The 2008-2009 Academic Year marks the arrival of an impressive group of new faculty members, to join an already-distinguished corps of History professors at LSU.  Prof. Andrew Burstein is the first holder of the Charles Phelps Manship Professorship, a prestigious endowed chair in American history.  Prof. Burstein comes to LSU from the University of Tulsa, where he was Mary Frances Barnard Professor.  He is a distinguished scholar and specialist in U.S. Revolutionary History and early national America, and will teach courses in both those areas.  He is the author of six books, including The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving; Jefferson's Secret: Death and Desire at Monticello, and The Passions of Andrew Jackson.  Prof. Burstein also appears frequently on Book TV, National Public Radio, and in other forums.
     Dr. Nancy G. Isenberg has been hired as a professor.  Previously she held a position at the University of Tulsa, as Mary Frances Barnard Professor; and she served as Bingham Professor of History at the University of Louisville during the past Spring.  A specialist in United States History, early national, gender, and women's history, Prof. Isenberg is the author of Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr (nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Award), and of Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America.
     Dr. Carolyn Herbst Lewis is a recent PhD. from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a specialist in U.S. women's history, working on the medicalization of heterosexuality in Cold War America.  The author of three previous articles, including one that won a prize from the Western Association of Women Historians, Dr. Lewis will be teaching U.S. History, especially women's history.
     Louise E. Walker will be a member of the History Department and also on the faculty of the Program in International Studies. She is finishing her doctorate at Yale University, where she has concentrated on Modern Latin America, especially Mexico and the development of the middle class there since 1968.  She has two articles and others in various stages of preparation, and will be at LSU for the Spring 2009 semester after spending the Fall in Mexico doing research.

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Five LSU History majors have been chosen to receive scholarships to help support their studies during 2007-2008.  The students are Allison C. Bass  (Robert N Bersuder Scholarship), Jessica Byrd (Harold and Gay Meaker Scholarship), Kristin Irvin (Robert B. Holtman Scholarship), Samuel M. Oliver (Gary A. Crump Scholarship), and Brittany Pennington (Jane DeGrummond Scholarship).  The amount of the awards is $1000 each, with the exception of the DeGrummond, which provides $500.  Congratulations to all recipients.