Faculty Highlights

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  Ayers named to Leadership Council

  Dr. Edward L. Ayers, Tucker-Boatwright Professor of Humanities and President Emeritus, was named a charter member of the St. John's Church Foundation Leadership Council.

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  Drell Presentation

  History professor Joanna Drell was invited to speak at a meeting Palermo, Sicily in early October on the topic of medieval immigration of northern Italians down to Sicily. The meeting was coordinated by the Office of Medieval Studies and the Cultural Circle of the ‘Marquises of Monferrato.’

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  Ayers elected to Colonial Williamsburg board

  Edward Ayers, Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and president emeritus, was elected to the board of trustees for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

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  Seeley Fellowship

  History professor Samantha Seeley has been awarded a Kluge Fellowship from The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress for her book project, “Race and Removal in the Early American Republic.”

• Summers Article

  History professor Carol Summers published "Scandal and Mass Politics: Buganda's 1941 Nnamasole Crisis" in the International Journal of African Historical Studies.
  

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  Yellin Grant History professor Eric Yellin received a grant from the Dirksen Congressional Center to research the political, cultural, and social meanings of Social Security after World War II.
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  Ayers receives 2018 Avery O. Craven Award

  Edward Ayers, Tucker Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and president emeritus, was awarded the 2018 Avery O. Craven Award for his book The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America.

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  Bischof Article Award

  History professor Chris Bischof's article, "Chinese Laborers, Free Blacks, and Social Engineering in the Post-Emancipation British West Indies," published in Past & Present was warded the 2017 Walter D. Love Prize for the best article in British history by the North American Conference on British Studies.

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  Ayers Receives Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize

  Tucker Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus Ed Ayers will receive the 2018 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize for his book, The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America.

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  Meyer Fulbright

  Dr. Manuella Meyer received a Fulbright award for travel to Brazil to research her book project “Making Brazilian Children: Child Welfare and the Psychiatry of Childhood, 1922-1954.”