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Congratulations to Hannah Anderson
Fri, 04/19/2019
This summer, Hannah Anderson will be a short-term fellow at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, and in 2019-2020, she will be a pre-doctoral fellow in early American history at the American Philosophical Society. Both fellowhsips support her work on her dissertation, entitled "Lived Botany: Households, Ecological Adaptation and the Origins of Settler Colonialism in Early British North America."Her committee consists of Kathy Brown (advisor,) Dan Richter, and Etienne Benson (History and Sociology of Science).
Congratulations Hannah!
...Congratulations to Marlén Rosas
Fri, 04/19/2019
The National Academy of Education and the Spencer Foundation have awarded Marlén Rosas a dissertation fellowship intended to support, as their website puts it, “individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, analysis, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world.”
In Marlén’s case, that means a project on “Recording Resistance: Indigenous Activists' Archives and Power in Twentieth-Century Ecuador.” Her committee consists of Ann Farnsworth-Alvear (chair), Amy Offner, Kathy Peiss, and...
Congratulations to Sarah Winsberg
Fri, 04/19/2019
Harvard Law School has awarded its two-year Climenko Fellowship to Sarah Winsberg, who will spend 2019-21 working on her dissertation, "Making Work: Lawyers and the Boundaries of Labor, 1780-1860." Her committee is Sally Gordon (chair), Kathy Brown, and Dan Richter.
Recipients of the 2019 History Department Undergraduate Research Awards Announced
Fri, 04/19/2019
Please see the full list of winners here: https://www.history.upenn.edu/undergraduate/research-prizes
Congratulations to Tim Holliday and Kristian Taketomo
Mon, 04/15/2019
Two history graduate students have been selected by Penn's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences as recipients of 2019-2020 Dissertation Completion Fellowships. Congratulations to Tim Holliday, "Morbid Sensations: Intimacy, Coercion, and Epidemic Disease in Philadelphia, 1790-1850" (Kathy Brown, chair, Dan Richter, and Bob St. George), and Kristian Taketomo, "City Mutable: Delimiting Urban Space from Metropolis to Megalopolis" (Kathy Peiss, chair, Amy Offner, Brent Cebul,a nd Francesca Ammon, City and Regional Planning).
Congratulations to Kyle Repella
Mon, 04/15/2019
Penn’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies has awarded Kyle Repella a Marguerite Bartlett Hamer fellowship for 2019-20. The fellowship will support Kyle’s work on his dissertation, "Human Capital: Strategies of Slaving in the Colonial Delaware Valley, 1620-1760."
Congratulations to Emma Teitelman, Ph.D. 2018
Mon, 04/15/2019
The Organization of American Historians has announced that Emma Teitelman, who received her history PhD from Penn last year, has been awarded the 2019 Louis Pelzer Memorial Award for the best essay in American history by a graduate student. Emma’s essay, “The Properties of Capitalism: Industrial Enclosures in the South and West after the American Civil War,” will appear in the March 2020 issue of the Journal of American History.
Emma’s dissertation was entitled “Governing the Peripheries: The Social Reconstruction of the South and West After the American...
Congratulations to our DRF Recipients
Tue, 04/09/2019
Th following History students are reciptients of 2019-2020 Dissertation Research Fellowships from Penn's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, listed here with their current dissertation titles and committee members:
- Juan Ardila, "In the Name of Fear: A History of Emotions and Citizenship in Early Nineteenth-Century Colombia"
- Ann Farnsworth-Alvear (chair), Roger Chartier, Antonio Feros
- Michael Brinley, "Plan the City, Whither the State?: Soviet Coordinated Decentralization in the Era of...
Congratulations to Benjamin Nathans
Fri, 04/05/2019
Benjamin Nathans will spend the 2019-20 academic year on leave with fellowships from Princeton’s Shelby Cullom Davis Center and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Parker Abt!
Thu, 04/04/2019
Penn History Major Parker Abt (’19) won the Francis Ryan Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Paper at this year’s Joint Conference of the Eastern American Studies Association (EASA) and Society of Americanists in Harrisburg. His paper, “Paid by the Rich: Carriages and the Birth of Progressive Federal Taxation, 1794-1816,” was originally written for a History seminar taught by Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. James Hrdlicka. Parker also recently completed the History Department’s Honors Thesis program, for which he wrote a thesis titled “What They Can Do...