Congratulations to PhD alum Daniel Fernández Guevara, whose dissertation, “Comrades and Internationalists: Forging Identity and Cuban Solidarity with the other Spain, 1902-1961,” won the best dissertation prize of the Cuban section of the Latin American Studies Association! Read about it here: https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/cuba/?pg=5
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Assistant Professor Max Deardorff’s book A Tale of Two Granadas: Custom, Community, and Citizenship in the Spanish Empire, 1568–1668 (Cambridge, 2023) won the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies annual book award. Congratulations!
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Three graduate students won research awards at UF in fall 2023. Mosunmola Ogunmolaji (Nancy Hunt, supervisor) won a Research Abroad for Doctoral Students (RAD) award from the UF International Center to conduct research on the transnational history of the migration of Nigerian nurses to the United Kingdom. Marcus Chatfield (Joseph Spillane, supervisor) received a CLAS […]
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The Department of History is proud to announce that Prof. Sandy F. Chang has been awarded a 2023 ACLS Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The ACLS Fellowship Program supports exceptional scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences that has the potential to make significant contributions within and beyond the awardees’ fields. Dr. […]
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Department PhD candidate Marianne Quijano will use the fellowship to work on her project “A Primordial Whiteness: Science, Religion, and Race in Twentieth-Century Panama.” Read more at this link: https://www.chstm.org/profile/marianne-quijano. Congratulations, Marianne!
Kristen Miller received a Richard J. Milbauer Fund Travel Award and a Center for European Studies Graduate Travel Award to conduct pre-dissertation research in England and Scotland in summer 2022 on the history of slavery in British East Florida. Thomas Miller was awarded a Field Research Grant from University of Florida’s Hugh L. Popenoe Mesoamerican […]
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Department faculty Seth Bernstein (Soviet and Eastern Europe) and Anton Matytsin (Early Modern Europe) were awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor for the upcoming academic year. Congratulations Dr. Bernstein and Dr. Matytsin!
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History and Philosophy double major Aimee Clesi will head to Oxford next year on a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. She will pursue a master’s degree in criminology and criminal justice. Congratulations Aimee! Read more about Aimee here: https://news.ufl.edu/2022/04/all-rhodes-lead-to-oxford/
Congrats to the students in Dr. Gallman’s class for these creative projects! Historians who study gender in 19th Century America turn to a wealth of primary sources. Students in AMH3931 devoted the fall semester to examining celebrated trials (6 murders and 1 divorce). Each group prepared a digital project and each student wrote an analytic […]
Congrats to Dr. Luise White, who is publishing her new book, Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization, with the University of Chicago Press. White challenges the traditional narrative that describes the way that African states transitioned from colony to state in the 20th century. “The result is one of the most decisive challenges to linear […]