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Clio's Kudos
Clio’s Kudos highlights personal and professional achievements of OAH members (e.g, degrees, academic appointments, awards and prizes, research and publication, retirements, etc.) Please submit your announcement using this form.
Witt, Bolster Bancroft Prize Winners
Please join us in congratulating OAH members John Fabian Witt, Yale University, and W. Jeffrey Bolster, University of New Hampshire, 2013 winners of Columbia University's prestigious Bancroft Prize.
Stein named Distinguished Professor
The University's Board of Trustees appointed City College of New York historian and author Dr. Judith Stein a University Distinguished Professor at its January 2013 meeting. The appointment recognizes Professor Stein's outstanding scholarship over the past four decades, which has helped shape the study of 20th century U.S. history, labor history, African-American history and political economy.
Terry Gross, host of NPR's Fresh Air, talks with OAH Distinguished Lecturer Bruce Levine as they explore the destruction of the old South and the reunified country that emerged from the Civil War through Levine's new book, "The Fall of the House of Dixie."
Penningroth is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow
Please join us in congratulating OAH member and Northwestern University history professor Dylan C. Penningroth, who was named a 2012 MacArthur Fellow! Visit the MacArthur Foundation web site to view a short video on Penningroth's research in the history of the black family and community life.
Elias and Marine-Street are Hagley Museum Fellows
Congratulations to OAH members Allison Elias, University of Virginia, and Natalie Marine-Street, Stanford University, recipients of grants and fellowships from the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library.
David Nord Recieves Award
The American Journalism Historians Association has selected David P. Nord, professor emeritus in the Indiana University School of Journalism, as winner of the 2012 Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History.
Hoganson Receives Billington Prize
Please join us in congratulating Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who is the recipient of the 2012 Ray Allen Billington Prize from the Western History Association for her article "Meat in the Middle: Converging Borderlands in the U.S. Midwest, 1865-1900." Hoganson's article appeared in our March, 2012 issue.
Adrian Brettle Receives Fellowship
Adrian Brettle, University of Virginia, is a 2012-2013 recipient of an Archie K. Davis Fellowship from the North Caroliniana Society.
Praise for Bolster's
Black Jacks
Jeffrey W. Bolster's book, Black Jacks—and the impact it made on one man's life—is featured in The Washington Post.
Massachusetts Teacher of the Year
Richard F. Houston, OAH member and American history teacher at Harwich (MA) High School, received the 2012 Massachussetts Teacher of the Year Award from Governor Deval Patrick in a statehouse ceremony on June 19.
Sipress and Voelker Win Award
OAH members Joel M. Sipress, University of Wisconsin–Superior, and David J. Voelker, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, are recipients of the 2012 Maryellen Weimer Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning Award sponsored by Magna Publications for their article, "The End of the History Survey Course: The Rise and Fall of the Coverage Model" that appeared in the March 2011 issue of the Journal of American History.
OAH Members Named 2012 ACLS Fellows
The OAH congratulates the following members who are recipients of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow: Matthew Amato, University of Southern California. New Faculty Fellows Program: Ikuko Asaka, Rutgers University, New Brunswick; and Melissa Milewski, Columbia University. ACLS Fellowship: Darren Dochuk, Purdue University. Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship: Risa Goluboff, University of Virginia; and Lisa McGirr, Harvard University. Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship: Andrew Kahrl, Marquette University; and Susan Pearson, Northwestern University. For more information, please visit www.acls.org/fellows/new/.
New Guggenheim Fellows
OAH members Laura F. Edwards (Duke University) and Lori D. Ginzberg (Pennsylvania State University) were among the recently announced 2012 Guggenheim Foundation Fellows. For more information, please visit www.gf.org/news-events/2012-Fellows-in-the-United-States-and-Canada/.
Susan D. Ware is new General Editor
Susan D. Ware has been appointed the General Editor of the American National Biography, the premier biographical encyclopedia of U.S. history. For more information, please visit www.acls.org/news/4-19-2012/.
Mellon Foundation Elects New President
Earl Lewis, Emory University, has been elected president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
New AAAS Fellows Named
David Blight, Yale University, Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University, and Vicki L. Ruiz, University of California, Irvine, were newly-elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. For more information, please visit www.amacad.org/.
Mark Durfee Graduates with Honors
Mark Durfee, of Troy, Texas graduated with honors from American Public University in February 2012 with a Master of Arts degree in history with a concentration in American History.
Three OAH Members receive the 2012 Bancroft Prize
The Bancroft Prize, awarded annually by Columbia University for distinguished works in American history, was bestowed upon three OAH members for its 2012 prize. OAH congratulates Tomiko Brown-Nagin, University of Virginia; Anne Hyde, Colorado College; and Daniel T. Rodgers, Princeton University. For more information, visit their website.
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Miller Leads Fundraising Efforts
Dr. Linda Karen Miller, 1996 OAH Tachau Teacher of the Year recipient, led fundraising efforts in Las Vegas, Nevada to build a statue dedicated to Helen J. Stewart, often called the “first lady of Las Vegas.” For the past four years Miller has been appearing as Helen J. Stewart in character and costume at various civic groups around town.
Tiya Miles Receives MacArthur Fellowship
The John D. and Katherine MacArthur Foundation has awarded Tiya Miles, University of Michigan, a 2011 MacArthur Fellowship for her work “reframing and reinterpreting the history of our diverse nation in works that illuminate the complex interrelationships between African and Cherokee peoples in colonial America.”
John Hench Receives the 2011 DeLong Book History Prize
The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) has awarded John B. Hench its 2011 DeLong Prize for Books as Weapons: Publishing, Propaganda, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War Two (Cornell University Press, 2010).
OAH Members Named ACLS Fellows
The OAH congratulates Ernest Freeberg, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Ellen Herman, University of Oregon; Kristin L. Hoganson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and Christina Snyder, Indiana University, Bloomington, who are among sixty-four scholars receiving fellowships in 2011 from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
DeBenedetti Prize In Peace History
Congratulations to Melissa R. Klapper, whose article in the December 2010 issue of the Journal of American History won the Peace History Society’s Charles DeBenedetti Prize.
OAH Members Awarded Pulitzer Prize and Guggenheim Fellowships
The OAH congratulates Eric Foner, the OAH Past President and a professor of history at Columbia University, who was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in history for The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. The organization also recognizes the Pulitzer Prize in history finalist Stephanie McCurry, University of Pennsylvania, for Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South; and two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in biography: Michael O'Brien, University of Cambridge, for Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon, and Alan Brinkley, Columbia University, for The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century.
Carter, Moran, and Williams Named 2011 Newcombe Fellows
The OAH congratulates members Heath Carter, Notre Dame University, Rachel Moran, Pennsylvania State University, and Shannen Williams, Rutgers University, recipients of the 2011 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Newcombe Fellowships. Newcombe Fellows are doctoral candidates writing dissertations on topics involving religious and ethical values.
Mercedes Graf publishes book
OAH member Mercedes Graf’s book, On the Field of Mercy: Women Medical Volunteers in the Civil War to the First World War, was published by Prometheus Books in December 2010. Graf provides the first comprehensive overview of the role of women medical volunteers in early American wars.
Judith N. McArthur wins Carpenter Award
OAH member Judith N. McArthur won the 2010 Texas State Historical Association?s Carpenter Award for her book, coauthored with Harold L. Smith entitled, Texas Through Women?s Eyes: The Twentieth-Century Experience. Published by the University of Texas Press, the book is a finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters Scholarly Book Award.
Katz and Wood receive National Humanities Medals
President Obama awarded the 2010 National Humanities Medal to OAH members Stanley N. Katz, OAH Past President and director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, and Gordon S. Wood, the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history emeritus at Brown University. For more information on the 2010 National Humanities Medalists, click here.
Michael Ellery selected as James Madison Memorial Fellow
OAH member Michael Ellery, a teacher at Nathan Hale High School in West Allis, Wisconsin, was selected as one of 58 James Madison Memorial Fellows in 2010. Fellowships are awarded to teachers to expand their knowledge and ability to teach issues related to the United States Constitution. Ellery will attend the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee where he will study American history with an emphasis on constitutional and civil rights issues. For more information, visit their website.
David Nord appointed head of HNS
David Nord, professor of journalism and adjunct professor of history at Indiana University-Bloomington and former interim editor of the Journal of American History, has been appointed editor of the History News Service (HNS). For more information, please visit www.h-net.org/~hns/.
Nancy C. Carnevale Receives 2010 American Book Award
Nancy C. Carnevale, Associate Professor of History at Montclair State University, is the recipient of a 2010 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945 (University of Illinois Press, 2009).
Oickle signs for 2 books
Alvin F. Oickle is under contract to publish two books in Spring 2011. Oickle’s 1998 biography, Jonathan Walker: The Man with the Branded Hand, will be reissued with new material and images by Westholme Publishing. The second book will be published by The History Press as part of its “disaster series” and will explore the steamboat Erie, which sank in 1841, carrying more than two hundred new immigrants to their deaths on Lake Erie.
Luebke receives award for Outstanding Achievement
The Society for German-American Studies awarded its Outstanding Achievement Award for 2010 to Frederick Luebke, Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln.
Bell receives Grant
Karen B. Bell received a Research Support Grant from the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Harvard University, Schlesinger Library for Women for the 2010-11 academic year.
Howlett and Lieberman co-edit For the People
Chuck Howlett of Molloy College and Robbie Lieberman of Southern Illinois University have co-edited For the People: A Documentary History of the Struggle for Peace and Justice in the United States (Information Age Publishing).
Brown Publishes Thesis
Lisa Marie Brown published her Master's thesis entitled Posing As Nuns, Passing For White: The Gouley Sisters (Lisa Marie Brown, 2010). The book chronicles the history of three blood sisters who established an order of Catholic nuns for women of color in New Orleans in 1883.
Miami Architecture Guide Published
James F. Donnelly is co-author with Allan Shulman and Randall Robincon of Miami Architecture: An AIA Guide Featuring Downtown, the Beaches, and Coconut Grove. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2010. Link for more information: www.upf.com/index.asp.
Melosi named Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor
Martin V. Melosi, Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston, has been named the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor.
Freeberg recieves 2010 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award
Ernest Freeberg has been selected the 2010 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award recipient for his book, Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent. The biographical study provides an framework for understanding how Eugene Debs legitimized dissent as an ethical stance supported by the First Amendment.
Howe elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
OAH Distinguished Lecturer Daniel Walker Howe has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. He has taught at Yale, UCLA, and Oxford, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007.
Arista awarded Allan Nevins Prize
Noelani Arista has been awarded the Allan Nevins Prize by the Society of American Historians for the best doctoral dissertation on an American subject. Her Brandeis University dissertation, “Histories of Unequal Measure: Euro-American Encounters with Hawaiian Governance and Law 1793–1827,” addresses questions of law and jurisdiction in early nineteenth-century Hawaii. Arista is currently an assistant professor of American and Hawaiian history at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
LeCain receives George Perkins Marsh Prize
Timothy J. LeCain, associate professor in Montana State University’s Department of History and Philosophy, recently received the George Perkins Marsh Prize for the best new book in environmental history. His Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines that Wired America and Scarred the Planet tells the history of two open-pit copper mines: the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana, and the Bingham Pit in Utah.
Carnevale receives NEH Fellowship
Nancy Carnevale has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. She will spend the 2010–2011 academic year researching a comparative study of African American and Italian American relations in urban and suburban New Jersey from the early 1900s through the 1960s.
Sanchez receives award
George J. Sanchez has received the Outstanding Latino/a Faculty in Higher Education: Research in Higher Education Award, presented by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education. The award honors individuals who, through their expertise, energy, productivity, and contributions, have improved the conditions of Latinos pursuing a college degree or a career in higher education.
Pfister wins Author’s award
The Jacob Ford Jr. Mansion: The Storied History of a New Jersey Home (Charleston , 2009), by Jude M. Pfister, has won the Eastern National Board of Directors’ 2009 Author’s Award. Pfister is chief of cultural resources at the Morristown, New Jersey, National Historic Park and is currently working on another publication for the History Press that focuses on the Ford family of Morristown.
Formwalt receives new appointment
Lee W. Formwalt was appointed executive director of the Albany Civil Rights Institute in Albany, Georgia, in December 2009.
Scroop’s essay published
Daniel Scroop’s essay “The Anti–Chain Store Movement and the Politics of Consumption,” published in American Quarterly in December 2008, has won two prizes: the American Studies Association’s Constance P. Rourke prize of the for the best essay published in the American Quarterly in any given year and the Arthur Miller prize from the British Association of American Studies for the best essay on an American studies topic by a British citizen or non–British citizen based in the United Kingdom.
John Fea wins award: book honored
John Fea’s The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (Philadelphia, 2008) was recently chosen as the best scholarly non–fiction book of 2008 by the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance and was chosen as an honor book for 2009 by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.
Balleisen and Moss edit collection of essays
Edward Balleisen of Duke University and David Moss of Harvard Business School recently co–edited an interdisciplinary volume, Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation (Cambridge, Eng., 2009). The collection of essays by historians, political scientists, sociologists, economists, and legal scholars explores the latest research on regulatory policy, and it charts an ambitious intellectual agenda for the study of political economy and relations between business and the state.
Schneider wins book award
Eric Schneider’s book, Smack: Heroin and the American City (Philadelphia, 2008) won the Kenneth B. Jackson Award, given by the Urban History Association for the best book in North American urban history for 2008.
Gauger elected to Phi Beta Kappa Senate
At the October 2009 Phi Beta Kappa honor society’s triennial council in Austin, Texas, Michael Gauger was elected to a six–year term in the Phi Beta Kappa Senate, representing the north central district.
Loveland presents at Yale
Anne C. Loveland, the T. H. Williams Professor Emerita at Louisiana State University, presented “Military Chaplains in Cultural Transition, 1946 to the Present” at “Faith and Arms in a Democratic Society: A Working Conference on Religion in the Military,” held on November 13–14, 2009, at Yale University.
Diner receives book award
Hasia Diner’s book, We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945–1962 (New York, 2009), received the National Jewish Book Award in the category of American Jewish studies. Diner is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish history and the director of the Goldstein–Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University.
Segal Wins Book Award
Howard Segal, a professor of history at University of Maine, received the 2009 book award from the Henry Ford Heritage Association for his Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford’s Village Industries. The book describes Henry Ford's life and enterprises.
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