Kathleen Biddick is a fellow at the Leslie White Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College.
Seth Bruggeman signed a contract with UMass Press to edit a collection tentatively titled Birth and Commemoration in American Public Memory for their Public History in Historical Perspective series.
Travis Glasson recently had an article accepted for publication by the William and Mary Quarterly. It examines the previously unknown role of the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley in securing an influential legal opinion that helped support slavery in the eighteenth-century British Empire, the Yorke-Talbot Opinion of 1729.
Petra Goedde will be a fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University in the Fall, 2009.
Peter Gran has gone digital: “The Rise of the West or the Rise of the Rich-Which Way for Middle Eastern Studies?” Univ. of Penn. Middle East Center, Sept. 30, 2009, Podcast version
William Hitchcock's Bitter Road to Freedom was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction.
Andrew Isenberg will be a fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environmental Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, in the Spring, 2010.
Susan Klepp has two books in press: Revolutionary Conceptions: Women, Fertility and Family Limitation in Early America, (Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina) and The Diary of Hannah Callender Sansom: Sense and Sensibility in an Age of Revolution, ed. with Karin A. Wulf (Cornell UP). She is now the editor of the Journal of the Early Republic, which has set up shop at Temple.
Martin Levitt has been named President-elect of the Academy of Certified Archivists.
Mónica Ricketts will be a Humboldt Fellow in Berlin, Germany, in 2009-10.
Bryant Simon published Everything but the Coffee: Learning About America From Starbucks (Berkeley: US Press, 2009).
Gregory J.W. Urwin had an autobiographical article, "Glory and Me: A Professor's Short Love/Hate Affair with Hollywood" appear in the October 2009 issue of North & South: The Official Magazine of the Civil War Society. Urwin also has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Society for Military History.
Jon Wells has an edited collection of essays coming out in December. It is entitled Entering the Fray: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South (University of Missouri Press).
Ralph Young received the Provost's Award for Innovative Teaching in General Education.
Vlad Zubok received a major grant to support summer workshops involving US Slavists and historians of Russia. He organized the first successful international workshop in the Crimea, involving 40 Russian, US, Ukrainian, Armenian, and other scholars "Teaching Russian legacy in the global world." He also had a textbook on IR (in co-authorship) accepted for publication by Oxford University Press. His latest book, Zhivago’s Children, has been reviewed in The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The New Leader, The Times Higher Education Supplement, and elsewhere.