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Christina H. Paxson

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"We know in our bones that secular humanism is one of the greatest sources of strength we possess as a nation, and that we must protect the humanities if we are to retain that strength in the century ahead." --Christina H. Paxson, President of Brown University

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News and Events: Sean Trainor, Bill Cossen and Paul Matzko each won the Liberal Arts External Incentive Award; Graduate Student Bill Cossen: Jeopardy Champ!; Bill Cossen has been awarded the Bernard Bellush Prize; Rob Shafer has been awarded a fellowship opportunity; David G. Smith's book has been published; Rachel Moran was featured on BackStory with the American History Guys; Bill Cossen has been awarded a research travel grant; John Hoenig's article will be published in the Winter of 2013; Sean Trainor will be presenting his paper in Washington, DC; Jan Logemann's book has been published; Scott Cave has won numerous fellowships and awards; Courtney Rong Fu and Kwok-leong Tang have received research travel grants from the China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC) of the Association for Asian Studies.; Evan Rothera was awarded a Research Fellowship for the Study of the Global South from the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South and the Richard A. Baker Graduate Student Research Travel Grant from the Association of Centers for the Study of Congress.; Emily Seitz has won the M. Louise Carpenter Gloeckner, M.D. Summer Research Fellowship from the Drexel College of Medicine Archives and a Wood Institute Travel Grant from the College of Physicians in Philadelphia; Kwok-leong Tang has been awarded a semester residency for the Spring 2016 at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities; Evan Rothera won the Outstanding Graduate Paper Award; Alfred Wallace was awarded the Rear Admiral Ernest M. Eller Graduate Research Grant; Hongyan Xiang was granted a research travel award by the Asian Institute; Hsin-fang Wu awarded a dissertation fellowship; Bill Cossen has been awarded the Dorothy Mohler Research Grant; Courtney Rong Fu's chapter has been published; Sean Trainor has been awarded a short-term fellowship; Deirdre Fulton has accepted a new position; Bill Cossen has won the 2012 George P. Hammond prize; ShaVonte Mills wins Archie K. Davis Fellowship; History Majors win three thesis awards; Emily Seitz writes piece for the blog Nursing Clio; Sara Kern receives travel grant; Megan McDonie receives two Fellowships; Chris Valesey receives FLAS Fellowship from Vanderbilt University; Emily Seitz received the Wood Institute Travel Grant from the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; Joo Hyun Sheen has won an RGSO dissertation support grant; Tyler Sperrazza has been offered and has accepted the graduate internship position in the Office of Digital Pedagogy; Peter Van Lidth De Jeude has been offered a full time position at Principia College; Will Bryan has won an award; Katie Falvo has been granted a fellowship award; Andrea Gatzke has been appointed Assistant Professor; Bill Cossen's article appears in The South Carolina Historical Magazine; David Hensley accepts position at Queens University, Belfast; Tyler Sperrazza selected for the Filson MA Fellowship; Kenneth Ristau has accepted a position at MacEwan University; Courtney Rong Fu recently presented a paper at West Chester University; Michael Tuttle recently presented a paper at the R.S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology; Michael Gabriel has won an award; Jennifer J. Davis's book has been published; Christine Reese has accepted a tenure-track position with Louisiana College; Andrea Gatzke wins 2012 IAH Summer Residency; Evan Rothera receives Thomas Critchlow Award and Sigmund Strochlitz Travel Grant; Scott Cave has been chosen for the CEMS IAH Fellowship for 2016.; Evan Rothera won the Lawrence T. Jones III Research Fellowship; Tyler Sperrazza has won a Russell F. Weigley Travel Award; Bill Cossen has been awarded the Presidential Graduate Scholarship from the American Catholic Historical Association; Scott Cave has received a Mayers Fellowship at the Huntington Library in California.; Evan Rothera awarded a Burney Parker Research Fellowship from Baylor University and the Portal to Texas History Research Fellowship from the University of North Texas; John Hoenig studies quest for the 12-month tomato; Bill Cossen recently presented a paper; Hongyan Xiang's article has been published; Scott Cave has been chosen for the Lydia Cabrera Award; Rachel Moran received a Postdoctoral Fellowship; Sean Trainor's articles have recently been featured; Sean Trainor was recently interviewed; Cecily Zander has piece published on Muster; Bill Cossen has been named a finalist for the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship; Bill Cossen's article will be published; David Hensley's article will appear in the Journal of Belgian History; Bill Cossen has been awarded the Presidential Graduate Scholarship; Scott Cave has been accepted to a conference on “Colonial Christian missions and their legacies”; Bill Cossen's article has been accepted for an upcoming issue; Evan Rothera received a Filson Fellowship; Utsa Ray, a 2009 PhD graduate, has been appointed; John Hoenig's article appeared in Business History Review; Bill Cossen's article has appeared in American Catholic Studies; Lauren Kaplow has accepted a visiting Assistant Professorship; Jeffrey Rop has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professorship; Tim Wesley has accepted a tenure-track position; Courtney Rong Fu has been named a 2014 Career Development Awardee; Antwain Hunter has accepted a tenure-track position; Sean Trainor's article has appeared in The Appendix; Eric Welch has been offered a Hill Dissertation Fellowship; Hsin-fang Wu has been named a 2014 Career Development Awardee; Sean Trainor was recently interviewed; William Cossen elected as GSA Representative; Sean Trainor awarded two fellowships; Hongyan Xiang receives USF Ricci Doctoral Research Fellowship; Three students awarded IAH Graduate Student Summer Residencies; Three students place in the Graduate School's Graduate Exhibition; Bill Cossen's paper has been accepted; Jason Strandquist has been selected as a participant; Sean Trainor was recently awarded; Mark Christensen's first book has been published; Michael Tuttle wins Clark G. Reynold Student Paper Award for his paper entitled "Women in Western Waters: Myth and Reality"; Evan Rothera presents paper entitled “Beyond Comparative Emancipation: Comparative Reconstructions as a Category of Analysis" at an international conference in Germany; Evan Rothera presents paper at interdisciplinary conference at Chestnut Hill College; Rachel Moran presents paper, awarded NSF travel grant; Chris Hayashida-Knight has received a research grant; Sean Trainor has been awarded a fellowship; The Richards Center and our graduate students were featured in an article; Hongyan Xiang recently gave a talk at the University of Toronto; Karen Younger (PhD, 2006) has accepted a position; Bill Cossen presented paper "When Al Smith is President': The Protestant Other and the Politics of Anti-Catholicism in the 1928 Presidential Election"; Courtney Rong Fu accepted as the Humanities Without Walls (HWW) Pre-Doctoral Fellow for 2016 Summer Workshop in Chicago.; Evan Rothera has received a Lawrence Gelfand - Armin Rappaport - Walter LaFeber Dissertation Fellowship from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.; Will Bryan has been selected as a nominee; Bill Cossen was recently interviewed; Will Bryan received a Post-Doctoral Fellowship; Paul Matzko has been awarded the LA External Funding Incentive Award; Sean Trainor's article appeared as this fall's cover article in Early American Studies; Bill Cossen's article will appear in a forthcoming issue of The Catholic Historical Review; Christopher Hayashida-Knight has won the Liberal Arts External Incentive Award

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