SMU WILLIAM P. CLEMENTS DEPARTMENT of HISTORY | FALL 2018 History WORKS

SMU WILLIAM P. CLEMENTS DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY | FALL 2018 History WORKS

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Learning about History with History Internships Work! Travelling through Time 4 21st-Century Methods 6 8 LETTER FROM THE CHAIR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

Studying the Past, Understanding the Mastering the Past: Student Accomplishments Student Awards Congratulations to those students who a number of awards to support his Each year the department recognizes majors who earned their doctoral degrees in 2018! dissertation research, including the have excelled in the classroom and beyond. We Present, Preparing for the Future Zachary Adams completed a dissertation Richard E. Greenleaf Visiting Fellowship are extremely proud of the achievements of our titled “True Americanism: Mexican- from the University of New Mexico, a students, and we want to acknowledge those who American and Irish-American Nationalism Masterson Fellowship from the University recently won awards or were inducted into Phi Alpha istory is not only intellectually stimulating but also eminently useful. On the most Through the Twentieth Century,” and of Oklahoma, a Dissertation Fellowship Theta, the national honor society for history. basic level, it allows us to recover and interpret the past, whether the period under Anne Allbright defended a dissertation from SMU, and a Mellon Fellowship in consideration is Periclean Athens, Ming China, Revolutionary America, or modern South H titled “Oscar Brousse Jacobson: The Life Technology-Enhanced Learning from Herbert Pickens Gambrell Award for Africa. And yet our field holds the promise of more than that, too, since a familiarity with distant Outstanding Academic Achievement and Art of a Cosmopolitan Cultural Broker.” Carnegie Mellon University. or even recent peoples and events can help us make better sense of our own times. To choose Mara Pitcher (2018) Three students in the M.A. program also In 2017-18, major Justin Yao was a Anthony A.J. Jeffries (2017) a single – but especially salient – example, look no further than the U.S.-Mexico border, the earned their degrees in 2018: Jonathan Hamilton Undergraduate Research Scholar, Courtney Tibbetts (2017) subject of an intense and ongoing debate over immigration and citizenship. Any discussion of Angulo, Sean Ryan, and Andrea an award that allows Dedman College’s these issues should be informed by an understanding that until the mid-nineteenth century, the Stanton Sharp Award for Outstanding Service Stewart. Congratulations to them as well! most promising students to collaborate and Academic Achievement American Southwest was actually the Mexican North, a fact that explains the enduring social, with faculty to carry out primary research. Karen Folz (2018) Roberto Andrade, a Ph.D. candidate, political, and economic ties that often frustrate the designs of officials in Washington, D.C. Justin consulted back issues of American Adam Sanchez (2018) received the Joe Staley-Clements Center and British newspapers for Professor Sabri Hope Anderson (2017) But history also works in other – and more practical Research Travel Grant to conduct archival Ates’s project on the Kurdish independence – ways for our students and graduates. In our classes investigation for his dissertation, which Henry Jacobus Junior Paper Prize in History movement and is helping to create an Adam Sanchez, “Weimar German Catholicism: The here at SMU, undergraduates cultivate a set of skills explores the links between boxing and both accompanying website for the book that Struggle for Relevance” (2018) that are of enormous consequence for their personal Mexican and American identities. will include an extensive array of historical Mara Pitcher, “Fever Medicine and the Medical and professional development. The most important Doctoral candidate Kyle Carpenter was images and documents. Lobby: The Role of Typhus in the Great Famine” “ A familiarity with of these proficiencies we typically call “critical awarded the Niemi Center for Economic (2017) Major was awarded a distant or even thinking,” by which we mean the ability to gather Growth and Leadership Development Kayla Graves Mayer Undergraduate Fellowship from Phi Alpha Theta Inductees in 2017 and 2018 evidence, subject it to rigorous analysis, and draw Fellowship and a Clements Center recent peoples Michael Buttarazzi, Jr. defensible conclusions, all the while making sense the Dedman College Interdisciplinary travel grant to conduct research for his Lindsey Carrier and events can of competing – at times even contradictory – claims. Institute and in 2017 completed a historical dissertation on European immigrants to the Phillip Cheves help us make This has perhaps never been more important than in and sociological research project titled Rio Grande in the nineteenth century. William Church better sense of the present moment, given the sheer availability of “A Comparative Study of Declining Steel Ph.D. candidate Joshua Tracy received a Chloe Elizabeth Clark-Soles our own times.” information (some of it reliable, much of it not) in our Towns in the United States and Germany.” Clements Center interdisciplinary grant in Nicole Cohen hyper-connected yet increasingly tribal age. Moreover, A number of our majors also received Thomas Nesbitt Eddins, IV 2018 to visit archives in Mexico and Texas students in SMU history courses learn how to express fellowships from the Engaged Learning Marne Erasmus for his dissertation on the environmental themselves in clear and persuasive prose, essential Program. was awarded Karen Folz history of the Rio Grande. Brianna Hogg in almost every contemporary profession, whether an Engaged Learning Fellowship in 2017 Natalie Gullo assisting a student, or underwriting our efforts. In David Whitehead Hobbs, Jr. law, politics, medicine, education, business … the list Pat Troester, a Ph.D. candidate, received for “Women of the Arts in the Anti- closing, let me offer my thanks to associate professor Kathryn Loper is practically infinite. Put more bluntly, we cultivate the Doctoral Fellowship in Southwestern Apartheid Struggle.” In the summer of 2017, Erin Hochman and her Outreach Committee, who have Rachel Mason talents that employers want, and recent studies History at Fort Lewis College’s Center of Claiborne Lord and Brianna Hogg held Scott Moore indicate that compensation for history majors over the worked so hard to bring this newsletter (back) to life. Southwest Studies in Durango, Colorado Summer Research Assistantships to work Mara Pitcher course of their careers rivals that of many programs We hope you enjoy hearing more about what we do in for the 2018-19 academic year as well as an on “Oral History of the Anti-Apartheid Connor Price of study currently in vogue primarily because of their Dallas Hall and beyond. interdisciplinary research grant from the Movement in North Texas.” And this past Julian Reyna Clements Center to conduct archival work supposed promise of immediate post-graduation summer, Carson Dudick held a Summer Elizabeth Ridgway employment and remuneration. in Texas and Mexico for his dissertation Research Assistantship to contribute to Adam Sanchez about political violence in the U.S.-Mexico Our goal in relaunching the William P. Clements the “Voices of SMU Oral History Project,” Cole Schenewerk Andrew R. Graybill borderlands in the nineteenth century. Department of History annual newsletter is to share a multi-year initiative that records the Michael Trelford John Wiener with you – our alumni, students, and friends – some of Professor and History Department Chair Ph.D. candidate Joel Zapata had an experiences of black, Latinx, and other Co-Director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies Margaret Wilbanks the many ways we are putting history to work here at article accepted to Great Plains Quarterly student communities at SMU. SMU: in our undergraduate and graduate programs; on Chicana/o activism. He also received our two first-rate research centers; and through Cover photo: Chaudhry individual faculty accomplishments. But we hope also Research support is integral to the success of our undergraduate and graduate students as they complete their degrees, and we are fortunate to have several endowments that generate funds Hameed interning at the to engage each of you in the life of our department, Dallas Historical Society. for such purposes. However, we want you to know that annual gifts to support student research are vital, too. These research dollars help our students understand not only the past, but also See pages 6 and 10. whether by attending a lecture, reading our work, the present and future. If you would like to support an individual undergraduate or graduate student with his/her history research, you can designate your gift to the Clements Center Gift Fund, account number 20-413003.

2 3 IN THE CLASSROOM LOREM IPSUM

Some of those professors began to integrate text mining into their classrooms. Among their ranks was Bianca Lopez, our newly-hired Learning about History with assistant professor of medieval history and already a student of statistical analysis. Within a few months of the text mining class, 21st-Century Methods Lopez had asked her graduate students to code the history of crime By Professor Jo Guldi and plague in medieval England. Students who take these classes have an opportunity to contemplate MU is the home of leading initiatives in Videogame Design, maps based on travelers’ journeys. They then transcribed how relevant the study of history can be in an information economy, SCybersecurity, Cloud Computing, and Creative Computation (where documents, analyzed them, and put together a bibliography and faculty are energized by witnessing these connections. Lopez painters and composers learn to program). Increasingly, new digital linked to the Texas social studies curriculum (TEKS) so that explains, “Going in, I wanted to introduce students to many of the methods also belong to disciplines in the traditional humanities and public school teachers can directly apply this to teaching exciting possibilities digital history has to offer. The field is going liberal arts. Students of history are translating documents from the religion and the American Revolution. Their website, in all of these interesting directions, and I wanted students to feel past into digital formats. They are becoming adept manipulators of “Religion and the Founding of the United States,” still gets free and confident enough to explore and experiment, and inevitably spreadsheets, maps, and statistics, adding a variety of interpretive a significant number of hits (URL: http://people.smu.edu/ discover one or two favorite methods, tools, or topics that they tools to their already sharp skills of synthesizing and analyzing religionandfoundingusa). could then use in their own work.” Likewise, Engel notes that she “is primary-source documents. The history department has made strides towards growing a thrilled at the way that digital history has expanded and germinated The Clements Department of History at SMU has been a uniquely diverse program in the digital humanities through in lots of different quarters. I think that that’s what’s really exciting: pioneer in bringing the digital humanities to campus. Students building a community of faculty who are constantly pushing it’s not the province of any one department, but our students can began studying digital tools in Professor Kate Carté Engel’s each other to the cutting edge of methodology. For instance, I take advantage of it in many different departments.” honors seminar on the founding documents of the United offered a text mining course in 2017, and invited other faculty Indeed, students from a range of majors have found such courses States in 2014. Students read eighteenth-century travel to attend the class (including three history professors), as beneficial for their studies as well as their future careers. Rachel journals to create digital representations of the past, coding well as librarians, other SMU staff, and graduate students. Thimmig, an anthropology major with minors in history and sociology, found learning GIS (geographic information system mapping technology) in Professor Engel’s course on mapping early

“ Students who take their classes have an opportunity to contemplate how relevant the study of history can be in an information economy, and faculty are energized by witnessing these connections.”

American markets “valuable” because “it is a great skill that can help archaeologists and historians better understand events with a broader geographic context.” Additionally, these courses help prepare students for diverse careers. As Grace Powers, a finance major, remarked, learning GIS provided critical skills for her summer internship with a real estate investment banking firm. She had to make “a color-coded map to analyze the ownership type (private owner, municipal, retail) of thousands of properties across three counties in North Texas. The county appraisal maps are all in GIS format, so my class experience with GIS mapping, and even of this exact type of ownership mapping, was immeasurably helpful. I would have had no idea how to do this project without my digital history class!” Through work in many quarters, the Clements Department of History is leading the university in training students and faculty alike on the frontiers of knowledge.

Opposite Students mapping shopping districts in eighteenth-century Philadelphia. Top right Rachel Thimmig’s plotting of Calico markets in eighteenth-century Boston. Bottom right Geetsikha Pathak’s illustration of social networks before the Plague.

4 5 INTERNSHIPS LOREM IPSUM

History Internships Work! By Professor Jill Kelly

nternships offer history majors tremendous opportunities to develop new skills, gain on-the-ground work experience, and establish relationships Iwith community and campus organizations and employers. In 2018, we had fifteen students intern across campus and the city—in libraries, museums, and non-profits such as the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth, the George W. Bush Library & Museum, and the Commit Partnership, a coalition working on equitable education in the DFW Metroplex.

These experiences provide students with the opportunity or for course credit. For the latter, the three-credit course to cultivate skills beyond the classroom. For instance, in her requires 120 hours of work with the host and outside of these internship at the Old Red Museum of Dallas County History hours students work with professors on related projects. and Culture, Julia Davis learned how to create and implement Garrett Sciortino, who interned at the SMU Archives of school group programs for class visits to the museum and DeGolyer Library, undertook an oral history interview with also participated in marketing campaigns. Mara Pitcher, who SMU alumnus, history major, and former Daily Campus editor interned with the Norwick Center for Digital Solutions, built Michael Hazel as part of the “Voices of SMU Oral History skills in cataloging digital archival collections and generating Project.” Elizabeth Ridgway, intern with the Dallas Theater metadata for these materials. Center, produced a study guide to accompany The Great Society—the theater performance about Lyndon B. Johnson’s Students can market these new skills in their pursuit of presidency. employment after graduation and draw upon the relationships they build with supervisors for recommendations. Two of Our students are doing great work in and out of the classroom. our majors, interns with Bridwell Library Rare Books and If you are a student interested in pursuing an internship or an Manuscripts Collection and SMU Archives, turned their alumnus who would like to work with an intern, please contact internships into part-time jobs during their studies. Alumnus Professor Jill Kelly ([email protected]). Stephen Fagin (class of 2001) interned at the Sixth Floor Museum and has been there ever since! Fagin shares, “I began there as an intern in 2000, and some four or five job titles – and 18 years – later I am Curator. It was a unique journey from Dallas Hall to the sixth floor of the former Texas School Book Depository building.” He is ready to host SMU history majors in internships, too. Internships offer the ability to explore the diverse careers that can be pursued with a history major. Many students see history as a pathway into careers in teaching and law—both excellent choices. But the research, communication, and writing skills that majors develop in the classroom prepare students for a wide array of professions. History students use their communication skills in social media campaigns and their research abilities to help produce podcasts and museum exhibits. They use critical thinking as they help non-profits thrive. And for students who love history and want hands-on experience with historical documents beyond the classroom, internships are just plain fun. Chaudhry Hameed, who interned with the Dallas Historical Society this past summer, Opposite Mara Pitcher digitizing records at SMU’s Norwick Center enjoyed the refuge provided by the “cold, carefully monitored for Digital Solutions. Above Julia temperature and humidity” of the DHS archive. He explained: Davis interning at the Old Red Mu- seum. Left Tolu Olawale interning “Open a random file cabinet drawer and you are bound to be at the World Affairs Council. transported into the distant past, from letters signed by Sam Houston to century-old city maps.” Internships in history can be completed for the experience

6 7 STUDY ABROAD LOREM IPSUM

Travelling through Time By Professor Melissa Barden Dowling

Stand where Julius Caesar fell. Dance in Marie Antoinette’s delicate footsteps. Pontificate in Parliament in Churchill’s place.

We did. Next summer, you can too. and queens. We studied the Renaissance in the Louvre and in Versailles. We tasted French pastry, compared coffee and Students explored the world with SMU Study Abroad ice cream to Roman versions, mastered the Paris Metro, programs this year. SMU-Rome-Paris and SMU-in-Oxford, and sailed down the Seine until we reached the Eiffel Tower two programs directed and taught by history department ablaze with sparkling light. We had coffee in the same café faculty, studied on site, in museums, and at palaces and frequented by the likes of Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, and archaeological excavations. Thomas Jefferson. We walked the same cobble-stone streets, With Professor Kathleen Wellman, I led sixteen hardy read the same texts, and appreciated the same art. On our students across history from the foundations of Rome to the last day, standing in the Pantheon, dedicated to France’s French Revolution. Our first day began in the Roman Forum, greatest intellectual and artistic heroes and designed during our second was spent in the Colosseum. With stops for the Enlightenment to resemble Hadrian’s Pantheon in cappuccino and gelato, we marched through the development Rome, we reflected on the three thousand years of history of the Roman Empire. We explored the ancient port city of we had covered in just over three weeks. Peter Wetherbee, Ostia, climbing around Roman apartment buildings from the a participant on the program majoring in human rights and third century. We stood on ancient mosaics at Tivoli, Hadrian’s finance with minors in history and non-profit studies, valued opulent villa. We discussed the fall of Rome while touring the program precisely because of “the physicality of it all, early Christian catacombs and Saint Peter’s Basilica. We saw being encapsulated in the physical presence of the buildings the ancient antecedents of our architecture at SMU, and we and history we were studying.” read the texts that so inspired the founders of our own country. During the SMU-in-Oxford program, forty-five SMU students In Paris, our group crisscrossed the city by century, starting took classes with Professors Dan Orlovsky and Jeffrey Engel with the Roman remains under Notre Dame. At the Basilica (Diplomacy in Europe from Napoleon to the European of Saint-Denis we contemplated the remains of French kings Union) and with me (Class and Gender in the Ancient World). They also had history courses with outstanding Oxford faculty (Roman Britain with the esteemed Study Abroad Scholarships Classicist Roland Smith; Georgian and Students can now receive financial help to learn Victorian England with a leading scholar about history where it happened! The Sharp of English history, Leslie Mitchell), as well History Study Abroad Scholarships award up as courses in theater and political science. to $5,000 to history majors who participate in Our field trips led us to Stonehenge (no pagan sacrifices that day, alas), Bath (the programs taught by our faculty, including courses eighteenth-century standards. After class, students went punting This program not only brought the best out of me academically, but water tastes terrible but Jane Austen drank offered in Rome, Paris, Oxford, and India. For on the river or had a coffee at the Eagle and Child (where Tolkien I also made friends, many of whom share similar aspirations to me, it), the palace of Blenheim (where Winston application information, students should contact and C.S. Lewis shared manuscripts). They also enjoyed World Cup such as pursuing a job in Europe or a form of international-related Churchill was born), and Windsor Palace the SMU Abroad Office. games, dancing at the Purple Turtle, and weekend expeditions to law or business. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience with many (where the queen resides most weekends Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Paris, and Dublin. The program offers memories that I will treasure forever.” and where Prince Harry married Meghan “I was lucky enough to participate in the rich opportunities for students and faculty to travel and explore Markle). We took trips to London to see the The Oxford program is over forty years old. We have children and SMU-Rome-Paris program last year due to the together, to broaden our understanding of the world’s diversity, to Crown Jewels in the Tower of London, the grandchildren of alumni who now take the trip. Former students generosity of donors,” said Chloe Clark-Soles celebrate the glorious achievements of human imagination and Rosetta Stone in the British Museum, and stop by while visiting or studying in Oxford. Many readers of the (’19). “Being in Paris and Rome and having the artistry, and to see our home places a little differently upon return to climb the stairs to the top of the dome newsletter have anecdotes and photographs from earlier years; opportunity to learn with Dr. Dowling and Dr. to the United States. According to Elise Huff, a sophomore majoring of St. Paul’s Basilica. We saw Macbeth kill please share them with us! Wellman was invaluable.” If you would like to in International Studies, “I was challenged academically and Duncan at Stratford-upon-Avon. And we support history students like Chloe, please make pushed to consider things from a new perspective, such as Brexit, sailed down the Thames at sunset. a gift to the Stanton Sharp Trust Endowment Fund an extremely relevant topic during my time while studying abroad. Opposite top Siobhan Judge, Harley Sutton, and Eli Diaz visit the Colosseum. Opposite bottom We live in University College, the oldest Prof. Wellman leads students through Paris. Above SMU-in-Oxford students study Roman ruins for History, account number 20-413170. Studying at Oxford also reminded me of the importance in studying in London. of Oxford’s colleges, dating back to overseas in order to gain a wider view from varied perspectives. 1249. Fortunately, the plumbing is up to

8 9 MEET OUR MAJORS MEET OUR GRADUATE STUDENTS

Major Opportunities Looking Back, Thinking Ahead

hrough a consideration of the past, the history major helps students understand the present and hopefully shape the future. Our ur department offers innovative graduate study in American history (Ph.D. and M.A.) and global history (M.A.). The department Tstudents study the past and understand change through the many ways, both big and small, that we make sense of the world: from Ohas particular strengths in the history of the Southwest, the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and the American West, U.S. political nations, empires, peoples, tribes, economies, science, religion, and sexuality, all the way down to our families, our languages, and our history, the history of race and ethnicity, and early American history. Moreover, the department boasts topical and methodological senses and self-awareness. Students also learn to think creatively and critically, to conduct research, to analyze complex material, expertise in global/comparative history, cultural history, digital humanities, and the history of gender. The graduate student to make persuasive arguments, and to communicate ideas effectively. Two of our current undergraduate students reflect on their experience is enriched by our two scholarly centers: the Clements Center for Southwest Studies and the Center for Presidential experiences in the major thus far. History. Two of our current doctoral students explain why SMU has provided a wonderful home to explore their interests in the professional study of American history. under the guidance of Professor me, but I discovered that studying to work in the archives as well as help Wellman. I loved learning about something I love has lent itself greatly conduct research for the Society’s enter the Ph.D. program thinking really liked that the Ph.D. program who’re often faceless and just a name how to put primary sources and to building connections with my 2018 State Fair of Texas exhibition on about how rewarding teaching could was relatively small. I’ve heard that – much more real. secondary research together to create professors and providing me with Texan inventors. Moreover, besides be, but my summer class quickly other programs admit fifty, even SMU: What is your research about? an original product that contributed opportunities I would have never learning history, I picked up mass changed that. more, Ph.D. students per school Andrade: I research how boxing to the body of historical knowledge. dreamt about in other fields. amounts of practical knowledge in year. The first three semesters were SMU: What is the topic of your influences identity. And since I’m I wrote my seminar paper in Dallas, research and archival work. To top it especially difficult and had I been research? specifically focused on Mexican and then I got fully funded by the Richter off, I gained three credit hours and in a larger program, I may not have Zapata: My dissertation project, Mexican American identity, machismo Foundation and Engaged Learning to got an A. titled “The Mexican Southern Plains: received the individual attention that seems to be a running theme in how travel to England for archival research SMU: What has been your favorite The Making of an Ethnic Mexican I needed. boxing is used not just by boxers but that I am using to complete my full part of the major? Homeland,” centers upon the ethnic SMU: What has been the most also fans, promoters, advertisers, etc. distinction paper. I was fortunate to Hameed: Getting to learn further in Mexican history of the southern Great valuable part of your time at SMU travel to the British Library, Lambeth SMU: What has been your most Amanda Oh ’20 depth about the places I’ve visited! Plains from the second half of the thus far and why? Palace Library, and Bodleian Library. interesting finding about your topic? Double Major in History and For example, I had an amazing Joel Zapata ’19 eighteenth century to the present Andrade: My biggest accomplishment Sitting in these libraries, with access Andrade: Seemingly everything in Political Science experience when I took an ancient Ph.D. Candidate day. Overall, my work counters the has been publishing an op-ed in to the same documents as the sports and athletics, let alone boxing, Greek history course during my first trope of depicting ethnic Mexicans the Washington Post that looked at SMU: Why did you decide to major professional historians sitting right SMU: Why did you choose to pursue is intertwined with politics. There semester because I had previously as recent immigrants and adds to Trump’s sudden concern over the in history? next to me, was incredibly exciting a Ph.D. in history? are class and race components to been to Greece in high school; I was the ongoing scholarly project of MS-13 gang and comparing it to the Oh: I decided to major in history and an opportunity I don’t believe Zapata: I love studying history and something as simple as the difference able to really hone in and connect enlarging Chicana/o history and the hysteria the pachucos inspired in the because there is beauty and wonder I would have had anywhere except learning and wanted to have a career between working out in a CrossFit or Chaudhry Nosher Hameed ’21 what I remembered seeing (temples, interdisciplinary field of Chicana/o 1940s. A lot of that research came in piecing together our past, SMU. The support of Professor where I can do both. boxing gym. The sports that we watch History Major statues, art, culture, etc.) to the Studies beyond the core of the from a historiographic essay I wrote determining themes, and connecting Wellman, who guided my writing and play say so much more about history I was learning, which made my SMU: Why did you choose to attend Southwest. for Dr. Thomas Knock. So essentially, events to one another to analyze how and ideas every step of the way, and SMU: Why did you decide to major who we are than one would expect. overall coursework very enjoyable and the Ph.D. program at SMU? the Ph.D. program gave me the tools our present day came to be. In order Professor Winnie, who listened to in history? SMU: How and why did you choose relatable. Zapata: SMU has a strong support that I needed to relate historical to understand modern-day conflicts— my research proposal and helped me Hameed: I decided to major in history your dissertation topic? system for graduate students through research to current-day concerns. whether they be ethnic, economic, improve upon it, and Professor Doyle, because it is something I have been SMU: What has been your most Zapata: I chose my topic by diving its various academic centers, the political, or rooted in something else— who funded my work through Richter, passionate about since I was a child. enjoyable or meaningful moment as into small, un-computerized, rural SMU: What has been your favorite Office of Research and Graduate we must have a strong understanding has been indispensable in the creation I am happy to have been able to a major? archives in the plains where I found a moment as a Ph.D. student at SMU Studies, along with its libraries and of the factors that led up to them. of my distinction thesis. apply my excitement, interest, and Hameed: My most meaningful story yet to be written. and why? archives. The history program is also From a more technical perspective, I passion for learning history at SMU in “moment” was taking Civilizations of Andrade: My favorite moment was SMU: What would you tell incoming small enough for graduate students decided to major in history because it the present all the while gaining the India over the summer. What I loved during the first semester when every students about picking a major? to receive individual attention and Roberto José Andrade ’20 exercises critical analysis, command necessary skill sets required by my is that I got to experience some of my couple of weeks Dr. Sherry Smith had Oh: There is never a time like college mentorship from professors. Ph.D. Candidate of writing, and the ability to piece future goal of attending law school. own history, culture, and civilization fellows from the Clements Center for to explore what you’re interested in. together lots of information to draw as my family is from Lahore, Pakistan SMU: What has been the most SMU: Why did you choose to attend Southwest Studies speak to the class. Take this time to choose something SMU: What has been the most meaningful conclusions. These skills in the Punjab. It was very eye-opening valuable part of your time at SMU the Ph.D. program at SMU? They discussed their research, their you won’t regret, because learning valuable part of your history major are important in any line of work. and mind-expanding to take a history thus far and why? Andrade: The choice to attend SMU writing process, and even insecurities about something you love is thus far? course that related to me and my Zapata: This summer I had the was easy. Dr. Neil Foley and Dr. John that come from being a historian. SMU: What has been your favorite drastically different from learning Hameed: The history department ancestors personally. opportunity to teach a history class Chávez—both on my dissertation Those talks helped show a side of part of the major? about something out of obligation. offers many amazing internships in with open-minded and dedicated committee with the former as the academia that I was completely Oh: My favorite part of the history Choosing to major in history was which you can learn so many valuable students who valued learning history chair—made my attending SMU, once unaware of and in certain ways, made major has been writing my junior a difficult decision since it wasn’t skills. This past summer, I interned at during each class period. I did not accepted, an easy decision. Also, I the people who wrote the books – seminar-turned distinction thesis my parents’ first choice of study for the Dallas Historical Society and got

10 11 MEET OUR ALUMNI FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS

Alumni Putting History to Work Celebrating the Past: Faculty Awards Sabri Ates was awarded a National in the field in 2016 and the 2017 Radomír alum Walter Coleman (’01). She used the Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Luža Prize from the American Friends of fellowship to visit archives related to New history major gives students the critical thinking, research, and writing skills needed to excel in diverse careers, including for the 2017-18 academic year to work the Documentation Center of Austrian Year’s Eve broadcasts from Times Square A business, law, medicine, education, and more! Here two of our alumni explain how the history major prepared them for life on his book project about the quest for a Resistance and Center Austria at the for her book project “Time’s Touchstone: beyond graduation. Kurdish state between 1880-1925, when University of New Orleans for outstanding The New Year in American Life.” the creation of such a state emerged as publication on Central European Studies in Ariel Ron won a 2018 Dedman College education is to teach a person to ever learned about history. Everything Gregory Thompson ’85 a distinct possibility but then quickly the era of World War II. Linking Fellowship, which will enable him think critically and expose them to you learned was wrong. You will now unraveled. Jill Kelly was awarded a Fulbright U.S. to acquire GIS skills in order to support SMU: What career have you pursued new ideas. Once you develop this learn the rest of the story.” This was Rachel Ball-Phillips won a Manodharma Scholar Grant and a Dedman College Dean’s his research and teaching on American since you graduated from SMU? skill through education, you can do so true, and I’m still learning! From Faculty Travel Grant to set up internships Research Council Grant in 2018-19 to economic history in the nineteenth century. Thompson: I have been a physician most anything you set your mind day one in the history department I for students in India. She was also awarded conduct archival and oral history research and anesthesiologist for the past to. I do think a degree in history learned the skill of inquiry. There is Kathleen Wellman was named an a Leadership ISD Civic Engagement for her second book project, “‘The Burden twenty-eight years. I am currently offers this core value. I worry that always more to the story and another Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Fellowship to host Community is Heavy, We Need the Men’: Gendered the president of LifeLinc Anesthesia the vocationally focused education point of view. There are facts, but Professor, the highest award for teaching Conversations events at Dedman College. Knowledge in the 1959 Rebellions in Corp. which is an anesthesia practice of today pigeon-holes students into history is the interpretation of facts at SMU, in 2017. She also received the South Africa,” which examines gender and management company. Prior to my narrow career choices too early before and the narratives we construct Kate Carté Engel received a Sons Laurence Perrine Prize, which recognizes ethnicity during anti-apartheid resistance. association with LifeLinc, I had been they have been exposed to much of around those facts. My classes taught of the American Revolution Visiting professors who embody the ideals of a in private practice and held many the real world. If you get a degree in me to be curious about what, who Professorship from King’s College London Thomas Knock’s book, The Rise of a liberal arts education, from the SMU Phi hospital administrative and leadership logistics then decide later that isn’t for and why, and to understand what was to advance research on a book manuscript Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of Beta Kappa Chapter. In the fall of 2018, positions over the years including you, what then? I am not sure what underneath the surface. In short, my that explores Protestantism during the George McGovern, won the 2017 PROSE she holds the Center for Presidential president and chief of staff of a large the answer ultimately is; however, I history classes taught me to think. The American Revolution. Award for best Biography or Autobiography History Writing Fellowship to finish a book multi-center hospital system. given annually by the Association of manuscript titled “Hijacking History: How would rather hire a person who can content in which I immersed myself Erin Hochman’s book, Imagining a American Publishers. the Christian Right Teaches World History SMU: Do you feel your history major think than someone who has been helped me begin to understand Greater Germany: Republican Nationalism and Why It Matters.” has helped you succeed in your trained. why our country was so racially and and the Idea of Anschluss, won the Hans Alexis McCrossen received the inaugural career, and if so, how exactly? economically divided. The more I Rosenberg Prize from the Central European Coleman Family Faculty Research Award, Thompson: I have always felt that Marion Hodges Biglan ’93 learned the more I wanted to know, History Society for best book published generously established by departmental my degree in history has been a great and the more I wanted to be part of asset in life. A liberal arts education SMU: What career have you pursued the solution. What I learned gave me teaches a person to think critically, since you graduated from SMU? the context I needed to be passionate which is a vitally important life skill. Biglan: I am the founder and principal about pursuing a career of social SMU is a nationally ranked private research university. Faculty research offered by Walt Coleman (’01), who chose to support history research More importantly the study of history of MHBiglan Consulting, LLC, which justice. My history classes were the in the Clements Department of History covers the Americas, Europe, because of his own experience at SMU. Coleman spent time on the SMU teaches about the human experience. I started in 2015. In my work as a stepping stone for my joining Teach Asia, and Africa, and explores subject matter such as politics, culture, campus earlier this year and as a result of that interaction, he decided to No matter what business you may consultant and executive coach, I for America after graduation, first as society, gender, sexuality, and human rights. Critical support for our reach out to the history department and offer his assistance. go into, it ultimately is all human work with non-profit administrators a teacher and then as a leader in the research endeavors comes from external and internal fellowships and experience and interaction. A study to help them grow their impact as organization. My experience in the grants as well as the largesse of individual donors. We are fortunate “As a part of the Dedman College Dean’s Research Council, I heard of history has helped me to be able leaders, and to help ensure that SMU history department provided that in some cases donors have established endowed funds whose several history faculty present on their research,” said Coleman. “I was to learn from the past and place their organizations’ approaches to a critical foundation of inquiry skills investment provides support in perpetuity for these basic but essential impressed with the wide range of subject matter and depth of their both current and future decisions in people, diversity, and culture foster as well as the historical context for research needs. research and wanted to help some additional faculty over the summer Top Gregory Thompson ’85 Bottom Marion context. The years of study required success in achieving their missions. understanding inequality that have with unmet research needs.” Hodges Biglan ’93 for a degree in history also taught me Before starting my own practice, I both been instrumental in my career Over the years, many generous individuals (including alumni, parents, the skill of organizing my thoughts was an education non-profit leader as a non-profit leader and now and friends) have stepped forward on an annual basis to support an Professor McCrossen’s forthcoming book, Time’s Touchstone: The New and expressing them clearly in both for twenty years and a teacher after consultant. area of the university that is meaningful to them. For instance, some Year in American Life, will be published by The University of Texas Press verbal and written forms. I actually graduation from SMU. alumni may have had professors whose research and teaching created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). that “aha!” moment which defined the next chapter of their academic Her work is part of an emerging area in historical research, temporal think this has been an asset for me in SMU: Do you feel your history major lives. Thus, they give in memory of that experience. Other alumni desire the medical world where the majority has helped you succeed in your studies, providing a new way of looking at the past through the immediate impact. They make gifts each year to provide direct support study of the measurement, importance, and recognition of time. This of my colleagues have scientific career, and if so, how exactly? because of the benefits bestowed upon them during their time at SMU. donation provided Professor McCrossen with needed travel support. backgrounds. It is unfortunate how Biglan: 100% and without a doubt! On September 25, Coleman served on an alumni panel, speaking about many people struggle to write and I remember the first day of my first In the “faculty achievements” section above, you read about Professor his career and the role that the study of history has played in his life. speak clearly or with proper grammar. history class at SMU, the professor Alexis McCrossen’s recent research on the history of the New Year’s Moreover, he has plans to sit in on Professor McCrossen’s class, and In my mind, the purpose of a college said: “Forget everything you have celebration in the United States. This award is the result of an annual gift receive periodic updates on her research.

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Booker T. Washington. For months following his death in perspective on the history of rural politics in South Americans rich and poor kept clocks in their homes and History Works by Faculty 1915, tens of thousands of Americans, especially blacks, Africa, from the rise of the Zulu kingdom to the civil war carried watches in their pockets. The book ultimately In addition to their devotion to teaching, our faculty members are distinguished and productive scholars. They conduct research around honored his memory. Their memorials revealed that at the dawn of democracy in KwaZulu-Natal. explores how the distribution and the standardization Washington enjoyed widespread national support for his of clock time resulted in the ideal of American the world and have written and edited numerous books that expand knowledge of it. Below is a list of books published by our faculty within vision of America and the programs that he imparted to Thomas Knock synchronicity. the last five years. Be sure to check them out! achieve his aspirations. The Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George Kathleen Wellman Kenneth Andrien Revolution from the perspective of black people. Neil Foley Erin Hochman McGovern (Princeton University Queens and Mistresses of Editor. The Human Tradition in Slavery cracked open and black Americans found Mexicans and the Making of Imagining a Greater Germany: Press, 2016) Renaissance France (Yale Colonial Latin America (Rowman & freedom among the British and the Americans and America (Belknap Press of Harvard Republican Nationalism and the A biography of the 1972 University Press, 2013) Littlefield Publishers, 2nd edition, fought for themselves on both sides. They created University Press, 2014) Idea of Anschluss (Cornell University presidential candidate and senator 2013) communities. They founded institutions. They raised Press, 2016) This book narrates French This book offers a sweeping view of who became America’s most their voices, inaugurated black literature, and set out to Renaissance history through This book provides stories the evolution of Mexican America, This book demonstrates that prescient critic of the Vietnam War. From his boyhood in bring slavery down. the lives of prominent queens of ordinary people and their from a colonial outpost on Mexico’s the triumph of Nazi ideas about Depression-era South Dakota and service as a bomber struggles with life’s challenges, northern frontier to a twenty-first- and mistresses from Agnès Editor with Juliana Barr. Contested politics and nationalism was far from inevitable after pilot in World War II, it traces his rise to the pinnacle dealing with issues relating to gender, race and century people integral to the nation they have helped Sorel, the first officially-recognized royal mistress Spaces of Early America the First World War. It argues that the supporters of the of politics when a “Draft McGovern” movement at the ethnicity, conflicts over religious orthodoxy, crime, build. The struggle of Latinos to gain full citizenship bears in 1444, to Gabrielle d’Estrées, Henry IV’s powerful (University of Pennsylvania Press, Weimar and First Austrian Republics worked together 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago thrust violence, sexuality, and rebellion. The stories, written witness to the continual remaking of American culture into mistress in the 1590s. Both queens and officially- 2014) to create a form of German nationalism that legitimized him into the national spotlight as police and antiwar by a mix of junior and senior scholars, are designed for something more democratic, egalitarian, and truer to its democracy by undermining the political right’s claims demonstrators clashed in the city’s streets. recognized mistresses exerted great influence over undergraduate courses in Latin American history. In Contested Spaces of Early multiracial and multiethnic origins. that democracy and Germany, socialism and nationalism, French politics and culture. The book addresses America scholars from Oxford to and Jew and German were mutually exclusive. Alexis McCrossen the enduring mythology and captivating tales that With Allan Kuethe. The Spanish Berkeley and from Montreal to Marking Modern Times: Clocks, Andrew Graybill surround these women. Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Buenos Aires explore America The Red and the White: A Jill Kelly Watches and Other Timekeepers Century: War and the Bourbon while Indians still controlled most of it, dealing with Family Saga of the American To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, in American Life (University of Reforms, 1713-1796 (Cambridge one another and with invaders of all sorts, in a historical West (Liveright/W.W. Norton & Violence, and Belonging in South Chicago Press, 2013) University Press, 2014) drama that covered a whole hemisphere and that lasted Company, 2013) Africa, 1800-1996 (Michigan State This book investigates the public for centuries. The essays show SMU’s distinctive take on University Press, 2018) This book highlights the interplay On January 23, 1870, four hundred clock era, the period between early American history. between Spain and Spanish men of the Second U.S. Cavalry This book uses oral history and 1880 and 1930, when tower, street America as the Spanish Empire annihilated a Piegan encampment archival research to offer a fresh and gallery clocks saturated towns and cities, while Jeffrey Engel struggled for survival amid the fierce international in northern Montana. This book situates the Marias When the World Seemed New: conflicts that dominated the eighteenth century. The Massacre – one of the worst slaughters of Indians George H. W. Bush and the End authors bring into focus the early Bourbon Reforms, committed by American military forces in U.S. history of the Cold War (Houghton which laid the foundation for the better-known agenda of – within a larger three-generation saga of a single Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) Charles III (1759-88). It is a story of power and ambition family, illuminating the complex history of native-white Alumni Books at the highest levels of empire. The Cold War ended remarkably. intermarriage in the American West. This fall the Clements Department of History proudly celebrates twenty years since the founding of its Ph.D. program in 1998. In that time Never before had a global twenty-eight students have earned doctoral degrees and produced over a dozen books from a variety of academic publishers. Sabri Ates power so eroded without an Jo Guldi The Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands: ensuing great power war, and With David Armitage. The History Making a Boundary, 1843-1914 the Soviet Union’s demise added nuclear weapons Manifesto (Cambridge University Matthew M. Babcock David Rex Galindo Paul T. Nelson Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule To Sin No More: Franciscans and Conversion in the Wrecks of Human Ambition: A History of Utah’s Canyon (Cambridge University Press, 2013) to that mix. The peace that largely prevailed didn’t Press, 2014; revised edition, 2015) (Cambridge University Press, 2016) Hispanic World, 1683-1830 Country to 1936 just happen, however. It was instead the result of This book traces seven decades In an age of global warming and (Stanford University Press, 2018) (University of Utah Press, 2014) experienced, thoughtful, and even prudent leadership of intermittent work by Russian, deepening inequality, The History Timothy P. Bowman by an American president whose diplomatic prowess is British, Ottoman, and Iranian Manifesto urges historians to Blood Oranges: Colonialism and Agriculture in the South Luis A. Garcia Amy Meschke Porter only now coming to light. technical and diplomatic teams address a “crisis of short-termism” Texas Borderlands Guerra y Frontera: El Ejército del Norte entre 1855 y 1858 Their Lives, Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, to turn an ill-defined and highly porous border into an by writing “macrohistory” on the long term, thus taking (Texas A&M University Press, 2016) (Archivo General del Estado de Nuevo Leon, 2007) 1750-1846 Editor. The Four Freedoms: internationally recognized boundary. By examining the back public discourse about the future from profit- (Texas Tech University Press, 2015) Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. John R. Gram Muslim world’s oldest boundary, the book details how driven models from economics. Digital text mining, it Evolution of an American Idea The American Elsewhere: Adventure and Manliness in Education at the Edge of Empire: Negotiating Pueblo José A. Ramirez borderland peoples responded to the division of their suggests, offers an applicable toolkit, and argues that (Oxford University Press, 2015) the Age of Expansion Identity in New Mexico’s Indian Boarding Schools To the Line of Fire: Mexican Texans and World War I habitats, and the ideas and institutions that accompanied history departments should integrate new methods into (University Press of Kansas, 2017) (University of Washington Press, 2015) (Texas A&M University Press, 2009) boundary making. All American politicians say they their coursework. favor freedom. Few ever take Alicia M. Dewey José Gabriel Martínez-Serna Jeffrey M. Schulze Edward Countryman time to define what freedom Kenneth Hamilton Pesos and Dollars: Entrepreneurs in the Texas-Mexico Viñedos e indios del desierto: Fundación, auge y Are We Not Foreigners Here? Indigenous Nationalism in Enjoy the Same Liberty: Black means. Franklin D. Roosevelt was Booker T. Washington in American Borderlands 1880-1940 secularización de una missión jesuita en la frontera the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Americans and the Revolutionary different. His Four Freedoms Address, offered in January Memory (University of Illinois (Texas A&M University Press, 2014) noreste de la Nueva España (University of North Carolina Press, 2018) Era (Rowman & Littlefield 1941 amidst a world at war, offered the single clearest Press, 2017) (CONARTE, Consejo para la Cultura y las Artes, 2014) Publishers, Reprint, 2014) articulation of freedom’s meaning to Americans of the George T. Diaz This is an account of how, when, Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling across the twentieth century, one that continues to shape American Houston F. Mount, II Enjoy the Same Liberty explores who, where, and why countless Rio Grande Oilfield Revolutionary: The Career of Everette Lee politics and culture today. how slavery became a public Americans, both blacks and whites (University of Texas Press, 2015) DeGolyer problem during the American alike, commemorated the life of (Texas A&M University Press, 2014)

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Affiliated Centers The Department of History is home to two centers that enrich its core offerings through research colloquia, visiting postdoctoral fellows, and scholarly lectures. The Clements Center for Southwest Studies has long been the nation’s leading venue for research in the history of the Southwest in a transnational perspective. And since 2012, the Center for Presidential History promotes critical inquiry into the rich history of U.S. politics and Study Abroad offers students the chance to travel through time! Our students visit the government, broadly defined. For more information ruins of the Roman Empire, marvel at the royal palaces of early modern France, and stay on these centers visit: smu.edu/dedman/academics/ at a thirteenth-century college in Oxford (among other adventures)! Here majors Diana institutescenters/swcenter and smu.edu/cph. Miller and Barrett Stout enjoy the Blenheim Palace Battle Proms. See page 8.