Former Postdoctoral Fellow Adriana Chira, now associate professor of Atlantic World history at Emory University, is the recipient of the 2023 James A. Rawley Prize for the book Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba’s Plantations (Cambridge University Press). The prize, awarded annually since 1998 through the American Historical Association, recognizes outstanding historical writing that explores aspects of integration of Atlantic worlds before the twentieth century.
