Achievements and Announcements

September 2003 · Historically SpeakingSS ACHIEVEMENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS James Baughman has been appointed the director ofthe School ofJournalism and Mass Communication at the University ofWisconsin , Madison. Lauren Benton has received two awards for her book Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in WorldHistory, 1400-1900(Cambridge University Press, 2002). The book, which argues that law constituted an often overlooked dimension of global integration and a key element of colonial politics, was awarded the 2004 Book Prize by the World History Association and the 2003 James Willard Hurst Prize ofthe Law and Society Association for best book in legal history. Conrad Crane has been appointed director of the United StatesArmy Military History Institute , part of the Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Ian Dowbiggin'sA MercifulEnd: TheEuthanasia Movement in Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2003) received honorable mention from the Canadian Historical Association forthe Wallace Ferguson Book Prize. Simon Doubleday was promoted to associate professor at HofstraUniversity in September 2002. He is currently completing a manuscript on spectral crossings and transnationalism in Spanishhistory (HarvardUniversity Press, forthcoming). His book on the medieval Spanish aristocracy is coming out in Spanish translation later this year as "Los Lara: Nobleza y Monarquía en la Espana Medieval" (Madrid: Ediciones Turner). Tammy Jo Eckhart will be serving as a future faculty teaching fellow in the history department at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis for the 2003-2004 school year. Her fields are ancient history, women's history, and folklore. Constantin Fasoltwill work on a project entitled "States of Shock: Liberty and Fear of Barbarism in European History" in 2003-2004 for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Michael Jay Friedman earned his Ph.D. in U.S. political and diplomatic history from the University ofPennsylvania. His dissertation was entitled "Consensus Frayed: The Greek Colonels, the Turkish Embargo, and the Crisis ofthe ColdWar Containment" He begins a position with the U.S. Department ofState this fall. Allen C. Guelzo's "Defending the Emancipation : AbrahamLincoln andthe ConklingLetter , August, 1863" has won the annual JohnT. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil WarHistory. Brian Gratton will be a visiting scholar in Immigration Studies at the Russell Sage Foundation in 2003-2004. George Huppert presentedhis research on the way in which Plato's Socrates was understood in the 16th and 17th centuries at a seminar sponsored by the Meineke Institut ofthe Free University (Berlin) on May 27, 2003 under the title of "Der Französische Sokrates und die Deutsche Aufklärung". A detailed report ofthis event appeared intheFrankfurterAllgemeine Zeitung (the equivalent ofthe New York Times) on June 5, 2003. R. Douglas Hurt was appointed chair ofthe department ofhistory at Purdue University. Donald Kagan was awarded the National Humanities Medal for 2002. Miriam Levin was elected as a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She will be spending amonth there next yearresearching andpresenting seminars on the formation oftechnical elites and the history ofthe idea ofcontrol. Robert D. Linder ofKansas State University has been named University Distinguished Professor ofHistory. Roger Lotchin gave one of the keynote addresses to "San Diego's Veterans: Understanding Their Critical Role in the Life ofthe Region," a conference sponsored by the University ofCalifornia at San Diego Civic Collaborative , and he presided as chair and commentator at a session on American urban homefronts and war at the First Biennial Urban History Conference, Pittsburgh, September 26-28, 2002. Nickolas Lupinin presented on the theme of "The Mystic in Muscovy" at a conference entitled "Muscovite Lives" held at Harvard University, April 4-5, 2003. Scott Marler received a pre-dissertation grant from the Economic History Association in support ofhis thesisproject onrural and small town merchants in 19th-century Louisiana. Marler, who serves as the assistant editor of the Journal ofSouthern History, also presented a paper on the significance ofmerchant capital in the New South to the St. George Tucker Society meeting inAtlanta in June. Anne McLaren was the keynote speaker atthe Medieval andRenaissance Center(NewYork University) for a conference on "The Maiden Phoenix: A Conference in Commemoration ofthe 400thAnniversary ofthe Death ofElizabeth I." Her paper was entitled "Kings, Queens, and Scapegoating: Elizabeth I and...