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At this year’s the work of two American Studies colleagues were honoured: Charlie Jeffries, Lecturer in American and Media Studies, and Katharina Rietzler, Senior Lecturer in American History and Subject Head for American Studies.

The British Association of American Studies works to in Universities, Colleges and Schools within the United Kingdom. 

Charlie was awarded the Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize for  (Rutgers University Press, 2022). The BAAS jurors praised Charlie’s book as ‘a tour de force of social and cultural history with forays into political and legal history’, and as ‘deeply original in its framing of girls/young women as a flashpoint of the post-1960s culture wars.’

Katharina won the Arthur Miller Institute Journal Article Prize for ‘’ (Diplomatic History, 2022). Katharina’s article ‘impressed’ the jurors with its ‘intellectual rigor, careful analysis, and quality of argument.’ Katharina’s article also received an honourable mention at this year’s