Student News
Fall 2011: Stacy Fahrenthold’s Article ”The Syrian and Lebanese American Federation: a Case for Connection” Published
Graduate student Stacy Fahrenthold’s article “The Syrian and Lebanese American Federation: a Case for Connection” appeared in an edited volume entitled Connections and Ruptures: America and the Middle East. The volume is printed by the American University of Beirut Press, from papers presented at a 2010 Conference on American-Middle Eastern Connections, hosted by AUB’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR).
Spring 2011: Emily Falconer Awarded Honors Senior Fellowship Award
Emily Falconer has been chosen to be the recipient of the Honors Senior Fellowship Award for 2011-2012. This award is to be used for her honors project “1938: The Munich Conference, the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact, and Espionage on the Eve of World War II.”
Spring 2011: Kelsey Bacon Awarded Gladys Brooks Undergraduate Award
Kelsey Bacon has been chosen to be the recipient of the Gladys Brooks Undergraduate Award for 2011-2012. This award is to be used for her honors project “The Cambridge Five: A Biographical Account of Five King’s Men Who Spied for Stalin.”
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Faculty News
Fall 2011: Professor Harlow Robinson Featured in Northeastern News Article
Click here to read Prof. Robinson’s analysis of the recent elections in Russia.
Fall 2011: Emeritus Professor Anthony Penna Co-Editing New Series on Environmental History
Professor Penna is co-editing a new series entitled The Environmental History of the Northeast, which will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press. The aim of this series is to explore, from different critical perspectives, the environmental history of the Northeast, including New England, eastern Canada, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The series will focus on the social and cultural history of the region as shaped by human interaction with nature as well as a complex natural history of geological upheaval, climatic change, erosion, and renewal.
Summer 2011: History Chair Becomes Associate Dean of College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Professor Laura Frader will be stepping down as Chair of History on June 30 to become Associate Dean for Faculty in the new College of Social Sciences and Humanities. Dr. Frader continues to maintain an active research program; she published two articles over the past academic year, “Classe, Historicité et ‘Agency :’ Gender et le Travail de E.P. Thompson,” [“Class, Historicity, and ‘Agency:’ Gender in the Work of E.P. Thompson,”] in Danielle Chabaud-Rychter, Virginie Descoutures, Anne Marie Devreux, et Eleni Varikas, eds., Questions de genre aux Sciences sociales [Gender Questions in the Social Sciences] (Paris : Editions « Autrement » 2010) and “La production des savoirs de l’Orient: la préhistoire du postcoloniale,” [“Producing Oriental Knowledges: the Prehistory of the Postcolonial.”], in Anne Berger and Eleni Varikas, eds., Situations postcoloniales et régimes de sexe (Paris: Editions des archives contemporaines, 2011). Dr. Frader will present a paper from her new project on the history of equality policies in the European Community at the Council for European Studies meeting in Barcelona on June 20, 2011.
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Alumni News
Spring 2011: Rachel Gillett working at Harvard University in Fall 2011
Rachel Gillett, who graduated with a Ph.D. in History on September 2, 2010, will start a three-year lectureship in the History and Literature concentration at Harvard University in Fall 2011.
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