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2006 Bruce Mazlish History Prize

The History Faculty is delighted to announce the winners of this year's Annual History Essay Contest. We honor the following students for their outstanding work in History:

John Bergin, "Fort Peck Dam: America's Symbol of Hope in a Barren West"

Brian Chase,"The Soda Pop War: How the No-Strike Pledge Hurt the CIO"

Katonio Butler, "Defining Affirmative Action: Black Economic Self-Determination vs. Jewish Neoconservatism"

IAP in Ancient Italy - January 20-28, 2006

This new program of the MIT History Faculty offers MIT undergraduates a first-hand experience of Roman and Greek archeology---urban topography, architecture, public and private monuments in the setting where they can best be explored: the heart of Rome, and along the Bay of Naples (ancient Pompeii, Mt. Vesuvius, and nearby sites). A group of 10-15 students was led by William Broadhead and Steven Ostrow, both members of the MIT History Faculty specializing in ancient history. For futher details visit IAP in Ancient Italy. Photographs of the trip may be seen here.

New Arrivals

New faculty member Haimanti Roy will introduce a range of subjects in South Asian history.  The History Faculty also welcomes Howard Eissenstat, Lecturer in Middle Eastern History.

History professor John Dower awarded Mellon prize

John Dower has won a Mellon distinguished achievement award. This is about
as good as it gets for a humanist, because John will receive up to $1.5 million over the next three years to carry out his next research project. You can find the details on the main MIT website at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2004/dower.html.

New Books by the History Faculty

Inventing America, Second Edition, by Pauline Maier, Merritt Roe Smith, Alexander Keyssar and Daniel J. Kevles was published by Norton in December 2005.

Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (Princeton University Press, 2005). Meg's book won the 2006 Ellis W. Hawley Prize awarded by the Organization of American Historians.

Peter C. Perdue, China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Harvard University Press, 2005). Peter's book was nominated Outstanding New Book by Foreign Affairs.

Elizabeth A. Wood, Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia (Cornell University, 2005).

Bruce Mazlish with Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., eds., Leviathans: Multinational Corporations and the New Global History (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Awards and Fellowships

Harriet Ritvo was elected to membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Christopher Capozzola has been awarded the 2005 J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship of the American Historical Association to support research at the Library of Congress.

Meg Jacobs received a grant from the Class of '51 Fund for Excellence in Eduation, the Class of '55 Fund for Excellence in Teaching, the Class of '72 Fund for Educational Innovation, and the Class of '99 Fund for Excellence in Student Learning.

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