Sinha wins Joan Kelly and Albion Prizes
Prof. Mrinalini Sinha has won two prizes for her 2007 book, Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire (Duke University Press, 2006). The Albion Prize, awarded annually by the North American Conference on British Studies, is for the best book published anywhere by a North American scholar on any aspect of British studies since 1800. The Joan Kelly Memorial Prize is awarded by the American Historical Association for the best work in women’s history and /or feminist theory. The AHA prize program noted that Specters of Mother India is “based on an astounding array of sources… demonstrating the centrality of women and Indian feminism to conceptualizations of citizenship and individual rights…. [Prof. Sinha] provides new ways of understanding British de-colonization.”
Greenberg named Top Young Historian
George Mason University’s History News Network has named Prof. Amy Greenberg one of the United States’s “Top Young Historians.” HNN notes: “All historians are nominated and undergo a review process before they are chosen. Each historian on this list has made outstanding contributions to the discipline in their area of research through their commitment and achievement to scholarship and teaching. They are also highly regarded outside academia for their expertise, and many are consulted by the popular media.”
Books Published by Penn State History and Religious StudiesFaculty in 2007
- Cathy Wanner. Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism (Cornell University Press, 2007).
- Gary N. Knoppers (co-editor with Oded Lipschits and Rainer Albertz). Judah and the Judeans in the Fourth Century (Eisenbrauns, 2007).
- Greg Eghigian (co-editor with Andreas Killen and Christine Leuenberger). Osiris, Volume 22: The Self as Project: Politics and the Human Sciences in the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press Journals, 2007).
- Phil Jenkins. God’s Continent: Christianity, Islam and Europe’s Religious Crisis (Oxford University Press, 2007).
- Anthony Kaye. Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
- Ronnie Hsia. Cambridge History of Christianity:Volume 6, Reform and Expansion 1500–1660 (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
- Ronnie Hsia (co-edited with Peter Burke). Cultural Translation in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
- Matthew Restall (with Florine G. L. Asselbergs). Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars (Penn State University Press, 2007).
- Minnie Sinha. Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire (Duke University Press, 2006).
New Faces
We welcome Kofi Baku, Dayo Mitchell, Jens-Uwe Guettel, and Yik Fai Tam. Please see the "Visiting Scholars" link for more details.
New Advising System for Undergraduates
We are pleased to announce a new advising system for students connected with History and Religious Studies, as well as the many minors administered through Weaver Building staff. Undergraduate Staff specialist Ben Whitesell will continue to work closely with students as he has in the past. Joining us as Professional Advisor is Dr. Rebekka Egger. Dr. Egger has a degree in Slavic Languages from the University of Chicago and before that was educated in her native Switzerland. She will provide enhanced advising services to our undergraduate students.
