Annual Report 2003
Awards, Prizes, Fellowships, and Grants
Awards for Scholarly Distinction
Thomas D. Clark (Univ. of Kentucky), Peter Gay (Yale Univ.), and Wallace T. MacCaffrey (Harvard Univ.).
Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award
Orville Vernon Burton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Beveridge Family Teaching Award
Ruth Johnson and Maxine Trotter (DeMores Elementary School, Medora, North Dakota)
William Gilbert Award
Carl Guarneri (Saint Mary’s Coll. of California) for his article “Internationalizing the United States Survey Course: American History for a Global Age,” The History Teacher 36:1 (November 2002): 37–64
Gutenberg-e Prizes
Joshua Greenberg (Univ. of Miami) for “Advocating
‘The Man’: Masculinity, Organized Labor and the Market
Revolution in New York, 1800–1840,” American University,
2003
Timothy Hodgdon (Duke Univ.) for “Manhood
in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities,
1965–83,”Arizona State University, 2002
Daniella J. Kostroun (Stone Hill Coll.) for “Undermining
Obedience in Absolutist France: The Case of the Port Royal Nuns,
1609–1709,” Duke University, 2000
Erika Lauren Lindgren (Wabash Coll.) for “Environment
and Spirituality of German Dominican Women, 1230–1370,”
University of Iowa, 2001
Jeri L. McIntosh (independent scholar) for “Sovereign
Princesses: Mary and Elizabeth Tudor as Heads of Princely Households
and the Accomplishment of the Female Succession, 1516–1553,”
Johns Hopkins University, 2003
Ann Elizabeth Pfau (Kean Univ.) for “Miss
Yourlovin: Women in the Culture of American World War II Soldiers,”
Rutgers University, 2001
Margaret Poulos (independent scholar) for “Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity,” University of Sydney, 2003
Kirsten S. Rambo (Emory Univ.) for “’Trivial
Complaints’: The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law
and Activism in the U.S.,” Emory University, 2003
Maria Rentetzi (Polytechnic of Athens in Greece)
for “Gender, Politics, and Radioactivity Research in Vienna,
1910–1938,” Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, 2003
John E. O’Connor Film Award
The Intolerable Burden (2002), produced by Constance Curry of Blue Stream Productions and directed by Chea Prince
Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award
Thomas A. Brady (Univ. of California at Berkeley)
Book Awards
Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
Terry Martin (Harvard Univ.) for The Affirmative Action Empire:
Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (Cornell
Univ. Press, 2001)
Prize in Atlantic History
John Ruston Pagan (Univ. of Richmond) for Anne Orthwood’s
Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia (Oxford Univ. Press, 2002)
George Louis Beer Prize
Timothy Snyder (Yale Univ.) for The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland,
Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999 (Yale Univ. Press,
2003)
Albert J. Beveridge Award
Ira Berlin (Univ. of Maryland at College Park) for Generations of
Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (Belknap Press of
Harvard Univ. Press, 2003)
James Henry Breasted Prize
David Lewis-Williams (Univ. of the Witwatersrand) for The Mind in
the Cave (Thames & London, 2002)
John H. Dunning Prize
Michael Willrich (Brandeis Univ.) for City of Courts: Socializing
Justice in Progressive Era Chicago (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003)
John Edwin Fagg Prize
Richard Lee Turits (Univ. of Michigan) for Foundations of Despotism:
Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History
(Stanford Univ. Press, 2003)
John K. Fairbank Prize
Norman Girardot (Lehigh Univ.) for The Victorian Translation of
China: James Legge’s Oriental Pilgrimage (Univ. of California
Press, 2002)
Herbert Feis Award
Julia E. Sweig (Council on Foreign Relations) for Inside the Cuban
Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground (Harvard Univ.
Press, 2002)
Morris D. Forkosch Prize
Ethan H. Shagan (Northwestern Univ.) for Popular Politics and the
English Reformation (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003)
Leo Gershoy Award
Joseph E. Inikori (Univ. of Rochester) for Africans and the Industrial
Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic
Development (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002)
Joan Kelly Memorial Prize
Barbara Ransby (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago) for Ella Baker and
the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Univ. of
North Carolina Press, 2003)
Littleton-Griswold Prize
Bruce H. Mann (Univ. of Pennsylvania) for Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy
in the Age of American Independence (Harvard Univ. Press, 2003)
J. Russell Major Prize
Jessica Riskin (Stanford Univ.) for Science in the Age of Sensibility:
The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment (Univ. of
Chicago Press, 2002)
Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize
David Freedberg (Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America)
for Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of
Modern Natural History (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2002)
George L. Mosse Prize
Sarah Maza (Northwestern Univ.) for The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie:
An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750–1850 (Harvard Univ.
Press, 2003)
Wesley-Logan Prize
Leslie M. Harris (Emory Univ.) for In the Shadow of Slavery: African
Americans in New York City, 1626–1863 (Univ. of Chicago Press,
2003)
J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship (2003–04)
Carolyn Eastman (Univ. of Texas at Austin), “’A
Nation of Speechifiers’: Oratory, Print, and the Making of
a Gendered American Public, 1780–1830”
AHA-NASA Fellowship in
Aerospace History (2003–04)
Asif A. Siddiqi (National Air and Space Museum), “Organizing for Innovation: The Soviet Union and the Origins of the Ballistic Missile Project”
Albert J. Beveridge Grants for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere
Kimberly Brodkin (Rutgers Univ.), “For the
Good of the Party: Women in Democratic Politics from the New Deal
to the New Right”
Maria Campetella (Rutgers Univ.), “Contested
Territory: Indians and Creoles in the Southern Cone Borderlands,
1740–1885”
David Carey Jr. (Univ. of Southern Maine), “Engendering
Mayan History: Mayan Women as Agents and Conduits of the Past, 1870–1990”
Elizabeth Castle (Univ. of California at Santa
Cruz), “Women were the Backbone, Men Were the Jawbone: American
Indian Women’s Activism in the Red Power Movement”
Carole Emberton (Northwestern Univ.), “Citizens
in Leviathan: Violence and the Political Culture of Reconstruction”
Stephen Hageman (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),
“This is a Terrible Thing: Race, Class, and Gender in Marquette
Park, 1970–1990”
Francoise Hamlin (Yale Univ.), “The Book
Hasn’t Closed, The Story Isn’t Finished: Continuing
Histories of the Civil Rights Movement”
Lisa Jarvinen (Syracuse Univ.), “The American
Film Industry and the Spanish-speaking Market During the Transition
to Sound, 1929–1939”
Hal Langfur (Univ. of North Carolina at Wilmington),
“The Rules of Terror: Brazilian Indians, Interethnic Warfare,
and Violence as Cultural Exchange, 1500–1750”
Brad Martin (Northwestern Univ.), “Landscapes
of Power: Native Peoples, National Parks, and the Making of a Modern
Wilderness in the Hinterlands of North America, 1940–1990”
Charles McGraw (Univ. of Connecticut), “’Every
Nurse is not a Sister’: Sex, Work and the Invention of the
Spanish-American War Nurse”
Caroline Merithew (Univ. of Dayton), “A World
to Gain: Immigrants, Blacks, and the Creation of Hybrid Community
in the Midwestern U.S.”
Cynthia Milton (Univ. of British Columbia), “Pleading
Paupers and Selective Hearing: Social Welfare, Poverty, and the
State in Spanish-American Cities (1770–1850)”
Rachel O’Toole (Villanova Univ.), “Africans,
Indians, and the Creation of Casta in Peru (1640s–1720s)”
Melinda Plastas (Stony Brook Univ.), “’A
Band of Noble Women’: Racial Consciousness and Gendered Politics
Post World War I”
Daniel Ramirez (Arizona State Univ.), “Migrating
Faiths: A Social and Cultural History of Popular Religion in the
U.S.-Mexico Borderlands”
Kristen Stromberg Childers (Univ. of Pennsylvania),
“Choosing the Metropole: Martinique, France and the Question
of Decolonization, 1946–1982”
Sherrie Tucker (Univ. of Kansas), “Democracy
on the Dance Floor: Race, Gender, and Nation at the Hollywood Canteen”
Colleen Vasconcellos (Florida International Univ.),
“And a Child Shall Lead Them? Slavery, Childhood, and African
Cultural Identity in Jamaica, 1750–1838”
Michael Kraus Grants
John Donoghue (Univ. of Pittsburgh), “Radical
Republican Political Culture in the Puritan Atlantic, 1630–1661”
April Hatfield (Texas A&M Univ.), “Anglo-Spanish
Relations in the Caribbean and Southeastern North America, 1580–1720”
Dinah Mayo (Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst),
“Servile Discontents: Runaway Slaves of Colonial New Hampshire,
1745–1785”
Littleton-Griswold Grants
Gadsden Brett (Northwestern Univ.), “’All
We Wanted was a Bus for the Colored’: The Desegregation of
Public Education in Delaware”
Kathleen Brosnan (Univ. of Tennessee), “A
Contested Vintage: Law, Land, and Labor in California’s Wine
Culture”
Daniel Hamilton (NYU), “The Limits of Sovereignty:
Legislative Confiscation in the Union and Confederacy”
Laura Mihailoff (Univ. of California at Berkeley),
“Protecting Our Children: A History of the California Youth
Authority and Juvenile Delinquency, 1938–1978”
George Milne (Univ. of Oklahoma), “Today
We Are Walking as Slaves: The Evolution of French and Indian Relations,
1650–1740”
Rebecca Rix (Yale Univ.), “Gender and Reconstitution:
The Family and Individual Basis of Democracy Contested, 1880–1932”
Sharon Romeo (Univ. of Iowa), “Reconstructing
Race, Gender and Citizenship in St. Louis: The Politics of Unlawful
Sex in the Era of Emancipation, 1861–1877”
Donna Schuele (UCLA), “From Californio to
Anglo Hands: The Role of Probate in Nineteenth-Century California
Land Transfer”
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grants for Research in the History of Europe, Africa, and Asia
Paul Miller (McDaniel Coll.), “The Footprints
of Gavrilo Princip (or June 28, 1914: A Day in History and Memory)”
Troy Bickham (Texas A&M Univ.), “The
Material Culture of British Perceptions of American Indians in the
Eighteenth Century”
Brian Bunk (Central Connecticut State Univ.), “Ghosts
of Passion: Aida Lafuente and the Spanish Revolution of October
1934”
Adam Cathcart (Ohio Univ.), “Against the
Sun: Anti-Japanese Propaganda in China, 1945–1950”
William Cummings (Univ. of South Florida), “Interpreting
Conversion to Islam in 17th-Century Indonesia”
Anna Dronzek (Univ. of Minnesota), “To Win
Worship: Middle-Class Identity and Gender in Late Medieval England”
Alexis Dudden (Connecticut Coll.), “With
Sorrow and Regret: The Politics of Apology between Japan, Korea,
and the United States”
Amy Froide (Clark Univ.), “The Silent Partners
of Britain’s Financial Revolution: Singlewomen and their Public
Investments”
Stephane Gerson (NYU), “A Cultural History
of Nostradamus: Memory and Anticipation from Provence to Global
Society”
Peter Kushner (St. Andrews Univ.), “Reformations:
Concepts of the Reformation in Early Nineteenth-century German Historical
Thought”
Christopher Lee (Harvard Univ.), “Colonial
Kinships: The British Dual Mandate, Anglo-African Status, and the
Politics of Race and Ethnicity in Interwar Nyasaland, 1915-1939”
Farina Mir (Univ. of Michigan), “Language,
Community, and Cultural Production in Colonial India: Punjab’s
Literary Epics as Social Commentary, c. 1850–1900”
Derek Neal (McGill Univ.), “The masculinity
of the English clergy, 1460–1560”
Susan Smith-Peter (Coll. of Staten Island, City
Univ. of New York), “Regionalism and Civil Society in Pre-reform
Russia”
Moses Ochonu (Univ. of Michigan), “1930s
Colonial Northern Nigeria; Socioeconomic Impacts of Depression”
Patrick Hyder Patterson (Univ. of California at
San Diego), “Communism Consumed: The Culture of the Market
and Everyday Life in Yugoslavia, Hungary, and the German Democratic
Republic”
Steven Rowe (Univ. of Chicago), “Learning
Literacy: Popular Education in Nineteenth-Century France”
Theodore Yoo (Univ. of Hawaii), “The Politics
of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health (1910–1945)”
Di Wang (Texas A&M Univ.), “The Teahouse:
Public Life and Social Transformation in Chengdu, 1900–1950”
Cyrus Schayegh (independent scholar), “Post-colonial
Modernization and the Expansion of Public Health and Psychiatry
in Iran: National and International Dimensions, 1953–1979”
Simon Teuscher (UCLA), “European Kinship
1300–1900, the Long Run: The Transition from the Late Middle
Ages to the Early Modern Period”
Pamela Swett (McMaster Univ.), “Selling under
the Swastika: The Refashioning of German Advertising after 1933”
