The History Department celebrates Laura Johnson’s 25 years of service at Harvard University. Laura has been the Staff Assistant in the Undergraduate Programs Office in Robinson 101 for all of those 25 years.
Keeping with Harvard’s commitment to sustainability, as well as the the Department’s own cost-cutting efforts, this year’s alumni newsletter is completely paperless and available online.
2008-2009 History Department Alumni Newsletter is available here.
Graduate students Oksana Mykhed, Stepphen Walsh, Johanna Conterio, Sofiya Grachova, Brendan Karch and Michael Tworek and undergraduate students Anna Shabalov and Kirby Tyrrell received awards from the Davis Center. Grants and recipients are outlined in the Harvard Gazette article “Davis Center awards student grants for study, research, travel internships.”
Graduate students Stefan Link and Hassan Malik received research grants from the Weatherhead Center; Philippa Hetherington and Sarah Shortall received the Foreign Language Grant. More information is available in the Harvard Gazette article “Weatherhead Center presents doctoral candidates with research grants.”
Six different Asian Studies Centers at Harvard awarded the following students grants: undergraduates Chen Ding, Svyatoslav Andriyishen, Siodhbhra Parkin, Dillon Powers, Wen Yu, Ted Kirby, Alison Schumer, Matthew Jacob Setless, Natalie Wong, Emily Bruemmer, Alexander Copulsky, Kevin Martinez, Jennifer Francis, and graduate students Jane Hong, Johan Mathew, Benjamin Siegel, John Wong, Jeremy Yellen, Hsiao-pei Yen, Steffan Rimner, Hiromu Nagahara, Sana Aiyar, Tariq Ali, Antara Datta, Dinyar Patel, Gitanjali Surendran and Sana Aiyar. Awards were highlighted in the Harvard Gazette article “Asian studies centers, institutes announce grant recipients.”
The Rockefeller Center awarded certificates to undergraduates Evan Kornbluh and Ana Inés Mendy. More info on the awards available in the Harvard Gazette article: “Certificates awarded by DRCLAS.”
The Center for European studies awarded grants to Philipp Lehmann, Erik Linstrum, Stephen Walsh, Heidi Evans, Philip Fileri, Ward Penfold, Andrew Spadafora, Kristin Poling and Brendan Karch. Harvard Gazette article: “CES awards travel grants for research” highlights recipients.
Ana Siljak (PhD. 1997) was nominated for the 2009 Charles Taylor Prize for her book Angel of Vengeance: The “Girl Assassin” The Governor of St. Petersburg, and Russia’s Revolutionary World. Dr. Siljak is currently an Assistant Professor at Queen’s College.
The History Department seeks applications for two positions in the College Fellows Program, which was recently announced by the Faculty of Arts & Sciences. The program is designed for exceptional scholars who have recently completed their doctoral work, and have demonstrated excellence in teaching. See the areas of specialization for a description of the History Department positions.
The fellowships are for one-year, with the possibility of renewal for an additional year. They are open to scholars who will complete requirements for the PhD by August 1, 2009. The program is limited to applicants who received their PhD no earlier than 2005.
Click here to apply.
Yonatan Eyal (PhD. 2005) was interviewed by the University of Toronto’s Research. The article entitled “Historian Yonatan Eyal on the pageantry and meaning of the presidential swearing-in” was posted on Friday, January 16, 2009.
Yonatan Eyal is currently an Assistant Professor of American History at the University of Toronto at Mississauga.
Fabian Drixler, who received his Ph.D. from the History Department in June, is the 2008 winner of the Gross Dissertation Prize, for his dissertation entitled: “Infanticide and Fertility in Eastern Japan: Discourse and Demography, 1660-1880.”
The Gross prize is awarded to the recent Ph.D. recipient whose dissertation “demonstrates the greatest promise of a distinguished career of historical research.” A faculty committee determines each year’s prize winner based on nominations received from their faculty advisers.
Benjamin Tromly (PhD 2007), Postdoctoral Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, received the Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation Prize awarded for an outstanding English-language doctoral dissertation defended at an American or Canadian university in the tradition of historical political science and political history of the Soviet Union as practiced by Robert C. Tucker and Stephen F. Cohen, for his dissertation titled “Re-Imagining the Soviet Intelligentsia: Student Politics and University Life, 1948-1964.”
Susan Ware (PhD, 1978) spoke on Monday, November 17th at the Charles Warren Center about her work-in-progress “Sports Matters: Billie Jean King and Second Wave Feminism” and was featured in the article “Appreciating Billie Jean King’s contribution to second-wave feminism” in the November 20-December 3, 2008 edition of the Harvard University Gazette.
On October, 24, 2008 George H. Nash (PhD, 1973) received the Richard M. Weaver Prize for scholarly letters for 2008.
