CDH Affiliated Faculty Ed Baring Wins AHA Prize for “Vulgar Marxism”
19 October 2026
U Chicago Press/Ryan Campbell, Office of Communications
Edward Baring, a member of the CDH Executive Committee and lead of the CDH project remarx, has won the AHA Prize in European International History Since 1895 for his book Vulgar Marxism: Revolutionary Politics and the Dilemmas of Worker Education, 1891–1931. The prize is one of the American Historical Association’s annual awards, whose 2026 honorees were selected from more than 3,200 entries.
Edward Baring is Professor of History and Human Values.
Source:
American Historical Association Announces 2026 Prize Winners
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