Congratulations to Hannah Katherine Hicks who has accepted a tenure track position at the University of Miami as Assistant Professor of History!! 🎉🎉

During Hannah’s fellowship, she has participated in numerous workshops for the Richards Center community including workshopping her application letter and CV, a university press book proposal, and mock zoom interviews.

Last spring the Richards Center held Hannah’s manuscript workshop with invited scholars Kathleen Brown from the University of Pennsylvania and Sally Hadden from Western Michigan University and workshopped her project, “In Her Defense: Black and White Women and the Criminal Courts in the Post-Civil War South.”

Hicks described her fellowship as transformative: “I so enjoyed and appreciated my two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Richards Center, which have been really life-changing! The Richards Center community of professors, postdocs, predocs, and graduate students are second-to-none in their support for one another’s work, their kindness, and their ability to offer incisive, helpful feedback. Having a manuscript workshop last year, benefiting from other opportunities to share my works-in-progress, and sage advice from Richards Center affiliated professors all helped me to revise my dissertation into a manuscript, find a tenure-track job, and finally move forward with publishing my book. Though I will miss being at the Richards Center, I am excited to be starting a new position at the University of Miami in August.”

Congratulations and good luck Hannah in all your future endeavors!