THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
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 2025-2026 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.
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson's book Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis, co-authored with Carl Wennerlind, has been translated into French as Politiques de la rareté: Des origines du capitalisme à la crise écologique by Flammarion, March 2026. He is also giving a talk at the École normale supérieure as part of the lecture series, La fabrique de l’environnement. Métropoles et colonies, titled "The Fossil Ratchet: a New History of Britain’s Energy Transition 1760-1870" on March 17, which is based on his forthcoming book.
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 Österreich 1867-1955, Vienna, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in 2025.
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.
Elizabeth Chatterjee 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” Past & Present (2025).
Paul Cheney published “Inheritance and Incest: Toward a Lévi-Straussian Reading of Montesquieu’s De l’esprit des lois,” History and Theory 64.1 (2025): 46–74. He was quoted in "Un universitaire appelle à mettre en avant les sociétés dans l’écriture de l’histoire coloniale" in APS.
Yuting Dong's article, “Grounding Empire Through Burial Grounds: Military Territorial Claims in Japan’s Manchuria, 1904–1945,” is scheduled to be published in the July 2026 issue of the Journal of Japanese Studies.
Brodwyn Fischer's edited volume with Charlotte Vorms, Informal Cities: Histories of Governance and Inequality in Latin Europe, Latin America, and Colonial North Africa, is published by Chicago University Press in September 2025.
Mary Hicks' new book, Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery, won the Warren Dean Prize, the most significant book prize given by a US organization (the Conference on Latin American History) for a work in any subject in Brazilian history and the 2024 John Lyman Book Award in World Maritime History from the North American Society for Oceanic History.
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, together with PhD Candidate Miguel da Cruz Fernandes, was awarded a NSF grant for their project, "Digital Diagrams: Embodied Numeracy and Knowledge Visualization in the Middle Ages."
Rashauna Johnson published Sweet Home Feliciana: Family, Slavery, and the Hauntings of History with Cambridge University Press.
Emily Kern was awarded a 2026-2027 Faculty Fellowship from the Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR), University of Chicago.
Alison LaCroix's new book, The Interbellum Constitution, was awarded the SHEAR (Society for Historians of the Early American Republic) Book Prize in July 2025.
Kirsten Macfarlane's second book, Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World, was published with Oxford University Press in December 2024. The books "offers an alternative account of popular religion in early modernity by reconstructing a striking and unstudied community of seventeenth-century puritan immigrants to North America." It is the winner of the 2025 Roland H. Bainton Theology and Religion Prize from The Sixteenth-Century Society.
Ada Palmer's new book Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age was released in the UK in February 2025 and in the US in March 2025 under a slightly different title, Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age.
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." His new book
William H. Sewell Jr., Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, published a Chinese version of his book Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality by Truth and Wisdom Press.
Amy Dru Stanley was honored by the establishment of an American Society for Legal History fellowship in her name. The fellowship is part of the Society's Student Research Colloquium program in recognition of her scholarship and mentorship.
Gabriel Winant published "State Agency: Social History with and beyond Institutionalism.” In Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals since the 1960s, edited by Brent Cebul and Lily Geismer, 277-296. University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Tara Zahra was named a 25-26 Resident Fellow at the The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU. She also published, with Pieter Judson, The Great War and the Transformation of Habsburg Central Europe (Oxford, 2025).
Stephen Buono published Governing the Moon with the National Aeronautical and Space Administration in January 2025 and The Province of All Mankind: How Outer Space Became American Foreign Policy with Cornell University Press in July 2025.
Iris Clever published "Old Bones in New Databases" in American Anthropologist in July 2025 and her article, "Biometry Against Fascism" won the 2025 Forum for History of Human Science article prize.
Colin Jones published The Shortest History of France by The Experiment Publishing in 2025, co-edited with David A. Bell French Revolutionary Lives, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 and, in 2025-26, will be John and Constance Birkelund Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, New York Public Library.
Caine Jordan received the 2025 Gloeckner Fellowship at the Drexel Legacy Center.
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 “‘She Made Her Belly Disappear’: A Microhistory of Slavery and Reproduction in Nineteenth-Century Martinique" in Critical Historical Studies in Spring 2025. Additionally, her 2024 article in French Historical Studies won two honorable mentions for the French Colonial Society Article Prize and the Society for French Historical Studies' Koren Prize.
Eunhee Park published a review of The State’s Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea in the Journal of Asian Studies 84, no. 3 (2025): 856–59.
Sunit Singh was awarded a 2025 Forum for Free Inquiry and Express Grant for his project on the Rushdie Affair, titled The Ghost of Joseph Anton: Salman Rushdie and the Futures Lost. His article "Against a Mercatorial Sovereignty: The British Imperial State and the East India Company, 1783–1784," was recently published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
Kaya Colakoglu is the winner of the 2026 Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize at the Stanford Center for Law and History conference. The paper, “The Short Leash: Sovereign Debt and Governing by Crisis, 1973-1988,” will be presented at the annual conference in May 2026.
Anna Conner published a blog post for North American Conference for British Studies (NACBS) “Shifting and Permanent States: Experiencing Disability in the Seventeenth-Century British Navy.” Broadsides. 28 March 2025 and has an article that will be published in October: “‘The highest and deepest speculations of the mind’: Venetia Digby and domestic experimentation in early modern England,” Galilæana XXII, 2 (2025): 65-95; doi:10.57617/gal-77.
Miguel Da Cruz Fernandes, together with Professor Adrian Johns, was awarded a NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for their project, "Digital Diagrams: Embodied Numeracy and Knowledge Visualization in the Middle Ages."
Zhao Fang is a co-recipient of the graduate lectureship at the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at UChicago. He will teach an undergraduate course titled "Subjects to Citizens: A Global History of Population Control and Migration in Modern China and Beyond." Zhao, along with his collaborators, published a paper titled "A Comparative Analysis of Word Segmentation, Part-of-Speech Tagging, and Named Entity Recognition for Historical Chinese Sources, 1900-1950" in Proceedings of The 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities. He is also a co-author of the paper "Ground Truth Generation for Multilingual Historical NLP using LLMs," which is forthcoming in Proceedings of The Computational Humanities Research (2025).
Daniel Fernandez was awarded a 2025 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship.
Syrus Jin published "The U.S. Has Never Known What to Do With Foreign Students" in Foreign Policy Magazine on April 9, 2025.
Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj co-authored an article with Elizabeth Chatterjee. “Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene,” is now out as an (advance access) article in Past & Present.
Aimee Pizarchik received a grant from the David R. and Mady W. Segal Fund for Social Sciences Research on Military Personnel for the project “Civilian Labor, Ethnicity, and Wartime Infrastructure in Southwest China.”
Kate Reed's article, "Rights to Her Labor: Women Workers on Mexico’s Southeastern Railroads," was published online in International Labor and Working-Class History on January 3, 2025.
Tingfeng Yan will be a Friends of the MCEAS Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 2025-2026.
Zelin Wang won the 2025 Noma-Reischauer Graduate Prize offered by the Reischauer Institute of Japapese Studies at Harvard.
Elena Tiedens was awarded a Gates-Cambridge Scholarship for 2025. She was awarded an Honorable Mention by the Udall Foundation in 2024 and 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.