Faculty News
April 15, 2009
Jessica Goldberg has been selected for membership in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for 2009-10, under the auspices of the Mellon Fellowships for Assistant Professors. She will be pursuing research for a new project comparing the economic strategies and geographic reach of European and Islamic merchants in the twelfth century. Jessica has also been awarded the Charles Ludwig Distinguished Teaching Award by the College. The recipient is chosen by the undergraduates and is awarded to an SAS faculty member "who has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to the engagement of students as active and interactive participants in the learning process."
Phoebe Kropp has received an ACLS/Oscar Handlin Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for 2009-10, and has been appointed Assistant Professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Walter McDougall has been awarded the Athenaeum Literary Award for the best book by a Philadelphia author, for Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877 (to be awarded May 6th).
Kristen Stromberg Childers was awarded the Gold Family Research Fellowship at the National Humanities Center.
April 8, 2009
Ann Moyer has been awarded an I Tatti Visiting Professorship for the spring 2010 semester. She will be in residence at the Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, in Florence, Italy.
April 6, 2009
Thomas J. Sugrue is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History which will be awarded on April 23, 2009.
October 8, 2008
Kathleen Brown has been named President of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians for a three year term (culminating in the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women in June 2011).
October 3, 2008
NOW AVAILABE FROM PENN PRESS:
The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State
Michael B. Katz
This updated edition of Professor Katz's seminal work, The Price of Citizenship, traces the evolution of the welfare state from colonial relief programs through the war on poverty and into our own age. It argues that in the last decades America has been propelled toward a future of increased inequality and decreased security.
September 18, 2008
Thomas Max Safley, Professor of Early Modern European Economic and Social History, has been awarded the Pro Suebia 2008 prize by the Dr. Eugen Liedl Foundation, one of Germany's foremost associations for the promotion of learning and culture. Pro Suebia is foundation's award for scholarship, given for his two-volume history of early modern poverty and charity, which is currently being published in German translation.
July 31, 2008
Bruce Lenthall, Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, has won the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's 2008 History Division Book Award for his book, Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture.
May 6, 2008
Daniel K. Richter, has been appointed to the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Chair in History. Professor Richter is also Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. The Kahn term chairs were established through a bequest by Mr. and Mrs. Edmund J. Kahn. Mr. Kahn was a 1925 Wharton graduate who had a highly successful career in the oil and natural gas industry. Louise Kahn, his wife, was a graduate of Smith College who worked for Newsweek and owned an interior design firm. The couple contributed to many programs and projects at Penn, including Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, the Modern Languages College House, and other initiatives and scholarships in the humanities.
Graduate Student News
April 15, 2009
Sarah van Beurden has received an in-residence research and writing fellowship from the Institute for Historical Studies at UTexas Austin for Spring 2010.
April 8, 2009
Mate Tokic (PhD 2007), after completing postdocs in Florence and Berlin, has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship in modern European history at the American University in Cairo.
March 30, 2009
Chase Richards has been awarded a Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Graduate Scholarship to do his research in Germany next year.
March 25, 2009
Juan Ponce has received a John Carter Brown Research Fellowship.
Patrick Spero has accepted a two-year Pew Post-doc in Early American Studies at the American Philosophical Society.
March 23, 2009
Matthew Gaetano has received a year-long fellowship from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for research in Venice and the Veneto.
Andrew Berns has won a summer research grant from the Delmas Foundation.
Dan Amsterdam will be a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge next year.
March 10, 2009
James DeLorenzi has received a tenure-track position in African/World history at CUNY.
Karen Tani has been named a Dean's Scholar for 2008-09. The School of Arts and Sciences makes a very few of these awards to recognize outstanding graduate students for their academic performance and intellectual promise.
March 3, 2009
Sarah van Beurden, who received multiple job offers this year, has accepted a tenure-track position in African history at Ohio State.
Chase Richards has won the prestigious year-long research fellowship from the Studienstiftung des Abgeordnetenhauses von Berlin (Berlin House of Representatives) for research on his dissertation on post-1848 German intellectuals and the popular press.
Katherine Sedgwick has been awarded a research fellowship by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Sedgwick will conduct research at the New York Public Library for her dissertation, "The Meaning of Truth and the Purpose of Higher Education: Religion, Curriculum, and Pedagogy, 1850-1930." The Gilder Lehrman Institute awards short-term fellowships to doctoral candidates, postdoctoral scholars, and independent scholars to conduct work in archives in New York City. Sedgwick is one of twenty-nine Gilder Lehrman Fellows for 2009. The Gilder Lehrman Institute has funded a total of 550 fellowships since 1994.
February 26, 2009
Jennifer Rodgers has been honored with an Institutional Achievement Award by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for her work as a team leader on the International Tracing Service Project.
January 30, 2009
Katie Paugh has accepted a tenure-track appointment at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
