June 7, 2021
The 2021 Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize has been awarded to Erin Hutchinson and Joseph la Hausse de Lalouvière for their dissertations. The Gross 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.”
Erin Hutchinson, "The Cultural Politics of the Nation in the Soviet Union After Stalin, 1953-1991"
Joseph la Hausse de Lalouvière, "Enslavement and Empire in the French Caribbean, 1793–1851"