awards

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  2/28/2023
  

  Nine Historians Awarded Dan David Prize

  In 2021 the David Dan Prize adopted an explicit focus on supporting and honoring contributions to historical understanding. Nine scholars have received awards of $300,000 to advance their work. 

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• 12/1/2022
  

  Tiya Miles is the Winner of the 2022 Cundill History Prize

  "All that She Carried" was a unanimous choice of the prestigious prize's jurors. 

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  10/24/2022
  

  The AHA Announces 2022 Prize Winners

  Congratulations to this years honorees for publication, teaching, mentoring and service to the profession. 

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• SOURCE: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  4/8/2022
  

  Historians Among 2022 Guggenheim Awardees

  "On April 7, 2022, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 180 exceptional individuals."

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• SOURCE: Organization of American Historians
  4/9/2022
  

  The OAH Announces Annual Prize Winners

  The Organization of American Historians has released its 2022 honorees for scholarship, service, and contributions to history. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  3/1/2022
  

  Winners Announced for Dan David Prize, a Mac Arthur-Style Grant for Historians

  by Gillian Brockell

  The Dan David Prize has defined its focus as supporting historians, in recognition of the public significance of historical knowledge and the political and institutional attacks on the discipline and its practitioners. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  10/18/2021
  

  AHA Announces 2021 Prize Winners

  HNN congratulates the winners of the AHA's awards for publication, teaching, and service to the profession. 

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• SOURCE: Society of American Historians
  5/10/2021
  

  Society of American Historians Announces 2021 Prize Winners

  Lonnie G. Bunch III, Christopher Tomlins, Brianna Nofil and Afia Atakora are recognized by the Society of American Historians for their achievements in the last year. 

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• SOURCE: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  4/22/2021
  

  Honoring Excellence, Electing New Members: New Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  Historians are represented among the 2020 electees to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

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• SOURCE: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  4/8/2021
  

  2021 Winners of the Guggenheim Fellowship are Announced

  Historians are prominently represented among the just-announced winners of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships for 2021.

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• SOURCE: Yale University
  12/9/2020
  

  2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner

  Notre Dame professor Sophie White's "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor and Longing in French Louisiana" is the winner of the 22nd annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book on the history of slavery, resistance and abolition. 

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  11/4/2020
  

  2020 Awards, Prizes, And Honors Announced

  As of Wednesday, some important winners have been announced--the AHA's annual prizes for scholarship, teaching, and contributions to the historical profession.

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  10/19/2020
  

  American Historical Association Announces 2020 Prize Winners

  This year’s finalists were selected from a field of over 1,400 entries by nearly 150 dedicated prize committee members.

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• SOURCE: The Metropole (Urban History Association)
  10/15/2020
  

  UHA Announces Award Winners

  The Urban History Association announces its annual awards for best book, best journal article, and best dissertation.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/22/2020
  

  Danielle Allen Wins Re-envisioned Kluge Humanities Prize

  Dr. Allen, a Harvard political theorist whose work has spanned the Declaration of Independence and the governmental response to Covid-19, will lead an effort to cultivate “civic strength.”

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• SOURCE: Wolfson History Prize
  6/15/2020
  

  David Abulafia’s ‘The Boundless Sea’ wins Wolfson History Prize 2020

  David Abulafia's book tells the global history of humanity through its relationship to the oceans.

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• SOURCE: Society of Civil War Historians
  6/4/2020
  

  Thomas J. Brown is 2020 Winner of the Tom Watson Brown Book Award

  Thomas J. Brown's book on the memorialization of the Civil War and American attitudes toward militarization has been honored with the Thomas Watson Brown Book Award. 

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• SOURCE: University of Illinois Press
  5/27/2020
  

  Continuing to Reshape Women’s History: The Ongoing Story of Nontraditional Women Historians

  by Julie Gallagher and Barbara Winslow

  The editors of a collection of essays by non-traditional women historians celebrate the impact of the Catherine Prelinger Award (of the Coordinating Council for Women in History), which aided the scholarship published in their book and is supporting a new generation of women historians expanding the scope of the field to address race, disability, indigeneity, and mass incarceration (among other issues).

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• 5/21/2020
  

  Kenneth Pomeranz wins 2021 Toynbee Prize

  Kenneth Pomeranz's work on global economic history has been recognized for driving new understanding of the history of global exchange and sparked global collaboration among historians. 

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• SOURCE: American Council of Learned Societies
  5/19/2020
  

  Historians Named Among Mellon/ACLS Community College Fellows

  Five history professors at two-year institutions have been recognized for their vital contributions to scholarship, teaching, and their communities.