Three GW Historians Awarded ACLS Fellowships

In a rare feat for one academic department, three History Department professors — Joel Blecher, Dina Khoury and Erin Chapman — were awarded 2018-19 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships. The fellowships will enable each to pursue their respective scholarly research. Blecher is examining the relationship between religion and capitalism in medieval Islam as soon through the spice trade; Khoury is exploring 19th-century global migration patterns in light of East African slave practices; and Chapman is preparing a cultural and historical biography of journalist and playwright Lorraine Hansbury.