A new MacArthur-style ‘genius grant’ for history names its first winners
Gillian Brockell, The Washington Post
A new MacArthur-style ‘genius grant’ for history names its first winners
Gillian Brockell, The Washington Post
Natalia Romik had just returned to Warsaw from a five-week research trip through Kyiv’s sewers and caves, where she studies Jewish hiding places during the Holocaust, when she learned she had won the Dan David Prize. Now, a few weeks later, she’s doing everything she can to help the Ukrainian refugees flooding into Poland after Russia’s invasion.
“It’s a shadow on such a joyful moment,” she said.
Kimberly Welch was home with a breakthrough case of covid-19 when she learned that she, too, was a recipient, for her work unearthing lawsuits from free and enslaved African Americans in the antebellum South.
