NEWS

Coclanis named to Society of
American Historians

Dr. Peter A. Coclanis, distinguished professor of history and associate provost for international affairs at UNC, has been elected a fellow of the Society of American Historians in recognition of the "literary and scholarly distinction" of his historical work. He is one of 13 fellows selected this year and will be inducted May 10 at a ceremony in New York City.

The society, founded in 1939, encourages literary distinction in the writing of history and biography and is limited to 250 members worldwide. Four other UNC-Chapel Hill scholars are members: Past President William Leuchtenburg, Jacquelyn Hall and John Kasson -- all from the history department – and Joy Kasson from American studies.

Coclanis, the Albert R. Newsome professor of history and an adjunct professor of economics, has written extensively about American and international economic history. He is co-author of "The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development" (University of Virginia Press, 2003), and author of "The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920" (Oxford University Press, 1989), which won the Society of American Historians’ Allan Nevins Prize.

A UNC faculty member since 1984, Coclanis has edited or co-edited three other books and has published about 90 scholarly articles in major journals of social and economic history.

He is president of The Historical Society and serves on numerous editorial boards for historical journals. His many honors include a Fulbright award to study overseas and yearlong fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center and Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center.

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National business journal honors UNC s
sociologist for entrepreneurship studies

The Journal of Business Venturing has dedicated its May 2004 issue to honor groundbreaking studies of entrepreneurship by Dr. Howard E. Aldrich, distinguished professor and chair of the sociology department at UNC.

Aldrich, Kenan professor of sociology in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, is a recognized expert on entrepreneurship and business management.

"No scholar has had more impact on the evolutionary approach to the study of entrepreneurship than Howard Aldrich," wrote the journal’s guest editor Scott Shane. Aldrich’s first book, Organizations and

Environments (1979), "established a framework" for the study of entrepreneurship" and his second book, Organizations Evolving (1999), "set an agenda for moving the perspective forward," Shane said.

The journal’s special issue includes papers commissioned for a 2002 conference at the University of Maryland on "Evolutionary Approaches to Entrepreneurship" that honored Aldrich’s influence on the field.

Last year Aldrich received the Center for Women’s Business Research award for Best Women’s Entrepreneurship Paper for a study he co-wrote that debunked stereotypes about the impact of gender on business management styles.

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