UPCOMING EVENTS

• Read about the controversy over the State Department’s Historian’s office and the “Foreign Relations of the United States” publication.  Link here, to Professor Schwartz’s home page, to access articles about this controversy.
• SUMMER OFFICE HOURS, May 4 - August 10, M-F, 8 am - 4 pm.

NEW COURSES! Please link here to see the new History course offerings for Fall 2009.

THE DEPARTMENT WELCOMES THREE NEW COLLEAGUES.
LINK HERE.

• Marshall Eakin appointed Director of the Ingram Scholars Program.
• Devin Fergus has been awarded a residential fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for 2009-2010.
• Catherine Molineux has been awarded a year-long residential fellowship at the Huntington Library for 2009-2010.
• Marshall Eakin has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship for 2009-2010.  He will use the award to complete the research and writing of his next book, "Becoming Brazilians:  Making a Nation and a People, 1930-1992".  Eakin will be based in Rio de Janeiro for most of the academic year.
• Joel Harrington has been awarded a Fellowship at The American Academy in Berlin for fall semester 2009.
• Moses Ochonu has been awarded a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Grant for his research project entitled "History, Politics, and Ethno-Religious Conflicts in the Nigerian Middle Belt." See a review of his book "Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression" here.
• Pablo Gomez has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/American Council for Learned Societies-Dissertation Completion Fellowship for his research project “Bodies of Encounter: African Healing, Diseasing and Dying Practices and Ideas in the Early Modern Iberian Caribbean.”

NEW BOOK! Devin Fergus's, "Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics 1965-1980," has been published by Georgia University Press.

NEW BOOK! Peter Lorge's, "The Asian Military Revolution from Gunpowder to the Bomb," has been published by Cambridge University Press.

NEW BOOK! Dan Usner's, "Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History," has
been published by Harvard
University Press.

NEW BOOK! Edward Wright-Rios's, "Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism: Reform and Revelation in Oaxaca, 1887-1934," has been published by Duke University Press.