The Department of History

Congratulations to the following faculty on their recent achievements:

Gary Ferngren on winning an OSU Center for the Humanities Fellowship for Fall 2011, which he will use to work on his latest book project on science and religion. Professor Ferngren has also been named a University Honors College Eminent Professor for 2011. 

Nicole von Germeten on receiving a 2010 Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society to support research for her new book project on Race, Honor, Sexuality, and Violence in Cartagena de Indias. 

Jacob D. Hamblin on winning the 2010 Bill and Caroline Wilkins Faculty Development Award. Professor Hamblin will use the award to fund research on his book project on Arming Mother Nature: How Modern Science and the Cold War Gave Birth to Catastrophic Environmentalism.

Paul Kopperman for winning the Outreach & Engagement Vice Provost Award for Excellence – Strategic Impact Award. The award recognizes faculty or staff who have made significant accomplishments in a program or project. Such outcomes advance the mission of outreach and engagement while achieving meaningful outcomes relevant to the signature areas of the OSU Strategic Plan.

Michael A. Osborne on his appointments as Senior Fellow at the Aix-Marseille Institute for Advanced Study for 2011–2013 and as Director of Research at L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris for Fall 2011; and for the award of a Faculty Release Time grant from the OSU Research Office. Mike will use these opportunities to work on a project titled “Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Vitalism and Epigenetics: Scientific and Social Physiology in Context” and to organize an international conference in Marseille in 2012 on environment and inheritance.  

Lisa T. Sarasohn on winning a 2011 Fellowship at the Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles; a 2010 CLA Research Award; and the 2010 OSU Academic Senate’s Richard M. Bressler Senior Teaching Award.  Professor Sarasohn will use the first two awards while in residence at UCLA to support research on her new project on Vermin: A Cultural History of Lice, Fleas, Mites, and Bedbugs.

Stacey Smith for winning the Ray Allen Billington Award, given by the Western History Association. The award recognizes the best article on Western history published in any journal outside of the Western Historical Quarterly. The winning article is "Remaking Slavery in a Free State: Masters and Slaves in Gold Rush California," published in the Pacific Historical Review  80, no. 1 (Feb. 2011).