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Welcome to the News section for the Department of History. Review news stories about alumni, faculty and students. Contact the Department at history@purdue.edu with items of interest for us to share with our viewers.
September 29. 2009 Assistant Professor Michael Ryan published “Byzantium, Islam, and the Great Western Schism,” in A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378-1417), edited by Joelle Rollo-Koster and Thomas M. Izbicki . Leiden: Brill, 2008.
September 24. 2009 Professor Sally Hastings published an article entitled: “Assassins, Madonnas, and Career Women: Reflections on Six Decades of Woman’s Suffrage in Japan,” in Asian Cultural Studies, a review essay entitled: “House, Home, and Gender in Modern Japan,”’ In Journal of Women’s History, and another review essay entitled: “Urban Japanese, at Home and Overseas: Different Forms of Knowledge,” in the Journal of Urban History.
September 24. 2009 Professor Charles Ingrao published an article entitled: "Weapons of Mass Instruction: Schoolbooks and Democratization in Multiethnic Central Europe," in the Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society.
September 17. 2009 Professor John Larson published a book entitled: "The Market Revolution in America: Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good".
September 8. 2009 Professor Frank Lambert published a book entitled "The Battle of Ole Miss: Civil Rights v. States' Rights".
July 17. 2009 Assistant Professor Stacy Holden published a book entitled "The Politics of Food in Modern Morocco".
July 9. 2009 Graduate student Jamal Ratchford was given an appointment as a Kato Fellow. His responsibilities will include serving as a board member of the National Council for Black Studies for two years.
April 22. 2009 Graduate Student Ronald Johnson has been awarded the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic year. His article entitled "The Peculiar Ventures of Particular Baptist Pastor William Kiffin and King Charles II of England," was just published by Baptist History Heritage.
April 15. 2009 Assistant Professor Michael Ryan published a co-edited book entitled "End of Days: Essays on the Apocalypse from Antiquity to Modernity."
Associate Professor Joseph Dorsey received a Humanities Center Fellowship for Spring 2010.
April 14. 2009 Undergraduate student Erica Hague has been accepted into the Public History Program and UNC-Wilmington. She received a teaching assistantship and the New Scholar Award.
April 10. 2009 Undergraduate student Kyle G. Sweeney has been awarded a 12-month teaching assistantship at the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University where he will begin work towards an M.A. degree in Art History this fall.
April 7. 2009 Phi Alpha Theta initiates include History undergraduates: Elizabeth Atlas, Brandon Cassady, Philip Dittmer, Michael Mertens, Andrew Oloffson, Megan Pownall, Amber Ramsey, Griffith Rees, L. Allison Roberts, Corrina Smith, Lauren Thompson, Max Vande Vaarst, Jamie Woenker and Thomas Wolf.
Phi Beta Kappa Invitees include History undergraduates: Rosemary Arnold, Emily Dawes, Philip Dittmer, Jonathan Henley, Katelyn Mechan, Maureen Mullen, Mark Robison, Corrina Smith, Heidi Trapp and Kimberly Vaughan.
April 6. 2009 The following undergraduate students are award recipients for 2009-2010.
Emily Dawes - Senior Graduating with Excellence Award
Allison Gill - James J. Shevlin Study Abroad Scholarship
Emma Meyer - Outstanding Senior Award
Christopher Parker - David W. and Geryl L. Bischoff Undergraduate Scholarship
Brittany Poe - John F. Stover Undergraduate Scholarship
Megan Pownall - Department of History Study Abroad Scholarship
Lauren Thompson - Henry G. Waltmann Award
Thomas Wolf - David W. and Geryl L. Bischoff Undergraduate Scholarship
April 1. 2009 Graduate student Patrick Pospisek was awarded with the Flaningam Award for 2009.
March 31. 2009 Graduate students Dorothee Bouquet, Cori Derifield and Karen Sonnelitter were awarded PRF year-long fellowships during 2009-2010 for research and writing.
Graduate students Elise Dermineur and Jessica Nelson were awarded the Benhamou Scholarships for tuition and fee support during 2009-2010.
Graduate student John Ellis was awarded a research grant from the Virginia Historical Society.
March 26. 2009 - Graduate students Cori Derifield, Ron Johnson, Jessica Nelson, Karen Sonnelitter and Johnny Smith were all awarded with the Harold D. Woodman Travel Fund - allowing them to complete research to pursue their dissertation projects.
March 24. 2009 - Professor Whitney Walton was announced co-winner of annual Webb Smith Essay Competition, 2009.
March 23. 2009 - Graduate student Christian Griggs has accepted a position at Dalton State College in Georgia.
Graduate student Elizabeth Kuehn has been accepted for the Ph.D. Program at Georgetown University.
Undergraduate student Samuel Needham has been accepted to the University of Notre Dame where he will begin work for an M.A. in Theology.
March 19. 2009 - Professor Susan Curtis has been selected as a recipient of the 2009-2010 Community of Service Learning Faculty Grant. She will be a Service Learning Faculty Fellow next year.
Graduate student Angela Ghionea received the Puskas/Bilsland Fellowship from the Graduate School. She will serve as a Puskas Fellow during the next academic year.
Graduate student Raymond Krohn published "Antebellum South Carolina Reconsidered: The Libertarian World of Robert J. Turnbull" in The Journal of the Historical Society 9 (Mar. 2009): 129-154.
March 16. 2009 - Assistant Professor Rebekah Klein-Pejsova was selected as a Fellow for the 14th Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, sponsored by the Holocaust Education Foundation and hosted by Northwestern University, this summer.
February 7. 2009 - Graduate student Ron Johnson was selected as an Outstanding Alumni from Texas State University-San Marcos.
February 4. 2009 - Assistant Professor Stacy Holden was awarded a Purdue Alumni Association Faculty Incentive Grant for her proposal to work on "Modern Iraq: A History through Documents."
February 2. 2009 - Graduate student Brittany Bayless is the recipient of the Frederick N. Andrews Environmental Travel Grant.
January 21. 2009 - Assistant Professor Caroline Janney was appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.
January 1. 2009 - Assistant Professor Stacy Holden was selected as a Fellow for the Center for Undergraduate Instructional Excellence for fall 2009.