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Recent Announcements<\/span><\/h1>\n
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September 2023<\/h3>\n

Professor Francille Wilson<\/strong> has won the Carter Godwin Woodson Scholars Medallion from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH.) This award, as the ASALH website states, \u201cis presented to a scholar whose career is distinguished through at least a decade of research, writing, and activism in the field of African American life and history. The recipient\u2019s career should embody and personify the Woodson legacy to ensure a firm foundation for the continuance of African-centered education through dedication and commitment to African-American history.\u201d More details can be found here: https:\/\/asalh.org\/awards\/woodson-scholars-medallion\/<\/a>. Many congratulations Francille!<\/p>\n

April 2023<\/h3>\n

For his book, “Remains of the Everyday: A Century of Recyling in Beijing,” Josh Goldstein<\/strong> received the Joseph Levensen Prize in Modern Chinese Studies (not just history, but any field related to modern China), awarded by the Association for Asian Studies. The book, according to the Society’s Web Page, “is a fine example of how archival material, official statistics, and longitudinal interviews with participants can be synthesized into a strong narrative that transcends a given area of inquiry. The book highlights the challenge of how to handle waste not only in reform era China, but also around the world.”<\/p>\n

February 2023<\/h3>\n

Our colleague Peter Mancall<\/strong> is one of five faculty on campus named as a “Distinguished Professor” this year\u2014which, along with University Professorships, represents USC’s highest professional honor. As the announcement states, the award is for faculty “who have brought great distinction to our university through their work, which enlightens collective understandings and contributes to the advancement of society.” Congratulations, Peter, on this well deserved recognition!<\/p>\n

January 2023<\/h3>\n

We are pleased to announce that three of our esteemed faculty have just received major awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities!\u00a0 Alice Baumgartner<\/strong> won a research fellowship for her next project, titled, “Slavery After Abolition: How Freedom Seekers from New Mexico to Alaska Invoked the Thirteenth Amendment to End Slavery in the United States.”\u00a0 Nathan Perl-Rosenthal<\/strong> received a research fellowship as well for his next book, “Ordering Property: A Global History of Maritime Prize Law, 1498-1916.”\u00a0 Finally, Bill Deverell<\/strong> and the Institue on California and the West, in collaboration with Scott Fisher in the Cinema School,\u00a0received a grant for their “Chinatown History Project,” an “augmented reality project” at Union Station, reconstructing the original Chinatown neighborhood that the station was built over.<\/p>\n

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December 2022<\/h3>\n

The third installment of the All Souls series is the basis for the final season of “Discovery of Witches,” coming soon to AMC, Sundance Now, and Shudder. A Discovery of Witches: Season 3<\/strong><\/a>, AMC+ Drama, 2022 — The Book of Life (Movie Tie-In): A Novel (All Souls Series)<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, (Penguin Randomhouse, 2022).<\/p>\n

November 2022<\/h3>\n

The North American Conference on British History has awarded Keith Pluymers<\/strong>‘s (PhD 2015) No Wood, No Kingdom<\/em><\/a> <\/strong>(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) the 2022 Ben Snow Prize<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n

October 2022<\/h3>\n

Vanessa Schwartz<\/strong> has recently received a major grant for which she will be acting as a co-PI \u2014an international, interdisciplinary, multi-year project directed by Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Staszak, (Geography, University of Geneva). The project, \u201cGlobetrotting: Touring Round the World (1869-1914),\u201d was selected for funding of close to one million Swiss Francs by Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Suisse) (FNRS) for 2023-2026.<\/p>\n

Here are more details on the project itself:\u00a0The project gathers an international and interdisciplinary team to study the rise of globetrotters who made \u201ctours du monde\u201d amateurs and the special role such trips made to the rise of mass tourism (as opposed to exploration, journalism, diplomacy) from the 1870s to 1914. We are especially interested in how new forms of travel and modes of publication and dissemination of both written and visual accounts (stereoscopic photo sets and films) not only re-figured concepts of the planetary but also fostered the development of new written and visual forms and styles. \u00a0The team has exclusive access to the archive of one Swiss traveler, which will form the kernel for an exhibition; it includes specialists who study the only non-Western globetrotters of the period from Japan; and accords with the Visual Studies Research Institute\u2019s expertise using commercial images as well as our on-going examination of how images define space, time, and physical and virtual circulation.<\/p>\n

September 2022<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Jacob Soll<\/strong> has published Free Market: The History of an Idea<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, (Basic Books, 2022).\u00a0 Tracing the intellectual evolution of the free market from Cicero to Milton Friedman, Soll argues that we need to go back to the origins of free market ideology in order to understand it\u2014and to develop new economic concepts to face today\u2019s challenges. Congratulations Jake!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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