Faculty:

David Ekbladh participated in a Panel Discussion on Foreign Aid and Contemporary Affairs, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, February 2006
                                   
Kathleen Franz was invited to present, “Tinkering, or Design From the Bottom Up," on March 17, 2006. Presentation with Henry Petroski, Duke University, on the topic “To Engineer is Human,” for the North Carolina A&T Science and Technology Forum. She was also a discussant for “Orphan Works: New Prospects for a Solution.” Panel discussion of copyright law and fair use. Feb. 24, 2006, Washington College of Law.

April Shelford's book, Apollo's Children: Pierre-Daniel Huet and the Transformation of the Republic of Letters in Seventeenth-century France, has been accepted for publication by the University of Rochester Press.

Graduate Students

Public History Students: An announcement was made on ABC News Channel 8 on Friday, February 10th about AU students who held a fundraiser to help save the Brewmaster’s Castle on New Hampshire Avenue. It’s the most intact, late-Victorian home in the nation, and was home to the Washington Historical Society. “A special thanks to Kathy Franz, Priya Chhaya and Linda Neylon, who organized the event, and to all the public history students who served as docents.”

Alumni/ae

Eric Weinstein, a CAS graduate, has shared in the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. Eric Weinstein received a bachelor's degree in medieval history with a minor in psychology in 1970 from American University. He now works for the IAEA, which won the prize and has donated the money to charity.

Liz Stewart, a recent PhD studet, is leaving her position at the Banneker-Douglas Museum in Annapolis to become director of the Renton (Washington) Historical Museum.

Robert J. Wilensky, a former PhD student, received a very good for his book, Military Medicine to Win Hearts and Minds:  Aid to Civilians in the Vietnam War. (Modern Southeast Asia Series. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2004) in H-net by Frank B. Poyas from the U.S. Army Medical Department.