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The History Faculty welcomes Meriam Belli, Lecturer in Middle Eastern History and Aaron Moore, Lecturer in East Asian History.

Appointments and Promotions

Philip S. Khoury has been appointed as the Ford International Professor of History and Associate Provost. Anne McCants and Elizabeth Wood were promoted to the rank of full professor. Meg Jacobs was promoted to associate professor with tenure and received a Class of '47 Career Development Chair. Chris Capozzola was promoted to associate professor without tenure and received the Lister Brothers Career Development Chair. Harriet Ritvo stepped down as department head with Anne McCants succeeding her.

Harriet Ritvo is the new Vice-President and President Elect of the American Society for Environmental History.

Awards

Will Broadhead is the recipient of the Jeptha H. and Emily V. Wade Fund for his project "Judging Caesar: Ancient and Modern Interpretations of Julius and Augustus Caesar."

John Dower is the James R. Killian Faculty Achievement Award winner for 2006-2007.

Anne McCants received the 2007 Arthur C. Smith Award for meaningful contributions and devotion to undergraduate student life and learning at MIT.

Peter Perdue was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2007.

Meg Jacobs was awarded the 2007 Levitan Prize in the Humanities for her current project entitled "Panic at the Pump: How Conservatives Used the Energy Crisis to Undermine Faith in Washington."

Haimanti Roy received the 2007 Ohio Academy of History Dissertation Award for “Citizenship and National Identity in Post-Partition Bengal, 1947-65.”

Meg Jacobs's book, Pocketbook Politics, won the New England Historical Association 2005 book award.

The Truman Foundation has recognized MIT as a Truman Honor Institute for 2006. An award presentation and reception will be held on October 13 at Stata (32-123), 3-6 PM. Anne McCants and Meg Jacobs have served on the MIT Truman Scholarship selection committee for many years.

IAP in Ancient Italy 2007

IAP in Ancient Italy was offered for the second year to MIT undergraduates with an interest in Greek and Roman history. The program took a group of students to Rome and Naples, January 12-19, 2007, and was led by Professor William Broadhead and Professor Steven Ostrow.

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