JAMES KAYE MEMORIAL PRIZE @ EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, FIESOLE (IT) (JUNE, 2020)

As a former post-doctoral research fellow of the European University Institute (EUI) and as a jury member, it gives me great pleasure to announce that this year’s James Kaye Memorial Prize for the Best Thesis in History and Visuality goes to: Catherine Gibson, “Nations on the Drawing Board. Ethnographic Map-Making in the Russian Empire’s Baltic Provinces, 1840-1920” and Déborah S. Dubald, “Capital Nature. A history of French municipal museums of natural history, 1795-1870”. The prize is awarded every two years for the best EUI thesis that combines the study of historical and visual sources in memory of James Kaye, a former student at the EUI and a dear friend of mine who sadly passed away in 2011.