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What's Going On in 2008/09
  
New Faculty:

The Department is pleased to welcome Elya Zhang as assistant professor of Asian History. In 2008/2009 she will be an An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow at Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.

Faculty who have recently received external grants:

• Dr. Christopher Maginn has received a grant from the Irish government to oversee the introduction of Irish language course at Fordham for the period covering 2007 through 2008.
• Dr. Richard Gyug has received a grant from Social Services and Humanities Research Council of Canada as a co-investigator on the Monumenta liturgica beneventana project for the period 2006 through 2009.
• Dr. Carina Ray received a grant from The Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development (The Netherlands) to Fund the international conference, "Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan", at the institute for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
• Dr. Asif Siddiqi has received a NSF award to work on a project entitled, "From Postcolonial to the the Global: The Making of the Indian Space Program, 1962-1992."
• Dr. Daniel Soyer received a grant from the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation for Research on the Liberal Party of New York, 1944-2002.
• Dr. Kirsten Swinth received a ACLS award to work on a project entitled, "Bringing Home the Bacon and Frying It Up Too: A Cultural History of the Working Mother in America, 1950-2000". She has also received a Travel to Collections Grant from the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, and a Research Support Grant from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for this project.
• Dr. Ebru Turan has received a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas-Austin to complete work on her book on the political career of Ibrahim Pasha (1523-1536), the famous grand vizier of the Ottoman Sultan Suleyman I.
• Dr. Elya Zhang has been granted an An Wang Post Doctoral fellowship at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University for a project entitled: “Spider Manchu: Duanfang, Network- Building, and the Construction of National Identity in Qing China.”.

Faculty who have published books in the last year:

• Paul A. Cimbala for American Soldier’s Lives: The Civil War (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008).
• David Hamlin for Work and Play: The Production and Consumption of Toys in Germany, 1870-1914 (University of Michigan Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany , Ann Arbor, 2007).
• Hector Lindo-Fuentes for co-authoring Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932, Rogue Dalton, and the Politics of Historical Memory (University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2007).
• Christopher Schmidt-Nowarra for co-editing Historias de España contemporánea: cambio social y giro cultural. Valencia: Publicacions Universitat de Valencia, 2008).
• Thierry Rigogne for Between State and Market: Printing and Bookselling in Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford University’s Press Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century , New York, 2007).

Faculty who have received other awards:

Dr Richard Gyug, was awarded the Fordham University Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award in Social Science for 2008.