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From the Chair Greetings from Cambridge on a warm and Individual faculty have listed some of their sunny first day of November. I believe the many accomplishments in the following outlook for the Department and the study pages, but let me note here the unusual of history at Harvard is also bright, recognition given by the Pulitzer Prize although (at the risk of striking an unchar- committee to two colleagues in one award acteristic tone in an oIcial missive that is season, and proudly congratulate both. expected to be relentlessly upbeat), I have Caroline Elkins received the prize in the some concerns to note as well. general nonfiction category for her book, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of On the unambiguously positive side, we Andrew Gordon Britain’s Gulag in Kenya (Henry Holt, granted no less than 21 PhD degrees in his- 2005); and Jill Lepore was one of three tory over the past academic year, the largest finalists in United States history for her number in five years. The dramatic expan- book, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, sion in availability of completion-year and Conspiracy in 18th Century New York grants, as reported in last year’s newsletter, (Knopf, 2005). It is also a huge pleasure to is certainly in large measure responsible for note that Terry Martin was promoted to the this welcome development. On the intake rank of tenured professor, and that we are side, although the reasons are hard to this year welcoming three distinguished INSIDE assess, we were pleasantly surprised at the tenured faculty politely poached from our largest yield in some time (nearly 80%) on 1 From the Chair peers: Emma Dench (ancient history, joint our ofers of admission to the graduate pro- 2 Faculty News with the Department of Classics), Henrietta gram, and we now have 24 first-year Harrison (modern China), and Walter 5 Recent Appointments degree candidates hard at work both in Johnson (19th century United States). 6 Alumni News their common course on historical methods 7 Graduate Program News and in their particular fields of interest. I As we are implementing changes in our his- know I speak for my colleagues in noting tory concentration, we are also actively 8 Undergraduate Program News what a pleasure and privilege it is to work engaged in discussion with colleagues 10 Recent PhD Graduates with such talented students. across the faculty about the future shape of 11 In Memoriam general education at Harvard. A task force The undergraduate program welcomed the labored long and hard over the summer to largest sophomore class in several years, produce a new set of recommendations for and they are fully engaged in the “history a program in general education to replace Department of History boot camp” of our sophomore tutorial. the current Core curriculum. While we Robinson Hall Mark Kishlansky, Laurel Ulrich, Lisa recognized that the seven “areas of 35 Quincy Street McGirr, and Trygve Throntveit devoted inquiry” put forward in this report as the Cambridge, MA 02138 much time over the summer to creating organizing framework for general educa- www.fas.harvard.edu/~history three new units for this course, which has tion include several where historical studies been the cornerstone of the undergraduate could find a home, faculty in the concentration for well over a decade. At the Department were virtually unanimous in same time, independent of the revamping DEPARTMENT CHAIR their concern that the home might not be expected to take place in the general educa- Andrew Gordon easy to live in. The rationale ofered for the tion curriculum, the Department last year importance of studying the past seemed decided to make some important changes in DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATOR almost exclusively, and excessively, focused the undergraduate history concentration. Janet Hatch on the relevance of historical study to More details about these changes can be understanding of present-day American or NEWSLETTER EDITOR found in the “Undergraduate Program global problems. (continued, 6) Andrew Miller News” section of this newsletter.

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Faculty News David Armitage, Professor of History, Joyce Chaplin, James Duncan Lincoln Lecture at Northern Illinois received the 2006 Caird Medal from the Phillips Professor of Early University and the Charles Phelps Taft National Maritime Museum in London. American History, pub- Lecture at the University of Cincinnati. The medal is awarded annually to “an lished The First Scientific Related to these research interests, she individual who, in the opinion of the American: Benjamin taught a freshman seminar, “Public Power, Trustees, has done conspicuously impor- Franklin and the Pursuit of Private Lives: Writing Twentieth-Century tant work in the field of the Museum’s Genius (Basic Books, 2006), and co- U.S. History as Biography,” in fall 2006. interests and is of a nature that involves curated an exhibit, “Benjamin Franklin, Caroline Elkins, Foster communicating with the public.” In May a How-to Guide,” at Harvard’s Houghton Associate Professor of African 2006, Prof. Armitage gave the inaugural Library and Collection of Historical Studies, won the Pulitzer lecture for the Museum’s new Centre for Scientific Instruments. She is now editing Prize for General Nonfiction Imperial and Maritime Studies, and in July an issue of the Harvard Library Bulletin in 2006 for her book Imperial was a plenary speaker at the Biennial that will be devoted to the exhibit. Reckoning: The Untold Story of Conference of the Australian Historical Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Britain’s Gulag in Kenya (Henry Holt, Association in Canberra. He also held a Professor of American Studies, spent her 2005). The book was also selected as one of visiting fellowship at the Humanities 2005-06 leave researching a new book the Economist’s best history books for 2005 Research Centre of the Australian National project on the urban built environment and was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber University, and for the academic year after World War II. She is investigating Prize for Nonfiction. Prof. Elkins was 2006-07 is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the enormous undertaking to rebuild named a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow the Henry E. Huntington Library. Among American cities by examining the life and for the 2005-06 academic year at Harvard, his publications this year was an edited col- career of Edward J. Logue, a pivotal which recognizes distinction among the lection of essays, British Political Thought in figure in the urban renewal of the “model faculty at the University, and was elected History, Literature and Theory, 1500-1800 city” of New Haven in the 1950s, the “new an honorary member of Harvard’s Phi (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Boston” in the 1960s, and New York State Beta Kappa chapter. David Blackbourn, Coolidge and New York City during the 1970s and Niall Ferguson, Tisch Professor Professor of History, pub- 1980s, first as head of the powerful of History and Ziegler lished The Conquest of statewide Urban Development Corporation Professor of Business Nature: Water, Landscape, (which developed Roosevelt Island, among Administration, published a and the Making of Modern other projects) and then as President of the book and two journal articles Germany (W.W. Norton, South Bronx Development OIce. This in 2006. The book was The 2006). Harvard Magazine research has been supported by grants War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict profiled both the book and Prof. Blackbourn from the Taubman and Rappaport Centers and the Descent of the West (Penguin Press). in its July-August issue. In May, Prof. at the Harvard Kennedy School of The articles were “Political risk and the Blackbourn gave the keynote lecture at an Government, and the Real Estate international bond market between the Oxford University conference on “Cultural Academic Initiative housed at Harvard’s 1848 Revolution and the outbreak of the Contacts and Transfers between Wilhelmine Graduate School of Design. During the First World War,” in Economic History Germany and Edwardian Britain.” In the academic year 2007-08, Prof. Cohen will Review (February 2006), and “The Empire fall of 2006 he gave several talks related to be making presentations on this research at efect: The determinants of country risk in the new book, including the George C. a number of venues, including the the first age of globalization, 1880–1913,” Windell lecture at New Orleans University. University of Wisconsin Eau Claire; the jointly authored with Moritz Schularick, Prof. Blackbourn, who served in 2006 on Davis Center at Princeton University; in the Journal of Economic History (June President Derek Bok’s Faculty of Arts and the annual meeting of the Society of 2006). His six-part television series based Sciences Dean search committee, becomes Architectural Historians; and the “Politics on The War of the World was also screened Director of the Center for European Studies of Consumption/Consumption of Politics” in the United Kingdom. in January 2007. conference at the University of Wisconsin 2 Madison. She will also give the W. Bruce HISTORY NEWSLETTER 2006 R2 12/15/06 4:23 PM Page 3

Alison Fleig Frank, Assistant James Hankins, Professor Kenneth Maxwell, Visiting Professor of History, won of History, received a Professor of History, was

the 2006 Austrian Cultural Harvard Gazette $1.2 million grant from Harvard Gazette appointed Director of Forum Book Prize for the Andrew W. Mellon Harvard’s Brazil Studies her Oil Empire: Visions of Foundation to support Program in the David Prosperity in Austrian Galicia Photo courtesy of the I Tatti Renaissance Library, the dual- Photo courtesy of Rockefeller Center for Latin American (Harvard University Press, 2005). Prof. language text series he edits. Modeled on Studies. The program, launched in May Frank’s book traces the interaction of tech- the Loeb Classical Library, the I Tatti 2006, works with the Rockefeller Center’s nology, social tensions, politics, and other Renaissance Library aims to make avail- oIce in Sao Paolo, Brazil to promote col- factors in the shaping of the Galician oil able to a broad readership the most laborative research between Harvard industry. In its award statement, the significant literary, historical, and philo- scholars and their Brazilian counterparts, Cultural Forum noted that Prof. Frank’s sophical works of the Italian Renaissance and to encourage student research and “technique is to grab the reader’s attention written in Latin. The series is sponsored internships in Brazil. with a little-known fact, elaborating on its by the Harvard Center for Italian Michael McCormick, Goelet Professor of context, and in the process twisting or Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti near Medieval History, was awarded the shattering previous presumptions. She Florence, Italy, and is published by Medieval Academy of America’s Charles excels in placing her subject within the Harvard University Press. With the help of Homer Haskins Prize for 2005. The award broader contexts of the last years of the Mellon grant, the Library plans recognized Prof. McCormick’s contribu- Austria-Hungary, the exploitation of min- to produce approximately 150 volumes tions to the study of the Middle Ages, par- eral resources in general, and the nascent by 2026. ticularly his book, Origins of the European oil industry in particular.” Malinda Maynor Lowery, Assistant Professor Economy (Cambridge University Press, Andrew Gordon, Folger Fund Professor of of History, received a Course Innovation 2001), which the Times Literary Supplement History and Chair of History, published Funds grant from the Harvard University described as “a Decline and Fall for the “From Sewing Machines to Credit Cards: Faculty of Arts and Sciences for 2006-07. twenty-first century.” In 2005, Prof. Consumer Credit in 20th Century Japan,” in With these funds she and Lisa Brooks McCormick launched the initial season of Sheldon Garon’s and Patricia MacClachan’s (Assistant Professor of History and the ongoing Harvard lecture series, The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Literature and of Folklore and Mythology) “Medieval Archaeology in the 21st Century.” Consumption in East Asia and the West will create a three-dimensional Primary The series highlights scholars who apply (Cornell University Press, 2006). He also Source Packet for their Native American advanced methods from the natural published “Shÿhi, seikatsu, goraku no studies courses. The courses utilize web- sciences to archaeology, and has featured ‘kansen shi’” [A “transwar” history of sites, lectures, panel discussions, perform- lecturers from Paris, Oxford, and consumption, daily life, and leisure] in ances, field trips, and research opportuni- Nottingham. With the help of Joachim Nichijÿ seikatsu no naka no sÿryoku sen [Total ties for undergraduates. The Radclife Henning, the History Department’s war in the midst of daily life]. Japanese and Institute for Advanced Study has also Visiting Professor of Medieval History in Chinese translations of his book, A Modern funded Prof. Lowery and Prof. Rachel St. 2005, Prof. McCormick also organized History of Japan, appeared in 2006. John (Assistant Professor of History) for a three interdisciplinary, interdepartmental spring 2007 Exploratory Seminar on “The workshops at Harvard. The workshops— Place of Native Americans in U.S. History.” focused, respectively, on climate change in Prof. Lowery is completing her book man- the first millennium A.D., the writing of uscript, “Native American Identity in the economic history from biological evidence, Segregated South,” and an article, and the application of artificial language “Creating the Color Line: Murder in and intelligence to medieval Latin texts— Montgomery County Georgia, 1893.” were made possible by Prof. McCormick’s 2002 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 3 HISTORY NEWSLETTER 2006 R2 12/15/06 4:23 PM Page 4

Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of Steven Ozment, McLean Judith Surkis, Associate Islamic History, received an honorary doc- Professor of Ancient and Professor of History and of torate in the Cathedral of Lund, Sweden in Modern History, taught History and Literature, June 2006. The ceremony was a reminder “Germans and Their History: published Sexing the Citizen: of a scene in one of Prof. Mottahedeh’s From Arminius to Angela Morality and Masculinity in favorite ﬁlms, Wild Strawberries, in which Merkel” in the inaugural France, 1870-1920 (Cornell an elderly professor receives a doctorate in Harvard-Ca’Foscari summer school pro- University Press, 2006). The book shows the same cathedral. In October 2005, Prof. gram in Venice, Italy (June-August, 2006). how masculine sexuality became central to Mottahedeh’s recent book, Lessons in The German translation of his A Mighty the making of a republican social order in Islamic Jurisprudence, was published in Fortress: A New History of the German People late 19th and early 20th century France. paperback by Oneworld Publications. In was published by Verlag Manuscriptum in Marriage, Prof. Surkis argues, aIrmed the November 2006, he was appointed director July 2006. This past spring, Prof. Ozment citizen’s masculinity, while also containing of Harvard’s new Prince Alwaleed Bin served as the Jones Visiting Professor at and controlling his desires. This ideal Talal Islamic Studies Program. Woford College in Spartanburg, South ofered a speciﬁc response to the prob- Carolina. lems—individualism, democratization, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Professor of History and rapid technological and social and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Daniel Smail, Professor of History, pub- change—associated with France’s moder- Sexuality, spent her Fall 2006 leave lished “Witness Programs in Medieval nity. Prof. Surkis provides new insights researching issues of gender and sexuality Marseille,” in Voices from the Bench: The into how concerns about sexuality shaped in twentieth century Iran. Her book, Narratives of Lesser Folk in Medieval Trials, the Third Republic’s pedagogical projects, Women with Mustaches and Men Without edited by Michael Goodich (Palgrave and her analyses of republican moral phi- Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Macmillan, 2006), and “In the Grip of losophy and Emile Durkheim’s sociology Iranian Modernity (University of California Sacred History,” in the American Historical illustrate the cultural weight of these con- Press, 2005) received the American Review (December 2005 supplement). cerns and provide an original account of Historical Association’s 2005 Joan Kelly He was awarded a fellowship by the modern French thinking about society. Memorial Prize. Prof. Najmabadi also Guggenheim Foundation for his upcoming More broadly, Sexing the Citizen illumi- served as Associate Editor of Volume III of sabbatical, and accepted an invitation to nates how sexual norms continue to shape the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic join the board of editors of The American the meaning of citizenship. Cultures (Brill, 2006). Her recent publica- Historical Review. In conjunction with a tions include “Beyond the Americas: Are PITF grant, Prof. Smail has been working Gender and Sexuality Useful Categories with the Instructional Computing Group of Historical Analysis?” in the Journal of and two graduate student fellows, Emily Women’s History (Spring 2006); “Mapping Wilson and Clare Gillis, on a software plat- Transformations of Sex, Gender, and form for a spring 2007 undergraduate class. Sexuality in Modern Iran”, in Social Analysis (Summer 2005, to be published January 2006); and Women of the East: Documents from and about the second Women of the East Congress (Shirazeh, 2005), which she edited with Gholamreza Salami.

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Recent Appointments Emma Dench, Professor of Henrietta Harrison, Professor Walter Johnson, Professor of the Classics and of History, of History, came to the History, was appointed to

will return to Harvard in Department in fall 2006 Harvard Gazette the faculty on July 1, 2006, January 2007, having spent from the Department of after twelve years at New the 2005-06 academic year East Asian Studies at the York University. Beginning as Visiting Professor of the University of Leeds. Her Photo courtesy of with his doctoral work at Classics and of History. She received her research concentrates on the social and Princeton University, where he received DPhil from Oxford University in 1993, and cultural history of modern China. She his PhD in 1995, and continuing in his has taught for fourteen years at Birkbeck received her PhD in 1996 from Oxford prize-winning ﬁrst book, Soul by Soul: Life College, University of London. She is an University, where her dissertation, later Inside the Antebellum Slave Market ancient historian and most of her research published as The Making of the Republican (Harvard University Press, 1999), to date has concentrated on ancient Italy Citizen (Oxford University Press, 2000), Professor Johnson has studied slavery and questions of identity in the Hellenistic looked at the spread of modern social and from an interdisciplinary perspective, and Roman worlds. Her publications ritual practices among the Chinese mod- examining cultural, economic, and politi- include From Barbarians to New Men: ernizing elite in the early 20th century. But cal factors in order to show how America’s Greek, Roman and Modern Perceptions of for the past ten years she has worked “peculiar institution” was essential to the Peoples from the Central Apennines (Oxford mainly on the history of the poor, inland country’s emerging capitalist economy. University Press, 1995), a study of the province of Shanxi, looking at it ﬁrst His next major book, River of Dark inter-relationship between perceptions through the eyes of a traditional Dreams: Slavery, Capitalism, and Imperialism and self-perceptions of Samnites, notori- Confucian scholar living out his life in a in the Mississippi Valley (forthcoming from ous enemies of Rome, and Romulus’ rapidly modernizing world (The Man Harvard University Press), will expand Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Awakened from Dreams [Stanford the scope of Soul by Soul by examining the Alexander to the Age of Hadrian (Oxford University Press, 2005]), and now through history of imperialism and the political University Press, 2005), a study of ancient the history of a small group of villages that economy of pre-Civil War America. Prof. ideas of what it was to be Roman. Prof. were founded by Chinese Catholics in the Johnson has taught courses on a variety of Dench has taught a range of undergradu- late 17th century and are still Catholic subjects, including slavery, race, capital- ate and graduate courses, including today. She has also published on the mod- ism, the Mexican-American War, and law. “Ethnic Identities in Classical Antiquity” ern history of Taiwan’s indigenous people. He has been a member of the Society of and “Major Themes in Ancient History” Prof. Harrison’s teaching at Leeds includ- Fellows at New York University, a at Harvard. She has been a Rome Scholar ed a wide range of topics related to mod- Goddard Fellow at NYU, a Mellon Fellow and Hugh Last Fellow at the British ern and contemporary China, including in Cultural Studies at Wesleyan University, School at Rome, and in 2002-03 was a surveys of Chinese history and contempo- a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study Member of the School of Historical rary society and politics, as well as classes in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study on ideas of nationalism and ethnicity, and University, and an ACLS-Burkhardt Fellow. in Princeton, New Jersey. Her current on experiences of religion in China. In the projects include Imperialism and Culture in spring semester, she is looking forward to the Roman World for Cambridge University teaching classes on the history of Press’ “Key Themes in Ancient History” Christianity in China and on the series, and a study of the writing of the Communist revolution of 1949. The latter Roman Republic in antiquity and in more course is connected to her future projects, recent centuries. which include a large-scale study of the revolution and the early years of Communist rule in China.

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Alumni News Robert V. Daniels, PhD ’51, published M. Elizabeth Kent, PhD ’74, currently prac- Londa Schiebinger, PhD ’84, won the 2005 The Fourth Revolution: Transformation in tices law in Washington, DC, focusing on Prize in Atlantic History from the American Society from the Sixties to the appellate litigation. This work enables her American Historical Society and the 2005 Present (Routledge, 2005). to combine her background in intellectual Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize from the history with the legal training she acquired French Colonial Historical Society, for her Jon A. Peterson, PhD ’67, was awarded the at Georgetown University Law Center Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in Society of Architectural Historians’ 2005 (J.D. ’78). the Atlantic World (Harvard University Spiro Kostof Award for his book, The Birth Press, 2004). She was also awarded the of City Planning in the United States, 1840- Mary Beth Norton, PhD ’69, served as the 2005 J. Worth Estes Article Prize for the 1917 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005-06 Pitt Professor of American History History of Pharmacology from the 2003). The award recognizes outstanding Institutions at the University of Cambridge. American Association for the History of works on urbanism and its relationship to A Pulitzer Prize ﬁnalist, Prof. Norton is a Medicine. At Stanford University, Prof. architecture. Prof. Peterson retired in specialist in early American history and Schiebinger is the Hinds Professor of December 2005 from the Department of American women’s and gender history. History of Science and the Finberg History at Queens College, in the City She is currently the Alger Professor of Director of the Institute for Research on University of New York, where he had American History at Cornell University. Women and Gender. taught since 1966. Jonathan Petropoulos, PhD ’90, published Richard N. Frye, PhD ’46, received the Robin Higham, AB ’50, PhD ’57, published Royals and the Reich: the Princes von Hessen Khwarimi International Award for Why Air Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat in Nazi Germany (Oxford University Press, Achievements in Oriental History on (University of Kentucky Press, 2006), 2006). He also edited, with John Roth, Gray February 7, 2005 in Tehran, Iran. which he edited with Stephen J. Harris. Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise during the The book was a 2006 Military Book Club Holocaust and its Aftermath (Berghahn, selection. 2005). Eric J. Carlson, PhD ’87, was appointed Chair of History at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota. Prof. American History Carlson was also named Associate Editor of Association Annual Meeting the Journal of British Studies, and a Board Member of the American Friends of the January 4-7, 2007 Institute of Historical Research (London). If you will be attending the AHA Annual Meeting in Atlanta in January, we would like to invite you to attend our reception for all alumni on Saturday, January 6, 2007, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Westin Peachtree Atlanta, Ballroom H.

(Chair, continued) Faculty members have not been shy about for the importance of historical study. Even pasts—whether long ago, far away, or in voicing these concerns, and they have pro- so, we face an important challenge going living memory. duced a number of thoughtful responses to forward, because in contrast to the Core This coming June will conclude my term as the committee report. As I write, the task curriculum, there is unlikely to be any one Department Chair. I will be happy enough force report is available on the Faculty of category in the new program of general to turn over newsletter writing and other Arts and Sciences website. I am optimistic education that will require historical study. duties to one of my talented colleagues, but that by the time you read this, a revised It will be up to us to devise exciting courses it has certainly been a privilege to have held proposal will have been posted presenting a that make clear to students the challenges this position. 6 more diverse and compelling set of reasons and pleasures of attempting to understand HISTORY NEWSLETTER 2006 R2 12/15/06 4:23 PM Page 7

Graduate Program News More than two dozen students from the Kelly Gibson Martin Nguyen Department of History and allied programs Rewriting Royal History: Merovingian Kings (History and Middle Eastern Studies) will take the ﬁrst step toward completing and Carolingian Kingship in Hagiography Interpreting the Word of God: The Boundaries their PhD dissertations by introducing their of “Orthodoxy” and “Tradition” in the Works research topics at the History Dissertation Huseyin Sukru Ilicak of al-Qushayri Prospectus Conference on January 29, 2007. (History and Middle Eastern Studies) The Conference is an opportunity for those Ottoman Reaction to the Greek War of Ward Penfold students who have recently completed the Independence Law’s Modernity: le Code Napoléon, The General Examination to formally present Historical School, and the Vocation for their research plans to faculty advisors and Nikhil Kapur Legislation and Jurisprudence in France and other invitees. This year’s participants are Toward a More Equal Partnership: U.S./Japan Germany, 1797-1815 listed below along with the tentative titles of Relations in the 1960s their presentations. Monica Piotter Brendan Karch New Treasons from Old Testaments: Hebraic Sana Aiyar Silesia’s Many Pasts: Modes of Local Memory, Explanations for the Trial of Charles I National and Religious Identity amongst the 1740-1960 South Asian Diaspora in Colonial Kenya and Sandhya Polu Leyla Kayhan Post-colonial Britain: Multiculturalism in Layered Sovereignties: Public Health Policy (History and Middle Eastern Studies) Two Milieus Formation in British India (1892-1935) The Urban Family in Eighteenth-Century Aslihan Akisik Ottoman Istanbul Nico Slate (History and Middle Eastern Studies) Behold Their Shackles Broken: African- Mana Kia Self and Other in the Fifteenth Century: Americans, South-Asians, and the Struggle for (History and Middle Eastern Studies) Laonikos Chalcocondyles and Late Byzantine Freedom, 1914-1965 Contours of Community: Migrants from Iran Intellectuals in the Indian Ocean, 1688-1950 Eren Tasar Courtney Bucher Muslim Life in Central Asia, 1943-85 Konrad Lawson Envisioning America: Representations of the Treason and the Reconstruction of Nation in Ece Turnator Founding on Television and Film East Asia, 1937-1951 Centers of Authority and the Economy in Antara Datta Mainland Greece and Western Asia Minor Dimitris Loupis th th War, Displacement and Violence during the (12 -13 Centuries) Applying Ottoman rule in the Central Balkans: 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh Evrenos Beg and his sons (late 14th-15th Ann Wilson Adam Ewing centuries) Taking Liberties Abroad: Americans and Black Star: Garveyism In The African Diaspora, International Humanitarianism, 1880-1920 Noah McCormack 1916-1927 This Glorious Cause, This Insolent Faction: Leonard Wood Nathan Fonder The Whig Party in English Politics and (History and Middle Eastern Studies) (History and Middle Eastern Studies) Society, c. 1675-c. 1727 The Reception of European Law, the Origins of Building Cities of Man: Pleasure, Leisure, Islamic Legal Revivalism, and Transformations Uchechukwu Nwamara and Vice in Imperial Cairo and Damascus, in Islamic Jurisprudence in Egypt, 1876-1960: The Transformation of Marriage and Divorce 1861-1952 A Study of Developments in Modern Islamic Law in the Post-Constantinian Roman Empire Juridical Science

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Undergraduate Program News Program Changes In spring 2006, the History Department this model to tutorials that emphasize the sustain this expanded requirement and still gained approval for a new undergraduate fundamental skills of historiographical ofer slots to students in allied ﬁelds such as program that will launch in September analysis and primary research. These new History and Literature or Social Studies. 2007. The fundamental principles of the tutorials will be called reading seminars Also, to give students the opportunity to program will remain the same, but there and research seminars. The former will explore diferent historical subjects, the will be new opportunities for concentrators sharpen critical thinking skills among stu- Department will move to a ﬂexible course to work in small seminars with faculty. dents who are considering History as a distribution requirement. Students will be concentration or who have already joined Currently, the Department boasts more required to take at least one course in each the Department. The latter will guide than twenty conference courses per year. of the following areas: pre-modern history, more advanced students through the stages These courses are faculty-led seminars that western history, and non-western history. of a major research project, with meet once a week for two hours. Faculty This change will ensure that students are an emphasis on archival work whenever and students alike enjoy these courses, exposed to disparate eras and places while possible. Thanks to the expansion of which ofer intense discussion of historical giving them the choice of a broad survey or Department faculty in recent years (by subjects of deep interest to all participants. a more focused course. about 20 percent since the mid-1990s), it is The new undergraduate program extends now possible to ofer enough courses to

Hoopes Prize Winners William Deringer, “Beyond The Idle Philosopher: William Petty, The Down Five History concentrators won the prestigious Hoopes Prize in 2006. The Prize is awarded Survey, and the Empowerment of to undergraduates for outstanding scholarly work or research, and recognizes their advisors’ Knowledge, 1652-1662.” Prof. David commitment to promoting excellence in teaching. Each winner is awarded $2,500. Armitage, advisor. Jonhhenry Gonzalez, “The Ashes of Empire and the Caribbean Origins of Neo- Colonialism: The Efects of the Haitian Revolution on European Ideas about Slavery and on French Imperial Policy.” Miles Rodriguez, advisor. James Honan-Hallock, “For Creator, Sovereign, Academy, and Science: Johann Anton Güldenstädt and the 1768-1775 Russian Expedition to the Caucasus.” Sean Pollock, advisor. Pablo Ros, “Yankee Yes: The Efect of American Financial Colonialism on the Development of Cuban Capital Markets.” Prof. John H. Coatsworth, advisor. Eric Sorensen Shroyer, “‘To Give It the From left to right: Andrew Gordon, Department Chair; William Deringer; Eric Sorensen Command of Its Own Fortunes’: George Shroyer; James Honan-Hallock; and Sven Beckert, Director of Undergraduate Studies Washington’s Continental Strategy, 1783- (Not pictured: Jonhhenry Gonzalez and Pablo Ros) 1796.” Daniel Johnathan Sargent, advisor. 8 HISTORY NEWSLETTER 2006 R2 12/15/06 4:23 PM Page 9

History on the Road History across the Sea Eight undergraduate students from Maureen “Molly” Boyle ’08, Boyle also devoted much of her leisure History 1617, “The French in North a history concentrator, spent time to studying the past. During trips to America,” traveled to Québec City on April the summer of 2006 study- the British Museum in London and the 27, 2006. The four-day trip was organized ing medieval archaeology at Louvre Museum in Paris, she saw first- by Laurier Turgeon, Lyon Mackenzie King Oxford University, where hand many of the artifacts she had studied Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies, to she was the first Harvard in class at Harvard, including the Susanna give students a firsthand glimpse of their student to take part in an experimental Crystal and relics from Sutton Hoo. In subject. Appropriately, all lectures, tours, internship funded by the OIce of Birmingham, she attended a conference on and discussions were conducted in French. International Programs and a portion of a disease and disability in medieval Mellon Foundation grant awarded to Prof. Northern Europe and met leading The students began their stay with a two- Michael McCormick in 2002. researchers and students in the field. hour walking tour of the colonial and fortified section of the city conducted by Boyle worked closely with Dr. Helena “Having been through this program,” David Mendel, one of Canada’s best spe- Hamerow in the Institute for Archaeology Boyle wrote, “I believe that continued sup- cialists of the history of Québec City. Next, at Oxford, poring over back issues of port for the program is essential in distin- they toured the Ursuline Monastery and scholarly journals and unpublished guishing Harvard from its American peers Museum, the first monastery and school archaeological reports in order to produce, in the field of history. The historians of the founded in Canada to educate Native with Dr. Hamerow, a summary of excava- future must be masters of more than the American and French girls, and the tions of Anglo-Saxon settlement sites made written; they must be biologists, linguists, Parliament Building, the seat of the over the past thirty years. philosophers, paleographers, and econo- Québec Legislative Assembly. The group mists. As the first program of its kind to “In history, it’s easy to think that every- also took time to explore the many cafés, emphasize inter-disciplinary learning thing has been done before,” Boyle wrote restaurants, discotheques, art galleries, within a single discipline, the program is in a report on her experiences. “[But] shops, museums, and churches in the his- an important precedent, as well as a prime astonishingly, information and artifacts toric part of the city. example of the kind of scholarship which have the power to change the his- Harvard advocates.” On the last day of the trip, students went to torical record remain buried, no longer in the Island of Orleans, located in the middle the ground, but in equally inaccessible file of the Saint Lawrence River, about ten cabinets and county museums.” miles downstream from Québec City. Here they visited a traditional maple sugar farm, where they learned about the traditional methods of production and sat down to a traditional French-Canadian meal. The fieldtrip was sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Afairs, the Québec Delegation in Boston, and the Institute for Cultural Heritage of Laval University. From left to right: Darryl Jingwen Wee, John Kapusta, Samantha Papadakis, David Cromwell, Jess Burkle, Prof. Laurier Turgeon, Leroy Terrelonge III, and Meredith Moore. (Not pictured: Cheryl-Lyn Deon Bentley.) 9 HISTORY NEWSLETTER 2006 R2 12/15/06 4:23 PM Page 10

Recent PhD Graduates, November 2005 through June 2006 Alison Adams Carrie Endries Micah Muscolino The Caixa Econômica: A Social and Exiled in the Tropics: Nazi Protestors Fishing for Proﬁts: Environment and Economic History of Popular Banking and the Getúlio Vargas Regime in Brazil, Society of the China Coast, 1840-1958 in Rio de Janeiro, 1821-1929 1933-1945 Assistant Professor, Saint Mary’s Political Analyst, Fidelity Investments Lecturer, Harvard University College of California (tenure-track)

Alexis Albion Isadora Helfgott Kevin Ostoyich The Spy in All of Us: The Public Image Art and the Struggle for the American Soul: The Transatlantic Soul: German Catholic of Intelligence in the 1960s The Pursuit of a Popular Audience for Art in Emigration during the Nineteenth Century Foreign Service OIcer, America from the Depression to World War II Assistant Professor, Valparaiso University US Department of State Sessional Instructor, University of Toronto Sean Pollock Sara Byala Empire by Invitation?: Russian Empire- Thinking in Three Dimensions: John Halbert Jones III Building in the Caucasus in the Reign Gubbins, Museum Africa, and the Making The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico: of Catherine II of Modern Johannesburg, 1902-2004 The Political Impact of Mexican Lecturer, Harvard University Participation in World War II Isaac Campos-Costero Historian, US Department of State Kimberly Sims Marijuana, Madness, and Modernity Blacks, Italians, and the Progressive Interest in Mexico, 1521-1920 Daniel Stein Kokin in New York City Crime, 1900-1930 Assistant Professor, University The Hebrew Question in the Italian Assistant Professor, American University of Cincinnati (tenure-track) Renaissance: Linguistic, Cultural, and (tenure-track) Mystical Perspectives Pär Cassel Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University Gregory Smith Rule of Law or Rule of Laws: Legal Very Thin Things: Towards A Cultural Pluralism and Extraterritoriality in Laura Lisy-Wagner History of the Soul in Roman Antiquity Nineteenth Century East Asia Between the Eagle and the Crescent: Czech Visiting Lecturer, Case Western Reserve Assistant Professor, University Images of the Holy Roman and Ottoman University of Michigan (tenure-track) Empires in Texts About the Turk, 1450-1650 Lecturer, Harvard University Scott Sowerby Evan Dawley James II’s Revolution: The Politics of Constructing Taiwanese Ethnicity: Identities Matthew Lundin Religious Toleration in England, 1685-1689 in a City on the Border of China and Japan The Mental World of a Middling Burgher: Lecturer, Harvard University Historian, US Department of State The Family Archive of Cologne Lawyer Hermann Weinsberg, 1518-1597 William Suarez-Potts Thomas DeGeorges The Making of Labor Law in Mexico, M. Michelle J. Morris A Bitter Homecoming: Tunisian Veterans 1875-1931 of the First and Second World Wars Under Household Government: Sex and Lecturer, Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellow, Algeria Family in Massachusetts, 1660-1700 AIliate, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University

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In Memorium country. In 1967, Prof. Pritsak proposed strengthening the University’s Ukrainian endowing three chairs in Ukrainian studies library collections, and developing a new (covering the ﬁelds of history, literature, series of publications that made primary and philology) and creating a Ukrainian texts, facsimile editions, and translations research institute at Harvard University, of important works of the Ukrainian past all in the hope of setting a ﬁrm foundation available to scholars worldwide. for the development of Ukrainian studies Omeljan Pritsak was born on April 7, 1919 in the West. in Luka, Sambir region, Ukraine. He com-

Photo courtesy of the Institute Harvard Ukrainian Research In the span of eleven years, with help from pleted his secondary education in Ternopil, the Ukrainian Studies Fund, which raised and his higher education at the University Omeljan Pritsak, Hrushevsky Professor money from the Ukrainian Diaspora com- of Lviv, the Academy of Sciences of of Ukrainian History, Emeritus, and munity, Prof. Pritsak’s hopes were realized. Ukraine in Kyiv, and the Universities of co-founder and long-time director of the The Ukrainian Research Institute was Berlin and Göttingen, from which he Ukrainian Research Institute, died on established in 1973, with Prof. Pritsak as received his doctorate in 1948. He is sur- May 29, 2006. its ﬁrst director. In 1975 he was awarded vived by his wife Larysa Hvozdik Pritsak, the newly-created Hrushevsky Chair in his daughter Irene Pritsak by his late ﬁrst Prof. Pritsak joined the Harvard faculty in Ukrainian history, and in 1977 he helped wife Nina Moldenhauer Pritsak, and two 1964 as Professor of Linguistics and launch the Harvard Ukrainian Studies grandchildren, Lailina Eberhard and Turkology. Early in his career he had journal. Michael Wissof. become an internationally-recognized authority on Turkic and Altaic linguistics, Additionally, Prof. Pritsak was instrumen- but once at Harvard he increasingly stud- tal at Harvard in organizing a weekly ied the history of Ukraine, his native seminar series on Ukrainian issues,

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