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Ed Hatfield, (current PhD student) has just published an excellent, peer-reviewed essay in Southern Spaces based his research into the Atlanta transportation vote of a year ago. "A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate."
Daniel Krebs, (PhD, 2007), Associate Professor, University of Louisville. His first book, A Generous and Merciful Enemy, has been published by Univ. of Oklahoma Press. Krebs was a student of Jamie Melton.

Preston Hogue, senior honors graduate who did his thesis under Joe Crespino, was interviewed by Steve Goss on WABE, local NPR affiliate. Clickhere to listen to the interview.
Zachary Domach received the 2013 George P. Cuttino Prize for best record in European History.
Jacob Murphy received the 2013 Rabun Prize for best record in American History.
Hyeok Hweon Kang received the 2013 Matthew A. Carter Citizen-Scholar Award.
Zachary Domach, senior Classics/History major in History Honors BA/MA, is the recipient of the 2013-2014 Robert T. Jones Jr. Fellowship. This fellowship provides for a year at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
Zachary Domach and Mia Schatz, senior honors History majors, have been awarded CHI Humanities Fellowships 2012-2013.
Amanda Hutson, senior honors student, was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. Amanda is doing an honors thesis with Professor Jamie Melton.

Patrick Allitt who was profiled in Emory Magazine, Spring 2013.
Joe Crespino, has been named Fulbright Distinguished Chair of American Studies, University of Tubingen, Germany, Spring 2014 and received a URC grant for fall 2013.
Eric Goldstein whose essay "How German Were ‘German’ Jews in America in the Nineteenth Century? A View from Baltimore,” received the 2012 Joseph L. Arnold prize for the best essay on Baltimore history.
Sharon Strocchia, on receiving a Senior Fellowship at the Fox Center for 2013-2014.
Gyan Pandey on the publication of A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Leslie Harris has been awarded a fellowship for 2013-14 from the University of Texas Institute for Historical Scholarship. Next year’s theme is “Trauma and Social Transformation. ” Click here for more about this prestigious fellowship.
Judith Miller received a Crystal Apple Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Seminar Education. Click here for announcement.