Congratulations to Kathleen Kamerick, who is the 2009 Recipient of the President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence.

Megan Threlkeld (PhD 2008) was awarded the Bemis Junior Faculty Research Grant by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. The award was presented at the SHAFR lunch at the OAH annual meeting in Seattle, March 28.

Kevin Mumford gave a distinguished lecture for the Organization of American Historian in February, on Reclaiming the Gay Past in the Civil Rights Era.

The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce an important addition to PubMed Central (PMC), its free digital archive of full-text journal articles: the complete archive of the Journal of the National Medical Association (JNMA), which observes its centennial this year.  The National Medical Association (NMA), established in 1895, is the largest and oldest national organization representing African American physicians and allied health professionals in the United States. The JNMA was published quarterly from 1909 to 1938, bimonthly from 1940 to 1977, and monthly since 1978. The archive currently represents over 77,000 digitized pages of issues, cover to cover, through 2007. Current content will be coming at a later date.

Congratulations to Jake Hall, who has been awarded a Mark C. Stevens Researcher Travel Fellowship to use the collections of the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan.

Congratulations to Karissa Haugeberg, who was the recipient of the College's Marcus Bach Fellowship for 2009-10, in support of the completion of her dissertation, Women in the Anti-Abortion Movement, 1960-2000.

Laura Gotkowitz has been awarded the John E. Fagg Prize for the best publication in the history of Spain and Latin America by the American Historical Association for A Revolution of Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952 (Duke University Press, 2007).   The award was made at the AHA convention in New York in January.

There is a glowing review of Jacki Rand’s Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State in the December AHR; the reviewer concluding that this is "a book that explores the complications and nuances of Native history, one that should be used by scholars, journalists, and museum curators in better integrating American Indians into the national consciousness and academic discourse."

Congratulations to Lisa Heineman, who has been awarded an International Programs Curricular Development Award for development of the course "Gender, Sexuality, and Human Rights."

According to a Wall Street Journal article (January 6, 2009) historians have the 7th best job in the US. The top ten (in order), are: Mathematician, Actuary, Statistician, Biologist, Software Engineer, Computer Systems Analyst, Historian, Sociologist, Industrial Designer, Accountant. The methodology is detailed HERE.

The Department is saddened by the loss of our colleague Jim Pusack on December 30th.  Jim (the DEO of German) was a real force in International Programs, where he collaborated with many History colleagues, including Ken Cmiel, Lisa Heineman, and Paul Greenough. IP has posted former Dean Bill Reisinger’s thoughtful comments about Jim’s contributions to international learning on its homepage.

Kimberly Jensen's (PhD, 1992) book, Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War (University of Illinois Press, 2008), is a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards for non-fiction. It is a rare honor for an historical monograph to make the list for a general non-fiction award.

Paul Kramer has been appointed to the Program Committee for the 2011 annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians.

Johanna Schoen was the subject of a wonderful profile in the November 3rd edition of the University's FYI Newsletter.