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Steve Ruggles, Regents Professor
Congratulations to Steve Ruggles, who has been named Regents Professor. The Regents Professorship is the highest rank the University of Minnesota offers and is limited to 25 positions. This is a great honor to Steve, one very richly deserved.
June 16th, 2008Sara Evans
Sara Evans has been named the Ada Comstock Distinguished Women Scholar for fall 2008. Congratulations to Sara on a very well-deserved award!
June 16th, 2008Mai Na featured on Twin Cities Live
Dr. Mai Na Lee is a woman of many first. She's the first Hmong in the country to earn a Ph.D in History. She's the first Hmong woman to be a professor at the University of Minnesota. She's also the first person to document the history of the Hmong people.
May 14th, 2008
Twin Cities Live:
http://twincitieslive.com/article/day/S20080512.shtml?cat=10699_&articleID=179968'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, 2008Kay 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, 2008João José Reis Featured in Perspectives
João José Reis, 1982 history PhD alumnus, was recently featured In Conversation column of the January 2008 issue of Perspectives on History.
January 29th, 2008Congratulations Allen Oleisky
Congratulations Allen Oleisky, 1960 history alumnus and 1962 Law grad for being awarded the Cardoz Society, Sidney Barrows Lifetime Commitment Award and the Golden Gavel Award for the District Court Judge of the 4th Judicial District.
November 14th, 2007Eric Weitz
It gives us great pleasure to announce that Professor Eric Weitz is a recipient of the 2007 Distinguished McKnight University Professorship. The goals of this unique program are to recognize and reward our most outstanding mid-career colleagues, especially those whose careers have developed and flourished at Minnesota.
October 16th, 2007