Recent News

The Department was well-represented at the annual CLAS Faculty Honors Reception, which recognized Jeff Cox (Global Scholar and Collegiate Fellow), Michel Gobat (Faculty Scholar and NEH), Paul Greenough (Hancher-Finkbine Medallion), Paula Michaels (Burkhardt-ACLS), Paul Kramer (ACLS, Bernath Prize, Rawley Prize), Jennifer Sessions (Kluge Fellowship), Laura Gotkowitz (Fulbright-Hays), Linda Kerber (Elected to American Philosophical Society), and Stephen Vlastos (Kyoto Program).

Glenn Penny (with Laurie Graham in Anthropology) has won a Major Project Award from International Programs for a conference on "Performing Indigeneity."

Linda Kerber's classic primer on conference presentations — "Conference Rules"—is among the most e-mailed items from The Chronicle of Higher Education: Conference Rules Part I (March 14) Conference Rules Part II (March 21).

GOOD NEWS to report for current/recent graduates: Matthew Conn-awarded a dissertation fellowship from the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies; Gabriele von Roedern-accepted in the German Historical Institute's Summer Archival Seminar; Michelle Armstrong-Partida-awarded the University of California's Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship; Tetsuya Fujiwara-awarded a 3-year fellowship from the Japanese Ministry of Education; Chris Gerteis-awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for 2008-9.

Marshall Poe's new media project includes an interview site New Books in History. Check it out! Be the first to have Kevin Mumford and Mac Rohrbough interviews on your I-Pod.

Congratulations to Charissa Threat, for accepting a tenure-track job at Northeastern University; and to Megan Threlkeld, for accepting a tenure-track job at Denison University.

William C. Lubenow (PhD 1968) recently completed his term as President of the North American Conference on British Studies, and delivered the Presidential Address at the Annual Meeting held in San Francisco in November 2007.  A Professor of History at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Lubenow writes fondly of his days at Iowa on his web site.

Marjorie Levine-Clark (PhD 1997) is currently serving as President of the Western Conference on British Studies, a regional affiliate of the North American Conference on British Studies.  She will deliver her Presidential Address at the annual meeting in San Antonio this September.

Our illustrious alum Trudy Peterson was featured prominently in a story in the Chronicle of Higher Education on disputes over the disposition of Iraqi Archives.

Seven members of the Department have new (first offered in Fall 2007 or Spring 2008 catalogues) books, including five new monographs, one edited collection, and one revision: Jeffrey Cox, The British Missionary Enterprise since 1700 (Routledge, 2007); Colin Gordon, Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (Pennsylvania, 2008); Laura Gotkowitz, A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952 (Duke, 2007); Kevin Mumford, Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America (NYU, 2007); Jacki Thompson Rand, Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State (Nebraska, 2008); Malcolm J. Rohrbough, Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850 Revised and Expanded Edition (Indiana, 2007); Shelton Stromquist (editor), Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context (Illinois, 2007).

Our colleague Paul Kramer has been designated a “top young historian” by the History News Network (see full story).

David Schoenbaum has published a short article on the Iowa caucuses in Prospect Magazine( UK).