Brence Pernell (2008) received his M.Ed. from the Harvard University School of Education in 2009. He currently teaches humanities at the Community Charter School of Cambridge, in Cambridge, Mass. This summer, he was selected to attend an NEH seminar for secondary teachers on Latino Identity at the New York Summer Institute. read more about Alumni Profile: Brence Pernell »
As a doctoral candidate Anne-Marie Angelo studied the global Black Panther Party in England and the Middle East. Her studies took her to Egypt, where she had a front seat for the Arab Spring. Anne-Marie Angelo received her PhD from Duke University's History Department in 2013. While the Black Panther Movement is largely associated with the U.S., Angelo's dissertation focused on Black Panther groups in the United Kingdom and Israel. Like their American counterparts, these were potent movements fighting for… read more about Profile: Anne-Marie Angelo »
Ashley Elrod was awarded a Fulbright research grant and as well as a research fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, or DAAD) for 2013-2014. She has accepted the DAAD grant. Ashley studies gender, work, and the household in post-Reformation Germany. Her research uses sermons, popular print culture, and court records to investigate how the religious and economic dislocations of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries affected power and work relations within the family… read more about Elrod Wins Fulbright Research Grant »
Rochelle Rojas's research elucidates quotidian witch beliefs in the Basque lands, and uses them as a lens through which to examine important aspects of the history of this region in the tumultuous 16th and 17th centuries. He work traces the historical evolution of witchcraft beliefs, from common concerns of sudden deaths, poor weather, and maleficent magic in 1525 (the earliest witch trial on record); through to the diabolical tropes of a devil’s pact which peaked in 1609; and then will analyze the hitherto… read more about Rojas Wins Fulbright Grant »
On February 21, 2013, Ashley Young competed in the “Battle of the Books” competition as part of Duke’s Andrew T. Nadell Book Collectors Competition. Her collection, “New Orleans’ Nourishing Networks: Foodways and Municipal Markets in the Nineteenth Century Global South” won first prize in the graduate student division. A local Durham newspaper featured the “Battle of the Books,” including her collection, in “Going by the Book,” The Herald Sun, February 22, 2013. Ashley… read more about Young Wins Andrew Nadell Book Collectors Contest »
History PhD student, Meggan Farish, is pictured above, holding a copy of the book she co-edited with Professor Roy Talbert (left), entitled The Journal of Peter Horry, South Carolinian: Recording the New Republic, 1812-1814. Peter Horry (1744-1815) was a rice planter and slaveholder in Georgetown, South Carolina. He fought alongside Francis Marion in the American Revolution and later became a state representative and senator. Horry began keeping a journal in 1814, where he chronicled his personal experiences—… read more about Farrish Co-edits The Journal of Peter Horry, South Carolinian »
Caroline Garriott's dissertation charts the ebb and flow of sacred image-objects across the Iberian Peninsula and between the two largest cities of colonial South America, Lima "City of Kings" (founded in 1535) and Salvador da Bahia "City of the Holy Savior of the Bay of all Saints" (founded in 1549) from colony to nationhood. It spans disciplinary, linguistic, and imperial bounds to show how African slaves and indigenous painters, Spanish missionaries and Portuguese merchants, in their … read more about Garriott Awarded Fulbright-Hays Fellowship »
The Southern Historical Association Dissertation Prize Committee cited Gaffield's work in their award announcement as follows: "Starting with its 1804 Declaration of Independence, Julia Gaffield charts Haiti’s fraught early experiences in international affairs. While securing or failing to secure diplomatic relationships and establishing trade ties, Haiti confronted powerful beliefs about racial hierarchy and raised questions about national sovereignty. This impressive, richly-researched dissertation grapples with… read more about Gaffield Wins Southern Historical Association Dissertation Prize »
In July, Duke History Professors John French, Jocelyn Olcott and Pete Sigal took over editorial leadership of The Hispanic American Historical Review (HAHR). The journal is published quarterly by Duke University Press in cooperation with the Conference on Latin American History and the American Historical Association. Founded in 1918, HAHR pioneered the study of Latin American history and culture in the United States. Today, it maintains a distinguished tradition of publishing vital work across thematic, chronological,… read more about Leading Journal on Latin American Finds Home at Duke »
Bruce Hall’s book A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960 is the co-winner of this year’s Martin A. Klein Award for the best book in African History by the American Historical Association. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, the author demonstrates the ways in which arguments about race have structured social and political hierarchies in the Niger Bend since the seventeenth century, well before the French colonized the region in the nineteenth century. Hall’s book is a particularly effective blending… read more about Hall Wins American Historical Association Award for African History Book »
Phil Stern has been awarded a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation for his project, “Visualizing Sovereignty in the Colonial World.” The Mellon New Directions Fellowship is designed to assist scholars in the humanities to acquire training outside their own areas of specialty, in order to support interdisciplinary work and a long-term research agenda. Phil's research, which involves various projects in geography, urban studies, and data and text visualization and digital mapping, seeks… read more about Stern Wins Mellon New Directions Fellowship - Visualizing Soverignty in the Colonial World »
Bill Reddy's most recent book -- The Making of Romantic Love -- has won the 2012 Pinkney Prize. This prize is awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies for the best book of the year in French History. Relying on a wealth of recent research into the social and cultural history of the lay aristocracy in the period, Reddy is able to show that courtly love smoothly integrated existing aristocratic values, and permitted aristocrats to legitimate at least some sexual practices long… read more about Reddy Wins 2012 Pinkney Prize »
Ed Balleisen, along with Duke Law Professors Jonathan Wiener and Kim Krawiec, and Duke environmental economist Lori Bennear, have won a major grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation to support their interdisciplinary research project, "Recalibrating Risk: Crises, Perceptions, and Regulatory Change." This project involves case studies of regulatory responses to three types of crises – nuclear accidents, major offshore oil… read more about Balleisen wins Smith Richard Foundation Grant to Study Regulatory Change »
Phil Stern has won the Trevor Reese Memorial Prize for his bookThe Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India, published by Oxford University Press in 2011. This prize, offered every three years by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, is awarded for that book judged to make a "wide-ranging, innovative and scholarly contribution in the broadly-defined field of Imperial and Commonwealth History." The current award covers works… read more about Phil Stern Wins Trevor Reese Memorial Prize »
