In Brief
Staff news
We are pleased to announce the following new appointments: Dr Dror Weil will take up a permanent University Lectureship in Early Modern Asian History from April 2021. Dr Radka Šustrová joined the Faculty in March to take up a two-year Newton International Fellowship. Dr Daniel Knorr has been appointed to a four-year temporary University Lectureship in Modern Asian History; he joins us in January 2021. Dr Ruth Lawlor, a Junior Research Fellow in History at Queens College, will become a temporary University Lecturer in American History (one-year) from October 2020. Dr Jessica Patterson will become a temporary University Lecturer in the History of Political Thought (three-years), from October 2020.
We also welcome the following new Postdoctoral Fellows: Drs Marta Manzanares, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, and Rodrigo Garcia-Velsco, Rothschild Foundation Fellow.
Drs Andrew Arsan and Helen McCarthy have both been promoted to Readerships.
We are sad to record the deaths of Zara Steiner, a pioneering historian of European diplomatic history, and Peter Linehan, an eminent medieval historian. David Reynolds discusses Zara’s career in this issue. Magnus Ryan wrote about Peter’s work for the Faculty website.
Members of the Faculty won many awards and honours this year. For the full details consult our webpages. Some of the highlights include the award of the Wolfson History Prize to David Abulafia. Arthur Asseraf received a ProFutura Fellowship. Niamh Gallagher won the Whitfield Prize. Julia Guarneri won the 2019 James Carey Media Research Award. Shruti Kapila was appointed to the National Commission for Women of India. Mary Laven won the Bainton History/Theology Prize. Peter Mandler was appointed president of the Historical Association. Andrew Preston was elected vice-president of the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). Paul Warde was appointed Guest Professor at KTH Stockholm.
Student News
Our graduate students’ research has also received accolades. Eleanor Russell won the Covid Challenge prize. Aoife O’Leary McNeice won the BAIrishStudies essay prize. Drs Chika Tonooka and Freddie Foks won the Prince Consort Prize.
Amongst our undergraduates, Alex Howard has been awarded the Faculty Prize for the best dissertation in Part II, not covered by another award. David Austen has been nominated for the Winifred Georgina Holgate-Pollard Prize for the most outstanding results in Part II. Phyllis Chan has been awarded the Alan Coulson prize for the best dissertation on a topic in the field of British imperial expansion for ‘The ‘Eurasian’ in the British Far East, 1930-1950’. Anya Cooper has been awarded the Sara Norton Junior Prize for the best dissertation on American Political History for ‘The Shared Vision of the 'Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1890-1914’. Khem Rogaly won the Cambridge Historical Society prize for his dissertation entitled ‘Indigenous life and resistance in the Argentine borderlands, c.1875-1876’.
Samuel Burry and Joseph Evans were awarded prizes for the best overall performance in the History and Politics Tripos.
Martha Gartside-Mitchell was awarded the Ellen McArthur Undergraduate Prize for her dissertation entitled ‘Sex work, surveillance and everyday life in New York City, c. 1916-1930’. Robert O’Sullivan was awarded the Gladstone Memorial Prize for his dissertation entitled ‘Irish-Catholic history and the experience of Irish American sectarianism in Antebellum America’. Charlie Smith was awarded a prize for Undergraduate Achievement in Maritime History by the British Commission for Maritime History for his dissertation entitled ‘A Social History of Smuggling in North East England during the Eighteenth Century’.
Research
Dr Melissa Calaresu and Dr Marta Mazanares (fellow) received a Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship for ‘The Sweetest Gender: Feminine Subjectivities and the Gendering of Sweets in Barcelona’. Dr Amy Erickson received a Marc Fitch Fund Research Project Grant for ‘Regional Inequalities in Long-Term Perspective: Demographic Outcomes in Britain, c. 1580–1837’. Dr George Roberts received a Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Trust Research Grant for ‘Decolonisation and Its Legacies in Comoros, circa 1960 to Present’; Dr Sujit Sivasundaram received a Networking Grant from SHSS and IRWG for ‘North-South Engagements between Asia and the ‘Southern Seas’’; and Professor Alex Walsham received a Cambridge-Stockholm Collaborative Research Scheme grant for ‘Religion, Body and Emotion in Early Modern Europe’.
Arts and Humanities Impact Fund grants went to Professor Richard Bourke for ‘Rosenöl und Deutscher Geist: The Fortunes of Intellectual History in Germany’ and Professor Peter Mandler for ‘Secondary Education and Social Change in the UK after 1945,’ whose project also received a Widening Participation Project Fund grant.
Dr Felix Waldmann received a Tier 1 Cambridge Humanities Research Grant for ‘After Vico: Philosophy, Politics, and the Enlightenment in Naples, 1688–1799’. Tier 2 Cambridge Humanities Research Grants went to Dr Elizabeth Foyster for ‘The Equitable Life Assurance Society and the Causes of Mortality in Britain’; Dr Shruti Kapila for ‘The Past, Present, and Future of the Psych. Clinic in India: Global Perspectives’; Professor Mary Laven for ‘Ethnic Diversity and cultural Creativity in Renaissance Italy’; and Dr Renaud Morieux for ‘Statelessness and Unsettlement in Europe, 1920’s to the Present: A Reflexive History’.
Dr Caroline Goodson received Conference Support funding from the British Academy for ‘Reassessing Rome after Empire: An Urban History Approach’. Dr Renaud Morieux received Conference Support funding from the Past & Present Society for ‘Law and Maritime Cultures Workshop’. Dr William O’Reilly received a Workshop Grant from DAAD-Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies for ‘Seeing Germany, 1450-1750’.