Thursday, February 2, 2023
Ian Iverson won the 2023 Hay-Nicolay Dissertation Prize for his dissertation, "Moderate Men and Conservative Influences: Illinois and the Politics of Union, 1854-1861." This prize, presented by the Abraham Lincoln Association and the Abraham Lincoln Institute, recognizes the best dissertation on "Lincoln’s history and political, cultural, and/or social legacy."
Iverson earned his PhD from UVA in 2022, and he currently works as Assistant Editor for The John Dickinson Writings Project.