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
MA Candidate Mark Thomas-Patterson was the recipient of the Rose Library Short-Term Award Fellowship from the Rose Library at Emory University to conduct research over the course of summer 2023. With the support of this grant, Thomas-Patterson was able to … Read more
UNC PhD student Zora Piskačová has been awarded the prestigious Anthony Jung Award for Best Graduate Student Paper at the 48th Annual European Studies Conference, sponsored by the Unviersity of Nebraska at Omaha. Piskačová, who studies modern East Central Europe … Read more
Dr. Rob Waters, a historian of Modern Britain at Queen Mary’s University in London, has just published his second monograph with Oxford University Press: Colonized by Humanity: Caribbean London and the Politics of Integration at the End of Empire. In 2021, … Read more
This year, three UNC History graduate students have been selected to receive the Sally Markham Michie Award from the Orange County chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Cristian Walk, Nick Sifford, and Skye Brenner will be honored at … 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
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
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
Alison Curry, currently an ABD student in the History Department, was recently featured in a Research UNCovered post for the fascinating work she’s doing on Jewish cemetaries in Poland in the interwar period and during World War II. Her work … Read more
We are so incredibly proud of Nurlan Kabdylkhak, UNC History PhD Candidate in late imperial Russian and Central Asian History, who has been awarded a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 2023. Nurlan’s dissertation is entitled “Muslim Institutions and … Read more
