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Awards, Grants, Honors, and Leaves
APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS
University of Akron
Greg Wilson is the new public and environmental historian.
Kevin Kern is the new Ohio historian.
Kern and Wilson have founded the Consortium for Northeast Ohio History and have launched an on-line Journal of Northeast Ohio History.
Lesley Gordon, Civil War historian, received tenure and promotion to the rank of associate professor.
Steve Harp became department chair in July
2002.
Capital University
Alexander Pantsov was granted tenure and promoted
to full
professor.
University of Cincinnati
Tracy Teslow was appointed Assistant Professor of twentieth-century U.S. Public History effective September 2002.
John A. Soares, Jr., was appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of U.S. history effective September 2002.
The Ohio State University
Stephen Kern, Professor (October 2002).
Stephen Hall, Assistant Professor (October 2002).
Paula Baker, Associate Professor, U.S. history (October 2002)
Kevin Boyle, Associate Professor, U.S. history (October 2002)
Sarah Pugach, Assistant Professor, European history, Lima Campus (October 2002)
Thomas Ingersoll, Associate Professor, U.S. history, Lima Campus (October 2002)
Kenneth J. Andrien, Department Chairperson (July 1, 2002)
Marietta College
Kathryn McDaniel was hired in the spring of 2001 and began teaching full-time the following fall. She received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and taught for one year at Centre College in Kentucky before coming to Marietta. Her major field is British history, and she has a special interest in travel narratives.
Miami University
Dan La Botz is Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies for 2001-03. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati in 1998. He has written numerous books and articles about U.S. and Mexican labor unions and social movements. His interest in Latin America recently took him to Asia, where he was drawn by comparisons between Latin American and Asian authoritarian political systems and corporate labor unions. The resulting book, Made in Indonesia: Indonesian Workers Since Suharto, was published by South End Press in 2001.
Stephen M. Norris has been appointed Assistant Professor of Russian History, beginning in the 2002-03 academic year. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2002, with a dissertation entitled “Russian Images of War: The Lubok and Wartime Culture, 1812-1917.”
Rob Schorman was appointed Assistant Professor of History at the Middletown Campus in Fall 2001. He earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1998. His current book project, Ready or Not: Clothing, Advertising, and Gender in Late Nineteenth-Century America, examines the intersection of gender roles, mass media, and consumer culture. In addition to teaching, Dr. Schorman has had considerable experience managing small and medium-sized newspapers.
Bradley S. Schrager was appointed Assistant Professor of History in 2000. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University with a dissertation about the Yamasee Indians of the North American southeast and their confrontation with Spanish and English colonialism between 1660 and the Yamasee War of 1715. He teaches courses in Native American, colonial American, and Latin American history. He has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the Rothmere American Institute at the University of Oxford for Spring 2003.
Marguerite S. Shaffer was appointed Assistant Professor of History and American Studies in 2000. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1994. Her research and teaching focus on the cultural production of history and identity manifested in the built and natural environment. She teaches courses in Public History, and has been appointed Director of the American Studies Program starting in 2002-2003.
Danielle Culpepper has been appointed Visiting Assistant Professor for 2002-2003, teaching Early Modern European History. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2002; her dissertation examines links between Ursuline nuns, their students, and the Farnese ducal court of Parma in the seventeenth century.
David Wolcott will be Visiting Assistant Professor in U.S. History during 2002-2003. He completed his doctorate at Carnegie Mellon University in 2000 with a dissertation entitled “Cops and Kids: The Police and Juvenile Delinquency in Three American Cities, 1890-1940.”
Mount Union College
Ricardo Herrera was hired (American History).
Santosh Saha (Non-West and Asian History) was awarded tenure.
Liangwu Yin (Non-West and Asian History) was promoted to Associate Professor.
Louis Rees (European History) has been appointed Chair of the Department of History, effective for Fall 2002.
Note: The Department of History and Political Science has been split into two separate departments. Jack DeSario will be the Chair of the Department of Political Science.
University of Rio Grande & Rio Grande Community College
Ellen Brasel (M.A., Ohio University) has received an interim appointment.
Steve Smoot (M.A., Marshall) is an adjunct.
Youngstown State University
Linda Diane Barnes, Ph.D. in history from West Virginia University, December 2000. Her dissertation focused on artisan workers in Petersburg, Virginia, before the Civil War. Most recently Barnes was a visiting professor in the history department at Virginia Tech. She is also associate editor for the Frederick Douglass Papers.
Eleanor A. Congdon, Ph.D., University of Cambridge, England, July 1997. Her dissertation is entitled “The Venetian Mercantile Presence in the Western Mediterranean, 1398-1405.” She was employed as an assistant professor of medieval history and Director of the Medieval Forum at Plymouth State College in Plymouth, New Hampshire.
Case Western Reserve University
Michael Altschul (Ancient History and Medieval Britain) retired June 2002 and is now Professor Emeritus
University of Cincinnati
Roger Daniels (U.S. social economic and immigration) retired as of August 31, 2002, and now holds the title of Professor Emeritus.
Miami University
Jack Temple Kirby, W. E. Smith Professor of History, retired at the end of the 2001-02 academic year. Jack came to Miami in 1965 having finished his doctorate at the University of Virginia a mere two years after receiving his B.A. from Old Dominion University. In the course of his teaching career, students have benefited from Jack’s expertise in the American South since 1877, environmental history, film history, and more broadly both modern American history and world history. Jack was active in the graduate program, advising more than a dozen Masters theses and six doctoral students, all productive scholars in their own right. As a colleague, Jack has been generous with his time, his support, and his advice on both scholarly and departmental matters. Jack is a renowned scholar of the American South and author of seven books including Poquosin: A Study of Rural Landscape and Society, Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920-1960, and Media-Made Dixie: The South in the American Imagination, and a distinguished list of influential articles in journals and anthologies. His reviews are regularly part of every major journal in his multiple fields. In addition to his own writing, Jack has edited the series Studies in Rural Culture for the University of North Carolina Press since 1991. Jack looks forward to a retirement in which he continues his scholarly writing.
Michael O’Brien, Shriver Professor of History, resigned in December 2001 to accept a position at Cambridge University.
Ohio State University
Leila J. Rupp has resigned.
John Burnham and G. Micheal Riley have retired.
University Of Rio Grande and Rio Grand Community College
Marcella Barton has retired and been granted emeritus status.
Youngstown State University
Frederick J. Blue, graduate of University of Wisconsin, author of books on the Freesoil Party, Charles Sumner and Salmon P. Chase, Graduate Director for many years, several times winner of Distinguished Professor for Research
Leslie S. Domonkos, graduate of the University of Notre Dame, author of numerous articles on the medieval university, editor of multivolume collection on the evolution of Hungarian law, recipient of five Distinguished Professor Awards for Research and Teaching.
University of Akron
Shelley Baranowski (and Ellen Furlough) edited Being Elsewhere: Tourism, Consumer Culture, and Identity in Modern Europe and North America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001).
Connie Bouchard published “Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia (Philadelphia: UPenn, 2001).
Michael Carley published 1939: L’alliance de la derniere chance, une reinterpretation des origines de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (Montreal: Presses de l’Universite de Montreal, 2001).
Lesley Gordon edited, Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and their Wives (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Stephen Harp, Marketing Michelin: Advertising
and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2001).
— “Advocating Americanization? Michelin in
Interwar France,” National Stereotypes in Perspective: Americans in
France, Frenchmen in America, edited by William Chew (Amsterdam: Rodolpi,
2001), 369-400.
— “Travel and Tourism,” Encyclopedia of
European Social History from 1350-2000, vol. 5, edited by Peter Stearns
et al (New York: Scribners, 2001), 229-45.
Michael Graham, Constance Bouchard, Shelley Baranowski, Mike Levin, Stephen Harp, The Humanities in the Western Tradition: A Reader (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001).
Jane Leonard edited (with Robert Anthony), Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crises Management and the Boundaries of Civil Community in the Qing Period (Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Program, 2002).
Bowling Green State University
Rachel Buff’s book, Immigration and the Political Economy of Home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, was published by the University of California Press.
Gary Hess’s book, Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf, was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Peter Way’s article “Rebellion of the Regulars: Working Soldiers and the Mutiny of 1763-64” received the Harold L. Peterson Award for the best article in American military history.
Capital University
Harry Jebsen, “Luke Appling,” Dictionary
of American Biography, (2000)
— “Luke Appling,” “Ted Kluszewski,” “Curt Flood,”
in Scribner’s Encyclopedia of American Lives, 2001.
—
“Charles Cominsky,” “Jacob Nellie Fox,” “Joe Jackson,” “William L.
Veeck, Jr.,” in Scribner’s Encyclopedia of American Lives: Sports Figures,
2002.
Alexander Pantsov, The Secret History
of Sino-Soviet Relations, [In Russian], (Moscow State University,
2001).
— “Stalin, Mao, and the New Democracy in China,”
The Herald of Moscow State University, 2 (Spring 2001), (Co-Authored)
— “Documents on Soong May-ling in the Russian
Archives,” Qin Xiaoyi, ed. Jiang furen Soong Mei-ling nushi yu jindai
Zhongguo xueshutaolun ji (Collection of Scholarly Papers on Mme. Chiang
Soong Mei-ling and Modern China), (Taipei: Caituan faren Zhogzhen wenjiao
jijinhui, 2000), (Co-authored.)
— “May 4th Movement
and the Spread of Bolshevism in China,” Wusi yundong yu ershi shijide
Zhongguo The May Fourth Movement and the Twentieth Century China,
(Beijing: Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe, 2001).
Thomas Maroukis, “Warfare of African Empires:
1500-1935,” The Herald of Moscow State University, 3 (Summer 2001).
(Co-authored.)
— “Oppressed/Oppressor: Visual Language As
Metaphors of Separation in Alex La Guma and Richard Wright,” in Tongue
and Mother Tongue: African Literature and the Quest for Identity.
Eds. Pam Smith and Daniel Kunene (Africa World Press, 2002).
—
African Warfare, in Weapons and Warfare. (Salem Press, 2001), (Co-authored.)
Kay Slocum, Liturgies In Honor of Thomas Becket (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002).
Case Western Reserve University
Alan Rocke (Henry Eldridge Bourne Professor
of History),
“Eloge: Aaron John Ihde, 1909-2000,” Isis, 91 (2000), 551-53.
— “Celebrity Culture in Nineteenth-Century
Parisian Chemistry: Dumas, Pelouze, Berthelot and Wurtz,” Bulletin
for the History of Chemistry, 26:2 (2001), 81-91.
— “Chemical Atomism and the Evolution of Chemical
Theory in the Nineteenth Century,” in Ursula Klein, ed., Paper Tools
and Traditions of Representation in Nineteenth-Century Chemistry (Boston:
Kluwer, 2001), 1-11.
— “Bromine, Brines, and Beaches [Balard bicentennial
retrospective],” Chemistry in Britain, 38:3 (March, 2002), 50-51.
— “Telling True Lives: Chemistry, History,
and Biography,” in a Festschrift volume for Hans-Werner Schutt, edited
by Burghard Weiss and Astrid Schuermann, in press for 2002.
Rocke also presented the following papers:
— “Betrachtungen uber die historische Rolle chemischer Instrumente und
Apparate,” Festvortrag zum Hans-Jenemann-Symposium, Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft
Deutscher Chemiker, Wurzburg, 25 September 2001.
—
“Investigating Investigative Pathways”, invited presentation at a symposium
at Yale University, 27 September 2002.
Poonam Bala, “Indian and Western Medicine: Rival Traditions in British India,” Colonialism and Psychiatry, ed. D. Bhugra and R. Littlewood (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 233-43.
Miriam Levin, “Museums and the Democratic Order,” Wilson Quarterly (Winter 2002), 52-65.
Elisabeth Koll, “Factories in the Countryside: The Industrial Workforce and Social Division in Nantong County, 1895-1937,” Town and Country in China: Identity and Perception, ed. David Faure and Tao Tao Liu (Palgrave, 2002), 107-25.
Carroll Pursell, “Feminism and the Rethinking of the History of Technology,” Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine, ed. Angela N.H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and Londa Schiebinger (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), 113-27.
Ted Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
Rhonda Williams, “We’re tired of being treated like dogs : Poor Women and Power Politics in Black Baltimore,” The Black Scholar, 31 (Fall-Winter, 2001), 31-41.
University of Cincinnati
John K. Alexander, Samuel Adams: America’s Revolutionary Politician (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002).
Frank A. Kafker, James M. Laux, and Darline Gay Levy, eds. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations, Fifth edition (Melbourne, Fla., 2002).
Wendy Kline, Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).
Zane L. Miller, Visions of Place: The City, Neighborhoods, Suburbs, and Cincinnati’s Clifton, 1850-2000 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001).
Hilda L. Smith, All Men and Both Sexes: Gender, Politics, and the False Universal in England, 1640-1873 (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002).
Linda Przybyszewski edited and wrote the afterword for Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854-1911 by Malvina Harlan Shanklin (New York: Modern Library, 2002) with a preface by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Hiram College
Rodney Hessinger presented “Harvesting Youth: James Patterson and Competing Evangelical Voices in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia” at the annual meeting of American Society of Church History conference, San Francisco.
Janet Pope, “St. Dunstan,” “Edgar of England,”
“Edward the Confessor,” “Emma,” “Ethelfled,” and “Fredegund,” in The
Rise of the Medieval World, 500—1300: A Biographical Dictionary,
ed. Jana K. Schulman (Westport, Conn., 2002).
—
“Teaching Medieval Women’s History in the Modern College,” Approaches
to Teaching Medieval Women, ed. Katharine Wilson, forthcoming.
Glenn Sharfman, “Between Identities: The German-Jewish Youth Movement Blau-Weiss, 1912-1926,” Forging Modern Jewish Identities (Vallentine Mitchell, 2002).
Miami University
Sheldon Anderson, A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc: Polish-East German Relations, 1945-1962, (Westview Press, 2000).
Jay W. Baird, “Literarische Reaktionen auf den Ersten Weltkrieg: Josef Magnus Wehner und der Traum von einem neuen Reich,” in Dietrich Papenfuss and Wolfgang Schieder, Deutsche Umbrhche im 20., Jahrhundert (B`hlau Verlag, 2000).
Andrew R. L. Cayton, editor with Susan Gray,
The American Midwest: Essays on Regional History (Indiana University
Press, 2001).
— “Artery and Border: The Ambiguous Development of the Ohio Valley in
the Early Republic,” Ohio Valley History, 1:1 (2001).
Dr. Cayton also published Ohio: The History of a People (Ohio State University Press, 2002).
Mary Kupiec Cayton, editor with Peter Williams,
The Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History
(three vols.), (Scribner, 2000).
— “Toward a
Democratic Politics of Meaning-Making: The Transcendentalist Controversy
and the Rise of Pluralist Discourse in Jacksonian Boston,” Prospects,
25 (2000).
David Fahey, Jessie Forsyth, “Good Templar: Family Records from Western Australia,” Social History of Alcohol Review, 15:1-2, (Fall/Winter 2000.)
Jeffrey Kimball, “Debunking Nixon’s Myths of Vietnam,” The New England Journal of History, 56 (Winter 1999-Spring 2000).
Matthew S. Gordon, The Breaking of a Thousand Swords: A History of the Turkish Military of Samarra (A.H. 200-275/815-889 C.E.), (SUNY Press, 2001).
—“The Commanders of the Samarran Turkish Military: The Shaping of Third/Ninth Century Imperial Elite,” in Chase Robinson, ed., A Medieval Islamic City Reconsidered: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Samarra, Oxford University Press, 2002
Osaak Olumwullah, Disease in the Colonial State: Medicine, Society, and Social Change among the AbaNyole of Western Kenya, (Heinemann/Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002).
Marguerite S. Shaffer, See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940, (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001).
Phillip R. Shriver, editor with Clarence E. Wunderlin, Jr., The Documentary Heritage of Ohio, (Ohio University Press, 2000).
Robert Thurston, Witch, Wicce, Mother Goose, (Longman, 2001).
George Vascik, “Computer-Assisted Analysis and Plotting of Village Returns in German National Elections, 1893-1912,” Journal of the American Association for History and Computers, 4/1 (2001).
John H. White, Jr., Cincinnati, City of Seven Hills and Five Inclines, (Cincinnati Railroad Club, 2001).
Allan M. Winkler, ed., The Cold War: A History in Documents, Pages From History, (Oxford University Press, 2000). Named by the National Council of the Social Studies and Children s Book Council as one of the Best Trade Books of the year.
Edwin M. Yamauchi, editor and contributor,
Africa and Africans in Antiquity (Michigan State University Press,
2001).
— “Attitudes Toward the Aged in Antiquity,”
Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin, 45 (2000).
—
“The Eastern Jewish Diaspora under the Babylonians,” Mesopotamia and
the Bible: Comparative Explorations, Mark W. Chavalas and K. Lawson
Younger, Jr., eds. (Baker Book House, 2002).
Judith P. Zinsser, “From Mexico to Copenhagen
to Nairobi: The United Nations Decade for Women, 1975-1985,” Journal
of World History, 13/1 (2002).
— “Translating
Newton’s Principia: The Marquise Du Chatelet’s Revisions and Additions
for a French Audience,” Notes and Records of the Royal Society,
55/2 (2001).
The Ohio State University
The OSU history department declined listing articles by department members because these works are too numerous to mention. The department does wish to acknowledge the following publications:
Kenneth Andrien edited The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America (Scholarly Resources Inc., 2002).
Mark Grimsley co-edited with Clifford Rogers Civilians in the Path of War (University of Nebraska Press, 2002).
John Guilmartin published Galleons and Galleys (Cassell and Co., 2002).
Geoffrey Parker published Success is Never Final: Empire, War and Faith in Early Modern Europe (New York: Basic Books, 2002) [a Spanish translation, El Éxito Nunca Es Definitivo: Imperialismo, Guerra y Fe en la Europa Moderna (Madrid: Taurus, 2001), appeared last year]. Dr. Parker co-edited España, Europa y el mundo Atlántico: Homenaje a John H. Elliott (Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2001), and he published a new edition of his 1977 book The Dutch Revolt (London: Penguin Books, 2002).
Claire Robertson co-edited Genital Cutting and Transnational Feminism: Disputing U.S. Polemics (University of Illinois Press, 2002).
Leila J. Rupp published A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America (University of Chicago Press, 1999). It has been translated into Czech and has also been issued in paperback.
Michael Curran and David MacKenzie,
A History of Russia, The Soviet Union, and Beyond (Wadsworth Publishing,
2002, 4th edition).
— and David MacKenzie,
Russia and the USSR in the Twentieth Century (Wadsworth Publishing,
1997, 6th edition).
Carter Findley and John Rothney, Twentieth Century World, fifth edition (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002).
Carole Fink, “The Jews and Minority Rights During and After World War I,” Kaplan Centre, University of Cape Town, Occasional Paper Series, No. 3 (2001).
Mitchell Lerner, The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001).
Geoffrey Parker, Europe in Crisis, 1598-1648,
second edition (Blackwell Publishers, 2001).
— El xito Nunca Es Definitivo: Imperialismo,
Guerra y Fe en la Europa Moderna (Madrid: Taurus, 2001). The English
version Success is Never Final: Imperialism, War and Faith in Early
Modern Europe (Basic Books, Spring 2002).
— Philip II (Open Court Publishing Company,
2002, 4th edition).
— La Revolucin Militar. Innovacin y Apogeo
de Occidente 1500-1800 (Madrid: Alianza, 2000), a translation of the
third edition of his Military Revolution (Cambridge University
Press, 1999).
Dale Van Kley, co-edited with James E. Bradley, Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe (University of Notre Dame Press, 2001).
Otterbein College
Louis Rose, The Survival of Images: Art Historians, Psychoanalysts, and the Ancients, (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001).
University Of Dayton
Erving E. Beauregard, “John A. Bingham and the Fifteenth Amendment,” Journal of the Alleghenies, 37.
University of Rio Grande & Rio Grande Community College
Ivan Tribe and Abby Gail Goodnight, Rio Grande: From Baptists and Bevo to the Bell Tower (Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2002).
University of Toledo
Ruth Herndon had her monograph, Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2001.
Peter Linebaugh co-authored, with Marcus Rediker (of the University of Pittsburgh), The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, and Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Beacon Press, 2001).
Michael Jakobson and Lidiia Jakobson [wife] published Musical Folklore of the Gulag as a Historical Source, 1940-1991 (Moscow: Sovremennyi Gumanitarnyi Universitet, 2001).
Youngstown State University
William Jenkins, “Before Downtown: Cleveland, Ohio and Urban Renewal, 1948-1958,” Journal of Urban History, 27/4 (May 2001), 471-96.
Martha Pallante and Christian Shively, “Guide to Discovery: Curriculum Reform in the Social Sciences,” The International Journal of Social Education, (Fall/Winter 2001-2002 ).
AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS AND LEAVES
Bowling Green State Unversity
Robert Buffington (Assoc. Prof.) was awarded a J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholar Award to teach in Argentina during the summer of 2002.
Walter Grunden was awarded a grant by the U.S.-Japan Foundation to do research in Japan in 2001-02.
Peter Way (Chair and Assoc. Prof.) was awarded the 2001 Harold L. Peterson Award for the best article in any facet of American military history (granted by the Eastern National Park and Monument Association) for his article, “Rebellion of the Regulars: Working Soldiers and the Mutiny of 1763-1764,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 57/4 (Oct. 2000), 761-92.
Capital University
Harry Jebsen won the Cotterman Award as the outstanding undergraduate academic advisor.
Kay Slocum was awarded a sabbatical for 2001-2002
Case Western Reserve University
Miriam Levin spent the spring semester as an Associate of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in Paris, and as Visiting Professor at the University Blaise Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand, France. She was also invited Maria Goeppert Mayer Professor at the Univeristy of Gottingen, where she lectured on “Women and the Vocation of Science” and participated in a seminar on women studies programs in the United States and Europe. In March she co-organized an NSF-sponsored workshop at MIT on “Reconsidering Technology in the Aftermath of September 11th.” A selection of essays from the workshop will be published later this year in the journal History and Technology.
Carroll Pursell, Department Chair, Adeline Barry Davee Professor of History, was on sabbatical leave for the Fall of 2001.
Alan Rocke, Henry Eldridge Bourne Professor of History, received the 2002 Liebig-Woehler Freundschaftspreis, Goettingen, Germany, May 2002.
Angela Woollacott has been appointed to a five-year term on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Women’s History. She also spent November and December as a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Social Inquiry, at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. This summer she was an invited Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Center of the Australian National University. She will complete her three-year term as Program Chair for the North American Conference on British Studies, with the NACBS/SCBS Conference to be held in Baltimore November 8-10, 2002.
University of Cincinnati
Sanjam Ahluwalia (PhD, 2000) received the Ohio Academy of History Prize for the Best Dissertation of 2000 for “Controlling Births, Policing Sexualities: A History of Birth Control in Colonial India, 1877-1946” on April 20, 2002 at the annual meeting of the OAH at the Cincinnati Museum Center.
John K. Alexander received the 2002 Excellence in Teaching Award given by the Ohio Academy of History on April 20, 2002.
Roger Daniels has received the second annual Award for Excellence in Mentoring of Doctoral Students awarded by the UC Office of Research and Advanced Studies to honor individuals whose mentoring of doctoral students is exceptional and noteworthy in June 2002.
Edward Ross Dickinson has received a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellowship for 2002, which he will use to continue research on “Sex, Freedom, and Power: Sexual Morality and Public Decency in Germany, 1880-1935” in Berlin during the autumn quarter of 2002.
Zane L. Miller was honored for Individual Achievement by the Cincinnati Preservation Association on November 11, 2001.
Christopher Phillips’s Missouri’s Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West (University of Missouri Press, 2000) has received the inaugural Eagleton-Waters Award from the State Historical Society of Missouri for the best book on Missouri history.
Linda Przybyszewski has won a fellowship for the academic year 2002-2003 from the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University. The Program is a joint venture of the Woodrow Wilson School, the University Center for Human Values, and the Politics Department. Her research focuses on the religious foundation of American legal thought around 1900.
David Stradling has been awarded a Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Award for the use of the New York State Archives in Albany, N.Y., during the summer of 2002 for his project, “Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills.”
Ann Twinam received the Rieveschl Award for Creative and/or Scholarly Works, the most prestigious annual award for outstanding research among UC faculty, on May 24, 2002.
Marietta College
Matthew Young organized and directed the Asian Studies Symposium held at Marietta College September 21-22, 2001. The Symposum is an inter-disciplinary undergraduate reseach conference with a focus on Asia. Students from a variety of colleges and universities presented papers at different panels and listened in plenary sessions to keynote speeches and a panel discussion. This year’s Asian Studies Symposium will be held on September 20-21, 2002. For more information, please contact Dr. Young at youngs@marietta.edu.
James O’Donnell has been designated a Partner Historian for the National Council for History Education’s Project TEACH Summer Institute. At the April 20, 2002 meeting of the Ohio Academy of History, Dr. O’Donnell chaired a panel that he had organized titled “Innocents Abroad: Travelers Encounter Life’s Realities.” For the panel Dr. Kathryn McDaniel presented a paper titled “Eastern Travelers, Eastern Women, and the Problem of Female Desire, 1650-1750” and Dr. Matthew Young presented a paper “American Innocents Inside Red China.”
Barbara MacHaffie was granted a sabbatical for 2003. During the spring semester of 2003 she will take classes on modern Scottish history at the University of Edinburgh and work on a research paper on the Scottish biblical scholar George Adam Smith.
Miami University
Andrew R. L. Cayton was awarded a fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, for work on The Dominion of War in May/June 2002. He is working on a public history project entitled “Once Upon a Farm: A Driving tour of the Historic Amish Mennonite Community of Butler County.” This project will open in June of 2003 as part of the celebration of Ohio’s Bicentennial.
David Fahey received the Ohio Academy of History Distinguished Service Award in 2002.
Mary Frederickson will be on leave during First Semester 2002-03 for work on a project on women travelers between 1840 and 1930.
Jeffrey Kimball was named Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., in Summer 2001.
Yihong Pan received a university grant and leave for research on “Chinese Women in the War of Resistance Against Japan (1931-1945)” during the 2001-02 academic year.
Rob Schorman received a university research grant for “Ready or Not: Clothing, Advertising, and Gender in Late Nineteenth-Century America” in summer 2002.
Bradley Scott Schrager received a university research grant for “Temptation of the Yamasees: Indian Peoples of the North American Southeast and the Challenge of Spanish and English Colonialism, 1660-1763.” He will be on leave during the Spring Semester 2003 when he will be a Visiting Fellow at the Rothmere American Institute at the University of Oxford.
Marguerite S. Shaffer received a university summer research grant in 2002 for “Popular Environmentalism: Everyday Interactions with Wild Nature, Domesticated Nature, and Human Nature.”
Robert Thurston received an Individual Advanced Research Opportunity grant from the International Research and Exchanges Board for research in Ukraine and Russia in Spring 2001.
Allan Winkler, Distinguished Professor of History, received recognition by the National Council for the Social Studies and the Children’s Book Council for his book, The Cold War: A History in Document, which was named one of the best books of the year. Oxford University Press published the book through its Pages From History Series.
Judith P. Zinsser received an NEH Fellowship and a Camargo Foundation Fellowship in 2000-01 for research on her book project, La Dame d’Esprit: The Daring Life, Tragic Death, and Loss to History of the Marquise du Châtelet (1706-1749). Dr. Zinsser will be on leave in 2002-2003 to complete work on her critical biography of the Marquise du Châtelet and the translation of a selection of her writings for the University of Chicago Press series “The Other Voice of Early Modern Europe.” She has received an NEH Collaborative Award for the year.
The Ohio State University
Leslie Alexander has been awarded a Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellowship for the 2002-2003 academic year for her research on antebellum Black New York. She was elected to the Executive Council of the Board of Directors of the African Heritage Studies Association.
Michael Les Benedict was awarded a grant from the Ohio State Bar Association to subvene publication of a volume of essays on the History of Ohio Law, co-edited with John F. Winkler, to be published during the bicentennial of Ohio statehood. He also received a grant from the Ohio Humanities Council to support The History of American Law.
Kevin Boyle was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for the academic year 2002-2003.
John Burnham was honored by Cheiron, The International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences, at the annual meeting in Bloomington, Ind., on June 22, on the occasion of concluding his term as editor of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. He also has been elected a Fellow in the American Psychological Association, and a fellow at Robinson College, University of Cambridge, for the academic year 2002-2003.
Saul Cornell has won the 2001 Society of the Cincinnati Book Prize for his book The Other Founders. This is a triennial prize which is awarded to the author of a distinguished work on any aspect of American History from the outset of the Revolutionary struggle through the end of the Washington Presidency. Cornell was also awarded a Gilder Lehrman fellowship at the New York Public Library.
David Cressy received the Fletcher Jones Foundation Distinguished Fellowship at the Huntington Library for the 2002-2003 academic year.
Allison Gilmore received a grant from the Lima Campus Research Committee to support her research project Allied Translator and Interpreter Section: Linguists as Intelligence Agents in the Pacific War and Occupation of Japan.
Barbara Hanawalt was elected Second Vice President of the Medieval Academy of America at the New York meeting of the Academy April 3-6. She will ascend to First Vice President next year and President of the Academy on 2004.
Jane Hathaway was elected President, Turkish Studies Association (July 2002-Dec. 2004). She has also been appointed Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, February-July 2003.
Michael Hogan has been elected Vice President and President-elect of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
Robin Judd received a Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant for research in European, African, and Asian history from the AHA. Dr. Judd was also awarded the 2002 Clio Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
Stephen Kern was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for the academic year 2002-2003.
Mitchell Lerner was awarded a Marjorie Kovler Research Fellowship in Foreign Intelligence from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Summer 2001, and a University of Virginia Research Fellowship.
Lucy Murphy has been selected to receive the State Historical Society of Iowa’s Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award for her book, A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Metis, and Mining in the WesternGreat Lakes, 1737-1832 (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2000).
Carla Pestana received a Sabbatical Fellowship from the American Philosophical Society for the academic year 2002-2003.
Christopher Phelps received a Helm Fellowship to fund research in the archives of the Lilly Library at Indiana University.
G. Micheal Riley was awarded the College of Humanities 2001 Exemplary Faculty Award.
Nathan Rosenstein was honored as outstanding faculty member by Mortar Board and Sphinx, March 5, 2002.
Stephanie Shaw received a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University for the 2002-2003 academic year.
Judy Wu received an Ada Leeke Fellowship grant from the Margaret Chase Smith Library for her research. Wu also received the Virginia Hull Award for 2002 from the College of Humanities for her book project “Radical Orientalism: Asia, Asian America, and American Social Movements” and was awarded an Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award
Dale Van Kley received a Fulbright grant through the Commission franco-américaine d’échanges universitaires et culturels.
University of Rio Grande & Rio Grande Community College
Ivan Tribe has been named Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Gospel Music (forthcoming, Routledge Press).
University of Toledo
Glenn Ames was a Visiting Scholar at The James Ford Bell Library for European Expansion at the University of Minnesota in 2002.
Ruth Herndon will take sabbatical leave during the fall semester of 2002.
Peter Linebaugh received an Outstanding Research Award given by the University of Toledo for academic year 2001-2002 for his work, The Many-Headed Hydra. Dr. Linebaugh will be on leave of absence for the 2002-2003 academic year.
Timothy Messer-Kruse will take sabbatical leave during the fall semester of 2002.
Wilmington College
Vinton M. Prince, Jr. (Professor and Chairman) will be on leave for the Fall semester. The majority of his courses that term will be covered by Judy A. Chesen (Ph.D., Miami University).