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Kideckel Bancroft Award
Michael “Mookie” Kideckel (PhD 2018) was awarded the Bancroft Dissertation Award for 2018 for his dissertation “Fresh from the factory: Breakfast cereal, natural food, and the marketing of reform, 1890-1920.”
Jackson in NYT
Kenneth Jackson wrote for The New York Times: “New York Needs Amazon.”
Mazurek Lenfest Award
Malgorzata Mazurek was awarded a fall 2018 Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant for her project “Structuring the World: the Science of Interconnectedness from Natural History to Social Statistics, 1780s – 1930s.”
Foner in The Washington Post
Eric Foner wrote for The Washington Post: “The court decision that ushered in decades of Jim Crow.”
Lomnitz in NBC
Claudio Lomnitz was quoted in NBC New York: “‘Roma’ Explored 1970s Mexico. Here’s How Issues in the Film Have Played Out.”
Tooze in The Atlantic
Adam Tooze was quoted in The Atlantic: “How Globalization Saved the World and Damned the West.”
Wertheim on Background Briefing
Stephen Wertheim was interviewed on Ian Masters’ Background Briefing about the potential of the Democratic party to become “the party of war.”
Wertheim in Foreign Policy
Stephen Wertheim co-authored an article with Trita Parsi for Foreign Policy: “Don’t Let Democrats Become the Party of War.”
Schama awarded knighthood
Simon Schama was awarded a knighthood for “services to history” at Buckingham Palace.
Alvandi at NYU
Roham Alvandi will give a lecture entitled “Human Rights and The Global History of the Iranian Revolution” at New York University.