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201 4 @ NORTHWESTERN The Newsletter of the Department of History at Northwestern University

JUDD A. AND MARJORIE WEINBERG COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

History Fans Bid Kid Adieu The headline, of course, mimics that of John Updike’s famous essay about the retirement from baseball of Peter Hayes’s boyhood hero, Ted Williams. And, the announcement is a bit premature, as Hayes will teach one last course next year. But, to mark the completion in June of his five years as department chair and his thirty-four years at Northwestern, the Department held the party depicted on this page at Oceanique Restaurant in Evanston. Hayes says the event will stand as his official and grateful farewell. He hopes you enjoy the pictures as much as he did the evening. 2014

WELCOME TO NEW FACULTY

Kevin Boyle (PhD Michigan Message from the Chair, 1990) specializes in the history of the twentieth century Peter Hayes United States. He joined the Northwestern faculty as the William Smith Mason Professor In the two years since of American history in autumn the last Newsletter, Northwestern’s History 2013, after eight years at the Department has gone University of Massachusetts from strength to and eleven years at Ohio State. strength. He has published three books in An extraordinary series of national labor history: The UAW and the honors testified to the Heyday of American Liberalism Department’s standing: (Cornell University Press, 1995); Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons: Dylan Penningroth Images of Working-Class Detroit, 1900-1930 (with Victoria Getis) (Wayne received a MacArthur Fellowship; Sarah Maza State University, 1997); and Organized Labor and American Politics: and Ed Muir won election to the American Academy The Labor-Liberal Alliance (SUNY Press, 1998). Then he turned to of Arts and Sciences, joining Ken Alder among our the history of the civil rights movement. That switch resulted in Arc of three current members, and Lacey Baldwin Smith and Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age (Henry Garry Wills among our previous colleagues who have been so recognized; Ed Muir also received a lifetime Holt, 2004), which received the National Book Award, the Chicago achievement award from the Society of Italian Historical Tribune’s Heartland Prize, and the Simon Weisenthal Center’s Tolerance Studies; the National University of Ukraine conferred an Book Award. It was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National honorary doctorate on Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern; and Book Critics Circle Award. Now he’s at work on a micro-history of early the President of the United States presented Darlene Clark Hine, an affiliated faculty member whose principal twentieth century political extremism, The Splendid Dead: An American appointment is in African American Studies, with a Ordeal, and a narrative history of the 1960s, Change Is Gonna Come. National Humanities Medal. He’s also trying to learn how to love the Chicago Cubs after a lifetime of Scholarly prizes were also numerous: Gerry rooting for the Detroit Tigers. Cadava received the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize from the American Historical Association for the best first book published in History, the Royal Historical Society Paul Ramírez (PhD Berkeley 2010) awarded the Whitfield Prize for the best first book in studies Mexico in the late colonial and early British history to Scott Sowerby, and Helen Tilley won national periods. A native of the Chicago the Ludwig Fleck Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science for the best book in science and area, he arrived at Northwestern last fall technology studies published in 2010-13. No fewer after teaching for two years at Washington than five faculty members won prestigious external University in St. Louis and one year as fellowships to support leaves in 2014-15. the Dana and David Dornsife Fellow at Closer to home, University and College recognitions also came thick and fast: Dylan the Huntington Library in San Marino, Penningroth won promotion to full professor and Amy California. He has published articles in Stanley, Scott Sowerby, and Ipek Yosmaoglu promotion Hispanic American Historical Review, to tenure. Ben Frommer received a Charles Deering Endeavour, and The Americas, for which he McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence, Alex Owen the E. LeRoy Hall Teaching Award, and Scott was awarded the 2013 Tibesar Prize from Sowerby the Weinberg College Award for Distinguished the Conference on Latin American History, Teaching. Those awards to Alex and Scott extended and he is completing a book manuscript the Department’s streak of winning Weinberg College on health care reform in Mexico during a teaching prizes for faculty to four years in a row. (Our graduate students have compiled the same remarkable tumultuous period of experimentation and insurgency. Tentatively titled record in their prize category, as well!) Daniel Minerva’s Mexico: Enlightenment Battles against Epidemic Disease, the Immerwahr earned the College’s prize for student book considers the social, political, and epistemological implications mentoring. of popular participation in public health campaigns, including the Clearly, the Department’s reputation for combining stellar scholarship and outstanding teaching remains introduction of preventive techniques such as immunization against deserved. That reputation also remains a powerful draw smallpox. He holds degrees in the study of religion from Harvard College and Harvard Divinity School and is pleased to be back in Chicago. continued on page 3

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Message from the Chair, Peter Hayes Continued

for Northwestern undergraduates. Defying the downward trend in History enrollments at many other elite private Helen Tilley and flagship public universities, the number of students (PhD Oxford 2002) taking our classes is actually up by 15% since 2009. And studies the history of environmental, we continue to attract some of the very best Northwestern medical, and human sciences in sub- undergraduates, as indicated by the fact that a history Saharan Africa, making Northwestern major has won the Frank N. and Lee L. Corbin Prize for the outstanding senior who is going on to graduate school in an ideal intellectual home. She three of the last five years. Aaron Levine, this year’s winner, joined the faculty in the autumn of is entering Yale Law School this fall. 2012 and has already served on two successful searches in African and Latin Of course, we have also had our losses and setbacks. Our revered emeritus colleague Lacey Baldwin Smith died in American history. She lectures at the September 2013, just shy of his 91st birthday. A brilliant undergraduate level on environmental writer and equally gifted teacher, Lacey continued being and medical topics and is helping to both long after his retirement in 1993. For many years, launch graduate training in transnational he returned almost annually to teach in the Alumnae Continuing Education Program, and his last book, a study and global history. Her first book, of Anne Boleyn, appeared only a few months before his Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, death. Brodie Fischer left us for the University of Chicago, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge (Chicago, 2011), Regina Grafe departed for the European Universities examines the role of field sciences in shaping ideas about economic Institute in Florence, Italy, and we miss them both. development in British colonial Africa. It was a finalist for the Herskovits A number of new initiatives have enriched our program. Prize in African Studies and was awarded a Choice Outstanding Academic Thanks to the generosity of alumnus David Beach, we now Title prize in 2012 and named the best book in science and technology have an annual Gray Boyce Memorial Lecture in Medieval studies by the Society for the Social Studies of Science in 2014. She has History, for which the first two speakers were Hannah Holborn Gray of the University of Chicago and Martha edited volumes on the history of anthropology in colonial Africa and on Howell of Columbia. A grant from the Teagle Foundation utopian and dystopian dimensions of recent human history. Her current has enabled us to launch in partnership with the American project explores African decolonization and the global turn to “traditional Historical Association a new array of seminars and medicine” in the third-quarter of the twentieth century, for which she was presentations designed to enhance the training of graduate students as teachers. Meanwhile, the entire Department awarded a Kaplan Humanities Fellowship in 2013-14. Her prior research continues to benefit from the stimulating offerings of the has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and Chabraja Center for Historical Studies. the Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine. We also have had exceptional back-to-back hiring Keith Woodhouse seasons. In addition to the four marvelous colleagues (PhD Wisconsin 2010) specializes in environmental described on these two pages who joined us since the history, political history, and the twentieth-century United States. He last Newsletter, we have recruited four new colleagues arrived at Northwestern last year after two years as a postdoctoral who are joining us in the coming academic year. Sean fellow with the University of Southern California and the Huntington Hanretta (PhD Wisconsin) comes to us from Stanford as associate professor of African history, specializing in West Library’s Institute on California Africa; Paul Gillingham (PhD Oxford) from the University and the West. His current of Pennsylvania as associate professor of Latin American project is a history of radical history with a specialization in modern Mexico; Lina Britto environmentalism in the (PhD NYU) from Harvard as assistant professor of Latin American history with a concentration on modern Colombia late-twentieth century, and in and the narcotics trade; and Forrest Hylton (PhD NYU) particular its relationship to also from Harvard as visiting assistant professor of Latin mainstream American political American history with a focus on indigenous peoples. thought. He also teaches in As these appointments indicate, we continue to extend the Department’s geographical range. In keeping with the program in Environmental that effort, next year we will conduct a search in modern Policy & Culture. Southeast Asian history thanks to a new endowment.

As I look back on my five years as chair (and on my thirty-four years in this Department!), I am filled with a profound sense of satisfaction at what we have achieved and an equally strong sense of gratitude for the memories I have of many wonderful students and colleagues. Thank you to all alumni and friends of the Department for all you have done and will continue to do to keep this superb community of scholars and students thriving!

All best, Peter

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Chabraja Center News

In 2012, the Chabraja Center’s founding director Tim Breen have included “Oceans of History” (Neal Dugre), “Debt in retired, and Sarah Maza took over the directorship of what has History” (Michael Martoccio), “The Law in Action” (Jesse become the heart of the department’s intellectual life as well Nasta), and “Reputations in History (Andrea Seligman), all as an important resource for the wider university community of which featured distinguished external plenary speakers and and beyond. The Center’s expanding roster of activities is commentators. Next year we will be able to bring the number possible thanks to the loyal and generous support of Nicholas of our graduate fellows up to three, one of whom will be in D. Chabraja and his family. charge of expanding CCHS’s online presence (look out for historical tweets coming your way!) In honor of our founding director, our graduate associates are now known as the T.H. Breen Fellows.

The Chabraja Center also serves as a hub for undergraduate historical research. We continue every year to oversee the activities of a dozen talented and highly motivated undergraduates, most but not all of them history majors, who contribute substantively to their faculty mentors’ research projects on subjects as varied as traditional medicine in colonial Africa, the holocaust in the Czech lands, Salvador Dalí’s SARAH MAZA INTRODUCES A CCHS PANEL surrealist objects, or heiresses in nineteenth-century Europe.

Finally, the Chabraja Center continues to forge links with The Center continued these last two years to host lectures by institutions across the world. These past two years have established and emerging stars of the historical discipline, often included workshops bringing together Northwestern graduate to standing-room-only audiences in Harris 108. In the last two students with their overseas counterparts at Bogazici University years, our speakers have included William Cronon, Caroline in Istanbul and Warsaw University in Poland. This year we Walker Bynum, Bethany Moreton, Elliott West, Richard White, launched what we hope will be an ongoing partnership with the Susan Pedersen, Madison Smartt Bell, and Margot Canaday, Institute for Historical Research in London (this year seven of among others. CCHS has also forged connections with many our graduate students visited the IHR over spring break, and we departments and programs on campus for ad-hoc and ongoing hosted their seven British counterparts in May), and we have partnerships that bring in an additional set of scholars: our plans involving Hong Kong University as well. collaboration with the University Library is long established, with prominent historians of the book visiting each winter, and This brief account does not include all the Center’s many we have begun to work with the Center for African American recent activities, about which we invite you to find out more at History on an annual lecture that this year brought us the www.historicalstudies.northwestern.edu. distinguished African-Americanist Tera Hunter.

CCHS also draws on the talents of Northwestern Faculty. Our own Jonathon Glassman was a speaker in 2012, and we periodically organize faculty panels on provocative topics such as “History: How is it Different in Other Disciplines?” which brought together faculty from English, Art History, Sociology, and Political Science, and “Teaching Controversial Histories: Sex, Race, and Religion in the Classroom” with faculty in Asian-American, Middle Eastern, and Gay and Lesbian history.

Students, both graduate and undergraduate, are some of the principal beneficiaries of the Center’s activities. Each year two graduate fellows assist us in preparing for and hosting the JAMES CRONON PRESENTS A CCHS LECTURE speakers, engage with our undergraduate fellows, and organize their own conferences. Recent conferences and their organizers

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Faculty News Faculty Bookshelf

Ken Alder returned to Evanston in June 2014 titled Squalor in the Great American Valley. CADAVA after a year as a visiting faculty member at He also celebrated and lamented the departure Standing on Common Ground: NYU working on his new project on material of his twin sons for their first year in college. The Making of a Sunbelt culture. He presented a portion of this as With some dismay, he realized that Charlie Borderland the plenary address at the 2013 centennial and Evan were born around the time he start- Cambridge: Harvard meeting of the History of Science Society ed research in Cincinnati. University Press, 2013 in Boston. This required him to impersonate Marie Curie’s bicycle. (As if we needed more John Bushnell is nearing completion of a proof that he takes the materialist approach book that, two years ago, he did not realize to history seriously!) For the 100th anniver- he was writing: on the very large numbers sary issue of the journal Isis he published of Russian peasant women who would not an article proposing a new methodological marry and the almost unknown religious approach to the study of the history of sci- sect to which they predominantly belonged. COHEN ence. In 2013, he was elected a fellow of the That book broke away from his project on Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in American Academy of Arts and Sciences. At the history of Russian peasant marriage and Modern Britain the induction ceremony he shook the hand will include chapters demonstrating that, New York: Oxford University of Alan Alda, but was disappointed that his contrary to a widely held belief, serfs’ owners Press, 2013 co-inductee, Mel Brooks, did not attend. In generally did not intervene in serf marriage September 2014, he assumes the august role prior to the mid-18th century, then began of chair of the department. to intervene precisely in response to their discovery (revealed to them by angry male Michael Allen continued to work on and serfs desperate for brides) that many of their contend with his current book project, which female serfs refused to marry. He hopes that he has retitled Tug of War: Confronting the two years from now he will be able to report KRAMER Imperial Presidency, 1966-1992. He also the book’s publication. The Republic of Rock: shepherded his first three graduate students Music and Citizenship in through qualifying exams and into PhD can- Geraldo Cadava had an eventful and the Sixties Counterculture didacy, taught some new courses, including a life-changing year. His first son was born and New York: Oxford three-year tour of duty with the U.S. survey his first book was published, both in Sep- University Press, 2013 and one of the department’s first course offer- tember. The boy is a delight and is showing ings to fulfill its new “Approaches to History” signs that he may begin sleeping through the seminar requirement, a course called “War night, walking, and talking. And his book, and the State in the American Century,” and Standing on Common Ground: The Making he reaped the rewards of Associate Professor of a Sunbelt Borderland, won the Frederick LERNER status by becoming Director of Undergradu- Jackson Turner Award from the Organization (with Sean L. Field and ate Studies. of American Historians. Sylvain Piron) Marguerite Porete et le Kathleen Belew, a postdoctoral fellow, spent Peter Carroll recently returned from a Miroir des simples âmes: most of the year revising her manuscript, fortnight-long jaunt in China that included Perspectives historiques, Bring the War Home: Vietnam and the Rad- a week on a boat, floating down the Yang- philosophiques et littéraires ical Right, which Harvard University Press zi River from Chongqing (Chungking) to Paris: Vrin, Etudes de philosophie médiévale, 2013 will publish in 2015. She also published a Shanghai. He was a faculty lecturer on a NU journal article on vigilantism and lynching in Alumni Trip, a tough teaching assignment, United States history and a New York Times but someone had to do it. He was glad, almost MASUR op-ed on white power movement violence. three decades after first going to Shanghai, (with René Hayden, Anthony She is looking forward to participating in the finally to stay down the hall from where E. Kaye, Steven F. Miller, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Noel Coward wrote Private Lives (1930). Susan E. O’Donovan, Leslie series as an affiliate next year and to teaching Coward caught influenza and convalesced for S. Rowland, and Stephen A. the American Studies senior project series. a couple of weeks: he sketched the play out West) She also welcomed her first child, and has during most of his stay and then wrote it in Freedom: A Documentary spent many happy hours this year playing four days. Coward’s mojo--or was it the free History of Emancipation, with him rather than working. flowing gin and such of 1930s Shanghai?-- 1861-1867 Series 3, Volume 2: Land and was absent, so Carroll regrets that he did not Labor, 1866-1867 Henry Binford used the seemingly endless complete any major works during his two-day Chapel Hill: University of winter of 2014 to complete a draft of his stay. He has, however, continued to do re- North Carolina Press, 2013 seemingly never-finished book on nine- search and to present his work. In the summer teenth-century Cincinnati slums, tentatively of 2013, he spoke at conferences at Brown

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and Shanghai University. This summer he Caitlin will spend 2014-15 on an ACLS 2015. During his final year of teaching will be giving talks at the Academia Sinica fellowship. at Northwestern in 2014-15, he hopes to and the National Central Library, both in finish turning the lectures for his acclaimed Taibei, Taiwan. He looks forward to a fall In July 2013, Benjamin Frommer became course on the history of the Holocaust into talk at Vanderbilt, where, following dis- the Director of the Holocaust Educational a book. In June 2014, he began serving cussions of Republican Chinese era social Foundation (HEF), which recently joined as Chair of the Academic Committee of science, suicide, and concerns regarding Northwestern University after three de- the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in youth, he has been promised a weekend of cades of independent existence. HEF pro- Washington, DC. honky tonkin’. motes and supports college-level teaching and academic research about the Holocaust. Laura Hein especially enjoyed teaching Deborah Cohen’s book Family Secrets The Foundation organizes a yearly Summer in 2013, including a new course on World came out in 2013, published by Viking Institute for scholars at Northwestern, War II in Asia, as well as her courses at the Penguin and Oxford University Press. Her runs the biennial Lessons and Legacies first-year and graduate levels on commem- mother was glad to learn it wasn’t a study Conference, and disburses grants to support oration and remembrance. She was pleased of the Cohen family secrets, but those of research and teaching. Frommer simultane- to receive her first teaching award, from British families from the late eighteenth ously began his three-year term as Charles the Northwestern Panhellenic Association. century to the present-day. Family Secrets Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching At Northwestern, she chaired successful was named a book of the year by the Excellence. searches for Assistant Professors in Hindi Spectator, The Sunday Times (UK) and the & Urdu Literature in 2012-13 and Japanese Times Literary Supplement. Jonathon Glassman’s most recent pub- Literature in 2013-14, both for the new De- lication is an article in the Spring 2014 partment of Asian Languages and Cultures. Dyan Elliott enjoyed a fabulous research issue of the Journal of African History that She also published three essays, two on art leave last year (2012-13) at the National troubles notions of creole hybridity. Since museums and one on taxation, which gives Humanities Center in North Carolina, the last newsletter, two of the honors that a good sense of the range of her current where she inaugurated her new project on he has found most meaningful came from scholarly interests. She serves on the board scandal and the medieval church. Reentry institutions close to his heart. In Novem- of editors of four journals but Asia-Pacific into “normal life” was rumored to be dif- ber 2012, his work was the subject of a Journal: Japan Focus, an on-line, peer-re- ficult. This past year, Elliott has published one-day graduate-student conference at his viewed publication, is most likely to take on mystical rapture and gender and on alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. over her life, not to mention those of her the Christian tradition. She has articles That same month, he had the unnerving graduate-student and Leopold-Fellow un- in press about counterfactual thought in experience of delivering a lecture before dergraduate assistants. The journal has had twelfth-century and clerical sexuality. Her his colleagues at the Chabraja Center on 6.2 million visitors since 2008, and most most recent talk was at the May meeting “Race, violence, and the heart of darkness: essays reach 10-15,000 readers. In the five of International Congress on Medieval some lessons from African history.” He has minutes she spent writing this paragraph, Studies (Kalamazoo, MI), where she spoke also presented lectures and invited papers readers logged on from Canada, Japan, on the medieval church’s grisly practice at Washington University-Saint Louis and Great Britain, Malaysia, New Zealand, and of exhumation and degradation of corpses at the Universities of Cambridge, Birming- nine U.S. states. as a mechanism of damnatio memoriae ham, and Wisconsin. Jonathon is especially (a practice that understandably spawned pleased that the long search for a colleague Daniel Immerwahr has found his first two considerable scandal). Last but not least, in West African history has succeeded in years at Northwestern very pleasurable. He Elliott has completed a historical novel recruiting Sean Hanretta from Stanford. In has taken command of three lecture cours- entitled A Hole in the Heavens, which is set 2014-15, Jonathon will be on leave at the es: US Intellectual History, Global History in fourteenth-century Paris. National Humanities Center, working on a II: 1750-the present (“The Age of Car- book manuscript on difference and race in bon”), and US Foreign Relations. His book, Caitlin Fitz has loved the process of African thought. Thinking Small: The United States and revising her book for publication. (Really!) the Lure of Community Development, has Entitled Our Sister Republics: The United Peter Hayes is completing his five years as been finished and is due out in November States in an Age of American Revolutions, chair of the Department as this Newsletter 2014 from Harvard University Press. He it will appear from Norton/Liveright in goes to press. He takes greatest pride in has also been busily working on a second 2016; the Journal of American History will having brought the number of vacancies book, tentatively entitled How to Hide an publish a related article on the hemispheric in our ranks down from six to one in the Empire: The United States and the Problem dimensions of the War of 1812 next fall. course of his term, even as the Depart- of Territory. But his proudest achievement Caitlin spent last winter and spring quarters ment increased in size, and in boosting was that he made it through the 2013-14 on parental leave with her second daughter, enrollments in History through reforms in winter commuting to campus by bike from Lundy; born on Christmas Eve, Lundy had the way we schedule courses. His sub- Chicago. perfect in utero attendance at her mother’s stantial anthology, How Was It Possible? fall quarter early American history lectures. A Holocaust Reader, is due out in early

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Faculty News continued Faculty Bookshelf For most of the last couple of years, Rajeev Given the leisure time made available by re- Kinra has been busy finishing his first book, tirement, Jacob Lassner accepted invitations an examination of 17th-century Mughal liter- to present at two international conferences. In ary and political culture as seen through the addition, he made his usual rounds at various MUIR eyes of the celebrated Hindu poet and state scholarly societies in the United States. Along (with Brian Levack and secretary, Chandar Bhan Brahman. Writing with several articles, he published Jews, Meredith Veldman) Self, Writing Empire is now reaching the final Christians, and the Abode of Islam: Modern The West: Encounters &

stages of production and should be out in Scholarship, Medieval Realities (University Transformations (4th edition) New York: Pearson Education, early 2015. In the meantime, Kinra has begun of Chicago Press). He is currently completing 2013 work on a second book, a cultural history a monograph titled The Origins of Islamic of Mughal India narrated through a series Jerusalem in which he addresses the question of biographies of some of the more eclectic, of when and in what circumstances Muslims eccentric, and downright zany characters who embraced the sacred city of Jews and Chris- have popped up in Kinra’s recent research, tians, considering it comparable to Mecca but somehow never made it into conven- and Medina, the holy cities of Arabia. In a tional histories of the period. Since 2012, he moment of weakness, he also contracted with PETROVSKY-SHTERN has been among the core faculty overseeing the University of Toronto Press to produce a The Golden Age Shtetl: Northwestern’s global history curriculum, and reader for medieval Jewish history. His task: A New History of Jewish Life last year he also happily became an affiliate to introduce to the general reader a series of in East Europe of Weinberg’s new Department of Asian Lan- texts translated from Hebrew, Arabic, and Princeton: Princeton guages and Cultures (DALC). His most recent Judeo-Arabic that shed light on the life of University Press, 2014 article, “Handling Diversity with Absolute Jews in the lands of medieval Islam. A second Civility” (Medieval History Journal, October section of the reader dealing with the Jews in 2013), explores the forgotten global legacy medieval Europe will be written by his co-au- of early modern Indo-Muslim approaches thor Robert Chazan. Coming as a complete to cultural and religious pluralism and the surprise was his being awarded the Franz importance of recovering such histories for Rosenthal Prize, the most coveted award for our understanding of modern ideas about a lifetime of achievement in Islamic studies PETROVSKY-SHTERN tolerance more generally. and Semitic languages. He trusts that all his (with Antony Polonsky) scholarly obligations will not interfere with Polin: Studies in Polish Michael J. Kramer, Visiting Assistant watching Big Ten football with his grandsons. Jewry, Volume 26 Jews and Ukrainians Professor in History and American Studies, Oxford: Littman Library of published The Republic of Rock: Music and Since 2012, Henri Lauzière has been in and Jewish Civilization, 2013 Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture with out of the United States. He spent an entire Oxford University Press in 2013. The book year in Montréal, thanks to a grant from the explores how participants in the countercul- Gerda Henkel Foundation, and thus discov- ture used rock to probe both everyday and in- ered the joys of having a split personality: stitutional politics in key locations such as the writing a book manuscript in English by day San Francisco Bay Area and the Vietnam War and speaking Québécois French by night. zone. His more recent teaching and research Upon his return to Illinois in August 2013, focus on digital history and revolve around a Lauzière moved to Evanston (where he had SOWERBY multimodal study (book, website, exhibition) never lived before), started teaching again, Making Toleration: of the Berkeley Folk Music Festival. He is and cloistered himself as much as possible to The Repealers and the investigating the folk revival’s understudied complete the last remaining chapters of his Glorious Revolution history on the West Coast of the United States book-in-progress about the history of Salaf- Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013 and its vexed relationship to technology. This ism—the most ultra-orthodox form of Sunni work was featured in the Spring 2014 issue Islam. In the meantime, however, he managed of Weinberg College Magazine. He co-found- to visit Northwestern University’s campus in ed the Northwestern University Digital Qatar, to land a (very) small part in a (real) Humanities Laboratory at the Alice Kaplan movie in Canada, and, best of all, to turn 40 Humanities Institute in 2012 and blogs about without anyone noticing. Or so he hopes. a variety of topics at michaeljkramer.net. In the fall of 2014, he will begin directing an Robert Lerner has probably been pursuing oral history and archival digitization research too many projects. In February 2012 he spoke project on the history of dance performance on “Mechthild of Magdeburg: New Revela- in Chicago, funded by the Chicago Dance tions” at the Newberry Library’s Medieval History Project. Seminar; in March 2012 he spoke on “The

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Persons of Intelligence in Fifteenth-Cen- to enjoy speaking on the conjunction of commemorating the publication of his Why tury Brussels” at the University of Notre history and Hollywood film. Her research Ireland Starved thirty years ago. He was Dame; in June 2012 he spoke on “Ernst on an African American woman named Kate appointed director of the new Northwestern Kantorowicz’s Decision” at the Universi- Brown, who worked in the U.S. Capitol Center for Economic history. He contributed ty of Frankfurt/Main; in March 2013 he during the Civil War and Reconstruction, a column “Is Technological Change a Thing spoke on “Prophecy as Nightmare” at the was published last year in the Journal of of the Past” to Voxeu.org (a widely followed annual meeting of the Medieval Academy American History. She is currently editing, site for economics), which was one of of America; in July 2013 he spoke on “John with Greg Downs (a professor at City Col- September 2013’s “most widely read” items of Rupescissa’s Vade mecum in Seven lege of New York and erstwhile Ph.D. stu- and to date has had almost 33,000 hits. He European Vernaculars” at Barbara New- dent at Northwestern), a volume of essays was one of the experts consulted for Atlantic man’s Mellon Symposium, “The Middle on the post-Civil War United States; she and Magazine’s November 2013 article of the Ages in Translation,” at Northwestern; and Downs are also working with the National “50 Greatest Inventions in History” and in September 2013 he spoke on “Ernst Kan- Park Service on a Reconstruction Handbook cited at length in it. He is still slaving away torowicz’s Methods Course at Berkeley” at slated for publication in 2015. on his book manuscript, Cultural Origins the University of Lüneburg (Germany). His of Modern Economic Growth (forthcoming main concern is finishing his biography of Sarah Maza has thoroughly enjoyed with Princeton University Press). Among Kantorowicz, but the manuscript keeps on directing the Chabraja Center for Historical his publications were “Cultural Entrepre- getting longer and longer. Newer arrivals to Studies in the last two years. It has been neurs and the Origins of Modern Economic Northwestern who wonder who is the elder- a treat to host a range of extraordinary Growth,” Scandinavian Economic History ly gnome inhabiting the basement of Harris historians and others, to collaborate with Review 61 (2013), pp. 1-33; “An Age of Hall should probably be told that it’s Lerner. colleagues across the university and beyond Progress,” in Roderick Floud and Jane on joint programs, and to get to know our Humphries, eds., The Cambridge Economic Tessie Liu is looking forward to her re- advanced graduate students as fellows of History of Britain (Cambridge University search leave in 2014-15. She will be work- the Center and during our international Press, 2014); “The Real Future of Capi- ing on a new project on the relationship exchanges (read all about this elsewhere in talism,” Current History 112 (2013), pp. between Negritude and Surrealism in the the Newsletter!). Aside from intellectual 291-297; and “The Next Age of Invention” cosmopolitan dance culture of Paris during (and physical) sustenance, one big perk of City Journal 24 (2014), pp. 12-21. the 1920s and 30s. being Center director is benefiting from the skills and support of the Center’s amazing Bill Monter still enjoys retirement. Recent Melissa Macauley lectured on various Assistant Director, Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch. academic highlights include telling a French topics in seventeenth, nineteenth, and Her other big news is her election last audience why Carlo Ginzburg (about to twentieth-century history at Harvard, Yale, year to the American Academy of Arts and receive his first honorary doctorate) was Utah, the Chabraja Center, and two Annual Sciences. She is currently writing an overall actually a benandante, and publishing an ar- Meetings of the Association for Asian introduction to the field of history, a hubris- ticle in the Catholic Historical Review that Studies. She continued to contribute to the tic enterprise that the University of Chicago drew praise from two fellow emeriti, Garry expansion of Asian Studies on campus by Press has recklessly agreed to publish if and Wills and Robert Lerner. serving on search committees in Chinese when completed. politics and modern Chinese literature. She Edward Muir completed in April his two- was appointed the Gerald F. and Marjorie G. Joel Mokyr, who straddles both sides of year long (sometimes very long) tenure as Fitzgerald Professor in Economic History. Deering Meadow between Harris Hall and President of the Renaissance Society of She hopes to finish her book next year as his econ office in Andersen Hall, continued America, which has grown dramatically a Fellow of the Kaplan Institute for the to serve two demanding masters in History with new members from abroad, mostly Humanities. She knows she said something and Economics. Among his highlights was Europe. What was once a modest East- to that effect in the last newsletter, but this a 2013 plenary address to the Centesimus Coast professional organization run out of a time she really means it. Annus – Pro Pontifice Foundation at the professor’s back pocket has become a 5,000 Vatican, followed by a personal audience member international conference, lobby- Kate Masur is taking a deep breath as her with Pope Francis. In 2014, he gave the Pa- ing organization, and publishing endeavor three-year term as Director of Graduate tinkin lecture before the Israel Association complete with the largest interdisciplinary Studies ends, and she looks ahead to a year of Economics as well as the Rogge lecture journal in the field. During those same years of leave at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Re- at Wabash College. Economic history at he enjoyed the Distinguished Achieve- search Institute. In 2013, she plunged into Northwestern continues to flourish: in the ment Award of the Andrew W. Mellon the blogosphere, publishing a critique of past years graduate students in economic Foundation, which financed the Academy Steven Spielberg’s film, Lincoln, in the New history were placed at Auburn University, for Advanced Study in the Renaissance, York Times and follow-up articles in the the University of Iowa, Yale University, and co-directed with Regina Schwartz of the Chronicle and the Atlantic Online. She soon the Hebrew University. Another highlight Northwestern English Department. The returned to civilian life, but she continues was a March 2014 conference in Belfast Academy has been devoted to funding

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twelve advanced graduate students from Eu- Dylan Penningroth wrote a draft of his after WWI seems finally to be unraveling. rope and North America. In 2013 and 2014, book on African American legal culture, And the aggressive acts of individuals or the fellows enjoyed site visits, lectures, and partly during a sabbatical year at the Stan- groups routinely dismissed as “fringe” or workshops in Italy and England all with the ford Humanities Center. “criminal” can no longer be ignored. They goal of invigorating interdisciplinary Re- are disrupting regimes across the Muslim naissance studies among the next generation Grateful, as always, to Northwestern as world, but the region still beckons. Petry of scholars. The fourth edition of his co-au- a major research university, Yohanan hopes to return to Egypt as soon as feasi- thored textbook, The West: Encounters and Petrovsky-Shtern continued improving ble--not just for research but to hang out Transformations, appeared in 2014, and the his command of foreign languages: he took with friends and contacts. Such interaction next edition will probably be entirely digi- elementary Arabic and Turkish and studied remains the most informative source for un- tal. The sorts of things that happen toward at Hochschule Bremen were he obtained his derstanding the current situation. Petry has the end of a career have started: the Citation German Oberstufe (advanced level) certifi- lectured and attended conferences in several for Career Achievement from the Society cate. In comparison with the first ten years venues: the Middle East Documentation for Italian Historical Studies and election to of the 21st century, YPS spent ever more Center, University of Chicago, April 2012; the Academia Europaea and the American time giving invited lectures. He appeared The Eurasian Empires Project, sponsored by Academy of Arts and Sciences. at University College London, University the Universities of Amsterdam, Cambridge, of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Free Ghent, Istanbul, Nijmegen, and Vienna, Alex Owen was honored to receive the E. Ukrainian University in Munich, YIVO August 2012; program in medieval Egyptian LeRoy Hall Award for Excellence in Teach- Institute for Jewish Studies, Shevchenko and Syrian studies at the Annemarie Schim- ing in the Weinberg College of Arts and Scientific Society of America in New York, mel Kolleg, University of Bonn, December Sciences in June 2013 and has endeavored Hebrew College in Boston, Harvard Uni- 2013; Middle East Studies Association, to live up to it ever since. She conducted versity, University of Alberta, University of New Orleans, October 2013. The program research in the U.K. in Winter 2014 and Toronto, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, in Middle East and North African Studies participated in a panel at Northwestern in Tel-Aviv University, University Kyiv-Mo- at NU is now formally organized, offering the Spring with Matt Houlbrook (Queer hyla Academy, Kharkiv University, Leop- a major and minor to undergraduates, and London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual old-Maximilian University of Munich, and interdisciplinary “cluster” study to gradu- Metropolis, 1918-57) and Seth Koven University of Vienna. YPS also participated ate students. Does formation of a genuine (Slumming: Social and Sexual Politics in in more than a dozen international confer- department lie in the future? As they say in Victorian London) that considered questions ences. In addition, YPS published vol. 26 Cairo: “Hanshuuf!” (We shall see). of subjectivity and interiority in relation to of the annual Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry the practice of history. A volume to which (co-edited with Antony Polonsky); a short Elie Rekhess co-edited Muslim Minorities she contributed, Aleister Crowley and West- book on Cultural Interference of Jews and in non-Muslim Majority Countries: The Test ern Esotericism, Henrik Bogdan & Martin Ukrainians in Ukrainian; and a monograph, Case of Islamic Movement in Israel (2013), P. Starr, eds. (Oxford University Press, The Golden Age Shtetl. For his scholarly which features his article “The Islamici- 2012), was published in German translation achievements, the National Ukrainian zation of the Arab Identity in Israel.” He by Edition Roter Drache in May 2014. University Kyiv Mohyla Academy awarded also published an article on the “The State him a doctorate honoris causa, Hebrew Uni- of Israel Studies: An Emerging Academ- Susan Pearson is still at work on her new versity made him the Lady Davis Visiting ic Field” in the Bloomsbury Companion book project, a history of the spread of Professor, and Princeton University Press to Jewish Studies. He presented a paper universal and compulsory birth registration nominated his The Golden Age Shtetl for a at Brandeis University’s Conference on in the United States. Thanks to an ACLS Pulitzer Prize. Zionism in the 21st Century (“The Arab fellowship, she’ll be on leave next academic Minority in Israel”), and at Eotvos Lorand year—archive fever is already setting in. In the previous issue of the Newsletter, Carl University in Budapest (“History and Meanwhile, she’s been busy with essays F. Petry expressed skepticism about posi- Historiography: Opposing Narratives of the on nineteenth century debates about animal tive outcomes of the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ Israeli-Arab Conflict”). In 2013, Northwest- language, animal protection and the welfare that was emerging at that time. While ern launched a new minor in Israel Studies state, and the use of the birth certificate as appreciative of the numerous ways in which that Elie Rekhess is directing. To inaugurate a form of age verification in the campaign this phenomenon has ‘gone wrong,’ he now the program, he organized an International against child labor. In the classroom, Susan discerns substantive evidence that genuine Conference on “The Zionist Ideal in Israeli has prepared new courses on the history of change is happening in the region--whether Culture: Dream and Reality,” where he gave marriage in the U.S. and U.S. women’s his- positive or negative remains unclear. The a lecture on “Soldiers by Adi Nes: Revis- tory before the Civil War. Outside of Harris capacity of traditional authoritarian regimes iting the Model of Israeli Masculinity.” Hall, you can find Susan tooling around to continue unchallenged is now seriously Finally, Rekhess was named to the Asso- town with her two kids, ages 6 and 2. Life is compromised. They may cling to power, ciated Student Government Honor Roll in full, to say the least. but at increasing cost. The patchwork quilt 2012-13. imposed by British and French strategists

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David Schoenbrun published an article in David Shyovitz has spent the past two years İpek Yosmaoğlu welcomed her first baby, Comparative Studies in Society and History hard at work on his book manuscript (The Ilias Alexander, into the world in May 2013. on emotion and the founding of Bunyoro, World Made Flesh: Nature and the Body Another important “first” of the past year East Africa’s oldest kingdom. In January of in Medieval Jewish Culture) and has had a was the publication of her book, “Blood this year, he joined at Working Group at the number of articles accepted for publication Ties: Religion, Violence, and the Politics of Santa Fe Institute focused on “Conceptual (including in the Journal of the History Nationhood, 1878-1908” (Cornell University Innovation and Major Transitions in Human of Ideas and in the Association for Jewish Press) in November 2013. Despite having History.” And, next October, he’ll contribute Studies Review). He presented his research at repeatedly foresworn further pursuit of any an essay, “Swallow the Old Meaning: Con- conferences in Chicago, Boston, Kalamazoo, theme related to violence and nationhood, stellating Communities of Practice, Power, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv; taught a Continuing she is currently at work on a new project on and Making a Maritime World in Northern Education course to the Alumnae of North- elements of ethnic purity, militarism, and Lake Victoria, 900 to 1100 CE,” to a group western; and led a study trip for Chicago-area hypermasculinity in the making of the Turk- of archaeologists at the Amerind Foundation clergy to the German cities of Speyer, Mainz, ish nation. She is hoping this will be her last in Dragoon, AZ. In 2015, the University of and Worms. He has also taught an array of foray into the realm of weapons, warfare, and Arizona Press will publish the work in an new undergraduate and graduate courses. ethnic cleansing. edited volume. He will spend the Spring Se- In 2014-15, David will be on leave at the mester 2015 as a visiting professor in Duke Hebrew University in Jerusalem as a Yad Ha- Ji-Yeon Yuh is excited to be exploring ways University’s Department of History. nadiv fellow and will be an invited lecturer at to merge oral history and digital humanities. gatherings in London, Haifa, and Utrecht. She is developing a digital archive of oral histories and a new history course in which Scott Sowerby’s book, Making Toleration: undergraduates conduct oral history research The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution, in immigrant communities and contribute to published in 2013 by Harvard University the archive. This work is partially supported Press, received the Royal Historical Soci- by the Arthur Vining Davis Digital Human- ety’s Whitfield Prize for the best first book ities project at Northwestern. She is also the in British history. He spent 2013-14 at the principal investigator for “Storytelling in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., be- Global Midwest,” a community history and ginning a new project on religion and politics oral history project focusing on immigrant entitled States of Exclusion: Britain, France, and diasporic communities. The recipient and Ireland, 1670–1720. In 2014, he was of a seed grant from the Mellon Founda- promoted to the rank of associate professor tion-supported Humanities Without Walls and received the Weinberg College Award for Consortium, “Storytelling in the Global Mid- Distinguished Teaching. He will be taking west” brings together scholars from several over from the ever-capable Kate Masur as Midwestern universities to develop a network director of graduate studies in the department of digital archives and support deep engage- in the fall of 2014. Prodded by his partner, ment between communities and scholars. In who started a new job at Twitter’s offices in addition to the digital archive network, the Chicago, he recently began to tweet. project plans a series of community events, Scott Sowerby accepts the Whitfield Prize of seminars and workshops, a major conference, the Royal Historical Society Amy Stanley was tenured and promoted in and a scholarly anthology. She is also work- 2013. It was a busy year: she also shepherded ing on her second book, a history of ethnic Michael Sherry continues to work on his twelve seniors through the thesis-writing Koreans based on oral history research in book, Go Directly to Jail: The Punitive Turn process; published an article in the Journal of three nations. She is finishing another year as in American Life, with lots of help from Asian Studies (“Enlightenment Geisha: The director of the Asian American Studies Pro- Leopold Fellows; to advise scads of graduate Sex Trade, Education, and Feminine Ideals gram and is pleased to be handing the reins to students and enjoy the many accomplish- in Early Meiji Japan”); presented papers a most competent colleague come September. ments of past and present students; and in Ann Arbor, Vancouver, Northampton, She is also very pleased to have worked with to hang out at his current favorite among Berkeley, San Diego, and New Orleans; and Northwestern colleagues across multiple de- professional organizations, the Society for welcomed her second son, Henry. 2014 has partments to develop a new graduate course, Historians of American Foreign Relations, been relatively quiet. Professor Stanley is “Theory and Method in Comparative Race on whose Council he serves. He remains the working on her new book project, “Stranger and Diaspora,” for the Comparative Race and Richard W. Leopold Professor of History and in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman Diaspora graduate cluster. ponders retirement without yet making any and her Worlds, 1821-62,” and writing an decisions about it, having arrived at NU in article about the social and economic lives 1976, and now being surrounded by lots of of maidservants in early modern Eurasia. In smart young faculty. 2015, she will be teaching the first half of the global history survey for the first time. She wonders what she has gotten herself into.

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Jean Allman (PhD 1987) is the J.H. Hexter Ed Berkowitz (PhD 1976) published a book New York City. Never one to shy away from Professor in the Humanities at Washington about the Supplemental Security Income pro- memories of NU, David has a desk next to University in St. Louis. In June, she complet- gram in 2013 and is contemplating writing a that of Stephen Mak, PhD 2010, who also ed a five-year term as History Department book about the 1950’s. He continues, for at teaches in the department. David will be Chair and became the director of the univer- least a little bit longer, as a Professor of His- teaching a senior seminar on the American sity’s Center for the Humanities. tory and Public Policy at George Washington presidency in 2014-15. He and his wife, University. Susan, welcomed their son Jonathan into the Michael Bailey (PhD 1998) published Fear- world in October 2012. Despite his par- ful Spirits, Reasoned Follies: The Boundaries Wayne H. Bowen (PhD 1996), Professor ents’ best efforts to care for his well-being, of Superstition in Late Medieval Europe with and Chair, Department of History, South- Jonathan shows all signs of becoming an avid Cornell University Press in 2013, edited the east Missouri State University, has signed Mets fan, like his father. four volume collection Magic and Witchcraft an advance contract with the University of for Routledge in 2014, and began working Missouri Press for what will be his eighth Molly MacKean Davis (PhD 2013) has on Magic: The Basics. He also hopes to have book, Truman, Spain and the Cold War. completed her third year teaching history several articles finally see the light of day in His seventh book, the second edition of The at Phillips Exeter Academy, where this 2015. For his efforts, he has been promoted History of Saudi Arabia, will be available in spring she was the recipient of the Charles to full professor of history at Iowa State December 2014 from ABC-CLIO. Bow- E. Ryberg Award for young faculty. She has University. His proudest scholarly achieve- en also was reelected recently to the City recently been working on several curriculum ment, however, remains the role he played in Council of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, with development projects, including a new art the seminal journal Speculum. 97% of the vote, only slightly less impressive history course to be offered next year, and given that he was unopposed in the election. she has also had the opportunity to travel to Nicholas Baker’s (PhD 2007) first book The He continues to serve as a lieutenant colonel both India and China as part of Exeter’s push Fruit of Liberty: Political Culture in the Flo- in the US Army Reserve, drilling at Ft. Knox, for global exploration. All in all, she reports rentine Renaissance, 1480-1550 appeared in Kentucky. that the decision to teach high school has 2013 from Harvard University Press. He was been pretty darn awesome. the Jean-François Malle Fellow at Villa I Tat- In 2014, Mohamed Saliou Camara (PhD ti, the Harvard University Center for Italian 1996) authored Political History of Guinea Sean L. Field (PhD 2002) has been busy in Renaissance Studies in the 2013-14 academic since World War Two (Peter Lang) and the 2013-14. He is particularly proud to have year. While there he developed a new book fifthEdition of Historical Dictionary of co-edited Marguerite Porete et le Miroir project on financial risk-taking and thinking Guinea (Scarecrow Press), and he is finishing des simples âmes: Perspectives historiques, about the future in Renaissance Italy. a monograph to be published by Edwin Mel- philosophiques, et littéraires (Vrin 2013) len Press on knowledge and epistemology in with Robert E. Lerner and Sylvain Piron. In retirement, Michael C. Batinski (PhD Africa. His next research projects pertain to Most recently, he has published The Rules of 1969) has been finishing a second book on Islam and competing world orders in Africa Isabelle of France: An English Translation local historical awareness and working with from the cold war to the global war on terror with Introductory Study (Franciscan Institute Quakers on peace and social justice concerns. and regional integration in the quest for sus- Publications, 2014); and (with Larry F. Field Also he has been traveling with his wife to tainable human security in twenty-first-cen- and M. Cecilia Gaposchkin) The Sanctity New England and Asia and with graduate tury Africa. Mohamed is the director of the of Louis IX: Early Lives of Saint Louis by school friend Peter Carroll along the back McNair Scholars Program and the current Geoffrey of Beaulieu and William of Chartres roads of this country. head of the Faculty Senate at Embry-Riddle (Cornell University Press, 2014). Currently Aeronautical University in Florida. he is collaborating with Jacques Dalarun, Justin Behrend (PhD 2006) just completed Anne-Françoise Leurquin-Labie, and his seventh year at SUNY Geneseo, where Marcus S. Cox (PhD 2001) was recently Jean-Baptise Lebigue on Isabelle de France, he is an Associate Professor of History. He promoted to Associate Dean of The Citadel soeur de Saint Louis. Une princesse mineure, recently received the SUNY Chancellor’s Graduate College with leadership respon- which should be published by Les Éditions Award for Excellence in Teaching. His most sibility of Evening Undergraduate Studies. franciscaines (Paris) in late 2014 or early recent article was published in the Journal of He also earned a master’s degree in business 2015. Field has just been promoted to full African American History, and he is eagerly administration from The Citadel in 2011 and professor at the University of Vermont, where awaiting the publication of his first book,Re - is the author of Segregated Soldiers: Military he has taught since 2003. constructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Training at Historically Black Colleges in the Politics in the Deep South after the Civil Deep South. He holds the distinction of being Fritz Fischer (PhD 1994) just published War, which will be released in January. Be- the first African American faculty member to a book, entitled The Memory Hole: The sides work, Justin enjoys hiking in the Finger serve in the position of Dean in the 172-year US History Curriculum Under Siege, with Lakes and Adirondacks with Maria and their history of The Citadel. Pray for him! IAP Press. Here is the marketing blurb for two children, Zachary age 10 and Maya the book: “The U.S. history curriculum is age 6. David A. Davidson (PhD 2012) is teaching under attack. Politicians, political analysts, high school history at the Dalton School in and ideologues seek to wipe clean the slate

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of the American past and replace it with a Karl Gunther (PhD 2007) is an assistant Samantha Kelly (PhD 1998) is halfway past of their own invention. … The Memory professor in the Department of History at through a sabbatical that follows on the Hole examines five central topics in the US the University of Miami and his first book, heels of Mellon New Directions fellowship, history curriculum, showing how anti-histo- Reformation Unbound: Protestant Visions of intended to retrofit her from a medieval rians of both the left and right seek to distort Reform in England, 1525-1590, will be pub- Europeanist to a medievalist conversant with these topics and insert a refashioned story in lished in Fall 2014 by Cambridge University Africa as well. Her first article on Ethiopi- America’s classrooms. … The beleaguered Press. He is Vice-President of the Southern an-European cultural exchange was recently hero of this book is the discipline of History, Conference on British Studies and can be accepted at Renaissance Quarterly and will and The Memory Hole shows how the history found most days cycling around Miami. appear next year. She hopes to master Ge’ez, curriculum should adhere to history’s habits the language of medieval Ethiopia, sometime of mind that require complex, sophisticated Roland L. Guyotte (PhD 1980) holds the prior to retirement. and subtle thinking about the past. History possibly dubious distinction of being the lon- and social studies teachers, students of histo- gest-serving active member of the University James R. Lehning (PhD 1977) is Professor ry and all those who care about the deep and of Minnesota, Morris faculty (something of History at the University of Utah. Cam- enduring value of history will value this book came of that one-year temporary appoint- bridge University Press published his book and its conclusions.” ment in Fall 1969). With co-author (and European Colonialism since 1700 in 2013. spouse) Barbara M. Posadas (PhD, 1976) he Brett Gadsden (PhD 2006) is Associate presented “Midwestern Filipino ‘Uninten- In 2009, Lily Mafela (PhD 1993) was Professor of African American Studies and tional Immigrants,’ 1905-1945: A Colonial appointed to the Scientific Committee of the History at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Era Anomaly” at the AHA Annual Meeting on-going UNESCO Project on the Pedagog- He recently published his first bookBetween in Washington, DC in January 2014. They ical Use of the General History of Africa North and South: Delaware, Desegregation, also co-authored “Filipino Americans, 1870- (GHA), which aims to renovate the teach- and the Myth of American Sectionalism 1940” and “Filipino Americans, 1940-2011” ing of African history in African schools. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). in Elliott R. Barkan (ed.), Immigrants in Subsequently, she was nominated to serve He is currently at work on his second book, American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and as the Rapporteur of the Scientific Commit- tentatively entitled From Protest to Politics: Integration, 4 vols. (ABC-Clio, 2013). This tee. More information on the Project can be The Making of the “Second Black Cabinet,” past year he developed and taught “History accessed at: http://www.unesco.org/new/ JFK to Nixon. This project explores the set of of the American West.” en/culture/themes/dialogue/general-histo- historical circumstances that brought African ry-of-africa/pedagogical-use-of-the-gha/ Americans into key cabinet, sub-cabinet, and Robert L. Harris, Jr. (PhD 1974) retired other high-level advisory positions in the after 38 years at Cornell University in the Brian Maxson (PhD 2008) published his Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administra- Africana Studies & Research Center. In first monograph,The Humanist World of tions. 2008, the Board of Trustees named him Vice Renaissance Florence, with Cambridge Provost for Diversity and Faculty Develop- University Press in early 2014. He also has In January 2015 Ronnie Grinberg (PhD ment Emeritus. Upon his retirement in 2013, a co-edited volume, After Civic Humanism, 2010) will begin a tenure track positions as he was named Professor of African American forthcoming from CRRS later this year. In Assistant Professor in the Department of History, American Studies, and Public Affairs the 2014-15 academic year, he has visiting History and Schusterman Center for Judaic & Emeritus. He relocated from Ithaca, N.Y. to fellowships at the Marco Institute at the Israel Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Fulton, Md. to be near his only grandchild, a University of Tennessee and Villa I Tatti, the She and her husband are expecting a baby at grandson, and research facilities in Washing- Harvard University Center for Italian Renais- the end of July and she will be taking off the ton, D.C. and Baltimore, Md. sance Studies. fall semester to focus on being a mom. Her article, “Neither ‘Sissy’ Boy Nor Patrician Wallace Hettle (PhD 1994) is Professor of Elizabeth McKillen (PhD 1987) is still a Man: New York Intellectuals and the Con- History at the University of Northern Iowa. Professor of History at the University of struction of American Jewish Masculinity” His most recent book is Inventing Stonewall Maine, where she devotes considerable intel- was published in the July 2014 issue of Jackson (LSU, 2011). He lives with his wife, lectual energy to trying to decide whether the American Jewish History (98:3). Leslie Cohn, their teenaged son Arlo, and winters in Chicago or Orono are worse. She their teenaged cat Ciel. recently published a book, Making the World Although Gerald N. Grob (PhD 1958) Safe for Workers: Labor, the Left and Wilso- “retired” in 2000, he remains as active as David Johnson (PhD 2000), now tenured in nian Internationalism (Urbana: University of ever. This past April Johns Hopkins Univer- the history department at the University of Illinois Press, 2013). sity Press published his book Aging Bones: South Florida, will be enjoying next year as A Short History of Osteoporosis in their a fellow at the National Humanities Center Graham A. Peck (PhD 2001), Associate Biography of Disease series. in North Carolina finishing his book on gay Professor of History at Saint Xavier Univer- consumer culture in the 1950s and 1960s. sity, just completed a 57-minute documentary It’s tentatively titled Buying Gay: Physique on antebellum Illinois Senator Stephen A. Magazines, Censorship, and the Rise of the Douglas. The film features roughly 250 still Gay Movement. images, voice acting from leading Lincoln

12 THE NEWSLETTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 2014 and Douglas re-enactors, and five historians Amanda I. Seligman (PhD 1999) is working Coal and Natural Gas Transitions and the featured as “talking heads.” It was created in on several projects, including a history of Environment,” in Pratt, Melosi, and Brosnan collaboration with students, staff members, block clubs in Chicago and the Encyclopedia (eds), Energy Capitals: Local Impact, Global and colleagues, and premiered at a universi- of Milwaukee, for which she and her collab- Influence (University of Pittsburgh Press, ty-sponsored conference titled “Visualizing orators received a $250,000 grant from the 2014). He is co-editor with Martin Melosi of the Past: Remembering Stephen A. Douglas National Endowment for the Humanities. In the History of the Urban Environment Series in the Age of Ken Burns.” It will be screened summer 2014, Marquette University Press is at the University of Pittsburgh Press and again in April 2015 at the OAH conference publishing The Bibliography of Metropolitan invites communication from historians who in St. Louis, and well before that should be Milwaukee, of which she is a co-author. believe they have topics that would fit in our on permanent exhibit at the Douglas Tomb series. on 35th Street in Chicago. Peck will co-teach During 2013-14, David H. Stam (PhD Historical Documentary Filmmaking in 2015 1978), Senior Scholar and University Librar- Michael W. Tuck (PhD 1997) reports that in with art professor Nathan Peck, who helped ian Emeritus at Syracuse University, received consequence of past sins he is in the midst of him finish the film. If the course succeeds, one prize and published both an article and a term as Chair of the Department of History we will re-title it Peck Productions. his memoirs. He was awarded the Gerald E. at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. Morris Prize by the Mystic Seaport Museum He thinks back fondly on his time at North- Barbara M. Posadas (PhD 1976) published for the best article published in 2012 in its western, when he was immersed in scholar- “Ethnic and Racial Identities: A Polish Filipi- online journal, Coriolis: an Interdisciplinary ship and blissfully ignorant of assessment na’s Progress in Chicago and the Profession,” Journal of Maritime History. “The Lord’s rubrics, program reviews, and state budgets. in Alan Kraut and David Gerber, eds., Ethnic Librarians: The American Seamen’s Friend Historians and the Mainstream: Shaping Society and their Loan Libraries, 1837-1967” Dana E. Weiner (PhD 2008) has been busy America’s Immigration Story (Rutgers appeared in the June 2012 issue. His article over the past few years. Since 2008, she has University Press, 2013). With co-author (and from a paper read in May 2008 finally ap- been teaching U.S. History at Wilfrid Laurier spouse) Roland L. Guyotte (PhD 1980), she peared in the conference proceedings by the University in Waterloo, ON. In August of presented “Midwestern Filipino ‘Uninten- American Philosophical Society in late 2013 2012, she married Tim in an outdoor cere- tional Immigrants,’ 1905-1945: A Colonial under the title “‘Congering’ the Past: The mony on the hottest day of the year. Her uni- Era Anomaly” at the AHA Annual Meeting Books of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, versity approved her promotion and tenure in Washington, D.C. in January 2014. She (1881-84).” In early 2014, he self-published application that December, and she published continues as Immediate Past President of the his autobiographical memoir called What her book, Race and Rights: Fighting Slavery Immigration and Ethnic History Society and Happened to Me: My Life with Books, and Prejudice in the Old Northwest, 1830- as a member of the editorial boards of the Research Libraries, and Performing Arts 1870 through Northern Illinois Press and the Journal of American Ethnic History and the (AuthorHouse), with due acknowledgment Early American Places Series in March 2013. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Soci- to the mentorship of Lacey Baldwin Smith That book was the winner in the history ety. On June 1, 2014, after forty years on the and Timothy H. Breen. It is available through category at the 2014 Midwest Book Awards. faculty at Northern Illinois University, she the publisher, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Dana spent the 2013-14 academic year on retired as CLAS Distinguished Professor of other outlets. His next project, tentatively ti- sabbatical, during which she researched Afri- History, but she will likely teach a full load tled “An Anthology of the Antarctic Reading can Americans in early California and attend- in 2014-15 before beginning the “sabbatical Experience,” is well underway. ed an NEH institute on Westward Expansion of indefinite duration.” and the Constitution in the Early American A former Northwestern student of Sterling Republic at the University of Oklahoma. John Reiger (PhD 1970), professor emeritus Stuckey’s (PhD 1972), Professor David of history, Ohio University, continues to Roediger, used the occasion of the 25th anni- James Zarsadiaz (PhD 2014) defended his enjoy his recent retirement and his new home versary edition by Oxford of Stuckey’s dissertation, “Where the Wild Things Are: in Worthington, Ohio, less than a mile from Slave Culture to interview the author. “The ‘Country Living,’ Asian American Suburban- his two young and almost always adorable Making of A Historian: An Interview of Ster- ization, and the Politics of Space in Los An- grandsons. His autobiography, Escaping Into ling Stuckey,” appears in the Winter-Spring geles’ East San Gabriel Valley, 1945-2005.” Nature: The Making of a Sportsman-Con- 2014 issue of The Journal of African Amer- He plans to turn his dissertation into a manu- servationist and Environmental Historian, ican History. Stuckey’s forthcoming “The script for publication. This fall, James starts published in 2013, includes a section on his Chambers of the Soul: Frederick Douglass, as tenure-track Assistant Professor of History time at Northwestern. Several brief reviews Herman Melville and the Blues” will appear at the University of San Francisco, where he of the book can be seen on Amazon. in a volume celebrating the scholarship of will teach courses on urbanism, Asian Amer- Charles Long, who taught Religion at the U. ican studies, and general U.S. history. He Dave Roediger (PhD 1980) began a new job of Chicago for twenty-five years. will be affiliated with the Philippine Studies as Foundation Professor of American Studies program and the Critical Diversity Studies at University of Kansas in August 2014. His Joel Tarr (PhD 1963) is the Richard S. program, a new major comprising African Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Caliguiri University Professor of History & American, Asian Pacific American, Chican/o Liberty For All is new from Verso. Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. His and Latina/o, and Gender and Sexualities teaching load is split between the CMU Dept. studies. James is currently a fellow at the Adam Schwartz (PhD 1996) was promot- of History and the Heinz College of Public Smithsonian National Museum of American ed to professor of history at Christendom Policy and Management. This year he pub- History. College in 2013. Catholic University Press lished one article – “Toxic Legacy: the Envi- issued a paperback version of his book, The ronmental Impact of the Manufactured Gas

Third Spring: G. K. Chesterton, Graham Industry in the United States,” Technology Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David & Culture (January 2014), 107-47, and one Jones in 2012. chapter with co-author Karen Clay: “Pitts- burgh as an Energy Capital: Perspectives on

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Alumna Judith Westlund Rosbe’s Life with History

In the fall of 2013, my husband and I Massachusetts on the shores of Buzzards our local educational TV channel. returned to Northwestern to celebrate Bay. Marion was originally called I also conducted a memoir writing our 50th reunion. We had met the Sippican for the Native Americans who class with weekly sessions at our local first week of school freshman year in lived there. In 1678, 29 Pilgrim families library. In addition, I appeared on the September 1959. Upon reflection, we left Plymouth, Massachusetts and settled “Mysteries at the Museum” show on decided to give our 50th reunion gift to in Marion, which was rich in oysters the national Travel Channel discussing the undergraduate history department, in and had plentiful grazing land for their the mysterious disappearance of the appreciation for the skills I learned in the cattle. My interest in Marion’s history captain, his family, and the crew from history department, which led me to a led me to write five local history books the vessel Mary Celeste in 1872 (the lifelong interest in history. about Marion: Marion (cataloging the captain was from Marion). And I have architecture and ownership of Marion’s been interviewed on C-SPAN regarding Although I was a lawyer by profession, historic homes), Maritime Marion, Frances Folsom Cleveland on the First my avocation has always been to record Massachusetts (the town’s relationship to Ladies Series. Frances and Grover the history of the small town where I the sea), Beverly Yacht Club (founded in Cleveland spent summers in Marion have lived for over 37 years: Marion, 1872), Marion Art Center (history of the between his two non-consecutive terms Massachusetts. When we moved to arts and theater in Marion), and Marion in office. In fact, they named one of Marion in 1977, my neighbor, upon in the Golden Age (a history of all of the their daughters Marion because of their learning that I was a history major at famous people who summered in Marion love for the town. My husband and I Northwestern, told me that they were at the end of the nineteenth and the are fortunate to own the house that the looking for “young blood” to join the beginning of the twentieth centuries). Clevelands lived in while in Marion. board of our local historical society. So The first four books were published in 1978, I became a director of our local by Arcadia Publishing Company, and Our 50th reunion brought me to thinking Sippican Historical Society, and I have History Press published my last book. of how fortunate I was to have been been a director since then, including exposed to Northwestern’s History more than 15 years as its president. More recently I have been recording Department, which gave me the skills oral histories of long-time Marion and inspiration to record my town’s Marion is a small town of approximately residents. Many of the videotaped history for future generations to enjoy. 5000 residents in southeastern oral histories have been shown on

More Success for the Graduate Program, 2012-14

Our graduate students continue to bring Marlous van Waijenburg was named a Andrew Baer was awarded the American honor and recognition to the department. Presidential Fellow, the highest honor Bar Foundation’s Law and Social Science No fewer than four--Sam Kling, Wen-Qing Northwestern bestows on a graduate student. Dissertation Fellowship; Juri Bottura won Ngoei, Ian Saxine, and Marlous van Waijen- She also won a dissertation fellowship from a research fellowship from the Réseau burg--have won article prizes since 2012. the Economic History Association. Français d’Etudes Brésiliennes; Kyle Burke Some have ventured into the world of online got a dissertation completion fellowship publishing and op-eds, among them Charles Since our last update, Joel Penning and from the Society for Historians of American Keenan, Emily Van Buren, James Zarsadiaz, Payson Croy won Fulbright fellowships, and Foreign Relations; Teng Li won a summer and Yanqiu Zheng. Joel was accepted to the Mellon Summer grant from the Henry Luce Foundation/ Institute in Italian Paleography at the Getty ACLS Program in China Studies; Michael History grads have done remarkably well Library. Charlotte Cover and Azeta Kola Martoccio won a pre-doc at Ohio State’s at winning competitive fellowships. Two stu- received Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Center for Historical Research; Jesse Nasta dents won Charlotte Newcombe Fellowships fellowships for research in Venice; Donald was selected as a participant in the 2013 J. in 2014: Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson and Johnson won a dissertation fellowship from Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal Melissa Vise. Alexandra had a banner year, the McNeil Center for Early American History at the University of Wisconsin-Mad- also winning a Mellon-CES Dissertation Studies, as well as short-term fellowships ison; Wen-Qing Ngoei received the W. Completion Fellowship (which she declined) at the Newport Historical Society and the Stull Holt Dissertation Fellowship from the and a research fellowship from the Interna - Huntington Library. Society for Historians of American Foreign tional Association for the Study of Sexuality, Relations (SHAFR), as well as SHA- Culture and Society. Valerie Almendarez-Jiménez won a Five FR’s Diversity and International Student College Fellowship at Hampshire College; travel grant; Howard Pashman, the History

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More Success continued

Department’s first joint J.D./Ph.D. graduate, University-San Antonio. Our students have and content of our courses. More information won a Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellowship also secured visiting assistant professorships about the project, which was coordinated at Indiana University’s Maurer School of at Allegheny College, Bates College, the through The Graduate School, may be found Law; Nick Smith won an SSRC International College of William and Mary, Franklin and here: http://www.tgs.northwestern.edu/about/ Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF); Marshall, and Georgetown University. teagle-foundation-grant/index.html. and James Zarsadiaz was awarded an Ethnic Minority Dissertation Fellowship at the Some graduates seek different kinds of Our students’ teaching skills are recognized University of San Francisco. careers upon finishing the dissertation, and far and wide. In four consecutive years, a we have encouraged such decisions. In fall History student has won a WCAS Outstand- That’s not all. Our students also earned grants 2013 James Grossman, Executive Director of ing Graduate Student Teacher award: Jason to travel to research libraries and to study the American Historical Association, spoke Johnson (2011), Andrew Warne (2012), languages. Emma Goldsmith received the to the department about how History Ph.D. Rebecca Marchiel (2013), and Matt June Curran Fellowship, awarded by the Research students can prepare themselves for a variety (2014). Matt will succeed Rebecca as grad- Society for Victorian Periodicals; Ashley of possibilities, and in the 2012-13 academic uate coordinator of the Teagle program in Johnson won a Clark Travel-to-Collections year, we hosted (with the Religious Studies 2014-15 and as the Searle Center’s Graduate Research Grant from The Henry Ford Department and The Graduate School) a Teaching Fellow. Research Center and the Mark C. Stevens series of panels on non-tenure-track careers Fellowship from the Bentley Historical for History and humanities Ph.D.’s. We were Our alums also continue to do us proud. We Library at the University of Michigan; Matt pleased to host alums Charlotte Cahill, Chris- offer a few standouts below: James Brennan June got the Moody Research Grant from the topher Hayden, and Matthew Miller, as well (Ph.D. 2002) won the Bethwell Ogot Book LBJ Foundation; Matt Kahn was awarded as several other interesting and accomplished Prize in East African Studies and received a Gerald R. Ford Foundation Research people as speakers at those events. a Charles Ryskamp Research Fellowship. Travel Grant for travel to the Ford Library; James Burkee (Ph.D. 2003) won the Bigler- Joy Sales won a Foreign Language and Seeking to build ties with an area institution ville Prize in American Lutheran History for Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship from the and create opportunities for our students, his book, Power, Politics, and the Missouri University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ian Saxine in 2012 the Department and the Newberry Synod: A Conflict that Changed American received a summer research fellowship at Library inaugurated a summer internship pro- Christianity. Crystal Sanders (Ph.D. 2011) the Library of the Society of the Cincinnati, gram in which students work on the Library’s won the C. Vann Woodward Prize, given by located in Washington, D.C. Digital Collections website (http://dcc. the Southern Historical Association for the newberry.org/). Neal Dugre, Ashley Johnson, best dissertation in southern U.S. history, and At Northwestern, Emily VanBuren was Alex Lindgren-Gibson, and Blake Smith the Claude Eggersten Prize from the History co-winner of the 2013 Beiling Wu Prize have availed themselves of the opportunity. of Education Society for the best dissertation in Writing, which is awarded to first-year Neal, who continued his internship during in that field. Owen Stanwood (Ph.D. 2005) students who write a superlative essay on the 2013-14 academic year, wrote: “I love was awarded a fellowship at the Institute for literature or literary culture; Jamie Holeman working on the Digital Collections site, and Advanced Study at Princeton for 2014-2015 won a fellowship from Northwestern’s Paris it has been refreshing to be able to delve into and published an article in the American Program in Critical Theory; Julia Miglets and research unrelated to my specialty. I think Historical Review. Dana Weiner’s (Ph.D. Johnna Sturgeon received Mellon Disser- most of all, the work reminded me of the 2007) recent book, Race and Rights: Fighting tation Year Fellowships from the Medieval practical application of the knowledge and Slavery and Prejudice in the Old Northwest, Studies Program at NU; and Keith Rathbone skills that I’ve acquired during grad school; 1830-1870, was named best history book in was selected for a year-long fellowship at it’s been really instrumental in helping me the 24th Annual Midwest Book Awards. Sciences Po in Paris through NU’s exchange transition from seeing myself as a student to program. seeing myself as a professional.” Our graduate program benefits enormously from the support of the Department’s alumni. The job market remains difficult for people The Department continues to promote stellar The Alseth Summer Language Grant pro- with Ph.D.’s in History seeking tenure-line teaching among our graduate students and gram, inaugurated in 2013 thanks to a gen- positions. Some students secure such jobs the students, in turn, continue to be recog- erous bequest, has enabled us to better meet as they finish graduate school; many others nized for their excellence. In 2013-14, more our students’ language study needs. We have are hired into tenure-line positions after one than two-dozen students participated in an distributed more than $13,000 to students or more short-term positions. Since our last experimental workshop series, funded by the who have used Alseth awards to gain crucial newsletter, our recent Ph.D.’s have landed Teagle Foundation, to examine best practices skills in Arabic, Ateso, Kikongo, Mandarin tenure-track jobs at University of Hous- in the teaching of history. Convened by Chinese, Tagalog, Ukrainian, and Xhosa. ton-Clear Lake, University of Louisiana-La- Daniel Immerwahr and Rebecca Marchiel, fayette, University of Nebraska, University the workshops asked broad questions ranging We are always eager to hear from our Ph.D. of Oklahoma, University of San Francisco, from why history matters, to what students alums both inside and outside the professo- University of South Florida, St. Norbert ought to learn in history classes, to how we riate. Please send your news to Eric West: College, St. Thomas University, and Trinity align our pedagogical goals with the form [email protected].

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PhDs and Placement 2013-2014

2014 2013

Shannon G. Blaha, “Mutual Interest: A Study of Cultural Molly MacKean, “Greenbelt America: A New Deal Vision Cross-Border Cooperation in Ireland, 1938-1968.” for Suburban Public Housing,” Instructor, Phillips Exeter Academy. Teri A. Chettiar, “The Psychiatric Family: Citizenship, Private Life, and Emotional Health in Welfare-State Britain, Celeste McNamara, “The Tragedy of Tridentine Reform 1945-1979,” Max Planck Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013-2016, at in Late Seventeenth-Century Padua,” Visiting Assistant the Humboldt University in Berlin. Professor, College of William and Mary.

D’Weston L. Haywood, “Let Us Make Man: Black Howard Pashman, “Making Revolution Work: Law and Newspapers and a Gendered Vision of Racial Advancement, Politics in New York, 1776-1783,” Jerome Hall Postdoctoral 1915-1960s,” Assistant Professor, University of Louisiana at Fellowship, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University. Lafayette. Meghann Pytka, “Policing the Binary—Patrolling the Theresa M. Keeley, “Reagan’s Gun-Toting Nuns: Nation: Race and Gender in Polish Integral Nationalism, Catholicism and U.S.-Central American Relations,” Visiting from Partitions to Parliament (1883-1926),” Instructor, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University. Southern Illinois University.

Anne M. Koenig,”Robbed of their Minds”: Madness, Andrew Warne, “Making a Judeo-Christian America: Medicine and Society in Southeastern Germany from 1350 to The Christian Right, Antisemitism, and the Politics of 1500,” Assistant Professor, University of South Florida Religious Pluralism in the 20th Century United States,” Program Coordinator for Undergraduate Research, Center for Stephanie L. Nadalo, “Constructing Pluralism in Experiential Learning, Loyola University. Seventeenth Century Livorno: Managing Religious Minorities in a Mediterranean Free Port (1537-1737),” Professor of Art History chez Parsons Paris (The New School), Professor of Liberal Studies chez Paris College of Art, Museum Educator chez Paris Muse

Laurence H. Robbins, “The Foundations of Education: Charity and the Educational Revolution in Tudor and Stuart England, 1560-1640.”

James F. Zarsadiaz, “Where the Wild Things Are: ‘Country Living,’ Asian American Suburbanization, and the Politics of Space in Los Angeles’ East San Gabriel Valley, 1945-2005,”Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco

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