Congratulations to 2022 History Ph.D. recipient Dr. Marino Felipe Auffant for being awarded this year’s Gross Prize for his dissertation entitled “Globalizing Oil, Unleashing Capital: An International History of the 1970s Crisis.”
Honorable mention was also awarded to the following 2022 History Ph.D. recipients:
2023 Samantha Payne (Harvard University), "The Last Atlantic Revolution: Reconstruction and the Struggle for Democracy in the Americas, 1861-1912"
Payne’s dissertation is an extraordinary historical provocation. Embracing the challenges and reaping the rewards of transnational and comparative history, Payne has written a transformative study of the end of slavery in United States, Cuba, and Brazil, the last 3 slaveholding societies in the Atlantic world.
She asks how the abolition of slavery and the promises of emancipation ended in a new...