Prof. David Fedman's "Seeds of Control" wins AHA's Pacific Coast Branch Book Award

Department: History

Post Date: April 14, 2021

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We are pleased to share that Assistant Professor of History David Fedman's 2020 book "Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea" (University of Washington Press) has been awarded the American Historical Association's Pacific Coast Branch Book Award. The Pacific Coast Branch Book Award is awarded annually to an outstanding first monograph on any historical subject.

"Seeds of Control" was also selected as a finalist for the American Society for Environmental History's George Perkins Marsh Prize by the American Society for Environmental History.

Professor Fedman was previously interviewed by The School of Humanities to discuss the impetus for his book and the surprising ways forests can become political subjects. Click here to read the interview.