Faculty, staff and student notes

Patrick Barr-Melej, assistant professor of Latin American history, has accepted a new position as associate professor of history at Ohio University, beginning in the fall 2006.

Emily Puhl, a senior history and Spanish major, has been selected as a recipient of the 2006 Wallace E. Barron All-University Senior Award by the Iowa State University Alumni Association. Puhl as one of five seniors selected for the award for their high character, outstanding achievement in academics and university/community activities, and promise for continuing these exemplary qualities as alumni.

Patrick Barr-Melej recently was elected vice president of the Southwestern Historical Association. He will become the association's president in 2009.

Patrick Barr-Melej also gave three lectures in Britain on his current research. He spoke at the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge, the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, and in the Department of History at the University of York. Barr-Melej lectured on the cultural and political history of youth in Chile.

Derek Oden won the Agricultural History Society's Everett Edwards Award for the best student article submitted to the journal for his work "Selling Safety: The Farm Safety Movement's Emergence and Evolution from 1940-1975."

Sara Gregg received a Special Research Initiation Grant for "Mapping Conservation Policy Outcomes: Adding a New Dimension to Historical Research"

Joel Orth, a 2004 graduate from the Agricultural History and Rural Studies Program, won the Agricultural History Society's Gilbert Fite Award for the best dissertation in agricultural history.

Charles Dobbs is now a full time member of the faculty

Patrick Barr-Melej was the inaugural speaker at the Latin American Studies Program lecture series on campus.

Hamilton Cravens was appointed to a three year term on the Advisory Editorial Board of ISIS, the journal of the History of Science Society

Patrick Barr-Melej won the 2004 Raquel Kersten Professional Research Award from the North Central Council of Latin Americanists (an interdisciplinary association in the Midwest) for his current work on the cultural and political history of youth in Chile.

Patrick Barr-Melej also was elected Secretary of the Chile/Rio de La Plata Studies Committee of the Conference on Latin American History, the largest affiliate of the American Historical Association.

In 2004, Hamilton Cravens appeared on the program as commentator at the Policy History Conference, Mid America Conference on History and the History of Science Society He also published a new introduction to Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex with Barnes and Noble in a paper edition.