Archives & Public History Alumni Jubilee Marshall has been selected to receive the 2023 Master’s Award for Academic Achievement. The Master’s Award recognizes the most distinguished master’s thesis or final project in the applicant’s respective discipline. Congratulations Jubilee for your hard work and for receiving the award!
Archives and Public History MA student Gracia Brown has been awarded the C.V. Starr Fund for Asian/Pacific/American Research. The grant supports NYU students working on an academic project with an emphasis on the New York metropolitan region. Gracia will be conducting fieldwork and oral histories for her capstone project, “What About The Children? Oral Histories About Growing Up Mixed Asian Before Loving v. Virginia.” Her project seeks to share the lives of mixed-race Asian Americans born before the Supreme Court legalized interracial marriage nationally in 1967.
Jennifer Morgan, Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis & History, was named a Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner for her book, Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic! The Frederick Douglass Book Prize is one of the most coveted awards for the study of slavery in world history from Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
Congratulations to APH Program Director Ellen Noonan and her colleagues, Jacob Remes, Valerie Marlowe, and Scott Gabriel Knowles, who were awarded an NYU Center for the Humanities Seed Grant for their multi-year project, the COVID Collections Project. The COVID Collections Project aims to catalogue COVID-19 oral history, documentation, and archiving projects that have begun since winter 2020 and to develop a website that will help researchers find these collections.
Archives and Public History student Katie Heiserman is the 2022 
winner of the Summer Graduate Urban Public Humanities Fellowship from the NYU Cities Collaborative and the GSAS Public Humanities Initiative. Heiserman will be working as a Summer Fellow at the American Association for State and Local History. Congratulations Katie!
NYU Center for the Humanities recently profiled Archives and Public History student Julia Butterfield on her accomplishments and passion for history and education. Butterfield was awarded a Vision Grant from Humanities New York for her involvement in a project at the Morris–Jumel Mansion. The vision grant began in the summer of 2021 and is funding Butterfield’s continued research of the Northup family, a free Black family from New York, and their relationship to the Morris–Jumel Mansion. Butterfield is graduating from the Archives and Public History program this spring. Congratulations Julia!