BU Alum Greg O’Malley Wins Two Prestigious AHA Book Prizes
Greg O’Malley, a 1999 graduate of the BU History Department, has won two prestigious book prizes from the American Historical Association. Currently Associate Professor of History at UC-Santa Cruz, O’Malley is the author of Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807 (University of North Carolina Press, 2014). At its recent annual meeting in Atlanta, the AHA awarded O’Malley’s book both the Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize, 2015 for British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history and the James A. Rawley Book Prize, 2015, for Atlantic History.