Frank Baillargeon (BA '75) has published the first in a series of three historical novels based on the life of John Morrissey (1831-1878). The series is titled Ambitions.
Sam Claussen (PhD '15) was featured in an episode of the Spanish history podcast Historias. In the episode, he discusses the intersection of chivalry and violence, with a focus on the chaotic Trastámara period of Castilian history (1369-1516).
Lisa Sarnoff Gochman (BA '80) is the author of At the Altar of the Appellate Gods: Arguing Before the US Supreme Court (a memoir), which was published this month by Indiana University Press. At the Altar of the Appellate Gods recounts Lisa's first-hand experience arguing the landmark criminal sentencing case of Apprendi v. New Jersey before the Rehnquist Court in 2000. Lisa is a career prosecutor and presently serves Of Counsel to the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office in New Jersey.
Robert Miller (BA '08) moved from private law practice into academia as an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of South Dakota Knudsen School of Law.
Jonathan E. Robins (PhD '10) will be awarded the Jerry Bentley Prize in world history for his book, Oil Palm: A Global History (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2021), at the AHA annual meeting in January.
Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild (PhD '76) is a Center Associate and coordinator of the Gender, Socialism and Post-Socialism Workshop at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University. Retired from teaching, she continues to be active in the field of women’s and gender history, writing and serving on the editorial board of the journal Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History, as well as on the Board of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies, which she helped found. An early second wave women’s movement activist, she has appeared in the documentary films WBCN and the American Revolution and Left on Pearl: Women Take Over 888 Memorial Drive, Cambridge for which she was an executive producer.
Peter Sposato (PhD '14) published his first book, Forged in the Shadow of Mars: Chivalry and Violence in Late Medieval Florence, with Cornell University Press in February 2022.
Kira Thurman (PhD '13) will be awarded the George L. Mosse Prize in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since 1500 for her book, Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms (Cornell Univ. Press, 2021), at the AHA annual meeting in January.
Clinton D. Young (BA '98) was appointed Dean of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arkansas, Monticello effective May 1, 2022.
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