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 Receives Research Award (July 2020)
Jul 30, 2020 -Congratulations to AHA member Rev. Steven Avella (Marquette Univ.), who was recently awarded the 2020 Haggerty Research Award. This is Marquette University's highest honor for research, and is awarded in recognition of scholarly distinction.
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AHA Member Wins Book Prize (July 2020)
Jul 23, 2020 -Lydia Barnett (Northwestern Univ.) won the 2019 Morris D. Forkosch Prize awarded by the Journal of the History of Ideas for her book, After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe. The prize is awarded for the best first book in intellectual history.
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AHA Member Receives Teaching Award (July 2020)
Jul 21, 2020 -AHA member Edward Slavishak (Susquehanna Univ.) was recently awarded the John C. Horn Award for Distinguished Scholarship and Creative Activity. Slavishak was recognized for his exceptional record of scholarship and his excellence in teaching.
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AHA Member Wins Book Prize (July 2020)
Jul 21, 2020 -Congratulations to AHA member Eric K. Washington (Columbia Univ.), whose book Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal was recently awarded the 2020 Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History.
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AHA Members Awarded Stanford Fellowships (July 2020)
Jul 16, 2020 -Congratulations to AHA members Keith Baker (Stanford Univ.), Elizabeth Jacob (Stanford Univ.), Matthew Wormer (Stanford Univ.), and Adrien Zakar (Stanford Univ.), who were named 2020-21 Stanford Humanities Center fellows. The center seeks to create an intellectual community for scholars to exchange academic ideas.
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AHA Member Wins Lifetime Achievement Award (June 2020)
Jul 01, 2020 -AHA member Alan I Marcus (Mississippi State Univ.) recently won the Gladys L. Baker Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Agricultural History Society. This award recognizes Marcus for his professional influence on the AHS throughout his 36-year membership.
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AHA Member Named Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow (June 2020)
Jun 25, 2020 -Congratulations to AHA member Nichole Nelson (Yale Univ.), who was recently named as one of 22 Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows. The program, sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies, prioritizes placing recent PhDs in civic and nonprofit organizations. Fellows are chosen for projects that contribute to community-based initiatives.
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Former AHA President Appointed Dean at Fordham (June 2020)
Jun 25, 2020 -Former AHA president Tyler Stovall (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz) was recently appointed as the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University. Stovall served as AHA president in 2017 and as dean of the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz before accepting this position, which he officially assumes in July 2020.
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AHA Member Wins Francis Parkman Prize (June 2020)
Jun 15, 2020 -AHA member Charles King (Georgetown Univ.) was recently awarded the Francis Parkman Prize by the Society of American Historians for his book Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century. This prize is awarded for literary and scholarly achievement.
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AHA Council Member Elected to Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools (June 2020)
Jun 05, 2020 -AHA Council member Reginald K. Ellis Jr. (Florida A&M Univ.) has recently been elected to serve as secretary of the Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools. The council recently celebrated its 50-year anniversary.
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.