#  Four History Department Faculty named Cabot Fellows for 2017 

 





May 25, 2017

 

 

 Congratulations to the four History Department Faculty who have received this prestegious fellowship for their outstanding publications.

 **Peter E. Gordon**, Amabel B. James Professor of History, Affiliate of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Philosophy, *Adorno and Existence* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2016).

 **Jane Kamensky**, Professor of History and Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library, *A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley* (New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2016).

 **Lisa McGirr**, Professor of History, *The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State* (New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2016).

 **Daniel Smail,** Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History, *Legal Plunder: Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2016).

 The other Harvard Faculty winners were:

 **Stephen Burt**, Professor of English, *The Poem Is You* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2016).

 **Timothy Colton**, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government,Russian Studies, Faculty Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, *Russia: What Everyone Needs to Know* (Oxford, England: Oxford UP, 2016).

 **Carter Eckert,** Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, *Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism 1866-1945* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2016).

 **Helen Hardacre**, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, *Shinto: A History* (Oxford, England: Oxford UP, 2016).

 **Joseph Koerner**, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Affiliate of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, *Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life* (Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2016).

 **Tommie Shelby,** Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and Philosophy, *Dark Ghettos* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2016).



 

 

 



 

 

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