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Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize is an annual book prize of the American Historical Association. It is awarded for "a distinguished first book by a young scholar in the field of European history", and is named in honor of Herbert Baxter Adams, who was from the faculty of Johns Hopkins University and one of the founders of the AHA. Established in 1905, the prize was at first awarded biennially. There was a hiatus in awards from 1930 until 1938. Since 1971 it has been awarded annually. In 1986 eligibility for the prize was changed from "American citizens" to "citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada". The prize is one of the most prestigious awards offered by the U.S. historical profession. Previous recipients include Henry Steele Commager, Gordon A. Craig, James S. Donnelly Jr., Arno Mayer and Joan Wallach Scott. List of recipients SourceAmerican Historical Association *2022- Dan-el Padilla Peralta, ''Divine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Mid ...
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American Historical Association
The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world. Founded in 1884, the AHA works to protect academic freedom, develop professional standards, and support scholarship and innovative teaching. It publishes ''The American Historical Review'' four times a year, with scholarly articles and book reviews. The AHA is the major organization for historians working in the United States, while the Organization of American Historians is the major organization for historians who study and teach about the United States. The group received a congressional charter in 1889, establishing it "for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical manuscripts, and for kindred purposes in the interest of American history, and of history in America." Current activities As an umbrella organization for the discipline, the AHA works with other major histori ...
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Daniel Lord Smail
Daniel Lord Smail (born 5 October 1961) is Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History at Harvard University, he teaches the history of Mediterranean societies between 1100 and 1600 and in special the French city of Marseille. He also studies deep history and History of Debt. He was a featured speaker at Beyond Belief (2007) @ University of San Diego, sponsored by The Science Network The Science Network (TSN) is a non-profit virtual forum dedicated to science and its impact on society. It was initially conceived in 2003 by Roger Bingham and Terry Sejnowski as a cable science TV network modeled on C-SPAN. TSN later became a .... References Living people 1961 births University of Michigan alumni {{US-historian-stub ...
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Malachi Haim Hacohen
Malachi (; ) is the traditional author of the Book of Malachi, the last book of the Nevi'im (Prophets) section of the Tanakh. According to the 1897 ''Easton's Bible Dictionary'', it is possible that Malachi is not a proper name, as it simply means "messenger".Malachi' at the Easton's Bible Dictionary The editors of the 1906 ''Jewish Encyclopedia'' implied that he prophesied after Haggai and Zechariah and speculated that he delivered his prophecies about 420 BC, after the second return of Nehemiah from Persia, or possibly before his return. No allusion is made to him by Ezra, however, and he does not directly mention the restoration of the Second Temple. Name Because the name ''Malachi'' does not occur elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible, some scholars doubt whether it is intended to be the personal name of the prophet. The form ''mal'akhi'' (literally "my ''malakh''") signifies "my messenger"; it occurs in Malachi 3:1 (compare to Malachi 2:7, but this form would hardly be appropriate ...
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Florin Curta
Florin Curta (born January 15, 1965) is a Romanian-born American archaeologist and historian who is a Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida. Biography Curta works in the field of the Balkan history and is a Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Curta's first book, ''The Making of the Slavs. History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, A.D. 500–700'', was named a 2002 Choice Outstanding Academic Title and won the Herbert Baxter Adams Award of the American Historical Association in 2003. Curta is the editor-in-chief of the Brill series ''East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450.'' In 2011, he contributed to ''The Edinburgh History of the Greeks''. He is a member in the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton University (Spring 2007) and a visiting fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University (2015). He attends an E ...
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Terry Martin (historian)
Terry Martin may refer to: * Terry Martin (rugby league) (born 1980), Celtic Crusaders rugby league player * Terry Martin (fighter) (born 1980), mixed martial artist * Terry Martin (publisher), editor, writer, poet and artist * Terry Martin (Australian politician) (born 1957), Australian politician * Terry Martin Sr. (1918–2001), his father, also an Australian politician * Terry Martin (Alaska politician) (born 1936), American politician in the Alaska House of Representatives * Terry Martin (ice hockey) (born 1955), professional ice hockey player * Terry Martin (surfer) (1937–2012), California surfboard shaper * Terry Martin (actor), see ''80,000 Suspects ''80,000 Suspects'' is a 1963 British drama film directed by Val Guest and starring Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Yolande Donlan, and Cyril Cusack. It concerns an outbreak of smallpox in Bath, England. Plot Commencing on New Year's Eve in th ...
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Ethan H
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Maureen Healy
Maureen is a female given name. In Gaelic, it is Máirín, a pet form of ''Máire'' (the Irish cognate of Mary), which is derived from the Hebrew Miriam. The name has sometimes been regarded as corresponding to the male given name Maurice. Some notable bearers of the name are: People * Maureen Anderman (born 1946), American actress * Dame Maureen Brennan (born 1954), British educator * Maureen Connolly (1934–1969), American tennis player * Maureen Dowd (born 1952), American journalist * Maureen Drake (born 1971), Canadian tennis player * Maureen Duffy (born 1933), British writer * Maureen Forrester (1930–2010), Canadian opera singer * Maureen Guy (1932–2015), Welsh mezzo-soprano singer * Maureen Herman (born 1966), American rock musician * Maureen Hingert (born 1937), Sri Lankan dancer, model, and actress * Maureen Hunter (born 1948), Canadian playwright * Maureen Johnson (born 1973), American writer * Dame Maureen Lipman (born 1946), British actress * Maureen Louys (born ...
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Stephanie Siegmund
Stephanie is a female name that comes from the Greek name Στέφανος (Stephanos) meaning "crown". The male form is Stephen. Forms of Stephanie in other languages include the German "Stefanie", the Italian, Czech, Polish, and Russian "Stefania", the Portuguese ''Estefânia'' (although the use of that version has become rare, and both the English and French versions are the ones commonly used), and the Spanish ''Estefanía''. The form Stéphanie is from the French language, but Stephanie is now widely used both in English- and Spanish-speaking cultures. Given names Royalty *Stephanie, Queen of Navarre (died after 1066), Queen consort of king García Sánchez III of Navarre *Stephanie of Castile (died 1 July 1180), illegitimate daughter of Alfonso VII of León and Castile * Stephanie of Milly, Lady of Oultrejordain (died 1197), an influential figure in the Kingdom of Jerusalem * Stephanie of Milly, Lady of Gibelet, an influential figure in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, first cous ...
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Francine Hirsch
Francine Hirsch is an American historian, specializing in modern Europe with a focus on Russia and the Soviet Union. She is a recipient of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for her book, ''Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union'', as well as honors from the American Society of International Law, the Council of European Studies, and the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies for her work. Education and career Hirsch has a B.A. from Cornell University, and completed her M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. She is currently a professor of history at University of Wisconsin–Madison. Research and publications Hirsch's first book, ''Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union'' (Cornell University Press, 2005) won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, awarded by the American Historical Association, in 2007. ''Empire of Nations'' also won the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, sponsored by the Ass ...
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Carol Symes (born 1966) is an American medieval historian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Symes founded the Education Justice Project's Theatre Initiative and directed a full-length production of William Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'' at Danville Correctional Center in 2013. She is also the executive editor of the academic journal ''The Medieval Globe''." Early life Carol Symes received her advanced education at Yale University from where she received her BA. She earned her M.Litt from the University of Oxford and her Ph.D from Harvard University. She has a Certificate in Stage Combat from the Society of British Fight Directors, which she earned while training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She is a member of Actors Equity.Professor Carol Symes.
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Priya Satia
Priya Satia is an American historian of the British Empire and the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. Satia grew up in Los Gatos, California Los Gatos (, ; ) is an incorporated town in Santa Clara County, California, United States. The population is 33,529 according to the 2020 census. It is located in the San Francisco Bay Area just southwest of San Jose in the foothills of the .... Publications * * * Reviews of ''Time's Monster'': * * References External links * University of California, Berkeley alumni Historians of the British Empire Stanford University faculty American women historians People from Los Gatos, California Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Historians from California 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American historians {{US-historian-stub ...
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