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Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France, by Associate Professor of History Celeste Day Moore, was recently awarded the 2023 Woody Guthrie First Book Award by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.
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Associate Professor of Literature Pavitra Sundar recently published Listening with a Feminist Ear (University of Michigan Press, 2023). The book, which focuses on mainstream Bombay cinema, identifies singing, listening, and speaking as key sites in which gendered notions of identity and difference take form.
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The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance (University of Chicago Press, 2022) by Assistant Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley has been awarded honorable mention for the Morris D. Forkosch Prize. The award, established by the Journal of the History of Ideas, recognizes the best book in intellectual history each year.
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“What happens when natural things — pollen in a gust of wind, a carnivorous pitcher plant, an armadillo’s thick skin — enter human history?” Thus begins the introduction to Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds, a new book conceived and co-edited by Assistant Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley.
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Visiting Professor of History Ty Seidule was the guest on a recent episode of “Civil War Talk Radio with Gerald Prokopowicz.”
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The Political Economy of Global Responses to COVID-19, co-edited by Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Relations Alan Cafruny, was recently published by Palgrave MacMillan.
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Director and Curator of Special Collections and Archives Christian Goodwillie recently published a book, Richard McNemar: Frontier Heretic and Shaker Apostle (Indiana University Press).
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Visiting Professor of History Ty Seidule participated on two panels at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association Jan. 5 to 8. He presented “‘Making Treason Odious Again:’ Perspectives from the Naming Commission and the Army's War on the Lost Cause” and “History versus Heritage: Military Historians Confront America’s Contested Past.”
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This fall, Assistant Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley published a book and received an award from the New England Council of Latin American Studies for a co-authored article.
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This fall, Visiting Professor of History Ty Seidule presented several lectures, continued his work with the Congressional Naming Commission, and has been a guest on WCNY’s Ivory Tower television show.
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