Five LSU History majors
have been chosen to receive scholarships to help support their studies
during the coming academic year. The students are Allison C. Bass
(Robert N Bersuder Scholarship), Jessica Byrd (Harold and Gay Meaker
Scholarship), Kristin Irvin (Robert B. Holtman Scholarship),
Samuel M. Oliver (Gary A. Crump Scholarship), and Brittany Pennington
(Jane DeGrummond Scholarship). The amount of the awards is $1000
each, with the exception of the DeGrummond, which provides $500.
Congratulations to all recipients.
The
Department is also proud to announce that five of its students have been
elected to the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society. They are
Katie J. Bateman,
Elliot C. Cassidy, Jacob LaBuff, Jeffrey M. Milner, and Matthew S.
Wray.
Prof. Margherita Zanasi will return in
2008-09 from a semester as a visiting scholar at the
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.which will follow a
Fulbright Fellowship for summer travel and research.
The Department of History was among four
departments designated Foundations of Excellence units in 2007.
The award recognizes the high quality of scholarship within the department, and
makes it eligible for higher levels of funding and support. For more information: Foundations of Excellence
At the Spring 2007 Honors Convocation,
a history major, Leslie Bourgeois, won the outstanding honor’s thesis
award in the Humanities. Ms. Bourgeois' thesis, entitled “The
Little Black Dress of Scandals’: The Significance of the Profumo Affair,”
was directed by Prof. Meredith Veldman. Three other history majors were
recognized for completing a thesis: Monigue Daley, Matthew Juneau, and Sarah
Perkins.
Prof.
David Culbert was recognized for having won a Tiger Athletic Foundation
Teaching Award.
Prof. Paul Hoffman was invited to be the
keynote speaker at a conference on "The Spanish
Contribution to the Independence of the United States: Between Reform and
Revolution (1763-1848)" at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait
Gallery in Washington, D.C. The conference takes place from Sept. 27-29,
2007.
Professor David
Lindenfeld was invited to present a paper in July at the 20th
International Congress of Historical Sciences in Sydney,
Australia. The paper, which focused on Dr. Lindenfeld's research into
reactions to Christian missionary activity in different parts of the world,
was entitled "The Taiping and the Prophetic Churches of West Africa: A
Comparative Study."
On leave during 2007-2008: Professors Christine
Kooi, Mark Thompson, and Margherita Zanasi.
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