Faculty Achievements
Congratulations to Jay Gitlin. His book Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders & American Expansion has won the 2010 Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize for the best book in French colonial history from the French Colonial Historical Society.
Congratulations to Jonathan Holloway for receiving the William Clyde DeVane Award from Yale's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The award is given to two faculty each year, one retired and the other who is current and has been teaching at Yale for at least five years. The award is to recognize exceptional instruction in Yale College.
Ben Kiernan's book, Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (2007), won the 2008 gold medal for the best book in History awarded by the Independent Publishers Association, and the U.S. German Studies Association's 2009 Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize for the best book published in 2007-2008 dealing with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in its broadest context, covering the fields of history, political science, and other social sciences, literature, art and photography. In June 2009, the book's German translation, Erde und Blut: Völkermord und Vernichtung von der Antikie bis heute, won first place in Germany's Non-fiction Book of the Month Prize Die Sachbücher des Monats, sponsored by Suddeutsche Zeitung and NDR Kultur.
Edward Rugemer has won this year's Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication or Research in the Humanities - a research fund to be awarded to one or more untenured faculty members who have already made a significant contribution to scholarship in the humanities.
Congratulations to Stuart Schwartz. His book All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World (2008), has received the American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence in the study of religion in the Historical Studies category; the inaugural Cundill International Prize in History, awarded by McGill University, honoring a book that has had a profound literary, social and academic impact on a given subject; as well as the John E. Fagg Prize, the Leo Gershoy Award and the George L. Mosse Prize awarded by the American Historical Association.
Congratulations to Marci Shore for winning the Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies awarded by the American Assocation for the Advancement of Slavic Studies "for the best book in any discipline on any aspect of Polish affairs this year." Professor Shore receives the prize for her book, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, published by Yale University Press.
Congratulations to Tim Snyder for winning the 2008 Jerzy Giedroyc Scholarly Award from Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin for the Polish edition of his book: The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999, published by Yale University Press.
Congratulations to Frank Snowden, whose book, The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900-1962 (2006), has won the Gustav Ranis Prize from the MacMillan Center at Yale in 2007 as "the best book on an international topic by a member of the Yale faculty." Conquest has also been awarded the 2008 Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine.
Congratulations to Charles Walton for being awarded the 2010 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize by the MacMillan Center at Yale for Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny & the Problem of Free Speech (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Updated: Mar. 2011
