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2008 Our Classics Program grows! The Utah State Board of Regents has approved a new minor in Latin Teaching, which will allow students to receive certification to teach Latin in secondary schools. Click here to read more about this new minor! Denise Conover was named the recipient of the Fall 2008 “Excellence in Education” award from the Logan LDS Institute of Religion. The Institute invites students to nominate a professor who has touched their lives in an exemplary way. Colleen O'Neill participated in an international workshop on "Indigenous Women, Colonialism and Labor," August 21-23, 2008. The meeting included indigenous women scholars from New Zealand, First Nations scholars from Canada, and American Indian women whose collaborative project will take final form in the first book on Native women's labor (University of Illinois Press). Susan Shapiro was invited to give the Theodore Guerard Lecture on Latin Literature on April 4, 2008 at the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. The title of her talk was"Catullus Politicus." Victoria Grieve's article,"Work That Satisfies the Creative Instinct: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Arts and Crafts," was published in the Winterthur Portfolio Vol. 42, No. 23, Summer/Autumn 2008. Susan Shapiro's article, "Cicero and Today's Intermediate College-level Student," was published in The Classical Outlook, vol. 84, no. 4, Summer 2007, pages 147-152. Nick Demas, director of the Utah History Fair, coordinated the projects of five dozen students who participated in the 2008 National History Day Competition held in June College Park, Md. With Nick’s assistance, three of the Utah participants placed in the top 10 of their individual categories. For the full story, click here. Leonard Rosenband’s contributions to the historiography of French industrialization have been highlighted in François Jarrige’s essay, "Un chemin singulier? L'industrialisation française vue par les historiens américains" ("A Singular Path? French Industrialization as Seen by American Historians"), in Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle 36, 2008/1: 151-162. To see the essay, click here. Lawrence Culver was interviewed on "Which Way, LA?," the evening news program on KCRW, a National Public Radio station that broadcasts across Southern California. He spoke about his research on the history of parks and recreation in Los Angeles and other American cities, commenting on the current state of parklands in L.A. To hear the broadcast, click here. Check out the Utah State Alumni magazine, Summer 2008. Mark Damen, along with his former student Willy Lensch and current student Chuck Oughton, is interviewed about their research on a seventeenth-century medical treatise in Latin. Timothy Wolters recently published the article "Electric Torpedoes in the Confederacy: Reconciling Conflicting Histories" in the prestigious peer-reviewed Journal of Military History 72 (July 2008), 755-783. This journal accepts just one in nine manuscripts that are submitted for publication. In July 2008, Victoria Grieve (along with Nadra Haffar and Laurie Baefsky) received a Faculty Fellowship from the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies for 2008-2010. Prof. Grieve will use the grant to develop two curriculum modules about land use in the West based on the work of a visiting artist in Fall 2009. In June 2008, Victoria Grieve was awarded a fellowship from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History to complete research in 1930's children's literature at the New York Public Library and Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Jay Anderson has received the John T. Schlebecker Award from the Association of Living History Farms and Agricultural Museums [ALHFAM]. This lifetime award is intended to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the growth and development of ALHFAM. It is given once a year. Jamie Sanders has been awarded a University of Florida Library Travel Grant for use this summer in order to pursue his project on the Atlantic World in nineteenth-century Latin America. The University of Florida has one of the best Latin American research libraries in the world. Jamie Sanders has written an article entitled “ ‘A Mob of Women’ Confront Post-Colonial Republican Politics: How Class, Race, and Partisan Ideology Affected Gendered Political Space in Nineteenth-Century Southwestern Colombia.” It was published in The Journal of Women’s History 20 (Spring 2008): 63-89. Norm Jones has been named the Senior Visiting Fellow by the Governing Body of Jesus College, Oxford, for 2008-2009, his sabbatical year. Jamie Sanders has written an essay, “The Ghostwriter’s Story,” which was published in the 24 January 2008 issue of The London Review of Books. 2007 David Rich Lewis, with Michael Lansing, has published an article entitled "Surveying the Western History Association" in the Western Historical Quarterly (Autumn 2007). Leonard Rosenband has published an article entitled “Becoming Competitive: England’s Papermaking Apprenticeship, 1700-1800,” in The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (2007). Norman Jones has published an article entitled “Indispensable Digital Sources” in Sixteenth Century Journal (2007). USU history majors Laura Newton and Joshua Booth were named first- and second-place winners of the Arrington Writing Award, offered in conjunction with the Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture at USU. Prizes of $1000 and $500 went to Newton and Booth. Named the country’s “Top Young Historian” by the History News Network for the week of June 3, Lawrence Culver's op-ed essay on the history of tourism, “Are We There Yet? Historians and the History of Tourism,” appeared on the HNN web site. Click here to read the full essay. Scott Davis, a History Major and Classics Minor, was named the USU Student Scholar of the Year at the Robins Awards for 2007. Many congratulations to Scott and his teachers! Lawrence Culver was awarded a John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Faculty Fellowship from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University for 2007-2008. He'll use it to fund travel this summer. History students Chuck Oughton and Daniel Allred were given "Best Papers" awards at the Phi Alpha Theta 2007 state conference, Chuck in Ancient and Medieval history and Daniel in Asian and World history. Also, USU Latin students took five of the ten prizes offered by the state-wide Yengich Latin translation competition. Kudos to all these hard-working students!! Congratulations to Jamie Sanders who was granted tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor this Spring (2007)! During USU's 2007 Research Week, held April 2-5, Michael Nicholls was named the Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year for the College of HASS. His student Lenaye Howard was named the Undergraduate Researcher of the Year for the College of HASS. In addition, Colleen O'Neill was named Researcher of the Year, and Daniel McInerney the Humanist of the Year. All in all, it's a fine year to be a historian! The University of Nebraska Press has published Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian (2007), coedited by David Rich Lewis, editor of the Western Historical Quarterly. Lawrence
Culver has received the "Excellence in Instruction for First-Year
Students" award from USU for the 2006-2007 academic year. He is
only one of five professors at USU to receive this award. 2006 Our chapter of Phi Alpha Theta wins national recognition, again! (click here to read a full report) The Society for the History of Technology in conjunction with the American Historical Association has published Peter Mentzel's booklet entitled Transportation Technology and Imperialism in the Ottoman Empire, 1800-1923. It is part of the Historical Perspectives on Technology, Society and Culture series. Robert Cole was interviewed for a story entitled "Pentagon's Fine Line: War Machine, P.R. Machine" which aired nationally July 13 2006 on Morning Edition (NPR). Click here to listen to that report (hit the "Listen" button at the top of the page). Jamie Sanders has won a Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress, from January to June 2007, for his project "Democracy in the New World: Imagining Politics, the West, and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World." Colleen O'Neill has received a grant from The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, a private operating foundation that supports basic research in all branches of anthropology. This grant will fund a symposium entitled "American Indians and the Culture of Capitalism" which will discuss emerging work on American Indian culture and economies. The USU chapter of Phi Alpha Theta was named the "Club of the Month" for March, 2006. Four USU undergraduate history majors presented papers at this year's Utah Regional Conference of the international honor society in history, Phi Alpha Theta. Shay Wood won the award for "Best Paper in the History of the Americas" for his presentation "Polygamy and the Law: The Experience of Charles Lowell Walker." The Historical Society of New Mexico gave Colleen O'Neill's latest book, Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century (University Press of Kansas, 2005) the 2006 Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award for best historical publication (by an individual). Scott Davis is one of six recipients nationwide of a Manson A. Stewart Scholarship for 2006, awarded by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS). Scott will receive $1000 toward tuition at Utah State University for the 2006-2007 school year, as well as a year's membership in CAMWS and a year's subscription to its scholarly journal, The Classical Journal. Warmest congratulations to Scott for winning this prestigious award! Joel Miyasaki, a graduate student in the Department of History, has received the best paper prize for HASS at the Utah State Graduate Research Symposium. His paper was entitled "Irony, Good Intentions, and Misconceptions about the Manzanar Incarceration Camp." Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania’s Usambara Mountains (Ohio University Press) by Christopher Conte has been included on Choice Magazine's list of the “best of the best” books for 2006 (click here to read more about this award). The
University of Oklahoma Press has published O Tempora! O Mores! Cicero's
Catlinarian Orations: A Student Edition with Historical Essays
by Susan O. Shapiro. 2005 In December 2005, USU bestowed a "Golden Mouse" award on Mark Damen for his work on the History Department web site—and if you're reading this, you can see it for yourself!—noting, in particular, his preternatural interest in exploring various genres of classroom technology. Our condolences to his wife Fran! The University Press of Kansas has published Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century by Colleen O'Neill, the associate editor of The Western Historical Quarterly. The Logan City School District—and its partner, the Utah State University History Department—have received a $999,974 grant from the U.S. Department of Education's "Teaching American History" program. The award is part of a nationwide program to raise student achievement by improving teachers' knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of American history. Professors Norman L. Jones and Daniel J. McInerney worked with the local school district to create the successful grant proposal. Norm Jones and Robert Tittler were awarded the Roland Bainton Prize for the best reference work on early modern Europe in 2004 for their Companion to Tudor Britain . The prize was awarded to them by the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Michael Lansing, formerly the visiting assistant editor of The Western Historical Quarterly and a visiting assistant professor in 2003-5, now a tenure-track assistant professor at Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN, has won the 2005 Dale L. Morgan Award from the Utah State Historical Society for the best article published in The Utah Historical Quarterly. Susan O. Shapiro, who is Vice President for Utah of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, was named Outstanding State Vice President for 2004-2005. Four History professors — Lawrence Culver, Victoria Grieve, Colleen O'Neill and Tim Wolters — have been awarded New Faculty Research Grants for 2005-2006. Mike Johnson has also received a Community/University Research Initiative. At this year's Top Prof awards ceremony, Mortarboard members honored three(!) professors from the History Department: Norm Jones, David Lewis and Mark Damen. The College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences has chosen Denise Conover as the Faculty Advisor of the Year and Monica Ingold as the Outstanding Classified Employee of the Year. A round of applause for their outstanding service to our program! Lawrence Culver has won the 2005 Rachel Carson Prize for the best dissertation in Environmental History completed between November 1, 2003 and October 31, 2004. His dissertation, filed in June 2004 at UCLA, is entitled "The Island, the Oasis, and the City: Santa Catalina, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, and Southern California's Shaping of American Life and Leisure." This award is given out annually by the American Society for Environmental History. It will be presented to him at the Society's annual meeting in Houston.
2004 The Utah Humanities Council awarded Ona Siporin, Assistant Editor of the Western Historical Quarterly, the Albert J. Colton Research Fellowship for Projects of National and International Scope for her work on a translation of a biography of a Venetian architect. The work is entitled The Boat Knows the Way: The Biography of a Venetian. Jamie Sanders was selected to receive the James Alexander Robertson Prize for his article entitled "'Citizens of a Free People': Popular Liberalism and Race in Nineteenth-Century Southwestern Colombia," Hispanic American Historical Review, 84:2 (May 2004). The Robertson Prize is for the best article in the Hispanic American Historical Review for the year under review. The University of Press of Colorado has published Colleen O'Neill's book coedited with Brian Hosmer. It is called Native Pathways: American Indian Culture and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century. Mark Damen, Associate Professor of History, presented the commencement speech this year at Utah State's graduation ceremony on December 18, the first ever held at the end of Fall term. Professor Mick Nicholls was featured in the December 6th edition of The Utah Statesman, the student newspaper of Utah State University. Christopher Conte, Associate Professor of History, recently published Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania's Usambara Highlands. This book is part of the Ecology and History series put out by Ohio University Press. Oxford's Blackwell Publishing has recently released The Blackwell Companion to Tudor Britain, a collection of essays co-edited by Robert Tittler and Norm Jones, the Chair of the History Department. Jamie Sanders' book, Contentious Republicans: Popular Politics, Race, and Class in Nineteenth-Century Colombia, has recently been published by Duke University Press and is for sale at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and The Duke University Press. Leonard Rosenband was selected Researcher of the Year for 2004 by the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Utah State University. An audio course (Roman History) by Frances Titchener is currently available from the Listener's College Division of Recorded Books. Susan O. Shapiro was given a Top Professor Award by the Mortar Board Senior Honor Society of Utah State University on March 23, 2004. Jennifer Ritterhouse is a Visiting Fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah, for the academic year 2004-5. |
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