Tyler Anbinder's book City of Dreams: The 400-year Epic History of Immigrant New York (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) was a finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize from the Columbia School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation.
Lisa Benton-Short was awarded the 2017 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize for her book The National Mall: No Ordinary Public Space (University of Toronto Press, 2016).
Dominique Bonessi, BA ’15, was named to The Huffington Post blog "15 Top Young Latinas in American Newsrooms" list.
Christopher Brick was awarded a $197,897 grant from the National Archives and Records Administration for his work with the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers.
Denver Brunsman co-authored the book Leading Change: George Washington and Establishing the Presidency (Mount Vernon, 2017).
Sarah Calabrese was awarded a $291,458 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/National Institutes of Health for her research titled “Intervention to Promote PrEP Awareness and Equitable Prescription among Providers.”
Caitlin Carroll, BA ’07, Graduate Certificate ’11, and Brad Forder, Graduate Certificate ’11, premiered their film Painted City at the 2017 DC Independent Film Festival.
Eric Cline published the book Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology (Princeton University Press, 2017).
Kari Comer was named one of the 2016 Ten Outstanding Young Americans by the Junior Chamber International.
History PhD candidates Kate Densford and Katharine White were awarded CCAS Teaching Fellowships for 2017-18.
The Department of Geography has received an Honorable Mention as a Graduate Program of Excellence from the American Association of Geographers.
Oleg Kargaltsev was awarded a $32,218 grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for his research establishing the nature of the far-UV emission from the double pulsar.
Undergraduate Student Advisor Amanda Kleinman received a 2017 International Garden Photography of the Year award.
Amanda Lily, BA '11, was featured by MediaShift in the article "Meet the Wall Street Journal Metrics Mavens: Amanda Lilly and Vivyan Tran.”
Elissa Nunez, BA '17, was chosen to participate in the 2017 Carnegie-Knight News21 national multimedia reporting initiative.
Brian Schilder was awarded a $15,000 grant from the Leakey Foundation for his study “The Evolution of the Hippocampus and Adult Neurogenesis: Novel Insights into the Origins of Human Memory.”
Nina Seavey served as a juror for the Sixty Second Film Festival in Islamabad, Pakistan.
James Sham co-authored “Flexible CuInSe2 Nanocrystal Solar Cells on Paper” in the American Chemical Society's journal Energy Letters.
Chet Sherwood was awarded a $31,543 grant from the National Science Foundation for his work titled “The Evolution of the Hippocampus and Adult Neurogenesis: Novel Insights Into the Origins of Human Memory.”
Cheryl W. Thompson spoke at a forum for the Midwest Reporting Institute sponsored by the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma.
Abdourahman Waberi authored the book Harvest of Skulls (Indiana University Press, 2017).
Silvio Waisbord gave a presentation on "Populism and the dangers of anti-liberal communication" at Stockholm University. He co-authored the article "The Snowden Revelations and the Networked Fourth Estate" in the International Journal of Communication.