Awarded to a graduate student doing digital scholarship with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.
MA in History
Katherine Kania is an MA student of history with a focus on European history. She is also completing the Smithsonian-Mason Graduate Certificate in Digital Public Humanities in addition to her studies. She earned her BA in history with a concentration in public history from George Mason in 2022. While completing her MA, she works as a digital history research assistant for Dr. Jessica Otis at Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media on the ‘Death by Numbers’ project transcribing and quantitatively analyzing the London Bills of Mortality. Her research interests include social and cultural history, with an emphasis on 18th and 19th century Britain and Ireland.