The Journal of the Civil War Age is pleased to announce that Dr. J. Jacob Calhoun has been selected as the recipient of the Anthony E. Kaye Memorial Essay Award for 2025 His winning essay is titled, “‘Nothing was recognized of the dead’: Coroners and the Massacres of 1866”
The prize board, consisting of Paul Barba (chair), Erin Mauldin, and Whitney Stewart, applauded the write-up as adheres to: “By closely and artistically interrogating the records of the coroner’s offices in Memphis and New Orleans in the results of the 1866 bloodbaths, Calhoun reveals the substantial power and obligation vested in these authorities and their organizations. Significantly, Calhoun demonstrates in convincing style how these men shaped both the government’s investigations of mass racist violence and how historians have interpreted these turning points in Civil War era background. Insightful and thorough, Calhoun’s essay brings into alleviation the withstanding technical value of close readings and relative lenses.”
Calhoun is a Byron K. Trippet Aide Professor of History and the David A. Moore Chair in American Background at Wabash University. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Nau Facility for Civil War Background 2024 – 2025, and he obtained his PhD from the University of Virginia in 2024 His study concentrates on the history of emancipation and Reconstruction, particularly the crossway in between national politics, race, and physical violence.
The Kaye Honor is granted every 2 years and is co-sponsored by the JCWE , the Society of Civil War Historians, the College of North Carolina Press, and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Period Facility.
Robert Bland
Robert D. Bland is Professor Background of Research Studies and Africana College at the Associated of Tennessee, Knoxville
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