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Events
Balance and Imagination: The Impact of a New Model of Equilibrium on Scholastic Thought, 1250-1350
Joel Kaye,
Barnard College
4 May 2012
5:15 p.m.
Sponsored by Medieval Studies
32nd Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies:
Think Romance! : Re-conceptualizing a Medieval Genre
31 March — 1 April 2012
Sponsored by Medieval Studies, with the Department of English
Peter Marshall
Professor of History
University of Warwick
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
6 p.m.
Flom Auditorium
William D. Walsh Family Library
Rose Hill Campus
Fordham University
History Day event
Wednesday, 22 Feburary 2012
12-6:30 p.m.
McGinley Student Center
Rose Hill Campus
Fordham University
John Chrysostom on the Biology of Madness and the Pathology of Sin
Wendy Mayer,
Australian Catholic University
Monday, 13 Feburary 2012
12-6:30 p.m.
Sponsored by Medieval Studies, with Christian Orthodox Studies and the Department of Theology
Queenship and the Language of Command:Some Evidence from the English Chancery Records
Lisa Benz St. John,
Fordham Medieval Fellow
Friday, 20 January 2012
4:30 p.m.
O’Hare Room, 4th Floor,
Walsh Library, Rose Hill Campus
Sponsored by Medieval Studies
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Noteworthy
New Faculty
We welcome Dr. Grace Shen who joins the department as Assistant Professor in Chinese history.
We also welcome Dr. Steven Stoll, Associate Professor of American environmental history.
Fellowships
Nathan Melson: won the Birgit Baldwin Fellowship in Medieval French History from the Medieval Academy for 2012-2013; awarded a 2011-12 Bourse Jeanne Marandon Fellowship from the Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d'Amérique for his dissertation, "Franciscan Identity and Saintly Economy in Late Medieval Marseille, 1248-1483".
Samantha Sagui: won the 2012 Shallek Award from the Medieval Academy of America; awarded a 2011-12 Fordham Alumni Dissertation Fellowship, and also received an NACBS Dissertation Travel Grant for her dissertation, "Law, Order, and the Development of UrbanPolicing in Late Medieval England". She was also awarded a 2010-2011 Fulbright Scholarship and a Fordham Research Fellowship.
Patrick Hege: received a 2011-12 DAAD Dissertation Research Fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service for his dissertation, "Colonizing the Metropole: Dar es Salaam, Race, & German Architecture".
Dr. Richard Gyug: received a 2010-12 grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada as co-investigator of Monumenta Liturgica Beneventana.
Dr. Thierry Rigogne: named Kluge Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress (September 2011-April 2012); Grolier Club Fellowship in the History of the Book, 2011-12.
Louie Dean Valencia García: awarded a 2011-12 grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture & United States' Universities for his paper, "Truth, Justice and the American Way: Pluralism, Youth and Supermán in Franco's Spain".
Recent Publications
2012
Dr. Christopher Maginn: Willian Cecil, Ireland, and the Tutor State (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Dr. Silvana Patriarca & Lucy Riall, eds: The Risorgimento Revisited. Nationalism and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Italy (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012)
Louie Dean Valencia-García: "Truth, Justice and the American Way in Franco's Spain." In The Ages of Superman: Essays on the Man of Steel in Changing Times. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2012)
2011
Dr. Elaine Forman Crane: Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores: Common Law and Common Folk in Early America (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011).
Dr. Asif Siddiqi: Into the Cosmos: Space Exploration and Soviet Culture (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011).
Dr. David Myers: Death and a Maiden: Infanticide and the Tragical History of Grethe Schmidt (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011).
Dr. Michael Latham: The Right Kind of Revolution: Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011).
2010
Dr. Paul A. Cimbala: Soldiers North and South: The Everyday Experiences of the Men who Fought America's Civil War (NY: Fordham University Press 2010)
Dr. Paul A. Cimbala & Randall M. Miller, eds: The Great Task Remaining Before Us: Reconstruction as America's Continuing Civil War (NY: Fordham University press 2010)
Dr. Saul Cornell: Visions of America: A History of the United States (Pearson, 2010)
Dr. Silvana Patriarca: Italian Vices. Nation and Character from the Risorgimento to the Republic (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Dr. Asif Siddiqi: The Red Rocket's Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Other Awards
Dr. Paul Cimbala: has been appointed to the editorial board of The Georgia Historical Quarterly.
Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski: named the North American representative to the Scientific Committee of the Datini Institute in Prato, Italy
Dr. Chris Schmidt-Nowara: named Research Associate of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University, 2008-13.
Dr. Asif Siddiqi: named to the MIT Space Policy and Society Research Group which produced a report on the space program for the incoming Obama administration.
Dr. Rosemary Wakeman: named EURIAS Senior Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2012-2013.
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