Year: 2012

Ph.D Grad Publishes New Book

Madia Thompson (GRS ’05) has published The Demise of Slavery in southwestern Morocco with The Edwin Mellen Press which was based on her dissertation.

Prof. Chernock Quoted in The New Republic

Professor Arianne Chernock has been quoted in a piece published in The New Republic: http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/107508/why-the-british-press-cant-figure-out-what-it-wants-kate-middleton

Undergrad Rachel Klepper Wins Essay Prize

Undergraduate history major Rachel Klepper, has just won a North American Conference on British Studies Undergraduate Essay Prize for her paper “Huguenot and Jewish Settlement in Spitalfields, London: ‘the Middle Ground Between Civilization and Barbarism”, which she wrote while on the London Study Abroad program. This is a very selective award and if you see […]

Professor Simon Payaslian Publishes “Diasporan Subalternities”

Professor Simon Payaslian, Kenosian Chair in Modern Armenian History and Literature, has published an article in Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 16:1/2 (2007 [2012]), the leading journal in diaspora studies. The article, entitled “Diasporan Subalternities: The Armenian Community in Syria,” examines the evolution and decline of the Armenian community in that country. The analysis […]

Prof. Brooke Blower Wins Hanlan Prize for Becoming Americans in Paris

Professor Brooke Blower’s book, Becoming Americans in Paris, has won another award–the James P. Hanlan BOOK AWARD of the The New England Historical Association.  Awarded annually since 1985 to an author who has lived or worked in New England at some time during the prior two years. the prize recognizes the best book by a New England […]

Prof. Arianne Chernock Review Essay on Public Books

Professor Arianne Chernock has review essay “The Persistence of Monarchy” posted on Public Books. Follow the link provided to read full essay. http://publicbooks.org/nonfiction/the-persistence-of-monarchy

Professor Schulman Analyzes Romney’s Convention Speech

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney built his political career — and his claim to the presidency — on his success as a businessman.  But in his acceptance speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention, Romney went even further–not just asserting the value of his own entrepreneurial experience, but also declaring that the lack of […]