Faculty:

Valerie French delivered a paper entitled, "Gender and Childrearing in the Ancient Mediterranean," at the Missouri River Valley History Conference in Omaha.

Laura Kamoie received the Betty Sams Christian Fellowship in Business and Economic History from the Virginia Historical Society for research on planter enterprise in colonial Virginia. Kamoie was also nominated for Faculty Member of the Year by the General Assembly of the Student Confederation.

Ira Klein won the University Award for Outstanding Teaching in the General Education Program.

Peter Kuznick was nominated for Faculty Member of the Year by the General Assembly of the Student Confederation. Kuznick was interviewed by Agence France Press on contradictions in US popular opinion on war with Iraq; by Washingtonian Magazine about Oliver Stone's America for an article on the most interesting courses in DC-area universities; and by Washington Post on campus anti-war sentiment. Kuznick also organized a large teach-in on the war in Iraq, held on March 22. His event was covered live by C-Span, and also by NBC, ABC, Fox 5, Dutch TV, Swiss TV, Nation magazine, Washington Post, Washington Times, Indy Media, OneWorld.net, Peoples Vide Network, and WBAI Radio.

Andrew Lewis received the Barra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies for AY '03-'04. In March, he gave an informal lunch talk entitled, "Nineteenth-Century Scientific Opinion of Lewis and Clark," at the McNeil Center.

Allan Licthman was quoted in many newspapers across the country on the Bush administration, war in Iraq, and the 2004 presidential campaign.

Anna Nelson was quoted in the New York Times and an AP article on Bush Executive Order on National Security documents; NPR also interviewed her on this issue.

April Shelford published "Thinking Geometrically in Pierre-Daniel Huet's Demonstratio Evangelica (1679)," in the Journal of the History of Ideas (March 2003). She also had an article accepted for publication by Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture entitled, "Sea Tales: Nature and Liberty in an English Seaman's Journal." In March, she gave a paper entitled, "Poetry and Patronage: Neo-Latin Verse and Making of a Citizen of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters," at the Renaissance Society of America Conference. She also chaired a panel at that conference on "Historicizing Renaissance Criticism and Historiography." Shelford was also elected to the Governing Council of the Western Society for French History.

Robert Beisner, Emeriti, published two articles: "The Secretary, the spy, and the Sage: Dean Acheson, Alger Hiss, and George Kennan," in Diplomatic History 27(1) (January 2003); and, "Wrong from the Beginning: Dean Acheson's Jaundiced View of the U.N.," in Weekly Standard 8:26 (March 17, 2003), 27-29.

Students:

Matthew Clavin received two fellowships for his dissertation research: 1) Short-term fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society; 2) Virginia Historical Society Fellowship.

Jeffrey Cox was featured in an article on CAS Student Research Stars about his tehsis on the US Navy War Memorial, CAS Connections, February 2003.

Caridad de la Vega received a full-time position at the National Historic Landmarks Survey.

Anne Marisic received a summer internship at the Newport Historical Society.

Danielle Snyder received a position as Librarian Assistant at Mount Vernon.

Alumni:

Sara Reef (BA '02) was accepted into the Jewish Studies graduate program at Brandeis.

Anne Foster (BA) was appointed Assistant Professor of History at Indiana State University; she had been Assistant Professor at St. Anselm.

Amy Shapiro (BA) developed her senior thesis into a book on the life of Millicent Fenwick, the congresswoman from New Jersey, 1974-1982.