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Professor Robin Bernstein has won the Herbert H. Lehman Award for Distinguished Scholarship, given by the New York Academy of History, for her book Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit (University of Chicago...

Professor Marius Kothor was featured in an interactive article on African cities, which you can read here. She was also featured on Here and Now, speaking about the Nana Benz. Listen to the episode here.

An excerpt from Chapin's new book, Suitable: The Sartorial Revolution and the Fashioning of Modern Men , also appeared on Literary Hub. Read the excerpt here.

Public Books interviewed Prof Durba Mitra about her new book, The Future that Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism.

Jewel Pereyra has been named a Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow in the Hutchins Center, as part of the next cohort of W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows. Congratulations, Jewel! Read the full list of fellows here.

Caroline Light writes in Slate on the self-defense case of Ríhanna Kelver. Can a Wyoming Trans woman Stand Her Ground?

Caroline Light, with Janae Thomas, published a piece titled Who Gets to Be a "Good Guy" with a Gun?, discussing gun ownership and mass incarceration. Read the article here.

Kareem Khubchandani's book, Lessons in Drag: A Queer Manual for Academics, Artists, and Aunties, has been nominated for a Lammy Award in LGBTQ+ Studies. The Lammy Awards are given by the Lambda Literary, an organization that promotes LGBTQ+ voices in...

Congratulations to Professor Linda Schlossberg, who was awarded a grant from the Mass Cultural Council for her work in literature. This honor is conferred on artists who advance creative expression in Massachusetts communities.

Professor Marius Kothor was interviewed for an article o n a group of businesswomen in Togo called the Nana Benz. Read the story here.