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News:
George M. Fredrickson, Edgar E. Robinson Professor of United States History emeritus, passed away unexpectedly on February 25, 2008. Fredrickson, an eminent historian of race relations, earned a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1964. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1985 and served as President of the Organization of American Historians in 1997-98. Fredrickson was a faculty member at Stanford University from 1984 until his retirement in 2002.
Assistant Professor Zephyr L. Frank’s article, “Cities and Wealth in the South Atlantic: Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro before 1860,” co-written with Lyman Johnson, has won the Conference Prize for best article of 2006 from the Conference on Latin American History, as well as the Sturgis Leavitt Award for best article from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies.
Assistant Professor J.P. Daughton's book An Empire Divided has been awarded two book prizes: the Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize of the French Colonial Historical Society for best book on French colonialism published in 2006, and the George Louis Beer Prize for the best book in International History, from the American Historical Association.
Professor David M. Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Co-Director of the Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West at Stanford University, has been named the 2007 Leadership Dialogue Scholar by the Australian American Leadership Dialogue, a private organization based in Australia with the mission to strengthen the political, economic, and cultural ties between Australia and the United States. Professor Kennedy delivered a series of lectures entitled “The Emerging Dominance of the American West in the Economy, Culture & Politics of the United States." He will also be the keynote speaker at the West Coast Leadership Dialogue held at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, January 17-18, 2008.
Congratulations to Priya Satia whose article, "The Defense of Inhumanity: Air Control and the British Idea of Arabia" (American Historical Review, vol. 111: Feb. 2006) just won the North American Conference for British Studies Walter D. Love Prize for the best article in any field of British history in 2006.
Professor Al Camarillo was selected in June as one of the "Top Ten Hispanic Educators in Silicon Valley" and as one of the "100 Most Influential Hispanics." He and other honorees were presented awards at the Red Carpet Gala event sponsored by the Mexican American Community Services Agency, the leading Latino non-profit organization in Santa Clara County.
Events:
Admit Weekend History Department Open House - Several History department faculty who currently teach in the Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) program will welcome students and parents from 1:45-3:00. They will describe their IHUM courses as well as the History curriculum and answer questions about the numerous opportunities offered by the department.
Date: April 25, 2008
Time: 1:45 - 3:00
Location: Lane History Corner, Building 200, room 302
Department of History Diploma Ceremony
Date: June 15, 2008 - Sunday
New Books by History Faculty
Spies in Arabia, Priya Satia
Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?, James J. Sheehan
The First Day of the Blitz, Peter Stansky
The Essential Feminist Reader, edited by Estelle B. Freedman
Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges, edited by Jerry H. Bentley, Renate Bridenthal and Karen Wigen
The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750-1900, Caroline Winterer
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (History of Imperial China), Mark Edward Lewis
Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science, edited by Jessica Riskin
Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa, edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily Lynn Osborn, and Richard L. Roberts
Brazil since 1980 , Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein
From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000, edited by Zephyr Frank, Carlos Marichal and Steven Topik
The Worlds of S. An-Sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century with CD, edited by Gabriella Safran and Steven J. Zipperstein
An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism,
1880-1914, J.P. Daughton
For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia, Robert D. Crews
Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics, by Estelle B. Freedman
The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel 1993-2005, by Joel Beinin & Rebecca L. Stein
Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture, Edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Kennell Jackson
The Flood Myths of Early China by Mark Edward Lewis
Last updated March 24, 2008