We are very pleased to announce (subject to final Trustees? approval) the appointment of Dr. Bruce J. Caldwell, presently Rosenthal Excellence Professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, to the Duke University faculty as of July 1, 2008 as Research Professor of Economics. He will also become the first Director of the new Duke Center for the History of Political Economy. As final details concerning the Center and its programs and activities take shape, Director Caldwell will post that information to this HES-List. Neil B. De Marchi Craufurd D. W. Goodwin Kevin D. Hoover E. Roy Weintraub E. Roy Weintraub