Prof. Andy Robichaud Wins the Michael Katz Dissertation.
Best Undergraduate Dissertations 2018. Since 2009 the Department of History at the University of Bristol has published the best of the annual dissertations produced by our final-year undergraduates. We do so in recognition of the excellent research undertaken by our students, which is a cornerstone of our degree programme. As a department, we are committed to the advancement of historical.
Andra Chastain received the Michael Katz Award for best dissertation in urban history in 2018 (awarded by the Urban History Association) for her dissertation: “Vehicle of Progress: The Santiago Metro, Technopolitics, and State Formation in Chile, 1965-1989.”.
His prize-winning book is an extension of his dissertation, The Workers and Neighborhoods of Modern Shanghai, 1911-1949. After teaching for a couple of years at the State University of New York at Oswego, Lu moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology where he is now an associate professor teaching in the School of History, Technology and Society. He is the editor of the Greenwood Press.
The Law and Society Association, founded in 1964, is a group of scholars from many fields and countries, interested in the place of law in social, political, economic and cultural life. Members bring expertise in law, sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology, economics, and history as well as in other related areas to the study of sociolegal phenomena.
Association for Asian Studies and SSRC “Asian Cities” Dissertation Workshop Grant. Association for Asian Studies China and Inner Asia Council Short-Term Research Travel Award. Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies Annual Graduate Paper Prize. Association for Sociology of Religion Best Graduate Student Paper Award.
Rashauna Johnson, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Howard University, earned the Ph.D. in history with a concentration in the African diaspora from New York University. Her dissertation received the 2011 Dean's Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Humanities. Her first book, Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions (Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Born and raised in Jerusalem, Mintzker received his M.A. in history from Tel-Aviv University (2003) and his Ph.D. from Stanford (2009). He is the recipient of many prizes, including the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize (2010) and the Urban History Association best book prize (2014), as well as fellowships from the DAAD, the Whiting Foundation, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Institute of.