Recognition for LSU Historians' teaching, research work

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.

Another member of the History Department faculty has been chosen to receive the Tiger Athletic Foundation Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching.  The award went to Instructor Robert Outland in recognition of his work teaching freshman-level courses. Earlier awards this year have gone to both Prof. Meredith Veldman and Prof. David Culbert. The members of Phi Alpha Theta, the history honor society, also chose Dr. Outland as the recipient of the 2009 Roselyn Boneno Teaching Award. 

The department congratulates Craig Saucier, who has been awarded The Michael G. Miller Prize for his dissertation, Mr Kerr Goes to Washington: Lord Lothian and the Genesis of the Anglo-American Alliance, 1939-1940.  The dissertation was written under the supervision of Prof. Meredith Veldman.

Prof. Maribel Dietz received the  BP Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching for 2008, and the  Board of Regents chose Paul Paskoff and Reza Pirbhai to receive Atlas Grants during the 2008-2009 academic year. 

Prof. Mark L. Thompson was selected to receive a prestigious fellowship for study at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island, during the Fall 2007 semester.