STEM boosters take note: history knows microscopes! Ryan Patterson, a student in Charles Upchurch's Gender, Class, and Sexuality course last spring, is the recipient of this year's North American Conference on British Studies Undergraduate Essay Award.
News and Features
Ben Weider Professor Darrin McMahon has published Divine Fury: A History of Genius (Basic Books).
Robert Gellately, Earl Ray Beck Professor of History, was interviewed by Marshall Poe about his new book Stalin's Curse. The interview is available here, and there are many more available on the New Books in History podcast.
On November 1, US Air Force Colonel Terrance J. McCaffrey III will lecture on “Rising China—Responsible Stakeholder or Nascent Enemy? US-China Policy from a Military Perspective,” and on November 13, Anthony Austin will lecture on "A Teenager in Occupied Japan."
The history department is delighted to welcome Annika Culver, our new East Asian specialist.
Weston Nunn, a PhD candidate, has been awarded a Walbolt Dissertation Fellowship for his proposal entitled "Between State and Peasantry: The Dynamics of Military Administration in Volunteer-Occupied Russia, 1918-21."
Professor Suzanne Sinke is spending the spring semester of 2013 at the University of Salzburg as a Fulbright scholar.