NEWS ABOUT OUR GRADUATE PROGRAM IN HISTORY By Judith Giesberg, PhD Kevin Fox working Graduate Program Director with middle school students at Blessed Virgin e are delighted to provide highlights of some of the Mary School in exciting work underway by students and faculty in Philadelphia. Wour MA program in history. To this, readers will read about a team of graduate students who are providing scholars with a new tool for studying slavery and for African American genealogists hoping to fill in their family trees. In this issue, too, we say farewell to two colleagues who retired this year—and we remember one whom we lost. This year we inaugurated our Teaching Ambassador Program. Andrew Zetts, MA student and Social Studies Teacher at Jenkintown Middle/High School, has been working throughout This newsletter brings news of faculty scholarship. Drs. Lynne this year to find new ways to engage teachers in our program. Hartnett and Cristina Soriano were both awarded tenure and Students addressed audiences at the Historical Society of promoted to Associate Professor. Dr. Timothy McCall is on Pennsylvania, presented their work at conferences, traveled to fellowship this year at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Fine Gettysburg National Military Park, and visited Philadelphia’s Art, and Dr. Andrew Liu returned from leave this fall. Drs. Marc National Cemetery, where hundreds of US Colored Troops were Gallicchio and Judith Giesberg published books in 2017. In our interred after serving in the US Civil War—but whose graves next issue, look out for news of the publication of books authored remain unmarked. Two students, Ari Levine and Kevin Fox, by Drs. Catherine Kerrison and Cristina Soriano. visited Blessed Virgin Mary School in Philadelphia to work with Finally, after five years of directing the graduate program, I will middle school students interested in learning about the be stepping down from the position at the end of the spring 2018 information wanted ads. Graduate students are busy in the semester. I am very pleased to be turning the reigns over to Dr. summer, too: two landed summer research grants and a third Lynne Hartnett, who will take over in August. completed an internship in Ireland. Our program alumni continue to give us many, many reasons to be proud! We would love to hear from you! Our blog, Historically Speaking, is chock full of interesting and timely posts—if you have not We celebrate new publications by Blake McGready (MA ’17) yet subscribed, you won’t want to miss it. And, as always, stop and Becca Capobianco (MA ’14). And we are super excited to in when you are on campus, or stay in touch on Twitter provide information herein about new positions that our alumni (@vugradhistory) or Facebook. have landed over the last year. Matthew Landis (MA ‘13) published his first YA novel, League of American Traitors, inspired by a class he took with Dr. Catherine Kerrison; in IN THIS ISSUE February 2018, Landis’ second novel, The Not So Private Department News Cover Letters of Private Nobody, debuts. In November, Matt talked Spotlight on Digital History 2 with graduate students about turning their MA in history into a Welcoming New Staff Member 2 Research Summer in Ireland 3 career in fiction writing/publishing. New Teacher Ambassador Program 3 Appreciation for Dr. Jeffrey Johnson 4 Farewell to the Retiring Dr. Lawrence Little 4 Editors: Drs. Judith Giesberg and Cristina Soriano and graduate student In Memoriam: James S. Bergquist 5 Andrea Spencer. The Department of History Graduate Newsletter is published Faculty News 5-7 every winter. Please send your news to [email protected] so we Student and Alumni News 7-Back can include you in next year’s issue. SPOTLIGHT ON DIGITAL HISTORY Graduate Students Create Vital New Tool for Historians of Slavery and Genealogists

By Daniel Runyon istorians of American Slavery have drawn upon a wealth of powerfully moving and fiercely debated sources, Hincluding the published narratives of escaped and freed slaves, the plantation diaries of slave-owners, the business records of slave traders, and the Depression-era WPA interviews of the final generation of freed people. For the past two years, Villanova History Professor Dr. Judith Giesberg has led the “Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery” project to highlight an underutilized source: the Information Wanted advertisements which freed people placed in African-American newspapers in the five decades after the Civil War. The Last Seen project has produced a digital archive of these advertisements, compiled

from the microfilm records of dozens of African-American Dr. Giesberg and CBS Reporter, Vladimir Duthiers, look at ads during a taping of CBS Evening newspapers published between 1865 and 1915. News that aired on April 18, 2017. These advertisements were primarily taken out by freed people time-consuming task of combing the pages of these newspapers searching for family members from whom they were forcibly in search of a couple lines. This team includes me, Maggie Strolle, separated by the institution of slavery (often by sale into the Chris Byrd, Bonnie Loden, Ari Levine, Karyna Hlyvynska, Erik domestic slave trade). The ads provide a unique and vital Mickiewicz, and Jessica Tallarico, as well as Dr. Jesse Nasta, of window into slavery’s devastating impact on enslaved families Wesleyan University. Bonnie identifies newspapers likely to and the ways in which freed people attempted to reconstruct contain ads and orders their microfilm records through Falvey their families after emancipation. Library’s interlibrary loan service. We then use a microfilm reader to manually search thousands of pages of newsprint for key Since slave names and physical descriptions often changed headlines such as “Information Wanted,” “Lost Friends,” or “Help considerably in the decades after separation, advertisers relied me find my people.” We scan and upload these advertisements to heavily on the details of their separation to find lost kin. For the website, where an army of over 1000 volunteers transcribe those sold into the domestic slave trade, the advertiser often them. The transcriptions are then verified by undergraduate listed the names of owners and traders who sold them, the history major Peter Fedoryk and Erik and Jess before becoming location of sale, and occasionally why they were sold. permanent, making each ad fully searchable. These advertisements offer a wealth of information to historians, The Last Seen project is not only designed with historians in but have been underutilized primarily due to their inaccessibility. mind, however, and we are currently looking to expand our reach Scattered across hundreds of issues of short-running and obscure to better serve those outside of the historical community. Ari is African-American newspapers preserved in microfilm records creating lesson plans for teachers to introduce these primary kept all over the country, locating and identifying these ads sources to their students. Students are exploring the ads in involves hundreds of hours of work. By centralizing these primary classrooms in Philadelphia, Michigan, and New Jersey. We sources into one open-access archive, the project has alleviated are also designing exhibits tailored to certain themes, such as the most substantial barrier to investigating these rich and largely the advertisements of United States Colored Troops. The untapped sources and made them available to the general public “Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery” digital archive can be for the first time. found at www.informationwanted.org and is available to anyone The archive currently contains nearly 3000 advertisements, each searching for ancestors who have been enslaved or interested in one identified and scanned by a dedicated group of Graduate broadening their understanding of the history of slavery in the Assistants in Villanova’s History Department who perform the Antebellum South.

WELCOMING A NEW STAFF MEMBER he department of History warmly welcomes its newest staff member Frances Murphy. Franny is the new Administrative Assistant for the History Department; she is a graduate of Temple University where she Tmajored in History. Her professional background is as a development editor for medical books, both clinical and educational, concentrating mainly on the disciplines of anesthesiology, oncology, surgery, and critical care. She is thrilled to join the History Department, and we are extremely happy to have her! RESEARCH SUMMER IN IRELAND By Michaela Smith, MA ’17 s part of an effort to test run a new Our exhibit focused on the museum’s was that there was always something new collaboration between Villanova’s collection of a newspaper known as the in each issue, no matter how often we ACenter for Irish Studies and the Illustrated London News (ILN), which first looked at them. The issues discussed a Jackie Clarke Collection in Ballina started printing in the early 1840’s. The wide range of topics including sea County, Mayo, Ireland, I was fortunate ILN was the brainchild of Nathaniel monsters, which country had the most enough to act as a guinea pig intern of Ingram and his brother in law, Nathaniel beautiful women, literature and science, sorts. Given my love for Irish history, and Cooke. They worked as news agents and and military campaigns. having just graduated with a Master’s in recognized that newspapers with more The ILN often featured women in public history, it seemed like the perfect pictures sold at a much better rate. Ingram non-traditional roles. Women authored opportunity, and I said yes. Funding from and Cooke jumped at the chance to short stories and wrote about female archers the department, the Connelly Foundation, capitalize on this trend. and ranchers in America; groundbreaking and the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick made The ILN struggled initially but saw women frequently appeared in the ILN. my participation possible. dramatic growth after targeting large-scale We were surprised and delighted to find The trip began with a one night stay in events—namely the installation of the that a mid-nineteenth newspaper integrated Dublin, where my fellow intern and I Archbishop of Canterbury. And while the women into its writing staff at a time tagged along with the Center for Irish success of the ILN is remarkable in itself, when few occupations were open to Studies Abbey theater program and visited what made our research most interesting women in the US. historic sites like Malahide Castle, a family estate dating back to the twelfth century, and Glendalough, an ancient Monastic site. Then, a three-hour train ride took us to Ballina, home to the Jackie Clarke Collection (and Mayo’s beautiful coastline!), where we stayed for the remainder of our trip. Our work duties exposed us to both the behind the scenes and the front of house at the Jackie Clarke Collection. We worked in the archives locating items and researching for our exhibit, which is currently on display at the museum.

NEW TEACHER AMBASSADOR PROGRAM by Andrew Zetts am a Social Studies Teacher at also helped to develop the MA curriculum I also authored an article, “Debating the Jenkintown Middle/High School. For to be responsive to the needs and interests Civil Rights Act of 1875,” for Social Ithe past year and a half, I have served of classroom teachers. For instance, the Education and created an accompanying as Teaching Ambassador for the Graduate program now offers a summer internship— podcast. The experience allowed me to Program in the typically completed by public history work closely with archival materials, to use Department students—as a central part of educators’ Soundcloud, and to add a publication to of History. As program of study. This new program my CV. I recommend this experience for part of my offering allows teachers to work in archival teachers in the program and those who are responsibilities, collections to create materials for use in thinking of applying. There are a number I work to attract their classrooms. of benefits to teachers of completing their and recruit As a trial run, I completed a summer MA in History at Villanova, including the social studies internship with the National Archives in many ways they seek to work with teachers WELCOMING A NEW STAFF MEMBER teachers from Philadelphia. I created online content on to create new opportunities like these. the Philadelphia Reconstruction that will be useful to both My term as ambassador ends this summer. area to Villanova’s the National Archives and the social Interested secondary teachers can apply MA program in studies classroom. to be my successor by August 3 to History. I have [email protected]. The Andrew Zetts, MA student and Social Studies Teacher at Jenkintown Middle/High School ambassadorship comes with tuition benefits! APPRECIATION FOR DR. JEFFREY JOHNSON by Paul Steege n May 2017, Professor Jeffrey Johnson collaborator for several international retired after thirty-one years in scholarly projects, including the official IVillanova’s Department of History. history of the BASF chemical company The departure of the Department’s “oldest (which appeared in German and in pedagogue,” as he called himself in a English in 2002 and 2004) as well as tongue-in-cheek reference to Villanova’s several publications exploring the history alma mater, leaves it missing one of its and legacy of the global chemical industry most prolific scholars as well as with a and World War I. noticeable gap in in the department’s At Villanova, Jeff was a dedicated teacher, institutional memory. whose course covered a wide range of time After receiving a BA in history at Rice period and subject matter. His innovative University, Jeff went on to graduate study course, “From Frankenstein to Artificial at Princeton University, receiving his PhD Life,” took students on a wide-ranging in 1980. His dissertation on the Chemical historical tour to consider the scientific, Reichsanstalt Association in Imperial political, and ethical implications of the Drs. Johnson and Rosier playing chess in Johnson’s office in SAC. Germany set him on the path to an effort to create artificial life. Jeff’s impressive scholarly career that focused on underlying concern for ethical decision- his scholarly pursuits. He still has several the history of science, especially on the making also informed his service in the book projects in the works and continues development of the German chemical History Department and across the to pursue an active research agenda in industry. His first book, The Kaiser’s university, where he worked to promote archives in Germany. Although we will Chemists: Science and Modernization in transparent and responsible governance. miss him on the fourth floor of the St. Imperial Germany, was published in 1990 Augustine Center, we have no doubt that by the University of North Carolina Press. Although he has retired from the our friend and colleague still has much to He subsequently served as an important classroom, Jeff has not turned his back on say (and write). FAREWELL TO THE RETIRING DR. LAWRENCE LITTLE by Marc Gallicchio It is with mixed feelings that we announce assistant professor in the Department of emerging approach to African American that Dr. Lawrence S. Little retired from History in 1993 and quickly made the history that studied the international Villanova University in May 2017. We are African American History sequence at the activities of African Americans. In his sorry to lose such a valued member of the undergraduate and graduate level a study of the AME Church and its leaders, Department of History but happy for Dr. mainstay of the History department’s Dr. Little carefully and convincingly Little that he is able to pursue various curriculum and an important component of revealed the contradictions and tensions socially important projects in his home the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ embedded in that community’s approach to town of Baltimore. effort to diversify its course offerings. the expansion of American empire and the During his tenure at Villanova, he made rise of imperialism elsewhere in the world. Dr. Little taught in the Department of good on his oft-stated intention to teach as Dr. Little also participated with a team of History at Villanova for twenty-four years many Villanova students as he could. His scholarly experts in the development of a (1993–2017). He joined Villanova as an courses supported various interdisciplinary prize-winning high school curriculum programs, including Africana Studies, titled, Huck Finn in Context: A Teaching Cultural Studies, and Peace and Justice, Guide (Boston: WBGH Educational and were centrally shaped by the principles Foundation, 1999). of Catholic social teaching. A master of the often challenging, timely, Dr. Little’s main scholarly publication was and important subject matter of teaching the monograph Disciples of Liberty: The race in America, Dr. Little taught annually African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Age at the Martin Luther King Freedom School of Imperialism, 1884–1916 (Knoxville: and was a regular contributor to the University of Tennessee Press, 2000). university’s annual Catholic Social Disciples of Liberty, was a major Teaching Faculty Curriculum Workshop. contribution to what was then an Dr. Little worked tirelessly to create a more informed and socially just campus, society and world. Dr. Little addresses a crowd on Villanova’s 175th anniversary. IN MEMORIAM: JAMES M. BERGQUIST, 1934–2017 by Marc Gallicchio James Berquist, Professor Emeritus of History at Villanova, passed Dr. Bergquist was also the editor of the Newsletter of the away at the age of 83 on August 1, 2017. Dr. Bergquist was a Immigration and Ethnic History Society beginning in 1995 renowned expert on immigrant life in America whose publications and served on the Immigration History Society’s board, also and professional service did much to uncover and preserve beginning in 1995. America’s immigrant past. Passionately committed to the cause of academic freedom, He earned his BA from the University of Notre Dame (1955) Dr. Bergquist was a national leader of the AAUP , serving as and his PhD from Northwestern University (1966.) Dr. Bergquist president of the Villanova chapter and Pennsylvania division first taught at Coe College (Iowa) from 1961–1963; then came to of the AAUP, and a member of the executive committee and Villanova in 1963 as an instructor, and taught, until retirement, national council among other positions. at the rank of professor in 2001.The author of numerous articles He was universally admired and respected by his Villanova on the German-American immigrant experience, His book, colleagues, especially the junior Americanists in the department Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1820–1870, was published in for whom he always made time to discuss matters historical and 2007. Publishers Weekly noted that “With calm authority and professional. Dr. Berquist remained involved in the life of the unfaltering clarity, Bergquist has written the best history ever of department and professionally as well until his declining health his subject: immigration into the United States after its colonial prevented him from making his regular visits to Villanova. settlement and before the great surge through Ellis Island.”

FACULTY NEWS Kelly-Anne Diamond, PhD Military History Magazine, Britain’s oldest Lynne Hartnett, PhD In November 2016, Dr. Diamond presented magazine devoted to the history of warfare. In March, 2017 Dr. Hartnett gave an invited talk at Virginia Wesleyan College entitled, her paper, “The Supernatural as a Judith Giesberg, PhD Marginalizing Force in the Fiction of John Judith Giesberg’s new book, Sex and “From Women’s March to Revolution: Dickson Carr,” at the Society for the Study the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and Reflections on the Success and Failure of the of Egyptian Antiquities’ Annual Scholars’ the Making of Russian Revolution.” Hartnett gave another Colloquium in Toronto, Ontario. In June 2017 American Morality, invited lecture to faculty and graduate she was invited by the Pennsylvania Chapter was published by students at the University of Delaware in of the American Research Center in Egypt the University of October 2017 on her current research. This to present on Queenship in Ancient Egypt North Carolina presentation “St. Petersburg in the Shadow at their annual Mini-Seminar. Her lecture Press in February of Parliament” explored Russian political was entitled “New Kingdom Queens: The 2017. In March, Dr. activism in emigration. Ascending Gender Paradox.” In November, Giesberg gave a Dr. Hartnett also presented a paper at a Dr. Diamond discussed New Kingdom Royal book talk at the scholarly conference at Nuffield College Women and Female Masculinity at the Lincoln Book Shop at the University of Oxford in June 2017. Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities in Chicago, Illinois, Her paper “Relief and Revolution: Russian Annual Scholars’ Colloquium at the University was interviewed by Migrants’ Political Remittances and the of Toronto. Dr. Gerry Prokopowicz on Civil War Talk Building of Transnationalism” was part In the spring 2017 semester Dr. Diamond Radio in March and by Dr. Michael Amaco on of the Political Remittances and Political taught a brand new undergraduate course New Books Network in November. C-SPAN Transnational conference. This conference for the History Department called Sex and filmed Dr. Giesberg’s undergraduate Civil brought together a collection of international Gender in the Ancient World, based on her War class discussing Louisa May Alcott’s scholars working on migration issues in a recent research. Dr. Diamond also published Hospital Sketches in April. Dr. Giesberg gave variety of disciplines. Dr. Hartnett was one an article, entitled “The dmd(y)t: A Prototype invited talks on African-American women’s of a handful of American scholars to present for Isis?” (JSSEA 43, 2017: 61-83). She has Civil War-era political activism at Temple her work at the conference. University’s Underground Railroad & Black also been busy working on several digital Dr. Hartnett’s article “Alien or Refugee: The History Conference in February, the Library history projects, which can be perused on her Politics of Russian Émigré Claims to British Company of Philadelphia in July, and at website: Seshat’s Apprentice. Asylum in the Early Twentieth Century” was the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, in Marc Gallicchio, PhD published in the Journal of Migration History September. Dr. Marc Gallicchio, Chair of the Department in the Fall of 2017. Hartnett is working on her of History, co-authored with Waldo Heinrichs It was a busy year for historians in the news. second scholarly book Lenin’s Neighbors: The

WALDO HEINRICHS Implacable Foes: Dr. Giesberg was interviewed by the New Non-Bolshevik Majority in European Exile, MARC GALLICCHIO War in the Pacific, Yorker, New York Times, Christian Science 1905-1917. Her research for this project was IMPLACABLE 1944-1945 (New Monitor, KUOW’s The Record, and NPR’s facilitated most recently by a short-term FOES York: Oxford, 2017). On Point. fellowship grant from the Hoover Institution WA R I N The book received a Library and Archives that funded a research THE PACIFIC The digital project Giesberg directs, Last 1944–1945 favorable notice from Seen: Finding Family After Slavery, was trip to the archives at Stanford University in former Secretary of featured in the New York Times, Washington May 2017. Defense Robert Gates Post, CBS Evening News, and NPR’s All Things Jeffrey Johnson, PhD and was chosen as Considered with Ari Shapiro. In May 2017, Dr. Johnson celebrated the one of the top twelve beginning of his extended sabbatical from books of the year by teaching (aka “retirement”) with many colleagues, friends, and family; he thanks of Chemical Warfare, 1914–1918: Comparing history of Independence Hall’s preservation all who participated for joining him, and National Cases Within the Technological was republished by Smithsonian Magazine for the much-appreciated cards and gifts. System of the Great War,” in One Hundred online. Dr. Martinko also published a After grading his final final exams and grad Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, book review in Panorama: Journal of the papers, he went off to London to attend Deployment, Consequences, Bretislav Association of Historians of American Art and his final meeting of the editorial board of Friedrich et. al., eds. (Springer Open, 2017), received a contract for her book manuscript, Notes and Records: The History of Science 135-149; and “28. Weltkriege,” in: Handbuch The Permanence of the Past: Preservation Journal of the Royal Society, followed two Wissenschaftsgeschichte, ed. Marianne and Public Property in the Early United States, days later by a special meeting of the Society Sommer, Staffan Müller-Wille, and Carsten which will be published by the University of for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. Reinhardt (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, Pennsylvania Press. On July 25 he presented a paper at the 25th 2017), 303-311. Timothy McCall, PhD International Congress of History of Science Catherine Kerrison, PhD Dr. McCall delivered a number of conference and Technology in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dr. Catherine Kerrison served as chair of a papers and invited lectures, including a chaired a session, and convened his final panel, “Gender, Race, and the Power of Visual paper on gift exchange and masculinity meeting as president of the Commission on Culture,” at the 17th Berkshire Conference at the Australian Centre for Italian Studies the History of Modern Chemistry. on the History of Women, in Hempstead, Conference in Prato Italy in July, and a In August-September, Dr. Johnson first New York, June 2017. She published “By the paper on Milanese lords and their gems at presented a paper, “Erika Cremer and the Book: How Novels Filled Intellectual Voids the Renaissance Society of America Annual origins of solid state gas chromatography, in the Lives of Colonial Women,” in Trend Meeting in Chicago in April. At RSA, Tim 1944-1947,” in “Ladies in Waiting for Nobel & Tradition (Spring 2017), the publication also discussed “materiality” in a roundtable Prizes: Overlooked Accomplishments of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. entitled “An Interdisciplinary Renaissance.” of Women Chemists,” a session of the In addition to publishing a book review of Dr. McCall was most excited to participate in Division of the History of Chemistry of the Marie Jenkins Schwartz, The Ties That Bound: the exploratory seminar “The Body Remade: American Chemical Society in Washington, Founding First Ladies and Slaves (2017) The Art, Nature, and Gender” at Villa I Tatti, DC, Aug. 22. After attending the 11th Americas and Caribbean, Women’s Writing The Harvard University Center for Italian International Conference on History of 24 (4) (August 2017), she also served on the Renaissance Studies, where he contributed Chemistry in Trondheim, Norway (Aug. 2016 Willie Lee Rose Book Prize Committee with “Contours of Renaissance Fashion: 29-Sept. 2), he then proceeded to Berlin, for the Southern Association for Women Stockings, Tunics, and Embodied History.” Germany, to present an invited paper Historians and gave several community In 2017, Tim published the state of the at the special meeting of the Society of outreach talks on race and gender, drawn field essay on fashion “The Materials for German Chemists (GDCh) commemorating from her forthcoming book, Jefferson’s Renaissance Fashion,” in Renaissance the 150th anniversary of the founding of Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in Quarterly (70.4). Additionally, with Sean its predecessor organization, the German a Young America. Roberts, he published two essays on Chemical Society (DChG). His paper Whitney Martinko, PhD Renaissance material culture: “Raw Materials appeared simultaneously in the English In April, Dr. Martinko traveled to New Orleans and Object Lessons,” in The Routledge and German special jubilee issues of the to present her paper, “City Plans and Capital History of the Renaissance, edited by William official journal of the GDCh: “Between Designs: Ancient Past as Urban Future in Caferro, and “Art and the Material Culture of Nationalism and Internationalism: The the Early National Northwest,” at the annual Diplomacy,” in Italian Renaissance Diplomacy: German Chemical Society in Comparative meeting of the Organization of American A Sourcebook, edited by Monica Azzolini Perspective, 1867-1945,” Angewandte Chemie Historians. In July, she presented another and Isabella Lazzarini. In Renaissance International Edition, 56/37 (4 Sept. 2017): paper, “Beyond Memory and Monuments: Quarterly (70.2), Tim also published a review 11044–11058; “Zwischen Nationalismus und Rethinking the Production of Historic Space,” of Stephen Campbell’s exhibition catalogue Internationalismus: die Deutsche Chemische at the annual meeting of the Society for Ornament and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Gesellschaft 1867-1945,” Angewandte Historians of the Early American Republic Venice, and The Brooklyn Rail published a Chemie, 129/37 (4 Sept. 2017): 11190-11204. in Philadelphia. Dr. Martinko also gave two short piece entitled “Renaissance Fashion, Following the GDCh conference, Johnson public talks last year. With Dr. Ryan and Dr. Renaissance Bodies,” for the March 2017 began a 6-week stint at the Max Planck Little, she helped kick off Villanova’s 175th Critic’s Page “Art As Fashion, Fashion as Art” Institute for History of Science in Berlin, Anniversary celebration with a talk about edited by Alexandra Schwartz. researching the history of post-1945 Philadelphia in 1842 during a campus-wide For the 2107-18 academic year, Dr. McCall biochemistry in Germany as part of a research dinner. In the fall, she served on a panel at is in residence in New York, as the J. group on the history of the Max Planck the Historical Society of Pennsylvania that Clawson Mills Fellow at the Metropolitan Society for the Advancement of Science. After discussed contemporary debates about Museum of Art. Dr. McCall was also awarded returning to the United States, on November historical monuments. various short term fellowships for 2017: 27 Johnson presented a preliminary paper on In the fall semester, Dr. Martinko served as a Villanova University Summer Grant, a his MPI research to a workshop on “Synthesis guest faculty blogger for the Lepage Center’s Franklin Research Grant from the American and the organism: Biology, chemistry, and new blog, Hindsights. Her series explored Philosophical Society, and a Venetian engineering,” at the Chemical Heritage contemporary debates over monuments, Research Program Grant from the Gladys Foundation in Philadelphia. include colonial histories of public lands and Krieble Delmas Foundation. Dr. Johnson also published “Military- the controversial location of Philadelphia’s Industrial Interactions in the Development Frank Rizzo statue. Her blog post about the Paul Rosier, PhD Vanderwood Prize for the Best article in Latin Mediterranean slavery at the Annual Meeting Dr. Rosier participated in a sustainability American History. In addition, she received of the Renaissance Society of America in discussion at the March 2017 Catholic College a Faculty Research and Development Chicago. She gave invited lectures at the Deans of the Delaware Valley meeting Grant from the College of Liberal Arts and University of Oregon, Eugene (in May 2017), and gave a lecture on Pennsylvania’s Sciences, Villanova University, to travel to the at an international workshop on “Jewish environmental history to the Mid-Atlantic Archives of Indies in Spain to begin a new Women’s Cultural Capital Under Islam” at Renewable Energy Association in September. research project on the history of the Island the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, In July he presented a paper on American of Trinidad, 1770-1850. Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Indian citizenship at the American Indian Israel (June 2017) and at an international Paul Steege, PhD Workshop, Goldsmiths College, London, and workshop on “Visual and Material in Medieval In January 2017 Paul Steege was appointed gave a presentation on Native American and Early Modern Jewish Studies” at the inaugural Faculty Director of the Leaders: From Crazy Horse to Vine Deloria the Institut für Jüdische Studien at the Albert Lepage Center for History in the at the Freedoms Foundation workshop on Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Public Interest. He was part of a team that leadership. He also published book reviews in Münster, Germany (July 2017). In August collaboratively authored the book, Ruptures in Anthroposand Diplomatic History. 2017, Dr. Winer presented on Jewish women in the Everyday: Views of Modern Germany and childcare in medieval Perpignan at the Cristina Soriano, PhD From the Ground, which was published by Seventeenth World Congress of Jewish Dr. Soriano presented her paper “Public Berghahn Books in June 2017. Studies in Jerusalem, Israel, with the support Sphere without Printing Press: Reading, Mark Sullivan, PhD of a Villanova University Travel Grant. Writing, and Public Opinion in Late-Colonial Dr. Mark Sullivan presented a talk entitled Venezuela” at the Conference “Print Worlds In the past year Dr. Winer published two “The Darby School of Art: A Forgotten and the Making of a Colonial Public Sphere” book chapters and an article in the fields Chapter in the History of American Art” at at Yale University, March 31st—April 1st, 2017. of Jewish Studies, Slavery Studies, Gender the Annual Conference of the American In May 2017, she was invited to the workshop Studies, and the History of Medieval Europe. Culture Association (April, 2017). He also “The Politics of Contagion: Communication The book chapters focused on aspects presented an invited lecture entitled “The and Revolution in Latin America (1780- of Jewish life in medieval Christendom: Darby School of Art” at the Historical Society 1830)” at the New York University/Abu Dhabi “Jews In and Out of Latin Notarial Culture: of Fort Washington, PA (November, 2017). Institute in New York. Here, she presented Analyzing Hebrew Notations on Latin her piece “Information, Media, and Social Dr. Sullivan’s book “Picturing Thoreau” Contracts in Thirteenth-Century Perpignan Movements in Venezuela During the Age of (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015) was and Barcelona” appeared in Entangled Revolutions.” re-printed in 2017. He also wrote a review of Histories Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Robert Slayton’s “Beauty in the City: The Culture in the Thirteenth Century (University Dr. Soriano published her article “‘A True Ashcan School”, for Choice Magazine. In of Pennsylvania Press) and “Jews, Slave- Vassal of the King:’ Pardo Literacy and addition, he received a Villanova University Holding, and Gender in the Crown of Aragon Political Identity in Venezuela during the History Department Research Grant for circa 1250-1492” in Cautivas y esclavas: Age of Revolutions” in the Journal of Atlantic the summer of 2017, which assisted him in el tráfico humano en el Mediterráneo Studies, Global Currents, 14:3, 2017, 275- preparing a monograph on the Darby School (University of Granada, Spain). Her scholarly 295. She also published book reviews in of Art, a little-known but very important article: “The Enslaved Wet Nurse as Nanny: AfroAsia and the Journal of Latin American institution in the development of American The Transition from Free to Slave Labor in Studies. Dr. Soriano’s co-authored article Impressionist and modernist painting. Childcare in Barcelona after the Black Death “Remembering the Slave Rebellion of (1348),” appeared in Slavery & Abolition: Coro: Historical Memory and Politics in Rebecca Winer, PhD A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, Venezuela” in Ethnohistory, 62:3, 2016, 327- In March, Dr. Rebecca Lynn Winer presented April, 2017. 350 was awarded Honorable Mention of the on gender, sexuality and late medieval Conference of Latin American History’s 2017

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Matt Albertson (MA ’14) led a successful elites, but was also for the common man Grant Carter (MA ’14) accepted a new campaign to get a PA state marker placed and free African Americans.” position as Gifts and Records Administrator at the Jefferson Street ballparks. Aware of at the Office of Development and Alumni Jacqueline Beatty (MA ’12) successfully Relation, University of Pennsylvania. the historical significance of this site, defended her dissertation, “Independence: Albertson not only campaigned for this Women’s Protection and Subordination as Vicrim Chima (MA expected in ’18) marker but also taught the attending crowd Power in Early American, 1750-1820,” at received a Graduate Student Summer Research about its relevance. At the unveiling ceremony, George Mason University, December 2016. Fellowship from Villanova University that he Albertson stated: “This site was host to Beatty is Visiting Assistant Professor at the used during the summer of 2017 to return to monumental baseball events, which both Department of History, Geography, and Philos- his hometown of Yuba City, CA, to collabo- pressed for cultural change and ushered in ophy at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. rate with Dr. Ranganath and the “Pioneering the modern era of professional sports in Punjabis Digital Archive” project at the America.” He continued: “Pythian captain Rebecca Capobianco (MA’14) University of California at Davis. The focus Octavious Catto, to whom a brand-new published “’She is the beauty of this place’: of his research is to analyze immigrant expe- statue was dedicated at City Hall, used Elizabeth Velora Elwell and the Role of riences of Punjabi-Sikhs and the challenges baseball—among other things—as a vehicle Prisoner Participation and Deviance at they encountered as they moved from their for social change… They challenged the Eastern State Penitentiary,” in The homeland in northern India, through Canada established racial hierarchy immediately Pennsylvania Magazine of History and and the US, to create cohesive communities following the Civil War and proved that Biography, Volume 142, Number 1, January all across America—but particularly in baseball was no longer a game for moneyed 2018, 83-106. northern California. The project also entailed continued on back Department of History Villanova University 800 Lancaster Avenue Villanova, PA 19085

continued from page 7 analyzing a significant structure in the Paul A Kopacz (MA ’16) published an Ann Shipley (MA ’16) accepted a position Punjabi community, the Tierra Buena Sikh entry on the “Spanish American War” for as Museum educator at the Pottsgrove Manor Temple in Yuba City, and an event held at the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. and around the church, known as the Nagar Rutgers University, 2017. Alexandra Webster (MA ’17) accepted Kirtan. Chima produced a National Register Bonnie Loden (MA expected in ’18) a position as an Instructional Designer at Nomination for the structure, mining for the used Villanova’s Summer Research Grant to SEI investment firm, Oaks, Pennsylvania. first time a new collection of primary sources spend three weeks at the National Archives In addition, she started a side project as a related to the event, and an innovative in Washington, DC, immersed in the record of freelance academic editor, primarily working architectural analysis of the structure. He the Hundred Days Men of the Civil War. By on Central European and Jewish History. wrote a post about this interesting project studying the “Descriptive, Orders, and Letter” for “Historically Speaking” blog. Andrew Zetts (MA ’18) traveled to books of these regiments from five northern Montreal, with funding from Dean of Chris Johnson (MA ’03) is currently a states, Loden was able to further her research Graduate Studies, Christine Palus, in teacher and coordinator for the Social Studies and findings of this group of soldiers. November to present his paper, “Under the department, Central Bucks High School East in Chelse Martin (MA ’16) accepted a Auspices of the Children’s Aid Society of Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He travelled to senior staff position at Fort Ticonderoga Pennsylvania: The Story of Charles Harvey,” France in the Summer of 2017 as part of the as Museum Guest Services Manager. She at the Social Science History Association’s Normandy: Sacrifice for Freedom Albert H. also attended the Colonial Chocolate annual conference. Zetts also authored an Small Student and Teacher Institute. Johnson Society meeting in Washington, D.C., at the article, “Debating the Civil Rights Act of was one of fifteen teachers from around the invitation of the Mars family. 1875,” for Social Education and created an U.S. accompanying fifteen high school accompanying podcast. students engaging in primary research. These Blake McGready (MA ’17) published teachers supported the students as applicants “Contested Grounds: An Environmental Ph.D Bound and lent their expertise to them as they History of the 1777 Philadelphia Campaign,” Alec Hurley (MA ’12) was accepted with engage in college-level research regarding the in Pennsylvania History, A Journal of Mid- full finding to continue his studies in the men who offered their service and died in Atlantic Studies, Volume 85, Number 1, PhD Program in Interdisciplinary Studies at 1944. While in France, students and teachers Winter 2018, 32-57. the University of Texas-Austin, starting in spent one week touring in depth the country- Alicia Parks (MA ’14) accepted a position the Fall of 2017. side near the beaches where the Normandy as a Sherlock Program Assistant at the Invasions took place. Andreína Soto (MA ’16) was accepted Philadelphia Museum of Art, in Philadelphia, with full funding in the History PhD program James Kopaczewski, (MA ’15) Pennsylvania. at University of California—Santa Barbara, published an entry titled “Nativism” in the starting in the Fall 2017. Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia in July.