News
Congratulations to Erin Lambert, Assistant Professor in the Department, who has won the Cory Family Teaching Award, given to a junior faculty member in the College "for excellence and innovation in teaching and the promise of sustained commitment to teaching” undergraduates.
Congratulations to Chris Nichols, who received his PhD from the Department in 2008, who has just been named a Carnegie Fellow for 2016-17. The Fellows program is part of a major new effort launched last year by the Foundation, for which one must be independently nominated. Chris will be working on a project on American isolationism. Read more about the program HERE.
What makes a candidate competitive for a history job?
Tuesday, April 26, 1:00-2:00pm
Nau 342
Our very own James Ambuske, Prof Andrew Kahrl, and Prof Elizabeth Varon will speak from recent recent experiences of being on the job market or serving on search committees. Possible questions: what makes a candidate stand out? what are the red flags that stand out to committees in the first round of shortlisting from hundreds of applications? what makes a competitive graduate school record? how to prioritize time in graduate school between conferences, grants, dissertation writing, service etc? tips on job application materials?
As always, here’s the best part: FREE LUNCH IS PROVIDED!
All we ask is that you RSVP to http://tinyurl.com/hvmm7qx so we can order enough food.
Jon Grinspan, who earned his PhD from the Department in 2013, just had an article published in the New York Times Sunday Review about his work on the history of young peoples' politics. Read the article HERE.
Tom Butcher has won the Seven Society’s Graduate Fellowship for Superb Teaching. Naturally, it was announced in an appropriately mysterious way! Congratulations to Tom.
Peter Onuf and Annette Gordon-Reed’s “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination is due out this week. In the meantime, the New York Times covered the book, including an interview with the authors. Read the article HERE.
Please join the Corcoran Department of History at the Cross Lecture:
Gary W. Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor of History
'All About Us: Projection, Wishful Thinking, and Anachronism in Recent Civil War Scholarship'
3:30 pm Wednesday, April 13
Harrison Institute Small Special Collections Library Auditorium
Reception to follow.
Congratulations to Swati Chawla, Alexandra Evans, Kimberly Hursh, and Scott Miller, PhD candidates in the Department, who were awarded Buckner W Clay Fellowships in the Humanities from the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures.
Read more about the award HERE.
Leif Fredrickson, PhD candidate in the Department, recently published an article with We're History titled "Lead Poisoning: Then and Now". Read the article HERE.
Congratulations to Leif Fredrickson, PhD candidate in the Department, who was awarded the Miller Center’s Ambrose Monell Foundation Funded Fellowship in Technology and Democracy for 2016-17. He was also awarded a Double Hoo Research Grant for work in partnership with Vijay Edupuganti.
Read more about Leif's work HERE.
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Congratulations to our undergraduate students elected into the
Virginia Beta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa:
Anne Bennet • John Connolly • William Henagan
Clarissa Pawlica • Adam Sykes • James Weisel
Charles West • Victor Zheng
Congratulations to Stephanie Freeman, graduate student in the Department, who was awarded a Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2016-17.
The announcement, and more about Stephanie's work, can be read HERE.
Swati Chawla, PhD Candidate in the Department, was awarded second prize for her research on Tibetan Buddhist nuns in exile in South Asia at the Huskey Research Exhibition panel on “Religion’s Unexpected Influences”. Information about the competition and links to additional information can be read HERE.
Sarah Milov, Assistant Professor in the Department, and Sarah Seo, the first McCurdy Fellow at the Miller Center and the Law School, have published an op-ed on the Virginia Senate’s new bill on fines for smoking in automobiles in the Richmond Times.
Read the op-ed HERE.
The Oregon State University's Blog reported on Justin McBrien, PhD candidate in the Department, who is a Resident Scholar at OSU, and recently gave a lecture, titled “Making Climate Change: The Atom Weather Controversy and the Question of Human Planetary Agency, 1945-1970.” McBrien delved into the question and chronology of atom weather as it has played out in the United States. His talk delineated a theme of his dissertation, which focuses in part on the problems posed by nuclear weapons when used in deliberate ways to affect the Earth.
Read the Blog article HERE.
Congratulations to Associate Professor Brad Reed who was awarded an All-University Teaching Award.
Robert Stolz, Assistant Professor in the Department, recently translated an interview with Koide Hiroaki, an important critic of Japan’s nuclear policies, which offers "new information about the degree of radioactive contamination and invaluable insight into Koide's ethical and political stance as a scientist, remain[ing] crucial for our critical reflection on ecological destruction, the violation of human rights, and individual responsibility." Professor Stolz has also provided an essay placing the Fukushima disaster in broader perspective.
Read the translated interview HERE
and read Professor Stolz's essay HERE.
Leif Fredrickson, a PhD candidate in the Department, published an article in AHA Today, the American Historical Association's blog, titled, "The 'Depression Disease': What the United States' First National Lead Poisoning Crisis Can Teach Us about the Flint Water Disaster". Read the article HERE.
Congratulations to Lawrence Hatter, Assistant Professor at Washington State University who received his Ph.D. from the Department in 2011, whose book manuscript, Citizens of Convenience: Empire, Nationhood, and the Northern Border of the American Republic, 1783-1820, won the 2016 Walker Cowan Memorial Prize for an “outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies.”
Erik Linstrum, Assistant Professor in the Department, was recently interviewed for the French newspaper Liberation about his book, Ruling Minds: Psychology in the Bitish Empire.
Read the article HERE.
