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Spring 2012: Professor Uta Poiger, Speaker at Holocaust Awareness Breakfast
Professor Poiger spoke at the Holocaust Awareness Breakfast on Tuesday April 3, 2012 at 7:30am. This event was held in the Raytheon Amphitheater located at 240 Egan Hall at Northeastern University. More information about this event as well as other Holocaust Awareness Week events can be found here.
Spring 2012: Professor William Fowler Featured on C-SPAN
Professor Fowler spoke about his book American Crisis: George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783 at the Social Law Library in Boston, MA. This event was televised via C-SPAN and the entire broadcast can be seen here.
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: Professor McShane Interviewed by International Assoc. of Transport, Traffic and Mobility
Read Professor McShane’s interview on page 9: T2M_Newsletter_June
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.
Spring 2011: History Professor Selected for Honors Program Portz Award
Dr. Jeffrey Burds, Professor in the History Department, was recognized at the Honors Evening on April 12th for his contribution to the honors classroom and upper class students. Maureen Kelleher, Director of the University Honors Program, had the following to say about Dr. Burds’s contribution: “[he has] been a terrific addition to the honors classroom, a superior mentor of students doing upper class research and an ‘on-point’ reference for students applying for competitive scholarships and fellowships and graduate school.”
Spring 2010: History Professor Selected as Academy Film Scholar
Dr. Harlow Robinson, History Professor, has been selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as an Academy Film Scholar. As part of this prestigious honor, Professor Robinson will receive a grant from the Academy’s Institutional Grants Committee to support his research on the career of Oscar-winning director Lewis Milestone.