NEWS

• Celso Castilho and Catherine Molineux are recipients of a 2012-2013 Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Fellowship in conjunction with the Sawyer Seminar entitled “The Age of Emancipation: Black Freedom in the Atlantic World.” The project co-directors are: Richard Blackett (Andrew Jackson Professor of History), Teresa A. Goddu (Associate Professor of English and Director, American Studies Program), and Jane G. Landers (Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History).
• Our new colleague, Celia Applegate, has just been voted "Vice President elect" of the Central European History Society, and will assume her term as president in 2014. The Central European History Society is the central organization of historians of Germany and of the Habsburg Empire in North America.
• The Smithsonian has appointed Gary Gerstle as Goldman Sachs Visiting Scholar for 2012. In this capacity, he will be working with curators to develop a major, permanent exhibit on immigration to be installed in the National Museum of American History in 2014-15.
• Celso Castilho, Vanderbilt University, and Camillia Cowling, the University of Nottingham, have won the 2011 Conference on Latin American History Prize for their article, “Funding Freedom, Popularizing Politics: Abolitionism and Local Emancipation Funds in 1880s Brazil.”
• Jane Landers' book, Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions has been awarded honorary mention for the 2011 Bolton Johnson Prize for the best English-language book on any aspect of Latin American History.
• NEW! Peter Lorge, Chinese Martial Arts: From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
• NEW! Catherine Molineux, Faces of Perfect Ebony: Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain (Harvard University Press, 2012)
• Richard Blackett has been named the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University for the 2013-14 academic year.
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• The Public Archive: (see left navigation bar).
  The Public Archive compiles and curates links to primary and secondary sources on Haiti and other poorly-represented nations available through digital repositories, open-access online periodicals, academic journals and newspapers. Please use, share, comment and contribute. Convened by Peter James Hudson.