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Caroline Frank received the Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize from the ASA. The dissertation is entitled "China as Object and Imaginary in the Making of an American Nation, 1690-1790." Thecommittee co-chairs were Robert Lee and Patrick Malone.

Allan Punzalan Isaac was recently promoted to Associate Professor at Wesleyan University in English. He was also given the 2006 Cultural Studies Book Award by the Association for Asian American Studies for, American Tropics: Articulating Filipino-America. Isaac's book exemplifies the best of recent works in the broad field of American hemispheric studies and holds significance for multiple fields including American studies, Asian American studies, and postcolonial studies.

Renee Romano, Associate Professor of History, African American Studies and American Studies, at Wesleyan University has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation for a collaborative project "Focus on the Environment: Recruiting Underrepresented Minority Students into the Geosciences," along with Wesleyan colleagues: Suzanne O'Connell, Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences; and Daniel Teraguchi, Dean for Diversity and Academic Advancement.

Harriet Wilson's New England (University of New Hampsire Press/University Press of New England, 2007), co-edited by JerriAnne Boggis, NEASA President Eve Raimon, and Barbara W. White, and with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. For more information, visit the UPNE website.

The American Association of State and Local History awarded Dane Morrison and Nancy L. Schultz the Award of Merit for their editing of the anthology, Salem: Place, Myth, and Memory.