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Strocchia’s ‘Gender, Health and Healing 1250-1550’ Wins Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender

Congratulations to Dr. Sharon T. Strocchia, Professor of History, whose co-edited volume Gender, Health and Healing 1250-1550 (Amsterdam, 2020) has won the 2020 Collaborative Project Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender. Strocchia edited the volume with Dr. Sara Ritchey, Associate Professor in the history department at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Read more about the innovative volume in the prize citation below:

The awards committee stated that the book is exciting in conception and breadth, using “an integrative, hybrid model of analysis” that ranges far beyond “the narrow terrain of academic, text-based medicine” using new types of evidence about women’s “acts of caring and curing.” In eleven tightly argued and evidentially rich essays on engaging topics (including Ottoman healing baths, Caterina Sforza’s famous Ricettaria, and the care of the breast, among others) contributors manage to fulfill the promise of the Introduction: “to reimagine the lived experience of healthcare beyond the limited sphere of scholastic or theoretical medicine,” using non-traditional materials drawn from Christian and Islamic worlds to provide “a more nuanced picture of what people actually did to sustain or recover good health and the ways in which they understood their own bodies.” 

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Emory Historians Discuss “Legacies of Reconstruction”

Emory historians will gather via Zoom to discuss the “Legacies of Reconstruction” on November 10, 2020, from 1:00-2:00 pm EST. Panelists include Dr. Susan Ashmore, Charles Howard Candler Professor of History, Emory Oxford, and Dr. Alyasah A. Sewell, Associate Professor, Emory Department of Sociology. The panel will be moderated by Camille Goldmon, a PhD candidate in the History Department. The event is a part of the Lift Every Voice seminar series, organized as a tribute to the late Dr. Pellom McDaniels, III. Find more details about the event, including registration, here: http://emorylib.info/lift-nov.

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Anderson Analyzes 2020 Election for ‘Democracy Now’ and ‘The New York Times’

In the lead up to and shortly following the 2020 election, Dr. Carol Anderson contributed political analysis and historical context to two major media organizations. Four days before the election, Anderson was a guest on the Democracy Now segment, “‘Fighting for Democracy’: Carol Anderson on Voter Suppression & Why Georgia Could Go Blue.” Her prediction that Georgians may vote for a democratic presidential candidate for the first time since 1992 seems likely to come true. Three days following the election, while officials in Georgia and other battleground states continued to count votes, Anderson offered historical context for The New York Times on the links between U.S. slavery and the Electoral College. Read an excerpt from that article below along with the full piece: “The Electoral College Is Close. The Popular Vote Isn’t.” Anderson is Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department.

“We look at a map of so-called red and blue states and treat that map as land and not people,” said Carol Anderson, a professor of African-American studies at Emory University who researches voter suppression. “Why, when somebody has won millions more votes than their opponent, are we still deliberating over 10,000 votes here, 5,000 votes there?”

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Anderson Discusses Slavery and the Origins of the Electoral College for NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’

Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, was recently interviewed for the NPR program “All Things Considered.” Anderson, an expert in public policy with a focus on race, justice and equality, discusses how politicians from slaveholding states successfully lobbied for the creation of what became known as the Electoral College at the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Listen to the piece at the following link: “The Electoral College: Why Do We Do It This Way?“

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Strocchia’s ‘Forgotten Healers’ Awarded 2020 Marraro Prize

The Society for Italian Historical Studies (SIHS) has awarded the 2020 Marraro Prize for the best book in Italian history to Prof. Sharon Strocchia’s Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019). The prize committee offered the following appreciation of Prof. Strocchia’s work:

“Drawing on extensive work in Florentine archives, Strocchia develops a sophisticated and incisive investigation of the manifold roles women played as protagonists in Renaissance health practices. Her case studies illuminate the contributions of convent pharmacies and pharmacists, of aristocratic women who prepared and employed household remedies, and of the poor young women who worked as nurses in the pox hospital. More suggestive than conclusive, this pioneering work opens up inviting pathways for further investigation.”

Read our Q&A with Dr. Strocchia about Forgotten Healers from earlier this year: “New Books Series: Q & A with Sharon T. Strocchia about ‘Forgotten Healers.’”

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Dr. Carol Anderson Dissects Voter Suppression, Past and Present, for PBS’s ‘NewsHour’

Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, was recently a guest on the PBS NewsHour program “America, Interrupted.” Titled “Why voter suppression continues and how the pandemic has made it worse,” the episode includes Anderson’s insights into the history of voter suppression and how such practices continue through the present. Anderson is, mostly recently, the author of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2018). Watch the episode here.

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Faculty-Undergraduate Workshop Convenes to Discuss Chapter from Montalvo’s ‘Archives of the Enslaved’

Undergraduate students and faculty gathered on Wednesday, October 28, 2020, for a virtual workshop to discuss a chapter from Assistant Professor Maria R. Montalvo‘s book Archive of the Enslaved: Power, Enslavement, and the Production of the Past. The conversation focused on enslaved people, illness, and commodification in the antebellum courtroom.

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Crespino Places Biden’s Visit to Warm Springs in Historical Context for ‘The AJC’

Dr. Joseph Crespino, History Department Chair and Jimmy Carter Professor, was recently quoted in an article in The Atlanta Journal Constitution about the upcoming visit of Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden to Warm Springs, Georgia. The town served as a vacation retreat for Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his 12 years as president. AJC political columnist Jim Galloway interviewed Crespino to help explain the significance of the visit along with the parallels between Roosevelt and Biden and the 1930s and 2020s. Read an excerpt below, along with the full article: “Opinion: Joe Biden heads for Warm Springs and the Roosevelt legacy.”

“Joe Crespino is the Jimmy Carter Professor of History at Emory University. Much of his work has involved the Depression-era South.

“Biden’s visit is ‘interesting symbolically and historically because of where Biden fits within the Democratic party in 2020,’ he told me. ‘He’s had to move to the left in the primary to accommodate a younger, more liberal wing within the party. Roosevelt was pushed by the left wing of his party.

‘Yes, [Roosevelt] was a liberal. He was surrounded by liberals. But he was pulled to the left by the circumstances of the time. He became more liberal, and the New Deal became more far reaching,’ Crespino said.“

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Jewish Museum of Maryland Invites Goldstein to Speak on ‘The Consequences of Acceptance’

Dr. Eric L. Goldstein, Associate Professor of History, is the featured speaker for an upcoming live stream event hosted by the Jewish Museum of Maryland. Goldstein, who also serves as Judith London Evans Director of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, will speak on “The Consequences of Acceptance: From the ‘Jewish Race’ to White Privilege.” Jewish Museum of Maryland director Tracie Guy-Decker will join Goldstein for a conversation about how the place of Jews in America’s racial culture has changed over time. The event is Sunday, November 8, 2020 at 4:00pm EST. Find more information here, including the link for registration.

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Emory News Center Highlights Recent Honors for Eckert and Klibanoff

The Emory News Center’s most recent Emory Report highlighted recent faculty accolades across campus, including those earned by Dr. Astrid M. Eckert and Hank Klibanoff. The report highlights Eckert’s new book, West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy and Culture in the Borderlands (Oxford UP, 2019), which won the 2020 DAAD/German Studies Association Book Prize for the Best Book in History or Social Sciences. Read our interview with Dr. Eckert about the book from last year here. The article also celebrated Hank Klibanoff, whose podcast Buried Truths won the 2020 national Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association in the large market category.