- Assistant Professor Erin Hutchinson has been awarded the Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize from the Department of History at Harvard. The Gross Prize is “awarded each year at Graduation to the Ph.D. recipient whose dissertation, in the opinion of a committee of Department members, gave greatest promise of a distinguished career of historical research.”
- PhD Candidate Sherri Sheu has been named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation). Sheu’s dissertation, "Parks for the People": The National Park Service and the Long 1960s, examines how the US National Park Service responded to the diverse social movements of the long 1960s. The Newcombe Fellowship is the nation’s largest and most prestigious award for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences addressing questions of ethical and religious values. The full press release can be found online at: http://ctzn-schlr.org/CN21. The eagle-eyed might also notice that Aaron Stamper, a recent MA from our program now at Princeton, also received one of these awards.