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 2023 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.

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 an enlarged edition of his book The University of Chicago: A History. It was released by the University of Chicago Press in 2024.

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. 

Matthew Briones published "Filipino Grief in Five Acts" in the Amerasia Journal (2024). It is currently available online and will be published in hard copy later this year.

Elizabeth Chatterjee’s article “Late Acceleration: The Indian Emergency and the Early 1970s Energy Crisis,” was published in American Historical Review 129, no. 2 (2024). She has an article, 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” scheduled for published in Past & Present, fall 2025.

Paul Cheney is named the Sorin and Imran Siddiqui Professor, beginning July 1, 2024. He also published “Le Débat sur capitalisme et esclavage : un débat inachevé,” in Travail servile et dynamiques économiques XVIe-XXIe siècle, edited by Mendes, Almeida, Conchon, Anne, Alessandro Stanziani, and Myriam Cottias, 97–116. Paris: IGPDE-Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France, 2024 and “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. 

Jane Dailey was named the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia in American History. She was also quoted in a piece for The Juggernaut titled "When Earwax Became Political."

Samuel Fury Childs Daly published  Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire with Duke University Press in 2024.

Yuting Dong's project "Mapping Neighborhoods in Japan’s Empire: A Digital Humanities Project on Infrastructure’s Socio-Political Influences" has been selected as an awardee for the CISSR 2024-25 Faculty Research Fellowship.

Alice Goff published The God Behind the Marble: The Fate of Art in the German Aesthetic State with The University of Chicago Press in January 2024. Her project, "The Afterlives of Church Bells in Postwar Germany," has been selected as an awardee for the CISSR 2024-25 Faculty Research Fellowship.

Jonathan Hall published two book chapters, “Colonizing the Past: The Case of Argos in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries,” in The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Postcolonial Theory, edited by K. Blouin and B. Akrigg, 577–590. London and New York: Routledge, 2024, and “Argos,” in The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World. Vol. I: Argos to Corcyra, edited by P. Cartledge and P. Christesen, 1–94. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.

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 was interviewed on UChicago's Big Brains podcast in episode 118, "Phonics vs. whole word: The science of reading, with Adrian Johns" about his recent book The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America. He also recently offered a recorded online talk at UIUC titled "The Science of Reading and the Making of the Information Society." He was also named the Allan Grant Maclear Distinguished Service Professor in 2024. Together with PhD Candidate Miguel da Cruz Fernandes, he was also awarded a NSF grant for their project, "Digital Diagrams: Embodied Numeracy and Knowledge Visualization in the Middle Ages."

Rashauna Johnson has been elected Vice President of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD). She will serve a two-year term (2023-25). She has also been appointed to the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lectureship Program.

Matthew Kruer delivered the annual William and Mary Quarterly lecture, "“Colonial Anarchy, Indigenous Power” in February 2024.

Alison LaCroix's new book, The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms, was published by Yale University Press in May 2024.

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."

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.

Kenneth Pomeranz has a chapter, "Chinese Capitalism c. 1500-1850: Institutions, Dimensions, Dynamics and Limitations," forthcoming in a book co-edited by James Vaughn, a Collegiate Assistant Professor and affiliate of the history department, titled Capitalism: Histories, published by Boydell & Brewer (January 2025).

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."

William H. Sewell Jr.,  Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, was honored with a lifetime achievement award, "The Grain of Sand Award,"  by the Alternative Methodologies section of the American Political Science Association in September 2024. He also published an article, "On the Emergence of Capitalism: Marx, Brenner, and the Troublesome Case of the Dutch," in Critical Historical Studies vol. 11, no. 1, 1-46. 

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. She was also quoted in "Donald Trump has taken aim at what he calls the ‘woke’ view of American history" in The Globe and Mail.

In 2024, Mauricio Tenorio was appointed the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor, The University of Chicago. He published:  “Make America ´Chingona´ Again? Nota historiográfica,” Nexos, January 21 (2025); “Los conceptos son palabras y agarrosas. Concepts are words, and catchy at that,” Istor, vol. 24, no. 96 (Spring 2024), pp. 25-48; “Review Essay: Conceitos and Conceptos: The Wight of Words in the Iberian World,” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 85, no. 2 (April 2024), pp. 389-417; “Helenismos: nosotros, acadêmicos,” in Aline Gama, et.al., ed.., Ciências Sociais na UERJ: temas, trajetórias e perspectivas, Rio de Janeiro, Garamond, FAPERJ, 2024, pp.  271-290; “Leer, leer,” Otros Diálogos, Colegio de México, January 2025, “México y España: de tonterías y cosas peores,” El País (October 9, 2024); “Gacho,” Formas Nómadas, no. 2 (September 2024); “Professor Brading,” Letras Libres (June, 2024); “Las puntas del iceberg,” Nexos (January 2024); “De fósiles e Inteligencia Artificial,” Nexos (November 2023);  “Obituary: Enrique Florescano,” Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 103, no. 4 (2023), pp. 679-683; a book review about Matthew D. Esposito and James A. Garza, eds. New Directions in Transnational Mexican History. Mexico on the World Stage, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Lexington Books, 2024, Hispanic American Historical Review (Sep. 2024); and a book review about Diana J. Montaño, Electrifying Mexico. Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City, Austin, The University of Texas Press, 2021, in American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 2, June 2024, Pages 782–783. He also delivered the Hackett Lecture at the University of Texas, Austin, February 2024, "Reconsidering the Old Question: History, What For?" His book Elogio de la impureza was reviewed in Mexico’s literary journal Letras Libres (November, 2023) as was La historia en ruinas, also reviewed in Letras Libres (March, 2024).

Tara Zahra was quoted in the Newsweek article, "Does Europe Have a Free Speech Problem?" and wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times "Globalization Is Collapsing. Brace Yourselves."

POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATION

Ralph Austen has a book chapter, "Violence and Capitalism in Early Modern European Overseas Expansion," that will be published in Capitalism: Histories (Boydell & Brewer) in January 2025.

Caine Jordan co-wrote "'A Disgrace to all Slave-Holders': The University of Chicago's Ties to Slavery and the Path to Reparations" with Guy Emerson Mount and Kai Perry Parker, The Journal of African-American History, Vol. 103 No. 1-2, 163-178.

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 “‘They Are Free with Me:’ Enslaved and Freed Women’s Antislavery Lawsuits in the French Antilles, 1830-1848” in French Historical Studies, Vol. 47, no. 3 (August 2024): 365-397.

Peggy Heffington was interviewed on UChicago's Big Brains podcast, episode 142, "Why are more women saying no to having kids?, with Peggy O'Donnell Heffington" about her book WITHOUT CHILDREN: The Long History of Not Being a Mother (2023). 

Eunhee Park published "Morbid Spectacle”: Allegorical Dialectics of Mammonism, Humanity, and Necropower in Squid Game (2021)" in the International Journal of Asian Studies in January 2024, 1-15. A second article, "South Korean Housewives’ Emerging Economic Authority and Contestation of Domesticity during the Cold War Era," Gender and History was published in July 2024. 

Jiakai Sheng published "Negotiating Extra-settlement Roads: Boundary Making, Administrative Disputes, and Power Shifts in Treaty-port Shanghai, 1860–1937," Modern Asian Studies, Open Access, May 27, 2024.

James M. Vaughn co-edited Capitalism: Histories with Robert G. Ingram. The book will be released in January 2025. Included in the volume are chapters by Anirban Karak and Kenneth Pomeranz.

You Wang published "Women Till and Women Weave: Rice, Cotton, and the Gendered Division of Labor in Jiangnan" in Late Imperial China Vol. 45 No. 1 in June 2024.

Boone J. Ayala received a W.B.H. Dowse Fellowship from the Massachusetts Historical Society and presented at the Massachusetts Historical Society Graduate Forum on June 7 and the Britain and the World Conference at the University of Winchester on June 20-22, 2024.

Anna Connor received the North American Conference for British Studies (NACBS) Past Presidents Prize for her paper, "Boys on the Boat: 'Able' and 'Disabled' Seamen in the Seventeenth-Century British Navy." 

Nahomi Esquivel was named a National Jeffersonian Scholar in 2024.

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."

Daniel Fernandez was awarded a 2025 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship.

Alec Israeli published “Human Labor and Natural Labor in Henry David Thoreau’s Works.” Modern Intellectual History 21, no. 3 (2024): 610–32.

Syrus Jin published "The U.S. Has Never Known What to Do With Foreign Students" in Foreign Policy Magazine on April 9, 2025, "The True Horseman of the ‘Fallout’ Apocalypse" in Foreign Policy Magazine on May 18, 2024, and "Afterlives of Orientalism: Corporal Punishment and U.S. Military-Building in Korea," in Diplomatic History on 26 August 2024. 

Fiona Maxwell is the recipient of the Deborah Mesch Fellowship and the Anna Award from the Center for Women's History and Leadership for her dedication to the organization. She published two articles in 2024: “‘Expression is Power’: Gender, Residual Culture, and Political Aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870-1900.” Gender & History (2024) and “Site of Social Justice Advocacy, or Home of Godly Women? Interpreting Women’s Work at the Frances Willard House Museum,” Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals (2024). The second is part of a special Focus Issue: “Women and Museums,” edited by Juilee Decker, guest edited by Holly O’Farrell and Alice Twemlow. Additionally, she published an exhibition catalog essay for the Hull-House museum, “The Old and the New: Immigrant Women and Intergenerational Connection at the Hull- House Labor Museum.” In Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935 and presented a storytelling performance for the Hull-House Museum's Open House, “Stories from the Labor Museum.” Fiona also contributed a podcast episode for C19, the peer-reviewed podcast of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists; she wrote the script and recorded the audio for “Club Newspapers and Civic Collaboration at Chicago Settlement Houses.” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Podcast. Season 8, Episode 3. October 21, 2024. She was extended an invitation to offer a talk at the Winifred Ward Symposium at Northwestern University on June 1, 2024. The talk is titled “‘Expression is Power’: Chicago Settlement Houses, the Cumnock School of Oratory, and the Progressive Era Prehistory of Creative Drama.”

Julia Mead published “The 1970s Energy Crises and the Threat to Czechoslovak Consumer Socialism,” Journal of Contemporary History, January 27, 2025 [online].

Natalia Niedmann Alvarez published "From the Rule of Law to a Rule of Rights: Political Theory – Public Law – Enlightenment – Rule of Law – Public Sphere" in the International Journal of Human Rights, vol. 26 no. 9, 1503-1521 and "Feminism Without Roe" in Gender, Race & Justice 251(2024). She also graduated in Spring 2024 from the University of Chicago Law School with a Doctor of Jurisprudence.

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.

Kate Randazzo received a short-term research grant for 2024-25 from the American Institute for Maghrib Studies [AIMS]. She also presented on a panel at the Renaissance Society of America in March.

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 "Memory Space: A Case Study of a Holocaust Digital Mapping Project of Łomża, Poland," Cont Jewry Volume 44, pages 261–280, 2024.

Alice Tay was awarded a Yenching Scholarship to support at least the first year of a two-year Master’s in China Studies at Peking University. 

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.