John Carson published The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940 (Princeton University Press, 2007).

Sueann Caulfield was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for 2007-2008. Her most recent book is titled Honor, Law, and Status in Modern Latin America (Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2005), co-edited with Sarah Chambers and Lara Putnam.

Chun-Shu Chang published two volumes of The Rise of the Chinese Empire: Volume 1, Nation, State, and Imperialism in Early China, ca. 1600 B.C.-A.D. 8 and Volume 2, Frontier, Immigration, and Empire in Han China, 130 B.C.-A.D. 157 (The University Press, 2007).

Rita Chin's recent book is The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2007). http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521870003

Juan R. Cole published Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and The Ayatollahs and Democracy in Contemporary Iraq (Amsterdam University Press, 2006).

James Cook has been awarded a full year fellowship at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars for 2007-2008.

Matthew Countryman will spend the 2008-09 academic year as a fellow at Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.  He is also a recipient of the 2008 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award from the University of Michigan for “outstanding service in the area of cultural diversity”.

Phil Deloria is serving as president of the American Studies Association (May 2008-May 2009) and has recently been elected to the Society of American Historians and the Michigan Society of Fellows.

Christian de Pee published The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China; Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007).


Geoff Eley and Jan Palmowski edited Citizenship and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany, (Stanford University Press, 2007). http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=5204%205205%20

John V.A. Fine, Jr. received a University Press Book Award for his book When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2006). These awards are presented for works that have added the greatest distinction to the Press List within the past two years.

Dario Gaggio is the recipient of the 2007 Newcomen Article Prize awarded by the Business History Conference for his article "Pyramids of Trust: Social Embeddedness and Political Culture in Two Italian Gold Jewelry Districts”, Enterprise & Society 7:1 (March 2006). His recent book is titled In Gold We Trust; Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).

Kevin Gaines was elected President of the American Studies Association in March 2008. His most recent book is American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2006). http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-4966.html.

Dena Goodman has been awarded a Collegiate Professorship. She published, with Kathryn Norberg (UCLA), Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: What Furniture Can Tell Us about the European and American Past (Routledge, 2006).

Myron Gutmann chaired a panel at the National Academy of Sciences that published Putting People on the Map: Protecting Confidentiality with Linked Social Spatial Data (National Academies Press, 2007), co-edited with Paul Stern of the National Research Council. He received a five-year continuation (2007-2012) to his grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, "Population and Environment in the U.S. Great Plains."

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof published A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8526.html).
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Paul Johnson won a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship for a project exploring religion in the Americas, especially in the wake of the emancipation of slaves. His most recent book is Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa (The University of California Press, 2007).

Martha S. Jones was appointed as one of two Visiting Scholars for the calendar year 2008  at the National Constitution Center and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.  Her recent book is All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007) http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-8073.html


Valerie Kivelson and Joan Neuberger, are co-editors, "Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture" (Yale University Press, 2008). Her book, Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006), has been awarded the prize for the best book in the field by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference and the Heldt Prize from the AAASS.

Scott Kurashige’s book The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles" (Princeton University Press, 2008) is in the “Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America” series edited by William Chafe, Gary Gerstle, Linda Gordon, and Julian Zelizer. He will spend the 2008-09 academic year as a fellow at Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.

Matthew Lassiter's book, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Princeton University Press, 2006), has been awarded one of the two Lillian Smith Awards for 2007.

Jeremy Ravi Mumford published articles in 2007-08 in the Hispanic American Historical Review and the Canadian Historical Review.

Bill Rosenberg and Fran Blouin published in August 2007 the volume of papers they edited from their Mellon sponsored Sawyer Seminar several years ago. Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory includes more than 40 essays, among them articles by Rebecca Scott, Fred Cooper, Ann Stoler, Monica Burguera, Leslie Pincus, and Bob Donia. Bill Rosenberg was also appointed to a five year term on the Board of Editors of the Slavic Review, and a six year term on the Board of Trustees of the European University at St. Petersburg.

Paolo Squatriti edited Natures Past. The Environment and Human History (The University of Michigan Press, 2007).

Ronald Grigor Suny edited The Cambridge History of Russia, volume III: The Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Members of Sigma Iota Rho choose him to receive the Sigma Iota Rho Faculty Appreciation Award. The award is presently each year to two outstanding professors who have positively impacted their experience at the University of Michigan.

J. Mills Thornton is spending the 2007-08 year as the Pitt Professor at Cambridge University. This professorship is one of the highest honors bestowed on scholars who work in American history.

Raymond Van Dam published The Roman Revolution of Constantine (Cambridge U.P., 2007)

Penny Von Eschen is the recipient of "The 2008 Brubeck Institute Award for Distinguished Achievement". http://web.pacific.edu/x21972.xml. She and Manisha Sinha edited Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History (Columbia University Press, 2007). http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/978023114/9780231141109.HTM

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