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News:
"Professor fights subpoena" History Professor Robert Proctor
The Stanford Daily (October 28, 2009)
Priya Satia's book Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East is the recipient of the 2009 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize. The American Historical Association offers the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize annually for a distinguished book by an American author in the field of European history. Together with the Leo Gershoy Award, the Adams Prize is the most important distinction bestowed by the profession in the field of European history.
Toronto National Post’s “Last link mourned”, Prof. Priya Satia comments on last WWI veteran’s passing.
Toronto National Post (August 7, 2009)
"Brilliant insights that led us astray in Iraq" by Assistant Professor Priya Satia
Financial Times (Aug 4, 2009)
Assistant Professor Priya Satia’s essay “Iraqis are too Shewd to fall for an ‘Invisible’ Occupation”
Financial Times (July 1, 2009)
Assistant Professor Priya Satia won the American Historical Association – Pacific Coast Branch’s award for the best first book in any field of history(February, 2009).
Assistant Professor Priya Satia’s essay “The Shadow of History Passes Over Pakistan”
Financial Times (May 20, 2009)
Assistant Professor Thomas Mullaney’s “The Chinese Typewriter” on The China Beat, May 14, 2009
Stanford Magazine interviewed Assistant Professor Priya Satia on “Lessons of War” in their May/June 2009 issue.
Time Magazine listed History Senior Lecturer Martin Lewis' YouTube Edu video as one of their favorites in the April 27, 2009 issue.
History: Geography of U. S. Elections
History Professor Steven Zipperstein’s article “Immersed in, and Suspicious of, Books”
The Chronicle of Higher Education (May 8,2009)
History Honors student, Stephanie Beck had an op-ed based on her Honors thesis on an earlier epidemic of the swine flu in the San Francisco Chronicle.
“When politics, and swine flu, infect health”
History Professor Steven Zipperstein on 'Rosenfeld's Lives'
Stanford Report interview (4/29/09)
Assistant Professor Priya Satia on "Britain's 'Covert Empire' in Iraq during the Mandate Era,"
interview on NPR's Worldview (WBEZ-Chicago), March 27, 2009.
History Professor James Campbell on 'Historical Consciousness'
Stanford Report interview (2/25/09)
Stanford Report video (2/25/09)
Professor Norman Naimark gave a lecture "Passing the Torch: thoughts about History, Teaching, and Mentorship" as part of the Award - Winning Teachers on Teaching series sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning. For an article on his talk visit: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2009/february4/naimark-020409.html
History major alumna Sarah B. Kleinman will head to Oxford University next fall as one of 32 Americans awarded a 2009 Rhodes Scholarship.... To read the full announcement visit:
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/december3/rhodes-120309.html
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 awarded the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal which is awarded annually to distinguished alumni of Yale University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. To read the full announcement visit: http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6074
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.
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:
Pre-Law Panel
Monday, Nov. 9th, 2009 at 12:15
Art and Architecture of Early Modern Russia Series
“A Century of Change: Russian Art and Architecture in the 17th Century ”
November 10, 2009, 12:15 p.m.
British History Lecture Series
"A Revolution in Political Economy: Party Politics and the Revolution of 1688-89 in England" a talk by Steve Pincus, Yale University
November 12, 2010 at 4:15
New Books by History Faculty
Islam and Social Change in French West Africa, by Sean Hanretta
Diverse Nations: Explorations in the History of Racial and Ethnic Pluralism, by George M. Fredrickson
Italy's Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour , Edited by Paula Findlen, Wendy Wassyng Roworth, and Catherine M. Sama
Rosenfeld's Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing, Steven J. Zipperstein
Guardians of Islam, Kathryn A. Miller
Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970, Edited by Gordon H. Chang, Mark Johnson, and Paul Karlstrom
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 Sept 25, 2009