Queering American Studies Conference, Friday, October 23, 2009

The Graduate Program of American Studies at Rutgers-Newark will be hosting a free, open conference at Rutgers University Newark on October 23, 2009 in the Essex Room of the Paul Robeson Campus Center, 350 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Newark, beginning at 9:30am. The meeting, titled “Queering American Studies”, will examine the possible ways the Queer Theory can reframe the disciplinary approaches of American Studies as well as discuss what access gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer people have to the “public sphere” of civic power. Featured are four guest speakers, Robert Diaz, Wayne State University; Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Duke Univerity; Licia Fiol Matta, Lehman College; and Hiram Perez, Vassar College. They will introduced and moderated by Aimee Cox, professor of African and African American Studies, Rutgers-Newark, and Taylor Black, a graduate student of the American Studies Ph.D. program, Rutgers-Newark. Following the speakers will be a question and answer session.

The afternoon portion of the program will focus on the emergence of the Queer Theory in the academic areas of English and cultural studies in the 1990s while examining its roots in gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender activism as well as Foucaultian and poststructuralist thought. In the subsequent time since its emergence, the Queer Theory has become essential to both scholars and activists when dealing with the issues of citizenship, nationalism, immigration and migration, and globalism and imperialism.

Neil Maher Receives the 2009 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award

Neil Maher, NJIT History Professor and Chair, has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award for his book Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement. He receives this award because his book was considered the best book published on forest and conservation history in 2008. Congratulations to Neil Maher!

Department of History Books, Awards, and Honors, Dec. 2008-Sept. 2009

-Kornel Chang received a second year as Ethnicity, Race and Migration Postdocoral Fellow at Yale University.

-Annette Gordon-Reed published The Hemingses of Monticello , to rave reviews in numerous U.S. newspapers and magazines, including the New Yorker, Newsweek, New York Review of Books, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and many more. She won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, an Honorary Mention from the J. Anthony Lukas  Prize Project's Mark Lynton History Prize (which is awarded to a work  of history that "best combines intellectual distinction with felicity  of expression”), the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the George Washington Book Prize (which comes with a $50,000 award!).

Annette Gordon-Reed also won a Guggenheim Fellowship for her project, "Monticello Legacies in the 'New Age.'

- Jan Lewis, Annette Gordon-Reed, and James Goodman were all elected Fellows of the Society of American Historians in recognition of the literary and scholarly distinction of their historical writing.

-Neil Maher has won two fellowships. The first is the History of the Scientific Exploration of Earth and Space Research Award from the Science Mission Directorate of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This is a three-year funded fellowship.

The second is a John W. Kluge Center Research Fellowship from the Library of Congress for four months of research at the Library of Congress. Both fellowships are to support research and writing for his next book project, which is tentatively titled Ground Control: Beyond an Environmental History of the Space Race.

-Clement Price received the following honors:

Agency Lead for the National Endowment for the Humanities, President Obama's Transition Team, 2008-2009 Thomas H. Kean and Brendan T. Byrne Civic Leadership Award, New Jersey Network Foundation, June 2, 2009

Marion P. Thomas Charter School, Civic Leadership Award, May, 2009

Education Leadership Award, Interfaith Dialog Center, May 31, 2009

Gail F. Stern Award, The New Jersey History Issues Convention, March 26, 2009

Clem Price also won two major grants in the last few weeks -- one, from  the Prudential Foundation, to fund the 30th Anniversary Marion  Thompson Wright lecture series, and, from the Verizon Foundation, to fund an extremely exciting project on "The Rise and Development of  21st Century Newark:  Oral Histories."

- Gautham Rao's essay, "The Federal Posse Comitatus Doctrine," which appeared in Law and History Review last year, has received the James Madison Prize for best article from the Society for the History of the Federal Government.

Gautham also learned recently that he was named a fellow in the Biennial Willard Hurst Summer Institute at the University of Wisconsin Law School. The Institute consists of a two week long series of seminars in June, led by the leading legal historians in the country.

-Beryl Satter published Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America , which was well-reviewed in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Reader, the Jewish Daily Forward, the Week, and the Columbia Journalism Review.

-Richard Sher was inducted as a corresponding fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 20 July. The roll-book he signed was also signed, most probably in the same room, by Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Sir Walter Scott, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, James Hutton, Clerk Maxwell, and James Watt,

-Gabor Vermes was awarded a medal for his contributions to scholarship. The medal was bestowed by Hungary's National Academy of Sciences, and the ceremony took place in May in Budapest. Gabor delivered two papers in Budapest as part of the ceremonies.

Richard Sher elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

NJIT Professor Richard Sher was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's National Academy of Science and Letters. The Society has included among its Fellows the economist Adam Smith, the novelist Sir Walter Scott, the physicists James Clerk Maxwell and Niels Bohr, and the biologist Charles Darwin.

Professor Sher is also a Fellow of the London-based Royal Historical Society, and he was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his lifelong contributions to scholarship on the history and culture of eighteenth-century Scotland and its relations with America.

Photo of Professor Sher signing the roll book.

Annette Gordon-Reed Named Rutgers Board of Governors Professor of History

(Newark, NJ) — For Annette Gordon-Reed, professor of history, Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University in Newark, the past eight months have been filled with prestige, honors and accolades. In November 2008, she received the National Book Award for nonfiction for her landmark account of an American slave family, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton, 2008). This groundbreaking work painstakingly and eloquently chronicles and explores the history of the Hemings family, including the intimate relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his house slave Sally Hemings and their progeny.

The Hemingses of Monticello also garnered Gordon-Reed the Pulitzer Prize in history in April 2009 and the George Washington Book Prize in May 2009. Also in April 2009, Gordon-Reed received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her achievements and promise for continued success.

Today Gordon-Reed added a new honor to her growing list: Rutgers Board of Governors Professor of History.

“Because Rutgers Board of Governors professorships recognize excellence in scholarship, research and teaching among our most distinguished faculty, it is highly fitting for Annette Gordon-Reed to receive this much-deserved honor for her landmark achievement in American history,” said Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick.

“Annette Gordon-Reed continues to bring critical acclaim and distinction to Rutgers University,” commented Steven J. Diner, chancellor of Rutgers University, Newark. “Her contribution to American history extends far beyond U.S. borders to leave an indelible imprint on the world.”

In addition to her post at Rutgers University in Newark, Annette Gordon-Reed is a professor of law at New York Law School. The legal scholar and historian is also the editor of Race On Trial: Law and Justice in American History , and co-author with Vernon Jordan of Vernon Can Read: A Memoir . She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School.

Contact: Helen Paxton or Ferlanda Fox Nixon
http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2009/07/annette-gordon-reed-20090714

Neil Maher wins the Robert W. Van Houten Award for Teaching Excellence at NJIT

This prestigious award recognizes outstanding teaching by tenured faculty at the university. Recipients are chosen annually by alumni who have graduated within the last five years. Dr. Maher won the award for his outstanding undergraduate courses on environmental and urban history.

Annette Gordon-Reed receives 2009 George Washington Book Prize

Annette Gordon-Reed has achieved a triple-win, having received another extremely prestigious book prize for her groundbreaking work, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton, 2008). In addition to the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, she has been awarded the George Washington Book Prize.

See link below for an interview with Professor Gordon-Reed in the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/28/AR2009052803559.html?hpid%3Dmoreheadlines&sub=AR

Call for Contributions to Rethinking History: A Journal of Theory and Practice
“History as Creative Writing, Creative Writing as History”

The editors of Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice invite contributions to an issue entitled ‘History as Creative Writing,” the first of several issues, to be published over several years, intended to highlight the journal's longstanding interest in experiments in the literary dimensions of historical writing. (See, for example, Alun Munslow and Robert A. Rosenstone, eds. 2004. Experiments in Rethinking History.)

What we continue to look for is evidence of a struggle not just with evidence or argument but also with language and with form. That struggle might lead to some unusual structure, or plot, or voice (or voices), or point of view (or points of view). It might lead to some uncommon (for academic history) use of metaphor, imagery, or rhythm. It might push a writer to the outer limits of the universe of non-fiction writing—or out of that universe altogether. It might produce, in the name of historical understanding, a memoir, poem, or piece of a play. We welcome contributions from writers at any stage in their careers, at work in any field, and engaged with the past in any imaginable way. We expect pieces of various lengths, but hope that none will be a word more or less than it needs to be.

For more information, please contact US editor James Goodman, goodmanj@rutgers.edu.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 2009!

		The Department would especially like to acknowledge this year's graduating recipients of our undergraduate Departmental Awards: (Rutgers) Vanessa Lynch, selected for The David Robert Friedlander Memorial Award; Jon Rivero, selected for the Edward H. Zabriskie Memorial Award; Sidra Sheikh, selected for the Sydney Zebel Award; (NJIT) Victor Bertini for Outstanding Professional Service; and Daniel Santos for Outstanding Academic Achievement. Also, we acknowledge this year's inductees to Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honor Society: Marvin Chochotte, Natasha DiGenio, Brittany S. Hale, Victor P. Harris, John L. Hoffman III, Christopher Patrick Kienel, Steven G. Kuza, Vanessa Lynch, Silvia Mendes, Daniel Niesyn, Jon Rivero, Luis Rodriguez, Daniel G. Santos, Sidra Sheikh, Kevin A. Spencer, Michael C. Woyce, and Mehvish Zaidi. Congratulations to you all on your accomplishments!

End of Year Luncheon and Phi Alpha Theta Induction, April 27, 2009

Annette Gordon-Reed Receives 2009 Pulitizer Prize in History

(Newark, N.J., April 20, 2009) – Rutgers University History Professor Annette Gordon-Reed has been awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in history for her landmark work, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W. W. Norton, 2008).  The award was announced this afternoon by the Pulitzer board. In its citation, the board praised The Hemingses of Monticello as “a painstaking exploration of a sprawling multi-generation slave family that casts provocative new light on the relationship between Sally Hemings and her master, Thomas Jefferson.” The history Pulitzer is awarded for a “distinguished and appropriately documented book on the history of the United States.”  The Pulitzer carries a $10,000 award. 

"Everyone at Rutgers is thrilled to congratulate Annette Gordon-Reed for winning the Pulitzer Prize in history, an honor she most richly deserves," said Rutgers University President Richard L. McCormick. " The Hemingses of Monticello is a groundbreaking work from a truly original and supremely gifted scholar and writer."

This is the second major national honor for The Hemingses of Monticello ; the book received the National Book Award for non-fiction in the fall of 2008.  The work focuses on the Hemings family, beginning with Sally's mother and ending with Jefferson's death .  The Hemingses of Monticello was Gordon-Reed's second examination of the Jefferson-Hemings relationship, which she first detailed in her 1997 book, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy .

In addition to her post at Rutgers University, Newark, Annette Gordon-Reed is a professor of law at New York Law School.  The legal scholar and historian is also the editor of Race On Trial: Law and Justice in American History , and coauthor with Vernon Jordan of Vernon Can Read: A Memoir . Gordon-Reed is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School.

Although Sally Hemings is best known for her intimate relationship with Thomas Jefferson, and as the mother of seven of his children , The Hemingses of Monticello, says Gordon-Reed, is about far more than a relationship between the Hemings family and Jefferson. In her words, it is “a window into the world of slavery, an illumination of our past, a past that brought us to where we are today.”

Gordon-Reed is currently at work on a second volume of history of the Hemings family, extending the story to the 20 th century descendants who have played a vigorous role in gaining official recognition as relatives of Thomas Jefferson; and on a biography of Jefferson.

Contact: Helen Paxton
9733535262
E-mail: paxton@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Contact: Carla Capizzi
9733535263
E-mail: capizzi@rutgers.edu

Beryl Satter Wins Rutgers University Leader in Diversity Award

Beryl Satter has been selected as a 2009 recipient of the Rutgers University Leader in Diversity Award. This award program recognizes members of the university community who are promoting diversity through their research, teaching, or service

She will be presented with the award on May 15, 2009.

Annette Gordon-Reed Wins Guggenheim Fellowship

Annette Gordon-Reed has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her project, Monticello Legacies in the 'New Age' http://www.gf.org/news-events/List-of-2009-Fellows-United-States-and-Canada.

Newark Open House Registration

Interested in the History MA or MAT degree at Rutgers-Newark? Join us at Open House on Saturday, April 18, 2009!

Meet with the History Department graduate director and program administrator at the open house offered on the Rutgers-Newark Campus. All Graduate specific programs and tours will be held between the hours of 10:30am-1:30pm. For more information on the schedule of events, and to register for Open House, please visit: www.openhouse.rutgers.edu/newark

Gabor Vermes Awarded Medal by Hungary's National Academy of Sciences

Gabor Vermes, Rutgers-Newark professor emeritus, will be awarded a medal for his contributions to scholarship. The medal is being bestowed by Hungary's National Academy of Sciences, and the ceremony will take place in May in Budapest. Dr. Vermes will be delivering two papers in Budapest as part of the ceremonies.

Beryl Satter Wins Rutgers University Human Dignity Award

Beryl Satter has been selected as a 2009 recipient of the Rutgers University Human Dignity Award. This award program, sponsored by the Rutgers Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes and the President's Office, is intended to recognize the commitment, passion, and tireless efforts of people whose actions demonstrate a dedication to promoting a diverse and culturally enriching environment for those who call Rutgers and its surrounding communities home.

Professor Satter was selected for the award because of her tremendous work in creating and sustaining a more welcoming atmosphere for LGBT communities at Rutgers-Newark.

She will be presented with the award on April 16, 2009.

Photo Credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths

FEMINISM FOR THE PLANET: 5th Annual Rutgers Newark Women’s Studies Symposium
Thursday, March 26, 2009
9:00 am- 4:00 pm

Essex Room
Paul Robeson Campus Center
Rutgers University, Newark
350 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard

9:15-9:45 am Breakfast and Registration

9:45-11:30 am Opening Panel: "Expendable Lives? Women's Responses to Military Conflict and Displacement"
Natalie Jesionka, International Journalist & Lecturer, Rutgers, "On the Frontline-Women and the Human Rights Repercussions of War."

Robyn Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Rutgers New Brunswick, "Transnational Working Class Feminisms: Women Migrant Workers in Asia and Beyond"

11:45 am-1:30 pm Keynote Panel, Performance, and Luncheon: "Feminist Indigenous Activism and Comparative Post-Colonial Studies"
Nilanjana Deb, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India "(Post) Colonial Indians and American Cousins: Women's Indigenous Activism and the Rethinking of Democracy"

Hortensia and Elvira Colorado, Coatlicue Theatre Company, Performance and Discussion of "Women in Resistance-Women Weaving Struggles"

1:45-3:30 pm Closing Panel: "Queer Studies in an International Frame: Thinking the Global through the Local"
June Dowell-Burton, Executive Director, Newark Essex Pride Coalition, Inc.,"The Sakia Gunn Murder: A Catalyst for Renewal of LGBT Activism in Newark."

Darnell L. Moore, Activist and Lecturer at Rutgers New Brunswick, "Among but not a Part: Examining the Black Presence in the Queer Studies Project."

Carlos Ulises Decena, Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Rutgers, "Eso se Nota: Scenes from Queer Childhoods."

Discussant: Loretta Fitzgibbons, President, RU Pride

All events to be held in Essex Room, Rutgers-Newark, Paul Robeson Campus Center, 350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Newark, NJ 07102. For additional symposium details please visit http://womenstudies.newark.rutgers.edu and/or call (973) 353-1026 or e-mail: llomas@andromeda.rutgers.edu.

Sponsored by the Rutgers Newark's Women's Studies Program and the Committee to Advance our Common Purposes. Cosponsored by the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, Division of Global Affairs, the Departments of English, History and Political Science, the Graduate Program in American Studies, Office of Student Life and Leadership, the Center for the Study of Genocide & Human Rights, AWARE, RU-Pride, Spectrum-NJIT, Femworks and Minuteman Press.

March 26, 2009

29th ANNUAL MARION THOMPSON WRIGHT LECTURE SERIES Commemorates NAACP Centennial, Lincoln Bicentennial

Saturday, February 21, 2009
9:30am - 3:30pm

Paul Robeson Campus Center
Rutgers University, Newark
350 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard.

Two significant anniversaries in the history of the American republic will be commemorated at the 29th annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series, one of New Jersey's oldest and most highly esteemed Black History Month events, on Saturday, February 21, 2009. The conference will take place beginning at 9:30 a.m. at the Paul Robeson Campus Center on the Newark campus of Rutgers University, 350 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard.

The 2009 conference, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: Lincoln, the NAACP, and the World They Created will acknowledge the significance of the bicentennial anniversary of President Lincoln's birth and the centennial anniversary of the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

The keynote Marion Thompson Wright Lectures will be given by Deborah Gray White, Board of Governors Professor of History, Rutgers University and Bob Herbert, Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. Afternoon speakers include Professor James Oakes, The City University of New York and Professor Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School. The afternoon presentations will be followed by a reception in the Paul Robeson Gallery, featuring entertainment by the Bradford Hayes jazz trio.

The complicated resonance of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in many ways set the stage for the urgency and activism that marked the formation of the NAACP in 1909, according to Dr. Cement Price, director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience and a distinguished service professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark.

"Abraham Lincoln's decision to make the emancipation of the South's slaves an objective of the Union's triumph over the Confederacy was his shining hour as president,” explains Dr. Price. “And the decision by African Americans and white progressives in 1909 to give a deeper meaning to black freedom by starting the NAACP was arguably among the most important decisions of the last century. Lincoln and the NAACP are linked by the precious and mystical cords of history, memory and freedom in American life."

The lecture series was co-founded in 1981 by Dr. Price and Giles R. Wright, from the New Jersey Historical Commission. Over the past 28 years, the conference has drawn thousands of people to the Rutgers-Newark campus in observance of Black History Month, and has attracted some of the nation's foremost scholars and humanists who are experts in the field of African and African American history and culture. One of the oldest and most prestigious events of its kind, the MTW lecture series offers a forum for scholars and non-academicians to share their thoughts and exchange ideas and sustains wide public interest in history, the humanities and life-long learning.

The annual conference was named for East Orange native Dr. Marion Thompson Wright, a pioneer in African American historiography and race relations in New Jersey, who served for many years on the faculty of Howard University. An honors graduate of Newark's Barringer High School and Columbia University's Teachers College Class of 1938, she was the first professionally trained woman historian in the United States.

The program is being mounted as an important Rutgers University resource for public scholarship and civic discourse in greater Newark and is sponsored by the Institute; the Federated Department of History, Rutgers-Newark and the New Jersey Institute of Technology; and the New Jersey Historical Commission/Department of State.

For additional information about the program contact Marisa Pierson, Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, 973.353.3896, or mpierson@andromeda.rutgers.edu .

Robeson Campus Center is wheelchair-accessible, as is the Rutgers-Newark campus. Rutgers Newark can be reached by New Jersey Transit buses and trains, the PATH train and Amtrak from New York City, and by Newark City Subway. Metered parking is available on University Avenue and at Rutgers Newark's public parking garage, at 200 University Ave. Printable campus maps and driving directions are available online at: http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/maps/index.php

"A Once and Future Newark" with Clement Alexander Price now online.
http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/newark/

Clement Price Appointed to Prominent Transition Post by President-Elect Obama

Clement Alexander Price, Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History at Rutgers University in Newark, has been appointed to a key role on President-Elect Barack Obama's transition team. Price, who has earned national distinction for his many leadership roles in higher education, the arts and humanities, will chair the Obama transition team for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

  "The NEH is a public trust that is committed to a broad and deep investment in public knowledge,” Price commented. “I expect President Obama, despite the financial crisis now facing the nation, will want to continue its mission and its service to the principles of the American Republic.”

Steven Diner, Chancellor of Rutgers University, Newark, said “Clement Price is known widely for his pioneering efforts in using the humanities to build civic culture and to empower communities. Professor Price is uniquely qualified to identify the ways the Obama administration can draw upon the humanities as a vital part of its agenda.”

Price is Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History and director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, at Rutgers University in Newark. A long-time resident of Newark, NJ, he received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Bridgeport and the Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Price is the foremost authority on the black New Jersey past by virtue of his Freedom Not Far Distant: A Documentary History of Afro-Americans in New Jersey (1980). He is a widely published author and commentator on a range of subjects, including New Jersey arts and humanities, civic culture, public policy, and New Jersey's ethnic and racial history.

As a leading public intellectual, Price has been the recipient of many awards for academic and community service, including New Jersey Professor of the Year by The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in 1999; in 2006, he was inducted into the Rutgers University Hall of Distinguished Alumni. He, along with his wife, Mary Sue Sweeney Price, received the 2006 Ryan Award for Commitment to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. The award-winning documentary film, “The Once and Future Newark,” hosted by Price, has been broadcast frequently on PBS.

Indicative of his outstanding record of public service, Price is a trustee of the Urban Libraries Council and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, president of the Newark Public Schools Foundation, and a member of the Scholarly Advisory Committee to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution. He is the most senior member of the Board of Trustees of the Newark Public Library and serves on the Steering Committee of the Newark Black Film Festival.  In April 2008, he became a member of The New Jersey State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights.  At the request of New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, Price chaired the Newark Public Schools Superintendent Search Committee during the spring of 2008. Price serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship . He was recently appointed to the advisory council for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

Along with Giles R. Wright, he is the 1981 co-founder and co-organizer of the Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious conferences in observance of Black History Month in New Jersey.

November 17, 2008

An Evening with Annette Gordon-Reed, Tuesday, October 21, 2008
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Dana Room, 4th floor John Cotton Dana Library
185 University Avenue, Newark, NJ

Latino Arts Festival - Before and Beyond: Celebrating the Indigenous and African Herencias of Latino/a Culture
October 1 & 8, 2008
2:30 p.m.

Rutgers University has joined hands with the City of Newark's Division of Recreation/Cultural Affairs during Hispanic Heritage Month to host a Latino/a Arts Festival, Before and Beyond: Celebrating the Indigenous and African Herencias of Latino/a Culture. This two-day festival on October 1 and 8, 2008 , will commemorate and celebrate the African and indigenous roots of Latino/a culture, and is the first event of its kind on the Rutgers-Newark campus. Admission to the Festival is free and open to the public.

This festival opens Wednesday, Oct. 1 beginning at 2:30 p.m . with a screening of Henry Chalfant's documentary, From Mambo to Hip Hop, which explores the African and Latino origins of this music in the Bronx. The screening also features a question-and-answer period with co- producer Elena Rivera, and takes place in room 313 Bradley Hall, 110 Warren Street, Newark.

One week later on Wednesday, Oct. 8, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m ., internationally acclaimed performers and community members will educate and entertain attendees at the festival's main event, which takes place on the Norman Samuels Plaza , located in front of the Paul Robeson Campus Center, 350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, on the Rutgers-Newark campus.

Hosted by Nuyorican poet and performer extraordinaire, Caridad de la Luz, aka La Bruja, the afternoon will feature the award-winning puppeteer Laurencio Ruiz of Mexico, performing "Quenonamican," a Pre-Hispanic puppet show that represents what it means to be Mexican in North America. The puppet show will be followed by Puerto Rican/Cuban salsa, and Peruvian Afro-indigenous dances, called marinera and festejo negro . La Bruja and a regional step team from a Latino fraternity, LSU, will wrap up the afternoon of performances.

The festival also features a Community Resources Fair. Health-related student organizations at Rutgers-Newark and organizations in the surrounding community will provide information on health issues that affect the Latino/a community,

"Before and Beyond" looks toward a future in which Latino/as will play a decisive role in the future of the United States. The festival draws on culture to promote future leadership and to open a dialogue about Latino identity within the US American context. “ This festival represents a long overdue first for Rutgers Newark,” according to Laura Lomas, professor of English and American Studies, and the event organizer . “Latino/a culture is a dynamic force in the Americas and in the world, and this festival celebrates the roots of this culture that preceded the arrival of the Spanish to this hemisphere."

Other Rutgers-Newark sponsors for this event include: the departments of English, History, Modern and Classical Languages Departments, Program in Women's Studies, The Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, the Paul Robeson Campus Center, the Office of Student Life and Leadership, Cultural Programming Fund, the Office of Student and Community Affairs, Office of the Chancellor, and the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs. Additional cosponsors are Councilmember Aníbal Ramos, Jr., Citibank, and the Newark Public Library.

For more information about the festival, please contact Karla Ramos and Luz Costa,

Latino/a Arts Festival Press Coordinators at: latinofestcoordinators@yahoo.com

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 2008!

The Department would especially like to acknowledge this year's graduating recipients of our undergraduate Departmental Awards: Marlene Moreira, selected for The David Robert Friedlander Memorial Award; Michael DeBerjeois, selected for the Edward H. Zabriskie Memorial Award; and Keely McManus, selected for the Sydney Zebel Award. Also, we acknowledge this year's inductees to Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honor Society: Marisa Carey, Roman Damaso, Michael DeBerjeois, Ishandev Hiremath, Emilia Kata, Alexandra Marcus, Jorge Moore, Marlene Moreira, Amanda Pierson, Piotr Rapciewicz, Isabel Restrepo, Nichole Spampinato, Joseph Tartaglia, and Tania Zubaly. Congratulations to you all on your accomplishments!

WHITE RIOTS: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF WHITE “RACE RIOTS” IN THE URBAN NORTH, 1946-1962
Wednesday, April 2, 2008; 2:30 PM
Paul Robeson Gallery

When black people rioted, the television cameras rolled. What happened when white people rioted?

4th Annual Women's Studies Symposium: "Women Redefining the Politics of Power"
Friday, March 28, 2008; 9:30 AM-4:00 PM
Paul Robeson Campus Center Rooms # 255, 256, 257

Speakers:
Nia Gill (State Senator, New Jersey)
Cynthia McKinney (Former Congresswoman, Georgia)
Tanya K. Hernandez (George Washington University Law School)

Nia H. Gill has been serving in the New Jersey State Senate since 2002, where she represents the 34th Legislative District. She is the Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee. Gill is recognized as being one of the leading abortion rights advocates in New Jersey politics. She took opposition to override the then-Governor Christie Whitman's veto of the New Jersey Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1997 in the New Jersey Assembly. Gill received a B.A. in History/Political History from Upsala College and was awarded a J.D. from the Rutgers University School of Law. She is an attorney with the firm of Gill & Cohen, P.C. together with fellow Assembly member Neil M. Cohen.

Cynthia A. McKinney served as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003, and from 2005 to 2007, representing Georgia's 4th Congressional District. She left the Democratic Party in 2007 and created an exploratory committee for a Green Party presidential campaign. McKinney is Georgia's first African-American Congresswoman and the only woman serving in the state's congressional delegation. She advocates for voting rights, human rights and the strengthening of business ties between Africa and the U.S. McKinney earned a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Southern California and is currently working to complete her dissertation in international relations at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Tanya K. Hernandez earned an A.B. in sociology from Brown and a J.D. from Yale Law School. She joined the George Washington University Law faculty in 2007, after a decade of teaching at Rutgers University Law-Newark, and St. John's University School of Law. She teaches courses on property, trusts and estates, critical race theory, and race and the law. Hernandez's scholarly interest is in the study of comparative race relations, and her work has been published in the California Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and many other publications.

Breakfast and Lunch will be provided.

"ISLAM AND THE AFRICAN: From Ethiopia to Timbuktu to America"
February 18, 2008; 4:30-7:00 p.m.
Paul Robeson Campus Center Essex Room (231)

Abdullah Hakim Quick will be visiting Rutgers-Newark to discuss “Islam and the African: From Ethiopia to Timbuktu to America”, on Monday, February 18, 2008 from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. in the Essex Room (231), which is located on the second floor of the Paul Robeson Campus Center, Rutgers University Newark.

Dr. Abdullah Hakim Quick is a graduate of the Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia and holds a Masters Degree and a Doctorate in African History from the University of Toronto in Canada. Shaykh Abdullah has contributed to the religious page of Canada’s leading newspaper for three years and is presently a senior lecturer on the history of Islam in Africa at The International Peace University South Africa in Cape Town and a member of the Muslim Judicial Council, Cape Town, South Africa. For more information, please visit www.hakimquick.com.

The introduction will be given by Michael Nash, a full-time professor in the Division of Humanities/Department of History at Essex County College and a part-time lecturer in the Department of African-American and African Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. He is also the author of Islam Among Urban Blacks: Muslims in Newark, NJ, A Social History.

This presentation is sponsored by the Department of African-American and African Studies and the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience with support from Masjid As-haabul Yameen, East Orange, NJ and Masjid Warithideen, Irvington, NJ.

"Private Grief and Public Mourning in African American Life and History"
February 16, 2008 at 9:30 AM
Paul Robeson Campus Center

One of New Jersey’s oldest and most highly esteemed Black History Month events, the Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series, will mark its 28th anniversary, Saturday, February 16, 2008 by examining Private Grief and Public Mourning in African American Life and History. The conference will take place beginning at 9:30 a.m. at the Paul Robeson Campus Center on the Newark campus of Rutgers University, 350 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard.

The one-day free public program will acknowledge the deep sadness and enduring commemorative efforts associated with post-World War II African American history, especially as that history relates to the 1968 death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the loss of so many others imperiled during the years of the modern Civil Rights Movement. The fortieth anniversary of Dr. King’s death in 1968 affords historians an opportunity to shed light on how that singularly tragic event is connected to a larger narrative of the emotional grief and commemoration of the Movement and those who made a sacrifice in its behalf.

The keynote Marion Thompson Wright Lecture will be given by Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Professor Emerita of history at American University and a scholar and artist in African American cultural history and music. Afternoon speakers include Professor John Vlach, George Washington University, Washington, DC; Professor Kim Lacy Rogers, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA; and Dr. Juanita Moore, president and CEO, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI. Performances by violinist, Regina Carter and the Bradford Hayes Trio.

For more information visit http://ethnicity.rutgers.edu.

"Pakistan's Ongoing Emergency: Media and Modalities of Protest at Home and Abroad"

November 30, 2007
2:00-3:30 PM
Dana Room, fourth floor of the Dana Library, Rutgers University, Newark

On Friday, November 30th, from 2-3:30 in the Dana Library, fourth floor, there will be a panel discussion on Pakistan's Ongoing Emergency: Media and Modalities of Protest at Home and Abroad. In the past five years, Pakistan's public sphere and civil society have dramatically increased in their geographical and social scope. As this new public sphere has become more important, it has spilled beyond the borders of Pakistan to include overseas communities directly too, making overseas Pakistanis strong real-time participants in social and political debates within Pakistan. This newly assertive public sphere and civil society have recently faced a strong crackdown recently, as they have mobilized against the military government's latest attempts to curb the independence of the judicial branch. That is, the public sphere and the various ways it is mediated have become powerful social forces in their own right, a new situation in the context of Pakistan which will certainly affect the outcome of this 'Emergency'. What are some of the features of this public sphere, its forms of civil protest, and its mediation through satellite channels, internet technologies, print media, and mobile phones? How are rapidly mushrooming protests in Pakistan linked to similarly growing numbers of protests in the US? We shall explore these questions through an interactive panel discussion between five young academics and activists, and our audience. All are invited for discussion and light refreshments.

Panelists include:
Maria Khan (graduate student, University of Pennsylvania)
Bilal Tanveer (graduate student, Columbia University)
Dr. Saadia Toor (Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work College of Staten Island)
Rubab Qureshi (Lecturer, Urdu, University of Pennsylvania)
James Caron (Instructor, History, Rutgers Newark)

This event is co-sponsored by the Departments of History and Political Science at Rutgers Newark.

November 2007

Welcome Ruth Feldstein, a new faculty member in the Department of History and the Graduate Program in American Studies

Ruth Feldstein will join the Newark Faculty of Arts and Science in the fall of 2007 as a tenured Associate Professor of History. She will offer courses in the Department of History as well as the Graduate Program in American Studies.

Dr. Feldstein is the author of Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965 (Cornell, 2000), and has written articles and reviews for the Journal of American History, the Journal of Cold War Studies, Reviews in American History, Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, and (the forthcoming), Race, Nation, and Empire in American History. Her article, "'I Don't Trust You Anymore': Nina Simone, African American Activism, and Culture in the 1960s," was awarded the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize, Association of Black Women Historians, for Best Article on Black Women's History.

Her current research focuses on internationally famous black women entertainers who participated in the American civil rights movement. Her book-in-progress, Do What You Gotta Do: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), explores links between feminism, a global mass culture, black activism, and anti-colonial internationalism. She will teach general courses in American history, as well as focused seminars on women's and gender history, cultural history, and African American history, and research seminars in American Studies.

July 2007

Welcome James Caron and Avraham (Avi) Picard, visiting scholars for the 2007-2008 academic year

Dr. Avi Picard will join the Department as the Schusterman Visiting Professor, funded by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. His expertise is in the study of ethnicity and he will teach courses on the history of Israel and of Zionism.

Also joining us in the fall will be James Caron, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Pennsylvania's Department of South Asia Studies. He is completing a dissertation on the social and cultural history surrounding the cross-class formation of Pashtun ethnic identity in mid-20th century Afganistan. Mr. Caron's work engages not only a trans-regional South and Central Asian history but also ethnohistory broadly conceived, as well as some areas of Midde East history. He will teach courses on South Asian history and will also present public lectures/events on that topic.

We welcome them to the Rutgers-Newark campus!

July 2007

Congratulations to the Class of 2007!

“Constructing Charisma: Fame, Celebrity and Power in 19th Century Europe” conference, April 12-14, 2007

We are pleased to announce: “Secular Anointings: Fame, Celebrity, and Charisma in the First Century of Mass Culture,” a Keynote Lecture by Leo Braudy on April 12, 2007. Dr. Braudy is University Professor at the University of Southern California, and a distinguished scholar of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature, film history, American culture and the history of fame. The lecture will be held at Rutgers-Newark on April 12, 2007 from 5:30-7:00 pm in the Dana Room, 4th Floor of the John Cotton Dana Library, 185 University Avenue.
Please rsvp to history@andromeda.rutgers.edu.

Leo Braudy’s lecture is the “kick-off event” of a three-day conference, “Constructing Charisma: Fame, Celebrity and Power in 19th Century Europe,” which will be held on April 12-14, 2007, at Rutgers-Newark and La Maison Française, NYU. The conference is hosted jointly by the Federated History Department at Rutgers University, Newark and the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and the Institute of French Studies at NYU, with support from the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers-Newark. Its topics include how 19th century European celebrities transformed their personal standing into social and political power; how established leaders—kings, presidents, clergymen—had to operate within the new culture of celebrity by developing “charisma;” and how charisma was enacted through institutional means (media, advertising, spectacles), material culture and commodification, and the participation of fans.

Constructing Charisma: Fame, Celebrity and Power in 19th Century Europe Conference,
April 12-14, 2007, at Rutgers-Newark and La Maison Française, NYU poster in .pdf format

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Keynote Lecture
5:30-8:00 pm
Rutgers University, Newark

Leo Braudy
“Secular Anointings: Fame, Celebrity, and Charisma in the First Century of Mass Culture”

Leo Braudy is University Professor at the University of Southern California, and a distinguished scholar of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature, film history, American culture and the history of fame.  His book The Frenzy of Renown, which spans the culture of fame from antiquity to the present, is a seminal work for all historians of fame and celebrity, and a classic in the field of cultural history.

Keynote Lecture, 5:30-7:00pm
Dana Room, 4th Floor Dana Library,
185 University Ave., Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102
Reception, 7:00-8:00pm, at the Paul Robeson Gallery

Co-sponsored by the Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers University, Newark.
Please rsvp at history@andromeda.rutgers.edu .

For directions to the Rutgers-Newark campus, please see: http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/maps/newarkmap.pdf or call 973-353-5410 ext.19.
For those coming by train: the Rutgers-Newark campus is a five minute taxi ride from Newark Penn Station.
For all other information on the keynote events on April 12, please contact evagiloi@andromeda.rutgers.edu .

Friday and Saturday, April 13-14, 2007

Conference Sessions
Morning: 9:30am-12:30pm
Afternoon: 2:00-5:00pm
La Maison Française, NYU
16 Washington Mews, New York City, 10003


“Constructing Charisma: Fame, Celebrity and Power in 19th Century Europe” is an interdisciplinary conference, hosted jointly by the Institute of French Studies at NYU and the Federated Department of History at Rutgers University-Newark and NJIT.  Its topics include how 19th century European celebrities transformed their personal standing into social and political power; how established leaders—kings, presidents, clergymen—had to operate within the new culture of celebrity by developing “charisma;” and how charisma was enacted through institutional means (media, advertising, spectacles), material culture and commodification, and the participation of fans.

Paper Presenters:
Jeffrey Alexander, Sociology, Yale (Weber, Charisma)
Emily Apter, French, NYU (Celebrity and the gift)
Edward Berenson, History, NYU (Colonial Heroes)
Venita Datta, French, Wellesley (Heroes, Belle Époque)
Steven Englund, History, American University Paris (Napoleon)
Peter Fritzsche, History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne (Media and celebrity)
Eva Giloi, History, Rutgers-Newark  (Fan-celebrity relationship)
Dana Gooley, Music, Brown (Liszt)
Martin Kohlrausch, History, German Historical Institute Warsaw (Wilhelm II, Scandal)
Steven Minta, English, York (Byron)
Mary Louise Roberts, History, Wisconsin (Women celebrities)
Kenneth Silver, Art History, NYU (Sarah Bernhardt)

Commentators:
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Italian, NYU
Dominique Kalifa, History, University of Paris I
Anson Rabinbach, History, Princeton
Vanessa Schwartz, History, USC

For more information on the conference sessions at La Maison Française, please contact tm1147@nyu.edu



Letter from Clement Price to the Rutgers University Community in Response to Don Imus Incident

If it were not enough for the Scarlet Knights to make it to the final four of the NCAA women's basketball tournament, they now have to contend with Don Imus's reprehensible characterization of the African American members of the team. Whom should the team turn to now? Who will serve as their power forward, taking to the basket the ideals of justice and decency that have for so long marked the image of Rutgers? Who will be their point guard, putting up a shot that will shock Mr. Imus into a realization that his words, and similar words over the course of modern history, are hurtful and despicable?

The Scarlet Knights can turn to us, the Rutgers University community writ large, diverse and caring. We salute your collective accomplishment. And we are offended by Don Imus's words, not only because they are crude, but also because his words all but get in the way of this precious moment of the University's great joy over your accomplishments, but they do not diminish your stature as one of the nation's greatest athletic ensembles.

Clement Alexander Price
Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History
Director, Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience


Images of Muslims in the Western Media, Wednesday, April 11th

Images of Muslims in the Western Media," Wednesday, April 11, 2:30 to 3:50 in the Dana Room. This program will feature two presentations: Anisa Mehdi, Emmy-Award winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, whose work has appeared on ABC, CBS, PBS, and NPR, will give the following talk: "Why Do You See Us This Way? Arabs and Muslims Question American News Coverage." Prof. Jon Cowans of the History Department will give the following talk, with film clips: "Despots and Dancing Girls: Images of Muslims in Western Films." The event is co-sponsored by the Muslim Student Association and the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience. Refreshments provided. For more information, contact Jon Cowans at jonco58@aol.com.


Spring U.S. History Saturday Academy begins on March 17, 2007

The spring term of the U.S. History Saturday Academy, co-sponsored by the Rutgers-Newark Department of History and the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience, will begin on March 17, 2007.

Funded by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Saturday Academy is a tuition-free program offering students in grades 9-12 a variety of American History courses, taught over 6 Saturdays on the Rutgers-Newark campus, and instructed by high school and college Social Studies teachers. The goal is to attract students to the study of U.S. history through a wide range of methods by which historians make sense of the country’s past.

Interested students from the public and private schools in Newark grades 9-12 are invited to participate in the program. Applications are available from Social Studies teachers in the Newark school district. The deadline for the applying to the U.S. History Saturday Academy is March 12th, but classes will close as soon as they fill. For more information, please visit the Saturday Academy webpage.

"Speaking of Diversity": A Conversation on Coexistence at Rutgers-Newark, February 21, 2007

Jon Cowans will moderate a town-meeting style forum focusing on issues of the coexistence of people of various faiths, ethnicities, etc. here at Rutgers-Newark on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 from 2:30 to 3:50 p.m. This event will be held in the Dana Room, which is located on the 4th floor of the John Cotton Dana Library. Discussion questions will include: what does diversity really mean at Rutgers; do people of different faiths, ethnicities, political views, and sexual orientations interact and socialize, or do they "stick to their own"; and what problems and misunderstandings still exist? Program sponsors include: the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, the Muslim Student Association, and the Rutgers Alliance for Peace and Justice (RAP-J). For more information on the program, please email jonco58@aol.com.

What role does historical memory play in African American and African societies? How does it shape identity in the African Diaspora? What can scholars, students and citizens in our vast and diverse region learn from the new scholarship on what is remembered in the black experience and what is forgotten within the Black Atlantic? These and other questions about historical memory will be explored February 17, 2007, during Time Longer Than Rope: Historical Memory and the Black Atlantic, the 27th Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series.

The one-day program will acknowledge the centrality of memory in understanding the complexity of African American life after the Civil War, the role of memory in societies on the African continent and those in the Americas, the influence of memory on the construction of the black past, commemoration, identity, and the use of memory in contemporary scholarship on the Black Atlantic. David Blight, professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolitionism at Yale University, will present the keynote Marion Thompson Wright Lecture. Professor Blight is the nation's foremost historian on memory and its intersection with African American historical narratives.

The free public program will be held in the Paul Robeson Campus Center, Rutgers-Newark, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The campus center is located at 350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

The program is sponsored by the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience; the Federated Department of History, Rutgers-Newark and the New Jersey Institute of Technology; and the New Jersey Historical Commission/Department of State. For additional information about the program, please visit http://ethnicity.rutgers.edu or contact Marisa Pierson, the Program Coordinator for the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, 973.353.1871 x11, or mpierson@andromeda.rutgers.edu.

Jan Lewis appointed Acting Dean of Rutgers Faculty of Arts and Sciences-Newark (FAS-N), effective January 1, 2007

Provost Steven J. Diner has announced the appointment of Jan Ellen Lewis, Ph.D. and historian, as acting dean of the Rutgers Faculty of Arts and Sciences-Newark (FAS-N) effective Jan. 1, 2007. Lewis, who has taught American history at Rutgers in Newark since 1977, is currently Rutgers chair of the Federated History Department of Rutgers-New Jersey Institute of Technology. She also teaches in the history Ph.D. program at Rutgers in New Brunswick, and has been a visiting professor at Princeton University. An internationally celebrated Jeffersonian scholar, Lewis specializes in colonial and early national history. “Jan Lewis brings a wealth of experience to this position, having served for many years as chair of the History Department,” noted Provost Diner. “She has played an active role on numerous university, campus and arts & sciences committees, and is deeply committed to Rutgers and the Newark campus.” To view the full announcement, visit http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/oc/pubs/connections/pdf/DigestNov2006.pdf

November 17, 2006

"The Once and Future Newark," a documentary film featuring Clement Price to air on New Jersey Network (NJN)

“The Once and Future Newark,” a documentary film featuring the commentary of Rutgers-Newark History Professor Clement Alexander Price, is complete and will air on New Jersey Network on Wednesday, October 4 at 6:30 p.m. and Thursday, October 5 at 9 p.m. The documentary chronicles Newark’s rich history with commentary and tours guided by Dr. Price to the city’s many historical landmarks and featured music composed by Visual and Performing Arts’ Lewis Porter and Henry Martin in its soundtrack. To learn more, visit http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/newark/index.php

October 4, 2006


Rutgers, Newark History Department launches U.S. History Saturday Academy

The U.S. History Saturday Academy, co-sponsored by the Rutgers-Newark Department of History and the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience, will be launched on September 30, 2006 to create new ways to engage students in the study of American history.

Funded by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Saturday Academy is a tuition-free program offering students in grades 9-12 a variety of American History courses, taught over 6 Saturdays on the Rutgers-Newark campus, and instructed by high school and college Social Studies teachers. The goal is to attract students to the study of U.S. history through a wide range of methods by which historians make sense of the country’s past.

Interested students from the public and private schools in Newark grades 9-12 are invited to participate in the program. Applications are available from Social Studies teachers in the Newark school district. The deadline for the applying to the U.S. History Saturday Academy is September 25th, but classes will close as soon as they fill. For more information, please visit the Saturday Academy webpage.

September, 2006

 

Gary Farney selected as recipient of the 2006 UC-NAA Henry J. Browne Teaching Excellence Award

Gary Farney has been selected for the University College-Newark Alumni Association Henry J. Browne Teaching Excellence Award. This prestigious award will be presented at the 2006 Distinguished Alumni and Faculty Awards Dinner on Thursday, September 14, 2006.

September, 2006

Clement Price to speak before the Congressional Black Caucus on Thursday, September 7, 2006

On Thursday, September 7, 2006 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Clement Alexander Price will be one of a panel of scholars -- officially termed "The Brain Trust on Urban Affairs" -- who will be speaking before the Congressional Black Caucus at their Legislative Weekend. This year's panel will discuss "America's Cities" and consists of Clement Price; Marc Morial, the President and CEO of the National Urban League; and Lonnie Bunch III, the Founding Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. The panel will be introduced by Congressman John Lewis.

September 7 , 2006

Congratulations to the Class of 2006!

Congratulations to the Class of 2005!