Faculty News
April 6, 2004
Steven Hahn wins Pulitzer Prize
On April 5, 2004, the Pulitzer Prize Committee announced this year's winners and our very own Steven Hahn has won the prize for most distinguished book on the history of the United States for his new book A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (Harvard University Press, 2003).
Professor Hahn is the third member of the Penn Department of History to win a Pulitzer Prize. He joins Walter McDougall, who won in 1986 for his book The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age, and Roy F. Nichols, awarded the prize in 1949 for The Disruption of American Democracy.
January 2004
Medieval and Early Modern European History at Penn
The Department of History announces the hiring of three new specialists in the history of early modern Europe: Professors Margo Todd, Julia Rudolph, and Antonio Feros. Their addition to the Department makes Penn's program in Medieval and Early Modern European History one of the strongest programs in the country, covering the study of Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, as well as the fields of intellectual, political, cultural, ethnic, gender, religious, imperial, and Jewish history. The members of this program include:
Roger Chartier, Annenberg Visiting Professor; early modern European history and culture.
Antonio Feros, Associate Professor of History; early modern Spain and Europe; politics, culture, ethnicity, and empire.
Alan Charles Kors, Professor of History; European intellectual history.
E. Ann Matter, R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Religious Studies, medieval history, religion and gender.
Ann E. Moyer, Associate Professor of History; Renaissance Italy; intellectual and cultural history.
Edward M. Peters, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History; Medieval History.
David B. Ruderman, Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Jewish History; early modern Jewish history.
Julia Rudolph, Assistant Professor of History; early modern Britain, Europe, legal, intellectual history.
Thomas Max Safley, Associate Professor of History; Economic and social history; Reformation, early modern Central Europe.
Margo Todd, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History; early modern Britain, religion and culture, urban.
