Editor’s Note: Due to space constraints, the PEOPLE column of Perspectives is limited to carrying news of AHA members only.
Stephen G. Brush, University of Maryland, College Park and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, was elected 1988–89 vice president of the History of Science Society….The OAH Merle Curti Award for the best book in recent American social history was awarded to author Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for her book Like a Family: The Making of a Cotton Mill World, University of North Carolina Press, 1987. AHA member James Leloudis, also of the University of North Carolina, was among the six co-authors of the book….The International Standing Conference for the History of Education at its 10th session in Finland elected Jurgen Herbst, University of Wisconsin, Madison, as the chair of the organization for a three-year term. Dr. Herbst is the first American scholar to preside over the organization….Daniel W. Howe, University of California, Los Angeles, was elected 1989–90 Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University….The North Carolina Society awarded an Archie K. Davis Fellowship for research assistance to Robert C. Kenzer, Brigham Young University, for a proposed book on economically successful postbellum blacks….R. David Myers, formerly head of the telephone reference, correspondence, and bibliography section in the Library of Congress’ general reading rooms division, was appointed as head librarian of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin this past August….Peter Paret, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, was appointed senior fellow of the Hoover Institute, Stanford University. He has also been elected to the American Philosophical Society….Forrest C. Pogue, former director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Institute of Historical Research, Smithsonian Institution and of the George C. Marshall Research Library and Foundation, Lexington, Virginia, received the American Historians’ Francis Medal for Special Achievement for his definitive four-volume biography of George C. Marshall. Dr. Pogue was also the recipient of one of the first six “Outstanding Alumni of Kentucky Awards” given to Kentucky alumni having achieved national status.
American Antiquarian Society
1988 Kate B. and Hall James Peterson Fellows
Faye E. Dudden, asst. prof. history, Union College
Karen V. Hansen, Ph.D. cand. sociology, University of California, Berkeley
David P. Jaffee, asst. prof. history, City College of New York
Carla G. Pestana, asst. prof. history, Ohio State University
1988 Albert Boni Fellow
Isabelle Lehuu, Ph.D. cand. history, Cornell University
1988 Frances Hiatt Fellows
Margaret E. Newell, Ph.D. cand. history, University of Virginia
Peter John Way, Ph.D. cand. history, University of Maryland, College Park
Steven R. Wilf, Ph.D. cand. history, Yale University
Council for International Exchange of Scholars
1987–88 American Fulbright Scholars
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American History Program
Elliott Barkan, prof./coordinator ethnic studies, California State University,San Bernardino
Casey N. Blake, asst. prof. history, Indiana University
John C. Burnham, prof. history, Ohio State University, Columbus
Joseph A. Dowling, prof. history, Lehigh University
Robert B. Fisher, assoc. prof. history/social work, University of Houston
Susan L. Flader, prof. history, University of Missouri, Columbia
Lawrence E. Gelfand, prof. history, University of Iowa, Iowa City
James B. Gilbert, prof. history, University of Maryland, College Park
Paul Wilbur Glad, prof. history, University of Oklahoma, Norman
Joan M. Jensen, prof. history, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
David E. Kyvig, prof. history, University of Akron
David G. Nasaw, prof. history, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
James Michael Russell, prof. history, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Richard D. Sigwalt, lec. history, Howard University
Mark J. Stern, assoc. prof. social welfare/history, University of Pennsylvania
Julius E. Thompson, asst. prof. African/Afro-American studies, State University of New York, Albany
Joseph F. Wall, prof. history, Grinnell University
Thomas H. Wendel, prof. history, San Jose State University
David E. Whisnant, prof. American studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Non-US History Program
Norman F. Cantor, prof. history, sociology, comparative literature, New York University
Brendan M. Dooley, asst. prof. history, Notre Dame University
Ralph S. Hattox, asst. prof. history, Emory University
Deborah Hertz, asst. prof. history, State University of New York, Binghamton
Martha C. Howell, assoc. prof. history, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Richard B. Jensen, asst. prof. history, Skidmore College
Carol L. Lansing, asst. prof. history, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Robert D. McChesney, assoc. prof. Near Eastern language/literature, New York University
John R. McNeill, asst. prof. history, Georgetown University
Jane Rauech, prof. history, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
William M. Reddy, assoc. prof. history, Duke University
Steven F. White, asst. prof. history, Averett College
Religious Studies Program
Robert D. Linder, prof. history, Kansas State University
