"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.
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.
Congratulations to Adrian Johns in receiving the 2012 Gordon J. Laing Prize for best faculty author, editor or translator of a book published in the previous three years, a book that brings the University of Chicago Press the greatest distinction.
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.
The 2012 lecturer is Thomas Holt, the James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History and the College, who will be speaking on "Reflections on Forty Years of Teaching about Race." The lecture will be held on Tuesday, May 8th at 5 p.m. in Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th Street. Following the lecture, there will be a reception in the Library/Lounge, also located in Ida Noyes Hall.
We are saddened to announce that Emmet Larkin, Professor Emeritus of British and Irish History passed away the evening of March 19. He was a member of the History Department from 1966 until he retired in 2006. A Memorial Service for Emmet Larkin will be held on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 3:00 pm. The service will be at Bond Chapel, 1025 E. 58th Street with a reception immediately following in the Swift Hall Commons Room.
Congratulations to our Winter 2012 Ph.D. graduates! They received their degrees at Winter Convocation on Friday, March 16, 2012.
Joshua Large
"Empires of Commerce: British Trade in Newfoundland Cod and Port Wine, 1780-1850"
Committee: Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Leora Auslander, Paul Cheney
Mary Donoghue McCain
"Father Thomas N. Burke, O.P.: The Sacredness and Eloquence of the Word"
Committee: Emmet Larkin, Edward Cook, James Murphy
The History Department congratulates Professor John W. Boyer who has been appointed to an unprecedented fifth term as dean of the undergraduate College at the University of Chicago.
Marjorie Elizabeth Wood (Ph.D. Summer 2012) has received the Herbert G. Gutman Prize for 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. The Herbert G. Gutman Prize is awarded annually by the Labor and Working Class History Association for the best dissertation in U.S. Labor History. The prize is named in honor of the late Herbert G. Gutman, who was a pioneering labor historian in the United States.
The History Department congratulates Professor Moishe Postone who has received the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor in History and the College named chair, distinguished service appointment.
We are most saddened to learn that Peter Novick, Professor Emeritus of Modern History passed away the morning of February 17. He began at the University in 1966 and retired in 1999. A Memorial Service for Peter Novick will be held on Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 3:00 pm. The service will be at Bond Chapel, 1025 E. 58th Street with a reception immediately following in the Swift Hall Commons Room.
Michael Geyer is spending part of his sabbatical leave at the American Academy in Berlin, where he is the first-ever senior fellow. He is working on a book project, together with co-fellow Charles Bright, on The Global Condition in the Long Twentieth Century. During his stay in Berlin he is also giving talks at the FU Berlin and at the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, with further excursions to Freiburg, Leipzig, Paris, and Stanford. He will be back in Chicago for academic year 2012/13.
Link: http://www.americanacademy.de/home/fellows/current-fellows
Katherine Turk (Ph.D. Spring 2011) received the Lerner-Scott Prize for her dissertation, "Equality on Trial: Women and Work in the Age of Title VII," Her committee was: Amy Dru Stanely(chair), Christine Stansell, and James Sparrow. The Lerner-Scott Prize is given annually by the Organization of American Historians for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women’s history. The prize is named for Gerda Lerner and Anne Firor Scott, both pioneers in women’s history and past presidents of the OAH.
Emily Osborn, Assistant Professor of African History, presented "Melting Pot: Aluminum Recycling in Africa" at the Chicago Humanities Festival. A video is availabl here.
Congratulations to our Autumn 2011 Ph.D. graduates! They received their degrees at Autumn Convocation on Friday, Deember 9, 2011.
Benjamin Johnson
"Remaking the Hinterland: Commoners, Colonialism, and Social Order in Post-Conquest Texcoco and Teotihuacán, Mexico"
Committee: Emilio Kourí, Dain Borges, Kevin Terraciano
Robert J. Richards, Morris Fishbein Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Science and Medicine, has been awarded the Sarton Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the History of Science Society. The Sarton Medal is the highest honor conferred by the History of Science Society, in recognition of a lifetime of exceptional scholarly achievement by a distinguished scholar, selected from the international community .Prizes were formally presented at the HSS’s annual meeting at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio on November 4, 2011.
Kathleen Neils Conzen, Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of American History and the College, is the recipient of the 2012 Eugene Asher Award for Distinguished Post-Secondary Teaching. The Eugene Asher Award was established in 1986 to recognize outstanding teaching and advocacy for history teaching at two-year, four-year, and graduate colleges and universities. It recognizes inspiring teachers whose techniques and mastery of subject matter made a lasting impression and substantial difference to students of history. The award will be conferred at the 126th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago in January 2012.
Sara Hirschhorn, Ph.D. Candidate in Jewish History and 2008-2009 Fullbright-Hays recipient, is featured in Haaretz. The interview was conducted while Sara was in Israel doing archival research for her dissertation, "American-born Immigrants And The Israeli Ultra-Nationalist Movement Since 1967."
Sara Hume, Ph.D. Candidate in Modern European History, is the curator for "On the Home Front: Civil War Fashions and Domestic Life," which runs through August 26, 2012 at the Kent State University Museum. The exhibit was featured in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Sara's own research focus is on Alsatian Folk Costume.
Nikolay Antov
"Imperial Expansion, Colonization and Conversion to Islam in the Islamic World's "Wild West": The Formation of the Muslim Community in Ottoman Deliorman (N.E. Balkans), 15th-16th cc."
Committee: Cornell Fleischer, A. Holly Shissler, Michael Khodarkovsky
Thomas Dodman
"Homesick Epoch: Dying of Nostalgia in Post-Revolutionary France"
Committee: Jan Goldstein (chair), William Sewell, Leora Auslander, Moishe Postone
Joachim Haeberlen
"Trust and Politics: The Working-Class Movement in Leipzig and Lyon at the Moment of Crisis, 1929-1933/38"
Committee: Leora Auslander and Michael Geyer (co-chairs), William Sewell, Moishe Postone, Hartmut Kaelble.
Samuel Lebovic
"Fighting for Free Information: American Democracy and the Problem of Press Freedom in a Totalitarian Age, 1920-1950"
Committee: Amy Dru Stanley and James Sparrow (co-chairs), Adam Green, Michael Geyer
Grant Madsen
The "People's Capitalism": Capitalism and Democracy in the Age of Eisenhower
Committee: Amy Dru Stanley and James Sparrow (co-chairs), Bruce Cumings, John Cochrane
Susan Gaunt Stearns
"Streams of Interest: The Mississippi River in the Political Economy of the Early Republic, 1783-1803"
Committee: Kathleen Conzen (chair), Amy Dru Stanley, Christine Stansell
Marjorie Elizabeth Wood
"Emancipating the Child Laborer: Children, Freedom, and the Moral Boundaries of the Market in the United States, 1853-1938"
Committee: Thomas C. Holt (chair), Julie Saville, Catherine Brekus, Tara Zahra