Making History Public

Sarah Ahmedani wins Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research

PhD Candidate Sarah Ahmedani has won a Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research from the American Philosophical Society. The grant will fund Sarah's archival research this summer on her dissertation, "Beyond These Walls: Fracture and Transformation at Thomas Indian School, 1855-1957."

Nico Allen has been awarded a Fulbright Research award!

Nicolas Allen is a PhD candidate in History. He works on modern Latin American cultural and political history, especially Brazil. Through the Fulbright Research award to Brazil, he looks forward to working with an interdisciplinary group of scholars at the Laboratory of Sound Culture History at the University of São Paulo. This represents a unique opportunity for him to connect U.S. and Brazilian academics concerned with "listening" to the past and using sound as a source of social scientific inquiry. He is excited to interact firsthand with rare, historical sound recordings and sound reproduction equipment, and to dialogue with the archivists and institutions responsible for their preservation. Nicolas is a part of LACS on campus.

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Francisco Rodriguez awarded Visiting Scholar Grant!

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Francisco Rodriguez on being awarded a prestigious Visiting Scholar grant to the The Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University. The grant supports his research on Arab diaspora and migration studies.

Professor Masten wins 2025 book award from the Victorian Society of New York

Professor April Masten has been awarded a 2025 book award by the Board of Directors of the Victorian Society of New York, for Diamond and Juba: The Raucous World of 19th-Century Challenge Dancing.

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Debjani Chakrabarty wins an American Historical Association 2026 Research Grant

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Debjani Chakrabarty on receiving the AHA's Bernadotte Schmitt Grant, to support research in the history of Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Jediael Peterson and Nico Allen named 2026 ACLS Fellows

Congratulations to PhD Candidates Jediael Peterson and Nico Allen who received the prestigious and competitive fellowships to support their dissertation research.

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Professor Zolov named a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow

Professor Eric Zolov was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship to work on his new project "The Bossa Nova Moment: Harmonizing Pan-Americanism in the Era of the Cuba Revolution." He also recently received a Wayne Shirley Fellowship from the Society of American Music to research the personal papers of Brazilian-American jazz and bossa music artist, Laurindo Almeida, as part of the project.

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