Rick Jobs
Associate Professor Department of History
jobs4049@pacificu.edu

 

Pacific Associate Professor of History Rick Jobs has been selected as a recipient of a 2007 Graves Award in the Humanities. The Arnold S. Graves and Lois S. Graves Awards are administered by Pomona College under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. The awards honor outstanding accomplishments by faculty in the humanities at private, liberal-arts colleges in Oregon, California, and Washington.

Jobs’s award will support his sabbatical research work titled “Backpack Ambassadors: Youth, Travel, and European Integration.” According to Professor Jobs, Backpack Ambassadors brings together two phenomena of the postwar period in western European history examined through the cultural practice of travel: the emergence of a transnational youth culture and the process of European integration. This project will detail the institutional and governmental programs designed to promote fraternity via the travel and interaction of young Europeans. Yet it will also consider the proliferation of independent “drifter” youth travel in the 1970s and 1980s and show how this often complicated the official process of integration while still contributing to it via these communities of young travelers.

Rick’s book Riding the New Wave: Youth and the Rejuvenation of France after the Second World War (Stanford University Press, 2007), has been named Winner of the 2007 Outstanding Academic Title Award, sponsored by Choice magazine.

Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries reviews academic books and electronic media of interest to those in higher education. “More than 35,000 librarians, faculty, and key decision makers rely on Choice magazine and Choice Reviews Online for collection development and scholarly research. Choice reaches almost every undergraduate college and university library in the United States. Choice reviews approximately 7000 works a year.

Every year in January, Choice publishes a list of Outstanding Academic Titles that were reviewed during the previous calendar year. “The prestigious list reflects the best in scholarly titles reviewed by Choice and brings with it the extraordinary recognition of the academic library community.”

Citations:
“about” American Library Association, 2006. August. 29.
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/choice/about.cfm (accessed April 7, 2008)

Please click here if you are interested in reading a review of "Riding the New Wave".

“Outstanding Academic Titles” American Library Association, 2006. September 6.
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/choice/outstanding/academic.dfm (accessed April 7, 2008).

 

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