Paul Kreitman Receives 2018 Leopold-Hidy Award

Please join us in congratulating Paul Kreitman, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, on receiving the 2018 Leopold-Hidy Award for the best article published in Environmental History, an interdisciplinary journal that addresses issues relating to human interactions with the natural world over time.  The article, “Attacked by Excrement: The Political Ecology of Shit in Wartime and Postwar Tokyo,” was recognized for its superb writing style, quality of argument and research, and contribution to the fields of environmental history and forest history.  Professor Kreitman will be honored for his work at the awards ceremony of this year’s American Society for Environmental History conference in Columbus, Ohio.  The department echoes the sentiments of Environmental History and has no doubt that Professor Kreitman will continue to produce great scholarship as his career progresses.