2006-2007
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.
The Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association has just announced the biannual competition for the Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize, Professor Emeritus of Latin American History at UF. This prize will be awarded to the best book published any aspect of Latin American, Caribbean, or Borderlands history during the previous two years.
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).
