Faculty Accomplishments Archive

Eric S. Yellin, associate professor of history, participated in the American Historical Association’s Congressional Briefing, offering historical perspectives on the federal civil service.

Michelle Kahn, associate professor of history, has been awarded a National Humanities Center Fellowship for 2025-26 to support writing her book tentatively titled Neo-Nazis in Germany and the United States: An Entangled History of Hate, 1945-2000. Learn more.

Pippa Holloway, Cornerstones Chair in History, won the A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize from the Southern Association of Women Historians for her article, “Virginia Penny’s ‘State of Desperation’: Anger, Insanity, and Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky,” which was published in Ohio Valley History.

Yücel Yanıkdağ, professor of history, published "Ottoman and Turkish Exception(alism): States of Exception in Turkey, 1909–1927" in First World War Studies.

Tze M. Loo, associate professor of history and global studies, published “Actions toward Modern Japanese National Consciousness,” a translation of the Okinawan historian Gabe Masao's essay, “Kindai Nihon kokka ishiki e no taiō: Ryūkyū Okinawa chīki no ba’ai” and "Gabe Masao in Translation," an accompanying introduction to Gabe's scholarship in Pacific Historical Review.

Sydney Watts, associate professor of history and women, gender and sexuality studies, discussed her research project, "The Channel Islands: Borderlands Migration in the Atlantic World, 1763-1815” on the Hagley History Hangout Podcast during her scholar-in-residence term at the Hagley Museum and Library, in Wilmington, Delaware.

Pippa Holloway, Cornerstones Chair in History, received $57,360 from the National Park Service for an exploration of the history of public school desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In partnership with colleagues at VCU, Holloway will synthesize scholarly literature on Davis v. Prince Edward County, consider the impacts of the county’s five-year school closure, and examine the commemoration of the case and its aftermath. Their report will help the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Park and the Robert Russa Moton Museum in Farmville, Virginia, plan new interpretation, manage cultural resources, and identify needs for further research on the fight for school desegregation in Prince Edward County.

Michelle Kahn, associate professor of history, published Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History by Cambridge University Press.

Michelle Kahn, associate professor of history, was appointed as editor of Contemporary European History, an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarship on European history from 1914 onwards.

Carol Summers, Samuel Chiles Mitchell-Jacob Billikopf Professor of History and Global Studies, presented "Housewives and Thrift in the 1940s, from Britain to Australia" at the "Making, Spending, Saving: Women and Money in Australasia" Symposium.

Carol Summers, Samuel Chiles Mitchell-Jacob Billikopf Professor of History and Global Studies, presented "'No one else can do your duty': War Savings Propaganda and Practices of Australian Citizenship,1939-46" at the 43rd Australian Historical Association Conference.

Michelle Kahn, associate professor of history, received the 2024 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award from the School of Arts & Sciences at the A&S Honors Convocation.