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• Ian McNeely has been promoted to the rank of full professor.  Congratulations!  McNeely is the author of three books, most recently Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet.  He is working on a book project about Wilhelm von Humboldt's global reasearch on world langagues, and is currently Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the College of Arts and Sciences.
• Doctoral student Mi Zhao has been awarded a full-year UO Doctoral Research Fellowship for 2013-14 to support completion of her dissertation, From Singing Girl to Revolutionary Artist: Female Entertainers in Chinese Socialist Transformation across the 1949 Divide."  Congratulations!
  Female Entertainers in Chinese Socialist Transformation across the 1949 Divide
• Congratulations to graduate program alumnus Brett  Walker, Regents Professor of History at Montana State University, Bozeman and UO History Ph.D. in 1997, who has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.  He has published widely in the fields of modern Japanese history and environmental history.
• Dr. A.B. Assensoh, who has authored several books on African and African-American intellectual history, has written an important commentary on the enduring legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King for the Register-Guard in Eugene (Jan 20, 2013).
• Alex Dracobly's UO Veterans Oral History Project has been featured in a story on KEZI news.  For video, click here.  For a link to Dracobly's project's website, including the archive of interviews, look here.  
• James Mohr has been reappointed as Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Sciences.
• Department members Andrew Goble and David Luebke have been promoted to the rank of full professor.  Congratulations to both.
• Melissa Stuckey has been awarded a Career Enhancement Fellowship for the academic year 2012-13 by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
• Doctoral student Mi Zhao has received three awards to support research on her Ph.D. dissertation:  a Sylff Research Abroad award from the Tokyo Foundation; a Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund Fellowship for International Research from the Tokyo Foundation; and a Taiwan and Research Abroad Award as a Visiting Researcher at Academia Sinica in Taipei.
• Doctoral student Carrie Adkins has won no fewer than three awards:  two to support her dissertation research, and a third for a recent paper. The first is the 2012-2013 Women in Medicine Fellowship from the Countway Library at Harvard University's Medical School, for dissertation research in their collection.  The second is the M. Louise Carpenter Gloeckner, M.D. Summer Research Fellowship, to support research at Drexel University's Archives and Special Collections on Women and Medicine.  The third is the Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians, for her paper "'Gentlemen's Daughters,' 'Womanly Women,' and 'Hen Medics': Class, Gender, and Medical Education in the United States, 1870-1920."
• Veta Schlimgen (Ph.D., 2010) has been appointed to a tenure-track assistant professorship at Gonzaga University.
• Matthew Dennis and Jeff Ostler have both received University of Oregon Provost's Senior Humanist Fellowships, each to be held at the Oregon Humanities Center for a term during the 2012-13 academic year.
• Matthew Dennis has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Grant to support research at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Fall and Winter terms, 2012-13
• Sean Anthony has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities research grant for 2012-13 to work on his project “Annotated Translation of the 'Maghazi' of Ma'mar ibn Rashid: An 8th-Century Biography of Muhammad.”
• Nathanael Andrade, hired by the department this year for our position in Ancient history, has received a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey for 2012-13 and will spend the year in residence there.
• Bryna Goodman has received a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University for 2012-13.
• Beekman Professor Jeff Ostler has been awarded an NEH summer grant to pursue his current project on "The Destruction and Survival of American Indian Communities, 1754-1900."
• Ina Asim (together with Dan Buck of Asian Studies) received a CAS program grant to support development of an international conference on the history of food in China, "Foodways in China," to be hosted at the University of Oregon. The conference topic is related to an existing Research Interest Group at the University of Oregon, "Food in the Field," and it will be linked to an exhibition at the University's Jordan Schnitzer Museum.
• April Haynes has been awarded the Margaret Storrs Grierson Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship at Smith College for this coming summer.
• M.A. student Josh Fitzgerald, recently admitted to our Ph.D. program, has been accepted to participate in an NEH Summer Institute, "Mesoamerica and the Southwest," to be conducted on-site in Mexico City, Arizona, and New Mexico. This will be Josh's second NEH Summer Institute, in consecutive years.
• Two undergraduate History majors have won University of Oregon Library Undergraduate Research Awards for their outstanding research papers: Erik Erlandson, for "Cattle Plague in NYC: The Untold Campaign of America's First Board of Health, 1868," and Elan Ebeling, for "The Tumultuous Nature of American Public health at the Grass Roots Level During a Transitional Decade: Wheeling, West Virginia, 1880-1890."  Both were advised by Knight Professor James Mohr.
• John Nicols Professor Emeritus of HIstory, was awarded a renewal of his Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship by Germany's Humboldt Foundation.
• Jeff Ostler has been appointed to the History Department's Beekman Chair in the history of the American West.
• Dixon Professor Marsha Weisiger's book Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country has won the Hal K. Rothman Book Award of the Western History Association as the best book of the year in western environmental history.
• Congratulations to Veta Schlimgen (Ph.D. 2010), whose dissertation, "Neither Citizens Nor Aliens: Filipino 'American Nationals' in the U.S. Empire, 1900-1946," has won the American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch's W. Turrentine Jackson Dissertation Award for 2011. The award is given to "the most outstanding dissertation in any aspect of the history of the American West in the twentieth century." Veta was one of Peggy Pascoe's doctoral students.  She is teaching part-time in the American Studies Department at California State University/Fullerton.
• Jeff Hanes has received a 2011 UO Research Innovation Award for his role in securing federal funding for the university's Title VI National Resource Center in East Asian Studies.  Hanes is a historian of modern Japan and director of the UO's Center for Asian and Pacific Studies.
• Congratulations to Fr. David Orique, our 2011 Ph.D. in Latin American history, who has taken up a tenure-track position in the History Department at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island.
• Alex Dracobly is featured in a recent issue of Cascade, the College of Arts and Sciences' quarterly magazine, for his role in the new Reacting to the Past program.  Other members of the department participating in the program include Ian McNeely, Matthew Dennis, and Jeff Ostler.

Recent and forthcoming publications

• Professor Emeritus of History Ray Birn has published Royal Censorship of Books in Eighteenth-Century France (Stanford University Press, 2012).
• Matthew Dennis's most recent book, Seneca Possessed: Indians, Witchcraft, and Power in the Early American Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press) has now been released in paperback.
• Sean Anthony's The Caliph and the Heretic: Ibn Saba' and the Origins of Shīʿism was published by Brill in December, 2011.
• Bryna Goodman's edited volume, Twentieth-Century Colonialism and China: Localities, the Everyday & the World (coedited with David S.G. Goodman), will appear with Routledge in late April, 2012.
• David M. Luebke, Jared Poley, Daniel C. Ryan, and David W. Sabean, eds., Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany, Spektrum vol. 4, is forthcoming in May, 2012 from Berghahn Books.
• Andrew Goble's Confluences of Healing in Medieval Japan: Buddhist Healing, Chinese Knowledge, Islamic Formulas, and Wounds of War was published in fall 2011 by University of Hawaii Press.

Recent faculty appointments

• Arafaat Valiani joined the department in Septmber, 2012 as the holder of our new position in the history of South Asia.  He is the author of Militant Publics in India: Physical Culture and Violence in the Making of a Modern Polity (Palgrave, 2011).
• Nathanael Andrade has joined the department as the holder of our position in Ancient history.  In 2012-13 he is in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.  His dissertation was "'Imitation Greeks': Being Syrian in the Greco-Roman World," and he has a book forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, Syrian Identity in the Graeco-Roman World.
• April Haynes (Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara) joined the department in Fall, 2011 in our new position in women's and gender history.  Her dissertation is titled "Riotous Flesh: Gender, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice."