• Roger F. Holmes Award for Excellence in the Discipline of History: Christina M. Lamoureux
• Outstanding Senior in History/Secondary Education: Robert B. Britt
• Outstanding Student in the Discipline of Political Science: Ian A. James and Jessica Pereira
• Alex Donkor Award for Excellence in the Discipline of Economics: Thanh H. Lu and Luciano Pavan
• Christina F. Kelley Award for Excellence in the Field of Women's Studies: Bria Sullivan
• President Scholars: Ralph Hogan (History) and Luciano Pavan (Economics)
• Distinguished Scholar: Thanh Lu (Business Administration - International Business and Economics)
• Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges: Sally Foster (Political Science), Ralph Hogan (Political Science and History), Davilla Lima ( Business Administration - International Business and Economics), Peter Njuguna (Business Administration - International Business and Economics), Danielle Rivers (History)
• Student Government Scholarship and Butler Grant Award Recipient for student administrative support to the Regional Economic Development Institute (REDI) at FSC: Eric Gregoire (Political Science)

• Ralph Hogan (Political Science and History major) with the Near East and Southwest Asia Center for Strategic Studies at National Defense University (Washington, DC).
• Sally Foster (Political Science major) with Brendan G. King, Attorney At Law (Boston, Massachusetts)
• Michael P. Murphy (History and Psychology major) with Avon Public Library (Avon, Connecticut)
• Peter Njuguna (International Business and Economics Major) with The City of Fitchburg in Spring (2009) (Fitchburg, Massachusetts)
• Luciano Pavan (Economics Major) with The City of Fitchburg in Spring (2009) (Fitchburg, Massachusetts)
• Justin Sylvia (Economics Major) with The City of Fitchburg in Spring (2009) (Fitchburg, Massachusetts)
• Albert Wong (Economics Major) with The City of Fitchburg in Spring (2009) (Merrimack, New Hampshire)

• Grants
  
  Dr. Bornali Bhandari and Dr. Pirudas Lwamugira won the Annual Innovation Grant 2007-2008 from the Center for Teaching and Learning, Fitchburg State College.
  
• Dr. Joshua Spero won the Annual Innovation Grant 2007-2008 from the Center for Teaching and Learning, Fitchburg State College.
  Teaching American History Grant in collaboration with Fitchburg Public Schools and Mount Wachusett Community College has been funded for the next three years for about a million dollars. 
  
  
• Promotions (2009)
  
  Promotion and Tenure : Dr. Laura Baker (History) and Dr. Joshua Spero (Political Science)
  
  
• Publications
  
  2007
  
  Baker, Laura, “Public Sites Versus Public Sights: The Progressive Response to Outdoor Advertising and the Commercialization of Public Space.” American Quarterly 59.4 (December 2007): 1187-1213.
  Bhandari, Bornali, "Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Income Inequality in Transition Countries", Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 22(4), December (2007).
  Dee, Christine, Ohio’s War: A History of the Civil War in Documents, Ohio University Press, 2007. 
  
  2008
  
  Teresa, Thomas, "The Druze" entry in Encyclopedia of the Modern World, editor in chief Peter N. Stearns and area editor Amira Sonbol, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

• Spero, Joshua, Book Review in Slavic Review (summer 2008): "New Europe: The Impact of the First Decade," Vols 1-2. Edited by Teresa Rakowska-Harmstone and Piotr Dutkiewicz
  
  2009
  
  Spero, Joshua, "Great Power Security Dilemmas for Pivotal Middle Power Bridging," Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 30, No. 1 (April 2009) -- (Refereed)

• Awards

• Dr. Joshua Spero, Advisor of the Year, 2008-2009

• Conferences
  
  Bhandari, Bornali
  
  November (2007), "The Roles of Public Higher Education Expenditure and the Privatization of the Higher Education on U.S. States Economic Growth", Southern Economic Association 77th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
  March (2008), "Institutions and the Urban-Rural Income Gap ", Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA.
  
  Sarefield, Daniel
  
  May (2008), "Book Burning in the Byzantine Empire", Center for Teaching and Learning Speakers Series, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA
  March (2008), "Seeing Religious Violence in the Vita Porphyrii and the Christianization of Gaza." Working Conference on Ways of Seeing in Late Antique Material Religion, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
  

Spero, Joshua

• (April 2009) FSC Leadership Conference Presenter: "Simulation Gaming for Career Leadership"
  (August 2008) Round Table Panelist: “Terrorist Groups and their Strategic contexts” American Political Science Association Annual Convention (Boston)
  (May 2008) Round Table Panelist: “Roundtable on America, Europe, and the World: Is NATO Dead or Alive?” Council on Foreign Relations (Washington, DC)
• (April 2008) Spero, Joshua and Weizer, Paul, Paper/Article: "Simulating Governmental Decision-Making Locally, Regionally, and Globally," Fitchburg State College, Mid-West Political Science Association (Chicago)

• Thomas, Teresa
  
  April (2008), “Arresting the Padrone Problem:  Italian-American Relations 1891-1901”, "Italians in the Americas" at the Calandra Institute at CUNY.
  November (2007), " Educators as Leaders in History Education", Massachusetts Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Conference, Sturbridge, Massachusetts.
  
  Turk, Michael
  
  September (2008), "Accident and Necessity in the Quest to make Economics a Scientific Discipline". 12th Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles, France.http://sites.univ-provence.fr/evol-cgr/
  
• Working Papers/Books Under Contract
  
  Dee, Christine, Currents of War:  Region and Race in Northern Alabama and Southern Ohio, 1860-1867, under contract, Ohio University Press.  Publication 2008.

• Faculty in the Media

Dr. Joshua Spero, Faculty Director, Regional Economic Development Institute (REDI) at FSC -- "FSC Will Establish Economic Institute," Fitchburg Sentinel and Enterprise, May 1, 2009.

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