News Express: UM professor receives award for best article in scholarly journal
新聞快訊：澳大教授獲最佳學術期刊文章獎
Joshua Ehrlich
澳大教授獲最佳學術期刊文章獎
澳門大學人文學院歷史系助理教授Joshua Ehrlich榮獲2023年度“阿諾德·赫希最佳學術期刊文章獎”（Arnold Hirsch Award for Best Article in a Scholarly Journal），以表彰其於歷史研究的重要成果。其文章發表在國際學術期刊《過去與現在》（Past & Present）上。
該獎項由國際機構城市歷史協會（Urban History Association）頒發。評獎委員會認為，Joshua Ehrlich的文章是引人入勝、一絲不苟、內容豐富且細緻入微的學術著作，生動地描繪了物理邊界如何在塑造社會政治景觀方面發揮深遠作用。
Joshua Ehrlich的獲獎文章“The Meanings of a Port City Boundary: Calcutta’s Maratha Ditch, c.1700–1950”追溯了港口城市加爾各答（Calcutta，現名Kolkata）及其歷史邊界——馬拉塔渠的歷史，文章展示了從18到20世紀，馬拉塔渠如何成為意義塑造的重要場所，從而維持了政治、法律和社會層面的劃分。更廣泛地說，文章提出了一種研究港口城市歷史的新思路，並為一種新的城市世界歷史地理學提供了基礎——既關注邊界又關注聯繫。
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UM professor receives award for best article in scholarly journal
Joshua Ehrlich, assistant professor in the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Macau (UM), has been awarded the Arnold Hirsch Award for Best Article in a Scholarly Journal for 2023 for his significant contribution to the field of historical research. The article was published in the international academic journal Past & Present.
The award was presented by the Urban History Association, an international organisation. The award committee praised Prof Ehrlich’s article as a ‘compelling’, ‘meticulous’, ‘rich and nuanced’ work of scholarship, which ‘paints a vivid picture of how physical boundaries play a profound role in shaping socio-political landscapes’.
Prof Ehrlich’s award-winning article, ‘The Meanings of a Port City Boundary: Calcutta’s Maratha Ditch, c.1700–1950’, traces the history of the port city of Calcutta (now Kolkata) and its historical boundary, the Maratha Ditch. It shows how, from the 18th century to the 20th century, the ditch was a vital site of meaning-making that sustained political, legal and social divisions. More broadly, the article proposes a new way to study the history of port cities and provides the basis for a new historical geography of the urban world: one attentive to both boundaries and connections.
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