W·卡勒布·麦克丹尼尔

W·卡勒布·麦克丹尼尔（英语：William Caleb McDaniel，1979年8月2日—）是一位美国历史学家，他是莱斯大学历史系副教授。

早年生活及教育

W·卡勒布·麦克丹尼尔于1979年8月2日出生于美国德克萨斯州，青少年时期曾就读汤玛斯·C·克拉克高中，在此时，他立志要成为一名历史学家。

W·卡勒布·麦克丹尼尔于获得奖学金后，就读德克萨斯农工大学并获得学士学位及硕士学位，之后他进入约翰霍普金斯大学攻读博士学位，并于2006年获得。

职业

获得博士学位后，W·卡勒布·麦克丹尼尔在前往莱斯大学担任副教授之前曾在丹佛大学担任历史系助理教授。

著作及获奖

W·卡勒布·麦克丹尼尔撰写了《自由的甜蜜味道：美国奴隶制和恢复原状的真实故事》这本书，于2019年出版。他因此书获得2020年普利策历史奖。

William Caleb McDaniel (born August 2, 1979) is an American historian. His book Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for History. He is also an associate professor of history at Rice University.

Early life and education

McDaniel was born on August 2, 1979. He attended Texas A&M University for his undergraduate degree and master's degree after being offered a President's Endowed Scholarship. After earning his degrees, he enrolled at Johns Hopkins University for his PhD, which he received in 2006. While at Johns Hopkins, he listed historian Dorothy Ross as one of his mentors.

Career

Upon earning his PhD, McDaniel accepted an assistant professor of history position at the University of Denver before moving to Rice University. In his early years at Rice, he published Repealing Unions: American Abolitionists, Irish Repeal, and the Origins of Garrisonian Disunionism in the Journal of the Early Republic, which received the 2008 Ralph D. Gray Article Prize.

In 2013, McDaniel won the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic James H. Broussard First Book Prize and the Organization of American Historians Merle Curti Award for his book The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform. His book focused on the rise of William Lloyd Garrison, an abolitionist, and his network of connections across the Atlantic. Following his first publication, McDaniel sat as a board member for Historians Against Slavery and received the Rice University 2017 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching. He was also granted a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to research Henrietta Wood, a former slave.

McDaniel's second book, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America, was published in 2019 and was a historical account of the life of Henrietta Wood. Wood was captured and enslaved twice before winning the largest known financial settlement awarded by a U.S. court in restitution for slavery. He had first learned about Wood from another historian while working on a research project. It received the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for History, making him the first Rice professor to win a Pulitzer, and the Organization of American Historians Avery O. Craven Award for "the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the Era of Reconstruction, with the exception of works of purely military history."