Society of American Historians recognizes three members of the Yale American Studies community

Three members of the Yale American Studies community have been recently recognized by the Society of American Historians. 

• Bench Ansfield (PhD alum and now Assistant Professor of History at Temple University) won the Francis Parkman Prize, which honors literary merit in the writing of American History, for Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City (W. W. Norton). 
• Charlotte Hecht (PhD alum and now Independent Scholar in Colorado) was named as a finalist for the Allan Nevins Dissertation Prize for her dissertation, “American Nuclear: A Convergent History of Landscape and Power.”
• Daphne Brooks (Professor of American Studies and of Black Studies, of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and of Music) has been elected to the Society.

Congratulations to Bench, Charlotte, and Daphne!