A memorial service for Professor Ernest May will be held on Wednesday, September 23, 2009, at 3:00 p.m. in Memorial Church, Harvard Yard.  There will be a reception after the service, at Loeb House.  The following day, Thursday, September 24, 2009, at 4:00 p.m. in the basement conference room of the Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, the History Department’s International History Seminar, organized by Erez Manela and David Armitage, will host a roundtable devoted to the scholarship of Ernest May.  Faculty from the History Department, the Kennedy School, and elsewhere will participate, as a fitting tribute to Ernest’s many contributions to the worlds of history and policy.  All are invited to attend both the memorial service and the Seminar.

Women’s World in Qajar Iran: A Digital and Audio-Visual Archive

Post-Doctoral Fellowship

A two-year, part-time post-doctoral fellowship position is available to serve as Project Coordinator for a grant-funded project, “Women’s World in Qajar Iran: A Digital and Audio-Visual Archive. The position will be responsible for interfacing with all individuals and offices associated with this project, including staff at the Harvard College Library (HCL), the Harvard University Libraries (HUL), and Historicus, Inc., and the scholarly team; will work with the Principal Investigator and the scholarly team to develop work and travel plans for each field trip and coordinate communications and work activities on their behalf; will serve as the project’s liaison to HCL, HUL, University Information Systems (UIS), and other Harvard services; will develop procedures for managing the workflow that translates materials digitized in the field to those cataloged and archived in HCL/HUL’s various systems; will coordinate contracts and financial activities, including vendor contracts for photographic services and web design; maintain all documentation related to the project; and assist with communications and problem solving related to all aspects of the project. The ideal candidate will have experience in project management and a demonstrated ability to juggle multiple projects simultaneously. A background in collections management (museums, archives, libraries, or special collections), photographic reproduction, and/or digital projects is preferred. Because of the digital and distributed nature of this project, strong computer skills including experience with spreadsheets (Excel), relational databases (MS Access, FileMaker, or MySQL), graphical formats (JPEG, TIF, MOV, MP3), and online collaboration tools will be critical for success in this position. Knowledge of Persian, while not required, would be an advantage.

Interested applicants should send a c.v., and the names of two or three references to: Professor Afsaneh Najmabadi, Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Harvard University, Boylston Hall Ground Floor, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138. Deadline for receipt of applications is: August 1, 2009.

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Pierpaolo Barbieri, Emily Ann Bruemmer, Audrey Ji-eun Kim, Evan Behar Kornbluh, Ana Ines Mendy and Hannah Rachel Motley were all inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. More information 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.

Professor Ernest May, Charles Warren Professor of American History, passed away June 1, 2009.

A memorial service will be planned for the Fall. Obituaries appeared in both the Boston Globe and the New York Times.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be directed in Ernest’s memory to the John Harvard Book Fund at the Harvard College Library (c/o Recording Secretary’s Office, 124 Mount Auburn St. Cambridge, MA 02138) or to Tenacity, a Boston-based organization dedicated to helping at-risk urban youth develop skills, building character and find pathways to excellence through an integrated combination of literacy training and tennis (a sport that Ernie loved). Donations to Tenacity can be made at: http://ww.tenacity.org/Donate_overview.php

Ann Blair, along with three other FAS faculty members, were named Harvard College Professors for their contributions to undergraduate teaching. The Harvard Gazette story can be found here.

Emeritus Professor David Herbert Donald died this past Sunday. His obituary was published today in the Boston Globe and New York Times.

Information about memorial services and ways to honor his memory is forthcoming.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Prize Office has announced that eight History seniors are among the eighty-five winners of this year’s Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize, given annually for the purpose of “promoting, improving and enhancing the quality of education . . . in literary, artistic, musical, scientific, historical or other academic subjects made part of the College curriculum under Faculty supervision and instruction, particularly by recognizing, promoting, honoring and rewarding excellence in the work of undergraduates and their capabilities and skills in any subject, projects of research in science or the humanities, or in specific written work of the students under the instruction or supervision of the Faculty.”

The department congratulates its eight winners and their thesis advisers, who are also recognized for the quality of their mentoring. The winners and their advisers are: Pierpaolo Barbieri (Prof. Niall Ferguson), Audrey Kim (Prof. Niall Ferguson), Roy Kimmey (Profs. Jonathan Bolton [Slavic Languages and Literatures] & Alexander Rehding [Music]), Evan Kornbluh (Mr. Robert Karl), Shi Lin Loh (Prof. Andrew Gordon & Mr. Jeremy Yellen), Ana Mendy (Prof. Vincent Brown), Christopher Miller (Ms. Kathryn Boodry), and P. Justin Rossi (Mr. Alex More).

Complete information on the Hoopes Prize competition is available at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~secfas/prize_HoopesInfo.htm.

Professors Henrietta Harrison and William Kirby both appear in the May 7-13, 2009 edition of the Harvard Gazette in the article entitled: “‘Enormous changes’ in thirty years”.

Alison Frank, Maya Jasanoff and Trygve Throntveit are three of the “15 Faculty Hot Shots: Harvard’s Hottest Young Professors” featured in The Harvard Crimson Magazine, published Wednesday, April 29, 2009.