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Dr. Anne Rubin wins GSA mentoring award!Dr. Anne Rubin is the choice for the 2011 Donald Creighton Annual Outstanding Faculty GSA Award. Each year, this award is given to honor an outstanding advisor, mentor or professor who aids graduate students in academic and professional pursuits during their time at UMBC. Congratulations to Dr. Rubin! Posted on April 26, 2011 9:37 PM | Permalink Anne Rubin and Kelley Bell Digital History Projecthttp://www.umbc.edu/window/arubin_2011.html Posted on April 16, 2011 7:21 AM | Permalink UMBC History Class on C-SPAN American History TVAmerican History TV broadcast UMBC's HIST 405/710 "American Youth Activism" on March 26th. Take a look and you might see someone you know Posted on March 28, 2011 10:01 PM | Permalink Dr. Anne Rubin in UMBC MagazineThere is a great story on Dr. Anne Rubin's digital history project on the memory of Sherman's March to the Sea in the new UMBC Magazine. Posted on March 9, 2011 3:48 PM | Permalink Public History Students Help Heal Wounds in BaltimoreDr. Denise Meringolo partnered with public historian Mary Rizzo for a wonderful class in Fall 2010. Mary wrote about the experience on the National Council for Public History blog. Congratulations to everyone involved in the project. Posted on February 13, 2011 8:53 PM | Permalink Dr. Anne Rubin interviewed on 1861 Pratt Street Riotshttp://www.umbc.edu/blogs/umbcnews/2011/02/umbc_experts_share_us_civil_wa_1.html Posted on February 9, 2011 1:46 PM | Permalink Dr. Michelle Scott in the Baltimore Sunhttp://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-ci-king-lesson-20110114,0,1893725.story Posted on January 25, 2011 8:56 AM | Permalink Dr. Robert K. Webb Lecture OnlineThis year's Webb lecture of 10/27/2010 is available online: http://my.umbc.edu/media/262 Enjoy. Posted on November 2, 2010 10:54 AM | Permalink Prof. Robert Webb featured in UMBC MagazineThe Fall 2010 UMBC Magazine honors Prof. Robert Webb, Emeritus Posted on October 8, 2010 12:32 PM | Permalink Prof. James Grubb feature storyProf. James Grubb wins 2010-11 Lipitz Professorship as recognition of his outstanding scholarship on Renaissance Italy http://www.umbc.edu/window/lipitz.html Posted on September 15, 2010 10:18 AM | Permalink Dr. Constantine Vaporis was the featured speaker in Mexico CityDr. Vaporis spoke about his recent book http://difusion.colmex.mx/images/PDF/japan.pdf Posted on August 6, 2010 1:35 PM | Permalink Dr. Clay Laurie on Declassification of Secret Korean War Intelligence DocumentsDr. Clay Laurie participates in a panel discussing the declassification of secret intelligence documents on the Korean War. The panel is available on C-SPANhttp://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/294098-2 This was followed-up by a story in the Washington Post and Independence (Mo) examiner and an interview on NPR. Dr. Laurie also did a similar presentation several weeks back at the Eisenhower Library for a group of about 350. Posted on August 6, 2010 10:33 AM | Permalink Constantine Vaporis' book being translated into JapaneseDr. Constantine Vaporis' latest book, Tour of Duty is being translated into Japanese. See the feature story on the UMBC News site: http://www.umbc.edu/window/asian_influence.html Posted on March 20, 2010 1:42 PM | Permalink Dr. Joe Tatarewicz Op-Ed in the Baltimore SunJoe Tatarewicz has an Op-Ed piece on the future of NASA in today's Baltimore Sun. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.space0310,0,5776460.story Posted on March 10, 2010 11:59 AM | Permalink History and Law School Course Praised at First Citizen Ceremonyhttp://www.law.umaryland.edu/about/news_details.html?news=559 Posted on March 5, 2010 11:57 AM | Permalink Ka-che Yip named Presidential Research ProfessorProf. Ka-che Yip is UMBC's Presidential Research Professor for 2010-2013! Professor Yip has made significant contributions to the study of China as well as the more broadly conceived history of public health and disease. His work bridges historical scholarship in the East and West as well as making significant contributions to contemporary policy debates on public health issues. He is the author of the pathbreaking book, Health and National Reconstruction in Nationalist China: Development of Modern Health Services, 1928-1937, as well as Disease, Colonialism, and the State: Malaria in Modern East Asian History (Hong Kong University Press, 2009). Prof. Yip is also the author of thirty-five journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries. He is a sought after scholar as an external reviewer and has presented at numerous conferences both inside and outside the United States. Prof. Yip's membership in the International Network for the History of Malaria is further evidence of his stellar reputation among malariologists, social scientists, historians of medicine, and medical doctors throughout the world. Dr. Yip was also the UMBC Presidential Teaching Professor in 1994. Posted on February 15, 2010 4:18 PM | Permalink Vaporis wins Choice AwardConstantine Vaporis' recent book, Tour of Duty was chose as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2009. Posted on January 6, 2010 11:04 PM | Permalink Interview with Prof. Sandra HerbertUMBC In the Loop features a wonderful interview with Prof. Sandra Herbert. The interviewer is Prof. Joe Tatarewicz. Sandra Herbert talks about how she "met" Darwin and explains the benefits of a lifetime spent researching your passion. Look at the Interview Posted on December 3, 2009 11:01 AM | Permalink Annual Holiday Party, Wed., December 9thJoin us for the Department of History's Annual Holiday Party, Wed., December 9th noon-1:30 pm. 7th Floor Administration Building. See you there! Posted on December 2, 2009 12:54 PM | Permalink Prof. Sandra Herbert's Darwin and Lincoln LectureProf. Sandra Herbert's Darwin and Lincoln Lecture available online. Posted on November 2, 2009 1:15 PM | Permalink Julie OakesCONGRATULATIONS to Julie Oakes for successfully defending her dissertation, "'Faint Traces and Hints of Color:' The Creation of Japan's National Treasure System." Her successful defense was last week and she will graduate with a doctorate from the University of Chicago on December 11th. Congratulations Dr. Oakes. Posted on October 5, 2009 1:42 PM | Permalink Russell Spinney successfully defends his dissertationCongratulations to Russell Spinney on successfully defending his dissertation on 9/30/2009 at Penn State ("A Nation in Peril? How Fear Influenced Everyday Life and Politics in the Weimar Republic.")! Posted on October 1, 2009 2:54 PM | Permalink Anne Rubin on Sherman's MarchAnne Rubin published an essay on the University of North Carolina Press blog about her forthcoming book and website on Sherman's March. Posted on September 17, 2009 9:54 PM | Permalink Kate Brown Wins Guggenheim FellowshipHistory professor Kate Brown wins Guggenheim Fellowship for book project: “Enriched by Plutonium: The Tandem History of the Secret Cities Plutonium Built." Read more> Posted on September 17, 2009 7:11 PM | Permalink Constantine VaporisTour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan University of Hawaii Press, 2008. Posted on September 17, 2009 7:09 PM | Permalink Terry Bouton Named OAH Distinguished LecturerPosted on September 17, 2009 5:58 PM | Permalink Amy FroideNever Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England. Oxford University Press, 2007. Posted on September 17, 2009 5:55 PM | Permalink Michelle Scott.Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South University of Illinois Press, 2008. Posted on September 17, 2009 5:53 PM | Permalink Warren CohenAmerica's Failing Empire: U.S. Foreign Relations Since the Cold War Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Posted on September 17, 2009 5:27 PM | Permalink Kriste LindenmeyerThe Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s. Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 2005. Posted on September 17, 2009 5:24 PM | Permalink Barry LanmanBaltimore County: Celebrating A Legacy, 1659-2009. Baltimore County Historical Society, 2009. Posted on September 17, 2009 5:22 PM | Permalink Anne RubinA Shattered Nation: The Rise And Fall Of The Confederacy, 1861-1868 (University of North Carolina Press). Winner of the 2006 Organization of American Historians' Avery O. Craven book prize for the best book in Civil War era history. Posted on September 17, 2009 5:14 PM | Permalink Sandra HerbertCharles Darwin, Geologist. (Cornell University Press) Winner of the Geological Society of America's 2006 Mary C. Rabbitt Award, “given annually in recognition of outstanding contributions to the understanding of the history of the geological sciences in the United States and abroad.” The book has also won the 2006 Suzanne J. Levinson book award from the History of Science Society, the George L. Mosse Prize from the American Historical Association, and the Albion Book Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies. Posted on September 17, 2009 5:12 PM | Permalink Terry BoutonTaming Democracy: "The People," the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution. (Oxford University Press, 2007). Winner of the Pennsylvania Historical Society's Best Book of the Year Award. Posted on September 17, 2009 5:07 PM | Permalink |
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