Bickham selected to give 2012 Fallon-Marshall Lecture
The College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University has selected Dr. Troy Bickham, an associate professor in the Department of History, to give the 2012 Fallon-Marshall lecture on Thursday, April 26. The lecture, entitled “The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812,” will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Annenberg Presidential Conference Center at the George Bush Presidential Library on campus. Click here to read entire story.
Terry H Anderson reflects on end of the Iraq War.
Anderson’s research on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq reached an apex in December 2011. Less than one year after Anderson published his latest book “Bush’s Wars,” the United States Armed Forces left Iraq, ending the eight-year war. Click here to read entire story.
Thomas Dunlap publishes In the Field, Among the Feathered, Oxford University Press, 2011
Dunlap's brilliant environmental history of birders and their ubiquitous guides reveals new insights about a critical convergence of science, art, recreation, and conservation. His engaging and enlightening narrative demonstrates antecedents of our current enthusiasms for sustainability and clearly shows the critical role of citizen science and popular recreation in establishing the foundations for modern environmentalism. Wonderful and important.
Graduate Student News
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 2011
First Place
"Isaac Asimov and Foundation: The Cult of Knowledge" by Daniel Horn (Professor Ada Palmer)
Second Place
"Education of Women" by Britany Payne (Professor Katherine Engel)
Honorable Mentions
"Alexander the VI and the Conquest of the New World: the Papacy's Affect on the Caribbean," by Emily Dossman (Professor Glenn Chambers)
"Castiglione's Fight Against Effeminacy" by Travis Urban (Professor Ada Palmer)