receive NEH Grants (December 2020)
Dec 18, 2020 -Congratulations to the 37 AHA members who have been named as recipients of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ newest round of grants. The NEH has announced that it will award $32.8 million in grants for 213 humanities projects nationwide.
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AHA Former President Recounts Career (December 2020)
Dec 14, 2020 -Former AHA president and life member Linda K. Kerber (Univ. of Iowa) recounted her career for The Gazette. In addition to serving as AHA president in 2006, Kerber has also won both the Littleton-Griswold Prize for the best book in US legal history and the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for the best book in women’s history.
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AHA Member Wins 2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize (December 2020)
Dec 10, 2020 -Congratulations to AHA member Sophie White (Univ. of Notre Dame), who has won the 2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana. Voices of the Enslaved also won the AHA’s 2020 James A. Rawley Prize.
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AHA Member Wins Cundill History Prize (December 2020)
Dec 09, 2020 -Congratulations to AHA member Camilla Townsend (Rutgers Univ.), whose book Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs was recently awarded the Cundill History Prize. McGill University awards the prize annually to recognize “the best history writing in English.”
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AHA Members Win First IFRWH Blom-Offen Prize (December 2020)
Dec 09, 2020 -Congratulations to AHA members Katherine Marino (Univ. of California, Los Angeles) and Jocelyn Olcott (Duke Univ.), who were recently awarded the inaugural Ida Blom-Karen Offen Prize in Transnational Women’s and Gender History by the International Federation for Research in Women’s History. The prize is named for Norwegian historian Ida Blom (1931-2016) and for AHA member Karen Offen (independent scholar).
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AHA Member Writes One of The Economist’s Books of the Year (December 2020)
Dec 04, 2020 -Congratulations to AHA member Amy B. Stanley (Northwestern Univ.), whose book Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World was named as one of The Economist’s Books of the Year.
Submitting Member News
AHA members are encouraged to submit news about their careers, including prizes, promotions, honors, tenure, and new jobs. The purpose of this page is to recognize and honor the accomplishments of AHA members.