The 2012 Report from the Department of History

The 2012 Feinberg Lecture Series: Truth, Reconciliation, History, Justice

hanks to the generosity of our honored Our own Professor John Higginson fa- Talumnus Kenneth R. Feinberg ’67, 02H, cilitated a discussion of Facing the Truth, a film every two years UMass Amherst’s Department on the South African Truth and Reconciliation of History organizes a Feinberg Family Distin- Commission. We offered a cluster of events on guished Lecture Series. Past series have explored Greensboro, N.C., beginning with a screening the history of school desegregation, 1960s politi- of the filmGreensboro: Closer to the Truth that cal activism, the value of human life, and sports included an appearance by its director, Adam in history. Zucker. As this is being written we look forward This year’s series, “Truth and Reconcilia- to a guest lecture by Rev. Nelson N. Johnson and tion, History and Justice,” deals with attempts Mrs. Joyce H. Johnson of Greensboro’s Beloved to achieve truth and reconciliation in the wake Community Center and the formal opening of of violent and traumatic historical events. So the Greensboro Justice Fund archives. far the series has been tremendously success- The series will conclude with two events. On ful: most of its events have been packed with November 13 the panel “Is the U.S. Ready for students, faculty, and community members, the Truth and Reconciliation?” will address slavery, talks have all been followed by lively Q&A ses- Jim Crow, political prisoners, and Guantanamo. sions, and we have received much enthusiastic And on December 5 noted historians will pres- feedback from attendees. ent a final reflection, “History and Truth, Recon- The keynote speaker was James Anaya, UN ciliation, and Justice.” special rapporteur on indigenous peoples, who on October 4 presented “Reconciliation or ‘Just Get Over It’: How Should Societies Answer In- digenous Peoples Today?” His lecture followed the daylong symposium “Indigenous Peoples, Truth, and Reconciliation,” featuring speakers from Australia, Canada, and across the U.S. An- other October panel, “Truth and Reconciliation in Comparative Perspective,” featured speak- ers from Argentina and Northern Ireland along with a Boston College professor who spoke on South Africa. We were also delighted to welcome Paula Green of Amherst’s Karuna Center for Peacebuilding to describe her work promoting community healing in Rwanda. Rev. Nelson N. Johnson. (Photo: Adam Zucker)

Cecil Paul Sr. of the Kemano Region Haisla Nation (British Columbia) was gracious enough to allow the History Department to use the photo at the left in association with this year’s Feinberg Lecture Series. It shows a totem—Dla-xii-la-yewx, or “Steering His People in the Right Direction”—belonging to Paul’s grandson. The Feinberg Series: Looking Back

The 2010–11 Series Morris, and Robert Wiener ’74MA, lectured and Contesting: What Caster Semenya Means to in undergraduate courses. Wiener gave a public Women’s Sports.” uring the 2010–11 academic year, the lecture, “Drugs in Sport: A Sordid History, Now DFeinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Being Corrected,” and launched a media blitz for Series featured the theme “Sport in Society and the series. History.” The series began in September with The series also featured panel discussions on Feinberg Papers Elliott Gorn’s aptly titled “Why Should We Care diverse themes including sport in Latin America Dedication About Sports History?” In October the depart- and the history of soccer in Massachusetts. The ment partnered with Fine Arts to present a con- department presented several sports-related n early November 2011, the department was versation with famed musician Hugh Masekela movies and followed them with discussions led Iinvited to attend a ceremony commorating and his son, Salema. That was followed by a by History Department faculty including Chris the donation of the professional papers of Ken- screening of their filmUmlando—Through My Appy, Jennifer Fronc, and Joyce Berkman. The neth R. Feinberg ’67, 02H to the Special Collec- Father’s Eye, which recounts the trip the two men films includedNot Just a Game: Power, Politics, tions at the W. E. B. Du Bois Library. The papers made throughout South Africa in anticipation of and American Sports, screened with special guest will enable students and scholars to examine the the 2010 World Cup. Dave Zirin. cases Feinberg has worked on over the years, Carlo Rotella, an academic writer who regu- In the spring semester the department joined including those dealing with Agent Orange, larly contributes to publications such as the Bos- with the Association of Diversity in Sport, a the Dalkon Shield, the BP oil spill, and the 9/11 ton Globe and The New York Times Magazine, student organization, to present the roundtable Victims Compensation. Feinberg says that the also visited. During the spring semester other discussion “Who is LeBron?” In April the series archives contain “my innermost thoughts about speakers, including Adrian Burgos Jr., Andrew concluded with a talk by Susan Chan, “Testing how to design and administer these [relief] pro- grams” and illustrate the unique circumstances faced by policy-makers after disasters and na- tional tragedies. Greensboro and This Year’s Feinberg Lectures Kenneth Feinberg is also funding the cata- loging of the archive, which will be overseen by y inspiration in organizing the 2012 Feinberg Lecture Series came back in 2007, when I Robert Cox, head of Special Collections. The cel- Mhelped the Northampton Committee to Stop the Wars screen an extraordinary film,Greens - ebration and a related press conference featured boro: Closer to the Truth. In 1979, members of the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party opened a panel of speakers that included Joye Bowman, fire on union organizers and civil rights activists in Greensboro, N.C., killing five. One survivor, Mar- Marla Miller, Vice Chancellor James Staros, and ty Nathan, lost her husband that day. She used the damages awarded her to found the Greensboro UMass Libraries Director Jay Schaffer. Justice Fund, which she went on to run from her western Massachusetts home. Among the fund’s most impressive accomplishments was its role in initiating the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the first of its kind in the U.S. Having seen the film, I was struck by the extraordinary opportunity that the Feinberg funds offered to explore truth and reconciliation around the world and right here at home. Indeed, our series lineup included speakers on South Africa, on Greensboro, and on the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The series title is meant to raise questions about the com- plex relationship between seeking truth and studying his- tory, and the tension between pursuing reconciliation and striving for justice. As Marty Nathan made clear at the 2007 film screening, these are not easy questions. We have found throughout the series that they generate a wide range of an- Sigrid Schmalzer. swers from people who have directly participated in truth- and-reconciliation efforts in different parts of the world. Organizing this series has been tremendously gratifying. I would like to thank the other members of the Feinberg Committee—Brian Bunk, Marla Miller, Daniel Chard, and Jill Dwiggins—as well as Alice Nash, Jane Rausch, Jean Ball, Rochelle Vigurs, and the many other colleagues and friends who lent a hand. Finally, I am deeply thankful to Kenneth Feinberg, his family, and the History Department for this opportunity to bring together students, faculty from across campus, regional grassroots organizations, and inspiring figures from around the world in a meaningful exploration of truth, reconciliation, history, and justice. —Sigrid Schmalzer Kenneth R. Feinberg.

2 Fall 2012 | Past, Present & Future as the endowment is set up. Our thanks go out cussion, especially in light of the election cam- Letter from the Chair to them for this wonderful expression of support paigning then in progress. (We hope to continue for the students and the History Department. this tradition in coming years. Please make sure We also received a generous gift from Profes- that we have your contact information so that we sor Charles Hyde ’66 in support of our Public can send you messages about upcoming events.) History Program. Another gift that continues to For their having agreed to serve with me, I support our graduate students to do intensive want to thank Associate Chair Anne Broad- language training comes from two of our pro- bridge, Graduate Program Director Marla Mill- fessors, Jennifer Heuer and Brian Ogilvie. Our er, and two undergraduate program directors: thanks go out to them as well. Steve Platt, who held the position until June In March 2012, the History Department co- 2012, and the current director, Jennifer Heuer. sponsored the premiere of the filmWalk Right Without them and our support staff —Jean Ball, In—The Story of the Yale Summer High School. Suzanne Bell, and Mary Lashway—life as chair Larry Paros ’55 ran the school in the late 1960s. would be impossible. After years of teaching and writing, he decided We said goodbye to Jean, our enormously to interview some of the school’s graduates to capable office manager, in October 2012. Her make a documentary. Several of them had gone departure was bittersweet—a great opportunity on to become graduate students at UMass Am- for her, but a real loss for us. We wish her well herst, including Irma McClaurin ’92PhD and in her new position at the State Rehabilitation Charles Desmond ’93EdD, who joined Paros at Commission. the premiere to reminisce about the school. Finally, I hope we can build a more active In May 2012, several alumni joined Dean Ju- connection with our alumni. As I noted last year, lie C. Hayes, CHFA Director of Development Lu- alumni have an ever more important role to play cia Miller, and me at an event at the UMass Club as state support for UMass dwindles. Please let in Boston. Professor Bruce Laurie discussed The me know (at [email protected]) if you’d s I enter my third year as department Rise of Conservatism in America, 1945–2000, the like to be more active with the Department of Achair, I wonder where the first two years recent book he coauthored with Professor Ron History. I look forward to hearing from you. have gone! I continue to appreciate my col- Story. The presentation stimulated a lively dis- —Joye Bowman leagues’ trust and confidence in me as I navigate the process of chairing such a wonderful depart- ment. We continue to reimagine ourselves in the new world of higher education. State support for our activities continues to decline, but the His- tory Department is flourishing, as this publica- tion makes clear. We hired four new faculty members this year. Three—Julio Capó, Johan Mathew, and Pri- yanka Srivastava—joined us joined us this Sep- tember. The fourth, Sarah Cornell, will arrive in January. (See page 14 for further details.) In November 2011 we celebrated the dona- tion of the papers of Kenneth R. Feinberg ’67, 02H to our campus’s W. E. B. Du Bois Library. This donation continues Mr. Feinberg’s dedi- cation to the History Department and UMass Amherst. As I write this we are midway through our 2012 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series, “Truth and Reconciliation, History and Justice.” Our thanks go out to Mr. Feinberg and his family for their continued generosity. We also celebrated Professor Louis Green- baum and Mrs. Greenbaum’s gift endowing the two writing prizes bearing his name. The prizes recognize students who have written the best class essay or research paper. Richard Harland Kenneth R. Feinberg. donated funds to guarantee the gift for this year Mary Lashway and Jean Ball.

Past, Present & Future | Fall 2012 3 Books in both English and French and explores Native Histories at Historic Reconstructions News Highlights art, literature, and the social sciences with a com- (2007) parative focus. We are pleased to announce that it • Dolores Hayden, The Power of Place: Urban has been added to JSTOR, making nearly 40 years Landscapes as Public History (1995) of back issues widely available to readers. • Nina Simon, The Participatory Museum Civil War Symposium (2010) • Max Page and Randall Mason, Giving Pres- The History Department was well represented Public History Reading Group ervation a History: Histories of Historic at “The Sesquicentennial Symposium: Civil War Preservation in America (2003) Causes and Consequences,” the Five College This spring a reading group met monthly to • Michael Rawson, Eden on the Charles: The Learning-in-Retirement program held in Octo- discuss public-history theory and practice on Making of Boston (2010). ber 2011 in the Mahar Auditorium and the Is- topics ranging from gender in public places to Plans are in place to continue the reading enberg School of Management. Eric Foner, 2011 museums, material culture, and historic preser- group this year. Pulitzer Prize–winner for history, delivered the vation. Each month two members drew up and keynote address, “Lincoln, Emancipation, and circulated a reading list of books, articles, and Race in America.” David Blight, former Amherst chapters. The group—which included Jeff Rob- Among the Latin Americanists College professor and current head of the Gilder- inson, Chris Benning, Jessie MacLeod, Sarah Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery at Yale, Marrs, John Morton, and Emily Oswald—then The department’s Latin Americanists will be made the closing keynote on Saturday. UMass met over dinner for discussion and community. well represented at the American Historical As- Amherst participants included professors John By developing reading lists drawing on each sociation’s annual meeting in New Orleans in Higginson, Bruce Laurie, and Manisha Sinha, student’s area of expertise or interest, members January. Heidi Scott and Julio Capó are pre- as well as professor emeritus Leonard Richards. were both exposed to new readings and got to senting papers on high-powered panels that will rethink articles they may have encountered ear- be made even more so by their presence. Heidi’s lier in their graduate careers. The group recom- panel includes some of the best people work- New On JSTOR mends the following as springboards for discus- ing on environmental history in colonial Latin sion: America; Julio’s has several of the top historians For nearly a decade our own Dan Gordon has co- • Kathleen McCarthy, Women’s Culture: Ameri- of Haiti. Jo el Wolfe is chairing and participating edited the journal Historical Reflections/Reflec- can Philanthropy and Art, 1830–1930 (1990) in a panel made up of recent Ph.D.’s doing inno- tions Historiques, which is published by Berghan • Laura Peers, Playing Ourselves: Interpreting vative work on gender, the household, and work

Havana Preservation Tour

In spring 2012, Public History was represented among a group that headed to Havana to learn about historic preservation in that city during a tour organized by Max Page, UMass Amherst director of preservation initiatives and our colleague in Archi- tecture and Design. David Glassberg and Marla Miller were among 15 faculty and students who toured the city with urban planners from the Office of the City Historian. They also visited the Escuela Taller Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, a school that trains the next generation of hands-on preservationists; visited the Escuelas Nacionales de Arte with architect Roberto Got- tardi; discussed city planning and international collaborations with José Vázquez Rodríguez, director of international relations at the Colegio Universitario San Geronimo de la Habana/ Universidad de Habana; and took in the Museum of the City of Havana, the Museum of the Revolution, and Finca Vigía, the Professors Glassberg, Miller, and Page at the Plaza de Ernest Hemingway house in San Francisco de Paula. It was an la Revolucion. eye-opening experience that won’t soon be forgotten.

4 Fall 2012 | Past, Present & Future in Latin America. José Hernández’s new book will be on display at the Cambridge University Stay in the Loop Press exhibit. (Jane Rausch’s new book on Co- lombia, just sent off to the press, will no doubt be on display at AHA’s 2014 meeting.) • The Department of History unveiled its new website at the end of the Spring ’12 semester—visit it at umass.edu/history! We’re indebted to the College of Humanities Back on campus, Ph.D. student John Roberts and Fine Arts for its hosting and support services, and especially to Megan Strathearn, and M.A. student Tom Hohenstein received who was invaluable in constructing and rolling over the new site. summer grants to conduct research in the U.S. and Latin America. More and more undergradu- • Are you following us on Facebook? “Like” us at facebook.com/umass.history, then ates are writing senior theses on Latin American hover over the Like button to read news and postings and subscribe to our notifications. topics. Dan McDonald, who wrote a terrific • If you’d like to give to the department, simply visit umass.edu/history/giving or mail senior thesis on the press during the Brazilian your payment to History Department, Herter Hall, University of Massachusetts, 161 dictatorship, is now an M.A. student in Latin Presidents Drive, Amherst MA, 01003-9312. We appreciate your support! American history in the department. —Joel Wolfe

Richard Chu (second from left) and students in Boston.

Exploring Boston’s Chinatown

Did you know that the first Chinese to settle in Boston arrived North Adams, where they had worked at a shoe factory, to in the mid-nineteenth century as part of a group of Chinese establish themselves in the South Cove landfill area in the wake merchants and students? Or that in 1946 the Catholic Maryk- of immigrant Irish, Italian, Jewish, and Syrian workers who had noll Sisters opened a center for Chinese women in Boston in settled there. A 1903 immigration raid halved the population of order to win converts? Boston’s Chinatown, which did not rebound until the 1920s. Students in Richard Chu’s “Asian/Pacific/American History” Professor Chu led the students around Chinatown, point- class at UMass Amherst and “Chinese Diasporic History” class ing out historical sites such as the first residences of hundreds at Amherst College learned that and much more on an April of Chinese along the narrow alleys of Oxford Place and Oliver 2012 field trip to Boston’s Chinatown. They heard that the first Place. After the tour, the group enjoyed dim sum in one of the significant wave of Chinese migrants arrived in the 1870s from neighborhood’s restaurants.

Past, Present & Future | Fall 2012 5 A Summer in Oxford

Thirty-nine students, including History ma- jors Kerry McDonough and Martin Urbanski, spent six weeks this summer participating in the University of Massachusetts Oxford Summer Seminar. Founded in 1966 by the late Professor of English Ernest Hofer, the seminar allows stu- dents to study literature, history, politics, and law with Oxford University faculty members. This year’s history courses included “Tudor and Stuart Jennifer Heuer (left) Britain,” “British Perspectives on the American with History Depart- Revolution,” and “Oxford: The City as a Work of ment and Five College Art.” Classes were taught in the Oxford tutorial students. style, with an average enrollment of six students. Participants resided in Trinity College, founded in 1555, and many lived in a quadran- paths along the River Thames, the River Cher- Museum, Blenheim Palace (birthplace of Sir gle designed by Sir Christopher Wren. They ate well, and the Oxford Canal. When not in class Winston Churchill), Stonehenge, the cathedral in the seventeenth-century dining hall, where or the library, students visited Harry Potter film city of Salisbury, and the Roman baths in Bath. meals included a formal three-course dinner locations, saw shooting for the Inspector Lewis Many students took advantage of student-priced on Tuesday evenings. Trinity is in the heart of television series, watched the Olympic torch tickets and long weekends to travel on their own. downtown Oxford, allowing students easy ac- pass through Oxford, and went punting on the Destinations included London, Cardiff, London, cess to the other Oxford colleges, the Bodleian Cherwell around Christ Church Meadow. Paris, and Rome. Library, the Covered Market, and the walking Students also took field trips to the British The department awards an annual scholar-

Graduate History Association to the Papers Committee for coordinating this event. In March 2012 the Graduate History Association hosted its As of fall 2012, the GHA has begun fundraising for its 2013 con- eighth annual conference, “Networks, Connections, and Ex- ference and looks forward to its spring book-and bake-sale and change: Historical Perspectives.” Grad students joined us from graduate-student outings. This year’s officers are Jill Dwiggins, eight states and from as far afield as Claremont, Calif., to present Samuel Dodge, Karen Sause, and Jaimie Kicklighter. their research and attend panels on the ways local and global net- works connect and develop new identities among different peo- ples. Charles Mann gave the key- note address, “Drilling Through the Silo,” on interdisciplinary cooperation inside and outside the academy. Many thanks to of- ficers Jessica Frankenfield, Ben Smith-Poulin, Erik Ingmund- son, and Stephania Villar and

GHA members apple-picking at Cold Spring Orchard.

6 Fall 2012 | Past, Present & Future ship for students to attend the seminar, sup- ported by the David H. MacDonnell Fund and, in 2012, the Frederic Gilbert Bauer Fund. Students are also eligible for scholarships from the College of Humanities and Fine Arts and, for honors students, Commonwealth Honors College. The 2012 seminar was organized and run by its director, Brian Ogilvie, and Associate Di- rector Jennifer Heuer, both History professors. This was their third and (for the moment) final summer in Oxford; they have passed the torch Summer Seminar to Professor Anne F. Broadbridge, who will participants at the direct the seminar for the next three summers. British Museum.

What They’re Saying: Excerpts from 2011–12 Student Papers

ost importantly, Mabel Loomis Todd connected iso- extra-legally as vigilantes, these activists justified their deeds as Mlated Amherst, Massachusetts, to the regional and national necessary remedies to a criminal justice system they perceived as stage by creating public places for celebration of local heritage and “soft on crime.” also discourses on American patriotism—an effort that upper-class —Daniel Chard ’15PhD, women throughout New England advanced in the Progressive Age. “Rallying for Repression” —Jeffrey Robinson ’16PhD, “Mabel Loomis Todd’s Other Amherst Affair: he concepts of exclusivity and ignorance of industrial Gender, Class, and Public History in Twork form the basis of Veblen’s theory, and Couvares effec- Western Massachusetts’ Progressive Age” tively demonstrates that Pittsburgh industrial society was, if any- thing, hostile to such concepts. Instead, working-class members, erhaps if scholars neglect the motivations of the Irish whether part of the labor aristocracy or the moderately paid new Pworking class in 1916, or worse yet, treat the Easter Rising immigrants and unskilled fields, subscribed to communal soli- as a grand merging of ideologies under the umbrella of “Irish darity and ambivalence toward hierarchical divisions. nationalism,” they follow a pattern begun by Rising organizers —Jon Haeber ’13MA, themselves. By avoiding class-based rhetoric in its propaganda “Consumption and Class, 1875–1920: and recruitment, the Irish Republican Brotherhood certainly A Review of Thorstein Veblen, Daniel Horowitz, projected a firmly Nationalist identity. However, this political and Francis Couvares” branding did not resonate with the general populace until after the Rising, when a number of the leaders had been martyred and he defiance of O Estado de São Paulo spread to other the panic over impending conscription into the British Army Timportant public institutions, in particular to the halls of reached a fever pitch in 1918. Congress. Opposition congressmen routinely picked up criti- —Jill Dwiggins ’13MA, cisms aired by O Estado de São Paulo or other publications and “‘Those Dead Men’: Sidelined Constituencies and the repeated them on the floor. In one particularly ironic incident, O Nationalist Claim to the 1916 Easter Rising” Estado protested the written censorship orders it received, and the pro-military majority leader denied that such orders or cen- igilante activity and police attacks on prison activ- sorship in any form existed in Brazil. O Estado de São Paulo then Vists […] should be understood as the work of a right-wing received another written order that declared, “Federal censorship social movement in 1970s Maine that included activist prison prohibits the publication of the speech of Majority Leader Filinto guards, police officers, law enforcement officials, and their sup- Muller, denying that there is censorship in Brazil.” The military porters. Although most Maine law enforcement agents would felt increasingly pressed to keep a lid on the nation’s most pres- never have publicly condoned politically motivated arrests or tigious daily. vigilantism, the above were united in their embrace of a conser- —Daniel McDonald ’14MA, vative ideology associated with Nixon-era law-and-order politics. “Nunca Mais: Print-Media Resistance and Reaction Whether acting legally as grassroots community organizers or in Military Brazil, 1964–1985.”

Past, Present & Future | Fall 2012 7 eran’s oral-history project, club members joined tian Association: Cold War Social Activism” Program Reports us at the annual Majors Fair. • Thamyris Almeida, “Manet’s Bar: A Reflection In these difficult economic times, students of the Modernization of Prostitution in are more concerned than ever about career op- Nineteenth-Century France” tions. During her time as internship coordinator, • Samantha Faso, “Gender and Medieval The Undergraduate Laura Miller did an outstanding job of orga- Mystics” Program nizing career-development events and helping • Jay Kinney, “A Culture of Trauma and Killing: students find internships; Chris Benning has The World of Upper Middlesex County t’s been a good year to be a history major at now taken over this role. (Note to alumni: Stu- Minutemen, 1720–1775” IUMass Amherst, but what year isn’t? Our stu- dent internships can be just a few hours per week • Emily Pipes, “The Young Women’s Christian dents raked in the prizes. (For the full—and very or a full semester, and we look for options both Association: Cold War Social Activism.” impressive—list, see umass.edu/history/about/ during the academic year and over the summer. We concluded the 2012 spring semester with awards.html.) If you’d like to mentor a History intern, let us the latest of our annual Honors Thesis Sympo- We are proud that two awards supported by know!) siums, during which students share their re- our retired faculty marked their 20th anniver- We also strongly encourage students to look search. Faculty, students, and family members sary this year: the Robert and Jeanne Potash into study abroad. In particular, the wonderful all look forward to this highlight of the Honors Latin American Travel Grant (won by Zachary Oxford Summer Seminar is now run out of the Program. —Jennifer Fronc, director Zuber) and the Louis S. Greenbaum History history department—Professor Anne Broad- Prize for Travel (won by Zachary Wilmot and bridge is overseeing the coming 2013 seminar— Joseph Strachen). History major Thamyris and we are delighted to have scholarship money Almeida won the Howard Quint Prize, which for the program earmarked for history majors. The Graduate Program is open to all Commonwealth Honors College Professor Steve Platt served as undergradu- seniors. Joseph Strachan won a possibly un- ate program director in 2011–12 and conveys his his year was one of beginnings as we wel- precedented four departmental prizes, all with good wishes. I took over as of fall 2012 and look Tcomed Mary Lashway, the new graduate different judges and criteria. forward to getting to know all of you better. program assistant, to our community. Mary is Several new faculty have joined the depart- —Jennifer Heuer, director a UMass Amherst alumna, having received her ment and brought new expertise to our students B.A. in sociology on this campus. She quickly (see page 14). We are particularly excited to be proved to be a great asset to the program, help- able to offer classes in South Asian history for ing our students make their way through their what may be the first time. The Honors Program requirements with steady good cheer. We are Professor Dan Gordon taught our inaugural happy and lucky to have her capable assistance. offering for the Integrative Experience (IE) re- rofessor Jo el Wolfe, who directed the The Graduate Program is always a flurry of quirement, courses designed to bring together PHonors Program last year, passed his con- activity, and this past year was no different. The students’ General Education courses with their gratulations to all of the history majors gradu- first order of business each year is admissions: as knowledge of their major. Gordon’s class, “Ideas ating from Commonwealth Honors College, in- soon as the calendar turns, the department be- That Changed History,” addresses history as a cluding the 17 who earned Latin honors. Every gins reviewing the many applications we get. I’d discipline rather than considering the history of year we strengthen our tradition of advanced like to offer huge thanks to 2011–12 Admissions a specific time or place. It challenges students to undergraduate research through our thesis Director Audrey Altstadt efficiently oversaw the think about how historians specifically view the program, which provides students with a thesis review of the always-large number of applica- world and how conceptions of historical “truth” advisor and a second faculty reader. This year, tions to the Graduate Program. We have now have evolved. graduating seniors completed the following the- greeted yet another excellent class, and thanks In 2011–12 we selected four accomplished ses: are due to the Graduate Studies Committee— peer mentors to support Undergraduate Advis- • Jacob Adams, “A History of Brewing in which also included Rachel Martin, Jon Olsen, ing: Joseph Strachan and Steven Sweeney (both Massachusetts” Larry Owens, and Lynda Morgan, as well as fall/spring), Meghan Silva-Sullivan (fall), and • Juliana Dugan, “Italian and Spanish Cultural student reps Gina Talley and Lisa Ponce—for Thamyris Almeida (spring). Peer mentors have Influences Affecting the Development of the their hard work. direct experience with issues such as being a Food Culture of Buenos Aires” Each spring semester the “Writing History” transfer student, figuring out the History major, • Daniel McDonald, “From Medici on Cohen: course, through which we welcome our annual juggling multiple majors, study abroad, intern- Democracy from Above: The Political writer-in-residence, is a highlight. This year our ships, and other issues of concern to students. Origins of Military Dictatorship in Brazil” lively parade of guests included Clark Dougan, They offer a perspective not available from fac- • Annika Mitchell, “A Haunting of the Wilder- the acquisitions editor at UMass Press; Charles ulty advisors or even our incomparable Under- ness: How the Frontier Wars and Amerindi- Mann, our 2008 writer-in-residence; Tom graduate Program assistant, Suzanne Bell. an Presence Shaped the Salem Witch Trials” Scheinfeld, managing director of the Center for Our History Club continues to be amazing. • Joshua Pitt, “Gibbon’s Enlightenment Narrative History and New Media; and Louis Hutchins, In addition to their own projects, such as the an- and Critique of Religion” chief historian for the National Park Service’s nual Haunted Campus Tour and an ongoing vet- • Samantha Ryan, “The Young Women’s Chris- Northeast Region. In one especially memorable

8 Fall 2012 | Past, Present & Future class, Linda McInerney of Old Deerfield Produc- professor of American history at the American M.A. level was the introduction of the new “port- tions and Evelyn Harris, formerly of Sweet Hon- University of Sharjah (near Dubai) in the United folio system” under which students, in lieu of the ey in the Rock, visited the class to discuss their Arab Emirates. traditional “mini-comps” that master’s students folk opera based on the life of Sojourner Truth. It’s always lovely to see students reach the have long taken, submit a carefully crafted port- The centerpiece of the semester, however, was various milestones that shape folio of work documenting Tony Horwitz’s weeklong residency. He joined us graduate study, and this year was their achievements over to talk not only about Midnight Rising, his book rich with such events. In the fall, their two-year course of on John Brown and the raid at Harper’s Ferry, Lt. Col. Beth Behn (honored this study. The April 4 Capstone but also Confederates in the Attic, Baghdad With- year at the White House along Presentations Day was a out a Map, and his many other engaging books. with other veterans of Operation terrific success and—to- Tony also visited graduate courses in other de- Iraqi Freedom and Operation gether with the fact that partments and the History Club and gave a pub- New Dawn) returned from West everyone met the April lic talk on John Brown in the Cape Cod Lounge. Point to defend her excellent dis- 15 commencement dead- As winter gave way to spring and the hectic sertation, “Woodrow Wilson’s line—helped account for season of searches Conversion Experience: the large number of gradu- drew to a close, stu- The President and the ates we were pleased to see dents took in events Federal Woman Suffrage walk at this year’s com- that enriched their Amendment.” A number Marla Miller. mencement. thinking about teach- of students presented We offered congratula- ing, at UMass and be- their dissertation prospectuses: we tions to one of our largest groups of M.A. stu- yond. Carlin Barton learned about and officially launched dents in recent memory: Erika Arthur, Eliza- gave a wonderful talk Chris Fobare’s study of politics after beth Bradley, Molly Campbell, Bette Elsden, describing the devel- the Civil War, Dan Allosso’s look at the Jessica Frankenfield, Thomas Goldscheider, opment of her legend- “Peppermint Kings,” Kate Freedman’s Juan Hernandez, Erik Ingmundson, Roneva ary lecturing style, examination of slavery and the Quaker Keel, Jessie MacLeod, Amanda Molina, John while Richard Gassan community, and Gina Talley’s look at Morton, Mark Roblee, Benjamin Smith-Pou- shared insights on women who chose to remain childless lin, Stephania Villar, and Eesha Williams. And working abroad based Writer-in-Residence in early twentieth-century America. at the end of the spring semester it was a great on his experience as a Tony Horwitz. An exciting development at the pleasure to see Beth Behn collect her Ph.D.

Gemütlich Interlude

Natalie Geeza, winner of the Ogilvie Memorial Award, Dank to professors Brian Ogilvie and Jennifer Heuer and reports: At the Goethe-Institut in Munich, Germany, I chal- the whole of the UMass History Department for awarding lenged myself to boost my German abilities both orally and me the Ogilvie Memorial Grant and making this amazing on paper. After grabbing a quick lunch I often returned opportunity possible. Ich werde das nicht vergessen! to the institute in the afternoon to go on tours of the city auf Deutsch, or hunkered down in the Mediothek to study the content and structures of the material. My weekends were spent exploring the city or other areas of die Bayern (Bavaria) with new friends from all over the globe. We have worked together on assignments and enjoyed the beauty and history of places like Nürnberg and Schloß Neuschwanstein, enhancing our overall experience and understanding of the German language and culture. Aside from helping me further master the German language, this trip has truly reminded me of why I fell in love with German history in the first place, and I am excited to begin German research for my thesis this fall. Vielen Natalie Geeza (left) in Germany.

Past, Present & Future | Fall 2012 9 The year ended with a festive ceremony cel- West Point department’s Excellence in Teach- Museum gave students a preview of the wonder- ebrating the year’s award recipients and gradu- ing Award. Beth kindly wrote: “Our experiences ful new permanent exhibition House and Home. ates. The Theodore Caldwell Writing Prize with great teachers while we were grad students During 2012, the inaugural year, Hyde In- went to Roneva Keel for at UMass played a large part in our ternship Scholarships were awarded to graduate her thesis “Si Se Puede: receiving this award. So in addition Public History students Sarah Marrs and Jill The United Farm Work- to just passing along some gradu- Dwiggins (see page 11). ers, Civil Rights, and the ate alumni news, we wanted to say This year the Public History Program Struggle for Justice in thanks to you and to other mem- reached out to two frequently neglected audi- the Fields” and Elizabeth bers of the faculty who served as ences. Thanks to a UMass Public Service En- Bradley for her paper role models for both of us.” dowment Grant, local public historian Betty “Belgium’s ‘Exhibitionary To which we say, “Right back Sharpe, back in Amherst from the Smithsonian Complex’: International atcha!” Thanks to Beth and Sean Institution, created “Artifact Stories,” a series that Exhibitions, the Royal and all of our graduate students, brought objects from the collection of the Am- Museum for Central Af- past and present, for all the ways herst History Museum to residential senior-citi- rica, and the Memory of you keep us energized and engaged. zen facilities in Amherst and South Hadley. Each Colonialism in Brussels.” We’ve very proud of you all. week through the summer, and assisted by Pub- Best wishes to Roneva as Lt. Col. Beth Behn. —Marla Miller, director lic History intern John Morton, Sharpe gathered she heads to the Universi- residents to hear brief presentations on selected ty of Washington for her artifacts. The residents were then encouraged to doctoral work. reminisce and reflect on how the topics inter- Additional History Department awards in- The Public History sected with their own lives, thereby placing their cluded these: Program own lived experience within the larger sweep of • Simon and Satenig Ermonian Graduate Awards U.S. history and sharing their knowledge with for Excellence in Graduate Teaching: Erik others. The program was tremendously popular Ingmundson and Jeffrey Robinson n 2011–12 the Public History Program main- and we hope to repeat it. • Frederic Gilbert Bauer Research Fellowships: Itained its national prominence while serving In September 2012 the Public History Pro- Thomas Army (for research in Gettysburg, communities across the commonwealth. The gram made an excursion down the Connecticut Pa.), Thomas Hohenstein (Mexico), and school year began in September with our sen- River on Northfield Mountain’sQuinnetikut II John Roberts (Latin America) sational 25th-anniversary conference, “Public riverboat. During the 12-mile round trip, stu- • Robert and Jeanne Potash Latin American History 2036: The Next 25 Years,” and ended dents and faculty took in the sights of the French Travel Grants: Thomas Hohenstein and in June with “Off the Record: Telling Lives of King gorge and Barton Cove and enjoyed the John Roberts People Hidden in Plain Sight,” the annual Mas- narration of the onboard guide. • Graduate Travel Grants: Marwa Amer sachusetts History Conference we cosponsor And in October 2012, David Glassberg and (Washington, D.C.) and Amanda with Mass Humanities and the Massachusetts Laurie Block hosted a pioneering symposium on Goodheart (Nantucket) Historical Society. As usual, we packed a lot of the history of disability in America. It featured • Charles Hyde Internship Awards: Jill Dwiggins exciting activities in between. Douglas Baynton, Sarah Rose, James Trent, and and Sarah Marrs (see below) Last fall we hosted a workshop on sustainable Fred Pelka and drew a number of disabled at- • Marvin Ogilvie Memorial Awards for Foreign agriculture and the National Park Service. Orga- tendees from the surrounding community. Language Study: Natalie Geeza. nized by Cathy Stanton, it brought NPS staff The program also continued to gain recog- Several students were recognized for hav- from the Martin Van Buren National Historic nition for its work in African-American history. ing landed external funding this year. Jessie Site and several other sites across the Northeast. Work continues on the W. E. B. Du Bois Home- MacLeod and Gina Talley each received schol- The students in the M.S. program in Historic site in Great Barrington, now being called the W. arships from the National Society of Colonial Preservation that we offer in partnership with E. B. Du Bois National Historic Site (www.du- Dames of New England, while Jaimie Kick- Hancock Shaker Village and the Department boisnhs.org). Emily Oswald braved the heat of lighter won a prestigious award from DAAD, of Architecture and Design won an award from Tuskegee, Ala., in June to present her research at the German Academic Exchange Service. Ann Preservation Massachusetts for their work in a National Trust for Historic Preservation con- Robinson landed two significant fellowships, Springfield following the June 2011 tornado. ference on the schools for African Americans one from the Philadelphia Area Center for the Thanks to the generosity of UMass alum founded early in the twentieth century by Julius History of Science and another from the Chemi- Charles K. Hyde ’66, we’ve been able to host a Rosenwald. Last but certainly not least, the ex- cal Heritage Foundation, that will allow her to variety of fascinating public-history practitio- hibit on Elizabeth Freeman that Public History spend the year in Philadelphia working on her ners over the past year. Chicago artist Rebecca students Jessie MacLeod, John Morton, and history of the periodic table. Keller told us about her “messing with Jane” at the Elizabeth Bradley developed for the Trustees of And we were very proud to learn that both Hull House Museum. Ethnographer Amy Tyson Reservations Ashley House in 2011 won a pres- Lt. Col. Beth Behn and Major Seanegan Scul- discussed her research on labor and performance tigious Award of Merit from the American Asso- ley—Beth now an alumna of the program, and at living-history museums in the New Economy, ciation for State and Local History at its October Sean a doctoral candidate—were awarded their while Sarah Leavitt from the National Building 2012 conference in Salt Lake City.

10 Fall 2012 | Past, Present & Future 2012 Hyde Scholarships

This year’s Hyde Internship Scholarships, the first ever granted, were put to superb use by two graduate students in our Public History Program.

Sarah Marrs reports: I came to work in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) Devel- opment Office at a busy time: the annual fundraising gala took place June 22 and the fiscal year ended June 30. I enjoyed researching the ways in which cultural institutions use various social media plat- forms for fundraising purposes—my main project for the summer. Furthermore, I had the opportunity to put together a corpo- rate grant application and work with the department’s print and digital archives. Through my daily work I learned about how museums develop, about membership models and solicitation, and about the way Sarah Marrs at the MIA. that the MIA functions as a large institution.

Jill Dwiggins reports: This summer at the Concord Museum I wrote “The Thoreau Trail,” a phone app featuring Henry D. Thoreau and Concord’s Thoreau-related sites and organizations. The app goes live in March (concordmuseum.org) with the opening of the museum’s upcoming exhibit Early Spring: Phenology and Henry David Thoreau, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. I also served as part of the exhibition team for this project, assisting museum curator David Wood in researching, selecting, and locating Tho- reau manuscripts relevant to nature study and climate change. Finally, I served as an interpreter in the museum, which features Native American, Revolutionary Era, and Transcendental-author collections, as well as special exhibits this summer of collec- tions from the Massachusetts Historical Society and Annie Leibovitz. Jill Dwiggins with Thoreau’s snowshoes.

Past, Present & Future | Fall 2012 11 Betty Sharpe, “Artifact Stories.”

This year Public History students completed create a website archiving student recollections class of Public History students who graduated some great digital history projects. Tom Hohen- of the June 2011 Springfield tornado (www. in May: Jessica Frankenfield, Jessie MacLeod, stein, Patrick Condon, and Jaimie Kicklighter springfieldtornado.weebly.com). Also of note is Erik Ingmundson, John Morton, Elizabeth developed a tour of Civil War–era Amherst that is the downloadable walking tour of Holyoke that Bradley, Bette Elsden, Stephania Villar, Molly downloadable to smartphones (www.digitalam- Jon Haeber developed for the Wistariahurst Campbell, and Mark Roblee. Come December, herst.org/civilwar). Crystal Donkor, Crystal Museum as part of his summer 2012 internship Emily Oswald and Tom Hohenstein will follow Zimmer, and Caroline Correira worked with (wistariahurst.org/walk-holyoke/). suit. We’re also proud of the three students out- the Springfield Public Schools and the YMCA to Congratulations to the large and talented side the department who received Public History Certificates: Rusty Annis, Meghan Mulherin, and Katherine Davis. We wish them every suc- cess in their future endeavors, which include positions in the curatorial department at Mount Vernon in Virginia and the Education Depart- ment at Wave Hill in New York City, as well as Ph.D. programs here and at Boston College. Crystal Donker Finally, we wish to thank our Public History (middle), Crystal graduate assistant, Emily Oswald, for the many Zimmer, and Caro- tasks she performed during 2011–12. We have line Correira with been extremely fortunate to have extraordinary youths from Spring- students in this position, and Emily was one of field’s YMCA and the best. M.A. student Jon Haeber has taken on public schools. the mantle for 2012–13.

12 Fall 2012 | Past, Present & Future practices for their history of the fund’s origins. ship. During my leave I conducted additional Faculty News Another of my mushrooming endeavors, work archival research for my current book project in on the history of UMass Amherst’s Music De- rural northeastern parishes in Louisiana. Along partment, rolls onward with the help of current with the members of the Southern Poverty Law and past graduate students in our department. Center and the Hispanic Coalition of Alabama at Current Faculty I am considering retiring from full-time the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa, I partici- teaching in May 2013. For me, however, teaching pated in an invited roundtable, “Southern Hos- Audrey L. Altstadt reports: During 2012–13, I continues to be as fulfilling and rejuvenating as pitality? Alabama’s Immigration Law in Political will modify courses I have not recently taught ever, and I look forward to offering a course or and Historical Perspective.” I also delivered a pa- and create a new course, “1979.” While teaching two per year on our campus or elsewhere after per on a panel sponsored by the Southern Labor classes on the USSR and Central Asia, I found retirement. I would also very much like during Studies Association at the annual meeting of the myself going repeatedly to major events of 1979: retirement to help create an oral-history insti- Organization of American Historians. Although the Soviet census that showed a population ex- tute or center. I will miss the University of New Mexico, where I plosion among traditionally Muslim popula- have been an assistant professor of history since tions, the Iranian Revolution and the taking of Brian Bunk reports: I published two articles this I completed my Ph.D. at New York University in U.S. hostages, and the Soviet invasion of Afghan- year: “Harry Wills and the Image of the Black 2008, I was thrilled to accept a position at UMass istan. I am creating a seminar for the spring 2013 Boxer from Jack Johnson to Joe Louis,” in the Amherst. semester examining the histories and impacts of Journal of Sport History, and “The Rise and Fall I have devoted this fall, the final semester of these events. I have invited people who served of Professional Soccer in Holyoke, Massachu- my NEH leave, to completing my book manu- in the military, the U.S. Foreign Service, and in setts, U.S.A.,” in Sport in History. I was awarded script Americans in the U.S. South and Mexico: other pertinent roles to speak to the class. It is a Team-Based Learning Fellowship to transform A Transnational History of Race, Slavery, and truly an exciting project for me and I hope to “History 110: World History Before 1500” into a Freedom, 1810–1925. I am looking forward to have both a great class and perhaps some public team-based course. I also received a Residential moving back to my home state of Massachusetts events as a result. First-Year Experience Student-Choice Award for and settling in at UMass Amherst. In the spring I making outstanding contributions to the first- will teach “The Civil War Era” and a new upper- Joyce Berkman reports: Greetings from Ham- year experience of UMass Amherst students. division course, “American Reconstruction and burg, Germany. I’m spending part of my sabbati- Reunion, 1863–1898.” cal in this very green and beautiful city with its After a yearlong sabbatical, Five College Asso- distinctive historical past and exciting present. ciate Professor Richard T. Chu has returned to Daniel Gordon was on sabbatical in fall 2011. In a few days I head to Berlin, where I will give the department to teach his signature courses, He completed three articles: one on anti-colonial two talks, at the Free University (in the former “Empire, Race, and the Philippines” and “Asian/ thought in the French Enlightenment, to be pub- West Berlin) and at Humboldt University (in the Pacific/American History.” As part of his teach- lished in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth former East Berlin). These talks are outcomes of ing rotation, Chu taught at Mount Holyoke Col- Century; one on the professional advantages of my research on the Edith Stein refugee family lege during the fall and Amherst College during humanistic education, for the journal Liberal in the U.S. and on reproductive-rights pioneer the spring. He also offered a fall 2011 freshman Education; and one on the Muslim veil contro- Margaret Sanger’s German connections. In mid- seminar course and a spring 2012 honors semi- versy, to appear in Economy and Society. In May June I speak at the University of Bremen. Over nar. He continues to actively publish scholarly 2012, he participated in a small invitational con- the past decade my ties to Hamburg and Berlin articles: “Strong(er) Women and Effete Men: Ne- ference in Hong Kong on the sociologist Robert have grown stronger than I ever anticipated. gotiating ‘Chinese’ Identities at a Time of Trans- Nisbet. Gordon states that the relationship of This past fall’s graduate and undergraduate nationalism” was in the fall 2011 issue of Posi- sociology and history is gradually becoming a students were top-notch. I was assisted in my tions, and “An Overview of Binondo’s History,” central focus of his research and teaching. This course on the history of women in the U.S. to co-written with Dr. Teresita Ang See, will appear spring he served as associate dean in Common- 1890 by Kate Freedman, my gifted teaching as- in the next issue of Journal of History, the official wealth Honors College and taught “Ideas that sistant, who honed my and my students’ abili- publication of the Philippine National Historical Changed History,” a new Gen Ed history course ties in tapping Internet sources. One of the past Society. Anvil Publishing, the best-known pub- that satisfies the recently implemented Inte- year’s pleasures has been the news of my doc- lisher in the Philippines, is printing the softback grative Experience requirement. In June 2012, toral students’ landing tenure-track positions, version of Chu’s first book,Chinese and Chinese Gordon was one of two keynote speakers at the and of one who recently received her campus’s Mestizos of Manila: Family, Identity, and Culture History of Sociology conference given in Dublin distinguished teacher award. 1860s–1930s. Chu continues to serve in many by a branch of the International Sociological As- I continue to be actively engaged with guiding committees, including the Chancellor’s Advisory sociation. From 2008 to 2011, he served as direc- oral-history projects. The Valley Women’s His- Committee on Diversity Issues, and he and Joye tor of BDIC, UMass Amherst’s individualized- tory Collaborative has begun to collect stories Bowman helped organize a diversity workshop major program. and documents from the founders of Domestic for the History Department. Violence Shelters in the Pioneer Valley. We are Professor José Angel Hernández spent much also training officers and staff of the Women’s Sarah Cornell reports: Last January, I began my of the year finalizing the publication of his new Fund for Western Massachusetts in oral history National Endowment for the Humanities fellow- book, Mexican American Colonization During

Past, Present & Future | Fall 2012 13 Newly Hired Faculty the Nineteenth Century: A History of the U.S.- Julio Capó’s research focuses on sexuality, gender, ethnicity, Mexico Borderlands. It reinterprets nineteenth- and immigration in the Latino community. He is currently century history by examining Mexico’s struggle revising his Ph.D. dissertation on the history of queer Miami to secure its northern border with repatriates from 1940 to 2000; he completed it at Florida International from the U.S. after the Mexican-American War. University and it received the Urban History Association’s Early reviews have been both positive and inter- 2012 Best Dissertation Prize in Urban History. His 2010 article disciplinary: Professor John Chavez of Southern “Queering Mariel” received two prizes, including the Carl- Methodist University calls the book “a signifi- ton C. Qualey Memorial Article Award from the Immigration cant contribution to borderlands, Chicano, and and Ethnic History Society. In 2011, Capó was a postdoctoral Mexican history, especially because Hernández associate at Yale University’s Ethnicity, Race, and Migration takes a distinctly transnational approach in ex- Program and American Studies Program. His is a joint appointment with Com- amining ‘Mexican American’ migration ‘south’ monwealth Honors College. to northern Mexico, rather than ‘Mexican’ mi- gration ‘north’ to the southwestern U.S. […] In Johan Mathew specializes in the history of the Indian the final analysis, Hernández, in revealing the Ocean, with a focus on illicit trade and commercial regula- surprising impact of ethnic Mexican repatriates tion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His article on their nineteenth-century ‘homeland’ south of “Trafficking Labor: Abolition and the Exchange of Labor the 1848 border, develops a brilliantly original across the Arabian Sea” appeared in the journal Slavery approach worthy of imitation.” (For more re- and Abolition in the spring of 2012. Mathew is working on views, see page 17.) a book—tentatively titled Margins of the Market: Traffick- ing and the Framing of Free Trade in the Arabian Sea— Jennifer Heuer reports: I spent the 2011–12 based on his Ph.D. dissertation. It explores the trafficking of academic year on sabbatical in France, enjoy- people, weapons, and currency and how illicit trade and ing working in the archives and sampling vari- commercial regulation framed colonial capitalism. Mathew has received awards ous culinary delights. I have been researching and fellowships from the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and writing a book with the working title The and other prestigious sources. His is a joint hire with the Department of Economics. Soldier’s Reward: Love and War in the Age of Napoleon. Research for it has taken me from Priyanka Srivastava recently completed her disserta- the military archives (housed in the ruins of a tion, “Creating a Healthy and ‘Decent’ Industrial Labor fourteenth-century castle) to the ultramodern Force: Health, Sanitation, and Welfare in Colonial Bombay, National Library, and from the quiet local col- 1896–1950,” at the University of Cincinnati. She examines lections of southwestern France to the National working-class women in Bombay, middle-class philanthro- Archives in the center of Paris. I have also given py, and state intervention (or the lack thereof) to better the lectures at the universities of Amsterdam (on the conditions of female factory workers. Srivastava has served history of slavery and Enlightenment) and Lyon as a research associate at the Center for Women and Devel- (on mothers and war propaganda), and at the opment Studies in New Delhi. While there she worked on a Columbia Global Center in Paris. range of projects: one on Varanasi silk weavers, another on the Mallahs (a river-faring fishing caste), and yet another on the cigarette-rolling Barry Levy has started a new project on the fate industry as it affects women and child labor. Her attention to women and children of the New England town in the Early Republic, will add to the History Department’s strength in women’s history and the history of a continuation of his work in Town Born: The Po- childhood and youth. Hers is a joint hire with the Economics Department. litical Economy of New England from Its Found- ing to the Revolution (2009). During the year, he Sarah Cornell will join us in January 2013. She is currently on an NEH grant finish- had an opportunity to revisit his first project on ing her book, Americans in the U.S. South and Mexico: A Transnational History of Quakers, writing by invitation a summary of Race, Slavery, and Freedom, 1810–1925. By illuminating black and white South- U.S. Quaker history (“The Origins and Legacy erners’ visions of themselves as members of a transnational community, she shows of the Pennsylvania Quakers”) for History Now, that Southern concepts of race and labor did not always fall into neat categories the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s online magazine of “black” and “white,” “slavery” and “freedom.” Her article “Citizens of Nowhere: for history educators and others. For his schol- Fugitive Slaves and African Americans in Mexico, 1833–1857” is forthcoming in arly work, particularly that on New England, the Journal of American History. Cornell received research support for her project Levy was elected a fellow of the Massachusetts from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Society for Historians of Historical Society on May 16, 2012. American Foreign Relations, and the American Historical Association, among other agencies. She comes to us from the University of New Mexico. Laura Lovett was a visiting fellow at Dartmouth College’s Leslie Center for the Humanities dur- ing 2011–12. In addition to presenting her re-

14 Fall 2012 | Past, Present & Future continue as co-editors of the Jour- Professor Ogilvie is a member of an Interna- nal of the History of Childhood and tional Network research group that received a Yo ut h , which is completing its fifth three-year grant from the Leverhulme Trust for a year of publication in 2012. project on the contributions of Francis Willugh- by (1635–1672) to the study of zoology. When Marla Miller reports: My year can not in the libraries and archives, he has been ex- largely be tracked in the Public His- ploring the French countryside by bicycle with tory and Graduate Program news Jennifer Heuer. In late June they headed back elsewhere in these pages, but one to Trinity College for the 2012 Oxford Summer off-campus high point came with Seminar. the April release of the multiyear study Imperiled Promise: The State Heidi Scott reports: In May 2012 I took up a two- of History in the National Park Ser- month Maury Bromsen Fellowship at the John vice, which I coauthored with a team Carter Brown Library in Providence to gather of scholars nationwide. It identifies materials for my project “The Subterranean in what’s going well in what is often Spanish America: Mining, Geographical Imagi- called the “nation’s largest outdoor nations, and the Creation of Colonial Space.” classroom,” as well as where NPS The end-product will be a book examining the history practice falls short of its full imaginative construction of the subterranean potential. Two of our grad students, in the Andean regions between the sixteenth Laura Miller and Bill Allen, con- and early nineteenth centuries. The JCBL’s col- Alan Alda signs a copy of Free to Be … You and Me tributed to the report as research- lection of rare books and manuscripts contains for Laura Lovett. ers, and it was a delight to work a substantial body of materials on mining and with them on minerals in colonial and early inde- this important pendence-era Peru and Bolivia. My search in Uppsala and Linköpping, Sweden, project. With that work con- research focused two principal areas: Lovett co-edited with Lori Rotskoff a collection cluded, I am pleased to retreat the role of ideas about mining and critically examining the creation and impact of to the eighteenth century and the subterranean in the eighteenth- the children’s classic Free to Be … You and Me. return to my two book proj- century debate about American na- Published in November 2012, When We Were ects on women and work in ture, and the moral geographies of Free to Be: Looking Back at a Children’s Clas- the Early Republic. mining that emerge in British travel sic and the Difference It Made includes essays accounts of the Andes in the early de- by 32 contributors—including Marlo Thomas, Brian Ogilvie, after wrapping cades of the nineteenth century. Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Gloria Steinem, and Alan up the 2011 Oxford Summer In mid-June I presented a lunch- Alda—who explore the creation, popular recep- Seminar at Trinity College time paper on my preliminary re- tion, and enduring legacy of Free to Be and the and taking a short family search findings that focused on the record album and television special it inspired. vacation on the island of Guernsey, started his nineteenth-century travel narratives. My resi- Free to Be was also featured in “Reimag- sabbatical year September 1 in Paris, where he dence coincided with the JCB Fellows’ 50th con- ing the Child and Place of Child Studies in the is working on a book on insects in art, science, ference, a highly enjoyable three-day event that Academy,” a May 1 conference at Dartmouth and religion in early modern Europe. He gave allowed me to establish new academic contacts College sponsored by the Leslie Center for the three papers in the fall on different aspects of the and catch up with some old friends. At the con- Humanities and co-organized by Lovett, Les- project: two in Paris and one at the conference ference I participated in “There’s a Map for That: lie Center Director Colleen Boggs, and Anabel retreat of Leuenberg, outside Basel, Switzerland. A Cartographic Conversation,” a roundtable or- Martin, chair of the Women’s and Gender Stud- He took a brief trip back to the U.S. to enjoy the ganized by historian Jordana Dym of Skidmore ies Program. Afternoon sessions took the 40th holidays and take part in a session at the AHA College, and presented a paper on mapping and anniversary of the book’s publication as an oc- meeting in Chicago before returning to Europe missionary frontiers in late-colonial Bolivia. casion to historicize second-wave feminism’s to begin a six-month fellowship at the Institut During my stay in Providence I contributed to “invention” of gender-neutral child rearing and d’Études Avancées in Paris. This spring he de- Cartographic Conversation, an online collection to understand that moment from the perspec- livered five talks, two in London (at the Linnean of essays. My essay, which examines an early- tives of contemporary academic research and Society and the Royal Society), two in Paris, and eighteenth-century map of South America by child advocacy. Conference participants in- one in Münster, Germany. He also organized cartographer Herman Moll, may be viewed cluded Lovett, Lori Rotskoff, Tayloe White, and a daylong workshop on insects in social and alongside the other contributions on the JCBL Dorothy Pitman Hughes. Laura Briggs, chair of cultural history. He has been working on sev- website. In addition to spending research time WGSS at UMass Amherst, and Karen Sanchez- eral journal articles and book chapters and has in the library, I visited a Rhode Island vineyard Eppler from Amherst College presented during signed a contract to write a book on butterflies with some fellow JCBL fellows, experienced my morning sessions. Lovett and Sanchez-Eppler for Reaktion Books. first clambake, and further indulged my love of

Past, Present & Future | Fall 2012 15 seafood in one of Providence’s many Portuguese I completed work on a number of articles this Having overcome my long resistance, I now restaurants. year, including a study of Brazil during the Great use the Internet avidly in research. European Depression to be published by Duke University websites can be dazzling, especially those on Anna Taylor reports: I finished revising my Press in a collection on the Americas during the architecture: one, www.szecesszio.com, is an book on medieval verse saints’ lives, which will 1930s. I also completed an article reassessing Italian’s offbeat, English-language exploration be published by Cambridge University Press in the impact and historical legacy of Getúlio Var- of Hungary’s art nouveau. Unclassifiable Cen- 2013. In May and June 2012, I made a research gas, Brazil’s longest-ruling and most significant tral Europeans like Milan Kundera or Roberto trip to France to begin work on my next proj- twentieth-century leader. The Journal of Latin Calasso, who used to write essays, now write ect, tentatively titled “A Cultural History of the American Studies requested this piece as part of websites, the best of which are both quirky and its series of major reevaluations of comprehensive. key aspects of Latin American his- My favorite quote from the “Year of Living tor y. with Klimt” comes from Sándor Márai’s novel I wrote and presented a paper Embers (1942): “Vienna [is] the tuning fork for comparing metanarratives about the entire world. Saying the word ‘Vienna’ [is] like land abundance and labor short- striking a tuning fork and then listening to find ages in the hemisphere, focusing out what it call[s] forth…. It [is] how I test peo- on Brazil, the U.S., and Canada. I ple.” As Márai might ask, What’s your tuning fork? was pleased to have been invited to present an initial version of this Bruce Laurie continues to work on his book Reb- talk at York University in Toronto. els in Paradise: Sketches of Northampton Aboli- I also presented a piece on the his- tionists and to lecture for teaching-improvement torical origins and context of the programs under various rubrics. He is one of 25 present political situation in Brazil speakers joining the Organization of American at the Graduate Center at CUNY. I Historians’ Distinguished Lectureship Program A student-made book from Anna Taylor’s class. will spend some of my upcoming this year. OAH lecturers serve three-year renew- sabbatical preparing those talks for able terms during which they speak to diverse publication as articles. audiences across the country and are hosted by Imaginary Book.” I had another enjoyable year My main work in 2012–13 will focus on The college campuses, conferences, historical societ- teaching at UMass Amherst. For my 100-level Global Twenties: Trade, Work, and Society in the ies, libraries, museums, and teacher workshops. “Western Thought to 1600,” I implemented a Western Hemisphere in the 1920s, my book deal- new experiential-learning project in which I as- ing with the entire hemisphere during that de- Gerry McFarland reports: This was a year of sembled students into scriptoria to write, illus- cade. I hope to have a significant portion of it more of the same—not that I found it boring. trate, and bind manuscript books. The idea was done by the time I write a report for next year’s Well, perhaps it was a bit boring, when I happen to impart a sense of the amount of time, effort, newsletter. to think of it, waiting around for the chapter that and resources that went into creating a book be- I wrote for a volume on U.S. recessions and de- fore the advent of the printing press. I was very pressions to come into print. But I enjoyed giving impressed with the thought and effort that stu- public lectures to several civic-initiative groups dents put into the project. Emeriti Faculty organized during the summer by the Donahue Institute at UMass Amherst. All my colleagues, Jo el Wolfe reports: I had another busy year Will Johnston reports: Last year turned into both those who’ve retired and those who haven’t teaching large classes and working on a variety my “Year of Living with Klimt.” The Vienna yet done so, will understand what I mean when I of research projects. I had the opportunity to 1900 exhibition at the National Gallery of Vic- say that giving talks to bright, highly motivated chair another search in the department, with a toria in Melbourne was the largest show on the students without having to grade examinations committee that included José Angel Hernández period since the early 1990s. I gave papers at or papers is utopia for teachers. My novel, The and Heidi Scott; we were able to hire a terrific two symposia, did a 40-minute radio interview, Brujo’s Way, has been accepted for publication young scholar, Julio Capó, for our transnational and showed friends through the exhibition’s six in 2013 by Sunstone Press of Santa Fe, N.M. Spanish-speaking history position. I was also rooms. At one symposium I introduced the con- It tells the story of the sixth life of Don Carlos fortunate in chairing the department’s Honor cept of “Klimtifying” to denote the artist’s habit Buenaventura, an eighteenth-century brujo who Program and getting to work with some of our of inserting into his works motifs from other practiced a benign form of sorcery based on his best undergraduates. artists, particularly his friend Josef Hoffmann. motto, “Do no harm.” Look for further details in As I do every semester, I offered the survey I expanded this paper for the catalog of one of next year’s newsletter. of modern Latin America with very big enroll- the five Klimt shows being held in Vienna during ments. I again taught my “History of Brazil” and 2012. The Viennese will, I hope, soon start talk- Robert Potash, who retired in 1986 as Haring “History of Baseball.” The former is part of a ing about “Klimtifying.” (To see how fun Klimt Professor of Latin American History, continues campuswide initiative to increase contact with can be, consider giving the children in your life to follow the Argentine scene, in part through Brazil and Brazilian scholars. Berenice Capatti’s book Klimt and His Cat.) close reading of the Internet editions of the Bue-

16 Fall 2012 | Past, Present & Future nos Aires media and in part through personal gia, will appear next year in the journal Histori- the 13th Amendment through Congress and contact with Argentine visitors to his Applewood cal Reflections. ratified by the states, even though all but four of retirement-community home. This past June he the slave states had left the Union. Its tentative and his wife were hosts to Dr. Norma González, Leo Richards has just finished a book-length title is A King’s Cure: The Thirteenth Amendment the executive director of the Argentine Fulbright manuscript on the North’s difficulty in getting and the End of Slavery. Program and an alumna of our department, and her husband. They also met with 24 young Ar- gentine professionals who had been awarded Fulbright grants to attend the Civic Initiative New On the Faculty Bookshelf Program of UMass Amherst’s Donahue Institute. Potash continues to publish occasional pieces in Stephen Platt: Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the Argentine press, the most recent about a re- the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War (Alfred tired civilian political leader, Arturo Mor Roig, A. Knopf, February 2012). Henry Kissinger writes, “Stephen who was assassinated in 1974 by young mem- Platt brings to vivid life a pivotal chapter in China’s history bers of a guerrilla organization. that has been all but forgotten: the Taiping Rebellion in the mid-nineteenth century, which cost one of the greatest losses Jane Rausch continues her research on Colom- of life of any war in history.” Gerard Martinez, in the San bian history. Her essay “Through Her Eyes: In- Antonio Express-News, says, “Structurally, Stephen Platt’s sight into Colombian History, 1920–1950, from Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom is a thriller …. We read the Travel Accounts of Three North American in starred reviews things like ‘the book brings history to life.’ Women” was published in the SECOLAS Annals We read these words so often that we have forgotten what (March 2012). Her paper “David Bushnell and they mean, but this book reminds us. It makes history immediate and personal, and the Development of Colombian Historiography speaks to us on a sensory, moral, intellectual, and emotional level. They should in the Twentieth Century: A Latin American teach this one in schools.” Success Story?” was presented at the 50th an- nual meeting of the South Eastern Conference José Angel Hernández: Mexican American Colonization on Latin American Studies at the University of during the Nineteenth Century: A History of the U.S.-Mexico Florida Gainesville on March 20, 2012. Rausch’s Borderlands (Cambridge University Press, May 2012). An- manuscript From Frontier to Region: Territo- thropologist Renato Rosaldo of New York University calls the rial Rule in Colombia and the Transformation of book “illuminating” and says it “transforms our understand- the Llanos Orientales, 1946 to 2000 is under re- ing of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the latter half of the view for possible publication by the University nineteenth century. [Hernández] explores the extensive repa- Press of Florida. On April 17 she gave a lecture, triation of Mexican Americans in the colonization of north- “‘Take Pride in What You Have Done, Have Faith ern Mexico. These policies, he argues, had more to do with in What You Can Accomplish; or How a High defending settlements against the threats of Anglo American invasion and Apache School Spanish Teacher Became a Historian of raiding than the often-cited ideological notions of racial ‘whitening’ or sentimen- the Llanos Orientales of Colombia,” as part of tal nationalism. His revealing bi-national archival work opens crucial questions the Distinguished Careers in Latin American, that many scholars considered closed.” Sociologist Douglas Massey of Princeton Caribbean, and Latino Studies Series sponsored University, founder of the Mexican Migration Project, adds his own praise: “With by the UMass Center for Latin American, Carib- one out of ten Mexicans now living in the U.S., José Hernández’s brilliant historical bean, and Latino Studies. analysis of Mexico’s relationship to its diaspora is a timely and important contribu- tion to knowledge about our often misunderstood southern neighbor. More than Charles Rearick again spent the fall and spring any other author, he explains how and why Mexico’s northern frontier became in Paris, always finding much to do and discover transformed into an entity known simply as ‘the border.’” there, even after decades of exploration. Fol- lowing the spring 2011release of his book Paris Professor Emeritus Ronald Story: Jonathan Edwards and the Dreams, Paris Memories: The City and Its Mys- Gospel of Love (University of Massachusetts Press, Septem- tique (Stanford University Press), he gave some ber 2012). Story reveals a profoundly social minister who talks and made his debut in the blogosphere preached a gospel of charity and community bound by love. with an article on Woody Allen’s Midnight in Kenneth P. Minkema says the book shows “how postmodern Paris and on recent books on the city (www. liberal Christians can ‘claim’ and use Edwards as well as berfrois.com/2011/08/dreams-of-every-paris/), their evangelical co-religionists in a constructive manner. illustrated with his own photos. He has also re- That is quite an achievement.” viewed books on French fascism, the Place de la Bastille, and French identity. “The Charms of Paris … Yesterday,” his article on Parisian nostal-

Past, Present & Future | Fall 2012 17 Amanda L. Goodheart achieved Ph.D. candi- International Congress on Medieval Studies in Student & Alumni News dacy after passing her doctoral examinations Kalamazoo, Mich. in January 2012, and presented a portion of her dissertation research at the ACA/PCA An- Michella Marino reports: I have been offered nual Meeting in Boston in April. Amanda also and accepted a tenure-track position in Ameri- Maria B. Abunnasr (ABD) reports: In the throes received the department’s 2012 Travel Grant to can history at Hastings College in Hastings, Neb. of continued dissertation research and writing a help supplement her summer research on Nan- I will join their faculty in August as an assistant history of Ras Beirut as a landscape of memory, I tucket for her dissertation on changing concep- professor of history. I plan to finish and defend found respite in two fruitful conferences this year tions of gender in nineteenth-century New Eng- my dissertation in the 2012–13 school year. in Beirut, Lebanon. At “Shifting Borders,” the land whaling communities. On a more personal fourth international conference of the Center for note, Amanda is delighted to report that she is Amanda Molina ’12MA reports: I graduated in American Studies and Research at the American engaged to her college sweetheart, Michael, and May with my master’s degree and also complet- University of Beirut, held in January, I presented that the two of them recently purchased their ed the Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies “The Anglo-American Lives of Ras Beirut.” The home in Westfield. A July 2014 wedding is through the Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies April 2012 conference hosted by Germany’s Ori- planned in Newport, R.I., home of their alma Department. I will continue my studies at the ent Institute Beirut (OIB) was a small but intense mater, Salve Regina University. doctoral level in history at Binghamton Univer- international workshop, “Education in Lebanon sity in the fall, fully funded. During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Matt Gwilliam ’09 reports: After graduating A Catalyst for Multiple Modernities?” My paper, from UMass Amherst the first time, I enrolled in Heather Murray ’06PhD won the OAH Law- “Impressions of New England on the Ras Beirut the “180 Days in Springfield” M.Ed. program. It rence Levine Book Prize for Not in This Fam- Landscape,” was part of a vibrant panel, “Expe- was demanding and rewarding, and I left it with ily: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar riencing Education: Material Culture, Archi- much more than just a degree. I then joined up North America. The book began as a dissertation tecture, and the City.” Both papers will be pub- with my former roommate Brian Schmitt ’08 in completed with Kathy Peiss, Laura Lovett, Dan lished, the first in the peer-reviewed conference Cofradia, Honduras, where I served as the ELA Horowitz, and Lisa Henderson. proceedings and the second in an OIB-edited teacher at a bilingual school for the nonprofit volume. The feedback from both conferences BECA. It was by far the most challenging year I Jeffrey Robinson received UMass Amherst’s renewed my determination to complete my dis- have ever had on any number of levels, but tre- 2011–12 Glenn E. Higgins Fellowship, awarded sertation by next year, inshallah! mendously worthwhile. After returning from to students who promote civic engagement and Honduras in June, I was hired by Essex Agricul- community-building. He presented a paper, Henry Allen Jr. ’10MA has been hired as an tural and Technical High School in Hathorne, “Boston’s Ladies: Gender, Class, and Cultural assistant professor at Bunker Hill Community Mass. I’m halfway through my first year and have Heritage in Progressive-Age Massachusetts,” at College, where he has worked as an adjunct pro- loved every moment of it. I cannot imagine what UMass Boston’s Value of Historical Work Con- fessor for a year and a half. my life today would look like without the access ference. Jeffrey has also entered the graduate- to education, experiences, and people I had at certificate program in Advanced Feminist Stud- Dan Chard reports: My research article “Ral- UMass. ies in the Department of Women, Gender, and lying for Repression: Police Terror, ‘Law-and- Sexuality. This past year he served on the Gradu- Order’ Politics, and the Decline of Maine’s Pris- In 2012, Melanie Kourbage delivered a paper, ate Student Union’s Collective Bargaining Com- oners’ Rights Movement” was published in the “Barbarous Monsters and Monstrous Barbar- mittee. He also took third place in the Amherst June 2012 issue of The Sixties: A Journal of His- ians: The Animalization of the Other in Caro- Creative Writing Contest with his sonnet “Love, tory, Politics, and Culture. The editors tell me I lingian Chronicles and Saints’ Lives,” at the 47th Mab el .” am only the second graduate student to publish with this journal.

Thomas F. Curran ’83 contributed an essay, “A ‘Rebel to [His] Govt. and to His Parents’: The Emancipation of Tommy Cave,” to Children and Youth During the Civil War Era (New York Uni- versity Press, 2012), edited by James Marten. He also published “‘Making War on Women’ and Women Making War: Confederate Women Im- prisoned in St. Louis During the Civil War” in the Spring/Summer 2011 issue of The Conflu- ence, a special issue on Missouri and the Civil The M.A. Class War. of 2012.

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