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Dr. Edda Fields-Black announced as the winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize for the finest scholarly work in English on Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War soldier, or the American Civil War era. She won for her book COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War (Oxford University Press), about which James G. Basker, president and CEO of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, said, “Her deeply researched and beautifully written book restores to view hundreds of Black lives that would otherwise have been lost forever, in a story that should be made into a blockbuster film.”
Dr. Carl Kubler is featured in the Dietrich Faculty Spotlight series. He speaks about his scholarship and teaching which sit at the intersection of Chinese history, Asian American history, and diaspora studies.
Dr. Christopher Phillips has been appointed the next head of the Department of History in Carnegie Mellon University’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Read Dr. Edda Fields-Black New York Times op-ed Black Families Can Now Recover More of Their Lost Histories.
University-wide article Social Justice Is Core to Sustainability Efforts at Carnegie Mellon features Dr. John Soluri's discussion on coffee and sustainability, Dr. Ezelle Sanford's Grand Challenge Course on health care disparities and recent Global Studies graduate Eric Moreno's Community Engagement Fellowship.
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