Members Making News
Members 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 Members 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 Authors Book on Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood (March 2024)
Mar 01, 2024 -AHA member Davida Siwisa James has authored Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill (Fordham Univ. Press), which traces four centuries of the West Harlem neighborhood where Alexander Hamilton built his home in 1802. The book recounts the landmark architecture, Harlem Renaissance gatherings, and many luminaries who lived there. Untapped New York Insiders will host Siwisa James’ Virtual Book Launch on March 27.
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AHA Member Awarded the Lewis Mumford Prize for Best Book in Planning History (March 2024)
Mar 01, 2024 -Congratulations to AHA member Mike Amezcua (Georgetown Univ.), who has been awarded the Lewis Mumford Prize by the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) for his book, Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification (Chicago Univ. Press). The Mumford Prize is awarded biennially to “the best book on American city and regional planning history.”
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AHA Members Awarded 2024 ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellowships and Grants (February 2024)
Mar 01, 2024 -Congratulations to AHA members Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard Univ.), Karen Cook Bell (Bowie State Univ.), Yinghong Cheng (Delaware State Univ.), Frederick Knight (Morehouse Coll.), Danielle E. St. Julien (Xavier Univ., La.), and Darius J. Young (Florida A&M Univ.), as well as the other historians who were named as recipients of 2024 ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellowships and Grants.
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AHA Member Featured in Article about National Parks Tribal Liaisons (March 2024)
Mar 01, 2024 -AHA member Jason Herbert was featured in an article from ABC 7 Denver about the work that US Forest Service tribal liaisons are doing to“bridge the gap between the federal government and Indigenous communities through the work of tribal liaisons.” “I felt like I owed tribes my due diligence to come out here and learn these landscapes that they call home,” said Herbert, named the first tribal liaison for the Pike-San Isabel National Forests & Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands region in June 2023. “I want to make sure that tribal voices are being heard within our national forest system.”
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AHA Members Named to Brennan Center Historians Council on the Constitution (March 2024)
Mar 01, 2024 -Thirteen AHA members were recently named to the Historians Council on the Constitution, a new initiative from the Brennan Center for Justice which“seeks to address the misuse of history in major constitutional debates.” As part of the Council’s work, Alexander Keyssar (Harvard Univ.) co-wrote an article about constitutional originalism and history; Gautham Rao (American Univ.) co-wrote an article about corporations misusing history in Supreme Court cases; Holly Brewer (Univ. of Maryland) and Rosemarie Zagarri (George Mason Univ.) participated in a Q&A on the historical dimensions of Trump’s criminal immunity defense, and Brewer served on the panel for a virtual event on the same topic.
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AHA Member Authors Article on Academic Freedom for Chronicle of Higher Education (February 2024)
Feb 27, 2024 -AHA member Alex Lichtenstein (Indiana Univ.) wrote an article published in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the current state of academic freedom at Indiana University, comparing the university leadership’s statements about commitment to academic freedom with their actions in cancelling the planned retrospective exhibition of a Palestinian artist’s work. “As the university’s leadership must know, the‘freedom to explore topics that expand knowledge’ cannot be situational, partial, or maintained only at the convenience and comfort of campus administrators, state legislators, and donors,” Lichtenstein wrote. “It can only be defended as a universal principle, without fear or favor.”
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AHA Member Awarded Two National Jewish Book Awards (February 2024)
Feb 02, 2024 -Congratulations to AHA member Robin Judd (Ohio State Univ.), who received two National Jewish Book Awards for Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust (Univ. of North Carolina Press). Judd was awarded the JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Best Writing Based on Archival Material and the Barbara Dobkin Award for Best Book in Women’s Studies.
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AHA Member Authors Book on Early Modern Numeracy (February 2024)
Feb 02, 2024 -By the Numbers: Numeracy, Religion, and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England by AHA member Jessica Marie Otis (George Mason Univ.) was published this winter by Oxford University Press. This is the first book-length study of numeracy in early modern England and integrates ideas about and the use of numbers in religion, business, politics, material culture, print and literacy, and education of ordinary people.
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AHA Member and Tikkun Olam Prizewinner Featured in Miami Herald Article (January 2024)
Jan 23, 2024 -AHA member and Tikkun Olam prizewinner Marvin Dunn (Florida International Univ.) was featured in a Miami Herald article by Bea L. Hines about his notable work in Florida history. The article highlights Dunn’s work educating the public on the history of racist violence in Florida, such as his Teach the Truth tours, which take “high school and college students, teachers and other interested citizens to Rosewood and other Florida sites where Blacks were lynched.” The AHA’s Tikkun Olam prize, given to Dunn in 2023 as the inaugural recipient, is awarded annually to “individuals whose work has promoted literacy in public culture, with the abiding hope that such work will . . . help to repair the world.”
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AHA Members Awarded NEH Grants and Fellowships (January 2024)
Jan 18, 2024 -Congratulations to the 36 AHA members who were named as recipients of grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). “This funding will help preserve and expand access to community histories, strengthen the ability of small museums and archives to serve the public, and provide resources and educational opportunities for students to engage with history, literature, languages, and cultures,” said NEH Chair Shelley C. Lowe.
Submitting Member News
AHA members are encouraged to submit news about prizes, honors, significant publications, media appearances, and other professional achievements.