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 Named as 2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalist (October 2020)
Oct 14, 2020 -Congratulations to AHA member Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers (Univ. of California, Berkeley), whose book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South was recently named as one of the 2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists, an annual award of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
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AHA Member Writes Piece in the Virginian-Pilot (October 2020)
Oct 13, 2020 -AHA member E. M. Rose has recently published an opinion piece, “History Shows the Overblown Value of Political Image” in the Virginian-Pilot. Rose discusses how the history of the first governor of Virginia, Lord Delaware, might indicate how political image can override reality, and asserts that “the lessons of Lord Delaware are more relevant than ever today. They suggest that a firm hand is important only in an immediate crisis. For long term institutional support, capitalist enterprise and the democratic debate it enables produce lasting results.”
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AHA Member Named as Finalist for National Book Award (October 2020)
Oct 08, 2020 -AHA member Claudio Saunt (Univ. of Georgia) has been named as a finalist for the National Book Award for Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory. The winner of the National Book Award will be announced in November.
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AHA Member Named as FDR Presidential Library Trustee (September 2020)
Sep 29, 2020 -AHA member Adam Weisler (Scarsdale High School) recently became a library trustee of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. The trustees are charged with “ensuring FDR's legacy is preserved and accessible to the public for generations to come.”
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AHA Members Present at National Book Festival (September 2020)
Sep 25, 2020 -The National Book Festival’s History and Biography Stage features nine historians, including several AHA members, for their author Q&As. The festival is being held virtually this year on Saturday and Sunday, September 26 and 27, 9 a.m. ET with an additional day of children’s and teen programs on Friday, September 25 at 9 a.m. ET. According to the festival website, the 20th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival “celebrates American Ingenuity online,” and interested attendees can register or view the presentations on YouTube.
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AHA Member Receives Berlin Prize Fellowship Award (September 2020)
Sep 24, 2020 -Congratulations to AHA member Allison Blakely (Boston Univ.) who recently received the Berlin Prize Fellowship Award for his project “The African Diaspora in Modern Europe: An Interpretive History.” The prize includes a semester-long residential fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin.
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AHA Members Named as COVID-19 Rapid-Response Grantees (September 2020)
Sep 18, 2020 -AHA members Erika Lee (Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities) and Allyson Poska (Univ. of Mary Washington) received Rapid-Response Grants on Covid-19 and the Social Sciences awarded by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). The grants support “innovative and ethically informed projects using remote methods on key issues impacted by COVID-19,” according to the SSRC.
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AHA Member Receives Fulbright (September 2020)
Sep 08, 2020 -AHA member Sergei Zhuk (Ball State Univ.) was recently awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award. He will lecture at Guangzhou University of Foreign Studies in the People’s Republic of China as part of a project called “Teaching Chinese Students of American Colonial History and Cultural Cold War in Comparative Historical Perspective.”
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AHA Member Receives Highest Harvard Faculty Honor (August 2020)
Aug 14, 2020 -AHA member Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard Univ.) was recently named University Professor, Harvard's highest faculty honor. Among Gordon-Reed’s other honors are a Pulitzer Prize in History, the National Book Award for Nonfiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Humanities, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a fellowship from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Of Gordon-Reed, the university president says “[she] has changed how people think about America.” Watch Annette Gordon-Reed in the recent AHA webinar, Erasing History or Making History? Race, Racism, and the American Memorial Landscape.
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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.
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.