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Summer 2024

Fellows in the News: Summer 2024

Dipesh Chakrabarty was awarded the 46th European Essay Prize for the French translation of his latest essay, “Après le changement climatique, penser l’histoire” (Gallimard, 2023). Video is available from Chakrabarty’s acceptance speech and the laudatio by Patrice Maniglier.

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The American Political Science Association awarded Cathy J. Cohen its annual Frank J. Goodnow award for distinguished service to the profession and association.

Cathy J. Cohen was also interviewed by NBC 5 Chicago about the key findings of the May 2024 GenForward Survey, a project that Cohen oversees. The survey provides insight into the perspectives of young people about the upcoming 2024 election.

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Cathy J. Cohen and Rochona Majumdar were among thirty-one University of Chicago faculty members who received distinguished service professorships or named professorships. Cathy J. Cohen was named the D. Gale Johnson Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity and Political Science, and the College. Rochona Majumdar was named the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in the Departments of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College.

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Allyson Nadia Field spoke to UChicago News about two grants awarded to the Film Studies Center. The grants from the National Film Preservation Foundation will help the Center preserve seminal work from Black and Filipino filmmakers.

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Adom Getachew wrote about scholar Louis Chude-Sokei’s work in the June 20, 2024 issue of The New York Review of Books.

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The American Sociological Association awarded Julian Go’s book Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US (Oxford University Press, 2023) the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Distinguished Book Award for the best book in Crime, Law and Deviance, and Honorable Mentions for Best Book in Comparative Historical Sociology and for Best Book in Global & Transnational Sociology.

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William H. Sewell Jr. was selected as the 2024 recipient of the Grain of Sand Award from the American Political Science Association’s Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Related Group. This award “honors a scholar whose contributions demonstrate creative and sustained engagement with questions of enduring political importance from an interpretive perspective.”

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Lisa Wedeen and Joseph Masco were interviewed about their edited volume Conspiracy/Theory (Duke University Press, 2024) for the Spring 2024 issue of The Public Eye magazine. The interview was also published on Religion Dispatches.