AAH Offers Travel Grants to Students and Junior Faculty
The Association of Ancient Historians invites applications for grants-in-aid for the purposes of underwriting travel expenses of advanced graduate students and junior faculty who want to attend the annual meeting of the association to be held in Columbia, Missouri, May 5–8, 2005.
Applicants are not required to present papers in order to be considered for the subvention. They are invited to sample the collegial atmosphere of the annual meeting and to join this association of ancient history professionals in North America.
Applicants should send a cover letter, c.v., and one letter of recommendation to Judy E. Gaughan, Department of History, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1776 by February 25, 2005.
All applicants must be or become members of the AAH, and state in the letter why they want to attend the meeting. Graduate students must be advanced and actively seeking a degree in ancient history.
American Printing History Association
Lieberman Lecture to Be Delivered by John Downer
The 2004 Lieberman Memorial Lecture of the American Printing History Association will be delivered on May 21, 2005, at Chicago’s Newberry Library by distinguished type designer John Downer. His lecture is entitled “Trash or Fertilizer? The Uses (or Not) of History in Type Design.” The lecture will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Paul F. Gehl, curator of the John M. Wing Collection at the Newberry Library. These events will coincide with the an exhibit organized by the Caxton Club, Chicago’s, premiere society for bibliophiles. Entitled “Disbound and Dispersed: The Leaf Book Considered,” the exhibit will include numerous examples of historical leaves and modern fine-press typography.
Call for Preserving Printing Museums
In its latest newsletter, the APHA addresses problems faced by printing museums around the world, such as the International Printing Museum in Carson, California, the Type Museum in London, and the Imprimerie Nationale (founded 1539), the chief repository of French printing artifacts. A note by Virginia Smith and an essay by Jane Rodgers Siegel draw special attention to the Imprimerie’s problems, and call upon APHA members and all others interested in printing history to rally to the support of the Imprimerie. Its present building in the 15th arrondissement in Paris has already been sold and its contents are expected to be moved during 2005. The commercial printing section, considered to be profitable, will be transferred to a building outside Paris, but the historic part of the institution, consisting of years of collections of punches, types, machines and printing workshops, will be crated up and closed to the public.
The American Catholic Historical Association Announces Its Awards
At its 85th annual meeting, held in conjunction with the AHA’s 119th annual meeting, the American Catholic Historical Association awarded its John Gilmary Shea Prize to Michael B. Gross, associate professor of history at East Carolina State University, for his book, The War against Catholicism: Liberalism and the Anti-Catholic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2004). The judging committee’s citation read, “Gross has read all the pertinent archival sources for this trenchant, revisionist study of nineteenth-century German liberalism and the Kulturkampf. His sensitivity to such varied, often neglected aspects of the topic as the role of women in the community and the impact of Catholic missions on German Protestantism, is a refreshing expansion of focus.
Gross received his BA from Chicago University, his MA from Columbia University, and his PhD from Brown University. He joined East Carolina State University in 1997. He is currently working on a book to be titled “The Nun in the Dungeon: Sensationalism, Catholicism, and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany.”
The association conferred its Howard R. Marraro Prize on Samantha Kelly, assistant professor of history at Rutgers University. She was honored for her book, The New Solomon: Robert of Naples (1309–1343) and Fourteenth-Century Kingship (Brill, 2003).
AASLH Announces 2005 Awards Program
The American Association for State and Local History invites submissions for its 2005 awards program. Now in its 60th year, the program is intended to recognize achievements in the preservation and interpretation of local, state, and regional history.
Historical societies, institutions or agencies, specialized subject societies, museums, and individuals are eligible to be nominated. Nominees need not be members of the AASLH. Nominations should be submitted by March 1, 2005. Nomination forms and other details can be obtained from the association’s web site, www.aaslh.org.
AARHMS Election Results
The American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain reports the results of its recent elections.
- President: Teofilo F. Ruiz, Dept. of History, University of California at Los Angeles, 6265 Bunche Hall, PO Box 951473, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473.
- Secretary/Treasurer: Helen Nader, Dept. of History, University of Arizona, PO Box 210027, Tucson, AZ 85721.
Czechoslovak History Conference Update
Greg Ference, secretary-treasurer of the Czechoslovak History Conference reports that CHC has a new web site. The new officers for the CHC are:
- President: Claire Nolte, Department of History, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY 10471.
- Vice President: Eagle Glassheim, Department of History, University of British Columbia, 1873 East Mall #1297, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1, Canada.
Membership dues for students is $5.00 and for retirees is $8.00; for those with income over $25,000, the fee is $15.00 and for those with income under $25,000 the fee is $10.00. The annual meeting will be held at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
