Department of History

 

For the Record

 

 

Recent Awards, Honors, and Recognition

 

Anne Rubin awarded American Council of Learned Societies Digital Innovation Fellowship for 2008. Dr. Rubin will use the fellowship to work on her book and website project, "Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and America."

 

Amy Froide appointed UMBC Bearman Family Chair in Entrepreneurship for 2007-2010. The three-year fellowship is awarded to a faculty member studying, teaching, and promoting entrepreneurship.

 

Amy Froide awarded the Helen L. Bing and Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library for Summer and Fall 2007.  The fellowship provides research support for Dr. Froide's current book project, "The Silent Partners of Britain's Financial Revolution: Women as Public Investors 1688-1760.

 

Kriste Lindenmeyer named Kauffman Entrepreneurship Fellow for 2007-2010. The three-year appointment facilitates the promotion of innovative and entrepreneurial thinking in the curriculum at UMBC.

Sandra Herbert wins the Geological Society of America's 2006 Mary C. Rabbitt Award,  Charles 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. The Baltimore Sun, featured a story about Dr. Herbert, August 13, 2006 "Darwin Still Lives."

Kate Brown featured in Harper's Online, September 22, 2006.

The Center for History Education recently received another $1 million grant from the Teaching American History program at the U.S. Department of Education. This is the fifth TAH grant the Center has received since 2000. Howard County Schools is the major partner in the project. This partnership is the latest in a series with Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County, and Baltimore City public schools. Congratulations to Dan Ritschel, Rachel Brubaker, and Sharese Essien who lead the CHE.

Anne Rubin wins OAH Avery O. Craven Book Prize.
Professor Rubin's book, A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy is the 2006 winner of the Avery O. Craven Book Prize, given each year for the best book on Civil War Era history.

Marcia Frank Peri, NHPRC Electronic Records Research Fellowship Program. Ms. Peri is an adjunct instructor in Public History and the fulltime Archivist in Albin O. Kuhn Library, Special Collections,  has been awarded a $15,000 fellowship for a collaborative project with Lisl Zach, assistant professor, School of Information and Library Science, Louisiana State University: Determining Current Practices for College and University Electronic Records Management Programs.

Michelle Scott awarded Mellon-Wilson Fellowship
Professor Michelle Scott has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty.

Warren Cohen receives Regents' Award
Professor Warren Cohen was the 2005 recipient of the University System of  Maryland Regents' Award for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity.  Among his many achievements, Professor Cohen is completing his tenth book, America's Failing Empire, on American foreign policy since the Cold War.

Kate Brown awarded Social Science Research Council Grant and the George Louis Beer Prize Professor Kathryn Brown won the American Historical Association's prestigious George Louis Beer Prize , given for outstanding historical writing on any phase of European international history since 1895, for her book A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland.  Previously Professor Brown's book won the Heldt Prize awarded by the American Women for Slavic Studies.

 

Marjoleine Kars awarded NEH Fellowship
Professor Marjoleine Kars was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for 2005-06; this is one of the highest awards that can be won in the humanities and related social sciences.

Warren Cohen wins The Norman and Laura Graebner Award of the The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Professor Warren Cohen has won the ninth Norman and Laura Graebner Award in recognition of significant contributions to the development of the field, through excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service, over his career. 

James Grubb named UMBC Presidential Research Professor for 2004-07
Professor James Grubb has been awarded the most prestigious UMBC research honor for his body of work on the social history of Renaissance Italy.

John Jeffries named OAH Distinguished Lecturer for 2004-2007
Professor and Chair John Jeffries has been designated a Distinguished Lecturer  in the Organization of American Historians program featuring individuals who have made major contributions to the field of American History.

Marjoleine Kars Awarded Mellon Fellowship
Professor Marjoleine Kars has been awarded a Mellon Research Fellowship (2005-06) by the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University to continue her research on a slave uprising in the 1760s in the Dutch colony of Berbice.

Kriste Lindenmeyer Awarded Fulbright Fellowship
Professor Kriste Lindenmeyer held a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship at Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany for the 2004-2005 academic year.

  

Recent Books Published
by UMBC History Faculty

Sandra Herbert. Charles 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.
Barry Lanman, Martha Ross Center for Oral History, with Laura M. Wendling (University of California San Marcos).
  Anne Sarah Rubin. A 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.
  Kriste Lindenmeyer. The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s. (Ivan R. Dee Publisher)
  Warren Cohen. America's Failing Empire: U.S. Foreign Relations Since the Cold War (Blackwell Publishing)
  Amy M. Froide. Never Married: Singlewomen In Early Modern England (Oxford University Press) 

Also on the UMBC Web Site

Awards for UMBC Historians

Learning from Post-World War II Germany (Rebecca Boehling)

UMBC Historian Wins First-Ever e-Lincoln Prize (Anne Rubin)

Learning from the Past (James Bailey)

UMBC’s Historians Honored with Prestigious Awards

UMBC Historian Awarded Top Honor in Field (Warren Cohen)

James Grubb - Professor, History - Presidential Research Professor