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John Burnham, History: "The ‘New Freud Studies:’ A Historiographical Shift," Journal of the Historical Society 6 (2006): 213-233.

Peter Hahn, History, was the guest editor of Organization of American Historians Magazine of History: The U.S. and the Middle East 20:3 (May 2006).

Geoffrey Parker, History: "Philippe II, le roi mélancholique," Les collections de l’Histoire, 31: "L’Espagne" (April-June 2006: 56-9 and "The Spanish Armada almost surrendered," MHQ: the Quarterly Journal of Military History 18/4 (Summer 2006): 86-92. He was the editor and co-author of La crisis de la Monarquía de Felipe IV (Barcelona: Crítica, 2006): 446 pp.

Christopher Phelps, History: "The Fictitious Suppression of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle" online at the History News Network (http://hnn.us/articles/27227.html.

Jane Harper, Linguistics, and Sue O’Keeffe, Philosophy, have been selected to receive the 2006 College of Humanities Dean's Outstanding Staff Award. Both are being recognized for demonstrating excellence in job performance, initiative and creativity in the performance of duties, and sustained exemplary service.

Susan Hartmann, History, has been awarded a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., where she will be in residence January-May 2007.

K. Austin Kerr, History, received the Business History Conference Lifetime Achievement Award.

Barbara Lloyd, Folklore Center, was the spring quarter recipient of the Above and Beyond the Call Award from the College of Humanities Staff Advisory Committee. Her name was chosen from among many nominated by their grateful colleagues and supervisors, and she will receive a $50 gift certificate. All nominees will be recognized in the program of the Dean's Award Reception in the autumn.

Bob McMahon, History, was recently named to the editorial board of the Journal of American-East Asian Relations.

Christopher Phelps, History, received the Excellence in Scholarship Award, given annually on the Mansfield campus, and an Arts and Humanities Seed Grant for his project "African Americans and the anti-Stalinist Left."

Graduate student Jaimie Sassone, History, received a Coca Cola Difference for Women Graduate Studies Grant for Research on Women, Gender, or Gender Equity for her dissertation "Disorderly Women and Disordered Men: Prostitution, Pox, and Sexual Misbehavior in Early Modern London, 1546-1700."

Graduate student Dustin Walcher, History, received a Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant and also a Samuel F. Bemis Research Grant from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for his dissertation research.

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, History, received a Research Support Grant from the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and also a Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Faculty Grant from the OSU Women's Studies Department. Both fellowships will fund research related to her current book project, "Radicals on the Road: Third World Internationalism and American Orientalism during the Viet Nam Era."

Morris Beja, English, was quoted in an article about his research on the author Jame Joyce, and his work helping to form the James Joyce Foundation (Conde Nast Traveler, April 2006).

Michael Les Benedict, History, was quoted in an article about how the United States continues to pay for the decision by President Andrew Johnson just after the Civil War to side with Southern whites and oppose improvements in justice for Southern blacks beyond abolishing slavery (Associated Press, February 18).

Kevin Boyle, History, was interviewed about the study and teaching of history (Columbus Dispatch, July 10) and wrote a review of the memoir "Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided America" by Eyal Press (New York Times, March 5)

Samuel Chu, History, was quoted about how people in rural China are not getting the same economic and educational opportunities as those who live in the big cities (Houston Chronicle, May 14).

Dick Davis, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, was interviewed about an English translation he did of Iran's most beloved epic poem, called "Shahnameh" on NPR's "Day to Day" (March 29).

Alan Gallay, History, was interviewed about Indian Slavery in Early America for WURD Radio, Philadelphia, June 4.

Judith Mayne, French and Italian and Women’s Studies, was quoted in an article about the work of French film director Claire Denis, who has made several films examining how the French deal with their history as a colonial power (Los Angeles Times, March 19).

Brian McHale, English, was quoted in an article about how published memoirs are often unreliable, "halfway between fiction and testimony." He was interviewed about the memoir "A Million Little Pieces" which spawned controversy when it was reported that some of the stories in the book were false (Christian Science Monitor, January 18).

Christopher Phelps, History-Mansfield, was quoted in various articles: about how it is difficult at the university level to provide remedial help to incoming students who don't have the proper background in English or math (New Orleans Times-Picayune, May 22); about how Upton Sinclair's 1904 book about the meatpacking industry, The Jungle, still resonates today, more than a century later (Associated Press, April 18); and about the complicated relationship that President Theodore Roosevelt had with muckraking journalists. Roosevelt often supported the journalists' exposes of business wrongdoing, but bristled when they reported on government problems (Houston Chronicle, March 12).

Kelly Bradbury, English, presented "Drilling Through the Rhetoric: The New York Times, Indian Country Today, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge," Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Memphis, May 29.

Kevin Boyle, History, directed several sessions of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for college and university teachers. The institute, "African American Freedom Struggles in the Twentieth Century," took place at the W.E.B. DuBois Center, Harvard University.

Alice Conklin, History, presented "The Musee de l'Homme and the Ethnography of Empire, 1920-1940" in Dakar, Senegal at the annual meeting of the French Colonial History Society, May 17-19.

Carter Findley, History, presented "Bir Ömrün Bilimsel Amaçlari" ("Goals of a Lifetime in Scholarship"), an invited presentation as a newly elected honorary member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences, Ankara, June 2, and "Ottoman Fiction, Gender Relations, and Public Opinion," Second World Congress of Middle East Studies, Amman, Jordan, June 14 (part of the "All-Day Symposium on Creating Public Opinion: Figures of Knowledge and Spaces of Influence in the Arab and Muslim World, Eighteenth to Twenty-first Centuries").

Stephen G. Hall, History, presented "African American Historiography in the 19th Century" for the Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Institute at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York, June19.

Graduate student Glenn Kranking, History, was a discussant for the panel "Transnational Connections in the Baltic Sea Area" at the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies Conference, Washington, DC, June 18-19.

Bob McMahon, History, commented on several papers at a session of the Conference on Policy History at Charlottesville, Virginia, June 3.

David Staley, History, presented "Trends in 'Anytime, Anywhere' Social Network Technologies to 2016" to the Professional Insurance Agents Association of Ohio, July 12.

David Stebenne, History, presented "The American 'Middle Way': Moderate Conservatism in the Postwar Period," at the annual meeting of The Historical Society in Chapel Hill, NC, June 3; and served as discussant on the panel "States and the Professionalization" of Management at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 12.

Greg Anderson, History, presented "Rethinking the origins of Greek Citizenship" at the annual meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, Stanford University, May 6 and "Greek State Formation" at a colloquium for Greek historians, Northwestern University, May 21.