NEWS

• Announcing the Frank A. Woods Award in History, a new undergraduate prize. Mr. James Lachs, PB '93 established this award in honor of Frank A. Woods, BA'63, LLB '66. This award will be given to a graduating senior in the College of Arts and Science who is majoring in History and has the highest grade point average.
  2012 Winner: David Potter Townsend Webb
• The 2012 Dewey Grantham Award for best honors thesis goes to: Sandra Michelle Jensen, “Curiosities on the Cumberland: Early Nineteenth-Century Museums in Nashville, Tennessee,” Advisor: Catherine Molineux. To see a list of past winners click here.
• NEW! Gerald Figal, Beachheads: War, Peace, and Tourism in Postwar Okinawa (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012)
• The Annual Essay Prize Awards go to: Ari Schwartz, Michael T. Ramsey, and Hani Nofal. Congratulations! For a full description of the awards go here.
• Christopher Loss has been awarded a 2012-13 Visiting Scholar Fellowship at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This is to support his current book project, Front and Center: Academic Expertise and its Challengers in the Post-1945 U.S.
• Sarah Igo has been awarded a large New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation to be used over the next three years.
• NEW! James Epstein, Scandal of Colonial Rule: Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
• Moses Ochonu has been awarded an ACLS Fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies for 2012-13.
• Samira Sheikh has been awarded the Ryskamp Fellowship, by the American Council of Learned Societies, for the 2012-13 academic year.
• 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.
• For a list of News for Professors and Graduate Students link here.
• 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.