Molly Warsh received the Leopold-Hidy Award

Molly Warsh, associate professor in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and associate director of Pitt's World History Center, earned the Leopold-Hidy Award from the editors of the journal Environmental History. The annual award is bestowed on the author of the journal’s best article of the year.

For the winning article, “Seasonal Harvests: Migration, Reproduction, and Religion in the Early Modern Spanish Tuna Fisheries,” judges said Warsh “brilliantly navigates the shifting relationships between species, habitats (land, sea and littoral), and social groups across the local, regional and transnational scales.” Judges praised Warsh's work as “evocative and a wonderful example of compelling storytelling.”

Warsh’s first book, American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire 1492-1700 considers the global repercussions of patterns of human and environmental resource management established in the sixteenth-century Spanish Caribbean pearl fisheries. Her work in progress, a book entitled, Servants of the Seasons: Itinerant Labor and the Making of the Modern World explores early modern Atlantic history and world history. She is also the editor of the Journal of Early Modern History.