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Kenneth Pomeranz, leading expert on China, appointed University Professor of History

 

Kenneth Pomeranz, one of the nation’s leading scholars of modern China, will join the University
of Chicago faculty starting July 1 as University Professor of History.

 

 

Pitting Child Safety Against the Family Farm, New York Times Op-Ed

 

"Pitting Child Safety Against the Family Farm" a New York Times Op-Ed published May 7, 2012 was written by Marjorie Elizabeth Wood (Ph.D. Summer 2012). It draws heavily from her dissertation, "Emancipating the Child Laborer: Children, Freedom, and the Moral Boundaries of the Market in the United States, 1853 - 1938." Her committee was: Thomas C. Holt (chair), Julie Saville, Tara Zahra, and Catherine Brekus.

 

 

William Koren, Jr. Prize

 

Thomas Dodman (Ph.D. Summer 2011) has been awarded the William Koren, Jr. prize for best article by the Society for French Historical Studies for his article “Un pays pour la colonie: Mourir de nostalgie en Algérie française, 1830-1880,” published in Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales no. 3 (Sept. 2011): 743-84. The Koren Prize is is awarded to the outstanding journal article published on any era of French history by a North American scholar in an American, European, or Canadian journal during 2008.