UPCOMING EVENTS

• Dec. 8, Laura Engelstein, "'A Belgium of Our Own': The Sack of Russian Kalisz, August 1914," 4:10 pm, BT 125. VHS Seminar based on a pre-circulated paper that can be picked up in Benson hall room 227.

NEW

• Devin Fergus's, "Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics 1965-1980," will be out April 2009. Click here for review.
• Leor Halevi's, "Muhammad's Grave," has been selected as the winner of the Phi Beta Kappa 2008 Emerson Award. The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award is offered for scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.
• Katherine Crawford awarded the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching on September 17, 2008.
• Foundations US History -- new undergraduate courses
• Announcing the Frank A. Woods Award in History, a new undergraduate prize. Established 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.
• Catherine Molineux's "Pleasures of the Smoke," has been named co-winner of the 2008 James L. Clifford Prize from American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS).
• Jane Landers has won a FIPSE grant for $220,000 for "Mobility Program in Race, Development and Social Inequality: Access and Equity in Higher Education in Brazil and the U.S."
• William Caferro's, "John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in 14th Century Italy," won the Otto Grundler prize from the Medieval Academy as the best book in medieval studies.
• Thomas Schwartz has been awarded the 2008 Annual Alumni Education Award from the Vanderbilt Alumni Association.
• Leor Halevi's, "Muhammad's Grave," has been selected as the winner of the American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, in the category of Analytical-Descriptive Studies.
• Michael Bess has been awarded a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2008 ACLS fellowship.
• Sarah Igo's, "The Averaged American," has been awarded the 2008 Cherion Book Prize.
• Affiliated faculty Rosanne Adderley's, "New Negros from Africa," was co-winner of the 2007 Wesley Logan Prize of the AHA.

WELCOME NEW FACULTY

• Lauren Clay
• Julia P. Cohen
• Leor Halevi
• Sarah Igo
• Peter Lake
• Ole Molvig

NEW RESEARCH FACULTY

• Celso T. Castilho
• Robert McGreevey
• Isaac Stephens

Paul K. Conkin's, A REVOLUTION
DOWN ON THE FARM, tracks the changes in agriculture over
the last 80 years. Click here
for the Wall Street Journal
review.