Please check here often so we can keep you up to date on all of the latest news from the NU History department, as well as upcoming seminars and events. Several events are already being planned for the Fall.
Phi Alpha Theta
| International Honor Society in History | |
| Zeta Tau Chapter | |
| Advisor: Professor Timothy Brown | |
| New Members | |
| Lindsay Baer | James T. Bradford |
| Eliana W. Cashman | Samantha Christiansen |
| Emily Comerford | Matthew C. Edwards |
| Stephen Dixon | Kara B. Furman |
| Micah Goldman | Brittany Greenough |
| Kerry Haczyk | Patrick Henrick |
| Sarah Hillick | Andrea Jamison |
| Tom J. Cinq Mars | Regina Kazyulina |
| Alissa M. Krebs | Jacklyn Laurenti |
| Mark McGuire | Catherine A. Nunez |
| Christopher Padovano | Natyra Panscofar |
| Kathleen Pendleton | Stephen A. Pierce |
| Timothy Plackemeier | Katlyn Porter-Mahoney |
| Ryean Rad | Sarah Roby |
| Mark A. Schmidt | Jennifer Schweiter |
| Matthew B. Shutzer | Benjamin S. Smith |
| Sara M. Todisco | Claire Tratnyek |
| Bianca White | Cutts Award | Rebecca Dufendach |
| Feer Awards: | |
| Samantha Christiansen | Stephen A. Pierce |
| Robinson Prize | Matthew B. Shutzer |
History Professor speaks about his new book
In an interview with Public Radio International's "The World" broadcast nationally on Wednesday April 2, Professor Harlow Robinson spoke about the image of Russians in American film from his new book, Russians in Hollywood (University Press of New England, 2007). Listen to the talk
Graduate Student has paper accepted for EU Conference
Samantha Christiansen, Graduate Student in the History Doctoral Program has had her paper, "We are All Angry: Violence, the Angry Brigade, and British Counterculture," accepted for the EU funded conference, "Confronting Cold War Conformity: Peace and Protest Cultures in Europe 1945-1989" to be held at Charles University, Prague in August 2008.
Samantha's acceptance includes a grant that covers transportation to and accomodation in Prague. Her paper is also scheduled to be published in the Lorena Anton and Timothy S. Brown, eds, Protest Cultures—Cultures of Protest. in the series on Social Protest and Cultures of Dissent in the 20th Century (Berghahn Press, forthcoming).
Global History Seminar
In Spring 2008 the Department of History inaugurates the Global History Seminar with Aviva Chomsky, Sugata Bose, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Joyce Chaplin and Eliga Gould.
Download the pdf for schedule and directions
The Department of History Welcomes Two New Assistant Professors to its Faculty
Dr. Katherine Luongo began a tenure-track assistant professorship in September 2007. Dr. Luongo received her doctorate from the University of Michigan, with specializations in African and South Asian history and anthropology. Her research focuses on the twentieth century British colonial encounter with witchcraft in Kenya.
Dr. Karin Velez will join the Department as a tenure track assistant professor in September 2008, following a year of post-doctoral fellowship at Duke University. Dr. Velez will hold her doctorate from Princeton University, and has expertise in Spain and the Colonial Americas and the early modern Spanish Atlantic World. Her research focuses on transatlantic religious movements, particularly the Jesuits and the diffusion of worship of the Virgin of Loretto.
Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship
Stephanie Boyle has been awarded a 2007 – 2008 Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship to conduct research in Egypt for her doctoral dissertation, tentatively entitled, "Nur al Sabah: A Sufi Mystic from Tanta."
U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship
Samantha Christiansen has been selected as a recipient of a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship for participation in the Bangla program in Dhaka, Bangladesh from June 7 to August 11, 2007.
Diversity Dissertation Fellow
Charissa Joy Threat, ABD University of Iowa has accepted an offer of a Diversity Dissertation Fellowship in History at Northeastern. Ms. Threat is finishing a dissertation on the integration of African-American women and white men into the Army Nursing Corps during World War II. She will be in residence in the Department during 2007-2008.
From the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to Holocaust Denial Trails
From the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion to Holocaust Denial Trails edited by Debra Kaufman,
Professor Gerald Herman, James Ross, and David Phillips,
was recently released.
History Professor appointed George Washington Distunguished Professor
History Professor, William Fowler, Distinguished Professor of History was appointed George Washington Distunguished Professor by the Massachusetts Society of Cincinnati. The Society work to educate Massachusetts citizens on the histoy of the American Revolution.
History Professors Rank 14th in New Ranking of Graduate Programs
The History faculty at Northeastern has been ranked 14th in the nation in a new measure of scholarly productivity, along with Northeastern's English faculty. This new study, called the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, the first of its kind, is a quantitative analysis of faculty productivity at 354 universities around the country. The FSP index ranks over 250,000 faculty in more than 7,000 doctoral programs, by analyzing publications, grants and awards, and honors of department faculty.This new ranking system is unique in that it attempts to produce an objective measure to rank departments, rather than rely primarily on reputation as other ranking systems do. President Joseph Aoun applauds Northeastern's performance in the new ranking system, as "outstanding achievement by dedicated and talented scholars."