Number 62
Autumn 2013
GREETINGS FROM THE CHAIR
The evolution of history departments—like the wider development of human history itself—is an ongoing process of change across time; and, as always, the UNC History Department has steadily evolved over this past year. We worked in a context of political upheavals, which included new educational priorities in the statewide UNC system as well as legislative proposals for more reductions in the UNC budget; and we were affected by internal University upheavals, which included a long-unfolding athletic/academic scandal and the appointments of both a new chancellor and provost. Drawing on a famous generalization about historical realities, it might well be said that we make our own history in Chapel Hill, but not under conditions that we have chosen for ourselves.
Despite the always-changing context in which we work, there are enduring continuities in our Department’s commitment to historical education and our distinguished departmental achievements. Our faculty continue to publish outstanding books and articles, our classes draw large, diverse enrollments, our graduate programs attract hundreds of talented applicants, our current graduate students constantly win competitive awards for their research and teaching, and our History major regularly attracts many of the best undergraduates in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences.
These continuities provide a strong foundation for new initiatives and new responses to our changing contexts. In this past year, for
example, we explored how historians can expand their engagement with public audiences and communities by pursuing imaginative
historical work in non-academic institutions and by extending their research or teaching into the rapidly developing “digital humanities.” The UNC-CH History Department, in short, continues to change and to uphold its traditional high standards as new generations of faculty and students gradually transform our departmental community.
This Newsletter provides much information about the accomplishments of our faculty, students, and alumni over this past academic year. The descriptions of our many departmental activities show why historical studies remain a dynamic component of the liberal arts
curriculum at public universities—even when some people dismiss the humanities and social sciences as a cultural luxury that does not help students find jobs in our technologically advanced global economy. As this Newsletter clearly demonstrates, however, historians bring essential skills and perspectives to contemporary education, social issues, and economic changes; and I encourage you to follow our Department’s evolving engagement with public issues by visiting our departmental web site (http://history.unc.edu/) for regular updates on historians and historical projects at Carolina.
Among the numerous recognitions and awards that our faculty received this year, I want especially to note several competitive fellowships that are supporting the innovative work of UNC historians. Brett Whalen has received a Kingdon Fellowship for a semester at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and he will continue his research in medieval European history with the assistance of a Chapman Family Teaching Award at UNC’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH). Kathleen DuVal and Benjamin Waterhouse also received fellowships at the IAH, where they will advance their new projects on American history; and Sarah Shields is expanding her work on modern Middle Eastern history with the generous support of a Bowman Gray fellowship that honors excellence in undergraduate teaching.
Jacquelyn Hall received the 2013 Mary Turner Lane Award, an annual UNC recognition of colleagues who have made “outstanding contributions to the lives of women students, faculty, staff, and administrators at Carolina” (a fitting award for Jacquelyn’s distinguished teaching and advising over a long UNC career); and Malinda Maynor Lowery’s influential research and writing on American Indian
history was honored with UNC’s “Philip and Ruth Hettleman Award for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement.” Malinda has also become
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Carolina Alumni Receptions
Please join us for a reception at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association in St. Louis, MO. We are co-sponsor­ing the event with the Duke University History Department on Friday, November 1st, 2013 from 5:30p.m. to 7:30p.m. in Mills
Studio 3 of the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch. We look forward to seeing you there. We will also co-sponsor a UNC-CH and Duke reception at the American Historical Association meeting in Washington, D.C. in January 2014. More information on the AHA
event will be available later in the fall.2
the director of the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP), so she is now leading and expanding the in­novative projects that Jacquelyn developed during her long directorship of the SOHP.
The History Department’s undergraduate journal, Traces: the UNC-Chapel Hill Journal of History was recognized by Phi Alpha Theta as the “second-best” undergraduate history journal in the United States; and Fielder Valone (History, class of 2011), who published some of his research on the Holocaust in the first issue of Traces, received the American Historical Association’s Raymond J. Cunningham Award for the “best article published in an undergraduate History journal.” Another recent History major, Hillary Hollowood ’13, was the recipient of a prestigious Gilder Lehrman History Scholars award for her research on Civil-War era North Carolina; and Sarah Ransohoff ’12 received the Elie Wiesel Foundation’s Ethics Essay Award for her comparative historical analysis of slavery and modern energy dependence on oil. The strong commitment to undergraduate teaching among faculty such as Christopher Browning (Valone’s adviser) and Joe Glatthaar (adviser for both Hollowood and Ransohoff) can be seen in the national recognitions that our History majors have received. Meanwhile, the undergraduate editors of Traces are preparing new issues of the journal and benefitting from the insights of a graduate editor, Mark W. Hornburg, and faculty adviser, Miles Fletcher.
The Department again provided support for notable events during African American History Month in February. Professor Tera Hunter of Princeton University (and our former faculty colleague at UNC) presented a well-attended public lecture entitled “’Bound as Fast in Wedlock as a Slave Can Be’: African American Marriage, Slavery, and Freedom,” which helped to generate later discussions of the so­cial legacy of slavery in American society. Professor Hunter’s visit took place immediately after the national conference of the Triangle African American History Colloquium, an event that is organized each year by a team of graduate students (led this year by Brandon Byrd and Liz Lundeen). The conference focused in 2013 on the theme of “Interpreting Black Politics” and featured a keynote address by Professor Angela Dillard of the University of Michigan.
We also co-sponsored a number of other conferences and public lectures, including graduate and faculty workshops with colleagues in our partner History Department at King’s College London (facilitated by our faculty liaison, Chad Bryant), a series of lectures on “The US in World Affairs: The Cold War and Beyond,” (organized by Klaus Larres), several workshops on “Gender, War, and Culture” (organized by Karen Hagemann), and visiting speakers who gave presentations for the Program in Sexuality Studies (organized by John Sweet), lectured on American Indian history, or led special seminars in fields ranging from Eastern European/ Russian history to modern Latin America. These events all enriched departmental conversations that also took place in our monthly faculty lunch seminars and graduate research colloquia.
The Department launched a new initiative in 2012-13 to expand our discussion of “Historians and their Publics.” We hosted helpful vis­its by AHA executive director James Grossman and NYU historian Thomas Bender, both of whom talked about the imaginative methods that academic historians are now using to communicate with non-academic audiences through new media, web-based technologies, and various public institutions. We also organized a panel discussion/workshop that introduced faculty and graduate students to the profes­sional trajectories of several visiting historians: Dr. Emily Greenwald (researcher at a historical consulting company), Dr. Mike Snyder (historian at the US Foreign Service), and Dr. Dwight Pitcaithley (former chief historian for the National Park Service). Each panelist offered personal perspectives on how professional historians can bring their skills and knowledge into careers outside academia, thereby contributing historical insights to an often ahistorical public culture.
A comprehensive survey of 300 historians who have received a Ph.D. in our Department since 1990 showed that almost 40% of these alumni currently hold non-tenure line professional positions in secondary schools, colleges, academic administration, the military, mu­seums, archives, libraries, and other institutions. Responding to the information in this report (which was carefully compiled by one of our recent Ph.D. recipients, Maren Wood), the Department began looking for new ways to help our Ph.D. candidates prepare for profes­sional historical work outside academia. We used a much-appreciated gift from one of our generous friends, Mark Clein, to launch a new summer internship program for graduate students who want to work in museums, non-profit organizations, government agencies, and other institutions that need the research and teaching skills of professional historians. The first four internships were awarded for the summer of 2013, and we are planning for the further development of this new program in coming years.
The diverse placements and aspirations for History Ph.D. candidates are part of a changing professional world for historians, but we have also continued to appoint new colleagues to teaching positions in the Department. Eren Tasar has joined our faculty to teach courses on Central Asian history and to help expand our programs in Russian history, Asian history, and global history. Dr. Tasar completed his Ph.D. at Harvard and later held a post-doctoral fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis and a teaching position at IUPU, Indianapolis. He is now completing a book on Soviet-Muslim relations in Central Asia, with particular attention to the period after 1940. His work on the history of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan offers new insights into the Soviet state’s religious policies as well as the vitality of Islamic societies in modern Central Asia.
We have also made a new appointment in the field of modern Jewish history. Karen Auerbach is joining the Department in January 2014 as an assistant professor and as the Stuart E. Eizenstat Fellow (generous donations to UNC’s Center for Jewish Studies helped to establish this new position). Dr. Auerbach received her Ph.D. at Brandeis, but she has taught in recent years at Monash University in
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Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on the history of Jewish communities in Poland, and her excellent first book, The House at Ujazdowskie 16: Jewish Families in Warsaw after the Holocaust, was recently published by Indiana University Press. She will be teach­ing new courses on modern Jewish history and also contributing to our programs in eastern European and Holocaust history.
We expanded our connections with other UNC historians over this past year as colleagues in different departments established new
affiliations with History. Professor Daniel Sherman, a historian in the Art Department and formerly an adjunct professor in History, has now entered into a “joint appointment” that strengthens his involvement with our fields of modern French and European history.
Professor Walter Rucker in the Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies has become an adjunct associate
professor of History, thus bringing to our Department additional expertise in the history of the African Diaspora and early modern
Caribbean societies. Professors Sherman and Rucker will broaden our course offerings for undergraduate History majors and for
graduate students who seek more training in their particular research fields.
Our departmental community has also gained new expertise through two recent post-doctoral appointments. William Sturkey has come to UNC after completing a Ph.D. at Ohio State University in modern African American history. He has also held a post-doctoral fellow­ship at Penn State University, where he worked on a book project that he is now completing at Chapel Hill—a history of the long struggle for African American civil rights in Mississippi. Dr. Sturkey adds valuable research and analytical perspectives to our Department’s ongoing study of African American history in the American South. Meanwhile, the Department’s expanding emphasis on digital history has led to the appointment of another post-doctoral fellow, Marten Düring, who will also be affiliated with the innovative “Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative.” Dr. During comes to us from Germany, where he received his Ph.D. at the University of Mainz and used digital research methods to examine social networks that facilitated the survival of Jews during the Holocaust. He will continue to de­velop this research at UNC and also teach new courses on the uses of digital methods in historical research; and he will be advising both faculty and graduate students on how to integrate the “digital humanities” into their scholarship and teaching.
Most of our departmental transitions offer new opportunities for the future, but there are also losses that remind us of the Department’s earlier history. Our former Department chair, Professor Gillian Cell, died on September 7, 2012. Gillian was the first woman to hold a tenure track position in the History Department (beginning in 1965), and she went on to become the first (and only) woman to serve as chair of the Department (1983-85) and the first woman to serve as Dean of UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences. She received her PhD at the University of Liverpool and wrote two books on early British colonial expansion. She later turned to academic administration, and her administrative abilities carried her eventually to the position of provost at the College of William and Mary (1993-2003). After her retirement to Chapel Hill Gillian became the Chair of the External Advisory Board for UNC’s Program in the Humanities and Human Values, and the activities of the Humanities Program helped her maintain close connections with many of her former colleagues at the University. She was definitely a UNC “trailblazer” whose intellectual rigor and institutional support for women had a lasting influence in the Department and the College of Arts and Sciences. An obituary for Professor Cell can be found later in this Newsletter.
Other departmental transitions have included a number of changes in the Department’s administrative staff and faculty leadership. Sev­eral talented members of the staff recently moved on to other administrative positions (Violet Anderson, LaTissa Davis) or retired after many years of exceptional service (Wanda Wallace), but the Department has been able to appoint excellent people such as Joy Jones (graduate program coordinator), Diana Chase (undergraduate program coordinator), and Rachel Olsen (interim assistant to the chair) to the positions these former staff members had skillfully managed. Ketura Parker is now our hard-working representative at the Arts and Sciences Foundation, where plans for a new UNC fundraising campaign are emerging; and Adam Kent continues to provide well-informed administrative management of departmental affairs.
There have also been changes in the Department’s faculty administrative team. The recent Associate Chair, Jay Smith, and the recent Director of Undergraduate Studies, Kathleen DuVal, both completed outstanding three-year terms and passed their administrative knowledge on to their interim successors, Terrence McIntosh and Miles Fletcher, who will soon give way to other colleagues in these positions, Louise McReynolds and Lisa Lindsay. The Director of Graduate Studies, Cynthia Radding, remains in this key position and works creatively to sustain departmental support for graduate students in times of stagnant or declining state budgets. The Depart­ment has been extremely fortunate to have such competent, hard-working colleagues in all of its administrative positions.
Finally, I should note that I completed my second term as Department chair in the 2012-13 academic year, so this is my last “Greeting from the Chair.” I am very pleased that Fitz Brundage has become the new chair; he is well prepared to lead our Department after serv­ing several years ago as an interim chair and after serving earlier as a Department chair at the University of Florida. He will have the kinds of opportunities I have had to work with our remarkable faculty, students, and staff and also to meet the many friends and alumni who help to make the UNC History Department such a dynamic community. This very active community has added enormously to my own “education” over these past nine years, partly because I have learned from people who were at UNC in earlier times and partly because I have learned constantly from the many new colleagues who joined the Department during the years when I was chair.
I conclude by thanking LaTissa Davis, Rachel Olsen, and Bill Barney (editor) for their careful work on this Newsletter. And I especial­ly thank the generous donors and alumni who have helped to build and sustain the vital intellectual life of the UNC History Department.
Lloyd Kramer, Department Chair, 2004-2009, 2010-2013
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FACULTY NEWS
CEMIL AYDIN wrote a piece on Pan-nationalism for The Oxford Handbook of History of Nationalism, edited by John Breuilly, (Cam­bridge University Press, 2013). He also published “Japanese Pan-Asianism through the Mirror of Pan-Islamism” in Turbulent Decade: Japan’s Challenge to the International System of the 1930s (edited by Toshihiro Minohara and Kimura Masato, for the University of Toronto Press, 2013). He was invited to present papers on “Justice in Historical Memory” for Istanbul World Forum in October 2012, and visited Singapore to present a paper on “The Question of Muslim world in Asian Regionalisms.” Cemil Aydin was elected to the Nomination Committee of the Middle Eastern Studies Association and he serves in the editorial committee of MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) and The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Email: caydin@email.unc.edu.
CHRISTOPHER BROWNING wrote the “Introduction” for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 2-volume encyclopedia on Ghettos in Occupied Eastern Europe, part of a larger encyclopedia project on Nazi sites of internment. He published: “Sajmiste as a European Site of Remembrance,” Philosophy and Society (Belgrade) XIII/4 (2012), pp. 99-105; “Shoah, guerre e modernite: Contestualizzare la Shoah,” Passato e Presante, XXX, Nr. 86 (2012), pp. 15-27; and “Musicology, Biography, and National Socialism: The Case of Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht. An American Historian’s Perspective,” German Studies Review 35/2 (May 2012), pp. 310-318. He also published a review article for the New York Review of Books. He gave presentations at conferences in Belgrade, Vienna, and Capetown, as well as at the World War II Museum in New Orleans, the Fortunoff Archive at Yale University, and the National Humanities Center. He lectured at McMasters University, the University of Calgary, and the University of South Florida at St. Petersburg, and commented on panel presentations at the Holocaust Education Foundation’s Lessons & Legacies Conference in Evanston.
Email: cbrownin@email.unc.edu.
W. FITZHUGH BRUNDAGE continued to expand the “Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina,” digital archives that went “live” late last spring. The site now contains a wealth of data and primary sources related to more than 250 sites of commemoration in the state. By the end of next academic year that number should total more than 400 sites scattered across the state. “CommLands” is the product of undergraduate and graduate research collaboration, and incorporates a robust K-12 component. To date, the site has been attracting hundreds of visitors each month from around the globe. Please visit it at: http://docsouth.unc.edu/commland/. Otherwise, in addition to teaching, his principal commitment has been to making progress on “The American Tradition of Torture,” his book length manuscript on the history of torture in the United States from the age of European contact to the contemporary “war on terror.” During the year he participated in two teachers‘ institutes hosted by the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, and gave talks at UNC-G, the Triangle Early American History Seminar, the Southern Historical Association, Harvard University, UNC-W, and UNC-CH. His service commitments included chairing a faculty search committee and the Advisory Board of the Library, as well as serving on the Nominating Committee of the Southern Historical Association. Email: brundage@email.unc.edu.
CHAD BRYANT published two articles (“Zap’s Prague: The City, the Nation, and Czech Elites before 1848,” Urban History and “A Tale of One City: Topographies of Prague before 1848,” Bohemia) that drew from his current book project, Prague Encounters: A Central European City and Its Inhabitants, which is under contract with Harvard University Press. In the spring of 2013 Bryant’s first book, Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism, appeared in Czech translation and received a positive review in one of the Czech Republic’s most respected magazines, Respekt. Bryant has, with Paul Readman (King’s College, London) and Cynthia Radding (UNC), co-edited a volume, Borderlands in World History, that Palgrave Macmillan will publish in 2014. That volume includes works first presented at a London conference that Bryant co-organized as part of his work as the History Department’s liaison with King’s College, London. He is currently joining Readman and Radding in organizing a follow-up conference entitled “Modern Walks: Human Locomotion during the Long Nineteenth Century,” which will take place in Chapel Hill in September, 2013. Bryant completed his term as vice-president of the Czechoslovak Studies Association and remains a member of the Academic Council for the East European Stud­ies section of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He co-organizes, with Hana Pichová, the Czech Studies Series, and hosted Muriel Blaive, who spoke about childbirth practices in the United States and Communist Czechoslovakia at UNC last fall. In the spring of 2014 Bryant and Píchová will host the second Czech Studies Workshop at UNC, an event that brings together young scholars from a wide range of disciplines to discuss the latest work in our field. Email: bryantc@email.unc.edu.
MELISSA BULLARD published “William Roscoe’s Renaissance in America,” in Roscoe and Italy, ed. Stella Fletcher, Ashgate Press, 2012, pp. 217-40. The chapter forms part of her on-going research on the Transatlantic Renaissance. Prof. Bullard was on leave in the fall semester 2012, funded by a Reynolds faculty leave. She returned to the classroom in January, also to chair the committee tasked with hiring a modern Jewish historian. The search reached a successful conclusion, and Prof. Karen Auerbach of Monash University in Australia will be joining the department in January 2014. Email: bullard@email.unc.edu.
PETER A. COCLANIS published the following pieces this year: “Global South,” and (with David L. Carlton) “1938 Report on Eco­nomic Conditions of the South,” in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 20: Social Class, ed. Larry Griffin and Peggy G. Hargis (UNC Press, 2012); “Why Don’t Ya Hear Me Cryin’?” The Griot: The Journal of African American Studies (Spring 2012); “In Carnegie’s Life, A Parable of Capitalism,” bloomberg.com, August 10, 2012; “Some Possible Consequences for High-School Sports of Changing Governmental Housing Policies,” Black Sports: The Magazine 9 (September 2012); “The Answer to Europe’s Woes: Americans,” Prospect [U.K.], September 10, 2012; (with Louis M. Kyriakoudes) “The M-Factor in Southern History,” in Ambiguous Anniversary: The Bicentennial of the International Slave Trade Bans, ed. David T. Gleeson and Simon Keith (University of South Carolina Press, 2012); (with Robert Miles and Niklaus Steiner) “International Internships: Establishing Better Rules for the Game,” International Educator 21 (November-December 2012); “It Withers Quicker than the Rose (with apologies to A.E. Housman),” Black 5
Sports: The Magazine, Forum (February 2013); “Asia’s Next Tigers? Burma, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka,” World Affairs 175 (March-April 2013); “Rethinking the Economic History of Early Modern India,” Technology and Culture 54 (April 2013). Along with Daniel P. Gitterman, he wrote two policy reports released by UNC-Chapel Hill’s Global Research Institute: Recession and Recovery in North Carolina: A Data Snapshot, 2007-12 (August 2012) and Moving Beyond Plato Versus Plumbing: Individualized Education and Career Passways for all North Carolinians (September 2012). He also published two essays on basketball for SLAM Online (January 30, 2013 and March 27, 2013), a humor piece in Insert Eyeroll, November 28, 2012, and (with Angelo Coclanis) a photograph in the Chapel Hill News (September 9, 2012). He published a number of pieces in newspapers this year, including the Wall Street Journal (September 15-16, 2012), the New York Daily News (August 13, 2012) the Singapore Straits Times (January 21, 2013 and April 5, 2013), the Raleigh News & Observer (May 2, 2012; June 25, 2012; January 22, 2013) and the Durham Herald-Sun (July 24, 2012 and February 22, 2013). With Daniel P. Gitterman, he also co-authored two pieces for the Raleigh News & Observer (September 3, 2012 and November 11, 2012). He published nine book reviews this year, three in academic journals (Environmental History, the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History) and six in the Raleigh News & Observer/Charlotte Observer. He presented papers at North Carolina State University (May 2012), Harvard University (August 2012), Arkansas State University (October 2012), the University of Sussex in the U.K. (October 2012), UNC-Greensboro (March 2013), the University of Pennsylvania (March 2013), and Vance-Granville Community College (April 2013), and participated in a forum in Charlotte for journalists covering the 2012 Democratic Party conven­tion, which was televised on C-SPAN. In April 2013 he participated in a forum on the work of Samuel Huntington held at the Alexander Hamilton Institute in Clinton, New York, and also gave talks to a half dozen groups in the Triangle area. He edits the Journal of the Historical Society, and is a member of the editorial boards of Enterprise and Society, the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and South­ern Cultures. He served on the program committees for the 2013 meeting of the Economic History Association and the 2014 meeting of the American Historical Association, and is the Economic History Association’s representative to the American Historical Association (2013-2015). He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the OAH, and 2nd Vice President of SIP/OSSECS. He continues to serve on the Singa­pore Ministry of Education’s International Expert Panel, is a Fellow at the Carolina Population Center, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of a Bangkok-based NGO: the Kenan Institute Asia. In March 2013 he served as an external reviewer of the History Department at the University of Iowa. He continues to serve as Director of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Global Research Institute, and, as usual, did a good bit of traveling this year, including visits to Singapore (three times), Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Canada, France, and the U.K. Email: coclanis@unc.edu.
KATHLEEN DUVAL continued to serve as the History Department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies, a College of Arts and Sci­ences Abbey Fellow, a member of the UNC Press Board of Governors, an OAH Distinguished Lecturer, and the organizer of the Tri­angle Early American History Seminar (TEAHS), which meets monthly in RTP. This spring, she began a term on the Faculty Advisory Board for UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South. She is on the program committee for three upcoming conferences and on the Board of Editors of the Journal of the Early Republic and the Arkansas Historical Quarterly and the Faculty Advisory Board for Traces, UNC’s Undergraduate History Journal. This year, Professor DuVal led workshops for middle school and high school teachers at the National Humanities Center and the Teaching American History Program in Little Rock. She spoke on her new book project, about the American Revolution on the Gulf Coast, at the Huntington Library and gave the final commentary at the Porter L. Fortune, Jr., His­tory Symposium on “European Empires in the American South” at the University of Mississippi. Two of her articles were collected in volumes of influential scholarship on borderlands published by Routledge and Wadsworth. She has received a faculty fellowship from UNC’s Institute for Arts and Humanities, where she will spend next fall semester. Email: duval@email.unc.edu.
WILLIAM FERRIS published an introduction to Tom Piazza’s The Southern Journey of Alan Lomax: Words, Photographs, and Music (Library Of Congress in association with W.W. Norton & Co., 2012). He also published two articles in academic journals. “Seven South­ern Authors: A Photo Essay” appeared in the Fall 2012 issue of The Southern Quarterly, and “‘I Know What the Earth Says’: From An Interview with Alice Walker” appeared in the Fall 2012 issue of The Georgia Review. His work was featured in two exhibitions, “Bill Ferris Speaks on the Blues,” at FRANK Art Gallery in Chapel Hill (January 17, 2013) and “An Evening with Bill Ferris” at The Friday Center, also in Chapel Hill (February 15, 2013). He was the focus of a Daily Tar Heel article: “Q & A with Author, Professor Bill Ferris” (February 14, 2013). He was interviewed on WUNC’s The State of Things to discuss The Southern Journey of Alan Lomax. He was also a guest on two HuffPost Live shows, speaking about the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and about Faith in North Carolina. He gave the Keynote Address at two organizations’ annual meetings--the Appalachian Studies Association (Boone, NC) and New Voyages to Carolina (Asheville, NC). Finally, he is the host of a new lecture series at the Center for the Study of the American South, “What’s Up Down South,” which features artists, scholars, and others who discuss their work on the American South. Email: wferris@unc.edu.
MILES FLETCHER co-edited with Peter W. von Staden a volume of essays published by Routledge in the fall, 2012, Japan’s Lost Decade: Causes, Legacies, and Issues of Transformative Change. He also participated in and made summary comments for a sympo­sium and workshop in Japan, “Making Modern Citizens.” These events were part of a year-long collaborative project between the UNC History Department and Japanese historians from various universities. Following a workshop in Chapel Hill in September, 2011, which featured presentations by six Japanese scholars and remarks by UNC historians, the June, 2012, symposium and workshop in Tokyo centered on presentations by three UNC historians with commentary from Japanese scholars. A limited number of copies of the Proceed­ings were published in Japan. Email: wmfletch@email.unc.edu.
KAREN HAGEMANN published in the last academic year a paperback edition of the book Representing Masculinity: Citizenship in Modern Western Culture that she co-edited with Stefan Dudink and Anna Clark (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). In addition three book chapters came out: “Gendered Boundaries: Civil Society, the Public/Private Divide, and the Family,” in The Golden Chain: 6
Family, Civil Society and the State, ed. by Paul Ginsborg, Jürgen Nautz and Ton Nijhuis (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2013), 43-65; “‘German Women Help To Win!’ Women and the German Military in the Age of World Wars,” in The Brill Companion to Women’s Military History, ed. by Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012), 485-512; and “A ‘Valor­ous Nation’ in a ‘Holy War’: War Mobilization, Religion and Political Culture in Prussia, 1807 to 1815,” in The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture, ed. by Michael Broers, Agustin Guimera and Peter Hicks (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 186-200. She continued to work on her monograph Revisiting Prussia’s War against Napoleon: History, Culture, Memory that will published by Cambridge University Press, and the Oxford Handbook Gender, War and the Western World since 1650 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017) that she started as the editor-in-chief in cooperation with Dirk Bonker, Stefan Dudink and Sonya O. Rose. She gave university lectures at the University of Iowa and the University of Maine in Oct. 2012 and March 2013 and the keynote at a conference on Political Masculinities in Literature and Culture organized by the University of Landau and the University of Vienna in Dec. 2012 and the Consortium of the Revolutionary Era in Feb. 2013. In addition she was the main organizer and speaker of the “North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series” (http://www.unc.edu/ncgs/index.html) and the Duke-UNC Seminar Series “Gender, War and Culture” (http://gwc.web.unc.edu/) for which she won together with Annegret Fauser an Ariana Vigil an Arts and Sciences Grant for Interdisciplinary Initiatives. Email: hagemann@unc.edu.
JACQUELYN DOWD HALL received the Mary Turner Lane Award for outstanding contributions to the lives of women students, faculty, staff and administrators at UNC-Chapel Hill. She delivered two lectures series: the 35th Annual Merle Curti Lectures at the Uni­versity of Wisconsin-Madison and the Littlefield Lectures at the University of Texas-Austin. She continued to serve on the steering com­mittees of the Center on Class, Labor, and Social Sustainability (CLASS) at Duke University and of Scholars for a Progressive North Carolina. Her efforts to bring a historical perspective to bear on contemporary issues included “A Positive History Worth Preserving,” with William Chafe, Raleigh News and Observer, May 8, 2013 (http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/05/08/2880510/an-nc-history-worth-preserving.html#disqus_thread). Email: jhall@email.unc.edu.
KONRAD H. JARAUSCH published volume three of the history of Berlin University, 1945-2000 for which he wrote about the con­troversial restructuring during and after the overthrow of Communism. Among about two dozen talks, he gave a keynote at the second World Humanities Forum in Pusan/Korea on the cathartic benefits of dealing openly with a dictatorial past. He spent the spring at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, finishing a big book on 20th century Europe. Email: jarausch@email.unc.edu.
JOHN KASSON’S short article, “Overcoming Hatred: The Continuing Relevance of Martin Luther King, Jr,” appeared in Insights on Law and Society, published by the American Bar Association, in the Spring 2013 issue. He served as chair and commentator at the ses­sion, “Exposed to the Elements: The Politics of the Natural Body,” at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in San Francisco in April 2013. He is currently completing a book on Shirley Temple and the Great Depression, to be published by W. W. Norton in 2014. Email: jfkasson@email.unc.edu.
MICHELLE KING has been working on her book manuscript, Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China, to be published by Stanford University Press in 2013. Email: mtking@email.unc.edu.
LLOYD KRAMER completed his term as chair of the History Department and prepared to pass the Department’s administrative leadership on to his highly qualified, experienced successor, Fitz Brundage. Kramer published a review essay in Reviews in American History, worked on revisions for a new edition of his textbook (Palmer/Colton/Kramer, A History of Europe in the Modern World), and commented on papers for a session on family identities during the French Revolution at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies (Cambridge, MA, April 2013). His administrative duties kept him deeply involved in UNC activities and committees, but Kramer also served as co-chair of the European History Test Development Committee for the College Board’s Advanced Placement examinations. He thanks all faculty colleagues, students, alumni, donors, departmental staff, and College administrators for their diverse contributions to the vibrant community of the UNC History Department during his nine active, gratifying years as departmental chair. E-mail: lkramer@email.unc.edu.
WAYNE LEE continues as the chair of Peace, War, and Defense, through which he directs the UNC-TISS National Security Fellows Program. He also continues to work on a world military history monograph, now more than two-thirds complete. The manuscript is due at Oxford next summer. During the spring semester he spent most weekends attending a Folger Shakespeare Library seminar on the legal systems in the early modern British empire. This summer he will spend 3 weeks doing partnership work with Kings College London (delivering two talks), and then 3 weeks working on the Diros Project—a multidisciplinary archaeological effort in southern Greece (which received a grant from the National Geographic Society). This year he published the fruits of years of field work in Albania as the author of several chapters in, and the co-editor of, Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania (Cotsen Institute). He also published an essay: “Keeping the Irish Down and the Spanish Out: English Strategies of Submission in Ireland, 1594-1603,” in Hybrid Warfare: Fighting Complex Opponents from the Ancient World to the Present, Williamson Murray and Peter Mansoor, eds. (Cambridge). He has given invited lectures at the University of Tennessee, the University of Michigan, West Point, and Tulane University. Although invited to become the interim Minerva Fellow at the Naval Academy next year, he chose to remain at UNC to more carefully harass his graduate students. Email: welee@email.unc.edu.
LISA LINDSAY spent the fall 2012 semester as a fellow at UNC’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities, where she drafted several chapters of her book in progress, Atlantic Bonds: A Family Story through Slavery, Freedom and Colonization. In the spring of 2013 she was also on leave and working on her book, thanks to a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. With her 7
colleague John Wood Sweet, she finalized their edited collection, Biography and the Black Atlantic, which will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press this fall. She wrote two short pieces for publication by the American Historical Association: “The Appeal of Transnational History,” which came out in Perspectives on History in December, 2012; and “The African Diaspora and the Political Imagination,” which will appear in late 2013 in an AHA pamphlet edited by Antoinette Burton and called The Feedback Loop: Historians Talk about the Links between Research and Teaching. Lindsay also prepared an essay for a forum on Atlantic slavery in the Journal of African History, entitled “Extroversion and the Politics of Culture in the Atlantic Slave Trade,” which should be published this year. Email: lalindsa@email.unc.edu.
MALINDA MAYNOR LOWERY received tenure in the History Department at UNC in the summer of 2012. In 2012 she was one of four faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences who received the Hettleman Prize for Artistic or Scholarly Achievement. In the past year she has published a chapter in Recognition, Sovereignty, and Indigenous Struggles in the United States: A Sourcebook (UNC Press, 2013) and her book, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation (UNC Press, 2010) is in its second printing. Currently she has several works in progress. She presented her research on the connections between Southeastern Indian music and the Delta blues at the American Society for Ethnohistory annual meeting (November, 2012). She is currently revising an article on Indians, violence and the racial boundary in Montgomery County, Georgia in 1893. She is also drafting a book manuscript, tentatively entitled The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle, which is under advanced contract with UNC Press. The book is a survey of Lumbee history from 1521 to the present for a general audience of students, scholars, and devotees of American history. In the past year she has also given talks on race, community engagement, and American history at USC-Lancaster, Guilford College, and the New­berry Library. She concluded her Mellon Foundation “New Directions” fellowship in historical geography, and as a result she is creating historical maps in GIS and created a digital humanities course on Lumbee History, which was taught in Spring 2013 (see http://www.lumbeehistory.com). She was elected to a two-year term on the Nominating Committee of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and continues to serve as Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Independent Television Service. Email: mmaynor@email.unc.edu.
TERENCE MCINTOSH presented the paper “Discipline and Repentance: The Lutheran Pastor’s Admonitory Office in Seventeenth-Century Germany” and served as the commentator of the session “Shaping Frontiers: Pietist and Anti-Pietist Sentiment in the Eighteenth Century” at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association (Milwaukee, WI, 6-7 October 2012). He also presented the paper “August Hermann Franckes Behandlung des Themas Kirchenzucht in seinem Collegium pastorale” at the conference “Francke und seine Könige. Hallischer Pietismus und Preußen (ca. 1690-1750)” (Halle an der Saale, Germany, 17 January 2013), and he received a Herzog-Ernst-Stipendium der Fritz Thyssen Stiftung for one month of research at the Forschungsbibliothek Gotha and Thüringisches Staatsarchiv in Germany. Email: terence_mcintosh@unc.edu.
LOUISE MCREYNOLDS published a book, Murder Most Russian: True Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial Russia (Cornell University Press). She presented papers at the annual conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (New Orleans) and the Southern Slavic Conference (Greensboro). Moreover, the latter organization presented her with its Senior Scholar Award. Email: louisem@email.unc.edu.
MATTHEW DAVID MITCHELL is completing the first of two years as a postdoctoral fellow with the UNC Department of History. He has written an article entitled “‘Legitimate commerce’ in the eighteenth century: the Royal African Company of England under the Duke of Chandos, 1720-1726” that will appear in Enterprise and Society during the next academic year. In November he addressed the Triangle Global British History Seminar and in May presented at the annual meeting of the Economic and Business Historical Soci­ety in Baltimore, Maryland. Matthew has also developed an undergraduate special topics course entitled “The British Atlantic World, 1500-1850,” which he offered during spring 2013 and will offer a second time during 2013-14. He has been invited to attend a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute at Duke University entitled “The History of Political Economy.” In the coming year Matthew will spend a month conducting research at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California on an Andrew W. Mellon Founda­tion Fellowship in the amount of $3,000. Email: matmitch@unc.edu.
FRED NAIDEN gave talks on military topics at Washington and Lee, Tulane, the annual convention of the Society of Military His­tory, and, via Skype, at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, home of the 3rd Marines. In his other specialty, Greek law and religion, he spoke at the universities of Edinburgh and Reading and also in the Flyleaf Book Series. In May 2012, he served as a conference and panel organizer, and also as a speaker, at the annual convention of the Association of Ancient Historians, which met at UNC and Duke. Late in 2012, his second monograph, Smoke Signals for the Gods: Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods, was published by Oxford; early in 2013, his seven articles for the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History appeared. Email: naiden@email.unc.edu.
SUSAN DABNEY PENNYBACKER was based in Delhi for nine months of this year, as a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellow, attached to Delhi University and the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML), where she conducted archival work on her book-in-progress on political exile, refuge, and dissent in postwar London, entitled Fire By Night, Cloud By Day. She also held a Research and Study Leave from UNC-CH. Pennybacker presented her work on the transnational history of the former British empire and London (1930-postwar era), at the South Asian University (New Delhi), Delhi University; the Fulbright/Nehru conference in Kochi, Kerala; the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgystan; and in the series India and the Wider World, at the NMML. Pennybacker spoke on the panel The European Metropolis and Transnational Networks in Cold War Political Culture, 1945-89 at the Urban History Association, Columbia University and served as discussant for the “Politics of Conviction…” session at the North American Confer­ence on British Studies in Montreal. In May, 2012, she served as a UNC-King’s College (KCL) King’s Fund awardee, presenter, and 8
co-convener of the Lost Futures and the British Empires: research and methodologies, held at Honors UNC-CH’s Winston House, London, and the Dept. of History, KCL. In June, 2012, she spoke at the UNC-CH/Senshu University conference in Tokyo, Making Modern Citizens II: politics, culture and struggles for reform, and presented papers to the British Imperial History Association, Tokyo, and the World History Seminar, Osaka University. Her comments from the UNC-CH/Senshu workshop Making Modern Citizens I, and “Citizenship and Subject Rights in Metropole and Empire: British Democracy and the Imperial Order, 1867-1948,” were published in Hayumi Higuchi, ed., Making Modern Citizens: the proceedings of 2011—2012 Collaborative Project… (Tokyo, 2012.) She contributed “Writing a ‘Transnational’ History—From Scottsboro to Munich: race and political culture in 1930s Britain,” to Public History: Journal of History for the Public, vol.10, Osaka, 2013; “Empire and its Discontents: Burton in Retrospect,” to a forum on A. Burton, Empire in Question, for Victorian Studies, 2012; and the “Afterword” to Eve Rosenhaft and Robbie Aitken, eds., Africa in Europe: studies in transnational practice in the long 20th century (Liverpool, 2012). Email: pennybac@email.unc.edu.
MORGAN PITELKA published an essay titled “The Tokugawa Storehouse: Ieyasu’s Encounters with Things” in the volume Early Modern Things: Objects and Their Histories, 1500-1800, ed. Paula Findlen (Routledge, 2013). He worked closely with the Ackland Art Museum on the “Season of Japan” series of programs and exhibitions in the fall of 2012, and gave a lecture there in November titled “The Art and Politics of Samurai Sociability.” He organized a workshop held at UNC in March, 2013, titled “Work in Early Modern Ja­pan: Precarious Pasts,” and presented a paper there, “The Precarious Work of War in the Late 16th Century.” He served as the discussant for the panel “Curating Gestures: Performance and Material Culture in Early Modern Japan” at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. He gave a lecture at the University of Virginia in April, titled “The Politics of Culture in Samurai Displays of Art.” He also served for the second year as Director of the Triangle Center for Japanese Studies, a collaboration of UNC, Duke, and NCSU, and was appointed to be the new Director of the Carolina Asia Center. Email: mpitelka@unc.edu.
CYNTHIA RADDING continued to serve the History Department as Director of Graduate Studies and as a member of the Depart­ment Executive Committee. In recognition of her scholarship, she won the American Society for Environmental History’s Leopold/Hidy award for her article that was published in Environmental History in January, 2012: “The Children of Mayahuel: Agaves, Human Cultures, and Desert Landscapes in Northern Mexico,” pp. 84-115. In addition, Radding’s article, “The Colonial Pact: Sonora, 1740-1840,” was reprinted in a new volume on borderlands edited by Brian DeLay and published by Routledge: North American Borderlands. Rewriting Histories (New York: Routledge, 2013). Cynthia Radding presented advances on her current book project, Bountiful Deserts, Imperial Shadows, at the annual meetings of the American Society for Environmental History, the American Society for Ethnohistory, the American Historical Association, and at the Huntington Library/University of Southern California Early Modern Institute Seminar Series. Email: radding@email.unc.edu.
DONALD J. RALEIGH launched the new academic year by serving as enrichment lecturer on the UNC Alumni Association’s Wa­terways of Russia cruise between Moscow and St. Petersburg (July 4-17). He coedited with Michael Melancon, Russian’s Century of Revolutions: People, Places, Parties: Studies Presented in Honor of Alexander Rabinowitch (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2012), and published an article “‘On the Other Side of the Wall, Things are Even Better.’ Travel and the Opening of the Soviet Union: The Oral Evidence,” in the no. 4 (2012) issue of the Russian historical journal Ab Imperio. In October, Raleigh presented a paper “Doing Local History or, from Social History to Oral History,” at a conference at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea, and, later that month, “Stravinsky’s Russia: The Politics of Cultural Ferment,” at a UNC conference on the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. At the annual meeting of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies in November, Raleigh gave his first conference paper on his new book project, a biography of L. I. Brezhnev, “I Dressed Brezhnev: Leonid Ilich’s Tailor and Others Remember Russia’s Most Maligned—and Popular—GenSec,” and also commented on a panel. In April he traveled to Champaign-Urbana to give a talk on his recently published Soviet Baby Boomers, which was shortlisted in May 2013 for the inaugural Pushkin House Prize, presented in the UK. During his departmental leave in the spring of 2013 he, in collaboration with two Russian and one German historian, worked on preparing L. I. Brezhnev’s diaries for publication in Russia. He belongs to the editorial board of Soviet and Post-Soviet Review; Region: Regional Studies of Russian, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia; AIRO (Moscow); and Russian Studies in History. Email: djr@email.unc.edu.
IQBAL SEVEA published his first book, The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal: Islam and Nationalism in Late Colonial India (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012). Earlier this year, he was invited to speak to faculty and students at Hamilton College about his book and, more generally, Islam’s interaction with modernity in South Asia. He also spent the year researching and writing on the complex relation between the state and society in Pakistan as reflected in Punjabi cinema. In particular, he has been exploring the disjuncture between representations of Islam, identities (caste, religious, and national) and the state in Punjabi films and the Pakistani state’s official position.
SARAH SHIELDS traveled this year to talk about her work on national identities, the Middle East, and the interwar period. She pre­sented parts of this research at the meetings of the Middle East Studies Association and the American Historical Association, as well as a conference, “From the League of Nations to the United Nations” sponsored by the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She gave talks on the interwar period, modern Turkey, and the recent Arab uprisings to public audiences in Highlands, Goldsboro, Durham, and Chapel Hill, as well as UNC’s London outpost, Winston House. Email: sshields@email.unc.edu.
RICHARD TALBERT published two volumes: Ancient Perspectives: Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome edited by him (Nebenzahl Lectures, Chicago University Press), and Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World co-edited with two colleagues (Wiley-Blackwell). For each, he wrote the Introduction and a contribution: “Urbs Roma to Orbis 9
Romanus: Roman mapping on the grand scale,” to the former, and “Roads not featured: a Roman failure to communicate ?” to the latter. His co-edited volume Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies (Wiley-Blackwell) appeared in a paperback edition, and his co-authored book The Romans from Village to Empire in a Czech translation (Grada). He published a lengthy guide to scholarship and resources, “Maps,” in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, as well as contributions on a variety of topics: “Peutinger’s map before Peutinger,” in J. Weiss and S. Salih, Locating the Middle Ages: The Spaces and Places of Medieval Culture (King’s College, London); “The unfinished state of the map: what is missing, and why ?,” in C. Gallazzi, B. Kramer, S. Settis, Intorno al Papiro di Artemidoro (LED, Milan); “El sistema viario romano desde una perspectiva global,” in G. Bravo and R. González Salinero, Ver, Viajar y Hospedarse en el Mundo Romano (Signifer, Madrid); “Worldview reflected in Roman military diplomas,” in K. Geus and M. Rathmann, Vermessung der Oikumene (De Gruyter); and “Maps, Late Antiquity,” in R. Bagnall et al., The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Wiley-Blackwell), a major initiative for which he also served as Advisory Board member. Talbert co-organized the 2012 an­nual meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians jointly hosted by UNC and Duke University. He completed his service as the Archaeological Institute of America’s Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecturer with a lecture at the Missouri History Museum, St Louis. He accepted invitations to give lectures – and in some instances a seminar too – at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, University of Washing­ton Seattle (Ridgway Lecture), Portland State University Oregon, College of Charleston SC, and Tulane University. He was a keynote speaker at the International Symposium on Ancient World History in China at Nankai University, Tianjin, and gave the response to the Christopher Roberts Lecture at Dickinson College, PA. A major summer commitment was to co-direct a five-week National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar for College and University Teachers, “Communication, Empire, and the City of Rome,” at the American Academy in Rome. Talbert returned to Rome as the first Suzanne Deal Booth Scholar in Residence at the Inter-Collegiate Center for Classical Studies. He completed a six-year term as Chair of the Advisory Council to the School of Classical Studies, American Academy in Rome. He chaired the search committee for the Department’s new postdoctoral position in digital history, a joint initiative with the Digital Humanities Center. He continues as Chair of the Faculty Advisory Board for UNC’s Program in the Humanities and Human Values. He also remains co-editor of the UNC Press series Studies in the History of Greece and Rome, and American Journal of Philol­ogy’s associate editor for ancient history. Two memorable highlights of the year related to his ongoing research were the opportunities to attend the opening of the special exhibit Le Temps des Romains: Perception, Mesure et Instruments at the Musée de Picardie, Amiens, France, and to inspect fragments of the Forma Urbis (Rome’s Marble Plan) brought out of storage at the Museo della Civiltà Romana, EUR, Rome. For Talbert’s involvement with Ancient World Mapping Center, see its report. Email: talbert@email.unc.edu.
BENJAMIN WATERHOUSE spent the majority of his non-teaching time this year finalizing the manuscript for his first book, Lobby­ing America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA, which Princeton University Press will publish in December 2013, as well as an article for the Journal of American History. He also presented research at Duke University and reviewed prize applications at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference. In the classroom, Waterhouse introduced a completely overhauled version of UNC’s longstanding course on American history since 1945, now titled “Politics and Society Since the New Deal.” He received a Junior Fac­ulty Development Award from the university to support research on a new book project on the politics of small business in 20th century America. Email: waterhou@email.unc.edu.
BRETT WHALEN spent the academic year teaching and finishing his history of the medieval papacy for Palgrave MacMillan, direct­ing the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS), and presenting his work at a number of professional conferences, including the American Historical Association (New Orleans) and the Medieval Academy of America (Knoxville). In January, his article “Antichrist as (Anti)Charisma: Reflections on Weber and the ‘Son of Perdition’” appeared in the online journal Religions. He also started a new monograph examining the controversial papacy of Innocent IV (1243-1254). In January, he was extremely gratified to win one of UNC-Chapel Hill’s prestigious Chapman Family Teaching awards. Next year, he will spend the fall at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the spring at the Carolina’s Institute for Arts and Humanities as a Chapman fellow, researching and writing his book on Pope Innocent. Email: bwhalen@email.unc.edu.
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EMERITUS NEWS
SAMUEL BARON has been invited as Guest of Honor to the 1963 Class Reunion at Grinnell College, where he taught ten years. He has also been invited to a scholarly conference in St. Petersburg, Russia in September, 2013 on Russia’s first Marxist Revolutionary Organization.
LAWRENCE KESSLER published an article, “Red Rendezvous: An Englishman’s Encounters with Chinese Communism,” Southeast Review of Asian Studies, 34 (2012). He also conducted workshops on “Early China” and “Intellectual Traditions of China” for secondary school teachers, under the aegis of the Teaching Asia Network, Greenville, SC, June 2012. Email: kessler@unc.edu.
DICK KOHN continued to help journalists covering the military, and lectured on national defense: on issues facing the military in general and the army in particular to the office of the army general counsel; on priorities in military professionalism to the Naval War College ethics symposium and to officers and senior enlisted soldiers at Fort Benning; and on civil-military relations to the class and faculty at the National War College. At the Society for Military History annual meetings in May 2012 and March 2013, he chaired two sessions and commented on two others, in addition to joining a panel of other former presidents of the Society on its past, present, and future. With colleague Peter Feaver and Charlie Dunlap at Duke, and Eliot Cohen at SAIS, he designed and taught in a two-day work­shop on civil-military relations for three-star officers, then followed up with a portion of that (“Myths and Realities of Civil-Military Relations”) for the National Defense University’s short course for new generals and admirals and for three-stars in the course on joint task force operations. Dick accepted another three-year term on the governing board of the National History Center, as it transitioned to a closer integration with the AHA. Also continuing is service on the external advisory board of UNC’s Program in the Humanities and Human Values, and on the National Advisory Board of the University’s Citizen Soldier Support Program. Dick’s research progressed on President Obama’s relationship with the military; it will be included in a book of his own essays on civilian control of the military to be published in 2014 by Routledge. Email: rhkohn@unc.edu.
MICHAEL MCVAUGH published “El món mèdic de Castelló d’Empùries a principis del segle XIV,” in Mot so razo 10-11 (2011-2012), 1-16. He also gave a number of talks during the past year. In September 2012 he delivered an invited paper, “The Future of a Disease,” to a conference on “Divination and the Epistemology of Prognostic Sciences in the Middle Ages,” held at the Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung, Erlangen (Germany). In early April 2013 he presented a paper, “‘Tabula tantum’: The Story of a Genre That Failed,” to the international seminar, “Les genres et les livres médicaux: Aux origines d’une médecine ancienne,” sponsored by the Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, Avignon (France); later that same month he delivered a paper on “The Maimonidean Translations of Armengaud Blaise” to the 19th Annual Gruss Colloquium in Judaic Studies, “Patterns of Relations: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the 13th Century,” held at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylva­nia, Philadelphia, PA.
RICHARD PFAFF was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity by The General Theological Seminary, the oldest such institution of the Episcopal Church, at its May 2012 commencement in Manhattan.
GERHARD L. WEINBERG published “How a Second World War Happened” in Thomas W. Zeiler with Daniel Dubois (eds.), A Companion to World War II (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), Vol. 1, pp. 13-28, and “The Place of World War II in Global His­tory,” Vol. 2, pp. 998-1012; “Roosevelt, Truman and the Holocaust,” in Nancy E. Rupprecht and Wendy Koenig (eds.), The Holocaust and World War II in History and Memory (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), pp. 76-84; “Another Look at Hitler and the Beginning of the Holocaust,” in Sara R. Horowitz (ed.), Lessons and Legacies X: Back to the Sources; Reexamining Perpetrators, Victims and Bystanders (Evanston Il: Northwestern University Press, 2012), pp. 5-12; “World War II,” in Roger Chicker­ing, Dennis Showalter, Hans van de Ven (eds.), The Cambridge History of War, Vol. IV, War and the Modern World (Cambridge: Cam­bridge University Press, 2012), pp. 378-410, and this piece is also in the book edited by Rupprecht and Koenig, pp. 14-42; “Four Days in December [1941],” in World War II, 27, No. 4 (Nov.-Dec. 2012): 33-39; and “Surrender in World War II,” in Holger Afflerbach and Hew Strachan (eds.), How Fighting Ends: A History of Surrender (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 313-317. In addition to several talks for UNC’s Program in the Humanities and for World View, he lectured at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., the National War College, George Mason University, the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, the National World War II Museum, the extension program of the Naval War College, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the National Judicial College Washington D.C. program, Ohio University, and Colby College. He commented on papers at the meetings of the Southern Historical Association, the German Studies Association, and the Society for Military History where he also chairs the Moncado Prize Committee, and participated in a World War II workshop at the University of Toronto. These presentations and commentaries all dealt with World War II and/or the Holocaust. Email: gweinber@email.unc.edu. 13
ALUMNI NEWS
RODERICK GLEN AYERS (MA/1972/Douglas) continues to practice law in San Antonio, Texas, with the firm of Langley &
Banack, Inc. He was elected to the American Law Institute this last winter. Email: gayers@langleybanack.com.
BRUCE E. BAKER (PhD/2003/Hall) completed his ninth (and final) year at Royal Holloway, University of London. Working with Barbara Hahn, he completed the manuscript for a book about cotton futures trading in New Orleans and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Agreeing on a title has been the only problematic aspect of the collaboration. Looking for a new topic that might bring him back to New Orleans, he decided to research the outbreaks of bubonic plague there between 1914 and 1919, which led to a visit to NARA II in March and, of course, a week in New Orleans. He also found a publisher (Southern Classics Series, University of South Carolina Press) for The South at Work: Observations from 1904 by William Garrott Brown, which he had edited and written an introduction for. Bruce also continued to miss deadlines for the journal he edits, American Nineteenth Century History. Over summer 2013, he is moving north to Newcastle University, so look for him there in future.
THOMAS N. BAKER (MA/1989/Capper/PhD/1995/ Kasson) is teaching 19th-century American history and directing the honors program at the State University of New York at Potsdam. In July 2012 his article, “‘An Attack Well Directed’: Aaron Burr Intrigues for the Presidency,” was awarded the 2011 Ralph D. Gray Article Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. He also received the 2013 President’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities at SUNY Potsdam. Email: bakertn@potsdam.edu.
ROBERT D. BILLINGER, JR. (MA/1968/Kraehe/PhD/1973/Cecil) continues to serve as the Ruth Davis Horton Professor of His­tory in the Department of History and Political Science at Wingate University. He is a Road Scholar for the North Carolina Humanities Council and is a frequent speaker in North Carolina and Florida about his books, Nazi POWs in the Tar Heel State and Hitler’s Soldiers in the Sunshine State. He is currently serving his third and final year on the Executive Committee of the Southern Historical Association. Email: billingr@wingate.edu.
EMILY BINGHAM (MA/1991/PhD/1998/Mathews) is revising her biography of Henrietta Bingham. She delivered the 2013 Henry D. Ormsby Lectures at the Filson Historical Society, “Seeing the Help: Perspectives in the History and Culture of Domestic Service in the United States.” She also gave a talk titled “Curiouser and Curioser” at her 25th college reunion. In the spring of 2013, she was made a member of the University of Louisville board of trustees. Email: emily@emilybingham.net.
SARAH E. BOND (MA/2007/PhD/2011/Talbert) is teaching Ancient and Early Medieval history at Marquette University in Milwau­kee, Wisconsin, where she is an assistant professor in the History Department. She recently had an article published in the Spring 2013 volume of the Journal of Late Antiquity, “Mortuary Workers, the Church, and the Funeral Trade in Late Antiquity”. She participated in the national conference of the Archaeological Institute of America in Seattle in January 2013, presenting a paper on Roman brewers and also presented a paper in May at the Association of Ancient Historians meeting at The Ohio State University on Greco-Roman tanners. She has a forthcoming chapter in Koen Verboven’s volume on Work, Labor and Professions in the Roman World regarding Roman mint workers, is currently working on several entries for the forthcoming Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity published by Oxford University Press, and had a review published in the American Journal of Archaeology. She served as a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome this summer, and has recently been elected as co-chair for the Society for Late Antiquity. Email: sarah.bond@marquette.edu.
LEE L. BRICE (PhD/2003/Talbert) is Professor of Ancient History at Western Illinois University. His most recent book, Greek War­fare from the Battle of Marathon to the Conquests of Alexander the Great, was published by ABC-Clio books in November 2012. He is continuing work on an ancient warfare textbook. In the last year Lee had an article on experimental history and pedagogy with a trebuchet published in History Teacher and a chapter on the Athenian expedition to Sicily appears in the Oxford Handbook of Warfare in the Classical World. His reviews have appeared in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Classical Journal, and the Journal of Military History. Lee has been selected by the American School of Classical Studies in Athens as a Gertrude Smith Professor and Co-Director of the Sum­mer Program for 2014 and by Brill as series editor for a new series, Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean. He also presented research at conferences in Athens and at the University of Calgary as well as being a Road Scholar speaker for the Illinois Humanities Council.
Email: ll-brice@wiu.edu.
BLAINE A. BROWNELL (MA/1967/Tindall/PhD/1969/Mowry) lives in Charlottesville, VA and is currently writing the recent history (1930 to 2000) of Washington and Lee University. He served as a consultant to the Minister for Higher Education and Research in the United Arab Emirates for academic planning, graduate education, and research at the national university in Al Ain. He is the immedi­ate Past Chair of both the International Student Exchange Programs in Washington, D.C. and the Charlottesville Committee on Foreign Relations. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Urban History. Email: babrownell@earthlink.net.
CHRISTOPHER CAMERON (MA/2008/PhD/2010/Williams) is an Assistant Professor of early American history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. This year he presented papers at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, and the Triangle Early American History Seminar. His first monograph, To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement, will be published by Kent State University press in 2014. Additionally, Cognella Academic Publishing will publish his document collection Early American History: Society, Politics, and Culture in the Fall 2013, while ABC-CLIO will publish his primary source collection Abolitionist Movement Documents Decoded in the fall of 2014. Cameron received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Massachusetts Historical Society 14
to conduct research for a book on early American liberal theology during the 2013-2014 academic year, and he is also working on a monograph exploring black freethought from the mid-19th century to the present.
D’ANN M. CAMPBELL (PhD/1979/Mowry) is teaching American military history and women’s history at Culver Stockton College in Canton, MO. It is one of two colleges that has a 12 week/3 week semester system which allows for domestic and international travel. Campbell has developed new classes that incorporate experiential learning with historical subjects such as interviews and presentations on World War II with children, college students, homemakers, factory workers and servicemen and women during the war. She deliv­ered a paper last June entitled “Patriotism and Propaganda in World War II” at annual meeting of Historians of the Twentieth Century United States, at the Rockefeller Center, Middleburg, The Netherlands. She had several historiographical essays published this year as book chapters including Chapter 3 “Women’s Lives in Wartime: The American Civil War and World War II” in Life Course Perspectives on Military Service, Janet M. Wilmoth and Andrew S. London, eds. Routledge Press. 2012; “Women of WWII,” in Blackwell’s Com­panion to Second World War. Thomas W. Zeiler and Daniel M. DuBois eds. 2013; and “The U.S. Coast Guard Academy”, for the SAGE Reference project Encyclopedia of Military Science, Kurt Piehler ed, 2012. Email: dcampbell@culver.edu.
EMILEE HINES CANTIERI (MA/1964/Pegg) has spent the past year traveling and writing. Travels: Mediterranean (Barcelona-Venice); Kenya, where she taught in the 1960s; Australia and New Zealand; and the west coast of South America and Panama Canal. Writing: she completed The Christmas Dance, a novel set in the mountains of North Carolina, and she is now writing The Prince and the Passion, a historical novel set in Kievan Russia 982 A.D. She has also conducted three workshops on her self-help book, Til Death Do Us Part. She’d like to hear from other Tarheels. Email: emilee214@att.net; Website: www.emileehines.com.
DAVID C. CARLSON (MA/2001/PhD/2007/Pérez) is the archivist of the Bexar County, Texas Spanish Archives in San Antonio. He resigned his assistant professorship in history at the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, and relocated to San Antonio in September 2012. He published a chapter, “‘The Beautiful Ports Will Only Serve as Refuge to Pirates and Malefactors’: Slave Resis­tance, Nationalist Rebellion, Filibuster Expeditions, and Imperial Social Control on Cuba’s Eastern Windward Passage Frontier in the Ten Years’ War, 1868-1878” in Latin American Borderlands: New Frontiers in Race, Religion, Language, and the Arts edited by Leslie Cecil, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012). In March 2013 he presented “Guantánamo Before the Base: Caribbean Inter-imperial Rivalry and Colonial Patterns” at the Curating Guantánamo Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Email: davecarlson68@yahoo.com; Website: dcarlson@bexar.org/.
ENVER M. CASIMIR (MA/2005/PhD/2010/Pérez) is assistant professor of Latin American History and director of African Diaspora Studies at Marist College. His article, “Contours of Transnational Contact: Kid Chocolate, Cuba, and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s,” appeared in the Fall 2012 issue of The Journal of Sport History. He also has an essay titled “A Variable of Unwavering Significance: Latinos, African-Americans and the Racial Identity of Kid Chocolate” that will appear in Jorge Iber’s edited volume More than Just Peloteros: Latino/a Athletes in U.S. Sports History, to be published by Texas Tech University Press. He is currently at work on entries for Kid Chocolate and Martín Dihigo for The Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography (under contract with Oxford University Press), and presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Conference on Latin American History this past January in New Orleans. Email: enverc@mindspring.com.
SANDRA CHANEY (MA/1990/PhD/1997/Jarausch) recently finished her eighteenth year of teaching history at Erskine College in Due West, SC. In August 2012, her book, Nature of the Miracle Years: Conservation in West Germany, 1945-1975 (Berghahn, 2008) was reissued in paperback. She received a tuition scholarship at Vermont Law School last summer where she audited a course comparing environmental law in the US and China. She chaired the American Society for Environmental History Alice Hamilton Prize committee for the best article published outside of Environmental History and presented a paper at the ASEH annual meeting in Toronto. She and her colleague and spouse, David Grier (PhD/1991/Weinberg), have been to China three times in the last eleven months! Last June they returned home after a fantastic sabbatical year teaching history to Chinese juniors at Sias International University (Henan Province). They went back to China in January while leading Erskine students on a 12-day trip (arriving when Beijing’s air was at its worst), then returned to Sias this spring to attend their students’ graduation and continue working on an academic exchange program. Their daughter, Anna Mei (adopted from China in 2004) is 10. Email: chaney@erskine.edu.
EVELYN M. CHERPAK (PhD/1973/Bierck) is archivist/special collections curator at the Naval War College. She revised and pub­lished the manuscript registers of the papers of Wilma J. Miles and RADM Joseph Wellings. Her article entitled “Gentlemen of the Gilded Age: Four Renaissance Men of Newport, Rhode Island” appeared in Newport History. She published a book review in The Northern Mariner. She serves on the Collections Committee and the Publications Committee of the Newport Historical Society. Email: evelyn.cherpak@usnwc.edu.
T. KEVIN CHERRY (MA/1995/McVaugh) was named the Deputy Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources and Director of the Office of Archives and History in August 2012. In this position, he coordinates the activities of the Divisions of State History and Maritime Museums, Historic Sites and Properties, Archives and Records, and Historical Resources (Office of State Archaeology, Historic Preservation Office, Historical Publications, Education and Outreach, Research Branch, and Western Regional Office in Asheville). Kevin lives in Raleigh.
BARRY CLENDENIN (PhD/1975/Baxter) is teaching health policy for the fifth consecutive summer session as an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University’s School of Public Policy in Arlington, Virginia. The course covers health reform’s history in the 20th century and implementation challenges in the 21st century. He published a review in World Medical and Health Policy. In the up­15
coming 2013 fall semester, he will teach “U.S. Financial Policy, Processes and Procedures.” He previously worked in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President between 1977 and 2008. Email: BarryC2@verizon.net.
MARK CLODFELTER (PhD/Leutze/1987) continues to teach as a professor of military strategy at the National War College. In fall 2012, he directed the College’s core course on “War and Statecraft” for 221 students and 17 faculty members, and will do so again in fall 2013 (which will mark the start of his 17th year at NWC). He also serves as the War College’s representative to National Defense University’s Faculty Advisory Council. His book, Beneficial Bombing: The Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945 (University of Nebraska Press, 2010) was a course text at Air Command and Staff College this spring, and Nebraska Press has selected it for paperback publication in Fall/Winter 2013. He remains an avid fan of all Carolina sports. Email: clod@mindspring.com.
MICHAEL J. COPPS (PhD/1967/Klingberg) has accepted a Fellowship at the Harvard University Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Cen­ter on the Press for the fall semester. He will be in residence there but also active in his continuing grassroots work as Special Adviser to the Common Cause Media & Democracy Reform Initiative that he founded after leaving the Federal Communications Commission in January 2012. He continues his country-wide outreach to spark a national dialogue on the future of the nation’s media, with special emphasis on the deteriorating quality of our news and information infrastructure and its pernicious effects on our civic dialogue. An especially enjoyable event for him was a Chapel Hill visit with students and faculty at the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy in February, followed by a public panel in the Wilson Library. Among the articles and op-eds he wrote this past year are two in The Nation: “The New Telecom Oligarchs” (April 22, 2013) and “Sunshine on Dark Money” (February 25, 2013). Email: mjcopps@gmail.com.
JOHN COX (Ph.D./2005/Jarausch) completed his second year teaching Holocaust, genocide & human rights studies at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. He is delighted to be back in North Carolina, far from Florida. John wrote an article, “Nazism’s Other Vic­tims: Racial Ideology, Imperialism, and Genocide,” that was published in Global Dialogue 15:2 (Summer/Fall 2013), as well as a review of a book titled Berlin Ghetto: Herbert Baum and the Anti-Fascist Resistance, by Eric Brothers, for the Journal of Jewish Identities 6:2 (June 2013). Professor Cox presented a paper, “Erasing the Boundaries between Combatants and Non-Combatants: War and Targeted Mass Killing,” at the International Network of Genocide Scholars’ Third Global Conference on Genocide (San Francisco, June 2012). John was selected to participate in the 2012 Curt C. and Else Silberman Seminar for University Faculty (on “Teaching the Gendered Experience of the Holocaust”) at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, June 4-15, 2012. John also organized several events last year on behalf of the Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Studies, and helped twelve students present their work at three separate undergraduate conferences. He also co-led a “Study Abroad” Trip to Auschwitz and Krakow during Spring Break (March 2013). Cox completed a book manuscript (To Kill a People: Genocide in the Twentieth Century) that will be published later this year by Pearson Prentice Hall.
IAN CROWE (PhD/2008/ Smith) teaches European and Non-Western History at Brewton-Parker College in southeast Georgia. His book, Patriotism and Public Spirit: Edmund Burke and the Role of the Critic in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain was published by Stanford University Press in fall 2012 (http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=20324). He also has an entry on “Custom” included in the New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-13: Ethics and Philosophy, published by Gale in June 2013. Email: icrowe@bpc.edu.
CRAIG J. CURREY (MA/1991/Walker) retired from the U.S. Army. His final posting was as the Deputy Commanding Officer of Fort Jackson, SC—the largest Army Training Center. Since retiring, he has been the CEO of Transitions, the Midlands Homeless Recovery Center in Columbia, SC. The homeless center is a 24/7 operation with 260 beds. It includes a full kitchen, clinic, computer center, resource center, clothing room, and 20 partnering agencies that come on the premises to help the homeless move off the streets perma­nently. For more information on Transitions, go to TransitionsSC.org. Email: ccurrey@transitionssc.org.
JOHN DETREVILLE (PhD/1986/Tindall) retired after 27 years teaching American History at Ravenscroft School. He and wife, Debra Jost deTreville (PhD/1987/Boren) will continue to reside in Raleigh. Email: jdetreville@yahoo.com.
HEATHER L. DICHTER (MA/2002/Jarausch) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sport Management and Media at Ithaca College. She had an article, “Rebuilding Physical Education in the Western Occupation Zones of Germany, 1945-1949,” published in History of Education. She also had an article published in English, German, and French in Fair Play: Allied Sporting History in Berlin, the book that accompanied an exhibit at the Allied Museum in Berlin. The German version also appeared in Damals: Das Magazin fr Geschichte. Email: hdichter@ithaca.edu
W. CALVIN DICKINSON (PhD/1967/Baxter) is happily retired from Tennessee Technological University. Last year he experienced one book manuscript rejected by University Press of Kentucky, and one book manuscript accepted by Kent State University Press. That one on the Civil War in Tennessee and Kentucky will be published in 2013. He just finished an essay on Sampson Williams, an important early settler in Middle Tennessee. It will be read at the Ohio Valley History Conference and published later this year. He is still serving as a commissioner for the Tennessee Historical Commission. Email: cdickinson@tntech.edu.
RALPH DRAUGHON, JR. (MA/1964/PhD/1968/Green) in busy retirement has co-authored Lost Auburn: A Village Remembered in Period Photographs which New South Press published in November 2012. It has been nominated for best local history by the Alabama Historical Association. Ralph also has published in the Spring 2013 Alabama Heritage an article, “Coach John Heisman: Onstage at Auburn” about the famous coach’s activities as actor and founder of a college dramatic society. In the summer issue of Alabama Heri­tage Ralph has an article on Mrs. William L. Yancey’s locket which contains a tintype of her husband. Ralph arranged for the donation of the valuable relic to the Alabama Department of Archives and History. 16
DAVID M. EGNER (MA/1990/Coclanis) has been appointed Director of Museum Services at Art Guild, Inc., a global fabricator of museums and environments. He serves as a consultant to various museums and designers nationally, and regularly attends AAM, ASTC and other museum conferences. Most notably, he recently survived Egnerpalooza, a musical celebration of his 50th birthday, and con­tinues to study North Carolina’s pottery tradition. Email: degner@artguildinc.com.
ERIC J. ENGSTROM (PhD/1997/Jarausch) continues to work in the Department of History at the Humboldt University in Berlin as part of a research unit on “Cultures of Madness 1870-1930.” This past year he co-edited two books: 1) a special issue of the Journal of Social History on The Politics of Suicide: Historical Perspectives on Suicidology before Durkheim and 2) volume eight of the papers and correspondence of the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin. He published several articles, one on Richard von Krafft-Ebing in Psy­chological Medicine, another on the history of psychiatry and neuroscience in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology, and a review essay on the “History of Psychiatry and its Institutions” in Current Opinion in Psychiatry. He also wrote four short articles for the Handbuch des Antisemitismus, two of which have appeared in print. Finally, he contributed a paper on “The History of Psychiatry as Interdisci­plinary History: The Impact of Philosophy and Psychology on Historical Developments in Psychiatry, 1867-1917” for a conference on “Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry: The Nature and Sources of Historical Change” at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
Email: engstroe@geschichte.hu-berlin.de.
MARY E. FREDERICKSON (PhD/1981/Mathews) is professor of history at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. During 2012-13 she was a Senior Fellow at the James Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory University where she worked on a new book project on Sickle Cell Disease and the Genetic Imaginary. Her book, Looking South: Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Labor, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, Southern Dissent Series, came out in paperback in 2012. The University of Illinois Press will publish her book, Gen­dered Resistance: Witnessing Women’s Freedom Strategies through the Legacy of Margaret Garner, edited with Delores M. Walters, in the New Black Studies Series in October 2013. She served on the Carrier Screening Taskforce of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and on the Board of Trustees of the Journal of Women’s History. During 2013-2014 she will be a Visiting Pro­fessor in the Graduate Institute for Liberal Arts at Emory University. Email: mefrede@emory.edu.
JERRY GERSHENHORN (PhD/2000/Leloudis) completed his twentieth year teaching at North Carolina Central University. He read papers on the desegregation of public schools in North Carolina at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and at “New Voyages to Carolina: Defining the Contours of the Old North State, A Conference to Chart Recent and Future Scholarship on North Carolina,” at North Carolina Central University, both in October 2012. His article titled, “St. Clair Drake, Pan-Africanism, African Studies, and the Politics of Knowledge, 1945-1963,” will be published this summer in the Journal of African American History as part of a symposium on the life of scholar-activist St. Clair Drake. He served on the Executive Board of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association. Email: jgershen@nccu.edu.
GLENDA GILMORE (PhD/1992/Painter) will be on leave from Yale next academic year on a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. She will be based in Ireland, but will be in Italy for a month-long residential fellowship at the Liguria Study Center in Bogliasco. Then she will become a very grateful trailing spouse when her husband, Ben Kiernan, takes up another residential fellowship at Bellagio on Lake Como. She hopes to finish two long-standing projects during the year: a synthetic history of the U.S. in the twentieth century, coauthored with Tom Sugrue and a biography of four generations of the artist Romare Bearden’s family. Email: glenda.gilmore@yale.edu.
ELLEN FORDERHASE DE GRAFFENREID (MA/1993/Griffiths) was appointed Senior Vice President for Communications at Brandeis University effective February 1, 2013. She has also joined the alumni board of the Hutton Honors College at Indiana Univer­sity-Bloomington.
DAVID GRIER (MA/1982/PhD/1991/Weinberg) returned to the US in June 2012 after an unforgettable year teaching British and US history at Sias University in Xinzheng, Henan, PRC. Currently he is chair of the Department of History and Political Science at Erskine College, where he has taught since 1991. He wrote an introduction to Ponder Anew: A Warrior’s Story (2013), the World War II mem­oirs of a P-47 pilot from Asheville. He also wrote a review essay on recent scholarship of the Eastern Front, forthcoming in European History Quarterly. Email: dgrier@erskine.edu.
ELIZABETH GRITTER (MA/2005/PhD/2000/Hall) completed her second year as Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She secured a contract with the University Press of Kentucky for her book tentatively titled River of Hope: Black Politics and the Long Freedom Movement in Memphis, Tennessee, 1865-1954, and she continued to pursue a documentary film project with Emmy Award winning filmmaker Tom Neff based on this research. She published “Speak­ing Out against Lynching,” a review of Julie Buckner Armstrong’s Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching, H-SAWH (September 2012), URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=36506. She also was pleased to publish four op eds in the Tennessean on her research on the black freedom struggle in Memphis. As for professional service activities, she traveled to Louisville, Kentucky, to serve as a reader of Advanced Placement U.S. History Exams for the Educational Testing Service, and she volunteered as a judge for the History Day Competition of the Middle Tennessee District in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She gave an invited talk, “Robert R. Church, Jr., Black Memphis, and the Crusade for Political Power, 1916-1927,” for the Indiana University-Southeast History Department Speaker Series in New Albany, Indiana. She will join the history department faculty there in August of 2013 as assistant professor of history. Email: egritter@mtsu.edu. 17
CINDY HAHAMOVITCH (MA/1987/Nelson/PhD/1992/Fink) is the Class of ’38 Professor of History at the College of William & Mary. Her new book, No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor (Princeton U Press, 2011) won the James A. Rawley Award for the Best Book on U.S. Race Relations and the Merle Curti Award for the Best Book on U.S. Social History, both from the OAH, as well as the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award. The book was one of Choice’s Out­standing Academic Titles for 2012. She won three fellowships for the 2013/14 year to work on her new project on guestworkers around the world and the long history of human trafficking: the Weatherhead Global History Initiative Fellowship at Harvard, the Human Traf­ficking and Modern Day Slavery Fellowship from the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale, and the National Humanities Center Fellowship. She accepted the latter. She continues to serve as reviews editor for Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, and was the Southern Labor Studies Association’s Elections Committee chair. She published a review of Don Mitchell’s They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle Over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California in the AHR, worked as an expert witness on a human trafficking case, and wrote an op-ed called, “Protecting Immigrant Farmworkers,” for the Miami Herald (April 1, 2013). Email: cxhaha@wm.edu.
BARBARA HAHN (MA/2000/University of Cincinnati/PhD/2006/Coclanis) earned tenure and promotion to associate professor at Texas Tech University for her 2011 Making Tobacco Bright (Johns Hopkins), which received a President’s Book Award from TTU. She also embarked on a term as Director of Graduate Studies for the History Department, and the History Grad Student Association named her the Distinguished Faculty Member of the year. She published “Did Economics Dictate the Outcome of the Civil War?” in Summer 2012, a state-of-the-field essay for Civil War Book Review, and her annotated bibliography, “Tobacco,” will appear in summer 2013 as part of the Atlantic History series of Oxford Bibliographies Online. She also completed, with Bruce E. Baker (PhD/2004/Hall), a book manuscript about cotton futures trading, and delivered an invited talk on “Trade Routes and Tobacco Types: The Commercial Origins of Market Regulation” at the University of Sussex as part of the Marcus Cunliffe Series on “The South and Its Global Commodities.” In summer 2013, the Agricultural History Society convened its annual meeting with a program she chaired and a plenary she organized and will publish in Agricultural History. In January 2013 she became the associate editor of Technology and Culture, and she has spent summer 2013 in the UK researching an undergraduate-level history-of-technology treatment of the Industrial Revolution.
CHRISTOPHER HAMNER (MA/1998/PhD/2004/Kohn) is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, where he teaches courses on military history and serves as editor for the Papers of the War Department 1784-1800, an online archive at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. He continues his work with the Teaching American History program and the Virginia Department of Education to develop history pedagogy in secondary schools, and presented a paper on the evolving understanding of fear in battle to the Society for Military History in May 2012. He directs Mason’s new interdisciplinary MA program on War, the Military and Society, and received the University’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2013. Email: chamner@gmu.edu.
MONTE H. HAMPTON (PhD/2004/Mathews) is a pastor with the Fuquay-Varina Church of Christ and an adjunct instructor in American history at North Carolina State University. The University of Alabama Press will publish his book, Storm of Words: Science, Scripture, and Southern Culture in the Era of the Civil War in spring 2014. He also is editing a forthcoming collection of essays with former UNC classmate Regina Sullivan. In tribute to the work of their esteemed and beloved advisor, The University of South Carolina will publish Southern Religion: Essays in Honor Donald G. Mathews in summer 2014. All of the essays composing this festschrift were contributed by Dr. Mathews’ former students at Carolina. Email: mhhamp@gmail.com.
JOHN HEPP (MA/1993/Hunt/PhD/1998/Filene) is still teaching a wide range of history classes at Wilkes University in the scenic Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. He wrote five entries for the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press, online and forthcoming) and thus far three have appeared online (his favorite is the one on Omnibuses). He’s working with one of his former students on a short volume on the history of the railroads of Pennsylvania. He gave three presentations this year: (with Vernon Harper and KarenBeth Bohan) “Developing and Assessing General Education Student Learning Outcomes,” at the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania’s meeting; “Trans-Atlantic Grade Crossings: The Influence of British Railway Regulation on America,” at the Business History Conference; and “London, Philadelphia and Wilkes-Barre,” the keynote presentation at “Linking the Local with the Global” conference at Wilkes. Hepp continues as co-editor of the Pennsylvania Historical Association’s Short History Series and he helped bring to press Judith Giesberg’s Keystone State in Crisis: Pennsylvania in the Civil War. For the eighth year, he has taken a study abroad class to London. At the end of the year, he was appointed co-chair of the newly created Division of Global History & Languages at Wilkes University. Email: john.hepp@wilkes.edu.
JERROLD HIRSCH (MA/1973/PhD/1984) professor of history at Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri, has had an interest­ing and productive year as a teacher/scholar. He has agreed to act as a consultant to an exhibit being organized by the Frazier History Museum, Louisville, entitled American Eye/Kentucky Hand: The Index of American Design in Kentucky. He chaired a session “Con­structing and Constructed History,” and presented a paper “‘My Fancy Is Restricted by Records’: ‘Scientific’ History, U. B. Phillips, and Black Lore,” at the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society in New Orleans, Louisiana. He published “Rediscovering America: The FWP Legacy and Challenge” in Community Literacy Journal 1 (2012): 15-32. This “Special Issue: Writing Democracy” focuses on a Federal Writers’ Project for the 21st century. His essay “Theorizing Regionalism and Folklore From the Left: B.A Botkin, the Oklahoma Years, 1921-1939,” was published in Regionalists on the Left: Radical Voices from the American West, ed. Michael C. Steiner (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013): 135-156. He and his partner Kazuko Yamazaki invite old friends to visit them in Kirksville, Missouri, “the hub of isolation,” but only about forty miles from Ottumwa, Iowa, the home of Radar O’Riley, of Mash fame. Email: jhirsch@truman.edu.18
CAROL SUE HUMPHREY (PhD/1985/Higginbotham) continues to teach American history at Oklahoma Baptist University. She continues to serve as the Secretary of the American Journalism Historians Association and attended the annual meeting of AJHA in Ra­leigh in October. She serves as the Faculty Athletics Representative for OBU and served on the Council of Faculty Athletics Represen­tatives for the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics at the national NAIA convention in Kansas City in April. She continues to participate in the annual grading of US History Advanced Placement Exams, serving as an Exam Leader at the grading session in Louisville, Kentucky. Email: carol.humphrey@okbu.edu.
JOHN A. HUTCHESON, JR. (BA/1966/MA/1968/PhD/1973/Godfrey) continues to enjoy the pleasures of retirement. In November, 2012, he presided and commented in a session on “Personalities, Politics, and Policy: Royal Navy Leadership, 1840-1913” at the meet­ing of the Southern Conference on British Studies in Birmingham, Alabama. Email: jhutcheson@daltonstate.edu.
GREG KALISS (MA/2004/PhD/2008/Kasson) is Co-Editor (with fellow alum David Schuyler) of The Papers of Frederick Law Olm­sted, Volume 9: The Last Great Projects, 1890-1895, to be published in 2015 by Johns Hopkins University Press. He is also a Research Associate in American Studies at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. Temple University Press published his book Men’s Col­lege Athletics and the Politics of Racial Equality: Five Pioneer Stories of Black Manliness, White Citizenship, and American Democracy in July 2012. He lives with his wife, daughter, and two cats in Lancaster, PA. Email: gkaliss@fandm.edu.
SHARON A KOWALSKY (MA/1998/PhD/2004/Raleigh) is Associate Professor of Modern European History at Texas A&M Univer­sity-Commerce. In 2012-13, she served as chair of the program committee for the 2013 Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Annual Meeting in Greensboro, NC, and presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). She published book reviews in Ab Imperio, Canadian American Slavic Studies, and Slavonic and East European Review. She also continued to serve on prize committees for the Snell Prize of the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association and the Graduate Essay Prize for the Association of Women in Slavic Studies, and on the executive committees of the As­sociation for Women in Slavic Studies and the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies. Email: Sharon.Kowalsky@tamuc.edu.
MICHAEL J. KRAMER (MA/2001/Kasson/PhD/2006/Kasson) is teaching US History, American Studies, and Digital History at Northwestern University. Oxford University Press published his book, The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Coun­terculture in the spring of 2013. He co-founded the Northwestern University Digital Humanities Laboratory in the fall of 2012 (www.nudhl.net). A set of blog posts he wrote about his new research and teaching project, The Berkeley Folk Music Festival and the Digital Study of Vernacular Music and Culture, were featured on the Digital Humanities Now website (http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org). He wrote the entry on “The Counterculture” for The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History and an essay on Christopher Lasch that is about to come out in The Point magazine. He reviewed books for The Journal of Popular Music and Society, American Political Thought, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, and Journal of American History and presented papers at the HAS­TAC Conference, the EMP Pop Conference, and the American Library Association Conference. Most of all, he and fellow alum Susan Pearson welcomed Jane Alyce Pearson-Kramer into the world on April 20, 2012 and continue to relish the presence of Tobias Judah Pearson-Kramer, now 5, in their lives. Email: mjk@northwestern.edu.
CLIFFORD KUHN (PhD/1993/Fink) became the first executive director of the Oral History Association, now based at Georgia State University, where he is a member of the History faculty. In 2012, he had articles published in Southern Cultures and Agricultural His­tory and “Arthur Raper and Social Class,” published in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. He received the Turner Broadcast­ing Downtown Community Leadership Award in March 2013. He delivered the Sidney Isenberg lecture at the Atlanta History Center and served as consultant to the Visual History Project of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. He does a regular feature on Atlanta history over WABE Radio, the local NPR affiliate, and leads monthly tours of downtown sites related to the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot. He is Local Resources Co-chair for the 2014 Organization of American Historians annual meeting.
ETHAN J. KYTLE (MA/1999/PhD/2004/Capper) teaches U.S. history at California State University, Fresno. In the past year, he and his wife, colleague, and fellow UNC-alum, Blain Roberts, published essays in the Journal of Southern History and Destination Dixie: Tourism and Southern History (University Press of Florida). In addition, Ethan wrote an article for the Journal of the Historical Society and three op-ed essays—one co-authored with Blain—for the New York Times’s “Disunion” series. He is completing two books: Strike the Blow: Romantic Reformers and the Fight against Slavery in the Civil War Era and, with Blain, Struggling with Slavery in the Cradle of the Confederacy: Memory and the “Peculiar Institution” in Charleston, South Carolina. Finally, in May Ethan was awarded tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at CSU, Fresno. Email: ekytle@csufresno.edu.
STUART LEIBIGER (MA/1989/PhD/1995/Higginbotham) is Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department at La Sal­le University. His edited volume, A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe, was published by Wiley-Blackwell (2012). He delivered the 2012 James Madison Memorial Fellowship Lecture at Georgetown University. He presented “James Madison: Federation or Confederation,” at a symposium on “The European Enlightenment, France, and the Formation of the United States Constitution” at The Society of the Cincinnati in Washington, D.C.; “Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Mad­ison, and the Creation of the American Republic,” at the Friends of Independence National Historical Park Speakers Series, Sec­ond Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and “A Glorious Cause: George Washington’s Revolutionary War Leadership,” to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Virginia. He served as the discus­sion leader at a Liberty Fund Colloquium on “Presidents and the Constitution: James Madison.” He taught teacher workshops 19
in Virginia, West Virginia, and Florida, and provided historical consulting for the PBS Television Show “A Taste of History.”
Email: leibiger@lasalle.edu.
KATHERINE T. MCGINNIS (MA/1992/PhD/2001/Bullard). has an entry on Cesare Negri in Treccani’s Dizionario biografico degli italiani (online). Email: ktmcginn@mail.unc.edu.
H.R. MCMASTER, Major General, U.S. Army (MA/1994/Kohn/PhD/1996/Kohn) is commander of Fort Benning, Georgia and the Maneuver Center of Excellence. Email: Herbert.mcmaster@us.army.mil.
ALAN MCPHERSON (PhD/2001/Hunt) was promoted to Professor of International and Area Studies and ConocoPhillips Petroleum Chair in Latin American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. In fall 2012 he was a Fulbright fellow in Buenos Aires, where he taught two courses and gave over a dozen talks and several media interviews about the U.S. elections. He published two journal articles: “The Irony of Legal Pluralism in U.S. Occupations,” in the American Historical Review, and “Artful Resistances: Song, Literature, and the Representation of U.S. Occupations in Nicaragua and Hispaniola,” in The Latin Americanist. He also published a chapter on “Latin America” in Understanding the Global Community and an encyclopedia entry in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic Relations. He published book reviews for H-Diplo and the Bulletin of Latin American Research. He was an invited speaker at Kentucky Wesleyan College, the University of Victoria, and the University of Texas-Commerce, and presented at conferences in Curaçao, Arlington, VA, and the University of New Orleans. He was re-appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians. Email: mcpherson@ou.edu.
PAULA MICHAELS (MA/1991/PhD/2003/Raleigh) has, after many years teaching at the University of Iowa, joined the History Department at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. It has been a big, exciting change, but so far, so good. Along with husband Dan Coleman and nearly-teenage son Misha, she’s enjoying all the amenities that big city life Down Under has to offer, including much milder winters. Her book Lamaze: An International History, should be coming out in 2014 with Oxford University Press.
MARLA R. MILLER (PhD/Hall, Nelson/1997) still directs the Public History Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and has one year to go as Graduate Program Director as well. In addition to that administrative work, she spent the year wrapping up work on a short biography of Rebecca Dickinson (designed for adoption in surveys and courses on the American Revolution) for Carol Berkin’s Westview Press series Lives of American Women. In April she was pleased to travel with fellow Tarheel Anne Whisnant to ac­cept the National Council on Public History prize for excellence in consulting for their co-authored study (with Dave Thelen and Gary Nash) Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service. Another highlight of that meeting was seeing both the “best book” and “honorable mention” prizes go to titles in the series she edits at UMass Press, Public History in Historical Perspective, which is also pleased to be publishing a volume on memory and the American Revolution co-edited by Fitz Brundage.
KAYE LANNING MINCHEW (MA/1980/Fink/MSLS/1981) continues to serve as Executive Director of the Troup County Archives and Legacy Museum on Main in LaGrange, GA. This past year, as co-chair of the Coalition to Preserve the Georgia Archives and chair of the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board, she helped lead efforts to keep the Georgia Archives open to the public. Many were shocked and dismayed last fall to hear that the Georgia Secretary of State would be closing State Archives except by appoint­ment. Many people, including several fellow UNC alumni, protested by writing letters, making phone calls, and talking to the press. The story gained nationwide press coverage. The group worked closely with the Governor of Georgia and the legislature. The Archives is being transferred to the Georgia Board of Regents and will be open four days a week this fall. The drive to further increase funding continues. She presented a session at the National Association of Government Archivists and Records Administrators annual meeting.
Email: kaye@trouparchives.org.
DAVID T. MORGAN (MA1964/PhD/1968/Lefler) continues to enjoy retirement with his wife Judy at their home in Montevallo, Ala­bama. He maintains an active life style, hitting the tennis courts three times a week to play social doubles. In his spare time he continues to write books and to self-publish the results. His latest book, which became available this spring, is entitled Rest in Peace, “Sledgeham­mer:” Celebrities I Met Along Life’s Journey. The book is available for purchase as a paperback or a Kindle book and can be borrowed free of charge from the Kindle Library for those with access to the library. See the book by going to www.amazon/dp/148276167X. Email: dtm1937@bellsouth.net.
SCOTT REYNOLDS NELSON (BA/1987/Coclanis/MA/1990/Fink/PhD/1995/Fink) is Legum Professor of History at the College of William & Mary. His book, A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America’s Financial Disasters was published by Knopf in September, 2012. It got a nice, one-sentence review in New York Times Magazine, and Bloomberg Business Week named it one of the best business books of 2012. He gave the keynote at the Arkansas Historical Association (the other AHA) and talks at the OAH, the American Public Media Conference in Las Vegas, UCSB, Wellesley, Penn, Georgetown, and the Virginia Historical Society. He appeared on With Good Reason, NPR’s Marketplace, and MSNBC’s The Cycle in the fall of 2012. In the spring of 2013, with Carol Sheriff, he organized the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Civil War Sesquicentennial Conference to commemorate the end of slavery, Virginia’s Speaker of the House presiding. A book will be issued next year with short versions of all the talks. He will spend his 2013-2014 sabbatical in Carrboro with his partner Cindy Hahamovitch, who will be a National Humanities Center Fellow. He is at work on two books, one a political history called The F Street Mess: The Railway Kings and the Coming of the Civil War and an intellectual history of modernism provi­sionally entitled, Four Horsemen of the Liberal Apocalypse: Dwight L. Moody, Sigmund Freud, Anton Chekhov, and Rosa Luxemburg.
Email: srnels@wm.edu.20
RACHEL SARAH O’TOOLE (MA/1996/PhD/2001/Chambers) is an Associate Professor of colonial Latin American history at the University of California, Irvine. Her book, Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012) won the 2013 Latin American Studies Association Perú Section Flora Tristán book prize. Along with Anna More and Ivonne del Valle, she was awarded a Mellon-Latin American Studies Association Grant Seminar Series for their workshop “The Roots of Colonial Globalization” held in the Museo Franz Mayer (Mexico City, March 2012). She presented papers at the Cotsen Institute of Archeology (UCLA), Northwestern University, Georgia State University, University of Oregon, Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Conference on Latin American History/American Historical Association, International Congress of Americanists, and, the Latin American Studies Association. Email: rotoole@uci.edu.
SCOTT PHILYAW (PhD/1995/Higginbotham) is director of the Mountain Heritage Center and Associate Professor of History at West­ern Carolina University. This past year the Mountain Heritage Center was selected to host the Smithsonian’s traveling exhibit, “Journey Stories.” The Center also hosted the Levine Museum’s exhibit, “Comic Stripped,” curated by Tom Hanchett. In addition to presentations at the Southeastern Museums Conference, Scott attended a retreat on pedagogy and university governance with Jim Crawford, Joel Si­press, and Mike Sistrom. Email: Philyaw@wcu.edu.
ROB POLICELLI (MA/2006/PhD/2010/Bullard) joined the history department at Durham Academy, where he will teach European history beginning in the 2013-2014 school year. Email: Rob.Policelli@da.org.
JULIE L. REED (MA/2008/Perdue & Green/PhD/Perdue & Green/2011) continues to teach Native American History and American History at the University of Tennessee--Knoxville. This year she served as the Native American Student Association (NASA) and the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) co-sponsor. She received the Clements Center’s David J. Weber Fellow­ship for the Study of Southwestern America at Southern Methodist University in Dallas for the 2013-2014 academic year. In February, she gave a paper at the Native Leaders Symposium presented by the First Nations’ Graduate Circle, The Graduate School, and Learn NC at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She continued to serve on the board of the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum.
Email: jreed56@utk.edu.
BLAIN ROBERTS (MA/2000/PhD/2005/Hall) earned tenure this year and is now associate professor of history at California State University, Fresno. The University of North Carolina Press will publish her book, Pretty Women: Female Beauty in the Jim Crow and Civil Rights South, in spring 2014. Her article, “Looking the Thing in the Face: Slavery, Race, and the Commemorative Landscape in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865-1910,” co-authored with Ethan J. Kytle, was published in the Journal of Southern History in August 2012. Her op-ed essay, “The Ugly Side of the Southern Belle,” ran in the New York Times in January. She also co-authored several op-ed essays this year: one with Susan J. Pearson of Northwestern University for the History News Network about the Newtown, CN shoot­ings, and two with Ethan J. Kytle about the Civil War in Charleston for the New York Times “Disunion” blog. She and Dr. Kytle continue to work on their manuscript about the memory of slavery in Charleston. Email: broberts@csufresno.edu.
KARL RODABAUGH (PhD/1981/Tindall, Williamson) still teaches several classes a year at ECU. Special “retired-guy” activities this year included renovation of his sailboat which is docked near the site of the first attack of the Tuscarora War (Chocowinity Bay on the Pamlico River). He is also working on an article on Richard Dobbs Spaight, Sr., for inclusion in an anthology on North Carolina’s “found­ing fathers.” In a shocking upset, he won the “2012 Shoot-Out Championship” at Cypress Landing Golf Club. He and Rita squeezed in a visit with family in the Netherlands between their travels to Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, and Russia.
JOHN HERBERT (JACK) ROPER SR (MA/1973/PhD/1977/Williamson) retired from Emory & Henry College in May. Trustees voted him Richardson Professor of American History Emeritus. Students established the John H. Roper Award for student government service. Virginia House of Delegates passed House Resolution #510 on April 3, 2013 commending “passionate and effective teaching in the classroom and fascinating and in-depth research into some of the key figures of Southern history” and resolving that he “be com­mended on his distinguished career in education.” Emorium Society of Alumni commissioned and donated an oil portrait to be hung in Creed Fulton Hall on campus. Virginia National History Day officials passed a resolution commending 25 years of service. Publications in 2013: The Magnificent Mays: Benjamin Elijah Mays (University of South Carolina Press, 2013); C. Vann Woodward, Southerner (1987. Revised paperback; University of Georgia Press, 2013); C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics (1997. Revised paperback; University of Georgia Press, 2013). Speeches: “Bennie Mays,” 7 September 2012, Benjamin Mays Museum, Greenwood, SC; with Jack Bass and David Ballentyne, “The Art of Political Biography,” 22 January 2013, South Carolina Political Col­lections, Ernest F. Hollings Library, University of South Carolina; with Betty Collier-Thomas, “Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,” 18 May 2012, South Carolina Literary Festival, Columbia, SC. Son John Jr. is also a historian, of modern Germany, currently living in Berlin. Son J. Kyle lives and works on Pawleys Island, SC. Roper moved to Pawleys Island with wife Rita. Email: roper.jack@gmail.com.
KATHERINE D. SAVAGE (MA/1969/Tindall) lives in Chapel Hill. She retired in October, 2007 from the School of Medicine, where she was faculty development consultant in the Office of Educational Development. She edited, with James A. Bryan, II, and William W. McLendon, the book Medicine at Chapel Hill: The Department of Medicine at the University of North Carolina, 1952-2007, published in fall 2012 by the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill. Email: kdsavage@nc.rr.com.
JOHANNA SCHOEN (MA/1989/Fink/PhD/1996/Hall) finished her second year at Rutgers University where she feels both very overwhelmed and very happy. Given all the things she enthusiastically agreed to take on, she successfully broke a number of book manuscript deadlines and is relieved that her editor is so patient. Since 2013 is the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, she spent the 21
spring giving a number of talks on 40 years of legal abortion and went on a conference circuit that was truly insane, but fun. She also, at the end of last summer, got married—at the age of 49 a somewhat unexpected development that surprised everyone. The very informal wedding celebration took place with a handful of Montana friends in the backyard of the Montana home she and her hus­band purchased last year. It featured an amazing potluck and the German tradition of smashing dishes to chase away the evil spirits.
Email: Johanna.schoen@rutgers.edu.
ADAM R. SEIPP (BA/1998/MA/2001/Jarausch, Kohn/PhD/2005/Jarausch) is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in History at Texas A&M University. His book, Strangers in the Wild Place: Refugees, Americans, and a German Town, 1945-1952, was published in 2013 by Indiana University Press. He also won an Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching–College Level. Seipp organized a panel on oral history at the annual meeting of the Society for Military History and gave talks at venues including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, University College Dublin, and the Dallas Holocaust Museum. Email: aseipp@tamu.edu.
ROBERT G. SHERER (PhD/1970/Tindall) is retired and living in Little Rock, AR. He has published a book review in The Journal of Southern History and an entry in The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture. He served on the Commission of Arkansas History and on the Boards of the History Institute of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and The Arkansas United Methodist Historical Society. Email: robsher313@yahoo.com.
ALICE ALMOND SHROCK (MA/1970/PhD/1974/Mowry) and RANDALL SHROCK (PhD/1979/Higginbotham). In fall 2012, Alice taught a grant-funded special research seminar entitled “Uppity Women: Quaker Women as Agents of Social Change.” In spring 2013, Alice and Randall led a semester-long Earlham College off-campus study program to London, England. In May, they retired from the College after 40 years in a shared appointment within the History Department. Theirs may be the longest, continuous shared ap­pointment in the U.S.; they are uncertain, and so would appreciate information about any other such shared professional appointments.
Email: randalls@earlham.edu, alices@earlham.edu
JOEL M. SIPRESS (MA/1989/PhD/1993/ Barney) is a Professor of History and Chair of the interdisciplinary Department of Social Inquiry at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. He continues to work to develop and promote the argument-based model for the intro­ductory history course. His article (co-authored with David J. Voelker) “The End of the History Survey: The Rise and Fall of the Cover­age Model” received the Maryellen Weimer Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning Award for 2012. He and Voelker have signed a contract with Oxford University Press to produce a set of digital publications to support argument-based courses in U.S. History with an anticipated publication date of 2016. His article “From the Barrel of a Gun: The Politics of Murder in Grant Parish” has been republished in a reader entitled Louisiana Legacies from Wiley-Blackwell. Email: jsipress@uwsuper.edu.
MIKE SISTROM (MA/1992/PhD/2002/Leuchtenburg) continues as a professor of history, department chair, and coordinator of social studies licensure at Greensboro College. He also continues as the Secretary of the Historical Society of North Carolina and just became the chair of the North Carolina State Highway Historic Marker Commission. A community history project and web site he supervised, “J.C. Price School: If These Walls Could Talk,” won the 2012 Voices of the City Award from the Greensboro Historical Museum. He is currently working on two chapters on African Americans for a book collection on North Carolina in World War I due out in 2014.
Email: sistromm@greensboro.edu.
EDWARD SLAVISHAK (MA/1998/PhD/2002/Kasson) is Associate Professor of History at Susquehanna University, where he teaches United States history. He is working on a book project about the Appalachian Mountains as a proving ground for outside experts in the twentieth century. A portion of this research appeared in The Journal of Social History as “Loveliness but with an Edge: Looking at the Smoky Mountains, 1920-1945.” He presented at the annual meeting of the Appalachian Studies Association and the Affective Land­scapes Conference at the University of Derby. He published reviews in The Journal of American History, H-SHGAPE, and Labor. He was conscripted as Classroom Dad for both room 114 and room 104 and elected to the council of the Pennsylvania Historical Associa­tion. Email: slavishak@susqu.edu.
BLAKE SLONECKER (MA/2006/PhD/2009/Filene) is assistant professor of history at Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa. In 2012, Palgrave Macmillan published his book, A New Dawn for the New Left: Liberation News Service, Montague Farm, and the Long Sixties. He presented a paper at the 2012 Pacific Northwest History Conference, and he published reviews in Peace & Change, The Sixties, and Columbia. In April 2013, he won the Waldorf College Board of Trustees Outstanding Faculty Award. Email:
blake.slonecker@waldorf.edu.
DANIELLE SLOOTJES (MA/2000/PhD/2004/ Talbert) continued her position as assistant professor of Ancient History at the Rad­boud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) where she is teaching a broad range of courses on Ancient and Medieval History for the History Department and the Classics Department, both at Bachelor and Master’s level. She wrote several reviews (in Classical Review and Bryn Mawr Classical Review) and articles, such as “Het volk van Rome in de late oudheid” (Lampas 45, 213-225) and “Black Athena en iden­titeit in Ethiopië. Het onlosmakelijke verbond tussen de koningin van Sheba en Haile Selassie I Ras Tafari” (Ex Tempore 31, pp. 5-16). As for papers at international conferences and other gatherings, she gave the paper “Christianity and its influence on crowd behavior in late antiquity,” at the conference “Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Rome: Interpreting the Evidence” in Rome (September 2012), and was asked to give talks in Amsterdam on the voice of women in the late Roman and Byzantine world (“De stem van vrouwen in de laat-romeinse en vroeg-byzantijnse tijd”), in Bonn at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität where she presented “Auf der Suche nach einer 22
Methodologie zur Untersuchung des Verhaltens der Masse in römischer, frühbyzantinischer und mittelalterlicher Zeit.” Then, again in Rome, she was invited to speak about “The voice of the people in the Collectio Avellana” at the conference “East and West, Constanti­nople and Rome: Empire and church in the Collectio Avellana, 367-553 AD,” at the Instituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo. Finally, she gave a paper in Munich, “Late antique notions of kinship: bishops and their families,” at the Kommision für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik. She was appointed Treasurer of the Board of the Comité néerlandais de l’Association internationale des études byzantines. Furthermore, she was asked to become a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome (KNIR, http://www.knir.it/). Finally, she was involved in the design of an international MA-program called Roma Aeterna that is about to start its second year (http://www.ru.nl/geschiedenis/master/master-geschiedenis/roma-aeterna/). Email: d.slootjes@let.ru.nl.
KATY SIMPSON SMITH (PhD/2011/DuVal, Hall) received her MFA in creative writing from Bennington College in June 2013. (For her thesis, she wrote a novel set in the eighteenth century!) Her book, We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835, will be published by Louisiana State University Press in the fall of 2013. She is currently working as an adjunct professor at Tulane University, teaching courses in their women’s honors program. Email: katyssmith@gmail.com.
STEVEN A. STEBBINS (MA/1994/Kohn) remains on active duty as a Colonel in the U.S. Army. Since June 2010 he has led the U.S. Army Force Management Support Agency, headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Virginia with divisions at Fort Lee, Virginia and Fort Leaven­worth, Kansas. Email: steven.stebbins@us.army.mil.
BRIAN D. STEELE (PhD/2003/Higginbotham) teaches at UAB. He published chapters in Francis D. Cogliano, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Thomas Jefferson (Blackwell, 2012) and in Robert M.S. McDonald, ed., Light and Liberty: Thomas Jefferson and the Politics of Knowledge (Virginia, 2012), as well as two entries in the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political, Policy, and Legal History, ed., Donald Critchlow and Philip R. VanderMeer (Oxford, 2012). His book, Thomas Jefferson and American Nationhood (Cambridge, fall 2012) was a finalist for the 2013 George Washington Book Prize and was named a “notable title” by the Society of US Intellectual Historians. He presented a paper, “Remembering Jefferson in the Age of Gatsby,” at the SAR Annual Conference on the American Revolution in Charlottesville, VA in June 2012, and led a graduate student workshop on “The Curious Case of Mr. Jefferson’s Religion” at Tulane University in April 2013. He publis