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Furman professor garners two awards |
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Tuesday, 23 October 2007 |
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GREENVILLE -- Monica Black has been a member of the Furman University faculty for a short time, but she has already received a couple of major honors. Black, an assistant professor of history, has received the Fritz Stern Prize for having one of the two best doctoral dissertations in the field of German history for the year 2006. She has also been awarded a Dr. Richard M. Hunt Fellowship for the Study of German Politics, Society and Culture from the American Council on Germany.
The Fritz Stern Prize is given annually by the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. Black will travel to Washington in November to receive the prize and present a talk about her doctoral research. She will use the Hunt Fellowship to conduct research in Germany during the summer of 2008.
Black’s award-winning dissertation is titled “The Meaning of Death and the Making of Three Berlins: A History, 1933-1961.” It examines changing rituals of and attitudes toward death in the city of Berlin over a period of radical social, political and ideological change, beginning with the establishment of Nazi rule in 1933 and continuing through World War II to the creation of the two, postwar Berlins, East and West.
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