Faculty and Student Publications and Awards

The Department of History at UChicago is a vibrant intellectual community renowned for cutting-edge research and expansive scope of expertise. These qualities are reflected in the 2023 faculty and student publications, awards, and contributions to history. Although this list is not exhaustive, it reflects the many accomplishments of members of the department. We are proud of all their achievements and look forward to celebrating their continued success.

Clifford Ando was appointed the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in Classics, History, and the College. He was also appointed as an Extraordinary Professor in Department of Ancient Studies, Stellenbosch University (January 2024 – December 2026) and elected a member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. 

John W. Boyer published an enlarged edition of his book The University of Chicago: A History. It was released by the University of Chicago Press in 2024.

Mark Philip Bradley was awarded the George E. Bogaars Visiting Professorship in History at the National University of Singapore for 2024-25. Bradley received an award from the American Association of University Presses for the redesign of the American Historical Review, which he edits. 

Matthew Briones published "Filipino Grief in Five Acts" in the Amerasia Journal (2024). It is currently available online and will be published in hard copy later this year.

Elizabeth Chatterjee’s article “Late Acceleration: The Indian Emergency and the Early 1970s Energy Crisis,” was published in American Historical Review 129, no. 2 (2024). She has an article, co-authored with Department of History PhD candidate Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj, "Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene” scheduled for published in Past & Present, fall 2025.

Paul Cheney is named the Sorin and Imran Siddiqui Professor, beginning July 1, 2024. He also published “Le Débat sur capitalisme et esclavage : un débat inachevé,” in Travail servile et dynamiques économiques XVIe-XXIe siècle, edited by Mendes, Almeida, Conchon, Anne, Alessandro Stanziani, and Myriam Cottias, 97–116. Paris: IGPDE-Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France, 2024.

Jane Dailey was named the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia in American History.

Samuel Fury Childs Daly published  Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire with Duke University Press in 2024.

Yuting Dong's project "Mapping Neighborhoods in Japan’s Empire: A Digital Humanities Project on Infrastructure’s Socio-Political Influences" has been selected as an awardee for the CISSR 2024-25 Faculty Research Fellowship.

Alice Goff published The God Behind the Marble: The Fate of Art in the German Aesthetic State with The University of Chicago Press in January 2024. Her project, "The Afterlives of Church Bells in Postwar Germany," has been selected as an awardee for the CISSR 2024-25 Faculty Research Fellowship.

Aaron Jakes is collaborating on a Neubauer Collegium Faculty Research Project titled "Hidden Abodes of the “Great Acceleration”: Fossil Metabolism, Infrastructure, and the Climate/Nature Crisis."

Adrian Johns was interviewed on UChicago's Big Brains podcast in episode 118, "Phonics vs. whole word: The science of reading, with Adrian Johns" about his recent book The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America. He also recently offered a recorded online talk at UIUC titled "The Science of Reading and the Making of the Information Society." 

Rashauna Johnson has been elected Vice President of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD). She will serve a two-year term (2023-25). She has also been appointed to the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lectureship Program.

Matthew Kruer delivered the annual William and Mary Quarterly lecture, "“Colonial Anarchy, Indigenous Power” in February 2024.

Alison LaCroix's new book, The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms, was published by Yale University Press in May 2024.

Kenneth Pomeranz has a chapter, "Chinese Capitalism c. 1500-1850: Institutions, Dimensions, Dynamics and Limitations," forthcoming in a book co-edited by James Vaughn, a Collegiate Assistant Professor and affiliate of the history department, titled Capitalism: Histories, publised by Boydell & Brewer (January 2025).

Michael Rossi is collaborating on a Neubauer Collegium Faculty Research Project titled "The Diversity of Color: Safeguarding Natural Dye Sources and Practices in Michoacán and Oaxaca."

Mauricio Tenorio was appointed the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor, The University of Chicago. He published “Review Essay: Conceitos and Conceptos: The Wight of Words in the Iberian World,” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 85, no. 2 (April 2024), pp. 389-417, “Las puntas del iceberg,” Nexos (January 2024), and “De fósiles e Inteligencia Artificial,” Nexos (November 2023). He also delivered the Hackett Lecture at the University of Texas, Austin, February 2024, "Reconsidering the Old Question: History, What For?" His book Elogio de la impureza was reviewed in Mexico´s literary jounrnal Letras Libres (November, 2023) as was La historia en ruinas, also reviewed in Letras Libres (March, 2024).

POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATION

Ralph Austen has a book chapter, "Violence and Capitalism in Early Modern European Overseas Expansion," that will be published in Capitalism: Histories (Boydell & Brewer) in January 2025.

Caine Jordan co-wrote "'A Disgrace to all Slave-Holders': The University of Chicago's Ties to Slavery and the Path to Reparations" with Guy Emerson Mount and Kai Perry Parker, The Journal of African-American History, Vol. 103 No. 1-2, 163-178.

Anirban Karak published "The Politics of Commerce in Eighteenth-Century Bengal: A Reappraisal" in the Indian Economic and Social History Review in January 2024 and contributed a chapter to "Capitalism, Caste, and Subaltern Aspirations in India: Bengal, c.1500-1859" to a volume titled Capitalism: Histories, which will be released in January 2025. 

S. Prashant Kumar's chapter “Colonial Time Machines: Chronometry and the Personal Equation between Europe and South Asia,” in Astronomical Observatories and Chronometry, 18th-20th Century: Studies in Honour of Paolo Brenni, eds. Gianenrico Bernasconi, Illeana Chinnici, and Marco Storni will be released by Springer in 2025. A further chapter, “The Temple and the Observatory: A History of Data in India, 1783–1792,” in Global Aspects of Newtonianism, ed. Derya Gürses Tarbuck, is slated for publication by Routledge in 2025. Alongside Anjali Ramachandran, he worked on the arrangement, cataloguing, and description of the papers of the mathematical physicist B.S. Madhava Rao, which are accessible via the Finding Aid for collection MS-013, published online in February 2024 by the Archives at NCBS, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru.

Deirdre Lyons published “‘They Are Free with Me:’ Enslaved and Freed Women’s Antislavery Lawsuits in the French Antilles, 1830-1848” in French Historical Studies, Vol. 47, no. 3 (August 2024): 365-397.

Peggy O'Donnell Heffington's was interviewed on UChicago's Big Brains podcast, episode 142, "Why are more women saying no to having kids?, with Peggy O'Donnell Heffington" about her book WITHOUT CHILDREN: The Long History of Not Being a Mother (2023). 

Eunhee Park published "Morbid Spectacle”: Allegorical Dialectics of Mammonism, Humanity, and Necropower in Squid Game (2021)" in the International Journal of Asian Studies in January 2024, 1-15. A second article, "South Korean Housewives’ Emerging Economic Authority and Contestation of Domesticity during the Cold War Era," Gender and History was published in July 2024. 

Jiakai Sheng published "Negotiating Extra-settlement Roads: Boundary Making, Administrative Disputes, and Power Shifts in Treaty-port Shanghai, 1860–1937," Modern Asian Studies, Open Access, May 27, 2024.

James M. Vaughn co-edited Capitalism: Histories with Robert G. Ingram. The book will be released in January 2025. Included in the volume are chapters by Anirban Karak and Kenneth Pomeranz.

You Wang published "Women Till and Women Weave: Rice, Cotton, and the Gendered Division of Labor in Jiangnan" in Late Imperial China Vol. 45 No. 1 in June 2024.

Boone J. Ayala received a W.B.H. Dowse Fellowship from the Massachusetts Historical Society and presented at the Massachusetts Historical Society Graduate Forum on June 7 and the Britain and the World Conference at the University of Winchester on June 20-22, 2024.

Nahomi Esquivel was named a National Jeffersonian Scholar in 2024.

Syrus Jin published "The True Horseman of the ‘Fallout’ Apocalypse" in Foreign Policy Magazine on May 18, 2024 and "Afterlives of Orientalism: Corporal Punishment and U.S. Military-Building in Korea," in Diplomatic History on 26 August 2024. 

Fiona Maxwell is the recipient of the Deborah Mesch Fellowship and the Anna Award from the Center for Women's History and Leadership for her dedication to the organization. She published two articles in 2024: “‘Expression is Power’: Gender, Residual Culture, and Political Aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870-1900.” Gender & History (2024) and “Site of Social Justice Advocacy, or Home of Godly Women? Interpreting Women’s Work at the Frances Willard House Museum.” Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals (2024). The second is part of a special Focus Issue: “Women and Museums,” edited by Juilee Decker, guest edited by Holly O’Farrell and Alice Twemlow. Additionally, she published an exhibition catalog essay for the Hull-House museum, “The Old and the New: Immigrant Women and Intergenerational Connection at the Hull- House Labor Museum.” In Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935 and is presenting a storytelling performance for the Hull-House Museum's Open House, “Stories from the Labor Museum.” She was extended an invitation to offer a talk at the Winifred Ward Symposium at Northwestern University on June 1, 2024. The talk is titled “‘Expression is Power’: Chicago Settlement Houses, the Cumnock School of Oratory, and the Progressive Era Prehistory of Creative Drama.”

Natalia Niedmann Alvarez published "From the Rule of Law to a Rule of Rights: Political Theory – Public Law – Enlightenment – Rule of Law – Public Sphere" in the International Journal of Human Rights, vol. 26 no. 9, 1503-1521 and "Feminism Without Roe" in Gender, Race & Justice 251(2024). She also graduated in Spring 2024 from the University of Chicago Law School with a Doctor of Jurisprudence.

Kate Randazzo received a short-term research grant for 2024-25 from the American Institute for Maghrib Studies [AIMS]. She also presented on a panel at the Renaissance Society of America in March.

Kyra Schulman published "Memory Space: A Case Study of a Holocaust Digital Mapping Project of Łomża, Poland," Cont Jewry Volume 44, pages 261–280, 2024.

Alice Tay was awarded a Yenching Scholarship to support at least the first year of a two-year Master’s in China Studies at Peking University. 

Elena Tiedens was awarded an Honorable Mention by the Udall Foundation. She is the first UChicago student since 2016 to receive this recognition. 

Astrid Weinberg was awarded a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: James C. Gaither Junior Fellows Program, American Statecraft Program, (declined).

Elizabeth Zazycki and Elena Tiedens are named alternates for the Critical Language Scholarship in Hindi and Russian, respectively.

Emma Kreistler was admitted to the US Teaching Assistantship (USTA) Program, Austria

Max Parness is a named alternate for the Boren Scholarship.

Daisy Maslan was awarded a Fulbright Study Award, France.