Graduate Student News and Events

 

 

News from April 2009:

• Luman Wang has has received two grants for the summer of 2009: the “Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace" for an intensive Japanese language study program at Middlebury and a grant from the USC US-China Institute to conduct research on “History Writing in China as Seen in the Wenshi Ziliao Collections.”
• Sarah Keyes has won an USC-Huntington EMSI fellowship for 2009-2010.
• Jennifer Black has won the William M. Jones Award for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper in American Culture at the National Conference for the Popular Culture / American Culture Association in New Orleans. Her paper, "Corporate Calling Cards: Advertising Trade Cards and Logos in U.S. c. 1876-1890" will be published in the Journal of American Culture.
• Allison Lauterbach has been awarded a Wallis Annenberg Fellowship from USC College for the academic year 2009-2010. (The Wallis Annenberg Fellowship is awarded to outstanding graduate students whose work focuses on issues of women and the family and threats to their well being.)
• Sarah Fried-Gintis has just won a Dean Joan Schaefer Graduate Fellowship from USC.
• Karin Huebner has won a summer final year dissertation fellowship from USC.
• Ryan Linkof has been awarded the Gold Family Endowment Fellowship, which he will use to go to London this summer.
• Matt Newsom Kerr, a recent graduate of our program, has just accepted a tenure-track job in British history and the history of science/medicine at Santa Clara University .
• Michael Block has been awarded a William Keck Fellowship at the Huntington Library (three months), and a Winterthur Museum Residential Fellowship (1 month).
• Annie Johnson has just been admitted to the American Antiquarian Society's 2009 Summer Seminar on the History of the Book, on "Book History and Media History."

 

News from March 2009:

• Michael Block has been awarded a New England Regional Consortium Fellowship, supporting two months of research in various libraries and archives in New England.
• Laura Kalba has been offered a tenure-track position at Smith College.
• Matt Amato has won an SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship.
• Kristen Geaman and Justin Haar have each been awarded a "Ralph and Joan Hovel Memorial Scholarship for Summer Dissertation Research."  Both will use these awards for German language study.

 

News from February 2009:

• Alex Avina has job offers to join the History Department at Florida State University and Cal State Fullerton.
• Jerry Gonazlez has been offered a tenure track position in the History Department at the University of Texas San Antonio
• Laura Kalba has a two-year post-doc at George Mason University.

 

2008

Megan Kendrick

• “Virtual Tourisms.”  Digitally Authored Project in Vectors:  Journal of Technology and Culture in a Dynamic Vernacular.  Memory Issue (Fall 2008).

Ryan Linkof

• "A British Press Dandy in America: Cecil Beaton and the Erotics of the Tabloid Press," Pacific Coast Conference of British Studies
  International Field Research Award - USC, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
• Roberta Persinger Foulke Endowment Fellowship
• Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Research Award

Rebecca Sheehan

• “Electric Sex: Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Transnational Sexualities,” presented at “The Global 1970s,” Weatherhead Center, Harvard University, October 10-11, 2008. Under revision for publication in “The Shock of the Global: The International History of the 1970s,” Niall Ferguson, Erez Manela, Charles Maier, and Daniel Sargent, (eds) forthcoming, Harvard University Press, 2009.
• Roberta Persinger Foulke Summer Research Fellowship, USC, 2008.

Rosina Lozana

• “La Sangre del Espíritu: The Spanish Language's Role on U.S. Politics and Identity, 1848-1952.” New Mexico Office of the State Historian Scholar Lecture, June 6, 2008.
• W.M. Keck Foundation Fellowship For Young Scholars, Huntington Library, 2 months funded.
• New Mexico Office of the State Historian Scholar, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2 months funded.

Stephanie Schnorbus

• Foulke Fellowship for summer research from the University of Southern California History Department in 2008.
• One-year fellowship from the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Fellowship for the 2008–2009 academic year.
• “The Royal Primer and Other Primers in the 1780s: The Question of Christianity, the Enlightenment, and Secularization,” at the ASCH winter meeting, concurrent with the AHA annual meeting. January 2, 2009.
• “German Children, Identity, and the English Language in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania,” at the interdisciplinary conference German-Speaking People in the Greater Mid-Atlantic Region: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Conflicts, 1700–1800, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. October 7–10, 2009.
• “Calvin and Locke: Dueling Epistemologies in The New-England Primer, 1720–1790,” forthcoming in Early American Studies.

Michael Block

• Review of Emily K. Abel, Suffering in the Land of Sunshine, in Southern California Quarterly (Spring, 2008 issue)
• "Scales of Decision Making in the American Pacific, 1783-1846," Pacific Coast Branch, AHA
• USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Dissertation Fellow (full year)
• USC US-China Institute Graduate Summer Fieldwork Grant
• Program in Early American Economy and Society Short Term Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia
• Isaac Comly Martindale Fund Fellowship, American Philosophical Society (Spring 2009)
• Benjamin F. Stevens Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society (Spring 2009)

David Levitus

• "Transforming the Public: The Generation of a 'New Deal'" Leadership in Los Angeles as Regime Formation," Policy HistoryConference, May 2008
• "The Communal Origins of the 'EPIC-liberal' Bloc in Metropolitan Los Angeles: Leadership Development as Regime Formation," AHA-PCB, August 2008

Alexander Aviña

• Final Year Dissertation Fellowship awarded by the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences of USC
• “Poor People’s Revolution in Guerrero:  A History of the Party of the Poor (PDLP), 1960-1974,” lecture at Occidental College for a seminar taught by Dr. Dolores Trevizo
• “’We have returned to Porfirian Times:’ Neo-Populism, Counterinsurgency, and the Dirty War in Guerrero, Mexico 1969-1976,” in Cárdenas, Echeverría and Revolutionary Populism, eds. María L.O. Muñoz and Amelia Kiddle (Tucson:  University of Arizona Press, 2009).
• “’The way to make a revolution will not be taught by Cuba:’ The Making of a Poor Peoples Revolution in Guerrero, Mexico, 1967-1974,” to be presented at The Conference of Latin American History/American Historical Association, New York City, January 3, 2009.
• “’The way to make a revolution will not be taught by Cuba:’ Peasant Guerrilla Movements in Cold War Mexico, 1960-1974,” to be presented at The Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, June 2009.
• Research and dissertation was presented in the September 2008 edition of Inside Mexico (an American expatriate magazine published in Mexico City)

Stephanie Clayton

• Charles Taylor Kerchner, David Menefee-Libey, Laura Steen Mulfinger, and Stephanie Clayton. Learning from L.A.: Institutional Change in American Public Education. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2008.

Jason LaBau

• “Morris Udall, Evan Mecham, and Race: Arizona Politicians Navigating Complexities of Mormon Doctrine,” at ‘May These Principles Be Established’: Mormonism in the Political Arena, Claremont Graduate University and Claremont School of Theology, April 2008.
• “Non-Partisan Activism: Post-War Phoenix and the Origins of the Conservative Republican Party,” Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, August 2008.
• Summer Scholars Award, Arizona Historical Foundation, 2008.

Benjamin Uchiyama

• Fulbright-IIE Grant for Dissertation Research in Japan, 2008-2009
• Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2008-2009

Yuko Itatsu

• Appointed Project Assistant Professor at the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo.
• "An Analysis of Leisure Argumentation: Before and After the Great Depression in the U.S." at the 3rd Tokyo Conference on Argumentation held at Chuo University, Tokyo.
• “Japan's Hollywood Boycott Movement of 1924" was published in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.
• Affiliated to the Urban Research Plaza at OCU as a Special Researcher.

Michelle Damian

• “Examining Representations of Wooden Boats in Japanese Woodblock Prints.” Presented at the 2008 Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM. Co-Chair of Asian Maritime Archaeology session. Published in the ACUA Underwater Archaeology Proceedings 2008.
• “Maritime Archaeology Online: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Public Outreach.” Presented at the 2008 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
• Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Summer 2008

Kristina Buhrman

• “Defining Astronomical Omens in the Late Heian and Kamakura Periods: Context, Precedent and Response,” at the 12th Asian Studies Japan Conference, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, June 22, 2008.

2007

Megan Kendrick

• The John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2007-2008).
• “The Park Made of Oil:  Towards Historical Political Ecology of the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area,” Local Environment, vol. 12, no. 2 (April 2007), 153-181.  Coauthored with Jason Byrne and David Sroaf.
• “Virtual Tourisms.”   Paper delivered in session on “Digital Cities:  New Media Authoring in the Field of Urban History (American Historical Association, January 2007).

Ryan Linkof

• Appointed to the Graduate Studies Committee of the American Historical Association
• "Celebrity Deluxe: Cecil Beaton and Aristocratic Style,” at Text/ure: Form, Content, Materiality - Department of English Graduate Student Symposium
• Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship - Social Science Research Council
• Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Research Award
• Elected to the History Graduate Student Association Executive Committee

Rebecca Sheehan

• “Scary Monsters, Cosmic Dancers: Glam Rock Masculinities in the United States and Britain, 1968-1974,” presented at the Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference, UCLA, October 2007.
• Roberta Persinger Foulke Summer Research Fellowship, USC, 2007.

Rosina Lozana

• "Brown's Legacy in the West: Pasadena Unified School District's Federally Mandated Desegregation." Southwestern University Law Review. 36.2 (2007): 257-290.
• “Brown’s Legacy in the West: Revising the Image and Fight for ‘Neighborhood Schools’ in the Post-Civil Rights Era.” Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI. July 25, 2007.
• Kelterborn Travel Grant, History Department, University of Southern California for PCB-AHA presentation.
• “Brown’s Legacy in the West: Pasadena Unified School District’s Federally Mandated Desegregation.” Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West Brown Bag Series on Western U.S. and Borderlands History, April, 23, 2007.

Stephanie Schnorbus

• Appointed a Research Associate at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, January 2007–January 2008.
• Received a one-semester College Merit Fellowship from the University of Southern California History Department for Spring 2007.
• “Instilling Identity:  The Relative Importance of Doctrine in Spelling Books, Pennsylvania, 1680–1815,” as part of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies Spring 2007 Works-in-Progress Series. April 25, 2007.
• Foulke Fellowship for summer research from the University of Southern California History Department in 2007.

Michael Block

• Editor, Course reader for Professor Kevin Starr's "History of California," USC Custom Publishing.
• College General Education Teaching Award, USC

David Levitus

• "The Political Origins of Newark's Unrest," Long Hot Summers in Retrospect II: Urban Unrest in 1960s New Jersey, October 2007
• "Geographic Institutionalism:  The Metropolis and the Regional Regimes of American Political Development," with Philip Ethington, Social Science History Association Conference, November 2007

Alexander Aviña

• Fellow at the Multicultural Excellence in the Academy, National Summer Institute at Denver University.
• “Dirty Wars, Failed Revolutions, and the Struggles for Democracy in Contemporary Mexico,” García-Robles Mid-Term Conference in Mexico City on March 1, 2007.
• “¡Viva la Revolución Pobrista!  The ‘Perfect Dictatorship’ and Poor People’s Revolution in Guerrero, Mexico, 1967-1974,”  Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational Study of the Americas in Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico on August 6, 2007
• “¡Viva la revolución pobrista!  The ‘Perfect Dictatorship’ and Poor People’s Revolution in Guerrero, Mexico, 1967-1974,” in Undoing Leviathan, eds. Priya Jaikumar and Roopali Mukherjee (Durham:  Social Text/Duke University Press, 2010).

Jason LaBau

• Charles Redd Fellowship Award in Western American History, Brigham Young University, 2007-2008

Yuko Itatsu

• “The Hollywood Boycott Movement: The Dilemma between Political Hostility and the Allure of American Popular Culture in 1924 Japan" at a sponsored panel commemorating the 40th year anniversary of Akira Iriye's Across the Pacific during theAssociation of Asian Studies held in Boston.
• Appointed a Special Researcher at the Global Center of Excellence Program at the Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University.

Michelle Damian

• “Visual Clues: Representations of Wooden Boats in Japanese Woodblock Prints.” Presented at the 2007 Society for History of Technology Annual Conference, Washington, DC.
• Provost’s Fellowship, University of Southern California

Kristina Buhrman

• “Politics, Precedent and Pleasure: Modes for Evaluating Ceremonial Performance in Japanese Courtly Texts,” at Images of a Nation: Approaches to the Aesthetics of Japan, Thirteenth Annual UCLA Graduate Student Symposium on Japanese Studies, Los Angeles, CA, May 5, 2007.
• Mitsubishi/Fulbright Graduate Research Fellowship for 2007-2008

 

2006

Megan Kendrick

• Provost’s Digital Dissertation Fellowship, Annenberg Center for Communications, USC (2005-2006)

Ryan Linkof

• Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Mellon Program Mentoring Award

Rosina A. Lozano

• “Brown’s Legacy in the West: Pasadena Unified School District’s Federally Mandated Desegregation.” Southwestern Law School Symposium, Los Angeles, CA. October 27, 2006.

• “Creating Equal Representation: CSO Voter Registration and the Success of the 1949 Election of Edward Roybal to City Council.” Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Annual Conference, Stanford, CA. August 4, 2006.

Stephanie Schnorbus

• “The Relative Importance of Doctrine in Quaker Spelling Books: Pennsylvania, 1702–1811,” at the 2006 Conference on Faith and History at Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Oklahoma. September 21–23, 2006.
• One-month Isaac Comly Martindale Fund Library Resident Fellowship from the American Philosophical Society for the 2006–2007 academic year.
• One-month Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship  from the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens for the 2006–2007 academic year.
• One-month Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship from the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for the 2006–2007 academic year.

Alexander Aviña

• University of Southern California Advanced Year Fellowship (2005-2006).
• Fulbright-García Robles Grant (2006-2007)

Benjamin Uchiyama

• Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship

Yuko Itatsu

• Research grants from the Matsushita Foundation (Japan) as well as the Nikaido Fellowship (USC, East Asian Studies Center).
• "Avenue Q" in Gendai Amerika no Kiwado [Key Words in Contemporary America], eds. Mari Yoshihara and Yujin Yaguchi, (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 2006).
• “Hollywood vs. National Humiliation: The Dilemma between Politics and Popular Culture in 1924 Japan" at the American Studies Association Conference held in Oakland, CA, October 2006.

Rebecca Sheehan

• University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, General Studies, USC
• Graduate Student Fellow, Center for Law, History and Culture (CLHC), USC.
• Graduate Student Representative, Search Committee for historian of the Holocaust, 2006-2007.

Kristina Buhrman

• Presented a paper “Conceptions of the Court and Ritual in Medieval Japan: Examples from the Taiheiki,” at Redefining Identities in Asia: 9th Graduate Student Conference, Harvard East Asia Society, Cambridge, MA, February 18, 2006.

 

 

 

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