In the Honors College, we pride ourselves on pairing our Senior Honors students with the brightest scholars on campus to direct their senior theses. We just received word that one of our newest advisers, Dr. Max Grivno, assistant professor of history, has won a prestigious award for his research. Dr. Grivno won the C. Vann Woodward Award for his doctoral dissertation completed at the University of Maryland. We're proud to have him working with our students.Dr. Max Grivno, a University of Southern Mississippi assistant professor of history, has been awarded the C. Vann Woodward Prize for the best dissertation in Southern History completed in 2007. He will be recognized for this achievement at the Southern Historical Association meeting in New Orleans in October.
The prize includes a $3,000 stipend and is supported by the Woodward Fund through a gift Woodward, the late historian whose areas of expertise included the American South and race relations, made to the SHA.
Grivno's doctoral dissertation, "'There Slavery Cannot Dwell': Agriculture and Labor in Northern Maryland, 1790-1860" was also named a finalist for the Labor and Working Class History Association's Herbert G. Gutman Dissertation Prize, and earned him the University of Maryland's Richard T. Farrell Prize. Grivno's research and teaching interests include slavery, labor history, Southern history and the early national period.