Rowan historian receives national fellowship for research on Russian black market

James Heinzen was awarded a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend grant to work on the book, which is his third. Heinzen also received an NEH grant for his critically acclaimed 2016 book, The Art of the Bribe: Corruption Under Stalin, 1943-1953, which was published by Yale University Press. The Art of the Bribe examined the social history of corruption among public officials in the post-war Soviet world during the last years of Stalin’s life.