NEWS IN THE DEPARTMENT

The Arab World: History, Politics, and Culture

Organized by Professor Ussama S. Makdisi.  Click here for a schedule of upcoming lectures and here for a high resolution poster of this year's public lectures.

Recent Faculty Publications:

Lora Wildenthal, Associate Professor of History, Germany's Colonial Pasts, edited with Eric Ames and Marcia Klotz (Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press, 2005). Thirteen new essays on German colonialism in Africa, the Pacific, and Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Lora Wildenthal, Associate Professor of History, ed., Erinnerungen einer Journalistin: Zwischen Kaiserrich und Zweitem Weltkrieg [Memoirs of a Journalist Between the German Empire and World War Two] (Cologne: Bohlau, 2005).  The autobiography of Else Frobenius.

Eva Haverkamp, Anna  Smith Fine Assistant Professor of History, Hebraische Berichte uber die Judenverfolgungen wahrend des Ersten Kreuzzugs [Hebrew Accounts of the Persecutions of the Jews during the First Crusade], volume one of Hebraische Texte aus dem mittelalterlichen Deutschland for Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Munich, and the Israel Academy of Sciences, Jerusalem (Hannover: Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2005.)

Faculty Awards & Prizes:

John B. Boles, William P. Hobby Professor of History, was named the Fulbright-Leipzig Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Leipzig for the 2005 Fall Semester. 
 
Eva Haverkamp, Anna Smith Fine Assistant Professor, was awarded for 2005/06: Research Fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Solmsen Fellowship from the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, and named as an alternate for the Ryskamp Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Alex Lichtenstein, Associate Professor,  received an American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship for the 2006 Spring Semester.

Michael Maas, Professor of History, was appointed the Professor-in-Charge at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome for the academic year 2005/06.

Martin J. Wiener, Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of History, wasone of three Rice Univ. faculty to receive a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for the academic year 2005/06.

Student Awards & Prizes:

The Charles Garside, Jr. Prize in History - is awarded by the History Dept. to "distinguished students of history, undergraduate or graduate, to honor the memory of Charles Garside, Jr.," a member of the Rice faculty from 1966 to 1987. "The prize offers the winners time to broaden and deepen their education through travel and reflection." Recipients are determined by faculty nomination or student application. Three undergraduates were selected for the 2004/05 academic year: Daniel Franke, Ian Furman, and Phillip Levine.

The Clifford Lefton Lawrence Award in British History - "was established by H. Russell Pitman and W. Edwin Bryan, Jr. in 1987 to honor a good friend and to commemorate his affection for Rice and for England."  The recipient must be nominated as the "best student, undergraduate or graduate," for their "distinguished work in some aspect of British history from ancient times to the present." The History Department Prize Committee has selected Daniel Frank for the 2004/05 award.

The James Scott Peterson Distinguished Service Award - is awarded "to an exceptional graduate student who embodies and fosters in others the qualities of scholarly excellence, maturity, and humanity." The prize was established in memory of James Peterson by the faculty and graduate students of the History Dept. The recipient for 2004/05 is Gale Kenny.

The Susie Smith Vandiver Scholarship - is given to an outstanding junior, history major, determined by faculty nomination. The award was "established by former Department Chair and Rice Univ. Provost Frank Fandiver in memory of his first wife." Matthew Sepper was named the winner for academic year 2004/05.

The Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughn Fellowship - was established to provide funding for graduate students "whose record at Rice shows evidence of outstanding achievement and promise."  It is a Rice only, competitive award given to one student in social sciences, one in humanities, and three in any discipline. Martin Wauck was selected as the 2005/06 Humanities recipient.

The Wagoner Foreign Studies Fellowship - is a Rice Univ. competitive, scholarship program for study abroad "established in 1997 by the bequest of James Wagoner, '29, who was interested in travel and international affairs." History graduate student Ryan Foster was selected to receive a grant for 2005/06 to conduct dissertation research at the Center for European Enlightenment in Potsdam, Germany.

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