2008-2009
History major Sara Hartmann has received the Outstanding Leadership Award from the UF Alumni Association.
Dr. Louise Newman has been named the winner of this year’s CLAS Teaching Award.
Dr. Eric Morser has won this year's John K. Mahon Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Drs. Barr, Harland-Jacobs, Dale, White, Sterk, and Needell have all won awards from the Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund.
This year’s edition of Alpata has been awarded third place in the national student history journal competition. This is the third year that Alpata has won an award, and it is an appropriate recognition of the good work the student editors are doing. Particular congratulations to this year’s graduate Managing Editor, Michal Meyer, and the undergraduate Managing Editor, Justin Sorrell. Congratulations, as well, to Editors Matthew Hulbert, Mary Lester, Michael Goldman, and Adrienne deNoyelles.
The Department of History announces the creation of a new annual lecture series, created through a generous gift to the department. The Gary C. and Eleanor G. Simons Lecture in Revolutionary Era America will take place each January. Dr. Juliana Barr is coordinating the series, andthe first lecturer will be Dr. Marla Miller. Dr. Miller is the Director of the Public History Program at UMass-Amherst, and will be lecturing on her forthcoming biography of Betsy Ross. The Simons fund will also support one annual graduate dissertation research award, to be given to a student in colonial/revolutionary era U.S. history.
The Department of History announces the creation of the James Wilkerson Fund, which will support graduate and undergraduate research travel. In addition to funding some small travel awards, the Wilkerson Fund will be used to provide two annual graduate dissertation research awards.
Juliana Barr's Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands has received the 2007 William P. Clements Prize for the Best Nonfiction Book on Southwestern American from the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies; the 2007 Liz Carpenter Award from the Texas State Historical Association; the 2008 Berkshire Conference First Book Prize from Berkshire Conference of Women Historians; the 2007 Murdo J. MacLeod Award (for the best book in the fields of Latin American and Caribbean History, Atlantic Worlds, and Borderlands History) from the Latin American and Caribbean Section of the SHA; and the Southern History Association's 2007 Charles S. Sydnor Prize for Best Book in Southern History.
Randall Stephens ('03 Ph.D.) has been selected for the History News Networks' "Top Young Historian" feature. His new books was recently featured in the TLS.
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."
The Department of History is proud to announce a major lecture series and seminar in the history of religion, Faithful Narratives:The Challenge of Religion in History The series, which will take place between September 2008 and December 2009, is directed by Professors Nina Caputo and Andrea Sterk.
The Department of History welcomes Professor Paul Ortiz, the new director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.
Professor Joe Spillane and Nancy Campbell (RPI) recently launched a new website on substance abuse research entitled History of a Public Science: Substance Abuse Research.
