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.

  • AHA Members Awarded NEH Grants (August 2023)

    Aug 18, 2023 - 

    Congratulations to the 25 AHA members who were awarded NEH grants as part of the $41.3 million for humanities projects across the country announced by the NEH on August 15. “These 280 new grant awards underscore the wide range of exemplary, fascinating, and impactful humanities work that scholars, practitioners, and institutions are conducting in all corners of the country,” said NEH chair Shelly C. Lowe.

  • AHA Member Awarded 2023 Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize for American Historical Review Article (June 2023)

    Jun 27, 2023 - 

    Congratulations to AHA member Emilie Connolly (Brandeis Univ.), who was awarded the 2023 Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize for her article “Fiduciary Colonialism: Annuities and Native Dispossession in the Early United States,” which was published in the March 2022 issue of the American Historical Review. The Bernath Scholarly Article Prize is awarded annually by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations “to recognize and encourage distinguished research and writing by junior scholars in the field of diplomatic relations.”

  • AHA Member Awarded 2023 ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship (June 2023)

    Jun 26, 2023 - 

    Congratulations to AHA member Nicole Navarro (Univ. of Michigan), who was awarded a 2023 ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship and appointed as a research associate at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. The Leading Edge fellowships “support recent PhDs in the humanities and interpretive social sciences as they work with social justice organizations in communities across the United States.”

  • AHA President-Elect and Members Awarded Long-Term Huntington Fellowships (May 2023)

    May 17, 2023 - 

    Congratulations to AHA president-elect Thavolia Glymph (Duke Univ.) and members Hilary Buxton (Kenyon Coll.), Gordon H. Chang (Stanford Univ.), Peter C. Mancall (Univ. of Southern California), Bernadette J. Pérez (Univ. of California, Berkeley), and Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard Univ.), who were awarded long-term fellowships by The Huntington as part of the 2023–24 fellow class.

  • AHA Members Named 2023 Newcombe Fellows (May 2023)

    May 17, 2023 - 

    Congratulations to AHA members Kelsey Elizabeth Henry (Yale Univ.), Erica Lally (Georgetown Univ.), Aparajita Majumdar (Cornell Univ.), and Daniela Traldi (Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York), who were named Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for 2023 by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. The Newcombe Fellowship is “the largest and most prestigious award for PhD candidates in the humanities and social sciences addressing questions of ethical and religious values in interesting, original, or significant ways.”

  • AHA Member Awarded 2022 New Deal Book Award (May 2023)

    May 17, 2023 - 

    Congratulations to AHA member Victoria W. Wolcott (Univ. of Buffalo), who was recently awarded the Living New Deal’s 2022 New Deal Book Award for her book Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement, as well as to AHA members Kenneth J. Bindas (Kent State Univ.), Matthew F. Delmont (Dartmouth Coll.), and Gene Zubovich (Univ. at Buffalo, State Univ. of New York), who were nominated for the award. Established in 2021, the New Deal Book Award is awarded annually “to recognize and encourage nonfiction works about the New Deal era.”

  • AHA Member Awarded 2022 New Deal Book Award (May 2023)AHA Member Named 2023 Berlin Prize Fellow (May 2023)

    May 17, 2023 - 

    Congratulations to AHA member Mariana P. Candido (Emory Univ.), who has been named one of the 2023 Berlin Prize Fellows by the American Academy in Berlin. The Berlin Prizes are “awarded annually to US-based scholars, writers, composers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields, from the humanities and social sciences to journalism, public policy, fiction, the visual arts, and music composition.”

  • AHA Members Awarded 2023 ACLS Project Development Grants (May 2023)

    May 17, 2023 - 

    Congratulations to AHA members Adam Lee Cilli (Univ. of Pittsburgh, Greensburg), Larissa Kopytoff (Univ. of South Florida, St. Petersburg), Judith Mansilla (Florida International Univ.), and Diana M. Moore (John Jay Coll., City Univ. of New York), who were selected as recipients of 2023 ACLS Project Development Grants. These grants “are designed to support scholars in teaching-intensive roles whose research agendas can make important advancements in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.”

  • AHA Member Awarded 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Biography (May 2023)

    May 17, 2023 - 

    Congratulations to AHA member Beverly Gage (Yale Univ.), who was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for her book, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, as well as to historian Jefferson Cowie (Vanderbilt Univ.), who was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in History for his book, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power.

  • AHA Member Receives National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies 2023 Scholar Award (May 2023)

    May 05, 2023 - 

    Congratulations to AHA member Cynthia E. Orozco (Eastern New Mexico Univ., Ruidoso), who recently received the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) 2023 Scholar Award, a lifetime achievement award based on her scholarship, leadership, and teaching. Orozco has been a leading advocate for Chicana studies and was a founder of NACCS' Chicana Caucus.

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