by the Past & Present editorial team
Past & Present was delighted to learn that Dr. Koh Choon Hwee (Los Angeles, California) has received an Honourable Mention in the 2022 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians article prize for an article in any field of history by a woman scholar.
The award is for her article “The Ottoman Postmaster: Contractors, Communication and Early Modern State Formation” published in Past & Present No. 251 (May 2021).
The comments from the Prize Committee read as follows:
“Choon Hwee Koh impressed the committee with this paper discussing outsourcing of communication networks in the early bureaucratic age.
Her study speaks beyond the Ottoman empire of its focus to scholars studying state-building and control in other periods and places.”
To mark the honour of Dr. Maglaque’s work being recognised in this way, and to enable the widest possible number of people to read the article our publisher Oxford University Press has made “The Ottoman Postmaster: Contractors, Communication and Early Modern State Formation” free to read for a period of three months.
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