Jasanoff’s book wins honor
Harvard History Professor Maya Jasanoff has won a Recognition of Excellence Award as part of the 2011 Cundill Prize in History at McGill University for her book, “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World.” The prize recognizes history books that have a profound literary, social, and academic impact. “‘Liberty’s Exiles’ tells the story of loyalists who fled the U.S. after the American Revolution and settled all over the British Empire, especially in Canada,” Jasanoff said. “It argues for the importance of taking history out of patriotic, national boxes and seeing it from many sides, so it’s wonderful to be recognized by an international history prize that’s also dedicated to crossing borders, and especially appropriate, given my subject, to receive this recognition from a Canadian university, at a ceremony in London. “I’m thrilled to see these ‘losers’, whose stories have so often been neglected in the past, receive some attention now. It...