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History Honors Student Gabriele K. Kim Wins the Theodore H. Jack Award

Congratulations to Emory History Honors student Gabriele K. Kim, who has won the Theodore H. Jack Award for the Summer of 2022. Gabriele will travel to the Virginia Davis Laskey Library Archives in Nashville, TN, to conduct research on her project, “Transpacific Encounters: Southern Methodist Women and the Chinese Missionary Enterprise (1880-1920).” 

She is very grateful for the support of Prof. Chris Suh, her thesis director, throughout her entire college career. She was able to work on her first research project with him last year through SIRE program (2020-2021). She took “HIST 285: Asian American History” in her first year and most recently took “HIST 488: Transpacific Life.” She writes that she “really loved talking ‘HIST 385: American Conservatisms’ with Dr. Joseph Crespino, and Dr. Kate Rosenblatt’s ‘Religion & the Constitution’ course. Still, picking one favorite professor or classes is too hard because they are all so wonderful!”

The Department of History is able to award these funds because Mrs. Mary Spencer Jack Craddock (’33C) made a contribution to Emory in honor of her father, Theodore Henley Jack, in 1992.  Prof. Jack was an historian and early Emory history faculty member. In 1916 he was selected to head the Department of History of the new Emory College. He became Dean of the Graduate School in 1919, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts in 1920, and Vice-president of Emory University in 1929. Mrs. Craddock’s gift honors her father’s commitment to Emory and to historical scholarship.

This fall, all of the winners of our summer funding awards will make presentations on their projects and their summer research experiences to the History Department. We look forward to hearing about Gabi’s summer! Many congratulations, again, Gabi!

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Graduate Student Anjuli Webster Presents at “Charting African Waterscapes” Conference

History graduate student Anjuli Webster recently presented a paper at the conference “Charting African Waterscapes: A Conference on African Maritime History Across Time and Space.” Webster’s paper was titled “’Kawubheke ukuphangelana kwemifula’: isiNguni waters through Maputo Bay” and was delivered on the panel “Political Ecologies of Water.” Webster’s research uses water as a way to understand the convergence of local and global forces in south Indianic Africa in the nineteenth century. Webster’s dissertation is titled “Water’s Power: Ecologies of Sovereignty, Race, and Resistance in south Indianic Africa.”

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Graduate Student Katrina Knight Presents at Univ. of Maryland HGSA Graduate Conference

History graduate student Katrina Knight recently presented at the University of Maryland’s 16th annual Graduate History Conference. Delivered on a panel with the theme “Histories of Subaltern Revolt,” Knight’s paper was titled “Rebellion, Reformation, or Romanization? The Barbarian Reges and the ‘End’ of the Western Roman Empire.” The focus of the conference this year was “Conflict, Protest, Insurrection, Coup.” Knight’s research centers on the ways in which Roman cultural identity intersected with provincial identity during and after the Roman Empire. Her dissertation is titled “Becoming UnRoman: Romans and Romanness in Late Antique and Early Medieval Britain and Italy, AD 400-700.”

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Camille Goldmon to Present at Southern Historical Association’s Junior Scholars Workshop

Doctoral candidate Camille Goldmon will present a paper as part of the Southern Historical Association’s Junior Scholars Workshop (via Zoom) on March 17, 2022, from 4-5pm. Goldmon’s paper is titled “Shades of Radicalism: The History of Radical Agrarian Organizations in Alabama.” Connie Lester (UCF) and R. Douglas Hurt (Purdue) will offer brief commentary.

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Strocchia Awarded Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton)

Dr. Sharon T. Strocchia, Professor of History and Department Chair, was awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton for the Fall of 2022. As a member of the School of Historical Studies, Strocchia will continue work on her new book project, “Health for Sale: Marketing Medical Trust in Late Renaissance Italy.”

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Graduate Student Robert Billups Receives Research Fellowship from the American Jewish Archives 

Congratulations to graduate student Robert Billups on receiving the Joseph and Eva R. Dave Fellowship from the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA). The fellowship will provide Billups with research access to the AJA’s renowned collections on the historic campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Cincinnati, Ohio. Since its inception in 1976, the fellowship program has has brought nearly 600 scholars from over 20 countries to conduct research in Cincinnati. Billups’s dissertation, “‘Reign of Terror’: Anti–Civil Rights Terrorism in the United States, 1955–1976,” examines violence against the U.S. civil rights movement in the middle of the twentieth century.

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U.S. Senate Confirms Klibanoff and Dudley to Federal Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board

The U.S. senate has confirmed James M. Cox Jr. Professor of Journalism Hank Klibanoff and Rose library instructional archivist Gabrielle M. Dudley to the federal Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board. Established in 2019 and convened in 2022, the panel has received authorization through 2027 to investigate unsolved cases from the Civil Rights era. Klibanoff is director of the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project at Emory and host of the award-winning podcast Buried Truths. Read more about the federal cold cases panel and Atlantans’ significant roles within it: “Civil rights cold case board to have unique Atlanta flavor.”

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Lesser Awarded Fulbright for Research in Brazil

Congratulations to Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History and Director of the Halle Institute for Global Research, for being awarded a Fulbright Research Grant in Brazil. Lesser’s project is titled, “Structural Health: Immigrants, the State, and the Built Environment in São Paulo, 1870-2020.” Luis Ferla at the Federal University of São Paulo and Fernando Cosentino of the Bom Retiro Public Health Clinic will host Lesser while he conducts archival research and fieldwork with the Brazilian National Health Service medical team. Read more about the project here.

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Daniel LaChance Named 2022-23 Chronos Fellow

Congratulations to Dr. Daniel LaChance on receiving the 2022-23 Chronos Faculty Fellowship in the Emory College of Arts and Sciences. LaChance, the Winship Distinguished Research Professor in History, 2020-23, and Associate Professor of History, is the third recipient of the award. A year of paid leave and research stipend will support the completion of LaChance’s next book, Empathy for the Devil: Executions in the American Imagination. Undergraduate students will work alongside LaChance as research assistants on this project. Read more about the fellowship and Empathy for the Devil here: “Emory historian Daniel LaChance named 2022-23 Chronos Fellow.”

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‘TIME’ Features Research Conducted by Klibanoff and Students for ‘Buried Truths’ Podcast

TIME recently featured historical research conducted by the Emory team behind the “Buried Truths” podcast. Season three of the podcast, which is led by James M. Cox Jr. Professor of Journalism Hank Klibanoff and comprised of Emory undergraduate students, focused on the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. The researchers identified various direct descendants of Arbery, including an enslaved local leader in agriculture and environmental engineering, Bilali Mohammed, through census research. Read an excerpt from the TIME piece below along with the full article: “What Ahmaud Arbery’s Death Has Meant for the Place Where He Lived.”

“In the 1700s, some of Watts and Arbery’s shared ancestors arrived in the region in a group of enslaved families brought to Sapelo Island to cultivate rice, cotton and indigo to enrich their white slaveholders. On his father’s side, Arbery was also the direct descendant of Bilali Mohammed, an enslaved man originally from West Africa brought to the island after first being enslaved in the Caribbean, according to the team of students behind Atlanta Public Radio’s Buried Truths podcast. The students, lead by Hank Klibanoff, director and co-teacher of the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project at Emory University, were able to confirm that lineage by hunting through Census and other records after a detailed tip shared by Barger, something of a local-history buff. Mohammed—whose slaveholder represented Georgia in the U.S. Congress—was an important source of African agricultural and engineering techniques befitting a climate where rice will grow; that knowledge was key to making Brunswick a prosperous center of economic and cultural activity. Mohammed left behind a 13-page Arabic-language manuscript that is today in the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript collection at the University of Georgia.“