Graduate Student News and Events

News on recent graduate Tillman Nechtman, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Skidmore College: Tillman's essay, "Nabobs Revisited: A Cultural History of British Imperialism and the Indian Question in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain," which appeared in History Compass (an online peer-reviewed journal) last year, is the fourth most popular essay on the site right now. (The site lists the twenty most frequently accessed and ordered pieces.) Tillman also just had an essay accepted for publication in Eighteenth Century Studies. He has a new article in Journal of Women's History as well.

Congratulations to Karin Huebner, who has been appointed the graduate student representative on the Council of the Western Association of Women Historians.

FELLOWSHIPS for 2006–2007

Rebecca Sheehan has won an award from the Center for Law, History and Culture at the USC Law School for her to travel to the Kinsey Institute at the University of Indiana to do research for her dissertation on pornography in the 1960s.

Liz Willis-Tropea has won the Founders' Dissertation Fellowship Award from the Western Association of Women Historians for her dissertation proposal, "Hollywood Glamour: Sex, Power, and Photography in the Studio System."

FELLOWSHIPS for 2005–2006

Haynes Dissertation Fellowship

• Elizabeth Willis-Tropea

Final Year Dissertation Fellowship

• Michael Carter
• Craig Loftin
• Matthew Newsom Kerr

Final Summer Dissertation Fellowship

• Jeffrey Kosiorek

Strategic Theme Summer Supplement

• Alex Avina
• Kristina Burhman
• Megan Kendrick

Strategic Theme Research Assistantship

• Yuko Itatsu
• Riko KIamei
• Xiafei Wang

Awards from the East Asian Studies Center for entering students

FLAS language study fellowship

• Benjamin Uchiyama

ACE supplementral grant

• Kevin Wilson

 

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