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'Best Dissertation' Arts and Humanities
Congratulations to Nicole Phelps for winning this year's 'Best Dissertation" Award in the Arts and Humanities for her dissertation, "Sovereignty, Citizenship, and the New Liberal Order: US-Habsburg Relations and the Transformation of International Politics, 1880-1924."
Nicole will receive an honorarium of $1,000 and a special certificate. She will also be honored during a luncheon and ceremony at the Campus Club in early June.
May 14th, 2008
May 14th, 2008Jean O'Brien-Kehoe helps found Native Studies Association; 2009 meeting to be held in Minneapolis
On April 11, a new academic organization officially came into existence at what will one day be called (by future academics, of course) a ''historic'' meeting held at the University of Georgia - Athens. Say hello to the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, aka NAISA.
May 13th, 2008Congratulations to Kay Reyerson!
April 14th, 2008
Kay Reyerson has been elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, a wonderful testament to her accomplishments. The Medieval Academy was founded in 1925 and is the largest and most prestigous association committed to the study of the medieval world.Melissa Meyer, 1954-2008
1985 history PhD alumnus, Melissa Meyer passed away in the evening of April 9, 2008.Melissa's field of research was the United States focusing on the History of American Indians. Her ethnic background of German, Scotch-Irish, and Eastern Cherokee Indian immigrants sparked her interest in American Indian History.
April 14th, 2008Giancarlo Casale
Congratulations to Assiatant Professor Giancarlo Casale, who has been awarded a Senior Residential Fellowship at Koc University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC), for Spring 2009.
March 27th, 2008Rudy Vecoli
Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Rudolph Vecoli who recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. The award is presented on rare occasions to scholars who have made
March 27th, 2008
distinguished contributions to the field of immigration and ethnic history. Rudy is only the third recipient of this award.Stephen Feinstein 1943-2008
The University of Minnesota lost a popular teacher and influential scholar when Stephen Feinstein, the director of the U's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS) and adjunct professor of history, died on Tuesday, March 4. Feinstein was speaking at the Jewish Film Festival when he suffered an aortic aneurysm that resulted in cardiac arrest. He was 64.
March 6th, 2008Saje Mathieu
Assistant Professor Saje Mathieu has been awarded the 2008 President's Faculty Multicultural Research Award (PFMRA). PFMRA is designed to encourage and support research on issues related to people of color, particularly in a North American context.
March 2nd, 2008
For more information see PFMRA.Ruth Karras
It is with great pleasure to report that Professor Ruth Karras has been selected as the recipient of the Distinguished Women Scholars Award in Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities for 2008. This award will be presented at the OUW spring celebration.
March 1st, 2008Kirsten Fischer
Congratulations to Associate Professor Kirsten Fischer who will be the Deutsche Bank Junior Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 2008-2009. Kirsten will teach a graduate level course on religion in early America and will work on her book "Reason and Wonder: Rational Religion in the Early American Republic."
February 14th, 2008