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Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed

Historians in the News

12-1-11

Penn Scholar of Black Politics and Religion Wins Grawemeyer Award

Barbara D. Savage, a professor of history and American social thought at the University of Pennsylvania, will receive the 2012 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for her 2008 book, Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion (Harvard University Press)....

Read entire article at Chronicle of Higher Ed