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Congratulations to Laura Jeanne Ferdinand (Theatre and Drama), awarded a Northwestern Presidential Fellowship for 2020-22, and to Menglu Gao (Ph.D. in Comparative Literary Studies/English, 2021), awarded the Outstanding PhD Thesis Award from the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies.

Congratulations as well to our Cluster students in History: Will Cavert (Ph.D., 2011) has won the Whitfield prize, awarded by the Royal Historical Society, and the John Ben Snow prize, awarded by the North American Conference on British Studies. Ruby Daily (Ph.D., 2021), won the NACBS’ Dissertation Fellowship. And Katya Maslakowski (Ph.D., 2022), the Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

In faculty news, Deborah Cohen‘s book Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World War (Random House, 2022), won the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University and the Lynton History Prize from Columbia University. Laurie Shannon’s book The Accommodated Animal: Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales (Chicago, 2013) won the Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Award for the best recent book in English Renaissance literary studies. Scott Sowerby’s book Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution (Harvard, 2013) won the Whitfield prize for the best first book in British or Irish history. And Helen Tilley, also in History, won the Ludwik Fleck prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science, for Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950 (Chicago, 2011).