Sara Pasti (Museum) received sponsorship from the Greenway Heritage Conservancy HRV Inc. for the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art’s educational symposium, “Revisiting the Hudson: 19th Century Landscape Painting in Context.”

L.H. Roper (History) has been named a co-general editor of the new Journal of Early American History and related book series, The American Colonies, 1500-1830, both published by Brill Academic Publishers of Leiden, the Netherlands. Roper will serve with Jaap Jacobs, a Dutch independent scholar, and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke of the University of Paris-8 in St. Denis. The journal will be housed in the Department of History at New Paltz and will publish its first number in early 2010. For more information, visit www.brill.nl/jeah/.

Louis Roper (History) will serve as general co-editor to the newly created “Early American History Series: The American Colonies, 1500-1830″ book series and the corresponding “Journal of Early American History: The American Colonies, 1500-1830.”

The college will be home to the book series and journal, which are published by Brill Academic Publishers in The Netherlands. Roper said both peer-reviewed publications will serve to advance scholarly understanding of the history of the colonization of the Americas.

The journal editors are accepting submissions of 25-45 page manuscripts on topics related to any aspect of early American history and in-depth review articles covering four to six books published in the last five years. For more information, contact Roper at x3542 or roperl@newpaltz.edu.