Jennifer Mittelstadt wins residency fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center
Jennifer Mittelstadt, assistant professor of history and women's studies at Penn State, was recently awarded a fellowship from the Washington, D.C-based Woodrow Wilson Center to work on her book "The American Military Welfare State," which argues that the vast military benefits associated with the all-volunteer force have functioned as a welfare state within and beside the American welfare state. One of 22 scholars from the United States and abroad who will be spending the 2008-09 academic year in residence at the center, Mittelstadt is the first Penn State scholar to ever receive such a fellowship.
Jason Strandquist Receives Fulbright Award
Jason Strandquist of Pennsylvania State University, University Park has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student scholarship to Germany in History, the United State Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently.
Strandquist is one of over 1,450 U.S. citizens who will travel abroad for the 2008-2009 academic year through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Annie Rose awarded annual prize for best article
Professor Annie Rose has been awarded the annual prize for best article by the Society for the History of Psychology, a subdivision of the American Psychological Association. Her essay is: "The Discovery of Southern Childhoods: Psychology and the Transformation of Schooling in the Jim Crow South," History of Psychology 10 (2007), 249-78
Jan Logeman awarded Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Recent Ph.D. student Jan Logemann has been awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. The "History of Consumption" Fellowship will run from January to December 2009 with the possibility of renewal. Jan will take up the fellowship after completing teaching duties at Bloomsburg this Fall.
Books Published by Penn State History and Religious Studies Faculty in 2008
- On-Cho Ng. The Imperative of Understanding: Chinese Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, and Onto-Hermeneutics (Global Scholary Publications, 2008).
- A. Gregg Roeber. Ethnographies and Exchanges (Penn State Press, 2008).
- Daniel C. Beaver. Hunting and the Politics of Violence before the English Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
- Sylvia Neely. A Concise History of the French Revolution (Rowman & Little field Publishers,Inc.,2008).
- Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr. A Brief History of Egypt (Facts on File, Inc.,2008)
New Faces
We welcome Russell Lohse, and Tobias Brinkmann.
Russell Lohse (krl13@psu.edu)
The Department welcomes Professor Russell Lohse, our new Latin
American historian. Professor Lohse did his doctoral work at the
University of Texas at Austin and is a specialist in the history of
the African Diaspora and slavery in Latin America. He is currently
revising a manuscript for publication ("Africans and Their
Descendants in Colonial Costa Rica, 1600-1750.") He joins us after
initial teaching experience at Saint Louis University and the
University of Southern Indiana.
Tobias Brinkmann: In conjunction with the Jewish Studies Program, we also welcome Professor Tobias Brinkmann, whose research concentrates on Jewish migration in the 19th and 20th centuries from Central and Eastern Europe to and within North America. Professor Brinkmann did his doctoral work at the Technical University of Berlin and published in 2002 his monograph From Gemeinde to Community: Jewish Immigrants in Chicago 1840-1900. He is currently completing a history of the Chicago Sinai Congregation. Professor Brinkmann joins us from the University of Southampton's Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations.