February 2, 2012

The Department of History Newsletter is published weekly during the academic year. Copy for the next edition of the History Department Newsletter should be submitted by Thursday noon to Becky Bryant via e-mail (bryant@indiana.edu). This newsletter is also available on the History Department’s web page, at http://www.indiana.edu/~histweb/

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

In March, Donna Drucker (Ph.D. 2008) begins a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Topologie der Technik Research Training Group at the Technische Universität Darmstadt in Darmstadt, Germany.

Keith Erekson’s (Ph.D. 2008) book Everybody’s History: Indiana’s Lincoln Inquiry and the Quest to Reclaim a President’s Past has just been released by the University of Massachusetts Press. Keith is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Jeff Gould has been awarded a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton for 2012-13.

Ed Linenthal is co-editor with art historian Christiane Gruber and documentary photographer Jonathan Hyman of, A Photographer's Journey: The Landscape of 9/11, to be published by The University of Texas Press in 2013.

Amrita Myers’ book Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston has been selected as the winner of the 2011 George C. Rogers Jr. Book Award, which is presented annually by the South Carolina Historical Society to the author of the best book of South Carolina history published during the preceding calendar year.

David Ransel gave a presentation at Stanford University, Friday, January 20, on "What is Private, What is Public?: The Loss of Community Recreational Assets and National Heritage Sites to Private Developers in Post-Soviet Russia and the Emergence of Civil Society Opposition." Ransel is a visiting scholar this year at Stanford's Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Ellen Wu was awarded a Diversity-International Fellowship by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) to present her work on the global imperatives of Asian American citizenship at SHAFR's annual meeting in June 2012.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Friday, February 3, 12:00 noon, Ballantine Hall 004

East Asian Studies Colloquium, “Translations in Early 20th Century Mongolia”, Makoto Tachibana, Visiting Scholar, Central Eurasian Studies.

Monday, February 6, 4:00-5:30 pm, IMU Maple Room

Americanist Research Colloquium presents Kandice Chuh, Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center, "Thinking Difference Differently."
It is by now a critical commonplace that “difference” has been flattened into “diversity” in university life. In this talk, Kandice Chuh suggests that bringing together aesthetic theories and philosophies with U.S. minority discourses, reinvigorates difference as such.

Friday, February 10, 12:00-1:15 pm, Ballantine Hall 004

Scott O’Bryan presents “Mapping the Thermal City: Built Landscapes, Urban Climatology, and a History of Heat in Tokyo”, at the East Asian Studies Center Colloquium.

Friday, February 10, 1-2:15, Ballantine Hall 244

Intellectual Culture Event, Rob Schneider, "Dignified Retreat: Writers and Intellectuals in the Age of Richelieu.”

Friday, February 10, 3:00-5:00 pm, Ballantine Hall 004

Historical Teaching and Practice Seminar, “Beyond the Lesson Plan: From Pedagogical Theory to Classroom Application”: An HGSA Roundtable.