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2 0@ 1 2 NORTHWESTERN The Newsletter of the Department of History at Northwestern University

Ju d d A. a n d Ma r j o r i e We i n b e r g Co l l e g e o f Ar t s a n d Sc i e n c e s

A New Look for Harris Hall

fter two years in exile at 1800 Sherman Avenue, the History Department moved back into Harris Hall just after Thanksgiving in 2010. On this page are some photos of Athe remarkable renovation that the University carried out. The “period” feel of the building remains, but the wiring and climate control features are twenty-first century. We hope you enjoy seeing parts of the building as much as we enjoy inhabiting it!  2012

WELCOME TO NEW HISTORY FACULTY

Deborah Cohen (Ph.D. Berkeley, 1996) is delighted to have joined the faculty Message from the Chair, at Northwestern. Raised in Louisville, Peter Hayes Kentucky, she was an undergraduate at Harvard and a graduate student at Berkeley. She taught modern British and European The years 2010-12 history at Brown University for eight years have been proud before coming ones for the History to Northwestern, Department, where she highlighted by occupies one of remarkable the department’s accomplishments two Peter B. on the part of our Ritzma chairs in faculty and students the humanities. and by the return Her first book, to a magnificently American Revolutions, illuminates how the The War reconfigured and Latin American independence movements Come Home expanded Harris Hall. helped to shape popular understandings The pictures on the preceding page can convey only a (California, of race, revolution, and republicanism in partial sense of what it is like to inhabit this wonderful 2001), was a the early nineteenth-century United States. space, and we are very grateful for the University’s comparative Caitlin has also published articles on investment of a reported $20 million in rehabbing the study of U.S. citizens in insurgent Brazil, Iroquois building. British and German disabled veterans communities during the U.S. revolution, As always, however, the most important after the First World War; it was awarded and antislavery activists in Tennessee. component of the Department is its people. In addition the Sharlin Prize from the Social Science She joined the Northwestern faculty last to the six marvelous colleagues described on this and History Association. She then frolicked fall after a postdoctoral fellowship at the the next page who joined us since the last Newsletter, through a history of the British love-affair we have recruited two other new faculty members. University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil with their houses, the result of which was Center for Early American Studies. Helen Tilley (Ph.D., Oxford) will begin teaching in Household Gods (Yale, 2006), which won September 2012 as Associate Professor of the History the American Historical Association’s of Science, and Paul Ramirez (Ph.D. Berkeley), formerly Daniel Immerwahr (Ph.D. Berkeley, of Washington University, will arrive the following Forkosch Prize for the best book on Britain 2011) specializes in the history of the September, after a fellowship at the Huntington Library, after 1485 and was the co-winner of the twentieth-century United States. His as Assistant Professor of Latin American History. We are North American Conference on British research conducting two searches this year, one in African and Studies’ Albion prize for the best book on interests include one in Twentieth-Century U.S. History, and if they are Britain after 1800. Her new book, which the relationship completed successfully, fully one-quarter of the tenure- will be published in the spring of 2013 by of the United track teacher-scholars in the Department will have come Viking Penguin in Britain and by Oxford States to the rest on board since I became chair in 2009. Obviously, we’re University Press in the U.S., is Family of the world, the experiencing an exciting period of reinvention! Secrets: The Rise of Confessional Culture history of ideas, My colleagues continue to win an enviable array in Britain. Cohen has held fellowships and the history of recognitions for their scholarship and teaching. Hard from the Mellon Foundation, the National on the heels of receiving a Weinberg College Teaching of economic Humanities Center, the Cullman Center Prize in 2010-11, Ken Alder this year was elected to development. for Scholars and Writers at the New York the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, a stellar Before joining accomplishment. Last year, Gerry Cadava won no fewer Public Library, the American Council of Northwestern’s than three prestigious fellowships, Laura Hein held a Learned Societies (Frederick Burkhardt history distinguished visiting appointment at the University Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars) department as of Tokyo, Ed Muir began enjoying his Andrew Mellon and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial an assistant Distinguished Achievement Award, Amy Stanley Foundation. professor worked on her new book with the support of a Kaplan he was Humanities Institute Fellowship, both Deborah Cohen Caitlin Fitz (Ph.D. Yale, 2010) is a a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia and Carl Petry took up their endowed chairs, and Dylan historian of early America, in a broad and University’s Committee on Global Thought. Penningroth received a Charles Deering McCormick hemispheric sense. Her work explores early Professorship of Teaching Excellence, the University’s He has, oddly, two bachelor’s degrees, one U.S. engagement with foreign communities from Columbia University and a second highest honor for work in the classroom. This year, and cultures, as well as the relationship Amy Stanley won a Weinberg College Distinguished from King’s College, Cambridge. He is between ordinary people and formal currently writing a book about continued on page 3 politics. Her current manuscript, Our Sister U.S.-sponsored development programs in Republics: The United States in an Age of Asia during the Cold War.

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David Shyovitz (Ph.D. University of movements, reform and revolution, taking as its Pennsylvania, 2011) spent the 2010-11 year as subject a cross-denominational movement for Message from the Chair, a College Fellow and is currently an assistant religious toleration known as the repealers. He Peter Hayes Continued professor. His research focuses on Jewish cultural has published articles based on this project in the Teaching Award, Brodie Fischer was named the Alumnae and intellectual history in the medieval and English Historical Review, Past and Present, the of Northwestern Teaching Professor for 2012-15, Yohanan Journal of British Studies, and Parliamentary Petrovsky-Shtern became the Crown Family Professor in History. A Vancouver native, he studied for his Jewish Studies, Melissa Macauley and Susan Pearson won bachelor’s degree at Simon Fraser University in National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for British Columbia, Canada. 2012-13, and three other colleagues earned fellowship support for the coming year: Dyan Elliott from the National Ipek K. Yosmaoglu (Ph.D. Princeton, 2005) is Humanities Center, Henri Lauziere from the Henkel a historian of the late Ottoman Empire. She taught Foundation, and Ben Frommer from the Kaplan Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a Institute. In the two years since our last Newsletter, books written by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Jonathon Glassman, and Susan Pearson have won awards from the Association for Ukrainian Studies, the American Historical Association, and the Organization of American Historians, respectively.

Similarly, our recent graduates have been, as one of my more grandiloquent undergraduate teachers used to say, “trailing clouds of academic glory.” Among our former undergraduate history majors, Jacob White, ’09, won a Marshall Scholarship to Oxford, William Kalema, ’10, a Fulbright Scholarship to Cambridge, and Sarah Smierciak, ’11, a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. Another former undergraduate history major, Katie Turk, ’04, won the Lerner-Scott Prize from the Organization of American early modern periods, with a particular interest Historians for the best dissertation in women’s history, which she completed at the University of Chicago. Among in Jewish-Christian relations. His current book our former graduate students, Karl Appuhn (ph.D. 1999) project explores attitudes toward the natural world won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American among medieval Jewish and Christian thinkers. Historical Association, given for the best first book in Prior to earning his PhD, David completed European history published in 2010. his MA and BA degrees at the University of Pennsylvania. Because of the Department’s outstanding reputation for teaching (the current faculty roster includes five Scott Sowerby member at the Institute for Advanced winners of the Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching (Ph.D. Harvard, Study in Princeton before joining the Award, seven recipients of the McCormick or Alumnae 2006) specializes history department at Northwestern in Teaching Professorships, and eleven holders of the WCAS in the history of 2010. Her research interests include Distinguished Teaching Award), you will not be surprised early modern nationalism, violence, political legitimacy to learn that our courses remain sought after and our Britain. He joined and state modernization. She recently major popular. Enrollments remain steady, in contrast to what’s been happening at most of our peer institutions, as Northwestern as an completed a book manuscript titled “A does the number of majors. We’ve devised a new menu of World Undone: Religion, Violence and assistant professor historiography seminars that henceforth will be required in the fall of 2010 the Politics of Nationhood in Ottoman of history majors, added a stronger emphasis on research after three years Macedonia, 1878-1908,” which focuses to the major program, reduced the size of discussion of teaching in on the final decades of Ottoman rule sections in history to 15 students, and plugged some gaps the History and in southeastern Europe. Her research in the undergraduate curriculum via new and visiting Literature program has been supported by the Onassis appointments. For the benefit of both our undergraduate at Harvard. His Foundation, the American School of and graduate students, we’ve also improved teaching first book, Making Classical Studies in Athens, the National assistant training and made learning to be a good teacher a Toleration: The Endowment for the Humanities and more central part of the graduate curriculum. Repealers and American Research Institute in Turkey, the Glorious and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. These successes and the others described in these pages would be impossible without the generous support Revolution, will She was a fellow at the Alice Kaplan of our alumni, Weinberg College, and the University. We be published Institute for the Humanities during the thank you all and assure you that we’ll continue to devote by Harvard 2011-12 academic year. our best efforts to fulfilling the Department’s scholarly and University Press in the spring of 2013. This pedagogical missions. work examines the relationship between political We also hope that you will enjoy reading the Newsletter and that you will heed our call for news of YOU. Please let us know of your activities and accomplishments for the next issue.

All best, Peter

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History Majors Win Grants

External: Sarah Smierciak, Rhodes Dana Behnke, Summer URG 2011, Sarah Smierciak, CAORC Critical Scholarship, 2011-2012 Progressive Ideology and Amusement Language Scholarship, 2010-2011 Sarah Smierciak, Marshall Parks Sarah Smierciak, Biosophical Scholarship, 2011-2012 Britta Hanson, Summer URG 2011, Institute Project Grant, 2010-2011 Nathan Garrett, Coro Fellows Homosexuality in the Royal Navy Daniel Andreeff, Princeton in Asia Program, 2011-2012 Redmond McGrath, Summer URG Fellowship, 2010-2011 Kate Stephensen, James Madison 2011, Church Location and Design; Chicago 1871 Sebastian Buffa, Benjamin A. Gilman Foundation Fellowship, 2011-2012 International Scholarship, 2010-2011 Internal: Gabriel Schonfeld, Summer URG 2011, Irish- and Jewish- American William Kalema, Fulbright Grant Ann Lee, Summer URG 2012, Ethnic Politics (IIE/USIA) , 2010-2011 Politics in Singapore Devin Sizer, Summer URG 2011, Jacob White, Marshall Scholarship, Benjamin Francis, Language Grant Southern Unionist Families 2010-2011 2012, Russian - Russia Sarah Smierciak, AY URG 2010-11, Ryan Erickson, Urban Fellows Nathan Enfield, AY URG 2011-12, Communists in the Era of Nasser Program, 2010-2011 Samuel Williams’ Political Thought

Tim Breen’s Retirement as such noteworthy publications as the To the College and University, he has Times Literary Supplement and the New In June 2012, Timothy Hall Breen, the been an indispensable servant and builder, York Review of Books. Many of these having chaired both this Department and William Smith Mason Professor of books and articles have won distinguished nd the American Studies Program and been American History, concluded his 42 year prizes, and he has held virtually every on the Northwestern faculty—he was a the founding director of major fellowship or both the Kaplan Humanities child prodigy—and headed, first, for his academic appointment Institute and the Chabraja home in Vermont, before embarking on in his field, from Center for Historical Studies. a well earned leave year in California, to a Guggenheim, an Tim has set be followed by his formal retirement from appointment at the extraordinarily high standards our faculty as of June 2013. To recount his Institute for Advanced services to the Department, the College, and Study at Princeton, of achievement in all three the University is almost impossible, and to and an Alexander von of the realms into which we list the numerous academic distinctions Humboldt Research traditionally divide academic he has compiled is equally so. Here we Award to the Pitt life: scholarship, teaching, can hit only the high points. He is the Professorship at Cambridge and the and service. His colleagues will miss him, sole author of 7 books, the co-author of 3 Harmsworth Professorship at Oxford. and the Department will be very hard put more, including an enormously successful Closer to home, his profound effect on to make up for his loss. We thank him for textbook in American history that is now thousands of Northwestern undergraduates all that he has done for Northwestern and in its 10th edition, and the editor of still 2 has been recognized with awards of a its students, and we wish him continuing more. In addition, he has published more Weinberg College Teaching Prize and the fulfillment in all of the roles and projects than 65 scholarly articles, book chapters, Alumni Excellence in Teaching award. that lie ahead of him. and essays in academic journals as well News of the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies In December 2010, the Center moved (Yale) spoke on “From Brest-Litovsk to on “Colony and Camp: Retracing Their into its elegant new home on the lower Versailles, 1917-1919: The Problem of Political Genealogies,” John Dower level of renovated Harris Hall, occupying Making a Modern Peace,” James Sweet (MIT) on “Rethinking the Cultures of a signature suite of three offices and (Wisconsin—Madison) on “Domingos War,” Gail Hershatter (UC Santa Cruz) a public space known as the Reading Alvares and the Ambiguities of Power on “The Girl Who Burned the Banknotes: Room, used for meetings and small in the Atlantic World, 1710-1750,” and Gender, Memory, and Rural China’s gatherings. Larger Center events usually Peter C. Perdue (Yale) on “Transnational Collective Past,” and Edhem Eldem take place in the Leopold Room of Harris Environmental History: Fur, Tea, and (Bogazici University, Istanbul) on “An Hall. Fish in Modern China.” The following Ottoman History of Archaeology in the year featured Timothy Snyder (Yale) on Long Nineteenth Century.” The Center’s annual lecture series “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler spanned a wide array of topics and and Stalin,” Thomas C. Holt (Chicago) This lecture series also included historical subfields during the past on “Du Bois’ ‘Politics’ of Culture,” Ann Northwestern History faculty discussing two years. In 2010-2011, Adam Tooze Stoler (New School for Social Research) their recent research. Brodwyn Fischer

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spoke on “The Politics of Racial Silence A popular element of Center programming in Urban Brazil” in 2010 and Laura Hein is the annual, public (and witty) panel presented “The Art of Bourgeois Culture in discussion by Northwestern faculty on a Kamakura, Japan” in 2011. semi-serious theme. In 2011, Deborah Cohen (History), Joel Mokyr (Economics/History) Additional lectures helped graduate students and Hendrik Spruyt (Political Science) Timothy Snyder and graduate deal with professional challenges. Olivia considered “What do historians have to students Mahoney, Chief Curator of the Chicago offer politicians?”, and the following year, History Museum, talked about “History Dyan Elliott (History), Carl Smith (English/ Museums: Career Opportunities and American Studies), and Robert Wallace Faculty Bookshelf Challenges,” Susan Ferber, editor at Oxford (Classics) wrestled with “Is history fiction by University Press, about “Everything You another name?” Ever Wanted to Know about Academic Publishing (But Were Ashamed to Ask),” As the occasion arises, the Center organizes ELLIOTT and H. W. Brands (Texas-Austin) about other types of events. In April 2011, the panel The Bride of Christ Goes to discussion on “The German Foreign Office Hell: and its Past, 1933-2010: A New Report” Metaphor and Embodiment by Peter Hayes (Northwestern History) in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500 and Norbert Frei (University of Jena) with Philadelphia: University of German Consul General Onno Hückmann Pennsylvania Press, 2011 as moderator elicited much interest. The distinguished Irish historian Nicholas Canny (Director of the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at National University of Ireland, Galway and President of the Royal Irish FROMMER Academy) gave a public lecture in Fall Národní očista: 2011 on “Catholic or Protestant Atlantic? Retribuce v poválečném How Confessional Divisions Influenced Československu Quentin Skinner in conversation Writing on Natural History of the Atlantic Prague: Nakladatelství World.” Academia, 2010

“Reaching a Broader Constituency: In addition, co-sponsored public lectures Historians and the Internet” (2011). included Moshe Rosman (Bar Ilan and Yale) speaking on “How Jewish Is Jewish The annual History of the Book lecture History? Jewish Metahistories and the jointly sponsored with the University Library Jewish Historical Experience” (March 2010), hosted Adrian Johns of the University of Maya Jasanoff (Harvard), “Liberty’s Exiles: GLASSMAN Chicago on “The Invention of Intellectual American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War of Words, War of Property” (filmed—webcast available on World” (April 2011), Andrew Needham Stones: the CHS website) in 2011, and in 2012 the (NYU), “Power Lines: Energy and the Racial Thought and Violence distinguished Renaissance historian Anthony Making of the Modern Southwest” (April in Colonial Zanzibar Grafton (Princeton) addressed an audience of 2011), Benjamin Madley (Dartmouth), Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011 over 100 on the subject of “Humanists with “Reexamining the American Genocide Dirty Fingers: Renaissance Correctors and Debate: Meaning, Historiography, and New the Origins of Editing” (filmed—webcast Methods” (May 2011), and Thomas Laqueur available on the CHS website). (Berkeley), “The Battle for the Churchyard: Popular Protest and the Right to Burial, In November 2011, the Center hosted 1700-1880” (April 2012). Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary College, University of London, former Regius An innovative program of international GRAFE Professor of Modern History at the doctoral workshops, jointly sponsored with Distant Tyranny: Markets, Power, and University of Cambridge) for a week of foreign institutions of higher learning, has Backwardness in Spain, public lectures and seminars that attracted proved an excellent way for Northwestern 1650-1800 large and enthusiastic audiences. The historians to interact with the global Princeton: Princeton lectures, entitled “A Genealogy of Freedom” academic community. In these intensive University Press, 2012 and “A Genealogy of the State,” are available two-day workshops, competitively selected on the CHS website. Northwestern graduate students in history

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(and one or two faculty members) meet in Rome, Italy (2012). We anticipate Political Conflict” with keynote speaker with their peers in or from other parts of workshops in Turkey, India, and Mexico Seth Jacobs (Boston College), and the world, network, compare notes on in the future. Andrew Wehrman convened “The Pitfalls the state of the profession, and engage in and Possibilities of Microhistory” with keynote speaker Alan Taylor (California- Davis). In 2012, the organizers and topics were Peter Thilly, “Crime and the Modern World” with keynote speaker Eric Tagliacozzo (Cornell), and Terri Chettiar, “Histories of the Family” with keynote speaker Deborah Coen (Barnard College, Columbia).

For undergraduates the Leopold Fellowship program (named in honor of Professor Richard Leopold and funded in part by generous gifts from his former students) offers the opportunity to work closely with primary historical materials under the guidance of faculty, doing actual archival research and learning how to transform raw data into historical interpretation. In 2010-11 Leopold Fellows worked on projects ranging from the study of a 14th-century treatise Laura Hein’s lecture through “George Washington and the Creation of American Nationalism” to a spatial and cultural history of the US-Mexico border since World War II. discussions of their research. Topics are In 2011-2012 we had the highest ever selected to engage historians from varied Each year the Center selects two number of Leopold fellows—a total of subfields. The most recent workshops graduate students to serve as Fellows of 15, working on topics such as European were: “Doing Trans-National History in the Center, which includes organizing literary culture and the Indo-Persian world the 21st Century: An Assessment of the a one-day graduate conference on a from the 16th to the 18th C.; the political Field” with the University of Genoa in significant historical topic pertinent to economy of Spanish rule in America in Sestri Levante, Italy (2010); “Old Debates their research. An eminent historian the 18th C.; cosmopolitanism and the early and New Challenges in Oral History” from outside Northwestern is invited British empire; African American federal with the Fundaçao Getulio Vargas in Rio to give a keystone lecture and our or employees in post-emancipation USA; the de Janeiro, Brazil (2011); “The Politics outside faculty comment on the papers. punitive turn in American life in the 20th of Memory” with Charles University in The conferences are free and open to C.; American antiwar activism and reform Prague, Czech Republic (2011); “Violence the public. In 2010, Fernando Carbajal in the long 1970s; a history of American and Social Change” with Trinity College organized “The Promise and Perils of paternity disputes; using Holocaust in Dublin, Ireland (2011); and “Agency, Biography” with keynote speaker Alice testimonies in research; and editing the Allegiance, and Resistance” with the Kessler-Harris (Columbia), and Andreana online Asia-Pacific Journal. American Academy in Rome and under Prichard convened “Emotions as History” the auspices of the Andrew W. Mellon with keynote speaker Kenda Mutongi Distinguished Achievement Award (Williams College). In 2011, Theresa Keeley organized “Religious Identity and New Chairholders New Chairholders in History Carl Petry, Deborah Cohen, and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern at their investitures with Department Chair Peter Hayes, University President Morton Schapiro, and Weinberg College Dean Sarah Mangelsdorf

6 THE NEWSLETTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Faculty News Ken Alder passed the academic year George Washington entitled “Journey to 2010-11 in New York, courtesy of a a Nation.” He has been fortunate to be Guggenheim Fellowship. There he worked able to test his ideas through lectures for Faculty Bookshelf on his research project on the history of the Trinity College Dublin, Virginia Military forensic sciences—The Forensic Self—and Institute, Colonial Williamsburg, Vermont also began two new projects with a Humanities Council (Middlebury), and Notre Dame University. methodological bent. In 2011, he was HAYES honored with the E. LeRoy Hall Award for John Bushnell continues to work on the (with Jean El Gammal) Teaching Excellence—and then promptly history of Russian peasant marriage, for Universitätskulturen resumed teaching, in full cognizance that the last year in particular the refusal of L’Université en perspective he now had a reputation to live up to! After peasant young women in some religious The Future of the University a brief respite from directing the Science sects in some areas to marry. In 2011 he Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, in Human Culture Program, he plans to gave two papers on the subject in Russia, 2012 reassume the position in 2012. and finally persuaded some Russian Michael Allen was promoted to Associate historians that he had proved his point: Professor in 2011. He also published in the 18th and 19th centuries, in a small an article on the identification of the percentage but large number of villages, Unknown Soldier from the Vietnam War in peasant women in demographically the journal History & Memory, continued significant numbers refused to marry. work on his next book, provisionally titled HAYES Geraldo Cadava has been working hard The Confidence of Crisis: Confronting (with John K. Roth) to finish his first book about the U.S.- the Imperial Presidency, 1968-1992, The Oxford Handbook of Mexico border region since World War and taught new courses ranging from Holocaust Studies II. Titled “The Heat of Exchange: Latinos New York: Oxford University a freshman seminar on Mad Men in and Migration in the Making of a Sunbelt Press, 2011 historical context to a graduate seminar Borderland,” it will be published by on cultural encounters of U.S. empire Harvard University Press in Fall 2012. For along with lecture courses on post-1968 a preview of his work about the border, U.S. history and the U.S. Survey. And he see his recent article in the September relocated both home and office to nicer 2011 issue of the Journal of American digs. History, titled “Borderlands of Modernity HAYES (with Eckart Conze, Henry C. Binford was on medical leave and Abandonment: The Lines within Ambos Nogales and the Tohono O’odham Norbert Frei, and Moshe for all of winter quarter, 2011, following Zimmermann) Nation.” He has spent AY 2012-2013 on major back surgery in January. Now fully Das Amt und die sabbatical in New Jersey, and is eager to back at work, he is enjoying his role as a Vergangenheit: freshman advisor, is teaching a number of return to Evanston over the summer. Deutsche Diplomaten im courses related to cities and poverty, and is Peter Carroll has published work on city Dritten Reich und in der edging toward completion of his way-too- Bundesrepublik planning and prostitution in early 20th- long-projected book on nineteenth-century Munich: Blessing/Random century China and given talks at Shanghai slums. House, 2010 University and the Shanghai Academy of Most of T.H. Breen’s time at Northwestern Social Sciences. During the 2010-2011 has been taken up with the Chabraja academic year, he was on leave as a NU Center for Historical Studies. CCHS has Kaplan Institute of Humanities fellow and MASUR made progress on two book projects. The continued to invite leading historians An Example for All the Land: to campus to deliver lectures. The high first analyzes the changing significance Emancipation and the point of the fall quarter was a week- of suicide as a social phenomenon in Struggle over Equality in long residency by Quentin Skinner, China during the first half of the 20th Washington, D.C. a brilliant historian of Early Modern century. The second examines an infamous Chapel Hill: University of political thought. Skinner gave a series same-sex murder and set of trials in 1932 North Carolina Press, 2010 of lectures and workshops on Hobbes’s Hangzhou. He has been serving as the writings. These presentations drew over chair of the Program in Asian and Middle one hundred people. The Center has also Eastern Studies and looks forward to continued its International Workshops. sweating in Shanghai this coming summer. Northwestern graduate students traveled Dyan Elliott has just published a book to Brazil, the Czech Republic, and entitled: The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Ireland, where they interacted with MAZA Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of advanced degree candidates at the local Violette Nozière: Pious Women, 200-1500. She is beginning universities. And finally, he is pleased A Story of Murder in 1930s a new project on scandal and the medieval to report that the Leopold Fellowships Paris church. The term “scandal” is derived from have allowed a dozen undergraduates Berkeley: University of a Greek verb meaning “to cause another to to carry out genuine research projects California Press, 2011 stumble.” An act need not be sinful to be under the direction of members of the considered scandalous: the salient attribute history faculty. 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sin or a morally neutral act, it was an unmitigated Press in 2011 and won the Martin A. Klein Prize response to it since March has been shockingly evil from an ecclesiastical perspective and needed to in African History from the American Historical myopic and inadequate. She spent September be suppressed. This study will employ ecclesiastical Association. He got to celebrate with colleagues through December at the Institute for Social sources – particularly canon law, theology, and from NU and the University of Chicago when the Science at the University of Tokyo, which was a the records of church tribunals – to explore how a book was the subject of a spirited exchange at the wonderful opportunity personally but reinforced climate of secrecy arose around the suppression of Red Lion African Studies Seminar at the Aberdeen her sense that the national government has decided scandal, shaping clerical culture and often directing Tap on the near west side. Since the last newsletter, to sacrifice the health of the children of Eastern ecclesiastical politics. The conclusion points to Jonathon has presented papers at the Universities Fukushima Prefecture. Current decontamination how the modern church was heir to a policy of of Pennsylvania and KwaZulu-Natal, has served efforts consist of washing down buildings concealment, rendering the recent spate of cover- a term as the department’s Director of Graduate with high-pressure water hoses and digging up ups more comprehensible. She will be pursuing this Studies, and in September 2011 was promoted to topsoil and reburying it nearby. Both are purely project on a fellowship at the National Humanities full professor. Immediately after his promotion he (unsuccessful) morale building exercises rather Center in North Carolina next year. was drafted as the department’s Associate Chair, than acting to significantly diminish radiation a position endowed with all the glamour and levels. It is very sobering. Lane Fenrich happily spent the spring of 2011 on authority of a bucket of warm spit. leave researching an article on the initial debates Thomas William (Bill) Heyck and Deni both over Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. He also taught a Regina Grafe happily offloaded a book on struggled with major health issues in 2010 and brand-new class entitled “True Love and Perfect early modern Spain, Distant Tyranny. Markets, 2011, but they are doing better now. They were Union: Love, Marriage, and Social Thought” as Power and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800 thrilled at the birth of their third and fourth part of the Kaplan Humanities Center’s Freshman (Princeton 2012), from her desk onto other people’s grandchildren – Piper Renee Heyck in 2010 and Scholars Program and developed another new bookshelves (at least she hopes not all copies Samuel Aidan Heyck-Williams in 2012. Bill is course, “Sexual Subjects: Introduction to Sexuality will rot in the warehouse). Since then she has writing a social cultural history of a particular Studies,” that he taught this winter as part of the worked mostly on a co-authored new book called sport that spans some 700 years. He expects the new sexuality studies initiative in Gender and a “Stakeholder Empire” that will offer a revisionist book to sell tens of thousands of copies and earn Sexuality Studies. view of the governance in the Spanish Americas. millions of dollars, some of which may go to the In other ways, too, she has stuck with her habit of Department. Brodie Fischer had a wonderful time on leave in regular Atlantic crossings and enjoyed the pleasures 2010-11 as a Fulbright-Hays scholar in Brazil and of a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the Rajeev Kinra returned to teaching in Winter 2012 an ACLS Burkhardt Fellow at Chicago’s Newberry European University Institute in Florence, where after spending a year of research leave working Library. She is happy to report much progress in she was given asylum during the Chicago winter. on his current book project, Writing Self, Writing research and writing, including work on a new She also improved her score in the questionable Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural book on the problem of inequality in Brazilian discipline of putting-yourself-through-the-tenure- World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary, with history and a co-edited volume entitled Cities from (equivalent)-process-in-as-many-places-as-possible generous support from the National Endowment Scratch: Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin by adding a US-University, Northwestern, to two for the Humanities. Over the last year he has also America (forthcoming, Duke University Press). European ones. been working to develop the History Department’s Since her sabbatical came to a crashing end in new curriculum in Global History, a two-part September, Fischer has been hard at work teaching, Peter Hayes is completing his third year as chair, lecture sequence that is being taught for the first directing Undergraduate Studies, and chairing the and in a moment of weakness he agreed to serve time in the 2011-12 school year. Since 2010 he department’s search in Latin American History that two more (and thus to edit one more Newsletter). has been serving on Northwestern’s Asian and recruited Washington University Assistant Professor After that, he’ll return to teaching for a year, go on Middle East Studies (AMES) program committee, Paul Ramírez as Northwestern’s new historian of leave in 2015-16, and retire on August 31, 2016, and in the fall of 2011 he also joined the program Mexico. She is looking forward to plunging back bringing his thirty-six years on the Northwestern committee for International Studies. Kinra into reading and writing (and spending a little more faculty to an end. In the meantime, he’ll try to published two new articles in 2011 (“Make it time with her husband and daughters!) during the maintain his recent record of publishing a book a Fresh: Time, Tradition, and Indo-Persian Literary spring and summer of 2012. year: Das Amt und die Vergangenheit in 2010, The Modernity,” and “This Noble Science: Indo-Persian Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies in early Comparative Philology, c. 1000-1800 CE”), and in For the past two years Benjamin Frommer has 2011, The Future of the University in 2012, How recent months he has greatly enjoyed the privilege held the Wayne V. Jones Research Professorship in Could This Happen? An Anthology History of the of being invited to give various lectures and History. He is currently writing a manuscript titled Holocaust in 2013, and Profits and Persecution: workshops on early modern Indo-Persian literary The Road to Theresienstadt: The Persecution of German Big Business, the Nazi Regime, and the and political culture at the American University in Bohemian and Moravian Jews, 1938-1945. This Holocaust the year after. His other great hope is Cairo, George Mason University, the University of past December he gave a series of talks in Czech that the Department faculty finally will be at full Washington, Freie University in Berlin, Columbia Republic with the support of the Jewish Museum strength, however briefly, before he departs. University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, of Prague and the US Embassy. He’s also been and even across town at his old haunt, the preoccupied by a new addition to the family. Born Laura Hein spent the first half of 2011 in Chicago, University of Chicago. in July 2011, little Erik Z. is reminding his father teaching and working on her current project on why sleep deprivation was a favorite method of local institutions in post-WWII Japan. Like all With the dramatic fall of the Michigan football extracting confessions in the lands he studies. Japan specialists, she was saddened and distressed program [2008-2010] under the late but not by the earthquake-tsunami-nuclear power disaster lamented coach Rich Rodriguez – an event Jonathon Glassman’s book, War of Words, War of of March 11, 2011, which killed 20,000 people. comparable to the destruction of the Temple in Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial While the first two elements were natural disasters, Jerusalem – Jacob Lassner found himself in Zanzibar, was published by Indiana University the third was caused by humans – and the official desperate need of something to resuscitate his

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flagging psychic energy. And so, he published Research in the Humanities. His engagement two books: Medieval Islam: The Origins and with the career of Ernst Kantorowicz is not Shaping of Classical Islamic Civilization (with flagging, and he is very excited about a new Faculty Bookshelf Michael Bonner, Praeger 2010) and Jews, collaborative project he is overseeing out of Christians and the Abode of Islam: Modern Vienna under the auspices of the European Scholarship, Medieval Realities (University Research Council on translations into seven of Chicago Press 2012). So profound was the vernacular languages (Castilian, Catalan, need for therapy to overcome the depression Czech, English, French, German, and Italian) of MUIR occasioned by Michigan’s fortunes, he also a Latin prophetic treatise. He does not exercise Il sangue s’infuria e ribolle: found himself publishing three articles and and hence hopes to see all of his projects to La vendetta nel Friuli del presenting four refereed papers at different completion. Rinascimento scholarly venues. Now that Michigan football Verona: Cierre edizioni, 2011 is on the rise, he suspects his productivity will Tessie Liu had the great pleasure last spring of be somewhat reduced. putting together a multi-media interdisciplinary class on the history of Paris from 1700 to the Henri Lauzière spent a significant amount of present. Using migration and tourism as her time expanding his repertoire of undergraduate two themes, she collected political pamphlets, courses in the past two years. In the fall of novels, paintings, posters, maps, photographs, 2010, he offered a new survey course on the film, and music to examine the city as myth Arabian Peninsula since the 18th century, and destination as generations of sojourners PEARSON which rekindled his desire to return to the from the provinces and around the world turned The Rights of the Gulf in the near future. Meanwhile, however, themselves into Parisians. This summer, she is Defenseless: he traveled to Italy and the Netherlands and looking forward to expanding her photographic Protecting Animals and presented papers about Salafism and Salafi archive and honing her collections for this Children in Gilded Age activists at the University of Pisa and the class as she begins preliminary research for America University of Leiden. Barring unforeseen a new book project focusing on vernacular Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011 circumstances, he will travel to Jerusalem for and ethnographic dance among diasporic the first time this summer, which means that populations in interwar Paris. the Gulf and its scorching heat (an acquired taste, admittedly) may have to wait. Next As if she needed reminding, Melissa Macauley year, Lauzière will be on leave thanks to a discovered once again how different the grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation in Chinese and English languages are as she Germany, and will be completing his book on futzed over the Chinese translation of her the emergence of the concept of Salafism and book, Social Power and Legal Culture. Beijing PETROVSKY-SHTERN the struggle over its meaning throughout the University Press will be publishing it in the Lenin’s Jewish Question 20th century. His article “The Construction of spring of 2012. When she wasn’t contriving New Haven: Yale University Salafiyya: Reconsidering Salafism from the Chinese neologisms, she was giving lectures Press, 2010 Perspective of Conceptual History,” which lays on other research projects at the University of the groundwork for the book’s argument, was Toronto, the National University of Singapore, published as the lead article in the fall 2010 the University of Chicago, and at the annual issue of the International Journal of Middle meeting of the American Historical Association. East Studies (IJMES). She looks forward to pulling those lectures together into a book when she goes on leave Robert Lerner is on the best research during the 2012-2013 year on a fellowship from fellowship he’s ever had. It’s called retirement. the National Endowment for the Humanities. STANLEY In the last two years he has given papers in Selling Women: Prague, Rome, and Vienna, and published Kate Masur’s recent book, An Example for All Prostitution, Markets, and seven articles, as well as a review in the the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over the Household in Early TLS and a letter in the New York Review of Equality in Washington, D.C., will be published Modern Japan Books. In June 2010 he was co-organizer of in paperback this fall. She gave numerous Berkeley: University of a conference in Paris commemorating the public lectures about the book during 2011, one California Press, 2012 seventh hundred anniversary of the burning of which can be viewed on C-Span. She thought of Marguerite Porete, and is currently editing she was finished writing about our nation’s papers issuing from that conference for a capital, but some exciting developments lured volume to be published by Vrin. (A collaborator her back. Thus, like many people at her stage on this project is Sean Field.) In February of life, she finds herself working on two book 2011 he travelled to Princeton to participate projects at once. When she’s not teaching, STILT in a workshop at the Institute for Advanced writing, or directing the History graduate Islamic Law in Action: Study on the transmission of subversive program, she is spending time with her partner Authority, Discretion, and ideas from the Islamic world to Europe, and and two unfailingly delightful sons, ages 5 and Everyday Experiences in in June he travelled to Rome to confer about 9. Mamluk Egypt the publication of the collected works of New York: Oxford University Sarah Maza was delighted to see the 2011 Joachim of Fiore and to Erlangen to participate Press, 2011 publication by the University of California in an advisory board meeting overseeing Press of her book Violette Noziere: A Story of the Erlangen International Consortium for Murder in 1930s Paris, which was reviewed

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in the New York Times and other non-academic 1508-1633” (Ghent-Antwerp-Leuven, Nov., his continuing work on her new project, a study of venues. She has been busy with various first and last lecture tour of the country formerly the spread of universal and compulsory birth professional activities, recently completing a known as Belgium). But in 2012, he has no registration in the United States, and is looking three-year term on the Council of the American academic presentations scheduled further away forward to enjoying time to continue this research Historical Association. She spent most of than Milwaukee. thanks to fellowships from the NEH and the May 2011 in Paris lecturing at the Ecole des ACLS. There was something else in the works Hautes Etudes, and in December delivered the Ed Muir took three trips to Italy this past year too: a new baby born in April of 2012. Jacob Talmon Lecture at Hebrew University in setting up the new Academy for Advanced Dylan Penningroth welcomed a second son into Jerusalem. While she is pondering her next major Study in the Renaissance, funded by the Mellon the world, Julien James Chen-Penningroth, in project, much of her energy goes into trying to Foundation, to be held in the springs of 2013 July 2010. He was named a McCormick Professor keep up with her daughter Juliette’s high school and 2014 at the American Academy in Rome, of Teaching Excellence. In hopes of learning swim-team schedule. L’Orientale University of Naples, and the European University Institute in Florence. The more legal history, he added a new seminar to Joel Mokyr, who straddles both sides of Academy will be open to 10 advanced graduate his teaching mix, called “The Trial in American Deering Meadow between Harris Hall and his students from NU and elsewhere on a competitive History.” He is continuing his two research Econ office in Andersen Hall, continued to basis and will involve 30 distinguished projects—“Legacies of Slavery in Colonial serve two demanding masters in History and Renaissance scholars from North America and Ghana” and “African Americans in Local Economics. His The Enlightened Economy Europe. It has been lots of work but is very Courts”—and gave presentations at Princeton, was published in paperback by Penguin Press exciting to attempt to galvanize a new generation Yale, and Washington University Law School. in February 2011, and to date the professional of Renaissance specialists. In the meantime he And as fun as it has been, he holds out hope that reviews have been embarrassingly favorable. gave papers at the AHA, Renaissance Society his days in county courthouse basements will His paper “The Rate and Direction of Invention of America, a conference in Udine, Italy, and soon be past. in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives Yale. He has been trying to find time to writeThe In 2011, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern spent and Institutions,” with Ralf R. Meisenzahl, Tender Promise of Trust: The Italian Renaissance, half a year at the Institute for Advanced Studies forthcoming in Scott Stern and Joshua Lerner, 1350-1650, contracted with Wiley Blackwell at Hebrew University in Jerusalem working eds., The Rate and Direction of Innovation for 2013, and preparing the fourth edition of with eight other scholars on medieval and early (University of Chicago Press 2012), was cited the textbook he co-authored with former NU modern Church Slavonic texts—translations from extensively in an article by Malcolm Gladwell graduate student Meredith Veldman and Brian Greek and Hebrew of the lost Judaic sources— on Steve Jobs in The New Yorker. He presented Levack of UT, Austin, The West: Encounters and seeking to reconstruct the shared Jewish-Slavic a paper at the 90th anniversary of Nobelist Transformations (Addison-Wesley Longman). interest in apocalyptical works in the 15th and Douglass C. North, which will be published as 16th centuries. While taking his leave from the “Culture, Institutions, and Modern Growth” in Alex Owen is at work on her book tentatively heated discussions about the impact of Judaizing Itai Sened, ed., Understanding Institutions and entitled Culture, Psyche and the Soul in Modern heresies on Church Slavonic translations in Development Economics: the Legacy and Work Britain, which explores twentieth-century the High Middle Ages, he continued to work of Douglass C. North by Cambridge University attempts to reconcile different forms of religiosity on his The Golden Age of the Shtetl book and Press. He gave the Schumpeter Lectures in Graz with a new and secular understanding of the collecting materials for his future project on Austria, which will eventually be published in mind and self. The project is an intervention early modern Jewish magic and mysticism in book form by Princeton University Press. He also in the current debate about the purchase of Eastern Europe, using the trove of sources at the gave the Eli F. Heckscher lecture in Stockholm, religion and spirituality in modern life. She was National and University Library in Jerusalem. which will also be published in the Scandinavian fortunate to spend three months researching He wrote a proposal (together with Dean Phillip Economic History Review. Among his honors he and writing in the U.K in early 2012, surviving Bell) to Oxford University Press and obtained a is especially proud of being elected as a Fellow of one of the worst European winters in many contract for a text book tentatively entitled The the Cliometrics Association (first class ever) and years. Owen has revised an article on Aleister Jews in the Early Modern World: a documentary a Fellow of the Econometric Society (which is Crowley, the infamous so-called black magician, history which, unlike previous books of similar typically reserved for number-crunching theorem- for publication in Aleister Crowley and Western genre, will go beyond the political and introduce proving math types). Esotericism, Henrik Bogdan & Martin P. Starr, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012 students to religious, literary, artistic, gender, William Monter’s most important piece of news forthcoming). The volume is the first of its kind social, and other aspects of Jewish life between since 2010 is that his Mellon Emeritus Fellowship and marks a coming of age for scholarly interest 1450 and 1750. He was thrilled to discover how has ripened into a book, The Rise of Female in Crowley and his place in the Western occult well (and how quickly) his book on Lenin’s Kings in Europe 1300-1800 (Yale University tradition. Owen delivered the keynote address on alleged Jewishness was received among both Press, 2012) – and he’s enjoying the early “Spiritual Matters/Matters of the Spirit” at the scholarly and lay readers and was particularly reactions to it. En route, his article on “Gendered 33rd annual conference of the Nineteenth Century pleased that the university promoted him to full Sovereignty: Numismatics and Female Monarchs Studies Association in Asheville, North Carolina, professor and made him the Crown Family Chair in Europe, 1300-1800” appeared in The Journal of March 2012. in Jewish Studies. Interdisciplinary History, 41 (2011), 533-564. In Carl F. Petry is fortunate to take pride in the 2011, he also gave talks on “Philip II and Female Susan Pearson’s book, The Rights of the accomplishments of one of his undergraduate Rule” (Ohio State University, May: his first and Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children “stars” and honors thesis advisees, Sarah perhaps last PowerPoint presentation); “Des in Gilded Age America was published in 2011 Smierciak. She was awarded both Rhodes and Artichauds aux Libertins” (Geneva, Nov); and and received the 2012 Merle Curti Award for Marshall Scholarships in December 2011. Sarah “Female Rule in the Habsburg Low Countries, Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians. Susan is excited to be arrived at NU as a talented high school graduate

10 THE NEWSLETTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Faculty News continued who had some vague affinity for the Middle currently is revising (belatedly!) and translating has written on the Korean diaspora. She teaches East—with no clue as to why. Five years later, his dissertation, which is to be published by Asian diaspora, Asian American history, oral Smierciak is spending her third year-length the Banco de la República (the central bank) in history, comparative diasporas, 20th century sojourn in Egypt, working at a U.N-sponsored Bogotá. Joan Safford, also retired, for years has U.S. history, and comparative race and gender. refugee agency in Cairo. She will enroll in a been heavily engaged in consulting on a variety She is a co-founder of the Alliance of Scholars program of International Development studies of legal matters for the Mexican government. Concerned about Korea (www.asck.org), at Oxford University next year. With regard to Most notably, with two others, she wrote a draft an organization devoted to educating policy Petry’s activities, his monograph: The Criminal of a new criminal procedure code for Mexico. makers and the public, and a board member Underworld in a Medieval Islamic Society: Both of their sons are in forms of entertainment of KANWIN, a Korean American women’s Narratives from Cairo and Damascus under (large puppets, supported by people on stilts, for organization focusing on domestic violence. the Mamluks has been completed, after lengthy Mark in Minneapolis, story-telling in multiple Her current project is a study of ethnic Koreans preparation (to be issued by The Middle East genres for Joshua in various parts of the U.S.). in China, Japan, and the United States. She has Documentation Center at the University of conducted numerous research trips to China and Chicago). Petry also delivered lectures and Last year David Schoenbrun’s film (co- Japan, living for extended periods in Yanji City papers at several venues, including the World Produced with Kearsley Stewart, Anthropology and in Osaka. Congress of Middle East Studies (WOCMES) and Harlan Wallach, Academic Technologies), in Barcelona (July 2010), the Middle East “Controlling the Fire: The Value of the Bead in Center at Ohio State, the American Research West Africa” on glass trade beads as investment Center in Egypt, the Middle East Center at Haifa vehicles in West Africa, was Jury Selected to University, Israel, and the Annemarie Schimmel screen in June at the Royal Anthropological Kolleg at the Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Institute’s Biennial Ethnographic Film Festival in Bonn, Germany (the latter institution is the in London. He has also been drafting chapters lucky awardee of several million Euros from the for “Killer Kings and Moralities of Power in German government, to be spent exclusively East Africa’s Great Lakes Region,” a book about on the study of medieval Egyptian and Syrian the impact of violence on the shapes of political history—a level and focus of sponsorship culture in Uganda over the millennium between unimaginable in the U.S. at the present time). 900 and 1900.

Since Petry regards Egypt as a second Michael Sherry continues to work on his home, events unfolding in that country since book, Go Directly to Jail: The Punitive Turn January 2011 (mislabeled “the Arab Spring”) in American Life, to advise scads of graduate have proven stimulating and unsettling students, to enjoy their many accomplishments, simultaneously. Reports from many friends in to participate in many professional meetings, and the country continue to indicate that conditions more recently, to enjoy our new digs in Harris will remain unsettled and tense for the indefinite Hall. He contributed the lead essay in the special th future. Petry was suspicious of initial euphoria 9/11 10 anniversary issue of the OAH Magazine back in January, and subsequent events have of History and remains the Richard W. Leopold confirmed his reservations. Professor of History.

On a more positive note, in March of 2012 Petry Amy Stanley recently completed her first book, visited Qatar as a recipient of the Hamad bin Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Khalifa Al Thani Chair in WCAS, lectured at the Household in Early Modern Japan, which was new NU in Qatar campus (its Education City), published in June 2012 by the University of and renewed friendships with NU colleagues California Press. She spent the academic year teaching there. 2011-12 as a fellow at the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, where she is working on After retiring at the end of August 2010, in her next project, a social history of the city of the fall Frank Safford encountered graduate Kyoto during the tumultuous years surrounding students in Latin American history who appeared the Meiji Restoration. When she is not poring to be wandering orphans, and so organized an over diaries and examining ink drawings of ad hoc seminar in the following winter quarter. severed heads, she is working on two smaller It was, at least for him, a great pleasure. In projects: an article about the “enlightened” mid-March, 2011, he flew with Joan Safford geisha of the 1870’s, and a meditation on gender, to Bogotá, where he taught in the Facultad de microhistory, and the limits of the ordinary in Administración of the Universidad de los Andes, Tokugawa Japan. She looks forward to returning while Joan reacquainted herself with the city, to the classroom in 2011-2012. which she had last seen in 1975. In August, 2011, to his surprise, he received an honorary degree Ji-Yeon Yuh is a native of Seoul and Chicago, from the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá, an act a former journalist, and a mother of three apparently motivated by a book he first published children. Her intellectual passions are focused more than 35 years ago. He recently sent off the on diaspora, memory, race, and community. latest version of an essay on the formation of She is active in Asian American community national states in five countries (Chile, Argentina, organizations, was the director of the Asian Brazil, Mexico and Colombia), for a volume to American Studies Program at Northwestern, of be published by Cambridge University Press. He which she is a founding faculty member, and

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Aaron Astor’s (PhD 2006) book (see won a Charles A. Ryskamp Research Marisa Chappell (PhD 2002), Associate Alumni Bookshelf) was released on May Fellowship (ACLS) for the 2012-2015 Professor of History at Oregon State 1 with LSU Press. He has also published period, and gave a keynote address at University, traveled to Germany in five Civil War-related articles with the the Ghent University Africa Program November to talk about her book, The New York Times Disunion series with Symposium in November 2011 on Urban War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and several more coming this year. The Africa; the talk was entitled “Desire, Rents Politics in Modern America (University articles touch mostly on the Civil War in and Entitlements: the pasts and futures of of Pennsylvania, 2010), at the University Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri. He is African urban studies.” of Erfurt and the University of Muenster. beginning a new book project on the 1860 She is currently researching community election that examines it as a grassroots Currently an Associate Professor, Mohamed organizing for economic justice in the phenomenon from the perspective of four Camara (PhD 1996) is the director of the late twentieth century and is also busy distinct communities: Rutland, Vermont; McNair Scholars Program and the Vice- organizing student research and public Cincinnati, Ohio; Clarksville, Tennessee; Speaker of the Faculty Senate at Embry- events to celebrate the centennial of and Madison County, Mississippi. Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona woman suffrage in Oregon. She, her Beach, Florida. He has authored numerous husband Patrick (Northwestern PhD Gregory Barton (PhD 1999) is a Research peer-reviewed articles dealing with military in Neuroscience, 1999), and their son, Fellow at The Australian National rule in Cold-War Africa; religion and Everett, are enjoying the recent arrival University. He teaches (a little), writes (a societal values in Muslim West Africa; mass of Everett’s little brother, Rowan Avery lot), and specializes in sniffing out archives media and post-Cold War political systems; Chappell, born January 19, 2012. in remote areas across the globe. When civil society and democratization; and intra- not writing and traveling he is appalled to African foreign policy. His books include Patricia Cleary (PhD 1989) published her discover that he is editing a journal and a His Master’s Voice: Mass Communication latest book (see the Alumni Bookshelf) book series. He often misses the Unicorn and Single-Party Politics in Guinea under and conducted research for her new Cafe in Evanston. Sékou Touré (2005), Le pouvoir politique en project, “The Destruction of ‘Big Mound’: Guinée sous Sékou Touré (2007), and The Memory, Civic Culture, and the Indigenous Ed Berkowitz (PhD 1976) continues as Development of a Trans-National Region Past in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis,” professor of history and public policy at in West Africa: Transcending the Politics under the auspices of a Mellon Research of Sovereign Nation States (2010). In 2008 George Washington University. Last year Fellowship at the Huntington Library, San he won his department’s Outstanding Cambridge University Press published his Marino, California, summer 2011. Mass Appeal, a short and popular (or at Researcher of the Year Award and in 2009 least intended to be that way) history of Embry-Riddle’s Outstanding Teacher of Gerald A. Danzer (PhD 1967), Professor movies, radio, and television since 1927. the Year Award. Mohamed is also the past Emeritus of History at the University of He is working on a history of Supplemental recipient of the Nonprofit Academic Centers Illinois at Chicago, published Illinois: A Security Income, a social welfare program, Council (NACC) William Diaz Faculty History in Pictures (University of Illinois that, with luck, will be published by Fellowship (2006-07) and the University Press) in 2011. He also taught a course of Florida’s Center for African Studies Cornell University Press. Even as he in the History of Cartography at the Research Fellowship (2008). approaches retirement age, he continues University of Chicago. to think about the things he learned from Peter N. Carroll (PhD 1968) continues to Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane (PhD 2000) is Robert Wiebe. teach his course on U.S. Film & History an associate professor at the University of at Stanford University and lecture widely Bob Braddock (PhD 1971) continues to Minnesota, Morris. Here is what she has on the United States and the Spanish teach half-time at Saginaw Valley State been up to: A History of Medieval Heresy Civil War. In March, he presented the University and will retire at the end in and Inquisition (Rowman & Littlefield, annual Crome Lecture at the Imperial June 2013. His most recent publication 2011); “Pious Domesticities,” Oxford War Museum in London on “The Spanish is a chapter on the Royal Household in Handbook of Women and Gender in Civil War in the 21st Century: From Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary Medieval Europe, edited by Judith Bennett Guernica to Human Rights.” He is Chair and Elizabeth, Hunt and Whitelock (eds.), and Ruth Karras (Oxford, 2012); and with Emeritus of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010. He was pleased Letha Boehringer and Hildo van Engen Archives (ALBA), a non-profit educational to find that his dissertation was recently (eds.), Labels, Libels, and Lay Religious organization, and participates in various cited as one of the sources for the article Women’s Communities in Northern public activities. He is also chair of the on Mary I in the Oxford Dictionary of Medieval Europe (Brepols, forthcoming) history advisory board for a new gallery National Biography. She also won a NEH Summer Stipend, at the Museum of the City of New York 2011. After teaching five years at SOAS (2003- focusing on the history of social activism. 2008), James Brennan (PhD 2002) moved Meanwhile, the other side of his brain Don H. Doyle (PhD 1973) is McCausland to the University of Illinois at Urbana- deals with poetry. He has been writing Professor of History at the University of Champaign, where he is an Assistant about the poetry of “lost place” in America, South Carolina. He is currently the Archie Professor in the History Department. including a volume called Riverborne: A Davis Fellow at the National Humanities His book (see Alumni Bookshelf) will Mississippi Requiem. He lives in Belmont, Center, Research Triangle, NC, where he is be published in June. He also recently California. Email: [email protected] writing a book on “America’s International

12 THE NEWSLETTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Alumni News continued Civil War,” which deals with the effort by Chris Hodson (PhD 2004) continues in Chicago and the Profession,” in Alan each side to shape public opinion abroad to teach at BYU, living with his spouse Kraut and David Gerber, eds., Ethnic and the impact of foreign opinion on and kids in beautiful Springville, UT. Historians and the Mainstream: Shaping Union and Confederate views of the war. His first book (see Alumni Bookshelf) America’s Immigration Story (New He recently contributed to the Journal was published in June; his next, a history Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, of American History’s “Interchange: of France and the New World from the forthcoming); “Sending Money ‘Home’: Nationalism and Internationalism in the medieval period through the nineteenth Toward a Transnational History of Migrant Era of the Civil War” (Sept. 2011), and to century to be co-authored with Brett Remittances,” (co-authored with Roland L. the New York Times’s series on Disunion, Rushforth, is under contract with Basic Guyotte (NU Ph.D., 1980)) in Agnieszka including a piece called “Bully for Books. Chris will spend May 2012 as a Malek and Dorota Praszalowicz, eds., Garibaldi” (NYT, Sept. 26, 2011), which visiting lecturer at the University of Paris. Between the Old and the New World: dealt with the Lincoln’s administration Cheese will be consumed. Studies in the History of Overseas effort to enlist the Italian hero in the Union Migrations; “Migration - Ethnicity - cause. Samantha Kelly (PhD 1998) had a baby, Nation: Cracow Studies in Culture, published a book, and won a fellowship Society & Politics,” vol. 1. (Frankfurt Last November LSU Press published last spring. The baby is Julia; the book is am Main: Peter Lang, 2011), 4-20; Michael Fellman’s (PhD 1969) cultural an edition of a fourteenth-century history “Strategic Citizenship and Immigration anthropology of himself, “Views from of Naples, the Cronaca di Partenope; and from the Philippines,” (co-authored with the Dark Side of American History,” the fellowship is a Mellon New Directions, Roland L. Guyotte) in Roger Daniels, ed., that included discussion of the grad which will allow her to spend 2012-13 Immigration and the Legacy of Harry S. school salad days of the late 1960s at studying medieval Ethiopia in London and Truman (Kirksville, MO: Truman State Northwestern. In November he gave the Addis Ababa. She looks forward to more University Press, 2010), 96-119. She is keynote address on the American-Christian sleep in the near future. currently completing a three-year term as God of War at a conference on border president of the Immigration and Ethnic warfare in Kansas City, and in June, he will Robert Kramer (PhD 1991) published his History Society. be travelling to Brisbane, Australia to give latest book (see Alumni Bookshelf) in 2011. the keynote at the Australia-New Zealand While the royalties from the book have done Adam Schwartz (PhD 1996), Associate American Studies Conference. little to keep Mr. Kramer out of debtor’s Professor of History at Christendom prison, the mere fact of its existence has College, will have his The Third Spring: Sean Field’s (PhD 2002) third book (see given him enormous satisfaction. Kramer is G. K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Alumni Bookshelf) was published in April. in his 23rd year of teaching at St. Norbert Christopher Dawson, and David Jones A volume co-edited with Robert E. Lerner College in De Pere, WI, where he teaches (2005) issued in paperback by The Catholic and Sylvain Piron, Marguerite Porete et Middle Eastern and African history. On the University of America Press in March le Miroir des simples ames: Perspectives rare occasions that he visits Evanston, he no 2012. historiques, philsophiques et litteraires, longer recognizes it. will also appear in 2012, or whenever the Johns Hopkins University Press just Gregory H. Maddox (PhD 1988) is French contributors manage to finish their published Amanda Seligman’s (PhD currently Dean of the Graduate School at essays. 1999) new book (see Alumni Bookshelf), Texas Southern University in Houston, dedicated to her classmates from NU’s proving without a doubt that if you hang Although having “retired” in 2000, History Program, especially Graham out some place long enough they will give Gerald N. Grob (PhD 1958) has become Peck, Rebecca Shereiks, Jared Orsi, and you the big office with the windows. His even busier. Indeed, he suggested to Ricki Shine. Her current projects are an his department that he was considering most recent publication is an edited volume (see the Alumni Bookshelf) published by Encyclopedia of Milwaukee (to be online returning to the faculty fulltime in order Ohio University Press in 2010. He gets and published in print by Northern Illinois to have more leisure time! Since 2000 he back to Tanzania regularly, serving recently University Press) and a history of block has published three books and more than as external examiner for the History clubs in Chicago. two dozen articles. The former includes Department at the University of Dar es Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence: Since graduating from the history Salaam. His daughter Kate will graduate Conundrums in Modern American department in 2009, Jane Silloway Smith from the University of Texas this May, Medicine (with Allan V. Horwitz) (Rutgers where despite his best efforts, she majored has been working as a researcher at Maxim University Press, 2010); The Dilemma of in history. Institute, an independent public policy Federal Mental Health Policy: Radical think tank in Auckland, New Zealand. Reform or Incremental Change (with Guy Ortolano (PhD 2005) received tenure Her latest project on foreign aid met with Howard H. Goldman) (Rutgers University at NYU and then turned to work on an much success, including having several of Press, 2006); and The Deadly Truth: A article, proving David Joravsky’s dictum her policy recommendations picked up by History of Disease in America (Cambridge: that they only tenure the sick ones. the New Zealand government. This year Harvard University Press, 2002). Currently Jane’s focus will shift slightly to analyzing he is writing a book on the history of Barbara M. Posadas (PhD 1976) was the development of New Zealand’s osteoporosis. named College of Liberal Arts and welfare state as well as to enabling the Sciences Distinguished Professor of development of her and her husband Bruce Haight (PhD 1970) has retired History at Northern Illinois University Bryan’s son Edmund, born 3 March 2012. from the History Department at Western in October 2012. Her most recent Michigan University after teaching there publications include: “Ethnic and Racial In the fall of 2012, Oxford will publish 41 years. Identities: A Polish Filipina’s Progress the 25th anniversary edition of Sterling

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Stuckey’s (PhD 1972) Slave Culture. Its In 2008 the Society for the History of Department of the University of North unconventional thesis that the Ring Shout, Technology awarded him its Leondardo da Carolina, Chapel Hill. He will continue a slave ritual in which the Negro Spiritual Vinci Medal for outstanding contributions to edit the Center’s quarterly journal, and the blues evolved, was one of the to the history of technology. His current Southern Cultures. most important such rituals in America research focuses on the impact of natural has been subsequently strengthened by his gas development on the SW Pennsylvania John Watterson (PhD 1970), now retired, discovery that it is employed by Herman environment. lives in Charlottesville, VA where he Melville in the mournful march of The teaches adult classes for Osher Institute Pequod to its burial at sea. The Melville Christopher Tassava (PhD 2003) lives for Lifelong Learning (OLLI), loosely argument is advanced in Stuckey’s African with his family in Northfield, MN, where tied to the University of Virginia. He also Culture and Melville’s Art: The Creative he works as a grants officer at Carleton serves as vice-president of the Pine Knot Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick College, raising money for faculty research Foundation, which owns and operates (Oxford, 2009). Also, a movement in and teaching projects. Northfield is the President Theodore Roosevelt’s nearby Wynton Marsalis’s recent major musical self-proclaimed town of “cows, colleges, rustic retreat. He is a member of the composition, Congo Square, is entitled and contentment,” though Christopher University of Virginia reunion committee, Ring Shout. can only really vouch for the second and class of 1962. And, he continues to third. His wife, Shannon, is a stay-at-home do research on college football, with Joel Tarr (PhD 1963) is the Richard S. mother to their girls, a kindergartner and a special emphasis on its relationship with Caliguiri University Professor of History & second grader. He welcomes the chance to Progressive Era reform. He often visits his Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He reconnect with NU history folks by email grandchildren in Chicago and Madison, survived a bout with lung cancer in 2009 ([email protected]) or Facebook. Wisconsin. and is back teaching and doing research. In 2007 he published with Clay McShane, Harry Watson (Ph.D. 1976) will retire as The Horse in the City: Living Machines in director of the UNC Center for the Study the 19th Century (Johns Hopkins Press). of the American South on July 1, 2012, and return to full-time teaching in the History Alumni Bookshelf

Aaron Astor, Rebels on the Border: Civil Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, A History of 2007), and (with Nina Emma Mba) War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction Medieval Heresy and Inquisition (Rowman For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo of Kentucky and Missouri (LSU Press, & Littlefield, 2011) Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria (University of 2012) Illinois Press, 1997) Michael Fellman, Views from the Dark Edward D. Berkowitz, Mass Appeal: The Side of American History (LSU Press, Samantha Kelly, The Cronaca di Formative Age of the Movies, Radio, and 2011) Partenope: An Introduction to and Critical TV (Cambridge University Press, 2010) Edition of the First Vernacular History of Sean L. Field, The Beguine, the Angel, and Naples (c. 1350) (Brill, 2011) John F. Binder, Farewell, My Republic the Inquisitor: The Trials of Marguerite (Booklocker.com, Inc., 2010) Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart Robert S. Kramer, Holy City on the Nile: (University of Notre Dame Press, 2012) Omdurman During the Mahdiyya (Markus James R. Brennan, Taifa: Making Nation Wiener, 2011) and Race in Urban Tanzania (Ohio David N. Gellman, Emancipating New University Press, 2012) York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, Gregory H. Maddox (ed., with Karl 1777-1827 (LSU Press, 2006), and (ed., Ittmann and Dennis D. Cordell), The Mohamed Saliou Camara, The with David Quigley) Jim Crow New Demographics of Empire: The Colonial Development of a Trans-National Region York: A Documentary History of Race Order and the Creation of Knowledge in West Africa: Transcending the Politics and Citizenship, 1777-1877 (New York (Ohio University Press, 2010) of Sovereign Nation States (Edwin Mellen, University Press, 2003) 2010) Amanda I. Seligman, Is Graduate School Gerald N. Grob (with Allan V. Horwitz), Really for You? The Whos, Whats, Hows, Peter Neil Carroll, Riverborne: A Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence: and Whys of Pursuing a Master’s or Ph.D. Mississippi Requiem (Higganum Hill, Conundrums in Modern American (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012) 2008) Medicine (Rutgers University Press, 2009) Robert A. Slayton, Master of the Air: Patricia Cleary, The World, the Flesh, and Christopher Hodson, The Acadian William Tunner and the Success of Military the Devil: A History of Colonial St. Louis Diaspora: An Eighteenth-Century History Airlift (University of Alabama Press, 2010) (University of Missouri Press, 2011) (Oxford University Press, 2012) William F. Willingham, Starting Over: Gerald A. Danzer, Illinois: A History in Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Women and Community Building on the Eastern Pictures (University of Illinois Press, 2011) Gender in the History of Sub-Saharan Oregon Frontier (Oregon Historical Africa (American Historical Association, Society Press, 2005)

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ur graduate program continues won the University’s most prestigious students per year, allowing for smaller to attract outstanding applicants award for graduate students, the sections and more sustained interactions Oand train successful students in Presidential Fellowship. They are Anne between TAs and undergraduates. We a wide range of fields. Although most of Koenig (2011) and Melissa Hamilton- also created a funded graduate teaching our graduate students still go on to careers Vise (2012). Anastasia Polda won a liaison position; each year, a distinguished at colleges and universities, the past two year-long fellowship from the Gender graduate student teacher organizes years have been characterized by intense Studies Program, and Alexandra Lindgren- workshops on teaching and mentors new and ongoing discussion of the job market Gibson and Teri Chettiar both received grad student teachers. Our grad students’ and non-academic careers for History fellowships from the Sexualities Project at outstanding teaching has been recognized Ph.D.s. Northwestern. Our students also regularly college-wide, with Jason Johnson (2011) win language study and travel support from and Andrew Warne (2012) winning highly Admission to the program remains The Graduate School, the Buffett Center, competitive WCAS teaching awards. extremely competitive. In 2011-2012, the and the Program of African Studies. program received 296 applications, which The successes of our more advanced we winnowed to an entering class of 15. Our students also enjoyed considerable alums are too numerous to list. Former success in securing highly sought after students are publishing books, winning Current students have been extremely tenure-line positions. Since 2010, our fellowships, and being promoted at successful in winning prestigious awards graduates have been hired into assistant colleges and universities across the country both within the university and outside it. professor jobs at Barnard, Bowdoin, and, indeed, the world. Of particular note: In the last two years alone, Juri Bottura Columbia, Grinnell, Marietta, Penn Neil Kodesh (PhD 2004) won the 2011 was awarded a Bourse Doctorale from State, SUNY Binghamton, Texas Tech, Melville Herskovits Prize for the best book Sciences Po in Paris; D’Weston Haywood Louisville, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin- on Africa in any discipline for Beyond the won an Arnold L. Mitchem Dissertation Madison. We have also placed a number Royal Gaze: Clanship & Public Healing Fellowship at Marquette University; of students in prestigious postdocs. At the in Buganda (University of Virginia Press); Theresa Keeley received a Charlotte same time, like many History Departments and Karl Appuhn (PhD 1999) won the Newcombe fellowship; Azeta Kola was we are taking seriously the mandate to AHA’s 2010 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize awarded a Fulbright for research in support our students in preparing for a for the best first book in European History Albania; Stephanie Nadalo won a Scuola range of careers to recognize and honor for A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Normale Superiore di Pisa - American their decisions to pursue work that doesn’t Expertise in Renaissance Venice (Johns Academy in Rome Exchange Fellowship; involve teaching in a college or university. Hopkins UP, 2009). Wen-Qing Ngoei received a Teagle We are pleased to report that graduate Fellowship for Teaching and Learning; Michael Green is Program Manager of the In this era of scarce resources, our Phonshia Nie was awarded a Chiang Justice and Society Program at the Aspen department is delighted to be able to help Ching-kuo Foundation dissertation Institute in Washington, DC; Christopher fund our students’ travel for research and fellowship; Nathaniel Mathews won a Hayden is an historian with the Human to conferences. Thanks to the generous Fulbright for research in Oman; Howard Rights and Special Prosecutions Section donations of alumni and other friends, Pashman won an ACLS dissertation of the U.S. Department of Justice; and we are now supporting graduate students’ fellowship and a place in the Hurst Christopher Tassava is associate director software purchases as well as twice-per- Summer Institute at the University of of Corporate and Foundation Relations at quarter faculty/graduate professional Wisconsin Law School; Jason Ralph Carleton College. Several of our students development lunches. Moreover, we received a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship; are pursuing careers as secondary school are happy to announce that a generous Strother Roberts won an ACLS New teachers: Stefanie Bator will be teaching at donation in the name of Joanna Alseth has Faculty Fellowship and will be at Brown Lake Forest Academy; David Davidson is enabled us to create a program to support for two years; Andrea Seligman won a teaching at St. David’s School in New York graduate students’ language study. Fulbright-Hayes Research Fellowship to City, Molly MacKean teaches history at work in Tanzania; Rachel Taylor won an Phillips Exeter, and Matt Miller teaches at We are endeavoring to stay in closer touch SSRC International Dissertation Research St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago. with our alums. Graduates of the program Fellowship for research in Tanzania; Peter are always welcome to send us your news. Thilly won an IHR Mellon Predissertation The History Department is known across Please send updates to Fellowship, an SSRC International the university as a place where graduate Eric West: [email protected]. Research Fellowship, and a Fulbright, all students’ teaching is highly valued. The for research in China; and Andrew Warne students themselves have a great deal to received an ACLS dissertation completion do with this. A few years back, several fellowship. students prepared a splendid teaching resource binder, which is now in its second These are just the outside fellowships. edition and distributed annually to all new Our students also excelled in fellowship TAs. (It’s also become a crucial resource competitions within Northwestern. For for faculty.) The department reduced grad two consecutive years, Medievalists have student TAs’ teaching load to roughly 90

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Placement for 2011-2012 2012 An Exploration of Eschatological Prophecy Will Cavert: “Producing Pollution: Coal, in Late Medieval Germany”; Visiting Smoke, and Society in London 1550- Stefanie Bator: “From ‘Civilization’ Assistant Professor of European History at 1750”; Postdoctoral Junior Research to Citizenship: American Reformers, the University of Mississippi. Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge Filipinos, and Colonialism in the University. Philippines, 1898-1946”; Instructor, Lake Erin-Marie Legacey: “Living with the Forest Academy, Illinois. Dead in Post-Revolutionary Paris, 1795- Ronnie Grinberg: “Jewish Intellectuals, 1820s”; Assistant Professor, Texas Tech Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Kathryn Burns-Howard: “Agents of University. American Conservatism, 1930-1980”; Their Own Souls: The Family, Insanity and Chancellor’s Fellowship in Jewish Studies, Individual Conscience in the Nineteenth- Matthew Miller: “Death Car’ Reckoning: University of Colorado at Boulder. Century United States”; Visiting Assistant Responses to the Automobile Slaughter in Professor, Miami University. Chicago, 1920-1938”; St. Ignatius College Stephanie Nadalo: “Constructing Prep School, Faculty Pluralism in Seventeenth Century Livorno: Emily Callaci: “Ujamaa Urbanism: Managing a Mediterranean Free Port History, Urban Culture and the Politics of Strother Roberts: “The Commodities of (1537-1723)”; Exchange Fellow, American Authenticity in Socialist Dar es Salaam, the Country: An Environmental Biography Academy in Rome and Scuola Normale 1967-80”; Assistant Professor, University of the Colonial Connecticut Valley”; ACLS Superiore di Pisa. of Wisconsin-Madison. New Faculty Fellow, Brown University. Andreana Prichard: “African Christian Shawn Clybor: “Culture and Crystal Sanders: “To Be Free of Fear: Women and the Emergence of Nationalist Communism: Czechoslovakia and the Black Women’s Fight For Freedom Subjectivities in Tanzania, 1860-1960s”; Czech Avant-garde, 1920-1958”; Visiting Through The Child Development Group Assistant Professor, Honors College of the Assistant Professor, Manhattan College. of Mississippi”; Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma. Pennsylvania State University James Coltrain: “Constructing Empires: Meghan Roberts: “Cradle of Architecture, Power, and Provincial 2011 Enlightenment: Philosophes, Families, and Identity in Early America”, Lecturer and Knowledge Making in Eighteenth-Century Fellow at the University of Nebraska’s Tristan Cabello: “Queer Bronzeville: France”; Assistant Professor, Bowdoin Center for Digital Research in the Race, Homosexuality and Culture in Black College. Humanities Chicago 1935-1985”; Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Bowdoin College. Crystal Sanders: “To Be Free of Fear: David Davidson: “Republic of Risk: Black Women’s Fight For Freedom America’s Commercial Infrastructure Genevieve Carlton: “Worldly Consumers: through the Child Development Group Planners, 1783-1808”; Faculty, Saint The Demand for Maps in Renaissance of Mississippi”; Postdoctoral Fellow, David’s School, New York, New York. Italy”; Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania State University. Louisville. D’Weston Haywood: “’Let Us Make Andrew Wehrman: “The Contagion of Men’: Black Newspapers and a Gendered Elizabeth Casteen: “The Making of a Liberty: Medicine, Class, and Popular Vision of Racial Advancement, 1915- Neapolitan She-Wolf: Gender, Sexuality, Politics in the American Revolution”; 1960”; Arnold L. Mitchem Dissertation and Sovereignty and the Reputation of Assistant Professor, Marietta College. Fellow, Marquette University. Johanna I of Naples”; Assistant Professor, Binghamton University, State University of Courtney Kneupper: “German Identity New York. and Spiritual Reform at the End of Time:

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