Twenty-fourstudents 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, 2010Studio Art and History
Abraham's Vision - The Balkans
Theodore Waddelow, 2011History and Politics
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC
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Michael Fisher spoke April 9 on Competing Racial Concepts in India at the University of Southern California in its special Uncommon Conversations series.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * Columbia University Press (New York) and C. Hurst (London) will be publishing 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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The results of the 2009 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship were announced Friday morning at the NSF web site. Oberlin had four winners: Peter Collopy, Tera Levin, David Smith, and Alexander Nichols. Peter Collopy graduated with highest honors in 2007 with a major in history. He is now pursuing graduate studies in the history and sociology of science at University of Pennsylvania.
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“From the Lovings to the Obamas: Interracial Marriage, Multiracial Families, and America’s Racial Future,” to be presented by Renee Romano at The Humanities and the Family: A Conference, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, March 13, 2009
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“A Really Long ‘Long Civil Rights Movement’? Memory Work and the Struggle for Racial Equality,” to be presented by Renee Romano at the Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics, Memories Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Southern Oral History Program, April 4 2009.
"Crises of Memory? African American Memory and Identity in the Recent Past," keynote address by Renee Romano to be Presented at the African American Memory and Identity since 1941 Conference, Yale University, April 10, 2009.
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Renee Romano has also been 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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History major Theodore Waddelow participated in the first international conference on Philippine-Latin American Studies, December 15-17, 2008, organized by the Philippine Academic Consortium for Latin American Studies, and sponsored by the University of the Philippines, the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (University of the City of Manila), and the City Government of Manila. The conference brought together scholars from around the world, and from a variety of fields, all presenting papers that addressed historical and contemporary connections between the Philippines and Latin America, stemming from their common Spanish colonial heritage. He presented a paper, "Creating a New World: Non-State Spatial Constructions of the Manila Galleon Trade." In addition to the formal academic presentations, the conference speakers visited to the historic Intramuros of Manila, and several art museums with relevance to the conference themes.
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Michael Fisher has been elected Chair of the Program Committee of the American Historical Association, selecting and coordinating the panels and presentations for the AHA National Meeting to be held in Boston, January 6-9, 2011.
Michael Fisher will speak THURS., APRIL 9, 4 P.M. on Competing Racial Concepts in India at the University of Southern California in its special Uncommon Conversations series, Intellectual Commons, Doheny Memorial Library.
http://college.usc.edu/tcc/uncommon.html
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Michael Fisher has been elected Vice-President of the American Institute for Indian Studies. The AIIS is a consortium of more than 30 colleges and universities and is the premier funding agency for language training, doctoral research, and post-doctoral research in India.
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Leonard V. Smith, Frederick B. Artz Professor of History, is presently on leave 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.
