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Publication: Michael Chang

Paula Petrik — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:48:36 +0000

The books just keep coming. Last week Michael Chang’s book, A Court on Horseback: Imperial Touring and the Construction of Qing Rule, 1680-1785 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2007), was released by Harvard University Press. The dust jacket and description are available, and anyone who might be interested, the front matter and introduction (PDF format) are also available. Congratulations on your first book, Michael!

Alumni Event: Mount Vernon Tour

Paula Petrik — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:55:39 +0000

The History & Art History Alumni Chapter invites all alumni to tour George Washington’s historic Mount Vernon! Mount Vernon has recently undergone a tremendous renovation and has a new museum and visitor’s center. The chapter will host special guest Dr. Peter Henriques, a retired Mason professor of history, and author of the recent book, George Washington, Realistic Visionary. In addition to touring the mansion and property, guests will be able to attend a lecture titled “Realistic Visionary, The Leadership of George Washington,” and have questions answered by Dr. Henriques at 10:30 a.m. in the Smith Auditorium at Mount Vernon. Cost for this event is $15 per person. Payment is needed prior to the event.

Publication: Mack Holt

Paula Petrik — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:53:31 +0000

Mack Holt has been busy with several publications. In the book department he has the following either in bookstores or in the pipeline: Mack P. Holt ., ed., Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2006); Mack P. Holt, ed., Adaptations of Calvinism in Reformation Europe: Essays in Honour of Brian G. Armstrong (London: Ashgate Press, forthcoming 2007). He also has two recent articles: “Philippe Duplessis-Mornay et le sacrement de la Cène,” in Hugues Daussy et Véronique Ferrer, eds., Servir Dieu, le roi et l’état: Philippe Duplessi-Mornay, 1549-1623 (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2006), 101-111 and “Europe Divided: Wine, Beer, and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Europe,” in Mack P. Holt, ed., Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2006), 25-40.

Tidbits

Paula Petrik — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:57:47 +0000

Congratulations to Matt Romaniello (Russian) and Mary Gayne (early modern Europe), both Western Civilizaton post-doctoral fellows, who will be taking up tenure-track positions for next year. Matt will join the History Department at the University of Hawaii and Mary Gayne will be “down the road” at James Madison University.

Publication: Kelly Schrum, Eleanor Greene, & Sarah Whelan

Paula Petrik — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:17:47 +0000

Again, in the most recent issue of the AHA Perspectives, the Teaching American History team at the Center for History & New Media report on their problems and prospects of using primary sources in the secondary classroom.

Publication: Zachary Schrag

Paula Petrik — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:10:52 +0000

In the most recent issue of the AHA Perspectives, Zach Schrag takes a look at the training required by institutional review boards for his oral historians in “Ethical Training for Oral Historians” and argues that the training is not appropriate for historians on several counts.

Awards: Claudia Verhoeven

Paula Petrik — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:24:13 +0000

Claudia Verhoeven received a Jean Monnet Fellowship for the academic year, 2007–2008 and will be in residence at the European University, Florence, Italy. A hat tip to Claudia

Publication: Michele Greet

Paula Petrik — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:16:12 +0000

Michele Greet has been awarded the Hazel Junior Faculty Award and the Allan and Gwen Nelson travel grant for work on her book manuscript “Beyond National Identity: Pictorial Indigenism as a Modernist Strategy in Andean Art, 1920-1960.” She has also published two articles this year and gave a lecture at The Art Musuem of the Americas, entitled “From Matta to Gego: Modes of Abstraction in Latin America.” Articles published: “Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris in the 1920s.” Global Studies Review, Fall 2006, vol. 2, no. 2 and “Pintar la nación indígena como una estrategia modernista en la obra de Eduardo Kingman,” Revista de Historia Procesos , Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. no. 23, Spring 2006.

Presentation: Sheila ffolliott

Paula Petrik — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:12:53 +0000

Sheila ffolliott presented a paper, “European Women Patrons of Art and Architecture, c. 1500-1650: Some Patterns,” as part of a seminar entitled “Renaissance Women as Collectors and Patrons of Art and Culture” that took place at the University of Copenhagen, 21 September 2006. The seminar was part of the “Golden Days” festival (throughout Denmark), focusing this year on the Danish Renaissance. She also participated in the first session of the Medici-Frauen Interdisziplinär: Soziale Rollen, kultureller Transfer, mäzenatisches Oeuvre (Interdisciplinary Network on the Social Roles, Cultural Transfer, and Patronage Activity of Medici Women).

Publication: Sumaiya Hamdani

Paula Petrik — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:35:30 +0000

In her first book, Sumaiya Hamdani, director of Islamic Studies and associate professor of history, analyzes the writings of the revolutionary 10th-century Muslim theologian and jurist Qadi al-Nu’man. The book is called Between Revolution and State: The Path to Fatimid Statehood: Qadi al-Nu’man and the Construction of Fatimid Legitimacy and is published by the Institute for Isma’ili Studies and I.B. Tauris. Hamdani examines the role of al-Nu’man in founding a new legal school, which presented Muslims in the medieval period with an Isma’ili Shi’ite alternative to the Sunni ’Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad.