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

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). He received a 2008 University of Michigan Press award for the books.

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).

Matthew Countryman is 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”.

Deborah Dash Moore published American Jewish Identity Politics (University of Michigan Press, 2008). http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=273452

Philip J. Deloria received a collegiate professorship, one of the highest honors from LS&A, which he named the Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of History. He was elected to the Society of American Historians and the Michigan Society of Fellows. As president of the American Studies Association (May 2008-2009),he gave the keynote address at the Japanese Association for American Studies in Tokyo in June 2009 and offered several lectures in Taiwan, Japan, and Mongolia. In May 2009, he published a co-edited book, C.G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions: Dreams, Vision, Nature, and the Primitive (New Orleans: Spring Journal Press, 2009) by Vine Deloria Jr.  eds.  Phil Deloria and Jerome Bernstein. 

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

Todd Endelman is serving a two-year term as president of the American Academy for Jewish Research (2009-2011).

Hussein Anwar Fancy was named a Carnegie Scholar for 2009-2011 and will be using the academic year 2010-2011 to begin research on a new book project.   http://www.carnegie.org/sub/news/2009_scholars.html

John V.A. Fine, Jr. received a 2007 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 In Gold We Trust; Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).

Kevin Gaines was elected President-elect of the American Studies Association; his term begins in July 2009. His 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 spent the 2009 spring term at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) as the Jantina Tammes Chair of Gender Studies. She was awarded a Collegiate Professorship which she named the "Lila Miller Collegiate Professor of History and Women’s Studies". She published Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters (Cornell University Press, 2009). http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5361.

Myron Gutmann has been appointed to head the National Science Foundation's directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, an exceptional distinction for a historian. He received a best paper award from the Emerald Literati Network for "Building Partnerships Among Social Science Researchers, Institution-Based Repositories and Domain Specific Data Archives," Published in OCLC Systems and Services: International Digital Library Perspectives. He 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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Gabrielle Hecht received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a grant from the National Science Foundation, which will enable her to spend 2009-2010 working on research and writing for Uranium from Africa and the Power of Nuclear Things.  A new edition of her first book, The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II, will appear in Fall 2009.  http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11929

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 recent book is Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa (The University of California Press, 2007) has been awarded the Wesley-Logan Book Prize in African Diaspora History for 2008, sponsored by the AHA and the Association for the Study of African American Life & History.

Martha S. Jones was appointed a visiting fellow at the Columbia University Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference. From 2009-2011, Jones will co-direct "Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women," a research collaboration, with Farah J. Griffin (Columbia,) Mia Bay (Rutgers,) and Barbara D. Savage (Penn.). She was elected to the board of directors of the American Society for Legal History for a two year (2009-2011) term. She was also appointed a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians. Her recent book is 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

Mary Kelley's Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic (University of North Carolina, 2006) appeared in paperback in 2008.  She was elected in the spring of 2009 to a three year term on the Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians, where she also serves as a Distinguished Lecturer.

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 has been awarded the AHA’s Albert J. Beveridge Book Prize for 2008 for his book, The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles (Princeton University Press, 2008). In the June 30, 2008 issue of The Nation magazine, reviewer Jon Wiener described the book as “fascinating and important.”

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

Rudi Paul Lindner won a 2008 University Press Book Award for his latest book, Explorations in Ottoman Prehistory (2007), the first book in more than 60 years to reassess the beginnings of the greatest empire in Near Eastern history.

In 2008, Dr. Howard Markel and Alexandra Minna Stern were awarded as co-investigators a two year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Investigators Award in Health Policy Research to study the experiences of 50 U.S. cities during the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic. Howard Markel was awarded the 2007 Woodward Award of the American Clinical and Climatological Association for the best paper of their 2007 Annual meeting, on: Nonpharmaceutical Interventions Implemented by US Cities During the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic. In 2008, Alexandra Minna Stern won the Emma Lou and Gayle Thornbrough Award for the best article appearing in the Indiana Magazine of History in 2007: “’You Can Not Make a Silk Purse out of a Sow's Ear’: Eugenics in the Hoosier Heartland, 1900-1960." In issue 103:1 (2007), 1-32.

Gina Morantz-Sanchez spent the 2008-09 year working on her new book project, "Ghetto Girls and Reforming Men: Love Inter-Marriage, Politics and the American Melting Pot, 1900-1930” as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies.

In August 2007, Bill Rosenberg and Fran Blouin published 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.

John Shy delivered the George C. Marshall Lecture in January 2008 at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association.

Margaret R. Somers released Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to have Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521793940

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, professor of History, American Culture, and Women’s Studies, retired on December 31, 2008. She is known for her path-breaking scholarship in U.S. women’s and gender history. She has held many fellowships, including from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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

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

Maris Vinovskis published From a Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind: National Education Goals and the Creation of Federal Education Policy (New York: Teachers College Press, 2009).  He was inducted as an American Education Research Fellow in 2008.

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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