Michelle Kahn, associate professor of history, won the Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize for her book Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History.
Pippa Holloway, Cornerstones Chair in History, testified as an expert witness in a special three judge panel trial court in the Shelby County (Tennessee) Circuit Court. The case, Moses v. Goins et al., challenges a law that permanently disfranchises Tennessee citizens following a felony conviction. Holloway presented historical testimony that included a historical analysis of the Free and Equal Elections clause of the Tennessee Constitution, which requires conviction by a jury before a person otherwise entitled to vote could be denied suffrage on the basis of a criminal conviction.
Jillean McCommons, assistant professor of history and Africana studies, published "From Their Double Minority Position": Black Women's Leadership, Black Feminist Thought, and the Black Appalachian Commission, 1969-1975" in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society.
Eric S. Yellin, professor of history, published "Broken Covenants: Jewish Memory and Racial Restrictive Covenants in Greater Washington" in Modern American History.
Eric Yellin was promoted to professor of history. He a historian of the United States with emphasis on twentieth-century American politics, race and racism, and the history of the US federal government. Yellin’s current research examines the intersection of American Jewish experience and public history and memory in twentieth-century Washington, D.C.
James J. Broomall, professor of history and William Binford Vest Chair in History, is serving as an academic advisor of and reviewer for the exhibition and book, The Soldier's Gaze: Picturing the Civil War. The Virginia Museum of History and Culture will premiere the exhibition in 2027, and Rizzoli Press will publish the book/exhibition catalog.
James J. Broomall, professor of history and William Binford Vest Chair in History, was invited to serve on the American Civil War Museum’s Historian Advisory Council, a standing body that advises on initiatives and projects to ensure the museum remains a leading resource on the American Civil War and its legacies.
Michelle Kahn, associate professor of history, won the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize for her book Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History.
David Brandenberger, professor of history and global studies, published Stalin’s Usable Past, which analyzes Stalin’s role in rewriting Soviet history to emphasize a thousand-year legacy before the 1917 Revolution and reshape Soviet identity.
David Brandenberger, professor of history and global studies, published “‘Basically, it’s a History of the Russian State’: Russocentrism, Etatism, and the Ukrainian Question in Stalin’s Editing of the 1937 Short History of the USSR” in Nationalities Papers.
David Brandenberger, professor of history and global studies, presented “The Foundations of Russian Statehood: An Analysis of the New ‘Civilizationism’ Curriculum in Russia’s Higher Educational Institutions” at a conference hosted by the Polish Academy of Sciences’ Institute of History. The paper analyzes a new mandatory civics course taught today in all Russian colleges and universities.
Sydney Watts, associate professor of history and gender & sexuality studies presented a paper on the transatlantic migration of the Dupont household (1797-1830) at the "Stay or Leave: Family Survival Tactics during the Age of Emigrations, 1770-1830s" workshop at Goethe University.
