ACADEMY of HISTORY NEWSLETTER

SPRING 2021

NOte to the Academy: 1 Note to the Serendipity, 2020 and our Academy 2021 Spring Conference 2 Ohio History Fund Marsha R. Robinson, distant and recent past. We do this PhD, Miami University while using 21st-century technology for 3 OAH Annual a socially distanced, virtual meeting, Meeting Schedule 2020. Last year enters the purview thanks to The of historians to capture and record it who is our platform host. as a year in which individuals in the 5 Candidate danced with honesty We issued a fresh call for papers last Biographies: 2021 and felt physical discomfort. This fall in case panels wanted to address year’s conference includes papers that events in 2020. Perhaps there will be Announcements were accepted for the March 2020 more papers on these topics at our 7 conference. We are fortunate that they 2022 annual meeting. Nevertheless, now provide context for many of the we continue to pursue our mission 8 Meeting Minutes: events that happened in the year since of supporting history and history Special Meeting then. education. There are calls in public discourse for How do we help our students who are 9 Meeting Minutes: more truth and more information. living through a time of social conflict? Fall Meeting How do educators give multiple sides of The Ohio Academy of History the story? You may find methods in the continues to answer this call. Our Executive Council examples presented in Panel 10 -“Doing 10 March 26-27, 2021, conference is a Hard History: Addressing Difficult and Officers blend of new papers and panels who Topics in the Classroom and in Print.” could not meet last year when the Financial Report Executive Council decided to delay the Do your students ask about the role 10 conference in the early stages of the of military in national and global COVID-19 pandemic. This year, we conflicts? Bring them anecdotes and 11 Committees return to offering a friendly atmosphere references from several of our panels where scholars, public historians and where scholars will share new research graduate students can present their findings about the diverse generations latest research findings based upon engaged in the US Civil War and the primary source evidence and present Vietnam War. Help them understand new theories about understanding the that war does not end with the armistice but continues for the injured soldiers and civilians with evidence For information on how to register presented about cases in the US, the and attend the Ohio Academy of Middle East and East Asia in several of History’s 2021 Zoom Conference, The Ohio Academy of History please go to our website: https:// our panels. newsletter is edited and www.ohioacademyofhistory.org/ published for the Ohio Politics extends beyond military Academy of History by the conferences/ Ohio History Connection. (continued on page 2) Note to the Academy (Continued from page 1)

conflict into the contested social spaces of our nation. Two national and human family character as we reflect upon of those spaces in Ohio include African American and what we tell the children. Appalachian communities in urban and rural areas. What As historians, we know that our research affects the policies is the role of the privileged classes and was noblesse oblige of the immediate, near and even distant future if our work ever a value in the United States? How do we mediate these outlives us through our students. There are will be times in public discourse in classrooms, museums and media? though when we need to digest what we will learn at the Do individuals have choices about following one or more 2021 Annual Meeting by stepping back and away from our the myriad ancestral cultures woven into the American classrooms for a moment. I recommend recharging through tapestry? How does gender factor into the options? What this new sport called bingewatching. It is popular during the is the definition of national progress and how do we know pandemic. Consider the following series: Bridgerton and that life is getting better for more people? We measure our the Rookie Historian Goo Hae-Ryung.

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2 MARCH 26-27, 2021 OAH Annual Meeting Schedule

A Zoom Conference managed by the Ohio State University Center for Historical Research FRIDAY, MARCH 26 SATURDAY, MARCH 27

SESSION I, 3.00 P.M.—4.30 P.M. SESSION II, 9:00-10:30 A.M. Popular Culture and Visual Culture in the Twentieth Century Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in The Civil War Era: Allegiance and Chair/Commentator: Caryn Neumann, Early America Memory in the South Miami University of Ohio-Middletown. Chair/Commentator: Martha Pallante, Chair/Commentator: Brian Schoen, Ohio Youngstown State University University Papers: Don Eberle, Napoleon Area Schools, “’In These Hard Times’: Humor Papers: Jared Miller, Bowling Green State Papers: Kevin McPartland, University of and the Depression in the Mutt and Jeff University, “Mary Jemison’s Reasons for Cincinnati, “’We Are for the South Against Comic Strip, 1929-1939” Staying with the Seneca People” the North’: Confederate Nationalism and the Press in 1861” Nicholas Seay, Ohio State University, “The Meghan Kobza, Arrupe College of Loyola Space of Revolution: Visual Culture and University Chicago, “’Masquerade Mad’: Josh Morrow, Ohio State University, Imagined Geographies in Soviet Tajikistan” A Transatlantic Phenomenon in Print and “Forming a Lost Cause: Confederate Material Culture” Nationalism, Fusion Spaces, and the Environmental History in the Suppression of Black Agency” Midwestern City Disability, Catastrophe, and Society Chair/Commentator: Kip Curtis, Ohio State in Historical Context Military History in the Modern Era: University Chair/Commentator: Dea Boster, Columbus Psychology and Airpower in War State University Chair/Commentator: Hal Friedman, Henry Papers: Julie Mujic, Denison University, Ford College, Dearborn “The Jeffrey Company’s Gift to Columbus: Papers: Ron and Mary Zboray, University of Coal and Corporate Giving in a Pre- Pittsburgh, “’Notwithstanding He Had Lost Papers: Kyle Rable, Bowling Green State Environmental Context” His Hands’: Antebellum Cannon Accident University, “PSYOPS in Vietnam: Another Survivors, Disability, and Viability” Story of Lost Opportunity” Michael Sandy, University of Dayton, “Discovery of the World’s Largest Trilobite Sona Kazemi Hill, Ohio State University, Michael Taint, Independent Scholar, at Huffman Dam, near Dayton, Ohio” “Defetishizing Disablement of the Iranian “Major General George Owen Squier, Survivors of the Iran-Iraq War” Father of American Airpower and Military Technocracy” Roundtable: Constructing Native (continued on page 4) Americans: Identities, Politics, and Education in Eighteenth and DISTINGUISHED HISTORIAN Nineteenth Century America This year the award goes to Wright State University Chair/Moderator: Charles Beatty-Medina, historian Paul Douglas Lockhart. Prof. Lockhart University of Toledo is an expert on Scandinavian history especially Presentations by Emily Simone, Kevin but on military history more broadly. He is the Kostin, Christina Klein, Loryn Clauson, Eric author of seven books, most recently Firepower: Lopinski, all of the University of Toledo How Weapons Shaped Warfare in the Age of the Gun, which comes out in print this year. Lockhart is 7:00 P.M.—8:00 P.M., currently finishing his eighth book, a microhistory DISTINGUISHED HISTORIAN of a controversial murder case from seventeenth- LECTURE – century Denmark; his next project is a history A Welcome to Ohio State from Professor of the Lutheran Reformation in the lands of the Peter Hahn, Dean of Arts and Humanities Oldenburg monarchy – Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Schleswig-Holstein. He has been a member of the history department at Wright State since 1989, and in 2014 “A Scandinavianist’s Lament” the University recognized the excellence of his scholarship by naming him the Brage Paul Lockhart, Professor of History, Wright Golding Distinguished Professor. State University In his address, “A Scandinavianist’s Lament,” Prof. Lockhart will reflect on the rewards and pitfalls of working in “peripheral” fields, why national histories still matter, and what we can learn from the Nordic past.

3 Annual Meeting Schedule (Continued from page 3)

SESSION III, 11:00A.M.-12:30PM Race, Segregation, and Struggle in Museum Studies: Time, Place, and the United States The Shaping of Public Understanding City, Country, Politics, and Reform in Chair/Commentator: Glenn McNair, Kenyon Chair/Commentator: Steve Conn, Miami Modern America College University of Ohio Chair/Commentator: Michael Flamm, Ohio Wesleyan University Papers: Debra Robinson, Diné College, Papers: Elizabeth Collins, Bowling Green “From Cross Keyes, Southampton, Virginia, State University, “Birthplace Museum Papers: Dustin Meier, Ohio State University, to the Flatwoods Community in Logan Narratives: The Case of Thomas Edison” “Rethinking Municipal Housekeeping: County, Ohio: The Legacy of Solomon Day.” Settlement House Summer Camping in the Stephanie Lang, Kentucky Historical Progressive Era” Scott King-Owen, Bexley City Schools, Society, “Reclaiming Appalachian “Unmaking Black Bexley: Creating a Wealthy, Narratives: The Role of Public History Anthony Bolton, Bowling Green State White Suburb, 1860-1960” Institutions in Shaping Regional University, “A Necessary Evil: Public Perspectives” Reaction to the New Deal in Ohio” Greyson Teague, Ohio State University, “’The Fight Never Ends’: Augustus Hawkins The Physical World and its and the Long History of the Civil Rights Act Women, Biography, and Activism in Representations in Asian History Twentieth-Century America of 1964” Chair/Commentator: Robert Haug, Chair/Commentator: Jean Friedman, University of Cincinnati Emerita, University of Georgia 1:00 P.M.—2:15 P.M., OHIO ACADEMY MIDDAY MEETING Papers: Henry Misa, Ohio State University, Papers: Maxine Wagenhoffer, Ohio State “The Qarakhanid Environmental Policy, 840- University, “The Celebrity American Girl: Opening Remarks by Professor 1212: Animals, Empire, and the Medieval Alice Roosevelt Longworth and White Scott Levi, Chair of the Ohio State Climate Anomaly” Womanhood” Department of History Ryoko Okamura, Bowling Green State Rachel McLemore, Mount Saint Mary Annual Business Meeting and University, “Censorship and Children’s Academy, Little Rock, Arkansas, “Our Awards Essays: Representations of the Massacre Mothers Before Us: Memory and the of Koreans during the 1923 Great Kanto Nineteenth Amendment” Presidential Lecture: Earthquake” Donna DeBlasio, Professor Emerita Doing Hard History: Addressing of History and Applied History at Electoral Politics in Nineteenth- Difficult Topics in the Classroom and Youngstown State University Century America in Print “Oral History: Catching the Stories of Chair/Commentator: Mark Summers, Chair/Commentator: Tracy Teslow, University of Kentucky-Lexington University of Cincinnati Our Lives.” Papers: Chris Blubaugh, Ohio Dominican Papers: Randolph Roth, Ohio State SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SESSION University, “Protesting Mr. Madison’s War: University, “Child Homicide in the U.S., IV, 2.30 P.M.—4.00 P.M. The Hartford Convention of 1814” 1959-1988” Roundtable: Joan E. Cashin, War Jacob Mach, Bowling Green State Kevin Adams, Kent State University, Stuff: The Struggle for Human and University, “The ‘Oberlin Letter,’ Jacob Cox, “Narrating the Conquest of Native America” Environmental Resources in the and the Ohio Gubernatorial Election of American Civil War, Winner of Best 1865” Publication Award, Ohio Academy, 2018, Chair/Moderator: Christopher Phillips, University of Cincinnati Presentations by Patrick Lewis, Filson Historical Society, Richard Nation, Eastern Michigan University, and A. James Fuller, University of Indianapolis

4 Candidate Biographies: 2021

VP/Pres-Elect History Essays, 2007 (Palgrave, 2007). She is currently working on a history of 20th century Dayton, Ohio. She has David J. Staley written a number of articles for The Conversation and has David J. Staley is an associate professor provided numerous interviews to national media outlets in the Department of History at The including CNN, CNBC, and NPR on both aviation and Ohio State University. He is also airport history. She is a past-president of the Ohio Academy Director of the Humanities Institute of History and currently serves as a board member (private and Director of the Center for the institution) and as newsletter editor. Humanities in Practice (CHiP) and holds courtesy appointments in the departments of Design Melissah J. Pawlikowski and Educational Studies. He is the author of Alternative Melissah J. Pawlikowski is the co-director of the Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Sustainability Studies program and Faculty in Residence in Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019); Brain, the History Department at Capital University in Columbus. Mind and Internet: A Deep History and Future (Palgrave Melissah is revitalizing the role of History across disciplines Macmillan, 2014); Computers, Visualization and History, by developing multidisciplinary programing. Beyond 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2014); and History and Future: Using historical narratives, history courses equip students with Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future (Lexington dynamic critical thinking and communication skills essential Books, 2007). In addition to his written work, he is host of to all fields of study and majors. Her long-standing record the “Voices of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences” podcast. as a student favorite is well earned. Melissah inaugurated He has also designed and curated both online and physical one of the first early American LGBT+ courses in the country exhibitions and has published numerous visual compositions at Capital University. Her research explores multiethnic in digital media. From 2003-2008, Staley was the Executive community building and conflict resolution among American Director of the American Association for History and Indian, Black and Euro-American squatters of the 18th Computing (AAHC). century Ohio Valley borderlands. Her first book manuscript is currently under review with the University of North S ecretary/Treasurer Carolina Press.

Janet R. Daly E xecutive Council: Bednarek Public College/University Janet R. Daly Bednarek is a professor of history at the University of Dayton. Lavanya Vemsani She served as the secretary-treasurer Dr. Lavanya Vemsani is a multi-award- of the Urban History Association from winning scholar and Distinguished Jan. 2005 to Jan 2015. During her University Professor of History at tenure as secretary-treasurer she worked closely with the State University in the board to build the assets of the Urban History Association Department of Social Sciences. from $12,000 to over $100,000; collaborated with program Vemsani is also an Honorary Visiting chairs to plan five major biennial conferences, which saw Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in the attendance grow from 200 to over 600 participants; and Department of Historical Studies. She holds two doctorates managed the modernization of the by-laws, oversaw the in the subjects of Religious Studies (McMaster University, production of a newsletter, kept notes of all board meetings, Hamilton, Canada) and History (University of Hyderabad, and cooperated with the membership secretary in managing Hyderabad, India) respectively. Her research and teaching the organization’s cash flow. Her scholarship includes interests are interdisciplinary and multifold. She researches two major works on the history of US airports, America’s and publishes on subjects of ancient history and religions as Airports: Airfield Development, 1918-1947 (Texas A&M, well as the current history of India. Vemsani’s books include 2001) and Airports Cities and the Jet Age: U.S. Airports Krishna in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia Since 1945 (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2016). Her article, “The of the Lord of Many Names; Hindu and Jain Mythology Flying Machine in the Garden: Parks and Airports, 1918- of Balarama; Hinduism in Text and Context; in addition 1938,” was selected for inclusion in The Best American to a number of (continued on page 6) 5 Candidate Biographies (Continued from page 5) articles on History and Religions of India. Her upcoming E xecutive Council: books include Feminine Journeys of the Mahabharata; Public History Hinduism in Middle India: Narasimha, The Lord of the Middle; and India: A New History. She is the Editor-in- Tom Suddes Chief of the International Journal of Indic Religion (2020- Tom Suddes is an assistant professor 2023); American Journal of Indic Studies (2018-2020); at The Ohio State University and International Journal of Dharma and Hindu Studies (2015- coordinator of the E. W. Scripps 17), and associate editor of Canadian Journal of History; School of Journalism. Suddes has The Airforce Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, and Journal extensive experience in journalism of South Asian Religious History (2017-20). Prof. Vemsani and currently is a columnist on Ohio served as President of Ohio Academy of History (2019-20). politics in The [Cleveland] Plain Dealer, , Dayton Daily News, and Springfield News- Rebecca Zietlow Sun. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to Rebecca E. Zietlow is the Charles journalism, Suddes was elected to the Cleveland Journalism W. Fornoff Professor of Law and Hall of Fame in 2014. Suddes is also associate editor and Values at The University of Toledo member of the editorial board at The [Cleveland] Plain College of Law, where she teaches Dealer-Northeast Ohio Media Group. Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, and Constitutional Litigation. She Marcelle Wilson received her B.A. from Barnard College and her J.D. from Marcelle Wilson received her Yale Law School. In 2012, she received The University of doctorate in history from West Toledo Outstanding Faculty Research Award. Professor Virginia University. She currently Zietlow’s scholarly interest is in the study of the serves as Site Manager for the Reconstruction Era, including the meaning and history of Youngstown Historical Center of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. Professor Industry and Labor, also known as the Zietlow is also an expert on constitutional theory, examining “Steel Museum.” Dr. Wilson developed a ground-breaking constitutional interpretation outside of the courts. Her most series of public history programs, “Sparking Memories,” recent book, The Forgotten Emancipator: James Mitchell for individuals suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and Ashley and the Ideological Origins of Reconstruction was memory loss. This series, designed in cooperation with published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. Her first the gerontology program at Youngstown State University, book, Enforcing Equality: Congress, the Constitution, and includes a special program for tours of the Steel Museum the Protection of Individual Rights (NYU Press 2006), and two programs that bring artifacts and other primary studies the history of congressional protection of rights, and sources into skilled nursing facilities. Her most recent the implications of that history for constitutional theory. publication, “Sparking Memories: Memory Tourism for a Her work has been published in the Columbia Law Review, New Audience,” appeared in The Public Historian, August Boston University Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, 2020. Dr. Wilson is also a part-time faculty member of Florida Law Review, the Wake Forest Law Journal, and Youngstown State University, where she teaches courses the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional in History and in Women’s and Gender Studies. She Law, amongst other publications. is currently working on an article, adapted from her dissertation, outlining feminist activity in the American Revolutionary War.

6 ANNOUNCEMENTS

Submissions for Fall 2021 Newsletter Have your or has someone in your department published a book or received an award? Have you or has someone been promoted? Retired? Have your students been involved in particularly interesting projects? Please send news of your accomplishments as well as those of your colleagues and students for inclusion in the Fall 2021 newsletter. Send all items to the newsletter editor: [email protected] Call for Judges Ohio History Day Calling all educators, historians, museum professionals, and Join the Discussions! anyone with a love of history and community! We need your help to ensure this year’s virtual Ohio History Day is a HUGE The Membership Committee of the Ohio Academy of History success for Ohio’s students. convened a Meet & Greet event on Thursday, November Ohio History Day, an affiliate of National History Day, 12, 2020 at 5pm. This event was specifically geared toward gives students in grades 4-12 the chance to become K-12 teachers and university faculty who were new to the historians. Based on their own research and aligned to the state of Ohio and/or new to their positions. The Meet & annual theme, students create exhibits, documentaries, Greet event for new faculty traditionally occurs on the performances, websites and academic papers, and present Friday evening before our fall meeting but in the world that their findings at competitions. Thousands of students take was 2020, we met on Zoom instead. Eighteen historians part in Ohio History Day competitions across the state each across the state registered and stopped by our virtual year. happy hour to introduce themselves, join other historians in learning more about the Ohio Academy of History, and To ensure the safety of our students, teachers, judges and share history happenings in their communities and teaching staff, this year all ten (10) regional contest and the State environments. It was a great conversation – and ran long, Contest will be held virtually. This means you can judge from actually! – as much momentum was generated and a good the comfort of your own home! Ohio History Day students time was had by all. are some of the most dedicated, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic in the state, and by volunteering as a virtual In Spring 2021, the Membership Committee will offer two judge you are playing a vital role in helping them continue more programs: their learning journey. February 18, 2021: Career Exploration for History Majors Interested in learning more? Check out Ohio History Day’s April 19, 2021: Activism & Advocacy Judge Page for helpful videos, resources, and testimonials Details about both programs and registration links are from previous judges. To find an Ohio History Day contest available on the OAH website. The Membership Committee and register as a virtual judge, please visit our Sign Up! page welcomes all historians in Ohio to join these free, virtual here. programs…and please pass along the invitation to a Got questions? We have answers – feel free to contact us at colleague who might not yet be familiar with what OAH has [email protected]. We hope to “see” you soon at a to offer! virtual Ohio History Day Contest!

7 MEETING MINUTES OAH Executive Council Special Meeting

OAH Executive Council Special Meeting 7 Aug 2020 Fall Newsletter 1 PM (Zoom) should include awards from spring (and we should notify Robinson called the meeting to order at 1:04 Scott Martin of his Distinguished Service Award). Robinson proposed $400 for a grad student to update the Bednarek suggested pieces on how institutions around the list of history professors and public historians. state are responding to the COVID-19 era. Cashin Moved, Heiss seconded. Passed Unanimously. Should also include info on the meet-and-greet. Robinson proposed bringing back Fall Meeting as an online DeBlasio mentioned that Ohio History is now and open- meeting and turn it into a meet and greet for relatively access journal online. This can be a piece in the Fall new junior faculty members. Will task the Membership Newsletter. Committee for making arrangements. The Council agreed on this by consensus. Fall Executive Council Meeting Will be online, October 17. Due date for nominations, Depending on how many of these new people there are in the November 15. updated list, will hold multiple meetings of 12 or 15 or fewer to accommodate everyone. Spring Meeting Public History Committee: Given the current uncertainties regarding COVID-19, Robinson proposed Spring Meeting to be virtual. DeBlasio Would like to revitalize the committee and prize. seconded. Unanimously passed. Both Robinson and Keefer commented that given Will be last weekend in March (25-27), with those on last current conditions both in terms of public attention on year’s program who still wish to participating in it. Price will interpretations of history and economic stresses on local be reduced. history organizations, this would be a timely move. Cashin moved, Bednarek seconded we adjourn. Committee agreed on this by consensus. Unanimously carried 2:20. Robinson needed to fill last remaining slots in current committee lists. This was accomplished with suggestions from Executive Committee.

8 MEETING MINUTES OAH Executive Council Fall Meeting Agenda

October 17, 2020 Archivist’s Report diversity in future Distinguished Remote Meeting Due to COVID-19 No Report Historian Award—we can do better. Health Crisis Let’s try to trigger a diverse pool of Standing Committee Reports: nominees. Call to order, 12:11 Conference Committee Report: Mujic suggested that we pay another Robinson, Keefer, DeBlasio, Hedler, $50 for the grad student to turn the Already given Sayre, Bednarek, Cashin, Mujic, new list into a usable Excel spreadsheet. Brooke, Fluker, Vemsani, and Kern in Program Committee Report: Vote to suspend Distinguished attendance. Cashin Historian award for 2021: Unanimous. Approval of Minutes (see below) Contacted everyone almost everyone Vote to extend due dates for all on the spring program. Three people nominees and awards to December 15: President’s Report: Robinson dropped out, but others found to Unanimous. Had a “listening tour” of prospective replace them. One panel collapsed, but Vote for an additional $50 to the grad committee members. one that had collapsed last spring has student to turn new list into an Excel reconstituted. In the future, we need to send links Spreadsheet: Unanimous. to the Handbook to prospective Distinguished Historian will present. committee members. Thanks to the other committee Proceedings: Robinson Have a robust slate of committee members for their hard work. We have none. members, and others who said they will be willing to serve in the future. Nominating Committee Report: Public History: DeBlasio Fluker We have a committee now: Meghan Need to empower Public History and Reed, Marcel Wilson, Susan Tietz. Will Membership Committees in finding Still Looking for nominations for VP/ try to reinstitute the Public History members. Pres-elect and Public College Rep. Award. We are adding some papers, but Membership Committee: Mujic not doubling the size of the spring Will hold meet-and-greet for new New Business: conference. faculty on November 12 at 5:00 Robinson attended OHC meeting and (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ohio- saw new strategic plan. Asked Hedler Local Arrangements: Brooke academy-of-history-meet-greet-fall- if we could put a blurb about the Conference will not necessarily be a 2020-tickets-125350666217) revamping OHC campus in the spring webinar, but rather a regular Zoom newsletter. Hedler said that would be E.C. Members should please feel free to situation with a lot of breakout rooms, fine after it gets approved. each with own code. All registrants get register/join codes and passwords for each event. Kern extended his thanks to Hedler for Newsletter Committee: Bednarek Panelists will share content, with an spearheading the remaking of Geoffrey OSU-affiliated host for each. Should use the new list to send out. Parker’s Distinguished Historian Website needs to be updated, still with Plaque after a trophy shop error. Vice President’s Report: DeBlasio 2019 deadlines. Maybe we should also Robinson proposed subcommittee for Hired a grad student to update the think of extending the deadlines. determining the registration fee for Membership List. She did a good job Distinguished Historian: We already and was done on time. have one from last year who will be next conference (DeBlasio, Vemsani, presenting. Suggested suspending the Robinson, Mujic, Kern). Will hold a Past President’s Report award for this year. Zoom conference on this for January. Not much to report. If a few departments send in updates Robinson: Note to Academy will be for the spring newsletter, this might 2020-focused. Thanks for letting me Secretary-Treasurer’s Report prompt other departments to submit enter it into the record. Not much to report. No conference reports for future newsletters. meant no major outlays or receipts. Move to Adjourn at 1:13. As soon as she hears from Donna, will Cut a check for the History Day Keefer moved, Kern seconded. winner. Will pay grad student for the send out the final version. Unanimous. membership list update. Also, we should look toward more

9 2021 OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AND OFFICERS

SENIOR OFFICERS (ELECTED) President Immediate Past-President Marsha Robinson Lavanya Vemsani OHIO ACADEMY Miami University, Middletown Shawnee State University [email protected] [email protected] OF HISTORY

Vice-President Secretary-Treasurer Donna M. DeBlasio Kevin Kern FINANCIAL REPORT Youngstown State University University of Akron [email protected] [email protected] February, 2021 COUNCIL MEMBERS (ELECTED) CURRENT BALANCES Public History Private College Vacant Julie Mujic Denison University (2020-2023) CHECKING BALANCE Public University [email protected] 3 FEB 2021...... $36,655.52 Chelsea Griffis University of Toledo, (2017-2021) Two-Year College or BALANCE WITH OHC [email protected] Regional Campus 31 DEC 2020...... $427.90 Joan Cashin Bradley Keefer The Ohio State University (2019-2022) Kent State, Ashtabula (2020-2023) REMAINING [email protected] [email protected] ENDOWMENT CD:. . . .$ 5,169.51 Past or Present Grade 7-12 Private College TOTAL ...... $42,252 .93 Janet Bednarek Teacher University of Dayton (2019-2022) Frank Pape [email protected] Struthers High School (2020-2023) [email protected]

NEWSLETTER EDITORIAL BOARD: General Editor Webmaster Janet Bednarek Betsy Hedler University of Dayton Ohio History Connection [email protected] [email protected]

Production Editor Archivist Betsy Hedler Mary Ann Heiss Ohio History Connection Kent State University [email protected] [email protected]

Editor of Proceedings Marsha Robinson Miami University [email protected]

The Ohio Academy of History newsletter is edited and published for the Ohio Academy of History by the Ohio History Connection.

10 2019-2020 OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Committees

Standing Committees Prize Committees CONFERENCE COMMITTEE DISSERTATION AWARD COMMITTEE (Spring 2021 Annual Meeting) Pamela Sayre, Chair Julie Mujic Henry Ford College Denison University John Brooke, Chair Donna DeBlasio [email protected] [email protected] The Ohio State University Youngstown State University [email protected] (ex officio) Adam Hodge [email protected] Lourdes University Joan Cashin [email protected] The Ohio State University Kevin Kern (ex officio) University of Akron (ex officio) DISTINGUISHED HISTORIAN AWARD COMMITTEE [email protected] [email protected] Marsha Robinson Lavanya Vemsani Marsha Robinson Miami University Shawnee State University Miami University, Middletown Marsha.Robinson@miamioh. [email protected] (ex officio) edu [email protected] Joan Cashin PROGRAM COMMITTEE The Ohio State University [email protected] (Spring 2021 Annual Meeting) Joan Cashin, Chair Marsha Robinson DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD COMMITTEE The Ohio State University Miami University (ex officio) Kevin Kern, Chair Mary Cayton [email protected] Marsha.Robinson@miamioh. The University of Akron The Ohio State University edu Amy Fluker [email protected] [email protected] Youngstown State University Donna DeBlasio William Wantland [email protected] Youngstown State University Mt. Vernon Nazarene (ex officio) Christopher Phillips University University of Cincinnati [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Kevin Kern The University of Akron JUNIOR FACULTY RESEARCH FUND COMMITTEE John Brooke Deborah Marinski, Chair Janet Bednarek The Ohio State University (ex officio) Ohio University–Southern University of Dayton (ex officio) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Ruth Herndon MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Bowling Green State University Julie Mujic, Chair Jacalynn Stuckey [email protected] Denison University Malone University [email protected] [email protected] PUBLICATION AWARD COMMITTEE Robert Ingram, Chair Kevin Poole Chelsea Griffis Ohio University Pontifical College Josephinum University of Toledo [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Carol Bargeron Kevin Kern NOMINATING COMMITTEE Central State State University The University of Akron Amy Fluker, Chair David Stebenne [email protected] (ex officio) Youngstown State University The Ohio State University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] TEACHING AWARD COMMITTEE Scott Martin Opolot Okia Megan Threlkeld, Chair Todd Uhlman Bowling Green State University Wright State University Denison University University of Dayton [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & Leslie Heaphy OUTREACH COMMITTEE Kent State University ON HOLD. [email protected]

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC HISTORY Donna DeBlasio, Chair Marcelle Wilson Youngstown State University Youngstown Historical Center [email protected] [email protected] Susan Tietz Ohio History Connection [email protected] 11