Fall '12 Faculty Honors
Congratulations to the many faculty members who received university and national awards this semester. Recently, Stephen Platt was awarded McGill University's prestigious 2012 Cundill Prize for his book Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War.
Laura Lovett's edited book When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back At a Children's Classic and the Difference It Made has also received widespread attention: click here for an interview with Laura by UNC Press.
New faculty hire Julio Capó was featured this Fall in the Miami Herald, contributing an article on the progression of the national debate on gay rights. He also received the Urban History Association's 2011 Dissertation Award for his work titled "'It's Not Queer to Be Gay': Miami and the Emergence of the Gay Rights Movement, 1945 - 1995" (Florida International University, 2011).
Fans of historical films will be interested in reading Barbara Krauthamer's review of Lincoln, which appeared in The Chronicle this December.
Fall '12 Public History Visitors
The Public History program is very fortunate this semester to welcome a series of public historians who will meet with program students and the general public. This semester's line-up includes Michael and Carrie Kline, who will on their careers as folklorists researching and producing oral histories of Appalachia "Coal Curtain," Elizabeth Rairigh, of the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, and Ellen Garvey, who will give a talk on scrapbooking as a method of making 19th century African American and Women's Rights history.
Feinberg Lecture Series Schedule (August 2012)
The schedule is set for the Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series this Fall '12, titled "Truth and Reconciliation, History and Justice." This year we have invited UMass History faculty and nearly twenty special guests to discuss historical trauma and the reconciliation process in a powerful series of lectures, panels, and film screenings. James Anaya, U.N. Rapporteur on Indigenous People, will deliver the keynote address on Thursday, October 4th. The complete schedule is available here.