Monday, April 5, 2010

2010 Barnes Club Conference Winners

International History
1. Larry Kessler (Temple): "Locating Hawai’i: the Geography of Empire in the American Imagination"


2. Romina Green-­‐Rioja (Tufts): "Violeta Parra: Collective Popular Memory, Counter-­Memory and Historical Consciousness"



European History
1. Padraic Scanlan (Princeton): “'We do not feel for one another, let alone them': Toward a Social History of British Sailors in West Africa, 1820–1840"



American History
1. Meredith Hohe (Ohio): "From Ninotchka to Nixon: Gender Roles as a Battlefield of the Cold War"



2. Alex Bornstein (Temple): "Checkmate: Bobby Fischer and the Cold War on International Chess"



Russell F. Weigley U.S. Army Heritage Center Foundation Award
1. S. Maghew Cheser (Maryland): "The Many Deaths of General Braddock: Remembering Braddock, Washington, and Fawcett at the Battle of the Monongahela, 1755-­1855"


2. Gerald Goodwin (Ohio): “'You’re the same as us': African-­American Soldiers and the Vietnamese"



Congratulations to all the winners on their fine work.