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Prof. David Luft Retires after 36 years at UCSD

Pr of. David S. Luft has retired after 36 years of an during the first six decades of the twentieth ex traordinarily dedicated career at UCSD. Luft century: Robert Musil and the Crisis of European ha s accepted an Endowed Chair, the Thomas Culture: 1880-1942 (Berkeley, 1980; 2d.ed. pbk, Ha rt and Mary Jones Horning Professorship in the 1984); Robert Musil, Precision and Soul: Essays Hu manities, at Oregon State University. and Addresses, co-translated and edited with Burton Pike (Chicago, 1990; pbk ed, 1994); Eros W ith his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1972, Luft came to and Inwardness in Vienna: Weininger, Musil, UC SD as an Assistant Professor in 1972. His Doderer (Chicago, 2003). His point of entry was re search in his first three books treated the the work of a number of leading Viennese authors, in tellectual history of modern Austria, especially who were studied against an ever-broadening backdrop that included German language culture in general and the European modernist tradition in literature and philosophy. - News Bits - Continued on p. 7

Chair’s Column

Alumni always return to UCSD to find a changed campus, with many new buildings and new faculty. The UCSD History Department remains in H&SS, but all the

Prof. David Noel Freedman Muir College buildings are receiving a face- Passes Away at Age 85 lift with renovation of their exteriors. This

past year we welcomed three new colleagues—Tom Gallant in the history of

modern Greece and Mediterranean Studies, John Marino, Chair Cathy Gere in the history of medicine and bio-medical ethics, and Mark Hanna in the

history of early America and the Atlantic

World. This year we are very pleased to be What’s Inside? joined by one new colleague, Nancy Kwak . Class of ’08 Celebrates! in the history of U. S. urban studies and

Alex Ruiz, History’s Chief Administrative planning, who is profiled in the current . Faculty Affairs Officer, Retires After 38 Years of Service newsletter. Sadly, our most senior . Graduate Student News colleague, David Noel Freedman, passed away in the spring. In addition, after 36 . Staff Updates years with us, David Luft retired to take up . Tribute to Professor an endowed chair appointment at Oregon David Noel Freedman State University, and our long-term MSO Alejandra Ruiz retired after 30 years as the . What Professors Read mainstay of the department’s daily . Students Star in Their Own Films operations. Dr. Nancy Kwak Joins History Department Continued on p. 8

One hundred sixty-three seniors were awarded a Bachelor of Arts

degree in History in the 2007-08 academic year. History continues Graduate Students to attract more undergraduate students and there are now approximately 400 majors and 100 history minors. Awarded Degrees

The 2008 Undergraduate History Honors Program students were Ph.D. Degrees recently honored at a luncheon at the Faculty Club. The annual Rappaport Prize was awarded at the luncheon to honor’s student, Jeremy Brown (Chinese History) Christopher Eichstedt, with honorable mention to Michael Thesis: Crossing the Rural-Urban Divide in Twentieth-Century China Hirshman. Ellen Huang (Chinese History) The Rappaport Prize is presented to the best history essay or thesis Thesis: China's china: Jingdezhen Porcelain and written each year. The Rappaport Prize originated from a memorial the Production of Art in the Nineteenth Century fund established in 1983 for an early member of the UCSD history Matthew Johnson (Chinese History) department, Prof. Armin Rappaport. Thesis: International and Wartime Origins of the The 2008 Undergraduate History Honors Program students, include: Propaganda State: The Motion Picture in China,

Christopher Eichstedt: Comandante Cero: Eden Pastora and the 1897-1955

Nicaraguan Revolution Miguel La Serna (Latin American History) Michael Hirshman: The Guns of August, 1804: How the Vizcaya Thesis: The Corner of the Living: Local Power Rebellion Helped Lead Britain and Spain to War Relations and Indigenous Perceptions in

Michael Aguirre: National Views, Local Complicity, and Counter- Ayacucho, Peru, 1940-1983

Hegemony: Racialized Subject Formation of Ethnic Mexicans in the Ana Varela-Lago (European History) Imperial Valley, 1915-1928 Thesis: Conquerors, Immigrants, Exiles: The Ryan Archibald: Cuba, Identity, and the Micropolitics of Travel Spanish Diaspora in the United States, 1848- Zachary Brown: Umbanda and the Question of National Identity 1948 Rachael Curtis: A Struggle for National Self-Determination Elya Zhang (Chinese History) Kyle Ellis: Celestial Fire: The History of an Unusual Debate About the Thesis: Spider Manchu: Duanfang as Networkers Great Comet of 1680 and Spindoctor of the Late Qing New Policies, Amanda Kreitenberg-Tasker: The Exploration of a Psychological 1901-1911 Phenomenon through Oral Testimony

Daniel Kurowski: The Struggle of Gender and Homosexuality in M.A. Degrees Berlin, 1871-1933 Emily Lee and Anne Marino Jaclyn Snow: Political Implications of Taglit-Bithr ight for American Politics

Travis Weinger: Getting it Right in the Persian G ulf: The Genesis of

the Omani-American Security Relationship

Sarah Zaides: The Sword and the Spear: Power, Discourse, and Phi Al pha Theta Initiates Israel's New History New UCSD Members

Six UCSD History students were recently initiated

History Student Wins Undergraduate into the Phi Alpha Theta, an American honor society for undergraduate students, graduate students, and Library Research Prize professors of history. There are over 800 local

Michael Hirshman, a History Honors student under the guidance of chapters of Phi Alpha Theta nationwide.

Prof. Cynthia Truant, has been selected for the second place prize of Undergraduate stu dents must have a 3.0 overall $500 in the Social Sciences/Humanities/Arts cate gory of the 2008 grade point average, at least a 3.1 in their history UCSD Undergraduate Library Research Prize. courses, and be in the top 35% of their class.

The award committee stated, “Michael Hirshman’ s undergraduate New UCSD Phi Alpha Theta members include: research project, entitled The Guns of August, 1804: How the Vizcaya Rebellion Helped Lead Britain and Spain to War, is a publishable Alexandra Doll Jennifer Wang piece of scholarship that incorporates a significant examination of over Christopher Eichstedt Jackie Yu 100 primary, archival documents from the year 1804 with a thorough Justin Wales Sarah Zaides

review and analysis of secondary materials.” Congratulations!

Jeremy Brown has accepted an Conflict Thesis" in Science and Religion: Warming, and the Social Deconstruction of appointment as assistant professor of Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,” Scientific Knowledge,” was published in modern Chinese history at Simon Fraser and "Esad Efendi, Ibrahim Muteferrika und Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences University in Vancouver. His dissertation, Friedrich Bachstrom: Ein istanbuler (2008), co-edited by Naomi Oreskes and Erik “Crossing the Rural-Urban Divide in Gelehrtenkreis zwischen islamischer Conway. In addition, Shindell’s review of Twentieth-Century China,” won the Jean Fort Tradition und 'europaeische Wissenschaften' David A. Weintraub's book, Is Pluto a Planet? Dissertation Prize, awarded at the 2008 in den 1720er Jahren." A Historical Journey through the Solar commencement ceremony. In addition, System, will be published in Isis later this Brown’s co-edited book, Dilemmas of Victory: Miguel La Serna has accepted a tenure- The Early Years of the People's Republic of track appointment at California State year. University Sacramento in modern Latin China, was published by Harvard this year. Jomo Smith, a second year Ph.D. student in American History to begin in 2009, and will Laura Harkewicz has been awarded a take up a postdoctoral appointment at the the modern Chinese history Ph.D. program, dissertation fellowship from the Science and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in has been awarded a multi-year Jacob Javits Society Program of the National Science 2008-2009. La Serna’s dissertation is Fellowship to fund his graduate studies. Foundation. Harkewicz's dissertation project entitled, “The Corner of the Living: Local is, "The Bravo Medical Program: Radiation Power Relations and Indigenous Perceptions George Solt has accepted a tenure-track Standards, Scientific Uncertainty, and the in Ayacucho, Peru, 1940-1983.” appointment in the Departments of History Legacy of the Cold War, 1954 – Present.” and East Asian Studies at New York Michael Lettieri was the co-winner of the University. His dissertation is entitled, “The Ellen Huang has accepted a two-year UC 2007 H. Stuart Hughes Prize for the best Politics of Ramen: Food, Labor, and Berkeley Chancellor's Postdoctoral graduate seminar paper, “The Wheels of Everyday Life in Modern Japan.” Fellowship in the Department of Art History. Government: Camioneros and Political Her dissertation is “China's china: Culture in Twentieth-Century Mexico.” James Tracy has won the 2008 UCSD Jingdezhen Porcelain and the Production of Student Book Collection Competition Art in the Nineteenth Century.” Kate McDonald has been awarded sponsored by the UCSD Libraries. Tracy fellowships from the Fulbright IIE and the UC won for his collection of and essay on Justin Jacobs published "How Chinese Pacific Rim Foundation to conduct “Darwinism, Evolution, and Religion.” Turkestan Became Chinese: Visualizing dissertation research in Japan during the Zhang Zhizhong's 'Tianshan Pictorial' and 2008-09 and 2009-10 academic years. Kazuyo Tsuchiya”s recent paper, Xinjiang Youth Song and Dance Troupe," in Jimmy Patino has been awarded several “Transnational Struggles over Citizenship: Journal of Asian Studies (May 2008). Justin Translating Black Theology into Korean was the co-winner of the department's 2007 2008-09 fellowships, including the Kenneth and Dorothy Hill Fellowship in the UCSD Activism in Japan, 1969-1974,” which she H. Stuart Hughes Prize for the best graduate presented at the American Studies seminar paper, "Confronting Indiana Jones: Special Collections, the UCSD California The Chinese Conquest of Sir Aurel Stein and Cultures in Comparative Perspective Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, the Raiders of Dunhuang, 1900-1944." He Fellowship, a UC Humanities Research was selected for honorable mention by the also presented two papers at international Institute Travel Grant, and a Historical ASA’s Standing Committee on Ethnic conferences in Budapest (on Aurel Stein) and Studies. Society of Southern California Haynes in Istanbul (on Osman Batur). Research Grant. Ana Varela Lago has accepted a three-year

Matthew Johnson has accepted a two-year Jesus Perez Varela is the recipient of the Lecturer appointment to teach European and position as Departmental Lecturer in the 2008-09 President’s Dissertation Year World History at Northern Arizona University History and Politics of Modern China at the Diversity Fellowship, awarded to promising in Flagstaff. Her dissertation is “Conquerors, University of Oxford. His dissertation is students in the final stages of their doctoral Immigrants, Exiles: The Spanish Diaspora in entitled "International and Wartime Origins of work who demonstrate strong potential for the United States (1848-1948).” the Propaganda State: The Motion Picture in China, 1897-1955." In addition, in August university teaching and research. He was Todd Welker was awarded the Gunther 2008 he co-chaired an international also selected to participate in the UCSD Barth Research Fellowship from the Bancroft conference sponsored by The Journal of Summer Graduate Teaching Library at UC Berkeley. Chinese Cinemas on "Exhibiting Chinese Fellows Program. Cinemas in the World." Chris Wisniewski has been awarded a 2008 Sjahari Pullom was awarded a fellowship UC MEXUS Dissertation Research Grant for Ben Jordan, currently a Lecturer in the from the Waitt Foundation and is currently archival work in Mexico, Spain, and Rome. Kenyon College History Department, recently conducting research in India. Chris’s dissertation is entitled, “Changing accepted the Johnston Visiting Professorship Bradley Root was awarded a Waitt Habits: Franciscan Adaptations in Mexico, in Gender Studies and Environmental 1763-1859.” Studies at Whitman College in eastern Foundation Fellowship to visit archeological Washington. sites and complete writing his dissertation on Elya Zhang has accepted a tenure track “Galilean Society Under Herod’s assistant professorship in Modern East Asian Jessica Jordan, a second year Ph.D. Successors.” History at Fordham University to begin in student in Japanese history, has been awarded a multi-year Jacob Javits Fellowship Nick Saenz has been elected President of 2009 and will take a postdoctoral to fund her graduate studies. the UCSD Graduate Student Association appointment at the Fairbank Center for East (GSA) in 2008-09. Asian Research at Harvard University in Harun Küçük has received a Council of 2008-09 to work on her project, “Spider European Studies Fellowship for research at Matt Shindell’s article "From Chicken Little Manchu: Duanfang as Networkers and the British Library at London. He has two to Dr. Pangloss: William Nierenberg, Global Spindoctor of the Late Qing New Policies, articles in press: "Islam, Christianity and the 1901-1911."

Luis Alvarez’s first book, The Power of the Cathy Gere has been named a recipient of Zoot: Identity and Resistance in US Youth the 2008-09 Hellman Faculty Fellows Award. Culture during World War II, was published in Funded by Chris and Warren Hellman, the June 2008 by the University of California Hellman Faculty Fellows Awards are given to Press. In addition, Alvarez was recently support the research and creative activities promoted to associate professor with tenure. of promising assistant professors that show capacity for great distinction in their work. Takashi Fujitani has just concluded three years of service on the Stanford Humanities Mark G. Hanna, who joined the department Center Board and began service on the Japan this past year, is taking a two-year National Advisory Board, Social Science Research Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral Council. In addition, Fujitani’s article, “Right to fellowship at the Omohundo Institute of Early American History and Culture. Kill, Right to Make Live: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans During WWII,” Deborah Hertz’s book, How Jews Became was published in Representations (Summer Germans: The History of Conversion and 2007). The Korean language version of this Assimilation in Berlin appeared November article appeared in Asea yo˘n’gu (2008). Also, 2007 with Yale University Press. Reviews Fujitani gave three talks at Colorado State so far include Weekly Standard, Moment University as the annual Norman Furniss Magazine and other venues. Hertz’s book Lecturer and the keynote seminar at UC, reading at DJ Wills Books in La Jolla Santa Cruz held in conjunction with the Asia resulted in a UCSD TV/you-tube online video Pacific Research Cluster Graduate Student clip. In addition, Hertz gave academic talks Conference. In addition, two new books at Princeton University, San Diego State, appeared in the series he edits called Asia and the University of Freiburg conference on Pacific Modern (UC Press). Crypto Religions.

Thomas W. Gallant joined the History In addition, Hertz recently founded the Department in July 2007 as the holder of the Holocaust Living History Workshop, which Nicholas Family Chair in Modern Greek brings local survivors and students together History. Over the course of this academic to use the Shoah Foundation’s Visual year, he wrote and had accepted for History Archive, a database of 52,000 video publication the following articles: “When ‘men interviews with survivors. Future plans of honour’ met ‘men of law’: violence, the include expansion to serve three high unwritten law and modern justice,” in E. schools in 08-09. Avdela, S. d’Cruze and J. Rowbotham, (eds.), Crime, Violence and the Modern State: Judith M. Hughes’s book, Guilt and Its Greece and Western Europe (forthcoming, Vicissitudes: Psychoanalytic Reflections on 2008); and “Tales from the Dark Side: Morality, was published in 2008.

Transnational Migration, the Underworld and Christine Hunefeldt, who has just served in the ‘Other’ Greeks of the Diaspora,” in Dimitris her third year as CILAS directora, has Tziovas (ed.), Greek Diaspora and Migration recently helped organize the first ERIP- (2008). LASA conference at UCSD with 300

In addition, Gallant continued as book review participants. From last year's annual editor of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies, conference an edited volume (together with editor of the Edinburgh University Press’s colleague Misha Kokotovic) is in press series History of the Greek People, and he "Power, Culture, and Violence," with Sussex agreed to edit the Routledge History of the Academic Press. New research includes The Mediterranean World; he also signed a Amazon Basin Over Time, or the Timeliness contract with Princeton University Press for the of the Amazon.

publication of his next book, Murder on Black Rachel Klein has been awarded a Mountain: Love and Death on a Nineteenth Huntington Library Fellowship. Century Greek Island.

Weijing Lu’s first book, True to Her a volume he co-edited with his Ph.D. Word The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late student Jeremy Brown. Dilemmas of Dr. Nancy Kwak Appointed Imperial China, was published by Victory features the work of several Stanford U. Press in 2008. In addition, Lu UCSD scholars. Pickowicz and Joseph New Assistant Professor was recently promoted to associate Esherick have chapters in the books, as professor with tenure. Lu has also been do a number of young faculty who awarded a U.C. President's Fellowship. earned the Ph.D. in UCSD's modern Chinese history program: Jeremy Brown Alden Mosshammer, Professor (now at Simon Fraser Univ.), Christian Emeritus, has completed a new book, Hess (now at the Univ. of Warwick), scheduled for publication in December Sigrid Schmalzer (now at the Univ. of 2008 by Oxford University Press. Under Massachusetts), and Douglas Stiffler the title "The Easter Computus and the (now at Juniata College). Origins of the Christian Era," the book offers a new history of the Easter Jeremy Prestholdt’s first book, calculations of the early Christian church Domesticating the World: African The History Department is pleased to between the second and the seventh Consumerism and the Genealogies of announce the appointment of Nancy Kwak century and a new hypothesis about the Globalization, has been published by the as Assistant Professor of History and origin of the system of numbering the University of California Press in 2008. Urban Studies and Planning. Dr. Kwak years from the birth of Christ. Also, Presthold was recently promoted to received her Ph.D. in International Urban Mosshammer was also an invited associate professor with tenure. History from Columbia University in 2006 speaker at the 2nd International and has taught the last two years as an Conference on the Science of Computus David Ringrose, Professor Emeritus, has been elected as a Corresponding Assistant Professor of the History of in Galway (Ireland) in July 2008, where Globalization at Polytechnic University in he presented a paper on "The Computus Member of the Real Academia de la Historia. The Spanish Royal Academy of New York City. of 455 and the Laterculus of Augustalis, with an Appendix on the Fractional History was founded in 1738 and Dr. Kwak’s dissertation, “A Citizen’s Right remains Spain's premier scholarly Method of Agriustia." He and his wife to Decent Shelter: Public Housing in New academy in history. There are currently now reside in Prescott, Arizona. York, London, and Singapore 1945-1970,” 370 Corresponding Members of the Naomi Oreskes has been named the Academy. Ringrose is the 15th U.S. explores the history of urban planning and new Provost of UCSD’s Sixth College. In citizen so honored. public housing policy by comparing and addition, Oreskes was awarded the contrasting patterns in postwar 2007-08 Chancellor's Associates Faculty Sarah Schneewind has edited a urbanization and public housing in New Excellence Award in Community Service, collection of 20 essays reassessing the York City, London, and Singapore. She especially for her work both academic impact of the Ming dynastic founder on a combines transnational and comparative and in the public sphere on global wide variety of fields, from politics to art research in her studies of urbanization, climate change. Oreskes was also and drama, and in a number of countries. “globalization,” and planning by focusing “Long Live the Emperor! Uses of the elected as a Fellow of the American on the exchange that occurred between Association for the Advancement of Ming Founder across Six Centuries of East Asian History” was published in urban planners, architects, Science. businesspeople, and bureaucrats in the 2008 by the Society for Ming Studies. Michael Parrish will be on leave in period after World War II. She also has 2008-09 as director of the UC Education Eric Van Young has been elected a begun work on a second project that Abroad Program in Edinburgh, Scotland. Corresponding Member of the Mexican examines the role of American non- Academy of Sciences. There are governmental organizations in shaping Paul G. Pickowicz convened the UCSD- currently 1,976 members in the postwar urban development plans in Cornell University Modern Chinese Academy, and only 71 foreign Korea, Taiwan, and Japan through archival History Graduate Student Research Corresponding members. Van Young research in the Korean National Archives, Conference on the UCSD campus in continues to serve as Interim Dean of the summer 2007. Seventeen grad student Division of Arts and Humanities through the United Nations, the Rockefeller research papers were presented; faculty December 2008. Foundation, and the World Health Organization. discussants included Sherman Cochran and Chen Jian (Cornell) and Joseph Daniel Widener has been named a recipient of the 2008-09 Hellman Faculty At UCSD Dr. Kwak will teach courses on Esherick, Lu Weijing, and Sarah U.S. Urban History, International Urban Schneewind (USCD). A conference Fellows Award. Funded by Chris and Warren Hellman, the Hellman Faculty History, and the Sustainable Urban volume is now in the works. Pickowicz Environment in the History Department also published Dilemmas of Victory: The Fellows Awards are given to support the and the Program in Urban Studies and Early Years of the People's Republic of research and creative activities of China (Harvard University Press, 2007), promising assistant professors that show Planning. capacity for great distinction in their work.

Alejandra Ruiz Retires Depa rtment Welcomes New

After 38 Years at UCSD Staff Members

The departm ent welcomed several new staff

members during the 2007-08 academic year.

Jacqueline G riffin has joined the department as the new Chief Administrative Officer. Jackie

worked in the History Department as our fiscal officer from 1 984-1989, and she served as the founding MS O in UCSD's Department of Ethnic Studies for th e past 18 years. She brings a wealth of experience and dedication in all management areas.

Susan Berna l has a long and varied student Alejandra Ruiz first came to UCSD 42 years ago Jacqueline Griffin affairs backg round and has focused for the past as a freshman in 1966 and graduated with a B.A. 15 years at U CSD on student affairs issues and in French Literature in 1970. Upon her experiences related to diversity. She began graduation, she began to work in the UCSD advising with the Division of Biology and then Library, to begin a 38-year career as a dedicated moved to the School of Medicine to serve as the UCSD staff employee. Alex was discovered Assistant Dir ector of Student Affairs. Previous to there by then History Department Chair Ramon joining the De partment of History, she was the Ruiz and she subsequently moved up through a Student Affai rs Manager of the Education Studies number of staff positions in the department to Program and played a large role in the become the History Department’s Management implementati on of the Doctorate of Education Service Officer in 1978, the position from which (Ed.D) as we ll as the admission of the inaugural she retired now 30 years later. cohorts to tha t degree program.

Alex’s university service is legion and legendary, Kimberly Bondad joined the department in fall

as she has been sought for her knowledge and 2007 as the new CAESAR Program Coordinator

advice on policies, procedures, and practices. and Fiscal Assistant. Kimberly graduated from

She was Chair of the Chancellor’s Inauguration UCSD in 2005. She was previously employed at Committee, twice served on search committees Susan Bernal California IGCS, a non-profit trade association, for new Vice-Chancellors of Academic Affairs, and Nordstro m.

has been a staff consultant to the Program

Review Committee, served on many Chancellor’s Amber Rieder is our new Undergraduate Student

Advisory Committees and many committees of Affairs Officer. She has been with UCSD for over

the campus Staff Association. In 1982, Alex 10 years and has worked in the Education Studies

became a member of the UCSD Hispanic Department as well as Scripps Institution of

Women’s Group and has often consulted on job Oceanography.

placements, job mobility, job applications, and job Mónica Rodriquez was recently hired as the new

interviews. Alex was acknowledged for her Chinese Studies Program Coordinator. Mónica

“gracious demeanor, vast institutional experience, started her career at UCSD as an undergraduate

impressive wisdom, tact, and diplomacy” in 1999 and earned her degree in Ethnic Studies with a

as the fifth recipient of UCSD’s highest staff minor in Chicano Literature and specialization in

award, the Betsy Faught Award Honoring Southwest Studies. Over the years, Mónica has

Excellence in Academic Program Management. worked at the Jacobs School of Engineering,

Extended Studies and the Warren Writing For those of us who know Alex, however, we Program. In addition to helping the Chinese know her best for h er unusual ability and Kimberly Bondad Studies Program run smoothly she hopes to personal touch as a manager and supervisor in making each of us feel special. Alex is much improve her Mandarin speaking skills.

more than a font of knowledge and institutional Maissha Stewart is our new Main Officer memory, problem-s olver and trouble-shooter Administrator. Previously, Maissha served as an extraordinaire, but a bove all, a confidante and Executive Assistant at a number of San Diego friend. firms, as well as to serve as the Sr. Secretary for the City of Glendale in Glendale, Arizona.

Prof. D avid L uft Re tires David Noel Freedman (1922 – 2008) Cont’d fr om p. 1

Prof. Lu ft has pub lished nu merous articles a nd reviews on Mode rn Europ ean Intell ectual an d Cultural History, Austrian and Habsburg History, Central European History, Comparative European Literature, German Politics and Culture, Historiography and Historical Theory.

Since his arrival in 1972, Luft has been a dedicated teacher in the Revelle College Humanities Program, with what is now Humanities 5: Modern Culture (1848-Present) his signature course. He promptly received the

Revelle College Excellence in Teaching Award in On April 8, 2008, our colleague and friend David Noel Freedman, 1975. Promoted to Associate Professor in 1979, Professor of History and Judaic Studies, died at the home of his he continued to excel in teaching and was son David and daughter-in-law Genevieve in Petaluma, awarded the Revelle College Excellence in California. He was 85 years old and had continued to co-teach his Teaching Award a second time in 1983, the biblical seminar with Prof. William Propp through winter quarter Chancellor’s Associates Award for Excellence in via video-conferencing. Teaching in 1985, and the UCSD Alumni Distinguished Professor Award in 1986. Time and space do not allow us to detail Dr. Freedman’s 60-year Promoted to Professor in 1990, David scholarly career; and if it were physically possible to name the has directed or co-directed 13 Ph.D.’s in History; titles of his 470 co-authored or edited books and articles in one served as a member on an additional 10 Ph.D. second each, it would take 10 full minutes without coming up for dissertation defense committees, and received air and taking a breath. The sheer magnitude of his scholarly the UCSD Academic Senate Distinguished production is difficult to grasp and the juxtaposition of the quantity Teaching Award in 2003. David taught his final of Freedman’s work with its extraordinary quality is perfectly quarter of Revelle Humanities 5 this spring. captured in the quotation by John R. Huddlestun from his two- David Luft has been an indefatigable servant in volume edition of Freedman’s selected writings: “To survey the the History Department, Revelle College, the writings of David Noel Freedman is tantamount to reviewing the Academic Senate, and UCSD at large. Notably, history and development of nearly every facet of American biblical he has served as Chair of four Academic Senate scholarship following the Second World War….The creativity and Committees (Research, CEP, Graduate Council, originality of his many contributions are exceeded only by their and Privilege and Tenure) as well as most prodigious number.” (John R. Huddlestun, ed., “Editor’s recently serving on the Senate Council and as the Introduction,” Divine Commitment and Human Obligation: UCSD Representative to UC Systemwide Selected Writings of David Noel Freedman, 2 vols. [1997].) Assembly of the Academic Senate, 2005-2007. In the profession, he has been serving as To know Dr. Freedman was to know that his life was consumed Executive Secretary of the Society for Austrian by his scholarship. We like to apply to Freedman a quotation said and Habsburg History, 2006-2008; as a Member of Averell Harriman, whose long career in American politics had of the Hans Rosenberg Article Prize Committee in him chief negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam at age Central European History for 2007-2008; as a 78 and active through his 80s as Chairman of the Democratic Member of the Executive Committee of the National Committee’s Foreign Policy Task Force, “It’s not unusual Society for Austrian and Habsburg History, 2005- for a man in his 80s to be as active and intellectually acute, what 2008; and on the editorial boards of the Austrian is unusual is that he was still ambitious.” So with Dr. Freedman, History Yearbook and German Quarterly. who would proudly recount this year’s list of completed books for We truly wish Prof. Luft well in his new position at the Anchor Bible Commentary Series and Reference Library. All Oregon State. We will all miss his exemplary this work continues and lives on through the over 1,000 engagement with all aspects of the academic life: scholars—representing Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, scholarship, teaching, and service. One can secular, and other traditions—who have now contributed to the barely summarize his innumerable contributions project, and the millions of readers who own and read it. to the Department and to UCSD.

Alumni -- - Chair’s Column -

S tay Connected! Cont’d from p. 1 Prof. Mark Hanna is rereading for the fifth This coming year the Department will be time Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe and Un dergraduate and searching to recruit new colleagues in the history Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift for an Graduate Alumni -- we want of Ancient Greece, Korea, and U.S. economy or article about early visions of empire. to hear from you! Please labor. The Department continues to have strong co mplete our online Alumni Prof. Deborah Hertz is reading a teach- Information Update form and graduate programs in the history of the Ancient yourself Yiddish textbook and Katherine Anne tel l us what you are up to. Near East, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, Porter's Ship of Fools. Fin d the form at: Science, and the United States, and has initiated Prof. Christine Hunefeldt’s current readings http://historyweb.ucsd.edu/pages/ a new field in the history of the Middle East. mostly pertaining to early (18th century) alu mni/alumni_update.html I hope that you find the information in the scientific and missionary expeditions into the

newsletter of interest about past, present, and Amazon. future people and events. We wish not only to Prof. Michael Parrish is reading, Havanas in remember what we’ve been doing, but to engage Camelot: Personal Essays by William Styron, alumni and friends in the continuing intellectual How the Scots Invented the Modern World by mission of the Department. All of us welcome Arthur Herman, and The Nine: Inside the hearing from former students and members of the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey community to help make us better at what we do. Toobin.

Let me invite you to support some of the Prof. Paul Pickowicz recently read The Department’s continuing initiatives: the Rappaport Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh. Pickowicz says Fund for the Best Undergraduate Honor’s Thesis, this is a best selling anti-war novel published the Hughes Fund for the Best Graduate Student in Vietnam. A very different look at the Research Seminar Paper, and the Galbraith Fund Vietnam War. Full of surprises. to support faculty and student research projects. The Snake Path/ UCSD Stuart Collection Sarah Schneewind is reading The Forsyte Contributions made out to the Regents of the Saga by John Galsworthy, Essays of Elia by University of California and sent to the Charles Lamb, The Call of the Wild by Jack Ne wsletter Production Department Chair are greatly appreciated and London, On the Origin of Species by Charles Ed itor: Prof. John Marino assist us in continuing to deliver the high quality Darwin, and Down There by the Train by Kate education for which the Department is known. Coordinator: Carol Larkin Stearns.

John Marino, Chair De partment of History UC , San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0104 Students in Chinese History Course Create and Star in Their Own Films

Th is newsletter is published annually by the Department of Hist ory. To be added or A new UCSD Alumni Magazine website has Students are also organized into groups of ten rem oved from our mailing list, been created and asked to make 20-minute films that conform ple ase email (http://alumni.ucsd.edu/magazine/vol5no2/ca in thematic and aesthetic terms to movies made hist [email protected]. mpus/chopsticks.htm) to provide information in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s. Students about a department course entitled The do their own screenwriting, directing, Cultural History of Twentieth Century China cinematography, set design, and acting. During Ph one: 858.534.1996 (HIEA 133). Taught by Prof. Paul G. Pickowicz final exam week the films are screened in public E- Mail: [email protected] on a regular basis since the 1990s, this course for the first time and judged by a panel of http://historyweb.ucsd.edu explores the social and cultural landscape of experts at the Golden Chopsticks Award

metropolitan Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s. Ceremony gala, a colorful event that attracts

The main primary sources considered by parents and roommates, as well as alumni of

students are high- and low-brow works of fiction the course. The new website includes a photo

and, most important, a series of 13 silent-era gallery of the most recent Golden Chopsticks films made in Shanghai between 1921 and Award Ceremony and clips from the four films 1935. that were made during spring quarter 2008.