Gill was awarded a fellowship from the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA to attend the Mellon  Summer Institute in English Paleography. Gill is writing his dissertation under the directionf of Prof. Schen.

Paper presentation:  “Slave Smuggling Privateers: The Laffite Brothers and the Louisiana Slave Trade, 1805-1820,” at the North American Society for Oceanic History’s 2008 conference in Pensacola, Florida, May 8, 2008.

Head won the 2008 Marion Brewington Essay Prize for Best Essay in Chesapeake Maritime History from the Maryland Historical Society for his essay on South American privateering from Baltimore. The essay will be published in the Maryland Historical Magazine.

Kibbe was named a 2008–2009 Dissertation Research Fellow at the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science (PACHS). This grant will support a month of research at the Center.  Kibbe's dissertation is being written under the direction of Prof. Cahn.

Battisti has won the 2008 George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society to support the completion of her dissertation, "Manipulating Immigration Restriction in Postwar  America: Italian Americans and Italian Immigration 1945-1965" under the direction of Prof. Gerber.

Harris was awarded a grant from the Mark Diamond Research Fund (MDRF) funded by UB's Graduate Student Association.  Harris is currently researching his dissertation entitled " ‘The House I Live In’: Bodies & Healthcare in the Delaware Valley, 1800-1920" under the direction of Prof. Thornton.

Harris was awarded a Smith Fellowship from the New Jersey Historical Commission to support continuing research and writing for her dissertation.

Paper presentation:  “A Different Kind of Maritime Predation: South American Privateering from Baltimore, 1816-1820,” Naval History Symposium, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD: September 2007.

Paper presentation: "Sailing Across Borders but Not Beyond Nations: Baltimore Seafarers and South American Privateering, 1816-1820" at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) 2007 Annual Meeting, Worcester, MA: July 2007.

Ilaria Scaglia

Plesur Dissertation Research Fellowships

CAS Dissertation Writing Stipend

David Head: "Pirates, Privateers, and Peaceful Trade: Commercial Legitimacy in the Early American Republic, 1815-1830" (advisor:  Tamara Thornton)

Dan Wessel: "Governing  Negations: Anarchy, Sovereignty, and the State in the United States,  1825-1901" (advisor:  Tamara Thornton)

Molly Herrmann:  “A Comparison of Free People of Color in the Post-Emancipation Societies of Haiti, Jamaica, and Venezuela in the Mid-Nineteenth Century” (advisor:  Hal Langfur)

Tina Kibbe:  “Eugenics Movement in the United States” (advisor:  Susan Cahn)

CAS Retention Grant

Emma Johnson:  “Intersection of Race, Gender, and Cold War Politics in Women’s Sports in the 1950s” (advisor: Susan Cahn)

Betsy Plumb:  “Urban communities, oral histories” (advisor:  Mike Frisch)

Kathryn Spielvogel:  “Medical Practices in the First World War in France and Germany” (advisor: Andreas Daum)

Chad Vaupel:  “English Naval Chaplains” (advisor:  Claire Schen)

Caribbean Cutlural Studies Program in Havana

Reg Gilbert won funding to spend the fall semester in Havana, Cuba as part of UB's Caribbean Cutlural Studies program, which is a joint venture between the University of Havana and UB.

Battisti had a grant-in-aid from the Immigration History and  Research Center at the University of Minnesota and gave a talk on her dissertation "Manipulating Immigration Restriction in Postwar  America: Italian Americans and Italian Immigration 1945-1965"

Battisti won a Gilder Lehrman Institute Fellowship.

Halliday won an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Southeastern European Language Training Grant which will fund tuitition and living expenses for summer training in Bosnian-Serbo-Croation at the University of Pittsburgh.

Head won a grant from the New York State Graduate Student Employees Union
Professional Development Awards Program that helped fund a research trip to the Library of Congress in Washington DC.

LaVarnway won a grant from the New York State Graduate Student Employees Union
Professional Development Awards Program that will fund a week of research in New York City at the Schomburg Library.

Marshall published an article, "A Black Vision in a White America?: The Beat Poetry, Art and Illustration of Ted Joans,"  in Journal of American Studies in Turkey no. 24 Fall 2007.

Paper presentation:  "A Black Vision in a White Voice? Ted Joans: Artist, Musician and Beat Poet" at the American Studies Association Annual Conference 2007, February 14-18, 2007 in Albuquerque, NM.

McLean presented versions of a paper entitled: "Irish-American Nationalism and the Fenian Invasion of Canada" at the Southern Regional American Conference of Irish Studies , March 8. 2007 at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina and at the 2007 American Conference of Irish Studies' National Conference, April 18 at the CUNY Graduate Center at New York City.

Paper presentation:  "The Problem of Sovereignty in Nineteenth Century Anarchism," at the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition Conference, September 29-October 1 2006, at Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont.

Steve Gill
Carlton Hickok
Ilaria Scaglia
Joe Wilton

Morgan Denton

Katrina Sinclair

Frankie LaVarnway

Reg Gilbert