T H E NEWSLETTER DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Number 55 Chapel Hill, North Carolina Autumn 2006
History Department Faculty and Staff
Fall 2005
CAROLINA ALUMNI RECEPTION
Please join us for an Alumni Reception at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association in Birmingham,
Alabama. The event is scheduled for Friday, November 17, 2006, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. in the Birmingham Ballroom 1,
which is located on the first floor of the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel, off the main lobby. We look forward to seeing you
there.
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GREETINGS FROM THE CHAIR
History Departments build their identities upon deep structural continuities that connect the work
of each year and the labor of each generation of historians—teaching, conducting research, writing
books, advising students. Although we now draw on technologies, resources and historical themes
that our predecessors could not have imagined, we still face questions that would be familiar to every
previous generation: how do we actually know what happened in the past, how do we convey what we
know to students or a wider public, and how do we provoke others to ask their own analytical
questions about the incredibly diverse history of people and cultures?
The faculty and students of the UNC History Department have devoted another productive year to
the pursuit of such questions. We have not found the final answers, of course, but the processes of
inquiry and historical reflection have generated stimulating classes, imaginative publications, and
wide-ranging contacts with a public that extends far beyond the University. The significance of this work cannot be accurately
measured in numbers, yet the quantitative measurements alone suggest the Department’s dynamism: the publication of nine new
books, three edited books and more than 60 scholarly articles, essays, and chapters in edited collections; faculty presentations at
more than 100 conferences and public events; a distinguished teaching award for one of our colleagues (Professor Kathryn
Burns) and the election of another (Professor Christopher Browning) to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and the
receipt of highly competitive grants and fellowships from prominent foundations and centers for advanced research.
The faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates of the UNC History Department, in short, remain extremely busy and
productive in every sphere of academic life. Our future growth and creativity, however, requires the revitalizing perspectives and
energy of new faculty colleagues, five of whom are joining us in 2006. These new appointments will help us expand and renew
our programs in fields such as East Asian, African, and Russian History as well as US History, so I would like to provide a brief
summary of the expertise that these new colleagues bring to UNC.
Professor Dani Botsman is a specialist in 19th-century Japanese History who received his PhD at Princeton and has
taught at Harvard since 1999. His work has focused on the issue of law and punishment, a theme that appears prominently in his
book Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan (Princeton, 2005).
Professor Crystal Feimster works on the history of women and race in the late 19th-century American South. She
completed her PhD at Princeton in 2000 and spent a post-doctoral year at Yale before joining the faculty at Boston College, where
she has taught since 2001. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of
Rape and Lynching in the American South, which will be published by Harvard University Press.
Professor Christopher Lee works in the field of modern African History, with a particular emphasis on southern Africa
and Malawi. He received his PhD at Stanford and later served as a lecturer in the History Department there and at Harvard. He
held a post-doctoral fellowship during this past year at Dalhousie University, where he worked on a book that examines the
politics of race and ethnicity in colonial Nyasaland [Malawi] during the period between 1915 and 1939.
Professor Wayne Lee comes to our department with a joint appointment in the interdisciplinary Curriculum in Peace,
War, and Defense. He specializes in early American history, with an additional interest in the comparative military history of
Native Americans, early modern Europeans, and ancient Greeks. He received his PhD at Duke in 1999 and has taught for the last
six years at the University of Louisville. His publications include a book on eighteenth-century America, Crowds and Soldiers in
Revolutionary North Carolina: the Culture of Violence in Riot and War (University Press of Florida, 2001).
Professor Louise McReynolds works on the history of late imperial Russia. She completed her PhD at the University
of Chicago and taught for more than twenty years at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Her publications include a recent book,
Russia at Play: Leisure Activities at the End of the Tsarist Era (Cornell University Press, 2006); and she joins our Department
after a year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
We were also pleased to make an appointment this year in the field of Chinese History, but our new colleague,
Michelle King, will not come to Chapel Hill until 2007 (she is completing a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley). And
we have benefited over the past year from the presence of two outstanding post-doctoral fellows: Shaun Lopez (modern Middle
Eastern History, PhD, University of Michigan) and Adrianne Lentz-Smith (Modern African American History, PhD, Yale
University). Another talented post-doctoral fellow, JoAnna Poblete-Cross (Modern American and Transnational Labor History,
PhD, UCLA), has come to the Department this fall.
Among the many Departmental events and activities that might be highlighted in this report, I would like to emphasize
the success of the second annual African American History lecture in February, which featured Professor Robin D. G. Kelley of
Columbia University speaking on “The Education of Thelonious Monk.”
The Department also initiated a lively, interactive faculty lunch colloquium at which we discuss the current work of our
colleagues; we expanded our plans for new Departmental exchange programs with Kings College in London and the National
University of Singapore (which includes a new joint degree program for undergraduates); we re-established the UNC chapter of
the national History undergraduate Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta; and we developed a recently funded plan to collaborate with
UNC’s School of Education in reviving the Department’s program of seminars for High School History teachers, the Project for
Historical Education. We expect all of these initiatives to develop and expand in the coming year.
As always, the Department also marked a number of milestones in the careers of our faculty and staff. Professor John Wood
Sweet (early American History) was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. Professor Richard Pfaff (medieval
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English History) entered retirement after a festive celebration of his long UNC career (see the section on this event after the news
of the faculty). And three other long-serving, valuable members of the Department entered into “phased retirement” in July 2006:
Don Higginbotham, Michael Hunt, and Jim McCoy. Each of these colleagues will continue to teach during one semester of the
academic year, so they will be part of Departmental life—but in a changing role. And we bid a regretful farewell to Pamela
Fesmire, a much-admired member of our staff who moved on to another position in the University after more than twenty years
in the Department.
Although the diverse accomplishments of our faculty and graduate students are described in later pages of the Newsletter, I
want to recognize those colleagues who received prestigious fellowships for one or two semesters in the 2006-07 academic year:
Christopher Browning and Sarah Shields (National Humanities Center); Kathryn Burns and Sarah Shields (National
Endowment for the Humanities); Konrad Jarausch (Wissenschaftszrentrum Fellowship, Berlin) Lisa Lindsay (American
Council of Learned Societies); Theda Perdue (John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and Woodrow Wilson Center for
International Scholars); Yasmin Saikia (Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation); Jerma Jackson, Don Reid, and John Wood
Sweet (Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC-CH); Kathleen DuVal, Jerma Jackson, Lisa Lindsay, Terrence McIntosh,
and John Wood Sweet (Spray-Randleigh Fellowships, UNC-CH). It should also be noted that The Ancient World Mapping
Center, which is directed by Richard Talbert, received a prestigious grant of almost $400,000 from the National Endowment for
the Humanities to develop an on-line “workspace” that will provide digital access to a wide range of information and
commentaries on ancient geography; and the Southern Oral History Program, which is directed by Jacquelyn Hall, received a
grant of more than $ 500,000. from the Institute for Museum and Library Services to digitize many of the interview it has
recorded over the past 30 years.
The Department continued to rely on the excellent leadership of our Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies,
Professor Miles Fletcher, our Director of Graduate Studies, Professor Fitz Brundage, and our Administrative Manager, Nadine
Kinsey; and Rhonda Whitfield designed the attractive new layout for the Newsletter you are now reading.
Equally important, however, the Department continues to depend on the remarkable generosity of our alumni and friends, who
give us the resources we need to sustain and develop our many programs for faculty and students. These generous donors are
listed later in this Newsletter, and I thank every one of you for the support that enables us to pursue our ambitious visions for
historical education and scholarship.
Lloyd Kramer, Chair
Dani Botsman Crystal Feimster Christopher Lee Wayne Lee Louise McReynolds
SOME NEWS OF THE FACULTY
CHRISTOPHER BROWNING was a fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities in the fall semester of 2005. Next year
he will be a fellow at the National Humanities Center in the Research Triangle, where he plans to complete his manuscript on the
Starachowice factory slave labor camps. This spring he was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He published
chapters in two books: “Mid-Level Managers and Ordinary Men as Holocaust Perpetrators,” for the Italian multi-volume history
of the Holocaust, Storia della Shoah. La crisi dell’Europa lo sterminio degli ebrei e la memoria dell XX secolo, ed. by Marina
Cattaruzza, Marcello Flores, Simon Levis Sullam, and Enzo Traverso (Torino: UTET, 2005); and “’Alleviation’ and
‘Compliance’: The Survival Strategies of the Jewish Leadership in the Wierzbnik Ghetto and Starachowice Factory Slave Labor
Camps,” Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath, ed. by Jonathan Petropolous and John
Roth (New York: Berghahn, 2005). He delivered the Kintore Lecture at the University of Edinburgh, spoke on the plenary panel
at the annual meeting of the AHA on “Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony,” and took part in a roundtable on the BBC
documentary on “Auschwitz and the Nazi State” at the German Studies Association. He also gave lectures at UCLA, Washington
University, the University of Erfurt, Kean University, Chapman University, Brookdale Community College, UNC-Ashville,
Meredith College, the Houston Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Pittsburgh Jewish Community Center. Email:
cbrownin@email.unc.edu
CHAD BRYANT spent the fall semester in the Czech Republic completing research on his first book project. A World Undone:
Czechs and Germans under Nazi Rule¸ which will be published by Harvard University Press, is scheduled for release in March
2007. In the past year Bryant has published three articles on themes related to this project: “The Language of Resistance? Czech
Jokes and Joke-telling under Nazi Occupation, 1943-1945,” Journal of Contemporary History 41 (January 2006); “The Thick
Line at 1945: Czech and German Histories of the Nazi Occupation and the Postwar Expulsion/Transfer,” National Council for
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Eurasian and East European Research Working Papers (Fall 2005); and “‘Czechness’ Then and Now,” Migrace
Online/Migration Online (August 2005). (“Czechness Then and Now” can be viewed at
http://www.migrationonline.cz/article_f.shtml?x=736925). Last summer he served as commentator for a panel entitled “Gender
and Ethnic Classification in Nazi Europe” at the Berkshire Conference of the History of Women. In the fall he presented his work
at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association and at a conference on European cities during World War II organized
by the City Archive of Prague. More recently, he participated in a University of Minnesota workshop entitled “National Politics
and Population Migrations in Central and Eastern Europe.” Bryant now plans to write a history of trains and train travel in the
Habsburg monarchy. He has received curriculum development grants from the Center for European Studies and the
Undergraduate Curriculum on International Studies to support research for this project. He can be reached at:
bryantc@email.unc.edu
MELISSA MERIAM BULLARD guest edited a symposium for the Journal of the History of Ideas ( vol. 66, 2005) entitled
“Salvatore Camporeale, Lorenzo Valla, Humanism, and Theology,” and wrote the leading piece on “Valla, Camporeale, and the
Querelle between Rhetoric and Philosophy.” She also delivered a paper on “Hammering Away at the Pope: Nofri Tornabuoni,
Medici Henchman and Collaborator,” at the fifteenth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
and chaired a panel and gave the introductory remarks at the Plenary Session on the Renaissance of Women at the Renaissance
Society of America meetings in San Francisco. At UNC she gave one of the departmental faculty research colloquia on a new
project on Luther Wyman, commerce and culture and the Renaissance in Brooklyn. She also served as chair of the Medieval
Studies curriculum and faculty advisory board, among other duties during the year arranged 8 lecture presentations by faculty and
visiting scholars. She piloted the proposal for a new major in medieval and early modern studies which will be presented to the
Administrative Boards of the university. She completed a three-year term on the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee. This summer
she heads north on an N.E.H. fellowship to Mystic Seaport Connecticut to study maritime cultures at the Munson Institute.
Email: mbullard@email.unc.edu
KATHRYN BURNS wrote a piece on Spanish-Andean colonialism and changing racial usages, “Unfixing Race,” for an edited
volume, Re-reading the Renaissance (University of Chicago, 2007). She also wrote an article, “Dentro de la ciudad letrada: la
escritura pública en el Perú colonial,” for the Lima journal Histórica (July 2005). In the spring she was awarded the James M.
Johnston Teaching Excellence Award for undergraduate teaching. She gave invited lectures about writing and power in colonial
Latin America at Brown University, the University of Southern California, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and
commented on new Andean studies scholarship presented at the Latin American Studies Association Congress in San Juan,
Puerto Rico. With Meg Greer of Duke’s Romance Studies Department, she taught a new graduate seminar, “The Transatlantic
Picaresque, 1550-1810,” in spring 2006. Burns and Greer also co-chaired the UNC-Duke Latin American Consortium Working
Group in Transatlantic Studies, organizing the visits of Professors Sherwin Bryant (Northwestern U) and Katie Harris (UC-Davis)
on early modern topics. Email: kjburns@email.unc.edu
JOHN CHASTEEN visited Atlanta’s Area Faculty Latin American Studies Luncheon Seminar, which read and discussed his
recent book, National Rhythms, African Roots, at a November 2005 meeting. While in Atlanta, Chasteen delivered invited
lectures at Emory and Georgia State University. In March 2006, he attended the Latin American Studies Association meeting in
San Juan, Puerto Rico, to chair one panel (“Texts at Work: Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America”) and deliver a
paper (“Anything Goes: Carnival and Race-Mixing in Latin American History”) at a second panel. The following week he
traveled to Montevideo, Uruguay, as part of a UNC-system-wide initiative to establish academic exchange programs with a
consortium of Uruguayan universities. In addition, W.W. Norton published a second edition of his text Born in Blood and Fire: A
Concise History of Latin America, announcing in the blurb that the first edition had been adopted at more than 450 colleges and
universities. And, last but not least, Chasteen was named Daniel W. Patterson Distinguished Term Professor for a period of five
years. Email: chasten@email.unc.edu
PETER A. COCLANIS published the following articles this year: (with Angelo P. Coclanis) “Jazz Funeral: A Living Tradition,”
Southern Cultures (Summer 2005); “Global Perspectives on the Early Economic History of South Carolina,” South Carolina
Historical Magazine (Spring/Summer 2005); (with David L. Carlton) “Southern Textiles in Global Context,” in Global
Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South, eds. Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie (University of
Missouri Press, 2005); “Welcome to the World,” International Educator (July/August 2005); “Down Highway 52: Globalization,
Higher Education, and the Economic Future of the American South,” The Journal of the Historical Society (Fall 2005). He also
published two op-ed pieces in The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), and op-ed pieces in the Winston-Salem Journal and the
[Singapore] Straits Times, as well as four book reviews. In addition, he contributed to the time series on rice prices in the
Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, 5 vols, eds. Richard Sutch, et al. (Cambridge University Press,
2006). Over the past year, he presented papers at a variety of conferences and symposia, including one in Singapore at a plenary
session of the “Asian Horizons: Cities, States, and Societies” conference hosted by the National University of Singapore (NUS) in
August 2005. He spent fall 2005 in Singapore as Raffles Professor of Southeast Asian History at NUS, and in October delivered
a formal public lecture entitled “Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Globalization in Southeast Asia over la Longue Durée,” which
lecture formed the basis of a short book that will be published by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore in summer
2006. He also delivered a paper in Portland, Oregon at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association (November
2005) and at a conference entitled “Navigating the Global American South,” hosted by UNC-Chapel Hill in March 2006.
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Coclanis was the recipient of the South Carolina Historical Society’s 2006 Malcolm C. Clark Award for the best article published
in the South Carolina Historical Magazine in 2005. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals--Southern Cultures,
the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Reviews in American History, Agricultural History, and Enterprise and Society—chaired
the program committee for The Historical Society’s biennial conference (2006), is 2d vice president of the Southern
Industrialization Project (SIP), and is a member of the Southern Historical Association’s Bennett Wall Book Prize Committee for
2006. In fall 2005 he was part of external evaluation teams reviewing Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of
Singapore, and the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. While in Asia last fall
he spent time in Vietnam and Thailand, and made a trip to Dubai to work on a paper with an academic colleague there. He
continues as UNC’s Associate Provost for International Affairs. Email: coclanis@unc.edu
KATHLEEN DUVAL published her first book, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. It is
part of the Early American Studies Series from the University of Pennsylvania Press. She also published an article entitled
“Debating Identity, Sovereignty, and Civilization: The Arkansas Valley after the Louisiana Purchase” in the Journal of the Early
Republic and signed a contract with Rowman and Littlefield Press for a classroom reader on colonial North America. She gave
papers at the annual meetings of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia and the American Society for Ethno history
in Santa Fe. Closer to home, she served as a Carolina Summer Reading Program Discussion Leader and on campus committees
for the Latina/o Studies Minor and Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She commented on a panel at the Triangle History
Graduate Student Conference in Raleigh, where many of our graduate students presented their work, and talked about American
Indian history to two very hyper ninth-grade classes at Culbreth Middle School in Chapel Hill. Email: duval@email.unc.edu
BILL FERRIS wrote the preface to the Encyclopedia of Appalachia (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press) and the
foreword for two books: Paul Green’s Plant Book: An Alphabet of Flowers and Folklore (Botanical Garden Foundation, Inc.) and
Charles R. Mack’s Talking With the Turners: Conversations with Southern Folklore Potters (Columbia, SC: University of South
Carolina Press). Bill also wrote the liner notes for outsider blues musician Loren Connors’s “Night Through: Singles and
Collected Works, 1976-2004” (Family Vineyard Records), and published his interview with Harold Burson in Southern Cultures
(UNC Press), the journal of the Center for the Study of the American South, where he serves as Senior Associate Director. Bill
advised sixteen students (4 PhDs, 9 MAs, 3 undergraduate theses); served on nine university committees, including the
Chancellor’s Honorary Degree Advisory Board, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities Faculty Advisory Committee, and UNC
Libraries’ William R. Ferris Collection Digitization Project; and took part in six academic conferences and symposia, including
panels at the Southern Foodways Alliance, the Navigating the Global American South Conference, and the 40th Anniversary
Celebration conference of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Bill traveled to five Southern states and across North
Carolina giving seventeen public lectures to alumni and student groups and civic organizations about the American South. In
February, he was awarded the prestigious Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award at a public ceremony in Natchez, MS.
Email: wferris@unc.edu
PETER FILENE, as a spinoff from his recently published Joy of Teaching: A Practical Guidebook for New College Instructors,
gave a keynote address and facilitated two workshops for faculty at Illinois College. He also led faculty-development workshops
at New York University and the University of Mississippi. Email: filene@email.unc.edu
KAREN HAGEMANN, who came in July 2006 to the History Departent, has edited together with Jennifer Davy and Ute Kätzel
a German book entitled Frieden – Gewalt – Geschlecht. Friedens- und Konfliktforschung als Geschlechterforschung (Peace –
Violence – Gender: Gendering Peace and Conflict Research)(Essen 2005: Klartext Verlag). Moreover she published an article in
the German Studies Review 24 (February 2006), No. 1 entitled “’Be Proud and Firm, Citizens of Austria!’ Patriotism and
Masculinity in Texts of the 'Political Romantics' Written During Austria’s Anti-Napoleonic Wars,” and the book chapter ”Aus
Liebe zum Vaterland: Liebe und Hass im frühen deutschen Nationalismus” (Love and Hate in the Discourse of Early German
Nationalism), in an anthology edited by Birgit Aschmann, Gefühl und Kalkül. Der Einfluss von Emotionen auf die Politik des 19.
und 20. Jahrhunderts (Cologne, 2005). Articles for the journals Nation and Nationalism, Social Politics, and the Journal of
Women’s History, which she wrote during the last year, were accepted. Moreover she finished the manuscript of the book
Gendering Modern German History. Rewritings of the ‘Mainstream’ (19th-20th-Centuries), which she edited with Jean Quataert. It
will be published with Berghahn Publishers (Oxford and New York, 2006). She participated with papers in several conferences
(13th Berkshire Conference on Women's History, 29th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, 120th Annual
Meeting of the American Historical Association, 36th Annual Meeting Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850) and
organized three workshops (Nov. 2005, Berlin: "The Experiences and Memories of War in European Comparison: (Trans)national
and Interdisciplinary Approaches;" Feb., 2006, London: “War Experiences and Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic
Wars in Contemporary Perception;“ March 2006, Potsdam: “Welfare State Regimes, Public Education and Child Care.Theoretical
Concepts for a Comparison of East and West.”) These workshops were part of the two international research projects, which she
is directing: 1) ”Nations, Borders, Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Experience and Memory,”
funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council and the German Research Foundation; 2) ”State - Children - Family:
The Politics of Public Education and Child Care in Postwar Europe - An East-West Comparison”, funded by the Volkswagen
Foundation. At the department she initiated with Chad Bryant the new workshop series “Gender, Politics and Culture in Europe
and beyond” and initiated with Dirk Bonker (Duke) the New Research Triangle Seminar Series , History of the Military, War, and
Society” Email: hagemann@unc.edu
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JACQUELYN HALL published two essays: “Afterward: Reverberations,” in Remembering: Oral History Performance, ed.
Della Pollock (New York, 2005), and, with coauthor Crystal N. Feimster, “Antilynching Movement,” in Black Women in
America: An Historical Encyclopedia, ed. Darlene Clark Hine (New York, 2005). She presented the annual lecture of the Women
in the Historical Profession at the 2006 meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) on “Writing the History of
Left Feminism in the Shadow of the Long Cold War.” She also chaired panels at the 2006 OAH annual meeting and at the
Southern Intellectual History Circle Conference at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She commented on a
paper at a conference on “The End of Southern History? Integrating the Modern South and Nation” at Emory University and was
a panelist on “Back to the Source: The Research Behind Timothy Tyson's Blood Done Sign My Name,” an event organized by the
Southern Archival Sources Graduate Advisory Board. She was a speaker and seminar leader for “History Connect!,” a Summer
Institute for the Durham County Public Schools and a consultant on the Rhythm of the Factory Exhibit at Wake County's Historic
Oak View Park. She joined advisory committees for the Schlesinger Library, the American Radioworks Documentary on School
Desegregation, and a documentary film on “Private Violence: The Anti-Battering Movement in America.” She continued to serve
on the OAH's executive board. Within the department, she served as co-convener of the Women's and Gender History Field. She
also continues to direct the Southern Oral History Program (see separate entry on its activities) and sits on the advisory board of
the Center for the Study of the American South. Email: jhall@email.unc.edu
BARBARA HARRIS has a forthcoming article, “Aristocratic and Gentry Women, 1460-1640,” History Compass, 4,
forthcoming 2006, 1-19. This is a refereed internet journal and the first time she has published in this form. She is enjoying
moving with the times at this stage in her career. As of January 1, she is the Vice-President of the North American Conference of
British Studies. Barbara will serve in this position for two years and then become President for two years. Finally, she has
received a short-term fellowship at the Huntington Library for March, 2007, when she will be on leave. Barbara will be using the
Esdaile Papers, which the Huntington owns, in connection with her current project, "The Fabric of Piety: Aristocratic Women and
Building in Churches, 1450-1550. Email: bharris@email.unc.edu
MICHAEL HUNT ended the academic year with two major moves. One was the decision to begin phased retirement and thus
become more of a free-lance historian while continuing to teach half time at UNC. The other was the completion of a book setting
the currently troubled U.S. international position in broad historical perspective. The American Ascendancy should appear next
spring from UNC Press. Email: mhhunt@email.unc.edu
KONRAD H. JARAUSCH continued his transatlantic existence during the past year, splitting his time between UNC and the
Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam/Germany. He published Zerbrochener Spiegel. Deutsche Geschichten im 20.
Jahrhundert, co-written with Michael Geyer, with the Deutsche Verlagsanstalt in Munich as well as Demokratiewunder.
Transatlantische Mittler und die kulturelle Öffnung Westdeutschlands, co-edited with Arnd Bauerkämper and Markus Payk, with
Vandenhoek und Ruprecht in Göttingen. His book Die Umkehr. Deutsche Wandlungen 1945-1995, Munich 2004, received the
prize for the best book in contemporary history, awarded by clio-online for the previous year. Email: jarausch@email.unc.edu
JOHN KASSON delivered lectures and papers on his current project at several conferences and universities during the past year.
On June 1, 2005, he spoke on “The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America” at the
School of American Studies in Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. On November 24, 2005, he gave a revised and expanded
version of that lecture to the university community at large at the University of Ulster, Colerain campus in Northern Ireland.
While at the University of Ulster, he also spoke on “Coney Island and the Birth of Modern Mass Culture.” On September 17,
2005, he presented the paper, “Behind Shirley Temple’s Smile: Children and Emotional Labor,” at “The State of Cultural History:
A Conference in Honor of Lawrence Levine,” at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia. On November 4, 2005, he
gave a more abbreviated version of the same paper at the American Studies Association’s annual meeting in Washington, D. C.
Under his direction, students in John’s American history honors class co-curated an exhibition of prints and photographs on
“Childhood in America” at the Ackland Art Museum that opened on November 30, 2005. On the Sunday afternoon following the
opening, they presented their research on individual objects in the exhibition at a public forum in the museum.
Email: jfkasson@email.unc.edu
RICHARD H. KOHN finished 14 years as chair of Peace, War, and Defense (PWAD) this past year, replaced by Joe Glatthaar,
who joined the Carolina Faculty this year as Alan Stephenson Distinguished Professor. The Curriculum, which has grown to
some 191 majors in all four classes (as of May 2006, before graduating 46 the same month), has begun several new initiatives: the
hiring of Wayne Lee, to cover two PWAD courses including the Introduction to National and International Security which has
had an enrollment over 100 the last three years (Wayne, a military historians with all three degrees from Duke, joined the History
Department this fall); adjunct professorships for 8 faculty who work closely with the PWAD; and the planning of an extensive
collaboration with the War Studies Department at King’s College, University of London--PWAD is one of eight Arts & Sciences
units beginning cooperative arrangements with King’s. Dick was the first faculty exchange visitor, spending spring break in
London. We are also planning two new joint graduate degrees with King’s, one in military history and one in Security Studies,
which will mean a Master’s degree for the Curriculum for the first time. Next year Dick will be the General Omar N. Bradley
Chair of Strategic Leadership at the US Army War College and Dickinson College, commuting to Carlisle, PA weekly and
teaching seminars in presidential war leadership and civil-military relations. Dick continued his work on those subjects during the
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year, spending an inordinate amount of time educating through answering queries from the media on those subjects, usually in
relation to events in the news, particularly the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, the war on terrorism, and civil-military
relations. One notable result was a discussion on the possibility of a coup-d’etat in the United States (all but impossible) with
three other scholars in the April 2006 issue of Harper’s Magazine. Dick also lectured on various national security subjects at
civilian and military universities and too local audiences. In June 2006 he will lead a two-week seminar on war powers and the
Constitution the Institute for Constitutional Studies at George Washington University. Email: rhkohn@unc.edu
LLOYD KRAMER continued to serve as chair of the History Department. In addition to managing various administrative
tasks, he was able to participate in several conferences during this past year. He presented a paper on “The French Revolution
and the Emergence of Modern Nationalism” at Senshu University in Tokyo as part of an international conference on the “The
Twenty-First Century Looks at the French Revolution” [June 2005], which was later published in Japanese translation; and in
April he served as a commentator on panels at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies (University of
Illinois, Urbana) and at a conference on “National Scholarship and Transnational Experience,” which was expertly organized in
Chapel Hill by UNC graduate student Laurence Hare with the support of the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation. Kramer also
completed the new, tenth edition of a textbook (co-authored with R. R. Palmer and Joel Colton), A History of the Modern World,
which has recently been published by McGraw-Hill. Email: lkramer@unc.edu
CHRISTOPHER LEE spent the year as an Izaak Walton Killam Fellow in the Department of History at Dalhousie University in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. After teaching in the fall, he spent four months doing research in South Africa, Zimbabwe,
Malawi, and London with the support of a grant from the Killam Trust as well as a Franklin Research Grant from the American
Philosophical Society. He was also invited to present papers at Emory and Cambridge Universities, in addition to participating on
a panel at the 2005 African Studies Association Meeting in Washington, DC. He has had five journal publications come out since
May 2005, including: “The Uses of the Comparative Imagination: South African History and World History in the Political
Consciousness and Strategy of the South African Left, 1943-1959,” Radical History Review, Issue 92 (Spring 2005): 31-61;
“Subaltern Studies and African Studies,” History Compass, Vol. 3 (2005): 1-13; “Bandung and Beyond: Rethinking Afro-Asian
Connections During the Twentieth Century,” African Affairs, Vol. 104, No. 417 (October 2005): 683-684; “The ‘Native’
Undefined: Colonial Categories, Anglo-African Status, and the Politics of Kinship in British East and Central Africa, 1929-1938,”
Journal of African History, Vol. 46, Issue 3 (2005): 455-478; and “Arendt’s Lesson: The Challenge and Need for Teaching
Empire in the Present,” Radical History Review, Issue 95 (Spring 2006): 129-144. He also contributed to an edited volume, a
chapter entitled “‘Only he who has no friends cannot say good-bye’: Alex La Guma’s A Soviet Journey (1978) and the Contingent
History of Covert Travel to the USSR in South African Politics,” in Africa in Russia, Russia in Africa: Three Hundred Years of
Encounters, edited by Maxim Matusevich (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2006). Finally, he co-edited a collection of essays
with Christopher Saunders (University of Cape Town) and Andrew Offenburger (Yale) entitled South Africa and the United
States Compared (Cape Town: Safundi, 2005). He looks very forward to joining the Department this fall.
LISA LINDSAY published “A Tragic Romance, a Nationalist Symbol: The Case of the Murdered White Lover in Colonial
Nigeria” in the Journal of Women’s History (Summer 2005). In September, she gave a talk entitled “A South Carolinian in
Colonial Nigeria: One Family’s History and the African Diaspora,” at the University of Florida’s African Studies Center, and in
February she presented “The Rise and Fall of the ‘Male Breadwinner’ in 20th Century West Africa,” as the Dorothy Lambert
Whisnant Lecture on Women’s History at Clemson University. She spent the spring of 2006 on research leave as part of a
Ryskamp fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. She may be reached at lalindsa@email.unc.edu
ROGER LOTCHIN gave the presidential address to the Urban History Association in Philadelphia, January 6, 2006; he was the
subject of a three hour interview by KTEH, Silicon Valley Public Broadcasting/PBS for a program “Saving San Francisco Bay;”
and he chaired a session on higher education at the Pope Center’s annual meeting on higher education in October at the Sheraton
Hotel in the Research Triangle Park. He published “The Triumphant Partnership: California Cities and the Winning of World
War II,” Southern California Quarterly, vol. 88: no. 1 (Spring 2006), pp. 71-96 and “Turning the Good War Bad: Historians’
Counterattack on the Greatest Generation,” Historically Speaking: the Bulletin of the Historical Society, vol. VII: no. 1 (Sept.-
Oct. 2005), pp.8-10. Email: rlotchin@email.unc.edu
W. JAMES MCCOY continues to serve as Faculty Assistant to the Dean of the Summer School, as Director/Professor of the
UNC Summer School Abroad program in Greece (now in its twenty-sixth year), and a faculty mentor to the Johnston Scholars.
Email: wjmccoy@unc.edu
TERENCE MCINTOSH delivered a lecture, "Pietismus, religiöses Amt und soziale Disziplin. Die Drangsal Christoph Matthäus
Seidels," in July 2005 to the Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Pietismusforschung der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
In January 2006 he concluded his term as chair of the American Historical Association's Committee on Minority Historians.
Email: terence_mcintosh@unc.edu
MICHAEL MCVAUGH oversaw the publication of a new volume (XV/1) in the Arnaldi de Villanova Opera Medica Omnia:
the De reprobatione maleficiorum, edited by Sebastià Giralt. He published two articles: (1) “Arnau de Vilanova and the
Pathology of Cognition,” in Corpo e anima, sensi interni e intelletto dai secoli XIII-XIV ai post-cartesiani e spinoziani, ed. G.
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Federici Vescovini, V. Sorge, and C. Vinti (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), 119-38; and (2) "Chemical Medicine in the Medical
Writings of Arnau de Vilanova," Arxiu de Textos Catalans Antics 23/24 (2004-2005), 239-64 (published separately as Actes de
la II Trobada Internacional d'Estudis sobre Arnau de Vilanova). He also contributed an article, “La medicina i els metges a la
baixa edat mitjana,” to La Ciència en la Història dels Països Catalans, I: Dels Àrabs al Renaixement, ed. Joan Vernet and Ramon
Parés (Barcelona: Institut d’Estudis Catalans, 2004), pp. 363-70. He delivered the annual McGovern Lecture in the History of
Medicine at Green College, Oxford (England), “Medieval Surgery--One Could Have Done Worse,” on 27 October 2005; and
another invited lecture’ “`An Ailment Not to be Treated’: The Rationality of Pre-Modern Surgery,” to the New York Academy of
Medicine, New York City, NY, 29 November 2005. He also presented two conference papers: (1) “What Good Was Anatomy to
a Medieval Surgeon?” to “From Natural Philosophy to Science: Medicine, Alchemy, Magic and the Study of Living Beings:
1200-1700,” Nijmegen (Netherlands), 2 September 2005; and (2) “Surgery as Science,” to “Blades and Blood: Surgery and
Anatomy in the Middle Ages and Beyond,” Fourth Annual Seminar on Medieval Science and Medicine, University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 18 November 2005. Email: mcvaugh@email.unc.edu
LOUIS A. PEREZ, JR. published the third updated edition of Cuba Between Reform and Revolution (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2005). Continues to serve as "Envisioning Cuba" Series Editor at the University of North Carolina Press. He is
the Editor of the journal Cuban Studies. Professional service includes membership on the Advisory Boards of: Encyclopedia
Latina: History Culture, Society (Grolier, 2005); The Latin Americanist; Latin Americanist Research Resources Project; Cuba
Research Forum, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. He served on the American Historical Association, 2007 Program
Committee and Peer Reviewer for 2005-2006 ACLS Fellowship Program. Email: perez@email.unc.edu
DONALD RALEIGH was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He spent the 2005-06 academic year working
on his oral history project, Soviet Baby Boomers: A History of the Class of ’67. The leave enabled him to complete the
interviewing phase of the project, to process the transcribed interviews, and to draft the first two chapters of what he expects to be
an eight-chapter study, which he is targeting at a trade audience. In April, Indiana University Press published his Russia’s Sputnik
Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk about Their Lives. Designed for classroom use, the volume comprises eight interviews
that Raleigh translated, edited, and annotated. In addition, he published two articles in Russia, one in a journal issued by the
Russian Academy of Sciences, Dialogue with Time: Intellectual History Review, the other in a regional journal, Problems of
Slavic Studies. He spent a month conducting research in Russia, and made two week-long trips to Chisinau, Moldova, to consult
with colleagues at Ion Creanga State Pedagogical University who are redesigning their university’s undergraduate and graduate
degrees in history to comply more with US and European models. During the year, he participated in the annual meetings of the
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, and continues to
serve on the editorial boards of Slavic Review, the Journal of Social History, and Russian Studies in History, and as the American
Historical Association’s representative to the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Email:
djr@email.unc.edu
DONALD REID published several articles this year, including “French Singularity, the Resistance and the Vichy Syndrome:
Lucie Aubrac to the Rescue,” European History Quarterly 36 (April 2006): 200-220; “Dealing with Academic Conflicts in the
Classroom: Teaching I, Rigoberta Menchú As a Case Study,” Teaching History 31:1 (Spring 2006): 19-29; “Re-viewing The
Battle of Algiers With Germaine Tillion,” History Workshop Journal 60 (Autumn 2005): 93-115; and “Pursuing the Communist
Syndrome: Opening the Black Book of the New Anti-Communism in France,” International History Review 27 (June 2005): 295-
318. Email: dreid1@email.unc.edu
JOHN E. SEMONCHE in May 2005 delivered three lectures that were videotaped as modules under the U.S. Department of
Education Teaching American History Grant, Learn More - Teach More, administered by the North Carolina School of Science
and Mathematics. The subjects were "The Debate Over the Constitution: Federalists vs. Antifederalists," "Secession from the
Union, 1860-1861: The Causes and Rationale," and "Japanese Internment and its Aftermath." These lectures were made available
to secondary school teachers and can be viewed at http://www.dlt.ncssm.edu/lmtm. On September 19, 2005, Semonche spoke on
the history of Supreme Court appointments as part of a panel on the confirmation process held in the UNC School of Law in
celebration of Constitution Day. In somewhat modified form, his comments appeared in the News & Observer under the headline
"The Senate and the Nominees," on September 28, 2005. Semonche was also interviewed by Bloomberg Radio on the same
subject on October 10, 2005. He is on leave this fall semester to complete a book on censorship. Email: semche@email.unc.edu
SARAH SHIELDS presented two papers this fall on her continuing research on northern Iraq, one at the University of
Pennsylvania and one at the University of Michigan. She spoke at churches, schools, and public libraries in Raleigh, Greensboro,
Graham, Barco, and Avon on the history of Iraq (sponsored by Carolina Speakers and the NC Humanities Council Speakers
Bureau), participated in public panels about current Middle East issues in Chapel Hill, and spoke about nationalism, identity and
the Middle East on NPR affiliate programs based in Boston, Chapel Hill and Atlanta. She was delighted to have the opportunity
to speak at three of the Triangle Universities this year, UNC, Duke and NCSU. She was lucky enough to receive a Humanities
Fellowship from the Provost's office to support research during the summer of 2005, a fellowship from the National Endowment
for the Humanities, and a Fellowship to spend the 2006-2007 academic year at the National Humanities Center. Email:
sshields@email.unc.edu
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RICHARD TALBERT was surprised and pleased to see part of a map from his Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
gain the elusive distinction of forming the cover page for the Times Literary Supplement on October 7, 2005. He himself had the
distinction of being elected a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute (D.A.I.) on the proposal of the
Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik. With Mary Boatwright and Daniel Gargola (PhD/1988/Boren) he published A
Brief History of the Romans (Oxford University Press, New York, 2006). In Caesarodunum 2005 he published “‘Ubique fines’:
boundaries within the Roman empire,” and to Althistorisch-Epigraphische Studien 2005 (dedicated to Prof. Ekkehard Weber of
Vienna) he contributed “Rome’s Marble Plan and Peutinger’s Map: continuity in cartographic design.” His discussion “A future
for ancient history in the undergraduate curriculum ? The case of the University of North Carolina” appeared in the Occasional
Papers 2005 of the American Philological Association’s Committee on Ancient History. Three illustrated presentations by him –
on the Dura Shield, the Marble Plan of Rome, and the Peutinger Map – form part of The Map Book, a magnificent volume edited
by Peter Barber at the British Museum (2005). Talbert was honored by an invitation to Japan for a week in the fall as Dean’s
Distinguished Visitor at Keio University, where he observed classes and lectured; he also conducted a seminar at the University
of Tokyo. In the fall, too, he was co-organizer (with Richard Unger) and keynote speaker for the 35th Medieval Workshop at the
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, on the theme “Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh
Perspectives, New Methods”. In the spring he was co-organizer (with Kurt Raaflaub) and keynote speaker for a lecture series and
conference at Brown University, Providence, RI, “Geography, Ethnography, and Perspectives of the World in Ancient
Civilizations”. At the 2006 annual meeting of the American Philological Association in Montréal, Québec, Canada, he chaired
the session “Figuring Roman emperors”, and delivered a paper to the Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly
Communication. On the invitation of the Archaeological Institute of America, he was Manton lecturer in Houston, TX, and at the
University of Texas, Austin. He represented UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences at the 2006 National Humanities Advocacy
Day in Washington, DC. With Michael Maas, he was awarded $122,848 to conduct a five-week National Endowment for the
Humanities seminar for college and university faculty at the American Academy in Rome, Italy, in June-July 2006, entitled
“Trajan’s Column: Narratives of War, Civilization and Commemoration in the Roman Empire”. He was also awarded $389,883
over two years by the National Endowment for the Humanities (Preservation and Access Division) for the project “Pleiades: an
Online Workspace for Ancient Geography” – on which see further the Ancient World Mapping Center report below. He has been
invited to serve as Peer Reviewer for the European Science Foundation, and as organizer of the Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures
in the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library, Chicago. This 2007 series – devoted to the civilizations of classical
antiquity and the ancient Near East – has the special good fortune to coincide with the opening of a major map exhibition at the
nearby Field Museum of Natural History. Talbert continues as the American Journal of Philology’s associate editor for ancient
history, as co-editor for the Oxford Companion to World Exploration (now due to appear in two volumes in 2007), and as co-editor
of the UNC Press series Studies in the History of Greece and Rome. The year 2006 is an annus mirabilis for the series,
with four new volumes due to appear. Last but far from least, a memorable experience of this academic year was the opportunity
to view at the Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy, and to study with fellow-expert Kai Brodersen (Mannheim), the remarkable new
‘Artemidorus map’ drawn on papyrus and made public for the first time. Email: talbert@email.unc.edu
MICHAEL TSIN co-authored the second edition of the world history text Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the
Modern World from the Mongol Empire to the Present, to be published by Norton in 2007. He participated in the Roundtable on
“Historians of China as World History Authors” at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies held in San Francisco,
April 6-9, 2006, and presented a paper titled “Civic Culture and Urban Associations in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century
China” at a conference on “Towards the Twentieth Century in Asia: Comparative Perspectives on Politics, Economy and Society
in China and India” held at Duke University, May 19-22, 2005. He also served as chair and discussant for a panel on “Religion,
Politics, and Nation-Building in Twentieth-Century China” at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association held in
Philadelphia, January 5-8, 2006; and was an invited speaker at the 19th Annual Camden Conference on “China on the World
Stage” held in Camden, Maine, February, 24-26, 2006, delivering a lecture on “China Transformed? Historical Perspectives on
Chinese Society at the Dawn of a New Century.” Email: tsin@email.unc.edu
HARRY WATSON continues as Director the Center for the Study of the American South. This spring he completed fund
raising for the restoration and expansion of a new headquarters for the Center, which is located at 410 E. Franklin Street, and will
be known as the Love House and Hutchins Forum. Construction began in April, and the building should be complete in February
2007. With Professor Larry Griffin of Sociology and History, he also continues to co-edit Southern Cultures, the Center’s
quarterly journal. A second, revised and expanded edition of his Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America (1990)
also appeared this spring. In December he was a featured speaker at the “Best of the State” conference at Asheville’s Grove Park
Inn; in April he delivered the 2006 Gladys Coates University Lecture on the topic “William Richardson Davie and the People’s
University: Ironies and Paradoxes.” Email: hwatson@email.unc.edu
BRETT WHALEN presented three papers: one, here at UNC for the Medieval Studies Brown-bag lunch series entitled "The
Papacy and the Frontiers of the West on the Eve of the First Crusade" (1/25/06); two, a paper titled "Gods Will or Not?
Bohemond’s Campaign against the Byzantine Empire (1105-1107)" at The Crusades: Medieval Worlds in Conflict, St. Louis
University (2/18/06); and three, Brett was invited to deliver a commentary on a panel entitled "Power in Medieval Political
Thought and Theology" at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, University of the South (4/7/06). He received two grants: a small
research grant from the University Rsearch Council ($1000) that he will apply toward summer 2006 research in Paris and a course
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development grant ($3000) from the Christianity and Culture Minor. The grant will contribute toward the development of a new
course on gender, politics and theology in the Middle Ages. He also directed a successfully defended senior honors thesis by
Brad Phillis entitled "Sheperding Lions: Pastoral Care and the First Crusade". Email: bwhalen@email.unc.edu
The History Department honored Professors Stanley Chonacki and Richard Pfaff at a retirement
party on May 11, 2006. The party took place at the Carolina Club and included the following
remarks by Department chair Lloyd Kramer, who celebrated the long and distinguished careers of
both colleagues.
Professor Stanley Chojnacki
Remarks at the Retirement Party in His Honor
By Lloyd Kramer
Chair, UNC History Department
It is a pleasure to recognize and express my appreciation to an outstanding colleague, Professor Stanley Chojnacki, who retired
last year after a distinguished 38-year career as a teacher and scholar of Renaissance European History. We might have honored
Stan earlier, but with his characteristic modesty and good sense he suggested that we wait until we could honor at least two
retirements in one party. So we are celebrating his long career today. Stan received his Ph.D. at the University of California,
Berkeley in 1968 and began his academic career as an assistant professor at Michigan State University. He taught at Michigan
State until 1994, rising through the ranks to become a full professor. But in 1994 he came to Chapel Hill to join our History
department as a professor of early modern European history, and he made excellent contributions to both our undergraduate and
graduate programs for more than eleven years. His courses on the history of Western Civilization, the history of Renaissance-era
Italy, and the history of women and marriage in the early modern era were all rigorous, popular, and highly successful classes.
Stan's historical research focuses on women, marriage, and gender relations in Renaissance Italy, with particular attention to
the history of Venice. He was in fact one of the pathbreaking scholars in this field, and a number of his early articles on kinship
and the family helped to shape the emerging work on Renaissance women's history in the 1970s and 1980s. He has published
more than twenty important articles in leading journals such as the Renaissance Quarterly, the American Historical Review, the
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and the Journal of Family History. Stan has been a master at producing imaginative,
carefully researched scholarly essays, but he also brought together many of his main research themes in a well-received book
entitled Women and Men in Renaissance Venice (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). His innovative research has been
supported by prestigious fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the National Humanities Center, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Institute for Advanced Study. He has also
spoken widely at national and international conferences, and he remains an active, creative scholar even in his retirement. He has
also continued to cultivate the pleasures of a fine Italian dinner as well as fine Italian wines. In short, Stan understands the arts of
both good living and good scholarship.
On behalf of the faculty, staff and students in the History Department I want to thank Stan Chojnacki for his many of years of
outstanding service to our department, our university, and the wider community of professional historians. We wish him well as
he moves forward in the retirement phase of his energetic career and life. Thank you, Stan, for all you’ve done to make the UNC
History Department a better place for historical scholarship, teaching, and collegial exchanges in Hamilton Hall.
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Professor Richard W. Pfaff
Remarks at the Retirement Party in His Honor
By Lloyd Kramer
Chair, UNC History Department
Professor Richard Pfaff completed his final year of phased retirement this spring after a distinguished UNC career that has
introduced generations of students to the complexities and pleasures of medieval English and European history. Dick completed
his undergraduate education at Harvard and went on to study at Oxford with the support of a Rhodes Scholarship. He received a
doctorate at Oxford and later studied theology before becoming an assistant professor in UNC’s History Department in 1967.
Rising quickly through the ranks, he was promoted to full professor in 1975. In addition to the Rhodes scholarship, his academic
research has been supported with fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National
Humanities Center, and the Royal Historical Society; and he has been awarded Kenan fellowships and a research fellowship at the
Institute for the Arts and Humanities here at UNC. Among many other honors and visiting appointments, Dick received a Doctor
of Divinity at Oxford in 1995.
His research and writing have focused on the history of medieval England, with particular attention to church liturgy. He has
published important articles and several books, including New Liturgical Feasts in Later Medieval England (1970) and a
collection of essays entitled Liturgical Calendars, Saints, and Services in Medieval England (1998). Dick has also written on the
history of modern English scholarship in the fields of biblical and antiquarian studies, most notably in a major biography of a
prominent modern scholar, which was entitled Montague Rhodes James (1980). He has often presented papers at academic
conferences, lectured for UNC’s Program for the Humanities and Human Values, and spoken at churches in North Carolina and
around the United States. His many contributions to the field of medieval historical studies include more than 125 book reviews
in American and European journals.
His international scholarly career, however, has never prevented him from participating actively in the life of our own
University. Dick has served on virtually every kind of departmental and university committee, so it would be impossible to name
all of them here. It should nevertheless be noted that he has served as a long-time member of the College’s Medieval Studies
Committee, as UNC’s Institutional Representative for the Rhodes Scholarship Program (1976-89), as Chair of the University’s
Honorary Degrees and Special Awards Committee (1993-4), as a two-term member of the Executive Committee of the Faculty
Council (1997-2003), and as Secretary of the Faculty (1984-89). During his term as Secretary of the Faculty, Dick crafted
eloquent, brief biographies for the recipients of honorary degrees, and he regularly represented the faculty at important events
such as Commencement and University Day.
Dick has also contributed exceptional service to the UNC library. Always a passionate advocate for the scholarly value and
intellectual pleasures of a world-class library, Dick has served as chair of the Library’s Administrative Board, as the History
Department’s liaison with the library, and as an active friend of the library in countless meetings with university administrators.
Finally, I should note Dick’s contributions to the UNC athletic program, which he carefully reviewed when he served as chair of
the task force that evaluated the Department of Athletics for the University’s SACS review in 1995.
In short, from the library to the locker room to the Rhodes Scholar program Dick Pfaff has been an exceptionally energetic and
long-serving member of our faculty whose insights and rigorous academic standards will be missed by his colleagues in the
history department, by his students and by many others throughout the University. We deeply appreciate his outstanding service
to UNC-Chapel Hill, and we know that he will remain a busy scholar and friend as he enters this next phase of his active life and
career. Thank you, Dick, for all that you have done during your 39 eventful years in Chapel Hill!
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DEPARTMENT MEMBERS CELEBRATE THE 2005-06 ACADEMIC YEAR
THE SPRING PICNIC FOR FACULTY, EMERITI FACULTY & STAFF
Yasmin Saikia &
Brett Whalen
Christopher Browning Terence McIntosh &
Emerti Professor Sam Baron
Chad Bryant Rosalie Radcliffe &
Richard Soloway
THE ANNUAL END-OF-THE YEAR PARTY
William Ferris, Pam Fesmire
& Patrick Brock
Aidan Smith &
Philipp Stelzel
Lloyd Kramer , faculty &
graduate students
Julia Osman &
Eric Steinhart
Melissa Bullard &
John Semonche
EMERITI FACULTY
LAWRENCE KESSLER led a UNC Alumni Tour to Southeast Asia in January-February (the best time in terms of weather,
although it was still very hot and humid). The two-week tour visited Thailand's ancient capital of Ayutthaya (14th-18th centuries)
and modern Bangkok (capital since the 18th century); Siem Reap in Cambodia, site of the famous Angkor complex of temples
dating to the 12th century but also of one of the infamous "Killing Fields" during the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s; and
Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) in Vietnam, witnessing the tremendous economic growth in the country that
began in the 1980s when its communist leaders decided to employ capitalist methods and open up to the West. Last fall, Kessler
led two workshops on Chinese history in Chapel Hill and Wilmington for secondary school teachers.
GERHARD L. WEINBERG published a new book in 2004-05, Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World Wear II Leaders
and new editions of two other books, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II and Hitler’s Foreign Policy 1933-
1938: The Road to World War II. This year there are no books to report. Three papers presented at earlier conferences have now
appeared: “Who Won World War II and How?” in Steven Weingartner (ed.), From Total War to Total Victory: How the War Was
(Really) Won, pp. 61-77; “A Commentary on ‘Gray Zones’ in Raul Hilberg’s Work,” in Jonathan Petropoulos and John K. Roth
(eds.), Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath, pp. 70-80; and “Total War: The Global
Dimensions of Conflict” in Roger Chickering et. al. (eds.), A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction,
1937-1945, pp. 19-31. A current project is a planned book entitled The World War II Chronicle.
At the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the European Section of the Southern Historical Association Dr. Weinberg offered his
thoughts on the status of European history fifty years hence (anyone interested can learn what is in store for Europeanists from the
Section’s website). Presentations at conferences in Israel and Poland will eventually appear in print. He continues to lecture for
the Naval War College and its extension program as well as the West Point summer seminar on military history, Northwestern
University’s summer seminar on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Mandel
program for teachers. Since the Congress extended the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure and Imperial Japanese Records Law for two
years, his duties as chair of the Historical Advisory Panel of the Interagency Working Group that implements the law also
continues. Lectures at Dartmouth, Auburn University at Montgomery, Hampden-Sydney College, Middle Tennessee State
University, and for this University’s speakers program help to keep him, if not the audiences, awake.
Email: gweinber@email.unc.edu
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ALUMNI NEWS
G. MATTHEW ADKINS (PhD/2002/Smith) taught early modern European history as visiting assistant professor at Miami
University of Ohio during the academic year 2005-2006. He accepted a position as assistant professor of French history and
history of science at Mississippi State University; however he is also exploring non-academic career opportunities. He published a
review in H-France and presented conference papers at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and at the University of
Illinois. He continues revision of his book manuscript, The Politics of the Disillusioned: Science and Liberal Consciousness in the
French Enlightenment, which he hopes will be published sometime before his death. Email: adkinsgm@muohio.edu
STEPHEN M. APPELL (MA/1969/Pulley) continues in his retirement job as Assistant Director/Complaint Investigator at the
Equity and Diversity Resource Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison where he is responsible for investigations of
discrimination filed by any of the nearly 60,000 students and staff at the University as well as anyone who comes wandering on to
the campus. In May 2005 he went on a week-long bus tour of Wisconsin as part of the Wisconsin Idea Seminar. He learned
several things: there is a lot of north in Wisconsin; don’t stand near the business end of a cow; and, Howard Fuller (now at
Marquette) isn’t all the fond of being reminded of the old days in Durham. Email: SAppell@vc.wisc.edu
CHRIS MYERS ASCH (MA/2000/Leloudis/PhD/2005/Hall) completed his Ph.D. in May 2005 and recently won the annual
R.D.W. Connor Award given by the Historical Society of North Carolina for the best article appearing in the North Carolina
Historical Review. His colloquy with educator Bill Ayers on activism and education will appear in the forthcoming Teach
Freedom: The African American Tradition of Education for Liberation. He currently runs the Sunflower County Freedom Project
in Mississippi, but he soon will be leaving to chair a campaign to build a national public service academy modeled on the military
academies. He needs your help! Email: chrismyersasch@gmail.com
TED AUTHOLZ (MA/1972/Cecil) was promoted to First Vice President – Investments at UBS Financial Services. Ted also
achieved the “President’s Club” recognition level, reserved for the top ten percent of UBS Financial Advisors. Ted recently
completed his sixth year at UBS. Email: Theodore.Altholz@UBS.com
R. GLEN AYERS (MA/1971/Douglas) is practicing law in San Antonio, Texas. The State Bar of Texas will publish the State
Bar Desk Book on Bankruptcy this fall; he is the general editor and a contributor. During the past year he has spoken and written
extensively on various topics related to the recent amendments to the Bankruptcy Code. Email gayers@langleybanack.com
BRUCE E. BAKER (PhD/2003/Hall) completed his second year as lecturer in United States history at Royal Holloway,
University of London, after surviving (and even enjoying) a "spring" term at the University of Wisconsin-Superior in 2004. Last
fall, he presented papers to seminars at the University of Reading and at Cambridge University and the annual meeting of the
Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians as well as presenting a paper on an 1880s labor organizer at the
Southern Historical Association meeting in Atlanta. The manuscript for his first book, What Reconstruction Meant: Social
Memory of Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1890-1957, is in the hands of the University of Virginia Press, and he is now at
work on a book on lynching in the Carolinas. On that topic, “Lynch Law Reversed: The Rape of Lula Sherman, the Lynching of
Manse Waldrop, and the Debate Over Lynching in the 1880s" appeared in the September 2005 issue of American Nineteenth
Century History. In a strange twist of publishing synchronicity, all four of the encyclopedias to which he has contributed items
since 1995 (on North Carolina, South Carolina, Reconstruction, and southern writers) are to see the light of day this year. Living
right next to Windsor Great Park, Baker is developing a fascination with watching polo that is completely at odds with his
interests in labor history. As Bill Monroe sang, "Y'all come" -- and bring grits. Email: bruce.baker@rhul.ac.uk
LANCE BETROS (MA/1986/PhD/1988/Higginbotham) became the head of the Department of History at the US Military
Academy, West Point, NY, on 1 July 2005. He remains on active duty as a colonel in the US Army.
Email: lance.betros@usma.edu
MATTHEW S.R. BEWIG (MA/1986/Barney) is a doctoral candidate in U.S. history at the University of Florida. His
dissertation project is a social historical study of the landmark Supreme Court case of Lochner v. New York. He has recently
published an article in the New York University Journal of Law & Liberty, as well as reviews in Ohio Valley History and the Law
and Politics Book Review. He has seven articles in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working Class History, edited
by Eric Arnesen and published by Routledge, and a forthcoming review in International Labor and Working Class History. For
the past year, he was President of the History Graduate Society at the University of Florida. Email: mbewig@history.ufl.edu
ROBERT D. BILLINGER, JR. (MA/1968/Kraehe/PhD/1973/Cecil) is the Ruth Davis Horton Professor of History at Wingate
University. In November 2005, he had the pleasure in Atlanta of honoring one of the founding fathers of the European History
Section of the SHA with a paper entitled “Enno Kraehe: Metternich, Microhistory, and Milchrahmstrudel.” Email:
billingr@wingate.edu
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KENT BLASER (PhD/1977/Ryan) teaches history at Wayne State College. He was elected to a three year term on the board of
the Nebraska Humanities Council in fall 2005, has begun work on a history of Wayne State College for its upcoming 100 year
anniversary, and is fondly anticipating retiring in the near future. Email: keblase1@wsc.edu
H. TYLER BLETHEN (MA/1969/Baxter/PhD/1972/Baxter) received the 2005 Appalachian Writers Association Book of the
Year in Nonfiction award and the 2005 Western North Carolina Historical Association’s Thomas Wolfe Literary Award for his
book High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place (University of Illinois Press, 2004). Email: blethen@wcu.edu
MICHELE ANDREA BOWEN-BROWN (MA/1994/McNeil) has just completed her third novel, Holy Ghost Corner (Time
Warner Book Group, September 2006). She is a full-time author and has also written Church Folk (Time Warner Book Group,
2001) and Second Sunday (Time Warner Book Group, 2003). Both books have made the number one spot on the Essence
Magazine’s Bestseller’s List. Her novels are funny tales of life and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first century African
American Church. She lives in Durham, NC with her husband, Harold R. Brown and their three daughters, Laura (18, who will
be a freshman at Hampton University, Fall 2006), Sydney (10), and Janina (8). She is an active member of St. Joseph’s AME
Church in Durham, and a soloist in the Inspirational Singers Choir. She is currently writing her fourth novel and working on an
anthology with two other authors. Email: mabbrown6@hotmail.com
Website: www.micheleandreabowen.com
JÜRGEN BUCHENAU (MA/1988/Tulchin/PhD/1993/Joseph) is Associate Professor of History and Director of Latin American
Studies at UNC Charlotte. His research interests are the international history of Mexico with particular emphasis on the study of
political culture, national identity, and immigration. The past year witnessed the publication of his edited volume of foreign
writing on Mexico, Mexico OtherWise: Modern Mexico in the Eyes of Foreign Observers (Albuquerque: University of New
Mexico Press, 2005) as well as a chapter entitled “Blonde and Blue-Eyed in Mexico City” in Nancy Reagin, Molly O’Donnell,
and Renate Bridenthal, The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness (University of Michigan Press, 2005). He finished
up a term on the Executive Council of the Southern Historical Association as the representative of the Latin American and
Caribbean Section. Jürgen is currently serving as co-editor of the SECOLAS Annals as well as a Contributing Editor to the
Handbook of Latin American Studies and on the editorial board of the Journal of Urban History. He can be reached at
jbuchena@email.uncc.edu.
HEIKE BUNGERT (MA/1990/Weinberg) in the fall of 2005 taught North American History and Migration History at the
International University Bremen and is back to teaching at the University of Bremen. She published an article on the
representation of history in movies about Geronimo in the German-language journal Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik and Amerikanistik
and gave a paper in the Wittenberg conference "The Merits of Memory". She continues to work on ethnicity formation among
German Americans and is starting on a new project comparing university reforms in the United States and Germany in the 1950s
to 1970s. In September 2005, she received a five-year Heisenberg grant by the German Research Founcation (DFG). She was
elected to the Board of Directors of the German Association for American Studies and an Advisory Board member of H-GAGCS.
Email: heike.bungert@uni-koeln.de
GAVIN JAMES CAMPBELL (MA/1994/Mathews/PhD/1999/Mathews and John Kasson) hasn’t done much of interest in the
last year, but he puts this notice in the newsletter and wastes trees in hopes that former colleagues will stay in touch. He
published two papers in the last year: “‘Buried Alive in the Blues’: Janis Joplin and the Souls of White Folk,” in How Far is
America From Here: Selected Proceedings of the First World Congress of the International American Studies Association, and
“‘A Music Characteristic of Our Racial Psychology’: John Powell and the Challenge of American Music, 1900-1925,” in the
March 2006 issue of Doshisha American Studies, as well as reviews in Journal of Southern History, American Historical Review,
Journal of Popular Music Studies, Journal of American History, and Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. He also
presented “Studying About That Good Old Way: Country Music and the Southern Past,” at the Organization of American
Historians in 2006, and in 2005 a keynote address at the Regional American Studies Seminar in Gyeongju, South Korea, as well
as talks at Keimyung University and Kyungpook National University in Daegu, which were sponsored by the generous support of
the US embassy in Seoul and by the American Studies Association of Korea. He taught courses on Southern women, American
movies, the imagined South, and African American history. He also became associate dean in the Graduate School of American
Studies, and in that capacity has completed arrangements to begin in April 2007 a student exchange program between Doshisha
University’s Graduate School of American Studies and UNC-CH’s College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached by email at
gcampbel@mail.doshisha.ac.jp
WALTER E. CAMPBELL (PhD/1991/Hall-Lotchin) recently completed a three-year span as Historian for the Duke University
Medical Center. The center will publish his book, Foundations for Excellence: 75 Years of Duke Medicine, in summer 2006. He
was also the guest speaker at a joint meeting of the UNC Bullitt History of Medicine Club and the Duke Trent History of
Medicine Society, presenting a paper titled “‘Whatever Duke Has, North Carolina Must Have’: Psychiatry in North Carolina,
1930-1953.” Currently, he is executive producer of a documentary being produced by Memory Lane Productions, Inc., in
collaboration with the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC–Chapel Hill, on Horace Carter, a graduate of UNC’s
school of journalism, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for his anti-Klan editorials. Email: cmpbll@acpub.duke.edu
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KATHERINE D. CANN (MA/1970/Pulley) has been appointed interim chair of the Department of Social Sciences at
Spartanburg Methodist College. She has received an NEH grant to participate in a workshop on “Rutherford B. Hayes and the
Gilded Age” sponsored by the Rutherford Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont, Ohio. Her current research is a history of
Spartanburg Methodist College. Email: cannkd@smcsc.edu
MARVIN L. CANN (PhD/1967/Tindall) retired from the history faculty of Lander University in May 2005. He currently
teaches as an adjunct faculty member at Spartanburg Methodist College and offers a graduate course on South Carolina history at
Converse College. He also finds great satisfaction as a volunteer Guardian ad Litem in the Spartanburg County Family Court
System. Email: cannm@bellsouth.net
STEVEN A. CHANNING (PhD/1968/Joel Williamson) continues his work as a documentary film writer and producer, through
his company Video Dialog Inc. in Durham, NC. His most recent broadcast was February One: The Story of the Greensboro
Four, which aired nationally on PBS in 2004-5 and is being distributed through California Newsreel. He is completing a new
film on the history of the pioneering 1960’s antipoverty program The North Carolina Fund, and enjoying working with historians
Jim Leloudis and Bob Korstad who are featured in the film. Steve is currently developing a film called Down Home, on the
history of Jewish life in North Carolina; also in production is a documentary on the history of Durham, which will focus on race
but not on lacrosse! He has been involved in creating a nonprofit called the Southern Documentary Fund to help sponsor and
encourage filmmaking about North Carolina and the South. Those interested can check this out at
www.southerndocumentaryfund.org Email: schanning@nc.rr.com
EVELYN M. CHERPAK (PhD/1973/Bierck) published “Timothy Murphy’s Civil War: The Letters of a Bounty Soldier and
Sailor, 1864-1865” in Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South Spring/Summer 2006 and a manuscript register
of the papers of Dr. Andrew E. Gibson, who held the Emory Land Chair of Maritime Affairs at the Naval War College. She
presented a paper entitled “Women Travelers to Brazil, 1835-1890: A Paradise Imagined” at the Nineteenth Century Studies
Association Conference in March. Lectures on the WAVES in World War II Oral History Project were given at Laurelmead in
Providence, RI in February and at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, Norfolk, VA in March. In January, she was named co-chair
of the Women’s Studies Interest Group of the Academic and College Research Libraries of New England.
Email: evelyn.cherpak@nwc.navy.mil
BARRY CLENDENIN (PhD/1975/Baxter) is Deputy Associate Director for Health at the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) in Washington, D.C. He has worked in that capacity since 1994 and has been at OMB since 1977. Email:
BarryC2@verizon.net and Barry_T._Clendenin@omb.eop.gov
MARK CLODFELTER (PhD/1987/Leutze) taught courses on military strategy, the Vietnam War, and air power at the National
War College, plus he served on two faculty search committees and the College’s curriculum committee. In May 2005, he led a
group of students on a field studies trip to Vietnam and Thailand. During the 2005-2006 academic year, he prepared another
group of students for a similar visit. He spoke on “American Air Power from Vietnam to Iraqi Freedom” at West Point’s summer
military history seminar series in June, 2005. His book review of To Destroy a City: Strategic Bombing and its Human
Consequences in World War II appeared in the Spring 2006 issue of the Journal of Cold War Studies, and his article, “Air Power
vs. Asymmetric Enemies: A Framework for Evaluating Effectiveness,” appeared in the Spring 2006 French edition of Air and
Space Power Journal. In March 2006, he was interviewed by Fox News and the Voice of America on the topic, “civil wars.” In
April 2006, the University of Nebraska Press published a paperback edition of his book, The Limits of Air Power: The American
Bombing of North Vietnam. Mark can be reached via email at clodfelterm@ndu.edu, and will eagerly support Roy Williams and
the basketball Heels in the 2006-2007 season.
JOHN W. COON (MA/1968/Patton) interrupted his 2004 retirement from the Social Security Administration to serve as a SSA
Public Affairs Specialist from July through December 2005. He coordinated SSA public information in North Alabama related to
the new Medicare prescription drug program. He continues as a Rotarian, as an American Red Cross volunteer, as a book
reviewer for the Decatur (Alabama) Daily newspaper, and as an active United Methodist. Email: JJCOON31@aol.com
JON GREGORY CRAWFORD (PhD/1975/Baxter) is Director of International Education at Roanoke College in Salem,
Virginia and senior lecturer in the Department of History. In 2005 he published his second book in the Irish Legal History Series,
A Star Chamber Court in Ireland: the court of castle chamber, 1571-1641 (Dublin: Four Courts Press). This is the first book-length
study of the court and incorporates the entry book of orders and decrees and other sources in an appendix of legal records.
In October 2005, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for International Education Administrators and took part in a seminar in
Germany lasting three weeks. The seminar traveled from Berlin into Poland, Erfurt, Wiesbaden, Heidelberg and Mainz. He is
also the Associate Book Review editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and has published numerous reviews in that journal.
Email: Crawford@roanoke.edu
MIRIAM WATSON CUNDIFF (MA/1988/Reid) received a Certificate in Translation from the Translation and Interpretation
Program at Georgia State University in May 2005. She was also named the French student of the year for 2005. Miriam (Mimi)
is currently self-employed as a freelance translator, translating documents from French to English. She is married to Richard
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Cundiff and is the mother of two children.
CHRIS DALY (MA/1982/Fink) is teaching journalism and the history of journalism at Boston University. The University of
Massachusetts Press will publish his forthcoming book, Covering America: A Narrative History of U.S. Journalism, 1704-2004
sometime next year. He presented a paper in March at the New York regional conference of the American Journalism Historians
Association on a theory of periodization. Email: cdaly@bu.edu
W. CALVIN DICKINSON (PhD/1967/Baxter) is retired from teaching British history at Tennessee Technological University;
now he is employed full-time writing history. His three books last academic year were Rural Life and Culture of the Upper
Cumberland, University of Kentucky Press; Tennessee: "State of the Nation, Thomson; E is for Elvis, Rutledge Hill Press. Email:
cdickinson@tntech.edu
BILL DOLBEE (MA/1983/Hunt) is Dean of Faculty and Assistant Head of School at Lake Forest Academy, a college
preparatory school just north of Chicago. He continues to coach football and teaches one section of Advanced Placement U.S.
History. He is looking forward to traveling to Boulder, Colorado in July to participate in Great Plains: America's Crossroads, a
summer seminar for teachers sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute. His son Sam is an undergraduate at UNC.
Email: bdolbee@lfanet.org
RALPH DRAUGHON, JR. (MA/1964/PhD/1968/Green) is happily retired and has moved from New Orleans to Auburn,
Alabama, where he serves on the advisory boards of the Auburn University library, the Jules Collins Smith Museum of Art, and
the Alabama Historical Association. In February 2006 he inaugurated the Auburn University Sesquicentennial Lecture Series
with a talk on "Auburn in the Civil War Era." Email: draughon@cox.net
WAYNE DURRILL (MA/1980/Tindall/PhD/1987/Mathews) published “Ritual, Community and War: Local Flag Presentation
Ceremonies and Disunity in the Early Confederacy,” in the Journal of Social History 38 (2006): 1105-22. He also received a
fellowship from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities which will enable him to spend winter and spring 2007 in
Charlottesville writing the first few chapters of a book on Nat Turner and the Southampton Insurection—a project that is
supported by recently received research grants from the Virginia Historical Society, the North Caroliniana Society, and the Taft
Memorial Fund at the University of Cincinnati where Durrill teaches. Email: durrilwk@email.uc.edu
SUSAN BEAM EGGERS (MA/1990/Brooks) has published “Reinventing the Enemy: The Villains of Glinka’s Opera Ivan
Susanin on the Soviet Stage,” in Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda, edited by Kevin M.
F. Platt and David Brandenberger, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. This spring she tutored high school homeschoolers
in world history enrichment classes. She is the co-founder of Hickory Forge, a company which makes handcrafted wrought iron
furniture and accessories. Email: eggersds@juno.com
CHRISTOPHER ENDY (MA/1996/Hunt/PhD/2000/Hunt) teaches U.S. international relations history at California State
University, Los Angeles, where he received tenure in August 2005. Bidding adieu to the study of American tourism in France, he
has begun research on a new book examining how the global expansion of American business, from the late nineteenth century
through the 1970s, provoked debates over moral relativism and corporate responsibility. He serves as a Coordinating Editor at the
interdisciplinary journal, Annals of Tourism Research, and is a member of the Gilbert Chinard Prize Committee for the Society
for French Historical Studies. He published reviews in the Journal of American History, the American Historical Review, and H-France.
He lives in Long Beach with Cora Granata, who patiently corrects his novice German grammar. Email:
cendy@calstatela.edu
ERIC J. ENGSTROM (PhD/1997/Jarausch) continues to work at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Humboldt
University in Berlin and at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. He continues work on a multi-volume edition of
the works of the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin and will see volume 6 published this year under the title "Kraepelin in
Munich, 1903-1914". He also published articles on "The Economy of Clinical Inscription: On Diagnostic and Nosological
Writing-Practices" in Cornelius Borck's and Armin Schdfer's "Psychographs" and on "The Directions of Psychiatric Research" in
the journal History of Psychiatry. He presented two papers, one on "Academic Psychiatry in Germany" at the Anglo-Dutch
Wellcome Symposium in Utrecht, Holland, and another on "Forensic Psychiatry in Germany" at a workshop in Edinburgh. He
also translated Ian Hacking's article "Canguilhem Amid the Cyborgs" into German for a collection of essays on "Ma_ und
Eigensinn: Studien im Anschlu_ an Georges Canguilhem". Finally, he taught two graduate seminars, one on Ernst Gombrich and
another on Richard Rorty. Email address: eric.engstrom@charite.de
ROSEMARY N. ESTES (PhD/2005/Higginbotham) finally finished her study of Charleston’s Sons of Liberty. Having
identified carpenter Daniel Cannon as leader of that group, she has begun a biography of that worthy Revolutionary artisan. Now
retired, she continues part-time work at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem.
GARY R. FREEZE (MA/PhD/Tindall). Is Professor of history and coordinator of the American Studies curriculum, Catawba
College. He published a civic narrative, She Is Not Yet Finished: A History of Newton, North Carolina, to commemorate the
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city’s sesquicentennial. Excerpts of the research were the basis for a musical, “The Heart of Catawba,” performed during the
community’s celebration. He contributed “Traditional Agrarian Discourse” to We The People: Conversations on Identity,
Culture, and History in North Carolina, the program for a North Carolina Humanities Council conference in Chapel Hill. He was
writer and narrator of a televised series on Rowan County history for the local public-access cable channel and served as chair of
the trustees of the Rowan County Public Library. Completed third consecutive year as chair of the Catawba College Faculty
Senate and was reelected to a fourth term. He was chosen Teacher of the Year by Catawba students for the fifth time since 1995.
He also provided Civil War commentary for a nationwide Lippard family reunion; the family spent a weekend retracing the steps
of ancestors during the Maryland campaign of 1862, culminating at the Dunker Church at Antietam, where Freeze’s great-great
grandfather was shot in the hip.
JERRY GERSHENHORN (PhD/2000/Leloudis) was promoted to associate professor, with tenure, at North Carolina Central
University (NCCU). In April, he discussed his book Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge, as a panelist
during the David W. Bishop Lecture Series at NCCU. In February, he delivered a lecture called “‘Can’t Get the Money’: The
Marginalization of African Studies Programs at Black Colleges, 1942-1960” as part of NCCU’s Black History Month program.
In October, he read a paper entitled “Earlie Thorpe and the Struggle for Black History” at the annual conference of the
Association for the Study of African American Life and History, in Buffalo, New York. He also served on a panel called
“Reflections On a Teacher, Scholar and Community Advocate,” at the 14th Annual Earlie E. Thorpe Lecture Series at Historic
Stagville, a North Carolina state historic site in Durham, in October. “Double V in North Carolina: The Carolina Times and the
Struggle for Racial Equality During World War II” will be published this October in Journalism History.
Email: jgershen@nccu.edu
CORA GRANATA (PhD/2001/Jarausch) is Assistant Professor of post-1945 Central European History at California State
University, Fullerton, where she is also Director of European Studies and Associate Director of the Center for Oral and Public
History. She published an article in the German Studies Review and is co-editing a forthcoming book, The Human Tradition in
Modern Europe (Rowman and Littlefield). She presented papers at the International Council for Central and East European
Studies (Berlin, July 2005) and the Southern California German Studies Workshop (USC, November 2005). She also served as a
panel commentator for the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women (Claremont, June 2005) and chaired a panel at the
German Studies Association Annual Meeting (Milwaukee, October 2005). She lives in Long Beach with Chris Endy. In her
spare time, she teaches German to a very slow student. Email: cgranata@fullerton.edu
CINDY HAHAMOVITCH (MA/1986/Nelson/PhD/1992/Fink) is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in
History at The College of William & Mary. She served on the Editorial Committee for /Labor: Working Class History of the
Americas, /on the George Pozzetta Prize Committee, and as webmaster for the Labor and Working Class History Association. She
presented papers at the European Social Science History Conference in Amsterdam and at a conference called "Middle Passages:
The Oceanic Voyage as Social Process," in Perth, Australia. She also spoke at two Capitol hill symposia on guestworker
programs, and published a review in the American Historical Review. Email: cxhaha@wm.edu
TOM HANCHETT (PhD/1993/Lotchin) had a banner year as staff historian at the Levine Museum of the New South
(www.museumofthenewsouth.org) in Charlotte. His exhibit on the roots of Brown v Board of Education, "COURAGE: The
Carolina Story That Changed America," was named best in the U.S. by the American Association of Museums and won the top
awards from AASLH and the South East Museums Conference. The U.S. Consulate in South Africa brought material from
COURAGE to the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg and helped arrange for Tom and his family to visit. In January, Tom and
colleagues met First Lady Laura Bush at the White House when the Levine Museum was honored as one of America's
outstanding museums in community engagement. Tom also curated "PURSES, PLATFORMS AND POWER: Women Changing
Charlotte in the 1970s," the first community-wide study of the impact of the women's movement in that pivotal decade, and
"JOHN NOLEN: NEIGHBORHOOD-MAKER," a traveling exhibit on suburban planning history. He gave papers at the
Southern Foodways Alliance and American Association of Museums annual conferences, and published "Harry Golden: Food,
Race and Laughter" in SOUTHERN CULTURES. Email: Hanchett@mindspring.com
ROBERT M. HATHAWAY (PhD/1976/Wells) continues as director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. During the past year, he has published articles in Arms Control Today, DefenseNews,
and Education Scenario International (Pakistan). Recent edited Wilson Center reports include George W. Bush and East Asia: A
First Term Assessment and Education Reform in Pakistan. He spoke at conferences in India, Japan, and Australia, and gave
invited presentations in Philadelphia and at the Naval War College. He was especially gratified to be asked to speak on Asia’s
rising powers to a large group of UNC students in Chapel Hill this spring. His current research focuses on US-India-Pakistan
relations, US-China relations, and the Korean peninsula. Email: Robert.Hathaway@wilsoncenter.org
ELIZABETH HEMENWAY (PhD/1999/Raleigh) spent the 2005-2006 academic year on leave from her position at Xavier
University of Louisiana to complete a book entitled “Family, Change, and Continuity: Constructing Narratives of Revolution in
Russia, 1905-1930.” She was supported by a research grant from the National Endownment for the Humanities. She also saw an
essay “Mothers of Communists: Women Revolutionaries and the Construction of a Soviet Identity” published in the collection
Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture (Northern Illinois University Press, 2006). She has been
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active in the Association for Women in Slavic Studies, until recently serving as editor of the group’s newsletter, Women East-
West. When her home and workplace were flooded after Hurricane Katrina, she relocated to the Boston suburbs and was
welcomed into the scholarly community at the Radcliffe Institute, where she has slowly regathered her work. She returns to New
Orleans in July 2006 and will resume teaching at Xavier in January 2007. Email: bhemenwa@gmail.com
ELIZABETH HORST (MA/1994/Jarausch) remains a Foreign Service Officer, currently serving in as the Political/Economic
Section Chief in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. She covers infrastructure and energy development, democracy and civil society issues,
NGO activities and the gamut of unpredictable events in a post-Soviet country. Her next assignment will be in Moscow starting
Summer 2007. Email: horstek@state.gov
CAROL SUE HUMPHREY (PhD/1985/Higginbotham) continues to teach at Oklahoma Baptist University. She wrote the
section on the American Revolution and co-authored the section on the War of 1812 in The Greenwood Library of American War
Reporting, published by Greenwood Press. She wrote a review of Robert Martin's The Free And Open Press: The Founding of
American Democratic Press Liberty, 1640-1800 for the JHISTORY list-serv. She continues to grade US History Advanced
Placement Exams in June and to serve as the secretary for the American Journalism Historians Association.
Email: carol.humphrey@okbu.edu
JEFF JONES (MA/1992/Raleigh/PhD/2000/Raleigh) is teaching Russian/Soviet and World history at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, where he was nominated for a teaching award last semester. He published an article, “‘Every family has
its freaks’: Perceptions of Collaboration in Occupied Soviet Russia, 1943-1948,” in the Winter 2005 edition of Slavic Review. He
was a discussant for a panel, “Growing up ‘Soviet’: Childhood and Youth in the USSR During and After WWII,” at the national
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in Salt Lake City in December. And he presented a paper,
“National Identity & ‘Family Rhetoric’ in the ‘Reconstruction’ of Soviet Russia, 1943-1948,” at the regional Southern Slavic
Conference in Columbia, SC, in March. He has also completed a manuscript entitled “In my opinion this is all a fraud!”
Everyday Life and the “Reconstruction” of Soviet Russia, which hopefully will be forthcoming soon. His daughter Lena starts at
UNC-G as a freshman in the fall, and his daughter Ellie turned four in April. Email: jwjones@uncg.edu
LU ANN JONES (MA/1983/PhD/1996/Hall) published "'Work Was My Pleasure': An Oral History of Nellie Stancil Langley" in
Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century, ed. by Melissa Walker and Rebecca Sharpless
(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006). She received a summer grant from the Humanities Institute at the University of
South Florida and a Smithsonian Institution Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship. Email: lajones@cas.usf.edu
CLAIRE KIRCH (MA/1991/Harris) is the Midwest Correspondent for Publishers Weekly, a leading book publishing industry
trade magazine based in New York. As such, Kirch has been interviewed this past year in regional and national media -- including
Minn. Public Radio and the Associated Press -- about issues facing the book publishing industry, both on a regional, as well as a
national level. Kirch also led a grassroots campaign this spring to select a poet laureate for the city of Duluth, Minn., in response
to Governor Tim Pawlenty’s veto of a bill naming a poet laureate for the state, because he feared it would lead to calls to name a
state mime or a state potter. This effort was covered by regional and national media, and Kirch was quoted in the St. Paul Pioneer
Press, USA Today, and other print media. Email: clairekirch@aol.com
ANDY KIRKENDALL (MA/1991/PhD/1996/Chasteen) teaches the history of Latin America and US-Latin American relations
at Texas A&M University in College Station. He finished a draft of his book on Paulo Freire and the politics of mass literacy
campaigns during the Cold War and presented a paper on the topic at UNESCO’s 60th-anniversary conference in November in
Paris. He also presented a paper related to a book he is writing on the US and democracy in Latin America at the meeting of the
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in College Park, Maryland. He is an associate editor of the second edition
of the Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. E-mail: andykirk@tamu.edu
LESTER C. LAMON (PhD/1971/Tindall) is retiring after 35 years as Professor of History at Indiana University South Bend.
His publishing and teaching career was interrupted by 20 years of administrative service as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and Interim Chancellor. Since returning to the classroom in 2000, he has
directed 6 masters theses, made presentations at the AHA and SHA, and founded and directed the Civil Rights Heritage Center.
He will be Visiting Professor at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland in the Fall 2006 before retiring full time.
Email: llamon@iusb.edu
KAREN TRAHAN LEATHEM (MA/1983/Fink/PhD1994/Hall and Williamson) is a historian at the Louisiana State Museum in
New Orleans and has been preoccupied with the well-being of New Orleans since August 29. She urges all UNC history alumni
and faculty to do what they can to aid in New Orleans’s recovery. During the past year and a half, she worked on two major
exhibitions, Grounds for Greatness: Louisiana and the Nation and The Louisiana Experience: Discovering the Soul of America,
which opened on February 1 at the new Louisiana State Museum-Baton Rouge. Last fall, the University of Georgia Press
published The American South in the Twentieth Century, a volume of essays she coedited with her former colleagues at the
Atlanta History Center. Email: kleathem@crt.state.la.us
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JERE H. LINK (MA/1985/Pletsch/PhD/1988/Jarausch) still teaches European history at The Westminister Schools (since 1992).
After stepping down as department chair last year, Link is still involved in the funded Guest Speaker Series that invites historians
to explain to high schoolers their research findings (this year’s speaker was Deborah Lipstadt). In addition to teaching the gamut
of European history, Link undertook to teach German Honors VI this year. He sponsors the Culinary Society, Academic Quiz
Team and Debate. This last year was marked by two honors. First, Westminster was honored by the College Board of Princeton
for having the highest exam scores in the world on the AP European History exam (Link has run that discipline for 14 years).
Also, the Research and Education Association (REA) has asked Link to revise its AP European History review manual
(negotiations pending).
RALPH E. LUKER (MA/1969/Miller/PhD/1973/Miller) is editing The Papers of Vernon Johns and is the founder and manager
of CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog, http://hnn.us/blogs/2.html. His article, "Murder and Biblical Memory: The Legend of Vernon
Johns," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, CXII (Spring 2005): 372-418, was chosen by the Organization of American
Historians for inclusion in Joyce Appleby, ed., The Best American History Essays, 2006 (New York: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2006).
In January, he was on a panel about history blogging at the AHA convention in Philadelphia; and, in April, he chaired a panel on
historical memory at the OAH convention in Washington, DC. With David Beito and Robert David Johnson, he published three
articles on academic freedom: "Consulting All Sides on 'Speech Codes'," OAH Newsletter, XXXIII (May 2005): 11, and History
News Network, 9 May 2005; "A Time to Choose for the AHA in Philadelphia: Speech Codes and the Academic Bill of Rights,"
History News Network, 26 December 2005; and "The AHA's Double Standard on Academic Freedom," Perspectives, XLIV
(March 2006): 46-48. In addition, he published three articles on other matters of professional interest: "Were There Blog Enough
and Time," Perspectives, XLIII (May 2005): 29-32; "An Open Letter to the OAH's Vicki Ruiz and Lee Formwalt," History News
Network, 1 August 2005; and "Historians as Expert Witnesses," History News Network, 13 March 2006.
Email: ralphluker@mindspring.com
JAMES W. MARCUM (PhD/1970/Foust) moderated a session on “Catherine the Great and Empire” at the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies national conference in Salt Lake City in November. His book, After the
Information Age: A Dynamic Learning Manifesto was published by Peter Lang in April as a volume in their Counterpoints series
in postmodern education. He is University Librarian at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. Email: marcum@fdu.edu
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MARTIN (PhD/1974/Cecil) is professor of history at Louisiana State University. He is the 2006
winner of the Roselyn Boneno Prize for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching in the Department of History, voted by the
members of the Phi Alpha Theta chapter. His fifth book, France in 1938 , was published by LSU Press in 2005 and was named a
History Book Club Selection; a paperback edition will appear in August 2006. He contributed four entries to Bill Marshall, ed.,
France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, History, 3 vols., Oxford, England: ABC-Clio, 2005. He also published reviews in
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History and Business History Review. He is a frequent book reviewer for the Baton Rouge
Sunday Advocate Magazine: 20 in 2005, 265 since 1995. Email: bmarti9@lsu.edu
KATHERINE TUCKER McGINNIS (MA/1992/PhD/2001/Bullard) spent the summer of 2005 in the archives of Mantua,
Ferrara, and Parma, in order to expand the geographic scope of her study of sixteenth-century Italian dancing masters. She
reviewed Jennifer Nevile’s The Eloquent Body: Dance and Humanist Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy for the online journal,
The Medieval Review. Her “Your Most Humble Subject, Cesare Negri Milanese” will be in a forthcoming volume of
undergraduate readings in dance history, edited by Dr. Nevile. Email: ktmcginn@email.unc.edu
ROBERT C. McMATH, JR. (PhD/1972/Tindall) has left Atlanta after thirty-three years at Georgia Tech to become Dean of the
Honors College and Professor of History at the University of Arkansas. He and Linda moved to Fayetteville in July 2005. He is
teaching some and working on projects related to various forms of populism. He has an essay on the People’s Party forthcoming
in the Encyclopedia of U. S. Labor and Working Class History, and in February 2006 he delivered the Julian Stanley
Distinguished Lecture at the University of West Georgia on “Religion and American Higher Education in a Age of Culture
Wars.” Email: bmcmath@uark.edu
ALAN MCPHERSON (PhD/2001/Hunt) teaches U.S. foreign relations history at Howard University. In early 2006 he published
his second and third books, Intimate Ties, Bitter Struggles: The United States and Latin America since 1945 (Potomac Books) and
an edited volume titled Anti-Americanism in Latin America and the Caribbean (Berghahn Books). His first book, Yankee No!,
also came out in paperback with Harvard Press. He also published a chapter, “Americanism against American Empire,” in UNC
Press’s Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal, edited by Michael Kazin and Joseph McCartin, and book
reviews in The Historian, The Americas, Reviews in American History, the Hispanic American Historical Review, and the Journal
of American History. He worked on panels or workshops at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations meeting in
College Park, the Latin American Studies Association meeting in Puerto Rico, and the European Consortium for Political
Research meeting in Cyprus, and he was an invited speaker at Long Island University, Ohio State University’s Mershon Center,
and the Foreign Service Institute in Virginia. In fall 2006 he will be a Fulbright fellow in the Dominican Republic. Email:
almcpherson@howard.edu
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FRANK C. MEVERS (PhD/1972/Higginbotham) has spent much of his twenty-seventh year as New Hampshire State Archivist
overseeing enlargement of the archives facility from 19,000 square feet to 57,000. He attended the NAGARA/COSA national
conference at Richmond in July and took part in a panel presentation at the New England Archivists conference at Boston College
in March. He completed his tenth year as secretary on the board of directors of the New Hampshire Political Library. Email:
fmevers@sos.state.nh.us
PAULA A. MICHAELS (MA/1991/Raleigh/PhD/1997/Raleigh) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa. She
divides her time between her home in Carrboro with her husband and five-year-old son, and her job in Iowa City. She is currently
at work on a book about the history of psychoprophylaxis, known in the US at the Lamaze Method of childbirth. The study
analyzes the method from its origins in the USSR in the late 1940s, to its spread to France in the 1950s, to its development in the
US in the 1960s. The project has been funded by a Faculty Scholar Award from the University of Iowa. This grant gives
Michaels one semester of research leave and a travel stipend for each of three years (2005-08). In 2005-06, the first semester of
this grant was supplemented by awards from the Schlesinger Library (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard
University), the International Research and Exchanges Board [IREX], and the National Council for Eurasian and East European
Research [NCEEER]. IREX and NCEEER funding supported a month-long research trip this spring to Ukraine, where
psychoprophylaxis was first developed. Michaels presented conferences papers this year in Halle, Germany and Famagusta,
Turkish Republic of North Cyprus. Her article “Mikhail Kalatozov’s The Red Tent: A Case Study in International Coproduction
across the Iron Curtain,” was accepted for publication in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television and will appear in
August. Michaels’s article “Kazakh Hospitality in Ethnohistorical Perspective,” a chapter in the edited collection Everyday Life
in Central Asia (Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2007) went to press. She also published book reviews in the journals
Social History of Medicine and Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire, reviewed manuscripts for two
presses, and serves this year on the Heldt Prize Committee of the Association of Women in Slavic Studies. Michaels will once
again be a UNC student, this time studying first-year French at the summer school before delving into the French stage of her
current research project Email: paula-michaels@uiowa.edu
MARLA R. MILLER (PhD/1997/Hall and Nelson) continues to direct the Public History program at UMass-Amherst. Her
book, The Needle’s Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution, is due out from UMass-Amherst Press in August 2006, and a
related article, “The Last Mantuamaker: Craft Tradition and Commercial Change in Boston, 1760-1840,” will appear in a fall
issue of Early American Studies. This year she concludes her term on the editorial board of The Public Historian, and has been
elected to the board of the National Council on Public History. In April she joined UNC classmate Anne Whisnant on a panel at
the OAH/NCPH meeting in Washington that explored strategies to improve graduate placement beyond the academy. A
particular highlight of the year past has been teaching women's history to students at The Care Center in Holyoke, Massachusetts,
founded to serve pregnant and parenting teens, by contributing to the Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities, an
innovative effort to provide college-level instruction to women between the ages of 17 and 45 who are looking for ways to restart
their education. Email: mmiller@history.umass.edu
DAVID T. MORGAN (MA/1964/Lefler/PhD/1968/Lefler). In September 2005 his book entitled MURDER ALONG THE
CAPE FEAR: A NORTH CAROLINA TOWN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY was published by Mercer University Press.
Now in the ninth year of his retirement, he continues to enjoy writing and playing tennis. E-mail: dtm1937@bellsouth.net
STEPHEN PEMBERTON (MA/1997/PhD/2001/Wailoo) is Assistant Professor in the Federated History Department of New
Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark. His first book, The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine:
Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease, was published by Johns Hopkins University
Press in April 2006. Stephen co-authored this book with Keith Wailoo, Professor of History at Rutgers-New Brunswick. Their
collaboration extends back to their time together in the UNC History Department and the Department of Social Medicine in the
Medical School. Stephen and his wife, historian Samantha Kelly, were also blessed with the birth of a son, Hugh William Kelly
Pemberton, on March 2nd. Email welcome: stephen.pemberton@njit.edu
JONATHAN SCOTT PERRY (MA/1994/Talbert/PhD/1999/Talbert) has published a book entitled The Roman Collegia: The
Modern Evolution of an Ancient Concept, Mnemosyne Supplement 277, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. For academic
year 2006-7, he will be Sessional Assistant Professor of Ancient History in the Department of History at York University in
Toronto. Email: perryjonat@gmail.com
SCOTT PHILYAW (PhD/1995/Higginbotham) is the new director of the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina
University where he will continue teaching part-time. He won the 2006 University of North Carolina Board of Governors Award
for Excellence in Teaching, WCU’s Paul A. Reid Distinguished Service Award, and the Integration of Learning Award. Email:
philyaw@email.wcu.edu
ARNOLD H. PULDA (PhD/1975/Ryan) is director of instructional technology for the Worcester (MA) Public Schools. Prior to
that he taught social studies in high school. He has presented seminars on using the internet in education for the Library of
Congress, the New Media Classroom, and other organizations. He recently attended a Gilder-Lehrmann seminar at Cambridge
University, UK. He presented a paper on women’s history on the internet at the convention of the Organization of American
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Historians. Arnold publishes widely in the internet press on topics relevant to technology and teaching. He likes to skydive and
ride a motorcycle. His website is www.doctorgus.net. His email is doctorgus@charter.net
KRISTOFER RAY (PhD/2003/Watson) has helped edit four volumes of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series,
and has been teaching at the University of Virginia. In July 2005 he delivered a paper at the Society for Historians of the Early
American Republic Conference in Philadelphia, and his revised dissertation has recently come under contract at the University of
Tennessee Press. In August 2006 he will leave the Jefferson Papers to accept a tenure track position at Ashland University in
Ohio. Far more importantly: in June 2005 his daughter Vivian welcomed her little sister Blythe into the fold!
Email: kray@monticello.org
RONDALL R. RICE (PhD/2002/Kohn) completed a short two-year tour at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He was promoted to
lieutenant colonel and also earned an academic promotion to Associate Professor of History. He has been selected to become the
Associate Dean of the Joint Military Intelligence College at Bolling AFB, D.C. beginning July 2006.
Email: TarheelRRR@adelphia.net
JENNIFER RITTERHOUSE (MA/1994/PhD/1999/Hall/Lebsock) was awarded tenure and promotion at Utah State University,
where she has taught since 2000. Her book, Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race, was
published by UNC Press in May 2006. She also completed an article, "The Etiquette of Race Relations in the Jim Crow South,"
which will appear in Manners in Southern History from the 1860s to the 1960s, edited by Ted Ownby, forthcoming from the
University Press of Mississippi. Also forthcoming is an essay on racial etiquette in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture,
which will be published by UNC. In the last year, Jennifer has commented on conference panels, served on committees for
professional organizations, written book reviews, and presented a workshop on the civil rights movement for high school teachers
in Logan, Utah. She can be reached at ritterhouse@hass.usu.edu
JOHN HERBERT (JACK) ROPER (MA/1973/J Williamson/PhD/1977/J Williamson) is Richardson Professor of History at
Emory & Henry College in Emory, VA. He read a paper on Benjamin Elijah Mays and Communism, 3 November 2005, SHA,
Atlanta; he read a paper on Civil War surgical care in Southwestern Virginia, 24 March 2006, Society of Civil War Surgeons,
Chattanooga, TN. William Carrington Finch Award for Career Service; the Tom Larner Outstanding Faculty Award, Circle K
International; he also received the CASE and the Carnegie Virginia Professor of the Year, AY 2005-2006. He was advisor and
assistant, Venture Crew BSA 79 and BSA Troop 117, Meadowview, VA; coordinator of National History Day- VA, District Two
and sponsor of both the Cardinal Key honorary service for women and the Blue Key honorary service for men. Email:
jhroper@ehc.edu
MICHAEL A. ROSS (PhD/1999/Barney/Coclanis) is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University New Orleans. During
the past year, his book Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil War Era
(LSU Press, 2003) won the 2005 Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award for History which
is awarded once every three years. He published an article entitled “Robert E. Lee’s Death and the Obstruction of Reconstruction
in New Orleans,” Civil War History 51(June 2005): 135-150. He also delivered invited lectures at Kutztown State University and
the Orange County Regional History Center (Orlando, FL), and published book reviews in Journal of Southern History,
Louisiana History, New Orleans Times-Picayune, and Western Historical Quarterly. Email: maross1@loyno.edu
JACQUELYN (JACKIE) HARMON SAYLOR (MA/1971, Modern European History – Major, Russian History – Minor/Pegg)
practices at The Saylor Law Firm LLP, Atlanta, Georgia where she is AV Rated by Martindale-Hubble and a member of The Bar
Register of Preeminent Lawyers in Trusts & Estates, Wills & Probate and Business Law. She was a guest lecturer at the
University of Georgia Women’s Studies Department where she spoke on Leadership and Woman & The Law and the Judiciary in
Georgia. Jackie taught a class entitled “Dialogue on The American Jury” for the Atlanta Bar May Day Program at Therrell High
School. She was an invited Participant in the Roundtable Discussion, Women's Leadership Forum, Women's Bureau, U. S.
Department of Labor with the Director and Regional Administrator of the Bureau and the Chair of the Georgia Commission on
Women, Georgia State Capitol. She was elected Treasurer of The Atlanta Bar Association (ABA) and served on the ABA Board
of Directors and as Co-Chair of the Pro Bono Committee of the ABA. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Women
in Profession (WIP) Section of the ABA and was the editor and author of many articles for WIP LASH, the official publication of
the WIP Section. She served on the Editorial Boards of The Atlanta Lawyer, the official magazine of the ABA and The
Mortmain, the official newsletter of the Estate Planning and Probate Section of the ABA. She wrote an article for the latter
entitled, “Financing The Estate Tax in an Illiquid Estate,” May 2005. She has also written articles on Presiding Justice Carol W.
Hunstein, September 2005, and Judge Yvette Miller, August 2005, as well as numerous articles on Pro Bono activities for The
Atlanta Lawyer. Additionally, she wrote an article in The Information Exchange, the Official Publication for the Solo Practitioner
/ Small Firm (SP/SF) Section of the ABA called “SP/SF Pro Bono Projects 2004-2005.” She is an Advisory Board Member of
Women on Board of the Atlanta Women’s Foundation and a Board Member of the Georgia Women of the Year Committee, Inc.
She is a Charter Life Member of the Atlanta Bar Foundation. Email: jsaylorlaw@aol.com
JOHANNA SCHOEN (MA/1989/Fink/Ph.D/1996/Hall) morphed in the past year from assistant to associate professor of history
at the University of Iowa. Her book, Choice&Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare
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(UNC Press 2006) failed to capture any prizes but has climbed to an astonishing amazon.com sales level of 425,566 and offers a
better investment than the Cat in the Hat, 7006 words per dollar as compared with 185 words per dollar for the Dr. Seuss classic.
[It does, however, sport a higher density index than The DaVinci Code and is unlikely to be made into a major Hollywood
production.] Still chagrined about the eugenic sterilizations discussed in Choice&Coercion, the North Carolina legislature is
currently slated to vote on a reparations bill [$20,000 per sterilization victim] and is preparing a historical exhibit on the topic.
Schoen is continuing her work on the history of abortion since legalization. This past spring, she was able to garner a kick-ass
grant which will give her three semesters off during the following three years to finish her work organizing the Takey Crist papers
for the Duke University Women’s archive and figure out what she might have to say on the topic. When she doesn’t stir up
trouble about reproductive politics, she is still an avid runner and admirer of her now 14-year old son’s animations. Email:
Johanna-schoen@uiowa.edu
ADAM R. SEIPP (BA/1998/MA/2001/Kohn/PhD/2005/Jarausch) is learning that there is academic life beyond Chapel Hill and
that barbeque can be made out of something other than pork as an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University. His article
“Scapegoats for a Lost War: Demobilisation, the Kapp Putsch, and the Politics of the Streets in Munich, 1919-1920” appeared in
War and Society (May 2006) and his essay “Beyond the ‘Seminal Catastrophe’: Re-imagining the First World War” will appear in
the Journal of Contemporary History (October 2006). He has given papers at academic conferences in Durham, NC and
Northampton, England. His current research is sponsored by grants from the International Olympic Committee, TAMU’s Office
of the Vice President for Research and College of Liberal Arts, and the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research.
Email: aseipp@tamu.edu
GLENN SHARFMAN (MA/1985/Jarausch/PhD/1989/Jarausch) is the Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs Manchester
College (www.manchester.edu). Glenn is also a Professor of History and teaches as often as he can. Glenn, Susie and their 12
year-old triplets live in North Manchester, IN and can be reached at grsharfman@manchester.edu
JANE SHERWIN (MA/1974/Taylor/all but dissertation/Scott/1977) during the past year continued work on The Farm Where
You Live project to explore the farming history of Belmont, Massachusetts. She received two more grants, including one from the
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, to support collection of oral narratives about Belmont market gardening, and given
several slide and lecture presentations to the community, including the high school. One of these last was taped and broadcast on
the local cable channel. In addition, she has begun a corporate writing practice, WordDrive Communications
(worddrivecommunications.com), building on years of writing for marketing and sales at Blue Cross Blue Shield of
Massachusetts. Email: J.Sherwin@verizon.net
MICHAEL SISTROM (MA/PhD/2002/Leucthenburg) was recently promoted to Associate Professor at Greensboro College,
where he serves as Department Chair and Coordinator of Social Studies Licensure. Mike also received the 2005-06 Virginia
Clarke Gray Award for Exemplary Teaching and was elected to membership in the Historical Society of North Carolina. In
addition to a teaching a 4x4 load, serving on several college committees, and working on an NEH Landmark grant with two local
historic sites, he is trying to blow some dust off his manuscript on the Mississippi Freedom Democrats. Email:
sistromm@gborocollege.edu
DANIELLE SLOOTJES (MA/2000/Talbert/PhD/2004/Talbert) is a post doc researcher in the Department of History at the
Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands), where she is working on the project Local elites in a period of transition. Local
aristocracies, their position of power and their relations with the imperial administration in the Roman Empire, AD 180-284. In
April of 2006 Brill (Leiden/Boston) published her book The Governor and his Subjects in the Later Roman Empire. The core of
this book was written as her PhD on late roman provincial administration. She gave talks at several academic meetings, both in
the Netherlands and in Germany. She also spent a month of research at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universtität in Münster
(Germany), where they have an excellent collection of Latin and Greek inscriptions. In the summer of 2005 she accompanied a
group of students from the Classics Department on a trip to Greece, where they visited many of the important archaeological sites
and museums. In the fall she taught a class on Greek and Roman religion. She wrote reviews for Classical World, the Journal of
Ecclesiastical History and Mnemosyne. Email: d.slootjes@let.ru.nl
DOUGLAS STEEPLES (MA/1957/Green/PhD/1961/Sitterson) continues to enjoy retirement. In addition to the usual dozen or
so book reviews a year, he continues to work on a two volume history of the Ochungra (Wisconsin Winnebago) and an even more
demanding project converting their oral language to a written one. He has just completed four years as Pipe Major of the Mercer
University Pipes and Drums and is relieved to be Quartermaster of the band, now. In addition, he has become a "standard patient"
where he is a subject for student practica as they learn how to apply their book learning, and he continues to substitute teach at
two outstanding private academies in Macon, GA, Mt. de Sales and Stratford. Email: steeplesmcn@aol.com
MICHAEL STURMA (MA/1975/Cell) is chair of the History Programme at Murdoch University in Western Australia. His book
Death at a Distance: The Loss of the Legendary USS Harder was recently published by Naval Institute Press. Still on the topic of
World War II submarines, he published ‘Democracy in a Drum: Social Relations on American Submarines during the Second
World War,’ War and Society, vol. 24, no. 2, (November 2005), pp. 23-34. Email: M.Sturma@murdoch.edu.au
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BRYAN THRIFT (MA/1990/Bullard) teaches American, World, and African history at Tougaloo College in Jackson,
Mississippi. He was nominated for the 2006 President’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. Bryan is currently revising his
dissertation Jesse Helms, the New Right and American Freedom, a study of Jesse Helms’ crucial role in the southernization of
American public life and the shift to a conservative consensus. This summer, he will write, “Jesse Helms: Cultural politics and
Economic Policy,” a paper accepted for the 2007 Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting. His wife Rebecca
Hardin-Thrift is a professor of creative writing and drama at Tougaloo. They live in Jackson with their cats: Sally, Lucy and
Minnie. Email: bthrift@jam.rr.com
TIM THURBER (MA/1991/Leuchtenburg/PhD/1996/Leuchtenburg) is teaching American history at Virginia Commonwealth
University. He chaired one session and commented on a panel at the Social Science History Association convention. He served
as chair of the OAH Committee on Teaching and was named book review editor of H-1960s, an online site. He published
reviews in H-1960s online, History: Reviews of New Books, and the OAH Magazine of History. The College of Humanities and
Sciences at VCU awarded him a grant to foster student engagement in large introductory classes. He conducted a workshop on
teaching the post-World War II struggle for racial equality for the Virginia Teachers' Institute at the Virginia Historical Society.
Email: tnthurber@vcu.edu
MICHAEL TROTTI (MA/1993/Fink/PhD/1999/Kasson) was awarded tenure and promotion