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Nominations are invited for the 2006 Dean’s Outstanding Staff Award. Nominees must have held a regular staff appointment for three years of continuous service in the College and have demonstrated excellence in overall job performance, initiative and creativity in the performance of duties, and sustained exemplary service to the unit and to the College. Nomination forms are available in the College Office or print out our online form Submit the completed nomination form, a letter of nomination, and supporting letters as one packet to: Michelle Brown, Department of Philosophy, 350 University Hall, by April 10.

Tanya Erzen, Comparative Studies: Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006). The book received a starred review in the February 27 issue of Publisher's Weekly.

Graduate student Yigit Akin, History, was awarded the 2006 College of Humanities G. Micheal Riley Scholarship to conduct doctoral dissertation research on the Ottoman experience of World War I.

Harvey Graff, English and History, was awarded a Special Research Assignment by the College of Humanities for next year.

Christopher Phelps, History, received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship to the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

Cathy Rakowski, Women’s Studies, won the Gamma Sigma Delta (agricultural honorary society) Teaching Award of Merit.

Mytheli Sreenivas, History and Women’s Studies, was awarded the Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences by the American Institute of Indian Studies for her book manuscript "Conjugality and Capital: Family and Colonial Modernity in Tamil India, 1880-1950." The manuscript will now be considered for publication by Indiana University Press as part of its Contemporary Indian Studies Series.

Graduate student Laura Michele Diener, History, presented "Pray for Us; We Will Pray for You: The Evidence of Medieval Mortuary Rolls" at the Vagantes Conference for Medieval Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

C. Magbaily Fyle, African American and African Studies, presented "African, African Descent, and Teaching about Africa: Content and Meaning in African Studies" at the National Association of African American Studies annual meeting at Baton Rouge, February, 2006.

Graduate student Donald Hempson, History, presented "In the Lion's Den: The Experience of the Standard Oil Company in Czechoslovakia, 1921-1923" at the Crossing Boundaries, Spanning Regions: Movements of People, Goods and Ideas Conference, hosted by Columbia University's Center for International History (along with the Middle East Institute, the Harriman Institute, the Lehman Center, and the Department of History), March 10.

Graduate student James Lenaghan, History, presented "'All Europe is struck at through the side of Poland': Understanding the British Response to the 1621 Embassy of Jerzy Ossolinski to the Court of James VI/I" at the 2006 Midwest Slavic Conference, March 4.

Linda Mizejewski, Women’s Studies, presented "Queen Latifah and Josephine Baker: Race, Unruly Women, and Romantic Comedy," and a respondent paper, "Screen Couples," at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Vancouver, Canada, March 2 and 4.

Randolph Roth, History, presented "The History of Homicide in America from Colonial Times to the Present," Ohio State University Winter College, Sarasota, Florida, February 24-25.

Graduate student Dustin Walcher, History, presented "Petroleum Pitfalls: Oil, Argentine Nationalism, and the Demise of the Modernizers' Moment, June-November 1963" at the Ohio Latinamericanist Conference, March 3.

Doubles and dybbuks, dybbuks and doubles. That is what WOMEN AT PLAY's next production includes. Katherine Burkman, English, has adapted New York novelist Francine Prose's wonderful novel, Hungry Hearts, for the stage, and the drama will be held March 23-April 2 at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center, 1125 College Avenue. The play is about a Yiddish theatre group in the 1920s in New York, who travel to South America with their production of Ansky's The Dybbuk. Unfortunately, the leading lady gets invaded by a real dybbuk. A heart-pounding and joyous drama, this will be the last offering of WOMEN AT PLAY's 12-year run before they fold their tents. Contact: (614) 457-6580 for tickets and information. Tickets are $20 or $15 for students/seniors/members of the JCC. Group rate, $10 for groups of 7 or more.

The 6^th annual Images of You Multicultural Conference invites program proposals for this year's conference, "A Journey Beyond Your Borders," 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, April 22, Ohio Union. Students, faculty, staff and members of the greater Columbus community may submit presentation proposals for dynamic and developmental programs. Programming forms and registration information are available for download at www.housing.osu.edu/imagesofyou. The proposal deadline is noon on March 17. This event is designed as a forum for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students from Ohio State and other Ohio and Midwestern universities to come together and experience diversity and to engage in dialogue through innovative and creative approaches. The aim is to empower students to break through existing barriers as they relate to diversity and multiculturalism. Contact: Department of Women’s Studies, 292-1021; Kim Kushner, kushner.24@osu.edu, or Douglas Eck, eck.25@osu.edu.