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2010 @ NORTHWESTERN The Newsletter of the Department of History at Northwestern University

Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

A New Look for Harris Hall

xcitement is mounting in the History Department at North- western as we await our return in August to a completely rehabbed Harris Hall. Among the outstanding features of the new building are a spacious outdoor plaza connected to Harris 108, an Eextension of the lower level to house the Chabraja Center for Histori- cal Studies, new classrooms on that level, a longer and wider stairway at the front of the building, office space for up to fifty faculty members on the two upper floors, an elevator, a new history seminar room, and even a faculty lounge. Yet, the historic charm of the building will remain: Harris 107 and 108, the staircases and wrought-iron banisters, the marble floors and walls of the main floor, and the oak woodwork all are being preserved. In the next Newsletter, we’ll bring you pictures of our wonderful new home, but for now, here are some shots of the top to bottom renovation. 2010

welcome to new history Faculty

Michael Allen (PhD Northwestern, projects include histories of the U.S.-Mex- Message from the Chair, 2003) is a historian of United States politi- ico Border Wall, memories of the U.S.- cal culture, particularly regarding the ways Mexico War between 1846 and 1916, and Peter Hayes in which war and memories of war recon- the movement of Mexican and Mexican figured U.S. politics in the late twentieth- American artists between Mexico and the century. His United States from 1920 to 2000. He The History book Until the teaches courses on Mexican Ameri- Department has Last Man Comes can History, Latino Studies, the U.S.- much good news Home: POWs, Mexico Borderlands, and Race and to report, headed MIAs, and the Ethnicity in the United States. by the magnificent Unending Viet- renovation of Har- nam War (Uni- Henri Lauzière (PhD Georgetown, ris Hall depicted on versity of North 2008) was a postdoctoral fellow in the the preceding page Carolina Press, study of the Middle East since the and by the continu- 2009) uses the First World War at ing successes of unprecedented the Department our faculty and level of concern of Near Eastern students, both for captive and Studies at Princ- current and former, that are outlined in the pages missing Ameri- eton University that follow. cans during in 2008-09 and We’re especially proud of the fine recruit- and after the joined Northwest- ing year we’ve had. Following up on the three Vietnam War to ern as assistant new hires of last year described on this page, interrogate how professor of mod- we conducted no fewer than five successful official and non- ern Middle East searches this year. They will bring Deborah Cohen state actors constructed and contested the history this past fall. (PhD Berkeley), a distinguished modern British meaning of American defeat in Vietnam. His research interests historian currently at Brown, to us next fall as A Kansas native, Michael has returned to focus on modern Islamic Peter B. Ritzma Professor, along with three new Northwestern after five years on the faculty intellectual history and assistant professors: Scott Sowerby (PhD Harvard) at North Carolina State University. the political history of in early modern British history, David Shyovitz the Arab world, includ- (PhD Pennsylvania) in medieval Jewish history, Geraldo Cadava (PhD Yale, 2008), a na- ing North Africa. His and İIpek Yosmaoğlu (PhD Princeton) in Ottoman/ tive of Tucson, Arizona, specializes in the doctoral dissertation, Turkish history. Caitlin Fitz (PhD Yale), who spe- histories of the U.S.-Mexico border region which he completed cializes in colonial and federal American history, and Latina and Latino populations in the while at Georgetown’s campus in Qatar, will join us in September 2011, upon completion United States. His examines the evolution of her postdoctoral fellowship at the University current project, a his- of Salafism (al-salafi- of Pennsylvania. We’re delighted that these fine tory of the Arizona- yya) from a modernist scholars and teachers will soon become part of Sonora border region to a purist Islamic our community, and we’re grateful for the faith since World War II, movement, nowadays in us that the University administration showed has received support generally associated by letting these searches go forward in such from Mellon Mays with Wahhabism and financially uncertain times. Graduate Initiatives Saudi Arabia. Prior to My colleagues continue to win the sort of Programs, the Ford his graduate studies, he prestigious research awards and fellowships that Foundation, the received a Bachelor’s increase our standing both locally and nationally. Beinecke Rare Book degree in history from To this year’s list of grant winners (Francesca and Manuscript Université Laval in Bordogna from the Max Planck Gesellschaft in Library, the Howard Quebec City, Canada, Berlin, Ben Frommer from the Fulbright program, R. Lamar Center for and a Master’s from and David Schoenbrun from the National Humani- the Study of Fron- Simon Fraser Univer- ties Center), we now can add these recipients tiers and Borders, sity in Vancouver. of research support in 2010-11: Ken Alder and a Huggins- (Guggenheim), Peter Carroll (Kaplan Center), Quarles Prize from Brodie Fischer (ACLS), Rajeev Kinra (NEH), and the Organization of Kate Masur (ACLS). American Historians. Current research

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2 The Newsletter of the Department of History at Northwestern University Senior Honors Thesis Reaches the Top U.S. History Journal

In 2004, Katie Turk completed to precipitate the 1986 ing women’s rights consciousness a senior honors thesis entitled federal district court case in a number of times and places, “Out of the Revolution, Into the EEOC v. Sears. Whereas but remained especially interested Mainstream: Employment Activism in the that case has been well in working women’s consciousness NOWA Sears Campaign and the Grow- studied, feminists’ Sears during the second wave. Though ing Pains of Liberal Feminism.” It won campaign had not. I was I did not expect to revisit my the Department’s Grace Douglas John- intrigued by their militant undergraduate thesis, my deci- ston Prize for the best thesis submitted stance and simultaneous sion to write a dissertation about that year and so impressed Turk’s advisor, pressure on the discrimi- postwar activism among work- Nancy MacLean, the she urged Katie to natory employer and the ing women took me back to my pursue publication. Six years later, in Sep- government enforcement earlier research. I embedded my tember 2010, a revised version will appear agency. I wondered why material about Women Employed in the Journal of American History under the seemingly successful Sears campaign in an early chapter and revised my nar- the title “Working for Change: Chicago was dropped from NOW’s agenda in 1975 rative of NOW and the Sears campaign NOW, Women Employed, and the Sears (and WE’s in 1973), even though the court as a chapter all its own. An advisor at U Campaign.” The department congratulates case dragged on for another decade. In of C suggested I send it to a journal. Two Katie, who is now finishing her Ph.D. my seminar paper, I argued that changes years later, the JAH has accepted the piece. dissertation at the University of Chicago. within NOW—in particular, its shift to When I go on the job market in the fall, Here is her story. focusing on the ERA--cut off the lifeblood I know this legacy of my undergraduate from grassroots campaigns such as the years will be a big point in my favor. At NU, I was thrilled by the number Sears effort. NOW became a more effec- and variety of engaging courses offered tive pressure group, but sacrificed the kind NOTE: Katie’s senior honors thesis is in WCAS. I decided on a history major of local energy that had brought many not her only remarkable achievement that very early, but even within the department, Chicago NOW members to the movement. reflects well on her time as a History major selecting among so many exciting paths of The seminar paper process was marvel- at Northwestern. She also received the study often proved difficult. I knew I was ous. I was thrilled to be in a small class Wayne Booth Prize for Teaching Excel- most interested in recent US women’s his- with other students who felt as passionate lence, which honors the best graduate tory, but I benefited from the departmental about independent research and serious student instructor in the Social Sciences requirement to take a number of courses historical scholarship as I did. Professor Division of the University of Chicago. outside that field. I took history courses Peter Hayes was a fantastic seminar leader, on Ancient Egypt, Japanese culture, early and his many lessons about good research modern England, contemporary Ireland, and scholarship have served me well in and more. The experience sharpened my graduate school. The honors seminar skills and helped me to conceptualize the provided for a healthy balance between craft of historical study as distinct from the sustained, independent inquiry and guid- other liberal arts. ance and support from my advisors, Pro- Call for contributions to the Toward the end of my junior year, I fessors Hayes and MacLean. I learned how Alumni Bookshelf knew I wanted to write an honors thesis to offer and sustain an original argument, about second-wave feminism, but was how to synthesize disparate archival and Remember the days you couldn’t believe unsure of a specific topic. I approached secondary sources, and how to find and you would complete your 570, much Professor MacLean, with whom I had hone a historical narrative. I also learned to less a dissertation or a book? Current taken a course on 20th century U.S. his- lean on peers for support, intellectual com- students still feel that way sometimes, tory. She agreed to advise my project and munity and proofreading—a very valuable and putting the published books that suggested I look into Women Employed lesson for graduate school. Of all of my stemmed from your dissertations on (WE), a Chicago-based second-wave or- undergraduate experiences, certainly the display in Harris Hall will let them know ganization focused on women’s workplace honors seminar was the most important they can do it, too. Please send Eric West rights. From the Women’s Ephemera Files in preparing me for and convincing me to a copy marked ‘Alumni Bookshelf’ for in Deering Library, I learned that WE attend graduate school. the new bookcase to be unveiled in your and the Chicago chapter of NOW had In the year after college, I moved to honor in September! collaborated in the early 1970s to wage an Washington, D.C., and worked for several employment rights campaign against Sears feminist nonprofit organizations, but soon Roebuck and Company, then the nation’s realized that I wanted to resume studying largest retailer and second largest employer the dynamics of feminist activism. At the of women. This campaign had helped University of Chicago, I’ve studied work-

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History Majors Win Grants to Support Honors Toku Sakai, WCAS Summer Research Grant for “The Hatoyama Doctrine: Thesis Research ‘Self-Reliant’ Independence and the Jap- anese Constitution, 1951-1957.” Toku Max Clarke, WCAS Summer Research Alex Jarrell, WCAS Summer Re- has won a Fulbright to Japan to conduct Grant for “Pipe Dreams: Reading Opium, search Grant for “Windham, Connecti- research at an American military base on Reading Disease in Victorian London.” cut and the Origins of the American the Japanese mainland. Revolution.” Alex went on to Teach for Laura Colee, Summer URG for “The America for 2009-11. Eubhin Song, WCAS Summer Re- End of the Millennium: Defining Chris- search Grant for “‘When Two Koreans tianity through a Jewish Messiah in the Jonathan Kent, WCAS Summer Re- Meet They Establish a Church’: The 17th Century” (winner of the Lassner search Grant for “Stronger than Bombs: Role of Christianity as an Arm of U.S. Prize in Jewish Studies). The Strategic Partnership that Prevailed Hegemony in Korean Immigration to and Guided American Relations into the United States during the 20th Cen- Ryan Erickson, WCAS Summer the 21st Century.” tury through Oral History Interviews.” Research Grant for “The Costs of Good Intentions: The Metropolitan Housing and Michael Marsh-Soloway, WCAS Arianne Urus, Summer URG for Planning Council and Public Housing. “ Summer Research Grant for “Interactions “Body Business: Power Through Pros- Ryan went on to a Northwestern Public Along the Fault Lines of Civilizations: In- titution in Eighteenth-Century Paris,” Interest Program Fellowship for 2009-10 vestigating Literary Transitions and Lega- winner of the 2009 Grace Johnston at the Center on Halsted to work on com- cies in Primary Source Russian Accounts Prize for best senior honors thesis. munity organizing, a position that draws of the Caucasian Conquest (1817-1864).” on his housing research knowledge. Michael is now working on a Slavic Stud- Christopher Wagner, WCAS Sum- ies PhD at University of Virginia. mer Research Grant and Provost’s Office Megan Fitzpatrick, WCAS Sum- Immersion Language Grant (German) mer Research Grant for “A Historical Hannah Morris, WCAS Summer Re- for “But a Storm is Blowing from Para- Worldview: Winston Churchill and the search Grant for “Der Stürmer: Disman- dise: A History of Walter Benjamin’s Mediterranean Strategy.” tling the Attack of Alljuda?” ‘Melancholy.”

Allison Hansen, WCAS Summer Alex Preller, WCAS Summer Re- Research Grant for “Czechoslovakian search Grant for “United States v. Lopez: Resistance 1938-1945: Justification An Examination of the Traditional As- Through History.” sumptions of Conservative Commerce Clause Jurisprudence.”

News of the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies

he Center for Historical Stud- aerospace, combat systems, marine systems, maps to Annette Gordon-Reed (New ies (CHS), established in 2006 and information systems and technology. York Law School) discussing how she to enliven and deepen ongo- Before he joined that firm in 1993, he had tackled her Pulitzer prize-winning book ing conversations among Northwestern a distinguished career as a litigator at the The Hemingses of Monticello. The speakers historiansT about the core concerns of their law firm of Jenner & Block. have included Peter Brown (Princeton) on discipline, was named the Nicholas D. The gift from Nicholas and Eleanor “Work, Alms and the Holy Poor between Chabraja Center for Historical Studies Chabraja allows the Center to continue Syria and Egypt: A Parting of the Ways (CCHS) in winter 2010. Mr. Chabraja and and enhance its wide-ranging programs for in Early Christian Monasticism”; Chris- his wife Eleanor have made a significant faculty, graduate students, and undergrads, topher Bayly (Cambridge) on “Between gift to the Center endowment. A graduate as well as the general public. Annually Repression and Reform: The British of both Weinberg College and the Law the CCHS hosts eight to ten lectures Empire c. 1800-1960”; Laura de Mello School, Chabraja often has commented for History Department audiences and e Souza (São Paulo) on “Rethinking the on how much of lasting value he learned invited guests from other departments and Portuguese Seaborne Empire From the from the legendary teaching of Professor organizations. The lectures have spanned Perspective of Colonial Brazil”; Glenda Richard Leopold. Chabraja is currently an array of topics and historical subfields, Gilmore (Yale) on “The Nazis and Dixie: non-executive chairman of the board of from Karen Wigen (Stanford Univer- An Exercise in International Comparative General Dynamics, which specializes in sity) examining Japanese history through History”; David Levering Lewis (NYU) continued on following page

4 The NewsleTTer of The DeparTmeNT of hisTory aT NorThwesTerN UNiversiTy News of the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies continued faculty Bookshelf on “On Triangulating Seneca Falls, the The Center also co-sponsors relevant ALLEN Niagara Movement, and Reverend Wright: history events on campus, such as the Until the Last Man Comes America in the Obama Era”; Patricia conferences on “1968/2008: The Aesthet- Home: POWs, MIAs, and Limerick (Colorado) on “A Ditch in Time: ics of Engagement” and “From Villas the Unending Vietnam The City, the West, and Water”; Debo- Miseria to Colonias Populares: Latin War. chapel hill: univer- rah Cohen (Brown) on “Family Secrets America’s Informal Cities in Comparative sity of north carolina in Britain: Children Who Disappeared, Perspective” (both in 2008) and “Remem- Press, 2009. 1870-1960”; William Sewell (Chicago) bering Tiananmen: 20th Anniversary on “Capitalism and Social Hierarchy in Symposium” (2009), as well as public Eighteenth-Century France”; and Christof lectures, most recently by Moshe Rosman Mauch (Munich) on “A Tocquevillian (Bar Ilan University and Yale) speak- Perspective: Teaching American History in ing on “How Jewish Is Jewish History? BORDOGNA German Universities.” Jewish Metahistories and the Jewish William James at the Historical Experience” (March Boundaries: Philosophy, 2010). An annual History of the Science, and the Geog- Book lecture jointly sponsored raphy of Knowledge. with the University Library was chicago: university of inaugurated in October 2009 with chicago Press, 2008. a talk by Robert Darnton, head of the Harvard University library system, on “Old Books and E- Books” to an audience of about 120 BREEN avid listeners. The CCHS book American Insurgents, launch series started with a recep- American Patriots: The tion and book-signing of the new Revolution of the People. Dick Leopold biography, Steven J. new york: hill and wang, Harper’s Straddling Two Worlds: The 2010. Jewish-American Journey of Professor Richard W. Leopold in January 2008, and in March 2010, ten books published since December 2008 by faculty of the History Department FISCHER were displayed and celebrated at a A Poverty of Rights: In addition, the eminent English reception in the Guild Lounge. Citizenship and Inequal- historian John Morrill came from Cam- Each year the Center selects two ity in Twentieth-Century bridge University to stay in Evanston for graduate students to serve as Fellows Rio de Janeiro. stanford: two weeks in Spring 2009 as the CHS of the Center, which entails organiz- stanford university Press, Distinguished Resident Scholar, meeting ing a one-day graduate conference on 2008. with our historians and giving a series of a significant historical topic pertinent three lectures on “Living with Revolution: to their research. An eminent historian Rethinking 17th-Century Britain and Ire- from outside Northwestern is invited to land.” Other Center events have included give a keystone lecture and our own or public panel discussions by Northwestern outside faculty comment on the papers. In LASSNER historians on the state of the profession 2007-2008, we had sessions on environ- (with michael Bonner) (one on the responsibilities of historians to mental history and social history, in 2009 Islam in the Middle Ages: their society and another on the future of a conference on madness in history, and in The Origins and Shaping history) and lectures especially designed to spring 2010 gatherings on biography and of Classical Islamic Civi- help graduate students deal with profes- on emotions in history. lization. santa Barbara: sional challenges. These last included An innovative program of interna- Praeger, 2009. Walter Woodward, State Historian of tional doctoral workshops, jointly spon- Connecticut, speaking on “Opportunities sored with foreign institutions of higher and Needs in the Field of Public History” learning, was initiated by the CCHS in and Olivia Mahoney, Chief Curator of the 2008-2009. Competitively selected NU Chicago History Museum, on “History History graduate students meet with their profession, and engage in discussions of Museums: Career Opportunities and peers in or from other parts of the world, their research during an intensive two-day Challenges.” network, compare notes on the state of the workshop. Our workshops were in Galway, continued on page 6

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continued from page 5 News of the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies continued

Ireland (Fall 2008), Munich, Germany Fellows started work in 2008-2009. Forty color-coded (Spring 2009), and Cambridge, UK (Fall undergrads applied for nine spots in 2009- maps of 2009). Future workshops are planned for 2010, attesting to the popularity of this grocers in Italy, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Turkey, program. Leopold Fellows have worked on Cincinnati and India. We also schedule workshops in such disparate tasks as exploring skepti- in the 19th C. in order to study small busi- Evanston with our international partners. cism in early modern Venice on the basis nesses in urban communities in America. For undergraduates the Leopold Fel- of the hundreds of books and pamphlets Some Leopold Fellows have used their lowship program (named in honor of Pro- published over a thirty year period in the foreign language skills, working with mate- fessor Richard Leopold and funded in part early 17th Century by members of a debat- rials in Latin, Italian, Spanish, German, by generous gifts from his former students) ing society called the Academy of the Un- Russian, Korean, and Chinese. offers the opportunity to work closely with knowns; digging into archives on colonial Details of current and past events and primary historical materials under the unrest and vigilante groups in towns of programs of the CCHS can be found at guidance of faculty, doing actual archival coastal Maine in the run-up to the Ameri- http://www.historicalstudies.northwestern. research and learning how to transform can Revolution; analyzing documents on edu/index.htm. raw data into historical interpretation. The the German “narrative of suffering” before first group of ten undergraduate Leopold and after World War II; and digitizing

Faculty News

Ken Alder has been busy on his “forensic for the new Kaplan Humanities Scholars has become an expert on Shawn Johnson self ” project--a history of the sciences of Program. This program, under the aegis and gymnastics practices, as her daughter personal identification from the Renais- of the Kaplan Humanities Institute, has is determined to win the 2016 all-around sance to the genome--thanks to grants enrolled a group of 48 talented freshmen Olympic title. from the National Science Foundation and in each of the past three fall quarters. The Guggenheim Foundation. (Though he has students take two linked courses in the fall T.H. Breen devoted much of the last yet to watch an episode of CSI.) His The and another two in the winter. The Evans- year to transforming an experiment into Lie Detectors (2007) is being translated into Smith-Binford team created a seminar and a permanent and well-funded Center Japanese and Czech, and the University of a lecture titled Brave New Worlds, which for Historical Studies with the generous Chicago Press is republishing his Engi- examined visions of a better (or worse) support of former University President neering the Revolution (1997). He admits to society in the western world from Thomas Henry Bienen and Trustee Nicholas being baffled by the third person singular. More to Aldous Huxley and beyond. The Chabraja. In August 2011 the Chabraja offered this two-course package in 2007 Center will move into new offices and a Since returning to Northwestern in Fall and 2008 and found the collaboration a reading room in the space being created by 2008, Michael Allen has moved offices wonderfully enriching experience. the extension of the lower level of Harris twice, taught three new courses, and pub- Hall to the south. While the Center was lished his first book, Until The Last Man In 2008 Francesca Bordogna was taking shape, Breen managed to complete Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unend- promoted to Associate Professor, and her a new book American Insurgents, American ing Vietnam War (UNC Press, 2009). He book, William James at the Boundaries, was Patriots: The Revolution of the People and to also commenced work on two new projects published by the University of Chicago give endowed lectures at the University of (an article on Operation Babylift and a Press. Bordogna also edited an Italian Vermont and Notre Dame. The topic of book-length study of efforts to rein in the version of William James’s The Meaning of the latter presentation was “Memories of powers of the imperial presidency from Truth, for Nino Aragno press in 2010. In the Siege of Derry: Irish Revolutionaries the Vietnam War through the Iran-Contra 2008-2009, she was appointed Director of in Northern New England.” Affair), accompanied five NU graduate the Science in Human Culture program, students to Munich for the Center for a position she will resume this fall after John Bushnell has in the last two years Historical Studies’ International Doctoral spending the academic year 2009-2010 at spent much time in Russian provincial Workshop, and said goodbye to his dog the Max Planck Institute for the History archives tracking down and trying to Harper, who passed away after twelve of Science in Berlin, where she is drafting understand and explain variant marriage wonderful years. a new book entitled “The Pragmatist Ho- practices: bride theft (usually elopement, tel: Psychology and Philosophy as a Way but acted out as bride theft) in Russia’s In the summer of 2007, Henry Bin- of Life.” She is also carrying on research northern provinces and resistance to ford began working with Professors Carl for a third (long-term) book project on the daughters’ marriage for religious reasons. Smith and Kasey Evans of the English epistemology and psychology of the “inner He gave papers on both these subjects and department to create the pilot courses senses” in mystical practices. Bordogna is turning them into chapters of a book.

6 The Newsletter of the Department of History at Northwestern University Faculty news continued Gerry Cadava is finishing up his second Inequality in 20th Century Rio de Janeiro, faculty Bookshelf busy year at Northwestern, and he can’t was published by Stanford in 2008 and believe how fast the time has passed! He promptly received awards from the Social finished his dissertation at Yale, signed a Science History Association, the Urban book contract with Harvard University History Association, and the Confer- Press, gave a few public lectures, and ence on Latin American History. Since began developing courses on Latinos in 2007, she has been at work on a new LIGHT The Nature of Cities: the United States and the U.S.-Mexico project on urbanization and migration Ecological Visions and borderlands. Since he moved to Chicago, in post-abolition Brazil. The project has the American Urban he also has co-chaired the Newberry led her down many side paths, including Professions, 1920–1960. Library’s Seminar in Borderlands and explorations of the work of early hunger Baltimore: Johns hopkins Latino Studies. All this, plus planning to activist Josue de Castro and the roots of university Press, 2009. marry Kathleen Belew, a Ph.D. can- racial silence in debates about Brazilian didate in American Studies at Yale, in urban social policy. In recent years, she has Gerry’s hometown of Tucson, Arizona on presented this new work at Harvard, Chi- September 25, 2010. Honeymoon ideas, cago, Michigan, Columbia, Illinois, and anyone? Indiana, as well as in LASA, BRASA, and LYNN several Brazilian universities. For 2010- Women, Armies, and Peter Carroll gave a paper, “Homicide 11, Fischer has been awarded an ACLS Warfare in Early Modern and Lesbian Panic during the Nanjing Burkhardt Fellowship, and she will enjoy Europe. new york: cam- Decade,” at the “Third International the time to read and think in residence at bridge university Press, Conference on the History of Modern the Newberry Library. She is hoping to 2009. Chinese Urban Culture” at Huazhong spend most of the summers of 2010 and shifan daxue, Wuhan, China, in July 2009. 2011 researching in Brazil, so long as her He then spent the next month eating family’s enthusiasm for beaches, futbol, well in Guangzhou (a sidewalk luncheon and pão de queijo holds out! of stir-fried frog and greens for the sum MACLEAN Benjamin Frommer of $1.80 was, perhaps, his favorite meal) won a Fulbright The American Women’s and enjoying the pleasures of research- Senior Scholar Research Fellowship to the Movement, 1945-2000: A ing Republican era history in a beautiful Czech Republic, where he is currently on Brief History with Docu- Republican era building, the Sun Yat-sen leave for the academic year 2009-10. He ments. Boston: Bedford/st. Library. is studying the development, implementa- martin’s, 2009. tion, and enforcement of antisemitic laws Dyan Elliott returned to teaching this in Bohemia and Moravia during the Nazi fall after a very productive year’s leave. She occupation. It’s not a pleasant topic, but completed a draft of her book manuscript, the archivists are friendly enough and the which examines the image of the Bride of materials fascinating. MACLEAN Christ from apostolic times through the (with Donald t. critchlow) fifteenth century. The general argument Jonathon Glassman presented papers Debating the American is that the gradual superimposition of at Johns Hopkins University, the Uni- Conservative Movement: this image on religiously inclined women versity of Michigan, and Northwestern’s 1945 to the Present. anticipated the rise of witchcraft charges. Sociology Department. His article on lanham, md.: rowman & The undoubted high points of her leave racial violence and historical memory has littlefield, 2009. were her inaugural lecture as Peter B. appeared in Abolitionism and Imperialism Ritzma Chair and a residential fellow- in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic, edited ship beside the Mediterranean Sea. In by Derek Peterson (Ohio University the former, she spoke on the medieval Press, 2010), and earlier articles have MOKYR underpinnings of the modern day sex been reprinted in volumes published by The Enlightened Economy: scandal. The fellowship was at the Liguria Routledge (New Imperial Histories Reader) An Economic History of Study Center in Bogliasco, a town located and the Fondazione Istituto Gramsci (a Britain 1700-1850. new on the outskirts of Genoa. Here Dyan translation of his very first publication, on haven: yale university and ten other scholars and artists were Swahili slave resistance, in Studi Grams- Press, 2010. pampered for thirty-five blissful days. ciani nel Mondo). His newest book is now in press: War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Brodie Fischer was promoted to As- Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar sociate Professor in 2008. Her book, (Indiana University Press). A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and

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Faculty News continued

Regina Grafe returned to Chicago in out Borders: Feminist Artist Tomiyama Henri Lauzière gathered all his belong- August after an intense twelve months Taeko and Social Responsibility will be ings, which were scattered over three at the Institute for Advanced Studies in preceded by a gorgeous website, courtesy cities in Canada and the US, and officially Princeton and has been enjoying quiet city of the Academic Technologies group at moved to the Chicago area in the fall of life even more since she escaped the stress Northwestern University. Check it out 2009. After a few mishaps, including an of the New Jersey woods. Her sabbatical at http://www.library.northwestern.edu/ intentional short drive backwards on I-294 was almost entirely devoted to her new imaginationwithoutborders/ . She spent during rush hour, he was able to settle book Distant Tyranny: Markets, Power six months in Japan in 2009, courtesy of a down, to locate his office, and to start and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800, Fulbright Senior Research award, happily working as the newest member of the his- which is now in the final stages. That is enjoying the illusion of living alone in a tory department. Since then, he has taught just as well, since after almost five years of tiny downtown Tokyo apartment until the classes on the Arabian Peninsula and the trying to figure out why Spain never quite weather warmed up and she discovered Middle East in general. He also completed became a nation state or a national market the hordes of cockroaches who thought an article entitled “The Construction of in the early modern period, she is looking the place belonged to them. One of her Salafiyya: Reconsidering Salafism from the forward to her next project, which will recent essays, “The Cultural Career of the Perspective of Conceptual History,” which cross the Spanish Atlantic and possibly Japanese Economy” was published in Third will appear in the August 2010 issue of the even make a stopover in Manila. World Quarterly (no, Japan does not fit that International Journal of Middle East Studies. category), and, in abridged form, at Asia Peter Hayes spent 2008-09 prepar- Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, an innovative Tessie Liu is serving as Director of ing for his term as department chair by web-based, peer-reviewed journal, which Graduate Studies in the Gender Studies being on academic leave. He finished she helps coordinate. Program for academic years 2009-10 and co-editing a mammoth compendium, 2010-11. Her article on “Beauty” was pub- The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies, Rajeev Kinra spent several weeks in the lished in The Palgrave Dictionary of Trans- and co-writing an almost equally large spring of 2009 as one of two Virani Lec- national History, edited by Akira Iriye and manuscript, entitled Das Amt und die turers in Islamic Studies at the University Pierre Yves Saunier (New York: Palgrave/ Vergangenheit: Die Deutsche Diplomaten im of British Columbia. Soon after, he was Macmillan, 2009). Another article, “The Nationalsozialismus und in der Bundesre- awarded a National Endowment for the Secret Beyond White Patriarchal Power: publik, both of which will appear in 2010. Humanities research fellowship, which Race, Gender, and Freedom in the Last He also wrote a new introduction for the will support him during the 2010-11 Days of Colonial Saint-Domingue” will republication of Franz Neumann’s famous academic year, as he works to complete be published in French Historical Studies book, Behemoth: The Structure and Practice his a book tentatively titled Writing Self, later this year. Tessie spent December 2009 of National Socialism (Chicago: Ivan Dee, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman in Paris doing final research for her book 2009); presented lectures at Southeast and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian which is provisionally entitled Failure of Missouri State, the German Historical State Secretary. In the fall, he had an article Enlightenment, Not of Darkness: Race, Free- Institute in Washington, the University of published in the Journal of Persianate dom and Citizenship Between the French and Southern California, Colby College, Yale, Studies, and another article is forthcom- Haitian Revolutions. Northwestern, and the Annual Conven- ing in a volume called Language, Culture, tion of the Association of Jewish Libraries; and Power: New Directions in South Asian Robert Lerner (Emeritus 2008) was and served as director and chief instructor Studies. Rajeev also led two seminars for intrigued when one of his former gradu- of the Silberman Seminar for College and high school teachers on various aspects of ate students called in early May 2008 University Teachers at the U.S. Holocaust medieval and early modern South Asian to say: “word has it that you’re retiring, Memorial Museum. In 2009-10, his hands cultural history through the Newberry no?” Since he couldn’t deny that, the were full with administrative duties, but he Library Teachers’ Consortium, and he con- conversation soon revealed that many of continued to teach his large lecture course tributed in November to the Department’s his former students had been planning a on the history of the Holocaust and to “History behind the Headlines” round-table retirement festivity for two years and all co-teach a multinational and multilingual on escalation in Afghanistan. In March had kept mum until then. So a “Lerner- seminar with Michael Loriaux, this year 2010, he was the guest lecturer at a benefit palooza” was held on the last weekend of on The Future of the University in France, organized by the Chicago chapter of Iraq May, including two magnificent banquets Germany, and the US. Veterans against the War, where he did and a daylong conference, including four his best not to dampen the other present- speakers flown in from Europe, several of Laura Hein and her co-editor, Re- ers’ humor and pathos by addressing the Lerner’s research colleagues from the U.S., becca Jennison, delivered a book about a event’s theme — “What the Hell do You and a good number of his former graduate contemporary Japanese visual artist who Know about Afghanistan?” — from a deep students. Despite some wildly errone- deals with themes of war and remem- historical perspective. ous comments to the effect that he was a brance to the Center for Japanese Studies, taskmaster, he could not have been more The University of Michigan Press, for gratified and touched. In 2008-09, Lerner publication this fall. Imagination With- spoke at conferences in Modena, Milan,

8 The Newsletter of the Department of History at Northwestern University Faculty news continued Munich, Budapest, Erlangen, and Girona; leave at the National Humanities Center faculty Bookshelf a second volume of his collected essays in 2008-2009, which led to involvement was published in Italian translation as with Durham for Obama, weekend trips Scrutare il futuro; Cornell University Press to the mountains and the ocean, and put out a new paperback edition of his The more. When not hand-wringing with Powers of Prophecy (originally published spouse Bruce Orenstein over how to make in 1983; Amazon sales rank: #4,780,779); the most of life after 50, she managed to MOKYR (ed., with David s. landes and essays by him appeared in the Journal launch a new project on the segregationist and william J. Baumol) of the Historical Society, Mediaeval Studies, sources of American neo-liberalism and The Invention of Enter- Oliviana, and Utopies i alternatives de vida publish two books designed for class- prise: Entrepreneurship a l’edat mitjana. room use: The American Women’s Move- from Ancient Mesopo- ment, 1945-2000: A Brief History with tamia to Modern Times. Melissa Macauley spent the 2008-2009 Documents, and, with Donald Critchlow, Princeton: Princeton year as a member of the Institute for Ad- Debating the American Conservative Move- university Press, 2010. vanced Study, where she managed to write ment, 1945 to the Present. a good portion of her next book in spite of spending an inordinate amount of time Kate Masur spent much of the last year PETROVSKY-SHTERN dodging herds of wild beasts who insisted finishing her book, An Example for All the Jews in the Russian Army, on wandering out of their assigned forest. Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over 1827–1917: Drafted into An article appeared in the journal, Late Equality in Washington, D.C., which the Modernity. new york: Imperial China, in 2009, as did a chapter in University of North Carolina Press will cambridge university Shared Histories of Modernity: China, India, publish in the fall. She wrote an essay on Press, 2008. and the Ottoman Empire (edited by Huri the meanings of social, civil, and political Islamoglu and Peter Perdue and published equality that will come out this summer by Routledge) and a translation of a piece in the Marquette Law Review, and her ar- she published in 2001 in a collection of es- ticle on a famous meeting between Abra- says by American, European, and Japanese ham Lincoln and a delegation of black PETROVSKY-SHTERN scholars of traditional Chinese law (edited Washingtonians will soon be published The Anti-Imperial Choice: by Zhang Shiming, et al. and published in Civil War History. Kate returned to The Making of the Ukrai- by the Legal Press of China in 2010). She her American Studies roots this year, co- nian Jew. new haven: yale presented research on a range of topics in teaching with English professor Ivy Wil- university Press, 2009. Chinese and Southeast Asian history— son an interdisciplinary graduate course smuggling, the transnational repercussions on antebellum black political culture. The of rural counterinsurgency campaigns in two hosted a symposium on the same the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, topic at Northwestern this spring. She the Chinese commercial mastery over their received a Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship British running dogs in the late nine- from the ACLS to conduct research in teenth century—to audiences at Columbia, 2010-11 on her next book, which will look WILLS Princeton, Yale, Chicago, Northwestern, at the social and political history of Afri- Bomb Power: The Modern the Institute for Advanced Study, and can American federal employees from the Presidency and the Na- the Association for Asian Studies. In Civil War to the Wilson administration. In tional Security State. new recent years, she has also emerged as a pet her spare time (?), Kate has been working york: Penguin Press, 2010 crank of the editorial board of the New with other parents on getting healthier York Times, which regularly publishes her foods into the Evanston public schools. letters-to-the-editor concerning politi- cal shenanigans of which she thoroughly Since the last newsletter, Sarah Maza disapproves. spent an idyllic year (2008-09) at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behav- Nancy MacLean is taking up a position ioral Sciences at Stanford, then a less idyl- at Duke University in the fall of 2010, after lic year (2009-10) as interim chair of the 20 wonderful years at Northwestern. She is department presiding over the move from recently completed a new book tentatively deeply grateful to colleagues and students Harris Hall into our temporary quarters entitled The Crime of Violette Noziere: A for filling those years with learning and in downtown Evanston. (She can’t claim Murder in 1930s Paris, a hair-raising story laughter. With all the exciting things hap- much credit for the smoothness of the of parricide and incest (plus some social pening here, leaving was difficult–-but life move, which was entirely handled by Paula and cultural history), which the Univer- without Chicago winters and in a home and the rest of our amazing staff.) She is sity of California Press will publish in the in the woods beckoned. Blame it all on a now happily retired from “power” and has spring of 2011.

9 2010

Faculty News continued

Jock McLane is serving his final year as not be described in polite company. Dur- emeritus any day now because he has Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the ing the various recuperation periods, he been receiving things that fall in your lap Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. In killed time by finishing a 550 pp. monster at the end of a career: he was just named August, he will end his 49 years of employ- called The Enlightened Economy, which Yale President-Elect of the Renaissance Society ment at Northwestern and begin a study University Press published this past winter, of America, and the big surprise was the of cattle in Indian society and politics. and co-edited The Invention of Enterprise Distinguished Achievement Award from This March, he accompanied a group of (with William Baumol and David S. Lan- the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which Northwestern students to Rajasthan where des), which appeared from Princeton Uni- will keep him busy for the next few years. they studied water resources in the desert versity Press even more recently. Armed He is tempted to say he will never retire near the India-Pakistan border. Also in with a metal walking cane (to suppress until the Cubs win the World Series, but March, Oxford University Press published any possible hostile questions), he and that is really asking too much of the Cubs his chapter on “Hindu Victimhood and Robert C. Allen (Oxford) gave the closing and Ed. India’s Muslim Minority” in Fundamental- plenary addresses to the World Economic ist Mindset: Psychological Perspectives on Re- History Congress in the huge cathedral of Alex Owen is at work on a third book ligion, Violence, and History, (ed. by Charles Utrecht in August 2010, each explaining project tentatively entitled Culture, Psyche B Strozier, David M. Terman, and James the Industrial Revolution in 20 minutes. and the Soul in Twentieth Century Britain W. Jones, with Katharine A. Boyd). Meanwhile, he continues to straddle the which centrally investigates attempts to Economics and History departments, reconcile different forms of religiosity Joel Mokyr has had the dubious honor of trying unsuccessfully to blend into two with a new and secular understanding having his physician write a medical-scien- non-overlapping cultures and serving as an of the mind and self. The project marks tific paper about Joel’s misadventures with equal-opportunity nuisance to both, and he an intervention in the vigorous renewed orthopedic surgeons who implanted, then serves on a variety of committees. national and international debate about the removed, then implanted again a metal hip. purchase of religion in modern life. She The net result was many months of lost Bill Monter (Emeritus 2002) devoted published “Sexual Politics,” in Women and work and unpleasant symptoms that may 2008 and 2009 to the pleasant task of Religion: Critical Concepts in Religious Stud- spending somebody ies, vol. iv, Pamela Klassen, ed. (London: else’s money -- a Routledge, 2009). Paula Blaskovits , History Department, Named Mellon Emeritus Northwestern Evanston Campus 2008 Employee Fellowship -- and Susan Pearson completed work on is allotting 2010 to her book, The Arm of the Law: Protect- of the Year. CONGRATULATIONS, PAULA! the more challenging ing Animals and Children in Gilded Age task of turning much America, and looks forward to seeing it in extremely heteroge- print soon. She also published an essay neous information in the Journal of Social History, “Infantile into a comparative Specimens: Showing Babies in Nineteenth global history of Century America,” for which she received female kingship. It the Best Article Prize from the Society for was supposed to end the History of Children and Youth. She’s with the inauguration beginning work on a new project on birth of Hillary Clinton, registration practices in the United States but unforeseen events and is looking forward to attending a sem- intervened, so it now inar on the History of Vital Registration in ends with an image Cambridge, England this September. of Margaret Thatcher reviewing troops in Dylan Penningroth welcomed a son Bermuda in 1990. into the world, August Chen-Penningroth, in March 2009. Over the past year of Edward Muir’s so, his two research projects took him travels took him to Ghana, Mississippi, New Jersey, and From left: Ann Ross, Feinberg School of Medicine (Finalist - Chicago); Kenneth during the past year downstate Illinois. One of the projects, on Vianni, Office for Research (Finalist - Evanston); Sachin Patel, School of Continu- from Provo, Utah to African Americans in local courts, received ing Studies (Employee of the Year Winner - Chicago); Paula Blaskovits, Wein- St. Petersburg, Russia timely support from the National Science berg College of Arts and Sciences (Employee of the Year Winner - Evanston); and lots of points in Foundation. An article with preliminary A. Sage Smith, Law Legal Clinic (Finalist -Chicago); Marsha Coffey, Weinberg between. He feels findings from the other project was rec- College of Arts and Sciences (Finalist - Evanston) that people expect ognized with the EBSCOHost/America: him to become History and Life Award.

10 The Newsletter of the Department of History at Northwestern University continued from page 1 Faculty News continued Message from the Chair, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern last year critiquing another draft emanating from was named by the Associated Student the Ministerio de Gobernación. Peter Hayes continued Government to the Faculty Honor Roll, received the Weinberg College Distin- David Schoenbrun spent 2009-10 as guished Teaching Award, won the first an NEH Fellow at the National Humani- We’re also gratified to be doing better than prize of the Ab Imperio journal “for the ties Center in North Carolina writing a many History Departments in holding the inter- best article in 10 years introducing new book called Killer Kings and the Moralities est and loyalty of students. In 2009, 120 gradu- documents in Russian history,” published of Power: Political Culture in East Africa to ating seniors majored in history, and the likely a book, The Anti-Imperial Choice, with the 19th century. He traveled to Uganda number this June is almost exactly the same. Yale University Press, and was appointed twice to work at the Makerere University Enrollments recently have risen dramatically— Director of the Crown Family Center for Library and renew professional ties and old from about 3300 in 2008-09 to almost 4200 Jewish Studies Center at Northwestern friendships. He also team taught a course this year--not least because History Department and Visiting Professor at Free Ukrainian on “African Freedom, Black Justice” (with faculty have won more Northwestern teaching University in Munich. He has been happy Prof. Yari Perez-Marin of Spanish and awards than any other department on campus, as never before. Portuguese and Prof. Sherwin Bryant of and we’re advertising in The Daily Northwestern African American Studies and History) in to make sure students know that (see the back Carl F. Petry now holds the Hamad ibn Winter 2009, as part of the Kaplan Schol- page of this Newsletter). Equally significant Khalifa al-Thani Chair in Middle East ars program. He published “African Pasts is the rising number of research experiences Studies. He has been informed that this for African Futures in a Time of Radical we are able to offer undergraduates, notably moniker sounds like a tongue twister, Environmental Change: Notes on History through the flourishing Senior Honors Seminar but the title refers to the member of the and Policy in Africa’s Reconstruction,” and Leopold Fellows programs. Qatari royal family who had the idea to Program of African Studies Working Paper These successes and the others described invest some of the emirate’s wealth in Number 17 (2009), 43 pp. and “The Vicis- in these pages would be impossible without higher education. He continues to make situdes of Language in Writing Precolo- the generous support of our alumni, Weinberg progress on his study of medieval crime nial African History,” H-Net, (2010), 32 College, and the University. We thank you all and presented an example of his research paragraphs. His collaborative digital video very much and assure you that we’ll continue in June 2009 at a conference convened project on glass trade beads (Executive to devote our best efforts to the Department’s by the Centre d’études supérieures de la Produced with Kearsley Stewart, Anthro- scholarly and pedagogical missions. Renaissance (Université François Rabe- pology, and Harlan Wallach, NUAMPS), We also hope that you will enjoy reading the lais, Tours, France). His paper compared “Controlling the Fire: Individuation, Newsletter and that you will heed our call for an espionage trial linking a Persian spy Industry, and Investment in West Africa,” news of YOU. Please let us know of your activi- to Ethiopian Christian plans to invade reached final cut and was screened at the ties and accomplishments for the next issue! Egypt in the fifteenth century. Whatever 52nd Annual Meeting of the African the substantive merits of this venture, the Studies Association in New Orleans. All best, Peter conference venue—a Loire chateau--was spectacular. The French know how to handle Michael Sherry became Medicare- these affairs. eligible; put new or long-neglected courses into the mix of his teaching; plugged along Frank Safford is retiring at the end of with researching, writing, and speaking Power. He received honorary doctorates the 2009-10 academic year. In September, about his current project, Go Directly to Jail: from the University of Connecticut, Bard he will present a paper in Salamanca on The Punitive Turn in American Life, with College, and Knox College, and a Lifetime the formation of national states in Latin invaluable research assistance from two Achievement Award from the English America, analyzing the role of eight vari- of the department’s Leopold Fellows; and Speaking Union in New York. He spoke ables in five cases (Chile, Argentina, Brazil, basked in the glow of great achievements about the National Security State on the Colombia, and Mexico). He and Joan will by past and current graduate students. Charlie Rose Show, the Colbert Report, go on from Spain to Turkey. In March Morning Joe, and Fresh Air, and at the 2011, Safford will teach in the Facultad Amy Stanley finished her book manu- Commonwealth Club in San Francisco de Administración of the Universidad de script, which is tentatively titled Selling and the University of California at Berkeley. los Andes in Bogotá. The real news is Joan Women: Prostitution, Markets, and Moral- Safford, who for some years now has been ity in Early Modern Japan, just before helping Mexico through the transition giving birth to her first child, Sam Albert from its version of the Napoleonic penal Zakarin, in May. system to some version of the “accusato- rial” system. With a Mexican and a Costa In the last two years, Garry Wills Rican, she wrote a draft of a new penal (Emeritus 2005) published two books: procedure code for Mexico. She is now Martial: Selected Epigrams, and Bomb

11 2010

ALUMNI News

David A. Armour (PhD 1965, disser- Nicholas Baker (PhD 2007) is settling Marisa Chappell (PhD 2002), an tation: The Merchants of Albany, New back into life in Australia and is thor- Assistant Professor at Oregon State York: 1686-1760 directed by Clarence oughly enjoying Sydney’s balmy winters University, celebrated the publication Ver Steeg) retired October 1, 2003, (if one can call 60 degree tempera- of two books in the last year. Welfare in after 36 years as Deputy Director of tures winter). He won the 2009 Wil- the United States: A History with Docu- Mackinac State Historic Parks, Macki- liam Nelson Prize for the Best Article ments, 1935-1996 (Routledge, 2009) is a nac Island, Michigan. There he restored published in Renaissance Quarterly for co-authored book designed for under- and reconstructed Fort Mackinac, Fort “For Reasons of State: Political Execu- graduate classroom use. The other is the Michilimackinac, and Historic Mill tions, Republicanism, and the Medici in long awaited monograph based on her Creek State Parks, which host 400,000 Florence, 1480-1560” (v. 62, no. 2). With Northwestern dissertation! The War on visitors annually. At his retirement the assistance from a Renaissance Society Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Governor of Michigan spoke, his staff of America/Istituto Nazionale di Studi Modern America is now available from presented him with a silver bowl, and sul Rinascimento Research Grant, he the University of Pennsylvania Press. he received awards from the Michigan recently finished transforming his dis- Museum Association and the Historical sertation into a book manuscript, while David C. Davis (PhD 1984) is now Society of Michigan. Armour retired to a grant from Macquarie University has Vice President of Academic Affairs and his hometown, Grove City, Pennsyl- enabled him to commence a new project Dean of the College at Millsaps College vania, where he is currently an adjunct exploring the concept of sovereignty and in Jackson, MS. He has been there since professor at Grove City College. the gap between the claims and limits of 1989, after teaching for four years at power in sixteenth century Tuscany. Brown. Aaron Astor (PhD 2006) will publish his revised dissertation on the grassroots Jim Bergquist (PhD 1958) retired Sean Field (PhD 2002) was promoted politics in Civil War and Reconstruction from Villanova in December 2001, but in 2008 to tenured Associate Professor Kentucky and Missouri with LSU Press has kept busy in various professional of History at the University of Vermont. in early 2011. Going native in East Ten- ways, e.g., editing the newsletter of the He is currently working on a new book nessee, he is beginning his new project: Immigration and Ethnic History Society project entitled The Beguine, the Angel, a digital, GIS-based history of the Civil and being active in various committees and the Inquisitor: The Trial of Marguerite War in Appalachian East Tennessee. of the American Association of Uni- Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart, which versity Professors. For his most recent is under contract with University of Rick Ashton (PhD 1973) retired in publication, see the Alumni Bookshelf. Notre Dame Press. early 2006 as City Librarian of the Den- ver Public Library, where he had served Wayne H. Bowen (PhD 1996), is Chris Hodson (PhD 2004) is an as- since 1985. He was recognized for Professor and Chair of the Department sistant professor at BYU. He is finish- leading the transformation of the library at Southeast Missouri State University. ing his first book, to be published by from a rule-bound local government Among his recent works (see the Alum- Oxford, and with Brett Rushforth of agency into an active intellectual and ni Bookshelf ), Bowen is most proud of William and Mary, he is working on a cultural servant of the community. New Undoing Saddam, a war diary based on second project to be published by Basic and expanded buildings, enriched col- his 2004 service in Operation Iraqi Free- Books. They recently received an ACLS lections and technology, increased levels dom, where he served as a Civil Affairs Collaborative Research Grant to fund of use, high public approval ratings, officer in the Army Reserve, responsible their research and writing. Chris and and top-tier national rankings were the for higher education and antiquities in wife Sarah have three children: Isaac, 9, evidence of change. In June 2007, after northern Iraq. He earned the Bronze Libby, 5, and Luke, 2. They enjoy living eighteen months of reading, travel, teach- Star and Combat Action Badge for his in northern Utah for its natural beauty ing, consulting, and crossword puzzles, he tour working to preserve archaeologi- and its relentlessly progressive, left- moved to Chicago to begin work as Chief cal sites and modernize universities and leaning political culture. Operating Officer of the Urban Libraries technical schools after decades of neglect Council, the leading organization com- and warfare. Bowen continues to serve in Brian Maxson (PhD 2008) enjoys mitted to strengthening the public library the Army Reserve. teaching first-generation college stu- as an essential part of urban life. dents in Appalachia. Currently he is sip-

12 The Newsletter of the Department of History at Northwestern University ALUMNI News continued ping a cappuccino in a cafe overlooking his manuscript, Daily Demonstrators: Timothy Walch (PhD 1975) is direc- the Arno as spends the spring semester The Civil Rights Movement in Men- tor of the Herbert Hoover Presidential in Florence revising his dissertation into nonite Homes and Sanctuaries. Once he Library Museum in the president’s a book. completes the onerous task of generating hometown of West Branch, Iowa. The an index, the book will be complete and Hoover Library is one of twelve such Guy Ortolano (PhD 2005) recently available this fall. Shearer is an Assistant libraries that are part of the National joined several Northwestern alumni in Professor of History and the African- Archives and Records Administration. the History Department at NYU. Cam- American Studies Coordinator at the He recently succeeded in raising close to bridge published an expanded version University of Montana. a million dollars to produce a one-hour of his 570 paper last year, so now he’s documentary film on Hoover for broad- rummaging through his desk trying to Naoko Shibusawa (PhD 1998) is an cast on public television in 2009. He find that 580. associate professor at Brown, where she’s also was one of the featured commenta- found that post-tenure life means being tors for the inaugural episode of the Graham Peck (PhD 2001) spent his overloaded with service. In addition C-SPAN series, “Presidential Libraries: first summer after leaving Northwest- to being on department and university History Uncovered” that was broadcast ern at Rhodes College in Memphis committees, guiding undergrads through in 2007. He can be reached by e-mail at: and since then has been at Saint Xavier Brown’s open curriculum, and agreeing [email protected]. University in Chicago. He has published to sponsor a study group for some activ- three articles on Lincoln and Douglas ist students, she is this year’s co-chair John S. Watterson (PhD 1970) has in the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln of the annual meeting of SHAFR. She lived in Charlottesville, Virginia since Association and is now on a full-year needs to start saying “no,” but found 1991. He continues to teach part-time sabbatical completing his book manu- herself saying “yes” to a request from at James Madison University in nearby script entitled Abraham Lincoln, Stephen her former Northwestern professor to Harrisonburg. In 2006, The Johns Hop- A. Douglas, and the Coming of the Civil be on next year’s OAH program com- kins University Press published his most War. He and his wife have two daugh- mittee. She has an essay overdue for a recent work, The Games Presidents Play, ters, Nicola and Sylvia, aged eight and Cold War anthology co-edited by Petra Sports and the Presidency. His earlier four, and watching them grow up is the Goedde (PhD 1995) and a book overdue publication with Johns Hopkins, College highlight of their parents’ lives. for Chuck Grench of UNC. But she Football, History, Spectacle, Controversy, continues to enjoy teaching; a highlight was also reissued with a new epilogue Amanda Seligman (PhD 1999) is last semester was having Tim Shannon by the author. He can be contacted at working on multiple projects, including (PhD 1993) video skype her class to [email protected]. an article about block clubs, an Encyclo- discuss his book, Iroquois Diplomacy on pedia of Milwaukee, and an introduc- the Indian Frontier. James Wolfinger (PhD 2003) tion to graduate school, the last inspired recently received tenure at DePaul Uni- by conversations with classmates from Robert Slayton (PhD 1982) is a full versity where he continues to teach in Northwestern. Now a tenured Associate professor in the Department of History the history department and the history Professor in the history department at at Chapman University in Orange, CA, education program. His first book came the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and in 2005 became the Henry Salvatori out in 2007 (see Alumni Bookshelf ), she also directs UWM’s Urban Studies Professor of American Values and Tradi- and his articles have appeared in Labor Programs. She has two daughters, Irene tions. He is finishing a biography of and the Journal of Urban History, among (2) and Sophonisba (5), named after General William Tunner, commander of other venues. He is currently working Sophonisba Breckinridge, whose schol- the Berlin Airlift, for the University of on a history of mass transit in Philadel- arship Amanda first encountered during Alabama Press and is starting work on a phia with the working title of Capital’s her time at Northwestern. study of the Ashcan School artists. Quest: Management, Labor, and the Search for Social Control in Philadelphia’s Mass Tobin Miller Shearer (PhD 2008) Joel Tarr (PhD 1963) is Richard S. Transit Industry. He received a Franklin is eagerly waiting for the production Caliguiri University Professor of History fellowship from the American Philo- assistants at Johns Hopkins University & Policy at Carnegie-Mellon University. sophical Society to support this work. Press to send him the page proofs of

13 2010 SEND US YOUR BOOK TO SHOWCASE IN THE NEW GRADUATE LOUNGE! And your news for the next newsletter alumni BookshelF

James M. Bergquist, Daily Life in Im- Sean L. Field, Isabelle of France: Capetian Robert Slayton, Empire Statesman: The migrant America, 1820-1870 (Greenwood Sanctity and Franciscan Identity in the Thir- Rise And Redemption Of Al Smith (The Free Press, 2008) teenth Century (Notre Dame, 2006) Press, 2001)

Wayne H. Bowen, Spain during World Adam Schwartz, The Third Spring: G. Joel A. Tarr (with Clay McShane), Horses War II (University of Missouri Press, K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher in the City: Living Machines in the 19th 2006), Undoing Saddam: From Occupation Dawson, and David Jones (Catholic Uni- Century ( Johns Hopkins University Press, to Sovereignty in Northern Iraq (Potomac versity of America Press, 2005) 2007) Books, 2007), A Military History of Modern Spain (co-edited with Jose Alvarez, Prae- Amanda Seligman, Block by Block: David Weitzman, Pharaoh’s Boat ger, 2007), and The History of Saudi Arabia Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago’s (Houghton Mifflin, 2009) (Greenwood, 2008) West Side (University of Chicago Press, 2005) John R. M. Wilson, Jackie Robinson and Marisa Chappell, Welfare in the United the American Dilemma (Pearson Longman, States: A History with Documents, 1935- Naoko Shibusawa, America’s Geisha Ally: 2009) 1996 (Routledge, 2009), and The War on Reimagining the Japanese Enemy (Harvard, Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in 2006) James Wolfinger, Philadelphia Divided: Modern America (Pennsylvania, 2010) Race and Politics in the City of Brotherly Love (University of North Carolina Press, 2007)

Great Success for the Graduate Program, 2008-2010

ur current and recent students competitive post-doctoral fellowship at the not only by the quality of the program as continue to bring honor to the European University in Florence, and Elise reflected in the accomplishments of those department’s graduate program. Lipkowitz took a position in the Society of who pass through it, but also by the oppor- Once again Northwestern’s most presti- Fellows at the University of Michigan. tunities provided through the generosity giousO form of graduate financial support, Institutions that recently awarded of History Department alumni. Gifts have the Presidential Fellowship, was awarded tenure or tenure-track positions to our enabled the department to supplement to one of our students, Meghan Roberts. students include Princeton, Rice, NYU, Graduate School funding of students’ re- Stephanie Nadalo won a Fulbright and the Brown, Columbia, Barnard, Middlebury, search and their travel to present papers at Rome Prize and will be spending a year Grinnell, Boston College, and the Univer- scholarly conferences. Our graduate offer- at the American Academy in Rome; Su- sities of South Florida, Illinois at Urbana- ings continue to expand, and we now ac- zanne LaVere was awarded the 2009 Van Champaign, and California at San Diego. cept excellent students in Latin American Courtland Prize for the best first article in Among the presses that recently published and East Asian history as well as in US, medieval studies in any discipline; Michael our students’ revised dissertations are European, and African history. In the past McCoyer received the Urban History As- Cambridge, Stanford, North Carolina, two years, several of our students have won sociation’s prize for the best dissertation in Cornell, California, Harvard, Johns Hop- competitive fellowships from the Graduate U.S. urban history; Crystal Sanders won kins, Palgrave Macmillan, Oxford, and School’s new Interdisciplinary Cluster Ini- fellowships from the Mellon-Mays and University Press of Virginia. tiative, funded by the Mellon Foundation, Spencer foundations; Andrea Seligman We received 298 applications for our which has helped the department broaden won a Fulbright to do work in Tanzania; graduate program in 2009-2010 and could its engagement in interdisciplinary and and Will Cavert and Strother Roberts accept only 32 in order to arrive at our goal transnational intellectual currents. received ACLS/Mellon Fellowships. In of enrolling 14 first-year graduate students addition, Gergely Baics snagged a very in September. Applicants are attracted

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