The students and faculty of UW History are quite active not only on campus but beyond the walls of UW, as well. From awards to media appearances to publications, you can find members of the UW History community putting history to work in our world through education and service. Join us in applauding these accomplishments:
FACULTY
Bianca Dang published "'I don't know what will be my lot: Transnational Migration and Unfree Labor in Early America" in the Journal of the Civil War Era, Vol. 16(2) (2024), 441-62, which was awarded a Latin American Studies Association Article Prize.
Purnima Dhavan and co-author Heidie Pauwels (Asian Languages and Literature) recently published their book Vali Dakhani and the Early Rekhtah Networks (Bloomsbury, 2025). Dhavan and Pauwels’ journey in writing this book was a featured article in our Spring 2023 newsletter.
Christoph Giebel was named as a finalist for the UW Excellence in Global Engagement Award.
James Gregory has been awarded the distinguished John Lewis Award for History and Social Justice by the American Historical Association. Gregory was also one of the three 2024 Katz lecturers through UW’s Simpson Center for the Humanities where he presented “Left Coast Rising: The Making of a Regional Political Tradition.” In addition, he helped curate, as well as present at the opening of, a special exhibit at the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) commemorating the 25th anniversary of the historic WTO protests in Seattle.
Kent Guy (emeritus) published Three Impeachments: Guo Xiu and the Kangxi Court (UW Press, 2024).
Raymond Jonas appeared on the podcast School of War (ep. 192) to discuss his book, Habsburgs on the Rio Grande (Harvard, 2024), and the failed attempt by European powers in the 19th century to undermine the Monroe Doctrine.
Laurie Marhoefer was featured in a story on NPR’s Morning Edition, “Here are all the ways people are disappearing from government websites” (March 19, 2025).
Devin Naar appeared on the front page of the March 17, 2025, Seattle Times, along with his Jewish Studies colleague Gilah Kletenik, in an article titled, “Two UW Jewish Studies scholars talk Trump, antisemitism and Zionism.”
Margaret O’Mara has been appointed to the board of trustees for the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the leading museum dedicated to decoding computing's ongoing impact on our world. She and her work have also continued to be regularly featured in the media by such places as the Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg TV, The Economist, and American Public Radio’s Marketplace.
Aditya Ramesh has won the Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Article Prize from the American Society for Environmental History for his article, “From Irrigation to Hydropower: The Political Economy of a Multipurpose Reservoir in Interwar South India.” This article was published in Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics, Vol. 5(2) (2024).
Josh Reid was an editor for the inaugural special edition of the American Historical Review that focused on histories of resilience. He also contributed an essay to the collection about Indigenous resilience.
Quintard Taylor (emeritus) appeared in a March 25, 2025, article in the Seattle Times, “UW professor battles a ‘direct, frontal assault’ on Black history.”
Christopher Tounsel’s Bounds of Blackness received honorable mention for the International Studies Association’s 2025 Book Award in the Diplomatic Studies section.
Daniel Waugh (emeritus) gave a talk at the University of Oxford Institute of Archaeology in February for the 10th anniversary of the Historic Environment Image Resource (HEIR), a rapidly growing image archive, which to date has posted nearly 5000 of his photos, with many more in the process to be uploaded. HEIR juxtaposes historic images with modern photos; its geographic coverage is extensive. His photos of Islamic architecture continue to illustrate academic publications, most recently in a book from Edinburgh University Press on 17th-century Persian ceramic tiles that decorated buildings in Isfahan. Waugh also now serves on the editorial advisory board of a new Russian journal, Scriptorium Slavicum (Novosibirsk), which has just published his article, “A Possible Source for the Depiction of the Horses in the 17th-century Equestrian Portraits of the Tsars”.
Travis Wright published two articles, “Cars for Freedom: SNCC and the Sojourner Motor Fleet” (Black Perspectives, January 13, 2025) and “Black Mayors and the Battle Over Urban Leadership” (Black Perspectives, April 14, 2025).
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Jacob Beckert was awarded a Fordham-New York Public Library fellowship in Jewish Studies. In addition, he has published three articles, “Capitalism and the Jewish Problem: Mission Capitalism in the Inter-War Era” (Association for Jewish Studies Review); “A Looking Glass for early American Zionism: The Maccabaen (1901-1920)” (Studies in American Jewish Literature, Vol., 43.2); and “Trump’s Tariffs May Risk U.S. Access to This Critical Mineral” (Time, April 15, 2025). He also has a book chapter forthcoming, “What is Zionism?”, in Judaism in Five Minutes, edited by Sarah Imhoff (Equinox Publishing).
Joana Bürger received the Leon and Edith Milman Memorial Fellowship at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. She is also working as curator on creating an exhibition with the Holocaust Center for Humanities in Seattle. The exhibition, which is entitled "Through the Lens of Eskenasy: The Story of a Turkish, Jewish, German Family," will be on display in July and August of this year.
Jess Cavalari has received a Simpson Center for the Humanities Society of Scholars fellowship for the 2025-26 academic year.
Intaek Hong has published a book chapter, “North Korean Orphans in Poland: Experiences and Legacies of Education in Socialist Internationalism, 1953-1962" in Educational Internationalism in the Cold War: Plural Visions, Global Experiences, edited by Damiano Matasci and Raphaell Ruppen Coutaz (Routledge, 2024).
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Antonia Romana Zito has been named to the Husky 100 for 2025, which recognizes graduate and undergraduate students who are making the most of their time while at UW. Zito is a double major in international studies and history.
ALUMNI
Bradley Camp Davis (PhD 2008) was promoted to full professor at Eastern Connecticut State University where he teaches Southeast Asian, East Asian, environmental, and world history. He spent the fall semester as a professeur invité with Paris-Cité and will join the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton as a member of the School of Historical Studies in spring 2026.