Huge congratulations to Prof. Elissa Bemporad on her National Jewish Book Award 2019 in the category of Modern Jewish Thought and Experience for her new book, Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Congratulations to David Pultz!
The History Department congratulates David Pultz, a graduate student at City College and member of our Beta-Tau chapter. David won Phi Alpha Theta’s 2018 Nels Andrew Cleven Founder’s Prize for a graduate paper. His paper is titled,“Transnational Human Rights Norms Come of Age: Assertions, Influences, and Continuities in the Helsinki Final Act.”
David also won this prize in 2017 for another research paper titled, “On the Tiger’s Back: The George W. Ball Memorandums and the Johnson Administration’s March Toward Escalation in Vietnam, 1964 - 1965.”
Deirdre Cooper Owens awarded book prize and selected as OAH Distinguished Lecturer
Prof. Deirdre Cooper Owens's book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology (Univ Georgia Press, 2017) won the Darlene Clark Award from the Organization of American Historians, as the best book in African-American women's and gender history for this year! The OAH has also selected Dee-Dee as a Distinguished Lecturer. This is huge news - congratulations to Prof. Cooper Owens!