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 is the winner of the 2026 Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award. His 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.
Dipesh Chakrabarty has been named the 2026 Benjamin Chair at the Centre for Social Critique at Humboldt-
Universität zu Berlin. In conjunction with the chairship, he will be delivering a set of lectures, "A Second Decline of the West?" June 23-25, 2026. He was also elected a CORE Fellow in 2026.
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. She was also awarded with the American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship from the American Association of University Women for the academic year 2026-2027.
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.
Alice Goff's book, The God Behind the Marble, was a finalist for the Barclay Book Prize from the German Studies Association in fall 2025 and was just shortlisted for the Waterloo Center for German Studies Book Prize.
James L. Hevia, Professor Emeritus of the College, the New Collegiate Division, and International History, published “Diplomacy through Rituals in the Qing Empire,” in Adele Carrai and Surabhi Ranganatha, eds. Cambridge History of International Law. Vol. 2: International Law in Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026), pp. 583-614 and his book, Loot and the Making of British India, is forthcoming with Routledge in fall 2026.
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. She is also the recipient of the 2026 Glen and Claire Swogger Award for Exemplary Classroom Teaching.
Emily Kern was awarded a 2026-2027 Faculty Fellowship from the Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR), University of Chicago.
Alison LaCroix was elected to the memberships of The American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2026 and is the winner of the 2025 Littleton-Griswold Prize from the American Historical Association. She also participated in a panel on “America at 250” at the Institute of Politics, with Valerie Jarrett, Ro Khanna, and Sarah Isgur.
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. Macfarlane's article, "Written in the Stars? Alphabets and Angels in Early Modern Europe" Journal of the History of Ideas Vol. 86 No. 3 (July 2025) won the Selma V. Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas and the 2026 Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography Best Essay Award.
Rochona Majumdar, together with Sukanya Sarbadhikary, Upal Chakrabarti, edited The Hindu/Presidency College: Excellence and Exclusion, published by Cambridge University Press in 2026.
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. The book is a finalist for a Hugo Award for the "Best Related Work."
Kenneth Pomeranz, together with R. Bin Wong, was awarded the Pioneers of World History Award by the World History Association in 2026. The prize recognizes long-term contributions to the field.
Johanna Ransmeier, together with Kristin Roebuck and Tina Chen, co-edited a special issue of Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Vol. 12 no. 1 (Spring 2026).
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.
Mauricio Tenorio published Walking a City’s History: Mexico City 1500s-2020s with The University of Chicago Press, 2026.
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.
Pamela Nogales published "A Civil Society Divided Against Itself: The Fight for Shorter Hours in Antebellum America" in Modern Intellectual History, published online 2025: 1-27.
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.
Gabriel Groz, in 2025-26, received an ACLS/Luce Research Fellowship for archival research in China and Taiwan and a fellowship from the Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library, Taipei, spending two months in Taipei and Beijing for research. He presented work at an economic history conference at Academia Sinica and the American Historical Association, and gave invited talks and papers at Renmin University of China, UCLA, Stanford, and UBC. In AY 2026-27 he will be a CISSR Dissertation Completion Fellow.
Alec David Israeli published “A Natural Critic of Political Economy: Thoreau, Marx, and the Temporal Problem of Labor” in Radical Transcendentalisms, ed. Alex Moskowitz and Ted Stolze (Leiden: Brill Historical Materialism Series, 2026).
Syrus Jin published "The U.S. Has Never Known What to Do With Foreign Students" in Foreign Policy Magazine on April 9, 2025.
Xiangning Li published "Internal Migration and the Continuity of Local Elites in North China, 1949–1965," in The China Quarterly 261, March 2025 : 126–145 with co-author Matthew Noellert; the paper won the 2025 Gordon White Prize, which awarded annually for the most original article or research report published in The China Quarterly in the relevant year. She also published "Suicidal Communists, Posthumous Punishment, and Politics of Death in Maoist China," in Remembering the Dead in Modern China: Religious Rituals of Remembrance, edited by Stephen G. Covell, Stuart H. Young, and Ying Zeng, 76–102. Routledge, 2026.
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.
Le Vi Pham is the recipient of two 2026-27 Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) prizes, the Residential Fellowship and the Course Design Prize for GNSE 12149 Prostitution and Sex Work in the Asia Pacific.
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.
Kyra Schulman published "Technological Heterotopianism: How a Case Study of a Holocaust Digital Mapping Project of Łomża, Poland Served as a Guide for Reconciliation in Polish-Jewish Relations," in Virtual and Real-Life Spaces of Jewish Europe in the 21st Century edited by Maja Hultman and Joachim Schlör, 35-56. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025 and "Ruses in The Rues: Jewish Women’s Everyday Tactical Survival in Paris under German Occupation and The French Vichy Regime," Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah, 2026/1 n° 223, 2026: p.91-120.
Mikhail Svirin published “The Red-White-Blue Bag” in Perspectives on History: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association 64, no. 2 (March 2026): 44.
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.