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    A new MacArthur-style ‘genius grant’ for history names its first winners

    Gillian Brockell, The Washington Post

    An example of the types of records Kimberly Welch uses in her research of Black litigants in the antebellum South. (Kimberly Welch)
    An example of the types of records Kimberly Welch uses in her research of Black litigants in the antebellum South. (Kimberly Welch)

    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.

    See the full article in The Washington Post

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    ‘I Realized It’s Preferable to Study Fundamentalism Than Be a Fundamentalist’
    28 May 2023
    ‘I Realized It’s Preferable to Study Fundamentalism Than Be a Fundamentalist’

    Her father became a religious Jew, her mother turned to Buddhism, she herself became an active ‘hilltop youth’ in the West Bank. Meet Dr. Karma Ben Johanan, whose life and research is suffused with radical religiosity.

    Shany Littman, Haaretz

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    How do politics, violence, psychology and colonization intersect?
    24 May 2023
    How do politics, violence, psychology and colonization intersect?

    "I think it is very important to understand the relations between mental illness, violence and politics," says 2023 Dan David Prize winner Dr. Ana Antic.

    Neria Barr, The Jerusalem Post

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    Seeing the ‘Invisible Humans’ of Archaeology Through the Gunk on Their Teeth
    24 May 2023
    Seeing the ‘Invisible Humans’ of Archaeology Through the Gunk on Their Teeth

    Ancient plaque analysis has been revealing dietary secrets and unexpected origins from the deepest prehistory. Now Dan David prizewinner Anita Radini takes the science to a new level: detecting ancient occupations.

    Ruth Schuster, Haaretz

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