Christine Haynes, AM’95, PhD’01 (History), assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, published Lost Illusions: The Politics of Publishing in Nineteenth-Century France (Harvard University Press). Linking the study of business and politics, Haynes reconstructs the passionate and protracted debate over the development of the book trade in 19th-century France.  Jo N. Hays, PhD’70 (History), professor emeritus of history at Loyola University Chicago, published The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History. Hays chronicles western perceptions of and responses to plague and pestilence over the past 2000 years. He frames disease as a multidimensional construct that is situated at the intersection of history, politics, culture, and medicine.  Juanita Tamayo Lott, AM’73 (Sociology), published Filipinos in Washington, D.C. (Arcadia Publishing, 2009). Coauthored with Rita M. Cacas, the book traces the history of Filipinos living in the Washington, D.C., area and includes over 200 vintage photographs. In addition, Lott delivered remarks at the 2010 Smithsonian Congress of Scholars’ Symposium, which recognized the 40th anniversary of the ethnic studies movement. The event took place in January. Stephen J. Morewitz, PhD’83 (Sociology), was appointed University Scholar Series presenter for the spring 2010 semester at San Jose State University. On March 24, he will present a lecture based on his book Death Threats and Violence: New Research and Clinical Perspectives (Springer, 2008). Morewitz also published an article describing his 20 years as a forensic/ligation sociologist in the February 2010 issue of ASA Footnotes.  Stuart Rockefeller, AM’87, PhD’03 (Anthropology), lecturer in Columbia University’s anthropology department, published Starting from Quirpini: The Travels and Places of a Bolivian People (Indiana University Press). Through ethnographic research, Rockefeller documents the movements and travels of the people of Quirpini, who visit each other’s houses, work in their fields, go to nearby towns for school, market, or official transactions, and trek to Buenos Aires for wage labor. He describes how these places become intertwined via the movement of people, goods, and information. Nick Yablon, AM’01, PhD’02 (History), associate professor of American studies at the University of Iowa, published a book about the fascination with urban ruins in 19th-century America, Untimely Ruins: An Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819–1919 (University of Chicago Press).  Yue-Man Yeung, PhD’72 (Geography), emeritus professor of geography at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, received a 2010 alumni award of merit in recognition of professional achievement from the University of Western Ontario, where he received an MA in 1996. Yeung accepted his award on May 15. Food for Thought: Evan Schulman, AM’01, and his wife, Glorianna Davenport (standing side by side on the far left), appear in this snapshot from a recent alumni trip to the Galapagos Islands. The sea lions crept in close and managed to sink their teeth into the U of C banner.