Congratulations to our new faculty member Yuko Miki for winning the Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Prize of the Coordinating Council for Women in History (CCWH).
Yuko won the Nupur Chaudhari prize for her article “Fleeing into Slavery: The Insurgent Geographies of Brazilian Quilombolas (Maroons), 1880-1881,” The Americas 68, no. 4 (2012): 495-528. The prize recognizes the best first article published in the field of history by a CCWH member. The article has also received the Best Article prize from the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Brazil section.
Brazilian slaves processing manioc into flour