Penn Department of History News

Charles Sharpe

2012-05-24T17:32:00Z

Charles Sharpe has accepted a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities and the Social Sciences at McGill University. He will be teaching and conducting his research through the McGill Department of History. He is finishing a dissertation entitled: “The Origins of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1939-1944.” Through an in-depth examination of wartime and postwar relief, this dissertation seeks to understand the role of international organization in the construction of the American-led postwar global order.

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William Kuby

2012-05-16T16:48:00Z

William Kuby has accepted a new position, Visiting Assistant Professor of 20th Century U.S. History at Miami University in Oxford, OH. William defended last year a dissertation entitled "Conjugal Misconduct: Dubious Vows, Unlawful Wedlock, and the Margins of Marital Propriety in the United States, 1900-1940." It explores a set of controversial and legally ambiguous marital practices in the early twentieth century, including trial marriage, child marriage, racial intermarriage, "dysgenic" marriage, out-of-state elopement, and non-marital cohabitation.

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May 15, 2012

2012-05-15T12:51:00Z

May 15, 2012

Rick Beeman has been elected as a member of the Society of American Historians, one of the most prestigious honors for a US historian.

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Nikki Kalbing

2012-05-11T16:30:00Z

Nikki Kalbing has received the 2012 National Security Educational Program (NSEP) David L. Boren Fellowship. She will spend next year doing research on a dissertation entitled "A Hybrid Identity: Common Law, African Customary Law, and the Forging of South African Sovereignty, 1910-1954" Nikki will be conducting research on criminal trials in the Natal Native High Court - a judicial body that applied Zulu customary law - as a lens for exploring the interaction between the so-called European common law and African customary law in South Africa from 1910-1954. This work will be combined with her prior research on criminal trials in Namibia, a former German colony over which South Africa assumed authority after World War I. This is a transnational dissertation that explores how South Africa attempted to forge its identity as a regional African and global sovereign through the exportation of its common law from 1910-1954.

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Matthew Schauer

2012-05-07T21:10:00Z

Matthew Schauer has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of World History at Eastern Oregon University. The position has the potential for conversion to tenure-track next year. Matthew will be defending his dissertation “Custodians of Malay Heritage: Anthropology, Education, and Imperialism in British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies 1890-1939" in June. This project examines the interactions between imperial anthropology and the education policies pertaining to the Malay peoples of colonial Malaysia and Indonesia.

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Juan Jose Ponce

2012-05-07T09:29:00Z

Juan Jose Ponce has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American History in St. Lawrence University. Juanjo recently defended a dissertation entitled "Social and Political Survival at the Edge of Empire: Spanish Local Elites in Hispaniola, 1580-1697."

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Adam Goodman

2012-04-30T14:02:00Z

Adam Goodman has received a Fulbright-García Robles grant. For the 2012-2013 academic year he will conduct dissertation research in Mexico and will be an affiliated scholar at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico's Centro de Investigaciones Sobre América del Norte. His dissertation is entitled "Mexican Migrants and the Rise of the Deportation Regime, 1942-2010."

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Yaroslav Prykhodko

2012-04-27T19:40:00Z

Yaroslav Prykhodko has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Miami University. Yaroslav graduated in December 2011 with a dissertation entitled, "Mind, Body, and the Moral Imagination in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World." This project explores the persistence and formative role of mind-body and matter-spirit dualism in eighteenth-century ideas and assumptions about love, marriage, social order, slavery, and race.

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April 27, 2012

2012-04-27T11:35:00Z

April 27, 2012

Tom Childers has been selected by the seniors in the Huntsman Program to receive an award from the School of Arts and Sciences as the SAS faculty member recognized for "outstanding teaching and learning in the university environment." The notice of the award Tom received reported that, "Many seniors expressed their deep appreciation for your teaching and their love of your history courses..."

March 20, 2012

Siyen Fei has been awarded a Fellowship at the National Humanities Center, a Fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center, and the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin.

Vanessa Ogle has been awarded the University Research Foundation award.

Tamara Walker has been awarded a Career Enhancement Fellowship from Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and an SAS Research Opportunity Grant.

March 13, 2012

Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet has been named the Robert I. Williams Term Professor of History.

December 17, 2011

Daniel Richter's book, Before the Revolution, has been named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best non-fiction books of 2011!

October 27, 2011

Steven Hahn of the University of Pennsylvania has been elected to the 20-member Pulitzer Prize Board. Hahn is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History at Penn.

Hahn won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 2004 for A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. The book also received the Bancroft Prize for Best Book in American History and the Merle Curti Prize in Social History given by the Organization of American Historians.

The Pulitzer Prizes, administered by Columbia University, were established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher, who bequeathedmoney to Columbia when he died in 1911.

Elizabeth Dyer has received a SSRC-ACLS International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF). Elizabeth is working on a dissertation entitled "Working title: Keeping Time on the Kenyan Stage: Rhythms of Nationalism and Resistance in Postcolonial Theatre." Throughout his 24 years in office (1978-2002) Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi and his political challengers engaged in an ongoing debate concerning the meanings of Kenyan nationalism. Her dissertation considers postcolonial Kenyan theater as a space for what was officially illegal argumentation between state-sponsored and independent-minded actors.

Alex Hazanov has received a SSRC-ACLS International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF). Alex is working on a dissertation entitled "Porous Empire: Foreign Visitors and the post-Stalin Transformation of the Soviet Union." This project will study the interaction among foreign visitors, the Soviet state and Soviet society in the post-Stalin era. It aims to reconstruct both the socio-cultural impact of the tens of millions of foreigners who visited the Soviet Union between the late 1950s and the early 1980s, and the dilemmas the Soviet authorities faced as they negotiated the clashing imperatives of Cold War cultural diplomacy and their fears of foreign ideological and moral contamination.

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Clemmie Harris

2012-04-26T13:08:00Z

Clemmie Harris has received a Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Graduate Fellowship, 2012-13. Clem is writing a dissertation entitled "Race, Leadership, and the Local Machine: Origins of the African American Struggle for Political Recognition and the Politics of Community Control in Philadelphia, 1915 to 1968." This study is an examination of the roots, social forces, and structural factors that shaped the rise of the African American quest for political recognition and community control in one of America?s most important northern urban industrial centers, the city of Philadelphia, from 1915 to 1968. It is a story that examines the intersections of race, leadership, and the ward political structure.

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