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In Memoriam: (sited from the Journal and Courier)
Gordon Robert Mork, 73, of Lafayette, passed away on Friday, April 27, 2012, at
his home from complications arising out of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(ALS). Gordon was born on May 6, 1938, in St. Cloud, Minnesota to Gordon Matthew Alfred
Mork and Agnes Gibb Mork. Gordon married Dianne Jeannette Mork (née Muetzel) on
August 11, 1963, at Glenwood Lutheran Church in Glenwood, Minnesota. The couple
has lived in the Perrin Historic District in Lafayette since 1970 and has raised
three children together. |
April 2012 Jamal Ratchford, alum, has accepted a position at the University of Indianapolis.
April 2012 Erica Morin has published an article titled “’No Vacation for Mother’: Traditional Gender Roles in Outdoor Travel Literature, 1940-1955” in Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
April 2012 Josh Jeffers has received Scholarly Research Fellowship to support his work at the Kentucky Historical Society.
April 2012 Darren Dochuk received the Ellis W. Hawley Prize for his book at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians.
April 2012 Tim Lombardo has been awarded the Graduate Student Research Award from the Center for Diversity Inclusion at Purdue.
April 17, 2012 2012 History Honors Forum, 5:30-7:30 pm, UNIV 203. See link above for details on presenters,.
April 2012 Please join me in congratulating Jen Foray. The Board of Trustees has approved her promotion to associate professor with tenure.
April 2012 Amy Harris has won the 2012 Bernice A. Carroll Award for the best paper by a graduate student. The title of her paper is “God Created Us to Be Different: Discourses of Citizenship, African Identity and Gay Lesbian Activism in Contemporary South Africa.” Great recognition and well done.
April 2012 Brittany Bayless-Fremion has just been awarded a post-doctoral teaching fellowship in environmental history at Central Michigan University. A great position and well earned.
April 2012 Patrick Pospisek has received a Graduate Student Travel Grant from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. A good line on his vita and support for his research.?
April 2012 Continuing Lecturer, Karen Sonnelitter has good news. She has just accepted a visiting assistant professorship in the Department of History at Siena College.
April 2012 Congratulations to Nancy Gabin. She has just won the 2012 Purdue University Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in memory of Charles B. Murphy. As you know the Murphy Award is a capstone award for excellent teaching and no one deserves the Murphy Award more than Nancy. This is superb career recognition and terrific visibility for our department.
March 2012 Liberty Sproat has been selected as a recipient of a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship for participation in the Indonesian intensive summer language institute. This means that she will spend two months this summer in Malang, Indonesia, in a language program. Great professional achievement.
March 2012 We are honored to announce our 4th annual Stover F. Lecture Series. The Stover Lecture Series Committee has selected Hadani Ditmars, journalist, author, and photographer to present "Iraq, Nine Years Later: The Legacy of Invasion." Her presentation shares information about her time in Iraq and will features images, video, and readings. The presentation is set for 7:00 pm, March 22, 2012 at Krannert Auditorium, Krannert Hall.
March 2012 Susan Curtis has been appointed the Maxwell C. Weiner Distinguished Visiting Professor of History at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. She will be in residence at the university during the spring semester of 2013. This is terrific recognition for her scholarly achievements as well as great recognition for our department.
March 2012 Congratulations to Jacqueline Mougoue. She has been awarded a research grant from the Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries to support her dissertation research.
March 2012 Congratulations to Tim Lombardo he has just received the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship for next year. The title of his dissertation is “Making Blue-Collar Conservatism: Race, Class, and Politics in Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia.” His major Professor is Nancy Gabin.
March 2012 Tim Lombardo has received the Flaningam Award for the best paper by a graduate student. Tim’s paper is titled, “The Battle of Whitman Park: Community Development, Welfare Rights, and the Politics of Neighborhood and Public Housing in Philadelphia, 1956-1982.”
March 2012 Libby Sproat has just published her first peer-reviewed article. It is “The Soviet Solution for Women in Clara Zetkin’s Journal Die Kommunistische Fraueninternationale, 1921-1925,” Aspasia 6 (2012): 60-78. Libby reports that her article is about International Women’s Day, which is today.
March 7, 2012, Department of History and Purdue University Press introduce Walther Liesler Keip
“Volkswagen, American, and the World: Why Every German Company is a Global Company"
German
business executive, politician and entrepreneur, Dr. Walther Leisler
Kiep served on Volkswagen’s advisory board for over 20 years; he was
first elected to the Bundestag for the Christian Democratic Union in
1965, then was active in state politics in Lower Saxony and Hamburg. He
served two decades as CDU party treasurer. In recent years Dr. Kiep has
served as president of the European Business School. He now promotes
exchanges among aspiring European, American, and Chinese leaders through
two highly regarded organizations, the “Atlantic Bridge” and “Atlantic
Forum.”
March 2012 Jen Foray has just received a fellowship from the Remarque Institute of New York University. She will be a Fellow at the Institute during spring 2013. This is a great research honor for her and recognition for our department.?
March 2012 Congratulations to Nancy Gabin. She has just won the Kenneth T. Kofmehl Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award for 2011-12. Well-deserved, terrific recognition, and a great credit to our department.
March 2012 Congratulations to Angela Ghionea. She has been awarded the Paul and Reed Benhamou Graduate Scholarship in History. The title of her dissertation is “Alchemical Patterns in European Thought and the Occult Origins of Scientific Discoveries from the Carolingians to the Early Modern Period.” James Farr is her major professor. The Benhamou Scholarship will be presented at the Spring Awards Reception.
March 2012 Alicia Decker and Mauricio Castro have just published “Teaching History with Comic Books: A Case Study of Violence, War, and the Graphic Novel” in The History Teacher (February 2012).
March 2012 Congratulations to Jacqueline Mougoue. She has been awarded the Committee for the Education of Teaching Assistants award for the Department of History. Great recognition of her teaching abilities.
February 2012 Good news for Darren Dochuk. He has received a fellowship from the American Council for Learned Societies to support his research in 2013. He also has received a fellowship from the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. Great recognition for him and our department.
February 2012 Congratulations to Rebekah Klein-Pejšová. She has just published a chapter titled “The Strange Case of Rabbi Dr. Samuel Funk, or Perceptions of the Jews in Interwar Slovakia.” Well done.
January 2012 Carrie Janney has been appointed a co-editor of the Civil War America Series at the University of North Carolina Press.
January 2012 Carrie Janney has just been reappointed as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. Her second three-year term begins in May.
January 2012 Rebekah Klein-Pejšová has been appointed to the Steering Committee of the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History. Excellent scholarly recognition for her and our department.
January 2012 Randy Roberts has just published Before the Curse: The Chicago Cub’s Glory Years, 1870-1945 which he co-edited with Carson Cunningham. The department is having a good year for scholarship.
January 2012 Angela Ghionea has some good news. Cambridge Scholars Publishing has accepted her book manuscript “Medicine, Alchemy, Science and the Occult in European Thought” for publication this year. In addition, she has accepted an adjunct position at Indiana University Northwest for the spring semester. Excellent achievements.
January 2012 Congratulations to Randy Roberts. Choice has chosen his book Joe Louis: Hard Times Man as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2011.
December 2011 Congratulations to Brandon Ward. He has just received the Frederick N. Andrews Environmental Travel Grant from the Graduate School.
December 2011 Congratulations to Randy Roberts. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has just published A Team for America: The Army-Navy Game that Rallied a Nation. Well done. Great recognition for Randy and our Department. Click here for more information.
November 2011 Congratulations to Jennifer Foray. The Cambridge University Press has just published her book Visions of Empire in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands. Nicely done and a great credit to Jen and our department. Click here for more information.
November 2011 Congratulations to Darren Dochuk. He has just received an Enhancing Research in the Humanities and Arts Grant. Terrific recognition of his scholarship.
November 2011 Congratulations to Brandon Ward. He has received a Research Travel Fellowship for work at the Michigan Historical Collections for his dissertation titled “Detroit, Wild: Race, Labor, and the Origins of Environmental Justice, 1945-1980.”
November 2011 Congratulations to Gordon Mork. The Holocaust Remembrance Committee has recognized him for thirty years of meritorious service. Certainly Gordon has contributed a great deal to making each annual program a success.
October 2011 There was an article in the Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011 paper about Dawn Marsh and her Prophetstown symposium, click here. Great recognition for Dawn and the department.
October 2011 Jen Foray has been doing some innovative teaching in History 104, click here. Good recognition for her and our department.
October 2011 Congratulations to Christian Griggs, Purdue Department of History graduate, who has accepted at position at Dalton State College in Georgia.
October 2011 Congratulations to Adam Criblez, Purdue Department of History graduate. The Northern Illinois University Press has just accepted his book manuscript titled "Parading Patriotism: Independence Day Celebrations in the Urban Midwest, 1826-1876."
October 2011 Congratulations to Darren Dochuk. He has just won the John H. Dunning Prize in recognition of outstanding historical writing in United States History. Darren will receive the book award at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in January.
October 2011 Congratulations to Erica Morin. Another job well done and great achievement and visibility for her. She received the Award for Editorial Excellence: Erica Morin, a member of the Student Editorial Board and currently a PhD Candidate in History. Together with other members of the Student Editorial Board, Morin worked with the undergraduate authors to develop their writing so it would be accessible to a non-technical audience. She worked particularly closely with Jamie Steiner on her study of school size and Meghan Henschen and her colleagues who studied the effects of wind turbines on weather conditions. Not only is Morin skilled in working with words, but she also understands the importance of clear imagery. Morin has been a great champion of the journal and always goes above and beyond. For example, faced with a lack of illustration of the turbines themselves, she drove out to the Meadow Lake Wind Farm and took photographs on behalf of the authors, which supplied the cover image for the first issue of the journal.
August 2011 Dr. Hurt's new book The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century has been published by University of Arizona Press. This
book has been nominated for a Pulitzer prize and has been quoted as
the "only book of its kind" about the Great Plains. For more
information click here.
August 2011 Congratulations to Professor Bob May. The University of Illinois Press has just published Howard Pyle: Imaging an American School of Art, which he co-authored with Jill May.
August 2011 Professor Caroline Janney featured in August 16 Purdue Today. For more information click here.
July 2011 Congratulations to Charlie Ingrao. He has just published The Peace of Passarowitz, 1718with the Purdue University Press. Well done.
July 2011 Congratulations to Micah Childress who has accepted a position at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Good news indeed.
June 2011 Congratulations to Jon Teaford for his election to president of the Urban History Association. Well-deserved recognition.
June 2011 Congratulations to Elise Dermineur. She has received a Bernadotte Schmitt grant from the American Historical Association to support her work on an article titled “Emotions of Indebted Peasants in Early Modern France, 1680-1785.”
May 2011 Congratulations to Angela Catalina Ghionea. In a university wide competition, Angela is again winner and sole recipient of Bilsland-Puskas Fellowship for 2011-2012. This prestigious 12 months Purdue fellowship has previously been awarded to her in 2009-2010.
May 2011 Good news from Elise Dermineur. She has accepted a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Umea University in Sweden where she will work on her new project titled “Peasants and their Emotions in Early Modern France, 1650-1789.”
April 2011 Professor Mike Morrison has been rated the 17th best professor in the U.S. byhttp://www.ratemyprofessors.com/topLists11/topLists.html. This is great recognition for Mike and our department. Also see interview in the Journal and Courier http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011105010334.
April 2011 Professor Sally Hastings has just published “A Dinner Party Is Not a Revolution: Space, Gender, and Hierarchy in Meiji Japan,” in Manners and Mischief: Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan, edited by Jan Bardsley and Laura Miller (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011). Great recognition for Sally and the department.
April 2011 Congratulations to grad student, Tim Lombardo. He has received a short term visiting fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for research at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania this summer. Good achievement for a good summer’s work.
April 2011 Please join us in congratulating Darren Dochuk, Mike Ryan,Neil Bynum, and Stacy Holden on their promotion to associate professor with tenure. Good work by all.
April 2011 Congratulations to Associate Professor Darren Dochuk. He has just published Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place, and Religion, co-edited with Michelle Nickerson and published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
April 2011 Congratulations to Dr. John Contreni. He has just published Learning and Culture in Carolingian Europe: Letters, Numbers, Exegesis, and Manuscripts. Nicely done.
April 2011 Congratulations to Professor Mike Morrison who received the Exponent's Reader's Choice for Best Professor Award with Professor Randy Roberts as runner up. Great recognition for great work!
April 2011 At the 2011 Department of History Spring Awards Reception undergraduate awards were given to Lynch D. Bennett for the Henry G. Waltmann Award; Shelby J. Bell for the David W. and Geryl L. Bischoff Undergraduate Scholarship; Lisa M. Olszewski for the Lorena Murphy Undergraduate Scholarship; and Katherine A. Arnold for John F. Stover Undergraduate Scholarship. The James J. Shevlin Study Abroad Scholarship went to Thomas M. Brinkman. The Senior Graduating with Excellence went to Max A. Vande Vaarst. The Outstanding Senior Award went to Francisca L. Hoffmann.
April 2011 At the 2011 Department of History Spring Awards Reception Andrew R.M. Smith was given the Graduate Student Teaching Award. The Department of History Study Abroad Scholarship went to Liberty P. Sproat.
April 2011 Congratulations to Natalie E. Latteri. She is the 2011 recipient of the Paul and Reed Benhamou Graduate Scholarship in History. Her dissertation is titled “Martyrdom, Miscegenation, and Messianism in Medieval and Early Modern Ashkenaz.”
April 2011 Please join us in congratulating Erica A. Morin who is the recipient of the 2011 Class of 1922 Helping Students Learn Award for her innovative work “Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: Structuring the History Survey Around the Motif of the Newspaper.” This is terrific recognition for her teaching ability and, once again, great recognition for our department.
April 2011 It is our pleasure to announce the winner of the Miletus L. Flaningam Award for best graduate student essay. The pool was deep and strong this year, with eight good papers submitted for the review committee to ponder. The winner this year is Eric A. Hall for his essay, ’I guess I’m becoming more and more militant’: Arthur Ashe and the Black Freedom Movement.”
April 2011 We were fortunate to get three Purdue Research Fellowships this year: Patrick A. Pospisek, Jacqueline-Bethel Mouqoue, and Andrew R.M. Smith each received an award for the academic year 2011-2012. Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to the several other applicants whose strong proposals made this a very tough pool to review.
April 2011 We are pleased to announce that Erica A. Morin has been awarded a Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School. Congratulations to Erica. Thanks to the other applicants for your strong and enthusiastic applications.
April 2011 We are pleased to announce the 2011 Woodman Travel Awards from the History Department:
Suparna Chakraborty, Amy M. Harris, Erica A. Morin, Andrew R.M. Smith, Erika Cornelius Smith, Brandon M. Ward
Congratulations to the recipients and good luck with your research efforts
March 2011 Please join us in congratulating Nancy Gabin for receiving the 2011 Helen B. Schleman Gold Medallion Award presented by Mortar Board. The Schleman Award recognizes her superb skill in the classroom and leadership for students across campus, particularly for undergraduate women.
March 2011 Congratulations to Amy M. Harris for receiving an honorable mention in the Grace L. Smart Award category in Purude's 80th Annual Literary Awards Contest. Her paper is titled “God Created us to be Different: Discourses of Citizenship, African Identity and Gay and Lesbian Activism in Contemporary South Africa.”
March 2011 Please join us in congratulating Deborah Fleetham for earning the 2011 Award for Excellence in Distance Learning. This resulted from her excellent work developing an on-line course for History 104 which enrolled 100 students.
March 2011 Please join us in congratulating Distinguished Professor Randy Roberts for receiving this year’s College of Liberal Arts Educational Excellence Award. Professor Mike Morrison served on the college teaching awards committee and reported at the CLA Faculty meeting this afternoon that the competition was keen. CLA Dean Weiser announced and presented the award. Great recognition for Randy and our department.
March 2011 Please note that HIST 595 taught by Professor Rebekah Klein-Pejsova has been changed to meet in GRIS 160 for the remainder of this semester.
March 2011 College of Liberal Arts, 2011 Honors Colloquium College of Liberal Arts undergraduates presented their best honors coursework from 2010. History students who were able to share their work:
Tyler Folk, HIST 210: The Making of Modern Africa, Prof. Decker, "When Elephants Fight."
Max Vande Vaarst, HIST 422: Honors Thesis in Historical Research, Prof. Dochuk, "A State Without a Center: Popular Culture, Urban Legend and the Search for New Jersey's Identity in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries."
March 2011 We are excited to be offering some online courses. Hist 104D will be offered Summer Session 2011, and Hist 104D, 151D, and 152D will be offered Fall 2011. Please see course offerings through the following link. http://www.cla.purdue.edu/history/courses/
February 2011 Please join me in congratulating Department of History grad student, Andrew Smith. He is this year’s winner of the Graduate Student Teaching Award. A job well done.
February 2011 Dr. Randy Roberts is spotlighted in Purdue Today. To read more check out this link. http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/purduetoday/general/2011/110218_DYK-Roberts.html
January 2011 The Journal of Southern History has just published Caroline Janney’s article “War over a Shrine of Peace: The Appomattox Peace Monument and Retreat from Reconciliation,” Journal of Southern History 72 (February 2011). Well done.
January 2011 Congratulations to Dawn Marsh who just published “Revisiting MacCannell’s Site Sacralization Theory as an Analytical Tool: Historic Prophetstown as a Case Study,” International Journal of Tourism Research.
January 2011 Professor Neil Bynum has begun the year with a bang. He just received his book A Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil Rightsfrom the University of Illinois Press. Surely a sign of good things to come this year.
December 2010 Professor Joseph Dorsey has just published "Cuba and the African Slave Trade to Puerto Rico the Nineteenth Century: Sociocultural Considerations Past and Present," pp. 21-47 in Actualidad de las Tradiciones Esourutyakes y Culturales Africanas en el Caribe y Latinoamérica, edited and compiled by Mónica Cortés, Marta Moreno Vega, and Maria Elba Torres Muñoz, San Juan, Puerto Rico: Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades, 2010.
December 2010 Professor Caroline Janney has just been awarded a fellowship from the Center for Humanistic Studies for her research on memory and the Civil War. The fellowship will begin next fall. Great recognition for her and our department.
December 2010 Professor Dawn Marsh has just been awarded an Enhancing Research in the Humanities and Arts grant from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research for her research project titled “Prophetstown Revisited: Local History, Global Legacy.” Great recognition for her scholarship and our department. This grant will begin in January of 2011.
November 2010 We are sorry to hear that Professor Emeritus Oakah Jones passed away peacefully after a short illness in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Professor Jones began at Purdue August 1977 as an Associate Professor, became a Professor July 1981, and retired May 1994. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in 1964. He will be missed by friends and colleagues here at Purdue.
November 2010 Professor Darren Dochuk’s book, From Bible Belt to Sun Belt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism just arrived from Norton. A job well done.
November 2010 Dr. R. Douglas Hurt published ”Taking a Look Backward to Look Forward: Food Animal Production, a Brief Overview.” In Sustaining Animal Agriculture: Balancing Bioethical, Economic, and Social Issues. Edited by Richard Reynnells and Linda M Chimenti (Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, 2010. )
September 2010 Professor Charles Ingrao's book, Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies has just been published in Serbo-Croatian. Clearly, it has gained a wide audience and increasing influence and importance.
September 2010 Distinguished Professor Randy Roberts’ new book Joe Louis: Hard Times Manhas just been published by the Yale University Press. A great credit to him and our department.
June 18. 2010 Graduate Student Jim Williams has won the College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2010.
May 21. 2010 Department Head and Professor, R. Douglas Hurt, has been selected for the Agricultural History Society's Society of Fellows.
May 17. 2010 Graduate Student Garrett Washington has been appointed a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College and Case Western Reserve University.
May 10. 2010 Graduate Student Patrick Pospisek has been awarded the King V. Hostick Award for 2010. This research award is presented by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency/Illinois State Historical Society. His research project is titled: "Galena, Illinois: The Rise and Fall of Frontier Urbanization in the American Midwest, 1820-1870".
May 6. 2010 Graduate Student Joshua Jeffers has been awarded the Filson Society Fellowship to help support his dissertation research this summer.
Graduate Students Tim Lombardo and David Schlosser have been awarded year-long PRF grants.
Graduate Students Micah Childress and Haeseong Park have been awarded summer PRF grants.
April 29. 2010 The University of Alabama Press has a new series titled Southern Eyewitness to the Civil War, and it has just published "The South as It Is, 1865-1866". Professor Caroline Janney provided the introduction.
April 26. 2010 Professor Randy Roberts published the eigth edition of America: Past and Presentby Longman.
April 20. 2010 Professor Michael Morrison just published his Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, 1784-1840, Vol. 2. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2010.
April 14. 2010 Professor Jennifer Foray has been appointed a Kluge Fellow in the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress. She will spend the next academic year working on a manuscript entitled: "Imperial Aftershocks: The Legacies of Decolonization in the Netherlands".
April 9. 2010 Professor Caroline Janney has been promoted to associate professor with tenure.
April 6. 2010 Graduate Student Adrianna Lozano won the Committee for the Education of Teaching Assistants (CETA) Teaching Award for her work in Women's Studies.
Graduate Student Erika Smith has received a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship to the Russian and East European Summer Intensive Language Institute at the University of Pittsburgh.
April 5. 2010 Graduate Student Jamal Ratchford has been appointed the student leader for the National Council of Black Studies.
April 1. 2010 Professor Dawn Marsh has been accepted for an NEH Summer Institute at the Newberry Library. This Institute is titled: "Metacom to Tecumseh: Alliances, Conflicts and Resistance in Native North America".
Professor Robert May has published a major article titled: "Culture Wars: The U.S. Art Lobby and Congressional Tariff Legislation during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era" in The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
Professor Michael Ryan has been selected to participate in an NEH Summer Institute in Barcelona. The seminar is titled: "Cultural Hybridities: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Medieval Mediterranean".
Graduate Student Eric Hall won the Grace L. Smart Award from the Department of English for his paper titled: "I guess I'm becoming more and more militant': Arthur Ashe, Apartheid, and American Sport".
March 25. 2010 Professor Michael Morrison was "tapped" for Mortar Board. This is a well-deserved recognition for his teaching ability and devotion to students.
March 22. 2010 Professor Yvonne Pitts recieved the Jon C. Teaford Faculty Award.
March 22. 2010 Congratulations to the following graduate students: Eric Hall awarded the CETA Graduate Teaching Award; Karen Sonnelitter awarded the Flaningam Award for best essay; Jessica Nelson and Elise Dermineur awarded Benhamou Study Abroad Fellowships; Johnny Smith and Elise Dermineur awarded Bilsland Dissertation Fellowships; Eric Hall, Timothy Lombardo, Brittany Bayless Fremion, Erica Morin, Jacqueline Mougoue, Patrick Pospisek, Kara Kvaran, Jessica Nelson and Erika Cornelius Smith awarded Woodman Travel Grants.
Congratulations to the following undergraduate students: Bhimsupa Kulthanan awarded the John F. Stover Undergraduate Scholarship; Lisa Olszewski awarded the DoH Study Abroad Scholarship; James Lang awarded the James J. Shevlin Study Abroad Scholarship; Max Vande Vaarst awarded the Waltmann Award; Max Vande Vaarst and Charlotte Fillenwarth awarded the Lorena Murphy Undergraduate Scholarship.
Congratulations to the following Phi Alpha Theta Initiates: Timothy Arehart, David Van Arsdell, Zane Bolka, Charlotte Fillenwarth, Katrina Galt, Patricia Hess, Gwen Van Hove, William Vogel and Charles White.
Congratulations to the following Phi Beta Kappa Invitees: Brian Couch, Ross Fields, Francisca Hoffman, Rebecca Lutton, Nicholas Moskalick, Andrew Oloffson, Lisa Olszewski, Brittany Poe, Mark Robison, Max Vande Vaarst and Marie Waymel.
March 22. 2010 Professor Randy Roberts has published the fourth edition of "Hollywood's America: Twentieth-Century America Through Film".
March 8. 2010 Graduate Student Natalie Latteri has been accepted into the 2010 Summer University Program on Christian and Jewish Messianism at Central European University in Budapest.
February 16. 2010 Graduate Student Johnny Smith published an article entitled: "'It's Not Really My Country': Lew Alcindor and the Revolt of the Black Athlete" in the Journal of Sport History.
January 28. 2010 Graduate Student Elise Dermineur was awarded the Ronald S. Love Prize for her paper entitled: "Female Peasants, Patriarchy, and the Credit Market in Eighteenth-Century France".
January 21. 2010 Professor Charles Ingrao received a Fulbright for teaching and research in Cyprus during the spring semester of 2011.
January 7. 2010 History alumni Dr. Sherry Smith, Distinguished Professor at Southern Methodist University, and Wally Brant, President of Indiana Oxygen in Indianapolis, will be recognized as CLA Distinguished Alumni.
January 4. 2010 Graduate Student Garrett Washington published an article entitled: "Pulpits as Lecterns: Discourses of Social Change with Tokyo's Protestant Churches, 1890-1917" in Japanese Studies.
December 15. 2009 Professor Whitney Walton published a book entitled: "Internationalism, National Identities, and Study Abroad: France and the United States, 1890-1970.
December 9. 2009 Professor Rebekah Klein-Pejšová published an article entitled: "Abandon Your Role as Exponents of the Magyars': Contested Jewish Loyalty in Interwar (Czecho) Slovakia" in the Association of Jewish Studies Review.
December 7. 2009 The University of Illinois Press has accepted Professor Neil Bynum'smanuscript titled "A Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil Rights."
December 3. 2009 Professor Jim Farr was named as the Germaine Seelye Oesterle Chair in History by the Board of Trustees.
November 18. 2009 Professor Charlie Ingrao published an article entitled: "Confronting the Ygoslav Controversies: The Scholars' Initiative" in the October issue of The American Historical Review. He also took the photograph that appears on the cover.
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 ofEducational 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 byBaptist 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.
