Current Announcements

Our Phi Alpha Theta Chapter is very active. Click here to see pictures of their recent events.

Congratulations to Professors David Colburn, Julian Pleasants, and Bob Zieger on their retirements! [pictures]

Jeff Needell's recent book, The Party of Order, has won two important book awards: the Roberto Reis BRASA Book Award, which recognizes "the two best books in Brazilian Studies that contribute significantly to promoting an understanding of Brazil" and the Conference on Latin American History's Warren Dean Memorial Prize, which "recognizes the book or article judged to be the most significant work on the history of Brazil published in English during the two years prior to the award year."

Fall 2007 Announcements

The Florida Conference of Historians has issued a call for papers for its 47th Annual Conference (Feb 28, 29 and Mar 1, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL): announcement and call for papers to undergraduates.

The Department of History is pleased to welcome Yolanda Scott, the new graduate program assistant.

The USGS recently posted a biographical website for Junius Dovell (1911-1986), who was a faculty member at UF between 1946 and 1967.

2006-2007 Announcements

Lela Felter-Kerley and Jay Langdale have accepted visiting assistant professor positions at the University of South Florida and Virgina Wesleyan University respectively.

The Center for the Humanities has funded two proposals from History for the coming year: Florin Curta's "History, Legacy & Heritage: A Panel on Heritage Tourism in Spain and Slovenia" and Louise Newman's "Symposium on the Historical Study of Race."

The following faculty members have won course development or course enhancement grants: Geoffrey Giles (Center for European Studies), Jessica Harland-Jacobs (Center for European Studies), Matt Jacobs (Graham Center for Public Policy), Sheryl Kroen (Center for European Studies), and Joe Spillane (Graham Center for Public Policy).

Betty Smocovitis has been named a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for 2008-9, one of 13 nationwide. She'll be presenting lectures  around the country on Darwinian Grandeur: 150 Years of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, 200 Years of Darwin.

Florin Curta's first book has been translated into Romanian: Aparitia slavilor. Istorie si arheologie la Dunarea de Jos in secolele VI-VII (Targoviste, 2006). A paperback edition of the English version of the same book has also come out.

Howard Louthan and Andrea Sterk have both been awarded fellowships for next year at the Center of Theological Inquiry at Princeton University. Professor Louthan has also received an ACLS Fellowship for next year.

Jessica Harland-Jacobs has just published Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927 with the University of North Carolina Press.

History graduate students have received the following awards:
Peggy Macdonald -- O. Ruth McQuown scholarship, CLAS
Stephen Davis -- Fulbright IIE for dissertation research in South Africa
Nicole Nesberg -- Newberry Library Fellowship
Bill Mercer -- Lord Baltimore Fellowship from the Maryland Historical Society

Florin Curta has just published Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250 (Cambridge University Press).

Stanford University Press has just published Jeffrey Needell's The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871.

History graduate student Mark Cole has been awarded a DAAD (Germain American Exchange Service) Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowhsip for research in Germany next year.

Juliana Barr has just published Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands with the University of North Carolina Press

The Department of History is co-sponsoring two lecture series this semester:
The East in the West?: Muslims and Jews in Christian Europe
Milbauer Series on the American South

History graduate student Leslie Poole has just won the 2006-2007 Leland Hawes Prize in Florida History from the Tampa Bay History Center for her essay, "The Women of the Early Florida Audubon Society."

History graduate student Michal Meyer has just won the British Society for the History of Science essay competition for her essay "Why should anyone need to know about the history of science?".

The Department welcomes its new faculty: Ida Altman (colonial Latin America), Michelle Campos (modern Middle East), Sarah Kovner (modern Japan), Eric Morser (U.S.), & Stuart Finkel (modern Russia/Soviet Union).

The current issue of Alpata, the Department of History journal, is now available for purchase in the Main Office. If you would like us to mail you a copy, contact Linda Opper.

Click on the Events link above for a listing of talks by History Department faculty.