Research

Zach Dorner published a short piece titled "Ordering Medicines and Ordering People on Caribbean Plantations" in the November 6 installment of the Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720 blog.

MMoR is a four-year UKRI FLF-funded project  which seeks to explore the role of medical practitioners in the early years of the slave trade, and the relationship their practical experiences had to early modern ideas of ‘race’.

link to the piece his here:
https://www.mmor.co.uk/blog/ordering-medicines-and-ordering-people-on-caribbean-plantations

Thomas Zeller's newest article, "Imaging Landscapes: Road, Race, and Power" is published in Technology and Culture 64.4 (Oct. 2023): 1261-1273.
DOI: https://doi-org.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/10.1353/tech.2023.a911005

Paul Landau has been awarded the Martin A. Klein Prize from the American Historical Association for his book Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries (Ohio University Press, 2022). 

The Martin A. Klein Prize in African History recognizes the most distinguished work of scholarship on African history published in English during the previous calendar year. The prize is named for Martin A. Klein, who is currently professor emeritus of history at the University of Toronto.

Jordan S. Sly, (PhD candidate Advisor Stefano Villani) has co-published a book of essays. titled Libraries Without Borders: New Directions in Library History, with co-editors Steven A. Knowlton, Ellen M. Pozzi, and Emily D. Spunaugle (ALA Editions, 2023). The book "explores the roles that libraries have played in the communities they serve, well beyond the stacks and circulation desk."

Jordan is also a BA alum from the Department of History and also holds the MLS. He is currently employed with UMD Libraries. Find more information about the book on the publisher's website HERE.

Shay Hazkani published an article "'Our Cruel Polish Brothers': Moroccan Jews between Casablanca and Wadi Salib, 1956-1959" in Jewish Social Studies 28. 2 (Spring/Summer 2023): 41-74.

Jeffrey Herf had an essay published in The Routledge History of Antisemitism. This book contains 40 essay by scholars on the subject; Herf's essay is the 28th chapter of the book. You can access the book HERE.

Jim Gilbert has just published his sixth novel, a legal thriller titled The Legacy. The story is set in Chicago where Jim was born. Learn more about the book HERE.

Mikhail Dolbilov’s monograph, Life of a Novel Being Created: From the Avantexte toward the Context of Anna Karenina (“Zhizn' tvorimogo romana: Ot avanteksta k kontekstu ‘Anny Kareninoi’”), has been published by the Moscow publishing house New Literary Observer (Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie).

Leo Tolstoy’s famous novel is justifiably associated with a massive swath of Russian social, political, intellectual, and cultural life in the aftermath of Alexander's transformative reforms. Combining historical approaches and literary genetic criticism, the book historicizes Anna Karenina by demonstrating how its long writing and serialization (1873–77) were affected by, and, in turn, exerted their own influence on, diverse events of the time. Most thoroughly discussed are such societal developments as shifts in gender relations in aristocratic society, emerging new forms of emotionality, the spread of religious revivalism in Russian Orthodoxy, and the rise of politically charged Russian Pan-Slavism.

Madeline Hsu celebrated the publication of Cambridge History of Global Migrations, Volume 2: Migrations, 1800–Present. She co-edited the volume, published by Cambridge University Press, with Marcelo J. Borges. See more information on the publisher's website HERE.

Piotr Kosicki had published an article in the October 4, 2023 issue of The Atlantic. The article is titled  "Ukraine Is Losing Eastern European Allies."  Piotr discusses what Slovakia's recent elections and Poland's ongoing anti-migrant memory politics mean for Ukraine. Access the article HERE.