Grad Student Good News
Congratulations to Jeffrey Horton who was awarded the Fulbright-Mach Award for Doctoral Candidates. Mr. Horton has also won the Research and Travel Grant from the Conference Group for Central European History (CGCEH), an affiliated society of the American Historical Association. Jeff is studying with Ronnie Hsia.
Congratulations to Robert Schwaller who accepted a tenure track position at the University of Kansas (Lawrence) as a Central American/Caribbean historian. Rob completed his degree with Matthew Restall.
Congratulations to Spencer Delbridge who won the 2011 Outstanding Teaching Award for Graduate Students in the College of Liberal Arts. Spencer, who is studying with Matthew Restall, was recognized by Dean Susan Welch at a College awards luncheon on April 6, 2011.
Congratulations to Michael Tuttle whose paper,“Recent Archaeological Investigations at the Suspected Serapis Site,” already presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology, has now been published in the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology Proceedings 2010 edited by Chris Horrell and Melanie Damour. His chapter on “Search and Documentation of Underwater Archaeological Sites” will be published later this year in the forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology. Michael is studying with Bill Pencak.
Congratulations to Jonathan Greer who was awarded an Education and Cultural Affairs Fellowship at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem for the 2011-2012 academic year. Jonathan is studying with B. Halpern and Gary Knoppers.
Congratulations (again) to Rachel Moran, who has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship by the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, which was founded in 1979 as a bequest from the estate of the great Philadelphia philanthropist of the same name. This is one of the most prestigious graduate fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences and many of those who have held the fellowship as graduate students go on to win other famous awards in their later careers as scholars. Rachel is completing her dissertation, begun with Jennifer Mittelstadt, with Greg Eghigian.
Faculty Honors and Events
Congratulations to Kate Baldanza, the newest member of our faculty, who has been selected to participate in the NEH Summer Institute “The Dynamics of Cultural Unity and Diversity in Southeast Asia” at the East-West Center in Honolulu, HI.
Emeritus News
Congratulations to Charles Ameringer who was presented with the Judy B. McInnis Distinguished Service Award from the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS). The award is granted “for a career of outstanding service to MACLAS and to Latin American Studies” and “for impressive scholarship and excellent teaching.”
Books Published by Penn State History and Religious Studies Faculty in 2011
Congratulations to the following authors and the appearance of their recent books:
- Garrett Fagan, The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
- Matthew Restall and Amara Solari, 2012 and the End of the World (Rowman and Littlefield, 2011).
- Charles S. Prebish, An American Buddhist Life: Memoirs of a Modern Pioneer. (The Sumeru Press Inc., 2011).
