A warm congratulations to the following seniors for their election into Phi Beta Kappa!

-Philip Balson
-Arthur Schott Lopes
-Sierra Nota
-Jules Ziqi Qiu
-Benjamin Schafer
-Wonik Son

The full member list for 2019 can be found at: https://pbk.fas.harvard.edu/members

Dr. Hannah Shepherd received this year’s Gross Prize for her dissertation entitled “Cities into Empire: Fukuoka, Pusan, and Japan’s Imperial Urbanization, 1876-1953.” The Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize is “awarded each year at Graduation to the Ph.D. recipient whose dissertation, in the opinion of a committee of Department [of History] members, gave greatest promise of a distinguished career of...

Warm congratulations to:

Sunaina Danziger for her submission entitled “Nazis in America: The US Intelligence Programs That Shaped the New World Order, 1945–1949”

Robert Hope for his submission entitled “The Refinery of Eden: Abadan and the Global Petroleum Order of the Early Cold War, 1940–1954”

Sierra Nota for her submission entitled “Make Way for the Railway: Transit-Oriented Development in the...