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News Items
April 2006
Faculty:
Eileen Findlay has won the University's Alice Paul Award, an annual award to an AU student, faculty or staff member whose actions best exemplify the spirit of Alice Paul.
Kathleen Franz was invited to the International Conference: Technology and National Culture since 1918: A German-American Comparison sponsored by Saint John's University, NY and the Technical University of Berlin, Berlin July 13-14, 2006. She presented "A Blend of Spain, Mexico and Texas': Tejano Architecture and the Problems of Interpretation at San Antonio's Witte Museum.”OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting, April 21, 2006, Washington, DC. Franz also curated "David Macaulay: The Art of Drawing Architecture," Poster Session, OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting, April 21, 2006, Washington, DC. Poster session will present a digital walkthrough of the 3,000 sq. ft. exhibit scheduled to open at the National Building Museum in February 2006.
Peter Kuznick did an interview with Polityka, Poland's largest weekly newsmagazine, on whether recently conservative sexual trends in the U.S. are consistent with attitudes and patterns throughout U.S. history. In March, while in Vietnam, Dan Ellsberg, Michael Mass, the students, and Peter were interviewed by a number of reporters. Peter was personally interviewed by the Viet-My, Tienphong, and Laodong newspapers and by Voice of Vietnam Radio. Most of the coverage, including in the Vietnam News, focused on Dan Ellsberg. Laodong ran a two-part series that included a photo of Dan, Michael, and Peter, as well as coverage of the meeting.
Andrew Lewis: Asher Jacob Lewis was born to Andrew Lewis and his wife Nancy on Wednesday the 8th of March!
Pamela Nadell co-author, Three-Hundred and Fifty Years: An Album of American Jewish Memory, (American Jewish Historical Society and Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, 2005). She was a historical consultant for the TV documentary And the Gates Opened; the documentary has won an Emmy in best religious programming.
Nadell was also invited to present her paper, “The Power to Transform: Women and American Judaism,” for the conference “New Scholarship on Women and Judaism,” Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 19 February 2006. She gave the lecture, “Yentl,” for the National Foundation for Jewish Culture “American Jewish Icons” national lecture series, at the Jewish Community Center of Manhattan, 24 January 2006. Among Nadell's other accomplishments:
April Shelford presented a paper, "Birds of a Feather: Natural History and Male Sociability in 18th-century Jamaica," to the Seventh Symposium of the Social History Project at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, on March 18, 2006.
Graduate Students
Bryna Campbell will be starting her PhD program in American art in fall 2006 at Washington University, St. Louis. On top of the departmental fellowship that she received from the department, she was awarded a Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellowship in American Culture Studies (given out to three students a year).
Liz Suckow got a job with History Associates to work on a project with the NIH.
Cynthia Welborn got a job teaching AP history at Pendelton High School in South Carolina.
Stephanie Jacobe: An article was published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch about an exhibit that Stephanie guest curated at the Virginia Historical Society. She was interviewed for the article and nicely quoted.
Undergraduate Students
Sherry Funches was accepted into the history programs at University of Michigan, Ann Harbor and University of California, Irvine.
Alumni/ae
Angie Blake, our fairly recent PhD, who has a tenure track position at Miami of Ohio, and her partner Elspeth just had a baby boy.
Participants in the Ann Robyn Mathias Student Research Conference
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