Steven Hahn, who won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in History for "A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration," has been awarded a fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year by the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library.
The felloship will support the writing of his next book, "The Illiberal Tradition in America."
Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker, who was a 2015-16 fellow, said of the program: ""I’ve never had an opportunity like this; to just be able to study, study, study, with no deadlines and no pressure. It’s simply been about enrichment and research. And that is the great privilege of the Cullman fellowship: to see where your mind takes you. To have the time and the resources to pursue your own intellectual adventure."
Hahn also is the co-chair of the Pulitzer board. Read an excerpt from his prize-winning book here.