University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign www.history.illinois.edu Spring 2013

Performing Revolutions page 2 Letter from the Chair

It is always a pleasure to review with our alumni and friends the state of the depart­ ment and the role we play in creating and sharing knowledge through our research and teaching. History holds a unique place in the academic universe as the crossroads of the liberal arts. A history degree also positions our graduates at the crossroads of employment possibilities. We celebrate the success of our students who have leveraged their history undergraduate degrees into careers as teachers, museum curators, defense analysts, lawyers, public servants, and so much more. Our history Ph.D.s have likewise become leaders and teachers in colleges and universities and also in other pursuits including the professions of medicine and finance. I invite you to read about the achievements and successes of our current faculty and students in the pages of this newsletter. Here let me bring you up to date with some news of the department, where the academic year 2012–13 has brought tumult as well as opportunity. Gregory Hall has been undergoing major reconstruction to upgrade its heating and cooling systems, and this year the project required the majority of our faculty to vacate their offices and move to temporary quarters on Springfield Avenue. The rest of us endured eight months of dust, noise, and construction delays. Our exiles Diane Koenker returned in January to newly efficient office lighting and heating, and we are happy to welcome them back home. The department also had to face the departure of two stalwart staff members: Janet Langendorf retired in May 2012 after seventeen years of service to the department; and Elaine Sampson retired in June 2012 from her position Our faculty are as graduate secretary. We welcome Stephanie Landess to the department as Elaine’s the heart of our replacement, and we wish her the same satisfactions in serving our graduate students that her predecessors enjoyed. There was turnover in department faculty leadership as enterprise. well: I am delighted to be assisted in coordinating our curriculum by John Randolph as Director of Undergraduate Studies for 2012–14 and by Adrian Burgos, Jr. as Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Chair for 2012–14. Retirements and resignations have taken their toll on our faculty strength, and we are excited this year to be authorized to search for a new assistant professor in pre­ twentieth-century African-American history and to fill the Thomas M. Siebel Chair

Front Cover: Dessalines Ripping the White from the Flag, by Madsen Mompremier (1995), oil painting on canvas. In this highly colorful and symbolic image, the contempo­ rary Haitian painter Madsen Mompremier depicts one of the foundational moments in the Haitian Revolution: on May 18, 1803, General Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a revolution­ History @ Illinois ary hero and first President of the independent “Black Republic,” uses his saber to cut Editors: out the white stripe—symbolizing ancient monarchy—from the French tricolor flag. On Mark S. Micale the right, Dessalines’ goddaughter Catherine Flon, who is often called the Haitian Betsy Dana Rabin Ross, sews together the two remaining pieces, thereby creating Haiti’s blue and red state Designed by flag. In the background of the painting, Haitian soldiers wear French-style bicorn (or Gretchen Wieshuber two-cornered) hats and epaulettes while in the foreground a large, tropical tree refer­ Studio 2D ences the “liberty trees” of the American Revolution. Every May 18th, Haitians still celebrate le jour du drapeau as their national day of independence. Photographs by Jerry Thompson On the interconnections between the three Atlantic revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, see pp. 2–3 of the newsletter, as well as Philippe R. Girard, “Birth of a Nation: The Creation of the Haitian Flag and Haiti’s French Revolu­ tionary Heritage,” in The Journal of Haitian Studies, 15 (2009), 135–150.

2 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Contents

Performing the French in the History of Science. We will report on the results of these searches in next year’s Revolution ...... 2 History@Illinois. We know that we can make to our chosen candidates extremely attrac­ World History tive offers, which include the opportunity to work with outstanding graduate students from Below ...... 4 and to participate in the lively intellectual life centering around our reading groups and coordinated by our programming group, the planned Center for Historical Interpreta­ The Professor as Public tion. We can also offer them the opportunity to teach their specialties to history majors Historian ...... 5 and to those hundreds more who may make a history course one of the stops on their Books by Senior itinerary to their university degree. Excellent teaching and pioneering scholarship have Americanists ...... 7 always gone hand in hand in the Department of History. Mark Leff Retires . . . . . 9 Our faculty are the heart of our enterprise. They teach and inspire undergraduates. The histories they write engage reading publics of great diversity: they write for broad Faculty Promotions . . . 10 general audiences, for university and college students, and for specialists in their fields, Friends of History creating the knowledge that informs public life and academic endeavors alike. Our Update ...... 11 faculty come to the University of Illinois because here they can pursue their passion for Department of History the creation of historical knowledge, they can help transmit knowledge and train the Donors ...... 12 next generation of scholars through our vibrant graduate program, they can participate Koslofsky’s History in the lively intellectual life of a campus whose lectures, conferences, workshops, film of the Night ...... 14 series, concerts, and much more provide an abundant intellectual and cultural atmo­ sphere that rivals any university anywhere. New Faculty Hires . . . . 15 As many of you know, public support from the State of Illinois for university educa­ Kurhajec Wins Campus tion has been declining, and the difference is being made up with increased tuition and Teaching Award . . . . . 16 through private gifts. We rely now on the generosity of our alumni and friends as never Faculty Awards, before. This year, the department has launched a special campaign to create a prize for 2011–2013 ...... 17 the best undergraduate honors thesis, to be named in honor of Professor Mark Leff, a DGS Letter ...... 18 marvelous and inspiring teacher who retired in the spring of 2012. Please join Mark’s friends and colleagues in giving to the department to establish this prize. You can find Graduate Job Placements more details on pages 9–10 of this issue. and Fellowships . . . . . 20 Many of you may also know about the nationwide decline in the number of history New Graduate Class . . . 20 majors, as young people respond to current economic uncertainty by seeking training in Recent Ph.D.s Awarded . . 21 specialties they perceive to be more immediately “marketable.” Yet history, at the cross­ roads of the liberal arts, offers ideal training for life, honing skills in critical thinking, Annual Awards analysis, writing, and citizenship, and it should be in the center of a university educa­ Celebration ...... 22 tion, not on the sidelines. I am sure that many of you, graduates in history at Illinois, Undergrad Awards can testify to the value that your degree has brought to your life. Please send us your and Honors ...... 23 testimonials, and let us appreciate together the critical contribution that history educa­ Senior Honors Theses . . 23 tion makes to our public discourse. Fritzsche Investiture . . . 24 With warm wishes, Faculty Profiles . . . . . 26 Diane Emeriti Updates . . . . . 30 Alumni News ...... 32 Alumni Form ...... 33

History @ Illinois 1 Performing the French Revolution

Some things never seem to change. Take the Crowston selected a key revolutionary institu­ French Revolution. Every course in Western history tion, namely, the French National Assembly of features the French Revolution as an epic, trans­ 1790–1791, which drafted France’s first constitu­ formational event, so pivotal in fact that it typically tion. Each of the 35 undergraduates in the course serves as the hinge event between the modern and was assigned a role and became responsible for early modern worlds. researching his or her historical character and But the way the French Revolution can be making oral and written presentations intended to taught does change. Beginning in the spring semes­ persuade the other students to take their side in the ter of 2012, Associate Professor Clare Crowston issues and voting of the National Assembly. Some offered her first version of “History 349: The Age of roles were of famous, real-life characters (including Revolution, 1775–1815,” which features a dramati­ Louis XVI, the marquis de Lafayette, Maximilien cally innovative teaching practice: an eight-week Robespierre, and Georges Danton) whereas others session of historical reenactments performed by the were of groups of people, such as aristocrats, Catho­ students themselves. lic clergy, Jacobins, and members of the Parisian Chronologically, Crowston’s course extends well crowd. Each student was responsible for propos­ beyond the customary years of 1789–1795. The ing new laws from the perspective of their group forty-year span running from the 1770s to the first or faction and for debating the merits of their decades of the nineteenth century witnessed three proposals in speeches to the Assembly. Reflecting interlocking revolutionary upheavals—in British the exclusionary voting laws of the time, members North America, France, and the Caribbean island of the crowd watched the debates from the side­ of Saint-Domingue (the modern nation of Haiti). lines and had to seek informal ways to make their Together, the American, French, and Haitian revo­ opinions known, sometimes by staging impromptu lutions fundamentally and permanently changed “riots” in the streets of Paris. Issues debated in European—and indeed, world—history and left an the Assembly—such as human rights, the role of ongoing legacy of ideals and conflicts for today’s the church, the abolition of slavery, and the fate world. Crowston’s course examines the political, of the king—echoed the real legislative agenda of social, economic, and cultural aspects of these over­ the country during the early 1790s. The winning lapping revolutionary movements as well as their faction won a small bonus in their grades for major events, ideas, personalities, and outcomes. the course. Crowston also explores how fundamental “ordi­ Two years ago, while attending a conference, nary people”—such as peasants, sailors, women, Crowston had seen a poster presentation about enslaved Africans, and native Amerindians—were the experimental use of student role playing in to these revolutions. the college classroom. The idea appealed to her at The really exceptional component of the once. Eventually, she set to work drawing on course new course involves the historical reenactments. materials developed as part of the Reacting to the

2 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Past Series sponsored by Barnard College in New “normal” course; she was also York City. A particular challenge was to provide able to discover hidden talents students with enough relevant information so they and unexpected aspects of their could creatively perform their historical roles. In personalities. A nice sense of the opening weeks of the semester, she ran conven­ adventure developed in the tional lecture and discussion classes covering the course: “No one knew exactly American Revolution and the background to the what would happen each day, French Revolution. Students then received “role which was a little scary but also sheets” outlining their character’s background and exciting.” Not unexpectedly, she goals, and they read a course set of primary sources now plans to offer the course from the period. Their written assignments took the regularly. form of newspaper articles couched in the voice of And what about those their character, which were distributed by student ultimate judges, the students editors. Students had to incorporate the results of themselves? In an anonymous classroom debates into their articles as well as their questionnaire at the semester’s own research in relevant primary and secondary end, undergrads reported that sources. they enjoyed the experience So how did the trial run of History 349 go? greatly and in fact would remem­ Beginning in the Crowston acknowledges that at the outset she was ber it much better than their spring semester of uncertain about the new pedagogical approach. other courses. They commented By mid-semester, however, she was already very further that they especially liked 2012, Associate Profes- pleased with the results. The course, she concludes, getting to know their classmates was “extremely successful.” The students, she by working with them in novel sor Clare Crowston reports, were consistently much more involved with ways. Several students stated offered her first version the historical material than in any previous course that they really appreciated she had taught in her career. “The shouting and learning about these past revolu­ of “History 349: The cheering that accompanied class reenactments tions by entering into the mind­ Age of Revolution, seemed like a good sign that the students were sets and experiences of historical really engaged—as well as the almost perfect atten­ actors. 1775–1815,” which fea- dance during the performances.” To gain more It would be difficult to points in the game, a few students dressed for their imagine a better example tures a dramatically historical parts and members of the crowd sang a than Crowston’s new course of innovative teaching revolutionary song in French. what educational theorists call Crowston adds that she had many more oppor­ “active learning.” practice: an eight-week tunities to interact with the students than in a session of historical reenactments per- formed by the students themselves.

History @ Illinois 3 The Center for Historical Interpretation’s “World Histories from Below” Series, 2011–14

“World by Antoinette Burton comparative slavery, the uses of graphic history to present global experience, and pre-modern global The case for studying and teaching world history History worlds, among others. Under the able leadership of has arguably been made, but how best to go about Kathryn Oberdeck during the 2012–2013 academic from doing it is by no means self-evident. Beginning year, we focused on issues of shelter, sanitation, in 2011–12, I organized an ambitious multi-year water, and other basic services as these connect Below” project in the History Department—including a the most fundamentally local issues of life at the reading group, speaker series, a teacher’s work­ registers structural “below” to global themes of migration, shop, conferences, and visiting scholars—around exchange, and power. In our third and final year two main the question of what a “bottom-up” view of world of the project, we plan to engage in activities that history might look like: empirically, methodologi­ intentions: explore the theme of “Grassroots Histories,” a cat­ cally and pedagogically. Given the myriad interests egory we will use to address both past politics and first, a of our own faculty—which encompass cities, the environmental history. body, labor, revolution, law, war, empire, the visual, The past few years, the U of I history depart­ desire and medicine, sports, slavery, media, religion, colonial­ ment’s “World Histories from Below” initiative ism, technology, welfare, and nationalism, to name determi- has taken the feedback-loop between research and just several—this capacious theme speaks to almost teaching very seriously. In practice, this has meant nation to all of us in one way or another. developing syllabus-writing sessions for graduate As we have developed it, the rubric “World highlight students who are preparing a preliminary exami­ History from Below” registers two main intentions: nation field in Global history or who may want first, a desire and determination to highlight the the many eventually to teach world history at any curricular many micro processes by which historical events level. We have also organized teachers’ workshops micro with “global” significance have taken place—in for local and regional secondary educators to share other words, to materialize a kind of “structural processes the fruits of our labors with them and help to bring below”; and second, a commitment to enlarging cutting edge scholarship into middle and high by which the scope or scale of the terrain recognized as “the school classrooms. In addition to widely attended world” by making visible a variety of geographi­ reading groups, we mounted an “Empires from historical cal locations outside the conventional West where Below” international conference in the Spring of world-historical events with wide-ranging impact events with 2012 and organized a week-long Visiting Profes­ have happened but without registering on the sor residence by South African scholar Richard “global” conventional map of “world” history—to excavate, Pithouse during the spring semester of this in other words, a kind of “geographical below,” signifi- current year. primarily by studying histories produced in and by Thus far, we have been generously supported in cance the global south. our endeavors by the College of Liberal Arts and Clearly, what appears to be “below” both struc­ Sciences, the Office of Public Engagement, the Illi­ have taken turally and geographically depends very much on nois Program for Research in the Humanities, the where the historian speaks, looks, thinks, writes, place. Provost’s Initiative on Teaching Advancement, and and teaches from. Among the aims of this project the Friends of History. We hope to secure commit­ at the Center for Historical Interpretation, then, is ments from inside and outside the University that to explore the ways in which the centrality of our will establish the Center for Historical Interpreta­ own North American location, and the West as a tion as a permanent institution that brings together geographical/civilizational concept more generally, historical work from across the campus and that might be rethought and revised by histories beyond continues to deploy historical thinking in an effort the U.S. to examine the critical issues of the day. In the first year of the project, our faculty and For more information, including a calendar of graduate participants worked to define the possi­ upcoming events, please consult bilities and problems of the field through collective worldhistoriesfrombelow.org/ readings about global systems linked by oceans,

4 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Professor as Public Historian

In September, 2012, U of I Swanland Professor at the federal district court of History Frederick E. Hoxie was named annual level, in a case that successfully winner of the American Indian History Lifetime extended the 1965 Voting Rights Achievement Award. Hoxie’s achievement follows Act to Native Americans living decades of teaching and scholarship in the field of in Blaine County, Montana. Native American history. However, the honor also Two other cases that he advised recognizes his wide-ranging service as a public his­ occurred in south central torian, an important and highly admirable aspect Michigan during the George of his career with which many members of the W. Bush administration, when university community may be unfamiliar. Ottawa and Chippewa communi­ Public historians seek to create and shape the ties clashed with local officials study of the past for people outside of the academy. over treaty-based hunting and Increasing in prominence and prestige since the fishing rights. 1970s, the practice of public history typically Building on these experi­ takes place in settings such as museums, librar­ ences, in the early 2000s Hoxie ies, archives, and historical sites, as well as in began regularly to assist the the making of films and documentaries. Another Washington-based National Frederick E. Hoxie venue is courts and tribunals, where professionally Congress of American Indians, trained scholars bring their disciplinary expertise the leading organization for the protection and pro­ to bear on contemporary legal issues. motion of the rights of Native American peoples. Hoxie’s extra-academic work began when he Hoxie’s latest work is for a case before the Supreme was only 30 years old. Fresh out of graduate school, Court involved the Narragansett Indian Tribe of he was contacted in 1977 by the Justice Depart­ Rhode Island, which sought to enlarge its reserva­ ment under the administration of President Jimmy tion lands using a statute passed during the New Carter. In the case of Solem vs. Bartlett, the U.S. Deal. Unfortunately, in this case, only recently Supreme Court was re-evaluating the meaning settled, the Court rejected the position outlined by of several early twentieth-century laws that had Hoxie and a group of historians in their Amicus opened traditional Sioux Indian lands in South brief. Hoxie clearly has found his work in the legal Dakota for homesteading by non-Indians. Justice world to be fascinating; he notes with gratification Department lawyers had discovered Hoxie’s recent that during his lifetime Native Americans have Brandeis dissertation—an examination of early become a good deal more adept at defending their twentieth-century federal U.S.-Indian land policy rights legally and that understanding between in the western states—so they hired him. Following the two sides in most of these past disputes has additional archival research and extensive inter­ increased significantly. Not surprisingly, Hoxie views with Sioux tribal elders, Hoxie prepared and today is an affiliate faculty member of the U of I filed a detailed historical brief. It must have been College of Law. tremendously exciting for the young post-doc when Another setting for Hoxie’s public service has the high court unanimously upheld his side of the been museums. Prior to joining the Department case—with an opinion written by Justice Thurgood of History, Hoxie had served as vice-president for Marshall. research and education at Chicago’s Newberry Over the next three decades, Hoxie participated Library. Reflecting his excellent record at the in several other court cases concerning disputes Newberry, in 1990 he was appointed a Founding over the status of tribal land. The rulings have Trustee of the National Museum of the American sometimes been those for which he advocated and Indian, part of the vast Smithsonian Institution sometimes not. In the mid–1990s, he worked on complex on the Washington Mall. What a thrill­ suits that challenged, unsuccessfully, the Washing­ ing project for a scholar! On and off during the ton Red Skins’ trademark over its racially deroga­ next decade and a half, he and other trustees tory name. In the late Clinton years, he prepared were directly involved in formalizing the NMAI’s a historical portfolio and then personally testified mission, hiring the architect, overseeing the design

History @ Illinois 5 The Professor as Public Historian, continued

of the main building, setting out the permanent As if these activities weren’t enough, Hoxie has installations, and participating in the opening cer­ also chaired the Committee on Cooperation with emonies in the fall of 2004. The one professional the National Park Service of The Organization of historian on the board, his knowledge and exper­ American Historians. In this role, he and his com­ tise were particularly important at the formative mittee arrange visits by OAH members to Indian stages of the undertaking. Especially challenging, sites across the continent in order to evaluate them he recalls, was preserving the core identity of the for historic preservation and federal funding. Hoxie museum while was personally involved in evaluating programming In court rooms, museums, libraries, at power in Con­ at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monu­ gress shifted ment, in eastern Montana, a historic site previously historic sites and museum exhibitions, back and named after George Armstrong Custer and perenni­ Hoxie has succeeded in making forth between ally engaged in interpretive controversies involving Democrats white westerners and American Indians. history interesting and meaningful and Republi­ Most recently, Hoxie curated an exhibition at for great numbers of people outside cans during the Newberry Library in Chicago to commemorate the founding the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition. of academia. years. Supported by the National Endowment for the Despite Humanities and corporate sponsors, “Lewis and the controversies along the way, the final result Clark and the Indian Country” was on display for was a smashing success. The huge, bold, curvilin­ three months in Chicago before embarking on a ear building that now adorns the southeastern recently-completed five-year national tour. corner of the national Mall, in the shadow of the Beginning in the 2012–13 academic year, Hoxie U.S. Capitol, was primarily designed by Douglas is bringing his expertise to the U of I curricu­ Joseph Cardinal, a Canadian architect of Métis lum: he has designed a new course titled “Public and Blackfoot heritage. Natural light floods the History,” which will introduce undergraduates to stunning atrium space of the structure. Millions the main varieties of public history work, including of interested viewers, only a fraction of whom are memorials, museum exhibits, and documentary historians, visit the NMAI each year. A storage films. Students taking the course actually develop facility and library for scholars in nearby Suitland, collectively a public exhibition. Maryland complements the main museum. Hoxie In court rooms, museums, libraries, at historic is especially pleased that the museum maintains sites and museum exhibitions, Hoxie has suc­ regular working connections with many indigenous ceeded in making history interesting and mean­ communities across the nation, a policy he sought ingful for great numbers of people outside of to implement. academia.

6 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Senior Americanists at the Top of Their Game

Jim Barrett and Bruce Levine—two of the depart­ ment’s best-known and most accomplished his­ torians of American history—published major historical studies this past year, and both works are already attracting acclaim. Barrett’s The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multi-Ethnic City and Levine’s The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution that Transformed the South deal with wholly different subjects, but they share a key quality: both books are the work of master historians at the height of their careers who recount their stories with the knowledge and authority borne of decades of scholarly study. Did Ireland’s immigrants to the U.S. create the American multi-ethnic city of today? Not singlehandedly, of course. But Barrett’s Irish Way makes a compelling case for the Irish not only as the most important and prominent of immigrants Bruce Levine and Jim Barrett but as “America’s first ethnic group” that charted a course later followed successfully by countless any viewer of Martin Scorsese’s 2002 filmGangs other immigrant groups. Published in the highly of New York will remember, nineteenth-century respected Penguin History of American Life Series, immigrant groups were often quite inhospitable Barrett’s study centers intensively on the historical to one another, especially when burgeoning ethnic experiences of Chicago and New York City, with ghettoes abutted one another. There was fierce occasional collateral consideration of Boston, Phil­ competition for jobs and living space when new adelphia, and some smaller cities; his chronology waves of immigrants arrived in the late 1800s from focuses on the so-called heroic decades of American Eastern Europe, to say nothing of African Ameri­ immigration, meaning the late nineteenth and cans moving up from the South. Among the urban early twentieth centuries. Irish, anti-Chinese, anti-Italian, and anti-black Barrett offers readers detailed accounts of Irish racism was rife. urban transplants in a fascinating series of set­ But Barrett’s book relates a remarkable trans­ tings: streets, workplaces, churches, union halls, formation. As his subtitle indicates, out of this and—perhaps most unexpectedly—on the vaudeville volatile, stage. In their early years in America, when poverty ever-changing and stigmatization were greatest, the Catholic constella­ religion served as the prime means of cohesion for tion emerged Did Ireland’s immigrants immigrant Irish communities. With time, though, the modern to the U.S. create the came assimilation, respectability, and eventually multi-ethnic power. Barrett brings out Irish success in particu­ city. Rein­ American multi-ethnic lar arenas, like fire and police departments, on forcing and city of today? the docks, in the sports of boxing and baseball, in countervailing certain types of popular entertainment, in railroad tendencies work, and, of course, eventually in Democratic prompted the Party city politics, where evermore assimilated Irish Irish to tolerate, then accommodate, and eventu­ men competed with rightwing nativists to became ally work closely with one new immigrant group a dominant political force. Irish immigrant women after another. Some of the author’s most affecting found opportunities to move up the social ladder in pages document the growing number of ethnic the fields of teaching and nursing. intermarriages, especially of Irish men with Polish Despite the author’s affection for this process, and Italian women, with whom they shared a Barrett does not idealize his historical subjects. As Catholic background, but also with Jewish women.

History @ Illinois 7 Senior Americanists, continued

Ethnic images in songs and in jokes as well as on any number of their illusions: that slaves were stage and screen stereotyped all these groups but contented and would remain “faithful” to their diffused animosities as mixed audiences laughed masters; that southern whites would remain united, together at their own foibles. Furthermore, in a that cotton would dictate terms to both Europe and number of reformist crusades—foremostly, the the North, that the North would not and could not movements for workers’ and women’s rights in the fight, that God smiled upon slavery and would give early decades of the new century—the Irish, Ital­ the slave owners victory. As the war toll mounted, ians, and Jews worked together to became a formi­ many poorer non-plantation whites who did not dable force. Not least, the ascent to middle-class own slaves resented fighting what they saw as a status over the generations became a shared force slaveholders’ battle. The war’s stresses and strains of “Americanization.” also created tensions between the Richmond gov­ In our nation’s history between the Civil War ernment and the plantation-owning economic elite and World War II, this is one of the most important over aspects of war policy. And as Union armies and memorable stories: a group of overwhelmingly marched deeper and wider into Confederate ter­ rural people ritories, slaves in increasing numbers abandoned escaped a life plantations, escaped to Union lines, went to work in of material support of the Union war effort and in many cases The increasingly costly impoverish­ joined the Union armies as soldiers. and bloody conflict ment and Drawing heavily upon personal letters, journals, political recollections, and diaries—including those written shattered any number of oppression by whites and blacks, the free and the enslaved, their illusions. in Western civilians and soldiers, men and women, and pro- Europe and in and anti-war white southerners—Levine is able to half a century recreate a sense of these epic changes as experi­ rose to wealth enced by many “average” people living at the time and power in the urban centers of the American of the conflict 150 years ago. northeast and midwest. Barrett’s Irish Way gives us Nineteenth-century America was one of the this classic story told classically. great slave-owning societies of modern history, and Bruce Levine’s Fall of the House of Dixie Levine argues for slavery’s primacy in understand­ transports readers to an earlier generation when ing the war. The disintegration of southern rural Americans were at war—with one another. The plantation culture brought the freeing of four Civil War of 1861-1865 remains probably the most million enslaved blacks. It was two years into the pivotal in all of U.S. history, and a huge number war, he emphasizes, before President Lincoln and of books have been written about it. Levine, the J. Union policy makers reached the historic conclu­ G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History at sion that this war of secession could not be won the U of I, looks at this war from an unusual angle, without dismantling slavery itself. To Levine, this highlighting the political and social revolution that change in the Union’s war policy and its conse­ lay at its heart—the overthrow of the centuries-old quences points to a compelling irony at the heart system of human slavery and the destruction of the of the Confederate experience: by attempting to world that rested upon that system. break away from the United States and create an Early in his narrative, Levine compares the old independent slave empire, slave owners acceler­ South’s disintegration to Edgar Allan Poe’s famous ated the very things they sought most desperately short story “The Fall of the House of Usher,” in to prevent: wholesale emancipation and the end of which microscopic cracks in the mansion’s founda­ their pre-war form of society. tion gradually widen until the building implodes. Barrett’s and Levine’s books are deeply schol­ Levine shows how, under the blows of Union arly yet highly readable, judicious in analysis and armies, the political, social, and economic divi­ interpretation, and they relate stories of profound sions within the South steadily widened, in ways human interest about the national past. We can be unanticipated by Confederate leaders. The increas­ proud that both are products of the U of I Depart­ ingly costly and bloody conflict eventually shattered ment of History.

8 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Mark Leff, Beloved Teacher-Mentor, Retires

It is common at retirement parties for celebrants to claim that the guest of honor will be sorely missed and that colleagues can’t imagine the daily work­ place without them. What happens, though, when these clichés are actually true? This was the dilemma one Saturday afternoon in early May of last year when historian Mark Leff brought to a close a 27-year career of superla­ tive university service. Mark’s stepping down last spring elicited an outpouring of testimonials—from friends, colleagues, and graduate and college stu­ dents past and present. The accolades highlighted his signature contributions and distinctive style. People invariably talk first about Mark’s teach­ ing. He was a remarkably dedicated teacher and an especially gifted undergraduate lecturer. Year after year, he filled the largest lecture halls on the uni­ versity quad with students who actually wanted to come to class. When asked why they became history majors, many with a concentration in American history said it was because of Mark’s courses. Former Teaching Assistants Kwame Holmes and hone an argument, examine an assumption, or Year after Tom Mackaman note that grad students sought strengthen an interpretation. At each stage of their to be assigned to his General Education courses, education, he did everything in his power to help year, he specifically to observe his teaching first hand. His his doctoral students advance. He was renowned filled the concern with fair grading, with TA workloads, and for treating them like colleagues-to-be, rather with supervising first-time TAs was especially well- than underlings in training. Former student Bui largest known. Above all, there were the famous lectures: Long calls Mark “an example of the ideal profes­ one lecture—on the interconnections between The sor.” Others, after completing the program, report lecture Wizard of Oz and the Great Depression—was voted, that Mark remains their most important model halls by the students themselves, the best undergradu­ as they launch their own careers in the academic ate lecture of 2004; another examined the role of profession. on the chewing gum in America’s waging of World War If this weren’t enough, Mark was also an out­ university II and the Cold War. Little wonder that Mark standing citizen—a citizen, that is, of the depart­ won every available teaching prize on campus ment, LAS, the University, the history profession, quad with and beyond. and the nation simultaneously. Year after year, Teaching on the college and the graduate he worked tirelessly to promote the Department students levels requires significantly different skills, and it’s of History, its most important needs and priori­ who unusual to find a professor who is equally talented ties. Former Chair and close friend Jim Barrett in both pedagogical worlds. On this score, too, Mark characterizes Mark as “the heart and soul of our actually was an exception. His graduate students adore him. scholarly community.” In the lecture hall, at a com­ Whether in seminar discussions, or commenting on mittee roundtable, or in casual hallway conversa­ wanted to dissertation chapters in draft, or observing a prac­ tion, Mark’s commitment to fairness and justice come to tice job talk, Mark regularly combined great care in all life arenas—from the local to the global, and and generosity with honest, penetrating critique. whether historical or contemporary—was power­ class. Low key but probing, he would intervene with fully evident. His convocation speech to last year’s grad students to help them buttress their evidence, History graduating class was not just a brilliant

History @ Illinois 9 Mark Leff, Beloved Teacher-Mentor, Retires, continued

farewell but an example of Mark’s insistence on this collection of qualities as a At each connecting history, citizenship, and democracy. No great teacher/mentor/colleague/ matter how critical or cynical the national dis­ citizen is unusual enough. stage course, Mark Perhaps the final aspect of of their never lost faith the Leff legacy, however, is his Help Continue the in the fight for personal style. With these other education, Mark Leff Tradition social justice virtues he combined wit, a wryly through a rea­ self-deprecating demeanor, and he did We invite you to join us in our effort to forever soned political what Julilly Kohler-Hausmann— everything honor Professor Mark Leff’s career and con­ and ethical another former dissertation tributions to history education at Illinois. As process. Like­ student, who is currently an in his a tribute to his incomparable dedication to wise, even in assistant professor at Cornell— power to his students, we are designating the annual dark financial aptly called Mark’s “almost irra­ prize for the Outstanding Honors Thesis in times, he tional humility.” In a profession help his his name. Recognizing our honors students’ knew that the so motivated by ambition and work in Professor Leff’s name will continue U of I was part careerism, this is indeed rare. doctoral the tradition that he established during his of what was At the retirement party students career at Illinois. Please help us reach our best about last May, as one speaker after total goal of $25,000 to honor Professor Leff the Ameri­ another rose to reminisce, it was advance. by making a gift today through our website: can national difficult not to sound hyper­ www.history.illinois.edu/giving/ or with the heritage. bolic about the guest of honor. But to do otherwise form included in this newsletter. Thank you That Mark would be to violate the historian’s core obligation for your interest and support. managed, to tell the truth as objectively as possible. All things over nearly considered, it was easy to state what has made three decades, Mark Leff exceptional at the U of I. It is impossible, to combine however, to convey how much we will miss him.

Recent Faculty Promotions

Eugene Avrutin, Associate Professor of History Modern European Jewish History, Russian Empire, Legal History Adrian Burgos, Professor of History U.S. Latino History, Sport History, Urban History, African American History Craig Koslofsky, Professor of History The Early Modern World (1500–1800), Early Modern Europe, the Reformation, the History of Everyday Life Megan McLaughlin, Professor of History, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Medieval Studies Medieval European social and religious history, the history of women and gender

10 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Friends of History Update by Janet C ornelius the entertainment world of the time. Jim Barrett has been an active participant in the founding and The Friends of History (FOH) have had a gratifying organization of the Friends of History, so his choice and productive year! We continued to work closely was particularly appropriate. with the Department of History to give support to Jim’s FOH Lecture was history students and to assist the Department. As a To further increase our preceded by a graduate research result, we have been able to continue to build rela­ colloquium, a great success support for students tionships with the Department and with students. for the way that the work of In April, during History Weekend at the Uni­ and to honor a worthy advanced graduate students was versity of Illinois, we attended the Honors Collo­ showcased. As a representative professor, the Friends quium, an engrossing presentation and discussion from the FOH board, I found of the honors theses prepared by undergradu­ it inspiring to see the innova­ of History initiated a ate seniors in the history program. The Awards tive and relevant topics and the program for both undergraduate and graduate prize for the best under- impressive accomplishments by students followed, and we then had a chance to the hard-working students. The graduate honors thesis in talk with the students and also faculty at a bounti­ graduate colloquium will con­ ful reception. We were glad to have helped with the honor of recently retired tinue to be publicized and FOH expenses for the Awards event, as well as fellow­ attendance welcomed. ships and scholarships for graduate students and Professor Mark Leff. The Friends of History also travel expenses for their research and for their participated in the annual attendance at conferences. discussion of A Book in Common, which has been To further increase our support for students held for faculty and interested students at the and to honor a worthy professor, the Friends of Department of History for some years. Attendants History initiated a prize for the best undergraduate read The Memory Chalet by noted historian Tony honors thesis in honor of recently retired Professor Judt. Several Friends attended the discussion on Mark Leff. Professor Leff was particularly known the University of Illinois campus, and ten more for his effective work with undergraduates and the participated in a Chicago discussion organized by Friends agreed to join his many friends and former FOH board member Steve Schulwolf. We hope to students in honoring him with this named award. continue being part of A Book in Common events (See pp. 9–10 of this issue.) in the future. Steve has volunteered to organize In addition to support for students and the another Chicago event next year, and we plan to Department of History, the Friends of History also attempt similar FOH Book in Common events aim to continue our own growth in awareness for in Washington, D.C. (home of a Friends board a critical understanding of the past and to share member, Liz Milnarik) and Springfield, Illinois. this awareness with the public. To that end, we Some of you who are reading this magazine sponsored the first Friends of History Lecture, have attended events or at least have been notified held at the University of Illinois on September 21, that they were occurring. We cordially invite you 2012. Addressing a sizeable audience, the speaker to participate. In addition to our material in the was longtime popular professor James R. Barrett, History Department website, “History at UIUC” who discussed aspects of his recent book, The Irish is on Facebook and LinkedIn. Those of you who Way: Becoming American in the Multi-Ethnic City. contribute any sum to the History Department (See pp. 7–8 of this issue.) Using illustrations as automatically become Friends of History. Let us well as anecdotes from his book, Jim painted a know who you are! picture of the newly arrived Irish and their interac­ tions with other minority groups, particularly in

History @ Illinois 11 Department of History Donors

Once again the Department has Crummey, Prof. Donald E. Huddle, Dr. Thomas S. benefited from the generous Crummey, Mrs. Lorraine Huehner, Dr. David R. Friends of History. We would like Cunningham, Ms. Lois L. Huehner, Mrs. Sandra L. to thank all of our donors for Davis, Mrs. Jacqueline W. Hughes, Mr. George K. Jr. this support and especially our Davis, Mr. Louis J. Jares, Mr. Daniel J. wonderful FOH board members Dimond, Mr. Marc J. Johnson, Dr. David Scott who, as always, have been gener­ Dukes, Dr. Jack R. Johnson, Dr. Molly Wilkinson ous with their time and talents: Dukes, Mrs. Joanne E. Jones-Wilson, Dr. Faustine C. Alba, Dr. Patricia G. Edmunds, Mrs. Gayle Jordan, Dr. Thomas M. Allen, Dr. Debra J. Eggert, Mrs. Maura S. Jorgensen-Nudel, Mrs. Sharon Almy, Dr. Nini Eggert, Mr. Terry R. Kalkhoff, Ms. Ann Lynn Amideo, Mrs. Joan M. Erickson, Dr. Nancy L. Kaminski, Dr. Theresa Amideo, Mr. William F. Felsenthal, Mrs. Carol Greenberg Kem, Dr. Carol Ritzen Arroyo, Mr. Paul E. Felsenthal, Mr. Steven A. Kem, Dr. William R. Barrett, Dr. James R. Fitzgerald, Ms. Tricia Bridgette Kiburz, Mr. Arnold J. III Barrett, Mrs. Jenny M. Fleisher, Mr. Peter J. King, Dr. Keith L. Baumler, Dr. Alan T. Frank, Ms. Tram-Anh Tran Knuppel, Mr. Jack A. C. Beckett, Mrs. Barbara E. Frank, Dr. Zephyr L. Knuppel, Mrs. Shelly L. Beckett, Mr. J. Steven Fritz, Mrs. Julia A. Koenker, Dr. Diane P. Begley, Mrs. Elizabeth G. Fritz, Dr. Stephen G. Kruger, Mr. Richard K. Begley, Mr. James B. Gams, Mr. Lance S. Krugler, Dr. John David Bell, Mr. John Ed Ganaway, Dr. Bryan F. Leighton, Mr. Charles H. Blatt, Mr. Morton B. Gaskill, Mrs. Sharon Clark Leighton, Mrs. Kathleen T. Boothe, Mrs. Karen Gehlbach, Mr. Kurt F. Lewis, Dr. Gene D. Boothe, Dr. Leon E. Giaquinta, Mrs. C. Joyce Lilienstern, Ms. Rebecca Dorrill Boren, Dr. Henry C. Gigova, Dr. Irina G. Lipton, Ms. Lois J. Breihan, Mr. William C. Goldstein, Mr. Jeffrey I. Lukas, Ms. Phyllis A. Brown, Mr. Spencer H. Grahn-Isenberg, Mrs. Mardonna A. Madden, Mr. Paul A. Brynjolfsson, Dr. Kenneth L. Greenberg, Dr. Allan C. Maner, Dr. Brent E. Burkhardt, Mrs. Jayne A. Griffith, Dr. Harry D. Martens, Mr. Carl W. Burkhardt, Prof. Richard W. Jr. Griswold, Mrs. Kathy J. Martland, Dr. Samuel J. Burton, Prof. Antoinette M. Griswold, Mr. Thomas E. McCarthy, Dr. Erin A. Butler, Mrs. Ann K. Haas, Dr. James M. McDade, Ms. Linna M. Butler, Mr. John R. Haas, Mrs. Mary Jo McElligott, Ms. Mary Ellen T. Candeloro, Dr. Dominic L. Hadsall, Ms. Kiersten McKenna, Dr. Jon F. Carey, Mr. R. Peter Hall, Mrs. Natalie G. Medford, Dr. Edna Greene Cervantes, Mrs. Constance A. Hauser, Mrs. Linda S. Miller, Mrs. Mary Lou Cherry, Mr. Thomas E. Hauser, Mr. Robert J. Miller, Mr. Stephen L. Clark, Dr. Charles E. Hodges, Dr. Adam J. Milnarik, Ms. Elizabeth A. Coleman, Dr. Heather J. Hoeveler, Dr. J. David Jr. Mohraz, Dr. Judy J. Collins, Jacquelin Hoganson, Prof. Kristin L. Mondt, Ms. Laura A. Collins, Natalyn A. Dexter Holden, Dr. Christine Monk, Mrs. Mary Ann Conlin, Dr. Michael F. Hooper, Mr. James E. Nudel, Mr. Barry Connors, Dr. Thomas G. Hsi, Dr. Angela N. Oberdeck, Dr. Kathryn J. Cooley, Dr. Will Hsi, Dr. George C. O’Brien, Ms. Kathleen Cornelius, Dr. Janet D. Hubbell, Dr. John T. Parker, Mr. Jonathan B.

12 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Perry, Dr. Joseph B. Smith, Dr. Wilda M. Turner, Dr. I. Bruce Piscopo, Mr. Philip J. Sprunger, Mrs. Aldine M. Tyler, Mr. Ralph S. III Plager, Ms. Deborah S. Sprunger, Dr. Keith L. Valadez, Mr. Frank Platt, Dr. Brian W. Stotler, Ms. Edith A. Venet, Mr. Allen L. Rauschenberg, Dr. Gretchen S. Sullivan, Ms. Jennifer A. Venet, Dr. Wendy Hamand Reiter, Dr. Mark S. Syn, Mrs. Audrey Wagner, Mr. Robert L. Rosenberg, Mr. Craig M. Syn, Mr. Jai S. Weiskopf, Mr. James M. Schmidt, Dr. Catherine M. Taylor, Dr. Thomas T. Wernette, Mr. Gail R. Schulwolf, Mr. Steven Tello, Ms. Jean C. Wernette, Mrs. Janice J. Shepardson, Dr. Donald E. Temple, Mrs. Sunderine West, Dr. Sally Silver, Mr. Richard B. Temple, Dr. Wayne C. White, The Reverend Roger B. Sledd, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Tevebaugh, Dr. John L. Williams, Mr. Geoffrey P. Sledd, Mr. Gregory Thoemke, Mr. Gregory Wilson, Mrs. Emily J. Smith, Ms. Diana K. Tobe, Ms. Ida Tamara Wolf, Mr. Stephen A. Smith, Dr. Louis Christian Tousey, Mr. Walter Zimmerman, Dr. James A.

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History @ Illinois 13 Koslofsky Sheds Historical Light on Shadowy Past

It’s hard to imagine a time when Professor Craig Koslofsky examines the the setting of the sun evoked widespread fear. For many today, history of the night during the early the night is a time for leisure, modern centuries: he surveys the shift- rest, and entertainment. But not so long ago, that wasn’t the case: ing attitudes, innovations, and social for early modern Europeans, the night was still a time to retreat and cultural practices that expanded into the safety of their homes, the legitimate uses of the night. away from potential vices, dangers, and temptations. In Evening’s Empire: A Expertly weaving together such seemingly disparate History of the Night in Early strands, Koslofsky provides a detailed and complex Modern Europe (Cambridge picture of how early modern Europeans used and University Press, 2011) U of perceived the night—one that was both devilish I Professor Craig Koslofsky and divine; restful and restive; disciplined and examines the history of the night ungovernable. Saintly mystics, accused witches, during the early modern centu­ lantern-smashers, prostitutes, courtiers, ghosts and ries: he surveys the shifting attitudes, innovations, “ghost-busters” all find their place in this rich nar­ and social and cultural practices that expanded the rative of the night. legitimate uses of the night. Using an exhaustive Rooted in early modern daily life, Koslofsky array of unique sources—such as diaries, letters, argues that nocturnalization was a revolution. The and legal sources, as well as representations of turn to the night changed how the people of early the night in art, religion, and literature—Koslofsky modern Europe ate, drank, slept, and worked, reveals the origins, development, and impact of restructuring their daily lives and their mental “nocturnalization” as it spread across Europe, worlds. Through nocturnalization early modern from the glittering night life of Louis XIV’s Ver­ men and women found new paths to the Divine, sailles to London’s first coffeehouses and Europe’s created baroque opera and theater, formed a new first public street lighting. What triggered such a kind of public sphere, and challenged the existence momentous shift in the way Europeans spent the of an “Invisible World” of nocturnal ghosts and hours from dusk ’til dawn? witches. And the imprint of nocturnalization on the As Evening’s Empire reveals, the causes are early Enlightenment helped reconfigure European many: the landmark scientific discoveries of views of human difference and the place of human­ Copernicus and Kepler; the rising popularity of kind in the universe. nonalcoholic beverages like coffee, tea, and choco­ Evening’s Empire was the winner of the 2012 late; the perceived need for public street lighting; Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award. the influence of royal courts—to name only a few.

14 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign New Faculty Hires

This year the department is excited to welcome three talented new colleagues in the areas of South Asian, East Asian, and modern U.S. history. Each of these faculty members has already contributed greatly to the department’s intellectual life and educational mission. Assistant Professor Tariq Ali earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2012. His disserta­ tion, titled “The Envelope of Global Trade: Politi­ cal Economy and Intellectual History of Jute in Eastern Bengal, 1853–1950,” is a study of peasant production of jute in the Bengal delta between the 1850s and 1950s. He describes his project as a local history of global capital. In this project Ali explores how the region’s integration into global circuits of commodity and capital shaped very local economic, political, and intellectual histories, and how economic lives, social and cultural formations, and political processes in the delta were informed and influenced by the cultivation and trade of jute. Tariq is also working on a history of rural devel­ a variety of courses on the history of Japan as well New faculty opment in post-colonial Pakistan, which focuses as on the history of science, technology, and the hires Kevin on how rural development and agrarian modern­ environment in East Asia. Mumford, ization informed processes of nation and state Professor Kevin Mumford received his Ph.D. Rod Wilson, formation in post-colonial East Pakistan between at Stanford in 1993. After a post-doctoral fellow­ and Tariq Ali 1947 and 1971. Ali teaches courses in South Asian ship at the University of California, Santa Cruz, history, agrarian and peasant histories, and histo­ he taught at Towson University in Maryland ries of capitalism and commodities. and since 2003 at the University of Iowa. He has In 2012 Assistant Professor Roderick Wilson been a Fulbright Scholar at Erfurt University in joined the department from the University of Germany, a Fellow at the Charles Warren Center Wisconsin-Whitewater with a joint appointment in for Studies in American History at Harvard, and East Asian Literatures and Cultures. A historian a Schomburg Scholar at the Schomburg Center of Japan and the environment, he has an M.A. in for Research in Black Culture at the New York modern Japanese history from the University of Public Library. Mumford’s award winning work Oregon and a Ph.D. in East Asian history from in African-American history has investigated the Stanford University. Wilson’s research focuses on relationship between race and politics in modern the intersection of people and their local habitats America with an emphasis on the urban experience in early modern and modern Japan. His current and the history of sexuality. His first book,Inter - manuscript, “Turbulent Stream: Reengineering zones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and Environmental Relations along the Rivers of Japan, New York in the Early Twentieth Century, published 1750–2000,” crosses both temporal and geographi­ by Columbia University Press in 1997, examined cal boundaries to demonstrate the transnational how racial categories and inequalities were shaped mobility of ideas and people. He is currently through an investigation of vice districts in New completing an article “From Water to Wheels? York and Chicago. In Newark: A History of Race, The Reengineering of Tokyo’s Waterways and Bay, Rights, and Riots in America, published by New 1868–1964” and a book chapter “Modern Routes York University Press in 2007, Mumford uses the through Old Japan: Yoshida Hatsusaburo’s Maps of history of Newark from its Puritan founding in Eight Views of Renowned Places in Japan.” At the 1666 through the civil rights era as a lens through University of Illinois he looks forward to offering continued on page 21

History @ Illinois 15 Anna Kurhajec Snares Campus Teaching Award

At the annual Celebration of has taught General Education surveys, such as Teaching Excellence ceremony “U.S. History since 1877,” “Introduction to African late in April of this year, the American Studies,” “Western Civilization since history department was repre­ 1660,” and “Warfare, Military Institutions, and sented by Anna Kurhajec, winner Society.” Note that these so-called “Gen Eds”—chal­ of the 2013 Award for Excellence lenging, large-enrollment courses taught on the in Undergraduate Teaching by introductory level—fall in wholly different catego­ a Graduate Student. The award ries of history. Kurhajec has also developed and is the premier prize for college taught to rave reviews topical courses in her fields instruction by a Teaching Assis­ of expertise, which are American social and politi­ tant offered at the University. cal history in the decades following the Second Kurhajec’s award citation World War and modern race and gender studies. highlighted her enthusiasm and As a recipient in the spring, 2010, of the coveted dedication in the classroom as William C. Widenor Teaching Fellowship, she well as the remarkably consistent offered to a class of select history majors “1960s standards of teaching excellence Radicalism in the USA and Beyond.” Anna Kurhajec she has achieved in course after Paralleling the range in content of Kurhajec’s course over the past several years teaching is the diversity of teaching venues in of instruction. The extensive nomination portfolio which she has worked. Most of her instructional for teaching award candidates includes student work has taken place, at various academic levels, testimonials, reports from professors, the candi­ in the standard on-campus settings. In addition, a date’s statement of teaching philosophy, and a number of times she has offered an online course formal letter of nomination from the Department. titled “History 273: Illinois History,” a service Professor Tamara Chaplin, who oversaw the prepa­ course for the University that is well outside her ration of Kurhajec’s portfolio, hailed Kurhajec as specialties. Kurhajec’s course in fact was the first “a gifted, truly exceptional candidate” who has online course ever developed by the Department; brought a unique background in history, political not surprisingly, she has been asked to join an science, philosophy, and critical race studies to online education committee recently formed by bear on her work. “In our conversations with her,” the Department. Bolder still, Kurhajec was among Chaplin adds, “it was instantly evident that Kurha­ the first graduate students to participate in the jec takes her students seriously, challenging them new Education Justice Project: for a number of to stand up as intellectual peers in the joint explo­ semesters, she worked as a writing tutor for student- ration of critical questions—about racial prejudice inmates at the Danville Correctional Center; in and economic inequality, about global resources 2009, she was invited to teach her own EJP course, and human rights—that we face today as a society.” “Social Movements of the 1960s.” (A former The undergraduates from her courses con­ inmate-student, in fact, was among Kurhajec’s curred. Large numbers wrote on her behalf and award nominators!) The past several years, she has sounded almost blessed to have gotten her as their also been a prime mover in drawing other graduate instructor. One seminar member praised the ideal students and department faculty into this highly of “free but responsible intellectual expression” successful program. that she fosters in the classroom. Another wrote This is a striking portfolio of experience—in that she changed his entire attitude toward his terms both of the course content delivered and the major: “she helped with my own relationship with pedagogical environments (i.e., college classrooms history and its importance to me and my place in large and small, in the state prison system, and the world.” in new online formats). We salute Anna on this Kurhajec’s breadth of teaching experience at greatly deserved recognition, which also honors the the U of I has also been remarkable: since she Department and the University. began teaching for the Department in 2005, she

16 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign History Department Faculty Awards, 2011–2013

Eugene Avrutin, Assistant Professor of History Frederick Hoxie, Swanlund Professor of History • Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, 2012, • American Indian History Lifetime Achievement American Council of Learned Societies Award, presented at the annual meeting of the Western History Association James Brennan, Assistant Professor of History • Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, 2012, Diane P. Koenker, Professor of History and American Council of Learned Societies Chair, Department of History • Vice-President/President-Elect, 2012, Clare Crowston, Associate Professor of History Association for Slavic, East European, and • Collaborative Research Fellowship, 2012, Eurasian Studies American Council of Learned Societies Craig Koslofsky, Professor of History Jerry Dávila, Lemann Professor of • Longman History Today Prize for Best First or Brazilian History Second Book Published in History for 2011, • Vice-President and President Elect of the Longman Publishers (UK) Conference on Latin American Studies of the American Historical Association Mark S. Micale, Professor of History • Erikson Fellow, Austin Riggs Center, Eric McDuffie, Associate Professor of History and Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Fall 2013 African-American Studies • The American Historical Association, 2012 Leslie J. Reagan, Professor of History Wesley-Logan Prize, for the Study of African- • Arthur J. Viseltear Award, given by the Medical American Life and History Care Section of the American Public Health Association for outstanding contributions to the Eric McDuffie, Associate Professor of History and history of public health African-American Studies • The 2011 Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize from Leslie J. Reagan, Professor of History the Association of Black Women Historians • Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History, 2011, American Historical Association Lillian Hoddeson, Professor Emeritus of History • Abraham Pais Prize for the History of Physics, David Roediger, Babcock Professor of History 2012, American Physical Society • Winner of International Labor History Association Book of the Year Award for Kristin Hoganson, Professor of History The Production of Difference: Race and the • 2012 Ray Allen Billington Prize from the Management of Labor in U.S. History (Oxford Western History Association for her article University Press, 2012) “Meat in the Middle: Converging Borderlands in the U.S. Midwest, 1865–1900,” Journal of Carol Symes, Associate Professor of History American History (2012) • Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Faculty, American Council of Kristin Hoganson, Professor of History Learned Societies • 2012 Wayne D. Rassmussen Award from the Agricultural History Society for her article, Ronald P. Toby, Professor Emeritus of History “Meat in the Middle: Converging Borderlands and East Asian Languages and Cultures in the U.S. Midwest, 1865–1900,” Journal of • Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American History (2012) Japanese Studies by a Foreign Scholar, 2012, National Institutes for the Humanities (Japan)

History @ Illinois 17 IGraduate Studies at IllinoisI Making Diversity Practice

by Adrian Burgos, Jr. group has enlivened the faculty with their variety of intellectual interests, academic backgrounds, Diversity as a practice involves and perspectives about approaches and methodolo­ moving beyond pronouncing gies that will facilitate collaborations across fields a belief in diversity as a value and along emergent lines of scholarly inquiry. An and towards enacting measures applicant pool of 212 students made the Admis­ that broaden the scope of and sions Committee’s decisions extremely difficult. effectively transform the culture Out of those admitted, last year’s acceptance rate of an institution. The twelve approached a whopping 67%, a yield not seen in years I have been in the History years. Credit for this outcome is due to the excel­ Department has borne abundant lent work of our current graduate students, faculty, evidence how much diversity and the Diversity Committee, which is entrusted matters in the creation and with the planning of our annual recruitment event. maintenance of an intellectu­ Equally significant, five out of the six underrepre­ ally vibrant, innovative scholarly sented students accepted their offers of admission. community. Importantly, during For this I am grateful to the department chair that span the Department has Adrian Burgos, Jr. Diane Koenker, Dana Rabin, and Augusto Espiritu increasingly engaged in prac­ (last year’s Diversity Committee chair) for their tices that have transformed the leadership and to graduate students Kyle Mays, composition of the graduate program all the while Veronica Mendez-Johnson, and Megan White for elevating the standards of excellence. It is a testa­ their tireless work in organizing our successful ment to that practice of diversity that I now have recruitment event. the privilege to serve as the Director of Graduate Last year was not only a banner year in diver­ Studies (DGS)—the first faculty of color to hold the sity recruitment but also in Ph.D. completion. position. Among the 20 students who earned their doctorates In taking on the DGS position this fall semester since May 2011 are six African Americans: Nicholas I have benefited from the tremendous work of my Gaffney, Kwame Holmes, Ashley Howard, Edward predecessors who have exercised a commitment Onaci (Mills), Perzavia Praylow, and Carmen to diversity which has increased the number of Thompson. Moreover, despite the increasingly African American, Latino, Asian American, and difficult job market, thirteen of our recent Ph.D.s American Indian graduate students. Most immedi­ secured new positions, nine of them tenure track ately, Dana Rabin has made our transition much positions at institutions such as Smith College, smoother than I could hope through her gracious­ James Madison University, the University of West ness, level of organization, initiatives started Virginia, and Loyola University (New Orleans) during her tenure, and willingness to share her while others secured multi-year visiting faculty posi­ knowledge in matters big and small. Not only has tions and postdoctoral fellowships. the graduate program undergone a change in lead­ While the placement record and increased rate ership, we also welcome a new graduate secretary of Ph.D. completion is quite pleasing, the gradu­ Stephanie Landess, who assumed the position after ate program and faculty remain committed to Elaine Sampson’s retirement. addressing matters of retention in order to forestall Much excitement has been generated in Greg attrition and to engage in new ways of prepar­ Hall by this year’s cohort of 20 graduate stu­ ing graduate students for the changing academic dents, including five international students as environment. To that end, we have planned events well as three Latino/as and two Asian American to address retention as well as alternative careers students. Drawn from colleges and universities with a History Ph.D. This Spring 2013 semester from across the United States as well as Canada, we hosted a visit by Valinda Littlefield (Illinois China, India, Taiwan, and Turkey, this vibrant Ph.D., 2003), currently an Associate Professor in

18 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign the History Department at the University of South Organization of the annual event has remained Carolina, to share her research and also speak on entirely within the purview of departmental issues about graduate life for underrepresented graduate students, providing them the critically students. Dr. James Grossman, executive director needed space to engage and showcase scholarship of the American Historical Association, also visited on women, gender, and sexuality being produced us to speak on “Alternative Careers with the Ph.D.” by leading scholars and graduate students from These events build on ongoing initiatives put into Illinois and other universities. motion by Dana Rabin and the Graduate Studies The formation of the Diversity Committee in Committee and supplement continuing program­ 2003 was similarly inspired by a desire to address Last year matic efforts such as the proposal writing work­ the composition of the graduate program. Recruit­ shop and dissertation chapter writing workshop to ing graduate students from underrepresented was not facilitate more timely completion. As another part backgrounds has been one of the major diversity of this effort, we held a symposium in September practices the Department has refined over the past only a featuring grant and fellowship award-winning decade. Importantly, the Diversity Committee has banner graduate students Derek Attig, Genevieve Clutario, expanded its scope to include matters of retention. Diana Georgescu, David Greenstein, and Stephanie In Fall 2011 the Committee convened “Beyond year in Seawell who shared their writing experience and Admissions,” a forum which drew 40 participants applying for grants. As IPRH Fellows and Dis­ from across campus to discuss how departments, diversity sertation Completion Fellowship awardees, they the Graduate College, and the University can better recruit- join fellow graduate students who have secured address the challenges and opportunities of creat­ external and internal grants to fund their research ing a more inclusive community where underrepre­ ment but and writing. Our graduate students continue to sented graduate students can thrive. More recently, also in obtain funding from the Fulbright Foundation, the the Committee hosted a Diversity Recruitment Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research and Retention conference with keynote speaker Dr. Ph.D. Council, the German Academic Exchange Service, Donald Fixico, American Indian History Profes­ the Social Science and the Humanities Research sor from Arizona State University. The conference completion. Council of Canada, the Council on Library and stood once again as the main recruitment event Information, the Woodson Center at the Univer­ displaying the department’s intellectual vitality to sity of Virginia, and the Association of American visiting prospective students with current gradu­ University Women. ate students delivering responses to Prof. Fixico’s A hallmark of the Graduate Program’s success keynote address and facilitating panels on succeed­ has centered on revisiting our practices, in criti­ ing in graduate school. cal self-assessment, and the willingness to design Interacting with our graduate students on a new practices. This is what inspired the formation daily basis has proven quite invigorating, especially of the Women’s and Gender History Symposium as I learn more closely the scholarly interests they (WGHS) in Spring 2000, which convened for the hope to explore, witness their engaging in deep 14th time from February 28 through March 2 with study for preliminary examinations, see them the keynote delivered by Celine Parreñas Shimizu, excited to head off to the field to conduct their Professor of Film and Performance Studies at the research, and welcome them back as they begin to University of California at Santa Barbara. WGHS write and ultimately defend their dissertations. The emerged directly from collaboration between scholarship they produce inspires our faculty to women faculty and graduate students, which raised continue our engaging in critical discussions in col­ important questions about the necessity of study­ laboration with them on refining our practices to ing women’s lives and the value of gender as a achieve a more diverse graduate program, enhance category of analysis in the scholarship we produce our retention practices, and in preparing them as and in the training we offer graduate students. future members of the professoriate and educa­ tional leaders.

History @ Illinois 19 New Graduate Class

Front Row: Daniela Parker, Lydia Putnam, Heather Freund, Beth Eby, Christina Peralta, Kelsey McClain, Raquel Escobar, Agata Chmiel Second Row: Milo Wang, Ben Bamberger, Ethan Larson, Alex Kies, Doug Jones, Kent Navalesi, John Marquez, Mark Sanchez, Utathya Chattopadhyaya, Zachary Riebeling, David Lehman Not Pictured: Ruth Hoffman

Graduate Job Placements and Post- Doctoral Fellowships for 2011–2012

Jeffrey Ahlman, Assistant Professor, Smith College Andy Bruno, Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University Fedja Buric, Assistant Professor, Bellarmine University Randy Dills, Assistant Professor, University of Louisville Maria Galmarini, Assistant Professor, James Madison University Ian Hartman, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Alaska, Anchorage Maurice Hobson, Assistant Professor, Georgia State University Kwame Holmes, Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Virginia Ashley Howard, Assistant Professor, Loyola University, New Orleans Jason Kozlowski, Assistant Professor, University of West Virginia (Labor Institute) Kerry Pimblott, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming Perzavia Praylow, Assistant Professor, Augusta State University Troy Smith, Visiting Assistant Professor, Tennessee Tech University

20 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign New Faculty Hires, continued from page 15 Recent Ph.D.s Awarded

David Bates: “Between Two Fires: Race and which to reconstruct how political ideas circulated and formed the Chicago Federation of Labor, 1904– African-American consciousness. 1922” (August, 2012) His new work on black gay history in the twentieth century has Fedja Buric: “Becoming Mixed: Mixed already earned the author accolades. In 2012 he was awarded the Marriages of Bosnia-Herzegovina during Binkley-Stephenson Award from the Organization of American His­ the Life and Death of Yugoslavia” torians. The award recognized Mumford’s “The Trouble With Gay (May, 2012) Rights: Race and the Politics of Sexual Orientation in Philadelphia, Amanda Eisemann: “The Human Horse: 1969–1982” as the best article in the Journal of American History. Equine Husbandry, Anthropomorphic The article also won the Audre Lorde Prize for the outstanding article Hierarchies, and Daily Life in Lower on LGBTQ history in the past two years. Professor Mumford teaches Saxony, 1550–1735” (May, 2012) courses on African-American history, the history of race, and the Nicholas Gaffney: “Mobilizing Jazz history of the United States since World War II. Communities: The Dynamic Use of Jazz as a Political Resource in the Black Liberation Struggle, 1925–1965” (August, 2012) Lane Harris: “The Post Office and State Formation in Modern China, 1896–1949” (May, 2012) Ashley Howard: “Prairie Fires: Urban Rebellions as Black Working-Class Politics in Three Midwestern Cities” (August, 2012) Ryan Jones: “‘Estamos en Todas Partes’: Male Homosexuality, Nation, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Mexico” (August, 2012) Gregory Kveberg: “Moscow by Night: Musical Subcultures, Identity Formation, and Cultural Evolution in Russia, 1977– 2008” (December, 2012) Bryan Nicholson: “Apprentices to Power: The Cultivation of American Youth Nationalism, 1935–1970” (May, 2012) Edward Onaci: “Self-Determination Means Determining Self: Lifestyle, Politics, and the Republic of New Afrika, 1968–1989” (December, 2012) Kerry Pimblott: “Soul Power: The Black Church and the Black Power Movement in Cairo, Illinois, 1964–1974” (August, 2012) Perzavia Praylow: “Re/Making Men and Women for the Race: Coeducation, Respectability, and Black Student Leadership at Fisk University, 1924– 1970” (August, 2012) Collection. All Rights Reserved. © The New Yorker Carmen Thompson: “‘20 and Odd Negros’: Knights Jousting on an Escalator Virginia and the International System of Slavery, 1619–1660” (May, 2012)

History @ Illinois 21 Annual Awards Celebration, 2012

Departmental Graduate Awards Teaching Awards Frederick S. Rodkey Memorial Prize in Russian History John G. and Evelyn Hartman Heiligenstein Anca Mandru Award (for a Graduate Student Teacher) Laurence M. Larson Scholarship for Studies in Medieval or Scott Harrison English History George S. and Gladys W. Queen Excellence Lance Lubelski in Teaching Award (for Faculty Teaching) Theodore Pease Scholarship for English Constitutional Clare Crowston History Julie Laut

Joseph Ward Swain Seminar Paper Prize Evan Murphy, “‘A More Perfect System of Agriculture’: The Khedivial Agricultural Society, Science, and the Development of Egyptian ‘Agri-Culture’, 1890–1905”

Joseph Ward Swain Publication Prize Maria Cristina Galmarini, “Defending the Rights of Gulag Prisoners: The Story of the Political Red Cross, 1918–38,” in The Russian Review, 71 (January, 2012).

William C. Widenor Teaching Appointments Jovana Babovic, “The Metropolis in History: Slums, Suburbs, and the Global City” Janine Giordano Drake, “Sex, Wars, and Tea Parties: Religion in American Politics, 1750 to the Present”

22 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Undergraduate Awards and Honors 2012 Undergraduate Friends of History Undergraduate Research Grant Senior Honors Theses Margaret C. Jodlowski Zayad Ifzal Bangash, The Devolution of the Civil-Military Relationship in Phi Alpha Theta Epsilon Chapter Awards Pakistan from 1971–1978 Brian P. Iggins, “The Eighteenth Century American Jewish Man: A Caroline Clasby, French Children and the Perspective” Colonial Project Alex Garel-Frantzen, Taylor E. Pinion, “Race and Identity at the Century of Progress: “How Low We Had African-American Experiences at the 1933 World’s Fair” Fallen”: Gangsters and Crime in the Charles J. Vinci, “The Practicality of Abstraction” Chicago Jewish Community, 1900–1935 Matt Jachimiec, The “Third World War”: Walter N. Breymann Scholarship Operation Condor and the Rise of Neoconservatism Yasmine L. Kumar Margaret C. Jodlowski, “Not for Any Man Misha M. Villatuya Alive”: Exploring the Identities of Female Cross-Dressing Soldiers in the Nineteenth Robert H. Bierma Scholarship for Superior Academic Merit Century in History Michael Kozlowski, Bowling in America Christopher Baldwin Randall Manoyan, A Misled Public: The Nicholas M. Rossi Confederate Press during the Last Year of Misha M. Villatuya the Civil War Laura E. Windes Andrew O’Neill, Tearing Up the Tracks: Railroad Workers, Trade Unionism, and Michael Scher Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Paper Labor Disputes in Nineteenth-Century America John D. Gargiulo, “The Mississippi-Thames-Chicago Delta: The Taylor E. Pinion, Andrew Johnson as Hero Chicago Blues as Cultural Exchange and Urban Identity” or Villain: Understanding the Inherent Timothy M. Warnock, “Changing Methods of Dispute Settlement: Limitations of Binary Oppositional Late Roman to Early Medieval” Structure in Historiography Robert W. Johannsen Undergraduate History Scholarship Matthew Quinn, Fitz and the Führer: A Cartoonist’s Crusade against the Third Peter Pellizzari Reich Daniel W. Reiter, The Globalization of the Centenary Prize for Outstanding Senior in the Teaching of NBA: Effects on the Racial and Cultural Social Studies Lines of the Sport Ryan A. Schmidt Brent Rosenstein, Soldiers by Treaty: The Ryan M. Stapinski Role of the Foederati in the Late Roman Empire Martha Belle Barrett Scholarship for Undergraduate Yuxi Tian, Transnational Nationalists: Academic Excellence American-Educated Chinese and the Paris Peace Conference Zayad Ifzal Bangash John M. Vaught, The American Ghandi vs. Alex J. Garel-Frantzen the American Pharaoh: Martin Luther Margaret C. Jodlowski King, Jr., Richard J. Daley, and the Battle for Public Perception History Department Prize for Outstanding Senior Honors Thesis Alex J. Garel-Frantzen, “‘How Low We Had Fallen’: Gangsters and Crime in the Chicago Jewish Community, 1900–1935”

History @ Illinois 23 24 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Scenes from the Investiture Ceremony of Peter Fritzsche as the Trowbridge Professor of History

November 5, 2012

History @ Illinois 25 Faculty Profiles

Eugene M. Avrutin presented his work at Tel Aviv a faculty/student reading group, several syllabus- University, the Center for Jewish History, the Univer­ writing sessions, and a teacher-training workshop sity of Michigan, and the European Social Science around our theme. The latter, which drew half a History Conference in Glasgow. Three of his collab­ dozen school-teachers from around the region, is a orative projects appeared in print: a translation and good example of how our recent thematic initiatives critical edition of Anna Pavlovna Vygodskaia’s The have extended beyond the confines of the department Story of a Life: Memoirs of a Young Jewish Woman in and the university. History also participated in the the Russian Empire (with Robert H. Greene) as well IPRH spring conference “Empire from Below,” which as two collections of articles, Jews in the East Euro- featured, among others, guest speaker Marcus Rediker pean Borderlands: Essays in Honor of John D. Klier and our former colleague (now in New Zealand) Tony (with Harriet Murav) and Russia in Motion: Cultures Ballantyne. “World Histories from Below” efforts of Mobility since 1850 (with John Randolph). He is a were funded by the Provost’s Initiative on Teach­ member of an interdisciplinary research group that ing Advancement and the Office of Public Engage­ received an INTERSECT Grant from the Graduate ment; they are part of on-going plans for developing College for a two-year project on “Cultures of Law in a Center for Historical Interpretation with alumni a Global Context.” During academic year 2012–2013, support. In addition to traveling for research and con­ Avrutin continues work on his new book project on ferences, she published A Primer for Teaching World ritual murder and small-town life in Velizh, supported History (Duke, 2012) and Brown over Black: Race by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the and the Politics of Postcolonial Citation (Delhi: Three Center for Advanced Study, and a Charles Ryskamp Essays Collective, 2012). fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2012 James Brennan published his book Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania (Ohio In 2012 Jim Barrett gave the first annual Friends of University Press) and became editor of the Journal History lecture, spent part of the summer as a fellow of Eastern African Studies. He also won a Charles A. of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ryskamp Research Fellowship from the American and, as Visiting Professor at Osaka University, deliv­ Council of Learned Societies for 2012–2015, and ered public lectures and seminars in Kyoto, Osaka, he was designated a Helen Corley Petit Scholar for Tokyo, and Sapporo. The paperback edition of The 2013–2014 by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multi-Ethnic at the University of Illinois. City appeared with Penguin Books in February while “Remembering David Montgomery (1926–2011), His Tamara Chaplin presented research from her new Scholarship, and His Mentorship” appeared in the book project, Sappho Comes Out: Lesbians and the Canadian journal Labour/Le Travail. Other publica­ Media in Postwar France, at a conference on Femi­ tions include “Irish Americanization on Stage: How nism and the Audiovisual Archive at the Fondation Irish Musicians, Playwrights, and Writers Created a Hartung Bergman in Antibes, France. She gave New Urban American Culture, 1880–1940” in the talks in Paris (at the 9th International Crossroads Japanese journal History for the Public and “The in Cultural Studies Conference), in Chicago (at the Heritage of Social Class and Class Conflict on Chi­ American Historical Association Conference), and cago’s South Side” in On Location: Historic Cities and in Portland, OR (at the Western Society for French Sites, edited by D. Fairchild Ruggles, (Spring, 2011). History). Last fall Chaplin spoke about lesbian life in Reprinted articles appeared in Major Problems in Toulouse as part of a visit that she organized featur­ Modern American History (Cengage, 2011) and Major ing the French lesbian-feminist filmmaker, Jacqueline Problems in American Immigration History (Cengage, Julien. She was elected to a three-year term on the 2011). Spanish translations of earlier works on Upton governing board of the AHA’s Committee on LGBT Sinclair’s novel The Jungle appeared in Catedrático History; a letter she co-wrote with CLGBTH co-chair de Sociología. Don Romesburg defending California Senate Bill 48 (known as the FAIR Act) was published in the Novem­ Last year Antoinette Burton devoted much of her ber 2012 issue of Perspectives. She has developed a time to organizing the first phase of our three-year new undergraduate course on Sexuality in Modern programming initiative “World Histories from Below.” Europe. With support from the UIUC Research With the help of graduate assistant Zach Sell she ran Board, she is compiling a database of archival

26 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign documents on French lesbian life that will be shared Migrations and Empires” at the conference of the with the Archives cultures recherches lesbiennes, Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Associa­ in Paris. Her article, “Lesbians Online: Gay Libera­ tion in San Diego in August. Out of this conference, tion and the French Minitel” is now forthcoming in he wrote an article, “Interimperial Relations, the the Journal of the History of Sexuality. Chaplin has Pacific, and Asian Americans,” slated for summer been named a Research Associate by the Center for 2013 publication in the Pacific Historical Review. He Advanced Study at the U of I for 2013–2014. serves on the editorial board of Amerasia Journal. He presented “Hispanismo in a Transpacific Context: Ken Cuno published “Women with Missing Hus­ The Young Claro Mayo Recto” at the Association of bands: Marriage in Nineteenth Century Egypt” in Asian American Studies in April 2013. This paper is Objectivity and Subjectivity in the Historiography drawn from his current research on Hispanismo as of Egypt: In Honour of Nelly Hanna (2012) and an discourse of resistance to imperial Americanization updated version of his article “Middle East” in the in the Caribbean and Pacific. Finally, he leads two World Book Encyclopedia (2012). He gave several campus reading groups, one on transnationalism and presentations on campus about developments in another on Tagalog language, literature, and history. Egypt, Syria, and the Palestinian territories, the “Arab Spring,” the history of women’s rights in Islamic Ray Fouché published “Aren’t Athletes Cyborgs?: law, and religion and state in Turkey. He was inter­ Technology, Bodies, and Sporting Competitions,” in viewed several times on radio about events in Egypt. Women’s Studies Quarterly. He gave invited lectures He presented papers at the annual meeting of the on black inventors at the University of Massachusetts, Middle East Studies Association and at the Hebrew Lowell and the “Changing Gears: The Birth of Ameri­ University and Ben Gurion University of the Negev on can Industry Lecture Series” at the Albert L. Lorenzo “Muhammad Qadri’s Code of Personal Status Law Cultural Center, Macomb Community College. He in Egypt” and “How Legal Modernization Set Back also spoke about his new book project examining the Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century Egypt.” evolution of technology in sport at Cornell University and Morrisville State College. CNN reporter Matthew This spring Jerry Dávila’s book Dictatorship in Knight highlighted a portion of this research in the South America: Argentina, Brazil and Chile is being article “High-tech Kit Speeds Athletes into New Era.” released by Wiley-Blackwell. This is an exciting period for the study of the military regimes that dominated Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert’s co-edited anthol­ the last decades of Latin America’s twentieth century. ogy The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue: Voices Under military rule, scholars in Latin America faced and Images from Sherman Institute was published by harsh restrictions on what they could research and Oregon State University Press (2012). He also pub­ publish. Many faced exile or detention. Some were lished an article entitled “Marathoner Louis Tewan­ tortured. In the process of redemocratization that ima and the Continuity of Hopi Running, 1908–1912” began with the collapse of the Argentine Junta in in the Western Historical Quarterly (Autumn, 2012) 1982 and culminated in the No! vote against Augusto and completed a new Foreword to Don Talayesva’s Pinochet in Chile in 1989 (the subject of a new film Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian starring Gael Garcia Bernal), the ability of Latin (Yale University Press). In addition to his publica­ American scholars to again write their own histories tions, he presented his research at the University of and to interrogate the recent past has been recovered. Notre Dame, the University of New Mexico, and the As a result, in these countries there are vibrant new University of Illinois at Springfield. He is the recent lines of historical inquiry that challenge long-held recipient of UIUC’s Helen Corley Petit Scholar Award, assumptions about dictatorship and life in authoritar­ an award given to junior faculty with tenure cases of ian regimes. Dávila’s Dictatorship in South America outstanding merit. draws on these new currents to help readers in the United States understand this turn in the study of Thanks to the generosity of the American Council of Latin American histories. Learned Societies, Kristin Hoganson made great progress on her global history of the heartland, draft­ This year Augusto Espiritu is the acting head of ing chapters on the Kickapoos’ struggles for place the Asian American Studies Department. He pre­ (home) and space (the ability to move freely, includ­ sented an essay, “La lengua española en Filipinas,” to ing across the U.S.-Mexican border) and another on the The Illinois Club’s Grupo Español last April. He colonialism, postcolonialism, pork, and corn that was invited to speak, chair, and serve as a discussant explores the imperial histories of Anglo-Saxonist pigs. on several panels to assess the state of “Transpacific The Western History Association honored her with

History @ Illinois 27 the Ray Allen Billington prize for the best article in Craig Koslofsky’s book Evening’s Empire: A Western History for her recent Journal of American History of the Night in Early Modern Europe (Cam­ History piece on cattle production titled “Meat in the bridge University Press, 2011) was named by The Middle: Converging Borderlands in the U.S. Midwest, Atlantic one of the fifteen best books reviewed inThe 1865–1900.” Her professional activities included Atlantic or published in 2012. (The Atlantic review co-chairing the Society for Historians of American appeared in the April 2012 issue.) He is continuing Foreign Relations’ annual conference, a gathering his research on the role of Brandenburg-Prussia in that drew over 400 participants. the Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth and eigh­ teenth centuries. He has also begun work on a history This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and of human skin in the early modern era. He has joined the Place They Made, by Fred Hoxie, was pub­ the Editorial Advisory Board of the UK journal lished as part of Penguin’s History of American Life German History. Series. The book ranges from the American Revolu­ tion to the present discussing how Native Americans A brief discussion of “The Myth of Black Confeder­ devised legal and political ideas that enabled them ate Soldiers” appeared in Race, Slavery and the to survive within the boundaries of the United States. Civil War: The Tough Stuff of American History and He received the Native American History Lifetime Memory, edited by Jim Horton and Amanda Kleintop Achievement Award at the 2012 annual meeting of and published in late 2011 by the Virginia Sesqui­ the Western Historical Society. This year he launched centennial of the American Civil War Commission. a new course in “Public History,” which he hopes to On November 7, 2012, Bruce Levine skyped into offer each spring. The course will not only introduce an education class at Stanford University to discuss students to critical writing about various genres of this myth. In December 2011, his essay “‘The Vital public history (memorials, museum exhibits, docu­ Element in the Republican Party’: Antislavery, Nativ­ mentary films, etc.) but will involve a public exhibi­ ism, and Abraham Lincoln” appeared in the innova­ tion developed collectively by students in the class. tive new Journal of the Civil War Era. Levine lectured at Chicago’s Whitney Young Magnet High School and Diane Koenker completed work on two books that to U of I alumni at the Chicago History Museum. He will appear in the spring of 2013: Club Red: Vacation participated in a panel at the Left Forum held at Pace Travel and the Soviet Dream (Cornell University Press) University in New York City, and spoke to the Ameri­ is a history of Soviet tourism and vacations from the can Social History Project in New York City and to 1920s to the 1980s. The Socialist Sixties: Crossing the Huntington Library’s Society of Fellows, in San Borders in the Second World, co-edited with Anne Marino, California. His latest book, The Fall of the E. Gorsuch (Indiana University Press), explores the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolu- themes of popular culture, urban life, and transna­ tion that Transformed the South was published by tional flows in the USSR, the socialist countries of Random House in January. It will also be offered as a Eastern Europe, and Cuba. This volume grew out of a selection by the History Book Club, the Military Book conference held at the University of Illinois’ Russian, Club, the Book of the Month Club, and the Quality East European, and Eurasian Center’s Fisher Forum Paperback Book Club. Recorded Books will release in 2010. In addition to her duties as department an audio version, and an excerpt will appear in the chair and incoming president of the Association for magazine America’s Civil War. Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Diane spent some quality research time in Moscow archives Harry Liebersohn received the Humanities Release and libraries during the summer of 2012, collect­ Time leave for Fall 2012 to research a book on the ing materials on food culture, shopping, and leisure globalization of music from 1877 to 1940, a con­ time for her next book project on the Soviet Sixties. tinuation of his studies of European/non-European She was particularly impressed with the changes in cultural contact. A chapter of his previous book, The working conditions at the Russian State Library (for­ Return of the Gift: European History of a Global Idea merly Lenin Library) in the decades since she began (Cambridge University Press, 2011) was presented in working there, with wi-fi in the reading rooms and April 2012 at the conference “God and Mammon: The the ease of making photocopies and scans (with an Religious and Economic Fault-Lines of Liberalism,” iphone!). Its cafeteria remains a museum to the culi­ Yale University. He was recently appointed co-conve­ nary standards of the 1960s, a choice example of the ner of an SIAS (Some Institutes of Advanced Study) close relationship between research and everyday life. Summer Institute, “Cultural Encounters: Global Perspectives and Local Exchanges, 1750–1940.” These

28 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign post-doctoral seminars will be held in 2013 at the Wis­ Washington D.C. In May, 2012, he was designated the senschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany, and in 2014 at U of I Distinguished Teacher-Scholar for the upcom­ the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. ing academic year.

Ralph Mathisen published The Battle of Vouillé, Bob Morrissey enjoyed his first full year at UIUC 507 CE: Where France Began (co-authored, co-edited, teaching courses on early America and American envi­ with D.R. Shanzer) (Brill: Leiden, 2012), for which ronmental history. Outside of teaching, he presented he authored the articles “The First Franco-Visigothic new work at the annual conferences of the Ameri­ War and the Prelude to the Battle of Vouillé,” can Historical Association, Omohundro Institute, “Vouillé, Voulon, and the Location of the Campus and the French Colonial Historical Society. He also Vogladensis,” and “Clovis, Anastasius, and Political participated in a conference on Ohio Valley history at Status in 508 C.E.” Other articles published this year the Filson Historical Society in Louisville. His essay include “Concepts of Citizenship in the Late Roman “Kaskaskia Social Network: Kinship and Assimila­ Empire,” in S. Johnson, ed., Oxford Handbook of Late tion in the French-Illinois Borderlands, 1695–1735” Antiquity (Oxford Univ. Press, 2012), “‘Alamanniam appeared in the January 2013 issue of the William mancipasti’: The Roman ‘Pseudo-Province’ of Ala­ and Mary Quarterly. In May, he will travel to the Hun­ mannia,” in C. Witschel, ed., Römische Legionslager tington Library for a conference on American History in den Rhein- und Donauprovinzen (Bayerische Akad­ “Before 1607.” emie der Wissenschaften, 2012), and “Les mariages entre Romains et Barbares comme stratégie familiale Kevin Mumford joined the Department of History pendant l’Antiquité tardive,” in C. Badel, M. Corbier, this past fall. He served as chair of the Organiza­ eds., Les stratégies familiales dans l’Antiquité tardive tion of American Historians’ Lawrence Levine Prize, (De Boccard, 2012). He also published seven chapters awarded for the best book in cultural history. He in a co-authored textbook, F. Kidner, R. Mathisen, et presented a paper at a conference at the University al., Making Europe: The Story of the West (2nd ed.) of Michigan to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary (Cengage, 2012). He delivered conference papers of the Port Huron Statement, a major manifesto of and lectures in Rostock (Germany), Vienna (Austria), the New Left. He also served as an external reader Mainz (Germany), Limoges (France), Köln (Germany), at a workshop for the Clements Center for Southwest and Leeds (England). He served as editor for two Studies. issues of the award winning Journal of Late Antiquity, and continued to serve as editor for Oxford Studies in Kathryn Oberdeck has a fellowship from the Late Antiquity and on the editorial boards of several Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities to academic journals. support a developing project comparing perspectives on urban blight from below in Chicago, Illinois and Megan McLaughlin was invited to speak at a Durban, South Africa. She presented a preliminary conference on “Matrimonial Strategies among the paper from that project at the American Studies Aristocracy, 10th–13th Centuries” at the Center for Association conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico in Medieval Studies at the University of Poitiers and at a November 2012. She is currently coordinating the conference on “The Gender of Authority: Celibate and department’s “World Histories From Below” initiative Childless Men in Power: Ruling Bishops and Ruling for 2012–2013. Eunuchs, 400–1800” at the University of Zurich. Her article “Disgusting Acts of Shamelessness: Sexual David Prochaska is working on two projects: the Misconduct and the Deconstruction of Royal Author­ Arab Spring and the hacktivist group, Anonymous. ity in the Eleventh Century,” Early Medieval Europe He spoke on the Arab Spring at conferences in Cairo, 19 (2011): 312–31, was recognized as “article of the Chicago, and Paris. month” by Feminae, the Medieval Women and Gender Index. Leslie J. Reagan was named University Scholar for 2012–2014. Her book Dangerous Pregnancies: In the fall of 2011 Mark Micale introduced a new Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America upper-level undergraduate course titled “Darwin and (2010) has won a third book award, the 2012 Arthur the Darwinian Revolution.” In late September, he J. Viseltear Award for the outstanding book in public attended the World Psychiatric Congress in Buenos health history from the American Public Health Asso­ Aires, Argentina, which was his first time to visit Latin ciation. An article from her new research on Agent America. The following spring semester he was on Orange, “Representations and Reproductive Hazards sabbatical leave, living and working on Capitol Hill in of Agent Orange,” appeared in Journal of Medicine,

History @ Illinois 29 Law, and Ethics 39:1 (Spring ,2011). “After the Sex, Eastern Europe” (for Doing Emotions History, forth­ What? A Feminist Reading of Reproductive History coming from the University of Illinois Press”), and in Mad Men” appears in Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, “Modernity as Mask: Reality, Appearance, and Knowl­ Politics, Style and the 1960s, edited by Lauren M.E. edge on the Petersburg Street.” He also wrote an Goodlad et al., (Duke University Press, 2013). Pro­ invited blog post in May 2012 on “Picturing Putin’s fessor Reagan was invited to speak at Cambridge Russia” for the OUPblog (blog.oup.com/2012/05/ University where she presented “‘Monstrous’ Babies picturing-putins-russia/), which was re-posted at The in the News,” about thalidomide, birth defects, and Huffington Post as a featured post. public policy. Her first publication, “’About to Meet Her Maker’: Women, Doctors, Dying Declarations, It has been over a decade since Carol Symes last and the State’s Investigation of Abortion, Chicago, performed on the professional stage, but in 2012 she 1867–1940,” Journal of American History 77:4 (March found herself appearing in a very different theatrical 1991) was reprinted in the second edition of American venue: the Danville Correctional Center, a medium- Sexual Histories, edited by Elizabeth Reis (Blackwell maximum security prison where incarcerated men Press, 2012). Reagan has also worked with the Ethnog­ can take courses through the University’s Education raphy of the University Initiative (EUI), having her Justice Project (featured in last year’s issue of History undergraduate students research their own university @ Illinois). In January, students in her course on and present posters or papers at the EUI conferences. “Shakespeare’s Worlds” mounted a 90-minute selec­ Finally, Professor Reagan appeared on MSNBC’s, The tion of scenes from the plays they had studied in class; Rachel Maddow Show as an expert on the history of a video of Our Play can be viewed online via the EJP abortion law. website. She now coordinates a new Theatre Initiative at the prison, where a production of The Tempest took David Roediger spent the spring 2012 as a visit­ place in April 2013. Other highlights of the past year ing scholar at the University of South Carolina. He include a conference on “The Medieval Globe” spon­ has spoken at a dozen universities about his new sored by the Program in Medieval Studies, which has book (with Elizabeth Esch) The Production of Differ- become the launching pad for a new journal by that ence and his new project, a history of emancipation name, of which she will be the founding editor; staged marking the sesquicentennial of the general strike readings of her own translations of two medieval plays of U.S. slaves. He is currently a Fellow at the Illinois (originally scripted in Latin and Old French) directed Program for Research in the Humanities. by Kyle Thomas, a Ph.D. student in Theatre History; and a ten-day stay in Japan, where she worked with While continuing work on his book about the Russian graduate students and faculty at the Osaka City Revolution for “Oxford Histories,” Mark Steinberg University and met with fellow medievalists. She is wrote a number of book chapters or articles: “Blood making good progress on a book that will showcase in the Air: Everyday Violence in the Experience of the the public, performative conditions in which medieval Petersburg Poor, 1905–1917,” “Emotions History in documents were made, contested, and kept.

Emeriti Updates

Walter L. Arnstein presented eight-week OLLI Elephants & Roses: French Natural History, 1790– (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) courses in Cham­ 1830, edited by Sue Ann Prince. Memoirs of the Ameri- paign in 2010 and 2011, and in 2012 he gave guest can Philosophical Society, vol. 267 (Philadelphia: APS lectures at Clark-Lindsey Village (in Urbana) and Museum and American Philosophical Society, 2013), at Oklahoma Central University (at Edmond, Okla­ pp. 12–28. Chip continues his research and writing on homa). He provided book reviews to The Historian, the menagerie of the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle in H-ALBION (Net Online), and Victorian Studies. Paris, the history of evolutionary theory, and twenti­ eth-century animal behavior studies. Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr.’s contribution to an American Philosophical Society conference on French In 2012, Vernon Burton was elected to the Society natural history appears as: “Symposium Keynote of American Historians. He also presented his presi­ Address: Civilizing Specimens and Citizens at the dential address, “The South as Other: The Southerner Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, 1793–1838,” in Of as Stranger,” at the annual meeting of the Southern

30 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Historical Association. That essay is forthcoming Yale University Press. In the last two years he has in The Journal of Southern History, vol. 79, Febru­ published seven articles and chapters, including ary, 2013. For examples of teaching, C-Span taped “Fear and Outrage as Terrorists’ Goals” in the Spring Burton’s two-hour lecture on Southern Identity at 2012 Parameters (the journal of the U.S. Army War Clemson University (live stream at www.c-span.org/ College); “Honorable Surrender in Early Modern History/). Burton is Director of the Clemson Cyber European History, 1500–1789,” in Why Fighting Ends: Institute and Professor of History and Computer A History of Surrender, edited by Hew Strachan and Science at Clemson University. He continues to chair Holger Afflerbach (Oxford University Press, 2012); the Advisory Board for the University of Illinois “The Battle Culture of Forbearance, 1660–1789,” Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and in Warfare and Culture in World History, edited by Social Sciences, (ICHASS) and to serve as vice-chair of Wayne E. Lee (New York University Press, 2011); and the Board of Directors of the Congressional National “Essential Women, Necessary Wives, and Exemplary Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. He was Soldiers: The Military Reality and Cultural Represen­ one of ten historians asked to contribute an essay tation of Women’s Military Participation, 1600–1815,” for the 2013 Presidential Inauguration Portfolio: in Barton Hacker and Margaret Vining, eds., Compan- “Building the Transcontinental Railroad,” Joint ion to Women’s Military History (Brill, 2012). Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, January 21, 2013. He also published several articles, Evan M. Melhado retired from the University in including “Abraham Lincoln,” as part of the Essential June, 2012. Since coming to the U of I in 1974, he had Civil War Curriculum, edited by James I. Robertson held a half-time appointment in History and, until and William C. Davis, www.essentialcivilwarcurricu­ 1994, in Chemistry, which reflected his specialization lum.com/; and “Lincoln at Two Hundred: Have We in the history of science. In 1994, the appointment Finally Reached Randall’s Point of Exhaustion?” in in Chemistry was moved to the UI College of Medi­ The Living Lincoln: Essays from the Harvard Lincoln cine at Urbana-Champaign, a change that reflected Bicentennial Symposium, pp. 204–25, edited by his growing interest, sparked by both History and Thomas A. Horrocks, et al. (Carbondale: Southern Medicine, in the history of medicine. He continues his Illinois University Press, 2011), pp. 204–25. research in the intellectual history of recent American health-care policy. This year, he published “Ameri­ Joe Love published The Revolt of the Whip (Stanford can Health Reformers and the Social Sciences in the University Press) in May, 2012. The book concerns a Twentieth Century,” in A Master of Science History: spectacular set of events in Latin American history. Essays in Honor of Charles Coulston Gillispie. pp. In November, 1910, shortly after the inauguration 297–325 and Archimedes: New Studies in the History of Brazilian President Hermes da Fonseca, ordinary and Philosophy of Science and Technology. vol. 30. sailors seized control of major new combat vessels, edited by Jed Z. Buchwald (Dordrecht, Heidelberg, including two of the most powerful battleships ever London, New York: Springer, 2012). built, and commenced shelling Rio de Janeiro. The mutineers, led by an Afro-Brazilian and mostly black Not Just Roommates: Cohabitation after the Sexual themselves, demanded greater rights—above all the Revolution (Chicago, 2012) appeared in June of 2012. abolition of flogging in the Brazilian navy, the last Elizabeth Pleck spoke about “Why Cohabitation Western navy to tolerate it. This form of torture was is Illegal” at the University of South Florida in St. associated in the sailors’ minds with slavery, which Petersburg in November of 2012. She delivered a had only been prohibited in Brazil in 1888. These keynote address about “The Global History of Domes­ events and the scandals that followed initiated a tic Violence” at a conference on gender violence at sustained debate about the role of race and class in Florida International University. She serves as chair Brazilian society and the extent to which Brazil could of the Darlene Clark Hine Book Prize Committee of claim to be a modern nation. Love also gave papers in the Organization of American Historians for 2012– Bogota and Buenos Aires. 2013. For her interview with Wisconsin Public Radio on the significance of Black Friday, go to www.wpr. Much has changed since John Lynn last appeared org/webcasting/audioarchives_display.cfm?Code=dun in these pages. He returned from Northwestern this &StartRow=1&keyword=Pleck&highlight=on. past fall semester and taught as a visitor back at the University of Illinois. He is currently under contract Winton Solberg’s manuscript is at the University to write two books: Surrender: A Military History, for of Illinois Press forthcoming next year. His article, Cambridge University Press, and Another Kind of “President Edmund J. James and the University of War: An Introduction to the History of Terrorism, for Illinois, 1904–1920: Redeeming the Promise of the

History @ Illinois 31 Morrill Land Grant Act” appeared in vol. 30 of Per- of Islamic Thought in Africa where he is working on spectives on the History of Higher Education. a multi-volume compilation of Mauritanian authors and their works, funded by the Ford Foundation, to Charles Stewart continues as a Visiting Scholar be published in late 2013 or 2014 by Brill (Leiden). at Northwestern University’s Institute for the Study An Arabic edition is also planned, publisher pending.

Alumni News

After graduating in 2011, Jack Brofman spent the Glenside Public Library in Glendale Heights, Illinois. next academic year in Slovakia completing a Ful­ She now lives in the Chicago suburb of Warrenville, bright English Teaching Assistantship. After then where she enjoys gardening, genealogy, and, of course, taking time off to travel to several great European her grandchildren. cities (Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Paris, and Nice), he is now back living in Chicago and working in the com­ Don Hickey (B.S., 1966; M.A., 1968; Ph.D., 1972) pletely unrelated field of business valuation. is Professor of History at Wayne State College in northeastern Nebraska. In the spring of 2013, he After graduating with a B.A. in 2011, Carly Cusack concurrently held the Mark W. Clark Chair in History now attends law school at the University of Wisconsin at The Citadel, in Charleston, South Carolina. With in Madison. She is finishing her second year and will the bicentennial of the War of 1812, Don has been be spending the summer working in Chicago for a busy: over the past two years, he has published no nonprofit specializing in civil poverty law. fewer than four books—-The Rockets’ Red Glare: An Illustrated History of the War of 1812 (Johns Hopkins Andrew Demshuk, who graduated with a Ph.D. University Press), new editions of The War of 1812: from the University of Illinois in 2010, is currently A Forgotten Conflict and The War of 1812: A Short Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama- History (both with the University of Illinois Press), Birmingham. He published his first monograph,The and 187 Things You Should Know about the War of Lost German East: Forced Migration and the Politics of 1812 (Maryland Historical Society). He also served Memory, 1945–1970, with Cambridge University Press as Guest Editor for a special issue of the Journal of in 2012. The book received an honorable mention for Military History. the Smith Book Prize of the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association. In summer Brian M. Ingrassia (Ph.D., 2008) is Assistant Pro­ 2013, he will be pursuing research for his new project fessor in the history department at Middle Tennessee with a Faculty Development Grant and a grant from State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. His first the College of Arts and Sciences from UAB. book, The Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Educa- tion’s Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football (Uni­ Stephen G. Fritz (B.A., 1971; M.A., 1973; Ph.D. versity Press of Kansas, 2012) was recently named an 1980) is Professor of History at East Tennessee State “Outstanding Academic Title” by Choice Magazine. University, where he continues to teach German He also serves as the series editor of the Sport and and European History. ETSU will celebrate its 100th Popular Culture series at the University of Tennessee anniversary this year. Stephen’s third book, Ostkrieg: Press. Hitler’s War of Extermination in the East, was pub­ lished by the University of Kentucky Press in October Mike Kenwick, after graduating with double 2011 and has been praised as “an achievement that is majors in History and Political Science in 2011, has likely to be unequaled for some time to come.” enrolled in the doctoral program for political science at Penn State. His research centers on the impact Carolyn Joyce Giaquinta (neé Carolyn Harris, of foreign policy behaviors on international conflict B.A., 1963) obtained her Masters Degree in Library processes, and the relationship between civil conflict Science from the University of Iowa in 1969. She and the stability of domestic political institutions. then worked for many years as a librarian in Iowa He has recently received the Miller-LaVigne/Paterno City until her retirement in 1994 and afterwards for academic fellowship and is preparing to defend his several additional years as a part-time librarian at the master’s thesis this summer.

32 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Richard Kruger (B.A. 1967; J.D., 1971) is the found­ Wayne C. Temple (B.A., 1949; Ph.D., 1956) contin­ ing partner of Kruger, Henry & Hunter, a law firm in ues his work in Springfield as Chief Deputy Direc­ operation for over 35 years that is located in the his­ tor of the Illinois State Archives. On June 22, 2010, toric town of Metropolis, Illinois. He is also the owner he flew by charter airplane on the Land of Lincoln and operator of Kruger Farms in Metropolis, which is Flight from Springfield to Washington D.C. in order located on the Ohio River in southern Illinois. to see the World War II Memorial and other historic sites. The Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College has Rebecca Mitchell, after graduating with a Ph.D. asked to republish a volume of Wayne’s best Lincoln from the University of Illinois in 2011, has been a articles. For the forthcoming book Mary Lincoln: Havighurst Postdoctoral Fellow at Miami University Enigma (Southern Illinois University Press) he wrote in Ohio from 2011–2013. During her time at Miami, a lengthy chapter on Mary Lincoln’s extensive travels. she organized an international conference entitled He has currently also completed 15 chapters of a new “Music and Power in Russia, Eastern Europe and study of Lincoln’s domestics and servants. His wife Eurasia: Historical Problems and Perspectives.” She Sunderine recently retired as one of the supervisors currently has in press three articles dealing with the at the Old State Capitol after more than 40 years of relation between philosophy, music and identity in service there. the late Russian Empire. C. J. Watkins after graduating in 2011 went on to After graduating from the University of Illinois in work in the family business of the fastener industry in 2010, Brian Pihuleac taught English to high school the Chicago area. He is now enrolled at Arizona State students in San Sebastian, Spain and Almeria, Spain University for their Masters program in Secondary the past two years. In the fall of 2013 he will enroll Education with a specialization in History. He should in the doctoral program in Romance Languages and be in the classroom as an educator by the fall of 2015. Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley.

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