Four students in the History Graduate Group program have been awarded SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowships for the 2020-2021 academic year—three History PhD candidates and one joint degree candidate in History and Religious Studies.
These DCF awards recognize the great achievement of these students and the promise of their ongoing scholarship. Congratulations to the following members of our program:
Hannah Anderson for her dissertation project “Lived Botany: Households, Ecological Adaptation and the Origins of Settler Colonialism in British North America”
Committee: Kathy Brown (Supervisor); Dan Richter; Etienne Benson (History and Sociology of Science)
Chelsea Chamberlain for her dissertation project “’Receiving, Sorting and Disposing of Children’: The Place of Human Defect in Progressive America”
Committee: Kathy Peiss (Supervisor); Sally Gordon; Beth Linker (History and Sociology of Science)
Sam Stark for his dissertation project “The Eighteenth Brumaire in Europe and America, 1852-1940”
Committee: Warren Breckman (Supervisor); Roger Chartier, Kathy Peiss
Gabriel Raeburn (joint degree in Religious Studies and History), for his dissertation project ”Preaching Prosperity: Pentecostals and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism, 1946 – 1988”
Committee: Anthea Butler (Supervisor, Religious Studies); Sally Gordon; Kevin Kruse (History, Princeton)