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Newsletter

Department of History Newsletter

7 June 2011                              Final Edition                  Number Five

 

 

We welcome our incoming Ph.D. candidates for fall 2011

 


 

Africa

Samuel Daly

(Columbia College-C.U.)

 

Early Modern Europe

Abram Kaplan

(Harvard College)

Sean O’Neil

(Truman State University)

 

International & Global

John Chen

(Harvard College)

Chien Wen Kung

(Dartmouth College)

Ulug Zuzuoglu

(Bogazici University)

 

Medieval

Hannah Elmer

(Barnard College)

 

Middle East

Shehab Ismail

(Pennsylvania State University)

Adrien Zakar

(Institute of International Studies)

Arthur Zarate

(University of Wisconsin-Madison)

 

 

Modern Western Europe

Harun Bulina

(University of Michigan)

Alana Hein

(Reed College)

Victor Petrov

(Oxford University)

Suzana Vuljevic

(University of Michigan)

 

South Asia

Nishant Batsha

(Columbia College-C.U.)

Rahul Sarwate

(University of Mumbai)

Dominic Vendell

(Carleton College)

 

United States

George Aumoithe

(Bowdoin College)

Manuel Bautista Gonzalez

(Universidad Nacional de Mexico)

Mary Freeman

(William College)

George Halvorson

(Lewis & Clark College)

Allison Powers

(University of California-Berkeley)

Jason Resnikoff

(Columbia University-C.U.)


 

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations to all those who successfully defended their dissertations in 2010-11!

 

Sergei Antonov. Law and the Culture of debt in Moscow on the eve of the Great Reforms.

 

Kellie Carter Jackson. Force and Freedom: Black abolitionists and the politics of violence, 1850-1861.

 

Benjamin Coates. Transatlantic advocates: American international law and U.S. foreign relations, 1898-1919. Distinction.

 

Martin Fromm. Producing history through Wenshi Ziliao: Personal Memory, post-Mao ideology, and migration to Manchuria.

 

Julie Golia. Advising  America: Advice columns and the modern American newspaper, 1895-1955. Distinction.

 

Jonathan Gribetz. Defining neighbors: Religion, race, and the early ‘Zionist-Arab’ encounter.

 

Nicole Hemmer. Messengers of the right: Media and the modern conservative movement.

 

April Holm. A kingdom divided: Border evangelicals in the Civil War era, 1837-1894.

 

James O’Connor. Armies, navies and economies in the Greek world in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. Distinction.

 

Valerie Paley. Founders and funders: Culture, trusteeship, and institutional expansion in New York City, 1840-1940.

 

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal. Corresponding republics: Epistolary and patriot organizing in the Atlantic revolutions, ca. 1760-1793.

 

Anatoly Pinsky. The individual Stalin: Fedor Abramov, Russian intellectuals, and the revitalization of Soviet socialism, 1953-1962.

 

 

 

 

Amit Prakash. Empire on the Seine: Surveillance, citizenship and North African migrants in Paris, 1925-1975.

 

Edward Reno. The authoritative text: Raymond of Penyafort’s editing of the decretals of Gregory IX, 1234.

 

Robert Savage. Where subjects were citizens: The emergence if a republican language and polity in colonial American law court culture, 1750-1776.

 

Sagi Schaefer. Ironing the Curtain: Border and boundary formation in Cold War rural Germany.

Jennifer Tappan. A healthy child comes from a healthy mother: Mwanammugimu and nutritional science in Uganda, 1935-1973.

 

Taco Terpstra. Trade in the Roman Empire: A study of the institutional framework.

 

Rachel Van. Free trade and family values: Free trade and the development of American capitalism in the nineteenth century.

 

Matthew Vaz. Jackpot mentality: The growth of government lotteries and the suppression of illegal numbers gambling in Rio de Janeiro and New York City.

 

Kareen Williams. The evolution of political violence in Jamaica, 1940-1980.

 

Maria Zazueta. Milk against poverty: Nutrition and the politics of consumption in twentieth-century Mexico.

 

 

 


We are delighted to announce the winners of fellowships and positions for the coming year!

 

2011 Shawn Fellows

to present on their research at the Symposium on New Directions in History

 

Hannah Barker

Justin Jackson

Nathan Pilkington

Eileen Ryan

Simon Taylor

 

2011-12 Doris G. Quinn Fellows

 

Jessica Adler

Michael Heil


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2011-12 Whiting Fellows:

 

Constanza Castro

Nicholas Osborne

 

 

Core Preceptorship

Ana Antic

James Chappel

Jun Cho Hee

Alexander Kaye

Thomas Meaney

Nathan Pilkington

 

Core Lecturers

Alheli Diaz

Megan Doherty

Robert Neer

Robert Thomas

 

 

 

External Fellowship Awards, Jobs, & Babies



 

Seth Anziska was awarded a GSAS-CU International Travel Fellowship for the 2011-12 academic year and the Irene C. Fromer Fellowship from Columbia’s Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies.

 

Hannah Barker has been appointed as the Wollemborg Family Fellow for travel to Italy during the 2010-2011 academic year.

 

Yesenia Barragan has received the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for 2011-14 and the George E. Haynes Fellowship for 2011-12. She also received a summer grant from the Institute of Latin American Studies to do archival research in Colombia.

 

Melissa Borja received a research fellowship from the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life.

 

Sarah Bridger  has accepted a tenure-track position at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA.

 

Kellie Carter-Jackson was awarded the 2011-12 Gilder Lehrman Fellowship for Research in American History. Her article, “Violence in Political History: The Challenges of Teaching about the Politics of Power and Resistance” will appear in the May 2011 issue of Perspectives on History: Political History Today. Currently, she is a Visiting Professor at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.

 

Giuliana Chamedes will be teaching European history at Harvard University as a Lecturer in the university’s Program for History and Literature.

 

Benjamin Coates will be a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, MA for 2011-12.

 

Joanna Dee was married to Koushik Das.

 

Ansley Erickson has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of History and Education at Teacher’s College, Columbia and was awarded an NAE/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship.in the School of Education at Syracuse University, with a courtesy appointment in their History Department.

 

Jonathan Gribetz has been appointed Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Rutgers University beginning fall 2011.

 

Jay Gundacker has received the ICLS summer fellowship.

 

Elizabeth Hinton has been awarded a Dissertation Writing Fellowship for the 2011-12 academic year through the GSAS Office of Diversity Merit Fellowship Program for Underrepresented Ph.D. Candidates.

 

April Holm has accepted a tenure-track position in the history department at the University of Mississippi beginning in fall 2011.

 

Abhishek Kaicker  has been appointed a Reid Hall Fellow for the summer 2011.

 

Hayang Kim was awarded a CU International Travel Fellowship for 2011-12.

 

Jinyu Liu has received an award from the Mellon Foundation. She will be a visiting scholar at Peking University-Beijing.

 

Daniel Mahla has received the Minerva Fellowship of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft for research in Israel.

 

Tamara Mann-Tweel will be the dissertation fellow in “Health, Disease, and Environment in World History” at The Center for Historical Research at Ohio State University. She also received a Congressional Research Award from the Dirksen Congressional Center and a Rockefeller Archive Center Grant.

 

Susan Mays along with Yao Zhang were awarded the Vice President for Diversity and Community Initiatives Grant; the grant funded a professional development conference called “China Scope in NYC” at CU Teacher’s College.

 

Owen Miller has been awarded a summer research award for 2011 through the GSAS Merit Fellowship Program for Historically Underrepresented Ph.D. Candidates.

 

Amy Offner has received the H.B. du Pont research grant from Hagley Library.

 

 

Alyssa Park will be an Assistant Professor in the History department (Korea and East Asia) at the University of Iowa fall 2011.

 

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Southern California.

 

Amit Prakash will be a Visiting Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College He and his wife also welcomed a twin boy and girl this past November.

 

Meha Priyadarshini was awarded a CU International Travel Fellowship for 2011-12.

 

Helen Qui gave birth to 7lbs, 3oz son.

 

Omar Sarwar was awarded a CI International Travel Fellowship for 2011-12.

 

Asheesh Siddique will be presenting papers at the Harvard-Yale Graduate Book History Conference, the Angles 3 Cultural History Conference, and the History of Economics Society Conference summer 2011. He also received a History of Economics Society Young Scholars award.

 

Joseph Skloot was married to Rabbi Erin Glazer on May 31, 2010 in Richmond, Virginia.

 

Simon Stevens was awarded a CU International Travel Fellowship for 2011-12.

 

Etienne Stockland was awarded a Robert W. Allington Fellowship from the Chemical Heritage Foundation for the summer 2011. He was also awarded a prize for best paper at the James A. Barnes Club Graduate Conference at Temple University in March 2011.

 

Matthew Swagler has been chosen for the Chateaubriand Fellowship for 2011-12. He also received a SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship for 2011-12.

 

Moshik Temkin will be an inaugural Big Think Delphi Fellow. The paperback edition of his book The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial will appear from Yale in October 2011.

 

Ezra Tessler will be an International Fellow in SIPA’s International Fellows Program for the 2011-12 academic year.

 

Merve Tezcanli has received the ICLS summer fellowship.

 

Aline Voldoire has been selected to receive the fifth Salo and Jeanette Baron Prize in Jewish Studies at Columbia University for her dissertation “The Transnational Politics of French and American Jews, 1860-1920.

 

Natasha Wheatley was awarded a CU International Travel Fellowship for the 2011-12 academic year, a Mellon Pre-Dissertation Grant for research on the League of Nations, and was married to Dirk Moses.

 

Michael Woodsworth has been awarded the Anti-Discrimination Center Summer Fellowship.

 

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