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 Interviewed on NPR Morning Edition about Tensions between Members of Congress (November 2023)
Nov 22, 2023 -AHA member Joanne Freeman (Yale Univ.) was interviewed by A Martínez on NPR’s Morning Edition about “recent altercations between lawmakers in Congress.” Freeman spoke about the history of physical violence in Congress and the importance of learning from the past.
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AHA Member Wins 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction (November 2023)
Nov 17, 2023 -Congratulations to AHA member Ned Blackhawk (Yale Univ.), who has been awarded the 2023 National Book Award for nonfiction for his book, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History. The National Book Awards are awarded annually to “celebrate the best literature published in the United States, expand its audience, and ensure that books have a prominent place in our culture.”
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AHA Member Featured in Texas Tribune Article on DEI Efforts at Rice University (November 2023)
Nov 16, 2023 -AHA member Alexander X. Byrd (Rice Univ.) was featured in a Texas Tribune article by Kate McGee about the work of Rice University’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) office, of which he is the vice provost, among the backlash against DEI efforts from Texas lawmakers.
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Former Jameson Fellow’s Book Published (November 2023)
Nov 16, 2023 -AHA member and former J. Franklin Jameson Fellow Frank J. Cirillo has announced the publication of his book, The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union, part of Louisiana State University Press‘s “Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World” series. Cirillo explores the history of the abolitionist movement during the American Civil War, arguing that abolitionists’ actions help explain how the Union war achieved both so much and so little regarding racial justice for African Americans.
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American Historical Review Article by AHA Member Wins 2023 Arrington-Prucha Prize (November 2023)
Nov 16, 2023 -Congratulations to AHA member Gili Kliger (Harvard Univ.), whose September 2022 American Historical Review article, “Translating God on the Borders of Sovereignty,” has been awarded the Western Historical Association’s (WHA) 2023 Arrington-Prucha Prize. This prize is awarded annually by the WHA for the best essay of the year on religious history in the West.
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AHA Member Named President at Monticello (October 2023)
Oct 19, 2023 -Congratulations to AHA member Jane Kamensky, who was recently appointed as the new president at Monticello by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. She is currently the Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and will assume her new role in January 2024.
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AHA Member Co-Authors Book on US Reactions to the Moscow Show Trials (October 2023)
Oct 10, 2023 -AHA member Jeanie M. Welch’s (Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte) book, co-authored with Kelly J. Evans (Eastern Washington Univ.), Witnessing Stalin's Justice: The United States and the Moscow Show Trials was published in September 2023 by Bloomsbury Academic. The book uses contemporaneous sources to chronicle US reactions to Stalin's trials of leading Bolsheviks during the 1930s. It highlights the varied reactions to the trials from official US government officials, the press, and political groups.
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
Submitting Member News
AHA members are encouraged to submit news about prizes, honors, significant publications, media appearances, and other professional achievements.