by Cameron Neale Congratulations to department alum Dex Dexter ‘24, the 2025 recipient of the LGBTQ+ History Association’s Joan Nestle Prize! The Joan Nestle Prize recognizes an outstanding example of undergraduate research and writing on LGBTQ+ history, which this … Read more
Shannon Eaves, an assistant professor at the College of Charleston, has received a prestigious AAUW fellowship to research and write her book, Illicit Intercourse: How the Sexual Exploitation of Enslaved Women Shaped the Antebellum South. The book examines the systemic … Read more
We want to extend our warmest congratulations to Dr. Shannon Eaves, who graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with her PhD in History in 2015, for earning tenure and promotion to the position of Associate Professor at the College of Charleston! Eaves … Read more
Dr. Anna Krome-Lukens, an alumna of the UNC History Department’s PhD Program who has returned to the campus to teach in the Department of Public Policy, was recently awarded the 2024 Chapman Family Teaching Award. Selected as one of 25 … Read more
Sarah K. Miles, currently in her last year as a PhD student at UNC, is a host for the New Books Network channel in French Studies. Her most recent episode is an interview with Nicole Bauer, who graduated with her … Read more
Please join us in a standing ovation for UNC PhD alumni, Dr. Marko Dumančić! Dr. Dumančić’s book, Men out of Focus, won the 2022 Svetlana Boym Best Book in Cultural Studies Award presented by AATSEEEL! You can buy his book through … Read more
At this year’s Southern Historical Association conference, UNC History alumnus Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. (PhD, 2014) was awarded the 2022 Sydnor Award for best book in southern history published last year. Milteer’s book, Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in … Read more
