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Congrats, Gus Grunau, Winner of the History Department 2021 Junior Paper Prize

Gus Grunau ’22 is the recipient of the 2021 Junior Paper Prize for his essay titled, "Jews in the Historiography of North Africa: Identity, Agency, Jewish-Muslim Relations, and Colonial Boundaries."

The award was announced at the History Department Fall Party on Thursday, November 4, 2021.

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Fall Party to Feature Faculty Book Talk and Announcement of Junior Paper Prize

This year's History Department Fall Party will feature Prof.

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History Students Conduct 10 Weeks of Sponsored Summer Research

This summer, four History students conducted ten weeks of sponsored, original research as participants in the college's Summer Research Program. At the conclusion of the ten-week research program, students presented their research during an all-day virtual conference. Students are listed below along with their research topics and their History-faculty mentors.

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Faculty Book Release: Dr. Nina Rattner Gelbart’s “Minerva’s French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France”

Dr. Gelbart’s latest book presents a collective biography of six female scientists in eighteenth-century France whose stories were largely written out of history.

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Congratulations, Hannah Huang, Winner of the 2021 Hardy Prize for Best Senior Thesis, and Mary Craggs and Diego Lucich for Earning Honorable Mentions!

Hannah’s senior thesis titled, “‘Like the First Thunder in Spring’: Tracking the 1971 Baodiao Movement and the Politicization of Diasporic Chinese Nationalism,” represents remarkable distinction in originality and rigor of research as well as innovation and execution of interpretation.

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Congratulations, Mary Craggs, Winner of the 2021 Prize for Outstanding Service to the Department!

The unanimous faculty support for Mary's service nomination reflects our appreciation for her contributions in support of student learning and faculty teaching in her role as the 2021-2022 History Subject Advisor as well as organizer of the end-of year Alumni Panel event for majors.

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Students Create Scalar Project Titled, “Voting in 2020: A Historical Perspective on Elections”

The work of students enrolled in Dr. Leslie Butler's HIST 295: The Contested Ballot in American History (Fall 2020) culminated in a Scalar project titled, "Voting in 2020: A Historical Perspective on Elections." Dr.

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Now Available: “Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents,” Co-edited by Dr. Maryanne Cline Horowitz
From Brill (publisher):

"Since antiquity, artists have visualized the known world through the female (sometimes male) body. In the age of exploration, America was added to figures of Europe, Asia, and Africa who would come to inhabit the borders of geographical visual imagery.

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