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Lorraine Daston honored for research on the history of science
Lorraine Daston, a visiting professor in UChicago’s John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and the Department of History, has been awarded the Dan Da...
November 21, 2019Historian Faith Hillis awarded NEH fellowship to study political impact of 19th c. Russian settlements
Historian Faith Hillis has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support a methodologically eclectic proje...
November 21, 2019Historian Richard Payne to receive 2018 World Award for Book of the Year
The Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has awarded its 2018 World Award for Book of the Year to historian Richard Payne for A State of M...
November 21, 2019History’s Mauricio Tenorio receives a Humboldt Research Award
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded history professor Mauricio Tenorio its prestigious Research Award. Mauricio Tenorio is the Samuel...
November 21, 2019Social Sciences faculty inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
On Saturday, October 7, 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences inducted 228 national and international scholars, artists, philanthropists, an...
November 21, 2019Historian Alain Bresson awarded AHA James Henry Breasted Prize
Professor Alain Bresson has been awarded the American Historical Association’s James Henry Breasted Prize for his book, The Making of the Ancient Gree...
October 16, 2023Mark Bradley, Professor in the Department of History appointed Deputy Dean of Social Sciences
Mark Bradley, the Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History, has been appointed to the role of deputy dean fo...
November 21, 2019