Good News About Graduate Students - Fall 2009
Randy M. Browne received a Beveridge Research Grant from the American Historical Association and a Short-Term Research Grant from Harvard University's International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World. He will use both grants to support dissertation research in England.
Browne also reviewed Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age, edited by Christopher Leslie Brown and Philip D. Morgan, which will be published in the Journal of the Early Republic 29, no. 3 (2009): 519-522. He also wrote a combined review of Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, by Sylviane A. Diouf; and The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of AfricaTown, USA: Spirit of Our Ancestors, by Natalie S. Robertson, which will be published in the Journal of Social History (forthcoming December 2009).
Over the summer Browne presented a paper entitled “‘This Bad Business on the Estate’: Obeah, Violence, and Authority in the British Caribbean in the Early Nineteenth Century,” at the Society for Caribbean Studies Conference in Hull, England. He presented a similar paper at the Annual Caribbean Studies Association Conference in Kingston, Jamaica.
Rachel Hynson will present "Making Modernity at a Cuban Madhouse, 1828-1865" at the 124th annual meeting of the American Historical Association in January. Her trip will be funded by a Mellon Conference Travel Award, courtesy of the Institute for the Study of the Americas.
Michael J. Mulvey received the Simpson Award at the European History Section of the Southern Historical Conference for "What's so Funny About Rabbi Jacob: Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973) and the Politics of French Cinematic Comedy".
Richards Plavnieks received a short-term DAAD grant that will kick in January 2010 and a big grant over two years called the "Claims Conference Academic Fellowship for Advanced Shoah Studies" from the
Holocaust Claims Conference. He also plans to apply for a fellowship under the Visiting Scholars program at the Holocaust Memorial Museum for next fall.
Laura Premack was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship and a UNC Graduate School Off-Campus Research Fellowship to support her dissertation research in the U.S., Nigeria and Brazil. She also received research grants from the UNC Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives. Her first article, based on her M.A. thesis, is forthcoming in the Journal of Religious History.
Ben Reed was awarded a Mendel Fellowship to conduct research at Indiana University's Lilly Library during the 2010-2011 academic year.
Ned Richardson-Litttle received a Dissertation Fellowship from the The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Free University of Berlin for April 2010 to March 2011. He will also be presenting a paper on East German intellectuals and human rights at the conference “A New Global Morality? Human Rights and Humanitarianism in the 1970s”, at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Freiburg, Germany in June 2010.
Laura Sims participated in a workshop on Memory Politics in October 2009, funded by the Irmgard Coninx Foundation in Berlin, where she presented a paper entitled, "Collective Memory and Reconciliation: The Case of the Harkis in France." She also received at Pre-Dissertation Fellowship from UNC Center for Global Initiatives for the Summer of 2009.
Gleb Tsipursky had an article entitled "Power, Adolescents, and the Organization of Leisure in the Postwar Stalin Years” [in Russian] accepted in A. S. Obukhov and M. V. Tendriakova eds., Rebenok v istorii i kul’ture (Moscow: Biblioteka zhurnala “Issledovatel’/Researcher,” forthcoming in 2009), and an encyclopedia entry on Belarus come out in Rodney Carlisle and J. Golson eds., Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications Inc., 2009): 72-73. He has presented a paper entiteld “Popular Culture, Youth Leisure, and Agency under Khrushchev” at the “Popular Culture and Socialism(s)” workshop in Budapest, Hungary, June 28, 2009. He will present “Re-imagining the Model Communist in the Thaw: Grassroots Activism and Youth Initiative Clubs” at the Forty-First Annual National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in Boston, MA, November 12-15, 2009.