News letter of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of History

              Number 61
Autumn 2012
GREETINGS FROM THE CHAIR
Historical knowledge offers valuable perspectives on the problems and opportunities that emerge constantly in every institution, com­munity, and individual life. We understand the enduring value of historical perspectives in the UNC History Department because we are always talking about past events and people and also drawing on such perspectives to understand our own historical situation. Declining state budget allocations once again dominated our institutional life in 2011-12, but History assures us that other people have faced much worse situations and survived far more difficult challenges. We thus used every opportunity to promote historical education and research over this past year, thereby ensuring that thousands of UNC students had the best possible history classes. Our faculty also continued to make innovative contributions to the national and international historical debates that are always moving forward—even when budgets are shrinking or frozen in place.
This Newsletter summarizes the impressive achievements of our faculty, students, and alumni during another active and successful year for UNC historians. Although the intangible value of historical perspectives cannot be simply measured in a quantitative language, the num­bers for 2011-12 show that our faculty published almost twenty edited books and monographs and dozens of articles; and they received numerous prizes for their scholarship and teaching. Our graduate students won more than 40 competitive, external research grants and multiple awards for research papers, articles, or outstanding dissertations. The distinguished alumni of our graduate program excelled in highly diverse fields of academic scholarship and public history, often receiving prizes, fellowships, and new positions that brought honor to UNC as well as to the recipients themselves.
The following pages provide an informative overview of our historical community, and you can find other news of faculty and student activities on our departmental web site (http://history.unc.edu/). I want to convey my own “greetings,” however, by noting some recent highlights that suggest the wide range of departmental recognitions and achievements. Numerous faculty have received important research and scholarly awards, including Konrad Jarausch (Distinguished Senior Scholar Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Center), Klaus Larres (Public Policy Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Center), Christopher Lee (Research Fellowship, Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas, Austin), Lisa Lindsay (Guggenheim Fellowship and NEH research fellowship), Susan Pennybacker (Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar Research Award), Donald Reid (National Humanities Center Fellowship), and Heather Williams (New Directions Fellowship, Mellon Foundation).
In addition to these external awards, Professors Lindsay, Williams, and Genna Rae MacNeil have received highly competitive fellow­ships at UNC’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities, and Professors Reid (Kenan Fellowship) and Melissa Bullard (Reynolds Fellow­ship) have received prestigious research awards from UNC’s University-wide competition for the Provost’s “Senior Faculty Fellowships.” Miguel La Serna received UNC’s Sitterson Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching in First Year Seminars, and Harry Watson has been appointed to the “Atlanta Distinguished Professorship” in recognition of his important contributions to the study of the American South.
Among other notable honors for our hardworking faculty, Brett Whalen received UNC’s prestigious “Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Award for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement.” Christopher Browning (Holocaust history) and Daniel Sherman (French historian in the Art Department and adjunct professor in History) were both awarded prestigious, international prizes for their most recent books; and our emeritus colleague, Richard Pfaff, received the distinguished “Haskins Medal” from the Medieval Academy of America. The citation for the Haskins’ Medal specifically recognized Professor Pfaff’s work on medieval English liturgical history, but this distinguished award also honored his entire “influential career.” Continued on page 2
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Carolina Alumni Receptions
Please join us for a reception at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association in Mobile, AL. We are co-spon­soring the event with the Duke University History Department on Friday, November 2nd, 2012 from 5:30p.m. to 7:30p.m. in the Jubilee Suite of the Renaissance Riverview Plaza Hotel. We look forward to see you there. We will also co-spon­sor a UNC-CH and Duke reception at the AHA meeting in New Orleans, LA in January 2013. More information on the AHA
event will be available later in the fall.GREETINGS FROM THE CHAIR, CONT.
Numerous other colleagues served on editorial boards or provided leadership for scholarly organizations, but I would particularly note the recent service of Joseph Glatthaar (Presi­dent, Society for Military History), emeritus professor Theda Perdue (President, Southern Historical Association), Cynthia Radding (President, Conference on Latin American His­tory) and Harry Watson (President, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic). This kind of leadership in professional organizations (as well as the various book prizes and other awards) offers additional examples of our faculty’s strong commitment to historical scholarship and the expansion of historical knowledge in public life.
The Department sponsored another successful lecture in its annual series of February events for African American History Month. Professors Genna Rae McNeil, Heather Williams and others organized a memorable presentation by Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, a prominent activist in the Civil Rights movement, an emeritus Professor of History at American Uni­versity, and a long-time vocalist for the acclaimed group “Sweet Honey in the Rock.” Dr. Reagon combined her spoken history of the Civil Rights Movement with memorable musical interludes that showed how historians might well reach wider audiences by writing songs or singing their narratives about the past.
The Department also promoted the public discussion of African American history by co-sponsoring the annual February conference of the Triangle African American History Colloquium. Organized by graduate students in the Department, this event attracted participants from many other institutions and focused on the theme of “Defining Freedom in African American History.”
Our undergraduate history majors were meanwhile developing another forum for historical debates and research: a new, student-edited history journal called Traces. Having raised funds from various sponsors, the undergraduate editor Lawson Kuehnert and graduate edi­tor Mark W. Hornburg consulted with faculty advisor Miles Fletcher, assembled a student editorial board, solicited manuscripts from student authors, and published an impressive first issue of the journal in spring 2012. There are plans to publish new issues of Traces each year, if these ambitious student historians can find additional support to sustain the project.
We also continued to develop our close collaboration with colleagues in the History Department at King’s College in London. Joint graduate workshops brought together UNC/King’s PhD students who presented papers on diverse topics in Atlantic History and Global history; and our colleagues Chad Bryant and Cynthia Radding led a group of UNC faculty to King’s for a conference on “Borderlands as Physical Reality: Producing Place in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.” A follow-up conference on related themes will take place in Chapel Hill. In the meantime, Susan Pennybacker and Karen Hagemann have collaborated with other colleagues at King’s to organize two additional conferences on the history of modern Empires (May 2012) and on the legacy of warfare in the era of Atlantic Revolutions (May 2013).
Many other conferences, workshops, seminars, and visiting speakers added to the Department’s intellectual conversations throughout the year. We hosted a group of Japanese scholars (led by UNC graduate Hayumi Higuchi of Senshu University) for an excellent, three-day meeting on “Making Modern Citizens: Politics, Cultures, and Struggles for Social Reform.” We also met for monthly departmental research colloquia (featuring presentations by graduate students) and regular faculty lunch colloquia (featuring presentations by faculty on their new work). These conversations enlivened the Department’s internal debates and also expanded the discussion of contempo­rary historical scholarship. One emerging theme of our departmental discussions focused on how professionally trained historians can pursue careers in multiple fields outside the academic community—an issue that our faculty and students will continue to explore in the coming year.
The Department’s progress toward new forms of historical education and scholarship will benefit from the arrival of new colleagues. We were pleased to bring Rachel Seidman into our community as a new adjunct assistant professor with a special expertise in histori­cal projects that link scholarly research with groups outside the University. Dr. Seidman completed her graduate training in US history at Yale University and currently serves as Associate Director of the Southern Oral History Project at UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South. Another new colleague, Matthew Mitchell, has arrived with a UNC post-doctoral fellowship that will support his research in the field of pre-modern British and Atlantic history. Dr. Mitchell wrote his PhD dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania on “Joint-stock Capitalism and the Atlantic Commercial Network: The Royal African Company, 1672-1752.” He is now revising this manuscript for publication, and he will offer an innovative course on pre-modern Atlantic and European economic history.
The Department has reaffirmed its commitment to undergraduate teaching and advising through the appointment of a talented new lec­turer/advisor, Matthew Andrews, who worked with Professor Peter Filene in the field of modern US History and received his PhD from our Department in 2008. Dr. Andrews will be teaching courses in both US and global history while also providing essential service as the advisor for undergraduate history majors.
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We have also recently welcomed two new assistant professors to the faculty. Molly Worthen is a specialist in American religious and intellectual history whose imaginative work focuses on Christian evangelical movements and ideas. She completed her undergraduate education and PhD at Yale, where she wrote a dissertation that is now evolving into a book entitled Unlike a Mighty Army: Anxiety and Authority in American Evangelicalism. Dr. Worthen examines the shared themes of various evangelical writers, but she also notes the important diversity in a movement that outsiders tend to lump together into a single religious identity. Her scholarship and teaching will help revive an area of study in US history that has long been important for the Department’s curriculum and graduate training. Our other new assistant professor, Michael Morgan, is an expert on modern international history and the transnational diplomacy of the Cold War era in Europe and North America. Dr. Morgan received his undergraduate education at the University of Toronto and his PhD at Yale. His courses on modern international history will enhance the curriculum in Global Studies as well as the course offerings in the His­tory Department, in part because of his specific interest in the modern history of human rights. He is preparing a book manuscript from his dissertation, which analyzes the role of “human rights” in the development of the 1975 Helsinki Accords and in other transnational events during the later decades of the Cold War.
The arrival of these energetic new colleagues coincides with the internal promotion of two other faculty members. Malinda Maynor Lowery (American Indian History) advanced in this past year to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure and Heather Williams (African American History) moved to the rank of full professor. Professors Lowery and Williams have both published excellent recent books.
Amid this fast-flowing stream of departmental programs and recognitions we unfortunately lost our former professor of French history and former chair of the Department, George V. Taylor, who died on December 12, 2011. Professor Taylor came to UNC in 1952 after receiving his PhD at the University of Wisconsin, and he was a prominent member of the faculty until his retirement in 1990. In addition to leading the History Department through an era of complex professional transitions during the 1970s, Professor Taylor was an inter­nationally recognized expert on the economic history (and pre-history) of the French Revolution, a popular lecturer, and an influential leader of the UNC faculty. A description of his important career appears later in this Newsletter.
Among the other transitions in our departmental community, I would especially note the departure of our lecturer/advisor Brandon Hunziker, who has moved on to a new career in private business. We have appointed a talented new colleague to this key departmental position, but our students and faculty remember Brandon’s excellent teaching and advising with much appreciation for his conscientious, well-informed work.
The Department continues to benefit from a hard-working administrative staff (ably directed by our departmental manager, Adam Kent) and from the excellent leadership of Associate Chair, Jay Smith, Director of Graduate Studies, Cynthia Radding, and Director of Un­dergraduate Studies, Kathleen DuVal , each of whom combines academic rigor with a whimsical view of bureaucratic processes and a sensitivity to the complexities of human lives.
The impressive work of our faculty and students flourishes because our friends and alumni provide generous private gifts. Recent do­nors are listed in the last pages of this publication, but I want to stress here my appreciation for the many supporters who make essential contributions to the quality of the UNC History Department. I also thank LaTissa Davis and William Barney for their careful editorial work on this Newsletter--which reaffirms our Department’s strong commitment to historical education in a culture that too often ignores the knowledge and perspectives that good History provides.
Lloyd Kramer, Chair
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CHRISTOPHER R. BROWNING received the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research for Remembering Sur­vival and the Annetje Fels-Kupferschmidt Award from the Netherlands Auschwitz Committee for 2012. On the latter occasion he delivered a lecture in Amsterdam on the day for European Holocaust Remembrance. In response to the German controversy over the report of an official commission on the role of the German Foreign Office in Nazi racial policy and the continuity in personnel be­tween the Nazi and post-war periods, he published “The German Foreign Office: Myth and Reality,” Yad Vashem Studies 39/1 (2011), pp. 297-305, and “The German Foreign Office Revisited,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute (fall 2011), pp. 71-79. He pre­sented papers at five conferences: Conference on History Unlimited: Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture, UCLA; Conference on Rewriting the Jewish History of the Holocaust, University of Florida, Gainesville; Conference on The Shoah: Modernity and Political Evil, Florence, Italy; The Adolf Eichmann Trial—Looking Back 50 Years Later, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles; Konferenz Wider­stand und Auswärtiges Amt, Tützing, Germany; and Symposium: Den Holocaust erzählen? Historiographie zwischen wissenschaftli­cher Empirie und narrative Kreativität, Jena, Germany. Panels at both the UCLA and Jena conferences focused on his scholarship.
Email: cbrownin@email.unc.edu.
MARCUS BULL’s research-related work this year was principally directed towards finishing two books that emerge from a project funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council on the narrative sources for the First Crusade. The first is a critical edition, co-edited with Damien Kempf of the University of Liverpool, of the most popular account of the First Cru­sade among medieval readers, that written by an author known to us as Robert the Monk. The second volume, also co-edited with Kempf, is the proceedings of an international conference on crusade sources held at Liverpool in May 2011. This year also saw the publicatiion, in the prestigious Proceedings of the British Academy series, of a volume that Professor Bull co-edit­ed with Tania String: Tudorism: Historical Imagination and the Appropriation of the Sixteenth Century. Professor Bull is now directing his research towards a monograph on the narrative characteristics of eyewitness accounts of the First Crusade.
Email: mgbull@email.unc.edu.
MELISSA M. BULLARD completed her term as Director of Graduate Studies for the History Department. She received an ap­pointment for fall semester as the Taylor Family Fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities for her project on the Brook­lyn and Atlantic Renaissance. She also wrote papers for two conferences in Italy, one on “Language, Diplomacy, and the ‘Arts of Power’,” given in October at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance studies, Villa I Tatti in Florence and another on the “So­ciability of finance: contested models of competition and collaboration among papal bankers in Renaissance Rome,” for a Novem­ber conference in Rome on Banca, Credito, e Principio di Cittadinanza a Roma tra Medioevo e Rinascimento . Spring semester while on a MEMS faculty leave from UNC, Professor Bullard was appointed Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary College, University of London. While in London, she gave presentations on her current work in the Digital Humanities using HGIS map­ping tools and on the challenges of preparing the critical edition with historical commentary for the Letters of Lorenzo de’ Medi­ci, an international collaborative project for which she prepared two volumes. On November 11-12, 2011 the MEMS program and the History Department hosted a two-day symposium From the Renaissance to the Modern world in honor of our retired colleague John M. Headley for which Professor Bullard was lead organizer. Details can be found on the MEMS Website and Newsletter.
Email: mbullard@email.unc.edu.
KATHRYN BURNS presented papers in the summer of 2011 at the Lisbon meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese His­torical Studies and the Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational Study of the Americas, extending these trips to visit archives in Lisbon and Mexico City. In the fall, she gave a lecture at Wilson Library, “Into the Latin American Archive,” and published an article about the work of Andean notaries in the Hispanic American Historical Review (November 2011), “Making Indigenous Archives: The Quilcayca­mayoc of Colonial Cuzco.” She also contributed a chapter on changing early modern and scholarly usages of “race” to a volume edited by Laura Gotkowitz, Histories of Race and Racism: The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present (Duke University Press, 2011). In the spring of 2012, Burns participated in a scholarly colloquium at the University of Southern California on the history and historiography of race in colonial Latin America. Her book Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru (Duke University Press, 2010) recently received an Honorable Mention for the 2010 Bryce Wood Book Award of the Latin American Studies Association.
Email: kjburns@email.unc.edu.
CHAD BRYANT enjoyed a research and study leave this past spring in Prague, Czech Republic, where he continued work on his next book, Prague Encounters: A Central European City and Its Inhabitants. While in Prague, he received a Bohemistika Grant from the Masaryk Institute and presented his latest research on early nineteenth-century Prague to members of the institute. In the past year he also spoke at the “Prague as Represented Space” conference at the University of Regensburg and at a monthly seminar organized by the Institute for Contemporary History in Prague. His review essay “After Nationalism? Urban History and Eastern European History” ap­peared in the November 2011 issue of East European Politics and Societies, and two more articles related to his research will appear in Urban History and Bohemia in the coming months. Bryant is vice-president of the Czechoslovak Studies Association and 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 Kateřina Čapková, who spoke about nationalism and Bohemian Jewry at UNC last fall. As part of his work as the department’s liaison with King’s College, London, Bryant co-organized, with Cynthia Radding and Paul Readman, the “Borderlands as Physical Reality: Producing Place in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” which was held in London last October. The publication of collected essays emerging from that conference is planned for 2014. He is now beginning to co-organize a second UNC-King’s College conference on movement and circulation in nineteenth-century cities. That conference will
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take place in Chapel Hill in the fall of 2013. Email: bryantc@email.unc.edu.
JOHN CHASTEEN, since last report, has edited and translated a number of historical works: Latin American Independence: An An­thology of Sources (co-edited with Sarah Chambers, by Hackett Publishing Company, 2010); Santa: A Novel of Mexico City (Federico Gamboa’s canonical work of 1902, never before translated, by UNC Press, 2010); and Born in Blood and Fire: Latin American Voices (a primary source reader to accompany John’s popular textbook, by W. W. Norton, 2011). Email: chasteen@email.unc.edu.
PETER A. COCLANIS published the following pieces this year: (with Mart A. Stewart) “Precarious Paddies: The Uncertain, Unsta­ble, and Insecure Lives of Rice Farmers in the Mekong Delta,” in Environmental Change and Agricultural Sustainability in the Mekong Delta, ed. Mart A. Stewart and Peter A. Coclanis (New York and Heidelberg: Springer, 2011); “Rights and Responsibilities: Globaliza­tion and the International Research University,” International Educator (July-August 2011); “Tobacco Road: New Views of the Early Chesapeake,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 68 (July 2011); “Ten Years After: Reflections on Kenneth Pomeranz’s The Great Di­vergence,” Historically Speaking 12 (September 2011); “U.S. Food Safety: Perception vs. Reality,” CoBank Outlook 8 (October 2011); (with David L. Carlton) “Southern Economic Commentary in Historical Perspective,” in A Way Forward: Building a Globally Competi­tive South, ed. Daniel P. Gitterman and Peter A. Coclanis (Chapel Hill: Global Research Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill, and University of North Carolina Press, 2011); (with Louis M. Kyriakoudes) “The Rural South and the Burden of the Past,” in A Way Forward; “The Greatest Innovator You’ve Never Heard Of,” bloomberg.com, November 14, 2011; “Sic et Non,” Historically Speaking 12 (November 2011); “Lee’s Lieutenants: The American South in Global Context,” Journal of the Historical Society 11 (December 2011); “The Myan­mar Moment? Why Washington Made its Move,” World Affairs 174 (January-February 2012); “Office Mix Up,” insidehighereducation.com, January 27, 2012; “Rubber (Malaysia),” in Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, 4 vols., ed. Andrea L. Stanton et al. (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2012), 3: 361-363; “Are There Hidden Virtues to Bowling Alone,” The American, January 31, 2012; “Wanted: Dedicated Deep Thinkers,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 23, 2012. As indicated above, he also co-edited two books: Environmental Change and Agricultural Sustainability in the Mekong Delta (Springer, 2011) and A Way For­ward (Global Research Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill, and University of North Carolina Press, 2011). In addition, he published two pieces on the economics of slavery on the freakonomics.com website (June 6, 2011 and June 17, 2011) and co-authored (with his son Alex Coclanis) two pieces on sports: “Home Cooking: Reliving the NBA’s Territorial Draft,” SLAM Online, June 21, 2011; “Nothing Could be Finer,” Southern Pigskin, December 19, 2011. He published op-ed pieces in the Durham Herald-Sun (June 6, 2011), the Wall Street Journal (June 15, 2011), and Crain’s Chicago Business (August 29, 2011) and co-authored (with Daniel P. Gitterman) two op-ed pieces for the Raleigh News & Observer (November 14, 2011 and March 12, 2012). He published book reviews in the Civil War Book Review, the Journal of Contemporary Asia, the Journal of Social History, the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and the American Historical Review, as well as six book reviews in the Raleigh News & Observer and the Charlotte Observer. He presented the Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History at Pacific Lutheran University (October 2011) and the Richard Dean Winchell Distinguished History Lecture at the University of Nebraska-Omaha (October 2011). He also presented a lecture at the University of Brunei Darus­salam (May 2011) and another one at Harvard’s “New History of American Capitalism” conference (November 2011). He chaired the Agricultural History Society’s Wallace Book Prize Committee, and was a member of the Economic History Association’s Alice Hanson Jones Book Prize Committee and the Southern Historical Association’s Jack Temple Kirby Article Prize Committee. He was also a juror for NAFSA’s Senator Paul Simon Award. In summer 2011 he assumed the editorship of 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 was named to the program committees for the 2013 meeting of the Economic History Association, the 2013 meeting of the European Rural History Organisation, and the 2014 meeting of the American Historical Association. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the OAH and 2d Vice President of SIP. He continues to serve on the Singapore Ministry of Education’s International Expert Panel, was reappointed a Fellow at the Carolina Population Center, and was named to the Bangkok-based Kenan Institute Asia’s Board of Trustees. He continues to serve as Director of UNC’s Global Research Institute, and, as usual, did a good bit of traveling this year, including visits to Singapore (three times), Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, Myanmar, China, Germany, France, the U.K., and Costa Rica. Some of the travel in Southeast Asia was done while leading a UNC Study Abroad program in May 2011. Email: coclanis@unc.edu
KATHLEEN DUVAL continued to serve as the History Department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies, a member of the UNC Press Board of Governors, and the organizer of the Triangle Early American History Seminar (TEAHS), which meets monthly in RTP. She is on the Board of Editors of the Journal of the Early Republic and the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. In October, she was elected to the membership of the American Antiquarian Society, a membership that includes John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and UNC professors John and Joy Kasson. This year, Professor DuVal led workshops for middle school and high school teachers at UNC and at the National Humanities Center. She spoke on her new book project, about the American Revolution on the Gulf Coast, to the Atlantic Studies Re­search Group at the University of Miami and the Duke History Department Colloquium. Email: duval@email.unc.edu.
WILLIAM (BILL) FERRIS spent the 2011-2012 academic year working on a forthcoming book from UNC Press, thanks to generous support from a W.N. Reynolds Leave (Fall 2011) and Research and Study Leave (Spring 2011), and publication grants from the Institute for African American Research and the University Research Council. He also published three articles: “Southern Literature: A Blend­ing of Oral, Visual & Musical Voices” (Daedalus), “Bobby Rush: ‘Blues Singer--Plus’” (Southern Cultures), and “’Those little color snapshots’: William Christenberry” (Southern Cultures). He gave numerous presentations, including the Greenfield lecture at Arkansas State University, a talk on blues and voodoo at the Tom Dent Congo Square Symposium in New Orleans, a lecture about memory and the blues at Arizona State University, and a paper about Bruce Jackson’s photographs at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, NY. In addition, a theatrical reading of his book Give My Poor Heart Ease was staged in Los Angeles, CA under the direction of T Bone Burnett, Joe Henry, and Colin Linden. The production included musical performances by the Carolina Chocolate Drops. He served on a review committee for the Institute for African American Research and continued his role as the Senior Associate Director at the Center for the Study of the American South. He will return to teaching courses on southern music and literature in the fall. Email: wferris@unc.edu.
EMMA FLATT published a co-edited volume, Garden and Landscape Practices in Pre-colonial India: Histories from the Deccan, which includes her article, “Heavenly Gardens: Astrology and Magic in the Garden Culture of the Medieval Deccan,” (Routledge, 2012). She also published, “The Authorship and Significance of the Nujūm al-‘Ulūm: a sixteenth-century astrological encyclopaedia from Bijapur,” in the Journal of the American Oriental Society (April-June 2011); and she wrote “The Delhi Sultanate” for a forthcoming edited volume, Roger Long, ed. History of Pakistan, (Oxford University Press, 2013). In December 2011, she organized a conference, The History and Cultures of Friendship in Precolonial South Asia, which was held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and presented a paper about epistolary friendships. After joining the History department at UNC in January, she presented a paper on the history of smell at a conference on Histories of Objects and Bodies in South Asia, held at the University of Pennsylvania, in April. Email: eflatt@email.unc.edu.
MILES FLETCHER co-edited a special issue of the Asia Pacific Business Review, “Japan’s ‘Lost Decade’: Causes, Legacies, and Is­sues of Transformative Change.” He contributed an article about the attitudes and role of the Japanese business community during the “lost decade” of the 1990s and coauthored a brief epilogue. He helped organize a year-long project on “Making Modern Citizens,” which involved both UNC historians and historians from various Japanese universities. In the fall, UNC hosted six historians from Japan for a two-day workshop. Fletcher also served as chair of a panel at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, “Reconsidering Liberalism in Wartime Japan.” Email: wmfletch@email.unc.edu.
JOSEPH T. GLATTHAAR, Stephenson Distinguished Professor, became President of the Society for Military History last summer. He holds a two-year term in the organization, which boasts over 2,600 members. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the Southern Historical Association and a Delegate of the American Council of Learned Societies. Email: jtg@email.unc.edu.
KAREN HAGEMANN was during the academic year 2011-12 the John G. Medlin, Jr. Fellow at the National Humanities Center and worked on her monograph Revisiting Prussia’s War against Napoleon: War, Culture, Memory which will be published by Cambridge University Press. Together with Alan Forrest (University of York) and Etienne François (Free University of Berlin and University of Paris-I, Panthéon-Sorbonne) she published the book War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Cul­ture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, series “War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850”). The volume presents the main results of a joint British, French and German research project “Nations, Borders, Identities: Experiences and Memories of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1945” that was funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council and the German Research Foundation between 2005 and 2009. Furthermore, her article, “Mobilizing Women for War: The History, Historiography, and Memory of German Women’s War Service in the Two World Wars,” came out in the Journal of Military History 75:3 (2011): 1055-1093. During the academic year she started two new projects: First, the Oxford Handbook Gender, War and the Western World since 1650 (Oxford University Press, 2017); as the editor-in-chief she will work together with Dirk Bonker (Duke University), Stefan Dudink (University of Nijmegen) and Sonya O. Rose (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and University of London, Birkbeck College) as co-editors; related to this project is the new Duke-UNC Seminar and Workshop Series “Gender, War and Culture” (http://gwc.web.unc.edu/); and second, the joint project of King’s College London and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on “War, Demobilization and Memory, c. 1775-1830” that she initi­ated with Michael Rowe (King’s College London) (http://wdm.web.unc.edu/). In addition she was one of the organizers of the Research Triangle Seminar Series on the “History of the Military, War, and Society” (http://www.unc.edu/mhss/) and the “North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series” (http://www.unc.edu/ncgs/index.html). In 2010, Hagemann published in the last academic year two books: 1) Gender, War, and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775 - 1830, ed. with Gisela Mettele and Jane Rendall (Hound­smills and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010); and 2) Children, Families and States: Time Policies of Child Care, Preschool and Primary Schooling in Europe, ed. with Konrad H. Jarausch and Cristina Allemann-Ghionda (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2011). She organized a panel on “The Male-Breadwinner Family Model in (West) German Policy” for the German Studies Association in October 2010, and a panel on “Soldiers, and War Stories in German Central Europe after 1815” for the Consortium on the Revolu­tionary Era, 1750-1850 in March 2011. For the academic year 2011-12 she was invited to become a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin (declined). Email: hagemann@unc.edu.
JACQUELYN DOWD HALL was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the fall of 2011. This event was the subject of a “Spotlight” feature on the UNC-Chapel Hill website, (www.unc.edu/spotlight/Jacquelyn_Hall). She and the Southern Oral History Program were also the subject of a cover story by David E. Brown in the Carolina Alumni Review, “The Hearing,” Jan./Feb., 2012 (www.carolinaalumnireview.com/carolinaalumnireview/20120102/?pg=1#pg1). Hall delivered the Stallworth Lecture at the University of South Alabama; spoke at Queens University, Belfast, Ireland; and served as Respondent for a “State of the Field” ses­sion on “The Long Civil Rights Movement: Applications and New Directions,” at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She participated in a Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History online videos series pos­ing “Essential Questions About American History” to leading historians, responding to the question, “What are the Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement” (https://vimeo.com/39462515). She served as a consultant for and speaker on “The Durrs of Montgomery,” Alabama Public Television (https://vimeo.com/44816744), and as Project Adviser for “Anne Braden: Southern Patriot,” Appalshop, Whitesburg, Kentucky, 2011-2012. She served on the steering committee of The Center on Class, Labor, and Social Sustainability (CLASS) at Duke University and helped to organize and is serving on the steering committee of Scholars for a Progressive North Carolina. As Senior Research Associate, Southern Oral History Program, Center for the Study of the American South, she helped to organize and spoke at a reception celebrating the completion of an oral history project funded by the William R. Kenan Charitable Trust
6on “Service to the State of North Carolina: The Legacy of William C. Friday.” She had the pleasure of organizing and hosting a series of events honoring four members of a UNC-Duke writing group who published books in women’s and gender history in the past year.
Email: jhall@email.unc.edu.
KONRAD H. JARAUSCH was happy to be back in Chapel Hill, teaching his usual courses during the year, the highlight of which was a special issue of “Historical Social Research,” dedicated to his work on the occasion of this 70th birthday. It included an academic auto­biography that summarized his scholarly and organizational efforts towards the development of a critical contemporary history on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as a reprint of 13 of his more than 250 articles and book chapters. Currently he is engaged in the politics of memory and supporting the establishment of a Cold War museum in Berlin. Email: jarausch@email.unc.edu.
JOHN KASSON spent the fall semester of 2011 in London, where he served as co-director of UNC’s London Honors Program at Win­ston House in Bedford Square. As part of the program’s theme of global London, he taught a new course, “Food and History: Local and Global London,” which incorporated sites and tastes of the city. While in London, he conducted a seminar at King’s College on “Bodies in the Great Depression” and gave a lecture at Winston House on his research on Shirley Temple and the Great Depression. He published a short essay, “Shirley Temple’s Paradoxical Smile,” in the Fall 2010 issue of American Art. Email: jfkasson@email.unc.edu.
MICHELLE KING wrote an article on the methodology of archival research, “Working With/In the Archive,” published in an edited collection, Research Methods for History, ed. Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire (Edinburgh University Press, 2012). She has been working on revisions to her book manuscript about female infanticide in late nineteenth-century China, now under contract with Stanford University Press. Michelle and her husband have taken on an entirely new “project” as of December, with the birth of their daughter, Penelope.
Email: mtking@email.unc.edu.
LLOYD KRAMER continued to serve as chair of the History Department and to emphasize the innovative work of the Department’s students and faculty whenever he found opportunities within or outside the University. He spoke about his recent book, Nationalism in Europe and America: Politics, Cultures, and Identities since 1775 (UNC press, 2011) at various public events; and he published an article on the historical writings of R. R. Palmer in a collection of essays that examined Palmer’s approach to transnational history: “Robert R. Palmer and the History of Big Questions,” Historical Reflections/Reflexions historiques, 37, 3 (winter 2011): 101-122. Kramer also discussed his own views of Nationalism in an interview with Lawson Kuehnert, the editor-in-chief of the History De­partment’s new undergraduate journal, Traces, 1 (Spring, 2012): 171-184; and he gained new perspectives on recent scholarship by commenting on papers at the UNC-Japanese scholars conference on “Making Modern Citizens” (Chapel Hill, September 2011), at the UNC-King’s College conference on “Borderlands as Physical Reality” (London, October 2011), and at a session on “representations” of French women workers at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies (Los Angeles, March 2012). Kramer also remained active on the European History Test Development Committee for the College Board’s Advanced Placement examinations.
Email: lkramer@email.unc.edu.
KLAUS LARRES joined the UNC History Department in January 2012 as the Richard M Krasno Distinguished Professor. He spent the previous two years as a visiting professor at Yale University and the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. He also held a Distinguished Visiting Scholarship at the Library of Congress. Born and raised in Germany, Klaus spent most of his academic career in the UK (at Queen’s University Belfast, the University of London, Ulster University). During his first semester at UNC he taught a course on the United States and the Cold War and an undergradu­ate research seminar on the different approaches of Britain and Germany toward European integration since World War II. He also published several articles and gave a number of radio and TV interviews (for details, see www.klauslarres.com). He chaired the evaluation committee for a new job hire in the History Department. He also gave several public lectures and moderated a number of foreign policy discussions with distinguished speakers in Washington, DC. For the summer of 2012 Larres was awarded a fellowship as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, to work on his book project “Enlightened Self-Interest? The U.S. and the Unity of Europe from the Nixon/Kissinger Era to Obama” (contracted by Yale UP).
Email: larres@email.unc.edu.
WAYNE LEE continued as chair of the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense. Among its other responsibilities, the Curriculum is now the host for the new UNC-TISS National Security Fellows Program, in which senior U.S. Army officers attend UNC as fellows rather than going to the Army War College. This year Lee published an entry on “War in Seventeeenth-Century North America” in the Oxford Bibliograhies Online: Atlantic History, as well as the long awaited “Subjects, Clients, Allies or Mercenaries? The British Use of Irish and Indian Military Power, 1500-1815” in Britain ’s Oceanic Empire: British Expansion in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, c. 1550-1850, edited by H.V. Bowen, Elizabeth Mancke and John G. Reid (Cambridge). Most of his writing effort is now consumed by a world military history monograph under contract with Oxford University Press. Lee has given invited lectures at West Point, North Georgia College and State University, Louisville, and to the Foreign Policy Research Institute. His archaeological project in south­ern Greece found several new sites during survey work in the summer of 2011, and the team returned there in 2012 for further work.
Email: wjlee@email.unc.edu.
LISA LINDSAY made a number of international trips this year in connection with her ongoing work on a 19th century “black Atlantic” biography. With support from the University Research Council and UNC’s African Studies Center, she conducted research in Nigeria in July 2011. There, she delivered a presentation entitled “Atlantic Bonds: A Family Story through Slavery, Freedom, and Colonization,” in the guest seminar series of the Department of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos. During the academic year, she trav­7
eled twice to London in connection with UNC’s partnership with King’s College. In October, she presented a paper entitled “Insecure Boundaries: The Slave Trade and Slavery in mid-19th Century Liberia,” at a joint UNC-KCL conference on “Borderlands as Physical Reality: Producing Place in the 18th and 19th Centuries”; and in May, she delivered a paper called “Slavery and Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Lagos,” at the UNC-KCL conference on “Lost Futures in the History of European Empires.” Back in Chapel Hill, Lindsay served as interim Director of Undergraduate Studies in the fall 2011 semester. Her article, “Brazilian Women in Lagos, 1879-1882,” appeared in in Obioma Nnaemeka and Chima J. Korieh (eds.), Shaping our Struggles: Nigerian Women in History, Culture and Social Change (Trenton, JN: Africa World Press, 2011). She has been awarded fellowships for the upcoming academic year from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation; in fall 2012 she will be a fellow at UNC’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities. Email: lalindsa@email.unc.edu.
ROGER LOTCHIN published “Japanese Relocation in World War II and the Illusion of Universal Racism,” in the Journal of the Historical Society, Vol. XI: No. 2 (June 2011), pp. 155-82 and edited The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906, in the Donnelly Donnelly classic series (Chicago: Donnelly Donnelly Publishers, 2011). Email: rlotchin@email.unc.edu.
MALINDA MAYNOR LOWERY has received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in UNC-Chapel Hill’s History depart­ment. Her book, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation (UNC Press, 2010), won Best First Book of 2010 from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, awarded in Uncasville, CT in June 2012. In the summer of 2011 she co-directed an NEH Summer Seminar on the Ethnohistory of Indians in the American South, and she led a digitization project of materials in the Southern Historical Collection related to Southern Indians, also funded by the NEH. She was on leave in 2011-2012, funded by a Mellon Foundation “New Directions” Fellowship, during which she was introduced to the discipline of historical geography. Accordingly she gave a paper at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting, and also delivered papers at the American Historical Association meeting, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Arizona State University, the National Museum of the American Indian, Stagville Plantation, and the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. She is also writing a second book, under contract with UNC Press, tentatively titled “The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle,” which will provide a survey of Lumbee history from the 16th century to the present for a general audience. In the meantime, she has been slowly working to edit five short videos for the Institute of New England Native American Studies at UMass-Boston on Native American presence on the Boston Harbor Islands. Sadly, she lost her husband of nearly seven years, Willie French Lowery, in May of 2012, after a long illness. Email: mmaynor@email.unc.edu.
TERENCE McINTOSH gave an invited lecture, “Philipp Jakob Spener und die Juristen-Kritik in der Frühaufklärung an der lu­therischen Beichtpraxis,” at the Seminar für Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (23 May 2011) and the Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Pietismusforschung der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (17 May 2011). He covered the same subject more fully in a paper, “Pietists, Jurists, and the Early Enlightenment Critique of Private Confession in Lutheran Germany,” presented at the Triangle Intellectual History Seminar, Research Triangle Park, NC (18 September 2011). Email: terence_mcintosh@unc.edu.
LOUISE McREYNOLDS spent the year finishing and then copyediting her forthcoming book, Murder Most Russian: True Crime and Punishment, 1864-1914. She spent much time performing at professional conferences and giving invited lectures: “Pornographies of Freedom: Raping the Virgin in the Satirical Journals,” Symposium on the Satirical Journals of the 1905 Revolution, University of Southern California; “Evgenii Bauer Aestheticizes Violence,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Convention, Washington, D. C.; “Pornography and Violence During Russia’s 1905 Revolution,” Oberlin College; “Sherlok Kholms: Detective Ficton in Late Imperial Russia,” Villanova University; and, “Sooner or Later, It Had to Happen: Murders of Intimate Partners and Permissible Violence in Late Imperial Russia,” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Savannah. Presumably, as she begins her new project on the history of archeology in Imperial Russia, she will have less to say about physical violence, although probably more about cultural forms of it. Email: louisem@email.unc.edu.
FRED NAIDEN’s fields of interest in ancient religion the past year saw the publication this year of a volume he co-edited, Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice: Ancient Victims, Modern Observers (Cambridge), which included one of his essays as well as his introduction. Two other essays partly on religion appeared also--“Alexander the Great as a Religious Leader,” in Ancient World, and “Freedom and Security on an Ancient Frontier,” in Liberty and Security in the Age of Terrorism, a volume of essays about Afghanistan published by Commonwealth Security Studies Laboratory. The last two pieces overlapped with his other field of interest, ancient warfare. During this year, he gave an invited lecture at Durham University in England, and spoke to the general public at the Friday Center here at UNC. In 2010, Naiden published “Spartan Naval Performance in the Decelean War” in the Journal of Military History. He also gave a talk on the Spartan military, “Spartan Officers, Unspartan Men,” at Tulane University, and presided over a panel on ancient military history at the annual conference of the Association of Ancient Historians (AAH). He received a 2010-2011 grant from the National Humanities Center to work on a monograph on ancient animal sacrifice, “Smoke Signals for the Gods.” He gave two talks on religious topics, “The Stranger at the Gate,” at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and “Alexander the Great as a Religious Leader,” at the AAH. Alexander was also the subject of a talk, “Dividing the Subcontinent” at a conference entitled, “Along the Hindu Kush,” in New Orleans, La. This conference dealt with the origins of Pakistan. An essay on ancient law, “The Legal (and other) Trials of Orestes,” appeared in Law and Drama in Classical Athens, a collection of essays published by Duckworth. Email: naiden@email.unc.edu.
SUSAN D. PENNYBACKER contributed “Empire’s Discontents: Burton in Retrospect”, to Victorian Studies, (Winter, 2012), part of a forum occasioned by the publication of Indiana University historian Antoinette Burton’s collected essays, Empire in Question (Duke, 2011). She was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru research fellowship for 2012-13 to support the Indian dimension of her archival and oral
8history research for her book on political exile, refuge, and dissent in postwar London and parts of the former empire. She worked in Trinidad and Tobago on this book in the summer of 2011, and in 2012-13, she will be based at the University of Delhi. Pennybacker com­mented on new work on conflict in the American and Caribbean British colonies in the eighteenth century at the Northeast Conference on British studies Holy Cross (Worcester), and on papers on decolonization and settler communities at the National Conference on British Studies in Denver. At UNC, she offered comments on graduate students’ work on Britain and global history as part of a workshop held with King’s College London, and commented on new US urban history, presented at the joint workshop with Senshu University, Tokyo, in a continuing departmental exchange with Japanese scholars. She presented work on rights discourses in 20th century Britain and the former empire to a McMaster University, Ontario conference on historicizing human rights in the English-speaking world. She was the external presenter for an event honoring the new work of Carnegie-Mellon historian Nico Slade, on international civil rights history. This year witnessed the founding of the Triangle Global British History seminar, led by colleagues from UNC-CH, Duke, NCCU and North Carolina State, and for which she served as co-convener. Pennybacker taught a new course on “transnational history,” a version of the graduate readings course in global history. Her undergraduate topics course in British imperial history was newly-offered in the Honors Program. Email: pennybac@email.unc.edu.
MORGAN PITELKA spent the year as a fellow at the National Humanities Center, where he worked on two projects: the completion of a manuscript titled Famous Objects: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616), and the Politics of Warrior Sociability, and preliminary research into the archaeology of daily life and destruction in sixteenth-century castle towns in Japan. He presented a paper, “The Early Modern Afterlives of Tokugawa Ieyasu,” at a conference held at the University of Michigan, “The Early Modern ‘Medieval’: Reconstructing Japanese Pasts.” He also presented a paper, “Objectification and Human Trafficking in Japan’s Long Sixteenth Century,” at the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference at Princeton University. He chaired a panel, “Culture and Time: The Art of Historical Imagination in the 17th-Century Kyoto Renaissance,” at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting in To­ronto, and presented a paper titled “Warriors in the Capital: Kobori Enshu and the Cultural Salons of the Kyoto Renaissance.” He also served as inaugural Director of the newly established Triangle Center for Japanese Studies, a collaboration of UNC, Duke, and NCSU, organizing dozens of workshops, study groups, speakers, and symposia, as well as dispersing grant money for library acquisitions, re­search travel, and publication subvention. Email: mpitelka@unc.edu.
CYNTHIA RADDING served her first year as Director of Graduate Studies for the History Department. She continued to work on her book project, entitled “Bountiful Deserts and Imperial Shadows: Seeds of Knowledge and Corridors of Migration in Northern New Spain,” with archival research in Mexico and a return trip to the John Carter Brown Library. Her article entitled “The Childen of Mayahuel: Agaves, Human Cultures, and Desert Landscapes in Northern Mexico,” was published in the journal Environmental History (January 2012). As President of the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH), Radding presided at the CLAH General Committee meeting and chaired several sessions at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association; in addition, she presented a paper at the American Society for Environmental History annual meeting and helped to organize the UNC-CH and Kings College London joint symposium in October 2011 on “Borderlands as Physical Reality. Producing Place in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” where she presented a paper from her research on the northern borderlands of Mexico. Email: radding@email.unc.edu.
DONALD J. RALEIGH’s Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia’s Cold War Generation was published in early 2012 by Oxford University Press, which nominated the book for the Oral History Association’s annual book prize. During the year he submitted an article on the Soviet Union as a closed society, and completed work on a festschrift he co-edited in honor of his dissertation advisor, Alexander Rabinowitch, which will appear under the title Russia’s Century of Revolutions: People, Places, Parties. He gave a talk at a seminar in the Program in the Humanities and Human Values, and also launched the program’s new Spotlight on Scholars with a pre­sentation “Soviet Baby Boomers,” at Flyleaf Books. The Department of History at Baylor University invited him to present this year’s Charles Edmondson Endowed Historical Lectures. He did so in March and, in April gave the Michael B. Petrovich Endowed Lecture in Russian History at the University of Wisconsin. During the year he participated in the Association for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies annual meeting in Washington, and the regional Slavic studies conference in Savannah. Last summer he launched a new book project that he estimates will take three five-year plans to complete, a biography of Soviet leader Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, by sleuthing in Moscow archives. A fellowship from Carolina’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities during the spring semester of 2012 allowed him to make a small dent in reading the voluminous body of sources on the subject. Email: djr@email.unc.edu.
DONALD REID published several articles this year, including “What We Learn We Teach Ourselves,” n + 1 2 (February 2012): http://nplusonemag.com/what-we-learn-we-teach-ourselves; “Everybody Was In The French Resistance…Now!: American Representations of the French Resistance,” French Cultural Studies 23:1 (February 2012): 49-63; “Well-Behaved Workers Seldom Make History: Re­viewing Insubordination in French Factories during the Long 1968,” South Central Review 29:1-2 (Spring-Summer 2012): 68-85; and “Das Frauenkonzentrationslager Ravensbrück in der US-amerikanischen Erinnerungskultur” in Insa Eschebach and Astrid Ley, eds., Geschlecht und “Rasse” in der NS-Medizin, (Berlin: Metropol, 2012), 141-55. Email: dreid1@email.unc.edu.
IQBAL SEVEA joined UNC in the spring semester. Apart from recovering from jet lag, he offered two new courses on South Asia (‘South Asia since 1750’ and ‘Islam in Modern and Contemporary South Asia’) and was involved in establishing a new UNC-based inter-disciplinary seminar series called the ‘New Directions in South Asian Studies Seminar Series’. The Seminar Series aims to bring together various academics and graduate students working on South Asia and highlight the work being done on the region in UNC. He spent a portion of the last year completing his forthcoming book, The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal: Islam and Nationalism in Late Colonial India, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in July 2012. Since joining UNC, he has organized a panel, ‘Superheroes and Statism: Imaginings of Everyday State in South Asia’, at the Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference
92012. His own paper was entitled ‘Angry Jats, Disempowered Policemen and a Few Songs: Maula Jatt and the Imagining of the Every­day State in Pakistani Popular Culture’. He was also an invited commentator at Duke for the panel discussion ‘A History of Prejudice: The Struggle Against Race and Caste in India and the USA’. Email: isevea@email.unc.edu.
SARAH SHIELDS presented some of her new research on the League of Nations and the Middle East in Geneva at “Towards a New History of the League of Nations,” a conference working to reassess the League’s legacy, and at Middle East Studies Association An­nual Meeting. Together with Wayne Lee, she organized a panel on the Arab uprisings that brought to campus historian James Gelvin and Amjad Atallah, Aljazeera’s North America bureau chief. Shields talked about the Arab uprisings at local rotary meetings, Raleigh’s United Nations Association, and in Atlanta at the Future of Minority Studies Annual Colloquium. Her article, “The US and the San­cak Question: Navigating a New Relationship in a Rapidly-Changing Context,” appeared in Selcuk Esenbel and Louis Mazzari, eds., American-Turkish Encounters: A Historical Appraisal of Politics and Culture, 1830-1989 (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011). Shields has been active in outreach this year, organizing with her History of Iraq students an evening concert and a one-day workshop for K-12 teachers on Iraq beyond Conflict (http://iraqbeyondconflict.web.unc.edu/). She blogged about her experiences teaching a large survey course, “The Modern Middle East,” https://teachingthemiddleeast.wordpress.com/. Shields received a grant from the UNC Center for Global Initiatives to develop a new course on water in the Middle East and former Ottoman territories that took her back to the region this summer. Email: sshields@email.unc.edu.
RICHARD TALBERT was happy to see the appearance of two notable co-authored works this year. One is a special issue of American Journal of Philology (2011) entitled Classical Courts and Courtiers, which he co-edited as well as writing the introductory contribution “Quis se Caesaribus notus non fingit amicum ?” The other is the extensively revised and expanded second edition of The Romans from Village to Empire (Oxford University Press), enhanced by forty maps all produced at the Ancient World Mapping Center (see its report). During the year he was very preoccupied with steering two further books through their final stages prior to publication due for summer 2012, as well as with delivery of his contribution “Maps” for Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics. A much appreciated opportunity to advance his current research interests was presented by an invitation to spend a month in Paris as Directeur d’études at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques) and to offer there a seminar series Contempler le monde comme les Romains: matériaux et perspectives négligés. Other invitations enabled him to speak on “The Roman world reflected in portable sundials” at the conference Ancient Sundials, Astronomical Instruments and Geographical Knowledge in Berlin, and to present a keynote address “El sistema viario romano desde una perspectiva global” at the Coloquio de la Asociación Interdisciplinar de Estudios Romanos Ver, viajar y hospedarse en el mundo romano in Madrid. He gave named lectures at the University of Texas, El Paso (Price Memorial) and at Washington and Lee University, VA (Hoyt), and a lecture and seminar at Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands. He presented a poster session at the Archaeological Institute of America annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA, and organized a panel New Mapping Resources for Instructors and Students (to which he contributed a paper) at the Classical Association of the Middle West and South annual meeting in Baton Rouge, LA. A most stimulating, though sometimes demanding, honor was service as the Archaeological Institute of America’s Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecturer, which during this year called for lecturing at University of Buffalo, NY, Cor­nell University, NY, Knox College, Galesburg, IL, University of Missouri, Columbia, New York University, Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford, IL, University of Rochester, NY, Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH. An assignment of special interest was participa­tion in a hearing and review in Vienna of the Austrian National Research Network project Imperium and Officium: Comparative Studies in Ancient Bureaucracy and Officialdom. Talbert was awarded (with Michael Maas, Rice University, Houston, TX), $159,865 by the National Endowment for the Humanities to direct a five-week seminar for college teachers, Communication, Empire, and the City of Rome, at the American Academy in Rome in summer 2012. In Chapel Hill Talbert gave a lecture for the General Alumni Association, and contributed to the Program in the Humanities seminar Great Enemies of Greece and Rome. He was a finalist for the Board of Governors award for excellence in teaching. With Profs. Mary Boatwright (Classical Studies, Duke University) and Fred Naiden he co-organized the annual meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians in May 2012. Talbert continues as Chair of the Faculty Advisory Board for UNC’s Program in the Humanities and Human Values, and as Chair of the Advisory Council to the School of Classical Stud­ies, American Academy in Rome. 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. Email: talbert@email.unc.edu.
BENJAMIN WATERHOUSE published a chapter on business political activism, “The Corporate Mobilization Against Liberal Re­form: Big Business Day, 1980” in an edited volume called What’s Good for Business: Business and American Politics Since World War II (Oxford University Press, 2012). He also published a short review essay on current trends in the history of American politics and eco­nomics in a Brazilian law journal. That essay, “O futoro da historia do capitalismo” [“The Future of the History of Capitalism”] appeared in Direito e Desenvolvimento (Unipe: Joao Pessoa, Brazil, 2011). He commented on a panel about teaching the history of capitalism and economic history at Harvard University in November, and participated in roundtable discussions on regulatory history and private wealth in politics at the Business History Conference and the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in the spring of 2012. Over the winter, he presented manuscript chapters from his book-in-progress to the Triangle Legal History Seminar and the Rethinking Regulation workshop at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, of which he is a regular participant. Finally, he appeared as a featured expert in a documentary film about American business and politics called Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?, released in the fall of 2011. Email: waterhou@email.unc.edu.
HARRY WATSON stepped down as director of the Center for the Study of the American South on July 1, 2012, becoming Atlanta Alumni Distinguished Professor as he returned to full-time duty in the Department. With the new Center director, Professor Joc­elyn Neal of Music, he continues to edit its quarterly journal, Southern Cultures. In July 2011, he delivered his presidential address
10to the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, “The Man with the Dirty Black Beard: Race, Class, and School Reform in the Antebellum South.” The address appeared in print in the Spring 2012 issue of the Journal of the Early Republic.
Email: hwatson@email.unc.edu.
BRETT WHALEN gladly began his first year at the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. He was also awarded the UNC-Chapel Hill Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty. In the fall 2011, his new source reader, Pil­grimage in the Middle Ages, appeared with the University of Toronto Press. He also published his article “Corresponding with Infidels: Rome, the Almohads, and the Christians of Thirteenth-Century Morocco” in the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and spoke on a number of radio programs about his research on pilgrimage and medieval apocalypticism. Meanwhile, he continues to plug away at his next book, A History of the Medieval Papacy, under contract with Palgrave MacMillan. Starting in July 2012, he is assuming a new position as director of the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at Carolina. Email: bwhalen@email.unc.edu.
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Dr. Molly Worthen, Assistant Professor
Dr. Michael Morgan, Assistant Professor
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15EMERITUS NEWS
SAMUEL H. BARON’s article, “Plekhanov, Utopianism and the Russian Revolution”, originally published in Otechestvennaia Istoria, 1995, will be reprinted in a forthcoming volume of correspondence between Lenin and Plekhanov. Email: shbaron@live.unc.edu.
JOHN HEADLEY published a new book, The Problem with Multiculturalism: The Uniqueness and Universality of the West (by Trans­action Publishers, 2012).
MICHAEL HUNT, in collaboration with Steve I. Levine, published Arc of Empire: America’s Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Viet­nam (University of North Carolina Press). It became a selection of the History Book Club, Military History Book Club, and BOMC2. A Chinese translation of Hunt’s The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance has recently appeared in print. His continuing commentary on U.S. foreign policy can be found on the UNC Press Blog (http://uncpressblog.com/category/columnists/michael-h-hunt/) as well as on his professional website (http://michaelhunt.web.unc.edu/on-washington-and-the-world/). Email: mhhunt@live.unc.edu.
LAWRENCE KESSLER published an article, “Surviving the Japanese Invasion of China: An Englishman in Shanghai in the 1940s,” Southeast Review of Asian Studies, 33 (2011). He also presented a paper, “‘Up Close and Personal’: An Englishman’s Encounters With Chinese Communism,” at the Southeast Regional Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, January 2012. He was co-leader of a tour to China and Vietnam in June 2011 for secondary school Social Studies teachers, under the auspices of the National Consortium for Teaching Asia, and then returned to China in October as enrichment lecturer for a WFMT (Chicago radio station) tour.
Email: kessler@unc.edu.
MICHAEL MCVAUGH brought to essential completion his Mellon Fellowship project to produce an edition of the Speculum medicine of the medieval physician Arnau de Vilanova. He also revised an earlier edition of that author’s De amore heroico for publication as Arnau de Vilanova, Tractat sobre l’amor heroic (Barcelona: Editorial Barcino, 2011), with Catalan translation and textual annotations by Sebastià Giralt. He published two papers: (1) “Academic Medicine and the Vernacularization of Medieval Surgery: The Case of Bernat de Berriac,” in El saber i les llengües vernacles a l’època de Llull i Eximenis, ed. Anna Alberni, Lola Badia, Lluís Cifuentes, and Alexander Fidora (Barcelona: Abadia de Montserrat, 2012), 257-81; and (2) “Fistulas, the Knee, and the ‘Three-Dimensional’ Body,” in Medicine and Space: Body, Surroundings, and Borders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, ed. Patricia A. Baker, Han Nijdam, and Karine van’t Land (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2012), 24-36, plates. He also gave three talks: “The Writing of the Speculum medicine and its Place in Arnau de Vilanova’s Last Years,” to III Trobada Internacional d’Estudis sobre Arnau de Vilanova, Barcelona (Spain), 8 October 2011; “The Medieval Mediterranean City as a Focus of Medicalization,” to an international seminar, “Ciutats Mediterrànies: Civilització i Desenvolupament,” Barcelona (Spain), 18 November 2011; and “Historiography of Medieval Medicine over Fifty Years: A Personal Perspective,” to Program in History of Science and Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv (Israel), 27 March 2012.
THEDA PERDUE kept busy during her first year of retirement. She co-directed, with Malinda Maynor Lowery, a NEH Summer Semi­nar that focused on southeastern Indians. She delivered lectures at Morgan State University, Southern Illinois University, and Virginia Tech, and she conducted a seminar on Indian removal for the Smithsonian Institution Associates. At the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association in November, she delivered her presidential address, “The Legacy of Indian Removal,” which was published in the Journal of Southern History in February. She also published “Southern Indians and Jim Crow” in The Folly of Jim Crow (Texas A&M Press, 2012). The College of Arts and Sciences has honored her contributions to UNC by naming a distinguished professorship for her.
RICHARD PFAFF has a chapter, “Liturgical Books,” in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, I: c. 400-1100, ed. R. Gameson (Cambridge UP, 2012). His 2009 CUP book The Liturgy in Medieval England: a History was awarded the highest honor of the Medieval Academy of America, the Haskins Medal, at its annual meeting in March. Email: pfaffrw@live.unc.edu.
GERHARD L. WEINBERG’s George C. Marshall lecture, “Some Myths of World War II” was published in the July 2011 issue of the Journal of Military History. The Oxford Bibliography on Line (OBO) now includes his contribution on “World War II: Diplomacy and Political Relations.” He received the Society for Military History’s Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Lifetime Achievement at its 2011 annual meeting. In addition to several weekend talks for the Program in the Humanities and Human Values and a presentation for the University’s World View Program, he commented at two sessions of the annual meeting of the German Studies Association, gave talks for the extension program of the Naval War College, and spoke at the National War College, Middle Tennessee State University, the Marshall Foundation, the National World War II Museum, Emory University, the University of Florida, Florida Atlantic University, the State University at Albany, and the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. This was also the first of a two-year term as Chair of the Moncado Prize Committee of the Society for Military History. Email: gweinber@email.unc.edu.
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DAVID M. ANDERSON (PhD/2002/ Fink) is an Associate Professor of American History at Louisiana Tech University. He is a co-editor of the Hank Williams Readers (forthcoming, Oxford University Press), completed a term on the Board of Directors for the Loui­siana History Association and published the encyclopedia entry on Hank Williams in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (forthcoming, Oxford University Press). Email: davida@latech.edu.
WILLOUGHBY ANDERSON (MA/2004/PhD/2008/Hall) is practicing law in Chicago. After graduating from Boalt and clerking for the Honorable John T. Nixon in the Middle District of Tennessee, she started as a litigation associate at Schiff Hardin, LLP. Her chapter, “The Presence of the Past: Iconic Moments and the Politics of Interviewing in Birmingham,” was published this spring in Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back, edited by Renee C. Romano and Claire Potter (University of Georgia Press). She has been a presenter and participant in the American Bar Foundation-Illinois Legal History Seminar. Email: willoughbyanderson@gmail.com.
STEPHEN M. APPELL (MA/1969/Pulley) continues as the Special Assistant to the Provost-Complaint Investigator and Assistant Director of the Office for Equity and Diversity, Office of the Vice-Provost for Diversity and Climate, University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to complaint investigations, Appell serves on the Provost’s Accessibility and Usability Committee focusing on Section 504/ADA issues, and on the Title IX group working to implement the April 2011 guidance from the Office for Civil Rights. He serves as an advisor to the committee implementing the Governor’s Executive Order making all University of Wisconsin System employees man­dated reporters of child abuse occurring, or reported, on any campus in the System. He continues as a trainer for newly selected campus managers. Email: appell@provost.wisc.edu.
R. GLEN AYERS (MA/1971/Douglass) practices law in San Antonio, Texas, with the firm of Langley & Banack, Inc. He continues to publish and lecture on commercial law and bankruptcy subjects. His recent work has concentrated on the U.S. Supreme Court case, Stern v. Marshall, 564 U.S. (2011). Stern is important for it concerns the limited jurisdiction of Article I (e.g., Bankruptcy) courts. Stern is notorious, because Stern is the executor of the estate of Anna Nicole Smith, Playboy Playmate, who married an 89 year-old billionaire, J. Howard Marshall. After his death, she and his son began a battle over his fortune that outlived both – the son, Pierce, died in 2006, and Anna Nichole died in 2007. The U.S. Supreme Court effectively denied all of Smith’s claims in 2012.
BRUCE E. BAKER (PhD/2003/Hall) is still a Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. He won the College Excel­lence Teaching Prize for 2011-2012 for introducing a new form of assessment on his U.S. history survey course. In the past year, Bruce and BARBARA HAHN have presented papers about cotton futures trading in the beginning of the twentieth century at the annual meet­ing of BrANCH (the Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians) and the Business History Conference, and they are working on a short book on the topic. At the Organization of American Historians meeting in April 2012, he chaired a panel of new scholarship on historical memory of Reconstruction. Bruce continues to serve as co-editor of the journal American Nineteenth Century History.
EMILY BARAN (MA/2006/PhD/2011/Raleigh) published her article, ‘“I Saw the Light:’ Former Believer Testimonials in the Soviet Union, 1957-1987,” in the summer 2012 issue of Cahiers du Monde russe. Her book, Faith on the Margins: Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia, Ukraine, and Moldova, 1945-2010, is under contract with Oxford University Press. Her disserta­tion won the Linda Dykstra Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities for 2012. She will be an assistant professor at Middle Tennessee State University in fall 2012. Email: emily.b.baran@gmail.com.
LANCE BETROS (MA/1986/PhD/1988/Higginbotham) is nearing completion of his seven-year tenure as the head of the Department of History at the US Military Academy, West Point, NY. Currently an active-duty colonel, he will retire in June 2012 after thirty-five years as a commissioned officer and be promoted to brigadier general. In March, Texas A&M University Press published his new book, Carved from Granite: West Point since 1902, a critical history of the modern Military Academy. Additionally, he was the co-executive editor of “Into Harm’s Way,” a 90-minute documentary film produced by the West Point Center for Oral History (a subset of the Depart­ment of History); the film examines the effects of the Vietnam War on the West Point class of 1967, from the time of entry as cadets until the present. In December 2011, he was selected to be the provost of the US Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, PA, starting in summer 2012. Email: lancebetros@earthlink.net or lance.betros@us.army.mil.
WAITMAN W. BEORN (MA/2007/PhD/2011/Browning) completed a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola University in New Orleans and has accepted a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of History and the Louis and Frances Blumkin Profes­sor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha that will start in Fall 2012. His book manuscript is under contract with Harvard University Press. He has also given public lectures at Middlebury College and the University of Vermont.
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 on the Executive Committee of the Southern Historical Association.
Email: billingr@wingate.edu.EMILY BINGHAM (MA/1991/PhD/1998/Mathews) completed a draft and is revising her biography of Henrietta Bingham for Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. She taught as a visiting professor at Centre College in 2012. Email: emily@emilybingham.net.
MYRA M. BOM (PhD/2006/McVaugh) works as an independent scholar and writer. Her book, Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades, will be published by Palgrave MacMillan this August. Email: myrambom@gmail.com.
JOYCE M. BOWDEN (MA/1968/Bierck) wrote a history of her maternal grandfather’s family. White Poppy Press will publish this book in 2013. The working title is Four Connor Generations in South Carolina, 1790-1920. Email: jm.bowden@comcast.net.
MICHELE ANDREA BOWEN (MA/1992/McNeil) finished the manuscript for novel number six, The Pastor’s Aide Club, with St. Martin’s Press. It was originally titled, A Pastor’s Heart, but both Michele and her editor at St. Martin’s Press, thought the book needed a better title with a bit more ‘umph factor’ to it. She is waiting on a publication date, which should be sometime in early 2013. She also did an independent project--a collection of short stories, Riding Dirty and with Jesus? with Amazon/Kindle Direct. That book is now available on Kindle. Bowen is currently writing novel number seven, Praying Like Crazy with St. Martin’s Press. She recently became adjunct faculty with Mount Olive College. She lives in Durham.
ROBERT F. (ROBIN) BRABHAM (MA/1977/Powell) served as an archives and records consultant to the Mecklenburg County Bar in anticipation of the organization’s 100th anniversary in 2012.
STACY BRAUKMAN (PhD/1999/Hall) is a senior writer and editor in the Office of Development at Georgia Tech. In November 2011, her essay, “The Johns Committee, Sex, and Civil Rights in Florida, 1963-1965,” appeared in Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement, edited by Danielle L. McGuire and John Dittmer and published by the University Press of Kentucky. The University Press of Florida published her book, Communists and Perverts under the Palms: The Johns Committee in Florida, in March 2012. Email: stacy.braukman@gmail.com.
LEE L. BRICE (PhD/2003/Talbert) is associate professor of ancient history at Western Illinois University. His book, Recent Directions in the Military History of the Ancient World, which he co-edited with Jennifer T. Roberts, was published by Regina Books in May 2011. He is continuing work on an ancient warfare textbook. In the last year Lee had an article on Philip II of Macedon appear in Ancient World and a chapter on discipline in the Roman army appear in the book War and Culture, edited by Wayne Lee and published by NYU press. Preliminary results of his research on the fourth and third century BCE mint at Corinth were published in the proceedings of the XIV International Numismatic Congress. His reviews have appeared in Journal of World History and the Journal of Roman Archaeology. He was President of the Society for Ancient Military History, and chair of publications for the Association of Ancient Historians. Lee presented research at the Illinois Classical Caucus and the Society for Military History 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 writing the recent history (1930 to 2000) of Washington and Lee University. He also serves 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 UAE national universities in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Al Ain. He is the immediate Past Chair of the International Student Exchange Programs in Washington, D.C. and continues as Chair of the Charlottesville Committee on Foreign Relations and as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Urban History. Email: babrownell@earthlink.net.
CHRISTOPHER CAMERON (MA/2008/PhD/2010/Williams) is teaching early American history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His first book, To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans and the Making of the Antislavery Movement, is under review with Kent State University Press, and he is now working on his second book, which explores deism and liberal Christianity in colonial and revolutionary America. Cameron published an article on Puritanism and black abolitionist thought in the Historical Journal of Mas­sachusetts (Summer 2011), and has a chapter in a forthcoming volume on American intellectual history. Email: ccamer17@uncc.edu.
D’ANN M. CAMPBELL (PhD/1979/Mowry) is teaching American history at Culver Stockton College, in Canton, MO. She has several historiographical book chapters in press; that focus on American servicewomen during World War II, on American service­women in the post-war period, and on a comparison of women’s roles in the American Civil War and WWII. She is currently writing a history of women’s roles worldwide during the Second World War. She published a book review in Teaching History. She had given talks in Middleberg, The Netherlands and on women’s roles worldwide during WWII at the annual meeting of the Society for Military History in Washington D.C. She is president elect of the Quincy East Rotary Club and president of the Canton chapter of AAUW.
Email: dcampbell@culver.edu.
EMILEE HINES CANTIERI (MA/Pegg/1964) has had 2 books published within the past year. Til Death Do Us Part is a self-help book to prepare adults for their death or that of their spouse, financially, legally, emotionally and medically; part 2 tells what to do after death has occurred. Based on her own experience following the death of her husband, Thomas B. Cantieri (BS, 1956) and the experi­ences and expertise of other experts, widows and widowers. She has presented two workshops based on the book. A Place to Love is a contemporary romance. Emilee has also acquired the rights to two of her earlier paperbacks, Burnt Station and East African Odyssey. The latter is a memoir of her teaching in Kenya in the 1960’s for the Agency of International Development. Most of her books are now available from Amazon as paperbacks and e-books. Emilee is now at work on a historical novel set in Kievan Russia, 982, The Prince and the Passion. Email: emilee214@att.net.
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STEVEN A. CHANNING (PhD/1968/Williamson) continues to find obstacles in the path to retirement from his work as a public his­torian. His current documentary film projects include ‘Passing the Torch: Bill Friday and North Carolina’s ‘Greatest Generation’” and ‘Remarkable Journey: Voices of the North Carolina Asian Indian Community.’ He had the fun of producing a new video for the State Department entitled Fulbright Connects that included exciting trips to Jordan and Argentina. He serves on the boards of the Southern Documentary Fund, a nonprofit organization that sponsors films and radio programs on the South, and the new Museum of Durham His­tory, which hopes to be a hub to promote appreciation for the most authentic city in the Triangle! Email: schanning@videodialog.com.
LINDA L. CLARK (PhD/1968/Kraehe) is serving a second term as executive director of the Society for French Historical Studies. Her recent conference presentations include “From Professional Experience to Feminism in Early 20th-Century France” at the Centre d’histoire, Ecole de Sciences Politiques, Paris, May 2011, and “Les Directrices d’ecole normale 1879-1914” at the University of Bor­deaux, April 2012.
BARRY CLENDENIN (PhD/1975/Baxter) is teaching health policy in summer sessions as an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University’s School of Public Policy. The course covers health reform’s policy challenges in the 21st century. He published a review in World Medical and Health Policy. He previously worked in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget from 1977 to 2008, including serving as the Deputy Associate Director, Health Division, from 1994 to 2008. Email: BarryC2@verizon.net.
JOHN WILLIAM COON (MA/1968/Patton) continues enjoyable retirement in Decatur, AL, after finishing his Social Security Admin­istration career as district manager in Huntsville, AL. He was recently recognized by the Rotary International Board of Directors with the RI Service Above Self award. This award is Rotary’s highest honor for individual members. One hundred and fifty Rotarians from around the world are recognized each year for exemplary humanitarian service and personal volunteer efforts in helping others through Rotary. The award recognized John’s long service in finance and education at Decatur’s First United Methodist Church, his assistance with disaster relief and his board service through the Morgan-Lawrence American Red Cross, and his service in Rotary sponsored pro­grams. He is a Rotary Reader and Math Buddy mentor in a Title I elementary school and coordinates Rotary sponsored Interact clubs at two local high schools. He enjoys reading eclectically, favoring American History. Email: jjcoon31@aol.com.
THOMAS H. CONNER (MA/1974/PhD/1983/Williamson) will begin his 30th year of teaching at Hillsdale College (MI) this coming Fall, and holds the William P. Harris Chair in Military History. Last April, he was named one of “The Best 300 Professors” in a publica­tion of that title by the Princeton Review. Email: tconner@hillsdale.edu.
MICHAEL J. COPPS (PhD/1967/Klingberg) “retired” on December 31 after serving for more than a decade as a Federal Communica­tions Commissioner. He has since been elected to the Board of Governors of Common Cause and to board directorships at both Public Knowledge and Free Press—all organizations that work to advance the causes of media reform, reinvigorated journalism, and restrain­ing still-growing consolidation in the telecommunications and media businesses. Based on foundation grants, Copps is resuming the extensive grassroots outreach on media democracy that he initiated during his years at the FCC. Among a number of awards he received nearing his retirement, he especially values the Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression from the Roosevelt Insti­tute, conferred in a moving two-day ceremony at Hyde Park, NY. Email: mjcopps@gmail.com.
ALFRED EMILE CORNEBISE (PhD/1965/Pegg) is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Northern Colorado in Gree­ley. On June 1, 2011, The China Writers Publishing House in Beijing published a Chinese translation of his book, The United States 15th Infantry Regiment in China, 1912-1938 (McFarland, 2004). Email: acornebi@aol.com.
JAMES G. CRAWFORD (MA/1991/PhD/2002/Hunt) teaches U.S. and world history courses at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Jim secured a 2011-2012 UNC-China Teaching Technology grant to develop live video courses with Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, China. This fall he will pilot The World Since 1945 (dear old History 18) in this new, ‘global class­room’ format. Email: jgcrawfo@ncat.edu.
IAN CROWE (PhD/2008/Smith) is Director of the Edmund Burke Society of America and was appointed Executive Editor of the jour­nal Studies in Burke and His Time in 2011. In August this year, Stanford University Press will be publishing his book, Patriotism and Public Spirit: Edmund Burke and the Role of the Critic in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain. Email: icrowe@bpc.edu.
CHRIS DALY (MA/1982/Fink) is teaching journalism and history at Boston University. His book, Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation’s Journalism, was published in March by UMass Press. He had an article in the Columbia Journalism Review in February about the storied left-wing daily paper PM, which flourished in New York during the 1940s. An article he wrote originally for the British journal Journalism Practice -- titled “Are Journalists Always Wrong? Are Historians Always Right?” -- is being published as a chapter in a new book titled How Journalism Uses History (Routledge, 2012). He blogs about journalism and its history at: www.journalismprofessor.com. Chris and his wife, Anne Fishel (Psychology PhD, 1982), welcome hearing from old Chapel Hill friends. Email: chrisdaly44@gmail.com.
WALLACE L. DANIEL (PhD/1973/Griffiths, Brooks) stepped down as Provost to return to the faculty at Mercer University. He has been named Distinguished University Professor of History. In late fall 2011, he published “Alexander Men, Intellectual Freedom and the Russian Orthodox Church” in Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte, Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie und Geschichtswissenschaft 24, no. 1 (2011): 92-119. He presented the 19th Annual William E. and Miriam S. Blake Lecture in the History of Christianity, sponsored by the Department of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, in February 2012, and served as discussant on a panel concerning the Keston Archive at Baylor University at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, in March 2012. He will 20
be a speaker at the forthcoming international conference on “Russia: Lessons and Legacy—The Alexander Men Conference 2012,” in Moffat, Scotland. Email: Daniel_WL@Mercer.edu.
MEL G. DEAILE (PhD/2007/Kohn) assumed the position of Professor of History and Strategy at the Air Force’s School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS) on 1 July 2011. This past year he taught courses on air power history after World War II, cyber and information strategy, and strategy and campaign planning. Within the same year, American Military University elevated him from an adjunct professor to an associate professor with a joint appointment in the Military Studies and History Departments where he teaches history of technology, history of the American Revolution, and air power in the 21st century. Additionally, he currently teaches America’s Cultural Heritage and African American history at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama. His manuscript based on his UNC Dissertation is out for review with NYU Press. Finally, he presented his paper, “Teaching Contemporary Military History: An Open or Closed Case,” at the 2012 Society for military History Conference. Email: Melvin.deaile@maxwell.af.mil; mel651227@gmail.com.
HEATHER L. DICHTER (MA/2002/Jarausch) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Sport Management and Media at Ithaca College. The special issue of Sport in Society which she co-edited was re-published as a book by Routledge (Olym­pic Reform Ten Years Later). She also presented papers at the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport, the German Studies Association, and the History of Education Society.
W. CALVIN DICKINSON (PhD/1967/Baxter) has been happily retired from Tennessee Technological University for twelve years. He is serving a second term on the Tennessee Historical Commission, and is editor of a monthly history column in the local newspaper. He published two essays last year concerning two pioneer medical doctors in the rural area of middle/east Tennessee, where May Wharton and Dora Lee Wilder practiced medicine in the early twentieth century in adjacent small towns. Journal of East Tennessee History pub­lished both essays. Email: cdickinson@tntech.edu.
RALPH DRAUGHON, JR. (MA /1964/PhD/1968/GREEN) completes this year a six year term on the Alabama Historical Commis­sion, and the Governor of Alabama has reappointed him for a second term as Commissioner to serve until 2018. Ralph has been the nominee of the Alabama Historical Association for both terms.
TOM ELLIOTT (MA/1997/PhD/2004/Talbert) continues to live in Huntsville, Alabama and to work as Associate Director for Digital Programs and Senior Research Scholar for the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University (http://isaw.nyu.edu). He serves presently as the principal investigator for grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities supporting the Ple­iades project (http://pleiades.stoa.org), which deals with ancient geography, and the Linked Ancient World Data Institute (http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Linked_Ancient_World_Data_Institute), which serves as a forum for sharing and spreading digital publication ex­pertise. He has also been collaborating with Duke University’s Prof. Joshua Sosin on the Integrating Digital Papyrology project (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), with NYU’s Roger Bagnall on the NEH-funded Advanced Papyrological Information System 6 grant, and with Prof. Arlo Griffiths of the Jakarta Research Centre of the École française d›Extrême-Orient (EFEO) on a digital Corpus of the Inscriptions of Campā (Vietnam), with startup funding from the Toyota Foundation Asian Neighbors Program (preview version to appear in Fall 2012). Email: tom.elliott@nyu.edu.
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.” He published an article on “Fashioning Racial Selves: Reflexive Practices in the Society for Racial Hygiene” in the journal Culture, Medicine, Psychiatry. For the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Eugen Bleuler’s seminal work on schizophrenia he presented a paper at the psychiatric clinic in Zurich. He presented other papers in Berlin, Cleveland, and Cologne and published book reviews in German History and ISIS. Email: engstroe@geschichte.hu-berlin.de.
BRIT K. ERSLEV (MA/2007/PhD/2011/ Glatthaar) received her Masters of Military Art and Science from the School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, KS, on May 19, 2011. She then deployed to Headquarters, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Kabul, Afghanistan, and worked for four months on the staff of Combined Joint Interagency Task Force-Shafafiyat (Transpar­ency) for another department alum, Brigadier General (Promotable) H.R. McMaster. She wrapped up her deployment in Kandahar Prov­ince as an executive officer for a military intelligence battalion. She looks forward to returning to the states where she will be stationed at Fort Hood, Texas and start working on a manuscript based on her dissertation. Email: Brit.erslev@us.army.mil.
STEVE ESTES (PhD/2001/Hall) is teaching modern American history at Sonoma State University in Northern California. In the sum­mer of 2011, he was promoted to the rank of professor at Sonoma State. In the fall, he was awarded the W.J.B. Dorn Research Award from the University of South Carolina to support research for a book tentatively entitled “Too Proud to Whitewash: Charleston since the Civil Rights Movement.” The manuscript is under contract with the University of North Carolina Press. Estes also authored “Don’t Ask: Discussing Sexuality in the American Military and the Media,” in Nan Alamilla Boyd and Horacio Roque Ramirez, eds., Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History published by Oxford University Press in 2012. Email: steve.estes@sonoma.edu.
NATALIE M. FOUSEKIS (MA/1994/Filene/PhD/2000/Filene, Hall) is teaching US History at Cal State Fullerton, University. She also serves as the director of the Center for Oral and Public History. Her first book, Demanding Child Care: Women’s Activism and the Politics of Welfare, 1940-1971 was published by the University of Illinois Press in Fall 2011. Dr. Fousekis and the Center for Oral and Public History received a $425,000 NEH Challenge Grant for the Center’s Relocation and Expansion Project. She is in her fifth year as the Project Director of the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station Oral History Project, which has been funded by multiple grants from the Orange Country Great Park Corporation and has resulted in over 425 interviews to date. Fousekis also serves on the Publications Com­21
mittee of the Oral History Association. Email: nfousekis@fullerton.edu.
MARY E. FREDERICKSON (PhD/1981/Mathews) is on the faculty in History and American Studies at Miami University, Oxford Ohio. She will be a senior fellow at the James Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory University during 2012-2013 working on a project entitled The Genetic Imaginary: Sickle Cell Disease in Global Perspective. Her book, Looking South: Race, Gender, and the Transfor­mation of Labor from Reconstruction to Globalization was published in the Southern Dissent Series at University Press of Florida in spring 2011; the paperback edition came out in spring 2012. She published a revised version of Chapter 8 from Looking South entitled “Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South,” in Southern Spaces (December 2011) http://www.southernspaces.org/2011/back-future-mapping-workers-across-global-south and two essays in American History (ABC-CLIO), “The 1848 ‘Declaration of Sentiments:’ The Foundation for Women’s Rights in the 21st Century” and “‘The ERA Won’t Go Away:’ A Majority of Americans Support the Equal Rights Amendment.” Invited lectures included: “In Light and Shadow: Women Artists and the World,” Miami Univer­sity Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio, September 22, 2011; “Gendered Resistance: Witnessing Elizabeth Clark Gaines’ Journey from Freedom to Slavery,” Writing for Justice Conference: The Origins and Legacy of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1, 2011; “Ogbanje in the Global City: Sickle Cell Disease in West Africa,” Conference on Disease and Development in the Global City, Miami University, October 7, 2011. She chaired a session on “Representations of Race and Gender on the Global Stage,” Berkshire Conference for Women Historians, June 9, 2011 and presented the following papers: “A Place to Speak Our Minds: Locating Women’s Activism Where North Meets South,” National Women’s Studies Association, Denver, CO, November 13, 2011 and “Global Sweatshops in Historical Perspective,” Triangle Shirtwaist Commemoration, The Murphy Institute, CUNY, March 24, 2011. Named to the Board of Trustees of the Journal of Women’s History, she also served on the Membership Committee of the Southern Historical Asso­ciation and received the Gamma Phi Beta and Sigma Phi Award for Outstanding Teaching and Student Engagement at Miami University.
Email: frederme@muohio.edu.
GARY R. FREEZE (MA/1979/PhD/1988/Tindall) is teaching American history, Middle East politics, and cultural geography at Ca­tawba College. He completed a term as chair of the Faculty Senate, with involvement in the hiring of a new president for the institution. He gave a paper, “Populism Between Neighbors: The Agrarian Revolt in Poplar Tent, 1888—1902,” at the fall 2011 meeting of the Historical Society of North Carolina, and hosted that group’s spring 2012 meeting. He gave a series of talks, “Grassroots Confedera­cies,” as part of the sesquicentennial observance of the of the Civil War in western North Carolina. The talks, sponsored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, were in Salisbury, Newton, Statesville, and Asheville. A short essay, “Traditional Agrarian Discourse,” was reprinted in a commemorative edition of Crossroads, the journal of the North Carolina Humanities Council, in spring 2012. His ongoing, multi-volume history of the Catawba Valley received a cumulative review in the winter 2011 edition of the on-line Journal of Backcountry Studies. His middle school textbook, North Carolina: Land of Contrasts, was displayed to represent current interpreta­tions in the field in an exhibit at the North Carolina Collection Gallery in Wilson Library. As director of the Local Heritage Institute, he worked with the UNC Nutrition Research Center at the North Carolina Research Campus to curate “From Cotton to Chromosomes,” an exhibit on the textile heritage of Kannapolis. He also worked with potential corporate sponsors to salvage and restore a colonial house near Concord associated with the Regulation and Revolution in North Carolina.
CHRISTOPHER J. FUHRMANN (MA/2001/PhD/2005/Talbert) earned tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at the University of North Texas in 2011. Oxford University Press recently published his book Policing the Roman Empire: Soldiers, Administration, and Public Order. This spring he was a finalist for the Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome.
JOHN W. FURLOW (PhD/Mowry/1973) has retired as Dean Emeritus of Ohio University’s Lancaster Campus. While serving as Dean, he also held the rank of assistant professor of history. Email: furlowjw2@aol.com.
CHRISTIAN P. GARCIA (MA/1983/Tindall) published Now and Always: A Louisiana Love Story through his own imprint, Garcia Publishing Company, located in Greenville, NC. The book is a collection of letters written by his grandparents, Joseph Bradford Lan­caster and Amanda Doerr Lancaster, from 1901 to 1916, revealing a picture of life in Louisiana at the turn of the 20th century. Joseph Lancaster was the first superintendent of public education in St. Tammany Parish, a state legislator, a district attorney, and a state judge. He kept in close contact with his wife Amanda Lancaster through his correspondence while he traveled throughout Louisiana. She wrote details of domestic and town life in her responses. Garcia did photo research to find and collect images of the people and places Joseph and Amanda described in their letters. He also wrote introductory material and long captions to put the letters’ and images’ of an early 20th-century south Louisiana setting in context for 21st-century readers. In February 2012 he made numerous presentations in Covington, Louisiana, at events related to the book’s publication. He will be a featured speaker for the bicentennial celebration of the founding of Covington to be held in the fall of 2012. Garcia writes and edits non-fiction, specializing in books of biography, history, and spirituality. Email: christian.garciapubco@gmail.com.
JERRY GERSHENHORN (PhD/2000/Leloudis) read a paper titled, “St. Clair Drake, Pan-Africanism, African Studies, and the Poli­tics of Knowledge, 1945-1963,” at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, in Richmond , Virginia, in October 2011. A revision of that paper will be published in the Journal of African American History next year as part of a symposium on the life of scholar-activist St. Clair Drake. He published a book review in the Journal of Southern History in August 2011. In the last year, seven of his students completed their master’s theses. He was promoted to full professor at North Carolina Central University. Email: jgershen@nccu.edu.22
GLENDA GILMORE (PhD/1992/Painter) continues to teach in History, American Studies, and African American Studies at Yale University and served as DGS in African American Studies this year. While at Yale, she has directed 28 completed dissertations and currently directs 13 in progress. Recent articles include “Which Southerners? Which Southern Historians? A Century of Teaching Southern History at Yale,” The Yale Review (January 2011): 56-69, and “’Am I a Screwball, or Am I a Pioneer?’: Pauli Murray’s Civil Rights Movement,” in Walter Isaacson, ed., Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness (W. W. Norton, October, 2010), “Romare Bearden’s Mecklenburg Memories,” in Mary L. Corlett, Leslie King Hammond, Jae Emerling, Carla Hanzal, and Glenda Gilmore, Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections (London and New York: D Giles Ltd. October, 2011), and “The 2008 Election, Black Women’s Politics, and the Long Civil Rights Movement,” in Liette Gidlow, ed., Obama, Clinton, and Palin: Making History in Election 2008 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011).
BRENT D. GLASS (PhD/1980/Kasson) retired as Director Emeritus of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in 2011. He is currently a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies in Washington and is writing a book about America’s historic places for publication by Simon and Schuster in 2013. He is working on museum projects at The Presidio in San Francisco and the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. He is an advisor to the DeVos Institute at the Kennedy Center and to Drexel University in Philadelphia. During the past year, he has consulted and presented programs on museums and American history in Rome and Cremona, Italy and in Shanghai, China as well as at schools and museums in the United States. He serves as a member of the Graduate Education Advancement Board at UNC-Chapel Hill. Email: brentdglass@gmail.com.
HILARY N. GREEN (PhD/2010/Williams) is an assistant professor of History at Elizabeth City State University. She was featured as a listener story in the WUNC series on the Civil War in June 2011. She was interviewed regarding the free African American experience in Northeastern North Carolina. This interview appeared in the Daily Advance (Elizabeth City, NC) for its commemoration of the 150th an­niversary of the Battle of Elizabeth City. She had book reviews published in H-Empire and the Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians, a lecture presentation published in the e-newsletter for the North Carolina Humanities Council, and an entry published in Enslaved Women in America: An Encyclopedia. She has contributed a sidebar entry in a forthcoming publication on post-emancipation experience of African Americans in Savannah, GA. She presented conference papers in Honolulu, HI, and Chapel Hill, NC. She is cur­rently revising a manuscript based on her dissertation, “Educational Reconstruction,” and will submit to a press for consideration shortly. Email: hngreen@mail.ecsu.edu.
STEVEN K. GREEN (MA/1987/Mathews/PhD/1997/Semonche) is the Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of History at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. He teaches courses in Constitutional Law, First Amendment, Church and State, Jurisprudence, and Legal History in the law school and courses in religious history in the undergraduate history department. He also serves as the director of the interdisciplinary Center for Religion, Law and Democracy: www.willamette.edu/centers/crld. During the 2011-2012 year, Oxford University Press published his latest book, The Bible, the School, and the Constitution: The Clash that Shaped Modern Church-State Doctrine. Green also presented papers at conferences sponsored by Pepperdine University, Oklahoma University, and the Nineteenth Century Studies Association. Email: sgreen@willamette.edu.
ELIZABETH GRITTER (MA/2005/PhD/2010/Hall) completed her first year as Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where she teaches five U.S. history survey sections per semester. Her biog­raphy was selected for inclusion in the 2012 edition of Who’s Who in America. In June, she traveled to Louisville, Kentucky, to serve as a reader of Advanced Placement U.S. History Exams for the Educational Testing Service. She pursued funding for a documentary film project, River of Hope: the Black Freedom Struggle in Memphis, which she has been developing with Tom Neff, a documentary filmmaker based in Nashville (www.tomneff.com). River of Hope is based on her research and will look at three generations of black political activists in Memphis. Email: egritter@mtsu.edu.
HUGH D. GURNEY (MA/1961/Godfrey) retired as Executive Director of the Historical Society of Michigan several years ago. He continues as a District Coordinator for History Day, the academic competition for students grades 4-12 overseen by National History Day in College Park, Maryland. He also serves as Secretary for the Michigan Association of Railroad Passengers, a nonprofit which advocates for more and faster passenger trains. Email: hgurney@hsmichigan.org.
CINDY HAHAMOVITCH (MA/1987/Nelson/PhD/1992/Fink) is professor of history at the College of William & Mary. Her new book, No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers 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 Taft Labor History Book Award. The past president of the Southern Labor Studies Association, she currently chairs the Elections Committee. She is reviews editor for Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas.
Email: cxhaha@wm.edu.
TOM HANCHETT (PhD/1993/Lotchin) continues in his thirteenth year at the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, NC. With UNC Chapel Hill’s Digital Innovation Lab, he co-created the on-line exhibitions www.Charlotte1911.org and www.Bearden1911.org which link vintage Sanborn maps, detailed city directory data, and photos to facilitate in-depth exploration of race and space in Charlotte a century ago. His exhibit COURAGE: The Vision to End Segregation, The Guts to Fight For It appeared at Cincinnati’s National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and next goes to the Illinois Holocaust Museum. The Congress for New Urbanism invited him to its 2011 annual meeting in Madison to talk and display the exhibit John Nolen: Neighborhood Maker. Hanchett’s grant­writing helped Levine Museum win the Innovation Lab award from American Association of Museums to launch a multi-year project exploring the Latino New South; it will include forging a Southern history museum consortium with Birmingham Civil Rights Institute 23
and Atlanta History Center. He gave the keynote lecture for a nationally televised C-SPAN 2 profile of Charlotte, contributed a chap­ter to the book Museums of Ideas: Commitment and Conflict and served on grant panels for the NEH and the Pew Charitable Trusts. The Mecklenburg Bar presented Hanchett with its 2011 Liberty Bell Award for community service. Email: tom@historysouth.org,
www.historysouth.org, www.museumofthenewsouth.org
MATT HARPER (MA/2003/PhD/2009/Brundage) is assistant professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas, where he also directs the African/African-American Studies program. He has an essay, “Emancipation and African American Millennialism” in a collected volume Apocalypse and the Millennium: Providential Religion in the Era of the Civil War (forthcoming with LSU Press). He published book reviews in the Journal of African American History, the Journal of Southern History, and the Journal of American Ethnic History. He returned to Chapel Hill in February to present at the TAAHC’s New Perspectives conference. In the summer of 2011, he took advantage of a grant from the University Research Council to continue work on his book manuscript. Email: mharper@uca.edu.
KEITH M. HEIM (PhD/1973/Mowry) has published a novel, Circle of Shadows. He is retired and lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Email: rvnmajake@yahoo.com.
ELIZABETH HEINEMAN (MA/1988/PhD/1993/Jarausch) is on the History and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies faculty at the University of Iowa, where she just finished terms as Associate Director of the Center for Human Rights and as Director of Graduate Studies in History. In 2011 The University of Chicago Press published her book Before Porn was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse, which received an honorable mention for the Barbara “Penny” Kanner Prize awarded by the Western Association of Women Historians. In addition, Penn Press published her edited book, Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights. Heineman is co-host of the podcast New Books in Gender and Sexuality Studies (http://newbooksingenderstudies.com/), part of the New Books Network. In 2012-13 she will be Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.
BETSY JONES HEMENWAY (PhD/1999/Raleigh) has been teaching in the History department and directing the Women’s Studies & Gender Studies (WSGS) program at Loyola University Chicago since 2007. In the latter role, she coordinates major, minor, and gradu­ate programs for over 100 students, directs a faculty seminar, and sponsors numerous events throughout the year. The interdisciplinary opportunities of this position have led to some interesting projects and collaborations. For example, in May 2011 she presented a paper, “Gender, Faith, and Film: Viewing Late Socialist Societies through a Catholic Lens” on Polish and Soviet films of the 1980s, at Vilnius University, Lithuania, part of the Democracy, Culture, and Catholicism International Research Project sponsored by Loyola. The paper was translated into Lithuanian and published in Naujasis Židinys-Aidai (May 2011). In March 2012 she performed with WSGS col­leagues in a full production of “Fefu and Her Friends,” an experimental feminist play of the 1970s. The group has presented this work at two conference presentations and will also write a joint-authored article on gender and performance. Email: ehemenway@luc.edu.
TIM HENDERSON (PhD/1994/Joseph) became Chair of the History Department at Auburn University Montgomery in January. In May 2011, his book Beyond Borders: A History of Mexican Migration to the United States was published by Wiley-Blackwell. He also published “Bracero Blacklists: Mexican Migration and the Unraveling of the Good Neighbor Policy” in The Latin Americanist (December 2011); “Migration to the United States,” in Oxford Bibliographies Online; “Mexican Immigration to the United States,” in A Companion to Mexican Culture and History (Wiley-Blackwell, ed. by William Beezley); “Mexican Migration to the United States, 1880s to Present” and “Anglo-American Migration to Mexico, 19th Century,” in The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (Wiley Blackwell, ed. by Immanuel Ness); and book reviews in The Hispanic American Historical Review, H-Latam, Labor, The Journal of American History, and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History.
JOHN HEPP (MA/1993/Hunt/PhD/1998/Filene) is still teaching a wide range of history classes at Wilkes University in scenic Wilkes-Barre. It was a busy year, avoiding floods while working on a number of related yet diverse projects. He drafted a chapter on the Centen­nial for Ted Frantz’s A Guide to Reconstruction Presidents, 1865-1881 (Blackwell) and a chapter on railroad and anthracite executive George Frederick Baer for Giles R. Hoyt, ed., German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present: From the End of the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era, 1893-1918, vol. 3 (an online publication of the German Historical Institute). Hepp also gave two conference presentations (loosely) related to his current project on Philadelphia: “London as an urban model since 1666,” at the LONDONICITY 2011 conference held at the University of London, and “The Metropolitan Railway as an urban model: The demand for subways in late-Victorian Philadelphia and Glasgow” at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting in New York. He continues as co-editor of the Pennsylvania Historical Association’s Short History Series (and as a member of the PHA Council) and on the edito­rial board of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography. For the seventh year, he has taken a study abroad class to London.
Email: john.hepp@wilkes.edu.
KIMBERLY D. HILL (MA/2004/PhD/2008/Brundage) serves as an assistant professor of US History at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, TX. She volunteers as program coordinator for the History Program and helps organize upcoming local history events. For the second time, students nominated her for “Teacher of the Year.” She presented her research at the Yale-Edinburgh Group Missions History Conference and the South Texas Philosophical Society within the past year. During the summers, she works as an Advanced Placement exam reader and participates in the “Power of Race and Religion” working group with Dr. Michael O. Emerson of Rice University. Her recent book reviews were published in the Journal of Southern History and the Journal of Southern Religion.
JERROLD HIRSCH (PhD/1984/Tindall) attended the 2012 annual convention on College Composition and Communication in St. Louis, where he participated in a workshop “Writing Democracy 2012: Envisioning a Federal Writers’ Project for the 21st Century,” and at another session presented a paper, “Learning From the FWP.” He also presented “Folklore for the Public: Ballad Scholarship, 24
Revivals, and the Botkin/Dorson Wars “ to the Indiana University Folklore Department, March 7th in Bloomington, Indiana, and “The Depression, Anti-Fascism, and Folklore Theory: B. A. Botkin, 1929-1939,” at the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society.
HUGH HUDSON (PhD/1981/Griffiths) returned to the faculty this past fall following nine years as chair of the Department of History at Georgia State University and three years as Associate Dean for the Social and Behavioral Sciences in the College of Arts and Sci­ences at Georgia State. The translation of his first book was published in Russia in November 2011, Pervye Demidovy i razvitie chernoi metallurgii Rossii v XVIII veka (The First Demidovs and the development of the Russian iron industry in the XVIII century). His newest book, Peasants, Political Police, and the Early Soviet State (New York: Palgrave Macmillan) was released in January 2012. His article, “The Kulakization of the Peasantry: The OGPU and the End of Faith in Peasant Reconciliation, 1924-1927,” appeared in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 60, no.1 (2012), and his article ���The 1927 Soviet War Scare: The Foreign Affairs-Domestic Policy Nexus Revisited,” will appear later this year in The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 39, no. 2 (2012). He is currently working on a study of the imagining of the police from Peter the Great to Stalin. He continues as the Executive Secretary of the Georgia Conference of the Ameri­can Association of University Professors.
CAROLYN B. HUFF (PhD/1969/Klingberg) retired from teaching at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, N.C. at the end of the aca­demic year, 2011. She received Roediger Distinguished Service Professorship and the rank of Professor Emerita of History.
CAROL SUE HUMPHREY (PhD/1985/Higginbotham) continues to teach American history at Oklahoma Baptist University. In June 2011, her edited work, Voices Of Revolutionary America: Contemporary Accounts Of Daily Life, was published by Greenwood Press. The book is primarily intended for use in high school history classes. She continues to serve as the Secretary of the American Journalism Historians Association and attended the annual meeting of AJHA in Kansas City in October. She also continues to serve as the Faculty Athletics Representative for OBU and was elected to serve on the Council of Faculty Athletics Representatives for the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics at the national NAIA convention in San Diego in April. In June 2012 she graded US History Advanced Placement Exams for the 20th year, 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) reports that since retiring at the beginning of 2011 as Vice President for Academic Affairs at Dalton State College in Dalton, Georgia, he found himself blessedly liberated from the toils of ad­ministration and an impending SACS reaccreditation visit, with time to pursue a variety of special interests. In the past year these have included, among others, presentations to local civic and historical organizations on topics as diverse as the Confederate Navy, the Titanic disaster, and the state of the British monarchy. He is Vice Chairman of Dalton’s Historic Preservation Commission and is working closely with a committee to commemorate the Civil War sesquicentennial, especially local events such as the Andrews Raid of 1862 and the encampment of the Army of Tennessee in Dalton between its retreat from Chattanooga in 1863 and the beginning of the Atlanta Campaign in 1864. Email: jhutcheson@daltonstate.edu.
ERNEST H. JERNIGAN (MA/1951/Godfrey) gave a paper on “Marion County: Past, Present, Future” to The Marion County Museum of History and Archeology.
JOHN C. INSCOE (MA/1980/PhD/1984/Barney) received two awards for his book, Writing the South through the Self (2011): the Lillian Smith Book Award from the Southern Regional Council; and the Malcolm and Muriel Bell Award from the Georgia Historical Society. The American Association for State and Local History has given its Leadership in History Award of Merit, presented for ex­cellence in history programs and projects, to The Civil War in Georgia (2011), a compilation of articles from the on-line New Georgia Encyclopedia, which Inscoe serves as editor.
LU ANN JONES (MA/1983/PhD/1996/Hall) has been a staff historian in the Park History Program of the National Park Service since 2009. She has initiated training in oral history methods, and last November she led a week-long course at Everglades National Park. She participated in a plenary session (organized by UNC history alum Kathryn Newfort) on “Personal Stories and Public Lands: Exploring Common Ground in Oral and Environmental History” at the Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Denver, and discussed “Work­ing for Uncle Sam: Opportunities for Historians in the Federal Government” at the Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore. She co-authored The Life and Legacy of Robert Smalls of South Carolina’s Sea Islands, published by Eastern National. She serves on the executive boards of the Society for History in the Federal Government and Oral History in the Mid Atlantic Region, and is a member of the Public History Committee of the Organization of American Historians. Email: luann_jones@nps.gov.
WILLIAM P. JONES (MA/1996/McNeil/PhD/2000/Fink) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin Madison, where he specializes in the United States since 1945. He is author of The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South, which won the H.L. Mitchell Award from the Southern Historical Association, and his most recent publication, “The Unknown Origins of the March on Washington: Civil Rights Politics and the Black Working Class,” won the biennial Best Article Award from the journal Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas. His essays have appeared in Dissent, The Nation, New Labor Forum, and several newspapers. His next book, The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights, will be published by W.W. Norton & Co. in 2013. Jones serves on the Board of Curators of the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Board of Directors of the Labor and Working-Class History Association. Email: wjones3@wisc.edu.
STAN W. JORGENSEN (PhD/1976/Ryan) continued to publish post cards and prints on historical subjects though his company, Amer­ican Heritage Engravings. Things have wound down in recent times, but the company put out some 40,000 post cards and 5,500 prints in the last year. Most went to retailers at locations where people are drawn by the historical associations of place, e.g., park service book stores, state sites, museums, and souvenir shops. Another 2,000 boxes of his original product, note cards, 8 per box with historical images printed on the fronts, were sold through a subsidiary. Email: sjorge47@gmail.com.
BETHANY S. KEENAN (MA/2003/Reid/PhD/2009/Reid, Kramer) is teaching European and Middle Eastern history at Coe College in Iowa. Her article, “’Flattering the Little Sleeping Rooster:’ The French Left, de Gaulle, and the Vietnam War in 1965,” appeared i