Associate Professor Molly Warsh has won the 2025 Leopld-Hidy award for her article "Seasonal Harvests: Migration, Reproduction, and Religion in the Early Modern Spanish Tuna Fisheries”. The Leopold-Hidy award is given each year in tandem by the Forest History Society and the American Society for Environmental History for the best article published in their flagship journal, Environmental History. This is the second prize that Warsh has won from the American Society for Environmental History: in 2014 she won the Alice Hamilton award for the best article in the field of environmental history published outside of Environmental History for her William and Mary Quarterly article "A Political Ecology in the Early Spanish Caribbean”.
Warsh’s 2025 recognition for her work in the field of environmental history continues a winning streak for Pitt environmental historians: in 2024, the Leopold-Hidy was awarded to Pitt History Ph.D. Jack Bouchard for his article "Fishwork is for the Birds: Humans and Birds in the Sixteenth-Century Northwest Atlantic”. Bouchard is now an Assistant Professor in the History Department at Rutgers University.