Pulitzer Prize for History:
Steven Hahn
Dr.
Steven Hahn, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor
of American History, has been awarded the 2004 Pulitzer
Prize for history for his book, A Nation Under Our
Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South
From Slavery to the Great Migration. He is following
in the footsteps of his chair's namesake, Dr. Roy Nichols,
the first Penn faculty member to receive a Pulitzer
Prize.
Dr.
Hahn is a specialist in the social and political history
of 19th-century America, on the history of the American
South and on the comparative history of slavery and
emancipation.
He
is also the author of The Roots of Southern Populism:
Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia
Upcountry, 1850-1890, which received both
the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians
and the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization
of American Historians.
Dr.
Hahn's articles have appeared in Past and Present,
the American Historical Review and the Journal
of Southern History. He is also the co-editor
of "The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation:
Essays in the Social History of Rural America" and
of "Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation,
1861-1867, Series III: Land and Labor in 1865."
Before
coming to Penn (Almanac October
7, 2003), he
served on the faculties of the University of Delaware,
the University of California, San Diego, and Northwestern
University.
Dr.
Hahn has taught a wide variety of undergraduate and
graduate courses in American and comparative history,
winning two Distinguished Teaching Awards. He
has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation,
the American Council of Learned Societies and the Center
for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at
Stanford, and he is an elected Fellow of the Society
of American Historians.
In
addition to his writing and editing, Dr. Hahn has been
actively involved with projects that promote the teaching
of history in the public schools and that make humanities
education available to diverse members of the community.
He
is currently at work on the Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
in African-American History, to be delivered at Harvard
in 2007, and on a history of the U.S., 1840-1900, to
be published in the Penguin history of the United States.
The
Pulitzer Prizes recognize achievements in American
journalism, letters, drama and music and have been
awarded annually since 1917. They were endowed by newspaper
publisher Joseph Pulitzer. Recipients are named by
Columbia University on the recommendation of a Pulitzer
Prize Board.
The
Penn faculty who have received Pulitzers: (1986) Walter
McDougall, professor of history; (1977) Richard Wernick,
composer and Magnin Professor of Humanities; (1968)
George Crumb, composer and Annenberg Professor of Music;
(1949) Roy F. Nichols, professor of history.