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.
Anthony Kaye Winner of NEH Fellowship
Congratulations to Professor Anthony Kaye who has won an NEH Fellowship in the 2008-09 competition.
Catherine Wanner wins Best Book Prize
Congratulations to Professor Catherine Wanner whose book Communities of the Converted has been awarded the William A. Douglass Best Book Prize in Europeanist Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association, the Heldt Prize for best book by a woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian Studies, best book award from the American Association of Ukrainian Studies, honorable mention-best book award in Russian/Eurasian/East European Studies from the Harvard University Davis Center and a 2008 Choice Outstanding Academic Title award.
Rose, our newest Distinguished Professor
Congratulations to Anne Rose, our newest Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies
Books Published by Penn State History and Religious Studies Faculty in 2009
Congratulations to the following authors and the appearance of their recent books:
- 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.)
- Catherine Wanner. Religion, Morality and Community in Post-Soviet Societies (Bloomington:Indiana University Press, 2008).
- Jonathan Brockopp. Muslim Medical Ethics: From Theory to Practice (Columbia, S.C., 2008).
- Sophie de Schaepdrijver. Belgie: een parcours van herinnering (Belgium: A Trajectory of Memory) 2 Volumes (Amsterdam 2008).
- Sophie de Schaepdrijver. " We Who Are So Cosmopolitan": The War Diary of Costance Graeffe, 1914-1915 (Burssels, 2008).
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.