NEWS

• Winner of the 2013 Dewey Grantham Aaward for best honors thesis: Helen Li, “Culture Card: The Beijing Olympics and the Politics of Mega-Events,” (Figal, Rogaski, Ramsey).
• The Prize Awards have been announced, link here to see the winners.
• TWO GUGGENHEIMS! Daniel J. Sharfstein was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for his project, “Thunder in the Mountains: The Clash of Two American Legends, Oliver Otis Howard and Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce.”  And, Jane Landers was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for her project, "African Kingdoms, Black Republics and Free Black Towns across the Iberian Atlantic". Both are one of 175 scholars appointed "on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise" from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants.
• Thomas A. Schwartz received The Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching on April 3, 2013 at the Spring Faculty Assembly.
• Dennis Dickerson has received The Berlin Prize for a Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin spring 2014.
• Jane Landers has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for 2013-14. The award will help fund the project: "African Kingdoms, Black Republics and Free Black Towns in the Iberian Atlantic."
• NEW BOOK! Joel Harrington, The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013)
• Alistair Sponsel has been named the 2013 Ritter Fellow by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The Ritter Memorial Fellowship is awarded biennially to a historian, scientist, or other scholar whose research enlarges and deepens understanding of the history of the earth, ocean, and atmospheric sciences.
• Catherine Molineux has been awarded the Ryskamp Fellowship, by the American Council of Learned Societies, for the 2013-14 academic year.
• Frank Robinson has been elected president of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies and will hold this position until March 2014. 
• NEW BOOK! Lauren Clay, Stagestruck: The Business of Theater in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Colonies (Cornell University Press, 2013)
  
• Jane Landers will deliver the Nathan I. Huggins Lectures at Harvard University in fall 2013.  The Huggins Lecture Series brings a distinguished scholar to deliver a series of lectures related to African American history.
• Leor Halevi has won a senior fellowship from the Institut d'études avancées de Paris for the 2013-2014 academic year, as well as a 2-year grant (2012-2014) from the Social Science Research Council under the New Directions in the Study of Prayer initiative.
• For a list of News for Professors and Graduate Students link here.
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