Month: October 2017

In the September issue of Isis, Jim Porter published an article entitled ‘A “Precious Minority”: Constructing the “Gifted” and “Academically Talented” Student in the Era of Brown v. Board of Education and the National Defense Education Act.’ Douwe Schipper, student in the master programme ‘History… Continue Reading Jim Porter in Isis Journal

PhD graduate student Aaron Luedtke won the second prize for the Helen Hornbeck Tanner Award for best graduate student paper at the American Society for Ethnohistory conference at Winnipeg. The award was named in honor of Dr. Helen Hornbeck Tanner and is awarded every year… Continue Reading Luedtke Wins Paper Prize

David Wheat’s book Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 (UNC Press, 2016) has been awarded the 2017 Harriet Tubman Book Prize, awarded by the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in… Continue Reading Wheat wins Harriet Tubman book prize

David Wheat’s book Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 (UNC Press, 2016) has been awarded the American Historical Association’s 2017 James A. Rawley Prize for the integration of Atlantic worlds before the 20th century. http://blog.historians.org/2017/10/american-historical-association-announces-2017-prize-winners/