Beth Bailey, professor of history at the College of Liberal Arts, was honored with one of the Army Historical Foundation’s 2007 Distinguished Writing Awards for books and articles on U.S. Army history. The foundation recognized six books and two articles as outstanding achievements in writing on U.S. Army history. Bailey was the winner in the journals and magazines category for her article “The Army in the Marketplace: Recruiting an All-Volunteer Force,” from the June 2007 issue of the Journal of American History.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, professor of English at the College of Liberal Arts, has been named a fellow for the 2008-09 academic year at the National Humanities Center. DuPlessis will be joining 41 other scholars from 32 U.S. institutions and seven foreign countries who are conducting leading research in the humanities. The prospective title of her project at the center is "Gender Debates and Cultural Power in Twentieth-Century American Poetries."
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