Fellows in the News
The American Historical Association, an ACLS member society, has announced two book prizes awarded to ACLS Fellows.  | AHA awarded the J. Russell Major Prize for the best work in English on any aspect of French history to Amalia D. Kessler F'07 for A Revolution in Commerce: The Parisian Merchant Court and the Rise of Commerical Society in Eighteenth-Century France (Yale University Press, 2007). In its announcement, AHA writes, "This extensively researched and compellingly argued study of the Parisian merchant courts contributes to our understanding of the pre-revolutionary transformation of lawand legal practice while also shedding light on the collapse of Old Regime corporatism.... A Revolution in Commerce is an original and important contribution to French history." Professor Kessler, who received a Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship in 2007, is associate professor at Stanford University Law School. | | | |  | Atina Grossmann F'01, F'91, G'84 was received The George L. Mosse Prize for Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany (Princeton University Press, 2007). This prize is awarded "for an outstanding major work of extraordinary scholarly distinction, creativity, and originality in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since the Renaissance." AHA describes this book as a "powerful narrative" of post-war Berlin, which "gracefully integrates gender, Jewish, and family history in novel ways." Professor Grossmann, who is professor history at The Cooper Union, received an ACLS Fellowship in 2001 in support of her research on this topic.
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