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The 2001 spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held April 6 and 7 at Capital University in Columbus. For details, contact Prof. Thomas C. Maroukis, Department of History & Political Science, Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, 43209; phone (614) 236-6447; fax (614) 236-6774; e-mail tmarouki@capital.edu. Recent news from history departments around Ohio include: • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY. Renee Sentilles (Ph.D., William and Mary) has been appointed Assistant Professor beginning Fall 2000. Prof. Alan Rocke was given the American Chemical Society's 2000 Dexter Award for outstanding contributions to the history of chemistry. Prof. Theodore Steinberg will be on leave during 2000-01 on a Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Prof. Jonathan Sadowsky's book, Imperial Bedlam: Institutions of Madness in Colonial Southwest Nigeria, was published by the University of California Press (September 1999). Assoc. Prof. Angela Woollacott co-edited Feminisms and Internationalism, published by Blackwell Publishers (May 1999). Assoc. Prof. Mirian Levin edited Cultures of Control, published by Harwood Academic Publishers (May 2000).
• UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON. After more than thirty years of service, Bruce M. Taylor is retiring. Dr. Taylor's specialty was Latin American history. He also taught in the University of Dayton's School of Education. He published numerous works on slavery and the planter class in the Caribbean.
• MIAMI UNIVERSITY. Andrew R. L. Cayton and Allan M. Winkler, Professors of History, were appointed Miami University Distinguished Professors in April 2000. Allan Winkler also received the 2000 Ohio Academy of History Outstanding Teacher Award. Bradley Schrager has been appointed Assistant Professor of History. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2000. His dissertation deals with the Yamasee Indians of the North American southeast and their confrontation with Spanish and English colonialism between 1660 and the Yamasee War of 1715. He will teach courses in Native American and colonial American history. Marguerite S. Shaffer has been appointed Assistant Professor of History and American Studies. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1994. Her research and teaching focus on the cultural production of history and identity manifested in the built and natural environment. For the past four years, she was coordinator for the Program in Public History at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Her book, See America First: Tourism, American Landscape and National Identity, is forthcoming from the Smithsonian Institution Press. Robert W. Thurston, Professor of History, received a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program Award and an International Research and Exchanges Board Individual Advanced Research Opportunity Award for research in Russia and Ukraine in 2000-01. His project is entitled "The Enemy Within: European Witch Hunts, American Lynching, and Soviet Terror." Judith P. Zinsser, Associate Professor of History, has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for the 2000-01 academic year. In addition, she has been awarded a Notes and Queries, page 188 Camargo Foundation Residential Fellowship in Cassis, France. Her project, a critical biography, is tentatie1y entitled "La Dame d'Esprit: the Daring Life, Tragic Death and Loss to History of the Marquise Du Chatelet."
• UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI. Effective September 1, 2000, Wendy Kline has been appointed Assistant Professor, U.S. Women's History, and David Stradling has been appointed Assistant Professor, U.S. Urban and Environmental History. Wayne Durrill (19th Century U.S. Social and Cultural History) and Christopher Phillips (U.S. Civil War) have been appointed Editors of Ohio Valley History, which was formerly Queen City Heritage. Otis C. Mitchell (Modem German History) retired on January 1, 2000. Herbert Shapiro (African-American History) will retire January 1, 2001, and Daniel Beaver (U.S. National Security, War, and Society) will retire August 30, 2001. Sigrun Haude's In the Shadow of "Savage Wolves": Anabaptist Mllnster and the German Reformation during the 1530s, was published this summer by Humanities Press/E. J. Brill. Elizabeth B. Frierson (Middle East and North Africa), in collaboration with Camron Michael Amin of the University of Michigan at Dearborn and Benjamin C. Fortna at the University of London, received a two-year NEH National Education Projects Grant to produce a Modern Middle East Sourcebook. Barbara N. Ramusack (Modern South Asia) has a Fulbright Research Grant for research in India during the 2000-01 academic year. Willard Sunderland (Russian and World History) received a postdoctoral fellowship at the George F. Kennan Center for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, D.C., for the 2000-01 academic year. Thomas L. Sakmyster received the George Rieveschl Jr. Award for Excellence in Scholarly or Creative Works in 2000. The Ohioana Library Association is pleased to announce that Kate Templeton Hancock has been appointed the new Editor of the Ohioana Quarterly. She has taken the position of Barbara Maslekoff, who recently retired from that position. The 2000 Ohioana Awards were given at Ohioana Day, October 21, 2000. A complete list of winners is posted at the Ohiona link on the Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN) Web site www.oplin.lib.oh.us. If you would like to nominate an individual for the 2001 Ohioana Awards, you may obtain a nomination form by contacting the Ohioana Library Association at 65 S. Front Street, Suite 1105, Columbus, Ohio, 43215-4163; phone (614) 466-3831; email ohioana@winslo.state. oh.us. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission invites applications for its 2001-2002 Scholars in Residence Program and its recently inaugurated Collaborative Residency Program. The Scholars in Residence Program provides support for full-time research and study in the manuscript and artifact collections at any Commission facility, including the Pennsylvania State Archives, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, and twenty-six historic sites and museums around the state. The Collaborative Residency Program funds research that relates to the interpretive mission and advances the programmatic goals of any PHMC program or facility, including the agency's history sites and museums. Proposals for a Collaborative Residency are to be filed jointly by the interested scholar and host program/facility. Both programs are open to all who are conducting research on Pennsylvania history, including academic scholars, public sector history professionals, independent scholars, graduate students, educators, writers, filmmakers, and others. Residencies are available for four to twelve weeks between Notes and Queries, page 189 May 1, 2001, and April 30, 2002, at the rate of $1,500 per month. Deadline for application is January 12, 2001. For further information and application materials, contact the Division of History, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Box 1026, Harrisburg, PA 17108; (717) 787-3034; lshopes@phmc.state. pa.us; or visit the Web site www.phmc.state.pa.us. Proposals for individual papers or panels in all areas of history are welcome for the 44th Annual Missouri Valley History Conference. This year, conference organizers are especially interested in proposals relating to public history. Proposals, consisting of a cover letter, abstract(s), and vita(e), should be sent by November 30, 2000, to the program chair: Prof. Sharon E. Wood, Missouri Valley History Conference, Department of History, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182. Inquiries may be made by e-mail to swood@unomail.unomaha.edu. Please do not e-mail proposals.
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