Congratulations to Glenn Penny, who has been awarded a Summer Fellowship at the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany, May and June 2007.

Congratulations to Charissa Threat, who has been awarded a dissertation fellowship from the US Army Center for Military History for her work on the Army Nurse Corps in the 1940s and 1950.

Congratulations to Paula Michaels, who has been awarded a Burkhardt Fellowship from ACLS for 2008-09.  It supports a year in residence at the National Humanities Center, where she will draft her book on the history of the Lamaze method, tentatively titled: Good Girls and Their Helpful Husbands: A Transnational History of the Lamaze Method of Childbirth Preparation, 1930-80.

Congratulations to Rosemary Moore, who has been awarded the prestigious Blegen Research Fellowship at Vassar for 2007-08.

Congratulations to Michel Gobat, who has received a summer research fellowship from International Programs, in support of “The Forgotten American Empire: Central America’s Encounter with U.S. Manifest Destiny, 1848-1860.”

Congratulations to Doug Baynton, who has been awarded a Collegiate Grant to support development of service learning components for his colloquium and for “Topics in Deaf Studies” (158:101).

Congratulations to Connie Berman, Jeff Cox, Michel Gobat, and Laura Gotkowitz, all of whom have been awarded travel grants by International Programs.

The O’Quinn Law Library at the University of Houston Law Center is proud to announce the inauguration of the website, the Anglo-American Legal Tradition. The AALT is the result of over fifteen years of negotiation with the National Archives of the United Kingdom by Robert C. Palmer (Iowa PhD, 1977), Cullen Professor of History and Law at the University of Houston. The license with the National Archives permits the free, non-commercial, public display and use of the images captured by Professor Palmer’s ongoing project to acquire images of the main categories of court records over almost four centuries (c.1272 – 1650); at this point, some 450,000 images have been acquired.

We are pleased to announce the start of an undergraduate history journal at the University of Iowa. The editors are accepting papers that are from ten to thirty pages (exceptions will be made for senior honors theses). Papers should be based on  original research. Reviews of historical books and films will also be accepted. To be considered for publication, student should email your paper as an attachment to iowa-history@uiowa.edu. Please include your name, course title and teacher for whom the paper was written as well as proper citation on a separate page. When published, the first issue will be available through the History Department website.

Congratulations to Professors Jen Sessions and Paula Michaels have won travel grants: Sessions from the Getty Institute (Los Angeles); Michaels from the Wellcome Trust (London).

Congratulations to Kevin Mumford and Glenn Penny, both recipients of prestigious Faculty Scholar Awards for 2007-2010.  The Faculty Scholar program, a University-wide competition, awards scholars three semesters of research leave over three years.

Our alum, Mark Milosch (PhD, 2002), has accepted a new staff job with the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (aka Helsinki Commission) where he will work on human rights and rule of law issues in Roumania , France and Germany.

Congratulations to Colin Gordon, the 2007-08 Recipient of the May Brodbeck Fellowship, an internal research grant.

Reviews are starting to roll in for Shel Stromquist’s, Reinventing The People, including a glowing endorsement in the Journal of American History, and a thoughtful review essay by Daniel T. Rodgers in the Social Service Review.

It is worth noting the extent of Iowa participation this year to the programs of the Newberry Library (for details, go to www.newberry.org): in November 2006, Professor Mark Peterson presented a paper in the “Early American History & Culture Series” and our alum, Michael Innis-Jimenez, presented a paper in the “Borderlands and Latino Studies” series. In February 2007, our graduate student, Marilyn Olson, will present in the “Rural History” seminar; and in May 2007, Professor Shel Stromquist will comment on a paper in the Labor History seminar.

The American Society of Legal History has awarded the 2006 Donald Sutherland article prize (named for our late colleague) to Dr Andrea McKenzie (Assistant Professor of History, University of Victoria, Canada), for "'This Death Some Strong and Stout Hearted Man Doth Choose': The Practice of Peine Forte et Dure in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century England", Law & History Review, 23:2 (2005).