HISTORY Brown University Department of History m at t e r s Volume 35 / Spring 2021 Photo credit: Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa

Cover Image / Gabriel Rocha

he woman in the foreground of our cover image Artur Pastor, who chronicled artisanal laborers throughout pulls, alongside others, the day’s catches from the urban and rural Portugal for decades, worked most of his sea. Her grip on the rope is uneven, tighter in the career in the Ministry of Agriculture under António de right hand than the left. In another photograph Oliveira Salazar’s authoritarian Estado Novo government. fromT the same series, pictured above, a woman on the right Although scholars of Pastor note he was not a vocal copes with more than her part of the endeavor; holding the supporter of the regime, his artfully composed portraits of rope, she also props up a toddler. Part of a series composed in working-class Portuguese women, men, and children offer the 1950s by the Portuguese photographer Artur Pastor, these images of industrious, proud, and storied people that were shots taken in the beachside village of Nazaré depict a fishing embraced and deployed by the fascists in power. Not for technique known as the “art of the xávega,” which has been nothing, Pastor’s photographs of Nazaré were presented by adopted and adapted by coastal communities throughout the Salazar’s dignitaries to Queen Elizabeth II during her state western Mediterranean for millennia. Carrying the imprints visit to Portugal in 1957. Communal praxis geared towards of diverse maritime traditions in its very name, the term in meeting local needs became refracted, through the lens of Portuguese derives from the Arabic shabaka, for “net.” Local Pastor’s Rolleiflex and the appropriative force of the powerful, lore in Nazaré tells of the introduction of this technique in towards an autocratic projection of labor in the service of the nineteenth century by fisherfolk from further south, nation and empire. and behind it, a collectivist principle: in theory at least, the Despite these contradictions, the woman on our cover snagged fish are to be evenly divided among the women and slopes forward, her eyes downcast, her forehead browed: men who haul them onto the beach. Many of the fifteenth- she is, alongside others around her, contending with her century manuscripts I study, in their gnarled handwriting, present, the fish caught in that net, the grains of sand under refer to fisherfolk on Portugal’s southern coast who her feet, the leaden pull of the mighty ocean’s tide. Her labor, knew and practiced an art and ethos that they, too, called subjectivity, and expertise, combined with those of others, “xávega,” suggesting a historical through line of collectivist reveal not only the thick residue of the past, but how survival mobilization reckoning with the roiling waters of the deep. is a tenuous and insurmountably collective endeavor mired Coming across these photographs amidst turbulent in the here and now – a meaningful truth evoked by Pastor’s times that have drawn so many into sequestered routines, photographs in the unforgiving light of 2021, despite how I find myself primed to be captivated by the images’ they may have been instrumentalized decades ago. • suggestions of a shared struggle, abetted by proximity, towards a concrete and collectively beneficial goal. Yet history, as we know well, can tack in unexpected directions. History Matters Brown University Department of History / Volume 35 / Spring 2021

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A Word from the Chair...... 2 Recent Faculty Books...... 4

Exploration 5/3/2021 smithgateone.jpeg Database of Indigenous Slavery in the Americas...... 8 13 The History Department collaborates with the Voces of a Pandemic Oral History Project...... 10 Moral Integrity in Research...... 12 Disasters That Haven’t Happened Yet: Tokyo in 1964 and 2021...... 13 New Faculty Profile: Gabriel Rocha...... 14 40 New Faculty Profile: Mark Ocegueda...... 16 Faculty Activities...... 18 Undergraduate Program...... 30 Graduate Program...... 34

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© 2021 Brown University 2 brown university department of history This is just one of many signs of how Brown theand Department History have adjusted to 2021 that our work cannot –and should not –be vibrant. In that light, History the Department has worsened over summer the of 2020, university the A Word from the Chair the pandemic. implemented to keep community the safe. We shifted redistribute 80courses those over three semesters in task. Instead, Igot my firsttaste as chair of how pandemic. When weforcurriculum thethe first set onthem paths through countless the personal and that keep our department running and our university to our communities, and manage day-to-day the tasks teach, care for our students’ overall wellbeing, attend their schedules,their adapted to of needs the university the managed to have ifchallenging, agood, year. distilled to ourdistilled research and publications alone. We also decided to adddecided afull-blown summer semester and other year on record we have reminded been in2020- extraordinary community history the is. Thefaculty, evenly over two semesters. Then,pandemicthe as during pandemic the allowing while as many students as possible to have aresidential experience. staff, graduateand students occasion, the alteredto rose all the makings the ofall an arduous, ifnot almost impossible, asked us to adjust accordingly. our curriculum This had academic year, we had roughly 80courses spread academic challenges created and exacerbated by the and worked closely with our students to help guide advantage of technologies new tools, and pedagogical ofall our classes to on-line formats, to learned take and of undergraduates, the and almost made it to easy U What ayear it Perhaps has been! more than any We adjusted university the to rules the year is drawing to aclose. This year is different.write, AsI we are preparing for a special Summera special 2021 semester that was to designed limit density on campus accomplishments and developments Department inthe of History, academic the sually when the chair the when sually writes column this to update community the on the To get of asense breadth the of our activities, please Ocegueda and hisOcegueda students saw pandemic inthe aduty truly inspiring. to courses their and students their inways that were teachingtheir year –this dedicated they themselves piece on page 13, we are invited about to think the to record and experiences of the perspectives members pandemicthe atopic became of study. As you can projects. When we could, we adapted. Sometimes pandemic brought with it travel restrictions, the yearthis have profound. been Thecoronavirus year'sthis undergraduate (pages theses 32-33). These that were completed year this (page and 38), list the of upcoming Olympics inTokyo context inthe of the learn onlearn page 11,Postdoc/Assistant Professor Mark faculty books (pages names 4-7),the books faculty five the PHDs of options for our students.always The faculty value course, passionately committed to research as well. current events. In Professor Smith’s Kerry exploration extraordinary times. In other we cases, have considered of community Latinx the live as they through these of conferences many which inturn stalled research closing of archives and libraries, and cancellation the constant threat of amajor earthquake that is acore part how our work might inform ways the we understand see sections in this newsletter inthis sections see with list the of recent a way that provided outstanding content and arange accomplishments notwithstanding, challenges the The departmenthistory community remains, of of the city’s identity. Finally, the pandemic reminded adjust to remote learning, sharing her remarkable us again of the importance of thinking about the craft breadth of knowledge about pedagogy and technology. and responsibilities of historical research. On page 12 She will be taking up a postdoctoral fellowship in Professor Françoise Hamlin addresses the ethics of the UC system before heading to a tenure-track job research and the obligations researchers have to the at the University of Ottowa. We thank her for her communities and people they study. A similar theme contributions these past two years and wish her well in comes through in the Professor Linford Fisher’s work her new positions. with native regional tribes and communities to create As I bring these reflections to a close let me extend a Database of Indigenous Slavery in the Americas, the department’s warmest congratulations to Daniel featured on page 8. In some ways the pandemic has Rodriguez, who was promoted to associate professor encouraged us to discover layers of meanings in our with tenure this year. sources that might not be apparent on first reading. Professor Rocha’s description of the images that open As I hope you will learn from perusing these this newsletter provides insight into the benefits a deep pages, the pandemic has altered many things, but left reading of our materials can provide. As these examples our core mission intact. I would go even further – the illustrate, despite the pandemic’s challenges, our pandemic has ushered in a renewed commitment to the research continues and our community is thriving. importance of our teaching and scholarship and further solidified our appreciation for the broader community In the annual departmental comings and goings, of alumni and friends from across Brown and the world we welcomed Professors Ocegueda and Rocha to their who help to sustain us. first – albeit very unusual – year at Brown. We also bid a fond farewell to the postdoctoral fellow Cindy Nguyen, a historian of Vietnam, Southeast Asian print culture, and libraries. Professor Nguyen was also a stalwart citizen in helping in helping the department Ethan Pollock 4 brown university department of history New Books Recent Faculty Books Press (June, 2021) ThirdEdition, Oxford University Brazil: Five Centuries of Change, Skidmore James N.Green, Thomas E. Norton &Company (August, 2019) History of the Bering Strait, W.W. Floating Coast: An Environmental Bathsheba Demuth Leiden: Brill (January Brill Leiden: 2020) Medicine in the First Global Age, Translation at Work: Chinese Harold J. Cook (June, 2020) Galician Town, Books, Berghahn Accounts of the World Wars in a Voices on War and Genocide: Three Bartov Omer to later Stuart political andreligious political historians, and scholars to laterStuart Locke beofinterest will Britain andEighteenth-Century Ideas inSeventeenth- also withScotland, France andtheAtlantic world. Politics, Religion and events withEnglandbut as asideasanddealnot examine well only They engagement,and Catholicpolitical impact of aswell asthetransformative interests: inLocke, Tory thought, political and Whig andPuritan, Anglican research, here collected thechapters reflectrange the ofhisscholarly Restoration through succession. totheHanoverian Basedon original aboutpolitics, extensively written religion from andideasinBritain the ofhisgeneration andhas Britain oflaterStuart distinguished historians University, atCambridge History of Intellectual isone ofthemost Enlightenment. Mark Goldie, Fellow ofChurchill CollegeandProfessor history,British through totheAge of from century themid-seventeenth and Tory, ideasacross andAnglican atumultuous of Puritan period This volume, toMark Goldie, atribute Whig evolution tracesthe of JUSTIN CHAMPION is Professor of History atRoyal isProfessor Holloway, CHAMPION ofHistory JUSTIN ofLondon. University JOHN COFFEY is Professor of Early Modern History at the University ofLeicester. attheUniversity COFFEYJOHN History Modern isProfessor ofEarly Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Modern inEarly Studies Political andSocial History JOHN MARSHALLJOHN atJohn Hopkins isProfessor University ofHistory TIM HARRISTIM atBrown isProfessor University. ofHistory intellectual historians more historians generally.intellectual the Glorious Revolution. the Glorious Glickman, Harris,Tim Irving-Stonebraker, Sarah Clare Jackson, Warren CONTRIBUTORS: JustinChampion, John Coffey, Conal Condren, Gabriel adipiscing elit. Donec finibus Cover image:Cover ipsum Lorem dolor sitamet, consectetur lacinia sapienafinibus. Johnston, GeoffKemp,Levitin, Dmitri John Marshall, Jacqueline Rose,

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Tara Nummedal Robert O. Self, Margot Canaday, Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Nancy F. Cott Blood: Alchemy and End Times Intimate States: Gender, Sexuality, and in Reformation Germany, Haney Governance in Modern U.S. History, Foundation Series (March, 2019) University of Chicago Press, (August, 2021)

Ethan Pollock Adam Teller ETHAN POLLOCK Without the Banya We Would Perish: Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Without the Banya A History of the Russian Bathhouse, Jewish Refuge Crisis of the Seventeenth We Would Oxford University Press Century, Princeton University Press Perish (September, 2019) (April, 2020) A History of the Russian Bathhouse

Lukas Rieppel Vazira Zamindar and Asad Ali, eds. Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Love, War and Other Longings: Essays Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of on Cinema in Pakistan, Oxford a Spectacle, Harvard University Press University Press (2020) (June, 2019)

5 6 brown university department of history Reprints, Paperback Editions, andTranslations Recent Faculty Books Verso pbk. (February, 2019) Eugene V. Debs: AGraphic Biography, Paul and Buhle Steve Max pbk. (January, 2019) Reprint edition Schuster; & Simon Death of aTown Called Buczacz, Anatomy of aGenocide: The Life and Bartov Omer (Kabul: Insan Institute, 2021) Pashto Empires, translation British Statecraft between theOttoman and Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Faiz Ahmed Press pbk. (July, 2019) Siècle, University of Wisconsin Metropolitan Culture at the Fin de The Invisible Budapest Jewish Gluck Mary (August, 2020) Princeton University Press pbk. Nineteenth Century, and Beyond, and Many Other Questions over the Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Attempt at an Aggregate History of the The Age Questionsof Or, A First Holly Case pbk. (January, 2019) University Duke Press Books Politics, The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Moritzand Lilia Schwarcz, eds. James N.Green, Victoria Langland 2021

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Jennifer L. Lambe and Michael J. Kurt A. Raaflaub, Robert B. Strassler Bustamante, eds. eds. The Revolution from Within: Cuba, The Landmark Julius Caesar: The 1959-1980, Duke University Press pbk. Complete Works: Gallic War, Civil (March, 2019) War, Alexandrian War, African War, and Spanish War, Anchor: Reprint edition pbk. (February, 2019)

7 8 brown university department of history By Linford Fisher in theAmericas Database ofIndigenousSlavery Exploration time period). time wereAfricans who brought as slaves same from inthis Africa (even compared to approximately the 10.5 -12million nineteenth century–an astonishing number by any measure were enslaved 1492and Americas inthe between late the Scholars now estimate that 2.5and between 5million Natives multi-lingual and multi-national contexts Americas. inthe Native American represents slavery cutting-edge research in colonial expansion.aided settler The hemispheric study of colonialism that tore apart communities and families and peoples was apersistent and destabilizing of settler aspect unknown to widerpublic, the enslavement the of Indigenous that else Europeansand everywhere landed. colonial enslavement of Native Americans inNew England as one scholar it widespread has –the called reality of the reveals window asmall story this into “other the slavery,” are there records about made it they whether back again. Still, from safety the of island their home and sold into slavery, nor details were given about how it was that were they taken coast of Massachusetts 150miles south of Piscataqua. No Americans from Martha’s Vineyard, island asmall off the reveals an important and Desiah detail: were Rachel Native of history the slavery, but aclose read of advertisement this and offered athree-pound reward for return. their Their masters ran an News-Letter advertisement Boston inthe flannel petticoat and two gowns, one dark and one striped. wearing ablack gown and jacket; astriped wore Rachel ablue twenty years had old; an Desiah injured right thumb and was A Long overlooked by scholars and almost completely Running away or self-emancipating was common in of Maine. women Both were approximately masters inPiscataqua, inwhat is now state the andChin Choho Rachel ran away from their pril 1742,two enslaved women named Desiah

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One of the most rewarding aspects of this project has access in ways that are legible to and respectful of tribal been the relationships and partnerships that have developed histories and people. over time with regional Native tribes and communities. While this project seeks to bring greater understanding Through regular larger group meetings, smaller to the past, it is important to recognize that these Indigenous subcommittee meetings, and individual consultations, tribal nations are still here, in New England and all across the input has been essential for placing these events in larger Americas, and have vibrant communities and cultural Native contexts; understanding the legacies and historical traditions. They, too, have oral histories regarding settler trauma caused by enslavement, dispossession, and settler colonialism, displacement, indigenous enslavement, and colonialism; and discussing how to decolonize the documents ongoing survival into the present that need to inform our on which this information is drawn by paying attention to understanding of the past; archival materials alone are language, wording, and the assumptions that are latent in insufficient. In combination with tribal input, DISA will colonial sources. allow the slow centralization of biographical information Over the past year approximately 15 different researchers related to enslaved indigenous people like Desiah and Rachel have worked on the project, including undergraduate and from Martha’s Vineyard and place it online where historians, graduate research assistants, proctors, and interns from researchers, students, tribal members, and families can use Brown but also from the University of Utrecht and the Free the information to reconstruct histories, chart networks, University of Berlin. Approximately the same number of and make connections in ways that have never before been official tribal representatives have also been involved in possible. These are hard realities and difficult histories, but conversations, meetings, and deliberations over the past year they need to be told fully so we can start to be more honest as well, ensuring that as researchers continue to find and about the history of this country and think more clearly enter information, we are carefully handling this sensitive about how to make amends moving forward.• historical information and preparing it for eventual public

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COLLABORATES WITH THE history VOCES OF A PANDEMIC ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

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his past year, I have and learned how to remotely conduct during the pandemic. This project, partnered with the Voces oral history interviews via Zoom. known as Voces of a Pandemic, is Oral History Center at the Though a challenging assignment a part of the leading oral history University of Texas, Austin given that students conducted the collection of Latinx people in the toT help support their initiative to interviews remotely, they appreciated United States and has already archived document how the Latinx community having the opportunity to participate over 200 interviews. Students in my is confronting and experiencing the in the history-making process course contributed over a dozen COVID-19 pandemic. In Spring through documenting the testimony interviews to the project and they will 2021, students in my Introduction to of people living through these be archived at the Brown University Latinx History course participated in extraordinary times. The Latinx Digital Repository and the Nettie Lee conducting oral history interviews community is disproportionately Benson Library at the University of with individuals that included being impacted by the pandemic. It is Texas, Austin. The Voces Oral History educators, street vendors, nurses, both overrepresented among essential Center is also allowing the public to immigrants, community organizers, workers and underrepresented among view the interviews on their YouTube students, grocery store workers, and those with access to healthcare. These channel.• fast food workers. Prior to conducting oral history interviews are part of their interviews, students received a larger effort to better understand training in oral history methodology how Latinx people are navigating life

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11 12 brown university department of history Moral Integrity inResearch By Françoise N.Hamlin Exploration I seemed to be the only the to be researcherI seemed with any knowledge of summarily burned. papers These no longer exist. Given that hadlibrary returned boxes the which one family member with archivists. the Months later Ifound out that the family to report what Ihad found, and connected them archive. After Iread through archive, the Icontacted the trauma and mental available illness became at auniversity containing sensitive personalinformation that highlighted Anne Moody’s life afterwards. Afewobtained legally boxes schools, colleges, and universities, we know little about an became instant book the hit, assigned for in decades before terror she racial escaped South. the While and fled her of as activism part mass the movement for rights civil twenty-two years growing up Magnolia inthe State, and Age Mississippi in of Coming Anne Moody is known best for her 1968autobiography, personal moral integrity. did notwho want found to be and negotiating research with field-wideconversation aboutthe ethics of finding someone and Ethics: Finding Anne Moody” which Iwrote a to begin American Historical published Review my essay “Historians M for of sake the knowledge.” year Last the ofethics research and of idea the “knowledge and trauma has forced me to into digdeep the y current about book young people, activism, , that documented her first my journey.• change the reflect we want world inthe to see and is this investmentsocial continues to reap rewards. We have to of justice, fairness, knowledge while without extraction I move through circles dominated to issues by lipservice andmethod what“ethics the Icall of care;” as particularly teach and research more the interested Ihave become in of teaching and method field. inthe The ethics more I autobiography, others pondered while on complexities the of Anne Moody had encountered they who through the or another. Some wrote sorrowfully, mourning fate the express how subject the resonated with inone them way many scholars around have country the reached out to for conversations the it has prompted. In past the year of Black Women Historians but Iam most grateful Woods Brown Memorial Prize from Article Association the The article, published inApril 2020,received Letitia the historians utilizeand create. and professional integrity and methods inthe products Ultimately, Iunderscored importance the of personal consideringwhen race, power, class, consent, and privacy. land ingreyareas. them This, of course, becomes amplified historians must navigate follow as they research leadsthat with what to do next, raising some issues of ethical the contentsthe of archive, the Iwrote about my own struggle Exploration 2021

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ssuming that the pandemic-delayed Summer Olympics opens as planned in Tokyo in July, we can count on both Japanese and foreign media coverage to be full of comparisons between the cityA as it is now and how it was in 1964, the first time it hosted the Games. Parts of it certainly look very different. The 17-story Hotel New Otani was Tokyo’s tallest building in 1964; it’s still open for business but now barely registers against a horizon filled with scores of towering skyscrapers. The capital’s crowded subways and trains, its bustling stores and elevated expressways impressed first-time visitors and television viewers abroad in 1964, and although some of the novelty will have worn off, it won’t be hard to show those watching from afar how much more there is of everything in 2021; more people, more technology, more wealth. An important but less legible quality of the city’s history between the two Olympics has to do with how it has been shadowed by earthquake disasters that haven’t happened (yet), but that experts have long warned were an all but inevitable part of Tokyo’s future. The first warning came just a few months before the opening ceremonies in 1964. The seismologist who issued it was a leader in the field in Japan, and when he Portal to a disaster shelter complex in Sumida Ward, Tokyo. announced that another earthquake on the same scale as the The apparent precision of the methods used to calculate the one that had destroyed large parts of the capital district in causes and probability of Tokyo’s next earthquake disasters 1923 was increasingly likely, people took him at his word. That https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/kerry_smith%40brown.edu/FMfcgxwLtkQsQnxgMQVwfMJvDnZpSFlZ?projector=1&messagePartId=0.4(and the damage they will do) has played an important role in 1/2 same seismologist’s descriptions of a post-earthquake Tokyo reassuring the nation since 1964 that the risks to the city were engulfed in “seas of fire” convinced policy makers to mandate largely understood and therefore manageable, and that more disaster preparedness plans and to attempt to create safe growth was safe. The idea that the same mastery of engineering, evacuation zones for the city’s residents. Tokyo’s present-day science and technology that helped make Tokyo into one of the anti-earthquake-disaster measures, such as they are, owe a lot to wealthiest cities on the planet is also what will protect it from its those early interventions. worst possible futures has an enticing symmetry to it, one that The earthquake that Tokyoites worry most about these days was regularly reinforced during a long period without direct, is not the one they were warned about in 1964. The disaster proximate evidence to the contrary. in 1923 was the result of slippage at plate boundaries along The bargain that the city struck with itself back in 1964 to think the Sagami Trough, offshore. Scientists have thought since the about earthquake risks in ways that wouldn’t unduly disrupt the 1980s that the greatest short-term threat to the city will come economy need not be permanent, and disasters like the ones of instead from a shallow, intraplate earthquake originating more March 11, 2011 certainly suggest that it ought not to be. There or less directly beneath the capital, not unlike the one that is still time, one hopes, for the emergence of ways of living with devastated the city in 1855. There is a 70 percent probability of risk that burden the future less than we are doing now. • such an event occurring over the next 30 years, according to government estimates. 13 14 brown university department of history environmental historians are inaposition to track changes and employing interdisciplinary insights where possible, modern period? to understand thehistory ofcolonialism intheearly must historians attend to thenatural world inorder history into dialogue withenvironmental history. Why pastthe and its aftermath. offershopefully us amore accurate basis for reckoning with for amessier than an story seeing empire inisolation, but landscape for themselves and came who after. those It makes changed political, economic, social, the and environmental into arrangements and with others conflicts inways that groups moved through Atlantic the and beyond, entering more concerned with examining how diverse peoples and a narrative around asingle or imperial national history. I’m worldmodern becomes, more respect, inthis than crafting and why of Situating colonial struggle. Portugal early inthe that are integral to understanding who, the what, where, multiple rooted perspectives invarious places and regions conquest as much and as trade, Ican Itry to recover that originated inEurope and expanded outward through the globalimpact ofPortuguese history? important that we lookbeyond Europe to understand Iberian peninsula,Africa, andtheAmericas.Why isitso Atlantic context, makingconnections between the Atlantic Brazil, and Caribbean, the Africa, Iberia. Atlanticmodern world, on with afocus linkages the between and maritime of history colonialism and early inthe slavery Philadelphia. His work centers environmental, on social, the and, before coming to Brown, taught at Drexel University in Gabriel RochaGabriel New Faculty Profile Exploration G Being imaginativeBeing with archives the that we have, Much ofyour teaching andresearch bringscolonial Rather than telling of story the empire as aproject Your work places Portuguese history into abroader He received his PhD from New York University Professor of Early Modern Portuguese History. Department as Vasco Gama da Assistant abriel recently Rocha joined Brown the History accordingly –an end. have historical –and, beginnings sooner than later if we act order. of global perennial the aspects toxic These forces structures of inequality are not, as we recognize today, them gender-based discrimination, anthropocentrism, and other it becomes easier to grasp how present forms of race- and people and planet the across different historical periods, understand changing the iterations of plunder waged against detrimental to many to few. and beneficial When we better orenact, subvert sweeping transformations that were economic and formations political came about to justify, and elite perceptions of environment, the and to weigh how in nature in material terms, to consider shiftsinpopular 2021

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You are currently writing a book about the Atlantic What is your favorite history book? Acceleration in the long fifteenth century. Can you I'll answer this impossibly difficult question by explain what this “acceleration” was and how you expressing my appreciation for a colonial Brazilian history became interested in this topic? book that has been recently translated into English: the It’s often said that Portuguese and Spanish mariners late John Manuel Monteiro’s Negros da terra [Blacks of the inaugurated contact across the Atlantic. But if we think Land]. It’s a work of remarkable scholarship on seventeenth- in broader temporal, spatial, and ecological terms, it century Brazil that traces confrontations between sovereign becomes clear that a great number of species and materials Indigenous peoples of eastern South America and Portuguese regularly cycled through the vast expanses between Africa, colonizers of what became São Paulo, and how patterns the Americas, and Europe long before the so-called Age of enslavement and the rise of provisioning economies of Discoveries. From coming across many unexpected in the region helped underpin the plantation regime in references in Iberian sources to sardines and other migratory northeastern Brazil. In reading it as a graduate student in fish, I became interested in what happens to our assumptions an Atlantic History program, I remember being struck by about power (in relation to people and nature) when we write how Monteiro’s analysis of regional integration in colonial these perennial non-human oceanic movements back into Brazil mirrors the connections that scholars working on the rise of empires in the Atlantic world, rather than treating Native American slavery and plantation economies have them as a historical background noise. The story becomes uncovered in recent years between North America and more about how, in the centuries after 1492, the maritime the Caribbean. It’s a reminder of how the Atlantic history space between Africa, the Americas and Europe became paradigm at its best pushes us to productively read across humanized in a way that it hadn’t previously. With this different historiographies. infusion of people – the great majority of whom experienced involuntary exile from Africa to the Americas – the pace by which material and social connections linked the societies surrounding the Atlantic basin accelerated dramatically. To refer to this historical sea-change as an acceleration helps to convey a process that was rife with deepening forms of violence and dispossession.

15 16 brown university department of history found important to be inmy research and teaching. place among people. Latinx This is something that Ihave possible abetter understanding of how class formation takes at center the of our analyses doing when labor makes history identitiestheir as workers. Hence, placing race and ethnicity backgrounds and often factors these have helped shaped peopleLatinx consist of range awide of and racial ethnic necessitateshistory aclose examination of race and ethnicity. in afew sentences. By now, most historians know that labor economic class intersects withethnic identity? so crucialfor historians to attend to theways that history into dialoguewithlaborhistory. Why isit Ruíz, is of history history Latinx the United the States. unknown to general the public, and, words inthe of Vicki L. ourbecause is history profoundly complex, relatively still offercountry courses about to students experience Latinx the important that Brown university and every across the people United inthe States. that Ithink it is extremely community or singular historical for experience Latinx go without saying that there is really no singular Latinx geography, politics, gender, sexuality, and class. It should wide-ranging along lines the of race, identity, ethnic culture, History Latinx I think is distinctive inthat is so field this admirationin deep of scholars the that engage field. inthis continuingthe growth of History. Latinx Iam constantly subfieldnew within USHistory. It inspiring is so to witness Latinx experience to its students? is itsoimportant for Brown to offer courses aboutthe History. What isdistinctive aboutthisfield,andwhy Mark Ocegueda New Faculty Profile Exploration This is a great question and one that to answer is difficult Much ofyour teaching andresearch bringsLatinx You are right inthat History Latinx arelatively is still Latinx History isarelatively new subfield withinUS Angeles, and places like Inland the Empire are understudied. inon places Angeles, focused like Los Los East especially considering when history Mexicans ethnic primarily is still Citythe of San Bernardino. much So of Southern California stemmed from apersonal curiosity given that I was in raised researching your book? the most interesting thingyou have learnedwhile What initiallybrought you to thistopic, andwhat is City Bernardino's ofSan Mexican Americancommunity. California's InlandEmpire, focusing especiallyonthe My interest instudying of history the region this You are currently writingabookabout Southern 2021

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In many ways, I was frustrated with the historiography and What is your favorite history book? wanted to understand how this region fit into the narrative by I am going to cheat on this question because it is asking questions surrounding issues of race, ethnicity, labor, impossible to just name one book. I think the books that first culture, civil rights, and politics. Ultimately, I want to see introduced me to Latinx history are perhaps still some of my what the answers to those questions can afford us in terms of favorite books because I remember reading them so vividly how we understand California history, ethnic Mexicans and and they still inform my scholarship. They also introduced Latinx people, the U.S. West, and the American historical me to a history that was never presented to me in my k-12 narrative. Perhaps the most interesting thing that I have education. Some of these books are Vicki L. Ruíz’s From learned while researching this project is just how important Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century the people of this region have been toward understanding America, Matt García’s A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and U.S. history. Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, and George J. You also worked on a fascinating exhibit about the Sánchez’s Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, history of US Latino baseball called ¡Pleibol! Can you and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles. These are classic works tell us more about this wonderful project? in the field and they allowed me to envision where my own I was fortunate to have participated in the development communities fit into the larger U.S. historical narrative. For of this exhibition at the National Museum of American a more recent work of history, I think Johanna Fernández’s history through my public history work with the Latino The Young Lords: A Radical History was an amazing book Baseball History Project (LBHP) at California State to read since it reshapes how we understand Latinx social University, San Bernardino. Over the years, I have conducted movements in the 20th century. Quite simply, it is social oral history interviews and collaborated with Latinx history at its finest.• communities to document the history of baseball and softball teams in barrios throughout Southern California. That work eventually led to a collaboration with the Smithsonian where we contributed some of that research to the ¡Pleibol! exhibition. This important exhibition will tell the story of how Latinas and Latinos have contributed to the long history of America’s pastime. The opening of the exhibition was delayed due to the pandemic but hopefully it will open to the public this summer. Here is a link for those that want to know more about the exhibition: https://americanhistory.si.edu/ latinos-and-baseball/pleibol-exhibit

17 18 brown university department of history Faculty Activities and graduates. wonderfully bright and curious undergraduates tyranny, Europe, inmodern and peace scores with several of Holocaust and Nakba, the firstperson history, and war, contemporary, scholarly and personal, on such topics as the engaging inissues that were historical both and BartovconfinedZoom, greatlyto enjoyed teachingthis year, establishment of state the of Israel. Finally, despite being generation’s transformation early inthe following decades the Political History,” of tell story the his which will own currently “Remaking titled Past: the Israel, aPersonal 1930s.the Bartov has now preparing begun his next project, transition of Bartov’s own family from to Palestine Galicia in and where go. did they endsbook with The an account the of where come did they from, how were transformed they there, of men the and women lived who borderlands, inthe asking murder, it tells myths the and legends, stories and biographies translations) because rather than tracing roots the of mass recently published been inFrench and German than his previousAnatomy of aGenocide (which has book, Making andUnmakingthePast.It was more to fun write University Press, under title the Tales fromtheBorderlands: scheduled for publication coming inthe year by Yale on two based of decades book, research and reading, field.the Bartov dedicatedthe summer writingto a new provides readers with acomprehensive view of state the of attachment to land the of Jews and Palestinians, which

Bartov twenty-one innovative essays on the in September 2021. This collection is a of Peoples, is now scheduled for publication volume Israel-Palestine: Landsand ones. new Hisbegin 540-page edited lockdown to complete some projects and workings of patronage and its currently engaged inresearch on the (roughly centuries), to 9th 14th she is historian of “mid-imperial” China AsianEast studies inJuly 2021. A member of Brown the as faculty Chair of member,faculty having just become a Historythe department as an affiliated Beverly Bossler Beverly In year this like no other made most the of the is honored to join Omer and trimester the schedule. In capacity this she got some procedures were upended by pandemic, the online teaching, DUG on various matters, even as many regular processes and Princeton Tang-Song Workshop (April). Colloquium and Chinese Classical Columbia- the Cornell China,”Dynasty as well as presenting work-in-progress to the Language on Love: “The of Romance and AffectionSong in Johnson lecture for University of Kansas inOctober, speaking research year, this she enjoyed presenting Wallace the and her position new as Chair did not leave alot of for time Although combination the of COVID, across-country move, relationship to gender relations and and emotional social life. analytically sophisticated and beautifully argued thesis. grow from an inchoate of series questions and into ideas an it was year; this agreat pleasure her honors to see project fortunatevery advisor to be to an outstanding honors student patiencethe and flexibility of her students. Finally, she was challenges, which Brokaw was able to only meet of because hybrid and thus presented interesting teaching new China” and “Urban Culture inEarly Modern China,” were taught spring, inthe “Women and Relations Gender in University of California, Berkeley. of courses the Both she lecture for agraduate workshop history book at the range of seminars and conferences and to deliver akeynote limitations, did allow Brokaw to attend, virtually, awide Asia. for encyclopedias inEast Chinese its Zoom, all editing of an issue of online the Linguafrancaon journal printing history, inearly social Chinese modern and guest- intellectual property inpre-modern China, an essay on color progress on on progress access to resources library slowed cancelled research leave and limited other projects: an article on concepts of But she was able to complete certain encyclopedias of early China. modern manuscript on daily-use the In 2020-21 the academic year a and working with History the overseeing honors the program Department. entailed Thisalso Studies for History the Director of Undergraduate athree-yearstarted term as Cynthia Brokaw Thispast year Holly Case ’s book

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had on students and faculty alike. We will be living with these ending in passage of The Amateur Sports Act of 1978. This history for a long time to come. Some standout positive moments legislation restructured the U.S. Olympic Committee, included the “walking consultations” and various outdoor reducing the power of the AAU , and enabling the NCAA to meetings and sessions she had with students over the year. At emerge as the most powerful organization in American times these were the only way to meet in person, and even amateur athletics. when it was snowing or growing dark early, the students were This year, Jonathan Conant’s energetic, sharing their many ideas and posing important research focused primarily on his second Carolinequestions. Castiglione In the spring continues she taught her research a new coursein the political on the thought of the Venetian book, The Carolingians and the Ends of authorHistory Moderata of Artificial Fonte Intelligence, in a recently in published the context article, of “Whywhich Political Theory is Empire, c. 795–840. He continues to Women’s Work: How Moderata Fonte Reclaimed Liberty for Women inside and students had so many original thoughts during discussion hold out hope that work on this project outsidethat it wasMarriage,” almost inlike Challenging old times. Women’s In addition Agency to and teaching Activism the in Early Modernity, ed. Merry Wiesner-Hanks (Amsterdam, 2021). Since Covid-19 halted archival research in will bring him back to France and Italy,three she honors has designed workshop a new series course, courses “Women, (twice) Gender, and History and Feminismof in Early Germany in Summer 2021, but so far, ModernAI, she Italy,”gave several and drafted virtual an talks article (at on Cambridge the unexpected and approaches to legal reform in Conant is still sheltering in place and thePrinceton, eighteenth-century among others) runaway and bestsellerwrote and On published Crimes and essays Punishments in bypondering Cesare from afar early medieval conceptions of space, Beccaria. Current History and The Jewish Quarterly. missionary activity, and other encounters and interactions Caroline Castiglione continues her between eighth- and ninth-century Franks and their research in the political thought of the neighbors. Conant has also been working on a number of Venetian author Moderata Fonte in a smaller projects, including one on warfare and trauma in recently published article, “Why Political early medieval Europe and another on languages and Theory is Women’s Work: How communities in late antique North Africa. His teaching this Moderata Fonte Reclaimed Liberty for year dealt with the body in late antiquity, illicit enslavement, Women inside and outside Marriage,” in and new directions in the scholarship on the middle ages.

Caption: Challenging Women’s Agency and Teaching on Zoom proved to be an interesting challenge. ModerataModerata Fonte Fonte (1555-92) Activism challenged in the Early misogynist Modernity ideas, ed.employed Merry to legitimateAmong the the abuse many things that he learned were the facts that and(1555-92) murder challenged of women. Wiesner-Hanks (Amsterdam, 2021). “Your Internet is Unstable” and “You’re muted!” But he was the misogynist Since Covid-19 halted archival research impressed and inspired by the enthusiasm with which his ideas employed to legitimate the abuse in Italy, she has designed a new course, students and TAs threw themselves into the task of teaching and murder of “Women, Gender, and Feminism in and learning online. In Fall 2020, Conant rounded out his women. Early Modern Italy,” and drafted an term as president of the New England Medieval Consortium, article on the unexpected approaches to legal reform in the and in Spring 2021, took part in the American Historical eighteenth-century runaway bestseller On Crimes and Association’s faculty institute on Career Diversity for Punishments by Cesare Beccaria. Historians. Much as he loves his garden and all the time that Howard Chudacoff has completed he has been able to spend in it, he very much looks forward his fifty-first year at Brown and the first to being post-pandemic 2021-22. year of his three-year phased retirement. Harold (Hal) Cook has, like His article, “AAU. v. NCAA: The Bitter so many colleagues at Brown, Feud That Altered the Structure of invested much of his time and American Amateur Sports,” is being energy in completely revising published by the Journal of Sport his courses for “hybrid” History in May 2021. It is an analysis of teaching during the covid how rivals for control of amateur sports in America and their crisis. On the plus side, powerful, headstrong leaders stymied the efforts of three U.S. enrollments in his history of presidents, an attorney general, the U.S. Congress, a war hero, medicine courses are up, since

19 20 brown university department of history Jenner vaccinating connection despite physical the distance we’ve had to keep. have helped make astrange and challenging of year full tremendously for and her colleagues thankful students, who Mostly, 2020-2021 the academic year has left her feeling students to campus for asunny, term. virus-free hopefully semester, and is looking forward to welcoming first-year teaching be duringwill Brown’s COVID-year summer Alaska and Yukon travel as soon safe is fully again. Demuth Particularly exciting are trips grant the this to fund will environmental history of Yukon the River watershed. to support work on project, her second book an May 2020, Demuth received an Andrew Fellowship Carnegie Strait, which won dozen ahalf prizes over last the year. In book (remotely) to academic and community audiences about her other outlets. Demuth enjoyed continuing to speak in Hakai Magazine, EmergenceTheAtlantic,and on academic articles and several public-facing pieces Rieppel. She kept busy during home-bound the year working conferences, and committees. medicine,” and attended innumerable online events, Jesuit missionaries shaped European of views “Chinese considerable progress on amajor project new about how a refereed article and another see to publication, to make History APonline instruction, managed to submit and revise written and delivered alecture for European Board College of turninginto cows. (1802) ofEdward smallpox, resulting in patients against the their showing signs Etching by J. Gillray Floating Coast:AnEnvironmentalHistoryoftheBering humanities, co-taught with Lukas seminar on environmental the Collaborative HumanitiesCogut course on Anthropocene, the and a amazing group of undergraduates ina during semester, fall the with an sabbatical and to learned teach on Zoom Beshara Doumani Forced Displacement and Making the Brown-Harvard graduate course on In Doumani fall, the taught ajoint even though ithas been was online. how wonderful teaching the experience many students want to know more about the TAsthe he through. pulled He has also students and care the and attention of But thanks to strong the spirit of the littlevia boxes on acomputer screen. free-flowing discussionswith students he findsthat difficult toit is very have epidemics inhistory. downside, On the The most pleasant surprise for Bathsheba Demuth over past the year is returned from pandemic. Along way, the his absence. studies on front the burner at Brown University during supporting arange of measures that keep Palestinian will Studies,East and Brown the University administration for grateful to History the Department, Center the for Middle Palestinian institution of higher education. Doumani is very positionthe of President of Birzeit University, leading the on extended leave from Brown University inorder to up take Journal oftheOttomanandTurkishStudiesAssociation ThePractice: “Early Modern”Ottoman in Studies.” the In essay,Limits of “The Knowledge Production as a Subversive fieldthis forthe twonext years.Doumani also published an that successfully recruited research apost-doctoral fellow in University of California Press and chaired a search committee editorthe on of series Palestinians abook studies with the Doumani founded in2012. Doumani continued as to serve Newthe Directions inPalestinian Studies program that at Brown organized by Doumani and Winder Alex for intimacies of homelife.papers The originated ina workshop which examined material both of history houses and the curated issues two on special theme the of house and home, difficult times. his optimism about future, the even during very these experiencing first their semester at Brown, reinforced terrific quality the of students, most whomof werefreshmen lecturea new course, on of history Palestinians. the The production. For Spring the semester, Doumani introduced student group to teach acourse on politics the of knowledge fortunate recruited to be by Decolonization the at Brown class students on Not Middle East. modern the least, he was course taught and foralso methodology upper- atheory and building fifty-page aterrific strongsyllabus. Doumani extraordinary students indesigning took lead the class the of Modern the World. Alarge diverse and class very of remote conferences Zoom and colloquia, including for the COVID, he found it enjoyable inanumber to part take of Culture inAmerica. Although travel all was restricted due to including lecture inhis fall course on Religion, Politics, and undergrads and working with graduate student TAs, Starting 2021-2022 the academic year, Doumani go will As co-editor of JerusalemQuarterly,Doumani the Linford Fisher response to global the graduatethe program in and making continual to tweaks supporting graduate students Studies, was mostly spent year as Director the of Graduate This year, secondas his enjoyed teaching . Society for US Intellectual History and the Early American proved personally rewarding and fulfilling. During the 2021 History Seminar at Columbia University, among others. His year she managed to have three essays published, secure a work on the Database of Indigenous Slavery in the Americas contract to republish and annotate an autobiography by a spring

also continued in modified format, as the ten research now-deceased civil rights activist, and successfully apply for assistants he had working with him simply shifted online and fellowships to take a full year sabbatical next year to work matters worked remotely. Fisher also enjoyed spending more time on her monograph. This trying year, with all the challenges with his family this year and was grateful that one of his and losses on so many registers, has brought many blessings history hobbies, sailing, seemed especially adaptable to the new (including the adoption of Luna Celeste, an active husky/

normal of social distancing and outdoor activities. He looks4/27/2021 shepherd) andtimlucy.jpg has really highlighted what is important. forward to getting back to writing his book this summer, Tim Harris has travelled titled America Enslaved: The Rise and Fall of Indian Slavery extensively this past academic year to in the English Atlantic and the United States. give lectures and undertake research – Although the Covid-19 pandemic from the ground floor of his house to his led to the cancellation of a sabbatical attic. (Helpful iCal reminders reported semester at the American Academy in on the traffic – typically ‘light’ – to help Berlin and a broken tibia limited ensure punctuality.) Some of his mobility in the fall, James N. Green favourite virtual backdrops included

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/KtbxLxGWvmsKJBZMkGVDxPZpQXCzhQQMZL?projector=1 1/2 remained active as the National Co- locations in the UK, Ireland, France and Greece. He gave coordinator of the U.S. Network for online talks about his work on ‘Empire, Liberty and Slavery Democracy in Brazil, which opened the in Restoration England: The Case of John Wilmore, Whig Washington Brazil Office to educate the U.S. public and activist and Jamaica Planter’ to the British History Seminar in government officials about the current situation in Brazil. Montreal (Canada); the Topics in Early Modern Studies Among the activities related to that effort was initiating the Seminar run between the University of Sheffield (UK) and production a thirty-one-page policy paper on Brazil sent to the University of São Paolo (Brazil); and the Seventeenth- the Biden administration. It was a collective effort with the Century History Seminar at the Institute of Historical collaboration of 25 Brazilian and U.S. scholars and the Research London (UK). His ‘Anti-Catholicism and Anti- endorsement of an additional 125 specialist working on Brazil Popery in Seventeenth-Century England’, appeared in Evan at universities across the United States. In addition, Green Haefeli, ed., Against Popery: Britain, Empire, and Anti- penned prefaces to three books coming out this year in Brazil Catholicism (University of Virginia Press) in late 2020. He and published two articles in Portuguese for edited has articles on ‘State Trials and the Rule of Law under the collections: “Democracy, Human Rights, and the Legacies of Later Stuarts’, ‘Religious and National Stereotyping and the Past,” for a Brazilian historical journal, and “A Non- Prejudice in Seventeenth-Century England’, and ‘Scotophobia Jewish Jew (who is also gay): Negotiating ‘Closets,” for a in Later Stuart England’ currently in press. His book series volume on anti-Semitism in Brazil. He also participated in ‘Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social several dozen Zoom programs, interviews, and debates on History’ with Boydell Press continues to thrive. In his spare U.S. policy toward Brazil, the 2020 U.S. elections, and the time he is writing a book about Britain’s Century of currently political situation under the far-Right government Revolutions for Oxford University Press. 4/27/2021 IMG_9248.jpg of Jair Bolsonaro. Benjamin Hein 4/6/2021 3Dec2020.jpg Much of ’s time this Françoise Hamlin continues to serve past year was spent revising his book as the Director of Undergraduate Studies manuscript and getting it ready for in the Department of Africana Studies publication. That process prompted all and remains co-chair of the Faculty of sorts of unexpected discoveries and Color Working Group that she co- arguments, some of which he was able founded in 2015. The past academic year to test out at virtual conferences and

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She Providence for year, the she managed Although she was grounded in during 2020-2021 the academic year. Jenny Lambe Jennifer Johnson Jane Lancaster spent 2020-21 the was in lockdown was on leave town and to the twenty first century revival of live theater. The pandemic year was a year for 2021 Lancaster has done two other Zoom talks; one on Rhode focusing on local projects. Island’s women’s history, and one on scientific management, Steven Lubar is co-curating an spring

asking “Was There Only One Best Way?” She contributed an exhibition on the agricultural essay on (the first) lockdown in Beverley to the East Riding history of Little Compton for the matters Archives and it was featured on the local BBC news in March Little Compton Historical 2021. She has published two pieces on the Rhode Island Society. A wide range of history website “Small State Big History.” One is on an enslaved man research, from statistical work using census data to material and his experiences after the Revolutionary War, and the culture to oral history. And rather more hands-on than most other examines the persistence of slavery at Brown, asking exhibits he’s worked on; Lubar is getting good use out of his “Were There Slaves Living on College Hill for Twenty Years?” new miter saw. Opening in July, and all are invited to come Lancaster has been continuing research on a proposed and visit. microhistory book project, examining the lives of former Sreemati Mitter is grateful American slaves in the Atlantic world, via the life of Arthur that she and her colleagues and Bowler, who was enslaved in Newport and subsequently students have all, thus far, survived journeyed to New York and Nova Scotia before returning the pandemic. She was thrilled to to Africa. be able to return to the physical 5/4/2021 20170911_#113.jpg Brian Lander received an Early classroom to teach three courses Career Fellowship from the Henry Venice’s fragile ecology (online and in-person) this year, Luce Foundation and ACLS Program threatens the city and its and was grateful for her students’ in China Studies to spend the year in archives. Archivio di Stato energy and enthusiasm, which Taiwan, but since there was a pandemic of Venice, facing rising seeped through layers of masks flood waters. he stayed home. In the fall he submitted and shields and kept her going his book manuscript to Yale University through this difficult, lonely year. Press. Entitled The King’s Harvest: A She is grateful, too, for the patient help offered by Brown’s Political Ecology of China From the First Farmers to the media services’ classroom support team, who, she’s sure, First Empire, it is the first English language monograph on would be glad not to hear from her again. She was astonished the environmental history of early China. The book uses by the commitment shown by her students; had she been in newly available Chinese archaeological data to show how their place, she is certain that she would never have left her the growth of states in ancient China was based on their bed all year. Though hybrid teaching, mask wearing, hand https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/KtbxLxGWvmsKJBZMkGVDxPZpQXCzhQQMZL?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1 1/2 ability to mobilize the resources and labor produced by the sanitizing, and compulsive googling took most of her time population, all of which was powered by photosynthesis. It and energy, Mitter was glad to have had two essays accepted argues that the formation of political organizations was a for publication this year: the first a historiographic essay on key event in global environmental history because states and writings on capitalism in the field of Palestine studies; the empires vastly increased the ability of human societies to second a contribution to a roundtable on the social history transform the earth’s ecosystems. It will be published in the of Palestine; both will appear soon in the Journal of Palestine fall of 2021. He spent the rest of the year beginning research Studies. She also completed an article, “A Liquidation: an on his second book which will analyze the environmental account of the transition from Ottoman to British rule in transformation of the wetlands of the Yangzi River system. Palestine,” which she hopes will be accepted for publication In particular, he used this year to study the ecology of rivers soon. She made progress, though not as much as she would and the historical sources available on Yangzi River fisheries have liked, on the completion of her book. She longs to see in order to reconstruct the ecology of the river and its all (well, maybe not all) her family, friends, colleagues, and associated wetlands before they were thoroughly transformed students again soon, not in their little zoom boxes, but in by human activity. It turns out that there’s a lot going on actual real flesh and blood, and she can’t wait to fight over the under the water. last available chair in a crowded History department meeting.

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https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/shahzad_bashir%40brown.edu/KtbxLxGWvmsKJBZMkGVDxPZpQXCzhQQMZL?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1 5/4/2021 dialogue with multiple the dialogue pressing demands of our present. producing (from history various times and places) inactive sustenance and energy inthe creativity students showed in Association for Asian she found Studies. Otherwise, Shih on of interdisciplinary behalf new the Graduate Student for graduate students, organized by BaoliYang and Richard massage work; and two professional development webinars Atlantathe murders and criminalization the of Asian supported arapid-response event organized by Shih Elena on upended by Covid-19. In spring, the program funding students and scholars research whose and careers have been employment precarity and research problem solving to assist (and beyond) Pandemic inthe Age”, hosting webinars fall on teaching fall. inthe Review ofBooks. He’s looking forward to returning to Islamic medieval the world, and an essay forLondon the year has included a chapter on of history the information in addition to Diyab’s memoir, Muhanna’s published work this going to opera, the and enduring Great the Frost of In 1709. memoir recounts of experience the being captured by pirates, Libya, Tunisia, Corsica, Italy, France, and Turkey, and his course of his voyage Diyab visited Lebanon, Cyprus, Egypt, fromjourney Aleppo to Paris early inthe century. 18th In the memoir presents fascinating the of tale ayoung Syrian man’s co-authored with Johannes Stephan). This Arabic-language Travels for of Library the Arabic Literature (NYU Press, 2021; Memory” sponsored by CSREA and “Past as Power: Radical Power: Vietnamese Studies Refugee and Politics the of organized aweekend of Southeast Asia events: “Archiving forfaculty remote and hybrid teaching. digital In she fall facilitator for Sheridan the Anchor Institute to prepare around world. the summer During and 2020 fall she was a Rebecca Nedostup Cindy NguyenSenecaThienAnhKim.jpeg Arjuna, was  born his and Ramachandran’s Sohini son, for Advanced Study. Most importantly, 2021-2022 from Swedish the Collegium Coya,”of Beatriz and afellowship for Press forMarriage “The his second book, advance contract from University Duke organized “Asian series the Studies 1 / 2 Jeremy Mumford History and Cogut, the International Humanities in Postdoctoral Fellow in students infivetimezones based course on colonial Indochina to Nguyen During herDuring second year as taught remote afully on April 26! received an Cindy Storytelling with Artist Susan Lieu” cosponsored by History Happy Hour” at the Science History Institute, and a podcast 2021 and the Cogut Institute. She was invited to speak on panels interview on the New Books Network were wonderful on Asian diasporas at Yale University, history of colonial opportunities to share Furnace and Fugue with new spring

Vietnam at Duke Kunshan University, and community events audiences. Nummedal was also scheduled to present at a organized through the Oakland Asian Cultural Center and March 2020 workshop at Leiden University on “Women and matters the Vietnamese Boat People Podcast. She has a forthcoming Alchemy in Early Modern Europe,” which was cancelled due publication on the decolonization of the Saigon library in an to the pandemic. Fortunately, the organizer, Dr. Sajed history edited volume on Republican Vietnam published by the Chowdury reconceived of the workshop as a special forum University of Hawaii Press. She was recently awarded for Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal. the Phyllis Dain Library History Best Dissertation Award Nummedal’s essay on alchemical bodies, alongside several from the American Library Association. With bittersweet others on women and alchemy, appeared in the Spring gratitude for her time in the Brown history department, she 2021 issue. will be moving on to University of California, San Diego as a Mark Ocegueda joined the history President’s/Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow for 2021-2022 department in July 2020. Prior to Brown, where she will work on publishing her book manuscript he taught as an assistant professor of “Misreading: The Social Life of Libraries and Colonial Mexican American history at California Control in Indochina, 1865-1958” and a digital humanities State University, Sacramento from publication on hybrid visual texts. Afterwards, she will begin 2017-2019 and was a César Chávez a position as assistant professor in Digital Public History at fellow at Dartmouth College from 2019- University of Ottawa. As she begins a new chapter, she is 2020. He spent his first year at Brown accompanied by a new family addition: baby Seneca Thiên working on an article and his book manuscript. He also Anh Hanul 한울 Kim born February 2021. She extends a gave a lecture at UCLA in December that focused in on civil profound appreciation to the history department for rights in the Inland Empire region of Southern California. generously supporting her research, teaching, and Last fall, he wrapped up his work with the National Museum community work over the course of two very of American History, where he helped in the development meaningful years. of an exhibition entitled ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big This was a challenging year, as we Leagues / En los barrios y las grandes ligas. This Smithsonian all learned how to teach, learn, sustain, exhibition focuses in on the contributions of Latinx people and entertain ourselves from home, to the history of baseball and softball in the United States. often under uncertain and unfathomably The exhibition’s opening was delayed due to the pandemic; difficult circumstances. Brown students however, the public will finally get a chance to see the demonstrated limitless creativity, exhibition this summer when it opens at the National resilience, and commitment as we all Museum of American History. Ocegueda also contributed moved to Zoom and found new ways to a short essay in the dual-language (Spanish and English) create learning and mentoring communities. Archival ¡Pleibol! exhibition book. Tara Nummedal research on new projects, too, slowed, but In Spring 2021, Ocegueda taught Introduction to Latinx managed to bring two projects to completion this year. History, which was his first course at Brown. Despite the Nummedal’ book with Donna Bilak, Furnace and Fugue: A difficulty of teaching during a pandemic, he was pleased to Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens (1618), have great students in his course that made his first teaching with Scholarly Commentary, was published in the summer of experience at Brown memorable. One exciting aspect of the 2020 with the University of Virginia Press series Studies in course was the community-engaged oral history interviews Early Modern German History (take a look at that students conducted for the Voces of a Pandemic project. furnaceandfugue.org). When the book was first conceived, These interviews have allowed Brown students to play a role no one could have anticipated that a global pandemic would in documenting how Latinx people are experiencing and force us to rethink how we do research and teach. Yet the living through the pandemic. He looks forward to getting publication of Furnace and Fugue as an open-access digital to know Rhode Island better this summer with his spouse, publication proved to be timely, offering a free resource for Monse, and their dog, Chloe. students, scholars, and interested readers to explore early modern music, visual and print culture, and science. A virtual book launch hosted by UVA Press, an “Alchemical

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The other is a volumewith comparison. This project is approaching order to facilitate cross-cultural possible with of same the set issues in project next year. side, On the he Raaflaubfriends. hopes completeto this career, close very and became they at ofBerlin beginning the his academic he taught at Free the University in Raaflauboffice with during the six years prematurely He in2009. shared his The long monthsCovid-19 since Amy G.Remensnyder a new and anew possible with the same set of issues in In an effort to cope with the boredom and isolation of he got an article accepted in the Journal of Social History. 2021 order to facilitate cross-cultural the pandemic, Lukas Rieppel spent much of the year Teaching in the pandemic was an ever-present struggle, but comparison. This project is approaching acquiring new hobbies and skills. Besides learning more than the good will of his students and support of great colleagues spring completion. The other is a volume with he ever wanted to know about Zoom and family made it less painful than it would otherwise have the collected essays and contributions and other online teaching tools, he been. Finally, a year of lockdown has meant a lot of much- matters of Walter Eder, Professor at the developed an unreasonable passion for needed family togetherness with his wife Susan, eight-year- University of Bochum, who died restoring vintage HiFi audio equipment old daughter Lourdes, and rescue beagle mutt Iggy Pup. history prematurely in 2009. He shared his to its former glory. He also passed much During this Covid year, Ken Sacks was effectively locked office with Raaflaub during the six years of the year in his kitchen, trying to coax out of the archives, and consequently work on Emerson’s he taught at the Free University in a good result from his new sourdough Civil War slowed appreciably. He was invited to contribute Berlin at the beginning of his academic starter. And he is working his way the article on Emerson for The Encyclopedia of the Philosophy career, and they became very close through the recent update of Fuchsia Dunlop’s classic “The of Law and Social Philosophy and there will be a Turkish friends. Raaflaub hopes to complete this Food of Sichuan.” All of this had some unfortunate translation of his The Political Writings of Ralph Waldo project next year. On the side, he consequences, so now he is committed to spending more Emerson for The Cambridge Texts in the History of Political completed two articles, one (aimed not least at Latin time on a bicycle. Thought. He continues to teach a mix of courses on Classical teachers) on “Caesar and Genocide: Confronting the Dark Seth Rockman spent the pandemic history, American Transcendentalism, and historiography. Side of the Gallic War” that will appear in May in the New year immersed in teaching, doing his England Classical Journal (open access), the other on “The After more than seven years as best to support students working under Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Emergence of Participatory Communities in Early Greece.” difficult circumstances, and in turn One of the few advantages of the COVID crisis is that it has Director and Librarian of the John drawing sustenance from their energy Carter Brown Library, Neil Safier will made it easier to focus on research projects (there was little and enthusiasm for studying the past. else to do), but like everyone else, he is looking forward to a return full-time to the Department of The fall’s undergraduate seminar on History in the fall of 2021, and is looking time when we can indulge again in personal contacts with “The Problem of Class in Early America” family, friends, and colleagues abroad. forward to developing new courses, engaged many of the contemporary political debates around finishing long-delayed writing projects, The long months since Covid-19 race and economic inequality, whereas the spring’s lecture and communing – in person! – with colleagues in the erupted into the human world have course on “The Early Republic US” was perilously close to department. Following a grueling year of pandemic library Amy G. Remensnyder given a new and being undone by the January 6 insurrection. A highlight of leadership, he got back to work this year on his second book visceral understanding of the infamous the year was seeing Ann Daly and Simeon Simeonov both manuscript – tentatively entitled Dom Rodrigo’s Colonial and far more deadly medieval pandemic: finish their doctoral dissertations. Congratulations to both of Encyclopedia and Other Bookish Tales from Lisbon’s Literary the plague caused by Yersinia pestis in them for doing such great work and allowing me to beam Underground – which he hopes to complete during a planned the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. with pride as an advisor. sabbatical in the spring of 2022. He is particularly excited to When she explored this subject this year In what has been the strangest offer new classes on the history of Amazonia, the history of in her course on the high middle ages, students found much academic year in memory, with our the book, and a seminar on the Enlightenment in Europe and resonance between the ways that medieval people responded students, colleagues, families, and the Americas (and beyond), as well as graduate courses with to the plague and the ways we are coping with Covid-19. communities experiencing so much colleagues in the history of science and the Atlantic world. 4/24/2021 RobertSelfNewsletter.jpg Though Remensnyder’s plans for time in the Sicilian archives suffering and illness, it seems strange, were upended by the virus, she kept in touch with her On sabbatical in 2020-2021, if not a little distasteful, to single out Robert Self worked primarily on his research on islands, piracy and maritime culture by moments of good fortune. But this presenting some of her work virtually to the Medieval current book project, entitled Driven: past year has been a momentous one The Making and Unmaking of the History Research Seminar at the University of Cambridge. for Daniel Rodríguez. His first book, The Right to Live in Colleague Lin Fisher also offered her some hands-on- Hydrocarbon Middle Class. The book Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana, was examines the 20th-century history maritime experience by letting her take the helm of his published in the late summer of 2020 by UNC Press; he sailboat one afternoon on Narragansett Bay. Remensnyder of houses, cars, and children, as the and his family bought their first home in the lovely Mount organizing features of American middle- continued her advocacy for higher education behind bars Pleasant neighborhood of Providence (where you can buy when she spoke at the “Race and Punishment in America” class family life and the structuring of the hydrocarbon delicious pupusas, excellent tamales, and yummy Italian economy and its infrastructural and racial landscape. He also symposium sponsored this spring by the Brown’s Office of pastries); and he was promoted to Associate Professor with the Provost and the Center for the Study of Race and developed a new graduate course based on his co-authored Tenure. Beyond that, a faculty fellowship with the Center for https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/KtbxLxGWvmsKJBZMkGVDxPZpQXCzhQQMZL?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1 1/2 Ethnicity in America. She and the other faculty who teach in book, Intimate States: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America gave him much- Modern U.S. History (Chicago, 2021), which he will offer this the Brown History Education Prison Project are eager to needed time to begin work on his second book project, and resume their courses at the prison, which have been on hold coming fall. since March. 27 28 brown university department of history “Revisiting Mosquito Empires inthe The 41st annualWilliam F. Church MemorialLecture Georgetown University Notable Lectures October 13,2020 technologies were enlisted of as part abroader embrace of Japan afterthe war, and howpesticides and other new accompanied efforts to eradicate mosquitoes and flies in Press. That chapter looks the at rhetoric andthat practices out be with also Universityhopefully the soon of Washington edited by and David Daniel A.Bello Burton-Rose, which will ofis part avolume on Asia, of inEast history the insects by University the of Pennsylvania Press. Asecond piece Horowitz, which is scheduled for publication later year this Disaster Studies, edited by Jacob A.C.Remes and Andy feared was coming (but hasn’t, yet). It appears in Critical steps took to they prepare for country the disaster the they offthe Coast, along the Pacific Nankai Trough, the and came from a single segment of amajor subduction zone greatestthe earthquake risk facing Japan near-term inthe It was, ofcourse, given over zoom. Professor JohnR.McNeill time ofCOVID-19”

in the 1970sin the convinced became that scientists, public the makers and policy volumes. The firstfocuses on how edits on chapters intwo forthcoming Japan,20th century and finished final earthquake prediction and disasters in current project, book which explores Shibusawa and organizing. protest, mentoring, scholarship, year 2021. The workcontinues: Kerry Smith What aterrible year. is on leave for calendar the continues work on his Naoko https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/adam_teller%40brown.edu/KtbxLxGWvmsKJBZMkGVDxPZpQXCzhQQMZL?projector=1&messagePartId=0.2 5/4/2021 once again possible be to do research there. restrictions on travel to Japan have will lifted, been and will it sabbatical in2021-2022. He hopes that also by strict the then concludes spring, this and he hopes on to be research Director of Undergraduates Studies Asian in East Studies 1950s inthe science and 1960s. On other fronts, his term as the faculty seminar faculty the inBrown’s Program inJudaic Studies. University, launch abook at University London, College and graduate symposium on Aby Warburg at Princeton hosted by museum. the Via ina took part he also Zoom keynote address to aconference on Wagner and Karl Marx, German-Israel of University the Society of and Bonn, a includedThese lectures the at University Leipzig,of the Historical Museum, for as guest curator. which he serves Cornell UniversityCornell Press. she co-edits,series Histories of American Education at sabbatical. Steffes also supported manuscripts book the in attentionfull to project the next year during her inequality. She forward looks to being able to dedicate her education, metropolitan development, and social Chicago, 1945-2000 about relationship the between Fortunes: CitySchoolsandSuburbaninMetropolitan wanted, she made progress on manuscript, her book Shifting was not able to dedicate as much to time research as she of Nebraska at Omaha, and here at Brown Center inthe for Adam-T eller_small.jpg thing to happen for Richard Wagner at German the preparation for 2022 the exhibition on he participated inanumber of events in Advanced Study) from of Berlin, where Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for returning fellow of the ofa part sabbatical year 2020-21 as a Department DIAP plan. Although she programs and development the of anew three ofall department’s the degree implementation of significant changes in supported continued the Educationthe Department. She year enmeshed inher work as Chair of University of New York, University the held by The GraduateCenter the Cityat gave anumber These were of talks. book fieldAward inthe of history. also He a finalist forthe NationalJewishBook year being named was his book new Undoubtedly most the exciting Tracy Steffes Michael Steinberg 1 / 2 spent most of last the Adam Teller was able to spend this this the Study of the Early Modern World, as well as on a number Vazira Zamindar was on sabbatical 2021 of podcasts, New Books in History, Jewish History Matters, and leave during the academic and Seforim Chatter. Two of his papers were published this year as a visiting research fellow at spring year, one in the journal, Jewish History, on the transregional the Collaborative Research Center for aspects of the Sabbathean movement, the other - a short Affective Societies, Freie Universität matters review essay on the study of Hasidism - appeared in the Berlin. However, with her mother unwell journal, Eastern European Jewish Affairs. in Karachi, she divided her time on leave history He delivered a paper on transregional Jewish trade in a between Berlin and Karachi, holding a workshop entitled, Transregional Contacts and Connections month-long research residency at the Vasl Artists Association in the Early Modern Jewish World, held in co-operation in Karachi Pakistan in the Fall of 2020. While pulling back between Brown and the Charles University of Prague. He is from most online requests for talks etc., she did participate one of the organizers of the project. In addition, he spoke on in a few online conversations specifically for South Asian two roundtables dealing with new trends in research, one at publics, for the Jaipur Literature Festival and for T2F, a vital the annual meeting of the Economic History Association of citizen’s forum in Karachi. The Brown-RISD conference, Israel, the other at the Association for Jewish Studies annual ‘Postcolonialism, Art History and the Global Turn,’ of which conference. A lecture for students on Jewish settlement in she was one of the organizers had been postponed in the early modern Poland-Lithuania at the Ludwig-Maximilians- Spring of 2020 but was then held in the Fall as four online Universität, München, Germany and a popular talk (with a events. Papers from the conference are scheduled to be colleague) on the Jew’s involvement in the liquor trade in published in Art Margins. The book, Love, War and Other Poland and Lithuania at the Taube Center for the Renewal of Longings: Essays on Cinema in Pakistan (Oxford University Jewish Life in Poland, in Warsaw, rounded out his speaking Press, 2020), based on the Harvard-Brown Pakistani Film engagements, all done via zoom. Finally, due to the Festivals of 2014 and 2015, began to be discussed in online exigencies of the pandemic, he experimented this year with book clubs and literary festivals in Pakistan, and has received teaching using a “flipped classroom,” a method he plans to some noteworthy reviews, including this one: hyperallergic. pursue in the future. com/582734/love-war-other-longings-pakistani-cinema.• While finishing a draft of his book on the multiple endings of the American Civil War, Michael Vorenberg worked on two side projects at varying stages of completion: one on a tragic, heretofore undiscovered mass drowning of African American soldiers in 1864; and one on incarcerated African Americans in U.S. military prisons. Although sequestered for most of this pandemic year in his basement office, he did manage a few escapes to some northern New England mountain tops. Gordon Wood spent most of the year in lockdown, but did manage a few telephone podcasts. He also was able to write a short book on constitutionalism in the American Revolution to be published by Oxford University Press in September, 2021.

29 30 brown university department of history 2020 and herself inApril 2020. Her April hard had self avery relating time to her January self, who Without knowing just how much, have they me through seen a was convinced that wildfires the in Australia would markthe most significant and momentous event of Undergraduate Program whom to try to make of sense it,whom to to try turn it over inmy mind with, were we/are we together? really alone? so Or so How truly exchange, have meant much. so of coming together, of sincere and direct conversation and of us can grasp or imagine. of of of Loss dear friends; family; that fall to completefall honors did so, theses and that inspite of archives feels like most the intense and meaningful way world. inthe to be feature of that common was that experience we more became a full two weeks earliera full than inprevious years, and many and libraries becoming inaccessible, an intense [euphemism] and what constitutes abreak from and history? experience both aware that was common experience their around globe— the happening here inthe and now, and what makes it like past, the historian of today is already looking at that recent past critically— illness, and loss. Not only of did all submit them on theses their individual and personaltribulations produced or compounded trimester schedule that required to them submit theses their these experiences doubly experiences these hard, which is why events small the through unspeakable ordeals past this year, more than any one thought up tied with that is being, so interacting with often them arethey such also unafraid and thinkers, original for whom than our students. They are smart, yes, that’sand wonderful. But people that Iwould want to go through such with, atime with in-common have of experiences pandemic What the been? is isolated, world the over. Together inisolation. Of course, the than with COVID-19 the pandemic. Yet ironically, main the drawnpeople been into simultaneous experience—and been livelihoods and possibilities; of Isolation health. has often made lot year. this Ican only hope thinly that it reciprocal has been by pandemic, the including family issues, travel challenges, because Iknowbecause that our students and my colleagues have been H As Joseph Stalin once wrote, “Xa Xa” [Ha ha]. Thispast sixteen all year the of studentsset who outthe in Despite that’s all happened, of Ican think no other group of Never before of history inthe world the have many so year. year. What’s going to happen next?background The slogan of time our mightbe more of a video fromvideo early 2020, wherein acomedian staged an encounter herself inJanuary between istorians are no better than others at predicting future. the don’t So ask astudent of history, question, something along lines the of, Who would have thought? I’m reminded of aspoof “invisible” work to keep department the year this and trying The thatone stands out Holly Case Director of Undergraduate Studies flashed briefly the on who madewho it possible. History fold. thanks go Special to DUG Shreya leader and Das History class of 2021, and our Zoom graduationour Zoom and welcoming concentrators new to the on arange of issues from departmental the DIAP to for ideas congratulations to the of students from across ceremony families when of graduation our Zoom comical—failures. But there were many also wonderful surprises. other DUG officersleadership, their for energy, persistent and never forget how it felt that. to see A sincere those thanks to all humorgood throughout difficultyear. what avery has been minute or at so end the most inmy mind is the for honors, duly received. which they screen with clearly spontaneous outbursts of pride and joy. I’ll as they did,as images they of in-person gatherings, similarly continued its work, advising the world shouted their world shouted their the and country the around intense and meaningful as possible. There were many—often universitythe as closeto normal and college as the experience time, but each one of was them recommended by readers both living rooms and faces The thoughDUG, it was hamstrung by restrictions on So manySo have done more than an average amount of Students inHIST 1992 congratulate the History graduates oftheclass of2021 Undergraduate Program 2021

spring The History Department matters

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By Shreya Das ’21 and Melanie Pincus ’21

he History DUG spent the year meeting over including opportunities to get further involved in the Zoom and shifting some of our usual activities department through initiatives like the Choices Program, the to the virtual environment. New members of the Brown Journal of History, and undergraduate research. general body joined the DUG in September and We were also able to unite in-person for an outdoor providedT fresh perspectives and ideas for an unusual year. event this spring when we celebrated newly declared Many DUG members found themselves bonding over the concentrators. Stationed on the Quiet Green outside challenge of writing a thesis and/or thesis prospectus in the Manning Hall with Professor Case, members of the DUG midst of the pandemic. protected our supply of candy and stickers from strong winds We started off the year by experimenting with a Zoom and distributed them to new concentrators. We chatted with event where Professor Joel Revill and one of our DUG leaders passersby about fields of focus, course selection, and our baked gougères (similar to cheese puffs) while discussing favorite professors. French history with the group. We also participated in the The DUG also helped recognize the achievements university Concentration Fair, where we hoped to advise and hard work of the seniors in the history concentration. students in the process of declaring a history concentration To do so, the coordinators partnered with the History or engaging with the department more in general. We Department to design and order commemorative pins for realized, upon reflection, that it is quite challenging to engage the graduating class, in the hopes that they would wear the the student body in yet another online event, and instead pins on their graduation regalia while walking through the shifted focus to advising in smaller virtual settings. Van Wickle Gates. On a personal note, we are grateful to the We also moved our advising activities online. Members department for all of the work it has done to recognize the of the general body hosted group advising sessions to mentor class of 2021 and support the honors program. As Brown interested undergraduates. Realizing the difficulties potential plans for more in-person instruction in the fall, we hope that history concentrators face in their first years at Brown, the new concentrators will have the opportunity to explore the DUG organized a series of advising hours on Zoom for elegantly renovated Peter Green and Sharpe Houses as they underclassmen to ask questions and meet the DUG leaders. engage with the department.• We discussed a variety of topics with students that attended,

31 32 brown university department of history “A Place of Padlocks and Chamber Pots:” Life and The Christian Yegen Thesis Prize for an The MarjorieHarrisWeiss MemorialPremium The Chapter Gaspee Daughters ofthe American Revolution Award for best paper The Making of America’s Judeo-Christian Myth: Advisor: DanielRodriguez Advisor: Deborah Weinstein Advisor: Lukas Rieppel Advisor: MichaelVorenberg and AmericanNationalism Women’s in Magazines, 1929-39 Award Recipients Undergraduate Program second quarter of the nineteenth the of century. quarter second From Puritans to Post-War Politics outstanding thesis. Death at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians periodicals and their work in constructing new paper from HIST 1502 on agricultural reform the Politics of Alcoholics Anonymous, 1935-1980 woman student majoringinHistory. written asaclass assignment inanAmerican Caleigh K.Aviv Gemma L.Sack ideas about masculinity and progress in the Stigma, Sexuality and Marty Sobriety: Mann and Selling Mrs. Procreator: Eugenics, Homemaking, States history. Savannah J. Bridges Pell MedalAward for excellence inUnited in History astheoutstanding undergraduate Professor: Seth Rockman Ilana C.Brandes-Krug history course. Francesca Sabel Melanie Pincus Rainbow Chen Karis Ryu "Frenchmen from Algeria": The Campaign 1943 to “To promote and elevate the standards “To standards the elevate and promote “My Involvement in These Events Is Not a Happy Age of Print A Snapshot of the “Radical Middle”: the On Life Vietnam War"Vietnam Jeanne R.Ernest The ClarksonA.Collins, Jr., Prize inAmerican The JohnL.Thomas MemorialAward for best Tunggal and Malay Historical Tradition in an The BrownDaily Herald’s Journalistic Identity, The Role of Student Journalists in the Sixties: How Advisor: Kerry Smith Advisor: Cynthia Brokaw Advisor: Howard Chudacoff Advisor: Jennifer Johnson Advisor: Howard Chudacoff Advisor: Jenny Lambe and Labels of Extremist-Watcher Gordon D. Hall, Alexander Smolar Memory:” Operation Igloo White and George of journalism in the United States”: University’s Nieman Foundation Journalism, for Unreading the Literary: The Hikayat Anggun Cik 1936-1939 1960-69 1946-1969 Kistiakowsky’s Failed Effort De-Escalateto the Restore the Crémieux Decree and its Limits Professionalization, Education, and Harvard Priorities, and Values Endured and Evolved Zoë E.Mermelstein Sophie D. Culpepper the juniororseniorclass for the best thesis thesis intheHistory Department. History isto beawarded to thememberof in United States History. Melanie A.Pincus Nicole Wei Yow "One Bad Hombre..": Roberto Durán and An Approximate Forest: Land, Knowledge Jamie Solomon The Skidmore Family andFriends Thesis The David Herlihy Prize awarded to thebest American Studies. The Ties that Bind: Incest and Family-Making in Advisor: Howard Chudacoff Advisor: DanielRodriguez Advisor: DanielRodriguez Advisor: EmilyOwens Alexa M.Howard Mobilizing to Define Motherhood:Developing United Centers and Contraceptive Policy in 1980s Childcare through Maternalism of Conceptions demonstrated commitment to theidealsthat the Construction of aLatino Hero in the department, andhisscholarlypersonal Production and Racial Politics in the History of the Cuban Forest Cuban the Administration the Postbellum South Postbellum the awarded annuallyto that student having a and cultural lives ofnon-elite actors. student inMedieval orRenaissance History. motivated Professor Cope’s scholarship and Nicaragua Sandinista Prize awarded for best thesisinLatin teaching, hislegacy ofservice to theHistory R. DouglasCope MemorialAward inHistory investment incentering thepolitical,social, Nesya Nelkin Lyle Cherneff Karina A.Chavarria Mohamed Ali

States "One Bad Hombre..": Roberto Durán and the "Frenchmen from Algeria": The Campaign 1943 to “A Place of Padlocks and Chamber Pots:” Life and A Snapshot of the “Radical Middle”: the On Life Jeanne R.Ernest The BrownDaily Herald’s Journalistic Identity, The Role of Student Journalists in the Sixties: How The Making of America’s Judeo-Christian Myth: Advisor: Howard Chudacoff Advisor: Jenny Lambe Advisor: Kerry Smith Advisor: Howard Chudacoff Advisor: Jennifer Johnson Advisor: DanielRodriguez Advisor: DanielRodriguez Advisor: Lukas Rieppel Advisor: MichaelVorenberg and Labels of Extremist-Watcher Gordon D. Hall, Alexa M.Howard Mobilizing to Define Motherhood:Developing Honors Recipients 1946-1969 1960-69 Histories to Shape Their Their National Identity Shape to Histories How the Country Used Museums and Oral Construction of aLatino Hero in the United States Centers and Contraceptive Policy in 1980s Childcare through Maternalism of Conceptions Restore the Crémieux Decree and its Limits From Puritans to Post-War Politics Death at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians Priorities, and Values Endured and Evolved the Politics of Alcoholics Anonymous, 1935-1980 Nation Building Post-Occupation in Singapore: Caleigh K.Aviv Sandinista Nicaragua Sandinista Stigma, Sexuality and Marty Sobriety: Mann and Zoë E.Mermelstein Shreya Das Sophie D. Culpepper Savannah J. Bridges Ilana C.Brandes-Krug Karina A.Chavarria 5/3/2021 https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/Holly_Case%40brown.edu/FMfcgxwLtkQsQmpVPqskvDFDpbttWxNt?projector=1 “To promote and elevate the standards of journalism journalism “Toof standards the elevate and promote An Approximate Forest: Land, Knowledge A New Park, aLost Town: Defining theLegacy of Jamie Solomon Advisor: DanielRodriguez Advisor: Deborah Weinstein Advisor: Kerry Smith Advisor: Howard Chudacoff and American Nationalism in Women’s Magazines, Prof. DanielRodriguez, Alex Smolar Nicole Yow Wei, Prof. Cynthia Brokaw, Dr. Rebecca More, SophieCulpepper, MelaniePincus, Mermelstein, JamieSolomon,Caleigh Aviv, JeanneErnest; back row from left-Karis Ryu, Front from andSavannah left:GemmaSack Bridges;second row from left-Shreya Das, Zoë Outdoor reception for honors students andtheiradvisors, April 24, 2021. U.S. Army Yongsan Garrison 1929-39 Cuban ForestCuban Administration Foundation for Journalism, 1936-1939 Foundation Journalism, for Production and Racial Politics in the History of the Education, and Harvard University’s Nieman Gemma L.Sack in the United the in States”: Professionalization, Selling Mrs. Procreator: Eugenics, Homemaking, Karis H.Ryu Melanie A.Pincus “My Involvement in These Events Is Not a Happy Vietnam WarVietnam Tunggal and Malay Historical Tradition in an Age Advisor: Cynthia Brokaw Advisor: Lukas Rieppel Advisor: Kerry Smith Advisor: MichaelVorenberg Alexander Smolar Memory:” Operation Igloo White and George Meaning of Legal Equality Legal Meaning of of Print of Unreading the Literary: The Hikayat Anggun Cik Kistiakowsky’s Failed Effort De-Escalateto the Cesare Beccaria in America: the Shrinking Family Plan Assistance Numbers Lie: Do Economic Research and the Filippo Zinni Nicole Wei Yow Edward R.Uong IMG_4312.jpg

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/ 2 34 brown university department of history compressed to make room for summer anew session that in ahybrid, inperson environment. Semesters were slightly about wanted they whether to teach remotely or Zoom via graduate classes), with and faculty students given choice the trimester system that would mostly be for online (especially forward. In adjusted we fall, the all to (but anew temporary) other, stay connected, and continue to incremental take steps offace it students all, dug inand found ways to support each last shred ofevery human interaction Still, inthe to Zoom. distancingand or social immense the hardship of moving of helped, this but it didn’t alter isolation the of lockdown benchmarks, including timing the of preliminary exams. All flexibility and accommodations all around regarding program programin the through graduate the school, and extra relief through department, the promise the of an year extra adjustments we could, including offeringsemester a of TA school, we were able make what accommodations and Graduate Program supposed to and function make progress carefully intheir orchestrated, time-limited program? to campus, and even pausing graduate admissions. How world inthe were graduate students inter-library The university, loan services. too, hunkered down,freezing spending, hiring, access proper preparation as libraries on campus and around doors their closed and country the halted exams found it impossible dozens needed the to and secure hundreds of required books for destinations, should able even ifthey be to travel to Students them. gearing up for preliminary suddenly with reality the faced of travel strict restrictions and archives closed research intheir research locations around world. the who Those werelaunching intotheir research year were students already dissertation intheir research and writing phase found themselves from recalled various adjustments. Things looked pretty bleak the at thestart of summer,be honest.to PhD J Through workingwiththe university graduatetheand foreseeable future, we as aprogram and individual graduate students had to all make globally. As realization the slowly inthat settled pandemic the was with us for the classestravelZoom, shifted to was halted, and libraries and archives down closed ust over ayear ago, COVID-19 sent our graduate program into scramble as mode and supporting of graduate the program (with many Advising Professor (DGA), Faiz Ahmed, running inthe await them. through nextwalk years these and into whatever careers are committed supporting to fully our students as they fortime jobmarket the to recover. Still, we as adepartment for afew more years, there is no doubt, and it may take summer. Graduate students continue will to feel setback the return will to normal byand end the services of library the international travel to resume. Archives are slowly opening, for Island ages all inRhode allow soon domestic will and did ayearthey ago. Vaccinations that are readily available camecases much more easily to than them to faculty. challenge,the shining environment inavirtual that inmost inMaystarted 2021. Once again, graduate students rose to I was grateful to with our partner Director of Graduate Thankfully,things are looking much morethan hopeful 2021

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matters thanks to Professor Jonathan Conant, who served in this applied for jobs, post-doctoral fellowships, and other post- inaugural position for two years in 2018-2020). Faiz quickly doctoral opportunities. We had five PhD students finish this history became a valued and respected resource for and mentor year, with a handful more who plan to do so this summer. to our graduate students, offering extended office hours They head off into tenure track jobs, postdocs, and other and emotional support during this difficult year, as well career opportunities. All of this is a reason to celebrate, and as running the What History Looks Like workshop and is a sure sign of ongoing strength of our students, and of managing TA assignments, among other things, all while this program. continuing to broaden our departmental support and options regarding career diversity. Our new department chair, Professor Ethan Pollock, was also instrumental in supporting our graduate program, as were our indispensable staff members, Cherrie, Julissa, and Mary Beth. In sum, this has been an incredibly taxing year for everyone involved. And yet, I am unspeakably proud of our graduate students and their ingenuity, resourcefulness, and Linford D. Fisher resolve in the face of such hardship. They still took classes; Director of Graduate Studies sat for and passed preliminary exams; wrote and defended prospectuses; conducted summer research projects; adapted their dissertation research to new online possibilities; and

35 36 brown university department of history Thamyris Almeida Appointed aPeter Green Scholar Doctoral Anil Askin 2022 year academic 2021-2022. 2021-2022 (Declined). Osama Ahmad Teaching Fellowship at Kenyon College Students in2020-21 Accomplishments ofGraduate Graduate Program (Brown/History Department) for 2021- the (Declined). (HAT) Fellowship from department the University, 4/18/2020 (postponed to 2021) Environmental History (ASEH), 4/26/2021 Empire, 1800-1850,” New Perspectives Eating’: Breed, and Logistics, Infrastructure Completion Fellowship. Meeting, 10-13, 2020” October Presented apaper “Herding Economy the Political at for American Ecology” Society Fumes” inapanel on “New Approaches to Presented apaper “Humps, Curls, and Presented apaper “‘They Are Not Worth Fellowship at MITPress 2021-2022 Received an Honorable Mention for MellonReceived University Press Diversity Received Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/ Received History Advanced Teaching Humanities Fellowship. Received 2021-2022 Collaborative Cogut of Merino Sheep Ottoman inthe Nineteenth Bursa”, Century Middle East Studies Association Annual (MESA) 54th the 2021the Ford Foundation Dissertation in Environmental History 2020, Yale by Crossbreeding Sheep Mid- inthe Watson Institute. Women Through Healing: Women 2022 from of Dean the Faculty the and the George Elliott (HAT) Fellowship from department the to Ebru Erginbas René Cordero Norman Frazier Luiz Paulo Ferraz Development (GPD) Fellowship 2021- Earned the Humanities the Earned without Walls Citizens the Earned and Scholars MMUF Conference 8,2020). (October Missionaries Medical inthe Field inthe workshop on developing that skills are Fellowship with Center the for Digital Presented apaper entitled “Empowering Fellowship that offersthree-week a paid Humanities Fellowship Received 2021-2022 Collaborative Cogut Received Graduate Program in Received History Advanced Teaching dissertation writing fellowship, 2021-2022 on the Sensory Monasteryon Project Sensory the as well Laboratory.”on History the “The of Bulkeley household Bulkeley Began InterdisciplinaryBegan Opportunities useful outside ofuseful academy the Scholarship of fall 2020 inthe and worked support teaching of asophomore seminar as a3-D reconstruction of Gershom the late Ottoman Empire” at MESAAnnual Julia Gettle Ji SooHong Assistant Professor of History and Bruce Appointed as aPostdoctoral Associate at Worlds, 1500-1900 Conference hosted by 2021-2022 Deans’ Faculty Fellow, Brown 2021 Birgit Fellow Baldwin inFrench (MESA) Annual Meeting 8,2020). (October (April 7-8,2021). (forthcoming) Century Medievalisms, Century Jewish Studies inFall 2022. Leland Grigoli Mayer Juni University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center University Grassroots: Popular Political Organizing Cornell University’sCornell Department of History Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Presented apaperArab on “The Nationalist Punishment: Converso Biography inthe Presented apaper on “Reward and Publication: “Memories of Medieval the History, Medieval Academy of America Russian Studies, ASEEES, 2020 Ruane Dissertation Research Grant in Received Joseph and Bradley Christine for Spring 2022 and transition will to for Early American Studies and Katz the Slovin Assistant Professor of American Spanish Atlantic” at Atlantic the Jewish at Middle Studies the East Association in Palestinian Camps, Refugee 1950-1970” in the Agein the of White Supremacy”, in21st ed. Karl Alvestad 2021

spring Joe Leidy Presented paper “The Uncultivated Garden: Forthcoming “Jacksonian Consular Reform Architecture, Architects, and the State in and the Forging of America’s First Global Presented a paper on “The Village Welfare Interwar Poland,” at University of Illinois Bureaucracy” (Journal of Policy History matters Service and the Politics of Youth in REEC-VORL Brown Bag Series 33:4, Fall 2021) Lebanon and Syria, 1930-40” at MESA (February 9, 2021)

Annual Conference (October 8, 2020). Forthcoming “Consular Recognition, history Published translation of “What I Read to Partial Neutrality, and the Making of Co-authored an introduction to the the Dead” by Władysław Szlengel (Polish- Modern Atlantic Diplomacy (1776–1825)” Presbyterian Historical Society for scholars English) and introduction in Jewish (Diplomatic History) of the Middle East for Hazine. (hazine.info/ Currents (January 19, 2021) the-presbyterian-historical-society) Presented a paper “A Laboratory for Abolition: British Consulates in Haiti in Yu-Cheng (Richard) Shih the Age of Atlantic Revolution (1824–1848).” Rebecca Marisseau Empire, Sovereignty, and Labor in the Appointed as Peter Green Doctoral Scholar Age of Global Abolition. University of Appointed a Peter Green Doctoral Scholar (Brown History Department) for the 2020- Pennsylvania/McNeil Center for Early (Brown History Department) for the 2020- 21 academic year American Studies Conference, 2021 21 academic year. Appointed as a visiting scholar in the Centre Presented a panel “Citizens Without Received an Interdisciplinary Opportunity of China Studies at the Chinese University Borders: Extraterritoriality, Citizenship, Fellowship with the Joukowsky Institute for of Hong Kong for the 2020 fall semester and the Origins of the Global American the 2021-22 academic year. State, 1815–1860.” Society for Historians of Co-founded the Graduate Student American Foreign Relations Conference, 2020 Association for Asian Studies (GSAAS) at Stacey E. Murrell Brown University Deans’ Faculty Fellowship, Brown University, 2021–2022 Invited speaker at Race Before Race: Politics Received 2020 IBES (Institute at Brown Conference hosted by Brandeis University for Environment and Society) Graduate and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Research Award Renaissance Studies (May 7, 2021) - talk Jenny Lhamo Tsundu entitled “Black in Iberia: On Concubinage, Received 2020-2 Governmental Scholarship Received a Title VIII grant and Virtual Race, and Belonging” from the Ministry of Education in Taiwan Open Research Laboratory Associateship at the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Presented paper “Black/Feminist/Medieval” Centre at the University of Illinois Urbana- at 54th International Congress on Medieval Simeon Andonov Champaign for Spring 2021 (co-hosted by Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 15, 2021). Simeonov the Slavic Reference Service). Publication: “Concubinage in New Published “Miranda in the Balkans: Wrote a review of A Wild Bird and a Contexts: Interfaith Borrowings and the decadent despotism, consulship, and the Cultured Man. The Common Eider and Rulers of Castile-León in the High Middle making of a south-eastern revolutionary in Homo Sapiens: Fourteen Centuries Together, Ages,” in Authorship, Worldview, and the Age of Revolution,” Journal of Global by Alexandra Goryashko, forthcoming in Identity in Medieval Europe, ed. Christian History, 27 September 2020, doi:10.1017/ Environment and History, 2021. Raffensperger (forthcoming) S1740022820000352 Published “‘Insurgentes, Self-Styled Suvaid Yaseen Emily Julia Roche Patriots’: Consuls, Privateers, Slavers, and Received the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Received 2020 ASEEES Dissertation Mariners in the Making of the Privateering Completion Fellowship 2021. Research Grant A rc h ip e l a go,” J ournal of Global Slavery 5:3 (2020): 291-321 Received 2020-1 Polish Studies Association Dissertation Research Award Published “‘With What Right Are They Sending a Consul:’ Unauthorized Received 2021-2 Mandel Center for Consulship, U.S. Expansion, and the Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellowship Transformation of the Spanish American at the United States Holocaust Empire, 1795–1808,” Journal of the Early Memorial Museum Republic 40:1 (Spring 2020): 19-44

37 38 brown university department of history Ann Daly Technologies of Control: Cistercian Colonialism in in Colonialism Technologies Cistercian Control: of Twentieth-Century São Paulo Minting America: The Politics, Technology, and Culture of Money in the Early United States Peripheral Citizenship: The Right to the City in Northern France, Occitania, and Catalonia, 1115-1314 Kate E.Creasey Sarah F. Christensen Kimonee M.Burke Imen Boussayoud Juan J. Bettancourt-Garcia Osama Ahmad Master ofArts,2020-21 Director: Seth Rockman Doctor ofPhilosophy, 2020-21 Graduate Program Daniel McDonald Leland Renato Grigoli Director: JamesGreen Director: Amy Remensnyder Alexandra A.Morehead Norman L.Frazier Ebru Erginbas Taaja El-Shabazz Michael E.Dorney Augusta D. DeOliveira Judith Smith 1864 to 1925 Simeon Andonov Simeonov Brokers of Humanity: Ethnic Identity, Humanitarian Law, Empire of Consuls: Consulship, Sovereignty, and Empire and Sovereignty, Consulship, Empire Consuls: of and Mass Violence In Southeast Europe and the Near East, in the Revolutionary Atlantic (1778-1848) Director: Seth Rockman Director: OmerBartov Justin Yoon Qizhen Xie Aaron J. Stark Jorge R.Rosario Rosario Luiz Paulo Pontes Ferraz Elizabeth Nielsen 2021

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wo daunting realities loomed as I stepped into the the diverse settings where historical work takes place. This year History Department’s Director of Graduate Advising our department teamed up with Center for Digital Scholarship at (DGA) role on July 1, 2020. The first, of course, was the Brown and the Cogut Institute's 21st Century PhD Series to host impact of the pandemic—specifically, a realization I was seven virtual events, including: a three-part forum on Digital History goingT to have to serve our graduate students in this role without the Research, Teaching, and Publishing in the Age of Covid-19; History benefit of meeting them in person. The second challenge was no less PhDs in High School Teaching; History PhDs in Tenure-Track formidable, and that was following in the shoes of my predecessor Careers at Public Universities; and History and Humanities PhDs in Jonathan Conant. Professor Conant completed his term as the Academic Administration. History Department’s inaugural DGA in June 2020, leaving a sterling Something new to the DGA role this year was administering the example but also a tough act to follow. department’s Teaching Assistantships, a critical part of our graduate Zoom fog and the steepness of my learning curve students’ professional training. In this unusual three-semester year, notwithstanding, it has been an absolute honor and privilege our department supported no less than 45 TAships. As a notable getting to know our department’s graduate students across so highlight, I would like to recognize TAs Juan Bettancourt-García many geographic and thematic fields of expertise, each bringing and Fernando Norat, who not only took on the highest number of diverse backgrounds, rich life stories, unique personalities. By far, undergraduate students in their sections for Professor Rodríguez’s meeting Brown History graduate students on an individual level and popular HIST 0234 Modern Latin America course, but each offered working with HGSA leaders on a range of issues impacting student bilingual sections, giving students the option of holding discussions experiences in the program has been the greatest reward of my in English or Spanish. “Covid-era” career and first year in the DGA role. As in years prior, the DGA also administers our department’s As with my predecessor, the lioness’s share of DGA proctorships with goal of providing graduate students with practical, responsibilities this year included advising graduate students on real-world experience in a wide range of public history settings and a range of career and professional development issues—drafting to increase their competitiveness in a variety of job markets. This cover letters and staging mock interviews or job talks; submitting year the department supported five proctorships, including three conference abstracts or grant applications; planning out summer working in high school curriculum development with the Choices sojourns or archival trips abroad. Complementing our DGS’s Program (Dillon Webster, Christopher Lasasso, and Joseph Leidy); attention to academic and administrative affairs, the DGA’s work is a Public History Proctor with the Rhode Island Historical Society also a humble attempt to support our students through the rigors and (Michael Simpson); and a History Career Diversity Fellow (Elizabeth angst of graduate student life in general. Nielsen). In addition to diversifying their own professional skills, all of our proctors helped build bridges between the Brown History Towards that end several highlights from this extraordinary Department and a wider realm of communities invested in the year come to mind. Combined with teaching the Professionalization importance and power of history. Graduate Seminar, it was a pleasure working with colleagues at Brown and universities as far and wide as Yale, Georgetown, Auburn, Finally, this year also witnessed a continuation of the City University of New York, and California State University department’s ongoing career diversity initiatives. In the Spring our Fullerton (as well as Andover Academy and Woodberry Forest department successfully applied to and completed the American high schools) in support of our department’s continuing What Historical Association’s Career Diversity Institute. Together with History Looks Like series. Established in 2016 by prior DGS Rebecca colleagues Ethan Pollock (Chair), Linford Fisher (DGS), and Tara Nedostup, DGA Jonathan Conant, and Chair Robert Self, and Nummedal (Diversity and Inclusion Plan Officer), over the course supported by a competitive grant they secured from the Mellon of four Friday afternoon workshops with over forty other History Foundation and American Historical Association, What History departments across North America we learned about latest trends Looks Like continued for its fifth consecutive year with the same and new directions in career pathways for historians, a theme that enduring purpose: to foster a space where History Department appears to be with us for the foreseeable future.• faculty, students, and historians in other departments can share the versatility of their skills and experiences, and learn more about 39 history

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We are now at the end of the three-year pilot partnership Change and the Questions of Justice and History, Revolution, between the History Department and the Choices Program. and Reform: New Direction for Cuba. I’m happy to report that the pilot has been a rousing Four “Teaching with the News” lessons were created and success and that we are now in the process of renewing the available for free on our website for any teacher to use. As the partnership for another five years. titles show, these lessons were particularly timely and fit the I’m also happy to report that the Choices Program social justice objectives of our curricula. successfully made the necessary adjustments to our Covid-19 • Black Lives Matter, the Killing of George Floyd, and reality and continued to produce important, timely social the Long Fight for Racial Justice studies curricula. A highlight is the release of a brand new curriculum, Racial Slavery in the Americas: Resistance, • Oral History and September 11 Freedom and Legacies. Created in collaboration with the • When the Games Stop: Athletes Unite in Historic CSSJ and funded through a generous donor to the CSSJ, it Sports Shutdown was available free of charge to all teachers across the nation • Voting in 2020: Values and Policies during a (digital edition only) and in Rhode Island (both print and Pandemic digital editions) during this academic year. As of April 2021, approximately 4,200 teachers now have access to this • From Washington to Biden: Comparing Inaugural curriculum. We also released updates to two units, Climate Addresses

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• “This is Not Who We Are.” Or Is It? Historians author of a successful NEH grant to run a summer institute Contextualize the Capitol Riot on “American Soldiers and American War: History and • “Never Again is Now”: Incarceration Histories and Memory” in summer 2022. Françoise Hamlin and I will Solidarity participate, along with other specialists. • The Costs of War It has been my honor to serve as the inaugural faculty director for the Choices Program. The new faculty director What has been particularly successful in the Choices- will be Rebecca Nedostup, and I thank her for stepping up History partnership is the collaboration with History faculty, to the task. The Choices Program’s partnership with the graduate students, and undergraduate students. This past department will continue to thrive under her leadership. year, Choices worked with Jenny Lambe, Rebecca Nedostup, Daniel Rodriguez, Kerry Smith, Heather Sanford PhD ’20, PhD candidate Dillon Webster, PhD candidate Joe Leidy, PhD student Michael Dorney, Melanie Pincus ’21, Noam Naoko Shibusawa Bizan ’22, and Aidan Wang ’22. Looking ahead is a new unit on U.S. imperialism with Choices writer Kevin Hoskins, PhD 2012 as lead author. Kevin was also the lead

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