William Pencak Appearance with ABC/CLIO Press
Congratulations to Professor William Pencak on the apearance of his edited two-volume Encyclopedia of the Veteran in America that has just appeared with ABC/CLIO press.
Erica Brindley Winner of ACLS Grant for Workshop
Congratulations to Professor Erica Brindley who has won a grant fromt he ACLS/Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation funding her workshop "Re-evaluating Religion, Philosophy, and the Arts of Early China Through Excavated Texts: Excavated Texts from Chu" that will be held here on campus May 13-16, 2010.
Lori Ginzberg featured on CSPAN Books
Congratulations to Professor Lori Ginzberg for being featured on CSPAN books. You can see her talk at http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/290210-1
Amy Greenberg Award the Guggenheim Fellowship
Congratulations to Professor Amy Greenberg who has been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship and the American Philosophical Society sabbatical fellowship.
Books Published by Penn State History and Religious Studies Faculty in 2009
Congratulations to the following authors and the appearance of their recent books:
- William Pencak. Encyclopedia of the Veteran in America (ABC/CLIO, 2009).
- Matthew Restall. Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times (University of New Mexico Press, 2009).
- Lori Ginzberg. Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life(New York: Hill and Wang, 2009).
- David G. Atwill. Sources in Chinese History: Diverse Perspectives from 1644 to the Present (Prentice Hall, 2009).
- Jennifer Mittelstadt. Welfare in the United States: A History with Documents, 1935-1996 (Routledge, 2009)
- Charles D. Ameringer. The Socialist Impulse: Latin America in the Twentieth Century (University Press of Flordia, 2009).
- Lila Berman. Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Indentiy (University of California Press, 2009).
- Kumkum Chatterjee. The Cultures of History in Early Modern India: Persianization and Mughal Culture in Benga (Oxford University Press, 2009.)
New Faces
We welcome Michael Kulikowski, Paul Dilley, Kathryn Salzer, and Ulrike Brunotte.
Professor Michael Kulikowski joins the department and will assume his duties as the new department head on Juy 1, 2010. A widely-published and high-profile expert in the history of the Roman Empire, Professor Kulikowski did his undergraduate training at Rutgers and received his graduate training at the Univesity of Toronto and the Pontifical Institute of Medieavel Studies. He comes to us from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville were he most recently served as Riggsby Director of the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. During the 2009-10 academic year, he will be completing research on a current project under the sponsorship of a Burkhardt Fellowship.
Professor Paul Dilley comes to Penn State as our new assistant professor in the history of early Christianity and New Testament studies via a joint hire in Religious Studies, Classics, Ancient and Mediterranean Studies and Jewish Studies. Professor Dilley took his undergraduate degree at Harvard and did his graduate work at Yale University. His research interests range from early Christian monasticism, Egyptian Christianity and early Christian-Jewish relations. Since taking his degree, he has been teaching at Kansas State University.
Professor Kathryn Salzer joins us as our new assistant professor of medieval Europe. A graduate of St. Olaf's College, she completed her graduate training at the University of Toronto and the Pontifical Institute of Medieaval Studies . Her primary research depends upon both archaeological evidence and written source for the economic and social history of medieval cloisters and related institutions in France and Latin-occupied areas of Greece.
Visiting Scholars:
Professor Ulrike Brunotte is the visiting Max Kade Professor for the Fall semester. Professor Brunotte has most recently taught at the Humboldt University-Berlin and will be returning to Europe from Penn State to assume new duties as Professor at the University of Maastricht. Author of a monograph on Fascination of the Wilderness in early North American Puritanism, she will be teaching the Religious Studies course "Women and Religion," and offering a graduate seminar in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures.
