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ChroniclesNEWSLETTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

Fall 2015. Vol. VI

In one of the leaders’ debates, Mr. perhaps we might consider doing what Trudeau advocated for going into debt any entrepreneur does – borrow capital to leverage the funds necessary to in- to finance the hiring of the new faculty vest in future growth and prosperity. who will underwrite the future’s growth. Interest rates have never been lower, Such, anyway, are the idle musings that he declared. It has never been cheaper preoccupy so many of us as we seek to to borrow for the capital we need to cope with the new budget world we compete tomorrow. As you may know, inhabit and the future it portends. the university adopted recently a The second thing that emerged from budget model premised on the elimina- the campaign was that I cannot recall tion of deficits and the binding of de- the word “university” ever being said partmental funding to departmental by any of the candidates except in enrolments. At present the Department conjunction with a Liberal promise for has to close a gap of almost $800,000 first nations’ scholarships. To be sure, between what past budgets once pro- ’s universities lie not within the vided to us and what the new budget purview of Ottawa but rather within will give based on our enrolment pro- that of Queen’s Park. But unlike in file. The new model seeks to liberate Australia or New Zealand where within faculty-members entrepreneurial universities are considered corner- energy to make-up for diminishing gov- stones of economic development, ernment funding by raising enrolments, From the Chair universities in Ontario, and perhaps creating new programs, cutting where Professor James Carson in Canada too, have fallen off the we can cut, and, for the time being, not public map. The pages that follow re- replacing retirements. Such an ap- flect what we have been doing to teach, proach recognizes the global lack of to create, and to contribute to the soci- hatever you might have revenue, shrinking provincial supports, ety we serve, all done while ensuring thought about the recent fed- and the perils of debt but, at the same that we prepare students for everything Weral election, it nonetheless time, the incredibly low costs of pur- life might throw at them. We work to has set a new tone in public discourse. chasing capital to fund a renaissance critique ideas of race and of freedom; Whether or not the Liberals’ pledges to at Queen’s never comes up. govern on hope, to lead our collective we reconsider how we understand the aspirations to be better, and to foster an Perhaps it is time for a change, one that wars of the past in hopes of guarding attitude of tolerance, respect, and solici- flows in parallel to the broader political ourselves within those of the present. tude go pop as political promises so convulsion that just seized our society We work to become better writers and often do once the ballots have been and that also might poise us to capital- thinkers. And we aspire to become the counted remains to be seen. Or perhaps ize not only on low market interest best students of the past we can be, their pledges will prove to be the rates but on a cultural moment when thanks in large part to the ongoing durable foundations of a new kind of confidence in the future might be support that our past students and Canada. Whatever the case may be two replacing the wariness of the present. graduates provide. things jumped out from the campaign Opportunities pass those who wait, Contact: [email protected] that speak to our work here in the and in a university that has embraced Department of History. an entrepreneurial budget model, 15-0622 Dept of History Newsletter.qxp 11/12/15 3:13 PM Page 2

New Book: Global Indios Prof. Nancy van reveal the difficulties of determining only be adequately comprehended in Deusen’s book Global who was an indio and who was not – the context of the movement of peoples Indios is attracting especially since it was an all-encompass- and the clash of empires.” Historian great acclaim. The ing identity connoting subservience and Kathryn Burns further noted that the book explores the political personhood and at times could book shows us “how the legal struggles hundreds of thou- refer to people from Mexico, Peru, or of those held in slavery contributed to sands of indios – even South or East Asia. The categories the winding down of decades of indigenous peoples of free and slave were also often no bet- unchecked enslavement of hundreds of from the territories ter defined, and the book forces a re- thousands of indigenous peoples in the of the Spanish em- thinking of the meaning of indio in ways Americas. This is slavery as many pire – who were enslaved and relocated that emphasize the need to situate readers won’t have imagined it.” throughout the Iberian world in the colonial Spanish American indigenous sixteenth century. Although various subjects in a global context. laws and decrees outlawed indio en- Departure As one of leading historical anthropolo- slavement, several loopholes allowed gist put it, “Global Indios shatters and the practice to continue. By researching resignifies the category of indio, a term more than one hundred lawsuits be- that has provided – along with tween 1530 and 1585 that indio slaves ‘Spaniard’ – the foundations of scholar- living in Castile brought to the Spanish ship on colonial Latin America. It forces courts to secure their freedom, she asks readers to rethink Spanish America as how they proved their indio -ness in a something that extends beyond the Spanish imperial context. The lawsuits Western Hemisphere and that can really

Postdoctoral Fellow Teresa Iacobelli Prof. Ian McKay has resigned his appoint- ment in the Department to take up the L.R. Wilson Chair in Canadian History at McMaster University. Prof. McKay began teaching at Queen’s in 1988, and his interests in Canadian cultural his- tory; in the economic and of Atlantic Canada; in the history of Canada as a liberal order; and in the history of both Canadian and interna- tional left-wing movements inspired the incredibly diverse writings that have made him one of Canada’s leading historians. In The Province of History: Teresa Iacobelli, who holds a Social Teresa also won the 2015 C.P. Stacey The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth- Sciences and Humanities Research Prize for the best book in Canadian Century Nova Scotia (2010), co-authored Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow- military history for Death or Deliverance: with Robin Bates, won the 2011 Interna- ship, curated an exhibition, “On the Canadian Courts Martial in the Great War tional Council for Canadian Studies Line: Intrepid and the Vietnam War,” (University of British Columbia Press). Pierre Savard award for the best book that opened at the Intrepid Sea, Air, The Stacey Prize is awarded annually written in Canadian studies in English and Space Museum Complex in Brooklyn, by the Canadian Committee for the or French while his article “The Liberal New York on October 14th. Set on the History of the Second World War and Order Framework: A Prospectus for a U.S. aircraft carrier Intrepid – which the Canadian Committee for Military Reconnaissance of Canadian History” in served three tours of duty in Vietnam History. Postdoctoral fellows typically the Canadian Historical Review was rec- between 1966 and 1969 and now sees stay with us just a few years but their ognized as the best article in the journal action as a history museum – On the contributions in the classroom and in for the year 2000. His supervision of 64 Line examines the history of the the archives are important and enliven graduate theses, including 27 at the doc- Vietnam War from the perspective everything we do. toral level, was remarkable too. We will provided by the ship and through the miss him and wish him every success in memories of sailors who served on it. his new endeavours in Steel Town. 2 Chronicles 15-0622 Dept of History Newsletter.qxp 11/12/15 3:13 PM Page 3

New Doctors! Congratulations to our Graduate Students on the completion of their “Doctor of Philosophy in History” degree!

From Left to right: Elliot Hanowski, Josh Cole, Casey Hurrell, Kailey Miller, Christine Elie, Georgia Carley, Dinah Jansen, Mary Caesar, Mary Chaktsiris, Deanne van Tol

Dr. Christo Aivalis Dr. Scott deGroot Dr. Kailey Miller Christo’s thesis “Pierre Elliott, Organized Scott’s thesis “Out of the Closet and Kailey’s thesis “‘An Ancillary Weapon’: Labour, and the Canadian Social Demo- Into Print: Gay Liberation across the Cultural Diplomacy and Nation-Build- cratic Left, 1945-2000” was completed Anglo-American World” was completed ing in Cold War Canada” was com- under the supervision of Dr. Ian McKay. under the supervision of Dr. Karen pleted under the supervision of Dubinsky and Dr. Ian McKay. Dr. Ian McKay. Dr. Mary Caesar Mary’s thesis “A ‘New Experiment in Dr. Christine Elie Dr. Rhoubina Shnorhokian Local Government’ The Local Health Christine’s thesis “The City, the Rebels Rhoubina’s thesis “Hayton of Korykos Commission: A Study of Public Health and the Reds: Leftism, the Civic and La Flor des Estoire: Cilician and Local Government in Black Urban Politics of Order, and the Contested Armenian Intermediation in Crusader- Areas in Natal, South Africa, 1930- Modernity in Montreal, 1929-1947” Mongol Politics, c. 1250-1350” was 1959” was completed under the super- was completed under the supervision completed under the supervision of vision of Dr. Marc Epprecht. of Dr. Ian McKay. Dr. Adnan Husain. Dr. Georgia Carley Dr. Elliot Hanowski Dr. James Sommerville Georgia’s thesis “The Manner of Confer- Elliot’s thesis “A Godless Dominion: James’ thesis “Know Thyself: Marsilio ring and Treating With Them”: The Unbelief and Religious Controversy in Ficino on Revelation, Wisdom, and Board of Trade, the 1730 Anglo-Chero- Interwar Canada” was completed under Reform” was completed under the kee Treaty, and the Confluence of Global the supervision of Dr. Ian McKay. supervision of Dr. Anthony D’Elia. British Treaty Practices” was completed Dr. Casey Hurrell Dr. Deanne van Tol under the supervision of Dr. Jane Casey’s thesis “Health and Medicine Deanne’s thesis “Imperial Volunteering: Errington and Dr. Sandra den Otter. as “the Rallying Points of Unity”: Women and Welfare in the Twentieth Dr. Mary Chaktsiris Physicians, Activism and International Century British Empire” was completed Mary’s thesis “A Great War of Expecta- Efforts in the Early Cold War” was under the supervision of Dr. Sandra den tions: Men, Mothers, and Monsters in completed under the supervision of Otter and Dr. Robert Shenton. Toronto, 1914-1918” was completed Dr. Jaclyn Duffin and Dr. Tim Smith. under the supervision of Dr. Karen Dr. Dinah Jansen Dubinsky and Dr. Jane Errington. Dinah’s thesis “After October: Russian Dr. Josh Cole Liberalism as a Work in Progress, Josh’s thesis “Children, Liberalism and 1919-1945” was completed under the Utopia: Education, Hall-Dennis and supervision of Dr. Rebecca Manley and Modernity in Ontario’s Long 1960s” Dr. Ana Sijak. was completed under the supervision of Dr. Ian McKay.

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The Department Welcomes Bader Post-Doctoral Fellows Thanks to a donation by Alfred and College, University of Florida, and Isabel Bader the Department was able St. Petersburg State University in to welcome two new postdoctoral fel- Russia. He just finished his first book lows this fall, Dr. Vassili Schedrin and that examines political and social Dr. Vaneesa Cook. What is a post-doc- aspects of the official Jewish policies toral fellowship? It is an award given to in the late Russian empire, and is cur- a recent PhD graduate that supports their rently researching two new book ongoing research while also providing projects – one on the history of Yiddish them with experience in the classroom. theater in the Soviet Union and the other on Jewish history writing in Dr. Schedrin the nineteenth-century Russia. earned his PhD in Modern Jewish Dr. Cook earned her PhD from the history at Bran- University of Wisconsin in May 2015. deis University, Her research interests include intellec- and its cultural context have had on and has taught tual and cultural history, politics, inter- shaping democratic and socialist Jewish history at national relations, and religious history. thought in the U.S. Her first article on many campuses In her dissertation, entitled “Thy King- the radicalism of Martin Luther King, Jr. in North America dom Community: Spiritual Socialists and will appear in the journal Religion & and overseas, including Virginia Tech, Local to Global Activism, 1920-1970,” American Culture in January 2016. She Ohio University, Franklin and Marshall she focused on the impact that religion grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Teaching Prize for Graduate Faculty

Dr. Allan English has received the 2015 School of Graduate Studies Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Super- vision, which was presented to him at Fall Convocation on November 17, 2015. The award recognizes outstanding su- pervisors who demonstrate excellence in advising, monitoring and mentoring graduate students through their train- ing. Excellence is judged on the quality of supervision and mentorship in facili- tating the acquisition of skills and re- sources needed for the student to succeed as scholars and professionals. Characteristics include availability, timeliness and quality of guidance and Sonia Dussault, the graduate student From left, Dr. Robert Engen, Dr. Allan English, feedback, responsiveness to student who spearheaded the 2015 nomination doctoral student Sonia Dussault needs, and enthusiasm for the pursuit of Dr. English for the award, explained Clearly, mentoring and supervising of knowledge. In addition the supervi- why so many of his graduates and cur- graduate students is something Dr. sor must promote timely completion of rent students wrote letters of support: English is passionate about. Upon the thesis and encourage the career de- learning of his successful nomination, “We all benefited from his unwavering velopment of the student through the he stated: availability, sharp advice, regular moni- provision of leadership and support in toring, everlasting support, stimulating “I am grateful to my students for all they academic matters such as publishing, mentoring, and especially the network- have taught me and the many ways presenting, applying for funding. Pref- ing he nurtured between his graduates through which they have enriched my life.” erence is given to faculty members who and students. We have nothing but have displayed sustained mentorship Congratulations and thanks to Dr. praise for his years of continuing effort, activity over many years. English for his outstanding supervision and felt it was time that his exceptional of graduate students at our Department! supervision was recognized.” 4 Chronicles 15-0622 Dept of History Newsletter.qxp 11/12/15 3:13 PM Page 5

Departmental Passing… Professor. James S. Pritchard (;?=?-<:;>) by Professor James Stayer

unpublished, although expansion. For many years, the it was widely used and Europeanists in the History Department studied by scholars in shared the multi-section introductory his field. This work course, History 121, The Intellectual foreshadowed his con- Origins of the Contemporary West, on tinuing interest in the classics of the European intellectual shipping, New France, tradition. It was a way in which we and the French mar- learned to know and appreciate each itime empire in the other in ways that would not otherwise seventeenth and have been possible. In 1982 to 1985 Jim eighteenth centuries. also served a term as a very effective His first published undergraduate chair in the department, book, followed by his the most important administrative task promotion to full pro- besides the department chair. He fessor the following supervised some important Ph.D. theses year, was Louis XV’s – for instance, the 1989 thesis of Col. Navy (McGill-Queen’s, Jack English, who, as Col. English says, Jim Pritchard died at age seventy-five on 1987). Next came A Study of a Naval Dis- finished his degree “while still in army April 14, 2015. He started to teach in aster: The 5978 French Expedition to North uniform” and published it two years later the Queen’s History Department in America (McGill-Queen’s, 1995), which with Praeger as The Canadian Army and September 1968, and he took early was awarded the Keith Matthew Prize the Normandy Campaign: A Study of retirement in August 2000. More than by the Canadian Nautical Research Failure in High Command. As an under- any of us, he expanded and fulfilled his Societ y and a John Lyman Book Award graduate teacher of New France Jim achievement as a published scholar in from the North American Society for Pritchard helped launch two of his the years following his retirement. His Oceanic History. Following his retire- students into graduate work that led to death cut short still another promising ment came two more important books: their becoming prominent teachers of scholarly project. In Search of Empire, the French in the New France in Quebec universities: Americas, 5894-5964 (Cambridge Univer- Catherine Desbarats at McGill and He finished a year and a half in engi- sity Press, 2004), which was awarded Thomas Wien at Université De Montréal. neering at Queen’s but decided not to the Wallace K. Ferguson prize at the pursue an engineering career. While Jim has been married since 1965 to his CHA as the best book in European working in the National Archives in wife, Suzanne. They began their mar- history; and A Bridge of Ships. Canadian Ottawa he became attracted by histori- ried life with adventures like attending Shipbuilding during the Second World War cal research. At first taking evening the 1972 Osaka Olympics, getting pilots’ (McGill-Queen’s, 2011). More recently courses at , he licenses and owning a private airplane, he was working on studies of Canadian earned a B.A. from Carleton, then an and then went on to have two children, shipping, ship owning, and shipbuild- M.A. from the University of Western Laura and Michael, and a grandson, ing businesses on the Great Lakes Ontario, and then a Ph. D. from the Henry. The Faculty expresses its during the first half of the twentieth University of Toronto. His Ph.D. thesis sympathy to the Pritchard family century. Since he did not suffer a long was still incomplete when he came to at its loss. illness, his was truly a career of active Queen’s. It was finished as Ships, Men scholarship cut short by his death. and Commerce: A Study of Maritime Activity in New France (1971). Discour- In his teaching years at Queen’s Jim aged by difficulties as a stylist, he taught history courses on New France, allowed this first work to remain Quebec, and early modern European

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New Book: The A New Take on the New Book: Columbian Covenant Korean War A Scientific Way of War

Ann Choi won a University Student Summer Research Fellowship that funded her work on “Village Conflict in a Global War: A Reappraisal of the Korean War.” Choi undertook archival research at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC and oral interviews in Korea to write a history of the Korean War that looked beyond the conflict between capitalism and communism to see what motivated the violence that ripped apart so many rural villages. While recent scholarship has focused on the “the other war” that pitted rural Department Chair James Carson’s new peasants against rural elites in strug- Former doctoral student (CABB) Ian Hope’s book, The Columbian Covenant: Race and gles that predated the Japanese inva- book, A Scientific Way of War: Antebellum the Writing of American History, argues sion, Choi coined the phrase “the other Military Science, West Point, and the that from Christopher Columbus’s first armistice” to illustrate the innumerable Origins of American Military Thought, journal to the most recent books writ- peace agreements required to restore was just published by the University ten in American history, much of the village life after the official hostilities of Nebraska Press. Dr. Hope is on the writing of American history is prefig- came to an end. Choi is working with faculty of the NATO Defense College ured on the acceptance that race is a the University Library and the Queen’s in Rome. Congratulations Ian! legitimate way to categorize people. Research Data Centre to upload a web- In this way historians’ constant and site she has designed that will enable conventional reliance on the language public access to the interviews she Departmental of race means that in many ways the recorded with senior Koreans who Internships and the practice of United States history repro- spoke to her about the strife in their “Knowledge Capital duces the same racial categories it seeks villages. Ann worked under the super- to critique, displace, and demolish. vision of Prof. Carson and is currently Exchange” on exchange at St. Andrew’s University As one historian has commented, the Over the past year the Department has in Scotland. book “carefully traces the resilient and embarked on the creation of a “Knowl- persistent grip that race still holds on edge Capital Exchange” by which we our view of the past… [and] offers a connect undergraduate students with way out. Scrutinizing a vast literature Undergraduate community organizations in need of and written in an engaging manner, Classics Prize help to curate exhibits, write grant pro- The Columbian Covenant is a book that posals, or undertake historical research. In addition to a number of internship historians will need, and will want, to History Undergraduate Student, Will placements in the Queen’s University read.” Yet another has commented that McClelland, was recently awarded the Archives, we have also places students the book is “Remarkable in its sweep, Canadian Committee of Byzantinists’ with the City of Kingston’s Cultural provocative in its interpretation” and Annual Undergraduate Essay Prize for Services Department, the Royal that it “uncovers the linguistic snares, a piece he wrote in Dr. Greenfield’s, Military College and fort Frederick fashioned centuries ago, that still Hist 301 class. Congratulations Will for Museum, and the Kingston Association entrap all of those writing about the winning this national competition. American experience.” of Museums, Art Galleries, and Historic Sites. We hope to continue to build partnerships over the coming years and to also create similar opportunities for graduate students. 6 Chronicles 15-0622 Dept of History Newsletter.qxp 11/12/15 3:13 PM Page 7

Graduate Students’ Success

The Department of History enrols one Jackson Tait had a summer fellowship outdoor activities such as canoeing, of the largest graduate programs in the in the Program in Early American hiking, swimming and campfires. Faculty of Arts and Science. Each year Economy and Society at the Historical Matthew Barrett recently published, between 20 and 22 master’s students Society of Pennsylvania and the Library “‘Hero of the Half-Breed Rebellion’: join us in the study of history while Company of Philadelphia where he had Gabriel Dumont and Late Victorian around 75 PhD students call our pro- the opportunity to research 19th cen- Military Masculinity,” Journal of Canadian gram home. Among the many bright tury business records and to give a talk Studies, Vol. 48, No. 3, 79-107 and has spots in their achievements this past on his work. a forthcoming article co-written with year we would like to applaud: Angela Duffett took part in the Network Prof. Allan English in Canadian Military Leigh-Ann Coffee for winning the Annual in Canadian History and Environment Journal entitled, “Fallen on the Field of Departmental Thesis Prize. Field School in Ottawa in June. Partici- Honour?: Attitudes of the Canadian pants visited a number of sites related Public towards Suicides in the Canadian Tabitha Renaud won the School of to the capital region’s environmental Military, 1914-2014.” In November Graduate and Professional Studies volun- history including the Diefenbunker, he will present a paper at CIMVHR teer award for a graduate or professional Central Experimental Farm, and the old entitled, “Directly Attributable to student who makes an outstanding Domtar plant on the Ottawa River. Military Service: Institutional Attitudes contribution volunteering within the towards Suicide in the Canadian University and the wider community. Angela Duffett, Virginia Vandenberg, Military, 1915–2015.” Michael Couchman, and Patrick Corbeil Deirdre McCorkindale spoke at the 16th also decamped to Queen’s Biological For alumni who might be interested in annual John Brown Festival hosted by Research Station at Elbow Lake in finding the Graduate History Student the Chatham-Kent Black Historical So- August for the School of Graduate Association (GHSA) on social media ciety at the WISH Centre in Chatham. Studies’s “Dissertation on the Lake” – they are on facebook at McCorkindale is researching education a writing retreat with 4 nights and five facebook.com/queensghsa and on and intelligence testing that took place days of focussed writing time, with Twitter @queensghsa in the 1930s.

New Book: Pagan Virtue

Prof. Tony D’Elia’s new book Pagan Virtue Sigismondo’s court, D’Elia reveals new in a Christian World examines the court fault lines in the domains of culture, of Sigismondo Malatesta (1417–1468) life, and religion in Renaissance Italy. as a case study for the Renaissance Scholars have applauded the book as clash of pagan and Christian values. thoughtful, elegant, learned, and Sigismondo incorporated into a Chris- splendid. “Not many authors,” Prof. tian church an unprecedented number Margaret King wrote, “can combine of zodiac symbols and images of the high scholarship with dramatic Olympian gods and goddesses and narrative” like our Prof. D’Elia. had the body of the Greek pagan the- ologian Plethon buried there. In the literature and art that Sigismondo com- missioned, pagan virtues conflicted directly with Christian doctrine. Ambition was celebrated over humility, sexual pleasure over chastity, muscular athleticism over saintly asceticism, and astrological fortune over providence. In the pagan themes so prominent in

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