History PhD alumni, Rob Franco & Farren Yero, win Richmond Brown Dissertation Prize

Rob France has won the Richmond Brown Dissertation Prize from the Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association for his dissertation entitled "Revolution in the Sheets: The Politics of Sexuality and Tolerance in the Mexican Left, 1919-2001."

Farren Yero has received an honorable mention for the Richmond Brown Dissertation Prize from the Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association for her dissertation entitled "Laboratories of Consent: Vaccine Science in the Spanish Atlantic World, 1779-1840.”