Graduate News Archive
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Rachel Hynson’s (PhD ’14) book included on Contingent Magazine’s list of recommended books by first authors
Contingent Magazine recently included Rachel Hynson’s Laboring for the State: Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1971 on its list of recommended history books by first authors. Hynson (UNC PhD, 2014) is currently Director of the Creating Connections Consortium in Middlebury, Vermont. A … Continued
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Congrats to Rachel Cochran on Fulbright-Hays!
Congratulations to PhD Student Rachel Cochran for receiving a 2020 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellows Program! See the announcement here. Cochran’s dissertation, titled “Political Thought in the 18th century Persian Cosmopolis,” will explore how cosmologies, epic narrative traditions and … Continued
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Donny Santacatarina, PhD candidate, awarded Adams Fellowship for the Public Humanities
Donny Santacatarina, a 5th year PhD candidate, has been awarded the Maynard Adams Fellowship for the Public Humanities. In his cohort, he’ll conduct public humanities work through the comparison of Chinese and American news systems. Congratulations, Donny, we can’t wait … Continued
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Jessica Wilkerson (Ph.D. ’14) Wins H.L. Mitchell Award
Jessica Wilkerson, who earned her Ph.D. from the history department in 2014, has won the Southern Historical Associations H.L. Mitchell Award for her book To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice. The award recognizes … Continued
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PhD Candidate Lucas Kelley and Recent PhD Garrett Wright (PhD ’19) Write for Scalawag Magazine
PhD Candidate Lucas Kelley and Recent PhD Garrett Wright write how “stolen Indigenous land built universities across the United States” in a new article for Scalawag Magazine. Using maps made by Adrienne Hall, Wright and Kelley show that “so-called land-grant … Continued
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Allison Somogyi (’19):” Why Do Women Change Their Stories of Sexual Assault?”
Allison Somogy, PhD ’19 writes for The Conversation about “the circumstances that can prompt victims to change their stories about sexual assault.” Read here.
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TO PROSPECTIVE GRADUATE STUDENTS
We regret to announce that the UNC-CH History Department will not accept applications to our graduate program during the 2021 admissions cycle. In order to ensure that the department has resources to adequately support its educational mission during the Covid-19 … Continued
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PhD Candidate Alyssa Bowen: We Need an Academic New Deal
PhD Candidate Alyssa Bowen co-wrote an insightful article for The Nation with William Horne, entitled “We Need an Academic New Deal.” In this thoughtful and timely article, Bowen and Horne analyze the current crisis facing higher education and state demands to … Continued
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Robert Colby (PhD ’19) Wins the Allan Nevins Prize for Best Dissertation
Robert Colby, who received his PhD from our department last year, recently won the Society of American Historians’ Allan Nevins Prize for Best Dissertation in American History. Dr. Colby’s dissertation, “The Continuance of an Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the … Continued
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John “Rocky” Rhodes (PhD ’16) Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel
John “Rocky” Rhodes, who received his PhD from the Department of History in 2016, received his promotion to Lieutenant Colonel in a ceremony at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. In Rocky’s dissertation, “Agents of Empire: The Frontier U.S. Army and the Transition … Continued
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DTH Interview with Caroline Newhall on Black POWs in the Confederacy
PhD candidate Caroline Newhall was featured in a recent interview with the Daily Tar Heel ahead of her public “Tell about the South” talk next Wednesday, April 17, hosted by the Center for the Study of the American South. In the … Continued
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Mark Reeves receives 2019 SERSAS Graduate Student Paper Prize
Mark Reeves received the 2019 Graduate Student Paper Prize from the Southeastern Regional Seminar in African Studies (SERSAS), for his paper entitled “A Gilded Cage? Nnamdi Azikiwe’s Pan-Africanism as Governor-General of Nigeria, 1960-1963.” This prize recognizes the best paper from the recent … Continued
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Liz Lundeen Receives UNC Graduate School’s Impact Award
Liz Lundeen received the UNC Graduate School’s Impact Award, an annual honor for graduate students whose research “contribute to a better future for people and communities in North Carolina.” Congratulations, Liz! Read more about her research and the award here.
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Lucas Kelley Publishes an Op-Ed on Borders and Immigration in the Knoxville News Sentinel
UNC-Chapel Hill PhD candidate Lucas Kelley recently published an op-ed in the Knoxville News Sentinel. Using his expertise in early American history, Lucas explained the history of borders and immigration in Tennessee to provide context to ongoing conversations about the United … Continued
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Daniela Weiner (PhD student) publishes article in the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
Daniela R. P. Weiner, a Religions and Public Life Graduate Fellow and PhD student in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recently published an article titled ‘Tendentious texts: Holocaust representations andnation-rebuilding in East … Continued
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Jacqueline Whitt (PhD ’08) is producer and editor of new podcast
Jacqueline Whitt (UNC PhD ’08) is producer and editor of “A Better Peace: The WAR ROOM Podcast.”
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Ethan Kytle (PhD ’04) and Blain Roberts (PhD ’05) in the New York Times
Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Confederacy, by Ethan J. Kytle (UNC PhD ’04) and Blain Roberts (UNC PhD ’05), was mentioned as one of “17 Refreshing Books to Read This Summer” by the New York Times.
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Christina Snyder (PhD ’07) wins Parkman Prize
Christina Snyder (UNC PhD ’07) won the 2018 Francis Parkman Prize for Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers & Slaves in the Age of Jackson (Oxford University Press).
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2018-2019 awards
Congratulations to three of our doctoral students who won competitive 2018-2019 awards from the College of Arts and Sciences as part of its new initiatives to support graduate education: Aubrey Lauersdorf, a Kenan III Graduate Fellowship; Kirsten Cooper, a Druscilla French … Continued