Past, Present & Future THE 2019 REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

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1 Letter from the Chair 2 Feinberg Lecture Series 6 Undergraduate Program News 7 Internship and Career Office 10 Spotlight on the Award Winners 11 Course Highlight: Asian/Pacific/American History 13 Greenbaum History Honors Research Fund 14 Honors Program News 15 Graduate Program News 16 Distinguished Annual Lecture 17 2019 Writer-in-Residence 19 From Marine to Historian 20 Graduate History Association 21 Public History Program News 26 Community Engagement News 28 Faculty News Amin Al-Madani. Leiden University, Speacial Collections, OR.18.097.S48:10 29 Our Newest Faculty Members 33 Farewell to Julio Capó Jr. 35 Interview with Sigrid Schmalzer RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 36 Emeriti News Amin ibn Hasan al-Halawani al-Madani (d. 1898)

37 Conficting Memories, Unreconciled This portrait of a kind-looking Medinan scholar seems rather unexceptional at Narratives first glance. Yet it attests to the remarkable story of how individual ingenuity, the 38 Student News development of cheaper and faster travel, and the expansion of Oriental studies in the Western academy came together towards the end of the nineteenth century 41 Alumni News to influence the possibilities for Arabic and Islamicate scholarship thereafter. 44 Reflections on the 2019 Alumni Dinner

45 New Books Al-Madani devoted himself to the pursuit of knowledge. A scholar of the life of the 47 Our Donors Prophet Muhammad, the Arabic language, Islamic law, and astronomy, as a young man he acquired his learning in Egypt, the Malabar Coast, Malaysia, Singapore, and Java. To fund his studies, he traded in manuscripts, a path that most scholars of the Islamic world followed for centuries. Yet in 1883, al-Madani made the rather bold decision to travel to the Universal Exposition in Amsterdam. Perhaps even more boldly, he decided to take more than 600 manuscripts along with him.

Once al-Madani arrived, his collection received little attention from buyers. That is, until representatives of the famous Dutch publishing firm, Brill, learned of his presence and agreed to purchase his books in order to re-sell them to European and North American collectors. Al-Madani’s manuscripts from this and later sales have since remained in libraries such as the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin and those of Princeton and Yale. They have informed, and continue to inform, the basis of Western scholars’ studies of the East.

On the cover: Barbara Krauthamer (senior vice provost for interdisciplinary programs and Al-Madani’s connection with Brill also enabled him to secure an invitation to the innovation, dean of the graduate school, and Sixth Oriental Congress in Leiden, where his picture was taken. This triennial professor of history) and Erica Armstrong Dunbar academic conference helped formalize Orientalism into a concerted scholarly (Rutgers University) present before a packed discipline. It amazed al-Madani to see studies of China, India, and Ancient Egypt audience of more than 400 students, faculty, merged together with the Arabic sciences, so much so that he wrote about what and community members at the Feinberg Series he saw in an account published in an Egyptian periodical. These impressions of event, “Escaping Slavery, Envisioning Freedom.” Oriental studies and Orientalists are the subject of my recent book chapter, “An Eastern Scholar’s Engagement with the European Study of the East.” —Kathryn Schwartz 2 LETTER FROM THE CHAIR

Once more, the passage of a We had many other engaging events. Claire year has brought new faces Bond Potter, a professor at the New School and a to the history department. founding editor of Public Seminar, spent a week This fall we were joined by last spring as our writer-historian in residence, two new faculty members. and spoke on clickbait, politics, and social media. Asheesh Siddique, a Martha Newman, of the University of Texas at historian of early America Austin, delivered the annual Distinguished Lecture and the British empire, of the UMass-Five College Graduate Program in came to Amherst from a History on the medieval monk Joseph of Schönau, postdoctoral position at Penn whom fellow monks treated as male in life but as a State University. Hadi Jorati, woman after death. Rafe Blaufarb, of Florida State a scholar of the history and University, spoke on the question of whether rulers culture of the medieval Middle East, came to the should enrich themselves, from the standpoint departments of history and Judaic and Near Eastern of early modern French law and politics. David studies from Ohio State University. We are delighted Fowler, of the University of Cambridge, addressed that they chose to join us! the role of American students in political activism in 1960s Britain. Finally, along with PhD student Ross We are also delighted to welcome two new Caputi, anthropologist Kali Rubaii and journalist permanent staff members: Undergraduate Program Feurat Alani spoke on memory, community, and Coordinator Enjoli Pescheta ’17 and Human restorative justice in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, and Resources and Finance Coordinator Stefanie screened Alani’s animated filmLe Parfum d’Irak Austin. They are both excellent additions to our (Scents of Iraq). That’s only a small sample of last community in Herter Hall. year’s activities, all of which underscored the value of history for understanding the world we live in. Congratulations are due to Anne Broadbridge, who was promoted to the rank of professor, I would like to thank Associate Chair Marla Miller, and to Jennifer Nye, who received a continuing Graduate Program Director Anna Taylor, and appointment as lecturer. Undergraduate Program Director Heidi Scott for serving with me. I would also like to thank our We bid a fond farewell to Julio Capó Jr., who has staff: Office ManagerAmy Fleig, Undergraduate joined the faculty of Florida International University Program Coordinator Enjoli Pescheta, Graduate in his hometown of Miami. We’ll miss you, Julio— Program Coordinator Mary Lashway, Human you’re always welcome in Amherst if the Florida Resources and Finance Coordinator Stefanie winters are too warm! Austin, Outreach Director Jessica Johnson, and temporary finance assistantMaria McKinney for This has been another intellectually stimulating keeping the department running smoothly and year. The biennial Feinberg Family Distinguished cheerily. I also thank our alumni, faculty, and friends Lecture Series brought a series of speakers to for their support, both moral and financial, of the discuss and debate the visions that revolutionary department’s activities. movements have worked to create. (For more on the Feinberg Series, see page 2.) In conjunction with Finally, I would like to thank Audrey Altstadt for the series, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II delivered the serving as chair during the 2019-20 academic year first James Baldwin lecture at UMass, which was while I am on sabbatical leave. Altstadt served attended by members of James Baldwin’s family. as chair from 2004 to 2010, and I am grateful to be Thanks to alumnus Allen Davis ’68 for making the leaving the department in her capable hands. Baldwin Lecture possible! —Brian Ogilvie, chair

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Carlos Henríquez Consalvi, Kevin Young, Rosa Rivera, and Diana Sierra Becerra present during the Feinberg series event on the Salvadoran Revolution.

Another World Is Possible Panel discussion on utopian movements in New England and Walidah Imarisha delivers a public address on the role of Israel. L-R: Ousmane Power-Greene, Sigrid Schmalzer, Lior Libman, THOUSANDS ATTEND 2018 FEINBERG FAMILY DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES science fiction and radical imagination in social movements. Kate Daloz, and Jasmine Burems. ON REVOLUTIONARY VISIONS, PAST AND PRESENT More than 300 people were in attendance and nearly 500 more tuned in through SoundCloud. Made possible through the generosity of alumnus Kenneth R. Feinberg ’67 and associates, the Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series is one of the History Department’s signature offerings. a conversation on the reemergence of the black radical and a current anti-racist intentional community in New York The series explores contemporary social and policy issues in historical perspective. Each iteration imagination, putting organizers Mary Hooks (Southerners state. A panel titled “Dreams and Nightmares” juxtaposed leftist hones in on a topic of pressing interest to faculty, students, and community members, using sustained on New Ground) and Kali Akuno (Cooperation Jackson) and rightist movements from around the world (including Nazi and critical historical analysis to deepen our collective understanding. in conversation with historians Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Germany, Maoist China, the Salvadoran revolution, and Modi- (Princeton) and Toussaint Losier (UMass Amherst). The era India) to ask tough questions about why fundamentally “Since moving to Massachusetts, the Feinberg Series has been one of the most incredible, following week featured a panel with Carlos Henríquez Consalvi oppressive visions have appeared liberatory to some people, engaging, and stimulating events in the area — and, frankly — that I have stumbled upon and Rosa Rivera, two participants in the Salvadoran Revolution and how movements for liberation have often resulted in anywhere. Being able to learn from such dynamic thinkers on the most important issues that who now lead community-based public memory projects in El maintaining or creating new forms of oppression. Other events Salvador. included a conversation between historians and activists on the we face today was an incredible opportunity that has not only deepened my understanding significance of historical lessons for domestic worker movements of the world we live in, but also contributed to my work as a coordinator and researcher on a Later that month, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II delivered as they envision a just future; a lecture on the history of science local and international level. The Feinberg Series is truly the nexus for leading intellectual the keynote address and inaugural James Baldwin Lecture, fiction and social change; a zine-making workshop for high discussions and debate that are crucial for our time. As it came to an end, I was saddened to established by Allen J. Davis ’68. In an event that drew some school students on sparking historical creativity; an event learn that the theme changes every year, and I hope to be able to attend similar events this 1,300 people to the Fine Arts Center, Barber, who is co-chair of exploring Venezuela’s communes in historical perspective; and coming year and beyond.” — Northampton Resident the national Poor People’s Campaign and a MacArthur Genius a dialogue between two historians on the ways enslaved and Award winner, discussed the history of Reconstruction that formerly enslaved African American women conceived and followed Emancipation and the “second” Reconstruction of the experienced freedom. Marking the 50th anniversary of the mass movements of 1968, last year’s series explored the theme 1960s. He then made the case for a “third” Reconstruction in the “Another World Is Possible: Revolutionary Visions, Past and Present.” Sigrid Schmalzer, who co- twenty-first century, entailing “a profoundly moral awakening The fall semester events were mostly panels and lectures. In chaired the series with Kevin Young and Jess Johnson, explained, “From climate change to white of justice-loving people united in a fusion coalition powerful the spring term, the focus shifted to hands-on workshops. supremacism to the threat of nuclear war, the future of our society feels increasingly uncertain. But enough to reclaim the possibility of democracy.” For example, participants aged 8 to 80 explored Mesoamérica history is filled with precarious situations and uphill battles, and social movements around the world Resiste, a narrative poster depicting 500 years of colonialism have faced those challenges and dared to envision new worlds based on equity and justice. We focused Throughout the fall, events continued to demonstrate the and resistance, created through a nine-year oral history project. on this theme so that we might learn from how such movements imagined the future—and how they significance of historical inquiry for understanding current The series capstone in Holyoke turned the tables, featuring have worked to create it.” political movements. In “Imagining Community, Living community members as workshop facilitators. in Community,” panelists found connections between the In order to foster critical conversation on the history of social movements and their visions for Socialist-Zionist kibbutzim of the early twentieth century and Building on the successful 2016 series on mass incarceration political transformation, many of the events brought together historians and movement leaders 1970s back-to-the-land communities in Vermont, and between and taking up the charge of the UMass Amherst Campus or featured presenters whose work straddles both worlds. The series kicked off in September with Sojourner Truth’s 1840s abolitionist society in Florence, Mass., Strategic Plan, the series prioritized community engagement and

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II delivers the Feinberg Series Keynote Address and Inaugural James Baldwin Lecture.

JASON KOTOCH Community members Justin Helepololei, Jose Lugo, and Abby Diana Sierra Becerra, Jennifer Guglielmo, Linda Burnham, Graseck explore snippets of Mesoamérica Resiste during a breakout and Monique Nguyen participate in a conversation between session at the Beehive Collective workshop. historians and activists on how domestic worker movements outreach, which was facilitated in large part by series co-chair are drawing lessons from the past. and department outreach director Jess Johnson. We are proud Power-Greene (Clark University and David Ruggles Center that upwards of 20 community organizations collaborated with for History & Education) in developing this offering for the history department as official co-sponsors of the series! We teachers. encourage you to turn to the Community Engagement Update for highlights. As a testament to the series’ success, each event brought together between 200 and 450 students, faculty, and To facilitate engagement on our campus, 34 UMass and community members. Astoundingly, more than 1,300 Five College departments and programs co-sponsored the people attended the keynote lecture by Rev. Dr. William J. series. Taught by co-chair Kevin Young, the Department Barber II. In total, an estimated 4,000 people participated of History’s official Feinberg course, “New Approaches to in series events. An additional 1,450 people (and counting) History: Revolutionary Visions, Past and Present,” provided an listened to the series podcast, and countless more viewed opportunity for students to deepen their learning while earning the Facebook livestream, making it one of the most well- general education credit in history. The course examined when attended academic series ever offered by UMass Amherst. and how revolutionaries have improved society, where they have failed, and why some radical projects have been emancipatory Beyond the numbers, feedback from participants has and others oppressive. “I really enjoyed the fact that this course underscored the impact the series made on their lives and surveyed a lot of different revolutionary movements,” noted on UMass community relations. Community members an undergraduate enrolled in the class. “Most history majors who had not often come to campus for events attended don’t get exposure to revolutionary movements outside their Sita Magnuson of Easthampton, Massachusetts, creates a graphic recording this series regularly, and have since begun attending other particular region or theme of interest. This unique course was of a community-based visioning session held in preparation for the Feinberg university events. “This series sparked my interest in really valuable in that aspect.” Twenty-two additional UMass Series capstone. history. I left each event with more books I want to read and and Five College courses — including 10 history department with historical insights that changed the way I understand classes — were officially affiliated with the series, and numerous the world,” remarked a local educator who attended all but others incorporated class field trips to Feinberg Series events into “As a recent alum, the Feinberg Family Distinguished two events. Participants made new connections, leading their course syllabi. to exciting collaborations and projects, including a local Lecture Series was one of my main connections back to Traci Parker delivers opening remarks before the Feinberg Series event teacher who is proposing a new high school class based on campus last year. I was elated that this series brought marking the culmination of the All Hamptons Read initiative. We also extended the reach of the series into local K-12 what she learned in the series. Many community members classrooms. Not only did we host several groups of young people politically relevant histories and the critical questions reached out to us to share how the histories presented in at various events, but 45 teachers attended Feinberg events and of our time to community members and students the events transformed their understanding of the world. several additional teacher workshops as part of the 2018-2019 throughout the Pioneer Valley.” ­ Several went so far to say that the series changed their life! History Institute for K-12 Educators. Participating teachers —2018 UMass Amherst alum The history department is honored to have offered such a We invite you to tune in. Audio of select Feinberg Family received professional development points or graduate credit and meaningful series of opportunities for people throughout Distinguished Lecture Series events is available at built lesson plans for students based on the events; all reported western Massachusetts to gather in critical conversation www.soundcloud.com/umass-history. that they applied insights from the series in their schools and and community collaboration. classrooms. We were grateful to partner with Safire DeJong (the Collaborative for Educational Services) and Ousmane — Jess Johnson, Sigrid Schmalzer, and Kevin Young

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The academic year was marked by a great academic year. This year, the Richard W. public events. Students had opportunities variety of stimulating events, activities, and Bauer Scholarship for Summer Internships to explore the themes of the series through initiatives that relate to the Department was awarded to the following six students: the official Feinberg Series course taught of History’s undergraduate program. Kathrine Esten, Ali Hussein Kafel ’19, Eric by Kevin Young, as well as through a Before giving an overview of these events Ross, William Sennott ’19, Rebecca Simons, selection of independent studies that allowed I’d like to express my gratitude to the and Andrea Whalen. Richard W. Bauer, who undergraduates to make critical connections members of the Undergraduate Studies established this fund to support internships, between the series and other courses that Committee—Sarah Cornell, Jennifer also pursued a degree in history. were offered at UMass Amherst, Amherst Heuer, Jason Moralee, Enjoli Pescheta, College, and Smith College. The generosity Samuel Redman, and Kathryn Schwartz. The department was delighted to welcome of renowned attorney and alumnus Kenneth They provided valuable contributions to back Robert LaRussa ’76—an alumnus and R. Feinberg ’67 continues to make this series carrying forward the work of previous years, Washington, DC-based international trade possible and greatly enriches the learning in reviewing the undergraduate program and national security council expert with and experiences of our undergraduates.

and its requirements, and to carrying out global law firm Shearman & Sterling LLP—to ’Tay Burton receives the Paul E. Giguere Scholarship. In Conor Morrissey ’19 presents his work at the Undergraduate Research Symposium. the challenging but rewarding task of work with history undergraduates. This year, The final weeks of the spring semester addition to being an award-winning student, Burton is also an selecting recipients for the department’s LaRussa taught an upper-level independent brought numerous celebrations that undergraduate staff assistant in the history department. undergraduate awards and prizes. study entitled Navigating Washington, highlighted undergraduate student which examines international trade policy achievements. These included the Phi Thanks are also due to Mark Roblee‘19PhD, in Washington. Alpha Theta dinner, organized by Garrett the department’s internship and career Washington, to celebrate the admission advisor. In addition to successfully defending 2018-19 saw the biennial Feinberg Family of history majors into the Phi Alpha Theta his PhD dissertation in the spring, he Distinguished Lecture Series, this time on the History Honor Society, and a breakfast for continued his invaluable work providing theme of revolutionary movements. Entitled graduating seniors and their families, held Undergraduate Internship and Career Office guidance to students as they consider their “Another World Is Possible: Revolutionary in the airy and pleasant space of the UMass future pathways and helping them secure Visions, Past and Present,” the series Amherst Fine Arts Center. In April, we also The history department’s Internship & Archives (Rebecca Simons), the Gilbert skills such as strategic résumé writing, internships for the summer months and the offered a plethora of lectures and other held our annual Undergraduate Awards Career Development Office continues Stuart Birthplace and Museum (Kathrine networking, and interviewing but also to thrive, offering vital support to history Esten), the Council of American-Islamic teaches students to articulate the important majors by helping them connect their Relations (Ali Hussein Kafel), Martha’s skills they acquire as history majors study of history to meaningful work and Vineyard Magazine (William Sennott that employers value: critical thinking, lifelong learning in the world. Students ’19), the Program on Extremism at George research, writing, information processing, take advantage of internship and career Washington University (Eric Ross), and presentation, and empathy. To learn more advising services, workshops, alumni the UMass Museum of Contemporary Art about how this support impacts students, we engagement, and a career development (Andrea Whalen). New career development encourage you to visit the Internship and practicum offered each semester. workshops included Discrimination and Career Development page on the history Social Justice in the Workplace, with the department website to view video testimony Last year, the internship and career department’s lecturer in law and social by Kady McGann. development advisor, Mark Roblee ’19PhD, justice, Jennifer L. Nye, and the UMass took five history majors to the Mount Ida Office of Equity and Inclusion’s director of This year Heather Brinn has taken the campus for a three-day “job shadow” over diversity special projects, Emmanuel Adero. helm as Internship Coordinator as Mark spring break. Making good use of Mount steps into his new role as Alumni Relations Ida’s proximity to Boston, students met Once again students had the chance to Coordinator. with history alumni at a variety of work mingle with history alumni from a variety sites, including the Honorable David A. of fields at our annual Spring History If you are interested in sharing your career Lowy ’83 at the Massachusetts Supreme Alumni Networking Dinner. Traveling from story as a UMass history major out in the Judicial Court and Jennifer Jordan ’91 at the Washington, DC, to UMass each week, world or would like to engage a history educational nonprofit City Year. alumnus Robert L. LaRussa ’76 engaged intern, please write to internships@history. history majors in a seminar on international umass.edu. With support from the Richard W. trade designed to help students learn what —Mark Roblee Bauer Scholarship, summer internship it takes to navigate a career in Washington. placements this year included the National In general, our program focuses on basic

2019 Phi Alpha Theta inductees. L-R: Spencer Reynolds, Michael Chrzanowski, Michael Turner, Molly McCusker, Kathrine Esten, Kendall Brinson, and Ben Daley.

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History majors Kendall Brinson Kathrine Esten leads a site tour during her summer internship at UMass students meet with Honorable David A. Lowy ’83 at the Massachusetts (left) and Tim Belgrad (right) the Gilbert Stuart Birthplace in Rhode Island. Supreme Judicial Court in Boston. L-R: Michael Chrzanowski, Andvrea Whalen, with a friend at the Phi Alpha Samuel Ford ’19, David A. Lowy, ’Tay Burton, and Annie Fielding. Theta ceremony.

Ceremony, an event that brings together Movement,” which she wrote in a course was established by Professor Emeritus students and their families, faculty, and taught by Jennifer Fronc. Conor Morrissey Ron Story to recognize history majors who donors to mark the end of the semester over ’19, who wrote a paper entitled “Make Rome have made outstanding contributions to the food and conversation, and to celebrate the Great Again: Populism in the Ancient World” department’s undergraduate program. recipients of a range of academic awards. in a course offered by Jason Moralee, won the short-essay category. Two students received The James and Cynthia Redman Scholarship This year, Emilia Billett ’19, Elijah honorable mentions: Caroline Boston ’19, for honors the life of James O. Redman, who, Goodman ’19, Brook Hansel ’19, and Jeremy a long essay entitled “Trials of Change: How after completing a degree in history at the Knight ’19 received the Harold W. Cary the Civil War shaped Modern Perceptions University of Minnesota, pursued legal study Prize. Named after a former faculty member of Rape” (for Sarah Cornell’s course) and and established a successful career as an in the Department of History, this award Simon Koch-Sultan, for his short essay attorney in Minnesota. This scholarship is made annually to those students who “Capitalism and Slavery” (for LaShonda supports deserving history majors, receive the highest GPA in history courses. Barnett’s course). particularly first-generation university The department also awarded the Robert students, those who wish to pursue a teaching H. McNeal Scholarship to Brook Hansel. Kendall Brinson, Michael Chrzanowski, career, and veterans. Three students— The scholarship, named for the 1970s-era and Kyran Doyle Schnur ’19 were honored Isabelle Eastman, Avia Ferrande ’19, and department chair, honors graduating with the History Opportunity Award Joel Flores ’19—were this year’s recipients. students who have received the highest for their laudable work as editors of the overall GPA in their UMass courses. Undergraduate History Journal. Edited and Many of our undergraduates aspire to published by undergraduates, the journal teaching careers, and the Nicholas Carr The history department awards the Louis showcases essays written by history majors. Bergstein Scholarship primarily supports Greenbaum Writing Prize to students who Garrett Washington provided the impetus history majors who are striving to become have produced outstanding history papers. for the establishment of the journal three teachers, and in particular those who actively Addie Handricken ’19 won in the long- years ago, and both he and Daniel Gordon demonstrate a commitment to fostering essay category for “Policing Reproduction: have since worked tirelessly as its faculty diversity and inclusion in the academic UMass-Oxford Summer Seminar participants. Margaret Sanger and the Eugenics advisors. The History Opportunity Award sphere and beyond. This scholarship

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commemorates Nicholas Carr Bergstein, a an internship at the Edward M. Kennedy Ermonian recipients were: Lily Abrahams ’19, UMass history student who wished to become Institute in Boston, where she interpreted Emilia Billett ’19, Jack Blay ’19, Christopher a high school teacher but who, very sadly, exhibits on the Troubles in Northern Ireland. DePalma ’19, Ryan Desrosiers ’19, Shannon passed away in 2015. This year, the award to Emmett ’19, Nathan Giacalone ’19, Brook Brook Hansel ’19 who, alongside her study of In addition, Kathrine Esten received the Hansel ’19, Daniel Riley ’19, Jacob Shore ’18, history and Spanish, has worked very hard Frederic Gilbert Bauer Award, along with Garrett Stevens ’18, John Tibbetts ’19, and Spotlight on the Award Winners to gain diverse pedagogical experiences in Maia Fudala, Erin Hunter, Casey Moriarty, Genevieve Weidner ’18. local schools. Austin Schofield, Michael Turner, and Elizabeth Webb. The award supports I would like to conclude by expressing my Paul E. Giguere, a military veteran and students who have been accepted for the heartfelt thanks to Enjoli Pescheta, who was history teacher, established the Paul E. Oxford Summer Seminar. Bauer (1881-1964) hired in the fall of 2018 as the department’s Giguere Scholarship to honor history was a lawyer with a deep appreciation for undergraduate program coordinator, taking undergraduates, especially those who are history who published work on the American over from Suzanne Bell, who retired in May of interested in pursuing a career in teaching or Revolution. He was the father of Richard last year. The smooth and successful running writing, as well as students who have served W. Bauer, whose fund supports student of the Undergraduate Awards Ceremony in the military. This year, the scholarship internships (see p.3). and additional events throughout the year, was awarded to ’Tay Burton and Makhai along with many other vital aspects of the Dickerson-Pells. The Simon and Sateng Ermonian Memorial day-to-day functioning of the undergraduate Scholarship was created by Krikor program, simply could not have happened The David H. Mac Donnell Scholarship Ermonian ‘52 in honor of his parents. A without Enjoli, and I very much look forward primarily supports students who have graduate of the UMass Amherst School to working with her in the coming year. interests in Irish or British history. This of Engineering, the late Krikor Ermonian year, the award went to Kathrine Esten, was also deeply interested in history. The —Heidi Scott Brook Hansel, the recipient of this year’s Kathrine Esten is the proud recipient of this Brittany Frederick is this year’s recipient who is studying Irish and wider European scholarship recognizes student excellence, Nicholas Carr Bergstein Scholarship, year’s David H. MacDonnell Scholarship, of an award from the Joyce A. Berkman history at UMass and who also completed particularly in history courses. This year’s embodies the spirit of the award established which was established to support and Endowed Fund in Women’s History and by Bergstein’s parents to honor his exemplary encourage students studying history, with a Women’s Studies. During the summer of life. Hansel is studying history and intends to preference for a student specializing in Irish 2019, Frederick used the award to conduct become a middle school teacher in a Spanish- or British history. Esten is passionate about archival research at Spelman College and speaking community in Massachusetts. She pursuing a career in cultural diplomacy, Valdosta State University in Georgia for her will move a step closer to her career goals through which she intends to promote dissertation, “The Capstone of My Education: with a Fulbright Award to teach in Spain “international engagement through shared Black Women, Student Power, and the in the coming year. Hansel plans to return history, with an emphasis on Great Britain.” Freedom Struggle in Higher Education, 1965- to campus to pursue her master’s degree in This summer, Esten traveled with a cohort 1975.” “Dr. Berkman’s commitment to uplift me education. of UMass and Five College students to study as a scholar has made an invaluable impact for six weeks at the Oxford Summer Seminar on the scope and strength of my dissertation, “I’m passionate about creating innovative in England. Upon her return, she has started which explores the impact of Black women in ways to engage all learners and bring on her thesis on the European Olympic higher education during the Civil Rights and Students and community members gather after the culminating event of the Asian/Pacific/American students’ diverse perspectives, ideas, and movement before and during the first World Black Power Movements,” Frederick noted. history class oral history project. experiences into the classroom,” she says. War. “With the help of this scholarship, I am COURSE HIGHLIGHT Nicholas Carr Bergstein, a rising sophomore able to pursue international opportunities Joyce Berkman, who retired after 48 years of oral history project, students interviewed Commonwealth of Massachusetts and history major, had planned to become a and research the complexities of modern teaching in 2013, is a pioneer in the field of members of the Bhutanese, Filipino, Councilor Jesse Lederman of the city of history teacher before his untimely death. He European history,” she wrote. women’s history. Berkman has continued her Asian/Pacific/ Vietnamese, and Cambodian American Springfield attended the presentation valued “curiosity, intelligence, and integrity” research into her retirement (for a glimpse communities in Western Massachusetts, to and expressed their support. This and described himself as “engaged, self- David Mac Donnell ’66 served for 17 years into what she’s been up to this year, see page American History: preserve and honor the lives of members course was made possible through the motivated, creative, dependable, and as a Central Intelligence Agency operations 36). Her pioneering work in women’s history of these underserved Asian American generous financial support of the history cooperative.” With the commonalities officer in Africa and Latin America and is also carried forward by her numerous 1850s-Present communities. department, Commonwealth Honors between Hansel and Bergstein, the faculty subsequently had a 30-year career with students, who are now teaching and College, the UMass Civic Engagement award committee was thrilled to select Merrill Lynch. Mac Donnell’s belief in researching at institutions across the globe, On December 1, 2018, students in “History A new addition to this semester’s project and Service Learning Program, and Hansel as this year’s scholarship recipient. the importance of studying history and and now, by the graduate students who 253H: Asian/Pacific/American History” was the videotaping of interviews. the Asian American Commission of commitment to subsequent generations receive the Joyce A. Berkman Endowed Fund presented their oral history projects at the Interviewees, their families, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. of scholars led him to establish the award in Women’s History and Women’s Studies. UMass Center in Springfield. The activity members of the communities were able The videos are uploaded to the Special in 1995. was the culmination of a semester’s honors to view these 20-minute videos at the Collections and University Archives at the — Lucia Miller course on learning about the history of event. In addition to other community W.E.B. Du Bois Library and are available to Asian Americans, as well as the concepts members, the chair and officers of the the public. and methods of civic engagement. For the Asian American Commission of the — Richard Chu

10 11 2019 UNDERGRADUATE AWARD WINNERS The Department of History’s generous donors make these awards possible. For more on these awards, the student recipients, and the named benefactors, see the undergraduate program update on page 6.

Harold. W. Cary Prize James and Cynthia Redman Scholarship Richard W. Bauer Scholarships for Emilia Billett ’18 Isabelle Eastman Summer Internships Elijah Goodman ’19 Avia Ferrande ’19 Kathrine Esten Brook Hansel ’19 Joel Flores ’19 Ali Hussein Kafel ’19 Jeremy Knight ’19 Eric Ross William Sennott ’19 New Award Nicholas Carr Bergstein Scholarship Rebecca Simons Robert H. McNeal Scholarship Brook Hansel ’19 Andrea Whalen Brook Hansel ’19

Paul E. Giguere Scholarship in History Supports Simon & Sateng Ermonian Memorial Louis S. Greenbaum History Writing ’Tay Burton Scholarships Prizes Makhai Dickerson-Pells Lily Abrahams ’19 Addie Handricken ’19 (Long Essay) Emilia Billett ’19 Conor Morrissey ’19 (Short Essay) Jack Blay ’19 Undergraduate David H. Mac Donnell Prize Caroline Boston ’19 Christopher DePalma ’19 Kathrine Esten (Long Essay - Honorable Mention) Ryan Desrosiers ’19 Simon Koch-Sultan Shannon Emmett ’19 (Short Essay - Honorable Mention) Frederic Gilbert Bauer Awards/Oxford Nathan Giacalone ’19 Research Summer Scholarships Brook Hansel ’19 Kathrine Esten Daniel Riley ’19 History Opportunity Award Maia Fudala Jacob Shore ’18 Kendall Brinson Louis Greenbaum and his wife, Hilda Erin Hunter Garrett Stevens ’18 Michael Chrzanowski Greenbaum, at the dedication of the Casey Moriarty John Tibbetts ’19 Kyran Doyle Schnur ’19 Louis & Hilda Greenbaum Gallery in 2014. Austin Schofield Genevieve Weidner ’18 Michael Turner Elizabeth Webb

Thanks to a generous gift from Hilda As practicing historians know, libraries and Greenbaum, the history department will archives are the historian’s laboratory: they offer its inaugural awards from the Louis are the places where we gather the data Greenbaum History Honors Research Fund that results in new historical knowledge and in spring 2020. Established in memory of interpretation. By establishing this fund, Professor Emeritus Louis Greenbaum, a Greenbaum and the history department will founder of the honors program at UMass give honors thesis writers the opportunity to Amherst, the History Honors Research Fund spend time investigating historical sources provides awards to support the research of in more depth than is often possible during history majors who are writing an honors the academic year, when courses and other thesis. Each spring, the fund will provide responsibilities interfere with sustained one or more awards to rising seniors who research. The application process will also have identified an honors thesis topic that encourage students to begin thinking about requires travel to a research collection, a thesis topic and finding a faculty advisor the acquisition of research material by the in the fall or winter of their junior year. We UMass Libraries, or other research expenses are grateful to Hilda Greenbaum for making such as conducting and transcribing oral this award possible! history interviews. — Brian Ogilvie

2019 undergraduate award recipients.

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In 2018-19, the history department’s honors in the late Cold War. Kyran Doyle Schnur research symposium, ensuring that it was 2018-19 was another full and eventful year As usual, this academic year was full of States and beyond, including the annual con- program enjoyed another enriching ’19 undertook a comparative study of urban a meaningful event for the friends and for the UMass Amherst/Five College Grad- events and other offerings, many of which ferences of the National Council on Public academic year. Our faculty offered a policing in the early twentieth-century colleagues who gathered to celebrate our uate Program in History. We kicked off the are detailed elsewhere in the pages of this History, the American Association of State rich array of courses, including Richard Americas. William Sennott ’19 explored students. As several faculty members noted, semester with an orientation and depart- newsletter. In October, the graduate pro- and Local History, the Latin American Stud- Chu’s “Asian/Pacific/American History: the history of the stone walls on Martha’s this event is always the highlight of our end- ment-wide luncheon welcoming the incom- gram welcomed Martha G. Newman of the ies Association, and the Society for Historians 1850s-Present” (see page 11 for more), Julio Vineyard and presented his research at of-year activities, and this year’s was no ing cohort of 14 graduate students, including University of Texas Austin, who delivered of American Foreign Relations, as well as the Capó’s “U.S. LGBT and Queer History,” and the statewide Undergraduate Research exception. ten MA students and four PhD students. Many the 2018 Distinguished Annual Lecture ti- International Conference on Peace and Con- Jennifer Heuer’s “Topics in European History: Conference, held at UMass on April 26, 2019. — Jennifer Fronc were recipients of Hyde summer fellowships tled, “Assigned Female at Death: Joseph of flict Resolution at Tehran University and an Sex and Society.” and/or teaching assistantships, and two are Schönau’s Disruption of Medieval Gender international conference on memory studies Each year history students have the recipients of the university’s Research En- Binaries.” For more, see page 16. This spring, at Oxford University. We are grateful to our The senior thesis is the capstone experience opportunity to present their research at the hancement and Leadership (REAL) diversity offerings included the Graduate History As- donors, whose generous contributions sup- for students pursuing departmental honors in history department’s research symposium, fellowship, which provides PhD students with sociation Conference and several additional port graduate student travel to conferences history, and every year, several students take which was held in April. In addition to our mentoring and four summers of funding. GHA-sponsored events (page 20); a lecture and to the archives throughout the world that on this challenge, guided by a faculty advisor. four thesis writers, Luke Preti ’19 and Connor Honors history students at the and various gatherings with writer in resi- form the basis of their work. This year, Lily Abrahams ’19 wrote a thesis Morrissey ’19 presented their research on undergraduate research symposium. This year, we offered a range of graduate lev- dence Claire Bond Potter (page 17); and an L-R: Nathan Giacalone ’19, Kyran examining gender history in late colonial Alexander the Great, and Rebecca Simons el courses. Fall course subjects included Ger- event organized by PhD student Ross Caputi, Many history graduate students also made Schnur ’19, Conor Morrissey ’19, Luke Tunisia and Algeria. Nathan Giacalone ’19 presented her research for the Dr. Seuss Preti ’19, Lily Abrahams ’19, Rebecca man history; digital history; public history; stemming from his recently published book contributions to the local history community. looked at the US Strategic Defense Initiative museum. Enjoli Pescheta organized the Simons, and William Sennott ’19. history and sustainability; the global history The Sacking of Fallujah: A People’s History To share just a few examples, Emma Winter of Zionism, Palestine, and Israel; the history (page 19). There was also a strong showing Zeig ‘19MA and Amelia Zurcher ‘19MA of sexuality in the Americas; a professional of history department graduate students in worked on Historic Northampton’s exhibition, development practicum; and of course, the attendance at the numerous Feinberg Series Chaotic Freedom and the Scars of Slavery: introductory graduate seminar. In the spring, events (page 2), at other departmental talks From Baton Rouge to Northampton, which students studied European historiography; (see “Letter From the Chair” on page 1), at the was co-curated by Emeritus Professor Bruce nineteenth-century US history; the history of various public history program events (page Laurie. The exhibit examined an iconic image US culture and conflicts in the Asian Pacific; 21), and at the numerous cross-campus and of the Civil War and was based on Laurie’s oral history; empire and nation states; muse- Five College events and initiatives that make e-book published by the Massachusetts um studio; and more. Throughout the year, UMass such a rich place to study history. Review. Working with outreach director Jess students enrolled in numerous independent Johnson, Marwa Amer, Adeline Broussan, studies, working directly with faculty in their Not just students of history, UMass graduate and Amelia Zurcher contributed to this fields. We are proud to offer such a diverse students are also active contributors to the year’s High School History Academy, which array of classes, well suited to the diversity of discipline. This year, graduate students pre- welcomed dozens of middle and high school specialties among our students and faculty. sented at conferences throughout the United students to campus to learn about college life

THESES PRESENTED AT THE 2019 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

Lily Abrahams ’19, “Lost Perspectives: Uncovering Gendered History Kyran Doyle Schnur ’19, “Enforcing the Modernizing Dream: in Late Colonial Algeria and Tunisia” Urban Policing and Modernization in the Turn of the Twentieth Century Americas” Nathan Giacalone ’19, “A Shield of Promises: The Impact of the Strategic Defense Initiative on the Late Cold War” William Sennott ’19, “Writ in Stone” L-R: Ann E. Robinson ’19PhD, Chris Fobare ’19PhD, Conor Morrissey ’19, “Plutarch’s Alexander: Divine Intervention, Rebecca Simons, “Sparking Imagination: The Early Education of John Higgins ’19PhD, Heroism, and Hilarity in One of Antiquity’s Most Magnanimous Dr. Seuss” Kendall Taivalkoski ’19MA, Butchers” Amelia Zurcher ’19MA, Emma Winter Zeig ’19MA, Luke Preti ’19, “The Battlefield Casualties of Alexander the Great: Perri Meldon ’19MA, Fact or Myth” Amanda Goodheart ’19PhD, and Erica Fagen ’19PhD

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and the study of history and to conduct original research in the university archives (page 27).

The year culminated in the annual Graduate Awards Ceremony during which we recognized graduate student excellence in teaching, research, and writing. See page 18 for a full

list of award winners. We were delighted to be Martha Newman joined by Joyce Berkman and Charles K. Hyde ‘66, who—among other generous donors—make 2018 UMass/Five College these awards possible.

The awards ceremony is also an opportunity Program in History to celebrate the accomplishments of the 2019 Claire Bond Potter degree recipients. PhD recipients graduating Distinguished Annual Lecture this past May include Erica Fagen, Christopher Professor, historian, editor, and blogger Claire The highlight of Potter’s visit was her public Fobare, Amanda Goodheart, John Higgins, On October 11, 2018, we were delighted to welcome Martha G. Newman of the Bond Potter visited UMass Amherst March 18-22 lecture on “Clickbait, Hashtags, and Viral Ann Robinson, and Mark Roblee. Jacob University of Texas at Austin for the 2018 UMass/Five College Program in History 2019 Writer as the department’s 14th writer in residence, a Rage: Writing Politics on Social Media—and Boucher, Rebecca Lorfils, Perri Meldon, Distinguished Annual Lecture. Newman presented a lecture titled, “Assigned program made possible by to the generosity of How We Can Do Better.” The talk examined and Kendall Taivalkoski. Emmanuel Sosa, Female at Death: Joseph of Schönau’s Disruption of Medieval Gender Binaries,” Five Colleges, Inc. Potter, a professor of history how viral clickbait videos, like the one Emma Winter Zeig, Lindsey Woolcock, and in which she discussed a late twelfth-century account of a transgender monk. in Residence: at the New School, has a long history of writing purporting to show a confrontation between Amelia Zurcher received MAs this past Joseph’'s brother monks read him as male during his lifetime, but assigned him for diverse audiences in multiple genres. Her a Covington High School student and a September. Boucher, Meldon, Taivalkoski, female after his death. Discussing her groundbreaking article, published in Claire Bond first book,War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men and Native American activist, are designed to Winter Zeig, Woolcock, and Zurcher were Speculum in 2003, Newman discussed how the rapidly transforming field of the Politics of Mass Culture, was published by provoke outrage on both sides of controversial also recipients of public history certificates transgender studies has shaped her understanding of Joseph’s narrative since Rutgers University Press. In 2006 she started issues, further inflaming passions, and how along with Sharon Mehrman ‘19PhCert. then. The Cistercian monk Engelhard of Langheim, who included the account Potter her blog, Tenured Radical, which moved to shadowy networks of trolls and bots work to of Joseph among the collection of stories he sent to nuns, attempted to control the the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2011. She spread both video clips and false narratives As always, the program is buoyed by graduate story’s gender fluidity, but was unable to do so. “Despite the author’s efforts to was one of the founders of Public Seminar, surrounding them. She further noted that even program coordinator Mary Lashway and by assert normative categories of gender, his story unsettled conventional binaries,” where she is executive editor, and she is the after she provided substantial evidence that staff and faculty across the history department. Newman explains. Newman’s work on Joseph recovers important transgender creator of the podcast Exiles on 12th Street, the Covington narrative was false, many of We are grateful for all that you do. history and, as she says, “illuminates the possibility of non-binary genders within produced with Public Seminar’s podcast team. her friends and colleagues were so attached medieval monastic culture.” She regularly writes for publications such as to their understanding of the event that they We look forward to welcoming our new graduate — Anna Taylor the New York Times, the Washington Post, the ignored the evidence. She urged journalists cohort in the fall. Guardian, Dissent, the Village Voice, Inside and historians to apply the same careful, Higher Education, and Jacobin. With Renee balanced scrutiny to viral videos that we apply Romano, she is the editor of two books, Doing to claims from other sources, and to beware Recent History and Historians on Hamilton. of the way that social media, by appealing to MA THESES emotion, often leads us to bypass our critical While in Amherst, Potter visited Sam Redman’s and skeptical faculties. Perri Meldon, “Interpreting Access: A History of Accessibility and Disability Representations in the National Park Service” course, “Theory and Method of Oral History” Emmanuel Sosa, “Brisca History: Early Transatlantic Societies Martinique and Guadeloupe in the 17th and Early 18th Century” and Audrey Altstadt’s junior year writing Potter will address these and related themes Emma Winter Zeig, “‘Nothing Material Occurred’: The Maritime Captures That Caused Then Outlasted the United States’ Quasi War seminar, “Putin: The Man and His Methods.” in her forthcoming book, Political Junkies: with France” She met with faculty in history and in women, From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Amelia Zurcher, “Unsettling East Jersey: Borders of Violence in the Proprietary Era, 1666-1719” gender, sexuality studies, and held office Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our PhD DISSERTATIONS hours for graduate students and faculty to Democracy, to be published by Basic Books in talk about writing and publishing for non- the spring of 2020. Erica Fagen, “Hashtag Holocaust: Negotiating Memory in the Age of Social Media” academic audiences. In the process she found — Brian Ogilvie Christopher Fobare, “A Generational Divide: The Reconstruction of American Party Politics, 1865-1912” new contributors for Public Seminar. She also Amanda Goodheart, “‘No Seas Can Now Divide US’: Captains’ Wives, Sister Sailors, and the New England Whalefishery, 1840-1970” joined department faculty for a discussion John Higgins, “Literary Culture in Early Christian Ireland: Hiberno-Latin Saints’ Lives as a Source for Seventh Century Irish History” of how we can best create assignments for Ann Robinson, “Creating a Symbol of Science: The Development of a Standard Periodic Table of the Elements” students that achieve our pedagogical goals. Mark Roblee, “‘Greetings, I am an Immortal God!’: Reading, Imagination, and Personal Divinity in Late Antiquity, 2nd-5th Centuries CE”

16 17 From Marine to Historian: UMass Graduate Student Pens The Sacking of Fallujah: A People’s History MA and PhD recipients with faculty at commencement. L-R: Emma Winter Zeig ’19MA, Perri Meldon ’19MA, Amelia Zurcher ’19MA, LJ Woolcock ’19MA, Amanda Goodheart ’19PhD, Kendall Taivalkoski ’19MA, Marla Miller, Brian Bunk, David Glassberg, Jon Olsen, Ross Caputi (C) with anthropologist Kali Rubaii (L) and Feurat Alani (R), director of Brian Ogilvie, Erica Fagen ’19PhD, Mark Roblee ’19PhD, Carlin Barton, John Higgins ’19PhD, and Christopher Fobare ’19PhD. Le Parfum d’Irak, after a department event on “Remembering Fallujah: Repairing Memory, Rebuilding Communities, and Restoring Justice.”

When I returned from Iraq as a U.S. ordered me to run through sniper fire an enduring memory of the conflict marine, having recently been an to retrieve a box of food because of in Fallujah. History was not exactly accomplice to the second siege of a grudge he held against me. I told being written by the victors, but the GRADUATE STUDENT DEPARTMENTAL AWARDS GRADUATE EXTERNAL AWARDS Fallujah in 2004, I got a first hand him how after a few days of combat Marine Corps Public Affairs office The Department of History’s generous donors make these awards—and students’ 2019 Scholar in Residence glimpse of how power impinges on we dropped any pretension of was counting on our self-censorship successful graduate careers—possible. We thank you. For more information on Rice University Center for Engaged the writing of history. Our public safeguarding civilian life and began to help them disseminate a glorified these awards, visit www.umass.edu/history/graduate-awards Research and Collaborative Learning affairs office was connecting doing “reconnaissance by fire,” and sanitized version of one of the Camesha Scruggs Dr. Charles K. Hyde Jumpstart Grants for journalists, historians, and fanboys meaning that we fired into houses bloodiest operations of the entire Intern Fellowships Dissertation Research Dissertation Fieldwork Grant of any kind with men from my unit to see if anyone was inside, rather occupation of Iraq. Ross Caputi Heather Brinn UMass Amherst Graduate School for casual interviews that allowed than rushing fireteams through the Kiara Hill Camesha Scruggs Shay Olmstead Peter Kleeman for enormous exaggerations and front door to be met by insurgents Since that incident I have been Marvin Ogilvie Memorial Award for Danielle Raad Foreign Language Study Joyce A. Berkman Award for omissions. One day while on duty waiting behind sandbag bunkers. I working to bring independent Outstanding Graduate Feminist Taneil Ruffin Ross Caputi in the barracks, I was asked to take told him about the looting, about the accounts of the sieges of Fallujah Scholarship Frederic Gilbert Bauer Richard Gassan Memorial UMass Amherst Women, Gender, a call from a writer named Gary bulldozing of entire neighborhoods, into the public eye. Most recently Research Fellowships Scholarships Sexualities Studies Department Livingston, who was working on a and about the casualness of the Richard Hil, Donna Mulhearn, and I Adeline Broussan Mohammad Ataie Brittany Frederick book called Fallujah With Honor. violence, offering vivid anecdotes. coauthored The Sacking of Fallujah: Jason Higgins Camesha Scruggs A People’s History (University of Ragini Jha Leaders of Tomorrow Award Robert & Jeanne Potash UMass Amherst Student Affairs and I was present when my company took Livingston responded that none Massachusetts Amherst Press), Hands-On Grant Campus Life Latin American Travel Grant its first casualty. Lieutenant Malcom of these stories could be included which is the first book of its kind to Ross Caputi Yuri Kieling Gama Marwa Amer was shot in the back by a sniper as in the book, since the title was offer a revisionist account of these History Department Travel Grants Simon and Satenig Ermonian Mellon Foundation Graduate Student he entered a stairwell leading off the supposed to be Fallujah With Honor. operations and place the experiences Shay Olmstead Graduate Awards for Excellence in Travel Grant Charles Weisenberger Graduate Teaching Organization of American Historians roof of a building where we had set I had already become quite cynical of Fallujans at its center. We hope that Brittany Frederick Michael Jirik up our radios. He stumbled and bleed about our exaggerated heroism, this book will be a humble first step Joyce A. Berkman Endowed Fund Michael Jirik in Women’s History and Women’s out within a minute. And having especially after hearing so many towards a broader historiography of Studies Pre-dissertation Grant happened so quickly, I struggled embellishments in the metal citations this conflict and justice for the Iraqi UMass Amherst Center for Latin Brittany Frederick American, Caribbean and Latino to give Livingston the juicy details awarded to men in my unit. But this people. Studies he seemed to be looking for. But he was a moment when I realized that Yuri Kieling Gama kept digging, so I offered several much more was at stake in the telling — Ross Caputi more provocative stories. I told him and retelling of these stories. This about the time my gunnery sergeant was part of a calculated effort to craft

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Brittany Frederick presents at the Graduate History It’s always a pleasure to spend some Not long thereafter, we gathered to hear a tion, and Clinton Church Restoration in Great Association panel, “Our Roles and Responsibilities.” time reflecting on the past year in the life lively series of reports from our students’ Barrington. These students also got a behind- of the Public History Program, and this summer 2019 internships. Emma Winter the-scenes tour of the new Coltsville National year, as always, was filled with energy Zeig ’19MA and LJ Woolcock ’19MA helped Historical Park in Hartford from Springfield and thoughtful engagement, both in the design exhibits at the National Museum of Armory chief of interpretation Amy Glowac- classroom and beyond. The fall semester got American History and the Massachusetts ki. Our undergrad honors course, “History off to its usual rousing start with our annual Historical Society, respectively. Amelia and its Publics,” partnered with Springfield fall field trip to upstate New York, where we Zurcher ’19MA led and developed a Museums, as students undertook research— visited Lindenwald, the Martin Van Buren specialized tour of the attic at Concord’s on the Geisel family, early twentieth-century home in Kinderhook, and Steepletop, the Old Manse; Kendall Taivalkoski ’19MA Springfield, and on innovative practices in Austerlitz home of the poet Edna St Vincent cataloged collections at the Lake Placid historic house museums—to inform the cre- Millay. National Park Service curator Patricia Olympic Museum; Jacob Boucher ’19MA ation of a new site interpreting the boyhood West McKay led us on a fascinating tour created interpretive YouTube videos for home (on Springfield’s Fairfield Street) of of Van Buren’s home, illuminating a wide Lowell National Historic Park; Sharon Theodore Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss). range of managerial and interpretive issues. Mehrman ‘19PhCert researched—and At Steepletop we soaked in Millay’s poetic reproduced!—historic furniture at Historic In November, students, faculty, and alumni world while learning about the site’s serious Northampton; and Tanya Pearson helped gathered at the 100th anniversary of the New A Fruitful Year for financial challenges and attempts to address document and interpret LGBT histories at England Museum Association meeting in them (and indeed, the site announced a year the Palmer-Warner House in East Haddam, Connecticut to get our fingers on the collec- of closure in an effort to rethink and regroup Connecticut. tive pulse of emerging trends in museum the Graduate History shortly after our visit). On our way back to the practice. We closed the semester with Gender Valley, we stopped to visit the W.E.B. Du Bois As usual, our fall courses partnered with a & Sexuality for Public Historians, a valuable Association National Historic Site in Great Barrington, wide range of institutions around the Valley workshop planned in partnership with the where David Glassberg introduced new in field-based pedagogy. Students in the UMass Stonewall Center. Participants dis- Distinguished University Professor Emeritus James E. students to the important work UMass faculty introductory seminar advanced the missions cussed the experiences of LGBTQIA+ peo- The Graduate History Association (GHA) has had an exciting Young delivers the keynote address at the Graduate History have accomplished with our community of the UMass Black Pioneers Oral History ple, how to understand current terminology, and productive year of community building and professional Association annual conference. partners. Project, the Springfield Climate Justice Coali- and how to deal with microaggressions and development. GHA members actively participated in regular meetings, frequent off-campus outings, the mentor program, and a TA strategies lunch. Through a series of roundtable discussions initiated by history graduate students and sponsored by the history department, GHA members and department staff and faculty discussed important questions of race, labor, capital, and the role of historians in ongoing struggles around these issues. Speakers included Diana Sierra Becerra, Iyko Day, Brittany Frederick, John Higginson, Jess Johnson, Perri Meldon ’19MA, Traci Parker, and Sigrid Schmalzer.

A successful Graduate History Association Conference, “The Routes of History: Knowing Pasts, Envisioning Futures,” welcomed presenters from various disciplines and universities across and outside the United States. Among the 35 presenters at the conference were UMass history graduate students Amy Breimaier, James During, Ragini Jha, Shay Olmstead, and Kendall Taivalkoski ’19MA. A keynote address by James Young, distinguished professor emeritus, about the process of memorial art particularly drew a crowd. Also well-attended, a workshop led by Maria Salgado-Cartagena, people’s historian of the Puerto Rican diaspora in Holyoke, provided tools for using

community histories to empower youth activism. John Higginson, Tracy Parker, and Iyko Day present at the Graduate History Association panel “Race, Labor, and Capital.”

— Amelia Zurcher ’19MA Marla Miller with undergraduate students in “History and its Publics,” after presenting their research and recommendations for the Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) House in Springfield, Massachusetts. L-R: Sigfredo Hernandez-Mojica, Jaime Cornejo, Rosalie Bidar, Shannon Webb, Freya Weil, Melissa Downey, Kaitlin Lam, Rebecca Simons, Keri Coughlin, and Marla Miller.

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other social interactions in the context of mu- renewal and the building of Interstate 91 of Old Sturbridge Village, and alumna seums, historic sites, and archives so that on Springfield’s North End with Neighbor Katherine Fecteau ’17MA, assistant curator public historians can create more inclusive to Neighbor/Springfield Climate Justice at OSV, led a workshop on cataloging to get and welcoming spaces. Coalition. The latter will become part of us all off on the right foot. By the end of the the new Humanities Action Lab traveling semester, students had built a database that In the spring semester’s field-based exhibit, Climates of Inequality: Stories of held more than 300 catalog entries, while a pedagogy program, Samuel Redman's Environmental Justice, scheduled to open subset of students in the class had developed Mass public history students and faculty tour Lindenwald, Martin “Theory and Method of Oral History” class in Newark, New Jersey, in October 2019. proposed collections policies for the museum. Van Buren’s home in Kinderhook, partnered with the Amherst Jones Library The History 662 class also took a field trip to New York, during the 2018 public EMMA WINTER ZEIG and the Emily Dickinson Museum to record the studio of Monadnock Media in Hatfield The UMass Public History Program enjoyed history fall outing. more than 20 new oral history interviews to learn about state-of-the-art interactive a big “hometown” (or at least home region) for students, scholars, and members of installations in history museums. showing at the National Council on Public the public. Students enrolled in David History (NCPH) meeting in Hartford, the Glassberg’s seminar “Museum and Historic Lastly, program director Marla Miller first of two annual meetings led by faculty Site Interpretation” completed an outdoor achieved a longstanding goal when she member Marla Miller as NCPH president. exhibit on the history of Clinton AME Zion launched our first Museum Studio, a (See you in Atlanta in 2020!) David Glassberg Church for the Clinton Church Restoration public service initiative that aims to serve contributed to a session on climate justice, in Great Barrington; undertook a formative a community need while helping students while MA student Perri Meldon ’19MA evaluation to help Historic Deerfield develop build professional skills. The inaugural studio participated in a working group on the a new smartphone app interpreting Native partnered with the Hadley Farm Museum forthcoming Inclusive Historians Handbook, American history; and developed an exhibit to catalog objects in this important local a joint initiative between the NCPH and the panel examining the impact of urban collection. Caitlin Emery Avenia, curator American Association of State and Local

Hyde Fellow Ross Caputi (center) with Vittoria Caputi Public History student Danielle Raad examines eighteenth- and nineteenth- and Antonio Lombardi of the Serapis Association, at century shoes in Historic Deerfield’s collection. the Sanctuary of the Madonna of Grumentino (Italy).

History. PhD students Ross Caputi and developing attic tours of Concord’s Old the planning of this important annual event. Jason Higgins both shared their work (on the Manse. Undergraduates Rebecca Simon As the year came to a close, we congratulated

NICOLE BELOLANNICOLE People’s History of Fallujah Digital Archive and Freya Weil presented their work with Mark Roblee ’19PhD (who completed work and the Incarcerated Veterans Oral History the Springfield Museums around the creation on his public history certificate in 2012) as UMass public historians at the New England Museum Association conference in Project, respectively) in an exploration of of the house museum in the boyhood home he defended his doctoral dissertation. His November. L-R: Jacob Boucher ’19MA, Emma Winter Zeig ’19MA, David Glassberg, “Reparative Public History and its Limits.” of Ted Geisel (a.k.a Dr. Seuss). terrific work as internships coordinator and Amelia Zurcher ’19MA, Eric Ingmundson ’12MA, Elizabeth Bradley ’12MA, Emma Hodges ’17, and Michelle Barasso. Alumna Li Na ’09 PhCert spoke on “History, career advisor over the past several years Memory, and Politics: Public History in In June, we were delighted to sponsor will be much missed. We also thanked our China,” while Chelsea Miller ’16MA led an the Mass History Alliance conference, ever-capable program assistant LJ Woolcock important bystander intervention training for “Empowering Our Communities Through ’19MA for their thoughtful work over the past

MA student Peter Kleeman interns at the Smithsonian public historians and museum professionals. History.” Sam Redman represented the year, and welcomed energetic PhD student National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, with Finally, five students presented work in program on the planning committee, and Jason Higgins into the role for the year to support from a Dr. Charles K. Hyde Internship Fellowship. the conference poster session: Brittany program assistant LJ Woolcock ‘19MA come. Frederick shared her research on “Campus represented UMass public history students History as Public History: The Mills House and alumni in the planning process. The As always, to keep up with the program, our and the Birth of Afro-American Studies at conference’s workshops, breakout sessions, students, faculty, and alumni, follow us on UMass Amherst”; Peter Kleeman invited and speed networking event connecting Facebook and Twitter. At left, Emily Pipes ’15MA, Project Coordinator, Center conference-goers to discuss the past, present, students and public history practitioners from for Education Policy Research, Harvard University, and future of his Space Age Museum; and across Massachusetts are all highlights for — Marla Miller and Hyde Visiting Practitioner, joined Marla Miller’s Amelia Zurcher ‘19MA described her work historians across the commonwealth, and Professional Lives of Historians seminar to share her experience pursuing an Alt-Ac career. to “center peripheral domestic spaces” by we’re pleased to continue to play a key role in

22 23 In addition to the thoughtful conversation, Public History Alumni News UMass Public two really helpful connections came out of the visit. One fellow alumna—Bethany Groff Doreau ‘00MA, regional manager at Historic Alumna Julie Peterson ’16MA recently appeared in an episode of Historians New England, based at their Spencer-Peirce- the Rocky Mountain PBS TV series Colorado Experience, titled Little Farm – brought into the conversation “Imprisonment,” in a larger discussion of Colorado’s carceral history, and around Boston a colleague who had worked on a similar “what it can tell us about how views of crime, justice, and imprisonment project at Historic New England; we later met have shifted over time.” Katherine Garland ’15MA published an article In September 2018, I had the pleasure of for a longer conversation about strategies in the AHA’s Perspective: “A Career in Development: How a Public hosting a small of group of UMass Amherst in LGBT interpretation. Another alumnus, Historian Became a Fundraiser.” Katherine Fecteau ’17MA has accepted alumni at the small historic house museum Devon King ’18 (then an architectural the position of assistant curator at Old Sturbridge Village. Chelsea Miller I work at in Boston’s Back Bay. We were historian at the firm McGinley, Kalsow, and ’16MA is now communications director for the New York State Coalition part of UMass PHaB, or Public Historians Associates, and now an entering student in Against Sexual Assault (NYSCASA). Gregg Mitchell ’17MA accepted around Boston, an informal group launched the graduate program) agreed to join the a position at the Holyoke Public Library. the previous spring by the Public History advisory committee I was putting together for Program. the project, and it was incredibly helpful to —Marla Miller have his counsel as we wrote the new house At the Gibson House, I was just beginning to tour and designed our launch event. Program Meghan Gelardi Holmes, curator at Boston’s think about a new project, writing a house director Marla Miller was able to attend the Gibson House Museum, and Devon King ’18 (incoming MA student and member of the Public History alumna Julie Peterson ’16MA was featured in the Rocky tour telling the story of the museum’s founder, launch, and was thrilled to see one of UMass museum’s advisory team) launch their new tour, Mountain PBS series, Colorado Experience, in an episode on the history of Charlie Gibson, within the larger context PhaB’s aims realized, and so quickly. “It’s so “Charlie Gibson’s Boston.” incarceration in Colorado. of LGBT history in Boston in the nineteenth gratifying,” she later observed, “to see our century. In our small museum, I don’t often terrific alumni in the greater Boston area, have the opportunity to brainstorm in a group across several generations of the program, setting, and as we walked around the house, connecting in such creative and productive Are you a public historian in the greater we talked about the ways in which I might ways, to strengthen everyone’s work!” Boston area? If you’d like to receive notices approach the project. of these gatherings, let us know! Email us at The UMass With the 2019 National Council on Public Remains? Protecting Coastal Heritage in — Meghan Gelardi Holmes ’06MA [email protected] History Conference located just down a Changing Climate” most informative the road from Amherst in Hartford, and thought-provoking. In S51, Hannah Delegation at Connecticut, UMass Amherst public Scruggs of Montpelier shared how, as historians arrived in impressive numbers. a black woman, working at a former 2019 Hyde Fellows with Dr. Charles the 2019 NCPH Everywhere I looked at the Connecticut plantation-now-museum feels like an act of Hyde ‘66. L-R: Jon Olsen, Ross Caputi, Convention Center, I saw fellow cohort spatial reclamation. In S61, Kate Cell of the Danielle Raad, Taneil Ruffin, Charles members, faculty, and alumni milling Union of Concerned Scientists described Hyde ‘66, and Marla Miller. Not pictured: Conference in about, presenting their work, attending the emotional and physical toll of losing Kiara Hill and Peter Kleeman. workshops, exhibiting posters, and cultural heritage to rising seas. Hartford otherwise participating in this foremost gathering of U.S. public historians. These two presentations epitomized the I joined a panel of public historians, reasons I gravitate to public history: how DR. CHARLES K. HYDE PUBLIC HISTORY FELLOWS ranging from professors to archivists to historically marginalized communities AND VISITING PRACTITIONERS, 2018–19 students like myself, in developing The claim and make space, and how we can Inclusive Historian’s Handbook. This will respond to the loss of beloved spaces as Dr. Charles K. Hyde Intern Fellowships be a forthcoming free digital booklet climate change continues to threaten for museum professionals and public their existence. I look forward to exploring Ross Caputi, Serapis Association, Basilicata, Italy Kiara Hill, University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst historians to encourage accessibility, these themes deeper in my public Visiting Practitioners, Spring 2019 inclusivity, and equity. history career and as a new member of Peter Kleeman, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC Katherine Fecteau and Caitlin Avenia, Old Sturbridge Village NCPH’s New Professional and Graduate Danielle Raad, Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, Massachusetts Jolene Hart, People Places Design Research The environment was supportive and Student Committee. Thank you to all Taneil Ruffin, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC Cheyney McKnight, Not Your Momma’s History inspiring, as I sat beside alumnus Austin UMass folks who organized the event, Visiting Practitioners, Fall 2018 Alexandria Russell, Historic Columbia Clark ’18MA and saw Marla Miller and especially NCPH President Marla Miller Elizabeth Bradley, Emily Dickinson Museum many peers in the audience. Among the and LJ Woolcock ’19MA for their superb Amy Starecheski, Columbia University Oral History Program Veronica Jackson, Jackson Design Group dozens of sessions I attended, I found the organizational skills and caring. Jim Trecker, Soccer Hall of Fame MA Public history alumnus Jacob Orcutt ’14MA, Braden Paynter, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience coordinator of onsite services at Connecticut’s Old roundtables “S51: Black Public History from Emily Pipes, Center for Education Policy Research, Harvard University State House, welcomed Marla Miller and dozens of Post-Emancipation to Neo-Emancipation” — Perri Meldon ’19MA Visit the Public History Program’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ other visitors from the National Council on Public and “S61: When All is Gone, Whose Story Chris Skelley, Massachusetts Historical Commission UMassPublicHistory) and the history department blog, Past@Present (www. History conference in Hartford. Iohann Vega-Martinez, RadioPlasma, Holyoke umasshistory.wordpress.com), for accounts of the Hyde fellows’ adventures.

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The 2018-2019 academic year was my sixth year Other highlights include a youth-led event LJ Woolcock ‘19MA, who provided crucial and support for the department’s numerous as the history department outreach director and facilitated by a student group from Holy- support at the events. The planning additional engagement activities, ensuring the busiest and most dynamic to date. This year, oke High School; a community-based arts committee consisted of Sigrid Schmalzer, that community-based elements are incorpo- much of the focus centered on the Feinberg Fam- workshop for K-12 educators on Mesoamérica Kevin Young, and myself as co-chairs, rated into the majority of what we do. ily Distinguished Lecture Series, “Another World Resiste, a graphic by the Beehive Design joined by Diana Sierra Becerra, Brian Bunk, Is Possible: Revolutionary Visions, Past and Pres- Collective; and our annual History Institute, Toussaint Losier, and Priyanka Srivastava. I offer my profuse gratitude to the students, ent.” (For more on the series, see page 2.) in which 45 local K-12 educators attended Working with all of you—and with the many faculty members, and organizations— Feinberg events and worked together to in- academic departments and community too many to mention—who support and In keeping with the department and university corporate the material into their classrooms. groups who supported the series—was a collaborate on the department’s community missions, the series prioritized community en- Co-hosted with the UMass Alliance for Com- highlight of my year. engagement projects. Finally, a special gagement. Extensive publicity reached com- munity Transformation and held at Holyoke thanks to the department’s faculty officers munities across Western Massachusetts, and City Hall, the capstone event featured com- In addition to the Feinberg Series, this year and staff: Amy Fleig, Mary Lashway, Marla we hosted events not only at UMass but also in munity members as workshop facilitators. As was also rich with additional community Miller, Brian Ogilvie, Enjoli Pescheta, Heidi community venues. We provided family-friendly part of planning this final event, we hosted projects. As usual, a personal favorite was Scott, and Anna Taylor. accommodations, conducted several events in multiple visioning and planning workshops bringing groups of middle and high school Spanish with simultaneous English interpreta- with the local community leaders who later students to campus for our High School Histo- — Jess Johnson tion, and provided transportation to and from went on to facilitate workshops. After spend- ry Academy, a day-long experience featuring UMass. Audio of the events (soundcloud.com/ ing the year exploring how movements have mini-lectures by faculty, hands-on explora- umass-history) has extended the series into pod- built other possible worlds at many points in tions in the archive, a Q&A with current stu- cast feeds across the United States and world. history and in many places around the globe, dents, a library and campus tour, and more. this capstone brought the series home. Other activities included participating in the Scott Reed of Valley Venture Mentors, Hector Luis Carrasquillo of Center for Human Development, PhD student Marwa Amer leads a High School Alongside members of the history department, and Leslie Abraham of the UMass Alliance for Community Transformation participate in a Five College Partnership Programs’ adviso- History Academy session at Special Collections community members were involved at every visioning session on building cooperative ecosystems in Springfield, Massachusetts. Members of Many of these initiatives were highly ry committee and the advocacy committee and University Archives as part of the High School stage of the process: as part of the team that this visioning group later led workshops at the Feinberg Series Capstone. visible and well publicized. But it is worth of the National Council on Public History; History Academy. After her presentation, the students—all seventh graders from the Center envisioned the series and themes; as tablers at nothing that some of the most meaningful coordinating our online classes; supporting School in Greenfield, Massachusetts—conducted events; as panelists on stage alongside nationally engagement work took place entirely behind the department’s communications assis- primary source research for historicizing the film and internationally renowned scholars; as the the scenes. This included, for example, the tant; and offering coordination, planning, Black Panther. designers and artists who created the series extensive signage that the undergraduate mailer and posters; and as active partners in staff placed around campus so that people promoting local engagement with the series. who are new to UMass could find the lecture Multiple community groups even organized halls; communications assistant Adeline buses of local K-12 students, community mem- Broussan’s diligence in publicizing this series bers, and retirement community residents to the so widely; and the relationship building that various events. formed the backbone of the series.

There were layers of partnerships and The impact of this engagement was evident engagement built in to each event. Through at the events. Most university events are a collaboration with the regional library predominantly attended by the university system’s initiative, All Hamptons Read, more community; at the Feinberg events, roughly than 450 local residents read Never Caught: half of attendees were from the wider com- The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their munity. Indeed, between 200 and 1,300 peo- Runaway Slave, Ona Judge and attended the ple attended each event, making this series associated Feinberg Series event that placed the most well-attended history department the author, historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar, series to date. in dialogue with Barbara Krauthamer. It was a powerful experience to be in the presence of I wish to extend my deepest gratitude to hundreds of people listening with rapt attention High school senior Nashali Pagen and other student leaders in Pa’lante Restorative Justice Adeline Broussan, who was an integral deliver a Feinberg Series workshop for K-12 educators on the history and nuts-and-bolts of and reverence to the histories of how enslaved and preeminently committed member of building transformative justice programs in high schools. and formerly enslaved women envisioned the coordinating team. I also thank the freedom. department’s undergraduate staff and the many graduate students, especially SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

26 27 FACULTY NEWS Our Newest Faculty Members

Audrey L. Altstadt reports: In spring 2019 I taught a new 200-level course, “Spies and Spying in History.” I started to develop this course (and an upper level writing seminar on espionage) because intelligence gathering and analysis, secrecy, and disinformation have been in the news so much in recent years. Many people in the twenty-first century may think about cyber intrusion. As a historian, I wanted to use the topic to examine the historical context in which specific cases of “spying” took place. The course began with the ancient Chinese work Art of War by Sun Tzu, but most of the class covered the nineteenth century to the present. We talked about human intelligence (“spies”) and who analyzed and applied the information. We looked Timothy Hart is a social historian of the Asheesh Kapur Siddique is a historian of early America, early modern Europe, and the British at the history of codes and ciphers, from Roman borderlands, specializing in the Hadi Jorati is a historian of pre-modern textual and material culture of the second Islamic societies, with a focus on intellectual empire. His research and teaching explores

a cipher wheel that was commonly used HUNTER-PILLIONNCPH-MELODY to the fifth centuries CE. His research history and history of science. His research the role of collecting, managing, and using for 500 years until displaced by the famous examines the edges of empire as dynamic is broadly concerned with the interaction knowledge in the history of state formation Enigma machine. For one assignment, I Marla Miller, president of the National Council for Public History, at its annual meeting in loci of interaction between Romans and their between scholar and society: education, and governance, especially as these themes Hartford, Connecticut sent the class an enciphered message and so-called “barbarian” neighbors, characterized institutions of learning, scholarly circles, pertain to the emergence of nation-states in the Atlantic world at the end of the eighteenth told them to encipher a specific reply to me by shifting intersections of environmental, scholarly correspondence, movement of ideological, and political forces. He is scholars, and court patronage. century. and our excellent TA, Jeffrey Davis. We This year Anne Broadbridge became director For fall semester 2018, Richard Chu currently working on Beyond the River, Under followed the history of major intelligence/ of the Middle Eastern Studies Program in the taught “Asian/Pacific/American History” the Eye of Rome (University of Michigan Jorati’s current book project is a micro study Siddique is currently completing a book counterintelligence organizations like MI-5 Department of Judaic Near Eastern Studies, in collaboration with members of the Press), a book that examines the profound of the social background to the intellectual tentatively entitled, Rule Through Paper: and MI-6 in Britain and the CIA, FBI, and while also continuing her work in history, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Filipino, influence of Greek ethnographic theories on career of one of the most influential medieval Archive, Indigeneity, and Modernity in the Governance of the British Empire. It explores NSA in the United States. We discussed where she has been promoted from associate and Bhutanese American community Roman perceptions of, and interactions with, Islamic scholars, the mathematician and the peoples dwelling beyond the empire’s philosopher Nasir al-Din Tusi, who also served the relationship between archival and linguistic Russian trolls and Edward Snowden. to full professor. Her second book, Women organizations in Western Massachusetts. Danube River frontier. in the administration of Mongol Iran. Jorati's knowledge as tools of governance in the British and the Making of the Mongol Empire, came Chu’s class did an oral history project other ongoing research projects range from empire in both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Chris Appy reports: I was on leave in the out from Cambridge University Press, which focusing on one member of each community. Hart’s teaching interests include Roman social history of science to administrative worlds in the seventeenth and eighteenth fall working on a history of the nuclear age, she celebrated with a delightful party at (See page 11 for more.) Chu also taught historiography, classical archaeology, practices in the medieval Islamic world. centuries. but also gave a plenary talk at the Oral Amherst Books. She tested a new course in Chinese diasporic history at Hampshire environmental history, comparative borderland studies, and ancient ethnographic A former research mathematician who Born in Washington, DC, Siddique received History Association meeting in Montreal, an honors seminar format—”Power Couples College. On sabbatical leave in spring 2019, theory. His approach also explores the earned a PhD in Near Eastern languages his PhD from Columbia University in 2016. He participated in an international conference of the Medieval World”—which examined he worked on his book project, The Chinaman complex legacies of the classical world within and civilizations at Yale, Jorati has taught at held postdoctoral fellowships at the University on the significance of 1968 in Havana, and medieval societies through case studies Question in the Philippines: A Conundrum later societies and the contemporary world. Princeton University, the University of British of Southern California from 2016 to 2018 wrote an essay on Amherst College in the of couples in Europe, the Middle East, and in the U.S. Imperial Project, 1898-1905, and Studying antiquity means he also wrestles Columbia, Yale University, and the Ohio State and at Penn State from 2018 to 2019. This fall, he is teaching courses on the American 1960s for a book about the college’s history Asia. Once this course is fully developed, she co-editing an anthology on LGBTQ studies with uncomfortable topics, such as the ethics University. At UMass Amherst, he will teach of exhibiting antiquities and the appropriation courses on Islamic history, history of science Revolution and a course on the history of that will be published in time for its 2021 hopes to work up a course on the Silk Road. in the Philippines, More Tomboy/Bakla Than of the Greco-Roman past by later political and philosophy, and the classical Arabic and the “corporation” from medieval Europe to bicentennial. In the spring, I had the great Otherwise she taught several of her usual We Admit: Insights into Sexual and Gender movements, from the American founding Persian literary traditions. present-day America. Siddique plans to offer opportunity to teach a nuclear age seminar suspects: “Middle East History I,” “Islamic Diversity in the Philippine Culture, History, fathers to contemporary white nationalists. future courses on the making of American in the Feinberg Innovation Space, a new Movements in History, Age of the Crusades,” and Politics. He also traveled to Panama, Born just around the corner in Amherst, capitalism from 1492 to the present; the formation and unravelling of early modern UMass classroom with cutting-edge audio and “Mongol and Turkish Empires.” She Cuba, and Trinidad and Tobago on a Whiting Hart earned his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2017. This fall he is teaching Atlantic world empires; and on ideas of and video technology. The space came was nominated for two different teaching Foundation Grant to learn more about the Roman history and history of world religions, “utopia,” from Socrates to Soylent. with a grant that allowed me to invite seven awards—the Manning Prize and the history of the Chinese diaspora in those with Greek history and a new course on speakers to join us remotely, including Joe Distinguished Teaching Award—and countries. Finally, he continues to collaborate ancient sport on deck for the spring. Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares although she didn’t win either, she was very with Asian American community-based Fund, and Beatrice Fihn, director of the grateful for the nominations, and for the many organizations on their community projects. International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear letters of support that students and colleagues Weapons. Finally, I had the wonderful honor wrote for her. Finally, Broadbridge attended of receiving the Distinguished Graduate conferences in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; San Mentor Award. Antonio, Texas; and Tokyo, Japan.

28 29 FACULTY NEWS Welcome New Staff!

This year, the UMass Amherst history department was thrilled to welcome two new staff members, after long-term department members Suzanne Bell and Adam Howes moved on to new endeavors. Starting just before the academic year, Enjoli Pescheta ’17 is the department’s undergraduate program coordinator. (For more on Pescheta’s journey from undergraduate student to staff member, see page 42). Stefanie Austin joined us at the close of the year. Austin, who has a background in accounting and business administration, is the department’s HR and finance coordinator.

Sam Redman presents on the role of research, writing, and archives in the field of oral history at Columbia University.

FACULTY AWARDS AND APPOINTMENTS, 2018–19 in May I hosted a seminar on research methods in late antique Audrey L. Altstadt studies at the Università di Roma “La Sapienza.” Teaching highlights: Elected chair of the UMass Department of History for 2019-20 working with a team of three students as the new director of the Sigrid Schmalzer (third from left) presents at a conference in Taiwan marking the 100th anniversary of the Chinese May Fourth Movement. Christian Appy Oxford Summer Seminar, teaching a revamped course on Roman Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, UMass Amherst history, and conducting an independent study on Alexander the

Anne Broadbridge Great with two talented seniors, Conor Morrissey ’19 and Luke David Glassberg devoted much of his time for State and Local History Annual Meeting particular highlights were the collaboration Appointed director of Middle Eastern studies, UMass Amherst Preti ’19. Lowlights: losing again and again in table tennis to a and energy this year to engaging with in Philadelphia entitled “Helping Your with Springfield Museums to help envision colleague from Hunter College in a Brooklyn pool hall. This summer Dan Gordon graduate students on four public history Community Decide Which Historic Places their new historic house museum interpreting you would have found me at Trinity College in Oxford together with Visiting senior research associate, University of Chicago’s Textual projects: for UMass Special Collections and to Protect from the Impact of Climate Change the life of Theodore Geisel (a.k.a. “Dr. Seuss”); Optics Lab 45 students from UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, and Smith College. University Archives, an oral history of African (and Which to Let Go).” chairing the search for our new colleague in Emily Hamilton American students who attended UMass in early American History (welcome aboard, Alice Nash received a fourth grant from the National Endowment Mass Humanities grant, “8 Paradise for All: Forging New the 1960s; for Clinton Church Restoration Daniel Gordon was on sabbatical in the fall Asheesh Siddique!); and launching our Aspirations through Mentorship” for the Humanities to lead a Summer Institute for Teachers with Five in Great Barrington, an outdoor exhibit on 2019 semester. He organized a conference new “Museum Studio” course, which Colleges, Inc. “Teaching Native American Histories,” co-directed with Barbara Krauthamer the history of Clinton AME Zion Church; for in October 2019, “Reading Tocqueville partnered in 2019 with the Hadley Farm Linda Coombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag), brought 25 teachers from Appointed senior vice provost for interdisciplinary programs and Historic Deerfield, a formative evaluation in the 21st Century.” He also edited The Museum. Along the way, I wrapped up across the nation to spend three weeks living and working together innovation, UMass Amherst to help it develop a new smartphone app Anthem Companion to Alexis Tocqueville work on my forthcoming book Entangled in the Wampanoag homeland in southeastern Massachusetts. interpreting Native American history; and (Anthem Press, 2019), for which he wrote an Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes Jennifer Nye Learn more at teachnativehistories.umass.edu. Spring 2019 also Appointed co-chair of the Five College Reproductive Health, for Neighbor to Neighbor/Springfield Climate introduction and discussed how Tocqueville of Change in Rural Massachusetts (Johns saw the publication of her multi-year project to co-edit The Routledge Rights, and Justice Certificate Program Justice Coalition, an exhibit panel examining was canonized as an alternative to Marx, Hopkins University Press, 2019). I finally Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas (Kaltmeier, the impact of urban renewal and the building and the need to re-establish Tocqueville’s got to see beautiful Bozeman, Montana, Stephen Platt Raab, Foley, Nash, Rinke, and Rufer). National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Grant of Interstate 91 on Springfield’s North End. The voice in an era of “post-Marxist” social when I delivered the keynote address at the latter will become part of the new Humanities theory. Gordon contributed two chapters conference, “Strengthening the Ties That Samuel Redman In addition to serving as Department Chair, Brian Ogilvie co-chaired Action Lab traveling exhibit, Climates of to the volume: “Tocqueville and Linguistic Bind: Public History” in Montana. Finally, I Visiting scholar, Museum Studies Program, University of the program committee for the American Historical Association’s Michigan Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice, Innovation” and “Tocqueville and the enjoyed my first annual meeting as president Annual Meeting in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019. He published a scheduled to open in Newark, New Jersey, French Revolution” (with Patrice Higonnet of the National Council on Public History, Sigrid Schmalzer chapter entitled, “Visions of Ancient Natural History” in Worlds in October 2019. With current graduate from Harvard). Another sabbatical project helping to welcome nearly 1,000 public Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean was the recipient of the 2018 of Natural History, an edited volume published by Cambridge student Taneil Ruffin and alumna Laura had Gordon making progress on a book historians to Hartford, in our organization’s Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, the 2018 Freeman Book University Press, and he gave a lecture last November at Aarhus Award, and the Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choices Miller ’14PhD, Glassberg began research for about campaigns to ban the Muslim veil, largest stand-alone meeting to date. It 2019 award, and was listed on the 2019 Notable Social Studies University, in Denmark, on the economics of insect collecting in the Marsh-Billings Rockefeller National Historic from the 1920s to the present. In the spring, was a thrill to see so many of our alumni Trade Books for Young People by the National Council on Social Enlightenment. During the 2019-20 academic year he is on sabbatical Park on the relationship of Laurance S. Gordon taught “Western Thought to 1600” from around the nation come back for the Studies’ Children’s Books Council. leave, completing his current book manuscript on insects in European

Rockefeller’s Outdoor Recreation Resources and “Ideas that Changed History.” Finally, he conference, and to see all the great things Garrett Washinton art, science, and religion from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment; Review Commission and the Civil Rights was invited to be a member of the Academic they are accomplishing out in the world. Visiting Scholar Grant, International Christian University, Tokyo, he will return for another term as chair in fall 2020. Movement. He also taught a new combined Exchange Network in May of 2019. May 2019 and Healey Endowment Faculty Research Grant, undergraduate/graduate course, “History Jason Moralee reports: It was a spring of UMass Amherst Stephen Platt reports: My book Imperial Twilight, on the origins of and Sustainability,” and in August 2019 led Marla Miller reports: This year seems to have travel. In March, I delivered two talks at the the Opium War, came out in the summer of 2018, so I spent much a workshop at the American Association flown by—as they all do these days—but University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and of the 2018-19 academic year balancing my teaching with travel to

30 31 FACULTY NEWS A Heartfelt Farewell to

give talks and interviews on the book—most became a US war hero in WWII. While it is a of collecting human remains for museums Julio Capó Jr. memorably at the Hong Kong International luxury to be able to concentrate full time on and efforts to repatriate them to indigenous Literary Festival in November. The book was research for the time being, I will be glad to communities in Australia. After seven years as faculty in the history department, this past spring Julio Capó Jr. made the shortlisted for Britain’s Baillie Gifford Prize, return to my teaching when the time comes. difficult decision to accept a position created for him at Florida International University in which entailed a week of readings in England Sigrid Schmalzer reports: My work is Miami, a city that is both his home and the subject of his award-winning first book,Welcome and Scotland, and though I didn’t win the Sam Redman reports: This was another continuing to build in exciting new directions. to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940. At FIU, he is based in the history department and £30,000 prize at the end, it was a wonderful exciting year in and beyond Herter Hall! My The success of my first children’s picture book helping to build a new Public Humanities Laboratory, a position that speaks to his passion experience to meet the other finalists and great TAs and I were lucky to teach history (an adaptation of my academic research on for bridging academic work with community engagement and service. have the chance to talk about my book in to more than 300 students this year. I spent a the history of agricultural science in China) the UK. Considering that the book is hardly stimulating week serving as the 2019 visiting has encouraged me to pursue a possible A few days after Julio Capó Jr. announced that he had accepted a position at FIU, kind to the Victorian British, I was pleasantly scholar for the Museum Studies Program second such book, this time in collaboration newsletter editor Adeline Broussan stopped by my office to make the case that we surprised at what a positive reception it had at the University of Michigan. Columbia with members of the terracing community include a tribute to him in our annual newsletter. I knew immediately that she was right. there. Along with the prize nomination, it University’s Oral History Program, curious in northern China where I am researching But how could we possibly put to words how much Julio—a person who I admire so received extensive reviews in the UK, and about the work we are doing at the UMass agricultural heritage. Meanwhile, Science deeply—has meant to the department and his many friends, colleagues, and students? the Sunday Times and Financial Times Oral History Lab, also recently invited me for the People (the 1970s-80s US organization both named it one of the best history books to speak about oral history, archives, and whose history I began researching several Julio Capó is so many things. He is a brilliant scholar, a dedicated teacher, a prolific of 2018. A translation in traditional Chinese writing. I published two new scholarly years ago) has been revitalized. I served public intellectual, a generous colleague, an unflinching advocate for what is right, and a characters was published recently in Taiwan articles this year, “The Smithsonian at on the editorial collective for the first issue fierce and fabulous human. His work is heartfelt and rigorous—not only the prominent and a simplified Chinese edition is slated for War: Museums in US Society during World of the new magazine (http://magazine. projects, like his acclaimed scholarship, his writing in TIME, and the Queer Miami publication in mainland China, hopefully War II,” and “Impossible Appraisals: Art, scienceforthepeople.org), and I helped the exhibit he curated this spring, but also the hours he pours in to supporting students and later this summer. In other news, I was Anthropology, and the Limits of Evaluating local chapter create a workshop on science showing up for community-based work. fortunate this year to receive a Public Scholar Museum Collections in the Mid-Twentieth and social justice for K-8 teachers. I am Grant from the National Endowment for the Century United States.” A short essay on also proud to have served on the Feinberg His dissertation advisee, PhD student Shay Olmstead, shared, “I first met Julio Humanities, a new program that supports working in archives appeared in the History Committee this past year. On the research Capó when I took his “US LGBT and Queer History” course in spring 2016, and was scholarly projects that aim ultimately to reach of Anthropology Newsletter. I am delighted front, I presented a paper on science and immediately struck by his dynamism, organization, and breadth of knowledge. Professor public audiences. The grant has made it to help represent the Department of History democracy at a conference in Taiwan Capó is able to engage his audience and challenge everyone in the room to think more possible for me to take a research leave for in serving on the UMass Press faculty marking the centennial of the Chinese May deeply and make strong connections among the course material. He has a talent for the 2019 calendar year to start work on my committee and the organizing committee Fourth Movement, where I got some new recognizing students’ capacity and pushing us to revise our work to its highest caliber.” next project, which centers on a US Marine for the Massachusetts History Conference. ideas for a brand-new general education Corps officer who embedded himself with I was featured in the 2018 filmEtched in course I’m launching, titled “Science and At the same time, Olmstead continued, “Professor Capó is attuned to the world China’s Red Army in the late 1930s and later Bone, a documentary chronicling the history Society in Modern China.” Finally, I have outside of UMass Amherst and is considerate of how large events may impact his continued to be active in building the faculty students’ mental and emotional health. He was the only professor who reached out to Julio Capó Jr. union, inspired by cherished mentor Dan me following the shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando. Professor Capó’s move Clawson, who was prematurely taken from to Florida International University will be a great loss for this department, but I am us this year. sure that his passion for student success and compassionate mentorship will continue undeterred, regardless of his distance from Herter Hall.” Katrhyn Schwartz reports: I am grateful to the history department community for giving Priyanka Srivastava concurred, sharing that, “Julio Capó has been one of my most me such a warm welcome to campus this dependable and trusted friends and colleagues ever since we both joined UMass academic year. I taught three new courses, in the fall of 2012. I am seriously going to miss our impromptu meetings and long one on the history of the Middle East from conversations. I greatly appreciate Julio’s many accomplishments as a scholar and 1500 to the present day, and the others on educator and wish him plenty of success and happiness at his new workplace.” the respective topics of mass migration and the city within the region during the Joye Bowman, who was department chair when Julio was hired and is now associate modern period. A chapter I wrote about dean in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, echoed our admiration. “There is an itinerant scholar who played an active so much to say about the amazing job that Julio did,” Bowman wrote, noting also that part in orientalist scholarship and sourcing he never said no to any request from any unit or any student, that he was steadfastly western libraries’ Arabic book collections committed to LGBTQ issues and diversity more generally, and that he has a rare and was published in The Muslim Reception unflinching courage and integrity. of European Orientalism (Routledge, 2019, edited by Susannah Heschel and Umar It has been an honor to be your colleague, dear friend. You are so deeply missed. Ryad). Entitled “An Eastern Scholar’s Richard Chu at the Panama Canal Engagement with the European Study of the — Jess Johnson East: Amin al-Madani and the Sixth Oriental

32 33 FACULTY NEWS HOW A UMASS HISTORIAN BECAME AN AWARD-WINNING CHILDREN’S BOOK AUTHOR:

Congress, Leiden, 1883,” it is based around the installments I found of al-Madani’s An Interview with Sigrid Schmalzer reports of his impressions of this academic conference to an early Arabic newspaper. Sigrid Schmalzer was the recipient of numerous awards (see pg 31) for her book I have also continued work on my book Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean: Remembering Chinese Scientist Pu Zhelong's project, which charts the development of Work for Sustainable Farming, a children’s book based on her scholarly research. mainstream Arabic printing from nineteenth- This summer, PhD student and newsletter editor Adeline Broussan sat down with century Cairo, presenting research from her to discuss the project. it at Wellesley College, the University of Hamburg, the Institute for Advanced Study What inspired you to write a children’s book? in Toulouse, and the annual meeting for the Society of the History of Authorship, Reading, I wanted to write for children long before I ever wrote for adults. My big break happened and Publishing. during one of my family’s many visits to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst. I happened to meet an acquiring editor who told me she was always looking Libby Sharrow published several articles for science, nature, and multicultural books, so something on agricultural science in scholarly journals and in the Washington and ecology in China would be perfect. I laughed and said, “Maybe in 20 years I’ll Post, the Women’s Sports Foundation blog, get back to you!” But just a few mornings later I woke up inspired to turn chapter two and the London School of Economics’ of my recent academic monograph into a picture book. American Politics and Policy blog. She Garrett Washington participates in a tea ceremony workshop in Tokyo. published a piece in Politics, Groups, and Tell us about the process of turning your academic work into a children’s book? Identities that focused on the problem of sex (LAWCHA). As co-chair of LAWCHA's the year to discuss common readings and segregated athletics under Title IX of the Global Affairs Committee, I initiated new work on course design. In addition, I taught The picture book medium is subtle and powerful: you learn a lot about what truly Education Amendments of 1972, a topic about outreach programs that would highlight the introductory History of Japan survey, a matters when you boil it all down to just a few juicy morsels. It was actually not which much of her research is engaged. She the global and transnational aspects of course on the “Woman in Modern Japan,” too difficult to explain big ideas about science in Mao-era China—that was my conducted a major survey of several thousand this organization. I was invited to visit the and a graduate seminar on “US Cultures overarching goal. However, I found that working with an illustrator required far more stakeholders in U.S. college athletics in the Center for Asian Studies, University of Sao and Conflict” in the Asia-Pacific. Outside extra research and rigorous attention to historical detail than I had originally expected. summer of 2018. The research focuses on Paulo, Brazil from August 4 to August 17, the classroom I enjoyed serving as the It was astonishing to discover just how little evidence exists as to village architecture opinion toward gender equity issues, pay- 2019. I delivered a public lecture based on faculty advisor for our very active history and clothing from 1970s China. And in the academic book, I could simply note that for-play, and athlete unionization; the first my research on gender and labor in colonial club and our chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, “spiders” were valued as natural enemies of insect pests, but for the children’s book paper from this line of research will be India and interacted with scholars of global the national history honors society. One I had to know which spiders so the illustrator could render them properly. presented at the American Political Science history, economic history, and gender studies. highlight this year was Jon Olsen’s Dinner Association annual meeting in August. In Spring 2019, I accepted the invitation to with Faculty event, where he presented his How do children react to it? Along with collaborators in the Department visit the Center for Modern Indian Studies research to some very engaged Phi Alpha of Political Science she is studying the politics (CeMIS) at the Georg-August-Universität Theta members. I was also happy to serve The insects are a big draw: elementary schools spend lots of time on insect life cycles of fatherhood, a project which extends her Göttingen, Germany, as a visiting professor on the graduate committee, focusing some and ecology, so that connection is very satisfying to them. The book also incorporates research on fathers’ activism around Title IX; from September 2019 to January 2020. I am special attention on ways to recruit a larger Chinese characters, which appeals especially to kids who are learning Chinese. this year, the team published three articles in scheduled to make presentations in the CeMis and more diverse body of candidates. I’m Children also seem to appreciate the exploration of China’s recent past through the Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Behavior, Colloquium and in the History Seminar writing this update from Tokyo where I’m personal memories of the book’s narrator. The illustrator found some very evocative and American Politics Research. Sharrow Series. In addition, I will be a panelist in the honored to be a Japan International Christian ways to convey this, which I think will stick with the young readers. also spent the year teaching courses cross- plenary session of an upcoming Workshop at University Foundation visiting scholar. I’ve listed in political science and history and CeMIS: Formalisation, Informalisation, and also taken this opportunity to participate in Do you have any plans to write another children’s book? chairing the Subcommittee on Equity & Labour Process, Nov 20-22, 2019. a tea ceremony workshop, discuss pedagogy Diversity of the UMass Athletic Council of with colleagues, and take lots of photos and Yes! This summer I traveled back to an agricultural terracing community in northern the Faculty Senate. She was delighted to be Anna Taylor has completed her term as videos for my students. I’m awaiting the China that I had visited twice before. My plan is to co-author the book with a man from a finalist for the campus-wide Distinguished head of Slytherin House and will return to peer reviews of my book manuscript from a the village who has developed an impressive reputation as a local historian. The goal Teaching Award. In July 2019, she was co- her regular duties as potions master. leading university press in my field. Finally, this time around is to convey what it means for a community to define its own identity. awarded a three-year, $1 million grant from I’ve just been awarded a Healey Endowment The book would share stories that matter to the members of this specific community the National Science Foundation for working Garrett Washington reports: This has been Faculty Research Grant from the UMass vice while offering a critical perspective on heritage tourism—an economic necessity that addressing sexual harassment in political a great year all around. A highlight was my chancellor for research and engagement for provides opportunities for cultural exchange, but which also turns local culture into science. participation in the Lilly Fellowship Program work on my new project, a critical biography an object for consumption. Maybe that seems heady for a children’s picture book, but for Teaching Excellence. Our cohort of faculty of wealthy industrialist, philanthropist, and I’m convinced it’s actually the perfect medium for the task. Priyanka Srivastava reports: I continued to in various departments, from biology to activist Hirooka Asako. serve on the Board of Directors of the Labor business to music, met for 14 informative and Working Class History Association and engaging seminar sessions throughout

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Joyce Berkman reports: The highlight of this past academic year has been the recovery of my husband from lymphoma and the chemo ordeal. As a result, we left on May 24 for Poland where I gave a talk on Edith Stein to faculty and graduate students in Gerald McFarland (C) with theology and philosophy at the University of Camesha Scruggs (L) and Wroclaw (the city of Stein’s birth, then called Brittany Frederick (R) Breslau), originally scheduled for last May. This talk will soon appear as an article in the Wroclaw Theological Review. I excitedly looked forward to my first trip to Poland. We explored not only Wroclaw but Krakow/ Mario S. De Pillis Sr. reports: For younger Emerging Sports History and “Bicycling Cracow as well. As bookends on Stein’s life members of the department I ought to note as a Response to la Violencia: The First we made the tough visit to Auschwitz, where that I arrived at the recently renamed Vuelta a Colombia, January 5-17, 1951” in Stein was killed. Along with my current Stein Massachusetts Agricultural College in the Revista de Estudios Colombianos. Three Srebrenica Genocide Memorial scholarship, I continued to be connected to 1957. Except for several years of teaching other manuscripts submitted to journals are my past work on Olive Schreiner. An article at three German universities and UCal currently under review, and the Colombian that I wrote on possessing women (women Berkeley, I remained in Amherst. I was Banco de la República, in association with as possessors and being possessed) in deeply committed to making UMass an the Universidad de Antioquia, is sponsoring Schreiner’s last novel will appear in the eastern Berkeley. I am now finishing work a Spanish translation of her book Santiago Journal of Commonwealth Literature this on a study of the rise of Mormonism. In 2017, Pérez Triana (1858-1916): Colombian Man of coming year. My work as treasurer and oral I married Constance M. McGovern ‘76PhD. Letters and Crusader for Hemispheric Union

historian with the Valley Women’s History for publication in Colombia. Her current Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Collaborative continues, and as of June 1, Bruce Laurie served as co-curator of an research concerns German contributions to I am president of the university’s Retired exhibition at Historic Northampton last fall. Colombian history. Jane continues to play Faculty Association, a vigorous scholarly, Chaotic Freedom and the Scars of Slavery: her flute with the Holyoke Civic Symphony, My three days in Sarajevo, in the republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in October intellectual, and social organization From Baton Rouge to Northampton examined shelve books at the Jones Library, and serve Conflicting 2018, were fascinating, shocking, and even heartbreaking. Sarajevo is like many old open to retired faculty and professional an iconic image of the civil war and was as a “friendly visitor” at the Amherst Senior European cities with narrow winding streets up and down its surrounding hills, layer staff. Throughout the past year I served based on Laurie’s e-book published by the Center. upon layer of stone walls, remnants of medieval fortifications, churches, mosques and as secretary and newsletter editor of the Massachusetts Review. Memories, synagogues, and graveyards both old and all too new. Its natural beauty is defined by International Association for the Study of Charles Rearick gave a presentation to the hilly terrain and the river that gushes noisily through the city center. the Philosophy of Edith Stein. We held our Gerry McFarland reports that 2019 was a several different audiences in Chicago and biennial conference—this year in Cologne, quiet year in both his usual categories of Valparaiso, Indiana, just before Veterans Day, Unreconciled I was participating in a conference sponsored by the George F. Kennan Institute Germany in August—where I presented activity: professional history matters and 2018. His subject was the most popular French for Advanced Russian Studies on the topic of nationalism, ethnic conflict, memory, another paper on Stein’s life and work. This writing fiction. On the professional front he song of the First World War—why it appealed and the construction of history. The conference title was “Conflicting Memories, past year has also been filled with German reviewed a book on Greenwich Village’s to soldiers and civilians and why it has been Narratives Unreconciled Narratives,” and all participants were one-time recipients of Kennan language study and a major focus of my Washington Square, was a consultant for the most remembered song of the war years Institute research grants. Sarajevo is synonymous with the start of World War I in the retirement, music making. This has included a Boston Globe article on late nineteenth- ever since. He presented his talk (with images summer of 1914, with the assassination there of the heir to the Austrian throne. The piano lessons, performing duets and solo century socialism in Massachusetts, and and music) to classes at Loyola University, the spot is marked, of course, and a museum sits on the street corner. pieces for the Piano Connection, studying gave a lecture on “The Legacy of the 1960s” University of Illinois at Chicago, Valparaiso counterpoint composition, and singing with to a group of visiting Argentine graduate University, and to a general-public audience Sarajevo was chosen as the location for this conference because of more recent the Hampshire Choral Society. Finally, I take students. Although he didn’t work on any at St. James Cathedral in Chicago. The latter, bloodshed, the so-called Bosnian War (1992-95), one part of the warfare that great joy in Amanda Goodheart ’19PhD’s new pieces of fiction, he actively promoted on Saturday, November 10, was a pre-concert accompanied the break-up of Yugoslavia. Here, after a vicious propaganda campaign parading with other doctoral recipients and his 2018 novel T.T. Mann, Ace Detective supplement to the multimedia program, “War reminiscent of Nazi Germany, Serbian forces carried out ethnic cleansing and mass keen pleasure in coming to know this year’s and maintained a monthly blog—www. and the Human Heart,” in observance of the murder against Bosniaks, or Bosnian Muslims. Distinctive white column gravestones recipients of my endowed award, Brittany geraldwmcfarland.com/blog—through centenary of the armistice ending the Great today line the hills of Sarajevo. The height of the slaughter was the genocide of July Frederick from our history department and which he publicized all his writings, both War. He also reports that he continues his 1995, when Serbian forces systematically slaughtered over 8,300 Bosniak men and Adeline Broussan, also in our doctoral fiction and nonfiction. twice-a-year stays in Europe (old habits: still boys in the town of Srbernica. The thousands of graves in a vast memorial park were program and a recipient of my endowed going to libraries and archives). Some things an awful reminder of the hatred that extreme nationalism can unleash in Europe and award two years ago from our history Jane Rausch’s foray into sports studies are better over there—that’s a subject for a elsewhere in our world. department, received the award a second produced two publications in 2018: good long conversation sometime. time from our women, gender, sexuality “Bicycling in Colombia: The Development — Audrey L. Altstadt studies graduate program. of a National Passion,” in the Journal of

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In 2018-19, Jason Higgins focused primarily traveled to the Netherlands to present at the Jorge Minella spent most of the academic year on passing his comprehensive exams with History of Science Society Conference with in Brazil doing research and working on his distinction. Throughout the year, he also colleagues from UMass Amherst and the dissertation about the politics of infrastructure shared his research regionally, nationally, National Air and Space Museum, and led and Cold War at São Francisco River Valley and internationally. In October, the Oral a roundtable discussion in August at the between the 1940s and 1960s. He presented History Association awarded Higgins American Association for State and Local papers at the Latin American Studies a presenter scholarship for his paper, History conference in Philadelphia on why Association Conference in Boston, and at the “Collecting Souls: Preserving Trauma Space Age cultural artifacts should be 3rd World Congress of Environmental History, in the Incarcerated Veterans Project.” In preserved. in Florianópolis, Brazil. November, he attended the Pacific, Ancient, and Modern Languages Association meeting Perri Meldon ’19MA successfully defended Shay Olmstead had a productive academic and presented research entitled, “Sexual her master’s thesis, “Interpreting Access: year! They served as instructor of record for Violence and a Culture of Silence in the US A History of Accessibility and Disability the RAP program in fall 2018 and passed Military.” In December, Higgins published Representations in the National Park Service,” their comprehensive examinations with a book review in The Oral History Review. in April 2019, with the support of her advisors distinction in December. In spring 2019, At the National Council on Public History David Glassberg and Marla Miller. She Olmstead presented papers at the UMass conference in March, Higgins gave a talk presented her findings on disability history Graduate History Conference and at Boston entitled, “Reparative Justice: Veterans at two conferences and published original University’s American and New England Treatment Court and the Incarcerated research with the American Historical Studies Graduate Conference. Later in the The “Teaching Native American Histories” team: (L-R) Adeline Broussan (coordinator), Alice Nash (director), Natalie Martinez (curriculum coordinator), and Linda Coombs (director). Veterans Oral History Project.” In April, Association blog Perspectives on History in semester, Olmstead successfully defended Higgins was awarded an Organization the 2018-19 academic year. Meldon began at their dissertation prospectus, “‘Refuse to Run of American Historians Mellon Travel Boston University’s American Studies PhD Away’: Employment Discrimination Lawsuits In March and April 2019, Mohammad Ataie article questions the categorization of the Feminism,” in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She also Grant to present research in Philadelphia, program in fall 2019, where she continues as Transsexual Activism, 1964-1992.” Olmstead attended and presented at two conferences Iranian state as “abnormal” by the Trump coordinated the teachers’ institute, Teaching entitled: “Stars, Bars, and Stripes: A History studying national parks and access. She is received both the history department Travel in the United States and Iran. His first administration. Native American Histories, funded by the of Incarcerated Veterans since Vietnam.” grateful for the mentorship she found among Grant and the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant presentation in March was at the international National Endowment for the Humanities and Higgins and John M. Kinder also secured faculty, staff, and colleagues, and the doors from the UMass Graduate School and used conference Transcending Boundaries, This past spring, Amy Breimaier presented directed by UMass faculty member Alice an advance contract from the University that UMass Amherst public history has these funds to conduct archival research in at Central Michigan University. Ataie’ her research at two conferences. In January, Nash and Aquinnah Wampanoag museum of Massachusetts Press for their co-edited opened. California, British Columbia, and Indiana this presentation was on the export of the 1979 she presented her paper “’Another source of professional and historical consultant Linda collection: Marginalized Veterans in summer. Iranian revolution to Lebanon. It addressed a improvement’: A Case Study of the Bingham Coombs. American History. Higgins received a Bauer- crucial period in shaping revolutionary Iran’s Library for Youth” at the American Historical Gordon Research Fellowship to record more policy in Lebanon and the expansion of Iran’s Association annual conference in Chicago During 2018-2019, graduate student Yuri oral history interviews this summer for the influence from 1979 until the consolidation as part of a children’s literature panel Gama became a PhD candidate after passing Incarcerated Veterans Project. of the Lebanese Hizbullah in the late 1980s. sponsored by the Society for the History of his comprehensive exams and prospectus. In April, Ataie went to his alma mater, the Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. In He also published an essay called “My Public history master’s student Peter Kleeman University of Tehran, to give a paper, titled March, she presented her paper “‘O my Hometown, Florianópolis—Brazil,” for the had a busy first year, which included an “The Role of Ecumenicalism in Conflict Washington!’: The Revolutionary Generation, magazine Popula (popula.com), and a book externship with the Florence Griswold Resolution: The Example of Trans-sectarian the Rising Generation, and the Project to review on Shawn Miller’s The Street is Ours: Museum in Connecticut and work on the Cooperation During the War of the Camps Ensure the Survival of the Early American Community, the Car, and the Nature of Public UMass Black Pioneers Oral History Project. in Lebanon,” at the International Conference Republic” at the UMass Graduate History Space in Rio de Janeiro for H-LatAm and At the National Council on Public History, on Peace and Conflict Resolution. His Association annual conference. H-Net Reviews. In addition, Gama organized he participated in a poster session on the Shay Olmstead defends their dissertation presentation explained how ecumenical a panel at the Brazil Section of the Latin Space Age Museum he is developing. He also Jason Higgins at the Oral History prospectus, “‘Refuse to Run Away’: ideas of the 1979 revolution influenced Adeline Broussan enjoyed being part of American Studies Association (LASA 2019) traveled to Chicago this spring to present Association conference in Montreal. Employment Discrimination Lawsuits as Lebanese and Palestinian Islamists, who the organizing team for the many Feinberg in Boston, which included Joel Wolfe as a paper about Space Age material culture Transsexual Activism, 1960-1989.” played an important role in mediating events on the topic of Another World is discussant and PhD candidate Jorge Minella at the History of the Future conference at between warring groups during the War Possible: Revolutionary Visions, Past and as co-panelist—both from the UMass history Northwestern University. A Hyde Fellowship of the Camps in Lebanon. In the fall 2019, Present. She completed the graduate department. After receiving the Potash recipient, this summer Kleeman interned at Ataie will go to Europe on a Bauer-Gordon certificate in feminist studies from the WGSS, Grant in May 2019, Gama’s plans for 2019- the Smithsonian National Air and Space Summer Research Fellowship to conduct for which she received the Joyce A. Berkman 2020 involve presenting his research at “The Museum in Washington, DC, where he Perri Meldon ’19MA oral history interviews with individuals in Award for Outstanding Graduate Feminist Social and Political Life of Latin American shadowed curator Margaret Weitekamp, who defends her MA thesis “Interpreting Access: A Britain, France, and Germany. He received Scholarship. She presented her research Infrastructure“ conference at the Institute oversees the Social and Cultural Dimensions History of Accessibility the fellowship in the spring semester 2019 to on Vietnamese and French leftist women’s of Latin American Studies in London, and of Spaceflight collection. The internship and Disability compete his PhD dissertation on the Export fight against colonialism at the SHAFR spending two years in Brazil doing fieldwork also included involvement in the museum’s Representations in the of the Iranian Revolution in the 1980s. In annual conference in Arlington, Virginia, and starting to write his dissertation. redesign process and programming for the National Park Service.” September, Ataie also published a piece and participated in the international fiftieth anniversary celebrations of the Apollo on LobeLog about US-Iran relations. The research symposium, “Global Socialist 11 moon landing. In addition, in July, Kleeman

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Judith Barter ’91PhD is Field-McCormick Chair and curator Joshua Castillo ’15 completed his third year in emerita of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of the history PhD program at Boston University in numerous books and articles including, Mary Cassatt: Modern the spring of 2019. His dissertation focuses on the Woman; Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from England politics of language under the Mobutu regime to Chicago; Edward Hopper; Art and Appetite: American in Congo/Zaire between 1965 and 1997. He is Painting, Culture and Cuisine; and America After the currently conducting summer research in the Fall: Painting in the 1930s. In 2017, she received the Legion Democratic Republic of the Congo on a Summer Yuri Gama presents his research at the Latin American Studies Association d’Honneur from the government of France for her contributions FLAS Fellowship and expects to become ABD this conference (LASA 2019) in Boston. Peter Kleeman on his first day at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, standing in front of the recently restored to French culture and in 1999 she received the Chancellor’s fall. Living in the Pioneer Valley, Castillo has been original 11-foot model of the Star Trek Enterprise. Medal from UMass Amherst for her outstanding contributions active over the past two years translating Swahili Joshua Castillo ’15 to scholarship. In 2005 she was awarded “Chicagoan of the and Lingala for Congolese refugees who have receives an award for Year” by the Chicago Tribune for her reinstallation of the Art come to the area. He recently received an award the Most Dedicated and Gifted Student in Institute’s galleries. Under her direction, the Department of as the Most Dedicated and Gifted Student in the the Study of African American Art at the Art Institute added over 400 acquisitions Study of African Languages from the BU African Languages from the BU to the permanent collection. She recently published “Eine Studies Center. African Studies Center. Neue Welt der Kunst,” in Es War Einmal in Amerika: 300 Jahre US-Ameriknsiche Kunst (Wallraf das Museum, 2018), “Mary In December 2018, Shakti Castro ’17MA and her partner, Julian, welcomed Cassatt: Maternity and Modernity” in Cassatt: Mother and their beautiful baby girl Ava into the world in. Castro has been enjoying new Children (Chronical Books, 2019), and Masterworks of America motherhood and all the rewards and challenges of raising a teeny tiny wise Art: Works on Paper (Menconi and Schoelkopt, 2018). Latina. With the help and support of Marla Miller and Sam Redman, Castro applied to PhD programs. She began her doctoral studies in history at Columbia Beth Behn ‘04MA, ‘12PhD was in September 2019. She remains an active public historian and harm reduction promoted to Colonel in the advocate, at work on the programs committee for NCPH 2020 and more. Camesha Scruggs and Heather Brinn with Barbara Krauthamer at On a visit to Iran, Mohammad Ataie was invited to a meeting with the editors United States Army in May 2016. the Graduate Award ceremony. Scruggs and Brinn were recipients of and managers of Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, to discuss Trump’s policy She served as a military advisor Laurie Cox ’80 reports: After my BA in history from Jumpstart Grants for Dissertation Research. in the Middle East and the rising tensions between Washington and Tehran. to the Afghan National Security UMass Amherst in 1980, I graduated with an MA in Forces from 2016-2017. Upon history from Boston University in 1981, and with my Mark Roblee ’19PhD presented his paper, storyteller and preservation advocacy Brian Whetstone finished the first year of her return from Afghanistan, doctorate in educational leadership from the University “‘There will come a time…’: Catastrophe intern at the National Trust for Historic his combined MA/PhD program having Beth took command of the of Southern California in 2006. I was appointed interim and Epistrophé in the Latin Asclepius,” Preservation. She enjoyed the opportunity collaborated with fellow graduate students 7th Transportation Brigade executive director of global affairs at Ball State at the Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity to apply skills and insights from coursework in the creation of UMass Amherst’s panel in (Expeditionary) at Fort Eustis, Beth Behn ‘04MA, ‘12PhD University in Muncie, Indiana, in July. XIII conference, “Communal Responses to during her first year in the master’s program the 2019 Humanities Action Lab’s traveling Virginia. She relinquished Laurie Cox ’80 Local Disaster: Economic, Environmental, at UMass to contribute to a large-scale exhibit, Climates of Inequality: Stories of command in July 2019 and currently serves as the Chief Political, Religious” at Claremont-McKenna historic preservation campaign for one of the Environmental Justice. The UMass panel, of Staff for Army Sustainment Command at Rock Island Steve de Bethune ’91MA reports: Shortly after College in Claremont, California, in March. country’s most famous cultural landscapes titled “Seeking Environmental Justice in Arsenal, Illinois. graduating, I went to Russia for the first time, arriving His article, “Divination is Divinization: The currently threatened by the climate crisis: the the North End,” focuses on environmental just after the USSR morphed back into Mother Russia. Ancient Egyptian ph-ntr Oracle and the National Mall Tidal Basin. Ruffin also spent injustices and community activism in the Andrew Carroll ’04 reports: I have started a new position I’ve now spent 21 years here, with a six-year detour ‘Mithras Liturgy’ in Late Antique Graeco- a week in her hometown of Philadelphia North End of Springfield, Massachusetts. as a middle school social studies teacher at St. Columba to New Jersey. I first came to work for Biznes PIK, Roman Egypt,” was slated to appear over the learning from scholars of early African Through an introductory Geographic School in Durango, Colorado. I am teaching fifth, sixth, and a St. Petersburg start-up founded by some UMass summer in ISAW Papers, published by the American history as a participant in the Information Systems course, Whetstone seventh grade social studies along with starting a new Latin exchange students. I’ve been a financial editor and Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Mellon Scholars Summer Workshop at the also completed a research project program—my major was classics. I’m excited to get to use my translator since 2000, currently working as editor/ New York University. Roblee continued to Library Company of Philadelphia. charting and mapping displaced heads history minor finally! senior manager at global audit firm Deloitte’s Moscow chair the Five College Faculty Seminar in of household in Springfield during and office. Meanwhile, I’ve seen history unfold from inside Late Antiquity, produce the Five College Doctoral student Camesha Scruggs after the construction of Interstate 91 and Robert Carney ’13, finance and Churchill’s “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an Steve de Bethune ’91MA serves as a jury Annual Lecture in Late Antiquity, and serve completed her fourth year in the program other urban renewal projects. During the history, recently started his MBA enigma.” Russia has never been more integrated member for the 1st as the history department’s internship and and has achieved candidacy status this summer, Whetstone interned at the National at the Johnson Graduate School of with the world, but still remains a land apart in Annual COSINES-Pi career advisor/instructor. He successfully academic year. This year, she was named Park Service’s Northeast Regional Office in Management at Cornell University. many ways. As my wife, an NYC-loving Muscovite, International Contest defended his dissertation in the spring and the 2019 scholar in residence and accepted Philadelphia, where he helped coordinate To celebrate this new chapter remarked on a recent visit stateside, “Russia and of Conference looks forward to commencing his scholarship, the fellowship for Rice University’s Center efforts between park sites in that region to of his life, he spent much of the America are like two different planets.” Indeed. Interpreters at Moscow State University. teaching, advising, and public history work for Engaged Research and Collaborative commemorate the centennial of the passage summer hiking the 4,000-footers But, even as we’ve gone full circle from optimistic as a graduate of the PhD program. Learning. She is looking forward to the of the Nineteenth Amendment. This school in the White Mountains of New cooperation in the 1990s back to mutual recrimination, hope yet lives for a upcoming year and progress on her year, Whetstone looks forward to studying Hampshire. After completing his rapprochement. Back in 1991, I remember telling Professor Bob Jones that With support from the Charles K. Hyde dissertation. for his comprehensive exams and pursuing MBA, he intends to work in the Robert Carney ’13 I’d be making 300 rubles a month. “You’ll starve,” he said with concern. So, Fellowship, Taneil Ruffin spent the majority research into 1970s community revitalization private wealth management field. I’m pleased to report that I’m doing well and I urge UMass students to study of the summer in Washington, DC, as the efforts and its intersection with public history. and visit this unique country.

40 41 Laura Fedele Riccio ’92 JD, LLM is practicing law with her father at Fedele and Murray, P.C. in Norwood, Massachusetts. She is a member of the Probate Council of the Massachusetts Bar ALUMNA HIGHLIGHT: Nathan Rothstein ’06: I am in my Tom Tavares ‘85 reports: I am very proud Association which served to implement the Fiduciary Litigation Session in the Probate Court. Riccio eighth year of entrepreneurship of my undergraduate history degree from and her husband Bob are recent “empty-nesters,” as this fall their son Bobby became a junior (history as the co-founder of Project Repat. UMass Amherst and my favorite classes were major!) at UMass, and their son Joey began his freshman year (psychology major) at UMass. Riccio Enjoli Pescheta We make custom t-shirt quilts in the German and Latin American history. Being is thrilled that both her sons are at UMass, as it is such a great school and now gives her two great United States and now have created the son of an art history major, I have never reasons to visit! As Bobby and Joey will tell anyone who will listen, “Mom brainwashed us since In the fall 2018 semester, I began over 100 textile jobs, and upcycled forgotten my ancestry, how it made who I am birth about going to UMass!” working as the undergraduate over 5 million t-shirts. My wife and I and where I am from. I am proud to have program coordinator of the UMass had a baby girl in March, Celia, and grown up in Fall River, Mass. (senior thesis Robert Foster ’70 served as a history/political science teacher in the New Bedford Public Schools Amherst history department. As we are enjoying being down the was on the rise and fall of the textile industry for 26 years before becoming the director of history and social studies K-12 for the New Bedford an alumna of the department and Nathan Rothstein ’06 street from the Cambridge Public there), lived/travelled in much of the US as well Public Schools for his last ten years before retiring in 2006. Since retiring, Foster and his wife, Nancy, a recent graduate of the class of with his daughter, Celia. Library, where I still try to read as as abroad, and now reside in New Bedford, Tom Tavares ‘85 (Morris) Foster ’71, a second-grade teacher for 34 years, have spent six months in Naples, Florida, 2017, I am thrilled to step into this much history as possible! Mass., with my family (an incredible wife who I and the summers in their home town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Foster leads weekly walking role, knowing what it is like to be met in Peru, 5 great kids and numerous pets of tours in the center of historic Fairhaven from June through September and also conducts tours of a history major as well as a part of Ralph Simmons ’62 reports: I had a great US Civil Service career, all shapes and sizes). I always enjoy new experiences, meeting people, fishing the beautiful, historic Fairhaven High School to satisfy his desire to teach history. the UMass community. Being able ending with a senior executive position at the Administrative and camping. I have 20+ years successfully selling leading- edge hardware, to meet and speak with current and Office of the US Courts. I retired in Williamsburg, Virgina, with software, and cloud- based solutions all over the world and knowing the history Joel Kaye ’83MA reports: I owe a great deal to the UMass Department of History. While in my late prospective majors about a program my spouse. We attend a variety of history lectures at Colonial of the people in a new market always makes establishing key relationships 30s and while working as a carpenter in the Valley, I visited the department in the hopes of finding a that I have been through and I am Williamsburg, and attend classes for seniors at the College of easier (history majors are always more fun than engineers at cocktail parties). way to return, at least part time, to studying and thinking about history. Happily, after several office passionate about allows me to get William & Mary. Love it all. Cheers! I also hold an MBA from the University of South Carolina Darla Moore School conversations with Dean Ware, the professor of medieval history, I was invited to sit in on one of his students excited about the history of Business that shows history majors can do whatever they put their mind to. seminars. This proved to be the beginning of my academic career and my life in medieval history. major and the different career paths Since retiring as a history professor at the University of South In the years since, while working as a professor of history at Barnard College, I have written two that majors can follow. I am delighted Carolina in Columbia, Marcia Synnott ’74PhD has spent Lisa Tendrich Frank ’94 currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with her books. My first,Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the to continue to provide and improve much of each spring, summer, and early fall in Massachusetts husband and three children. She is happy to announce the publication of her Emergence of Scientific Thought (Cambridge, 1998), grew directly out of my UMass MA thesis. In 2000 upon the many positive experiences volunteering at the Fort Devens Museum, near Ayer. In addition most recent book, Household War: How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil it received the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America, for best book by our majors have during their time at to serving as a longtime board member, she collaborated with War (2019), a collection of essays that she co-edited with LeeAnn Whites. Since a first-time author. I took more than a dozen years to prepare my second book,A History of Balance: UMass, so that they can go out into the executive director Kara Fossey doing research for a bronze receiving her PhD in history from the University of Florida in 2001, she taught at The Emergence of a New Model of Equilibrium and Its Impact on Thought (Cambridge, 2014). In the world with confidence in their plaque to memorialize the victims of the 1918 influenza epidemic. several universities before working as an editor and independent scholar. Frank 2015 it was awarded the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History by the American Philosophical abilities to make a difference in their The joint effort of the museum and the Devens Enterprise has published seven books, including The Civilian War: Confederate Women Society and in 2017 it received the Haskins Medal from the Medieval Academy. communities and beyond. Commission led to the memorial’s dedication at Rogers Field and Union Soldiers during Sherman’s March (2015). When she is not writing on May 17, 2019. Synnott was one of the speakers that morning or with her family, you can find her throwing pots at a local pottery studio. Lee F. Kichen ’70 reports: After spending 27 years in the Army and another 10 years with the — Enjoli Pescheta ’17 and returned to the museum on Armed Forces Day, May 18, to Veterans of Foreign Wars, I embarked on a “third career” as a contributor to On Point: The Journal discuss in greater detail the influenza epidemic’s impact on the of Army History; Armor: The Maneuver Warfare Journal, the official publication of the US Army soldiers, nurses, and doctors. Armor School; and the Cavalry and Armor Journal. My work includes the history of weapons systems, battle analyses, book reviews, and unit histories. I never imagined that my history studies at UMass 49 years ago would have prepared me to be a late blooming author.

James Miara ’69 of Concord, Massachusetts, writes: Cherished history alums, I graduated in 1969, Greg Bradsher ’73MA, ’84PhD was presented with the prestigious National Archives and back then the UMass Amherst history department helped me put the Vietnam War in perspective. Greg Bradsher Lifetime Achievement Award on June 19, 2019 in Washington, DC, after a 42+ year career at The lesson, arrived at after much reading and discussion, is: All wars are bad and really bad wars the National Archives. National Archives Program Director Miriam Kleiman reports that are more than two steps backward. An easy lesson, you say, but it has guided my life. Receives Bradsher’s UMass dissertation, “Preserving the Revolution: Civil-Military Relations During the American War for Independence,” was a generative starting point for his career at the Sean Moore ’91 reports: I am editor of the premier journal in my field, Eighteenth-Century Studies. National archives. Highlights of this work include authoring the official guide to Holocaust-related My first book,Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution: Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial records at the National Archives and a 1,166-page tome on the National Archives’ holdings Ireland (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010), won the Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book from the Archives related to the Nazi gold investigation. American Conference for Irish Studies. I recently published Slavery and the Making of Early Through these endeavors, Bradsher became a internationally recognized expert American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814. Lifetime on Holocaust restitution and research and on using National Archives records for art provenance research. He has testified before Congress; represented the United States at John Morton ’12MA reports: In June, after seven years at Boston College, I successfully defended Achievement international conferences in England, Switzerland, and Lithuania; appeared on the History my dissertation, Making Nations: The Northeastern Borderlands in an Age of Revolution, 1760 - Channel, C-Span and other media; spoken at numerous universities and conferences; 1820. At the same time, I learned that BC is keeping me on for a year or two as a visiting assistant Award organized an international symposium on Holocaust-era assets records and research; edited, professor. I am teaching Modern History II in the fall (which is basically global history/world history/ co-authored, or contributed to several books; and published in a broad range of journals. globalization/etc). I am trying to incorporate public history into the syllabus as best I can—so excited “It has been an honor to work so closely with Dr. Greg Bradsher,” commented archivist to be teaching! Outside of work, my wife, Kate, and I live in Arlington, with our son, Freddy, and Sylvia Naylor of the National Archives at College Park. “He is the perfect combination of daughter, Bea. We try to make it back to the Valley at least once a year for Atkins donuts and poking Enjoli Pescheta ’17 at the UMass Durfee scholar and archivist. His knowledge of the records never ceases to amaze me.” Conservatory. around used bookstores. — Jess Johnson

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Daniel Gordon (editor) Alice Nash, with Olaf The Anthem Companion to Kaltmeier, Josef Raab, Mike Alexis de Tocqueville (Anthem Foley, Stefan Rinke, Mario Press, 2019) Rufer (co-editors) This book contains original The Routledge Handbook to interpretations of Tocqueville’s the History and Society of the History students and alumni at the annual major writings on democracy and alumni dinner. Americas (Routledge, 2019) revolution as well as his lesser- The colonial heritage and its Reflections on the 2019 Alumni Dinner known writings on colonies, prisons, renewed aftermaths—expressed in and minorities. The introduction the inter-American experiences of by Daniel Gordon discusses how Ian Sandefer ’03 is a trial lawyer who for a few years as part of my young life. their personal stories. Many had overcome slavery, indigeneity, dependence, and Tocqueville was canonized during provides personal injury and criminal This April, after the passage of so much time, substantial obstacles to get to, and excel, at freedom movements, to mention the Cold War and the need to only a few aspects—form a common defense representation throughout Wyoming. I was anxious, and a bit nervous, as I made UMass. I was impressed with their character reassess the place of Tocqueville’s ground of experience in the Western Here he reflects on the spring 2019 History my way up I-91 from Hartford to Amherst. and drive. voice in the conversation of post- Hemisphere. The flow of peoples, Alumni Dinner: Driving into town, I took a tour down memory Marxist social theory. Each chapter goods, knowledge, and finances have that follows compares Tocqueville’s lane. I went by the apartments in South In addition to the students, I was privileged promoted interdependence and ideas on a given subject with those In May of 2003, I graduated from UMass Amherst that I lived in as a student. I went enough to get to visit with some of my favorite integration that cut across borders of other major social theorists, and link the countries of North Amherst with a degree in history. Since that to the park where my young daughter would professors when returning. It was heartening including Bourdieu, Dahl, Du Bois, and South America together. The time, I have often thought of Amherst and play. I drove through the Hampshire College to see that the thoughtful, dedicated, and Foucault, Lévi-Strauss, and Marx. nature of this transversally related longed to return. For this reason, I jumped at campus, which my younger brother briefly engaged professors are still shaping the and multiply interconnected region the chance when asked to attend a history attended. And I made my way to the campus way the young UMass graduates will think can only be captured through a department student-alumni dinner. This where I’d spent most my time while living in about and approach the problems we face transnational, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive approach. April I returned to UMass after my nearly Amherst. Parts of the campus were the same in today’s world and political climate. All of 16-year absence. as they had been when I was a student. I this reinforced for me the vital importance of made the trip up to the W.E.B. Du Bois library keeping quality public education accessible To provide a little background, I was born and stacks where I’d spent countless hours in our country. It also reminded me of how raised in Central Wyoming and, at the age studying. It looked unchanged. Other parts fortunate I was to have had UMass shape of 22, I set out on a journey to the unknown. of the campus were hardly recognizable. me as a young adult. Garrett L. Washington Kevin Young I had never been past the Mississippi River The campus has grown and expanded (editor) Making the Revolution: Histories when I packed all my things—and loaded up substantially in the past 15 years. To all those who have the opportunity to Christianity and the Modern of the Latin American Left my young family—into a U-Haul truck and go back and visit our alma mater, I would Woman in East Asia (Brill, Many treatments of the twentieth- drove the 2,000 miles east to Amherst. I have As for the most important part of my visit, strongly encourage them to do so. It was a century Latin American left assume 2018) a movement populated by affluent This volume explores the complex so many fond memories of being in western I was privileged to meet current history remarkably rewarding experience. I will not youth whose naïve dreams of revolution roles that Christian beliefs, Massachusetts—it is a place where I grew students and discuss with them their plans, let another 16 years pass before returning. collapsed under the weight of their knowledge, institutions, and intellectually and into adulthood. Amherst goals, and dreams. What an impressive own elitism, racism, sexism, and networks played in the construction sectarian dogmas. However, this book was a wonderful place for me to call “home” group of young people! I was struck by — Ian Sandefer ’03 of modern womanhood in East demonstrates that the history of the Asia. While contributing to gender left was much more diverse. As the dynamics that disprivileged book’s contributors demonstrate, many women in China, Japan, and Korea, Check out the history department’s YouTube and If you would like to give to the department, leftists struggled against capitalism and Christianity was also instrumental SoundCloud channels to see and hear a sampling of simply visit umass.edu/history/giving or send a empire while also confronting racism, in women’s efforts to empower this year’s public talks: www.youtube.com/umass- check made out to “UMass Amherst” to: patriarchy, and authoritarianism. The themselves and participate in the history and soundcloud.com/umass-history. left’s ideology and practice were often public sphere. 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