Summer 2010

Department of History Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA 02138 In this issue: http://history.fas.harvard.edu/ Chair 2 Faculty 5 Graduate 12 Harvard University 13 Undergraduate 16 Tempus 17 Department of History Alumni Updates 21 Newsletter From the Chair

reetings and distributing them, have had the completion of Laurel Ulrich’s Gfrom their own benefits, in this case presidency of the American His- CCambridge, contributing to a more sustain- torical Association in January with Massachu- able future. The History Depart- a party at the AHA co-sponsored setts, at the ment has also partnered with the with the History Department of eend of the History of Science Department the University of New Hampshire, 2009-10 aca- to pioneer a new administrative where Laurel previously taught, ddemic year. structure designed to save costs and Alfred A. Knopf, her pub- I am com- by combining staff and services lisher. (See photo on page 3.) We ing to the across departments. Aided by this gave our deep thanks to staff as- cconclusion new administrative support group, sistant Laura Johnson, well loved of my two- our History Department staff have by current and former students year stint as Chair of the History worked harder than ever to handle and faculty as the mainstay of the Department. My colleague in US the department’s work load and Undergraduate Program (former History, Jim Kloppenberg, will re- for that we are extremely grateful. Tutorial) Office, who was honored turn to the helm for the next two In the spirit of being as construc- for 25 years of service to Harvard, years, after which I will serve a tive as possible in the face of the all of it spent in Robinson 101 final year. Between the two of us, “new normal,” History Depart- helping others. we will have steered the depart- ment graduate and undergraduate Despite budgetary con- ment for six years. We are hopeful students and alumni donated their straints and departures, the Histo- that by the time our shared chair- time this past spring to sorting ry Department continues to grow manship ends in June 2013, we over 5000 pounds of food at the in some new directions. We will will have navigated through the Greater Food . (See welcome Annette Gordon-Reed in storms of the Great Recession and photo on page 1.) the Fall of 2011 as a member of that Harvard—and the many other We have had a number of the History Department as well as besieged history departments causes for celebration over the the faculty. throughout the country--will be past academic year. In keeping She will also be the Carol K. Pfor- enjoying sunnier days. with the Harvard History Depart- zheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Although reminders of our ment and FAS commitments to Institute. We are at various stages cinched belts are always with us, implement a real tenure track for of the process in a number of the Harvard History Department faculty, we welcomed the official searches as well. Our effort to has adjusted admirably to leaner promotions to full professor with rebuild the Latin American field times over this past year. Sym- tenure of Vince Brown, Caroline upon the retirements of John bolic of our upbeat and resilient Elkins, and Erez Manela and a Coatsworth and Jack Womack has attitude is the new look of lunch positive tenure decision just this at our monthly Friday History past spring for Mary Lewis. We faculty meetings. Whereas once were also delighted at the recog- we enjoyed sandwiches, fruit and nition given recently to three of DEPARTMENT CHAIR cookies provided by the depart- our ranks for their commitment Lizabeth Cohen ment while we did business, we and success as undergraduate now arrive armed with our lunch- teachers: Emma Dench and Peter DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION boxes and thermoses and spread Gordon were named Harvard Col- out our picnics on the big confer- lege Professors and Maya Jasanoff Janet Hatch ence table in the Lower Library. received the Roslyn Abramson Other cost-saving measures, such Award for Excellence in Under- NEWSLETTER EDITOR as putting more internal docu- graduate Teaching. The History Kristina Nies ments online rather than copying Department proudly celebrated

Summer 2010 2 F ROM moved forward nicely and we hope to announce undergraduate front, the Undergraduate Office or- specifics soon. We have recently undertaken two ganized lunches and dinners at all the houses dur-

other searches that will strengthen our ranks: a ing the fall, to strengthen connections between stu- THE search in Byzantine History to replace Dumbarton dents and faculty. This spring, the Office launched Oaks Professor Angeliki Laiou, who died in Decem- a new, voluntary student-faculty advising program C ber 2008, and a search for the Prince Alaweed Ben for our new sophomore (and future) concentrators. HAIR Talil Chair in Islamic Studies which the History De- Half of our new students signed on to have one of partment won in a university-wide competition, to thirteen faculty volunteers advise them on issues be focused on Central Asian Islam. We look forward such as course selection, whether to study abroad, to meeting candidates for both of these searches and possible senior thesis topics, as a complement during the coming academic year. to advice given by the Undergraduate Office and We also have some farewells to say. Chris- the House History Advisers. An impressive panel of topher Jones will be retiring officially at the end recent History concentrators returned to Harvard of this academic year. Judith Surkis will be leaving this past April to advise current and prospective us as well, though we are pleased that she will be History students on “What is a History Degree Good spending next For?” They shared year on a fellow- their experi- ship at the Insti- ences in aca- tute of Advanced demia, business, Studies in Princ- , law, eton. Kristina philanthropy, Nies, staff assis- technology, and tant to the Chair the public sec- and performer tor, reflecting on of many, many how their educa- tasks for the tion in History department, will had helped them be departing to with their work. become a gradu- As every year ate student in in the late fall, American Studies but earlier this at the University time because of of Maryland. We the new Harvard will miss them calendar, the all and wish Department held them the best of Cake for Professor Laurel Ulrich at AHA reception, January 2010. its annual Senior luck. Thesis Confer- Life continues in exciting ways in our teach- ence to hear progress reports on thesis research ing program, at the undergraduate and graduate and give feedback. Fifty-one senior thesis writers levels, thanks to the leadership of Dan Smail and impressed us greatly, and just a few weeks ago we Tryg Throntveit, Director and Assistant Director of learned that 9 of them had won Thomas Temple the Undergraduate Program, and David Armitage, Hoopes Prizes, which amounted to over 10 % of the Director of the Graduate Program. Erez Manela will total prizes awarded and a record for the History take over David’s position next year while he is on Department. We take pride in the enormous efforts leave. The successes we have had with both pro- made by all our senior thesis writers as well as grams also result from the deep commitment to their non-thesis-writing peers, many of whom take them demonstrated everyday by all our faculty and on other kinds of academic challenges in its place. staff. I will just give you a few highlights. On the Our graduate program continues to thrive,

Summer 2010 3 F and to become more competitive for entry with students, to make sure that they are employed and ROM every year. This year is was substantially more with health next academic year.

difficult to get into than Harvard College. We will I would like to conclude by informing you THE welcome 16 spectacular new students in the fall. In- of efforts to honor two of our members who died novations in the graduate program include greater during the 2008-9 academic year. First, the Belfer C

flexibility in defining exam fields, a required dis- Center for Sciences and International Affairs at the HAIR sertation defense, and a new course in teaching Kennedy School has created Ernest May Fellowships required of all third year students for predoctoral and postdoctoral when they enter the classroom fellows “to help build the next as instructors for the first time. generation of men and women This year I taught the course with who will bring history to bear an advanced graduate teaching on strategic studies and major fellow, Abigail Krasner Balbale, issues of international affairs.” and Jim Kloppenberg will take my This program will do great honor place next year. We decided to to the memory of Ernest May, the have the department chair teach former Charles Warren Profes- the class as a signal of our com- sor of American History who so mitment to training our students effectively modeled the applica- as teachers as well as scholars. tion of history to policy making. Whereas in the fall we focused on Second, the Angeliki Laiou Gift topics related to teaching suc- Fund, spearheaded by her former cessful sections, in the spring graduate student Rowan Dorin we organized panels on broader and colleague Dan Smail, will subjects, such as lecturing, orga- support undergraduate research nizing a course syllabus, advising on topics related to Medieval students, and developing a teach- European History (including Byz- ing portfolio, to which we invited antium and the Mediterranean) as all graduate students in the His- well as strengthen the intellectual tory Department. Our students and social life of the undergradu- continue to win numerous fellow- ate and graduate premodern ships, both from within Harvard history community at Harvard. If (including the department, the you would like to contribute to Graduate Society, GSAS, Weather- this current-use fund, you can head Center, Justice, Welfare and send checks made out to “Har- Economics Seminar, Center for vard University” and designated European Studies, Charles Warren for “The Angeliki Laiou Gift Fund” Center, Center for American Po- to the History Department, 201 litical Studies), and outside (SSRC, Robinson Hall, Cambridge 02138, ACLS, and others). Finally, we are ATTN: Janet Hatch. relieved that even during these difficult economic I wish you all a wonderful summer. times, our graduate students are securing positions after they finish their degrees. As of this moment, 10 students were offered tenure-track positions, 6 others have secured lectureships or visiting posi- tions, 4 students will be teaching at Harvard as Lecturers or College Fellows, and 3 others have postdoctoral fellowships. My deep thanks to ev- eryone who has worked so hard, particularly our

Summer 2010 4 F ACULTY DavidD Armitage, Lloyd Conquest of Nature and the Mystique of the CC. Blankfein Professor of Eastern Frontier in Nazi Germany”, in a volume HHistory and Director of edited by Robert L. Nelson; on “Landschaft und GGraduate Studies, was Umwelt in der deutschen Geschichte” [Landscape eelected a Corresponding and Nature in German History], in the conference FFellow of the Royal Society volume of the 16th Whitsuntide Symposium oof Edinburgh. Among at Benediktbeuren; on German historical hhis activities this year landscapes, for the catalogue of an exhibit at wwere six talks in Japan, the Academy of Arts Berlin on “Die Wiederkehr a lecture on the West der Landschaft/The Return of Landscape”; and LLawn at Monticello, and on the German writer and essayist Hans Magnus kkeynote addresses at three Enzensberger for the London Review of Books. historical conferences. He published two co- He also contributed articles and interviews edited volumes, Shakespeare and Early Modern to a conference brochure on Rivers and Political Thought, which was chosen as a Times Watersheds published by the German Ministry Literary Supplement Book of the Year, and The for Transportation, Construction and Urban Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760- Development. In March and June 2009 he gave 1840, which includes chapters by current and lectures at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of former Department colleagues Maya Jasanoff Sciences, Cologne University, and the Siemens and Robert Travers. Translations of his work also Foundation in Munich, and in November 2009 appeared in French, Italian, and Japanese. spoke at the Bard College Graduate Center in New York City. At Harvard he helped to convene On May 18, 2010, Professor , the a symposium to accompany the showing in Adams University Professor and James Duncan Cambridge of European Marshall Plan films Phillips Professor of Early American History, (“Selling Democracy”). David Blackbourn emeritus, received an honorary degree from continues to serve as President of the Friends of . the German Historical Institute, Washington.

Sven Beckert co-organized the conference Ann Blair was elected to the American “Global Dialogues on Global History”, funded by Philosophical Society in April 2009 and named Volkswagen Stiftung. He also co-organized the Harvard College Professor in May 2009 (until conference “Making Europe-The Global Origins 2014). She co-organized two conferences for of the Old World,” funded by Freiburg Institute graduate students this year: on January 14-15, for Advanced Studies. Published edited book 2010 a joint Harvard-Princeton conference in with Julia Rosenbaum titled: “The American early modern history (now in its third iteration) Bourgeoisie.” He published article “Labor and on May 6, 2010 a one-day conference in Regimes After Emancipation” in a book on global book history for students at Harvard, Yale and Labor History, edited by Marcel van der Linden. Brown, which we hope will become an annual He gave Paul Haaga Lecture on event too. Her book long underway on reference at the Huntington. Gave talks in Linz, Freiburg, books, finding devices and note-taking in Geneva, Miami, Nashville, Santa Barbara, San Europe 1500-1700 will appear in the fall; it is Francisco, and Oxford, UK. Received grant from entitled Too Much To Know: managing scholarly the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs information before the modern age (Yale to research late nineteenth century University Press). and state formation. He organized conference “Capitalism’s Slavery” to be held at Brown and Harvard in the spring of 2011. David Blackbourn published articles on “The

Summer 2010 5 F ACULTY Lizabeth Cohen’s current book project is Saving tthis semester in the form America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to oof a freshman seminar on Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age (to tthe history of books from be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux). During GGutenberg to the Internet. He 2009-10 she received a grant from the Taubman wwill have received an honorary Center for State and Local History/Rappaport ddoctorate from the University Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard’s oof St Andrews in Scotland Kennedy School to support transcriptions of oon June 22. Book published: the many interviews she has undertaken for the TThe Case book. She also lectured widely about aspects ffor Books, of the book: at the Society of American City Past, Present and Future. and Regional Planning History Meetings in Book published: The Devil in October; the American University of Beirut the Holy Water or the Art of in March; as Keynote Speaker at the Urban Slander in France from Louis History Association Lunch at the Organization XIV to Napoleon. Edited a of American Historians’ Meetings in April; as French and an English edition the Keynote Speaker at the 2nd Annual Boston of a “lost” libertine novel from University Graduate Student American Political 1790, The Bohemians. History Conference, ”Expanding the Political: Cultural Politics and the Politics of Culture,” in Carrie Elkins received a April; and coming during Summer 2010 at an Guggenheim Award for Urban History Workshop in British History. She also was Shanghai and at a Cityscapes awarded an ACLS Burkhardt in History Conference in Fellowship to be held at the Munich. Essays related to Radcliffe Institute. this book project will appear shortly in three edited volumes; essay titles are “Liberalism in the Postwar City: Public and Private ’s PBS series Power in Urban Renewal,” The Ascent of Money won the “Paul Rudolph and the Rise and Fall of Urban International Emmy award Renewal,” and “Re-viewing the Twentieth Century for Best Documentary. He through a U.S. Catholic Lens.” She also published delivered the annual Niarchos “A Historian’s Reflection on the Unsustainable Lecture at the Peterson American State,” in Jacobs and King, eds., The Institute in Washington, DC. Unsustainable American State (2009) and spoke He finished his biography of about the current economic crisis in two forums: Siegmund Warburg, which “Consuming America: What Have We Done to will be published by Penguin Ourselves?” at Fordham University and “Living Press in late June as High with Economic Crisis: A Historical View,” at Kent Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund State University. In 2010 the 14th edition of The Warburg. He and his assistant Jason Rockett American Pageant, a textbook she co-authors continue to amass material for his next project, a with David Kennedy, was published by Cengage. life of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Ferguson’s next television series will be based Robert Darnton is busy with plans to make on his successful General Education course, the library system more efficient and cost- “Western Ascendancy: Mainsprings of Global effective but also manages to do some teaching, Power since 1600” (Societies of the World 19),

Summer 2010 6 F ACULTY which he first taught in Fall 2009. History co-sponsored a symposium at The Center for European Studies on “The Future of American AAndrew Gordon, Lee and Intellectual History.” JJuliet Folger Fund Professor oof History, delivered the EvelynE Higginbotham was Eleventh Annual John W. inductedin into the American Hall Memorial Lecture in PhilosophicalP Society. She JJapanese Studies, sponsored publishedp the classic survey by Yale’s Council on East FromF Slavery to Freedom AAsian Studies in October whichw she co-authored with 2010. His subject was JohnJo Hope Franklin. She has ““Japan’s Wartime Modernity.” actuallya thoroughly rewritten AAlso in October, he gave thist classic text, which is now the keynote address at a symposium in Japan in its 9th edition. She also has been appointed commemorating the 90th anniversary of the as the first chair at the Duke Ohara Institute of Social Research. In 2009, he University Law School and will teach there in published the revised edition of Modern History 2010-2011. of Japan, as well as an article in Business History Review, “Selling the American Way: The Singer Maya Jasanoff spent Sales System in Japan, 1900-1938.” In March 2009-2010 on leave on 2010, he accompanied President Faust on a a Charles A. Ryskamp short but eventful trip to Kyoto and Tokyo. Fellowship from the American Council of Peter Gordon, published Learned Societies, and his book: Continental held residencies at the Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, MacDowell Colony, the Davos (Harvard University oldest artists’ colony in the United States, and Press, 2010). In May 2010 at the International Center for Jefferson Studies, was named “Harvard adjoining Monticello. She finished her new College Professor.” Along book, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in with former graduate the Revolutionary World, due out from Knopf student Edward Baring he convened a major in February 2011. Her essay on “Revolutionary interdisciplinary and international conference Exiles: The American Loyalist and French Émigré on “Derrida and Religion,” March 27-28th, 2010 Diasporas” appeared in a volume edited by our (with support from the Center for European own David Armitage and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Studies, the Humanities Center, the Department The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. of Philosophy, the Committee on Religion, and 1760-1840 (Palgrave, 2010). She received the the Department of Romance Languages and Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Roslyn Abramson Literatures). Conference papers will be published Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. by Fordham University Press. He was the recipient of a Andy Jewett, Assistant Professor of History and seminar workshop grant from of Social Studies, spent 2009-2010 on leave at the Radcliffe Institute, for a the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in workshop next December on Cambridge. There, he completed his manuscript, “New Directions in Modern To Make America Scientific: Science, Democracy, European Intellectual History.” and the University Before the Cold War. He The Harvard Colloquium also has an article entitled “Canonizing Dewey: on Intellectual and Cultural Columbia Naturalism, Logical Empiricism, and

Summer 2010 7 F ACULTY the Idea of American Philosophy” forthcoming James T. Kloppenberg, in Modern Intellectual History, and another Charles Warren Professor of on “The Politics of Knowledge in 1960s America” American History, returned under review for a special issue of Social Science to Harvard this year after History. Meanwhile, “Academic Freedom and spending the 2009-10 year Political Change: American Lessons” appeared in at Jesus College in the the simultaneously published English, Japanese, University of Cambridge, Korean, and Mandarin versions of Universities in where he served as the Translation: The Mental Labor of Globalization, Pitt Professor of American ed. Brett de Bary ( University Press, History and Institutions. Kloppenberg delivered 2010). Professor Jewett also convened, with papers at European and American universities James T. Kloppenberg and Rebecca Lemov on Enlightenment and Revolution in America and of Harvard’s History of Science Department, France and on other themes in American politics a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and ideas related to the book he is completing Exploratory Seminar on “The Social Sciences on the intellectual origins of democracy in and Liberalism in Modern America.” He is now Europe and America. Given the widespread looking toward the 2011-2012 postdoctoral fascination with the 2008 presidential election, program on “The Politics of Knowledge in in the last two years he has addressed academic Universities and the State” at the Charles Warren and civic audiences in Britain, Germany, Italy, Center for Studies in American History, which and the US on the topic of and he will lead with Julie A. Reuben of the Graduate American democracy. Those lectures spawned School of Education, and mapping out a second his book READING OBAMA: DREAMS, HOPE, AND manuscript tentatively titled Against the THE AMERICAN POLITICAL Technostructure: Critics of Scientism Since the TRADITION, which will be . published in the fall of 2010 by Press. Christopher Jones chaired In 2009-10 Kloppenberg the Search Committee for published several essays the Philip J. King Chair on American liberalism in Egyptology, leading to and democracy and on the the appointment of Peter multi-dimensional legacy of Der Manuelian as the first ’s philosophy incumbent of the Chair, of pragmatism. This summer he will deliver the with appointment to begin keynote address, “What Makes William James 1 July 2010. This will mean Significant?” at a symposium to honor the great that Harvard now has a full-time professor of Harvard philosopher on the centennial of his Egyptology for the first time in 70 years. The death. Kloppenberg congratulates Liz Cohen, his Harvard University Press published Jones’ latest faculty colleagues, and the staff of the History book, New Heroes in Antiquity: From Achilles Department for so magnificently weathering the to Antinous, in January 2010. storms of 2008-10. He is looking forward to Jones has been on research completing his term as chair during the next two leave for the year 2009/2010, academic years. and will become emeritus on July 1, 2010. He is In the fall of 2009, Jill Lepore, who chairs currently working on a book Harvard’s History and Literature Program, provisionally entitled Between delivered the Fusco Distinguished Lecture at the Pagan and Christian. University of Connecticut and the Walker Horizon Lecture at DePauw University. In October, she

Summer 2010 8 F ACULTY explained “Why Narrative Isn’t Everything,” at Department) Jane Kamensky, was published in the Journalism and History Conference at Boston January of 2010, and named a New York Times University. That month, she also participated in Book Review Editors’ Choice. a forum sponsored by the Center for the Study Lepore received funding of Books and Media, at Princeton, delivering from the General Education remarks titled, “Puff: On the Blurbification of Program to develop a new the Book Review.” She also delivered a paper course, on the history of life at a conference at Harvard on the New Literary and death, to be offered in History of America. In February she presented 2011-12. She also served as “Dead or Alive: Matters of Life and Death and chair of the Parkman Prize the American Body Politic,” at the Harvard Law jury, and continues to serve School Faculty Colloquium. In the spring of on the editorial board of the 2010, she served as the Hewitt Distinguished Penguin History of American Professor of History at the University of Northern Life and as a consultant to a number of public Colorado and delivered the Distinguished History history projects. She was also recently elected to Lecture at Tufts University. In April, she was the Executive Board of the Society of American honored as a “Literary Light” by the Boston Historians and has begun a term on the Board of Public Library. That month, she also debated Commissioners of the National Portrait Gallery. Jim Leach, the new chairman of the National She will be on leave next year. Endowment for the Humanities, on the question of civility in public discourse, at the American Charles Maier, Erez, Niall, and former graduate Antiquarian Society. She will be delivering a student Daniel Sargent (now at Berkeley) have keynote address at the Massachusetts Council published The Shock of the Global: The 1970s for the Humanities conference this June. Essays in Perspective, with HUP which represents in by Lepore appeared this year in the Times good part a departmental collaboration. He Literary Supplement, the Washington Post, was awarded a Fellowship Historically Speaking, the Chronicle of Higher at the Education, the Harvard Crimson, and The International Center for New Yorker, where she is a staff writer. “Rap Scholars in Washington DC, Sheet,” her essay on the history of murder, to be held during the spring was reprinted in the journal of the Connecticut semester of 2011. Bar Association. “It’s Spreading,” her essay on disease panics will be anthologized in The Erez Manela spent Spring McGraw-Hill Reader: Issues Across Disciplines. 2010 on a research leave Translations of her essays, including “The Ice funded by a Charles A. Man” and “Back Issues,” have lately been printed Ryskamp Fellowship in anthologies, newspapers, and magazines in awarded by the American Council of Learned Italy, Spain, and Japan. Her essay, “Baby Food,” Societies, continuing to work on the history of a history of the breast milk pump, will appear in global smallpox eradication. A major article from Best Technology Essays, to be this project, “A Pox on Your Narrative: Writing published by Yale University Disease Control into Cold War History,” was Press this fall. A paperback in the April 2010 issue of Diplomatic History. edition of Blindspot, a novel Another essay, “Smallpox Eradication and the about portraiture and politics Rise of Global Governance,” appeared this spring in the age of the American in the volume Shock of the Global: The 1970s Revolution that Lepore co- in Perspective, which he co-edited with Niall wrote with the historian (and Ferguson, Charles Maier, and Daniel Sargent. chair of Brandeis’s History The volume is dedicated to our recently departed

Summer 2010 9 F ACULTY colleague, Ernest May. He delivered three various invited talks and conference papers, he keynote addresses: in the fall, to the incoming offered the Jackson H. Bailey Memorial Lectures class of Weatherhead Fellows at Harvard, and in at Earlham College, an annual endowed lecture the spring to the conference on “Transnational open to the public and devoted to introducing Networks in the Postcolonial World” at Williams the study of Japan to a broad audience. College and to the 10th Annual Graduate Student Conference on International History (ConIH), SSerghii Plokhii: which takes place at Harvard every March. He BBooks published: S. M. served as Director of Graduate Programs at the PPlokhy, Yalta: The Price of Weatherhead Center, and continued to co-chair PPeace (Viking, 2010). Poltava the Harvard International and Global History 11709: Revisiting a Turning Seminar (HIGHS). More information on the PPoint in European History. seminar and other aspects of the international HHe served as the organizer history program can be found at http://www.fas. oof the conference. Two more harvard.edu/~int-hist/. ffaculty members, Cemal KKafadar and Kelly O’Neill Michael McCormick continued his excavations took part in the conference. at the late Roman settlement of Tarquimpol in Last fall he was awarded with the Early Slavic eastern France, spoke at various conferences and Studies Association Distinguished Scholarship universities in the US and Europe, and organized Award. a workshop on climate change under the later Roman empire (April 2009), coorganized a Dan Smail gave papers or presentations on conference on the past and future of Byzantine medieval European topics at a variety of venues, archaeology (April 2010; both at Dumbarton including the New England Medieval Conference, Oaks). Launched in May 2010 the beta version a colloquium on medieval material culture in of his Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Auxerre (France), the University of Toronto, Yale Civilizations (http://darmc.harvard.edu ) a free, University, Harvard Law School, the Renaissance online Atlas of European and Mediterranean Society of America (Venice), Dumbarton Oaks, civilizations, 1-1500 A.D. and Stanford University. He also presented Publications included Italian, Spanish and Polish several papers related to deep history or editions of Origins of the European Economy; neurohistory at seminars or lectureships at Karl der Grosse und die Vulkane, Europavortrag Rice University, MIT, the University of Vermont, des Historischen Instituts, 11 Juni 2008 where he was the Burack Distinguished Lecturer, Universität des Saarlandes, Universitätsreden, 77, and the University of Cincinnati. With Christine Saarbücken 2008; The Long Morning of Medieval Desan (HLS), he organized a workshop here at Europe: New Directions in Early Medieval Studies Harvard called “The Medieval World of Value: (coedited with Jennifer R. Davis; Aldershot, Money, , and Consumption,” and gave a Ashgate, 2008); and various articles. paper at Ruth Phillips’ “Materiality and Cultural Ian Miller received a National Endowment for the Translation” colloquium. With Jeff Ravel (MIT), Humanities Fellowship to support the completion he continue to organize and occasionally host of my book manuscript, The Nature of the Beast: meetings of the Boston Area French History Tokyo’s Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens and group, and with our graduate students in the Making of Modern Japan. The manuscript medieval history have developed and run a has been accepted as a Study of the Weatherhead workshop in medieval history, which, this year, East Asian Institute at Columbia University. ranged from Latin Christendom to Byzantium Further support has come from the Harvard and the Arabic-speaking world and brought in Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Reischauer several outside speakers. In the fall, he helped Institute for Japanese Studies. In addition to to bring in Robert Schneider, the editor of the

Summer 2010 10 F ACULTY American Historical Review for two workshops program. The city chose Tim O’Brien’s The on publishing. In July of 2009, he published (with Things They Carried. In July, she will be leading Kelly Lyn Gibson, one of our graduate students) a group of educators on a tour of Vietnam. Vengeance in Medieval Europe: A Reader (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), and wishes to thanks all (with Andrew Shryock, University of Michigan) those who attended the reception in her honor at completed the writing and editing of a collection the American Historical Association meeting in tentatively entitled Before the Beginning: Human San Diego in January. This festive party, complete History and Deep Time with a large cake inscribed with a parody of a (forthcoming, University well-known slogan about well-behaved women, of California Press). This was jointly sponsored by our department and project was the fruit of two by the History Department at the University of Radcliffe seminars in 2008 New Hampshire, where Laurel did her Ph.D. and 2009. He also published Her Presidential Address, “An American Album, a short essay called “The 1857” was published in the February issue of the Original Subaltern” in American Historical Review. It can also be found postmedieval: a journal of on-line, complete with full-color illustrations at medieval cultural studies 1 the AHA website: http://www.historians.org/ (2010): 180-86. info/AHA_History/ulrich.cfm

HHue-Tam Ho Tai’s latest bbook was published by tthe University of California PPress in April 2010. She iis currently editing the ppapers that were presented aat a workshop which she oorganized in May 2009 oon “Property and Property RRights in Vietnam.” On April 224, she co-organized (with Ed Miller, Ph.D. History, ’04) a one-day workshop on the First Republic of South Vietnam. On May 14-16, she held a workshop “Under Construction: Space in Vietnam” which brought together historians, anthropologists, political scientists and urban planners from North America, Asia and Europe. She continue to be involved in outreach activities. On November 11, 2009, she participated in a roundtable at WGBH to discuss how the Vietnam War is remembered and interpreted in Vietnam in conjunction with the showing of one segment of the documentary series “Vietnam: A Television History.” On April 1, 2010, she discussed Vietnamese history and culture as part of the Somerville, MA, public library’s launching of its “One City, One Book”

Summer 2010 11 Graduate News

GRADUATE STUDENT PLACEMENT

The job-market for PhDs in History had begun to contract considerably, even before the effects of the econom- ic downturn were felt in universities and history departments across the United States (and beyond). However, graduates of our Department were exceptionally successful at securing teaching positions, post-doctoral fel- lowships, and lectureships. Our congratulations go to the following:

Tenure-track positions: Shenoda, Maryann Mellon Assistant Professor in Aiyar, Sana University of Wisconsin Residence, UCLA Baring, Edward Drew University Yoffie, Adina ACLS New Faculty Fellowship, Burgin, Angus Johns Hopkins University NYU Finucane, Adrian University of Kansas Romano, John Benedictine College Harvard lectureships: Smith, David Wilfrid Laurier University Karch, Brendan History Sowerby, Scott Northwestern University Mead, Philip History & Literature Teoh, Karen Stonehill College Oliveiro, Vernie History Wilson, Ann History Other: More, Elizabeth Lecturer, Trinity College Post-doctoral fellowships: Hartford Rodríguez, Miles US-Mexican Studies Center, Nagahara, Hiromu Visiting Assistant Professor, UC San Diego Gordon College Sinanoglou, Penny Writing Program, Princeton Polu, Sandhya Chief Aide, US Ambassador, University Rome Tasar, Eren Davis Center for Russian Poole, Monica Assistant Professor, Bunker Studies Hill Community College Webb, Jeffrey Pontifical Institute, University of Toronto

Summer 2010 12 G

RECENT PHD GRADUATES RADUATE

November 2009 May 2010 Raja Adal, Nationalizing Aesthetics: Art, Edu- Clare Gillis, Illicit Sex, Unfaithful Translations: N cation in Egypt and Japan, 1872-1950 Latin, Old High German and the Birth of a New EWS Sana Aiyar, Nation, Race and Politics amongst Sexual Morality in the Early MIddle Ages the South Asian Diaspora: From Colonial Ke- Brendan Karch, Nationalism on the Margins: nya to Multicultural Britain Silesians between Germany and Angus Burgin, The Return of Poland, 1848-1945 Laissez-Faire Diana Kudayarova, Unintended Denise Ho, Antiquity in Revolu- Community: A Social History of tion: Cultural Relics in Twentieth- Soviet Engineers, 1945-1970 Century Shanghai Maryann Shenoda, Lamenting Eleanor Hubbard, City Women: Islam, Imagining Persecution: Sex, Money, and the Social Order Copto-Arabic Opposition to in London, 1570-1640 Islamization and Arabization in Fatimid Egypt (969-1171 CE) Robert Karl, State Formation, Violence, and Cold War in Colom- Eren Tasar, Soviet and Muslim: bia, 1957-1966 The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia, 1943-1991 Sandhya Polu, The Perception of Risk: Policy-Making on Infectious William Treanor, The Origins Disease in India (1892-1940) of Judicial Review in the United States, 1780-1803 Juliet Wagner, Twisted Bodies, Broken Minds: Film and Neuropsychiatry in the First World War

Henry Adams Club

he Henry Adams Club soldiers on in its to all our generous donors and the grad stu- Tnoble mission of bringing refreshment and dent volunteers who hauled books and staffed socialization to flagging History graduate stu- the three-day sale. dents. Budget cuts forced us to scale back on In addition to our weekly gatherings, serving food every week, but we were still able the Club puts on a number of special events, to provide a hearty diet of beer and snacks including a reception for admitted students at our weekly meetings, as well as fortifying and an event with invited faculty. This year’s conversation and toothsome chitchat. event was a panel on the job market, featur- The Club, which counts all history de- ing DGS David Armitage and a group of recent partment graduate students as its members, PhDs who spoke about their job searches. also pulled off its annual Book Sale, soliciting Beyond the walls of Robinson, the Henry Ad- donations from faculty members and peddling ams Club also made an outing to the Greater them to a broad slice of the Harvard communi- Boston Food Bank to volunteer. (Photo on page ty in Robinson Great Space last February. The 1.) The event had great turnout and will hope- book sale generally contributes more than half fully be repeated in the future. of our operating budget, and we are grateful

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G3 CONFERENCE RADUATE

In January, students from the Department of His- tory and affiliated programs took an important step toward completing their dissertations, by introduc- N

ing their research topics at the History Dissertation EWS Prospectus Conference. The yearly Conference is an opportunity for those students who have recently completed the General Examination to formally present their research plans to members of the faculty and to their peers. This year’s participants are listed below with the titles of their presenta- tions.

Jerad Mulcare, An Urban-Environmental History of Colonial Charleston, South Carolina Oksana Mykhed, Contested Arcadia: Partitions of Poland and the Transformation of the Dnieper Fron- Hannah Callaway, The Rights of Man and Paris Real tier, 1700-1795 Estate in the French Revolution Sofiya Grachova, The Politics of Jewish Life: Medi- Mira Siegelberg, The Question of Questions: A Ge- cine and Russian Jews, 1881-1930 nealogy of Statelessness, 1919-1961 Max Oidtmann, The Loyal Frontier? Indigenous Em- Elisa Minoff, Migrating Rights: The Social and Legal pires on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier, 1820-1912 Consequences of Movement, 1930-1975 John Wong, Global Positioning: Houqua and his Ryan Wilkinson, Politics and Communications in the China Trade Partners in the Nineteenth Century End of Roman Gaul Philipp Lehmann, The German Encounter with the Rena Lauer, Vitality on the Margins: A Notarial Case Desert: Exploration, Colonization, Transformation, Study on Jews and Slaves in Venetian Crete, 1300- 1800-1950 1500 Stephen Walsh, Austria on Ice: Habsburg Arctic Jesse Howell, Istanbul, Ancona, and the Trans-Bal- Exploration and its Legacy, 1870-1955 kan Highway: 1480-1520 Erik Linstrum, The Taming of Instinct: Psychology Aleksandar Sopov, Production of Food in the East- and the Turn Against Empire, 1898-1970 ern Mediterranean during Ottoman Rule, 1500- 1900 Sam Rosenfeld, Polarization and the Transforma- tion of the American Party System, 1950-1994 Julia Stephens, Economizing Faith: Law, Religion, and Islam in Colonial India Sylvia Wu, U.S. Trade Policy, 1971-79

Dinyar Patel, The Grand Old Man of India: Reevalu- Josie Rodberg, Human Rights, Women’s Rights, ating the Life and Legacy of Dadabhai Naoroji States’ Rights: Struggles Over Federal Family Plan- ning Programs, 1965-1988 Emmanuel Asiedu-Acquah, Youth Culture and Popu- lar Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial Ghana

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GRADUATE AWARDS RADUATE

History Department Graduate Fellowship Winners: Justice, Welfare and Economics Grants Kennedy, Sheldon, Knox Traveling Fellowships, Aleksandar Sopov (HMES) N 2010-2011 Joshua Specht Hannah Callaway Jeremy Zallen EWS Sofiya Grachovia Mira Siegelberg Center for European Studies Year-long Research John Wong Grants Hannah Callaway Summer School Tuition Waiver Philipp Lehmann Rhae Lynn Barnes Erik Linstrum Stephen Walsh Hassan Malik Mira Siegelberg Graduate Society Summer Dissertation Fellowship Stephen Walsh Greg Afinogenov Thomas Hooker Charles Warren Center Summer Grants Dinyar Patel Stefan Link Sarah Shortall Vanessa Ogle Joshua Segal Merit/Term-time Vanessa Ogle Charles Warren Center Term-time Grants Philipp Lehman Elisa Minoff Jerad Mulcare Dissertation Completion Fellowship Sam Rosenfeld Adam Ewing Adrian Finucane Center for American Political Studies Full-year Re- Kelly Gibson search Grant Josh Hill (Whiting) Sam Rosenfeld Nikhil Kapur Ian Klaus (Whiting) SSRC Year-long Research Grant Konrad Lawson Hannah Callaway Noah McCormack Maryann Shenoda Tristan Stein Ece Turnator

Weatherhead Center Graduate Student Associates Program Sreemati Mitter Steffen Rimner Stefan Link

Weatherhead Center Research Grants Matthew Kustenbauder Erik Linstrum Thomas Hooker Kristen Loveland Vanessa Ogle

Summer 2010 15 52 History students were awarded a total of $140,123.00 in sum- mer grant funding for study abroad, intern- ships, language study, research, or personal interest; 16 senior the- sis writers were awarded $37,411.00 and the remaining 36 students received $102,712.00 of funding.

Undergraduate News

2009-10 was a good year for Lewis, Charles Maier, Erez Manela, Michael McCor- the Undergraduate office. We mick, Daniel Smail, Rachel St. John, Trygve Thront- welcomed slightly more new veit, and Laurel Ulrich for their willingness to take concentrators than the previ- the time to meet students on their own turf and ous year and ended up with talk about history, academic life, research interests a total of 74 new students in and experiences—or whatever happened to come History 97, our sophomore tu- up. In addition, several faculty moderated panels torial. At the other end of the of Seniors sharing their works-in-progress at the spectrum, we will be graduat- Department’s annual Thesis Writers’ Conference. ing over 100 concentrators, Thanks to Raja Adal, Joyce Chaplin, Lizabeth Co- fifty-three of whom wrote hen, Brett Flehinger, Henrietta Harrison, Evelyn Hig- senior theses. This was an especially good year for ginbotham, James Kloppenberg, Erez Manela, Serhii our thesis writers, in fact, as nine of them earned Plokhii, Rachel St. John, Laurel Ulrich, and Charlotte Hoopes prizes in addition to a small flotilla of other Walker for supporting this vital aspect of the thesis prizes. Our concentrators have been awarded funds program. to support thesis and other research from a variety In the spring semester, during the College’s of centers and programs, including the Center for Advising Fortnight, Niall Ferguson offered his American Political Studies, the Center for European special lecture, “Why History?,” to an enthusiastic Studies, the Committee on African Studies, the audience of freshmen and History concentrators. Justice Grant, the Weatherhead Center, and several We also were delighted that several of our alumni other Harvard-affiliated and non-Harvard-affiliated returned to Robinson Hall for Advising Fortnight to sources. participate in our Alumni Panel, entitled “What is In the fall semester, we continued our a History Degree Good For?” The panelists shared recent practice of asking faculty to join concentra- dinner and answered questions from prospec- tors for History lunches in the houses; thanks go tive and current concentrators about how History to Sven Beckert, Ann Blair, Joyce Chaplin, Lizabeth helped them get to where they are. Panelists includ- Cohen, Emma Dench, James Kloppenberg, Mary ed representatives from the world of technology,

Summer 2010 16 law, finance, business, philanthropy, the public U sector, and academia. To alums Kurt Chauviere ’04, NDERGRADUATE Annie Lewis ’07, Mike Ragalie ’09, Hummy Song ’08, Sam Spirn ’03, and the evening’s host, PhD candidate Rowan Dorin ’07: Many, many thanks! We have also redeveloped a faculty advising system and are grateful to the faculty who volunteered to help out; these include Ann Blair, Sven Beckert,

Emma Dench, Henrietta Harrison, Maya Jasanoff, N

Mark Kishlansky, James Kloppenberg, Mary Lewis, EWS Lisa McGirr, Ian Miller, Steven Ozment, Daniel Smail, and Rachel St. John. Of course our thanks go to everyone who contributed to the success of the undergraduate program over the past year—faculty, of course, but also teaching fellows, our unfailingly efficient and helpful staff, and the many alumni who have contributed to endowments big and small that al- low our students to pursue research and learning across the U.S. and the world. -Daniel Lord Smail, DUS

TEMPUS

here have been several exciting develop- tinue to be a part of Spring issues in the future. ments for Tempus: The Harvard College While we have focused on publishing THistory Review in the past year. This fall the best undergraduate work in History, we we moved to a new website, www.HarvardTem- have also looked to both push at the bound- pus.com, which creates for the first time a sin- aries of the discipline while giving each issue gle location for Tempus issues to be viewed. a sense of coherence. Issues in the last year The first issue published on the site (vol. X, is- have included works in material history, the sue 2) featured four undergraduate papers and history of music, transnational and compara- an interview with Annette Gordon-Reed, the tive history, and ancient history. Each issue 2009 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History and has also been organized around a particular a newly-appointed member of the faculty at theme or time period. In the case of the cur- Harvard Law School. In the spring we received a rent Spring issue, we have focused on the sub- record number of submissions from undergrad- jects of colonization and rebellion in a variety uates. The Spring issue, which is forthcoming, of contexts. The issue looks at resistance to includes four papers, two book reviews, and authority by students at Harvard in the 1760s, an interview with Professor Louis Menand, the the responses of Chechens and Uyghers to Rus- Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Eng- sian and Chinese influence, and the Great Pow- lish and the 2002 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize ers’ treatment of Iran at the Yalta Conference. in History. It also includes interviews with sev- In the next year, we look to expand the eral of this year’s Hoopes Prize-winners in His- size of our staff, hold more events with faculty, tory. The goal of these interviews is to provide and add past issues of the Tempus to the new tips to underclassmen about how to produce a website. We hope you will check out the new successful thesis. We began these interviews in issue when it is released in the next few weeks! last Spring’s issue and we hope they will con-

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Svyatoslav Andriyishen Jonathan Hawley Kevin McCarthy NDERGRADUATE Sebastien Arnold Emily Healy Daniel McGeary Marino Auffant Heidi Hirschl Katherine Medina James Bailey Sarah Honig Edad Mercier Thomas Bailey Alina Hooper Jonathan Miller Ryan Barnes Noor Iqbal Monica Mleczko Katherine Beers Sarah Joselow Sahand Moarefy Laura Kaplan Kyle Bevan Ken Moore Francis Kelly N Jonathan Blankfein Troy Murrell

Robert King EWS Matthew Bloom Brittany Northcross Matthew Klayman Thomas Brennan Matthew Opitz Nikolai Krylov Sarah Burack Delia Pais Benjamin Landau-Beispiel Siodhbhra Parkin Vito Cannavo Junhaeng Lee Marcelo Cerullo Spencer Livingston Kelly Peeler Maria Chicuen Marissa Lopez William Quinn Tri Chiem Morgan Mallory Daniel Rea Alyssa Colbert Joanna Marquina Claire Richard Adrienne Collatos Andrew McCarthy Charles Riggs

2009-2010 A.B. RECIPIENTS

Alexander Copulsky John Riley Mary Kathryn Cox Rose Ruback Catherine Curley Mohindra Rupram Mary Catherine Curley Michael Scalise Henry Dawkins Maxine Schlein Anna de Bakker Eric Sefton Jennifer Ding Ryan Sepassi David Dobrosky Matthew Setless Nathaniel Donoghue Anna Shabalov Alexander Doubet Ayoung Shin Andrew Durtschi Noah Silver Cormac Early Merav Silverman Martin Eiermann James Sterne Zeina Fayyaz Victoria Sung Andrea Flores Laurel Tainsh Jennifer Francis Erika Tschinkel Christopher Fuller Qingqing Tu Mark Fuller Kirby Tyrrell Ashlyn Garry Normandy Villa Tremayne Gibson John Welch William Goldsmith Audrey White Zachary Gordon Amanda Williams Justin Grinstead Julia Guren Vanda Gyuris Madeline Haas Katherine Harris

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UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS AND PRIZES NDERGRADUATE

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY PRIZE, for the best total UNDERGRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE, for the best record as history concentrator by the end of the research seminar paper: Anna Shabalov for her senior year: Anna Shabalov paper: “The Houseworker and the Soviet Home.”

PHILIP WASHBURN PRIZE, for best thesis on his- Maria Carla Chicuen ‘10: JAMES R. AND ISABEL torical subject: Maria Chicuen for her thesis: D. HAMMOND PRIZE for her thesis: “Our Men in N

“Our Men in Europe: Cuba’s Commercial and Europe: Cuba’s Commercial and Diplomatic Rela- EWS Diplomatic Relations with Spain and Great Britain, tions with Spain and Great Britain, 1959-1964.” 1959-1964.” The Hammond Prize is awarded by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies DAVID HERBERT DONALD PRIZE, for excellence in (DRCLAS) for the best Harvard undergraduate American history: Laura Kaplan senior honors thesis related to Spanish-speaking Latin America, and is associated with the Commit- COLTON AWARD, for excellence in the preparation tee on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS). of a senior thesis in the Department of History The prize was established in 1992 by a gift from Marino Auffant for his thesis: “Preventing The James R. Hammond ‘57. Rise of A Second Cuba: The Cold War in the Do- minican Republic, 1963-1973.” Noah Silver and Marcelo Cerullo received the KENNETH MAXWELL THESIS PRIZE IN BRAZILIAN LILLIAN BELL PRIZE, for student with the best pa- STUDIES The Kenneth Maxwell Thesis Prize in per on the Holocaust or similar human tragedy. Brazilian Studies was established to recognize the Emily Graff, History & Literature Student, for her best Harvard College senior thesis on a subject re- thesis: “Books Like These Are Burned!: The 1933 lated to Brazil. Candidates may be nominated by Nazi Book Burnings in American Historical Memo- their department, concentration or instructional ry.” committee, or candidates may nominate their own theses. This annual prize is funded by a gift to FERGUSON PRIZE, for best History 97 essay DRCLAS from Professor Kenneth Maxwell. Maia Usui for her paper: “From Error and Misery, to Truth and Happiness”: The Life of Robert Owen Robert G. King received the 2010 Sherman Prize, awarded by the Center for the Study of Force aand Diplomacy. His essay is titled: “Academic SScribblers: Policy Reports and the Making of AAmerican Strategy in Latin America, 1948- 1980”.

Summer 2010 19 UNDERGRADUATE NEWS 20 RIZE P OOPES H Noah Silver, “Commissioners of Justice? Mixed Commission Courts and the British Suppression of the Noah Silver, “Commissioners of Justice? Mixed Commission Courts Armitage Atlantic Slave Trade, 1819-1845” – nominated by Professor David Anna Shabalov, “Long Road in the Dunes: Latvia and the Soviet Historical Narrative” -nominated by Profes- Anna Shabalov, “Long Road in the Dunes: Latvia and the Soviet Historical sor Serhii Plokhii Charles Riggs, “The Life of an Irish Libel: William Drennan’s ‘Address to the Volunteers of Ireland,’ 1792- Charles Riggs, “The Life of an Irish Libel: William Drennan’s ‘Address 1794” – nominated by Professor Ann Blair Siodhbhra Parkin, “Recreating the Periphery: The Role of Ethnic Minorities in History Textbooks in the Siodhbhra Parkin, “Recreating the Periphery: The Role of Ethnic Minorities Henrietta Harrison People’s Republic of China, 1945-1958” – nominated by Professor Julia Guren, “‘Tufunge Safari’: Identity Formation and Allegiances in the King’s African Rifles During the Formation and Allegiances in the King’s African Rifles During Julia Guren, “‘Tufunge Safari’: Identity 1939-1964” – nominated by Dr. Charlotte Walker Age of British Decolonization, c. Maria Chicuen, “Our Men in Europe: Cuba’s Com- Maria Chicuen, “Our Men in Europe: Jorge Spain and Great Britain, 1959-1964” – nominated by Professor mercial and Diplomatic Relationswith Domínguez. Marcello Cerullo, “Coffee and Capital in São Paolo, Marcello Cerullo, “Coffee and Capital Alison Frank 1850-1900” – nominated by Professor Sarah Burack, “Riot in the Hill: Black Identity and Sarah Burack, “Riot in the Hill: Black 1958-1965” – Transnational Politics in London, nominated by Dr. Juliet Wagner Marino Auffant, “Preventing the Rise of a Second Marino Auffant, “Preventing the Republic, Cuba? The Cold War in the Dominican Serhii Plokhii 1963-1973” – nominated by Professor Summer 2010 Summer 2010 The Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize was awarded Prize was awarded Temple Hoopes The Thomas in 2010. Eighty-nine students to nine History prestigious Hoopes this year’s seniors received or scholarly outstanding research Prize for of Arts and Sciences Prize Of- work, the Faculty Friday. The distinction—funded fice announced Thomas T. Hoopes ’19—comes by the estate of for students and a $1,000 with a $4,000 award advisors who nominated honorarium for faculty projects this spring. student theses or the following history concentra- We congratulate tors on their achievements: Let Us Hear From You

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ALUMNI UPDATES

W. Nathan Alexander Robert Bothwell Sad passing of alum, W. Nathan Alexander. One As for info about me, well, I’m alive, a profes- of Nathan’s sisters has compiled a set of links sor of history, and director of the international celebrating Nathan at her Web site: http://www. relations program at the University of Toronto. intellectualconservative.com/2009/05/24/rip- I have published about 20 books one way or an- william-nathan-alexander/. other. I’m not sure whether Phillips would make a sign to avert evil at the sound of my name, but Xu Guoqui you could try it out on her. I also would like to report that my book Olympic I was a very happy student of Ernie May and Rob- Dreams: China and sports, 1895-2008, pub- ert Lee Wolff, hence Angeliki, who was a teaching lished by Harvard University Press in 2008, was fellow handing out mimeos at the beginning of selected as the best of the year by International Wolff’s lectures. I think I learned more intellectu- society of Olympic Historians. ally from Ernie, but more about life from Wolff.