Vaught publishes "The Farmers' Game"
Dr. David Vaught, Head of the Department of History, publishes "The Farmers' Game: Baseball in Rural America" (Johns Hopkins, 2012). For more information about the book click the following link: http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/ecom/MasterServlet/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9781421407555&qty=1&source=2&viewMode=3&loggedIN=false&JavaScript=y
Kim selected 2012-2013 Montague-CTE Scholar
The Center for Teaching Excellence at Texas A&M has selected Hoi-eun Kim from the College of Liberal Arts as one of the 2012-2013 Montague-CTE Scholar award winners. Each year, one tenure-track faculty member from each college is selected for the award. Click here to read entire story.
Graduate Student News
Jessica Herzogenrath (Blackwelder), has published an essay, "Authenticity and Ethnicity: Folk Dance, Americanization, and the Immigrant Body in the Early Twentieth Century" in the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, edited by Anthony Shay. The Oxford Handbook series is an exciting example of innovative, peer-reviewed scholarly publishing and the volumes are widely-regarded in the discipline. Jessica's fascinating essay can be read at: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199754281.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199754281-e-003?rskey=rPenjA&result=5&q=#notes
Steve Davis has won a DAAD Graduate Fellowship for 2012-13. This will fund Steve's dissertation research next academic year in Germany, where he will be resident at the University of Oldenburg. He will work with Professor Hans Henning Hahn, one of Germany's leading authorities on the history of Eastern Europe and ethnic German expellees.
Steve's research focuses on the post-Cold War construction of a "europeanized" memory culture around the millions of Germans who fled or were expelled from the Czech lands in the wake of World War II. Steve's work is transnational and his research plans include work in archives in Germany and the Czech Republic. Last year, support from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Foreign Language and Area Studies program allowed him to study Czech intensively.
Winner of the Undergraduate Essay Prize
Prize awarded May 2012