• "What do you do with too much stuff in the digital age?" asks Andrew Torget, assistant professor in the Department of History. Torget will use $50,000 from the NEH to develop search models that will help scholars research large-scale collections of digitized historical newspapers. For an interview with Torget about this project, see http://research.unt.edu/news/NEH_Andrew_Torget.htm.
  • Todd Moye, whose recent book for Oxford University Press on the Tuskegee Airmen was a History Book Club selection, has been elected to a two-year term on the Council of the International Oral History Association.
  • Geoffrey Wawro of the UNT Department of History has published Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East with Penguin Press.
  • Jennifer J. Wallach of the UNT Department of History has published Richard Wright: From Black Boy to World Citizen, with Ivan R. Dee, Publisher (2010).
  • Wesley G. Phelps, who received his MA from the Department of History at UNT in 2004, has earned two awards at Rice University for his 2010 dissertation: the Captain Charles Septimus Longcope Award for the best dissertation in the History Department, and the John W. Gardner Award for the best dissertation in the School of Humanities.
  • On April 10, 2010 our Alpha Lambda chapter of Phi Alpha Theta had 18 students present papers at the 2010 Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference - North Central and Northeast Texas Region, which was held at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. This included 10 graduate students and 8 undergraduates from UNT. Charlotte Decoster of the Alpha Lambda chapter took home second place in the graduate division for her paper.
  • Mervyn Roberts won the award for the best paper presented by a master's student at the Texas A&M Graduate History Conference in March 2010. His presentation was also ranked among the top three among the forty presented there. The Department was well represented by five other graduate students as well: Jack Andersen, Chris Castillo, Bruce Cohen, Diana Fonner, and Simone C. De Santiago Ramos.
  • Constance Hilliard of the UNT Department of History published a book, Does Israel Have a Future?, with Potomac Books in 2009.
  • Neilish Bose, a new member of the UNT Department of History faculty, edited Beyond Bollywood and Broadway: Plays from the South Asian Diaspora (U of IN, 2009). He also served as one of two editors and translators for The Rights of Man by Utpal Dutt (Calcutta, 2009).
  • The UNT Department of History made a strong showing at the 2010 annual conference of the Texas State Historical Association. Randolph B. Campbell was of course omnipresent as Chief Historian of the organization, while four faculty members served as chairs or commentators for sessions: Roberto Calderón, Don Chipman, Todd Moye,and Andrew Torget. Faculty member Elizabeth Turner presented a paper and won a research fellowship. Doctoral alumni of the Department who presented papers included Greg Ball, Chris Bean (who also received the H. Bailey Carroll Award), Kelly Kragar, and J'Nell Pate, while Christopher N. Koontz chaired a session and Jean Stuntz served on a roundtable. Faculty who served on awards committees included F. Todd Smith and Richard B. McCaslin, while Andrew Torget joined the program committee. Finally, graduate student Bruce Bumbalough was among those who won a Caldwell Award for his seminar paper.
  • Five faculty will represent the UNT Department of History at the 2010 annual conference of the Society for Military History. Michael V. Leggiere will present a paper and serve as a commentator, Geoffrey Wawro will present a paper, and three faculty—Robert Citino, Guy Chet, and Richard B. McCaslin—will chair sessions. Leggiere served on the program committee for this year's conference, while Citino continues to serve on the organization's book awards committee.
  • Harold Tanner of the UNT Department of History faculty will present a paper at the 2010 annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies, and he will present another paper at the 2010 annual conference of the Chinese Military History Society, which meets in conjunction with the Society for Military History.
  • Andrew Torget, a new member of the UNT Department of History faculty, gave an invited lecture on digital scholarship at Stanford University in January 2010, and he will deliver a paper at the 2010 Battle of San Jacinto Symposium.
  • UNT faculty and students did well at the 2010 annual meeting of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era. Faculty members Michael V. Leggiere and Rob Citino delivered papers, while Geoffrey Wawro served as a commentator for a session. Graduate students Paul Strietelmeier and Jonathan Abel both delivered papers. Leggiere continues to serve on the board of directors for the organization.
  • UNT Department of History faculty members Guy Chet and Al Mierzejewski enjoyed professional development leaves in the fall of 2009, while Elizabeth Turner is on a professional development leave for the spring of 2010. Lauara Stern's application for a professional development leave in 2010-2011 has been approved by the Provost.
  • Elizabeth Turner has received a Summerlee Foundation fellowship for a semester of research at the Clements Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
  • Three faculty from the UNT Department of History—Randolph B. Campbell, Richard Lowe, and Richard B. McCaslin—contributed essays to The Fate of Texas: The Civil War and the Lone Star State, ed. Charles D. Grear (U of AR, 2008), which was named an Outstanding Academic Selection by Choice Magazine.

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