Impressive Showing in SSHRC Competition

Summer/Fall 2011 Impressive Showing in SSHRC Competition

Continuing Dalhousie History’s tradi- War. The project looks at national- tion of research excellence, four faculty ist ideologies through the lens of In this issue... members were awarded Standard Grants intellectual networks connecting in the Social Sciences and Humanities North Africa, the Middle East and Impressive showing in Research Council’s October 2010 com- East Africa. It relies on archival SSHRC Competition petition, an unusually strong showing material from France, England and at a time when competition for research Turkey and on newspapers and funding grows increasing stiff. private documents from Algeria, Faculty Updates Tunisia, Egypt, and Zanzibar. If the Congratulations to Dr. Ben Cowan for security situation in Libya im- Faculty Publications his project “Novas direitas: morality, proves in the next couple of years, countersub- version, and A Year at Princeton’s Christian Institute for Advanced conservatism Study in Brazilian and Atlantic Department to Host Pres- perspective, 1942-1985;” tigious OIEAHC to Dr. Amal Conference 2014 Ghazal for “The sacred Our First Banting nation: Salafi Postdoctoral Fellow Islam and nationalism in the Arab MacKay Lecture world, 1919- Series 1967;” to Dr. Jack Crowley International for “Visual- izing Europe’s Workshop on Married imperial Women and the Law spaces over- seas, c. 1492- Lawrence D. Stokes 1756;” and Dr. Amal Ghazal is one of four History Department recipients of a SSHRC grant in Seminar Series to Dr. Krista 2010-11. Here she is pictured with Bi Kidude, the queen of Zanzibari tarab. (see Kesselring Travel Notes) 2011-12 for “Early modern murder: a history of homicide I would like to do some research Our Undergraduates in England, c. 1500-1700.” also in the Western Mountains, an area that has unfortunately wit- Our Graduate Dr. Ghazal says of her project: nessed fierce battles between the locals and the Qadhdhafi troops. Students [It] aims to transform the history of nationalism in the Arab Dalhousie History’s research is atten- Alumni Matters world by integrating into it a tive to place and widely interconnected, religious version of nationalism engaged with the past and pertinent; that emerged after the First World SSHRC recognizes and supports this.

Faculty Updates

During the past year, Dr. Chris Bell trips to the American Society for En- One of its loose threads was the expedi- published two articles: “Sir John Fisher’s vironmental History’s Annual Confer- tion Joseph Banks led to Iceland with the Naval Revolution Reconsidered: Win- ence in Phoenix, Arizona in April; to three artists he had intended to take on ston Churchill at the Admiralty, 1911- the Rachel Carson Centre in Munich in James Cook’s second voyage to the Pa- 14,” War in History 18: 3 (July 2011): August; and to Den Gamle By (The Old cific. Sure enough, during a three-week 333-56; and “Winston Churchill and the Town), Aarhus, Denmark. tour of Iceland in June 2011, Jack deter- Ten Year Rule,” Journal of Military His- mined the location of an unpublished tory, 74: 4 (October 2010): 523-56. He is four-volume collection of landscape currently putting the finishing touches and natural history drawings by Banks’ on his new book, Winston Churchill and artists. He’ll use it for one aspect his next British Sea Power, which will be pub- project: the representation of colonial lished next year by Oxford University peoples, a shift of interest from places to Press. faces. That is part of his broader project on the visual cultures of European imperialism, which SSHRC is funding with a Standard Research Grant.

Dr. Krista Kesselring spent much of Schloss Nymphenburg, Munich. the year working as the Assistant Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, when not teaching or supervising fun, gifted groups of undergraduate and graduate students. Invited to participate in a Folger Institute symposium on the history of political thought in Washington D.C., she also presented papers at the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association and at the 15th meeting of the legendary Berkshire Conference on the History Den Gamle By (The Old Town), Aarhus, Denmark. of Women, all of which were somewhat Yale University Press published Dr. Jack too enjoyable to count as ‘work’. She Crowley’s Imperial Landscapes: Britain’s helped Professors Tim Stretton and Chris at the Sonar Station of Canadian sub Global Visual Culture 1745-1820 in July. Philip Girard organize a SSHRC-funded

Among her many activities over the past year, Dr. Claire Campbell edited the collection A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011 (University of Calgary Press, 2011). This is the first volume in the Energy, Ecology and Environment series co-sponsored by the Network in Canadian History and Environment [NiCHE], and its release coincides with the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Dominion Parks Branch, the institutional predecessor of the Parks Canada agency. Claire’s travels included

Xeriscaping at Arizona State University. Dr. Jack Crowley in Iceland, on the trail of Enlightenment luminary Sir Joseph Banks and his artists.

Faculty Updates workshop on the Dalhousie/King’s cam- Dr. Denis Kozlov completed his year- eds. (Oxford University Press, 2011): pus on the history of married women long fellowship at the Institute for 375-398; and “Writing about the Thaw and the law, which saw a set of past Dal Advanced Study, where he focused on in Post-Soviet Russia,” Russian Studies students (Sara Butler, Marisha Caswell, his book about the reading audiences, in History, 49: 4 (Spring 2011): 3-17. An and Cathryn Spence) return to present historical consciousness, and mecha- edited volume, The Thaw: Soviet Society papers along with historians, lawyers, nisms of intellectual change in the Soviet and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s, and economists drawn from three conti- Union during the 1950s and 1960s (see is forthcoming from the University of nents. After having an article on Quaker box below.) His most recent publica- Toronto Press in 2012. He guest-edited missionaries accepted for publication, tions include “Athens and Apocalypse: two issues of the journal Russian Studies she has switched focus to begin work on Writing History in Soviet Russia,” in in History under the general title, The a new project on homicide, c. 1500-1700, Oxford History of Historical Writing, Thaw and After: Late Soviet Culture and that has received SSHRC funding. vol. 5, Axel Schneider and Daniel Woolf Society, and also presented three papers:

The Institute for Advanced Study in Sciences, and Social Science. Each and the Institute provides individual Princeton: A Member’s Note school has a few members of the core offices, computers, and stationery, as faculty—distinguished scholars who well as comfortable housing and access In 2010-11 Dr. Denis Kozlov became usually take these positions after having to a high-quality dining facility for the a member of the prestigious Institute served on the faculty of other universi- visiting faculty and their families. In for Advanced Study in Princeton, New ties for a number of years. But the main the School of Historical Studies, fellow- Jersey, one of the world’s leading centres population of the Institute consists of ships exist for faculty at different stages for theoretical research and intellectual visiting academics. Researchers come of academic career, from assistant to full inquiry. Many of the greatest minds of the from all over the world on a variety of professors, and in all fields of historical twentieth century—Albert Einstein, Clif- fellowships that the Institute offers in inquiry. ford Geertz, George Kennan, and Erwin conjunction with other funding agencies. Panofsky—preceded him there. He reports Depending on support, scholars arrive The year-long residence at the Institute on his remarkable experience at the IAS. for terms ranging from several months proved most productive and satisfy- ing. I did a lot of writing and completed several projects, book-length as well as smaller in scope. On a practical note, I found my stay there comfortable and conducive to work. Without exception, all the staff members were welcoming and highly accommodating, and the office facilities and equipment was top- notch. The Institute and the School of Historical Studies also held many talks and faculty seminars where discus- sions took place in a helpful, friendly atmosphere. And the best conversations happened at the “historians’ table,” as it is informally known, in the dining hall where members of the school gathered at lunchtime.

I am grateful to the departments of History and Russian Studies for allow- ing me to benefit from this wonderful academic opportunity. I am happy to be back and look forward to contributing to the Dalhousie community with my new This past year I was fortunate to be a to a year. My membership in particular experience. member of the School of Historical Stud- was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon ies at the Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship for Assistant Professors. in Princeton. Founded 80 years ago, the Institute has become a model widely The purpose of all the fellowships, and emulated by universities and research of the Institute as an academic setting, establishments in Western Europe and is to allow scholars the opportunity to North America. It includes four schools: concentrate entirely on research and Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural writing. The fellowships are residential,

Faculty Updates at the University of Saint Petersburg, found at http://www.poms.ac.uk/index. Slavery & Abolition 32: 2 (June 2001): Russia, at Princeton University, and at html. At a conference held in Glasgow in 247-68) and has just finished an essay on the University of Pennsylvania. late summer 2010 as the project wound Barbados and the settlement of South up, Dr. Neville spoke on the significance Carolina scheduled for publication in a Dr. Colin Mitchell spent 2010-11 on at Scots law of the notions of neighbours collection titled Crisis and Conflict in the sabbatical, during which he traveled and and neighbourhood. Phase two of the Early Carolinas. He has begun a larger researched in Turkey, Iran, and India. He project, newly funded by the AHRC, is project with colleagues at Johns Hopkins also used this time to begin work on his entitled The Breaking of Britain. It will and the University of Missouri on the next project on princely institutions in extend the study of Scottish medieval historical geography of slavery in the the eastern Islamic world (1000-1700.) charters well into the fourteenth century Danish West Indies involving GIS tech- and, once again, make available to the nology. He spent much of the past year general public a rich database of the flying and driving to give conference research group’s findings. The current papers or talks or explore archives in project will run until 2013 and will again places as diverse as San Juan, Charleston, wind up with a conference. Dr. Neville Montreal, Baltimore, Williamsburg and has joined the editorial board of the Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Toronto, Chi- Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies’ cago, Edinburgh, Barbados and Oxford, publications programme. She continues Mississippi. as the George Munro Professor in His- tory and Political Science. Below: Dr. Justin Roberts, immersed in his research at the Huntington Library in Los Angeles Dr. Norman Pereira published “Revisit- Mausoleum of Mongol ruler Oljeitu in Sultaniyeh, Below left: The Barbados archives where Dr. ing the Revisionists and their Critics,” Iran. 14th century Roberts pursued his research in a converted The Historian 72: 1 (2010): 23-37. He Leper Hospital, surrounded by green monkeys. In the fall of 2010, his book The Practice also published two book reviews and of Politics in Safavid Iran (I.B. Tauris, presented a paper to the Southern Slavic 2009) was awarded an Honourable Society meeting in Alexandria, Virginia. Mention by the Middle East Studies As- Dr. Pereira is presenting at the Stokes sociation for the Houshang Pourshariati Seminar October 7: “After the Collapse: 2010 Prize, which honours the best book Historiographical Trends in Russian His- on Iranian Studies. In March, 2011 he tory in North America since 1991.” published New Perspectives on Safavid Iran: Empire and Society (Routledge Ira- Dr. Justin Roberts continues to revise nian Studies Series #8). He has also put his manuscript Sunup to Sundown: together a number of panels for upcom- Plantation Slavery and the Enlighten- ing conferences: in Krakow (Septem- ment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807. ber 2011), Toronto (March 2012), and The work is being considered by readers Istanbul (August 2012). When not read- for Cambridge University Press. He ing about medieval Lahore and Herat published an article this year on Bar- (Afghanistan), Dr. Mitchell is ferrying badian plantation management during children to soccer practices, camping the American Revolution (“Uncertain and hanging out at the beach. Business: A Cast Study of Barbadian Plantation Management, 1770-93,” This past yearDr. Cynthia Neville was asked to join the International Advisory Council of the second phase of a very large project on medieval charters funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council. The first phase, called The Paradox of Medieval Scotland, which ran from 2006 to 2010, saw the creation of a database of some 6000 charters that survive from the period 1050 to 1286 in Scotland. The database will be of interest not only to working medievalists, but to anyone who has an interest in exploring Scotland’s medieval past: the project’s home base may be

Faculty Updates

Last winter Dr. David Sutherland gave and Guildford are, of course, Dalhousie a presentation to the Royal Nova Scotia alumni). Dr. Tillotson’s other academic Historical Society which was subse- activities include two conference papers, quently published as “Halifax’s Encoun- “The Postwar Politics of Public and Burgess ter with the North-West Uprising of Private, 1945-56, and their Legacies” 1885,” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia presented to the Canadian Association Research Award Historical Society 13 (2010): 63-79. This for Social Work Education, Fredericton, Dr. Christopher Bell is the winter he will make a presentation to 1 June 2011; and “Constitutionalism and latest recipient of the Faculty the Halifax History of Medicine Society the Creamery Cheque: Tax Legitimation of Arts and Social Sciences’ and the Royal Nova Scotia Historical and Resistance during the Crisis of the Burgess Research Award. Society on the theme of “Halifax and 1930s,” presented to the Canadian His- The Award is presented the diphtheria epidemic of 1890-91.” Dr. torical Association, Fredericton, 30 May annually to a member of the Shirley Tillotson, Dr. Peter Twohig and 2011. Dr. Tillotson was also awarded Faculty whose past research Dr. Sutherland have secured a contract the “Arts in Academics” award by the accomplishments and pro- from the Champlain Society to publish University of Waterloo, presented annu- posed research project merit a book-length collection of documents ally to a distinguished graduate of each support in the form of time re- dealing with the Halifax Relief Commis- department, in this Independent Studies. lease. The Department joins sion which was set up in the aftermath in congratulating Dr.Bell. More of the explosion of December 1917; information on his research research and writing for this project will be available at the will run through the next five years. Dr. Below: Dr. Tillotson’s view across the Department’s web page. Sutherland continues as Nova Scotia’s rooftops of Left Bank Paris to the Pantheon, representative on the Historic Sites and the secular temple of French intellectual Monuments Board of Canada. and cultural life.

In October 2010 Dr. Shirley Tillotson had the heavenly experience of partici- pating in a specialist conference in tax history (Les révoltes fiscales en Europe, aux États-Unis et dans les empires colo- niaux, fin du XVIIIe siècle-fin du XXe siècle: Colloque international coor- ganisé par l’EHESS, l’IHMC, le Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po et l’Institut uni- versitaire de France) in Paris. The title of her presentation was “Tax Resistance and the National Question in Canada, 1919 to 1926.” New in print from Dr. Til- lotson this year is “Relations of Extrac- tion: Taxation and Women’s Citizenship in the Maritimes, 1914-1955,” Acadiensis 39/; 1 (Winter/Spring 2010): 27-57. An abridged version of this article (with the same title) was reprinted in Making Up the State: Women in the Twentieth Century Maritimes, Suzanne Morton and Janet Guildford eds. (Fredericton: Acadi- ensis Press, 2010): 93-112 (both Morton

This Newsletter Needs a Name From all the wordsmiths over all the years we should be able to elicit something original. Please help us out. Please email suggestions to [email protected].

Sabbatical Notes

GREGORY HANLON

Professor Gregory Hanlon packed up research seminars in prestigious univer- situated in the early modern period. This and moved with his family to central sities including Oxford, the Sorbonne approach is very new among historians Paris for a year. Trained in France, he and Bologna. everywhere and oc- wished to strengthen long-standing casionally aroused bonds and to create new ones with a In addition to talking puzzlement among fresh generation of French and European about past research in students and col- historians. Dr. Hanlon holds one of the French and Italian history, leagues accustomed Dalhousie’s prestigious appointments as he was able to discuss to see culture as the University Research Professor. his more recent work sole wellspring of on behavioural history human action. Rather than undertake new archival which draws explicitly on projects, he spent this period giving con- models of human nature. ferences and invited lectures drawn from This is a post-cultural three decades of research to a wide va- approach he has applied Above: Dr. Gregory Hanlon riety of audiences, in 40 separate venues to sentiments of justice, at Bobbio, Emilia-Romagna, from Dundee and Glasgow in Scotland reproductive behaviour of Northern Italy to Bari in southern Italy, from members men and women, routine of a church congregation in a Protestant neo-natal infanticide, rural Right: The medieval school at temple (Montpellier) to the assembled co-operation and competi- Camerino, Italy, where Dr. Han- Law Faculty in a medieval Italian school tion, and most recently, lon addressed the assembled (Camerino), as well as to well-attended the ethology of combat, all Law faculty

COLIN MITCHELL

ies which have the best collections of Dr. Mitchell has been spending his mausoleum), Hamadan (among other Persian manuscripts in India. I spent 10 sabbatical travelling and undertaking things, it boasts the shrine of Ibn Sina, days working in this city, and also took research in Turkey, Iran, and India, and Avicenna in Latin), and Kermanshah an extended tour of 15th and 16th- reports on his experiences below. (outside the city is a famous bas-relief century sites in the surrounding Dec- from the 6th century B.C.E.). My easterly can (e.g. Berar, Golbarga, Bijapur.) The Part of my sabbatical (October, leg brought me to Gurgan and the near- remainder of my sabbatical was spent 2011-February 2012) was spent research- by site of Gunbad-e Kavus (a massive researching primary and secondary ing in the field. I spent a week at the Su- tower, remarkably preserved, from the literature regarding my new project on leymaniye Library in Istanbul, collecting 11th century.) I also visited Mashhad, the institution of princes in the eastern manuscripts dealing with epistolography home to the staggeringly large shrine Islamic world from 1000 to 1700. (they have a large collection of Per- complex sian manuscripts). I also spent 10 days of the 8th traveling to various relevant historical Imam, locations such as Konya (the shrine of where I Rumi), Bursa (the first Ottoman capital), worked and Amasya (an Ottoman princely cen- at the tre.) Arguably the best part of the trip Library of was a three-day train trip from Istanbul the Rezavi to Tehran via Lake Van. Shrine. While in Iran, I spent some time in Teh- ran working in the National Parliamen- In late tary Library and the Sipahsalar Library, January, I as well as meeting with colleagues and traveled to contacts in the field. I was fortunate Bombay, enough to attend a national conference and made on the 13th-century mystical philoso- my way pher, Baba Afzal, in Kashan (roughly to Hy- two hours south of Tehran.) Another derabad, highlight was an extended east-west trip home to to Sultaniyeh (site of a famous Mongol two librar- Shrine of the 13th-century philosopher Baba Afzal in Kashan, Iran

Travel Notes

In the spring and early summer of complete the sentence that started with Beirut, where leftists and progressives 2011 Dr. Amal Ghazal travelled “Lebanon would be better if I....” What hang around. in east Africa, France, Turkey, and you see in the picture (below) are some Lebanon. A few of her recollections of the responses. The responses, ranging For the record, the minty lemonade on the remarkable people she met and from the silly (Lebanon would be better served there in the summer is superb. if women were forbidden from driving) experiences she had are reproduced to the serious (if fanaticism and sectari- below. anism were eliminated from people`s hearts and minds, or if gay marriage was For more responses, visit legal) reveal much about the issues occu- http://www.lebanonbetter.com In May, I attended a conference in pying the political and social landscapes Zanzibar. This was my second trip to in Leba- the island. One of the highlights of this non. One trip was a visit to the famous Zanzibari particular singer Bi Kidude, the queen of Zanzibari answer was: tarab, a traditional Arabic music and “Lebanon singing genre. I did not know about her would be before my first visit in 2009. Back then, better if we I dined in a restaurant in Stone Town all smoked called “Kidude” that had her pictures weed and on the wall, along with a description of worshipped her career. A few days later, I spotted her Marx every near my hotel, chatting with some young Friday night men, looking very energetic. Before I at T-mar- left the island, I bought a couple of her bouta,” the CDs to introduce myself to her songs. A latter being few months before my second visit, my a famous daughter and I were watching a docu- and very mentary on Zanzibar and sure enough busy Cafe Bi Kidude was featured as an icon of the and Pub in island and its cultural ambassador to the world, Thoughtful—and provocative—graffiti in Jean d’Arc Street, Beirut many parts of which— including Canada—she visited performing Zan- zibari tarab. During my last trip, a friend arranged for a visit to Bi Kidude whose exact age remains a mystery though we know she was performing in the 1920s already! Her voice is still as clear and as strong as ever and she is always delighted to spend the time with visitors singing.

Between June and July, I researched in France, Tur- key and Lebanon. Walk- ing in Jean d’Arc Street in the vibrant and busy Hamra area of Beirut, I spotted a form of graffiti that I found interesting. Citizens were asked to

Faculty Publications

Dalhousie History faculty are working scholars whose academic pursuits are embodied in a broad range of schol- arly monographs, essay collections, peer-reviewed articles, and conference papers. This selection of recent books by Department members gives a small glimpse of the diversity of this work.

Claire Campbell, ed. A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011 (University of Calgary Press, 2011).

Jack Crowley Imperial Landscapes: Britain’s Global Visual Culture, 1745-1820 (Yale University Press, 2011)

Colin Mitchell The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Power, Religion and Rhetoric (Tauris, 2010).

Awarded an Honourable Mention by the Middle East Studies Association for the Houshang Pourshariati - 2010 Prize. Amal Ghazal, Islamic Reform and Arab Nationalism: Expanding the Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (Routledge, 2010). Cynthia Neville Land, Law and People in Medieval Scotland (Edinburgh University Press, 2010)

For more information, visit: www.dal.ca/history

Colin Mitchell, ed. New Perspectives on Safavid Iran: Empire and Society Jerry Banniser & Liam Riordan, eds. The (Routledge, 2011). Loyal Atlantic: Remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary Era (University of Toronto Press, 2011)

Dalhousie History to host Banting Postdoctoral Fellow prestigious conference We are proud to announce that Dr. Sebastien Rossignol has chosen Dr. Cyn- thia Neville and the Dalhousie Univer- sity History Department as mentor and host institution for his Banting Postdoc- toral Fellowship.

Named in honour of Sir Frederick Ban- Culture, Identity and Representation of ting—Canadian physician, researcher, Power in the Charters of the Silesian and and Nobel laureate credited with the Pomeranian Dukes (ca. 1200-ca. 1330)” discovery of insulin—the fellowship is continues this innovative approach to a prestigious new award established by the study of the Middle Ages. the Canadian government designed to attract and retain in Canada the best researchers in the world. Rossignol earned his Doctorate in Medieval History at Georg-August Universität Göttingen (doctor designatus) and Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3 (docteur en In 2014, the Dalhousie History Depart- histoire). His dissertation, “Civitas. ment will host the Omohundro Institute Société et habitat en Europe centrale of Early American History and Culture’s (VIIIe – XIIe siècle)” [Civitas. Society annual Institute Conference, in conjunc- and Settlements in Central Europe, 8th- tion with Saint Mary’s University and the 12th Centuries], is an interdisciplinary Gorsebrook Institute. examination of the perceptions of medieval authors who described early urban Founded in 1943 by the College of settlements against the background of William and Mary and The Colonial Latin cultural traditions and of social Congratulations to Dr. Rossignol, Dr. Williamsburg Foundation, the Institute transformations. His postdoctoral proj- Neville, and to the department for this is among the most venerable historical ect “Shaping and Adapting Traditions. remarkable honour. associations in the western hemisphere. It actively supports historical scholarship and intellectual exchange relating to the early history of the Americas through its research and publication programs, and through the influential journal The Wil- SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow liam and Mary Quarterly.

Past Institute Conferences have been hosted by the Huntington Library, the Dr. Cara Spittal has earned a SSHRC University of Pennsylvania, Tulane Uni- Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2011-2012 versity, and Université Laval, and it will and will work under the mentorship be an honour for Dalhousie University of Dr. Shirley Tillotson on a study of and the broader Halifax historical com- right-wing women in Canada, entitled munity to join these ranks. “Conservative Womanhood: Feminism and Conservatism in English Canada The program committee for 2014 is from Confederation through to the Rise comprised of Jerry Bannister, Elizabeth of the New Right.” Mancke, John Reid, Paddy Riley, Justin Roberts, and Peter Twohig. Cara completed her M.Phil in Modern European History at the University of The Newsletter will continue to pro- Oxford in 2004 and her undergraduate vide updates on the Conference as they work at Queen’s University in 2001. She become available. Special thanks to our earned her doctorate at the University Cara’s general field of study is modern new colleague Justin Roberts for taking of Toronto where she completed her Canada and her thematic fields of inter- the initiative in bringing this honour to dissertation, “1958: ‘The Diefenbaker est include cultural, political and intel- the Department and the University. Moment’”, under the supervision of Dr. lectual history, as well as women and Robert Bothwell. gender studies.

MacKay Lecture Series Prize from the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association; and Wel- coming the Undesirables: Brazil and the The MacKay Lectures are a series of four reviewed 1688:The First Modern Revolu- Jewish Question (University of California presentations by internationally renowned tion. He has edited two collections of Press, 1994), which won the Best Book scholars in the liberal and performing essays, including one with Peter Lake Prize from New England Council on arts, funded by a donation from Gladys on The Politics of the Public Sphere in Latin American Studies. MacKay in honour of her husband the Early Modern England, and has pub- Reverend Ross MacKay, a 1927 graduate lished numerous essays on the economic, Lesser spent the of the Dalhousie History Department. cultural, political and intellectual history 2006-7 academic The presenter of one of the lectures—the of early modern Britain and comparative year at Tel Aviv History Talk—is chosen by members of revolutions. University as the History Department to honour the holder of the department’s distinguished alumnus and The History Talk for 2011-12 will be Fulbright Distin- benefactor. presented by Dr. Jeffrey Lesser, the guished Chair of Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of the Humanities. In March 2011, Dr. Steven Pincus of Yale Latin American History and Chair of the In 2001-2002 he University presented, “Addison’s Empire: History Department at Emory Univer- was a Fulbright Whig Conceptions of Empire in Early sity, past Director of the Tam Institute Senior Scholar at Dr. Jeffrey Lesser Eighteenth- for Jewish Studies, and of the Program in the University of São Century Brit- Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Paulo and he has held visiting profes- ain.” Dr. Pincus His research focuses on issues of ethnic- sorships at the University of Campinas is the author of ity and national identity. and the Federal University of Rio de Protestantism Janeiro. He has received research grants and Patriotism: Lesser received his B.A. and M.A. from from the National Endowment for the Ideologies and Brown University and his Ph.D. from Humanities, the American Council of the Making of New York University. He is author of A Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation, English Foreign Discontented Diaspora: Japanese-Brazil- the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Policy, 1650- ians and the Meanings of Ethnic Mili- Culture, the North-South Center and the 1668; Eng- tancy, 1960-1980 (Duke University Press, Lucius N. Littauer Foundation. He is the land’s Glorious 2007); Negotiating National Identity: immediate past president of the Confer- Revolution Minorities, Immigrants and the Struggle ence on Latin American History, the 1688-89; and for Ethnicity in Brazil (Duke University American Historical Association’s largest most recently, the widely and very well Press, 1999), winner of the Best Book affiliate organization.

International Workshop on Married Women and the Law

In June 2011, the History Department Schulich School of Law, the Workshop Professor Margaret Hunt from Amherst co-hosted an international workshop was funded by a SSHRC Aid to Work- College and Dr Amy Erickson from the on Married Women and the Law with shops grant and generous assistance University of Cambridge, highlighted the the Schulich School of Law and the from the Dean of Arts, the VP Academic harshness of legal rules but also the prev- Saint Mary’s University History De- & Research and History Department at alence of exceptions, and it appears that partment. Among the more than two Saint Mary’s University, The President, exceptions helped the discriminatory dozen presenters were three former Dal Dean of Arts, Dean of the Schulich doctrine to persist for so many centuries. students: Sara Butler, Marisha Caswell School of Law and the History Depart- For further details, visit: http://history. and Cathryn Spence. Dalhousie gradu- ment at Dalhousie University and The dal.ca/Married_Women_and_th.php. ate students Andrea Shannon, Sydney President of the University of King’s Houston-Goudge and Hilary Doda also College. participated. Dr. Tim Stretton of the Saint Mary’s History Department offers Until the late 19th and early 20th centu- the following report. ries, the English Common Law principle of ‘coverture’ regarded a married wom- From June 22-25, 2011, thirty schol- an’s legal identity as being covered by her ars and graduate students from three husband’s, leaving her with little legal continents gathered in Halifax for an autonomy or ability to own or control interdisciplinary workshop examining property. The workshop assembled lead- the effects of law and legal status on mar- ing experts from the disciplines of His- ried women prior to modern reforms. tory, Law, Literature, Women’s Studies Organized by Tim Stretton, from the and Economics, to share their research Saint Mary’s History Department, Krista on the effects of wives’ restricted legal Kesselring from The Dalhousie History status. Speakers, who included Professor Department and Philip Girard from the Susan Staves from Brandeis University,

Undergraduate History Undergraduate Student Awards - 2010-11 The Undergraduate History Society The Department’s undergraduate Scholarship. Funded from an endow- (UGHS) meets weekly during the fall students are among the most active ment, the scholarship is awarded for the and winter semesters to serve as a venue and enthusiastic anywhere: together best returning History Major or Hon- for discussion of issues and concerns they sustain the vibrant Dalhousie ours student. that History students have in common. Undergraduate History Society and They have offered vauable advice to Chelsea Hartlen is also recipient of the the Department as we seek to improve its program of social and intellec- Atlantic World History Scholarship, cre- our curriculum. This past year, for the tual events, while individually their ated by Dalhousie History graduate Su- first time, they sponsored orientation excellence continues to be recognized san Buggey to encourage excellent senior sessions to attract students to our pro- by a range of prizes and scholarships students whose undergraduate studies gramme. They hosted and participated funded by generous Alumni. Distin- have focused on the history of the social, in a number of events, including: a series guished award-winners from the past cultural, economic and political worlds of films accompanied by faculty lectures; year included: that have been connected across and Wine Tasting with the faculty; the Dal- around the Atlantic Ocean. housie Broomball Tournament; and the Ella Bedard is this year’s recipient of The History Faculty Curling Bonspeil. Edith and Rose Goodman Prize. Funded Mike Kofahl is this year’s recipient of by a bequest from the late Mrs. Jeanette the Gilbert F. Jennex History Scholar- Goodman, the prize recognizes highest ship. This annual scholarship was created standing in Canadian History. by Dalhousie History graduate Gilbert Jennex and is awarded to a third-year Alexander Desire-Tesar is this year’s undergrad whose concentration is in the winner of the Commonwealth History history of the Atlantic World and its rela- Prize. Supported by a gift from Dr. David tion to Atlantic Canada. Jessop and Dr. Karen Ostergaard, the UGHS President Haylan Jackson prize encourages the study of Com- Melissa MacKay is the winner of the monwealth Laurel V. King Scholarship, established and British to reward students in their second or Under the leadership of Haylan Jack- history, and subsequent years who have been par- son (President), Emily Bridger (Vice is awarded ticularly motivated by the discipline of President), Alex Sisley (Treasurer) for the best History to achieve academic excellence. and Elizabeth Hudson (Secretary), the undergrad- UGHS earned the Best Student Society uate essay David Roe is this year’s winner of the in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sci- on a British University Medal in History. Awarded to ences. Thanks to Amal Ghazal for her or Com- the top First Class Honours graduate in enthusastic service as Undergraduate monwealth the Department of History, the Univer- Coordinator in 2010-11. topic. sity Medal recognizes superior academic achievement. Chelsea Hartlen Congratulations to all of the Dalhousie (left)is this History Department’s undergraduate year’s win- students, and best wishes for success in Pangaea ner of the George E. Wilson Memorial all your future endeavours. The industry and academic excellence of dents’ ability to “stay connected in spite History Society. the History Department’s undergraduate of barriers, intrigued in a wake of apathy, students is again made evident with the and passionate regardless of how trying publication of the latest issue of Pangaea, matters become....” the Dalhousie Undergraduate History Journal. Thanks are due to Ms. Dolgoy; to assistant editors Elizabeth Hudson and Pangaea 2011 reflects the curiosity, the Katie Merwin; to editorial board mem- research and writing skills of some of bers Jordan Chase, Panos Giannoulis, the university’s sharpest undergrads, Andrea Kenny, Jessie Lamont, Ailish ranging broadly in theme and chronol- Morgan-Welden, Alexandra Murphy, ogy from the application of postcolonial Paula Sanderson, and Sarah Walsh; to theory to understanding the unknown in cover artist Kate Hazell; and to faculty the Middle Ages, to labour’s response to advisors Dr. Sarah-Jane Corke and Dr. the Amazonian rubber boom, to forced Ben Cowan. Special thanks are due to relocations in the Cold War High Arctic. the Alumni of the Dalhousie History De- As editor, Gabrielle Dolgoy notes in her partment, the Dalhousie History Depart- preface, the journal demonstrates stu- ment, and the Dalhousie Undergraduate

Our Honours Graduates

Our Honours program challenges stu- Deborah Howse. “Public Policies and Jesse Mintz. “The Umayyad Dome of the dents who seek the rigour and satis- Private Thoughts: Behind the Foreign Rock: A Historical Narrative Through faction of completing a major research Policies of Mackenzie King, 1935-1945.” Architecture.” project, particularly those who intend to pursue graduate study. Honours Elizabeth Hudson. “Bondswomen and Ailish Morgan-Welden. “Indigene- Slave Midwives Reproductive Resistance ity and State Power Representations of essays completed by the Classes of in the Antebellum South, 1808-1865.” Indigenous People and Guatemala’s Civil 2010 and 2011 reflect the diverse War.” interests and ambitions of many of the Waleed Kadray. “Changing Identities: university’s keenest young minds and Shifts of Popular Lebanese Nationalism Gregory Morris. “The Court of Farnese promise continuing strength for the within the Maronite Community and its Parma, 1639-1646.” discipline in years ahead. Effect on the Maronite-Zionist Relation- ship of the Mandate Period.” Alexandra Murphy. “Robert Kennedy Michael Allen. “Ethnicity and Business and the Cuban Missile Crisis: Evaluating in mid-Eighteenth-Century Nova Scotia: Sarah Kasupski. “Jewish Orientalism the ‘Bobby Myth.’” Commercial, Imperial, and Ethnic and the Construction of the Male Jewish Interests in the Founding of British Nova B o d y.” Anna Richard. “Regionalism and Inter- Scotia, 1749-1755.” nationalism: The Question of a Regional Orion Keresztesi. “The Special Prob- Style in the Work of Miller Brittain and Nick Baker. “‘The Rightful Heir to the lem of Sociology: A Story of Dalhousie Jack Humphrey in the period between Kingdom’: Lord Alexander (1264-1284) University.” the Great Depression and Second World and the Making of a Thirteenth-Century War.” Scottish Prince.” Jessie Lamont. “Iranian and Lebanese Piety: Female Autonomy in Shi’i Muslim David Roe. “A Realist’s Special Relation- Emily Bridger. “‘The Americanization of Communities.” ship: The Primacy of Self-Interest in the Holocaust’: The Use and Abuse of the America’s Aid to Britain, 1940-1941.” Holocaust in American Popular Culture.” Susan Lapointe. “Political Extravagance at the Court of Versailles: Dress and De- Shari Rutherford. “‘Planets Circling a Toney Charon. “Operation Pedro Pan, corum in the Reign of the Sun King.” Dead Sun’: Contemporary Historical Fic- 1960-1962: 14,000 Cuban Children, tion and The Quest of the Folk in 2010.” Victims of the Cold War.” Beth Legge. “‘What Does Quebec Want?’: English-Canadian Perceptions of Kathryn Shelley. “The Mapuche Fight Jordan Chase. “Beyond the Beaches: A Quebec 1976-1982.” Back: Indigenous Resistance to Land Critical Reassessment of the American Reform in 20th Century Chile.” Involvement in the D-Day Operations Cassandra Lilley. “Women in Guilds in and Normandy Campaign.” Early Modern England.” Ilana Speigel. “Eats of Eden: Nation, Culture and Cuisine in Contemporary Sarah Corey. “Tolerance in the Age Dean MacDougall. “Industrial Suburbs Lebanese Cookbooks.” of Akbar: Six Centuries of Historical Industrial Slums: Industrial Suburban- Scholarship on the Religious Policies of a ization in Chicago and Montreal, 1830- Jared Strand. “A Roman ‘Band of Broth- Mughal Emperor.” 1940.” ers’: Cohesion in the Armies of Late Republican Rome, 107-88 BCE.” Sydney Dale-McGrath.“Returned Sol- Alanna Mackenzie. “The Deployment of diers of Canada’s Great War: Presenta- Animals by Britain in World War I.” Laura Stephens. “African Cuba: Deni- tion of Veterans in als, Appropriations, and Venerations of Toronto Dailies during the War.” Eric McGill. “Less than Unprofitable African Culture and Identity in Cuba Inhabitants: The Neutral Acadians and Following Spanish Conquest.” Gabrielle Dolgoy. “Housing, Race, and Geopolitics in Nova Scotia 1744-1755.” Crime: An Analysis of Governor Ronald Sarah Walsh. “Denazification: The Reagan’s Policies of Crime and Punish- Patrick McGuire. “Memory and Resis- American Occupation of Germany, ment in 1960s California.” tance Cultural Definition in Palestinian 1945-1949.” Literature in the State of Israel.” Jake Feldman. “Pulled up Through the Cracks of Canadian History: Gay and Elizabeth Mens. “John F. Kennedy: A Lesbian Activism in Halifax, 1973-1995.” Counterfactual History?”

Francesca Ferguson. “Fighting Terror Katie Merwin. “Politics of Piracy: Do- with Torture: CIA Torture Policy from mestic Criticisms in English Captivity the Vietnam War to the War on Terror.” Narratives, 1589-1642.”

Alumni Matters

We want to ensure that alumni continue to feel themselves a part of the broader Dalhousie History community. In order to maintain connections, we are initiating several projects intended both to convey developments inside the department to former students and faculty, and to update the department on the accomplishments and interests of our alumni.

History Department Alumni Association

The enthusiasm of our student societies and recent graduating classes has prompted us to call a founding meeting of the Dalhousie History Department Alumni Association. We hope to invite you to the As- sociation’s inaugural meeting in the near future. Please watch our website Notes section with the newsletter’s and respond positively when we make winter issue; in the same issue we intend Gabrielle Dolgoy and Gavin Charles contact. If you would like to help in also to begin Alumni Profiles that will (above right) graduated in 2011 organizing the Association, please email present brief accounts of the remark- but stay connected to the depart- Ruth at [email protected] or phone able graduates of the Dalhousie History ment. Pictured here with La Société 494-3355. Department. Please feel free to contact Française at last year’s new student us with ideas or inquiries about any of orientation Alumni Notes and Profiles these initiatives.

We also plan to feature alumni and your Please keep up with Dal History matters stories more prominently in this news- by visiting us at our website, letter, and so will begin a regular Alumni http://history.dal.ca/.

NOW IT’S YOUR TURN Do you have an interesting story to share? Know of a former classmate who is doing something exciting and newsworthy?

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Please send all comments, suggestions, ideas or inquiries to [email protected]

Our Graduate Program

The Graduate History Society

The Dalhousie Graduate History Society “History Across the Disciplines” conference was held from March 18th to 20th, 2011, and examined the broad theme of communications in history under the title “Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About.”

More than 30 young scholars from across Canada met to present and discuss new work, to make connections, and to enjoy some renowned Nova Scotia hospitality. The keynote address was delivered by Dr. Kirrily Freeman of Saint Mary’s University, author of From Bronzes to Bullets: Vichy and the Destruc- tion of French Public Statuary, 1941- Graduate students in the field 1944 (Stanford University Press, 2008). Congratulations and thanks are due to the organizers, presenters, and to all who The students and the Department extend a special thank you toDr. Jerry Bannister contributed to the conference’s success. who served as Graduate Coordinator for 2009-10 and 2010-11. During his time in this role, Jerry worked to ensure that policy changes in key areas did not threaten The John Flint Prize, named for a funding for our graduate students. departmental Professor Emeritus and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Faculty members recently decided to make funding graduate travel a priority in the was awarded to the best paper presented Department’s internal capital campaign. If you would like to join us in this invest- to the conference as determined by a ment, please donate to our new Graduate Travel Anniversary Fund. panel of students and faculty members. The prize, including a $500 honorarium, was presented to Matthew Hefler of the University of Calgary for his paper “‘When the buyers have the country at their back’: Examining the Popularity of GRADUATE TRAVEL ANNIVERSARY FUND the Suez Canal Shares Purchase in The Times and Punch, 1875-1876.” To help keep our graduate students researching around the world, please contact Ben McIsaac, FASS Development Congratulations, Matthew! Officer, at [email protected].

Fulbright Doctoral Scholarship

Robert Gee arrives from the University management regimes, and to extend the of Maine to take up a Fulbright Doctoral theoretical and methodological ap- Scholarship at Dalhousie University proaches of the environmental history under the sponsorship of Dr. Claire discipline offshore, to the examination of Campbell. Mr. Gee is an environmental ocean space. Mr. Gee is also a registered historian whose dissertation examines coastal kayaking guide in Maine, and Atlantic borderlands and international will undoubtedly add to the intellectual resource management in the early and recreational life of a very maritime industrial fishery. This work is part of a university in this very maritime prov- broader effort both to examine the social ince. and cultural contexts of marine resource Right: Robert Gee and friend Lawrence D. Stokes Seminar Series 2011-12: A Key Part of our Graduate Program

Fridays, 3:30-5:00 p.m. Room 1170, McCain Bldg, 6135 University Ave.

The Dalhousie History Department’s October 21 January 27 Stokes Seminar is an important compo- “The Building of Regional Traditions in “The Ordeal of Combat during the nent of our Graduate Program. Gradu- the Charters of the Silesian Dukes, 13th- Thirty Years War: Tornavento, 22 June ate students and faculty meet weekly to 14th Centuries.” 1636.” read, question, and discuss new work Sébastien Rossignol, Dalhousie Univer- Gregory Hanlon, Dalhousie University. presented by faculty, visiting scholars sity. and the Department’s graduate students. October 28 February 10 The seminar was initiated and sustained “The Negro Ensemble Company, the “Princes and Cities in Post-Nomadic for many years by long-serving and Ford Foundation, and the Domestication Islamic States.” fondly remembered faculty member Larry of Black Culture.” Colin Mitchell, Dalhousie University. Stokes, whose casually masterful Friday- Karen Ferguson, Simon Fraser Univer- afternoon presentations are legendary sity. February 15 in the Department. The seminar offers a [Title TBA.] diverse, rigorous and supportive aca- November 4 Rosana Barbosa, Saint Mary’s. demic environment in which scholars at “A Barometer of the Epoch: Vladimir all levels of their careers can present and Pomerantsev, Soviet Readers, and the March 2 develop innovative and exciting work. The Debate on Sincerity in Literature, 1953- “An Algeria without France: Revisiting schedule for the 2011/2012 academic year 54.” the Origins of Algerian Nationalism.” is as follows: Denis Kozlov, Dalhousie University. Amal Ghazal, Dalhousie University.

FALL 2011 November 18 March 9 “Popular Machismo: Academia, Cold “Colonial North Carolina and the Limits September 16 at 2:30 p.m. War Imperialism, and Hemispheric of the Atlantic World.” “Male Prostitution and the London Masculinities.” Brad Wood, Eastern Kentucky Univer- GPO: Telegraph Boys’ ‘Immorality’ from Benjamin Cowan, Dalhousie University sity. Nationalization to the Cleveland Street Scandal.” November 25 March 16 Katie Hindmarch-Watson, “‘It Will Thin the People:’ The Politics of “The King’s Justice and the King’s Peace Johns Hopkins University. Population Management in the Greater in Medieval Scotland.” English Caribbean, 1640-1670.” Cynthia Neville, Dalhousie University. September 23 Justin Roberts, Dalhousie University. “Visualizing People in Early Modern March 23 Colonies.” December 2 “Imagining the Future in the Middle Jack Crowley, Dalhousie University. “Experimental Citizenship: U.S Govern- Ages.” ment Experiments with Housing Allow- Ted Blanton, College of Charleston. September 30 ances as Racial and Social Policy in the “The Comfort Zone: Changing the Cli- 1970s.” March 30 mate in Early Northeastern America.” Melanie Schmidt, UCLA. [Title TBA.] Anya Zilberstein, Concordia University. Heather Coleman, University of Alberta. WINTER 2012 October 7 April 6 “After the Collapse: Historiographi- January 13 “Blogging, Politics, and Identity: Notes cal Trends in Russian History in North “A Nation of Artists?: Alice Ravenhill from the Field.” America since 1991.” and the British Columbia Indian Arts Jerry Bannister, Dalhousie University. Norman Pereira, Dalhousie University. and Crafts Revival.” LiLynn Wan, Dalhousie University. October 14 Papers available in the History Office, “Trans-Atlantic Land Speculation in the January 20 1158 McCain, by the Wednesday Early U.S. Republic.” “Making ‘A Mere Place of Transit’: Rail- before the Seminar. François Furstenberg, University of roads, Through Trade, and Urban Space Montreal. in Baltimore, 1828-1865.” For information, please contact Justin David Schley, Johns Hopkins University. Roberts, Paddy Riley, Benjamin Cowan or contact the Graduate Secretary at [email protected].

Our Graduate Students

Kilroy Abney Name: Kilroy Abney Name: Vanessa Forbes Hometown: Fullerton, California Hometown: Dartmouth, NS Degree being sought: M.A. Degree being sought: M.A. Supervisor: Dr. Justin Roberts Supervisor: Dr. John Bingham Area or topic of thesis research: 17th- Area or topic of thesis research: 20th- century comparative colonization century German history Interests: Exercising, the outdoors, and Interests: Reading, traveling, World War good conversations II Favourite novel: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Kristopher Cote Name: Emily Burton Hometown: Halifax, NS Degree being sought: Ph.D. Name: Danielle Brewin Graham Supervisor: Dr. Jerry Bannister Hometown: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Area or topic of thesis research: Alco- Degree being sought: M.A. holic Beverages and the Licensing of Supervisor: Dr. Gary Kynoch Public Houses in Northeastern British Area or topic of thesis research: An in- America, 1749-1832 terpretive analysis of perspectives within the South African Defence Force (SADF) during their involvement in the Angolan Name: Kristopher Cote Civil War. Hilary Doda Hometown: Grimsby, ON. Interests: Travel (28 countries and count- Degree being sought: Ph.D. ing), development work (specifically Supervisor: Dr. Gary Kynoch. microloans for women), genealogy, and Area or topic of thesis research: African, collections (coins, spoons, artifacts, etc). Ugandan, colonial history. Favourite Novel: Sweetness in the Belly by Interests: Reading, squash, movies Camilla Gibb

Zach Firlotte Name: Hilary Doda Name: Sydney Houston-Goudge Hometown: Toronto, ON Hometown: Dorchester, ON Degree being sought: M.A. Degree being sought: M.A. Supervisor: Dr. Krista Kesselring Supervisor: Dr. Krista Kesselring Area or topic of thesis research: Tudor Area or topic or thesis research: In- political culture, Mary I fluence of commercial capitalism on Interests: Theatre, dance, costume his- changing conceptions of sexual immo- tory, textile sciences, material culture rality and the sex trade in early modern Vanessa Forbes and anthropology; collaborative fiction, England between 1450-1750. gaming. Sleep, whenever possible. Favourite Historical Figure: Elizabeth I Favourite Historical Figure: Anne Favourite Bands: Favourite artists Boleyn include Joel Plaskett, the Tragically Hip, Favorite Novel: A Song for Arbonne, Guy Sloan, Sarah Slean, Guster and Fleet- Gavriel Kay wood Mac. I am a lover of all things Favorite Website: Yet Another Fantasy CBC, in particular Stuart McLean and Gamer Comic - http://yafgc.net The Vinyl Cafe. Danielle Brewin Favourite Novels: Pride and Prejudice, Graham Emma Name: Zach Firlotte Interests: Running, fencing, cooking, and Hometown: Minto, NB attempts at gardening and fine arts. Degree: M.A. Supervisor: Dr. Sarah-Jane Corke Area or topic of thesis research: Vietnam War/Antiwar Movement Sydney Houston- Goudge

Our Graduate Students

Christopher Johnston Name: Christopher Johnston Name: Roger Marsters Hometown: Truro, NS Hometown: Mahone Bay, NS Degree being sought: M.A. Degree being sought: Ph.D. Supervisor: Dr. Christopher Bell Supervisor: Dr. Jerry Bannister Area or topic of thesis research: Modern Area or topic of thesis research: Littoral British - World War II maritime cultures and British colonial Victoria Jones Interests: Reading, Sports states in the Gulf of St. Lawrence region, 1759-1853 Interests: Maritime history; the history Name: Victoria Jones of technology; history of architecture Hometown: Edmonton, AB and of cities; small-boat sailing; garden- Degree: M.A. ing; history and culture of Nova Scotia’s Supervisor: Dr. Claire Campbell South Shore region. Area or topic of thesis research: The Alberta government’s use of heritage to support the political and economic Name: Barb Matthews Sarah Keeshan agenda of the province. Hometown: Wainwright, AB Interests: Having just returned from Degree being sought: Ph.D. England with an LLB and a collection of Supervisor: Dr. Gary Kynoch hats, I am excited to be back in Canada Area or topic of thesis research: Farm where I can get a good steak and trashy violence in South Africa American TV.

Mark Leeming Name: Alexandra Montgomery Name: Sarah Keeshan Hometown: Halifax, NS Hometown: Ottawa,ON Degree being sought: M.A. Degree being sought: M.A. Supervisor: Dr. Jerry Bannister Supervisor: Dr. Cynthia Neville Area or topic of thesis research: Com- Area or topic of thesis research: Late- munication and mobility in 18th century Medieval English history; historiogra- Nova Scotia and Atlantic world phy; representations of authority in his- Interests: Non-historical reading, live torical accounts of the Peasants’ Revolt music, non-live music, communication Barb Matthews in England (1381) and mobility in 21st century Nova Scotia Interests: Camping, Trivia Nights, British and the Atlantic world television, the King’s Chapel, and Tea Favourite Band: mclusky, Bikini Kill (liable to change at any moment) Favourite Historical Figure: Henry Knighton Name: Maggie Mulrooney Favourite Band: Joel Plaskett Emergency Hometown: Brownsburg-Chatham, PQ Favourite Novel: The Lord of the Rings Degree being sought: M.A. and The Blue Castle Supervisor: Dr. Shirley Tillotson Area or topic of thesis research: My Alexandra Montgomery thesis will be based on interviews with Name: Mark Leeming women who formerly worked at the Hometown: Bailey’s Brook, NS Moir’s Candy Plant in Halifax between Degree being sought: Ph.D. 1955 and 1970. Supervisor: Dr. Claire Campbell Interests: When I am not studying, I Area or topic of thesis research: Environ- enjoy cooking, vintage shopping, and mentalism in Nova Scotia bird-watching Interests: walking in the woods

Maggie Mulrooney

Our Graduate Students

Robert Nathan Name: Robert Nathan Name: Andrea Shannon Hometown: Victoria, BC Hometown: Toronto, but really Maple Degree being sought: Ph.D. Ridge, BC Supervisor: Philip Zachernuk, Amal Degree being Sought: Ph.D. Ghazal Supervisor: Dr. Krista Kesselring Area or topic of thesis research: Malian Topic of Thesis Research: Domestic gar- postcolonial socialism risons in Early Modern England Interests: writing; hip-hop; pickling; Interests: Finding comfortable chairs and things Tibetan sitting in them Favourite Historical Figure: assorted shepherds John D. Panter Favourite Musician/Band: Chopin Name: Samantha Stevens-Hall Favourite Novel: Metaphysique des tubes Hometown: Toronto, ON (Amelie Nothomb) Degree being sought: M.A. Favourite Website: guardian.co.uk/world Supervisor: Dr. Phil Zachernuk Area or topic of thesis research: 19th century Uganda (East Africa) and the Name: John D. Panter introduction of colonial rule, African Hometown: Halifax, NS intellectuals, cultural translation and the Degree being sought: M.A. first vernacular histories. Charlene Regan Supervisor: Dr. Gregory Hanlon Interests: Avid bike rider and self-pro- Area or topic of thesis research: Mer- fessed bookworm cer's inventories from Parma during the period from late 16th to early 18th centuries. Name: Nathan VanderMeulen Interests: Oriental Martial arts, Taoist Tai Hometown: Edmonton, AB Chi Society, and Rolfing Degree being sought: M.A. Supervisor: Dr. Justin Roberts Area or topic of thesis research: Mid- Name: Charlene Regan seventeenth century English Atlantic/ David Roe Hometown: Lawrencetown, NS Caribbean Degree being sought: M.A. Interests: English religious dissent and Supervisor: Dr. Colin Mitchell nonconformity, historical identity, Eng- Area or topic or thesis research: Medi- lish/British imperial origins eval Mediterranean and the Arabic-Latin Favourite Historical Figure: Oliver translation movement Cromwell Interests: Dressage, golf, computers and Favourite Band: A Hope For Home, my cat Amos Lee, Listener Favourite Novel: Not necessarily a novel, Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton Name: David Roe Favourite Website: hfboards.com, quod- Andrea Shannon Hometown: Halifax, NS libeta.blogspot.com Degree being sought: M.A. Supervisor: Dr. Christopher Bell Area or topic of thesis research: Interwar Naval Arms Control Treaties Interests: American history, world politics, and current events, movies, television and the like, wine, women, and song Favourite Historical Figure: Julius Caesar Favourite Novel: A Farewell to Arms

Nathan VanderMeulen

Recent Graduate Theses Defences

The broad geographical, chronologi- David Kort (MA). Joanna Pearce (MA). cal, and thematic reach of Dalhousie “Trajectory of Disenchantment. A Free- “‘Fighting in the Dark’: Charles Freder- History faculty and graduate student town Writer and the Insolubility of the ick Fraser and the Halifax Asylum for research offers an excellent measure Creole Problematic.” the Blind, 1850-1915.” of the department’s vibrancy. Both Jeffers Lennox Hugh Pouliot (MA). Masters and Doctoral programmes (PhD). “Between the Medina and the Metro- require students to design and ex- “L’Acadie Trou- pole: Race and Urban Governance from ecute—in close consultation with their vée: Mapping, Algiers to Paris, 1930-1975.” faculty supervisors—major research Geographic projects resulting in Masters theses Knowledge, Angela Ranson (MA). and Doctoral dissertations. Successful and Imagining “Through Faith Unfeigned: Recantation completion of these projects is a major Northeastern and Subversion in Sixteenth-Century accomplishment, and represents a North America, Jeffers Lennox E n g l an d .” mature contribution to the intellectual 1710-1763.” life of the university and of the world Adam Richter (MA) beyond. The broader Dalhousie His- Alan Lensink (MA). “The Royal Society’s International Prior- “The Writers in the Alley: State Legiti- ity Disputes, 1660-1700.” tory community can access electronic macy and Literature in Nasser’s Egypt, copies of this research through the 1952-1967.” Colin Rose, (MA). Novanet libraries database. “Grace from Above: Petitions and Ap- Mark MacAulay (MA). peals in Farnese Parma, 1631-1727.” Ibrahim Badawi (MA). “Black Sinatras, White Panthers: Race, “Dictatorship of the Pious: The Theologi- Genre and Performance in Detroit Black LiLynn Wan (PhD) cal Dimension of Muslim Extremism in Pop and Rock, 1960-1970.” “Out of Many Kindreds and Tongues: Egypt, 1954-1997.” Racial Identity and Rights Activism in Genevieve Maser (MA). Vancouver, 1919-1939.” Trevor Checkley (MA) “The Pursuit of Hutu Power: The Force “The Royal Navy, Intelligence and Strat- Armées Rwandaises, 1960-1994.” egy in the Mediterranean, 1936-1939.” Christopher Matthews (MA). Kenneth Corbett (MA). “A Unique Flavour: Late 19th Century “Technologies of Time: Time Standard- Sindh under British Control.” ization and Response in Britain, 1870- 1900.” Michael McGuire (MA). “How the East Coast Rocks: A History of Robin Greene (MA). Hip Hop in Halifax, 1985-1998.” “Mountain Peasants in an Age of Global Cooling.” McKown Elspeth (MA). “Imagining ‘Another England’ in the William Gregory (MA). North Atlantic, 1577-1625.” “Breaking the Rules: Hollywood in Nazi Oluwatoyin Oduntan Germany, 1933-1939.” Oluwatoyin Oduntan (PhD). “Elite Identity and Power: A Study of Social Michael Herrick (MA). Change and Leadership Among the Egba “Kentucky and Slavery: The Constitu- of Western Nigeria, 1860-1950.” Our Graduate Coordinator, Dr. tional Convention of 1792.” Colin Mitchell, welcomes inqui- Sarah Osborne (MA). ries concerning our program. Kevin Johnston (MA). “The Road to Yesterday: Nova Scotia’s “The CIA, The Contras and Cocaine: The Tourism Landscape and the Automobile Please contact him at Reagan Administration’s Complicity in Age, 1920-1940.” Drug Trafficking, 1981-1988.” [email protected]

Travel Notes Doctoral candidate Robert Nathan in the 1960s. The documents I was able has been travelling in Mali, undertak- to collect at the national archives in Ba- ing preliminary dissertation research mako and in more far-flung areas were in preparation for presenting his pro- encouraging, and I met many people posal to the department. He has sent a who were interested in the project and in assisting me in collecting relevant few notes, summarized herein. data and finding my bearings in new surroundings. I intend to return to Mali in the fall to continue my investigations. In February and March, I embarked on While I have obtained ethics approval a research trip to Mali in order to gather for the project, I first have to make it preliminary data for my dissertation through the comprehensive exams in project on the history of socialism there September, and a subsequent research

Mali’s National Archives in Bamako proposal presentation, before I can begin this work in earnest. On that note, I have been devouring and evaluating tow- ers of books, and my review of a recent publication—Jonathan Glassman’s War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar (2011)—will appear in the next issue of Strata, the University of Ottawa’s graduate student history journal.

Robert Nathan spent two months in Mali

Doctoral candidate Robert Nathan sits with an acquaintance made while travelling in Dè (in the region of Mopti), Mali

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