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Crisis and Decline: The Viceroyalty of Peru in the Seventeenth Century, written by Kenneth J. Andrien, History, was selected by the American Council of Learned Societies to be published online as part of its "ACLS History E-Book Project" in the autumn of 2006.

A new translation of the great epic of ancient Persia by Dick Davis, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, has been chosen by The Washington Post as "Book World's 10 Best of the Year." Davis's translation of Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Viking), by 11th-century poet Abolqasem Ferdowsi, appeared in the December 3rd issue of The Washington Post's weekly package of reviews, essays and features on what's hot in the literary world. For more information, visit: washingtonpost.com.

Graduate student Ursula Gurney, History, was awarded a doctoral dissertation research grant from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.

Graduate student John Maass, History, received a Presidential Fellowship from the Graduate School, autumn 2006.

The Department of History and its program, History Works II, were the focus of "Straight-from-the-book Classes are History" (The Columbus Dispatch, December 4). History Works II: Building Foundations is a partnership between the History Department, the Columbus Public Schools, and the Ohio Historical Society funded by a grant from the US Department of Education. The project is designed to increase teachers' knowledge, understanding and appreciation of American history through an intensive, ongoing professional development program for teachers in the 3-5th grades in the nation's 16th largest school district.

Judson L. Jeffries, African American and African Studies Community Extension Center, gave the keynote address for the 2006 Urban Community Awards and Recognition Program presented by Steward's Monument and Marker Co. and the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department at the King Arts Complex, November 30.

Scopas Poggo, African American and African Studies-Mansfield, presented "The Addis Ababa Peace Agreement in the Sudan, 1972: Critical Examination of the Peace Process, Implementation, and Failure" at the African Studies Association Conference, 49th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, November 17.

Alice Conklin, History, presented "The UNESCO Resolution on Race, 1950" at the Mershon Center conference "The Global Impact of 1956: Race, Neutralism, and National Liberation," October 14-16; and "Science at the Margins: Interwar Ethnology in France" to the History Seminar at Johns Hopkins University, November 27.

Alan Gallay, History, provided the comment for a session, "Creating Social Identities in the Lower Mississippi Valley," at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Birmingham, Alabama, November 15-18.