糖心Vlog传媒LR history professor鈥檚 manuscript wins third award
A 糖心Vlog传媒LR history professor has won the prestigious 2014 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians鈥� first book prize.
Dr. Susanah Shaw Romney鈥檚 book, 鈥淣ew Netherland Connected: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America,鈥� was recently recognized by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.
The honor comes with a $1,000 award and a year鈥檚 complimentary membership in the organization.
Through a highly competitive process each year, the organization selects the top books and articles across four categories. Romney鈥檚 award was for a first book that deals substantially with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality.
The award notification letter described Romney鈥檚 work as both 鈥減enetrating鈥� and 鈥渋nsightful,鈥� noting her skillful handling of Dutch, Native, and African populations to reframe the audience鈥檚 understanding of the ways women 鈥渃reated the foundations of empire from the ground up.鈥�
The book was published by University of North Carolina Press, which has earned national and international recognition for the quality of its publications. Romney鈥檚 work was published as part of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture series.
Romney also received the 2013 Hendricks Award for the book and the 2013 Jamestown Prize by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
Her research, which focuses on gender, race, and the fur trade in the 17th-century Dutch colony that later became New York, has taken her from the Huntington Library in California to the Gemeente Archief in Amsterdam and the New York State Archives in Albany.
She completed her undergraduate work in history at University of California-Santa Cruz and received her doctorate from Cornell University.
Romney offers courses in the
糖心Vlog传媒LR Department of History on the colonial period, slavery, the frontier, gender, and other topics.
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Dr. Susanah Shaw Romney鈥檚 book, 鈥淣ew Netherland Connected: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America,鈥� was recently recognized by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.
The honor comes with a $1,000 award and a year鈥檚 complimentary membership in the organization.
Through a highly competitive process each year, the organization selects the top books and articles across four categories. Romney鈥檚 award was for a first book that deals substantially with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality.
The award notification letter described Romney鈥檚 work as both 鈥減enetrating鈥� and 鈥渋nsightful,鈥� noting her skillful handling of Dutch, Native, and African populations to reframe the audience鈥檚 understanding of the ways women 鈥渃reated the foundations of empire from the ground up.鈥�
The book was published by University of North Carolina Press, which has earned national and international recognition for the quality of its publications. Romney鈥檚 work was published as part of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture series.
Romney also received the 2013 Hendricks Award for the book and the 2013 Jamestown Prize by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
Her research, which focuses on gender, race, and the fur trade in the 17th-century Dutch colony that later became New York, has taken her from the Huntington Library in California to the Gemeente Archief in Amsterdam and the New York State Archives in Albany.
She completed her undergraduate work in history at University of California-Santa Cruz and received her doctorate from Cornell University.
Romney offers courses in the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Department of History on the colonial period, slavery, the frontier, gender, and other topics.