Twenty-four students receive funding to intern in 8 U.S. states and 6 countries.
The Office of Career Services has announced the selection of twenty-four 2009 Summer Internship Stipend awardees. Please join us in congratulating the following student recipients from the history department.
Katherine Gleysteen, 2010
Art History & History
Design New England & Boston Center for the Arts - Boston, MA
Maia Brown, 2010
Studio Art and History
Abraham's Vision - The Balkans
Theodore Waddelow, 2011
History and Politics
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC
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Columbia University Press (New York), C. Hurst (London), and Cambridge (New Delhi) have published the latest book
by Michael H. Fisher, entitled The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Anglo
Indian MP and Chancery Lunatic" http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-70108-2/the-inordinately-strange-life
-of-dyce-sombre This complex and engaging biography studies the life and
meaning of an Indian of mixed ancestry, D. O. Dyce Sombre (1808-51),
the first Asian ever elected to the British Parliament and a putative
lunatic.
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Julia Brown-Bernstein, doing honors in History, just found out she was awarded a research Fulbright to Chile!
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Renee Romano is active on the May 4th Visitor's Center Advisory Board to help folks at Kent State University design a visitor's center dedicated to the May 4th, 1970 shooting of 4 students there.
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Michael Fisher is presenting a scholarly talk on “Venturing across the Kālā Pānī to Britain for Hindus in the 18th and 19th centuries” at Harvard University’s Center for the Study of World Religions on October 27 at 7:30pm.
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Leonard V. Smith, Frederick B. Artz Professor of History, is beginning a new book on the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. His article, "Wilsonian Sovereignty in the Middle East: The King-Crane Commission Report of 1919," was just published in Luise White and Douglas Howland, eds., The State of Sovereignty: Territories, Laws, Populations (Indiana University Press, 2009). Next month, he will appear in a French television documentary on Philippe Pétain, World War I general and head of the Vichy regime during World War II. The documentary will be aired on the Franco-German television channel Arte.
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Gary Kornblith and Carol Lasser's coedited volume, Teaching American History: Essays Adapted from The Journal of American History, 2001-2007, was published by Bedford/St. Martin's Press in January 2009. Drawn from their work for the "Textbooks and Teaching" section of the Journal of American History, Kornblith and Lasser's new book has, to their surprise and pleasure, drawn hostile fire from Fox News. Click here to see the relevant segment of Fox & Friends.
