Pr i n c e t o n

Un i v e r s i t y

History

Fall 2014

Department Newsletter

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR With five tenure decisions, five reappointments, three searches, and several appointments and a promotion on the staff of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, faculty members in the History Department were fully occupied with personnel matters during the last academic year. The current year promises or seems to promise to be easy in comparison. Happily the decisions we made have strengthened the department immeasurably. Advanced to tenure were Jon Levy who works on the history of American capitalism; Vera Candiani, our historian of colonial Mexico; Josh Guild, who writes on African-American history; Helmut Reimitz, our early medievalist; and Max Weiss, a specialist in the modern Middle East, in particular Lebanon and Syria. Reappointed for second three-year terms as assistant professors were Alec Dun (revolutionary America), Yaacob Dweck (modern Jewish history), Eleanor Hubbard (early modern England), Federico Marcon (early modern Japan), and Wendy Warren (colonial North America). The new hires were He Bian, who succeeds Susan Naquin as our early modern Chinese historian, and Beth Lew-Williams, who is occupying an entirely new position as an assistant professor of Asian-American history. The changes that I have alluded to on the staff of the Jefferson Papers, including the retirement of Barbara Oberg, are described in

detail in the section of this Newsletter dedicated to that editorial project. In many ways what was an exciting year in terms of personnel changes on the faculty and staff was mirrored by a major change in the university’s administration. David Dobkin, the famous computer scientist who has been a staunch and consistent friend of the department, stepped down after eleven years as Dean of the Faculty. President Christopher Eisgruber asked me to serve on the search committee for a new dean, a task I accepted in part because it is critical that, whoever the dean is, it must be a person who can rise above his or her own specialty and be sensitive and sympathetic to very different approaches to teaching and the

production of knowledge throughout the university. Dean Dobkin was remarkable for this gift, and I think in the new dean, Deborah Prentice, the former chair of the Department of Psychology, we have found another individual with broad interests and great open-mindedness. With the support of Dean Prentice our department was authorized to search for two positions this year, one in South Asia (before the modern period) and the other in colonial or precolonial sub-Saharan Africa. While these efforts are going on, the department’s Planning Committee will return to our strategic plan for revision and submission to the whole History faculty for approval. Having hired a couple of years ago in Latino/a his-

Professor Helmut Reimitz and family members celebrate his tenure and their new house!

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tory and last year in Asian-American history, we have achieved a portion of our strategic goals and need to think hard about the future. This reevaluation will proceed in synchrony with the History Department’s more general assessment of its position in the university, which is part of a concerted and comprehensive effort authorized by the President, Provost and Dean of the Faculty for all departments. Outreach remains a significant aspect of what the History Department as a whole and individual faculty members do. I want to mention two ongoing efforts. For the third year in a row the Department has helped support the celebration of National History Day. This celebration mainly consists of competitions among high school students, region by region and at the national level, to do innovative history projects. At the end of a long day hearing about these projects, judges assess them, and a representative of the host institution presents the medals. Hundreds of high school students participated this year at Princeton for the New Jersey region, and I was privileged to have the opportunity to describe in a brief talk why I love the study of history and to confer the medals on the ecstatic project award winners. Similarly the History Department has for a number of years supported the National History Club, an umbrella organization of school chapters devoted to and encouraging the study of the past among adolescents. I am pleased to conclude this letter with the news that the History Department’s summer softball team, the Revolting Masses (founded by John Murrin and myself in the dim mists of the past), is well on the way to returning to form after two dismal years. This year the Masses ended the regular season playing .500 ball. We made little progress in the play-offs, but we have high hopes for next summer.

Jeremy Adelman’s Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman won the Spengler Prize for the Best Book in the History of Economics for 2013. David Bell was elected this year to the Council of the American Historical Association, serving in the Research Division. He is spending the 2014-2015 academic year on sabbatical leave, in Princeton, as an Old Dominion Professor in the Council of the Humanities. He Bian is a historian of late imperial/early modern China. Her current research project explores changes in the intellectual, social, and economic context of traditional pharmacy from the late sixteenth to early nineteenth century. Vera S. Candiani’s book, Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City, was released by Stanford University Press. “Listening to Colonial Latin America: Music, Sounds and Silence as Historical Sources,” a website coauthored with Ireri Chávez-Bárcenas (Music) went live and is open to all at Princeton: http://blogs.princeton. edu/colonialsounds/.

David Cannadine was a Visiting Professor at Stern Business School, NYU during 2013-2014, where he worked on the Penguin History of Nineteenth-Century Britain, and various projects concerning the history of philanthropy in the modern western world. He has been appointed as the next General Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. His biography of King George V will be published by Penguin in London this autumn as part of their new series of biographies of every English then British monarch, and The Undivided Past was published in paperback in New York and London. In January 2014, Linda Colley published a new book, Acts of Union and Disunion (Profile Books), which is now in its third printing. This was based on 15 talks she delivered on BBC Radio 4 setting out the historical background to current fractures in the United Kingdom. These talks have been made available as podcasts on the BBC’s website. She was also awarded a Birkelund Fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library for 2013-2014, where she worked on her current book project on writing constitutions and writing global history. Among other invited lectures, she delivered the Ralph Miliband Lecture at the London School of Economics, the annual Magna Carta Lecture at Royal Holloway, London University, the

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keynote lecture at the Graduate Historical Studies Conference at Central Michigan University, and in October delivered the Sutherland Lecture in Legal History at the University of Iowa. In July, she was made an Honorary Fellow of the Historical Association. In 2013, Thomas D. Conlan’s Weapons and Fighting Techniques of the Samurai Warrior, 1200-1877 was published in Japanese. He continues to research the political, social, and cultural foundations of Japan from the mid-fourteenth through the mid-sixteenth centuries. Angela Creager is serving a term as President of the History of Science Society. She is spending the year in Berlin as a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. While on leave, Benjamin Elman spent time editing three conference volumes: (1) Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000-1919, (2) Antiquarianism, Language, and Medical Philology: From Early Modern to Modern Sino-Japanese Medicine, and (3) Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s to 1940s, co-edited with Jing Tsu (Yale). The conferences on which these volumes are based were variously supportedby the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), the Program

in East Asian Studies, and Yale University’s East Asian Studies Institute. The ongoing “Comparative Project on China and India,” sponsored by PIIRS and Mellon Awards linking scholars at Columbia (Sheldon Pollock), Harvard (Stephen Owen), and Princeton (Ben Elman), has as its goal the preparation of a collection of essays intended to inform non-specialist readers about the comparative genealogies of contemporary India and China as re-emergent powers. Elman also collaborated in scholarly projects with the three universities of Fudan in Shanghai, Princeton, and Tokyo [P-F-T] by holding triennial academic conferences at each school on a rotating basis over the last three years. Plans to publish the most relevant papers in Chinese, English, and Japanese under the auspices of the appropriate universities are on going Anthony Grafton’s book with Urs Leu, Henricus Glareanus’s (1488-1563) Chronologia of the Ancient World: a Facsimile Edition of a Heavily Annotated Copy held in Princeton University Library was published by Brill. He received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in June 2013, and was also awarded Princeton’s 2014 President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. Jan Gross was awarded Princeton’s 2014 Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities and published a book titled Collected Essays on War, Holocaust and the Crisis of Communism (Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt, 2014).

John Haldon’s book, A Critical Commentary on The Taktika of Leo VI, was published by Dumbarton Oaks Studies, 44. He also delivered the four Carl Newell Jackson Lectures to the Department of Classics at Harvard University in April 2014. In a revised and extended version, they will be published by Harvard University Press in 2015 under the title: The Empire That Would Not Die: The Paradox of Eastern Roman Survival, 650-750. As director of the new international project on the Climate and History of Anatolia, 200-1000 CE, begun at a two day workshop at Princeton in May 2013, he coauthored the project’s first publication presenting the results of current work in an article on ‘The Climate and Environment of Byzantine Anatolia: Integrating Science, History and Archaeology,’ Journal of Interdisciplinary History 45:2 (Autumn 2014), 113-161. He was appointed Director of the Sharmin and Bijan MossavarRahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies (see www.princeton. edu/iran for details and for the first annual report on the Center’s activities), to serve for an initial period of three years from 2013-2016. Eleanor Hubbard’s book, City Women, won the best book prize of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.

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Harold James received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. He also co-edited Financial Innovation, Regulation and Crises in History (Pickering & Chatto Ltd) and co-authored The Value of Risk: Swiss Re and the History of Reinsurance (Oxford University Press). In April William Chester Jordan was elected to a one-year term as President of the Medieval Academy of America. Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin, Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, appeared with Penguin Press in November 2014. It offers a history of Russian power in the world, and Stalin’s power in Russia, recast as the USSR. Regina Kunzel spent the year at the Stanford Humanities Center working on a project that considers the importance of psychiatric scrutiny, stigma, and medicalization in the making of modern sexuality.

Beth LewWilliams, who specializes in Asian American history, joined the faculty in September, 2014. Before coming to Princeton, LewWilliams earned her Ph.D. in history at Stanford University and served as an ACLS New Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University. Her current project examines the role of Chinese migration and anti-Chinese violence in the making of modern U.S. border control. Yair Mintzker spent 2013-2014 as a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, where he worked on a new book about the trial and execution of Joseph Suss Oppenheimer (“Jew Suss”). His first book, The Defortification of the German City, 1689-1866 (Cambridge University Press, 2012) won the Urban History Association’s Best Book Award for the years 2011 and 2012. A French translation of Philip Nord’s book, The Republican Moment, came out in 2013 under the title Le Moment républicain. Combats pour la démocratie dans la France du XIXe siècle (Paris: Armand Colin, 2013). He was also Professeur invité at the Institut d’études politiques, Paris in May 2014.

Marni Sandweiss participated in conference panels for the Organization of American Historians, the Western History Association and the Autry Museum. She continued her undergraduate research project on Princeton and Slavery, and co-organized the Princeton summer symposium on History, Memory and the Urban Future in Shanghai, China. In fall of 2013, Emily Thompson published the website The Roaring ‘Twenties, in collaboration with web designer Scott Mahoy. The website, a product of three years’ work, presents Fox Movietone sound newsreel footage and hundreds of archival documents from the Municipal Archives of the City of New York circa 1930 to create an interactive environment in which users can explore the historic sounds of New York City. The website has been covered in the New York Times, on NPR’s All Things Considered, and the music website Pitchfork. It recently received an award for “Innovative Use of Archives” by the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York. The Roaring ‘Twenties can be accessed at: www.nycitynoise.com. Keith Wailoo’s book, Pain: A Political History (Johns Hopkins University Press), was published in May 2014.

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Dov Weinryb Grohsgal won Princeton’s Quin Morton ’36 Teaching Award and was also named an Honorary Member of the Class of 2014. Julian Zelizer was named as the Ford Academic Fellow at the New America Foundation for 2014-2015. He is working on a new book about the downfall of Speaker Jim Wright in 1989. He continued to publish his weekly column for CNN. Com, with some pieces now reaching over 400,000 readers. He also co-authored an article, “The Struggle to Remake Politics: Liberal Reform and the Limits of Policy Feedback in the Contemporary American State,” in Perspectives on Politics, as well as an online piece entitled “The Conservative Turn, 1972-1990,” for Globalyceum Online Courses. With Keith Wailoo and colleagues at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, he convened a conference on the history of Medicare and Medicaid. The conference featured leading scholars of health care policy. The papers from that conference will be published as a book with Oxford University Press. Zelizer gave a paper at the Organization of American Historians Convention called “Creating a Liberal Mandate: The 1964 Election.” The talk was broadcast on C-SPAN along with an interview about his forthcoming book on the Great Society (Penguin Press).

DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION Molly Greene: Associate Chair, Department of History John Haldon: Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History; Director, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies Hendrik Hartog: Director, Program in American Studies Alison E. Isenberg: Co-Director, Program in Urban Studies Harold James: Graduate Placement and Finance Officer, Department of History; Director, Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society William Chester Jordan: Chair, Department of History

Two historians joined the Society of Fellows this year and will be teaching on a regular basis for the department. David Minto completed his Ph.D. in History at Yale University in 2014. David’s work focuses on the intersection of sexuality and geopolitical processes and formations. At Princeton he is currently revising his dissertation manuscript for publication under the title of Special Relationships: Transnational Homophile Activism and Anglo-American Sexual Politics. The project examines the affective and strategic dimensions of cross-border gay activist connections in the decades following World War II, exploring the transatlantic nature of a movement nevertheless subject to territorial strictures. In spring 20142015 he will teach a course on Queer Utopias.

Matthew J. Karp: Executive Secretary, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Stephen Kotkin: Acting Director, Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Michael F. Laffan: Director, Center for Collaborative History Erika Lorraine Milam: Director of Graduate Studies, History of Science Yair Mintzker: Departmental Representative Philip G. Nord: Director, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Keith A. Wailoo: Vice Dean, Woodrow Wilson School

Mira Siegelberg completed her Ph.D. in International History at Harvard University in May 2014 and holds a B.A in History and Human Rights from Columbia University. Her research and teaching interests include the history of international society, modern international relations, international law, human rights, and ideas of international order. Her dissertation “The Question of Questions: The Problem of Statelessness in International History 1921-1961” examines the evolution of the concept of statelessness and its impact on ideas and practices of rights, sovereignty, and international law. During the 2014-2015 academic year, she will teach a course on the history of human rights, and will lecture in the second half of the “Approaches to Western Culture” sequence.

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EMERITI Peter Brown has completed two manuscripts based on public lectures he delivered. The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity grew out of a series of public lectures he delivered at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna in 2012 and will be published by Harvard University Press. Treasure in Heaven: Wealth, Labor, and Religious Giving in Early Christianity, 50-450 AD is the revised version of the Paige-Barbour Lectures delivered at the University of Virginia in 2012 and is to be published by the University of Virginia Press. He traveled to Egypt in February 2014 and to Scotland in June, where he received an Honorary Degree at St. Andrews University. In December 2013 he was in Rome, where he gave a lecture at the American Academy in Rome, and in Naples, which he had not visited since 1957.

“publish” a website, robertdarnton. org, designed to function as an e-book. It will bring together documents and essays about the world of books in the eighteenth century. Laura Engelstein retired from Yale’s History Department on June 30. That means she is now twice Emerita!— from Princeton and from Yale. Arno Mayer continues work on his memoirs, which are as much an autobiography as a history of the contemporary world. He continues to write articles pertaining to major events of the day. During the past year James McPherson received the Arthur M. Schlesinger Award for historical writing from the Society of American Historians and an honorary degree from Princeton University. In October he received the Dolibois History Prize from Miami University of Ohio, and in the same month Penguin Press published his book, Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief. Next March a book of his collected essays, tentatively titled The War that Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters, will be published by Oxford University Press. Susan Naquin was among those named as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the spring. The induction ceremony took place in October 2014.

Peter Brown receiving his honorary degree from the University of St Andrews.

Robert Darnton writes that W. W. Norton published his book, Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature, in September 2014, and very soon he will

The past academic year saw Nell Painter making art, showing art, thinking about art. Her second solo show, She Said She Said, is on view at the Brooklyn Historical Society until February 4, 2015, and features work from 2010 to 2014. The most recent pieces are more abstract than her earlier work, and one digital image is 48” x 96”. Painter continues producing art inspired by history and literature – for instance, the Harlem Renaissance

and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. She is considering writing a memoir based on her recent experiences with the working title, Old in Art School. In the fall of 2015 she will return to Princeton to teach for the first time in ten years, but this time on art, through the Center for African American Studies. Students will make art as well as read, talk, and write about it. A conference on the Venice Gateway, organized by Theodore Rabb, was held in Dickinson Hall in early November 2013. The Gateway project aims to use the latest Digital Immersive Technology to create an introduction to Venice for visitors. It will be located in a central site – a huge, splendid, decommissioned church – and will survey the history, achievements, and ecological challenges of the city in a half-hour experience. Viewers will, for instance, watch from the sea floor as the original pilings are driven to support houses; they will float up the Grand Canal in the Barbari Map; they will enter Bellini’s painting of the Piazza San Marco or Longhi’s of a gambling Ridotto; and they will see how the MOSE Project (Experimental Electromechanical Module) seeks to address the problem of high water. Some thirty people, including four from Princeton, attended the conference in order to evaluate the basic commentary and images that visitors will encounter from the point of view of scholars representing a variety of fields,

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Cultures in Motion, edited by Daniel Rodgers, Bhavani Raman, and Helmut Reimitz, was published by Princeton University Press in 2014. The most recent volume from the Davis Center, it includes essays by the three editors, Peter Brown, and many others, probing the ways in which cultural practices have traveled, diffused, and hybridized across space and among cultures. Music and dance forms, medical and scientific knowledge, sewing machines, and modern technologies, feminist politics, ideas of charity and justice, and more all come under examination. Crisis in an Atlantic Empire: Spain and New Spain, 1808-1810, by Barbara H. Stein and Stanley J. Stein will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This is the fourth and final volume in a series that the Steins have written on Spanish economic and Atlantic history. The first three are: Silver, Trade, and War (2000), Apogee of Empire (2003), and Edge of Crisis (2009). The series is the capstone of nearly sixty years of research and writing.

Paul L. Miles (Ph.D. 1999) pauses to take in the occasion as history faculty, staff, and friends gather to mark his retirement and to express their appreciation for his many years of service to the department and university.

Robert Tignor is general editor of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart and reports that the fourth edition has been completed. A concise edition of this work is scheduled for publication in December 2014. He contributed a chapter, “Whither Egypt: Regime Change or a Return to the Status

Quo?,” in The Economic Roots of Conflict and Cooperation in Africa, edited by William Ascher and Natalia Mirovitskaya. Tignor is at work on a biography of Tai Solarin, the Nigerian journalist, author, and educator.

Visiting Fellow working on William James and the Experience of Religious Varieties: Reconfiguring the Early Modern Supernatural.

and Practices of Persuasion in France and Germany from the Dreyfus Case to NATO’s War in Yugoslavia.

VISITING SCHOLARS Timothy Newfield joins the department for two years as a Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the support of a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. He will be working on Eurasian Epizootics in the High Middle Ages, an Interdisciplinary Approach, as well doing some teaching. David S. Katz is on leave from Tel Aviv University for the entire year and plans to spend his time as a

Dominik Rigoll is the first postdoctoral visitor from Friedrich Schiller-Universität Jena as part of the new Princeton-Jena Exchange Agreement. During the fall semester he will be participating in a variety of program based activities and working on his project, Claiming Rights, Stating Facts: Languages of Rights

Heinrich Hartmann comes to Princeton from the University of Basel where he is an assistant professor in contemporary European history. He will spend the fall term working on his project Producing the West in Anatolian Villages: Rural Development Experts and the Construction of Modernity in Postwar Turkey, 1950s to 1980s.

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THE PAPERS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON The last year has been marked by staff transitions at the Jefferson Papers. In February 2014, James McClure succeeded Barbara Oberg as editor, becoming the fifth director of the project since its inception in 1943. The Papers recently welcomed Merry Ellen Scofield and Andrew J. B. Fagal to the staff as assistant editors. Bland Whitley received promotion to the rank of associate editor. The Department and the Jefferson Papers marked Barbara Oberg’s retirement with an event in April that featured a public address by Gordon S. Wood and a dinner attended by many of Barbara’s colleagues and friends. At the annual meeting of the Association for Documentary

Editing in Louisville, Kentucky, Elaine Pascu received the Lyman H. Butterfield Award in recognition of her contributions to the profession. James McClure gave the presidential address.

chair of the Executive Board of the Omohundro Institute and appeared on the panel “Remembering Edmund S. Morgan” at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians.

Andrew Fagal co-authored a paper for the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. Martha King presented papers at conferences of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Southern Historical Association, and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Tom Downey served on the Meetings Committee and the Local Arrangements Committee of the Association for Documentary Editing, and Bland Whitley continued as book review editor of the online journal Scholarly Editing. Barbara Oberg served as

Barbara Oberg at her retirement reception.

DAVIS FELLOWS 2013-2014 Founded in 1968, the Davis Center for Historical Studies is named after Shelby Cullom Davis ’30, who provided a generous gift to assure the continuance of excellence in scholarship and the teaching of history at Princeton University. Since its inception, the Davis Center’s chief function has been to conduct the weekly seminar in which members of the faculty, visitors from other institutions, graduate students, and selected undergraduates participate. For periods of two years, the seminar directs its attention to a single theme or aspect of history. For 2014-2016, the theme is “In the Aftermath of Catastrophe”: What happens in the wake of cataclysmic experiences: war, civil war, genocide, imperial collapse, natural disaster? The goal in part is to understand processes of reconstruction - but not only that. How was the experience of catastrophe remembered and memorialized; how was trauma conceived and dealt with; how was the

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post-catastrophic present understood in relation to the pre-disaster past? As always, the hope is to address these questions from a wide variety of periods and places, from prehistory to the present, and from all parts of the world. The Center is pleased to identify the Fellows for 2014-2015: Nicole Archambeau, University of California, Santa Barbara Topic: Souls under Siege: Surviving Plague, War, and Doubt in Fourteenth-Century Provence Pamela Ballinger, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Topic: Forgotten Refugees: Decolonization, Displaced Persons, and the Reconstruction of Italy, 19451960 David Barnes, University of Pennsylvania

Topic: Lazaretto Ghosts: Remembered Trauma and the Meanings of Quarantine in the Nineteenth-Century City Jennifer Foray, Purdue University Topic: Imperial Aftershocks: The Legacies of Decolonization in the Netherlands Pierre Force, Columbia University Topic: Wealth and Disaster: Atlantic Migrations from a Pyrenean Town in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Atina Grossman, Cooper Union Topic: Remapping Survival: Jewish Refugees and Lost Memories of Displacement, Trauma, and Rescue in Soviet Central Asia, Iran, and India Rebecca Nedostup, Brown University Topic: Living and Dying in the Long War: China and Taiwan, 1937-1959

CLASS OF 2014 UNDERGRADUATE PRIZES The Department of History takes pleasure in acknowledging the accomplishments of its undergraduate majors. We had 74 graduating Seniors this past spring and our 2014-2015 Senior class consists of 78 students. Laurence Hutton Prize in History – awarded to the history major who has compiled the strongest record in department work: Maxim Haskell Botstein Isabel Leah Kasdin Walter Phelps Hall Prize in European History – awarded for the best thesis in European history: Ashley See Chiang, “The Soldier’s Voice: Military Correspondence and Army-Society Relations in the British Empire, 1854-1901” (Adviser: David A. Bell) Lorenzo James Fuchs McClellan, “Theory, Method, and Practice in Ranke and Burckhardt” (Adviser: Anthony T. Grafton) Maryam Mürvet Patton, “Mirror of the Celestial Spheres: Noël Duret, Ibrahim Efendi, and Early Ottoman Contact with Copernicus” (Adviser: Anthony T. Grafton) C. O. Joline Prize in American History – awarded for the best essay by a Senior on any phase of American history: Joseph Walzer Barrett, “United States Government Perspectives on Poverty: The Peace Corps and Vista as Catalysts for Policy Change, 19611964” (Adviser: Sean Wilentz) Isabel Leah Kasdin, “Reassuring Memory: History and NationBuilding at Gilded Age and Progressive Era American World’s Fairs” (Adviser: Martha A. Sandweiss) Abigail Gertrude Rosenberg Klionsky, “In the Tiger’s Lair: The Development of Jewish Student Life at Princeton University, 1915-1972” (Adviser: Nancy W. Malkiel)

Prize for the Best Senior Thesis in Latin American History: Amanda Morgan Mitchell, “Cuba Aquí and Alla: Between the Boom and Revolution, 1959-1971” (Adviser: Rosina A. Lozano)

“Free Blacks, Freeborn Slaves, and Bondsmen in a Free State: African American Life and Black Political Action During New Jersey’s Emancipatory Period, c. 1820-1845” (Adviser: Matthew Karp)

The Horace H. Wilson ’25 Senior Thesis Prize – awarded for the best thesis in the field of History of Science, Medicine and Technology: Maryam Mürvet Patton, “Mirror of the Celestial Spheres: Noël Duret, Ibrahim Efendi, and Early Ottoman Contact with Copernicus” (Adviser: Anthony T. Grafton)

Asher Hinds Prize – established in memory of Professor Asher Hinds is awarded to the American Studies Program student who does the best work in the program overall: First Prize: Isabel Leah Kasdin

William Koren, Jr., Memorial Prize in History – a prize given annually by Henry Lloyd Thronell Koren to the student in the department who attains the best record in the departmental work of the Junior year: Kellen Elizabeth Heniford Lorenzo James Fuchs McClellan Carter Kim Combe ’74 History Prize – a prize established in memory of Carter Kim Combe, Class of 1974, awarded annually to the student(s) who writes the best second-term Junior independent work paper in history: Yuliya Barsukova, “Policing Power of States in the Emerging U.S. Financial Market: A Story of the Geiger-Jones Investing Company” (Adviser: Hendrik Hartog) and Lorenzo James Fuchs McClellan, “Jacob Burckhardt Reads Some Books: An Essay” (Adviser: Anthony Grafton) PRIZES AWARDED FROM OUTSIDE THE DEPARTMENT: Ruth Simmons Senior Thesis Prize – awarded to the Center for African American Studies certificate recipient whose thesis best exhibits excellence in research and writing in the field of African American Studies: Co-winner: Kellen Elizabeth Heniford,

The Carolyn L. Drucker, Class of 1980, Prize in Jewish Studies – awarded for best thesis written by any Senior writing on a topic in Jewish studies: 2nd place: Abigail Gertrude Rosenberg Klionsky, “In the Tiger’s Lair: The Development of Jewish Student Life at Princeton University, 1915-1972” (Adviser: Nancy W. Malkiel) Center for French Studies Senior Thesis Prize – awarded to the best thesis dealing with an aspect of French politics, policy or culture: Julia Madeleine Trehu, “L’Europe à la française: French Politics and European Integration in the 1970’s” (Adviser: David A. Bell) Suzanne M. Huffman Memorial Senior Thesis Prize in Women’s Studies: lst Place: Caroline Anne Kitchener, “Provocative Behavior: Administrative Response to Campus Sexual Assault at Princeton University and the University of New Hampshire from 1986 to 1990” (Adviser: Margot Canaday) Stanley J. Stein Prize – awarded to the best thesis on a Latin American subject: Amanda Morgan Mitchell, “Cuba Aquí and Alla: Between the Boom and Revolution, 1959-1971” (Adviser: Rosina Lozano) (Continued on page 10)

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Alison Gocke, a 2013 graduate of the department, was awarded the 2014 Law and Society Association Undergraduate Student Paper Prize for the undergraduate paper that best represents outstanding work in law and society research. Her essay, “Visions of the Land: Cartography and Environmental Philosophy in the Old Northwest,” was supervised by Professor Hendrik Hartog. MAJOR FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS: Maxim Haskell Botstein: Fulbright Grant to Germany Isabel Leah Kasdin: Gates Cambridge Trust Scholarship Madeline Claire McMahon ’13: Gates Cambridge Trust Scholarship Maryam Mürvet Patton: Mica and Ahmet Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme in the Humanities

The Class of 2014 on Thesis Day!

Ph.D.s IN HISTORY AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE Hagar Barak Dissertation: “Capetian Corporate Qualities: The Administration of the Auvergne Under Count Alphonse of Poitiers, 1241-1271” (Adviser: William Chester Jordan) Placement: College Fellow, Harvard University Nimisha Barton Dissertation: “Foreign Affairs, Family Matters: Gender and Acculturation in Paris, 1914-1940” (Adviser: Philip Nord) Placement: Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, Department of French and Romance Philology Keisha Blain Dissertation: “For the Freedom of the Race: Black Women and the Practices of Nationalism, 1929-1945” (Adviser: Tera Hunter) Placement: Postdoctoral Research

Fellow, Pennsylvania State University, Africana Research Center, Department of African American Studies Alexander Bevilacqua Dissertation: “Islamic Letters in the European Enlightenment” (Adviser: Anthony Grafton) Placement: Junior Fellow, Harvard University Society of Fellows Frederic Clark Dissertation: “Dividing Time in Early Modern Europe: Bibliography, Philology, and the Making of Historical Periodization, c. 15001750” (Adviser: Anthony Grafton) Placement: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Stanford University Hannah-Louise Clark Dissertation: “Doctoring the

‘Bled’: Medical Auxiliaries and the Administration of Rural Life in Colonial Algeria, 1904-1954” (Adviser: Katja Guenther) Placement: Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford University Departmental Lecturer in Modern European and World History Franziska Exeler Dissertation: “Reckoning with Occupation. Soviet Power, Local Communities, and the Ghosts of Wartime Behavior in Post-1944 Belorussia” (Adviser: Stephen Kotkin) Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences (Continued on page 11)

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Jennifer Dominique Jones Dissertation: “The ‘Fruits of Mixing’: Homosexuality and the Politics of Racial Empowerment, 1945-1975” (Adviser: Tera Hunter) Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Alabama, Department of Gender and Race Studies Zachary Kagan-Guthrie Dissertation: “Labor, Mobility and Coercion in Central Mozambique, 1942-1961” (Adviser: Emmanuel Kreike) Placement: Assistant Professor of History, University of Mississippi Sarah Kampbell Dissertation: “The Economy of Conflict: How East Mediterranean Trade Adapted to Changing Rules, Allegiances and Demographics in the 10th - 12th Centuries AD” (Adviser: John Haldon) Kyrill Kunakhovich Dissertation: “In Search of Socialist Culture: Art and Politics in Krakow and Leipzig, 1918-1989” (Adviser: Stephen Kotkin) Placement: Mellon Faculty Fellow, The College of William & Mary, Global Studies Christopher Kurpiewski Dissertation: “The Confessor’s Daughters: the Influence of Women Religious in the Dominican Order, 1250-1350” (Adviser: William Chester Jordan) Placement: Lecturer, Princeton University, The Writing Program Victoria Lee Dissertation: “The Arts of the Microbial World: Biosynthetic Technologies in Twentieth-Century Japan” (Advisers: Angela Creager, Benjamin Elman) Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin

Jessica Lowe Dissertation: “Murder in the Shenandoah: Commonwealth v. John Crane and Law in Federal Virginia” (Adviser: Hendrik Hartog) Placement: Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia Nicholas Marinides Dissertation: “Lay Piety in Byzantium, ca. 600-730” (Advisers: Peter Brown, John Haldon) Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Basel, Faculty of Theology Anne O’Donnell Dissertation: “A Noah’s Ark: Moscow, Material Life, and the Foundations of Soviet Authority, 1916-1922” (Adviser: Stephen Kotkin) Placement: 2014-2015: Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics, Harvard University, Center for History and Economics 2015: Assistant Professor of Russian History, New York University, joint appointment in Department of History and Department of Russian and Slavic Studies Padraic Scanlan Dissertation: “MacCarthy’s Skull: The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Sierra Leone, 1792-1823” (Adviser: Linda Colley) Placement: Prize Fellow in Economics, History and Politics, Harvard University, Center for History and Economics Margaret Schotte Dissertation: “A Calculated Course: Creating Transoceanic Navigators, 1580-1800” (Adviser: Anthony Grafton) Placement: Assistant Professor of History, York University

Benjamin MacDonald Schmidt Dissertation: “Paying Attention: Imagining and Measuring a Psychological Subject in American Culture, 1886-1960” (Adviser: Daniel Rodgers) Placement: Assistant Professor of History, Northeastern University Seiji Shirane Dissertation: “Japan’s Maritime Gate: Colonial Taiwan in the Making of a Southern Empire, 1895-1945” (Advisers: Benjamin Elman, Sheldon Garon) Placement: Assistant Professor of History, City College of New York Nishtha Singh Dissertation: “Dehlviyat: The Making and Un-making of Delhi’s Indo-Muslim Urban Culture, c. 17501900” (Adviser: Gyan Prakash) Placement: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College Wayne Soon Dissertation: “Coming from Afar: The Overseas Chinese and the Institutionalization of Western Medicine and Science in China, 1910-1970” (Advisers: Janet Chen, Benjamin Elman) Placement: Assistant Professor of History, Earlham College Ksenia Tatarchenko Dissertation: “‘A House with the Window to the West’: The Akademgorodok Computer Center (1958-1993)” (Adviser: Michael Gordin) Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of History, New York University-Shanghai Daniel Trambaiolo Dissertation: “Writing, Authority and Practice in Tokugawa Medicine, 16501850” (Adviser: Benjamin Elman) (Continued on page 12)

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Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong

The following enrolled graduate students have recently been honored: Anthony Acciavatti was awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research grant from the National Science Foundation to support archival research in India, France, and Great Britain. Daniel Barish was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to spend the year conducting research in China. Keisha Blain received the 2014 Huggins-Quarles Award from the Organization of American Historians. Katlyn Carter received an American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Fellowship to support dissertation research at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Sarah Coleman was awarded a Fellowship for Woodrow Wilson Scholars. Rohit De was co-recipient of the Law and Society Association’s 2014 Dissertation Prize. Catherine Evans was awarded the Harold W. Dodds Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year. Sean Fraga won the annual Prize for Outstanding Scholarship by a Graduate Student for his essay “‘Whether They Are to Be Exterminated’: Native Americans, Military Science, and Settler Colonialism on the Pacific Railroad Surveys, 1853-1855.” Mr. Fraga’s essay will appear in a forthcoming

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issue of the Princeton University Library Chronicle. Kellen Funk received the William Nelson Cromwell Research Fellowship and the LittletonGriswold grant from the American Historical Association, both of which support research in U.S. legal history. He has also been selected to be a legal history fellow at Yale Law School for the current academic year. Joshua Garrett-Davis was awarded dissertation research grants from the Huntington Library and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. Evan Hepler-Smith was the recipient of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship for the 20142015 academic year. Evan was also the winner of the 2014 Partington Prize of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, awarded every third year for an essay by an early career scholar on any aspect of the history of alchemy or chemistry. Justene Hill is spending this academic year as a Consortium Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Kalyani Ramnath received a dissertation planning grant from the American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies to support pre-dissertation research in Sri Lanka as part of her legal history project. Benjamin Sacks received the Society for American City and Regional Planning History’s Auguste de Montequin Prize for the best paper on colonial history, and held the Michael J. Connell Foundation Fellowship at The Huntington Library.

Christian Sahner’s book, Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present, was published by Oxford University Press in September 2014. He was awarded a Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year. Christian also received a pre-doctoral research fellowship from the American Center of Oriental Research, Amman, and a graduate prize fellowship from the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton. His article on the Arabic translation of a 5th-century Latin chronicle was published in the October 2013 edition of Speculum. Alexis Siemon did research in China over the 2013-2014 academic year supported by a Fulbright scholarship. Marcia Schenck received the Biblioteca National de Portugal-LusoAmerican Development Foundation research grant for research in the national library in Portugal. Henry Shapiro was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research in Armenia. Melissa Teixeira was awarded a Whiting Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities for the 2014-2015 academic year. Melissa also received a Tolman Award for a paper she presented at the 2014 Brazilian Studies Association Congress held at King’s College London. Marc Volovici received a doctoral fellowship from the Israel Institute and also was awarded a Lapidus Summer Fellowship from the Center for Jewish History. Adrian Young received Princeton’s Charlotte Elizabeth Proctor Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year.

GRADUATE PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS: 2013-2014 History of Science Certificate Recipients: Dan Stolz, Near Eastern Studies (PhD 2014) W. Evan Young, East Asian Studies Carolina Malagon, German The Public History Initiative, a working group of students and faculty dedicated to publicly engaged teaching and scholarship, completed its second year of programming. In October, students visited George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate in Virginia and met with curatorial staff. Later in the fall, the Initiative hosted a roundtable discussion on careers in public history with practitioners from the Philadelphia-Central New Jersey region. In the spring, Liz Sevcenko, founder of the Guantánamo Public Memory Project, came to campus for a colloquium presentation about transnational public history. Finally, several undergraduate and graduate students visited Shanghai, China, in July to participate in History, Memory, and the Urban Future, an interdisciplinary seminar organized by Professors Martha Sandweiss and Alison Isenberg. This collaboration with scholars and students from across China featured historic site visits in Shanghai and Nanjing, workshops on public history theory and methodology, and a symposium examining Chinese urbanization. Professors Sandweiss, Isenberg, and Janet Chen presented on their work, as did graduate students Richard Anderson, Casey Hedstrom, Cynthia Houng, and Corinne Kannenberg. History of Science Graduate Conference In May, graduate students Felix Rietmann and Mareike Schildmann (Humboldt University Berlin) hosted a two-day international conference: “Childhood - Between Material Culture and Cultural Representation.” The conference, sponsored by the Humboldt-Princeton Strategic Partnership Program, the History

of Science Program, the Center for Collaborative History, and the PhD-Net “Das Wissen in der Literatur” (Humboldt University), united junior and senior scholars from the humanities and social sciences in a common evaluation of changes in the material, scientific, and cultural conditions of Western knowledge about childhood since 1800. Contributions covered a broad variety of topics including the rise of the “Sciences of the Unborn” (Caroline Arni, Basel University, and Lisa Malich, Humboldt University), changes in the “Material Worlds” of children (Daniel T. Cook, Rutgers University, and Diana Daniel, Humboldt University), the use of “Paper Tools” for scientific exploration of children’s minds (Barbara Wittmann, Humboldt University), the emergence of new mental “Pathologies of Childhood” (Sally Shuttleworth, Oxford University, and Novina Göhlsdorf, Humboldt University), and literary

and visual expressions of racial “Politics of Childhood” (William Gleason and Wangui Muigai, Princeton University). History of Science Annual Workshop In February, Katja Guenther and Volker Hess (Charité/Humboldt, Berlin) organized a workshop, “Soul Catchers: A Material History of the Mind Sciences,” which was generously funded by the PrincetonHumboldt Strategic Partnership Grant, the Center for Collaborative History, and the History of Science Program. Probing the historical intersections between medicine and the material culture of neuroscience, the workshop explored different technologies of “soul catching,” such as PET scanners and EEG machines, the psychoanalytic couch, or spirit photography. The organizers brought together scholars from both sides of the Atlantic.

History department faculty and students with their Chinese counterparts during the History, Memory, and the Urban Future seminar at Shanghai Normal University. Photo Credit: Chen Xin.

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Phunday On May 3, 2014, Princeton hosted the annual Princeton-Harvard-MIT Workshop on the History of the Physical Sciences (“Phunday” for short), joined this time by graduate participants from Johns Hopkins and Columbia and several alumni now at other pastures. The workshop “ph”eatured a discussion of eleven pre-circulated papers and a keynote by David Kaiser of MIT on his new project, “Gravity: A Political History.” As at Phundays past, the time between phormal presentations was philled with phar-ranging discussions and the phostering of phriendships new and old.

At the conclusion of their first year, our 2013 cohort of graduate students held a Kentucky Derby party at the Campus Club. Here they are, dressed for the occasion!

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

(Supported by the Center for Collaborative History) The Center for Collaborative History is the funding arm for the Department of History and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. The Center provided both financial and logistical support to the many history working groups such as Early Modern History, LAMB (Late Antique, Medieval, Byzantine Workshop), Modern America Workshop, Modern Europe Workshop, and two new workshops: the Public History Initiative and the Readings in Capitalism and History Workshop. These workshops provide graduate students with forums for presenting their works-in-progress, help to create a sense of community, and provide an opportunity to forge ties with colleagues outside the department and outside the university

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by bringing in occasional guest speakers. A list of present and past speakers and topics can be found on the Center’s website: http:// www.princeton.edu/cch/events/ conferences/

Gordon Wood presenting his lecture in honor of Barbara Oberg’s retirement.

Both the American Political History Seminar and the Eighteenth Century Seminar Series had a successful year with well-attended events, averaging 25 people at each. In April the Eighteenth-Century Seminar held a one-day symposium on ConstitutionWriting in the Long Eighteenth Century. International exchange program workshops and history-based conferences during the year included the Humboldt/Princeton Partnership’s “Soul Catchers-A Material History of the Mind Sciences” Workshop with a graduate workshop component, “Childhood-Between Material Culture and Cultural Representation”; the Princeton/Oxford Exchange held a fall workshop, “Subjects, Citizens and Global History since 1700.”

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Other History-based conferences and workshops included the Eighth Greater New York Area African Historians Workshop, The Capetian Century 1214-1314 Conference, and the Venice Gateway Conference. Details of these and past conferences are also available on the website. Several special lectures hosted by the department featured Warwick Anderson, the Whitney J. Oates Fellow of the Humanities Council, presenting “Hermannsburg, 1929: Turning Aboriginal ‘Primates’ into Modern Psychological Subjects” and Gordon S. Wood, who delivered a lecture on “Thomas Jefferson and the Origins of American Capitalism,” in celebration of the career of Barbara Oberg. The Center provided funding support for the following nonHistory Department conferences and initiatives: The Art Museum Exhibit, New Jersey as Non-site; the Digital Humanities Initiative; several graduate-organized conferences: “A Matter of Writing,” emphasizing writing over methodology or theory; the twenty-first annual Medieval Studies Graduate Conference; and the Cultures—Past and Present: Early Career South Asian Studies Workshop. Faculty-organized

Participants in the 2014 Normandy Field Trip.

conferences included The Hispanic Caribbean and its Diasporas in the Twenty-First Century, Town and Crown in the Medieval Mediterranean, Translating the Universal, and the John Bunyan Society Conference. Once again the Normandy Field Trip—”Turning Points in History”— took place over spring break.

Professor David Bell and Lieutenant Colonel Peter Knight led a group of twelve undergraduates, comprised of HIS283 students and ROTC cadets, on a visit to the invasion beaches and other sites associated with D-Day, 1944, studying WWII and French history and experiencing French culture. We once again thank John Hurley for his support of this trip.

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