November 1, 2017
Sarah Haley (Yale AMST PhD 2010) won the 2017 Laura Romero First Book Publication Prize for her book, There’s No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity.
Also recognized as a Finalist for the 2017 John Hope Franklin Prize for best book in American Studies is A. Naomi Paik (Yale AMST PhD 2009)
Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II (University of North Carolina Press).