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For AY 2007-08 Dr. Fabio Lanza will be an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faibank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University.
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In May, 2007 Dr. Roger Nichols will serve as a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the New Bulgarian University in Sophia, Bulgaria Where he will give a series of five lectures on American Western and Indian issues. Also, while there, he will critique their proposal to add a PhD program in American...
Congratulations to Fawn Amber Montoya and Denise Bates who will be receiving their Ph.D.s in U.S. History this week. They both have also landed permanent faculty positions: Fawn will be assistant professor, Chicano Studies, Colorado State University, Pueblo, and you'll find Denise at the...
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Fawn Amber Montoya published an article in Journal of the West. "From Mexicans to Citizens: Colorado Fuel and Iron's Representation of Nuevo Mexicans: 1901-1919" Journal of the West,(Winter 2006) (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, Fall 2006)
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Emily Wakild recently published an article, "Naturalizing Modernity: Urban Parks, Public Gardens and Drainage Projects in Porfirian Mexico City" in Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Vol 23: no. 1 (Winter 2007). She has also accepted a tenure-track position in the History Department at Wake Forest...
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Christopher Bischoff has been chosen to receive the Colonial Dames of the 17th Century Award for 2007.
Ms. Raven Johnson has been chosen to recieve the Department of History's Katheryn Anne Governal Perseverance Award for 2007.
Dear History students, The Department of History hosts is own Commencement Brunch and Ceremony in the fall and spring semesters. This is a separate event from the College of Social Sciences commencement. For those of you who plan on graduating in December 2006, and who would like to attend the...
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PAT members and officers held elections for 2006-07 today for next year's officers. They are:
1. PRESIDENT: Chris Bischof [this year's vice-president]
2. VICE-PRESIDENT: Allison Salazar [this year's public relations officer]
3. TREASURER: Kim Nath
Gail Bernstein's latest book, Isami's House, was chosen as one of five finalists (out of a field of 80) for the Kiriyama Prize, a book prize competition run by a Bay Area organization dedicated to encouraging cross-cultural understanding among countries in the Pacific Rim and South Asia. The...
I am writing to you from my internship at the British Museum. I am working for the British Museum Company in the BM. At the moment I am proof-reading a scholarly writing on some Egyptian papyrus called THE BANKES' LATE RAMESSIDE PAPYRI. Then I will edit the text and start laying it out along with...
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is sponsoring a traveling exhibition, "Varian Fry, Assignment Rescue: 1940 - 1941" which will be held at the Pima County Fairgrounds on April 3 - May 2, 2006. In...
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Gail Bernstein spoke on two of her books, Haruko's World, and Isami's House, at a meeting of the Barnard-in-Tucson Club on March 4.
Isami's House is one of five finalists (out of a field of 79) for the Kiriyama Book Prize.
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Cherstin Lyon, U.S. history doctoral student, has accepted a tenure track position in the history department at Cal State San Bernadino.
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Dr. Gail Bernstein's new book, Isami's House, Three Centuries of a Japanese Family and Katherine G. Morrissey's edited book, Picturing Arizona: the Photographic Record of the 1930s is noted in J.C. Martin 's column "Southern Arizona Authors" in the Sunday February 5, 2000 , issue of Arizona Daily...
The Border Institute, directed by Dr. Oscar Martines, is one of two border projects that will receive about $10,000 from a fundraiser held in El Paso on February 1 in conjuction with an advance screening of the new movie, "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada," starring Tommy Lee Jones. The...
Dr. Oscar Martinez gave a lecture on "Why is Mexico Poorer than the United States?" as part of the UA Faculty Fellows Speaker Series on January 25, 2006. This lecture was videotaped and will be shown several times on the UA Channel (Cox cable channel 19)
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Thursday, February 16, 2006 the History Department will be hosting "A Conversation with Nicholas Nicastro," at 7pm at
Clues Unlimited, A Mystery Bookstore.
The book being reviewed is "The Isle of Stone," a novel on Ancient Sparta.
Beth Henson won a highly competitive (two per year for the whole university) travel grant from Phi Beta Kappa/Honors College to participate in the Phi Alpha Theta panel at the Southwest Social Sciences Association Conference in April. She also won a Magellan Circle Scholarship through Social and...
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On January 7, in Philadelphia,Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante presented a paper at the AHA, Mexican Studies committee of the Conference on Latin American Studies, entitled, "Olympic Dreams, Tlatelolco Nightmares: Television Helps Construct International Image and Solidarity, 1968."
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Dr. David Gibbs had an article accepted for publication in Critical Asian Studies, entitled "Reassessing the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: A Delcassified History." The article will also appear in German translation, in an edited volume published by the Institute for Social Research, Hamburg. In...
Dr. Alison Futrell's publication: “The Roman Games”, will be released January 2006 by Blackwell.
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Dr. Julia Clancy-Smith has published a book titled “Exemplary Women and Sacred Journeys: Women and Gender in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam From Late Antiquity to the Eve of Modernity.” [Originally published in vol. I of Women's History in Global Perspective, ed. Bonnie G. Smith, 92-144....
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On Thursday, October 27, 2-2:45 pm, Dr. Katherine Morrissey, UA History Department, introduces her recent book "Picturing Arizona: The Photographic Records of the 1930s" and the historical context for the WPA/FAP prints on view in "Art Is Work" at the UA Museum of Art.
The Department of History's Clio Society kickoff event is scheduled for 6:00 pm, Sunday, November 6, 2005, at the Liz Hernandez Gallery, 5425 N. Kolb Rd, in Ventana Plaza, south of North Sunrise Drive. The featured Historian/Artist is David Johnson-Vandenberg. Tickets are $20. For more information...
Undergraduate Student Awards
2004-5 Outstanding Research Papers in History:
Derek Bumgarner
Joanna A. Abijaoude
2005 Governal Perseverence Award:
Lindsay Rich
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The Department of History at the University of Arizona is pleased to announce that three scholars have joined the department as Assistant Professors. Dr. Benjamin Irvin specializes in the history of the early American Republic. Two scholars from Columbia University, Dr. Miranda Spieler and Dr....
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Dr. Helen Nader's book: “Power and Gender in Renaissance Spain: Eight Women of the Mendoza Family 1450-1650" has been published by the University of Illinois Press.
Dr. Hermann Rebel: presenting a paper ("On separating memory from history: three cases and a critique") at the European Studies Council meetings in Chicago on March 9-11.
Dr. Leonard Dinnerstein: published an article: "Is There a New Anti-Semitism in the United States?" SOCIETY, 41 (January/February 2004), 53-58.
Graduate student, Deborah Kaye, was awarded a Marshall Foundation Dissertation Fellowship to finish her dissertation entitled, "Between Ghetto and State: The Jews of Piedmont, Religious Policy and Liberal Reform before the Italian Risorgimento, 1821-1831."
New Department Website is up! Please let us know your comments by clicking HERE!
Susan C. Karant-Nunn, professor of History and director of the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies at The University of Arizona, has received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for 2003-2004. She was one of 184 successful applicants out of a total of 3,282. ...
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