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Faculty News Jordanna Bailkin published The Afterlife of Empire with the University of California Press. The text investigates how decolonization transformed British society in the 1950s and 1960s. Bailkin was also the recent recipient of a British Studies Fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Jere L. Bacharach lectured in March at the American University of Iraq in Sulaymania as the guest of UW History Ph.D. graduate Elizabeth Campbell who is a member of their faculty. In May, he spoke at the American University of Kuwait as the guest of UW Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program graduate Gholam Vatandoust who is a member of their faculty. He also gave a second lecture at the Kuwait cultural center known as Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah. In Egypt, he lead a tour of parts of historic Cairo for lawyers who work for USAID and then presented to the USAID staff on the restoration projects they have been financially supporting. Stephanie M. H. Camp is the current holder of the Donald W. Logan Family Endowed Chair in American History in recognition of her scholarship on nineteenth-century United States and African American history. In her first book, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (2004), Camp explored issues of slavery, gender, and resistance prior to and during the Civil War. Her current book project, Black Beauty, examines how enslavement and emancipation contributed to racialized conceptions of beauty in the United States and reveals how ideas about race continue to shape notions of beauty up to the present day. Purnima Dhavan received an American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Fellowship, an award funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She will be conducting archival research next year for her new book project, Brave New Worlds: Literary and Professional Networks in Late Mughal India. Madeleine Yue Dong, an historian of modern China, has been promoted to full professor. Dong is also the Chair of China Studies in the Jackson School. Patricia Ebrey will be a member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, this autumn, where she will begin work on a book tentatively titled China as a Unified Empire. Her goal is to explain why China has been the largest country in the world through most of the last fourteen hundred years. James Felak, an historian of East Central Europe, discussed the recent resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the election of Francis I in an hour-long podcast featured on Research on Religion (www. researchonreligion.org), sponsored by the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion and hosted by UW Political Science professor Tony Gill. Professor Felak has also done podcasts on Pope Pius XII, Pope John Paul II, and the Second Vatican Council for the same site. Carlos Gil published We Became Mexican American: How Our Immigrant Family Survived to Pursue the American Dream (Xlibris, 2012). Based on interviews with his family, the book documents their immigration experiences, showing how Mexican/Latino immigrants, attracted to the U.S. because of economic opportunity, underwent a complex transformational experience when they left their familiar world and tried to adapt to a new way of life. PAGE 6 University of Washington Susan Glenn, an historian of twentieth-century United States social and cultural history, has been reappointed for a second term as Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians and is chair of the Dunning Prize Committee for the American Historical Association. She is also currently serving as the Associate Chair of the History Department. She presented a paper on "Stereotypes and the Boundaries of Jewish Identity," at the 2012 Biennial Scholars' Conference at the Center for Jewish History in New York City. James Gregory served as Chair of the Faculty Senate in 201213. In recognition of his work, the Senate voted a Resolution of Appreciation.The resolution has five whereas clauses, two of which read: "WHEREAS he has shepherded significant legislation through the Senate, including increased feedback for promotion and tenure candidates and a new undergraduate diversity requirement after 25 years of effort" and "WHEREAS he has deftly negotiated compromises when common ground could be found and has dug in his heels when the faculty needed him to stand firm... BE IT RESOLVED on this sixteenth day of May, 2013, that the Faculty Senate expresses its profound appreciation and gratitude to Jim Gregory for his outstanding leadership." Raymond Jonas, an historian of Modern Europe and Modern Africa, received the 2012 Toyin Falola Africa Book Award for The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire (Harvard University Press, 2011). The award, named in honor of Toyin Falola, one of Africa's outstanding historians and intellectuals, is given by the Association of Third World Studies for the best book published on Africa. He continues to add features to BattleOfAdwa.org – a website that augments and extends the book. In the last year, he gave talks at Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa (Ethiopia), as well as San Francisco State, Harvard University, and Stanford University; he was a featured speaker at the inaugural meeting of the Ethiopian Heritage Society of North America, held in Washington D.C. Richard Kirkendall recently published Civil Liberties and the Legacy of Harry Truman. He is working on a biographical essay on his colleague and friend, Tom Pressly, and will soon return to the writing of what he hopes will be a book on "Harry Truman's Quest for Peace." Devin E. Naar, an historian of Modern Jewish history and Sephardic Jewish history and culture, has been elected to the Academic Advisory Council of the American Jewish Historical Society and to the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History in New York City. The only Assistant Professor on the latter Council, he will represent the American Sephardi Federation. He has also received a Faculty Fellowship Award for the Society of Scholars at the Simpson Center for the Humanities, 2013-14. Margaret O'Mara delivered the autumn 2012 History Department lectures in a series called "Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Presidential Elections That Made History." She was also appointed as an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer beginning in 2013. Her article, "The Uses of the Foreign Student," was published in Social Science History in December 2012 and a commissioned thematic essay on "Cities and Suburbs" appeared in the 2012 edition of the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History. Her comments on U.S. politics and high-tech cities appeared in articles in The New York Times, on public radio's program "Marketplace," and in other media outlets. (Continued on page 7)

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