Caroline Wood Newhall

Assistant Professor of History Caroline Wood Newhall received the John H. Jenkins Research Fellowship in Texas History for 2026-27. The fellowship is awarded annually for the best research proposal having to do with Texas history; it will support Newhall's research into enslaved people's acts of war across several communities in the decades prior to the American Civil War.

Assistant Professor of History Caroline Wood Newhall recently published a piece, “It Is Not the Policy nor the Interest of the South to Destroy the Negro”: Black Prisoners of War and the Intersection of Race, Property, and Law in the Confederacy,” in the edited collection Race and Gender at War: Writing American Military History with the University of Alabama Press.