Faculty News
April 16, 2007
Michael Katz received the 2007 Provost's Award for Distinguished Ph.D. Teaching and Mentoring. This is a most well-deserved testimonial to Prof. Katz's near three decades of contributions to graduate education at the University and his extraordinary record in supervising prize-winning dissertation projects. Prof. Katz will receive the award at a ceremony on Monday, April 23 at 5:00.
April 5, 2007
Margo Todd is this year's recipient of the Innovative Teaching Award of the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education.
February 8, 2007
Julia Rudolph has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to study at the Folger Shakespeare Library next academic year.
Thomas Weber, who has been visiting professor for the last two years and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, has been offered Membership at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton for 2007/08.
February 1, 2007
Emeritus Professor Moshe Lewin has been honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies with the 2006 Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award—the award statement is a wonderful testimonial to Prof. Lewin's path-breaking contributions to Soviet studies.
January 23, 2007
Eiichiro Azuma will receive the Asian American Studies History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies at the association's annual meeting in early April for his Between Two Empires: Race, History,and Transnationalism in Japanese America.
December 6, 2006
Thomas Sugrue is one of two scholars selected for the 2007 Japanese Residency Program of the Organization of American Historians and the Japanese Association of American Studies. He will be based at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan in July and August 2007.
October 17, 2006
Sarah Barringer Gordon has been appointed the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law.
September 26, 2006
Sarah Igo received the President's Book Award of the Social Science History Association for her forthcoming book with Harvard University Press, The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens and the Making of a Mass Public. According to the award announcement, the prize "rewards an especially meritorious first work by a beginning scholar and is judged on the criteria of scholarly significance, interdisciplinary reach, and methodological innovativeness, within the broad category of monographs analyzing past structures and events and change over time."
September 22, 2006
Walter Licht and Thomas Dublin were awarded the Philip S. Klein Prize by the Pennsylvania Historical Association for their book, The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century (Cornell University Press, 2005). The Philip S. Klein Prize is awarded for the best book in Pennsylvania history published during the previous two years. This is the second award The Face of Decline has received. Earlier this year, the book received the Merle Curti Prize of the Organization of American Historians.
August 17, 2006
Thomas Safley spent the Summer Semester (in Europe, the equivalent of our Spring or Second Semester) 2006 as a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Cultural and Historical Studies at the Free University of Berlin.
Graduate Student News
March 26, 2007
Marie Brown who was awarded a Foreign Language Area Studies fellowship from the Middle East Center so that she may continue her studies in Arabic for the summer of 2007 at the Arabic Language Institute of the American University in Cairo and also for the academic year 2007-08 at Penn.
February 22, 2007
Dan Amsterdam, Cate Styer, and Vanessa Mongey have won Mellon Dissertations Fellowships in the Humanities in Original Sources. They are among only 13 fellows selected from 367 applications.
February 19, 2007
D'Maris Coffman and Brian Daniels have each won a Dean's Scholar Award for 2006-07. This award was established in 1984 to recognize outstanding graduate students for their academic performance and intellectual promise.
January 26, 2007
Francesca Bregoli has accepted a two-year Junior Research Fellowship in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Oxford University.
January 25, 2007
Mate Tokic has won a fellowship from the Asch Center's Sawyer Mellon Seminar Award.
January 11, 2007
Kyle Roberts has been awarded the Hench Post- Dissertation Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society for 2007-2008.
August 4, 2006
Karen Tani was selected as a Kathryn T. Preyer Scholar by the American Society for Legal History.
July 21, 2006
Conny Aust has been awarded a fellowship by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture to support her archival research in Europe during 2006-7.
June 6, 2006
Aida Gureghian won a Dolores Zohrad Liebmann Fellowship for 2006-07.
Conny Aust won an SSRC International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship for 2006-07.
May 17, 2006
Tina Collins won a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers-Newark.
