RECENT NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS

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.

The Department of History offers its congratulations!