Saturday, April 4, 2009

James A. Barnes Conference Winners

International and World History
1. Sheetal Chhabria, Columbia University, "The Social Meanings of Poor Housing in 19th Century Bombay"

2. Carla Stephens,Temple, "The People Organized: Mozambican Liberation and American Activism"

American History
1. Paul D. Naish, CUNY Graduate Center, The Threefold Veil of Darkness: Crypto-Criticism of the American Revolution and Conflicted Thoughts on U.S.-Mexican Relations in Timothy Flint’s Francis Berrian

2. David Keenan, Northwestern, Federalist No. 10 Reconsidered: The Early US Congress and the Origins of American Lobbying, 1789-1801

European History
1. Larissa Kopytoff, NYU, "Qu’ranic Schools and French Médersas: Education and Political Authority in Colonial French West Africa"

2. You-Sun Crystal Chung, University of Michigan, "Unlikely Alliances: A Mathematician, a Clerk, a Solicitor, a Detective Novelist and the British Empire"

Russell F. Weigley-U.S. Army Heritage Center Foundation Awar
1. Earl J. Catagnus, Jr., Temple University, “Innovation and Adaptation in the U.S. Army Infantry, 1930-1941”

2. Christopher Golding, Temple University, “British Combined Operations of the Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Copenhagen and the Walcheren Expedition”