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Congrats, Gus Grunau, Winner of the History Department 2021 Junior Paper Prize

Gus Grunau聽鈥22聽is the recipient of the 2021聽Junior Paper Prize for his essay titled, "Jews in the Historiography of North Africa: Identity, Agency, Jewish-Muslim Relations, and Colonial Boundaries."

The award was announced at the History Department Fall Party on Thursday, November 4, 2021.

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Fall Party to Feature Faculty Book Talk and Announcement of Junior Paper Prize

This year's History Department Fall Party will feature聽Prof. Nina聽Gelbart聽discussing her latest book聽Minerva's French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France聽(Yale University Press, 2021).聽 The department will also announce the winner of the Junior Paper Prize at the hors d'oeuvres reception that will immediately follow聽the lecture.

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History Students Conduct 10 Weeks of Sponsored Summer Research

This summer, four History students conducted ten weeks of sponsored, original research as participants in聽the college's Summer Research Program. At the conclusion of the ten-week research program, students presented their research during an all-day virtual conference. Students are listed below along with their research topics and their History-faculty mentors.

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Image of book cover for "Minerva's French Sisters," by Dr. Nina Rattner Gelbart
Faculty Book Release: Dr. Nina Rattner 骋别濒产补谤迟鈥檚 鈥淢inerva鈥檚 French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France鈥

Dr. 骋别濒产补谤迟鈥檚 latest book presents a collective biography of six female scientists in eighteenth-century France聽whose stories were largely written out of history.

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Congratulations, Hannah Huang, Winner of the 2021 Hardy Prize for Best Senior Thesis, and Mary Craggs and Diego Lucich for Earning Honorable Mentions!

Hannah鈥檚 senior thesis titled, 鈥溾楲ike the First Thunder in Spring鈥: Tracking the 1971 Baodiao Movement and the Politicization of Diasporic Chinese Nationalism,鈥 represents remarkable distinction in originality and rigor of research as well as innovation and execution of interpretation.

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Congratulations, Mary Craggs, Winner of the 2021 Prize for Outstanding Service to the Department!

The unanimous faculty support for Mary's service nomination reflects our appreciation for her contributions in support of student learning and faculty teaching in her role as the 2021-2022 History Subject Advisor as well as organizer of the end-of year Alumni Panel event for majors.

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Students Create Scalar Project Titled, 鈥淰oting in 2020: A Historical Perspective on Elections鈥

The work of students enrolled in Dr. Leslie Butler's HIST 295: The Contested Ballot in American History (Fall 2020) culminated in a Scalar project titled, "." Dr.

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Cover of book "Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personification of the Continents"
Now Available: 鈥淏odies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents,鈥 Co-edited by Dr. Maryanne Cline Horowitz
From Brill (publisher):

"Since antiquity, artists have visualized the known world through the female (sometimes male) body. In the age of exploration, America was added to figures of Europe, Asia, and Africa who would come to inhabit the borders of geographical visual imagery.

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