LSU Department of History

Prof. Paul Hoffman has been awarded the Louisiana Historical Association’s Garnie W. McGinty Lifetime Meritorious Service Award. The award was formally presented during the association's annual meeting March 17-19.

Prof. Suzanne Marchand has been awarded the prestigious George L. Mosse Prize by the American Historical Association. Prof. Marchand was honored for her book, German Orientalism in the Age of Empire (Cambridge 2010).

Prof. Charles Royster's book on the Civil War, The Destructive War, was named one of the "top dozen Civil War books of all time" in a recent review article on Salon.com.

Madison and Jefferson, by Charles Phelps Manship Professor Andrew Burstein and Professor Nancy Isenberg (Random House, 2010), was the featured "pick of the week" in Publisher's Weekly's July 12th issue.
An intense narrative of high stakes competition that goes far in explaining why we are a politically divided people today, Madison and Jefferson becomes available in September 2010.

“Remarkably lucid account of a monumental founding friendship...an essential read.” –Library Journal

Prescription for Heterosexuality, by Assistant Professor Carolyn Lewis, will be published in October 2010 by the University of North Carolina Press. Prof. Lewis's book explores how medical practitioners, especially family physicians, situated themselves as the guardians of Americans' sexual well-being during the early years of the Cold War.

"[A] fascinating, well-written, and illuminating study"--Elaine Tyler May

Associate Professor Charles Shindo's new book, 1927 and the Rise of Modern America, takes a probing look at what has been described as "an ideal year for describing the process of modernization that was taking place in the 1920s." University Press of Kansas, April 2010.

Click the link to hear an audio file of Professor Shindo's radio interview discussing his book: 1927radio.mp3

Prof. Karl Roider has proven once again to be one of the department's most popular teachers. The
members of Phi Alpha Theta, the honor society for history students, voted to award him the Roselyn Boneno Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

Doctoral student Chris Childers has won the Mike Miller dissertation prize, and Anne Ulentin is the new T. Harry Williams Fellow.

The following undergraduates have had their work recognized by the award of scholarships for the 2010-11 academic year: Megan Rogers, Jacob Ecker, Jessica Deutsch, Erin Mann, and Chris Williams. Congratulations to all!

Three members of the History Department--professors Paul Hoffman, Alecia Long and Suzanne Marchand--were among the faculty members named as "Rainmakers" in the university's 2009 ceremony. According to a press release, the award recognizes LSU professors "who are nationally and internationally recognized for innovative research and creative scholarship, compete for external funding at the highest levels and attract and mentor exceptional graduate students."

Prof. Andrew Burstein has been named the Editor of the LSU Press’s Southern Biography Series, while Prof. Nancy Isenberg has been elected to the prestigious Society of American Historians. Prof. Alecia Long has received a $200,000 grant from the Ford Foundation for her oral history project, tied to a service learning course, “Listening to Louisiana Women: Sexuality, Reproduction and Social Equality.” Prof. Gibril Cole has been named as the recipient of an Atlas Grant to support his research during 2009-10, and History Ph.D. Richard Jordan won both the LSU Distinguished Dissertation Award and the American Conference for Irish Studies Adele Dalsimer Prize for his dissertation, written under the supervision of Prof. Meredith Veldman.