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UNIVERSITY OF UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 2012-2013 KLIO 215 South Central Campus Drive - Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building Suite 310 - Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Message from the Chair of the Department As the Department of History enters its fifth year at the A record eleven students graduated with a Master’s Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building, it is degree in 2011-12. Those continuing in the program have encouraging to report that the department continues to been successful in obtaining grants, and two have grow, with the addition of new faculty, exciting new received travel awards to work in archives in the U.S. courses, new students, and new curricular connections and France. with programs and centers across the university. Thanks to the great generosity of the Smith-Pettit In January the department’s international and Foundation, the department awarded its first award for interdisciplinary strengths were highlighted, alongside graduate research in Mormon History. This year the community projects, in a History department video award’s first honoree is J. B. Haws, whose doctoral broadcast to a national audience of historians at the dissertation, “The Mormon Image in the American annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Mind: Shaping Public Perception of Latter-day Saints, held in Chicago. The film profile, entitled “Globally 1968-2008,” will be published by Oxford University Minded, Locally Grounded” featured History faculty Press. and students who spoke eloquently about the richness of the educational experience in the department and at As we started the 2012-13 academic year, we looked the U. In communicating such a broad vision of forward to two major public lectures in the department: connections and opportunities to be gained from The O. Meredith Wilson Lecture, September 27, was studying history, our students and faculty eloquently delivered by Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of expressed the relevance and value of a History degree as History at Columbia University who spoke on the preparation for professional life in our increasingly subject of his most recent book, The Fiery Trial: global and interconnected world. The video can be Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, winner of the viewed on the History department’s website. Bancroft Prize, the Pulitzer Prize for History, and The In April the department hosted its inaugural conference Lincoln Prize; and on October 2, Alice Dreger, Professor for undergraduate students, graduates, and faculty, titled of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics at “Practicing History.” In twelve panels over two days, the Northwestern University, delivered the biennial Vern and conference showcased the research of 36 undergraduate, Bonnie Bu"ough Lecture in the History of Sex and Gender. graduate and faculty scholars. We hope to repeat the Both events are highlights of the academic year. The success of the conference next year in what we hope will History department cordially invites friends and alumni become an annual event, showcasing the research of the to join us for these events each year. entire departmental community. With the support of the friends of the department we The faculty grew in the past two years with the are looking forward to an exciting year ahead. additions of Dr. Hugh Cagle and Dr. Miche"e Wolfe. Hugh Cagle’s research on disease and the culture of science in Portuguese India and the Atlantic in the Early Modern era, and his courses on the History of Brazil Isabel Moreira and on the Age of Exploration, are exciting additions to the department’s o"erings in colonial history. Michelle Professor and Chair Wolfe focuses on gender and religion in Early Modern Britain and will add classes on Tudor and Stuart Britain, the Atlantic World and the History of the Family to the department’s curriculum. ! PAGE 1 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 2012-2013 ANNUAL DEPARTMENT EVENTS O. MEREDITH WILSON LECTURE History Department This year the While much of the contemporary Office Wilson Lecture political culture makes attempts to was given by simplify the mind and actions of 215 S. Central Campus Dr. the DeWitt Abraham Lincoln, Professor Foner CTIHB Room 310 Clinton painted a far more sophisticated and Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 Professor of complex person than that of the lure (801) 581-6121 History, Eric which prevails in the American history.utah.edu Foner, on his conscience. The O. Meredith Wilson klio.utah.edu recent Lecture is a crowning event for the publication of Department of History, and we’re very The Fiery Trial: fortunate to have had such a celebrated Academic Administration Abraham expert with us in September. Lincoln and Isabel Moreira, American Chair Slavery. Nadja Durbach, He spoke to a packed lecture hall in the Associate Chair CTIHB room 109. His lecture traced Eric Hinderaker the evolution of Lincoln’s views and Director of Graduate policies regarding slavery and how the Studies related issue of race shifted the tense political terrain leading up to and throughout the American Civil War. The Staff Ashley Black VERN & BONNIE BULLOUGH LECTURE IN THE Front Desk Christopher Bradshaw HISTORY OF SEX & GENDER Administrative Assist Karen Iannucci This year came to be a medical concept and Administrative Officer the Bullough why it has been a term purged from Copeland Johnston Lecture, in the medical lexicon due to its Project Coordinator conjunction pejorative nature. This shift in Karleton Munn with the language matter has been an integral Academic Advisor College of product of the intersex and civil Brian Tran Humanities rights movement in the United Front Desk and States. Department of Medical Humanities, presented Dr. Alice Dreger’s lecture titled “Where Newsletter front page Hermaphrodites Came from, and title photograph by Where they Went.” Dreger Laura Summerfield addressed a packed lecture hall of mostly students. The hermaphrodite has come and gone in Western medicine. Dr. Dreger Klio, Muse of History explored how the “hermaphrodite” ! PAGE 2 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 2012-2013 FACULTY UPDATES The University of Utah Department of History Welcomes New Faculty Member, Michelle Wolfe Michelle Wolfe works on the intersection of gender and religion in early modern Britain and the Anglophone Atlantic. She graduated A.B. with Honors from the University of Chicago in 1994, received a Master’s Degrees in Women’s Studies in Religion and History of Christianity from the School of Religion at Claremont, and completed her Ph.D. in History at the Ohio State University. She has held post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard University and the University of London, and taught courses at Otterbein College, the Ohio State University and Harvard Divinity School. She has presented portions of her dissertation and book research at several national conferences (North American Conference on British Studies, American Historical Association, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Ecclesiastical History Society, Berkshire Conference on Women’s History) and published essays in Historical Journal and Studies in Church History. Her teaching interests include the history of Europe and the Atlantic world, historical sexualities and gender systems and religion in world history. She is currently completing her first book, The Gender Reformation: Clerical Marriage and Clerical Manhood in Early Modern England. Her book argues that the shift from a celibate to a married priesthood required a radical reformation of Christian masculinity, as well as the creation of a new social role: the parson’s wife. W. Lindsey Adams, the recipient of the 2009 ASUU “Student Choice On July 1, 2012, he concluded his second term as the director Teaching Award” and 2011-12 Phi Alpha Theta “Professor of the Year,” of the American West Center and handed the reigns of that presses on with his usual gusto. He is in his second term as the august institution to Greg Smoak. He is delighted that he is President of the Association of Ancient Historians, and editorial leaving the center in the hands of one of the nation’s premier consultant for The Ancient World. If that isn’t enough he is also the public historians and that the ties between it and the Director of the Scott R. Jacobs Fund for Research and Study of department of history – where it was conceived almost fifty Alexander the Great, which sponsors research and scholarly years ago – will remain strong. He is delighted to have more presentations for doctoral students and junior faculty, as well as support time to devote to several new projects and to slow down a little for conferences in general on the topic of Alexander the Great. As the bit. director of that fund it seems only appropriate that he will be working on Hugh Cagle joined the Department of History in the fall of 2011 an international symposium co-sponsored by the history department on after completing his PhD at Rutgers University. He is trained in Alexander the Great scheduled to be held here in October of 2014! Latin American history (especially Brazil), the history of science, Matthew Basso co-authored We Shall Remain: A Native History of and comparative colonial history. He is now revising a book Utah and America, a K-12 textbook that places the experiences of manuscript about the field of intellectual inquiry now referred to American Indians at the center of Utah history. We Shall Remain, and as “tropical medicine” as it emerged in Portugal’s equatorial the Utah American Indian Digital Archive project that he also led, colonies between about 1450 and 1750. He uses debates over together received the Western History Association’s Autry Public the causes and treatment of diseases like cholera and malaria History Prize, as well as several other awards. Another book project to show that colonial medicine depended not on the expertise that he has been laboring over for many years was recently published.