RECENT NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS

Prof. Victoria Grieve was interviewed by the journal The Arts Politic about her new book and contemporary federal support for the arts. Click here to read the interview.

Prof. Victoria Grieve has written a new book The Federal Art Project and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture, published by the University of Illinois Press. It examines the complicated processes of compromise and negotiation between high and low art, federal and local interests, and the Progressive Era and New Deal during the 1930s. The Press has also created a “Book Blog” page for Prof. Grieve. She has posted an entry entitled “Museums Look to the Common Man.”

Jared Farmer, former USU History major and now Assistant Professor of History at The State University of New York at Stony Brook, has won the 2009 Francis Parkman Prize from the Society for American Historians for his book On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape (Harvard University Press, 2008). The Parkman Prize is awarded annually for the best nonfiction book on an American theme published the previous year. Prof. Farmer is also author of Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country (Univ. of Arizona Press, 1999). Click here to read more about Jared's achievement.

Prof. Sue Shapiro was awarded a grant under the Pilot Program in Enhance Undergraduate Research in the Humanities. The grant, funded by USU’s Office of the Vice President for Research, awards an undergraduate research assistant to a faculty member in the humanities. Her research assistant is Muriel McGregor (a History major and Classics minor) and their project is “ Pasolini’s Medea: A Twentieth-Century Tragedy.”

Prof. Jennifer Ritterhouse was invited to deliver a talk on "Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race," part of the exhibit on "Race: Are We So Different?" at the Cincinnati Museum Center, March 12, 2009.

Prof. Sue Shapiro was invited to give a lecture at the University of Utah on March 11, 2009. Her lecture was entitled “Catiline’s Legacy.”

Prof. James Sanders has published "Atlantic Republicanism in Nineteenth-Century Columbia: Spanish America's Challenge to the Contours of Atlantic History." Journal of World History 20 (March 2009): 131-150.

Prof. James Sanders was invited to the University of Illinois to participate in the symposium "Latin American Revolutions and Civil Wars before Mass Politics, 1810-1910: Towards New Interpretations from the Political Culture and Social Movements Perspectives," April 2-4, 2009, Champaign, IL.

Prof. James Sanders participated on a panel focusing on "Comparative Histories: Writing Across and Beyond the Spanish World," part of the conference entitled "Beyond Modernity: How Are We Writing the Political History of the Spanish World," University of Warwick, UK, March 7, 2009.

Prof. Norm Jones delivered a paper entitled "The Informality of Rule: Managing Elizabethan Government" at the Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar which was held at Cambridge University on February 4, 2009.

Prof. Norm Jones has published “Advice to Elizabeth” in History Today, exploring the 450th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s accession and examining the problems of state that faced the new queen in November 1558. Jones used as the basis of his article evidence from state papers, newly made available online. Prof. Jones serves as an academic adviser for the State Papers project.

The Department of History offers its congratulations!

last updated on 01-Jul-2009