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• J. Amiel Angeles received a 2009 Southeast Asian Studies Award from the University of Oregon to pursue his dissertation research.
• Mike Furtado was awarded one of the Oregon Humanities Center's new Dissertation Fellowships for Spring, 2010, to support his work on "Islands of Castile: The Sea and the Realm, 1248-1450."
• Robert Haskett won an article prize from the Conference on Latin American History "for an article of distinction on Latin American history published by a CLAH member in a journal other than the Hispanic American Historical Review or The Americas." The article in question is "Dying for Conversion: Faith, Obedience, and the Tlaxcalan Boy Martyrs in New Spain" which came out recently in the Colonial Latin American Review.
• Andrew King has won a Fulbright fellowship to conduct dissertation research in Germany in 2009-10.
• James Mohr is featured in the December 2009 issue of American History, where he is interviewed by Gene Santoro on what history tells us about the role of physicians in the debate about health care reform.
• John Nicols, working with Prof. of Physics Greg Bothun, was awarded a grant from the Lokey fund for Science and the Human Condition.  Their project is called "Science and Culture: Empowering Students to Better Understand the Human Condition."
• John Nicols was awarded a Williams Fellowship by the University of Oregon's Williams Council in recognition of his record of extraordinary commitment to undergraduate education.
  
• Peggy Pascoe is the recipient of two major awards by the American Historical Association for her recent book, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America: The John H. Dunning Prize and the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History. Earlier this year, Pascoe's book was also awarded two major book prizes from the Organization of American Historians: the 2009 Ellis W. Hawley Prize and the 2009 Lawrence W. Levine Award. Pascoe was also a finalist for the 2009 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize of the American Studies Association, which recognizes the best book published in the field.
• Peggy Pascoe was named a recipient of the University of Oregon's Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for 2009.
• Three members of the department have won fellowships from the Oregon Humanities Center for 2009-10. Bryna Goodman was awarded a research fellowship for her project "Minding the Market: Morality, Gender, and Economics in China. David Luebke received a research fellowship to purse his project "Hometown Religion: Conflict and Coexistence among the Christian Religions of Germany, 1553-1660." Ellen Herman was named to the Robert F. Wulf and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professorship in the Humanities for 2009-2010 and awarded a fellowship to develop and teach a course titled "Sexual Science, Sexual Politics."
• Camille Walsh was awarded two research fellowships for 2009-10:  the University Club of Portland's Dissertation Fellowship and the University of Oregon's new Oregon Public Impact Fellowship.

Recent and forthcoming publications

• Lisa Wolverton's scholarly edition and translation of Cosmas of Prague's The Chronicle of the Czechs was published by The Catholic University of America Press.
• Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet by Ian F. McNeely and Lisa Wolverton (W.W. Norton, 2008) has just been published in a Korean edition. Arabic, Bulgarian, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, and Portuguese translations are also planned.
• Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System by Daniel Pope was published by Cambridge University Press.
• Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States by Ellen Herman was published by University of Chicago Press.
• What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America by Peggy Pascoe was published by Oxford University Press.
• Dénle duro que no siente. Poder y transgresión en el Perú republicano (Hit her hard, she doesn't feel it. Power and Transgression in Republican Peru) by Carlos Aguirre was published by the Fondo Editorial del Pedagógico San Marcos.
  
• Intelectuales y poder. Ensayos en torno a la república de las letras en el Perú e Hispanoamérica (ss. XVI-XX) (Intellectuals and Power. Essays on the Republic of Letters in Peru and Hispanic America, 16th-20th Centuries), edited by Carlos Aguirre and Carmen McEvoy, was published by the Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos and Instituto Riva Agüero.

Recent faculty appointments

• Lindsay Braun (Ph.D., Rutgers University) has been hired for the department's position in African history. His doctoral dissertation, "The Cadastre and the Colony: Surveying, Territory, and Legibility in the Creation of South Africa, c. 1860-1913," explores the creation and negotiation of the South African state’s geographical basis through a comparative study of surveying and cartography. He joined our faculty in September 2009.
• Melissa Stuckey (Ph.D., Yale University) has been hired for the department's position in African American history. Her doctoral dissertation, "'All Men Up': Race, Rights, and Power in the All Black Town of Boley, Oklahoma, 1903-1939," concerns race and politics in turn-of-the-century Oklahoma. She joined our faculty in September 2009.