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Welcome to the History Department at the University of Kansas. We offer hundreds
of courses that combine diverse viewpoints on History with program excellence.
We invite you to explore our web site and learn more about our department,
our faculty, our courses, and what makes the KU History Department extraordinary.
Last year we moved the History Department into our new offices in 3650 Wescoe. Our telephone and email contact information for departmental staff members is located below, and for History faculty members on their individual faculty web pages.
We are pleased to welcome our newest staff member, Amanda Contreras, as our History Department Receptionist.
History Faculty News:
Hearty congratulations to History faculty members Katherine Clark, Megan Greene, Liz MacGonagle, and Marta Vicente, who have been tenured and promoted to associate professor, and to Hagith Sivan, who has been promoted to full professor.
We are pleased to welcome the following new tenure-track faculty in 2007-08:
Jacob Dorman (PhD UCLA), African American history, joint appointment with the Program in American Studies
Sheyda Jahanbani (PhD Brown), American diplomatic and international history
Yang Lu (PhD Princeton), premodern Chinese history
Recent Book by History Faculty Members:
Karl Brooks, Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy (University of Washington Press 2006); Anna Cienciala, "La politique etrangere de la Pologne dans la periode de l'Appeasement et des revisions des traites. Les vues et la politique du marechal Pilsudski et du colonel Beck, 1933-1939," dans La Pologne et l'Europe. Du partage a l'elargissement (XVIIIe-XXIe siecles), red. Par Isabelle Davion, Jerzy Kloczowski et Georges-Henri Soutou (dir), PUPS Paris 2007: 119-146; Steven Epstein, Purity Lost: Transgressing Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000-1400 (Johns Hopkins 2007); Megan Greene and Robert Ash, eds., Taiwan in the 21st Century: Aspects and Limitations of a Development Model (Routledge 2007); Megan Greene, William Bowman, and Frank Chiteji, eds., Imperialism in the Modern World: Sources and Interpretations (Prentice Hall 2006); Paul Kelton, Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715 (University of Nebraska Press, 2007); Norman Saul, Friends or Foes?: The United States And Soviet Russia, 1921-1941 (University Press of Kansas 2006); William Tsutsui and Michiko Ito, eds, In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage (Palgrave, 2006); William Tsutsui, ed., A Companion to Japanese History (Blackwell, 2007); Marta Vicente, Clothing the Spanish Empire: Families and the Calico Trade in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Palgrave 2007); Jennifer Weber, Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North (Oxford University Press 2006).
Recent External Fellowships for History Faculty:
- Luis Corteguera, NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Huntington Library (2007-2008)
- Greg Cushman, Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (2007-2008)
- Jon Earle, Ray Allen Billington Visiting Chair in U.S. History at the Huntington Library and Occidental College (2006-2007)
- Eric Rath, Japan Foundation Short-Term Research Fellowship (2006)
- Hagith Sivan, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania (2007-2008)
- Kim Warren, National Academy for Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006-2007)
For information on upcoming events in History, see the History Department News Notes.
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