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SUNY C llege at Br ckp rt V lume 17, Issue 1 F a l l 2 0 0 5 Upcoming Ev nts A Note rom the Chair The Synnestvedt Lecture will take place on Thursday September 29th at 7:30 pm in the Hart- by Kathleen Kutolowski well Hall Theater. The speaker will be Professor Adrienne Davis, University of North Carolina- Thank you to all who wrote in re- Chapel Hill School of Law. Professor Davis will sponse to the last issue of Time Lines explore laws that regulated interracial intimacy and for your good wishes to the new in the nineteenth-century United States in a talk Chair. Your letters and emails reaffirm titled "Slavery, Sexuality, and the Law.” our common sense of purpose as stu- Dr. Colm Lennon of the National University of dents and scholars of the past, even as Ireland in Maynooth will speak on issues of re- we struggle to comprehend the present ligion in 16th and 17th century Ireland on Thurs- human tragedy unfolding along the day November 3rd at 7:30 pm in Room 220 Sey- Gulf Coast. mour Union. The Department had a very good year in 2004-05. History majors swept all three prizes in the Col- lege’s annual Celebration of Writ- Graduat N ws ing (Scholarly/Critical Writing category) and presented 20 papers by Jenny Lloyd at Scholars Day. Dr. Jennifer Lloyd received continuing appointment (tenure) and promotion to Associate Professor, and three faculty mem- The program has admitted 27 students for the bers won SUNY-wide recognition: Dr. John Daly, Chancellor’s Award coming academic year, about ten more than usual. for Teaching Excellence; Dr. Kenneth O’Brien, Chancellor’s Award for In May 2005 eight MA students graduated, and in Outstanding Faculty Service; and Dr. Lynn Parsons, Chancellor’s Re- August several more. Of the May graduates four search Recognition Award. achieved permanent teacher certification, one con- We said good-bye, reluctantly, to Lynn and Anne Parsons, who are tinues in a teacher certification program, one con- now ensconced in Castine, Maine, where the Red Sox play nightly on tinues his legal practice, and two have been ac- NESN. Happily, we welcome Dr. Meredith Roman, a specialist on Rus- cepted to Ph.D. programs: Michael Mayne (MA sian and Soviet history. In Spring 2006 undergraduates will have their 2005) will attend the University of Florida with a first opportunity since Dr. Robert Strayer’s retirement three years ago to full scholarship and TA position, while Daniel take History of the Soviet Union. Broyld (MA 2005) has been accepted to the doc- A busy and exciting fall stretches ahead with the annual Synnestvedt toral program in history at Howard University. Lecture on September 29th and the second in a series of exchange lec- Two earlier graduates have also been accepted to tures with the Department of History of the National University of Ire- Ph.D. programs: Vassilios Pinopoulos (BS 2002, land at Maynooth on November 3rd (see Upcoming Events on this page). MA 2004) to the Modern European doctoral pro- History continues to grow at Brockport with 459 majors registered for gram at Auburn University, and Sara K. Rosenfeld courses this fall and with the MA program admitting 25 new students, 18 (MA 2000) to the doctoral program in Higher of them full time! Even as we grow and move forward, we treasure the Education Administration at Boston College. connections to our collective past in the Department. Stay in touch Newly admitted MA student Chuck Sparnecht please! On the back of Time Lines you’ll find a convenient mail-in form will give a talk on December 12 at the Susan B. to share your news, or just email. Anthony House, titled “1906: What a Year!” PAGE 2 TIME LINES Welcome To Dr. Meredith Roman by Arden Bucholz The Department of History is pleased to welcome Dr. Meredith Roman to the faculty. She will be teaching mod- ern world as well as upper-division and graduate courses on her research interests: Russian, Soviet, Modern Euro- pean, and Cold War history. This fall Dr. Roman is teach- ing two sections of History 102 and an MA seminar on Race, Nationality, and Gender in Modern Russia. She looks forward to offering HST 343: History of the Soviet Union next spring. Her 2005 doctoral dissertation from Michigan State Uni- versity was on the Soviet campaign of the 1920s and 1930s to present the USSR as a society beyond racism, in con- trast to the racist USA. It draws on theories developed in comparative Black history and the history of the British Empire. At MSU she was a teaching and research assistant Dr. Meredith Roman with her collection of Russian post- for five years, and then taught Twentieth-Century Russia cards. as her own course. She gained a reputation as a tireless worker, complex thinker, and excellent teacher at MSU. Dr. Roman has lived, studied, and researched in both Azer- baijan and Moscow, and has published two articles on is- sues of racism in both Soviet and post-Soviet society. A third article is under review, and she is working on prepar- ing her dissertation as a book manuscript. She plans to return to Moscow in the summer of 2006 to further her research. History orum News by Christopher Schultheis As the 2005-06 President of the History Forum, I wel- come all History majors and minors to attend our weekly meetings, held Wednesdays at 5:15 in the Fishbowl (FOB 105C). The Forum is planning several events this fall for all of the SUNY Brockport community, including our popular movie nights and a trip to downtown Rochester to tour the old Erie Canal bed and Rochester subway tunnel before it is filled in. Additionally, we will be raising funds this fall for a student delegation to the American Historical Associa- tion’s annual conference in Philadelphia in January 2006. As a highlight of our fall activities, we are co-sponsoring the annual History Department Synnesvedt lecture on Sep- tember 29. We welcome new members’ ideas for Forum activities! Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions or suggestions. We are also still selling the dark green with gold lettering T-shirt pictured to the left, Christopher Schultheis models the history t-shirt,. with the Top Ten Reasons to be a History Major on the back. They are available through the department office for $10 and can be shipped anywhere in the U.S. for an addi- tional $3. VOLUME 17, ISSUE 1 PAGE 3 Scholar’s Day The History Department fielded six panels at the 13 April 2005 Scholars Day: US Occupations in Historical Perspective. Chair: Dr. Anne Macpherson. Present- ers: Victor Laveck, Jennifer Veras, Brian Schembs. Alcohol and Drugs in American History. Chair: Dr. Morag Martin. Presenters: Angela Henlyshyn, Karolin King, Stephen Deady, Laura Talbert. Historical Perspectives on the Salem Witchcraft Crisis. Chair: Dr. Paul Moyer. Presenters: Joshua Baker, Tricia Peone, Elizabeth Sharpe. “Where immortal spirits reign, there we shall meet again”: a Photographic Essay on the Victorian Understandings of Life, Death, and Immortality. Chair: Mary Buggie-Hunt. Presenter: Mary Coney. Beautiful Landscapes, Natural Disasters, and Polluted Cities in American His- tory. Chair: Dr. James Spiller. Presenters: Jason LaDue, Jenna Bower, Oksana Dzyadyk. American Revolution and Civil War. Chair: Dr. Steve Ireland. Presenters: Ed- Senior Jennifer Veras speaks at ward Christian, Tricia Peone, Nicole Randazzo, Christopher Kirchmaier, Mary Scholar’s Day on the US Occupa- Buggie-Hunt. tion of the Dominican Republic, 1916-1924. Spring Awards March 2005 Alpha Chi Inductees Jenna Bower Diana Richardson Department Award Winners 2004-2005 Tricia Peone Mary Karen Wheat Michael Piano Jack Crandall Award – Elissa Pearce W. Wayne Dedman Award – Michael Mayne Kempes Schnell Award – Bradley R. Peterson Departmental Scholar – Jonathan F. Peone George S. Queen Award – Tricia Peone Robert Griswold History Award – Jenna Bower Arthur Lee History Award – Ryan Dunshie April 2005 Phi Alpha Theta Inductees Joshua Baker Timothy Lloyd Jenna Bower Jessica Ozzimo Melinda Cater Diane Palmer Michah A. Chappell Tricia Rhiannon Peone Daniel Cody Michael Piano Benjamin J. Decker Diana Richardson Chad Dow Jennifer Rossi Matthew J. Ketterer Elizabeth Sharpe Tricia Peone, Michael Piano, Dr. Lynn Parsons, Jenna Karolin King Cara M. Smith Bower and Mary Karen Wheat celebrate this year’s Alpha Jason LaDue Jedediah Twichell Chi induction. Melanie Larsen Mary Karen Wheat PAGE 4 TIIME LINES Third Annual Celebration of Writing: Scholarly/ to several of her current projects: an encyclopedia arti- Critical Writing Category cle on the medieval practice of avowed chastity, a journal article on the intercessory powers of widows on behalf of souls lingering in Purgatory, and a book First Place – Adam Chamberlain, “Ideology and the Whiskey manuscript on the pastoral care of pious widows in the Rebels of 1794” (written for Lynn Parsons’ Senior Seminar) later Middle Ages. Second Place – Tricia Peone, “Witches, Familiars, and the Devil: The Dark Side of Puritan Culture” (written for Paul John Daly published an article titled “Proslavery Moyer’s 390) Writing, 1820-1870,” in Twain Voices: American His- Third Place – Alicia Dunn, “The Emmanuel Move- tory Through Literature, ed. Janet Gabler-Hover ment” (written for Steve Neese’s 390) (Scribner’s 2005). Education and Human Development Award Steve Ireland and his wife Susan traveled to Ireland, France, and New York City this past summer. In Richard L. Canuteson Award – Michael Piano (for out- France they visited Gene and Francoise McCreary at standing junior in elementary education program) their chateau near Amiens, in the region of the Somme River, in northwestern France. When in the Brockport Faculty Awards History Department the McCrearys organized, nur- tured, taught in and administered our study abroad John P.