Professor Ben Wise has published “Downfall Voyeurism: Jazz Dancing and the Making of Moral Concern in America” in The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Nice work, Dr. Ben Wise!
This last summer, Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Giles was very busy publishing the entry “Homosexuals” in the Cambridge History of the Holocaust, Volume 3: The Victims and Their Worlds, 1939-1945 with Cambridge University Press and “‘Skipped the Parade!’ A Deficit of Fanaticism in the SA Guards Regiment” in Die SA in der Region: Akteure, Narrative, und Praktiken […]
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Check out Professor Jack Davis in a recent article from WUFT discussing the history of the bald eagle in the south and his book The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird.
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Congratulations to Beckett Price, who has been awarded the American Folklore Society’s Zora Neale Hurston Prize for their research paper “The Protest Folklore of Florida’s Black New Deal Writers.”
Congratulations to Zachary Young (advisor Dr. Nina Caputo), who has been awarded a Tikvah Academic Fellowship for his research on innovative theological developments in early 15th-century proto-converso circles in Iberia! See the announcement here: https://tikvah.org/academic-fellowship/2025-26-academic-fellows/
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Listen to Professor Steve Noll on The Independent Life Podcast from the Center for Independent Living of North Central Florida. Prof. Noll spoke about his personal journey and his academic interests in the history of disability rights. Part 1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dr-steven-noll-bridging-history-advocacy-and/id1541415342?i=1000681153010 Part 2: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dr-steven-noll-lessons-from-the-disability-rights/id1541415342?i=1000681153009
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Prof. Florin Curta appeared on The Medievalist Podcast (https://www.medievalists.net/2025/01/medieval-eastern-europe-florin-curta/) to discuss his edited collection Medieval Eastern Europe (University of Toronto Press, 2024).
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Prof. Steven Noll was featured on the Fox 13 Tampa Bay show Money, Power, and Politics in an episode about the Cross Florida Canal, “Florida’s Boondoggle.”
PhD student Thomas Miller has received the Conference on Latin American History’s James R. Scobie award. The award provides funding for exploratory research toward a dissertation project. Congratulations!
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Distinguish Professor Jack Davis was named Florida House Distinguished Author at the 50th-anniversary dinner at the University of Florida on April 18, 2024.
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Mosunmola Ogunmolaji, a PhD candidate in the History Department writing a dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Nancy Hunt, received the Ruth McQuown Scholarship Supplementary Award for a graduate student who exemplify Dr. McQuown’s commitment to societal issues including those involving women, racial minorities and those of low socio-economic background at the University of Florida. […]
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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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In October 2023, the Romanian Academy voted to make Prof. Florin Curta an honorary member for “exceptional contributions to the history and archaeology of East-Central and Southeastern Europe during the Middle Ages.” Congratulations! . Congratulations!
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Congratulations to PhD candidate Jeffrey Jones, who has been named a Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow at The Huntington Library in San Marino, California for 2024-25. Jeffrey will spend four months at the Huntington doing research in their British archival collections.
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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On November 8, 2023, History and the Bob Graham Center teamed up for a night of international relations, public affairs, and history trivia, with some sports and pop culture in the mix for good measure. Organizations from Phi Alpha Theta to the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASA) fielded teams that were paired with […]
This year Professor Mitchell Hart was elected a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research, the oldest organization of scholars of Judaism in the United States. Congratulations!
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PhD candidates Tyler Cline and Jeffrey Jones won Rothman and Tedder fellowships, respectively, from the Center for the Humanities in the Public Sphere. Cline will use the funding toward research on his dissertation project, called “To Slake the Thirst of Liberty: Migration, Race, and the Transformation of Transnational Anglo-Saxonism, 1830-1890.” Jones will use the funding […]
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Two history PhD students, Aaya Kingsbury and Miguel Torres Yunda, received Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for summer research and language study. Aaya Kingsbury will use her FLAS summer fellowship to study the K’iche’ language. She studies Guatemala in the twentieth century and is excited about the opportunity to learn a Mayan language, like […]
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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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Dr. Daniel Fernández (who defended in fall 2022) and Oren Okhovat (defending this year) have received Fulbright Scholar fellowships to spend the next academic year in Spain, in Madrid and Seville, respectively. Congratulations to Dr. Fernández and soon-to-be Dr. Okhovat!
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Assistant Professor James Gerien-Chen received a Fulbright-Hays award for Faculty Research Abroad for his book titled Between Nation and Empire: Migration and Law in the Making of Japanese Empire in Taiwan, South China, and Southeast Asia, 1895–1950. He will be away on research in the spring 2023 semester.
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Each year the International Center at UF names a group of faculty from across campus as Global Fellows. This year’s group will include Associate Professor Anton Matytsin. According to the International Center: The Global Fellows Program provides an opportunity for early-career UF faculty to kick-start an international research program. A series of workshops and training […]
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Our PhD candidates Oren Okhovat and Catherine Stiefel were awarded CLAS Dissertation Fellowships for this year. Okhovat won the Charles Vincent and Heidi Cole McLaughlin Fellowship to work on his dissertation, which examines seventeenth-century network constructed by the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam to connect their various Dutch Atlantic settlements under the supervision of Prof. […]
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UF Presidential Task Force on African American and Native American History and the University of Florida published its findings in a report in April 2022. UF President Kent Fuchs formed the task force in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in the summer of 2020. Its chair was Paul Ortiz of the Department of History, […]
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/