An excerpt of Dr. Kathleen DuVal’s recently published book, Native Nations (2024), was published in The Atlantic. Here, please read Dr. DuVal’s article on Native North Americans’ economic, political, and social innovations during the Little Ice Age. Later this month, … Read more
Congratulations to Dr. Morgan Pitelka, whose 2022 book, Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan (Cambridge University Press), was recently honored by the International Convention of Asia Scholars as one of the ten best Asian studies books … Read more
Congratulations to graduate student Sarah K. Miles, who received the 2024 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in the area of the Humanities and Fine Arts for her dissertation entitled “One and the Same Struggle: Francophone Intellectuals, Global Solidarity, and Third Worldist … Read more
Dr. Kathleen DuVal’s latest book, Native Nations: A Millenium in North America, set for release in April 2024, received a starred review in Publishers’ Weekly. Beginning with the millenium-long histories of sixteenth-century Native American societies, DuVal contextualizes early encounters between … Read more
Update Thanks to everyone who joined for the 2023 UNC-KCL Graduate Student Workshop! Our panelists learned so much from their peers and faculty participants and we were thrilled to host our friends from King’s College London here in Chapel Hill! … Read more
Congratulations to Mira Markham, 2023 recipient of the Konrad H. Jarausch Essay Prize for Advanced Graduate Students in modern Central European history, awarded by the North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series (NCGS). With her submission entitled “Operation Velehrad, … Read more
Jefferson Cowie, James G. Stahlman Professor of American History at Vanderbilt University, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for history for his book Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power (Basic Books). The book provides a powerful account of … Read more
PhD Candidate and UNC ’14 alum Hooper Schultz is featured in the April edition of Carolina Graduate School Magazine. Read about his journey to graduate school, his research through the Southern Oral History Program, and his important work on gay … Read more
Join us in congratulating Dr. John Wood Sweet, whose most recent book, The Sewing Girl’s Tale, won the 2023 Bancroft Prize. According to the New York Times, this prize is “one of the most prestigious honors in the field of American history.” … Read more
Dr. John Sweet’s latest book, The Sewing Girl’s Tale, has been selected as the Journal of the American Revolution’s 2022 Book-of-the-Year. Congratulations!
