History Department faculty members Caitlin Murdock and Marie Kelleher each received fellowships from the prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for the 2007-08 academic year. Kelleher also received a one-year Solmsen Postdoctoral Fellowship to spend the year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, where she will combine the fellowships to complete her book, The Measure of Woman: Gender and Legal Culture in Medieval Spain. Murdock will use her ACLS fellowship to support a year's research into her next book, Changing Places: Mobilizing Society, Culture and Territory in Central Europe's Borderlands, 1870-1938. Murdock's research explores the border between Germany and Czechoslovakia and how the fluidity of modernizing societies has pushed the creation of borders. ACLS is a nonprofit federation of 69 national scholarly organizations.
Teresa Fiore, an assistant professor of Italian, received a one year teaching and research fellowship at Harvard University that began this September. The Lauro De Bosis Visiting Fellowship in the History of Italian Civilization, which carries a $45,000 stipend, offers junior faculty a chance to use Harvard resources to pursue a project with a substantial Italian component. Sicilian-born Fiore, an expert on 21st century Italian immigration, will research 19th and 20th century Italian civilization through the lens of migration, as well as teach a course called "The Culture of Italian Emigration."
