#ADPhD congratulates Adrienne Davis on her Distinguished Faculty Award! Adrienne D. Davis will receive a Distinguished Faculty Award from the Washington University Alumni Association. She is vice provost at Washington University and William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law at the WUSTL School of Law. She will be awarded at Founders Day 2016 on Saturday, … Continue reading AWARD: Davis to receive WUSTL Alumni Association’s Distinguished Faculty Award
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AWARD: Finch Wins the 2016 Harriet Tubman Prize
#ADPhD congratulates Aisha K. Finch on receiving the inaugural Harriet Tubman Book Prize from the The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery: “The esteemed jury described Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba as ‘a nuanced, deeply researched, and precisely rendered’ examination of the underground rebel movement in western Cuba. They added, ‘With a … Continue reading AWARD: Finch Wins the 2016 Harriet Tubman Prize
AWARD: Browne Wins 2016 Surveillance Book Prize
#ADPHD congratulates Simone Browne on winning the 2016 Best Book Prize from the Surveillance Studies Network: For 2016, for the best book published in the calendar year 2015, the winning book is Browne, Simone. 2015. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. Durham: Duke University Press. The committee found that Browne’s book stood out for the … Continue reading AWARD: Browne Wins 2016 Surveillance Book Prize
Douglass Prize Finalists Announced! Finch, Forret, & Hopper
Congratulations Aisha K. Finch, Jeff Forret, and Matthew S. Hopper!! New Haven, Conn. (August 24, 2016) — Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the finalists for the 18th annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most coveted awards for the study of the African … Continue reading Douglass Prize Finalists Announced! Finch, Forret, & Hopper
Grandin, O’Malley, Ferrer, Berlin, and 12 Years a Slave Win Awards from the American Historical Association
The American Historical Association has awarded Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave the John E. O'Conner Film Award for "outstanding interpretations of history through film" in the category of "Dramatic Feature." Other winners include....
NEWS: Dylan Penningroth Wins 2012 Macarthur “Genius” Grant
Dylan Penningroth (Northwestern U.) has been awarded a 2012 Macarthur "Genius" grant for his work on kinship and property within slave communities in the United States and along the Gold Coast. From the Macarthur Foundation website: Dylan C. Penningroth is a historian who examines shifting concepts of property ownership and kinship in order to shed … Continue reading NEWS: Dylan Penningroth Wins 2012 Macarthur “Genius” Grant
BOOK: Soares on Slavery, Catholicism, and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century Rio
Mariza de Carvalho Soares, People of Faith: Slavery and African Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio De Janeiro. Translated by Jerry D. Metz. Duke University Press Books, 2011. Description (Duke University Press): "In People of Faith, Mariza de Carvalho Soares reconstructs the everyday lives of Mina slaves transported in the eighteenth century to Rio de Janeiro from … Continue reading BOOK: Soares on Slavery, Catholicism, and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century Rio
Dayan Receives Vanderbilt University Chancellor’s Award
Via Repeating Islands: Colin Dayan recently received a Vanderbilt University Chancellor’s Award for her research and book The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons (Princeton University Press, 2011), which was selected by Choice as one of top 25 books for 2011... Description (excerpt): Moving seamlessly across genres and disciplines, … Continue reading Dayan Receives Vanderbilt University Chancellor’s Award
WEB: Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique – Nigeria
Re-launched website: "IFRA-Nigeria is a non profit Institute set up to promote research in the social sciences and the humanities, as well as enhance collaborative work between scholars in France and West Africa. First established in 1990 and financed by the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Institute has now been operating from the Universities … Continue reading WEB: Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique – Nigeria
Gordon-Reed Wins George Washington Book Prize
Along with the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: "Historian and author Annette Gordon-Reed has won a literary Triple Crown with her remarkable "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family," her 798-page exploration of Thomas Jefferson and the family of slaves with whom he became intimately involved. The book has won the National Book … Continue reading Gordon-Reed Wins George Washington Book Prize
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