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Commencement
Graduate Awards - 2007-2008
Undergraduate Awards - 2006-2007
Honors and
Awards Thomas Luongo is one of only 15 scholars in the nation to be awarded a 2005-2006 Rome Prize, which provides funding to live and study at the American Academy in Rome, one of the world's leading centers for independent study and advanced research in the arts and humanities. Tom will be researching 14th and 15th century Italian religious literature and concepts of saintly authority. Outstanding Researchers and
Scholars honored Professor of the Year-2004-2005
Choice recognizes its contribution to the academic community across the fourteen disciplines evaluated by MERLOT. "Crisis at Fort Sumter" was the only Editors' Choice recipient this year. Professor Latner will receive these awards at the organization's international conference in California this summer. George Bernstein was given the Tulane College Senior Class Advisor Award for Exemplary Service to Students 2000. Kenneth W. Harl has been selected to
receive the Tulane College Student Body Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2001 Richard Latner has been nominated for the John H. Stibbs Award for Faculty. This award is in recognition of valuable contributions to The Undergraduate Student Body of Tulane University. Colin MacLachlan has been named the John Christy Barr Distinguished Professor. He is also Secretary and Treasurer of the Institute for the Study of New Orleans. The Mortar Board at Newcomb College salutes Marline Otte for Outstanding Teaching, 2001-2002. Steven Pierce has been awarded Duren professor for the academic year 2002-2003. The Mortar Board at Newcomb College salutes Randy Sparks and Nicholas Bloom for Outstanding Teaching, 2000-2001. Justin Wolfe has been awarded the LAGO Outstanding Faculty Member Service Award from the Center for Latin American Studies. Woodrow Wilson Innovation Award Winners 2000 - the
Departments of History and English have been selected to receive a Woodrow Wilson
Innovation Award. This award recognizes and supports efforts to broaden the career
horizons of humanities Ph.D students as part of their graduate training. The Project
Director is Michael Mizell-Nelson, a history graduate student, and the proposal was
developed under the aegis of the Regional Humanities Center, for which Tulane was
granted a NEH Planning Grant last year. Graduate students, supervised by faculty, will use
the award to develop a program of walking and riding tours in New Orleans. The tours will
target two distinct audiences: tourists to the city and the public school and community
college systems. Graduate students will take courses in public history, and gain
valuable experience in all aspects of the tours, from scholarly research to training, from
project planning to budgeting and marketing.
Publications, Papers and Activities Professor Pierce has given seminars at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, at the Centre for West African Studies at the University of Birmingham, and to the Postcolonial Studies Seminar at Oxford University. He has recently presented the paper at Trans/Formations of the Disciplines, sponsored by the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan. Steven is currently on leave, on an International and Area Studies Fellowship sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Linda Pollock presented 'Anger and the negotiation of relationships in early modern England’. Historical Journal, September 2004 "My Body/My self: the Corporeal Underpinnings of Female Identity in the Early Modern English Elite", at a conference on the body in history, held at Ohio State University, April 2000.
Lawrence Powell presented "Why
History Matters: Bearing Witness in an Age of Right Wing Populism." at
the Historical Society Conference, June 2004
Judith Schafers' new book "Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862 comes out May 21 with LSU Press. Also, Judith has been promoted to Professor of Political Economy. Randy Sparks' new book is titled The Two Princes of Calabar, An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/SPATWO.html Randy is coeditor of "Money, Trade, and Power": the Evolution of Colonial South Carolina's Plantation Society, examines the economic and cultural development of England's most British colony. Randy is also the author of "On Jordan's Stormy Banks": Evangelicalism in Mississippi, 1774-1876 and will soon have his manuscript "Religion in Mississippi" published by University Press of Mississippi. A recent news release on Religion in Mississippi: Second Heritage Volume Scholar says Mississippi’s churches inspired the masses but missed chances to heal state’s racial divisions Increase church membership. Bring people to the faith. These sound like excellent objectives for a congregation to achieve. But in his new book RELIGION IN MISSISSIPPI (Mississippi Historical Society), Tulane associate professor of history Randy J. Sparks says enthusiastic pursuit of those goals kept some Mississippi churches from addressing such social ills as racism and inequality."They have been prisoners of their own success," he writes, "focused on individual conversion and denominational growth rather than on the larger evils in southern society." From Catholicism to evangelicalism, from the seventeenth century to the present day, RELIGION IN MISSISSIPPI is a study of dissonant religious forces in the state’s turbulent history. In the 1600s Colonial French settlers brought Christianity and Roman Catholicism into the lands that are now the state of Mississippi. By the time that statehood was achieved in 1817, Mississippi was attracting Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, and other Protestant evangelical faiths at a remarkable pace, and by the twentieth century, religion in Mississippi was dominantly Protestant and evangelical. In this book Sparks, also the author of ON JORDAN’S STORMYBANKS: EVANGELICAL RELIGION IN MISSISSIPPI, 1773-1876, traces the roots of evangelical Christianity in the state and shows how the evangelicals became a force of cultural revolution. They embraced the poorer segments of a society, welcomed high populations of women and African Americans, and deeply influenced ritual and belief in the state’s vision of Christianity. As Sparks explores the dissonance between the state’s powerful evangelical voice and Mississippi’s social and cultural mores, he reveals the striking irony of faith and society in conflict. By the time of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, religion, formerly a liberal force, had become one of the leading proponents of segregation, gender inequality, and ethnic animosity among whites in the Magnolia State. Among blacks, however, the churches were bastions of racial pride and resistance to the forces of oppression. Sparks writes that any "gloomy assessment of collective failure should not obscure the power of religious folk to effect dramatic change, though often outside church structures. They continue to heed St. Paul’s call to ‘fight the good fight of faith.'" This book is part of the Heritage of Mississippi Series, distributed by University Press of Mississippi for the Mississippi Historical Society. Recent Professional presentations: "A Hard Field to Cultivate: Protestantism in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1730-1830," Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 24, 2003. "The Two Princes of Calabar and the Creation of Afro-Atlantic Identity," Citizens, Nations & Cultures: Transatlantic Perspectives, Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies, Maastricht, Holland, October 18, 2002. "The Two Princes of Calabar and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World," Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, San Marino, CA, February 14-16, 2002.
GRADUATE STUDENTS Kevin S. Fontenot has published several articles including “Country Music's Confederate Grandfather: Henry C. Gilliland” in Country Music Annual and "Dear Ivan: Country Music Perspectives on the Soviet Union and the Cold War" in Country Music Goes to War. He has also published articles and reviews in The Jazz Archivist, Louisiana History, Journal of Southern History, and the South Carolina Historical Quarterly. Fontenot has presented papers at several major academic conferences including the Louisiana Historical Association, the Popular Culture Association, and the International Country Music Conference. Some of Fontenot's public lectures include speaking at the National World War II Museum, Auburn University at Montgomery, and Northwestern Louisiana State University. This is a link to the Louisiana Book Festival, http://www.louisianabookfestival.org/ which is happening October 28th in Baton Rouge. He will be discussing his book Accordions, Fiddles, Two Step and Swing at 11 in one of the Senate chambers in the state capitol and then will be doing a signing at noon. Attending the signing will be Luderin Darbonne, founder of the Hackberry Ramblers band (formed in 1932). Accordions, Fiddles, Two-Steps, and Swing (editor)
Kevin Fontenot a Ph.D candidate has been invited to be one of the guest speakers at the Romance Writers of America conference held this year in New Orleans. Kevin's workshop is titled "Scoundrels of Historical New Orleans" which no doubt will be very interesting. The workshop will be held on Friday, July 20, 2001 at 3:00pm. Kevin Fontenot's article "Dear Ivan: Country Music Perspectives on the Soviet Union and Communism." has been accepted and will be out in the Spring. The book is titled "There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere: Country Music and War" will be published by the University of Kentucky Press. Kevin presented the Keynote Address for the conference "The Sunshine Man: A Symposium on the Music and Politics of Jimmie Davis by the People Who Know Him." The conference was held May 8 at Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana. Kevin also recently served as a special consultant for a recent television documentary on Davis. On March 12 in Alexandria he presented "Honky Tonk Song: Webb Pierce and the Rise of Modern County Music" at the annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association.
Departmental Business Job
Searches 2008 BORSF GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP IN HISTORY TULANE UNIVERSITY The History Department at Tulane University is pleased to announce that it is offering a 4-year Board of Regents Support Fund (BORSF) Graduate Fellowship, beginning in Fall 2003, to a superior student from Louisiana who wishes to pursue a doctorate in history at Tulane University. The fellowship is funded at $15,000 per year. No work or teaching is to be attached to this fellowship. The History Department is especially interested in applications from minority African American, Native American, and Hispanic students from Louisiana who wish to take advantage of our nationally recognized graduate program. But all superior Louisiana students are eligible for this award. Applicants can pursue a Ph.D. in any field of history. They should identify their interest in this fellowship on their graduate application. Information about our graduate program and the application process are available on our Web site at: http://history.tulane.edu/
Specific questions can be addressed to:
Thanks to the generosity of The Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Trust, the department of history now has an endowed fund of $300,000.This will be used to support faculty and graduate student research, as well as enable us to bring distinguished speakers to campus. In recognition of this wonderful gift, the department is renovating a classroom, to be called the Georges Lurcy Seminar room. For details on this project, see below. The Hebert building hosts numerous classes and thousands of students throughout the school year, and it is beginning to show signs of wear and tear. We have raised the funds to restore some of the building. This summer one seminar room and our lounge will be renovated. We have some 'before' pictures below, and should have the vastly improved 'after' pictures in July.Graduate Lounge 116 (Before) Our next project will be the main lecture hall, Hebert 201. This is a beautiful, traditional wooden classroom, in need of some tender loving care. We gratefully accept all donations.
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