Jessica Werneke has been presented the 2007 Stow Persons Prize for the best senior thesis by the Department of History. For additional information >>

David Schoenbaum participated in a roundtable review of John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy on the H-Net list H-Diplo.

H. Glenn Penny, "Transnational History in Historical Perspective: Adolf Bastian's Global Vision" in Adolf Bastian and His Universal Archive of Humanity:  The Origins of German Anthropology. Manuela Fischer, Peter Bolz and Susan Kamel eds.. Hildesheim:  Olms Verlag, 2007.

From the October 7, Sunday New York Times: "You are one of the millions of people who sit at a computer all day," said Marshall Poe, a professor of history and new media at the University of Iowa, who has studied Internet communities. "Every hour you have 10 minutes where you’re not doing anything productive at work, and you can’t look at porn. So you make a comment and fulfill this desire to show yourself off as a smarty-pants."

Rachel Bohlmann (PhD, 2001) has been awarded the 2007-08 J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship (AHA-Library of Congress) in U.S. History. Dr. Bohlmann is the currently director of public programs at the Newberry Library.

The Department welcomes three new faculty members this fall. Marshall Poe, whose books include The Russian Moment in World History (Princeton, 2003), A Concise History of Russia (Cambridge, forthcoming); and Everyone Knows Everything: The Rise of Wikiworld and the Democratization of Knowledge(forthcoming, Random House) will teach classes on early modern Eurasia, world history, history and the new media. Michaela Hoenicke-Moore, whose Know Your Enemy: The American Response to Nazism is forthcoming from Cambridge, joins us in January and will teach courses on the U.S. in world affairs. Paul Kramer, whose The Blood Of Governments: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines (North Carolina, 2006) is the winner of the 2007 James Rawley Prize and the 2007 Stuart Bernath Prize has an ACLS fellowship for 2007-8 and will join us in Fall 2008. We bid farewell to Mark Peterson (UC-Berkeley), Shira Robinson (George Washington), and Susan Lawrence ( Nebraska).

David Schoenbaum is offering a special “caucus” edition of the US and World Affairs class. It meets weekly at the Englert Theatre and features an array of distinguished visitors. The class schedule and readings are available via ICON (on the ICON home page, click “preview login” and scroll to the course in the “Fall 2007” list).

Announcement of the inaugural issue of The Iowa Historical Review, a new undergraduate history journal. More details >>

Congratulations to the following Graduate students who have won research or writing fellowships for 2007-2008. >>

Gregg Narber (PhD, 2007) has accepted a three-year visiting position at Luther College.

Jennifer Harbour (ABD) has taken a one-year visiting position at Iowa State University.

Congratulations to Anita Gaul, who received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the UI Council on Teaching.

The History Department had a prominent presence at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Faculty Honors Celebration in April. For a list of History faculty honored >>

Danielle Bradley (Honors, 2006) won first prize in the Early English Books Online (EEBO) essay contest (the paper drawn from her honors thesis written with Kathleen Kamerick.) More details >>

Congratulations to Jen Sessions, awarded a Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress for 2007-08.

Stephen Vlastos will spend Fall 2007 as a Visiting Fellow at Doshisha University in Japan.

Jeff Cox and Lisa Heineman have been awarded AHI Grants by the Office of the Vice President for Research.

We are delighted to welcome Paul Kramer, who will join the faculty to teach courses in U.S. and World Affairs. Paul's recent book, The Blood of Governments: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines (UNC Press, 2006) is the winner of the 2007 James Rawley Prize, awarded by OAH for the best book dealing with the history of race relations in the U.S.; and of the 2007 Stuart Bernath Prize, awarded by the Society for Historians of American Foreing Relations for the best first book in the history of American Foreign Relations. Paul has an ACLS Fellowship for 2007-08 and will join us in person in the fall of 2008.

Congratulations to Jennifer Sessions, who has been awarded a NEH summer stipend.

Congratulations to Doug Baynton, a consultant (and on-camera authority) for the PBS documentary “Through Deaf Eyes,” which aired March 21. The companion volume to the PBS documentary has just been published by Gallaudet University Press.

Congratulations to Jeff Cox, elected to a term on the Educational Policy Committee. The results of this year's faculty elections are now available from the CLAS Elections web page.

Linda Kerber’s AHA Presidential Address, “The Stateless as the Citizen's Other: A View from the United States,” is in the latest AHR.

Congratulations to Jacki Rand, who has won a CIC Faculty Fellowship at the Newberry Library for 2007-08.

Congratulations to Anita Gaul, who is the 2007-08 recipient of the Marcus Bach Fellowship.  The Fellowship will support her work on Catholic colonization in the old Northwest in the years after the Civil War.

Congratulations to eight History majors that have been invited to accept membership in Phi Beta Kappa Society. >>