Announcing the 2024 Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize Winners

Congratulations to 2023 History Ph.D. recipients Dr. Daniel Chardell and Prof. Margaret Weeks for being awarded the Gross Prize! 

Daniel Chardell won for his dissertation entitled “The Gulf War: An International History, 1989-1991.”

Margaret Weeks won for her dissertation entitled “From the House to the Street: Sex Workers and Domestic Laborers in Brazil’s Democratic Transition.”

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 historical research.”