Peter Shulman, associate professor of history, won the senior Moroney Award for Scholarship on Postal History for an article he wrote last summer.
His article, “Ben Franklin’s Ghost: World Peace, American Slavery, and the Global Politics of Information before the Universal Postal Union,” was published in the Journal of Global History, 10 (2015): 212-34.
The senior award goes to the author of the best submission by a faculty member, independent scholar or public historian on the history of the postal system or its significance in American life.
The award comes with a $2,000 prize.