Gayatri Patnaik will receive BIO’s 2020 Editorial Excellence Award on Monday evening, November 9, at an online event featuring three of her authors: Imani Perry, Marcus Rediker, and Jeanne Theoharis, joined by literary agent Tanya McKinnon.

Patnaik is Associate Director and Editorial Director of Beacon Press, where for 18 years she has edited and published many books on race, ethnicity, and immigration. A native of India who emigrated with her family to the United States as a child, she has focused on African American history, creating Beacon’s “ReVisioning American History” series and its “Queer Action / Queer Ideas” series.

On Sunday, September 6, 2020, at 3pm ET, on its American History TV, C-SPAN3 will televise Nancy Greenspan discussing the life of nuclear spy Klaus Fuchs with Executive Director, Kai Bird. This discussion was originally broadcast on August 6, 2020 at 6 pm on Crowdcast.

Former Leon Levy Center Fellow Eric K. Washington’s Boss of the Grips: the Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal (Liveright, 2019) has won the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York history. Congratulations, Eric!