Department NewsFACULTY NEWS Throughout the year, the History Department highlights awards and achievements of department faculty. Professor Robin Barnes has been awarded a year-long fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies to finish a book about the role of astrology in the religious culture of the German Reformation. The work, to be published by Oxford University Press, argues that the spread of popular astrological ideas and images both prepared the cultural ground for, and shaped the course of, the reform movement begun by Martin Luther in the sixteenth century. Barnes will complete his study during his upcoming sabbatical year (2009-10). The Hunter-Hamilton Love of Teaching Award "seeks out and honors teachers who way of life uniquely inspires the full potential of each student. This award is given to a Davidson College faculty members judged by his or her peers to display an exemplary love of teaching." Dr. John Wertheimer won this award in May 2008. Previous winners include Malcolm Partin, Sally McMillen, and Ralph Levering. Dr. Mike Guasco has had the following articles published recently: “To ‘doe some good upon their countrymen’: The Paradox of Indian Slavery in Early Anglo-America," Journal of Social History 41:2 (Winter 2007): 389-411; “‘Free from the tyrannous Spanyard’? : Englishmen and Africans in Spain’s Atlantic World,” Slavery & Abolition 29:1 (March 2008): 1-22; and “From Servitude to Slavery,” which appeared in The Atlantic World, 1450-2000, Toyin Falola and Kevin D. Roberts, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. An article, “The Prisca Theologia and Lutheran Confessional Identity c. 1600: Johannes Jessen and his Zoroaster,” by Dr. Robin Barnes has appeared in the book, Spätrenaissance-Philosophie in Deutschland, published at Tübingen (Germany) by Max Niemeyer Verlag. Dr. Trish Tilburg has returned from her sabbatical. She spent spring semester in Paris doing research on a new book project. Dr. Sally McMillen has been giving talks on her book, Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement(2008), in several states including New York, North and South Carolina, Colorado, and Arkansas. She recently spoke at the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York, and at the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History at Columbia University. Dr. Ralph Levering was a commentator at a conference on the politics of troop withdrawal at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia in June 2008. Daniel W. Aldridge III addressed the Fall Speakers Forum/Erving Constitutional Issues Program at Western Piedmont Community College in Morganton, NC in October 2008. The program was sponsored by WPCC's Division of Humanities/Social Sciences and by the Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr. Library. Dr. Aldridge discussed African American struggles for voting rights in the South from 1955 to 1970, emphasizing the role of ordinary citizens rather than civil rights activists and political leaders. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan was awarded a prestigious research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/1600.html) The fellowship will provide generous funding for his archival work during his upcoming sabbatical in Germany. STUDENT NEWS
Each of the scholars will write a major research paper, based largely on primary sources, dealing with a topic in diplomatic/military history or political affairs that occurred during Marshall's life (1898-1960). The scholars will attend two meetings in Lexington and a conference hosted by the U.S. Department of State in Washington in February. The Marshall Scholarship includes a $250.00 cash award plus travel expenses. |