Demetri Debe has received an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship from the Graduate Student Services and Progress Office for research at Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
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History grad students, Melissa Kelley, Bryan Pekel, and Liz Venditto, have won three of the eight Hella Mears Graduate Fellowships in European Studies awarded by the Center for German and European Studies for summer 2013. Congratulations!
Emily Bruce has been selected as a National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellow for 2012-13 for her dissertation Reading Agency: The Making of Modern German Childhoods, 1770-1850.
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The Department of History is proud to announce that 2 Graduate level and 5 Bachelor level Fulbright Scholarships have been awarded to History students. There were a total of 19 Fulbrights awarded for 2012-2013. Congratulations to all!
Jesse Wolf Izzo, a Ph.D. student in history, will spend the academic year at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. He will research the role of the Latin Christian crusader states during the late 13th century in the context of the first Mamluk-Ilkhanid War. Izzo received a B.A. in history from Yale University in 2004 and a master in philosophy in medieval history from Cambridge University in 2005.
Melissa Kelley, a Ph.D. student in history, will travel to select German universities. Her Fulbright dissertation will present a critique of the recurrent "crisis in the university" between the late 19th and the late 20th centuries through an analysis of student life. She will particularly focus on the experiences of students from social groups that had historically limited or no access to higher education. Kelley graduated with a B.A. in history from Smith College in 2007.
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