Announcements
Assistant Professor Melissa Reynolds recently gave a presentation as an invited panelist for one of the Medieval Academy of America’s Digital Humanities Showcase. She spoke alongside Nicholas Laiacona (Lead Developer, Performant Software) and Pamela Smith (Seth Low Professor of History, Columbia) about an open-access software the trio is developing (with funds from an NSF grant) to support the publication of digital editions of historical sources.
Dr. Reynolds portion of the talk (14:26 to 21:00 or so), describes how she plans to use the software in the classroom at TCU next year in her new “Technologies of History” course (HIST 30693).
Congratulations to Charles Cox for being granted a Fellowship by the Center for History & Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast at Lamar University. Charles will use the funds to support his project, "A Rebellious Bayou: Patrimonial Sovereignty and the 1768 French Creole Revolt in Spanish Louisiana", by traveling to Spain and France this summer to conduct research.
We are proud of you Charles!
Recent alum, Dr. Jorden Pitt, has won the won the Society for Military History’s 2024 Coffman Prize! His dissertation is titled, “The Traumatic Blue Sky: The Psychological Consequences of Aerial Combat in the Twentieth Century.”
The Society for Military History Coffman First Manuscript Prize is awarded annually to the best dissertation in military history. The competition is open to scholars whose work blends military history with social, political, economic, and diplomatic history and to authors of studies centering on campaigns, leaders, technology, and doctrine. The winning author receives a cash award and a plaque. The winner also will be recognized at the Awards Dinner at the Society for Military History annual meeting. This prize is named in honor of Edward M. Coffman.
Congratulations Jorden!
The Food, Nutrition, and Inequality Symposium brings to the TCU community six of the premier national and international experts on food in Latin America and the Caribbean from a broad range of academic disciplines. Scholars will explore barriers to food access, nutritional disparities, global food regimes, US trade policy vis-à-vis Latin America, urban food provisioning systems, medical and public health perspectives on food access, and social and political conflicts over food.
The daylong event will consist of a series of short presentations by invited scholars whose work addresses food politics in the region, a plenary by Dr. Enrique Ochoa, a keynote by Dr. Hanna Garth, as well as a manuscript workshop for “The Land of the Skinny Cow: Beef Politics in Cuba, 1927-1963.”
Click the flyer below for more information on each scholar and to register for the Symposium. [link removed]
Riley Ford has been awarded the 2025 Sharon Ritenour Prize. Her dissertation work bridegs women's history, military history, gender history and the history of immigration.
The prize will assist her travel to the National Archives at College Park, Maryland, which holds military and civilian records essential for her work on the experiences of Japanese and Korean “war brides” as they undergo “Americanization” in the U.S.
Learn more about the Sharon Ritenour Stevens Prize.
Dr. Melissa Reynolds sat down with the New Books Network podcast to discuss her book, Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print (U Chicago Press, 2024).
The episode summary states,"Vivid and precise, Reading Practice should be read by those interested in the history of the book, the history of science, and anyone who has ever consulted Dr. Google (which, let's be honest, is probably everyone). In addition to centering the reading practices of ordinary people, Reading Practice also does a fabulous job explaining exactly what it looks like and takes to work with medieval manuscripts and early printed texts, making it perfect reading for graduate students and those heading into library research. "
Click here to listen to the podcast!
Associate Professor of Latin American History Alex Hidalgo, Ph.D., received the prestigious James Alexander Robertson Prize for the best article published in the "Hispanic American Historical Review" for his article "The Echo of Voices after the Fall of the Aztec Empire." The James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize is awarded annually to the best article in the "Hispanic American Historical Review" (HAHR) in the previous calendar year.
Click here to read the article.
Did you know that TCU houses over one hundred pre-Columbian artifacts? And that a former university employee stole over 100 of them?
In their article recently published in the Texas Observer titled, "Anatomy of a Pre-Columbian Art Heist in Fort Worth," Dr. Alex Hidalgo and students from his graduate-level class provide the in-depth story of the theft, including which artifacts were never recovered and what could have happened to them.
Congratulations to Dr.Hidalgo and also to graduate students Michael Fung, Sofia Gomez Pichardo, Jack Hines, Tony Peebler, Leonel Rodriguez, Meghan Scott-Chaber, and Jack Emery on becoming published authors!
The 2024 LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium will air on CSPAN’s American History TV on Saturday, May 11, 2024! If you weren’t able to attend, want to see it all again, or want to look for yourself in the audience, all three panels will air beginning at 3:25 PM and will run through 7:00. They will also be available online the following week.
