Faculty News
May 2, 2006
Thomas J. Sugrue was named one of the Top Young Historians by the History News Network for his research in twentieth-century American politics, urban history and race relations.
E. Ann Matter has been appointed as the Associate Dean for Arts and Letters, effective July 1, 2006.
April 18, 2006
Walter Licht and Michael Katz will be honored at the awards ceremony of the convention of the OAH this coming Saturday, April 22.
Thomas Sugrue's essay "Affirmative Action from Below" will be published in The Best American History Essays 2006 (Palgrave Macmillan). In this debut volume, former OAH and AHA president Joyce Appleby has gathered ten of the best American history essays and articles from over three hundred learned and popular journals published in the last year. The volume will be released at the upcoming meeting of the OAH in Washington.
April 18, 2006
David Ruderman has just been elected Sackler Scholar at Tel Aviv University, an appointment "with no official duties" at the Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute for Advanced Studies, for a three year term, 2007-09, a residency of about a month each year.
Alan Charles Kors will be the recipient of this year's Charles Ludwig Distinguished Teaching Award, a prize conveyed by the College Alumni Society.
Steven Feierman won a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship and has been selected as a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
March 29, 2006
Ronald Granieri will be the recipient of the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Award for Distinguished Teaching by an Assistant Professor. Congratulations are in order as well as our thanks for maintaining the History Department's stellar record in teaching.
March 23, 2006
A number of our faculty have recently received fellowship awards and opportunities and congratulations are in order.
Ronald Granieri has been awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship to study in Germany next year.
Sarah Igo has been appointed a Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale.
Phoebe Kropp has been awarded a Penn Humanities Forum Mellon Faculty Research Fellowship.
Ben Nathans received a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation to pursue legal and human rights studies.
Thomas Max Safley received a Solmsen Fellowship from the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin.
Beth S. Wenger received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
March 17, 2006
Barbara Savagewon the James Brister Society Faculty Leadership Award.
February 28, 2006
Walter Licht and his co-author Thomas Dublin have received the Merle Curti Prize of the Organization of American Historians for their book, The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century. The Merle Curti Award is given annually for the best book in U.S. social, intellectual, and/or cultural history.
Febraury 13, 2006
Eiichiro Azuma will be the recipient of the 2005 Theodore Saloutos Prize awarded by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society for his book, Between Two Empires. The award is presented to the author of the most outstanding book on American immigration and ethnic history. This will be the second award for Between Two Empires.
Febraury 7, 2006
Michael Katz, Mark Stern and Jamie Fader have received the Brinkley-Stephenson Award of the Organization of American Historians for the best article published last year in the Journal of American History. Their extraordinary essay, "The New African American Inequality," appears in the June 2006 issue.
December 22, 2005
Roger Chartier has been elected to the Chair of History at the Collège de France. Election to the Collège is the highest academic honor in France. Professor Chartier's predecessors include Jules Michelet, Henri Bergson, Paul Valéry, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu. Professor Chartier is in his sixth year as Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at Penn and will remain an active member of Penn's intellectual community as a colleague, teacher, and advisor.
November 10, 2005
Alan Charles Kors received the National Humanities Medal at a ceremony at the White House, an honor for him and our profession and the Department.
October 6, 2005
Eiichiro Azuma has won the 2004-05 Hiroshi Shimizu Award from the Japanese Association for American Studies for his book, Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America.
Graduate Student News
May 2, 2006
Kyle Roberts, D'Maris Coffman, Andrew Heath, and Jennifer Schaaf, have been awarded Doris Quinn Dissertation Fellowships.
May 1, 2006
Leah Gordon has won a Spencer Dissertation Fellowship.
Kyle Farley, who will graduate in May, will receive the President and Provost's Citation for Exceptional Commitment to Graduate and Professional Student Life.
April 28, 2006
Katherine Paugh and Jennifer Schaaf have received Marguerite Bartlett Hamer Fellowships from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies—Katie for the 2006-2007 academic year, and Jen for the fall 2006 semester.
Dan Amsterdam was inaugural winner of Hugh Davis Graham Travel Award from the Institute for Political History. Dan was selected from more than seventy applicants.
April 11, 2006
John H. Roper, Jr. has won a 2006 Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students.
April 3, 2006
Leah Gordon has won a Charlotte B. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship for 2006-07.
March 30, 2006
Rene Luis Alvarez has won a critical Writing Teaching Fellowship for 2006-07.
Kim Gallon has won a Women's Studies/Alice Paul Center Dissertation Fellowship for 2006-07.
March 28, 2006
Francesca Bregoli, Leah Gordon and Kim Sambol-Tosco are winners of SAS Dissertation Fellowships for 2006-07.
March 27, 2006
Sarah Manekin for winning a School of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching for the 2005-2006 academic year. These awards are presented annually to graduate students in the arts and sciences to recognize their contributions to teaching at the undergraduate level. The awards seek to recognize teaching that is intellectually rigorous, exceptionally coherent, and has had considerable impact on students.
Job Market News:
Michael Clapper, Assistant Professor, School of Education, St. Joseph's University
Gregory Downs, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, CCNY
Christopher Klemek, Assistant Professor, George Washington University
Rebecca Kobrin, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Columbia University
Alison Shah, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, University of Colorado-Denver
