Department of History - The University of Hong Kong

Awards and Prizes

	Departmental In Research Assessment Exercise (REA) 2014 the History Department once again ranked first among departments of History in Hong Kong and placed among the top few research centres at HKU. The History Department out-performed all other history departments in the S.A.R. with 23% of its research output ranked as 4* (world leading) and 68% as either 4* or 3* (internationally excellent) by RAE assessors.
	Research Prof. Frank Dikötter's latest book How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century (2019) is selected as Book of the Year by The New Stateman, The Financial Times, and The Economist. Dr. Robert Kramm has been awarded a Freigeist-Fellowship by the Volkswagen-Foundation to establish a research group on "Radical Utopian Communities" at LMU Munich, Germany. Dr. Julia Bowes received the 2019 Lerner-Scott Prize from the Organization of American Historians. Prof. Robert Peckham has been awarded an Endowed Professorship and is MB Lee Professor in the Humanities and Medicine. Dr. Priscilla Song received the 2018 Francis Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology. Prof. Charles Schencking receives the Knowledge Exchange Awards 2017 Prof. David Pomfret is awarded the 2017 Grace Abbott Book Prize. Prof. Frank Dikötter has been appointed a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Prof. Robert Peckham has received an Outstanding Paper Award at the Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference. Prof. David Pomfret is awarded the Research Output Prize 2015-16. Prof. Frank Dikötter has received an honorary doctorate from Leiden University for his work on the history of the Chinese Republican period and the People's Republic of China under Mao. (Details here) Prof. Xu Guoqi is awarded the HKU Outstanding Researcher Award 2014-15. Dr. Priscilla Roberts is awarded the SAGE Prize for Best International Journal Article on International Affairs 2015. Dr. Oscar Sanchez-Sibony is awarded the Marshall Schulman Book Prize in October 2015. Prof. Frank Dikötter is awarded the Research Output Prize for the Faculty of Arts.
	Teaching Dr. Carol Tsang receives the Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards (2017-2018) Dr. Peter Cunich receives the Knowledge Exchange Awards 2012 Prof. Robert Peckham receives the Outstanding Teaching Award 2012 Dr. David Pomfret is awarded the UGC Teaching Award for 2012.
	Undergraduate and Postgraduate Awards Mr Nathan Kwan wins 2nd Runner-up in the 3MT2019 Final Competition. Mr Reynold Tsang is shortlisted for the 3MT2019 Final Competition. Ms Joyce Ng is the Regional Winner in the Asia region in the History category in The Global Undergraduate Awards for 2018. (See UA press release) Ms Ng Zi Yan, Joyce wins 1st Prize (Undergraduate Presentations) in The third annual HKU Interhall Academic Forum Final Competition. Her presentation is based on her HIST4023 History Research Project "The Rise of Garden Cemeteries in Victorian London". Ms Pang Chong wins 2nd Runner-up and Online People's Choice Award in the 3MT2018 Final Competition. Our RPG students, Mr Meerwijk Maurits and Ms Huang Dao Zi, are shortlisted for the 3MT2017 Final Competition. 3MT2017 3MT2017 3MT2017 3MT2017 3MT2017 Ms. Siu Hang Tang is the Regional Winner in the Asia region in the History category, and is named a Highly Commended Entrant in The Undergraduate Awards (UA) in September 2016. (See UA press release) Mr. Mark Clifford is the co-winner of the 2015 Chris Welles Prize from Columbia University's Knight-Bagehot Fellowship. Ms. Zheng Guan is named a Highly Commended Entrant in The Undergraduate Awards in September 2015. (see press release here) Ms. Vivian Kong wins First Runner-up and People's Choice Awards in the Three Minutes Thesis (3MT) Competition 2015 in March 2015.

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