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Malachi Hacohen is the Polonsky Visiting Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

Malachi Hacohen has received the Polonsky Visiting Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies to participate in the Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies on "Jews, Liberalism, and Anti-Semitism: The Dialectics of Inclusion (1780-1950).” He will be working on "Beyond the Nation State: The Jewish Question in Imperial, Transnational and Federalist Contexts," and, more specifically, on  the Jewish making of postwar trans-Atlantic liberalism.   read more »

Laura Edwards Honored with William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law

Laura Edwards received the William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law for 2016-2017 at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago.   She will be working on her clothing/textile project,  "Only the Clothes on Her Back:  Women, Textiles, and State Formation in the Nineteenth-Century United States."  read more »

Robert Franco Wins the Edward H. Moseley Award

Robert Franco recently won the Edward H. Moseley Award at the 63rd Annual SECOLAS (Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies) Conference. The Edward H. Moseley Award is presented annually to a graduate student and SECOLAS member for the best paper at the current year’s meeting. Selection of the winning paper is made by a committee of three members selected by the Executive Committee. read more »

2016 Anne Firor Scott Research Award

The Anne Firor Scott Award is given as a one‑time award for graduate students working on seminar projects or dissertations on any aspect of women’s history, and undergraduates who plan to take the History Senior Honors Seminar.  The award may be used for travel, living expenses, direct costs incurred in collecting and analyzing information, or as a means of recognizing outstanding research work.  Winners will be asked to report on the use of these funds and their work. The application consists of the following,… read more »

Gunther Peck Podcast on Voter ID Laws

Gunther Peck, featured in this week’s episode of Duke’s audio podcast “Glad You Asked,” discussed voter id laws — including N.C.’s new and highly restrictive laws. It’s short (2 minutes) and you can listen to it here: https://soundcloud.com/dukeuniversity/voting-rights-under-fire Or here: https://dukecampaignstop2016.org/national-issues/casting-a-ballot-just-got-harder/   read more »

The Cambridge Guide to African American History by Raymond Gavins

This book emphasizes blacks’ agency and achievements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, notably outcomes of  the Civil Rights Movement. To consider the means or strategies that African Americans utilized in pursuing their aspirations and struggles for freedom and equality, readers can consult subjects delineating ideological, institutional, and organizational aspects of  black priorities, with tactics of  resistance or dissent, over time and place. The entries include but are not limited to Afro-… read more »

2016 Anne Firor Scott Lecture

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of History Emerita, UNC will be the 2016 Anne Firor Scott Lecturer speaking on, "The Challenge of Writing About Dissident Women in the Shadow of the Long Cold War." Wednesday, March 30, 4:00 in East Duke Parlors. Sponsored by the Department of History and The Program in Women's Studies. read more »

Faculty Bookwatch: Laurent Dubois, The Banjo: America's African Instrument

Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (FHI Garage) - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse  Co-sponsored by the Duke University Libraries. Please join us for a Faculty Bookwatch discussion - with live musical performance! - of The Banjo: America's African Instrument by Laurent Dubois, Professor of History and Romance Studies. Featuring the musician/multi… read more »

Ashton Merck wins Nannerl O. Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship Graduate Student Award

Ashton Merck, a second-year doctoral student in history, has won a graduate award affiliated with the Nannerl O. Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship for her work in the history of health and safety regulation and her involvement in inter-institutional and interdisciplinary collaborations.  In 2016 the professorship is held by Professor Susan Lederer, a historian of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  The award was presented to one student from Duke and one student from UNC-Chapel Hill… read more »

Mandy Cooper Curates Exhibit About the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia

Mandy Cooper has curated a new exhibit with the Rubenstein Library, highlighting the Rubenstein’s Benjamin and Julia Stockton Rush Papers, part of the History of Medicine Collection. The exhibit, Malignant Fever: Benjamin Rush and the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, highlights the effects of epidemic diseases on society by examining one of the most famous outbreaks in U.S. history – the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. Drawing chiefly on letters written by Dr. Benjamin Rush, an eighteenth-… read more »

Jess Malitoris Wins Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant

Jess Malitoris received the Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. This grant is intended to assist dissertation research by students of American foreign relations. Malitoris’ dissertation project has a working title of "Negotiating Consent: Gender, Race, and Consent for Marriage in the United Nations, 1947-1967." Focusing on the UN Convention on Consent for Marriage, Age of Marriage, and Registration of Marriages (drafted by the UN Commission on the… read more »

Ashton Merck wins Rethinking Regulation Graduate Research Award

Ashton Merck, a second-year doctoral student in history, has won a graduate award from the Rethinking Regulation Program at the Kenan Institute for Ethics to support her research in historical analysis of modern regulatory governance structures.  The award will support a study of co-regulation in food safety through an examination of the HACCP-Based Inspection Models Project (HIMP), which will employ both archival research and a prospective oral history project. read more »

The English East India Company at the Height of Mughal Expansion

A Soldier's Diary of the 1689 Siege of Bombay, with Related Documents. Announcing the publication of Phil Stern’s new volume which he has co-edited with historian Margaret R. Hunt.  For further details, please see http://www.macmillanhighered.com/Catalog/product/englisheastindiacompanyattheheightofmughalexpansion-firstedition-hunt read more »

Eladio Bobadilla Publishes article, “Responding to Resistance,” in most recent issue of Perspectives on History

Eladio Bobadilla wrote an article titled, “Responding to Resistance: Faculty and Administrators of Color Analyze student Movements at the Annual Meeting” in the February 2016 issue of Perspectives on History. Read the full article here. read more »

Sumathi Ramaswamy Honored with Humboldt Award

The official press release of Sumathi Ramaswamy’s Anneliese Maier Award:https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/24140943.html and the announcement by her host institution, Heidelberg University:http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsevents/news/detail/m/sumathi-ramaswamy-receives-anneliese-maier-research-award.html The official award ceremony is in Berlin on September 8, 2016. Congratulations to our chair! read more »

Visiting Assistant Professor Paige Welch named a LAMP Bacca Fellow

Georgia Welch is a historian of the modern United States, specializing in social movements, state formation, and political economy. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke University. As a Bacca Fellow for the Duke Language, Arts + Media Program, she is integrating digital projects into her courses to help students visualize chronology and historical change. Her book manuscript, Right of Way: The Competition for Economic Opportunity in the 1970s, examines how new equal employment… read more »

Ashley Rose Young Studies Origins of Creole Cuisine at the Schlesinger Library

Ashley Rose Young, a research fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, worked with the Schlesinger Library’s extensive collection of published and manuscript cookbooks to explore the origins of New Orleans' distinctive Creole Cuisine. She first came across this impressive collection while attending a summer seminar, "Reading Historic Cookbooks: A Structured Approach," taught by the culinary historian, Barbara Wheaton. read more »

Alejandro Velasco publishes Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela

New book by Alejandro Velasco (2009) "Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela," produced a flurry of appearances from coast to coast, including Duke, which interviewed and profiled Alejando: https://gradschool.duke.edu/about/news/history-phd-alum-back-durham-discuss-career-path-book-venezuela More recently, the NYU Humanities institute held an hour long discussion of the book which is well worth listening to; among the commentators is urban historian Mark Healey (1999) as well as the… read more »

Duke History Slam 2015

On Friday December 5, a group of graduate students based in the department of history gathered to read aloud their work at the first Duke History Slam. What is a history slam, you ask? It’s like a poetry slam but with history. It is an open-format opportunity to present creative historical work to a supportive and sympathetic audience. The inaugural slam was hosted by HAW! (Historians are Writers!), a cohort of graduate students at Cornell University, in the fall of 2007. Students prepare short works—no more than ten… read more »