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Recent alum Tom Okie received the Allan Nevins Prize, awarded annually by the Society of American Historians, for the best-written doctoral dissertation on an American subject.
Kevin Young received a 2013 Summer Doctoral Research Fellowship from the UGA Graduate School
Dillon Carroll received an Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research Grant for Doctoral Students from the UGA Graduate School
Benjamin Ehlers has been awarded a 2013-2014 fellowship for Study in a Second Discipline
Montgomery Wolf has received a Fulbright Core Award to teach and research in Benin for the 2013-14 academic year. She will teach at L'Université d'Abomey-Calavi and research Beninois Afrobeat and other popular musics.
Steve Soper received an NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship for a seminar on "Italy in the Age of the Risorgimento"
Timothy Johnson published an AJC op-ed on West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion
Congratulations to doctoral student Derek Bentley who has been awarded a Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholarship for 2013-14 to conduct research in Mexico.
Undergraduate history major Chelsey Cain has been selected as a Gilder Lehrman History Scholar Award Winner. The national competition recognizes fifteen colege senior history majors for their excellence and promise in the field. Award winners spend a weekend in New York City where they meet eminent scholars, take behind -the-scenes tours of historic archives, and are honored at a celebratory dinner hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Institute.
History of Capitalism featured in New York Times
Tore Olsson received the Mira Wilkins Prize for best article on international business history from the Business History Conference
Recent alum Tom Okie received the 2012 Gilbert C. Fite Award for the best dissertation from the Agricultural History Society
Ph.D. students Laura June Davis and David Thomson have recently won Wilson Center Graduate Research Awards.The Willson Center Graduate Research Award provides support of up to $1,250 to arts and humanities graduate students for relevant expenses related to completion of their degrees.
David Thomson received a research award from the Rothschild Archive of London.
UGA's Center for Virtual History has received a "Digital Innovation" grant from the American Council of Learned Societies.
Ph.D. Candidate Kylie Horney received a Graduate School Dean's Award in the Arts and Humanities.
Michael Winship's book Godly Republicanism was selected as a Choice Academic Title of the Year for 2012.
Timothy Johnson received a grant from the Harvard History Project, which awards research funding to projects dealing with economic history, broadly construed.
Ph.D. student Kylie Horney won the Janell Padgett Knight Graduate Award for the top-ranking recipient of the Willson Center Graduate Research Award.
Ph.D. students Matthew Hulbert and Kylie Horney have recently won Wilson Center Graduate Research Awards.The Willson Center Graduate Research Award provides support of up to $1,250 to arts and humanities graduate students for relevant expenses related to completion of their degrees.
Christopher Lawton won the M.E. Bradford Award, given by the St. George Tucker Society for the best dissertation focused on the U.S. South
Andrew Epstein received the Best Student Paper Award from the 2012 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.
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