Yucheng Qin (PhD 2002) has accepted a tenure-track job at in the History Department at the University of Hawaii-Hilo.

Sue Peabody (PhD 1993) is completing her term as president of the French Colonial Historical Society. Her sabbatical book project “Free Soil in the Atlantic World” was funded by an American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship, a Library Company of Philadelphia Fellowship, and reviewed at Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center.

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

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.