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Impressive Showing in SSHRC Competition Summer/Fall 2011 Impressive Showing in SSHRC Competition Continuing Dalhousie History’s tradi- War. The project looks at national- tion of research excellence, four faculty ist ideologies through the lens of In this issue... members were awarded Standard Grants intellectual networks connecting in the Social Sciences and Humanities North Africa, the Middle East and Impressive showing in Research Council’s October 2010 com- East Africa. It relies on archival SSHRC Competition petition, an unusually strong showing material from France, England and at a time when competition for research Turkey and on newspapers and funding grows increasing stiff. private documents from Algeria, Faculty Updates Tunisia, Egypt, and Zanzibar. If the Congratulations to Dr. Ben Cowan for security situation in Libya im- Faculty Publications his project “Novas direitas: morality, proves in the next couple of years, countersub- version, and A Year at Princeton’s Christian Institute for Advanced conservatism Study in Brazilian and Atlantic Department to Host Pres- perspective, 1942-1985;” tigious OIEAHC to Dr. Amal Conference 2014 Ghazal for “The sacred Our First Banting nation: Salafi Postdoctoral Fellow Islam and nationalism in the Arab MacKay Lecture world, 1919- Series 1967;” to Dr. Jack Crowley International for “Visual- izing Europe’s Workshop on Married imperial Women and the Law spaces over- seas, c. 1492- Lawrence D. Stokes 1756;” and Dr. Amal Ghazal is one of four History Department recipients of a SSHRC grant in Seminar Series to Dr. Krista 2010-11. Here she is pictured with Bi Kidude, the queen of Zanzibari tarab. (see Kesselring Travel Notes) 2011-12 for “Early modern murder: a history of homicide I would like to do some research Our Undergraduates in England, c. 1500-1700.” also in the Western Mountains, an area that has unfortunately wit- Our Graduate Dr. Ghazal says of her project: nessed fierce battles between the locals and the Qadhdhafi troops. Students [It] aims to transform the his- tory of nationalism in the Arab Dalhousie History’s research is atten- Alumni Matters world by integrating into it a tive to place and widely interconnected, religious version of nationalism engaged with the past and pertinent; that emerged after the First World SSHRC recognizes and supports this. Faculty Updates During the past year, Dr. Chris Bell trips to the American Society for En- One of its loose threads was the expedi- published two articles: “Sir John Fisher’s vironmental History’s Annual Confer- tion Joseph Banks led to Iceland with the Naval Revolution Reconsidered: Win- ence in Phoenix, Arizona in April; to three artists he had intended to take on ston Churchill at the Admiralty, 1911- the Rachel Carson Centre in Munich in James Cook’s second voyage to the Pa- 14,” War in History 18: 3 (July 2011): August; and to Den Gamle By (The Old cific. Sure enough, during a three-week 333-56; and “Winston Churchill and the Town), Aarhus, Denmark. tour of Iceland in June 2011, Jack deter- Ten Year Rule,” Journal of Military His- mined the location of an unpublished tory, 74: 4 (October 2010): 523-56. He is four-volume collection of landscape currently putting the finishing touches and natural history drawings by Banks’ on his new book, Winston Churchill and artists. He’ll use it for one aspect his next British Sea Power, which will be pub- project: the representation of colonial lished next year by Oxford University peoples, a shift of interest from places to Press. faces. That is part of his broader project on the visual cultures of European impe- rialism, which SSHRC is funding with a Standard Research Grant. Dr. Krista Kesselring spent much of Schloss Nymphenburg, Munich. the year working as the Assistant Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, when not teaching or supervising fun, gifted groups of undergraduate and graduate students. Invited to participate in a Folger Institute symposium on the history of political thought in Washington D.C., she also presented papers at the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association and at the 15th meeting of the legend- ary Berkshire Conference on the History Den Gamle By (The Old Town), Aarhus, Denmark. of Women, all of which were somewhat Yale University Press published Dr. Jack too enjoyable to count as ‘work’. She Crowley’s Imperial Landscapes: Britain’s helped Professors Tim Stretton and Chris at the Sonar Station of Canadian sub Global Visual Culture 1745-1820 in July. Philip Girard organize a SSHRC-funded Among her many activities over the past year, Dr. Claire Campbell edited the collection A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011 (University of Calgary Press, 2011). This is the first volume in the Energy, Ecology and Environment series co-sponsored by the Network in Canadian History and Environment [NiCHE], and its release coincides with the hundredth anniversary of the found- ing of the Dominion Parks Branch, the institutional predecessor of the Parks Canada agency. Claire’s travels included Xeriscaping at Arizona State University. Dr. Jack Crowley in Iceland, on the trail of Enlightenment luminary Sir Joseph Banks and his artists. Faculty Updates workshop on the Dalhousie/King’s cam- Dr. Denis Kozlov completed his year- eds. (Oxford University Press, 2011): pus on the history of married women long fellowship at the Institute for 375-398; and “Writing about the Thaw and the law, which saw a set of past Dal Advanced Study, where he focused on in Post-Soviet Russia,” Russian Studies students (Sara Butler, Marisha Caswell, his book about the reading audiences, in History, 49: 4 (Spring 2011): 3-17. An and Cathryn Spence) return to present historical consciousness, and mecha- edited volume, The Thaw: Soviet Society papers along with historians, lawyers, nisms of intellectual change in the Soviet and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s, and economists drawn from three conti- Union during the 1950s and 1960s (see is forthcoming from the University of nents. After having an article on Quaker box below.) His most recent publica- Toronto Press in 2012. He guest-edited missionaries accepted for publication, tions include “Athens and Apocalypse: two issues of the journal Russian Studies she has switched focus to begin work on Writing History in Soviet Russia,” in in History under the general title, The a new project on homicide, c. 1500-1700, Oxford History of Historical Writing, Thaw and After: Late Soviet Culture and that has received SSHRC funding. vol. 5, Axel Schneider and Daniel Woolf Society, and also presented three papers: The Institute for Advanced Study in Sciences, and Social Science. Each and the Institute provides individual Princeton: A Member’s Note school has a few members of the core offices, computers, and stationery, as faculty—distinguished scholars who well as comfortable housing and access In 2010-11 Dr. Denis Kozlov became usually take these positions after having to a high-quality dining facility for the a member of the prestigious Institute served on the faculty of other universi- visiting faculty and their families. In for Advanced Study in Princeton, New ties for a number of years. But the main the School of Historical Studies, fellow- Jersey, one of the world’s leading centres population of the Institute consists of ships exist for faculty at different stages for theoretical research and intellectual visiting academics. Researchers come of academic career, from assistant to full inquiry. Many of the greatest minds of the from all over the world on a variety of professors, and in all fields of historical twentieth century—Albert Einstein, Clif- fellowships that the Institute offers in inquiry. ford Geertz, George Kennan, and Erwin conjunction with other funding agencies. Panofsky—preceded him there. He reports Depending on support, scholars arrive The year-long residence at the Institute on his remarkable experience at the IAS. for terms ranging from several months proved most productive and satisfy- ing. I did a lot of writing and completed several projects, book-length as well as smaller in scope. On a practical note, I found my stay there comfortable and conducive to work. Without exception, all the staff members were welcoming and highly accommodating, and the office facilities and equipment was top- notch. The Institute and the School of Historical Studies also held many talks and faculty seminars where discus- sions took place in a helpful, friendly atmosphere. And the best conversations happened at the “historians’ table,” as it is informally known, in the dining hall where members of the school gathered at lunchtime. I am grateful to the departments of History and Russian Studies for allow- ing me to benefit from this wonderful academic opportunity. I am happy to be back and look forward to contributing to the Dalhousie community with my new This past year I was fortunate to be a to a year. My membership in particular experience. member of the School of Historical Stud- was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon ies at the Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship for Assistant Professors. in Princeton. Founded 80 years ago, the Institute has become a model widely The purpose of all the fellowships, and emulated by universities and research of the Institute as an academic setting, establishments in Western Europe and is to allow scholars the opportunity to North America. It includes four schools: concentrate entirely on research and Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural writing. The fellowships are residential, Faculty Updates at the University of Saint Petersburg, found at http://www.poms.ac.uk/index. Slavery & Abolition 32: 2 (June 2001): Russia, at Princeton University, and at html. At a conference held in Glasgow in 247-68) and has just finished an essay on the University of Pennsylvania. late summer 2010 as the project wound Barbados and the settlement of South up, Dr.
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