THE NEWSLETTER
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Number 58 Chapel Hill, North Carolina Autumn 2009
GREETINGS FROM THE CHAIR.
The national and international events of 2008-09 affected the History Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
in much the same way that they influenced most other institutions over the past year. The global economic recession, a huge decline
in North Carolina’s tax revenues, the major losses in endowment funds, and our own university’s mandated budget cuts all echoed
through the offices and classrooms of Hamilton Hall. We learned again that historians have no way to escape from history, even as
they maintain the all-important “long view” that keeps everything in proper perspective.
Despite the recent financial upheavals, however, the UNC History Department had another highly productive year. The faculty
published 12 new books, edited or co-edited seven other books, and produced fifty scholarly articles and chapters in edited collections.
Our graduate students continued to receive national and international research awards, including twenty fellowships from foundations
and government agencies such as the Mellon Foundation, the ACLS, the Fulbright-Hayes program, the Japan Foundation, and the
German government’s DAAD research program. You will find detailed information about the diversity of our Department’s
publications, teaching, and research awards in the pages of this Newsletter; and you will see how UNC’s historians remain constantly
active, no matter what may be happening in the wider world of stock markets, banks, and international trade.
The Department also continued to sponsor the Project for Historical Education (regular seminars for high school history teachers)
and the annual public lecture on African American History. This year’s speaker was Professor Barbara Ransby from the University of
Illinois, Chicago. Professor Ransby’s research focuses on the history of modern American social movements, and her lecture used the
election of President Barack Obama as an opportunity to discuss the political and social legacy of the Civil Rights movement. The
struggle for Civil Rights in America also became the theme for a major conference that the Southern Oral History Project organized
and co-sponsored with the History Department on the subject of “The Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics, Memories.”
This event, along with other well-attended colloquia such as a conference in November (2008) on “Global Encounters: Legacies of
Exchange and Conflict (1000-1700),” attracted numerous historians from around the country and enriched the historical conversations
in Chapel Hill.
The mounting budget crisis led to the suspension of some searches for additional faculty, but the Department was still able to
appoint several outstanding new colleagues. Professor Zaragosa Vargas has moved from the University of California, Santa Barbara,
to become the new Kenan Distinguished Professor in Latina/o studies. Professor Vargas has written extensively on Mexican
American labor history, including the important books Proletarians of the North: A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit
and the Midwest, 1917-1933 (University of California Press, 1993) and Labor Rights are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in
Twentieth Century America (Princeton University Press, 2005). He is teaching courses on labor history as well as new courses on the
history of Latina/o communities in the United States.
CAROLINA ALUMNI RECEPTION
Please join us for an Alumni Reception at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association in Louisville, KY. This year we
are co-sponsoring the event with the Duke History Department on Friday, November 6, 2009, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Louisville
Marriott Downtown. We look forward to seeing you there. We will also co-sponsor a UNC-CH and Duke Reception at the AHA
meeting in San Diego, CA. More information on the AHA event will be available later in the fall.
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GREETINGS FROM THE CHAIR, CONT.
We are also pleased to welcome three new assistant professors, all of whom have moved to UNC
from Harvard. Malinda Maynor Lowery, who received her Ph.D. in our department, had been teaching at
Harvard since 2005. She has recently completed a book manuscript entitled Indians, Southerners, and
Americans, which discusses the history of the Lumbee Indians in North Carolina and will be published by the
University of North Carolina Press. Professor Lowery is teaching courses on American Indian history and on
the history of race and identity in American society.
Ahmed El Shamsy and Benjamin Waterhouse both received their Ph.D. degrees at Harvard in the
spring of 2009. Dr. El Shamsy’s dissertation, which is entitled “From Tradition to Law: The Origins and
Early Development of the Shafi’I School of Law in Ninth-Century Egypt,” examines the intersecting debates
about religion, politics, and law in the early Islamic era of North African history; and he is teaching courses
on the history of North Africa and the history of Islam. Dr. Waterhouse completed a dissertation on “A
Lobby for Capital: Organized Business and the Pursuit of Pro-Market Politics, 1967-1986,” which focuses on the relationship between
business elites and late twentieth-century American political culture; and he is teaching courses on modern U.S. history and modern
economic history.
These new colleagues will strengthen our course offerings for undergraduates and provide new guidance for our graduate
programs in both American and global history. We are also pleased to welcome a new lecturer, Brandon Hunziker, who is now
directing the Department’s reinvigorated undergraduate advising program and teaching courses on European and world history. Dr.
Hunziker received his Ph.D. in our department with a dissertation on nineteenth-century German labor history and has wide
experience in advising and teaching UNC undergraduates.
The arrival of new faculty coincides with the departure of Professor James McCoy, who retired this year after almost 40
years as a member of the History Department’s faculty. Professor McCoy has taught generations of students about the history of
ancient Greece, and he has led an outstanding summer program in Greece over the last three decades. The students in that program
and in his on-campus classes have long praised Professor McCoy’s teaching of Greek history, and both his colleagues and former
students join in wishing him all the best as he moves on to the next phase of his active life and his engagement with Greek history.
More information about his career appears later in this Newsletter.
We faced a different kind of transition during this past year as our former Department chair, Professor Richard Soloway,
died in May after struggling with an aggressive illness that forced him to give up his teaching in the spring semester. Professor
Soloway joined the History Department in 1968 and rose through the ranks to become the Eugen Merzbacher Distinguished Professor
of History. His research and teaching focused on modern British history, but his wide-ranging interests also led to other historical
themes and made him an excellent chair of the Department (1991-97). He later served as Senior Associate Dean and as Interim Dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences, bringing his commitment to rigorous scholarship and good teaching to every position he held.
His leadership of the History Department left a lasting legacy, and we will very much miss his wise perspectives on historical studies
and academic life (further information about his career also appears below).
Several faculty members have received special recognition for their work in recent months: Kathleen DuVal (colonial-era
American history) and Fred Naiden (ancient Greek and Mediterranean history) were both promoted to the rank of associate professor
with tenure. Dani Botsman received the James M. Johnston Teaching Excellence Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching and
a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. John Kasson and Chad Bryant both received fellowships at the
National Humanities Center. Crystal Feimster was awarded an NEH-funded grant for a semester-long research project at the
Massachusetts History Society; Barbara Harris received a Mellon Fellowship for emeritus faculty to support a new book project on
aristocratic women in Tudor England. Richard Kohn received the Herbert Feis Award from the American Historical Association for
distinguished contributions to public history and the Samuel Eliot Morrison Award from the Society for Military History for his
lifetime work in the field of military history; and Theda Perdue was honored with the lifetime achievement award by the Indian
historians of the Western History Association.
Other awards are described in the following pages, where you will also find summaries of the diverse activities of our
undergraduate and graduate students, emeriti faculty, and alumni. All of these activities make the UNC History Department an
exceptionally active center for scholarship, teaching, and engagement with public audiences. And the generous financial support of
our many friends and alumni plays a vital role in the Department’s constant scholarly and pedagogical evolution, especially when our
state faces acute financial problems. I thank everyone who contributes to the work of the UNC History Department and helps to
sustain this lively, inquisitive community of students and faculty.
Finally, I would like to note that I have given up the position of Department chair in 2009-10 to pursue various scholarly projects,
though I plan to return to this office after completing a research leave in the summer of 2010. Fitz Brundage, the William B.
Umstead Professor of History, is serving as the highly qualified interim chair; and he benefits from the very able administrative work
of Associate Chair, Professor Miles Fletcher, and the Director of Graduate Studies, Professor Melissa Bullard. I thank William
Barney and LaTissa Davis for their work on this publication; and I thank all of the History Department’s talented faculty, staff,
students, alumni, and friends for promoting the imaginative study of history amid the always fluctuating cycles of modern economic,
political, academic, and personal life.
Lloyd Kramer, Chair
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SOME NEWS OF THE FACULTY
CHRISTOPHER BROWNING received an Honorary Doctorate from Northwestern University in June and a Distinguished
Achievement Award from the Holocaust Educational Foundation in October 2008. He co-authored a chapter with Lewis Siegelbaum
of Michigan State University, entitled “Frameworks for Social Engineering: Stalinist Schema of Identification and the Nazi
Volksgemeinschaft” in Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared, edited by Michael Geyer and Sheila Fitzpatrick. He
published an account of his experiences as an expert witness in the Holocaust denial trials of Ernst Zündel and David Irving as a
chapter in Nazi Crimes and the Law, edited by Nathan Stoltzfus and Henry Friedlander. Two papers that he had given earlier at
conferences at Brown University and at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem were also published in conference proceedings. He gave keynote
addresses at two conferences--one for the Lessons and Legacies Conference of the Holocaust Educational Foundation and one for a
conference on the Nazi General Plan for the East at the University of Toronto. In addition to giving the Pell Lecture at UC Berkeley,
he gave talks at Keane State College, Appalachian State University, Florida Gulf Coast University, and Palm Beach Community
College. Email: cbrownin@email.unc.edu.
FITZ BRUNDAGE concluded his tenure as Director of Graduate Studies in June 2008. Beginning in the fall, he chaired the
department’s search for a twentieth century US historian, which culminated in the hiring of Ben Waterhouse. He has continued to
serve on the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina Press. During the past year he also served as the chair of the
Merle Curti Book Prize Committee for the Organization of American Historians. Since last April, he delivered talks at Barton College,
the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC-CH, Davidson, University of Tennessee, Avery Institute/USC conference, American
Civil War Center, Yale, and Howard University. In July he participated in a Teachers’ Institute at the North Carolina School of
Science and Math. He published “Memory and Acadian Identity, 1920-1960," in a collection of essays entitled Acadians and Cajuns:
The Politics and Culture of French Minorities in North America/ Acadiens et Cajuns: Politique et culture de minorites francophones
en Amerique du Nord (Innsbruk: Canadian Studies Centre of the University of Innsbruck, 2009) and an essay on “Redeeming a Failed
Revolution: Confederate Memory,” in William J. Cooper and John M. McCardell, Jr., eds. In the Cause of Liberty: How the Civil War
Redefined American Ideals (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2009). He has completed editing a collection of essays on
African Americans and the Creation of American Mass Culture, 1890-1900, which should appear next year.
Email: brundage@email.unc.edu.
CHAD BRYANT’s book, Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism (Harvard University Press, 2007), was awarded the
Hans Rosenberg Book Prize by the Conference Group for Central European History. The book also received honorable mention for
the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS). This past year he
continued to work on two research projects: a history of Prague and a study of travel practices and travel experiences in early
nineteenth-century Bohemia. He gave presentations at the AAASS annual conference and at King’s College London, and he published
an article, “Into an Uncertain Future: Railroads and Vormärz Liberalism in Brno, Vienna, and Prague,” in the 2009 volume of the
Austrian History Yearbook. Bryant is an officer-at-large for the Czechoslovak Studies Association and served on that organization’s
article prize committee last year. He will be a research fellow at the National Humanities Center during the 2009-2010 academic year.
Email: bryantc@email.unc.edu.
MELISSA MERIAM BULLARD had a very busy year as new Director of Graduate Studies and Director of Graduate Admissions,
replacing Fitz Brundage. She also saw her book Filippo Strozzi and the Medici. Favor and Finance… appear in paperback from
Cambridge University Press. She organized and chaired a session at the Renaissance Society of America annual meetings in Los
Angeles on “The On-going Renaissance, Constructed, Reconstructed, and Remembered.’ She was awarded a research and travel grant
by the Medieval and Early Modern Studies program which took her to London and Liverpool for research this summer.
Email: mbullard@email.unc.edu.
KATHRYN BURNS completed her book, Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru, which is now under contract with
Duke University Press and expected to appear in 2010. In February she gave a talk based on this project at Harvard University’s
History Department, and in April she gave a talk entitled “Globalism 101: Spaniards Invade the Americas” as part of a seminar on
comparative colonialism organized by UNC’s Program in Humanities and Humanistic Values. She organized a visit to campus by
Professor Brooke Larson (Stony Brook University), and served on the editorial board of the Hispanic American Historical Review as
well as on three History Department search committees and the Executive Committee of the UNC/Duke Latin American Studies
Consortium. Email: kjburns@email.unc.edu.
JOHN CHASTEEN became a series editor of the Pitt Latin American Series, published by Pittsburgh University Press. He was
gratified by the appearance of a new edition of Problems in Modern Latin American History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), a book
with a thirty-five year history of generational succession in this department. Chasteen’s advisor Joseph Tulchin edited the first edition
(1973), followed by a completely new Chasteen/Tulchin edition in 1994. Chasteen��s advisee James A. Wood substituted for Tulchin
in the 2004 edition, and Wood (now Associate Professor at North Carolina A&T in Greensboro) has become the principal editor of the
2009 edition, inheriting all the work, all the royalties, and the modest glory of lead billing. Email: chasten@email.unc.edu.
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PETER A. COCLANIS published the following pieces this year: (with Jean-Pascal Bassino) “Economic Transformation and
Biological Welfare in Colonial Burma: Regional Differentiation in the Evolution of Average Height,” Economics and Human Biology
(July 2008); “Southern Agriculture in the Global Economy,” in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 11, ed. Melissa
Walker and James C. Cobb (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2008); “Contagion: Thinking about Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Burma,”
Southeast Review of Asian Studies (2008); “Beyond Atlantic History,” in Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal, ed. Jack P. Green and
Philip D. Morgan (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009); (with Jeremy Atack and George Grantham) “Creating Abundance:
Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development: An Appreciation and Research Agenda,” Explorations in Economic
History (January 2009); “Rice: A View on Both Sides,” Saigon Times Weekly [Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam], February 28, 2009; “The
Tippling Point,” Open Letters (April 2009). He also published twelve op-ed pieces (seven in the Raleigh News & Observer and five in
the Durham Herald-Sun), and seven book reviews (two in academic journals and five in the Raleigh News & Observer). He presented
six papers over the course of the year, including one in Beijing in August 2008 at the Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences. He was on the program at the biennual meeting of the Historical Society, held at the Johns Hopkins University in
June 2008; the program at the annual meeting of the Economic History Association, held at Yale University in September 2008; and
the program of the Social Science History Association, held in Miami in November 2008. He serves on the editorial boards of the
following journals--Agricultural History, Enterprise and Society, the Journal of the Historical Society, the Journal of Interdisciplinary
History, and Southern Cultures—but cycled off of the editorial board of Reviews in American History in December 2008. He assumed
the position of Associate Editor for Asia for the Journal of the Historical Society, is a trustee of the Business History Conference,
second vice president of the Southern Industrialization Project, and serves on the Advisory Board for the Lincoln Prize and on the
advisory council of the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company in Philadelphia. He is a
Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, and is a member of the Singapore Ministry of Education’s
International Expert Panel, which twice a year reviews academic grant proposals in business and the social sciences. In April 2009 he
was elected a Fellow of the Carolina Population Center (CPC). He continues to serve as UNC’s Associate Provost for International
Affairs and in that capacity made numerous international trips in 2008-2009, most notably to Russia, China (twice), Hong Kong
(twice), Singapore (twice), Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the U.K. Email: coclanis@unc.edu.
KATHLEEN DUVAL published her book Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial American History with Rowman and
Littlefield Press. She co-edited this book with her father, a professor of English and Literary Translation at the University of Arkansas.
Her article “Indian Intermarriage and Métissage in Colonial Louisiana” won the Lester J. Cappon Prize for the best article in the
William and Mary Quarterly in 2008 and the Percy G. Adams Prize for the best article on an eighteenth-century subject, awarded by
the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Kathleen was on leave this year, with fellowships from the
National Humanities Center and UNC’s Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She spent a productive year at the NHC,
drafting several chapters of her current book project and signing a book contract with Random House. She gave talks to the Berkshire
Conference on the History of Women, the Triangle Early American History Seminar, and UNC’s Global Encounters Conference. She
serves on the Advisory Council of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and the Board of Editors of the Arkansas
Historical Quarterly. This year, UNC granted her tenure and promotion to associate professor, effective this summer.
Email: duval@email.unc.edu.
BILL FERRIS published an interview, “Alex Haley: Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1989: Angels, Legends, and Grace,” in Southern
Cultures (Fall 2008). He delivered invited lectures on folklore, arts, and the culture of the American South at the British Museum and
the UNC Institute for African American Research Folklore Symposium. He served on the boards of numerous organizations,
including the North Carolina Humanities Council, the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the U.S. Public Service
Academy, Plan!t Now, and the Dockery Farms Foundation; and at UNC-CH he served on the boards of UNC Press, the Research
Laboratories of Archaeology, the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, the Institute of Outdoor Drama, Documenting the American
South, and iBiblio. Through the Center for the Study of the American South, Ferris advised and assisted Destination Cleveland
County, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the cultural preservation and economic revitalization of Cleveland County, NC; a
documentary film on the life of North Carolina newspaper editor and Ku Klux Klan opponent W. Horace Carter; the B.B. King
Museum and Delta Interpretive Center that opened in the fall of 2008 in Indianola, Mississippi; the Southern Governors’ Association
75th Anniversary Exhibition; and a documentary film on the black gospel choir, Wings Over Jordan. Email: wferris@email.unc.edu.
KAREN HAGEMANN was a fellow of UNC’s Institute for the Arts & Humanities in the fall term 2008. The following two books
were published during the last academic year: Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the French Wars,
1790-1820, co-edited with Alan Forrest and Jane Rendall (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); Civil Society and Gender Justice: Historical
and Comparative Perspectives, co-edited with Sonya Michel and Gunilla Budde (Berghahn Books, 2008). In addition, the German
edition of Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiography (Berghahn, 2007), which she co-edited with Jean Quataert,
was published by Campus in fall 2008 in the series “Geschichte und Geschlechter”. Moreover, she published the article “De-
Constructing ‘Front’ and ‘Home’: Gendered Experiences and Memories of the German Wars against Napoleon – A Case Study,” in
the journal War in History (16:1 [2009]). Together with Sonya Michel (University of Maryland, College Park) and Corinna Unger
(German Historical Institute [GHI], Washington D.C.) she organized the international conference “Gender and the long Postwar:
Reconsiderations of the United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989”, at the GHI on 29-31 May, 2008. A volume on this
conference is in preparation. In addition, she served as the organizer of the North Carolina German Studies Seminar series, and the co-organizer
of the Research Triangle Seminar Series on the “History of the Military, War, and Society.”
Email: hagemann@email.unc.edu.
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JACQUELYN HALL, with the staff of the Southern Oral History Program, organized and hosted a conference on “The Long Civil
Rights Movement: History, Politics, Memories” in Chapel Hill, April 2-4, 2009 (see entry on the SOHP for details). She gave the
opening remarks and introduced the plenary session speakers. She also delivered “’FBI Eyes’: The Challenge of Writing About
Women on the Left” as the Third Annual Margaret Morrison Distinguished Lecture in Women’s History at Carnegie Mellon
University and spoke at CMU’s annual Margaret Morrison Alumnae Luncheon. With SOHP researcher Jennifer Donnally, she
served as the featured speaker at the 2009 Annual Luncheon of the University Women’s Club and the Sir Walter Raleigh Cabinet
where she shared the results of an oral history project on women at UNC, focusing on the cohort that came to the University in the
1970s. As Director of the SOHP, she hosted and spoke at a reception celebrating the completion of an oral history series on the career
of Susan Hill, reproductive rights pioneer, conducted by UNC alumnae Johanna Schoen. She also helped to organize and host a
luncheon talk by the award-winning documentary radio producers the Kitchen Sisters. She was a featured North Carolina Author at
the 2009 N.C. Conference of English Instructors and the Two-Year College Association-Southeast. She served as a Core Faculty
Member of the Memory Studies Cluster in the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and as a member of the Faculty Council
Committee on Honorary Degrees and Special Awards. Email: jhall@email.unc.edu.
KONRAD H. JARAUSCH taught for the first time in the last fifteen years during both semesters at UNC. He edited a volume on the
1970s, called Ende der Zuversicht? Die Siebziger Jahre als Geschichte (Göttingen, 2008), and co-edited the World War Two letters of
his father with Klaus Arnold under the title Stilles Sterben. Feldpostbriefe von Konrad Jarausch aus Polen und Russland 1939-1942
(Paderborn, 2008). He also co-organized a conference for the 450th anniversary of Jena University under the heading "Gebrochene
Wissenschaftskulturen. Selbstbild und Parxis deutscher Universitäten im 20. Jahrhundert". Email: jarausch@email.unc.edu.
JOHN KASSON’s essay, “Behind Shirley Temple’s Smile: Children, Emotional Labor, and the Great Depression”, appeared in W.
Cook, Lawrence Glickman, and Michael O'Malley, ed., The Cultural Turn in U.S. History (University of Chicago Press, 2009). In
May 2008 he delivered a public lecture on “Ambiguities of Work and play: Children on Canvas, Paper, Stage, and Screen,” at the
Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga, TN. Later that month, he spoke on “The Paradoxes of Private Life:” at a symposium on
Private Life at King’s College, London, co-sponsored by UNC’s and King’s College’s Departments of American Studies. On October
31, 2008, together with Professor Joy Kasson, he made a presentation and led discussion of American Studies Pedagogy with the
American Studies faculty at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. On January 25, 2009 he spoke on “Time Frames and Rhythms”
at a public symposium, “The Cost of Coal Culture:” in conjunction with the exhibition, “At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and
Steam since 1750: Industrial Imagery from the John P. Eckblad Collection” at UNC’s Ackland Museum. This spring he was awarded
a fellowship at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC for the academic year 2009-2010 to complete his book
project, tentatively titled “The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America.”
Email: jfkasson@email.unc.edu.
MICHELLE KING received a UNC Grier-Woods Presbyterian Initiative Fellowship for China Studies for Spring 2010 to complete
her book manuscript on female infanticide in late nineteenth century China. She also received a Junior Faculty Development Award
and a University Research Council Small Research Grant to conduct further research for her book. She presented portions of her
research on female infanticide at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting in Chicago and the UNC Women’s Studies
Colloquium Series. She was also invited to give a presentation on re-conceptualizing archival research at the University of
Nottingham’s Centre for Urban Culture’s workshop, “New Approaches to Researching the Past.” She taught a new graduate seminar
on comparative approaches to Asian gender history and a new undergraduate lecture course on late imperial China in Spring 2009.
She will be on leave during the 2009-10 academic year, working on her book in San Francisco and eating her way through the city.
Email: mtking@email.unc.edu.
RICHARD H. KOHN wrote a foreword to National Security Mom: Why “Going Soft” Will Make America Strong (Wyatt-
Mackenzie Publishing, Inc., 2008), by the distinguished terrorism analyst, twenty-year veteran of the intelligence community, and
mother of five Gina M. Bennett. He also published “The Danger of Militarization in an Endless ‘War’ on Terrorism,” in the Journal
of Military History (January 2009) and “Tarnished Brass: Is the U.S. Military Profession in Decline?” in the spring 2009 issue of the
policy quarterly World Affairs. He was awarded the American Historical Association’s Herbert Feis Award “for distinguished
contributions to public history over the past ten years” and the Society for Military History’s Samuel Eliot Morison Prize “for
contributions in the field of military history, extending over time and reflecting a spectrum of scholarly activity contributing
significantly to the field.” In the spring he was inducted into UNC’s Order of the Golden Fleece. Dick gave the 11th E. Maynard
Adams Lecture in UNC’s Program in the Humanities and Human Values: “On Presidential War Leadership: Then and Now,” a
preliminary assessment of George W. Bush compared to prior American war presidents. In the Humanities Program, he also gave a
background lecture on the United States in World War II for a weekend seminar on the music of the war, and a talk to the seminar for
southern legislators on the world in 2009 and beyond. He continued speaking to military audiences (the Army and National War
Colleges, the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the Air Force Institute of Technology, and the Army Command and General
Staff College) on civil-military relations, and consulting on various national security issues with the government and the press. This
was Dick���s first year in the university’s phased retirement program. Email: rhkohn@email.unc.edu.
LLOYD KRAMER served his fifth year as chair of the History Department and was appointed to an additional three year term,
beginning in 2010. Meanwhile, he received a Kenan fellowship from UNC and a Chapman Family Fellowship from UNC’s Institute
for the Arts and Humanities, which will support a research leave in the 2009-2010 academic year. In this past year he published a
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chapter on “Martin Jay and the Dialectics of Intellectual History” in an edited volume, The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual
History and Critical Theory. The book was co-edited by Warren Breckman, et. al. (Berghan books, 2009) to honor the contributions
that Martin Jay has made to the field of modern intellectual history. Kramer also published a review essay on the literary theorist
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: “Searching for Something that is Here and There and Also Gone,” History and Theory, 48 (Feb., 2009): 85-
97. He spoke at a session on “The Rise of Nationalism in the Atlantic World during the Revolutionary Era” at the annual meeting of
the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era (Savannah, Feb., 2009) and served as commentator at a session of the annual meeting of the
Society for French Historical Studies (St. Louis, March 2009). He also continued his service on the Test Development Committee for
the AP European History Examination and enjoyed meeting a diverse group of history teachers at the annual AP “reading” in June
2008; and he completed a three-year term on the editorial board of the American Historical Review. E-mail: lkramer@email.unc.edu.
CHRISTOPHER J. LEE spent the fall teaching and the winter and spring on sabbatical, during which time he was a visiting fellow
at the Center for the United States and the Cold War at NYU. He also spent the spring as a visiting fellow at the Centre for the Arts,
Social Sciences, and Humanities at Cambridge University in the UK. He presented papers at the University of Malawi, the American
Society for Legal History meeting in Ottawa, the American Historical Association meeting in New York, and Cambridge University.
Articles that appeared include: “‘Causes’ versus ‘Conditions’: Imperial Sovereignty, Post-Colonial Violence, and the Recent Re-
Emergence of Arendtian Political Thought in African Studies,” South African Historical Journal, Number 60 (2008): 121-143; “‘A
Generous Dream, but Difficult to Realize’: The Anglo-African Community of Nyasaland, 1929-1940,” Society of Malawi Journal,
Vol. 61, No. 2 (December 2008): 19-41; “Sovereignty, Neo-Liberalism, and the Post-Diasporic Politics of Globalization: A
Conversation about South Africa with Patrick Bond, Ashwin Desai, and Molefi Mafereka ka Ndlovu,” Radical History Review, Issue
103 (Winter 2009): 143-161; “At the Rendezvous of Decolonization: The Final Communiqué of the Asian-African Conference,
Bandung, Indonesia, 18-24 April 1955,” Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 11, Issue 1 (March
2009): 81-93. He also contributed a chapter to Mohamed Adhikari, ed., Burdened by Race: Coloured Identities in Southern Africa
(Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press, 2009). Email: cjlee1@email.unc.edu.
WAYNE LEE completed his book manuscript entitled “Barbarians and Brothers: War, Restraint, and Atrocity in the Anglo-American
Atlantic, 1500-1865.” The book examines cultural patterns of wartime violence between cultures and within societies in sixteenth-century
Ireland, seventeenth-century England, colonial British America, and during the American Revolution. It is currently under
review at Oxford University Press. He continues to work on a wide variety of projects related to Native American warfare, and is now
the editor for a book series entitled "Warfare and Culture" for New York University Press. In the summer of 2008 he took five
students to northern Albania where they excavated a late Bronze Age fortress as part of the larger Shala Valley project
(www.millsaps.edu/svp). That project will be writing up its findings in the coming year. Beginning in July 2009 Dr. Lee became the
chair of the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense. Email: welee@email.unc.edu.
LISA LINDSAY spent the fall 2008 semester in Cape Town, South Africa with eighteen UNC undergraduates, directing an Honors
study abroad program. There, she taught a course called “South Africa in African History,” supervised internships and independent
research projects, acted as tour guide and trouble-shooter, and worked on her own research as an affiliate of the University of Cape
Town’s Centre for African Studies. After returning to Chapel Hill, she participated in a panel called “A Learning Process: Revisiting
the Role of Graduate Coursework in the Making of a Historian” at the American Historical Association annual meeting in New York.
This spring she presented “The Colonial Roots of Contemporary Africa” to the UNC Program in the Humanities and Human Values
seminar, “Colonialism Compared: Empires Across Space and Time.” Email: lalindsa@email.unc.edu.
ROGER LOTCHIN delivered a comment on the book From All Points: America’s Immigrant West, 1870s-1950 by Elliott Barkan, at
the Western History Association meeting in Salt Lake City, October 22, 2008. The main point of the book was that Americans, whom
he identified as white people, were always in the wrong in their conflicts with immigrants. My comment argued that this approach
was lacking in both realism and understanding of immigration and that it was a sweeping assertion of collective responsibility.
Email: rlotchin@email.unc.edu.
TERENCE McINTOSH presented the paper "Pastors, Parishioners, and the Lutheran Clergy's Professional Identity, 1700-1800" at
the thirty-second annual meeting of the German Studies Association (St. Paul, MN, 5 October 2008) and gave an invited lecture,
"Lutheran Church Discipline and Religious Enlightenment in Germany: The Lessons of Christian Wilhelm Oemler," at Rutgers
University-New Brunswick (20 November 2008). He received a Faculty Research Support Award from UNC's Program in Medieval
and Early Modern Studies (MEMS). Email: terence_mcintosh@unc.edu.
LOUISE McREYNOLDS wrote a chapter on “Russia’s Popular Culture in History and Theory,” which appeared in Abbott Gleason,
ed., A Companion to Russian History (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), plus several book reviews. As president of the Southern
Slavic Conference, she presided over the annual conference in Charlottesville in March. She also presented papers in multiple other
conferences and workshops: at the International Workshop on the Social and Cultural History of Sport and Physical Culture in the
Soviet Union in Hamburg, Germany, in September 2008; at the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement
of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, November 2008; “Screened Sexuality: Desire in Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Cinema,” at the
Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities Harriman Institute International Conference, Columbia University, New York October
10-11, 2008; at the American Historical Association in New York, January, 2009. In addition, she wrote an article, “Demanding Men,
Desiring Women and Social Collapse in the Films of Evgenii Bauer, 1913-1917,” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema
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(forthcoming). Here at UNC-CH, she convened a Carolina Seminar on “Russia and its Empires: East and West,” which sponsored six
speakers. Email: louisem@email.unc.edu.
FRED NAIDEN received a Visiting Fellow Grant from the Center for Hellenic Studies in Wash., DC. In one field of interest, military
history, he gave a talk entitled “The Organization of Anatolia in the Time of Alexander the Great,” and chaired a panel on ancient
military history at the annual convention of the Society for Military History. In another field, ancient law and religion, he published
“Sanctions in Sacred Laws” in Symposium 2007, a publication of the Austrian Academy, and gave talks entitled “How Athens
Regulated Sacrifice by Individuals and Associations” and ��A Flock of Shepherds and a Lone Wolf.” His interest in the influence of
ancient history on the contemporary Middle East led to the article “Adieu to Lebanon” in Historically Speaking. This article emerged
from a talk entitled “Lebanon and its Money.” He also published three entries in Brill's New Jacoby, a new edition of the standard
compilation of the fragmentary ancient Greek historians; this publication was electronic, with print publication expected within
several years. Email: naiden@email.unc.edu.
THEDA PERDUE delivered the Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt lectures at Georgia Southern University on “Race and the Cotton
States Exposition,” which the University of Georgia Press will publish in 2010. She also lectured at Texas A&M University, Fort
Lewis College (Col.), Dalton State College (Ga.), and the University of South Carolina at Lancaster. Perdue was guest editor of
Southern Cultures 14 (2008) on Native peoples in the South. She appeared on UNC-TV’s Bookwatch and as a talking head in PBS’s
Appalachian: A History of Mountains and People and We Shall Remain. The Indian scholars of the Western History Association
presented her with a lifetime achievement award, and the Carolina Indian Circle gave her the Circle Award for service to Indian
people. She serves on the editorial boards of Southern Cultures and the American Indian Quarterly. Perdue is a member of the
executive board of the Organization of American Historians. Email: tperdue@email.unc.edu.
CYNTHIA RADDING joined the UNC-CH History Department in July 2008, as the Gussenhoven Distinguished Professor of Latin
American Studies and Professor of History. During her first academic year, Professor Radding created three new undergraduate courses in
Latin American Environmental History, Comparative Frontiers and Borderlands, and Mexico in Four Revolutions. In addition, she co-taught
the Introduction to Colonial Latin American history with Professor Kathryn Burns. Professor Radding published a chapter, “The
Many Faces of Colonialism in Two Iberoamerican Borderlands: Northern New Spain and the Eastern Lowlands of Charcas,” in
Andrew B. Fisher and Matthew D. O’Hara, eds., Imperial Subjects. Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America (Durham, Duke
University Press, 2009). She presented conference papers at the European Association of Latin American Historians (AHILA) XV
International Congress in Leiden, The Netherlands; at the Mexican National University (UNAM) Institute for Historical Research
international colloquium on “Indian Peoples Beyond the State; and at the Colegio de San Luis (Mexico) seminar on “Experiences and
Forms of Territorial Organization.” She presented an invited lecture at the Bucknell University Environmental Humanities
Symposium on “Human Geographies and Landscapes of the Divine in the Northern Mesoamerican Borderlands.” Professor Radding
prepared all the materials for the Project for Historical Education Workshop, in collaboration with history graduate student Catherine
Connor, on “Bringing the Natural Environment into Teaching History: Nature and Culture in the History of the Americas.” Professor
Radding serves as a member of the Advisory Council of the Inter-American Foundation and she was elected as Vice-President of the
Conference on Latin American History, the largest affiliate organization of the Association of American Historians.
Email: radding@email.unc.edu.
DONALD J. RALEIGH would like to express his heartfelt thanks to the members of the History Department and its staff for their
many expressions of love and support after he lost his son, Adam, on October 31. He is especially grateful for the help he received
getting through the fall semester and easing his way into the spring term, and for the meals and other kindnesses that sustained him
during this dark chapter in his life.
Last summer he served as enrichment lecturer on a cruise of the Dnieper River and the Black Sea, “Ukraine and Romania,” sponsored
by the UNC General Alumni Association. Afterward he traveled to Moscow to gather photographs and to conduct a final interview
for his oral history book project, “Growing up Russian during the Cold War: Portrait of a Generation,” which is nearing completion.
He published an essay “Fieldwork Ethics,” in Forum for Anthropology and Culture, no.4 (2007), and a related piece in Russian,
“Eticheskie problemy polevyk issledovanii," in Antropologicheskii Forum, no. 5 (2006). Book reviews he authored appeared in Slavic
Review and the English Historical Review. He participated in a conference held at UNC in September “The Ukrainian Famine-
Genocide: Reflections after 75 Years,” and also served as discussant and chair of a panel at the Southern Conference on Slavic
Studies held in Charlottesville, VA, in March. He continues to serve on the editorial boards of Journal of Social History, Russian
Studies in History, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, and the Association of Researchers of Russian Society in the 20th Century. This
year his twenty-third MA student defended his thesis and twelfth PhD student her dissertation. Email: djr@email.unc.edu.
DONALD REID published several articles this year, including “Still Preoccupied After All These Years: New Works on the
Occupation of France,” European History Quarterly 39:2 (April 2009): 287-297; “Teaching Night and Fog: Putting a Documentary
Film in History,” Teaching History 33:2 (Fall 2008): 59-74; “Étienne Balibar: Algeria, Althusser, Altereuropisation,” South Central
Review 25:3 (Fall 2008): 68-85; “Pierre Goldman: From Souvenirs obscurs to Lieu de mémoire,” French Politics, Culture & Society
26:2 (Summer 2008): 51-77; and “America So Far From Ravensbrück,” Histoire & Politique 5 (May-August 2008):
http://www.histoire-politique.fr/index.php?numero=05&rub=dossier&item=56. Email: dreid1@email.unc.edu.
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YASMIN SAIKIA published an essay entitled “Bodies in Pain: A Peoples’ History of 1971,” in Speaking Power from Below, edited
by Anne Feldhaus and Manu Bhagawan (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008). She delivered the inaugural address at the
‘Conference on Gender and Sexuality in South Asia’ held at Nottingham University, United Kingdom last summer. She also gave
several invited talks about memories of gender violence in the 1971 war of Bangladesh and historical silence in South Asia at
Davidson College, Delhi University, India, as well as Punjab University and Quaid-e-Azam University in Pakistan and presented a
paper at the Annual South Asia Conference in Madison, Wisconsin. She was nominated to the executive board of the South Asia
Caucus, a member association of the American Historical Association. In Spring 2009 she was on leave as a Senior Fulbright
Research Fellow in Pakistan, undertaking work on her new book on the making/unmaking of national and Muslim identity in South
Asia. Email: saikia@email.unc.edu.
SARAH SHIELDS took ten UNC undergraduates to Turkey for a seven-week Burch Field Research Seminar to explore Turkish
identities through history. To read about her experiences and those of the students, see teachingturkey.wordpress.com. While
traveling with the students, she wrote the new National Geographic Countries of the World volume on Turkey, published in January
2009. Shields was awarded a Sawyer Seminar grant from the Mellon Foundation (with co-Principal Investigator Banu Gokariksel,
Geography) to spend the 2009-2010 academic year holding a series of seminars and conferences to discuss “Diversity and Tolerance
in Muslim Civilization.” An article on the relations between Ottoman Arab cities and their hinterlands (based on her old research) was
published in Peter Sluglett’s volume, The Urban Social History of the Middle East, 1750-1950. She also gave a paper based on her
new research at a conference at Harvard celebrating the work of Professor Roger Owen. Email: sshields@email.unc.edu.
RICHARD TALBERT published a handsome volume co-edited with Richard Unger Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages:
Fresh Perspectives, New Methods (Brill, Leiden), for which he also wrote a chapter “Greek and Roman mapping: twenty-first century
perspectives.” Another chapter “The world in the Roman traveler’s hand and head” was published in the volume Viajes y Visiones del
Mundo. Entries by him appeared in The Encyclopaedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: the Greek Tradition and its Many Heirs, and a
lengthy overview of the Roman senate in The Oxford International Encyclopaedia of Legal History. In Images and Texts on the
‘Artemidorus Papyrus’: Working Papers on P. Artemid., co-edited by Kai Brodersen and Jás Elsner, there appeared his chapter about
its map, previously delivered as a paper at the June 2008 international conference held on the papyrus in Oxford, England. As a
double seisachtheia long-awaited, two books finally went into production this year – at Wiley-Blackwell Geography and
Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies (co-edited with Kurt Raaflaub), and at Cambridge University Press
the hybrid electronic and print monograph Rome’s World: the Peutinger Map Reconsidered. At the Roman Archaeology conference
in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Talbert co-organized and chaired (with David Potter) a panel “Royal Courts”, whose papers he and Potter are
to edit and publish as a 2011 special issue of American Journal of Philology; he continues as the Journal’s associate editor for ancient
history. At Queens’ University, Belfast, he had the honor to give the first in a revived series of Sir Samuel Dill Memorial lectures. He
also lectured at King’s College, London, University College, Dublin, Stanford University, and St Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.
He participated in a Liberty Fund Colloquium on the fifth-century Athenian empire, and spoke about the fall of the Roman Republic
for a UNC Humanities Program seminar “Collapse: When and How Countries, Civilizations, and Systems Fail”; he continues as chair
of the Program’s internal advisory board. An unusual and academically rewarding duty was to serve as NEH site visitor to American
research institutes in Turkey, a week which also included memorable experience of Aphrodisias, Ephesus and Gordion. A lengthier
but likewise rewarding duty was to chair the department’s renewed search for a Mellon professor of medieval history. Talbert
continues as co-editor of the UNC Press series Studies in the History of Greece and Rome, and as chair of the Advisory Council to the
School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome. For his involvement with the Ancient World Mapping Center, see its
report. Email: talbert@email.unc.edu.
MICHAEL TSIN’s article “Overlapping Histories: Writing Prison and Penal Practices in Late Imperial and Early Republican China”
was published in the Journal of World History, and he has completed an essay “Rethinking ‘State and Society’ in Late Qing and
Republican China,” to be published in Mechthild Leutner and Jens Damm, eds., China Networks. He presented a paper entitled
“Time, Place, and the Narration of the Chinese Past in an Era of Global Studies” at a conference held at Washington University in St.
Louis, and another paper on “Historical Research on ‘Overseas Chinese’” at a conference on global history and East Asia held at Duke
University. He was a discussant on a panel on “The Politics of Philanthropy in Modern China” at the annual meeting of the
Association for Asian Studies, and continues to serve as a book review editor for the Journal of Asian Studies.
Email: tsin@email.unc.edu.
HARRY WATSON was on academic leave in 2008-09, rewriting volume one of The American Republic: A History of the United
States, a textbook for the college-level US survey coauthored with Professor Jane Dailey of the University of Chicago, to be published
in 2011 by Bedford/St. Martin’s. He spoke at Barton College in February on the topic “Andrew Jackson’s Complex Legacy: Majority
Rule, Equal Rights, and Limited Government.” He continued to serve as editor of Southern Cultures, the quarterly journal of the
Center for the Study of the American South, and resumed his work as director of the Center on July 1, 2009.
Email: hwatson@email.unc.edu.
BRETT WHALEN put the finishing touches on his first monograph, Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle
Ages, which will be published by Harvard University Press in October 2009. During the fall semester, as a Kenan fellow at the UNC
Institute for the Arts and Humanities, he began work on some new research projects, including the Muslim sack of Rome in 846 and
the history of Spiritual Franciscan missionaries during the fourteenth century. In addition, he began to produce a source-book for the
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University of Toronto Press, Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages: A Reader, and spoke twice at the Adventures in Ideas seminars. This
summer, he spent time doing research in Munich and London, funded by a MEMS (Medieval and Early Modern Studies) travel grant.
Email: bwhalen@email.unc.edu.
HEATHER A. WILLIAMS traveled in April to Japan, where she visited Hiroshima, Kyoto, and Tokyo. She gave talks regarding her
research on African American Education during Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and on the Separation of African
American families during slavery, at Senshu University, Tokyo, and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. One of the highlights of the
visit was the opportunity to spend time with three alumni of the History Department's Graduate Program.
Email: hawill@email.unc.edu.
THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT WELCOMES OUR NEW FACULTY:
L to R: Takahiro Sasaki
(former student of Joel Williamson),
Heather Williams, Hayumi Higuchi
(host and former student of Joel
Williamson), and Sayoko Uesugi
(former student of Jacquelyn Hall).
Zaragosa Vargas
Ahmed El Shamsy
Benjamin Waterhouse
Brandon Hunziker Melinda Maynor-Lowery
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GLOBAL ENCOUNTERS: LEGACIES OF EXCHANGE AND CONFLICT (1000-1700)
On 14-15 November, 2008, the MEMS program hosted the interdisciplinary conference “Global Encounters: Legacies of
Exchange and Conflict (1000-1700)” at the Friday Center. The event was co-organized by Brett Whalen (History) and
Jaroslav Folda (emeritus, Art History) with the help of Glaire Anderson (Art History); Wayne Lee (History); Carmen Hsu
(Romance Languages), and Jonathan Boyarin (Religious Studies). This assembly of scholars from local universities and
from around the country included fifteen panels on topics in literary studies, art history, history and other fields, ranging
from the Americas and Africa to Europe, the Islamic world, and Eastern Asia. There were over seventy-five attendees
over the course of two days. The conference featured an opening address by Professor Karen Kupperman (NYU),
“Communication through Music in Encounter Situations,” and a closing address by Alfred J. Andrea (emeritus, University
of Vermont), “The Cult of Santiago Matamoros in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: The Adaptation of Reconquista Ideology
by an Amerindian People.” Funding was provided by the Mellon Foundation, the College of Arts and Sciences, the
Associate Provost for International Affairs, and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Duke University.
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH LECTURE
The Department of History sponsored its fifth annual African American History Month Lecture on February 4, 2009. The
lecture was funded by the Department with additional support from departments and organizations across the University,
including American Studies, Black Student Movement, Campus Y, Center for the Study of the American South, Diversity
and Multicultural Affairs, Provost’s Office, School of Education, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and
Sonya Haynes Stone Center for Black History and Culture.
Barbara Ransby delivered the lecture entitled, “Are We There Yet?: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and
Contemporary Politics.” Ransby, who teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago and serves as the Director of
Gender and Women’s Studies, has written extensively on social movements in modern America. Individuals from across
the campus and the wider Triangle area descended on Wilson Library for the event. Drawing on insights culled from her
research on the Civil Rights Movement, Ransby provided a probing analysis of contemporary politics. The lecture
provoked an engaging public conversation about the limits and possibilities of the 2008 election as well as the role
historians play in contemporary debates.
Dr. Barbara Ransby (seated)
with Dr. Lloyd Kramer
and Dr. Jerma Jackson.
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THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: HISTORIES, POLITICS, MEMORIES
On April 3-4, 2009, the Southern Oral History Program hosted “The Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics,
Memories,” a national conference that brought scholars, activists, librarians, and students to Chapel Hill to discuss and
debate groundbreaking civil rights scholarship. For three days, more than two hundred attendees discussed issues such as
Black Power; memory and reconciliation; environmental justice; health care; the perils of privatization; the right to
privacy; the conservative countermovement; and the global dimensions of the American civil rights movement. In sum,
these panel discussions challenged the triumphal narrative of a civil rights movement aimed only at desegregating public
facilities that waxed and waned in the 1960s.
The conference, presented as part of the Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement project, opened with a dinner and
informal panel session in which four UNC-Chapel Hill History Department graduate students presented their work and
received feedback from faculty panelists. Two days of panels and events followed, including a demonstration of a digital
publishing prototype by UNC Press. University of Pennsylvania historian Thomas J. Sugrue, gave the conference’s
keynote address on the civil rights struggle in the North. The inspiring weekend will be remembered, according to one
panelist, as “one of those before-and-after markers” in the study of the civil rights movement.
Seth Kotch
Coordinator of Oral History Digital Initiatives
Donna Murch, Yohuru Williams,
and Peniel Joseph take a question
from Jacquelyn Hall following their
presentations on Black Power.
John C. Boger offers his
comment on papers by Robert
O. Self and Nancy MacLean.
Robert O. Self (Brown U) and
Nancy MacLean (Northwestern
University) take questions after
presentations on privacy, privatization,
and civil rights.
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Professor W. James McCoy
Retirement in 2009
By Lloyd Kramer
Chair, UNC History Department
Professor Jim McCoy is retiring from the History Department this year after a long and active career at
UNC. He completed his undergraduate education at Cornell University and went on to receive a masters degree
at Brown University and a Ph.D. in ancient history at Yale. He joined the history department at UNC in 1970
and later became also an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Classics. Jim’s research and teaching
have focused on ancient Greece. He published a number of articles and reviews in journals such as the
American Journal of Philology, The International History Review, and Yale Classical Studies; and he has taught
popular courses on ancient Greek history, including classes on the military history of the ancient world and the
politics of the ancient city states. Equally important, Jim developed an extremely successful study abroad
program in Greece for students who wanted to study there during the summer terms. He has introduced
hundreds of UNC students to the complexities of Greek history, the beauty of the Greek countryside and Greek
isles, and the pleasures of modern Greek society. These summer courses in Greece have led many of UNC’s
best students into the later study of ancient history and cultures, thereby helping them to place their lives and
their own society in a much wider historical and cultural framework.
In addition to his outstanding leadership of the summer program in Greece, Jim has been an innovative
leader in bringing new instructional technology to the classroom. He received numerous awards for developing
innovative technologies and for using computers as a component of historical pedagogy. He has also spoken
often to groups outside the University, bringing his knowledge of ancient history to various constituencies
around the state of North Carolina. Jim was an early leader in the University’s programs for continuing
education, and he has taught many “non-traditional” students who depend on the course offerings of the Friday
Center for university-level education. Finally, I should stress that Jim has been a very active contributor to
UNC’s Summer School programs. He has served for many years as an assistant to the Dean in the Summer
School and helped thousands of students pursue their education in the summer months. In short, Jim has long
understood that higher education is far more than an activity that takes place within the buildings of the UNC
campus between September and May of each academic year. He has led countless students to Greece, he has
advised and taught students who are scattered around the country, and he has been a long-time advocate for the
important programs of the Summer School.
His service to UNC has also included many other activities that are too numerous to describe here,
though I would like to mention that he also contributed to the athletic program when he served for many years
as a timekeeper at basketball games in the Smith Center and Carmichael Auditorium. His understanding of
sports extended from ancient Greek Olympics to modern college basketball, so he could bring the broadest
possible historical perspective to every victory or defeat! I therefore thank Jim McCoy for his many
contributions to the life of UNC and to the pedagogical objectives of our curriculum. My colleagues and I
extend our very best wishes to him as Jim moves on from the History department to an energetic and productive
retirement.
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DEPARTMENT MEMBERS CELEBRATE THE 2008-2009 ACADEMIC YEAR
THE SPRING PICNIC FOR FACULTY, EMERITI FACULTY & STAFF, April 2009
THE ANNUAL END-OF-THE YEAR PARTY, April 2009
Lloyd Kramer surveys
the buffet spread
Michelle King with
Laura Sims
Sarah Shields Lisa Lindsay and graduate
student Randy Browne
History Dept staff and guest
Jennifer Browning talking
with Christopher Browning
and Konrad Jarausc h
Ahmed El Shamsy and
wife Hanna Siurua
Emeritus Professors Stan
Chojnacki and Barbara Harris
chatting with Lloyd Kramer
Emeritus Professors
Sam Baron and
John Headley
Miguel La Serna
Dani Botsman
Christopher Browning Jacquelyn Hall and others listen
to presentations.
Cynthia Radding with
Ben Reed.
Graduate students
Gregory Daddis and
Brandon Winford
Crystal Feimster
and son Charlie
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EMERITI FACULTY
SAMUEL H. BARON published "In the Crossfire of the Cold War" in Rude and Barbarous Kingdom Revisited (Slavica, 2009).
E. WILLIS BROOKS was honored as a ‘legacy’ at a banquet hosted by the Institute for the Arts and the Humanities (IAH) on
October 9. He also was an invited attendee at the 40th Anniversary celebration by the International Research and Exchanges Board
(IREX) at the Library of Congress on November 20. From 1966-68 he had been the Deputy Chairman of the Inter-University
Committee on Travel Grants (IUCTG), which was formed in 1958 and renamed IREX in 1968. These two organizations administered
official scholarly exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia and similar (semi-official) ones with East
European states. IREX thus celebrated half a century of academic exchanges. Email: ewbrooks@email.unc.edu.
BARBARA HARRIS published the first article on her current project, “The Fabric of Piety: Aristocratic English Women and
Building in Churches, 1450-1550,” in the Journal of British Studies in April 2009. In the fall she received a Mellon Emeritus Faculty
Fellowship, which provided $35,000 to fund her research (mostly for research trips to London) over about two years and $20,000 to
support the University. She gave $15,000 to the library to support the purchase of books in the field of medieval and early modern
women’s history and used $5,000 for a lecture series. Sharon Strocchia of Emory University will give the first lecture on Nuns and the
Healing Arts in Late Renaissance Italy on Sept. 24. She is in her second year as President of the North American Conference of
British Studies. Email: bharris@email.unc.edu.
MICHAEL HUNT is greatly enjoying a nominal retirement after phasing out of phased retirement a year early. He spent a delightful
fall term at Williams College in the Berkshires serving as the Stanley Kaplan Visiting Professor of American Foreign Policy. He
remains active on the publishing front. In the course of the year his most recent book, The American Ascendancy, went into a paper
edition after receiving warm reviews, and a new edition of Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy appeared. His latest work, A Vietnam
War Reader: American and Vietnamese Perspectives, is now in production at UNC Press. He remains active as a speaker, reviewer,
consultant, and committee member for a clutch of UNC grad students. Email: mhhunt@email.unc.edu.
LAWRENCE KESSLER wrote an article, “Reconstructing Zhou Enlai’s Escape from Shanghai in 1931,” for Twentieth-Century
China (April 2009). Until now, how and by what route Zhou (then a Communist "criminal" with a price on his head, but later to be
Premier of the People's Republic of China) escaped has been somewhat of a mystery. This piece is part of a larger study of the
extraordinary career of an Englishman who lived in Shanghai from 1929 to 1950 as an employee of a British shipping firm. Besides
helping Zhou escape, his involvement with the Chinese revolution also included fighting for a time with Chinese guerrillas against the
Japanese occupiers in 1945 and being the first foreigner to meet the Communist forces when they captured Shanghai in 1949. Last
September Kessler had the honor of meeting with the First Vice-Chair of the National Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM, the
official Christian Church in China) and a team of Chinese Christians from Jiangyin. The Chinese delegation spent several weeks in the
U.S., the highlight of which was its visit to Wilmington, NC, to re-establish ties, after a hiatus of nearly 60 years, with their “mother”
church, the First Presbyterian Church of Wilmington. Kessler’s book, The Jiangyin Mission Station, 1895-1951 (1996), which traced
the development of the Jiangyin mission and its special relationship to the Wilmington church, was instrumental in re-connecting the
two sides. Several copies of his book are now available in Jiangyin and in the headquarters of the TSPM. In July 2008 he co-led a
three-week tour to China and Japan for secondary school social studies teachers, under the auspices of the Freeman Foundation.
Email: kessler@unc.edu.
DONALD G. MATHEWS published “Lynching Religion: Why the Old Man Shouted ‘Glory!’” in Walter H. Conser and Rodger M.
Payne, editors, Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on Religion and Culture (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008): 318-
353. The Book was dedicated to him and Samuel S. Hill as “two gurus of southern religion.” Mathews’ article on “The Southern Rite
of Human Sacrifice” is also re-published in a special edition on lynching in the Mississippi Quarterly this June.
MICHAEL McVAUGH edited, with Gerrit Bos, vol. 2 of Maimonides, On asthma (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press,
2008). He also published two contributions to edited volumes: “Is There a Salernitan Surgical Tradition?” in La Collectio
Salernitana di Salvatore de Renzi, ed. Danielle Jacquart and Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (Florence, 2008), 61-77; and “Foxglove,
Digitalis, and the Limits of Empiricism,” in Natura, scienze e società medievali. Studi in onore di Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, ed.
Claudio Leonardi and Francesco Santi (Florence, 2008), 177-93. He delivered a keynote address, “Losing Ground: The
Disappearance of Attraction from the Kidneys,” to the Intersections Colloquium on ��Blood, Sweat, and Tears: The Changing
Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe,” Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar (The
Netherlands), 17 April 2009. He also gave two other papers: “Ars longa,” to an international colloquium on “La mesure,” Paris
(France), 27 June 2008; and “The Meaning of ‘Salernitan’ in Thirteenth-Century Medicine,” to the American Association for the
History of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, 24 April 2009. Email: mcvaugh@email.unc.edu.
BILL POWELL was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame at the Weymouth Center in Southern Pines, N.C., on
October 19, 2008. Email: powell.v@att.net.
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GERHARD L. WEINBERG began this past year with a function on May 2, 2008 at the German Historical Institute in Washington
DC with former PhD students, former and present colleagues, and the German Ambassador at which he gave a talk on “60 Years of
Adventures in German Records.” There followed lectures in Tucson, Arizona; Fayetteville, North Carolina; the National Defense
University in Washington; the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada; Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas; St. John
Fisher College in Rochester, New York; Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia; the University of Toronto in Canada;
and a number of local talks for the Humanities Program, World View, and others. In addition he chaired sessions, commented or gave
papers at the German Studies Association, Southern Historical Association, and Lessons & Legacies Conferences, gave talks at three
locations for the Naval War College, and participated as a Presidential Counselor in sessions at the National World War II Museum in
New Orleans. Published in the period under review were: “Foreword and New Material,” in Hitler’s Table-Talk 1941-1944: His
Private Conversations (New York: Enigma Books, 2008), pp. ix-xv, 549-80; “Foreign Policy in Peace and War,” in Jane Kaplan (ed.),
Short Oxford History of Germany: Nazi Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 196-218, 281-82; “The Setting and
Significance of the Nuremberg Trials: A Historian’s View,” in Nathan Stolzfus and Henry Friedlander (eds.), Nazi Crimes and the
Law (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 35-41; “Questions and Answers: Gerhard L. Weinberg,” World War II
Quarterly 5, No. 3 (2008): 46-55; “German Documents in the United States,” Central European History 41, No. 4 (2008): 555-67;
“Reakcja sojusznikow na wiodomissci etc. etc, pp. 222-27; “Two Separate Issues? Historiography of World War II and the
Holocaust,” in David Bankier and Dan Michman (eds.), Holocaust Historiography in Context: Emergence, Challenges, Polemics and
Achievements (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2008), pp. 379-401; “Introduction: World War II Studies and Austria,” Contemporary
Austrian Studies 17 (2009): 1-4. Email: gweinber@email.unc.edu.
ALUMNI NEWS
G. MATTHEW ADKINS (PhD/2002/Smith) has finished his second year as an assistant professor of European History at
Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. Faced with the academic “two-body problem,” he regularly
commutes between New York City and Dayton, Ohio, where his wife, Dr. Miriamne Krummel, is an associate professor of Medieval
Literature at the University of Dayton. In December 2008 he published “The Renaissance of Peiresc: Aubin-Louis Millin and the
Postrevolutionary Republic of Letters,” in Isis, the journal of the History of Science Society. Last spring he published an essay review
in Seventeenth Century News. Currently he is conducting major revisions to a book manuscript entitled The Despair of Reason: Essays
on Science and Political Consciousness in the French Enlightenment, and beginning work on an article entitled “Education as
Emancipation: Education Reform and Antislavery in the Political Thought of Condorcet.” In July 2008 he delivered a paper at the
Twenty-third Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of French History in Aberystwyth, Wales, and attended with his wife the
John Gower Society conference in London, England, and the New Chaucer Society conference in Swansea, Wales. They also
sojourned for two weeks in Cambridge, England. The Professional Staff Congress of CUNY awarded him a grant to conduct summer
research in France, but he has turned it down in order to remain with his wife this summer, who is expecting the birth of their second
daughter in September. He will be on parental leave from CUNY during the 2009-2010 academic year. Email: gadkins@qcc.cuny.edu.
CHRIS MYERS ASCH (MA/2000/Leloudis/PhD/2005/Hall) continues to serve as Executive Director of the U.S. Public Service
Academy, a national initiative to build a civilian counterpart to the military academies. His book The Senator and the Sharecropper:
The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer was awarded the Liberty Legacy Prize from the Organization of
American Historians and the McLemore Prize by the Mississippi Historical Society. Email: asch@uspublicserviceacademy.org.
STEPHEN M. APPELL (MA/1969/Pulley) prepared a new discrimination complaint investigation procedure for the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, http://oed.wisc.edu/dishar.html, where he is Assistant Director/Complaint Investigator, Office for Equity and
Diversity. He was interviewed by, and drafted written responses to, the US Department of Energy who were conducting a Title IX
compliance review of the university’s Department of Physics. In August 2008, Steve made a presentation to participants in the Foreign
Language Teaching Assistants Program on non-discrimination issues in the US. The orientation sessions for foreign graduate students
who were going to work and study at universities all across the US was hosted by UW-Madison and was sponsored by the US
Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs. Email: sappell@vc.wisc.edu.
R. GLEN AYERS (MA/1971/DOUGLAS) practices law in San Antonio, Texas with the law firm of Langley & Banack, Inc. This
spring, he presented a paper on missing original promissory notes secured by mortgages in securitization transactions to the American
Bankruptcy Institute. He will also present continuing legal education papers for the State Bar of Texas at the Advanced Personal
Injury Course, the Advanced Civil Trial Course, the Advanced Consumer Bankruptcy Course, and the Advanced Real Estate Course.
In addition, he will present a paper at the State Bar Institute on Insurance. Email: gayers@langleybanack.com.
BRUCE E. BAKER (PhD/2003/Hall) finished up his fifth year at Royal Holloway, University of London, and pending on decisions
by the U.K. Border Agency, he is looking forward to a sixth, or perhaps a period of unemployment back in the United States. In
September 2008, he helped coordinate and participate in the Wiles Colloquium at Queen's University Belfast along with a dozen other
historians of Reconstruction as part of the "After Slavery: Race, Labour and Politics in the Post-Emancipation Carolinas" project. His
book This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947 was published by Continuum in November 2008. In
spring 2009, Southern Cultures published his essay "How W. E. B. DuBois Won the United Daughters of the Confederacy Essay
Contest." He was to have presented papers at the ACA/PCA conference in New Orleans in April and the Business History Conference
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in Milan in June, but the U.K. Border Agency decided to hold him hostage in the U.K. for several months while considering his visa
renewal application. Email: bruce.baker@rhul.ac.uk.
STEPHEN BERRY (MA/1993/PhD/2000/Barney) is now “unfireable” at the University of Georgia, where he was recently made
associate professor of history. Following the publication in paperback of House of Abraham (Houghton Mifflin, February 2008), he
delivered talks at the Filson Club in Louisville, the Mary Todd Lincoln House in Lexington, and the Lincoln Cottage at the Soldier’s
Home in Washington, D.C., among other venues. He also delivered the keynote address at the Alabama Historical Association
meeting in Tuscaloosa in April, the Liberty Lecture at the Valentine Richmond History Center in March, and the Joanna Dunlap
Cowden Memorial Lecture at California State University at Chico last October. He delivered two academic papers: “Johnny Reb and
Billy Yank in Blackface: Iconographic Evidence from the Civil War” to the Georgia Council for the Social Studies and “Abraham
Lincoln: The Un-Leader” to the New Interpretations of the American Civil War Symposium at Kennesaw State University. The
Journal of the Historical Organization has accepted his article, “‘I Always Thought “Dixie” One of the Best Tunes I Ever Heard’:
Lincoln’s Claims on the South and the South’s Claims on Lincoln” for publication in the fall. In April the Organization of American
Historians named him to its Distinguished Lecturer Program. Email: berry@uga.edu.
LANCE BETROS (MA/1986/PhD/1988/Higginbotham), an active duty colonel in the US Army, is in his fourth year as the head of
the Department of History at the US Military Academy, West Point, NY. Since June 2008, he has been on a yearlong sabbatical
working on a book-length history of West Point in the twentieth century. Additionally, he continues to lend oversight to the West
Point Center of Oral History, which operates as a subordinate element of the Department of History. The purpose of the center is to
record the exceptional professional experiences of West Point graduates and other military personnel. Email: lance.betros@usma.edu.
EMILY BINGHAM (MA/1991/PhD/1998/Mathews) spent the past year researching Henrietta Bingham, her great aunt. Highlights
were trips to Bloomsbury-related archives at the Harry K. Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin and the New York Public
Library, and to London. In February she spoke at “Duke in Depth: Bloomsbury Vision & Design,” a symposium accompanying the
opening of the exhibit, “A Room of Their Own: Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections.” In April, Newsweek published her
essay, “Digital Dad vs. the Dinosaurs,” and a book review of Dara Horn’s novel, All Other Nights, appeared in the Wall Street
Journal. Her review of William Pencak’s Jews and Gentiles in Early America was published in American Jewish History.
Email: emily@emilybingham.net.
E. HOPE BORDEAUX (MA/2007/Reid) is currently pursuing two additional graduate degrees. She is enrolled in North Carolina
Central University's distance education program in Library Science, specializing in academic librarianship as well as the Creative
Writing program at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where she is earning a master's degree in creative non-fiction. In
spring 2009, she taught a creative writing course to a group of gifted local students through the Department of Creative Writing's
Writers In Action program. The Learning Center at UNCW recently presented her with a Tutorial Award for the upcoming 2009-2010
academic year. She has conducted interviews with Chapel Hill's own Dr. Charles Kurzman and the late Elvis A. Presley, via a Magic
8-Ball generously donated by one of her UNCW colleagues. Email: hopebordeaux@ec.rr.com.
MICHELE ANDREA BOWEN’s (MA/1994/McNeil) novel, Up at the College (Grand Central Publishing), hit the stores April 14,
2009. This is novel number four. All four novels (Church Folk, Second Sunday, Holy Ghost Corner, and Up at the College) have
been published by Grand Central Publishing (formerly Warner Books), a division of the Hachette Book Group USA in New York,
New York. The first three novels all made the Essence Magazine Bestseller’s List, and the newest novel, Up at the College, was
featured as a ‘Juicy Read’ in the April 2009 Issue of Essence Magazine. She recently completed her fifth novel, More Church Folk,
which is the sequel to Church Folk, and it will be out in stores August 2010. She has also developed a teen series and is working on
the first of three Young Adult novels in the series. Michele lives in Durham, NC with her two daughters, Laura Michele (21) and
Janina Akili (11), is a member of St. Joseph’s AME Church, works on the Women’s Ministry Team, and is a soloist in the
Inspirational Singers Contemporary Gospel Choir. Email: micheleabowen@hotmail.com.
BLAINE A. BROWNELL (MA/1967/Tindall/PhD/1969/Mowry) is retired and living in Charlottesville, VA and Ft Walton Beach,
FL. He chairs the Board of Directors of the International Student Exchange Programs in Washington, DC and remains a member of
the Editorial Board of the Journal of Urban History. He also serves as a consultant for academic planning, special projects, and
international programs for Zayed University, one of three national universities in the United Arab Emirates, with campuses in Dubai
and Abu Dhabi. Email: babrownell@earthlink.net.
JURGEN BUCHENAU (MA/1988/Tulchin/PhD/1993/Joseph) is Professor of History and Latin American Studies at UNC
Charlotte. He spent the past academic year on leave funded by an NEH Fellowship. After five years as Director of Latin American
Studies, he was recently appointed chair of the History Department. Harlan Davidson published his book Mexican Mosaic: A Brief
History of Mexico, and Rowman Littlefield published a book he coedited with William H. Beezley, Governors of the Mexican
Revolution: Portraits in Courage, Conflict, and Corruption. Wiley Blackwell recently launched a new book series with him as the
editor: Viewpoints/Puntos de Vista: Themes and Interpretations in Latin American History. He currently serves as Associate Editor of
The Latin America and as the Latin American Book Review Editor of the Journal of Urban History. Email: jbuchenau@uncc.edu.
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MARVIN L. CANN (PhD/1967/TINDALL) teaches as an adjunct professor at Spartanburg Methodist College. He published a review
of John H. Moore, The Voice of Small-Town America: The Selected Writings of Robert Quillen, 1920-1948 in The South Carolina
Historical Magazine (April 2008). He serves as a volunteer Guardian ad Litem in the Family Court of Spartanburg County.
Email: cannm@bellsouth.net.
KATHERINE D. CANN (MA/1970/PULLEY) chairs the Social Science Division at Spartanburg Methodist College. She received
the 2009 Herbert Hucks Award, given by the South Carolina United Methodist Church to recognize “outstanding service in historical
preservation and interpretation.” The award was presented by Bishop Mary Virginia Taylor for the publication of Common Ties: A
History of Textile Industrial Institute, Spartanburg Junior College, and Spartanburg Methodist College. Email: cannkd@smcsc.edu.
EMILEE HINES CANTIERI (MA/1964/Pegg) is retired and living in Hendersonville, NC. She co-authored Mapping the Old
Dominion for Globe Pequot Press, published 2009, and has a contract also with Globe Pequot to write Virginia Mysteries and
Legends, due Oct. 1. In July 2008 her comedic novel, Burnt Station, was published. In October she will attend the biennial Teachers
for East Africa conference in Atlanta. Email: ehc214@mchsi.com. Website: www.emileehines.com.
STEVEN A. CHANNING (PhD/1968/Williamson) continues having a reasonably good time producing historical documentary films.
His study of race and class in Durham: A Self-Portrait was screened regionally and will be broadcast on UNC-TV. Steve produced
Joel Williamson: The Education of A Southern White Man on his mentor and friend, and is Executive Producer of the just-premiered
films Change Comes Knocking: The Story of the North Carolina Fund, and Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina. Active
projects include Private Violence: The History of the Movement to End Domestic Violence, and Joseph and the Judge, a profile of
Durham District Court Judge Elaine Bushfan. Steve is also happy to be working with fellow grad Betsy Jacoway, developing a new
film on the Little Rock integration crisis, the subject of her superb book Turn Away Thy Son. Email: schanning@videodialog.com.
EVELYN M. CHERPAK (PhD/1973/Bierck) is curator of the Naval Historical Collection at the Naval War College. The Naval War
College Press will publish her book, Three Splendid Little Wars: The Diary of Joseph K. Taussig, 1898-1901, this summer. She has
had three articles published this year: “Joseph K. Taussig’s Welcome to the U.S. Navy: Three Wars in Three years” in Sea History,
“The papers of Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce” in Manuscripts, and “The WAVES in World War II Oral History Project” in The
Northern Mariner. A manuscript register of the papers of Rear Admiral Edward D. Taussig was published by the Naval War College.
She presented a paper on Naval Commands in Narragansett Bay at the South Shore Military History Symposium. She serves on the
Publications and Collections Committees of the Newport Historical Society. Email: Evelyn.Cherpak@nwc.navy.mil.
KEVIN CHERRY (MA/1993/McVaugh) is now senior program officer with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
One of the three federal cultural funding agencies, IMLS is the primary source of federal support for the nation's 122,000 libraries and
17,500 museums. This agency supports such projects as Save America's Treasures, The National Book Festival, American Heritage
Preservation Grants, The Big Read, Picturing America and provides grants for scholarships, professional development, digitization,
and research into issues related to libraries, archives, museums, and living collections (zoos, arboreta, aquaria, botanical gardens . . .)
Email: kcherry@imls.gov.
MARK CLODFELTER (PhD/1987/Leutze) was on a year’s sabbatical from teaching duties at the National War College beginning
on July 1, 2008. During that time, he completed a book-length manuscript analyzing the development of American strategic bombing
theory after World War I and the testing of those notions during World War II. The tentative title of the work is: Beneficial Bombing:
The Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945. He also completed two papers that have been accepted for
publication: “Aiming to Break Will: America’s World War II Bombing of German Morale and Its Ramifications” (Journal of
Strategic Studies) and “Back from the Future: The Impact of Change on Air Power in the Next Two Decades” (Strategic Studies
Quarterly). In June and September 2008, Checkpoints, the quarterly publication of the Air Force Academy’s Association of
Graduates, published in two parts the Harmon Memorial Lecture that he had presented at the Air Force Academy the previous fall,
“Matching Mountains and Fulfilling Missions: One Grad’s Assessment of USAFA’s True Value.” In May 2008, he led a group of
National War College students to Vietnam and Thailand, and then in June presented a paper titled, “Still Frustrated after Forty Years:
America’s Enduring Dilemma of Fighting Insurgents with Air Power” at an international conference on air power hosted by the
British Defense Academy at Shrivenham. In February 2009, he returned to Shrivenham to lecture to the Joint Services Command and
Staff College on “Air Power and Change.” While in the UK, he also lectured to the Royal Aeronautical Society���s Air Power Group on
“America’s Air Wars in Vietnam.” He delivered a similar lecture in February 2009 to the Air Force’s Air Command and Staff
College in Montgomery, Alabama. Finally, in October 2008, he gave a tour of the Gettysburg battlefield to 0-2 pilots (and family
members) of the 19th Tactical Air Surveillance Squadron from Vietnam (the “Night Rustics”) as a part of their annual reunion. He
would be remiss if he did not mention his ardent support of the National Championship Carolina basketball team throughout the past
season, and carefully scheduled speaking engagements so that they did not conflict with Tar Heel playing times. He can be reached
via email at clodfelterm@ndu.edu, and will eagerly support Roy Williams and the basketball Heels in the 2009-2010 season.
MICHAEL J. COPPS (PhD/1967/Klingberg) was appointed by President Obama to serve as Acting Chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission shortly after the Presidential inauguration. It turned out to be one of the busiest times in the
Commission’s history given the impending Digital Television Transition and the new legislative mandate from Congress for the FCC
to develop a national broadband plan by February 2010. As a new Commission slowly took shape, Copps tried to shepherd the
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country—especially its most vulnerable citizens—through the DTV challenge and then launched a comprehensive broadband
proceeding involving many agencies of government and stakeholders from the private sector. Copps was appointed and confirmed as
Commissioner in 2001 and will close out his second term sometime in 2010.
JOHN COX (PhD/2005/Jarausch) is in his third year as assistant professor of history at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers,
FL. During the 2008-’09 academic year, John published one article—a tribute to Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg (“Raul Hilberg: In
Memoriam,” Journal of Jewish Identities 1:2 [July 2008])—and also published book reviews in the Journal of Jewish Identities; The
European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms; and the Journal of Genocide Research. Dr. Cox also served as Chief Content Editor and
Contributor for the 2nd edition of A. Daniel Frankforter and William Spellman’s textbook The West: Culture and Ideas, Volume II:
1400 to the Present (Pearson Prentice Hall, August 2008). John’s chapter-length essay “Germany, socialism and nationalism”
appeared in the International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present (Immanuel Ness, ed., Blackwell Publishing,
March 2009). John’s first book, Circles of Resistance: Jewish, Leftist, and Youth Dissidence in Nazi Germany (Peter Lang
Publishing), was published in June 2009. Dr. Cox also directs his university’s Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Human Rights
Studies. Email: jmcox@fgcu.edu.
CRAIG J. CURREY (MA/1991/Walker) is a colonel in the US Army and the Director of the Directorate of Basic Combat Training at
Fort Jackson, South Carolina. This organization, designed to enhance Initial Entry Training for the Army, contains research,
educational, and doctrinal elements to study and to teach the best methods for the force. We initiated the Initial Entry Training
Journal this last year to help perpetuate the best ideas in the Training and Doctrine Command community. We are now on our fourth
quarterly issue. With forces deployed in combat, we are doing everything we can, to include many web-based solutions, to
incorporate the latest techniques into training. Email: craig.currey@us.army.mil.
CHRIS DALY (MA/1982/Fink) is an associate professor, teaching journalism at Boston University. He is writing the final chapter of
a narrative history of journalism in America, titled Covering America, which is due out next year from UMass Press. His article on
the historiography of journalism history has been accepted for the winter issue of American Journalism. He has been blogging about
journalism and history at his website, www.journalismprofessor.com. Email: cdaly@bu.edu.
WALLACE L. DANIEL (PhD/1973/Griffiths, Brooks) is Provost and Professor of History at Mercer University. He published
“Reconstructing the ‘Sacred Canopy’: Mother Serafima and Novodevichy Monastery,” in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 59, no. 2
(April 2008): 249-71, and “Alexandr Men and the Struggle to Recover Russia’s Heritage,” in Demokratizatsiya, The Journal of Post-
Soviet Democratization 17, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 73-91. He edited (with Peter L. Berger and Christopher Marsh), Perspectives on
Church-State Relations in Russia (Waco, Tex.: J. M. Dawson Institute for Church-State Studies, 2008). In the fall of 2008, he
delivered the Cornelia Marschall Smith lecture at Baylor University on “The University as a Community of Learners”; he presented a
paper, “Vklad tserkovnykh prikhodov v grazhdanskoe obshchestvo v Rossii,” (“The Contribution of Church Parishes to Civil Society
in Russia”), at the 3rd All-Russian Sociological Congress in Moscow. He wrote reviews for Journal of Ecclesiastical History and
Russian Review (forthcoming in June). He serves on the editorial board of Journal of Church and State and on the Board of Directors
of the Center for Health and Learning at Piedmont HealthCare/Mercer University.
HEATHER L. DICHTER (MA/2002/Jarausch) received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in the fall of 2008 with a
dissertation entitled “Sporting Democracy: The Western Allies’ Reconstruction of Germany Through Sport, 1944-1952”. She has a
forthcoming article in the next issue of Stadion from her dissertation, ‘Strict measures must be taken’: Wartime Planning and the
Allied Control of Sport in Occupied Germany". She will be teaching courses in the Department of History and the Faculty of Physical
Education and Health in the upcoming year.
W. CALVIN DICKINSON (Ph.D./1967/Baxter) is retired from Tennessee Technological University, living in Cookeville,
Tennessee. The University Press of Kentucky published Sister States, Enemy States: The Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee in
June 2009. Co-Editors with Dickinson are Kent Dollar and Larry Whiteaker of Tennessee Tech. Dickinson conducts programs about
his books and other topics on frequent occasions. Email: cdickinson@tntech.edu.
BILL DOLBEE (MA/1983/Hunt) was appointed Associate Head of School at Lake Forest Academy where he has been a member of
the faculty for 25 years. In addition to teaching World History I and A.P. U.S. History and coaching football, he also served as Acting
Director of External Relations – it was an interesting year to be responsible for fundraising. Email: bdolbee@lfanet.org.
RALPH B. DRAUGHON (MA/1964/PhD/1968/Green) retired to Auburn, Alabama, but stays very active in local and statewide
historical and preservation activities. In 2009 he contributed a biographical sketch of William Lowndes Yancey to the online
Encyclopedia of Alabama History. Locally, he researched a house placed on the National Register, and he successfully nominated
another house to a statewide list of Places in Peril. He also continued this year to deliver at local venues a slide lecture
on "The Vanishing Loveliest Village," which has annoyed some local boosters. Email: rdraughon2@bellsouth.net.
ERIC J. ENGSTROM (PhD/1997/Jarausch) currently works in the department of history at the Humboldt University in Berlin. This
year, he and his colleagues received a 2.5 million dollar federal grant to establish a research unit on "Cultures of Madness in Berlin
1870-1930." He also continues to edit and publish the papers of the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin, having just finished volume
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7 on the First World War. He published two review essays and several articles, including one on the history of forensic psychiatry in
Imperial Germany and another on the relationship between psychiatry, psychology and philosophy in the 19th century. He presented
papers at conferences in Berlin, London, Munich and Estonia. Email: engstroe@geschichte.hu-berlin.de.
MAJ BRIT K. ERSLEV (MA/2007/Glatthaar/ABD/2007/Glatthaar) is completing her teaching rotation in the History Department at
the United States Military Academy at West Point. In addition to teaching the core military history course, she advises two cadets
working on theses in the area of the American Civil War. She presented a paper, "The Organ of the Late Confederate Army: Personal
Vindication in D.H. Hill’s The Land We Love," at the April 2009 conference of the Society for Military History in Murfreesboro,
Tennessee. She was promoted to Assistant Professor this spring, and will continue working on her dissertation while attending school
at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Email: brit.erslev@us.army.mil.
STEVE ESTES (PhD/2001/Hall) is teaching American history at Sonoma State University, located just north of San Francisco,
California. He has an article forthcoming in Southern Cultures entitled “The Long Gay Line: Gender and Sexuality at the Citadel,”
and he was awarded a Fulbright to teach in Germany at the University of Erfurt in the spring of 2010. He serves as an academic
content coordinator for Teaching American History grants in several Northern California school districts.
Email: steve.estes@sonoma.edu.
NATALIE M. FOUSEKIS (MA/1994/Filene/PhD/2000/Filene/Hall) is teaching modern US history at California State University,
Fullerton. In August 2008 she was appointed Director for the Center for Oral and Public History at CSUF. The University of Illinois
Press will publish her book, Demanding Child Care: Women’s Activism and the Politics of Welfare, 1940-1971 in 2010. In spring
2008, she received the Outstanding Untenured Faculty Award in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is also serving
on the Nominating Committee for the Oral History Association. Email: nfousekis@fullerton.edu.
ROB GARRIS (PhD/1998/Jarausch) is the Senior Associate Dean at Columbia University's School of International and Public
Affairs. He serves as the Dean's Chief of Staff with responsibility for strategic planning, external affairs, student affairs, and all SIPA
administrative matters. He also works closely with the faculty Vice Dean and the Associate Dean for Faculty and Curriculum Affairs
on academic issues. In addition, Rob manages the School's international dual degrees, exchange programs, and overseas executive
training through the Global Public Policy Network; and serves on the administrative team of Columbia's Center for International
Business Education and Research. His teaching has included survey courses on European history and international affairs. Email:
rob.garris@gmail.com or rob.garris@sipa.columbia.edu.
PAUL GASTON (MA/1955/PhD/1961/Green) is Professor Emeritus of Southern History at the University of Virginia. He was
honored in November 2008 by the Charlottesville-Albemarle branch of the NAACP as a "legendary civil rights activist." He has
completed his autobiography--“Coming of Age in Utopia: The Odyssey of an Idea.” It will be on display at the next meeting of the
Southern Historical Association in Louisville. He continues to live in Charlottesville with his wife, Mary. Visitors always welcome:
pmg@virginia.edu.
JERRY GERSHENHORN (PhD/2000/Leloudis) published “‘Not An Academic Affair’: African American Scholars and the
Development of African Studies Programs in the United States, 1942-1960” in the Winter issue of the Journal of African American
History. He appeared as an on-screen contributor and served as a consultant to Herskovits: At The Heart Of Blackness: A Sixty Minute
Documentary (Vital Pictures, 2009), which will be broadcast on PBS in 2010. He read papers at the spring meeting of the Historical
Society of North Carolina, Charlotte, and at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and
History in October. He spent the spring semester as a Scholar-in-Residence at New York’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture. His article, "Earlie Thorpe and the Struggle for Black History, 1948-1989," will be published next year in Souls: A Critical
Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society. Email: jgershen@nccu.edu.
DAVID M. GLANTZ (MA/1965/Pegg) is serving as the Mark W. Clark Distinguished Professor of History at The Citadel (The
Military College of South Carolina) in Charleston, SC, during academic year 2008-2009. He also continues to serve as editor of The
Journal of Slavic Military Studies, which he founded in 1987. The University Press of Kansas published his book, To the Gates of
Stalingrad: Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942, the first volume in a trilogy on German Operation Blau and the
Stalingrad campaign, in April 2009. Helion Press in Great Britain published his book, After Stalingrad: The Red Army’s Strategic
Offensive 1942-1943, in March 2009. E-mail: Rzhev@aol.com.
GORDON GOLDING (MA/1974/Scott) is Chief Executive Officer of International Corporate Communication, the Paris-based
corporate and financial translation agency that he founded in 1987. He remains a historian at heart, however, and is currently pursuing
research in two areas: antebellum North Carolina, through a study of his ancestor’s iron forge business in Stokes Co., and World War
II in Europe, through a narrative based on his father’s letters home while serving in the 29th Infantry Division. He is also preparing a
database of all the African Americans held in slavery in Stokes County. And lastly, with the recent controversies over the teaching of
evolution in France and Belgium, his 1982 study of the Scope Trial, Le Procès du singe: La Bible contre Darwin, has been
republished in an updated version by Editions Complex in Brussels. Email: ggolding@iccparis.com.
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CORA GRANATA (PhD/2001/Jarausch) is Associate Professor of History, Director of European Studies, and Associate Director of
the Center for Oral and Public History at California State University, Fullerton. In fall 2008, she was awarded the German Studies
Association/DAAD Best Article Prize for her article, “The Ethnic ‘Straight Jacket’: Bilingual Education and Grassroots Agency in the
Soviet Occupied Zone/German Democratic Republic, 1945-1964,” German Studies Review 29, no. 2 (May 2006): 331-46. In October
2008, she presented a paper titled “Political Upheaval and Shifting Identities: Holocaust Survivors in the Soviet Occupied Zone of
Germany” at the Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust, Northwestern University. She also published “The Cold War
Politics of Cultural Minorities: Jews and Sorbs in the German Democratic Republic, 1976-1989,” German History 27, no. 1 (January
2009): 60-83. She continues to live in Long Beach, CA with fellow UNC graduate Chris Endy and their two-year-old son.
Email: cgranata@fullerton.edu.
STEVEN K. GREEN (MA/1987/Mathews/PhD/1997/Semonche) teaches Constitutional Law, First Amendment, Church and State,
and Legal History in the law school and history department at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. He also directs an
interdisciplinary academic program at Willamette, the Center for Religion, Law and Democracy: www.willamette.edu/centers/crld. In
2008, Baylor University Press published his co-authored casebook, Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court. He also authored
articles in the University of California at Davis Law Review (“All Things Not Being Equal: Reconciling Student Religious Expression
in the Public Schools”) and the Brigham Young University Law Review (“The Insignificance of the Blaine Amendment”).
Email: sgreen@willamette.edu.
TOM GRIFFITH (PhD/1996/Kohn) is the Director of the National Security Studies Program and a Professor of the Practice of
International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. He retired from the United
States Air Force in August, 2008, after 30 years, serving most recently as the Dean of Faculty at the National War College. He
presented a key note address at the McCain Conference held at the United States Naval Academy in April 2009. He also gave a guest
lecture at the Air Command and Staff College in Montgomery, Alabama. Email: tegriffith@gmail.com.
JOHN W. HALL (MA/2003/PhD/2007/Higginbotham) was recently named the Ambrose-Hesseltine Assistant Professor of U.S.
Military History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. To accept this post, he has tendered his resignation as an officer in the U.S.
Army, in which he has served for fifteen years. In September, Harvard University Press will publish his first book: Uncommon
Defense: Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War. Presently, John is researching the military history of Indian removal (also under
contract with Harvard) and a paper on the George Washington-Nathanael Greene relationship, to be presented next summer at a
conference in honor of his mentor, Don Higginbotham. Email: johnw.hall@us.armv.mil (but soon to change).
J. LAURENCE HARE (PhD/2007/Jarausch) is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Emory & Henry College and director of
Foundations I, an interdisciplinary humanities program for first-year students. In April, he published four articles on German and
Scandinavian history in The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1500 to the Present and served on the board of
editors. Hare also presented two papers: "Creating Nazi Archaeology: Professional Collaboration and International Scholarship,"
presented at the 2008 German Studies Association Conference, and "Getting back to Global: Rethinking the World History Course,"
presented at the 2008 conference of the Appalachian College Association. Email: lhare@ehc.edu.
KEITH M. HEIM (PhD/1973/Mowry) is retired and lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. Email: rvnjake@yahoo.com.
TIMOTHY HENDERSON (PhD/1994/Joseph) is in his thirteenth year at Auburn University Montgomery. In October of 2008 he
presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association in New Orleans entitled “Mexico Meets the New South
at the 1884 Cotton Exposition in New Orleans.” He contributed a chapter (co-authored with David LaFrance) to State Governors in
the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1952: Portraits in Conflict, Courage, and Corruption, ed. by Jurgen Buchenau and William Beezley
and published in March by Rowman and Littlefield. In April, Hill & Wang released his new book, The Mexican Wars for
Independence, which was chosen as an alternate selection by the History Book Club and the Military Book Club. He is currently
writing a concise history of Mexican immigration to the United States, which will be published by Wiley-Blackwell, as well as an
article on the same topic for Blackwell’s Companion to Mexican History and Culture (ed. by William Beezley). He was awarded
professional improvement leave for the Fall 2009 semester. Email: thender1@aum.edu.
KIMBERLY HILL (PhD/2008/Brundage) graduated with a Ph.D. in American History in August 2008. Since then, she worked as
the teaching assistant for the U.N.C. Honors Study Abroad Program in Cape Town, South Africa. Kimberly also relocated to her home
state. Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas hired her as an assistant professor starting in August 2009.
Email: hill.kim@gmail.com.
CAROL SUE HUMPHREY (PhD/1985/Higginbotham) continues to teach American history at Oklahoma Baptist University. She
received the OBU Distinguished Teaching Award for the 2008-2009 academic year. She continues to serve as the Secretary of the
American Journalism Historians Association and attended the annual meeting of AJHA in Seattle in October. She also continues to
serve as the Faculty Athletics Representative for OBU. This year, she also served as the Chair of the Faculty Athletics Representative
Association of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and presided over the FARA annual meeting at the NAIA
convention in Kansas City in April. Email: carol.humphrey@okbu.edu.
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ELIZABETH “BETSY” JACOWAY (MA/1968/Williamson/PhD/1974/Tindall) received the Southern Association for Women
Historians’ 2008 Willie Lee Rose Prize, awarded for the best book in southern history written by a woman, for TURN AWAY THY
SON: Little Rock, The Crisis That Shocked the Nation (Free Press, 2007). She also received the Central Arkansas Library System's
William Booker Worthen Literary Prize, awarded for the best book on an Arkansas topic. She has founded and overseen the
expansion from six to twenty members of a biannual historians' workshop, Delta Women Writers. She has served on the boards of
Lyon College and the Arkansas Interfaith Council. Most of all, she has worked, successfully (!), to find a donor for her son's
upcoming kidney transplant. Email: ejacow@aol.com.
GREG KALISS (MA/2004/PhD/2008/Kasson) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at Franklin & Marshall College.
His article, “Un-Civil Discourse: Charlie Scott, the Integration of College Basketball, and the ‘Progressive Mystique,’ ” was published
in the Spring 2008 edition of the Journal of Sport History. He also has an article, “A Precarious Perch: Wilt Chamberlain, Basketball
Stardom, and Racial Politics,” in David C. Ogden and Joel Nathan Rosen’s forthcoming volume Falling from Grace, published by the
University Press of Mississippi. Finally, in December, he became the proud father of a beautiful baby girl, named Holly. Email:
gkaliss@fandm.edu.
STUART LEIBIGER (MA/1989/PhD/1995/Higginbotham) is Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department at La Salle
University. He was appointed a “Distinguished Lecturer” by the Organization of American Historians. He served as the Scholar-in-
Residence at “Shaping the Constitution: A View From Mount Vernon,” a National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of
American History Teacher Workshop. His essay “All Other Persons: Slavery and the Constitution,” appeared in Presidents and the
Constitution, vol. 1, published by The Bill of Rights Institute and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Email: leibiger@lasalle.edu.
RALPH E. LUKER (MA/1969/Miller/PhD/1973/Miller) is living in retirement in Atlanta. Currently, he is preparing the essays,
sermons, and speeches of the Reverend Vernon Johns for publication. He is also the founder and manager of CLIOPATRIA: A
GROUP BLOG at History News Network. Email: ralphluker@mindspring.com.
JAMES W. MARCUM (PhD/Foust/1970) remains University Librarian at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. He
published Genius or Dynamic Learner? Benjamin Franklin’s Path to Greatness, The Social Studies 99: 3 (May-June 2008): 99-104,
and is writing a column on The Sustainable Library Imperative for The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances.
Email: marcum@fdu.edu.
SALLY MARKS (MA/1961/Pegg) had a chapter on David Lloyd George in Steven Casey and Jonathan Wright, eds., Mental Maps in
the Era of the Two World Wars (Palgrave, 2008) as well as a piece on the political consequences of John Maynard Keynes in
Contemporanea (Bologna, January, 2008). Her biography of Paul Hymans of Belgium for the Haus (London) series on heads of
delegations at the 1919-23 peace conferences is in press. She also participated in a panel on that peace settlement at the American
Historical Association meeting in New York in January 2009. Though weary, she continues to review. Email: smarks@ric.edu.
MARKO MAUNULA (PhD/2004/Coclanis) is an assistant professor of history at Clayton State University in metro-Atlanta,
Georgia. Maunula's book, Guten Tag, Y'all: Globalization in the South Carolina Piedmont, came out this past summer from the
University of Georgia Press. He chaired a session on post-World War II southern economy at OAH meeting in Seattle past March.
He also completed an article about the contested symbiosis between cotton producers, textile interests, and Washington, focusing on
the battles between agricultural subsidies and textile protectionism. Currently Maunula is working on his second project, a book
about globalization of retail aesthetics.
KATHERINE TUCKER McGINNIS (MA/1992/PhD/2001/Bullard) presented “Not at Home: Italian Dancers on the Road” at the
2009 conference of the Renaissance Society of America in Los Angeles. Her article, “Your Most Humble Subject, Cesare Negri,” was
published in Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250-1750, edited by Jennifer Nevile (University of Indiana Press). She
continues to serve on the boards of the Friends of the Forsyth County Central Library and the Forsyth County Council on the Status of
Women. Email: ktmcginn@email.unc.edu.
MICHAEL S. McFALLS (MA/1992/Soloway) is a partner with Jones Day in Washington, D.C., where he practices antitrust law.
Beyond his usual workload, McFalls is researching and writing an article exploring the early U.S. judicial treatment of antitrust issues
involving intellectual propety. He recently married Valerie Herold, a political consultant, and on February 5, they welcomed their first
child, Blake Herold McFalls. Email: msmcfalls@jonesday.com.
ALAN McPHERSON (PhD/2001/Hunt) changed jobs in 2008. He is now Associate Professor of International and Area Studies and
ConocoPhillips Chair in Latin American Studies at the School of International and Area Studies, University of Oklahoma. He published op-eds
for the History News Network and The Oklahoman and book reviews for The Latin Americanist, the Journal of Third World Studies, and
The Americas. He gave a conference talk at the University of Leeds and invited talks at Georgetown University, Portland State University,
Edinburgh University, and the Copenhagen Business School. Finally, he won the Central American Visiting Fellowship at the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, where he will be in 2010 to finish his next book. Email: mcpherson@ou.edu.
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ARTHUR C. MENIUS (MA/1982/Higginbotham) continues to serve as Director of Appalshop, the 40 years old nonprofit media,
arts, and education center in Whitesburg, KY. He hosted a panel tracing its history at the 2009 Appalachian Studies Conference and a
forum on Voices from the Cultural Battlefront at the Folk Alliance International Conference. He helped curate a retrospective of
Appalshop Films at the October 2008 American Folklore Society Annual Meeting and is chairing a team planning a featured program
at the Oral History Association 2009 conference, also in Louisville. In June 2008 Menius was inducted into the Blue Ridge Music Hall
of Fame, while in October he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the International Bluegrass Music Association. He
continues to publish reviews of music recordings and the occasional essay. Menius serves on the boards of directors of Folk Alliance
International, Appalshop, and the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead State University.
Email: artmenius@mindspring.com.
MARLA R. MILLER (PhD/1997/Hall & Nelson) continues to direct the Public History Program in the History Department at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst, and was delighted to welcome fellow Tarheel Jon Berndt Olsen (PhD 2004) to the
Department’s faculty in September 2008. She has also enjoyed working closely with UNC alumni Anne Whisnant (PhD 1997) and
LuAnn Jones (PhD 1996) on a major study of the State of History in the National Park Service being undertaken by the Organization
of American Historians. In May 2009 for UMass Press she edited a collection of essays on local history called Cultivating a Past:
Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts. She also edits a new book series for UMass Press called Public History in Historical
Perspective. In 2009-10 she will hold the Patrick Henry Fellowship at the C.V. Starr Center at Washington College, where she’ll
enjoy the company of Janet Sorrentino (PhD 1999) while working on projects related to her biography of Betsy Ross, due out from
Henry Holt in 2010. Recently she’s begun to help plan the next Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, which will occur in
Amherst in 2011, and hopes to see many of her UNC friends there. Finally, she’s happy to report that in August 2009 she married
Amherst College physicist Steve Peck. Email: mmiller@history.umass.edu.
DAVID T. MORGAN (MA/1964/PhD/1968/Lefler) is in his twelfth year of retirement, but he continues to be active writing books
and letters to the editor, as well as advocating certain causes. Within the past year he self-published another book: America’s Revival
Tradition and the Evangelists Who Made It. This book, along with his others, is available at Amazon.com. Recently (March 8, 2009),
he gave a speech entitled “Thwarting the Religious Right in Matters of Life and Death” at the monthly meeting of the Hemlock
Society of San Diego. David continues to live in Montevallo, AL with his wife Judith and his faithful-but-quirky dog Houdini.
Email: dtm1937@bellsouth.net.
PHILIP R. MULLER (PhD/1971/Klingberg) continues to live, with his wife Aliceann, in Falls Church, VA and work for Science
Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Over the past dozen years, his SAIC clients have included the Intelligence
Community, Defense Logistics Agency, Internal Revenue Service, Customs Service, Securities and Exchange Commission, and
Environmental Protection Agency. His assignments have included Application and System Tester, Software Developer, Systems
Engineer and Integrator, Configuration Manager, Process Engineer, and Project Manager. His most treasured publications have been
the recipes posted to www.carolplace.com. Email: pmuller@cox.net.
RACHEL SARAH O’TOOLE (MA/1996/PhD/2001/Chambers) is teaching colonial Latin American and African Diaspora history at
the University of California, Irvine. She published a chapter entitled “Within Slavery: Marking Property and Making Men in Colonial
Peru,” Power, Culture, and Violence in the Andes (Sussex Academic Press, 2009) and has a chapter in Thomas Holloway’s A
Blackwell Companion to Latin American History (Blackwell Publishing, 2008). She presented papers at the Center for Latin America
& Latino/a Studies of Georgia State University and the 14th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, and was elected
Secretary/Chair of the Andean Studies Committee (Conference on Latin American History). Email: rotoole@uci.edu.
JACQUELINE M. OLICH (MA/1994/PhD/2000/Raleigh) is the Associate Director of the UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East
European Studies. She teaches in the Curriculum in Russian and East European Studies and received a grant to support the creation of a new
course, RUES 699 Twentieth-Century Childhood in Comparative Perspective, which she taught in Fall 2008. She published a book entitled
Competing Ideologies and Children's Literature in Russia, 1918-1935 as well as an article in The Journal of the History of Childhood and
Youth. She organized a major conference held at UNC, “The Ukrainian Famine-Genocide: Reflections After 75 Years.” She chaired a
roundtable at the 2008 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies National Conference (AAASS) and served on the
Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS) Nominating Committee. She joined the international and interdisciplinary post-graduate
research seminar, "Children's Culture: Norms, Values, Practices," at Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow. She was
recently named to the Durham County Women's Commission. Email: jmolich@email.unc.edu.
DOUGLAS CARL PEIFER (MA/1991/PhD/1996/Weinberg) is injecting history and cultural insights into the curriculum of the Air
War College, the senior level professional military educational program of the US Air Force. Peifer teaches courses on strategy,
European regional security issues, and genocide intervention to colonels and lieutenant colonels from the Air Force, Army, Navy, and
Marines alongside senior level interagency representatives and international fellows from some forty countries. Peifer’s The Three
German Navies hit the German bookshelves in early 2008 as Drei Deutsche Marinen. Auflösung, Übergänge und Neuanfänge
(Bochum: Winkler Verlag, 2007) and his edited volume on genocide intervention appeared in the summer, entitled Stopping Mass
Killings in Africa: Genocide, Airpower, and Intervention (Montgomery AL: Air University Press, 2008). Peifer received the Society
for Military History 2008 Moncado Prize for his article “The Past in the Present: Passion, Politics, and the Historical Profession in the
German and British Pardon Campaigns” and Air University’s 2008-9 Lorenz Prize for outreach efforts. He published a review essay
on “Memory, History and the Second World War” in Contemporary European History, articles in Strategic Studies Quarterly and
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Small Wars Journal, and presented lectures and papers at Vanderbilt University, Millersville University, and at a regional security
conference in Taipei, Taiwan. E-mail: dpeifer@knology.net.
WILLIAM S. PRICE, JR. (MA/1969/Lefler/PhD/1973/Higginbotham) was North Caroliniana Society Scholar-in-Residence at
Peace College in Raleigh for the 2008-2009 academic year. As a follow-up to his Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina: Three Views
of His Character and Creed published early in 2008, he spoke on Macon and his times at the North Carolina Museum of History in
Raleigh in November 2008. The next month he spoke on “The Revolutionary Character of Nathaniel Macon” marking the 250th
anniversary of Macon’s birth at the Warren County Courthouse in Warrenton, NC. William C. Harris, Catherine Bishir, and Reynolds
Price were the other speakers that day in a program sponsored by the North Caroliniana Society. In February 2009, Price addressed
the faculty and staff of Peace College on “How North Carolina Became the Way It Is.” Email: pricews@bellsouth.net.
JOHN A. RICKS (PhD/1974/Mowry) retired in 2003 from teaching history and being Chair of the Social Science Division at Middle
Georgia College and founded Cochran-Bleckley Better Hometown, Inc. in September 2003. He received a grant from USDA of
$98,600 to build a Cotton-Peanut Museum. He did research in Cochran Journal and several books and wrote a narrative and collected
pictures. The museum will be dedicated in 2009. Email: jricks39@yahoo.com.
KARL RODABAUGH (PhD/1981/Tindall) will retire early in 2010 as professor of history & director of the Evening-Weekend
College at Winston-Salem State University. Several of his essays appear in the recent Encyclopedia of African American History
(Oxford University Press, 2009). He also published a review in the Journal of Southern History. He is president of the NC Adult
Education Association; treasurer of the Commission on Accelerated Programs; and an appointed member of the NW Piedmont
Workforce Development Board. Email: rodabaughk@wssu.edu.
WILLIAM W. ROGERS (PhD/1959/Green) was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of West Alabama at their
December 2008 commencement exercises. The degree was Doctor of Humane Letters. He continues to serve as Director of Sentry
Press in Tallahassee and have a three year appointment as a member of the Graduate History Faculty of the History Department at the
University of Alabama. His publications were Two Alabama Historians Write Alabama History and "The Confederate Nation
Reflected," Georgia Historical Quarterly, XCIII (Spring 2009), 77-85.
MICHAEL ROSS (PhD/1999/Barney/Coclanis) is leaving Loyola University New Orleans after ten enjoyable years and in fall 2009
will be Associate Professor at the University of Maryland at College Park. He published an article in the Journal of Supreme Court
History, book reviews in the Journal of Southern History and Annals of Iowa, and he delivered a paper at the Historical Society.
MOLLY P. ROZUM (PhD/2001/Lotchin) is teaching the American West and U.S. Women’s history among many other courses at
Doane College in Crete, Nebraska. She has an article, “‘That Understanding With Nature’: Region, Race, and Nation in Women’s
Stories from the Modern Canadian and American Grasslands Wests,” in Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus’ One Step Over the
Line: Toward A History of Women in the North American Wests, published by University of Alberta Press and Athabasca Press. She
published reviews in the Great Plains Quarterly and South Dakota History and served on a roundtable and as a commentator at the
43rd Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference. Email: molly.rozum@doane.edu.
DAVID SARTORIUS (MA/1997/PhD/2003/Pérez) published, with John L. Jackson Jr., Carlos Tovares, Bobby Vaughn, and Ben
Vinson III, "Charting Racial Formations in the New U.S. South: Reflections on North Carolina's Latino, African-American, and Afro-
Latino Relations," Working Paper WP010, Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University. In October he gave an invited
lecture at Indiana University, “On Becoming Spanish: Afro-Cubans, Empire, and Loyalty,” as part of the “Race in the Americas”
series in the Department of African-American Studies, and in November he participated at a roundtable discussion on teaching the
history of the African diaspora at the African Studies Association meeting in Chicago. He served on the prize committee for the Lydia
Cabrera Award for Research on Cuban History of the Conference on Latin American History, and, as a member of the organizing
collective of the Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas, he helped plan a gathering in Mexico last July of
over ninety scholars from throughout the hemisphere. Email: das@umd.edu.
WILLIAM K. SCARBOROUGH (PhD/1962/Green) finally began a two-year phased retirement at the end of spring semester, 2009.
At the time of his retirement he was the senior faculty member at the University of Southern Mississippi, having served that institution
since 1964. Before his retirement, he received the Innovation Lifetime Achievement Award from the University Research Council.
He also published a book review in the American Historical Review and continued work on his sixth (and last) book on the Allston
family of Georgetown District, S.C. for which he has a contract with LSU Press if that press is still in existence when he completes his
manuscript in spring, 2010. Finally, he found time to travel to Memphis to see the Heels in the NCAA Basketball Regional
Tournament on their way to the National Championship. Email: william.scarborough@usm.edu.
BARBARA BRANDON SCHNORRENBERG (MA/1953/ Godfrey) continues to teach in the Arlington (VA) Learning in
Retirement program. Last fall The Four Georges enrolled more than 40 members. She has been named to the Nominating Committee
of the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association. Any suggestions for nominees to the Section’s various offices
and committees will be gratefully received. E-mail: bbschnorrenberg@verizon.net.
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JOHANNA SCHOEN (MA/1989/Fink/PhD/1996/Hall) remains at the University of Iowa. She just finished a three semester
research leave, working on two books: a history of abortion since legalization and a biography of Susan Hill. Hill heads the National
Women’s Health Organization which operates eight abortion clinics across the country. In April, Schoen donated her interviews with
Hill to the Southern Oral History Program and gave a brief address at a reception honoring Hill. This made Schoen terribly nervous
because Hill was sitting in the audience listening. Fortunately, no offense was taken. In addition, Schoen talked to North Carolina
legislators about restitution to victims of the state’s eugenic sterilization program. She worked as a consultant for a screenwriter who
was writing a docudrama about North Carolina’s sterilization program for the women’s channel Lifetime. [Lifetime then rejected the
excellent script, finding it “too dark.” Duh!] In her spare time, Schoen collected a number of rejection letters for further research
leaves, watched her son graduate from high school [really true], and read 30+ books on Chinese History as a member of her
department’s search committee. [Search failed, but the reading was fascinating.] When not obsessed with intellectual pursuits,
Schoen continues to run – now in the company of her dog Chaos, lay bricks wherever she can locate a free space in her back yard, and
accompany her partner Charles into the Montana wilderness. Email: Johanna-schoen@uiowa.edu.
DAVID SCHUYLER (MA/1975/Kasson) is Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities and Professor of American
Studies at Franklin