Faculty News
May 5, 2008
David Ruderman, Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Jewish History, won the 2008 Charles Ludwig Distinguished Teaching Prize. The award was established by the College Alumni Society in memory of their long-time president, Charles Ludwig, and is given to recognize a School of Arts and Sciences' standing faculty member who has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to the engagement of students as active and interactive participants in the learning process.
Sarah Igo, Associate Professor of History, is a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Book Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems for her book The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public. This annual award honors "Mills's dedication to a search for a sophisticated understanding of the individual and society." The C. Wright Mills Award will be presented on Friday, August 1, 2008 at the Awards Banquet.
April 23, 2008
Eiichiro Azuma, Associate Professor of History, is the recipient of the Dr. Gloria Twine Chisum Award for Distinguished Faculty of the James Brister Society. The award is based on community leadership and commitment to promoting diversity at Penn. Professor Azuma will be honored at a reception on May 2, 4:30-6:00 in Houston Hall, Class of '49 Room.
April 12, 2008
Peter Holquist, Associate Professor of History, has received a grant to study at the School for Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, research support from the the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and an ACLS / SSRC / NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship.
Sarah Igo, Associate Professor of History, has received a Penn Humanities Forum Mellon Research Fellowship.
Beth Wenger, Katz Family Associate Professor of American Jewish History, has received a Penn Humanities Forum Mellon Research Fellowship.
Robert St. George, Associate Professor of History, has received a Weiler Faculty Research Fellowship.
Ronald Granieri, Assistant Professor of History, has been awarded the College of General Studies Distinguished Teaching Prize.
March 28, 2008
Ann Moyer, Associate Professor of History, has been awarded a Summer Stipend by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
March 12, 2008
Sarah Igo, Associate Professor of History, won the 2008 Cheiron Book Prize from the International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences for her book The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public.
Eiichiro Azuma, Associate Professor of History, has been selected as the Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas for the 2008-09 academic year.
January 31, 2008
Phoebe S. Kropp, Assistant Professor of History, received Honorable Mention in consideration for the 2007 Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Awards Advancing Human Rights for, California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place.
January 23, 2008
Beth Wenger, Katz Family Associate Professor of American Jewish History, is a National Jewish Book Award finalist for, The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America. This book is the companion volume to the three-night documentary, The Jewish Americans, airing throughout January on PBS.
October 4, 2007
Thomas Max Safely, Professor of History, was awarded a prize by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, "in recognition of his scholarship in the field of early modern German history and his contribution to scholarly cooperation with German colleagues."
July 23, 2007
Walter Licht was named to the Walter H. Annenberg Professorship of History as of July 1. The announcement was made by the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Rebecca Bushnell, who said: "This appointment recognizes Walter's distinguished and wide-ranging achievements: his highly-regarded scholarship on labor and economic history, his award-winning teaching, and his exemplary citizenship over the many years that he has served in a long list of leadership roles across Penn."
Graduate Student News
May 1, 2008
Francesca Bregoli will be Assistant Professor, tenure-track, of Jewish History at Queens College - CUNY this fall, at the conclusion of her post-doc in Oxford University.
April 17, 2008
James Delorenzi will be Visiting Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice - CUNY.
Alan Allport (Ph.D., 2007) has a lectureship in history at Princeton University.
April 14, 2008
Merlin Chowkwanyun and Nicole Turner, each won a 2008 Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students.
April 11, 2008
Joanna Cohen has won a fellowship for 2008-09 from the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism.
April 8, 2008
D'Maris Coffman and Matthew Gaetano are each winners of the SAS Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching for the 2007-08 academic year. These awards recognize graduate student teaching that is intellectually rigorous and exceptionally coherent, and has had an unusually great impact on students.
Congratulations to the following recipients of fellowship and funding awards:
March 21-April 2, 2008
Sam Hirst (for the academic year 2008-09) and Marie Brown (for summer 2008) have won Middle East FLAS Fellowships.
Karen Tani has won a two-year George Sharswood Fellowship from the Law School
Yaroslav Prykhodko and Brian Rouleau have won SAS Dissertation Research grants for travel and other research expenses
Kate Sedgwick has won an SAS 2008-09 Dissertation Research Fellowship along with a travel/research grant
Charlie Sharpe and Leander Seah have won Penfield Fellowships
Erin Park Cohn has won a Critical Writing Teaching Fellowship
Kim Gallon has won a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Dissertation Completion Grant from the University of the South.
Adrian O'Connor and Erik Mathisen have each won SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowships.
Congratulations to the following graduates for their success on the job market:
March 21-April 2, 2008
D'Maris Coffman has won a three-year Research Fellowship at Newnham College, Cambridge University.
Yaacob Dweck has been awarded postdoctoral fellowship in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University.
Leah Gordon has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship at Stanford University, in the School of Education.
Sarah Manekin will hold a Lectureship in Expository Writing at Johns Hopkins University.
Chung-chen Ni is Assistant Professor of History at Kaidong University, Taiwan.
Alex Novikoff will be a tenure-track assistant professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
Kyle Roberts will be Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown University.
November 5, 2007
Debra Kaplan, who received her Ph.D. in History at Penn in 2004, has been named Professor of the Year by the student body of Yeshiva College, where she is an Assistant Professor of History. Read more.
October 4, 2007
Erin Park Cohn won the 2007 Gene Wise - Warren Susman Prize for the best graduate student paper to be presented at the American Studies Association annual conference.
August 2, 2007
Patrick Spero was awarded a Society of the Cincinnati and Marguerite Bartlett Hamer Fellowship from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. He has been named as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Patrick has also won an Andrew Mellon Research Fellowship from the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, A David Library of the American Revolution Research Fellowship, the Jacob price Fellowship from Clements Library at the University of Michigan and an Andrew Mellon Fellowship from the Virginia Historical Society.
Anne Oravetz Albert won a 2007-2008 Dissertation Grant from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.
May 22, 2007
Agnieszka Marczyk and Ricardo Howell were both winners of the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students.
Sarah Manekin won a Spencer Dissertation Fellowship and an SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2007-08. Sarah has also won a dissertation fellowship from the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.
Jo Cohen won fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and the Library Company of Philadelphia, and an SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
Patrick Spero won both an SAS Dissertation Completion Fellow and a Critical Writing Fellowship.
Agnieszka Marczyk, James DeLorenzi, Ellie Schainker, Yaacob Dweck, and Adrian O'Connor have won SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships.
Emily Fisher Gray accepted a tenure-track position in European history at Norwich University in Vermont.
Jennifer Schaaf accepted a position at Penn State Abington.
Three history graduate students have been awarded Dissertation Fellowships at Penn's Center for Africana Studies for 2007-2008: Kim Gallon, Leah Gordon, and Clem Harris.
Julia Rabig, has been awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study of African American Politics at the University of Rochester for 2007-2008.
Mate Tokic has been awarded a Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellowship at the European University Institute's Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in Florence Italy.
John H. Roper, Jr. won a DAAD Reserach Grant to fund his dissertation research in Berlin, Germany for 2007-08.
Susan Epting won a DAAD Scholarship to attend an 8-week intensive language course at the Goethe-Institut in Berlin, Germany this summer.
Nicole Maurantonio, Eric Taylor, James DeLorenzi, and Anne Oravetz Albert have been awarded 2007-08 Quinn Fellowships. The Quinn Foundation has recently increased its dissertation completion fellowships for the Department of History from four semester-long grants to six.
Leander Seah won a Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship Singapore to conduct research in Singapore this summer.
