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::: Jingyi Huang (Brandeis University and CHEP-EHP Fellow) was awarded of the 2022 Allan Nevins Prize of the Economic History Association for the Best Dissertation in U.S. or Canadian Economic History, for The Impact of Innovation, Regulation, and Market Power on Economic Development: Evidence from the American West.

 

::: Kalyani Ramnath's “Intertwined Itineraries: Debt, Colonization, and International Law in Post-World War II South Asia” was awarded the Surrency Prize, for the best article published in Law and History Review in 2020, and Jane Burbank Prize, for the best article in global legal history published in a scholarly journal in 2020, at the American Society for Legal History’s 2021 annual meeting.

 

::: Paige Glotzer received the Kenneth Jackson Award from the Urban History Association for Best Book in North American Urban History for How the Suburbs Were Segregated.

 

::: Alexia Yates, EHP Fellow in 2011-2014, was awarded a 2020 Philip Leverhulme Prize for "researchers at an early stage of their careers whose work has had international impact and whose future research career is exceptionally promising."

 

::: David Yang has received a new grant for research on Civil Liberties in the Time of Health and Economic Crises.

 

::: Diana Kim, EHP Fellow at the Harvard Center 2013-2016, received the 2020 Robert B. Silvers Grant for Work in Progress for her research into colonial legacies and Japan's wartime empire in Southeast Asia.

 

::: Ben Golub was awarded of the Calvó-Armengol International Prize in Economics.

 

::: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer were awarded of the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

 

::: Padraic Scanlan won the 2018 James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History for his book Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution.

 

::: Fahad Bishara won the 2018 J. Willard Hurst Prize for best book in socio-legal history by the Law and Society Association for A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean.

 

::: Fahad Bishara won the 2018 World History Association Bentley Book Prize for A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean.

 

:::Rachel Leow won the 2018 Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies for her book Taming Babel: Language in the Making of Malaysia.

 

::: Padraic Scanlan won the Wallace K. Ferguson prize for his book Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution.

 

::: Catherine Evans was awarded the 2016 Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars prize from The American Society for Legal History for her paper, "Crime, Punishment and the Indigenous Subject in Colonial Canada."

 

::: Alexia Yates won the Wallace K. Ferguson prize for her book Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital.

 

::: Information Transmission in Networks
May 1-3, 2015
A conference was organized by Ben Golub and sponsored by the National Science Foundation, with additional support from the Center for History and Economics and the Department of Economics at Vanderbilt University.

 

::: New Histories of Paperwork
April 24, 2015
A workshop was organized by Padraic X. Scanlan and supported by the Prize Fellowships in Economics, History, and Politics and the Center for History and Economics.

 

::: Alexia Yates, Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics, has been appointed Mellon/Newton Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge.

 

::: Early Modern Political Practice
December 5-6, 2014
A workshop was organized by Noah Millstone and supported by the Prize Fellowships in Economics, History, and Politics and the Center for History and Economics.

 

::: Manufacturing and Economic Development, a workshop organised by Nick Ryan on 18 April 2014 at Harvard University, brought together economists who have been inspired by recent research in development and industrial organization to look more deeply at the determinants of productivity for firms in developing countries.

 

::: Johannes Haushofer, Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics has been appointed Assistant Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs in the Department of Psychology and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

 

::: Alexia Yates, Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics, has been awarded a Bok Center Certificate of Teaching Excellence

::: Noah Millstone, Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics, has been appointed Lecturer in History 1400-1700 in the Department of History, University of Bristol.

::: Anne O'Donnell, Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics has been appointed Assistant Professor of Russian History since 1917 at New York University in the Departments of History and Russian and Slavic Studies, beginning August 2015.

::: Nick Ryan, Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics, has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Yale Economics Department.

::: Brandon Terry, Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics, has been appointed Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Social Studies at Harvard University, starting in 2015.

 

::: Noah Millstone has been awarded the Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence.

 

::: Rachel Leow, a Prize Fellow since 2011, will join the Cambridge University History Department as a Lecturer in East Asian History starting in fall of 2013.

 

::: Ben Golub, Prize Research Fellow since 2011, will join the Harvard Economics Department as Assistant Professor of Economics, starting in 2015.

 

::: Johannes Haushofer's work in Nairobi is the subject of an article in the Harvard Gazette.

 

::: Histories of Land, Economy, and Power, organised by Alexia Yates, was the first conference of the Prize Fellowships in Economics, History, and Politics. It was held at Harvard on November 9th and 10th, 2012. The conference explored the political economy of land from a range of national perspectives.

 

:: The notes from the series of conversations about Technology & Research Methods organized at Harvard in 2011-2012 are available on the website of Rachel Leow at: https://idlethink.wordpress.com/thc21/.

 

:: Alexia Yates, Economics, History and Politics Prize Fellow, was awarded the Krooss Prize for the Best Dissertation in Business History.