News and Features

Across the Spectrum, the newsletter of the College of Arts and Sciences, offered a profile of Prof. Jim Jones in its summer issue.

Congratulations to Dr. Peter Garretson, who published A Victorian Gentleman and Ethiopian Nationalist: The Life and Times of Hakim Wärqenäh, Dr. Charles Martin with James Currey in June.

This online course, offered by Prof. Koslow, examines the theory and practice of the ways in which history is collected, preserved, and interpreted using digital mediums.

Peter Simons (PhD Chicago 2012) will join the department this fall as postdoctoral fellow in History of Science/Environmental History of the North.

Graduate students Liz Bryant and Kevin Uhler won Fulbrights to Poland for 2012-3.

Congratulations to Suzanne Sinke, who has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship as the Fulbright-University of Salzburg Visiting Professor.

Congratulations to Alex Aviña for being awarded a Stephen Risley Family Fellowship in the College of Arts and Sciences to pursue research and writing.