Katherine Birmingham, MA ’10, received the John L. Cotter Award for Excellence by the National Park Service for her multi-year research project, “Archeological Investigation of the L’Hermitage Slave Village.”
Jonathan Chaves was awarded the American Literary Translators Association’s Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize given annually for the best translation from an Asian language into English for his book Every Rock a Universe (Floating World Editions, 2013).
Eric Cline received the American Schools of Oriental Research 2014 Award for Best Popular Book for his 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Princeton University Press, 2014)
Keith Crandall's paper, ModelTest, is number 76 on Nature’s list of the top 100 cited papers of all time.
John D’Elia, BA ’11, was selected for The Villanova Law Review.
Stephen Forssell served as an advisor for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations on the treatment of transgender detainees. He also spoke at a meeting on LGBT Health and Human Rights hosted by the Pan American Health Organization.
Graduate student Kelsey Nyland and the GW Humanitarian Mapping Society were featured in the CityLab article “Open-Source Mapping the World's Most Vulnerable Regions Will Save Lives.”
Robert Shepherd published two articles: “Localism Meets Globalization at an American Street Market” in La Globalización desde Abajo: La Otra Economía Mundial, and “Civilization-Making and its Discontents: The Venice Charter and Heritage Policies in China” in Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment.
Ismail White published "Selling Out?: The Politics of Navigating Conflicts between Racial Group Interest and Self-interest" in The American Political Science Review.