NACBS Fellow Olivia Wyatt was recently announced as the winner of the IHR’s History Lab Olivette Otele Prize for her paper “Black is Beautiful: The Politics of Pigmentation within the British Black Women’s Movement.” Congrats!

Antoinette Burton was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. You can read the announcement here. 

Laura Beers' work Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century was awarded the LA Times Book Prize for biography. Read the announcement here. 

Priya Satia has recently published two op-eds: "The Deep Roots of Oligarchy," in Foreign Policy and, with Jessica Riskin, "Is it 1984 in 2015?"  You can follow Priya at @priyasatia @profpriyasatia and @priyasatia.bsky.social. 

Mary Fissell, who delivered a fascinating plenary at our Denver conference last year, recently published a new book on the long history of abortion. You can view the UK version, Abortion: A History, here and the US version, Pushback: The 2,500 Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion, here. 

Erin Fetterly, author of Women Who Kill: A History of Britain's Most Dangerous Women, has been shortlisted for Best New Author by the 2025 True Crime Awards. You can follow Fetterly on Instagram here.