May 18, 2022
Polina Ivanova has been awarded this year’s Gross Prize for their dissertation entitled “Migration and the Making of Cultural Landscapes in Medieval Anatolia: a Eurasian Regional Perspective from Inner Pontus.” 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.”