Prof. Kate Brown wins OAH prize

Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:49:03 -0400

On Saturday, April 12 in Atlanta, Associate Professor of History Kate Brown was awarded the 2014 Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians (OAH) for the best book-length historical study of the political economy, politics, or institutions of the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the Civil War to the present.

Brown received the award for her book, Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford University Press, 2013)