Huge congratulations to Dr. Seema Sohi for receiving the prestigious ! The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. The award is for a period of up to two years and its anticipated result is a book or major study. The criteria prioritize the originality and promise of the research, its potential impact on the field, and the scholar鈥檚 plans for communicating the findings to a broad audience.
Dr. Sohi's project, "We Are Each Other鈥檚 Magnitude and Bond: A History of Climate Justice from Warren County to the Sunrise Movement,鈥� will investigate the intersection of the climate crisis, democracy, and political polarization. The first comprehensive history of the climate justice movement in the United States, it centers the work of Black, Indigenous, Latina, and Asian American women who have been unrecognized in environmental history, and yet who have played a leading role in the struggle to advance climate justice and, with it, the struggle to realize the promises of a multiracial and sustainable American democracy.
Congratulations to Dr. Sohi for winning the Binkley-Stephenson Award for her article, 鈥淏arred Zones, Rising Tides, and Radical Struggles: The Antiradical and Anti-Asian Dimensions of the 1917 Immigration Act.鈥�
The is given annually by the Organization of American Historians for the best article that appeared in the Journal of American History during the preceding calendar year. It is named for former OAH presidents and JAH editors, William C. Binkley (1944鈥�1946 president; 1956鈥�1963 editor) and Wendell H. Stephenson (1957鈥�1958 president; 1946鈥�1953 editor).
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Congraulations to Professor Sohi, who was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!