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VOLUME 18 • FALL 2004 sufficient rigor, coherence, and depth; and the second was the concern that whereas A Letter the History Department had expanded the From scope of its course offerings dramatically The Chair over the past two decades, the concentration requirements chiefly had remained focused It is again a pleasure to report on the ac- around certain traditional areas, particularly tivities of the past year. As always, the the United States and Europe. The commit- members of the department engaged in a tee then introduced several recommenda- wide variety of scholarly and teaching en- tions, and after two lengthy meetings the deavors, and you can catch up with news department endorsed the following: (1) To of individual faculty in the pages that fol- increase the minimum number of required low. Collectively, one of the department’s courses from eight to ten in order to give most significant endeavors in 2003-2004 the concentration more substance and to was to revise the undergraduate concentra- encourage concentrators to immerse them- tion requirements. The department had selves in a greater variety of perspectives and not conducted a systematic review of its topics; (2) to modify the chronological pro- concentration in some time, and given all vision so as to require concentrators to take the changes in the past few years, both at a minimum of three courses each in the pre- the University and Department levels, I modern and modern periods; (3) to expand thought it was time we did so. I asked the geographical provision to require stu- Howard Chudacoff to head the review, and dents to distribute their courses across at his committee, which included Professors least three geographic areas; (4) to encour- Deborah Cohen, Nancy Jacobs, and Kerry age students to take a first-year seminar, Smith, deliberated over the course of the which can serve as a gateway into the con- year and placed a set of recommendations centration; and (5) to allow students to take before the department in April. two (and in some cases three) courses out- In his report to the department, Profes- side the Department (these include history sor Chudacoff explained that the commit- courses at other institutions, either in the tee identified two major issues for consid- United States or abroad, as well as history- eration: one was the question of whether oriented courses in other departments and an eight-course concentration possessed programs at Brown). The office of the Dean of the College will review these recommen- dations in the fall, and if approval is forth-

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2 Also on curricular matters, I am happy Self (twentieth century U.S.), and Naoko to note that the History Department is Shibusawa (U.S. and the World). In addi- steadily increasing its slate of first-year tion, Andrew Huebner will serve as a Visit- seminars. Those being taught next year are ing Assistant Professor, and we have col- Slavery and Historical Memory in the U.S. laborated with the Department of Portu- (Seth Rockman), Worlds in Collision: Co- guese and Brazilian Studies to appoint lonial Encounters and the Creation of Latin Jorge Flores to a one-year term as Visiting America (R. Douglas Cope), The Campus Professor with expertise on European ex- on Fire: Colleges and Universities in the pansion during the early modern period. 1960s (Luther Spoehr), Magic, Science, I wish to close with words of congratu- and Religion in Europe (Tara Nummedal), lations and thanks to you, our graduates. The Many Worlds of the California Gold Three of you correctly identified Utamaro Rush (Karl Jacoby), History and Memory as the artist of the wood-block print that in China (Mark Swislocki), Tokyo Modern graced the cover of last year’s report. Hats (James L. McClain), and Gender and Sexu- off to Dean Herrin, Robert W. Parson, and ality in Latin America (James Green). Jill Tuncay. And finally, I join my col- Over the past few years, Charles Neu leagues in extending a heartfelt thank you and I have welcomed new faculty to the to all of you who sent us financial contri- Department. This year is no exception. butions. We use those monies to under- Joining the History Department in 2004- write student research projects and other 2005 are James Green (a specialist on mod- department activities, and we very much ern Brazil), Dimitris Livanios (modern appreciate your support. Greece and the Balkans), Seth Rockman Best wishes, (colonial U.S./the early republic), Robert James L. McClain

THANK YOU LE Hartmann-Ting Neeti Nair Matthew Kadane Matthew Sneider

Eleanor Doumato Roger Levine Kathryn Tomasek

Stefan Halikowski-Smith Dimitris Livanios James Woodard

Visiting Professors F lorence Exchange Scholars Caterina Brizzi & V alentina Sorbi

3 Interview with PhD Graduates Graduate Advisor Amy Remensnyder tracked down a number of our recent PhD recipients and asked them the following questions: 1. What inspired you to become a historian? 2. What kind of teaching do you do (undergrad, graduate, lecturing, and seminars)? 3. How have your research interests evolved since you left Brown? 4. What did you find to be the most helpful aspect of Brown’s PhD program? 5. What is your fondest memory of Brown? 6. Do you feel you received an appropriate amount of funding while you were at Brown? 7. Are there any other observations about your experience in Brown’s History Department that you’d like to share with us?

Michael Breen, Brown colonialization, com- Liam Brockey, Brown PhD 2000, Reed College merce, New France). PhD 2002, Princeton (1) My high school Euro- (4) Opportunity to work University pean history teacher, closely with my advi- (1) I think it was the nu- Nancy Husted and my sor—Phil Benedict. merous experiences that Western Civ professor Opportunity to get I had traveling around at Chicago, Karl teaching experience, the world before begin- Weintraub. which counts for a lot ning graduate school, (2) Undergrad. Mostly on the job market. as well as the good ex- seminar with occasional (5) The Ageing Squad (IM amples of exciting coursewide lectures. basketball team) teaching that I had during my undergradu- (3) Hard to say as I am just and Ye Olde Bats (Soft- ate years. finishing up my first ball team). Good cama- book project. Perhaps raderie among grad stu- (2) I teach both undergrads leaning a little more to- dents and faculty. and grad students, in ward the 18th century (6) In terms of duration, both lectures (primarily than before. I also find yes. Stipends were undergrads) and semi- myself becoming more pretty small back then, nars (both graduate and interested in social his- but I think they’ve im- undergraduate). tory questions than be- proved. The only thing (3) In terms of my specific fore and am becoming that was really missing field, I would say no, interested in early mod- was summer funding. but I have definitely ern France in a more But overall I was broadened my perspec- global context (i.e. treated well and can’t tives on the early mod- complain. ern world since I left

4 Brown. Having had (6) Since I still have liked the fact that I was two years to reflect on 30,000 dollars of debt able to work closely the conclusions I came hanging around, I’ll say with my advisor—but to in my dissertation, I no—especially when this was only beneficial have also been able to many of my colleagues because he was willing turn my findings more who were fully funded to work closely with complex and more nu- did not graduate. It me. The fact that the anced—but this is fun- would have been nice if grad program was small damentally a question funding was an all or was also very good, of perspective. nothing practice at even though it limited (4) For me, working Brown where there the possibilities for closely with my advisor, were no offers of ad- grad level seminars and Philip Benedict. Also, mission without sti- other activities. In my the time I spent work- pends and without ad- opinion, though, many ing as a teaching assis- equate health care (that of these affairs are dis- tant since it gave me wouldn’t have to come tractions. Given the invaluable expertise for out of my already mea- right students, I feel my later teaching as- ger stipend). I do be- that Brown’s program is signments. lieve this has changed, ideally shaped for though. quickly producing very (5) Working at the capable doctoral stu- John Hay and John (7) After having been an dents. Carter Brown librar- integral part of another ies—it was almost like graduate program for Joanna Drell, Brown being in Europe at the the past two years, I do PhD 1996, University archives with so few think there are aspects of Richmond people and such trea- of Brown’s program (1) My history 100 profes- sures. The sheer beauty that are very good—es- sor in my first semester, of New England and pecially the fact that freshman year at the new Providence the department does Wellesley College was also were inspiring. not permit weak stu- Eugene Cox. He made dents to limp along in medieval history sound the program, so alive, so interesting. taking resources I loved the sources, I also liked the fact that I was away from other source analysis; it able to work closely with my students (not all seemed like a fascinat- advisor—but this was only programs are ing career to pursue. beneficial because he was will- kind enough to He is forever the model ing to work closely with me. warn their stu- of the perfect under- dents or even ex- graduate teacher to me. — Liam Brockey pel them). I also

5 (2) Undergraduate lectur- friends with a number at Boston University in ing and seminars. of people way-outside the fall and will resume (3) I have expanded my in- my field of study (and offering both graduates terests from studying a interest). Those friends and undergraduates on tiny region of Southern are my friends to this a regular basis. Italy to considering me- day. Though we see (3) When I first went to dieval Southern Italy in each other only rarely, graduate school I was the larger context of it takes no time to interested in what I developments in Italy, catch up and feel as called popular politics. more generally, and though no time passed. I wrote my dissertation medieval Europe. I I will always cherish on agrarian unrest in have also broadened these friendships. provincial America my interests from the Brendan McConville, (specifically New Jer- family to the study of Brown PhD 1992, State sey) and eventually politics and identity in University of New York turned it into a book. I a multi-cultural envi- at Binghamton was then going to write ronment. (1) I was interested in his- on the revolutionary (4) The personal attention tory from a very young committees, but I got and assistance I re- age and both my par- interested in provincial ceived from my advi- ents encouraged that Americans’ views on sors. interest in different monarchs and monar- chy. That became the (5) Talking with David ways. Also, I came core of a much larger Herlihy (my original from a large extended reinterpretation of pro- advisor) about many family, and everyone vincial politics entitled different issues in his had a story, so to speak. The King’s Three Faces, crammed, crazy-orga- (2) I have taught both un- which will be published nized top floor office. I dergraduates and next year. I am also also cherished the rare graduate students for writing an overview of (and hard-earned!) the last twelve years at the Revolution for compliments from SUNY-Binghamton, in Longman Press, but my Tony Molho (my advi- settings that ranged real interest is a kind of sor following Professor from a four-person biography/family his- Herlihy’s death.) seminar to lectures with tory/microhistory of 300 people and nine (6) Yes. I was very fortu- John Dixwell, one of TA’s. I was chair of the nate. the regicide judges who department last year (7) I was one of very few voted to execute and thus I did not do students working on Charles I in 1649 and much teaching. How- the Middle Ages. This then fled to New En- ever, I will be teaching meant I became great

6 gland after the Restora- was a first year “Demand the best out of tion and lived in hiding graduate stu- students and you’ll ge the best in New Haven for 30 dent. I am sure out of them.” years. More generally, I I drove him have become even more out of his — Brendon McConville firmly convinced than I mind in more was as a graduate stu- ways than one, dent that monocausal but I got a lot out of that allowed me to gain explanations of change our conversations. I a real command of the or studies designed to also became friends Early American ar- fufill predetermined with Phil Benedict at chives in the theoretical or ideologi- that time and have re- Midatlantic, and that cal models don’t work mained friendly with knowledge has been in- well. him. But I have to say valuable in my career. (4) I did fields with Gor- that my fondest A stipend that grad stu- don Wood, the late Bill memory was my rou- dents can live on is ap- McLoughlin, Phil tine late-night thrash- propriate, though now Benedict, and Tim ing of Jay Samons and that the university law- Harris. It did me a Brad Thompson (re- yers have managed to world of good at the spectively now of Bos- break the union it time and has served me ton University and seems unlikely they will well ever since. I was Ashland University) at be getting such a sti- somewhat distressed to ping pong in the base- pend. Graduate pro- hear that Brown had ment of the graduate grams need to think of gotten away from the center. Not only did I graduate students as four field structure. I repeatedly get to adults, as painful as think if you don’t do humble their criminal that may be to some. It that reading in grad table tennis pride, but I helps the students school, chances are you learned a lot about an- think of themselves the will never do it; too cient Greece and the same way. many things come up political philosophy of (7) Rigor is good. Demand personally and profes- the Founders in the the best out of students sionally. process. and you’ll get the best (5) I would say that one of (6) Yes and no. The sti- out of them. them was sharing a pends were criminally small hall on the third low at the time, but floor of Sharpe House Providence was still when the present chair, cheap, and I received Tim Harris, was a first the Lax Fellowship and year professor and I some other fellowship 7 Interview ALEXANDRA FIDLER ‘04 have recently moved to Kansas City, Missouri and am work- with Recent Iing for Jamie Metzl, a Brown alumnus who is running for U.S. Congress from this city’s 5th district. I will be here through the Concentrators Democratic Primary on August 3rd and then relocating to Colum- bia, Missouri where I will spend the remainder of the year. I will be spending that time taking the LSAT and applying to law school Over the and, among other things, attempting to get my History honors the- sis published. I can’t indicate a single fondest Brown memory because the col- summer, the lective experience was, to date, the most wonderful time of my life. Academically, extra-curricularly, and personally, I loved every Interim Chair, minute of my time at Brown. I can say that as I progressed, I be- came more intimately aware of the inner workings and personalities Tim Harris, at the University, which allowed me to gain more from the resources available. As such, I feel that my time at Brown following my se- mester abroad (fall of junior year) was the most productive and re- caught up with warding. My passion for history began in high school with the inspiration some History and guidance from my A.P. History teacher. He challenged us to think in a way that truly captivated me. I enjoyed the practice of concentrators – history, the reading, writing, researching, and analyzing that was in- volved in retelling and reconnecting past events. It was never really a question what I would concentrate in at Brown given the excellence past and of this department and the reputation of its faculty. I don’t know how the study of history applies to my present ac- present – to tivities in a Congressional campaign other than the rigorous and ex- tensive practice of reading, writing, and researching. I don’t plan to ask them about abandon the practice however, as I am still tweaking my honors the- sis and doing more research in the hopes of publishing it this year. their Finally, historical skills, as well as analytic thought generally, clearly apply to the practice of law and will most certainly help me as I (hopefully) go through law school and pursue a career thereafter. experiences of Speaking generally about the History concentration, I would say only that I absolutely loved the department, the classes that I took, Brown and the and the faculty that I worked with. At all times, I felt challenged, engaged and respected by my peers, TAs, and professors. The thesis concentration process was particularly rewarding and allowed me to delve deeply into the study of history and get to know faculty members inti- mately. I am proud of the work I accomplished in the department in History. and I will always think of it with great fondness.

8 EMMA KUBY ‘03 have just come back to the United States after a year in Paris. II was there on a Brown postgraduate fellowship, researching the secularization of the French public school system in the late 1800s and also looking at contemporary political debate over state regula- tion of religious dress among Islamic schoolgirls. It was an unbe- lievable year. I’m now back in Providence, working and relaxing, and in the fall I start graduate school at Cornell. I’ll be working to- wards a PhD in modern European history. My fondest memories of Brown are living with tons of wonder- My fondest ful fellow students in Brown’s cooperative housing and my transfor- mative relationships with friends, staff, and faculty members. memories of I decided to concentrate in History in large part because Pro- Brown are living fessor Carolyn Dean’s Modern European Women’s History course with tons of changed the way I thought about the world, about myself, and about the production of knowledge. I was already a Gender Studies wonderful fellow concentrator when I took her class, but I decided to add History as students… a second concentration. I didn’t have the slightest idea at the time that I would wind up wanting to be a historian — I just knew that the kind of intellectual work that history classes demanded was ex- hilarating for me, and that I wanted to continue doing it. Brown’s history faculty inspired me and engaged me to such a degree that I felt confident deciding that I wanted to be a historian myself. Studying history at Brown has given me high standards for the kind of committed teaching and creative research that I aspire to. It’s made me believe that the questions historians are able to pose are incredibly interesting, important ones. I feel well-prepared and excited for my graduate studies. The best thing for me about concentrating in History was the degree of support and encouragement I received from the faculty. History is a big concentration at Brown, but the faculty I studied with were always incredibly thoughtful and giving of their time and energy. They were deeply invested in students’ intellectual develop- ment, and they shaped my Brown education in many more ways than I can count.

MATTHEW PERL ‘01 or the past two years I have been working for Morgan FStanley in London and am currently part of their Central and Eastern European Banking Team. I’ve really enjoyed the opportu- nity afforded by the region in which we operate to meld my inter-

9 est in government and public affairs with finance. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a large proportion of the business being conducted in the Eastern Europe remains privatization-related, and I have been fortunate enough to be involved with projects for the The thing I Serbian, Greek and Bulgarian governments in a relatively short pe- riod. In August, I will be moving to Morgan Stanley’s Moscow of- really appreciate fice, and look forward to continuing my work in the same vein out about Brown in there. retrospect is the The thing I really appreciate about Brown in retrospect is the bonds the school helps form between people. In the past year I bonds the school have become great friends with a number of fellow alums who I helps form never knew while in Providence. This really has been Brown’s last- ing gift to me and in that sense the one for which I am most grate- between people. ful. I already thought that history would probably be my concen- tration when I showed up on campus as a Freshman. My Dad had always read history books and was a regular viewer of A&E’s nightly line up of historical documentaries (I remember Victory at Sea in particular). I think that ended up rubbing off on me and a lot of the books I read for fun even at a young age were historical or at least historically-based fiction. At the end of high school I had had my fill – for the time being – of American history. I took Professor Harris’ English History course in my first semester and that sealed things. As for how studying History helped prepare me for what I chose to do after Brown, there is absolutely no question: writing. Although it may not be apparent from this, I am confident that my writing was improved vastly by the history faculty. It is a tool I use every day. I guess there probably are not too many prospective students reading this but the department truly was great – one of the stron- gest at the university in my opinion – and I would truly recom- mend it for all comers.

MARGARET YOUNG ‘05 chose the major because I enjoy how historical inquiry illu- Iminates the complexity and bias in capturing and recording any story or event. The history major provides a strong base of knowl- edge while also encouraging this inquiry. I chose to specialize in modern American history because of the breadth of courses avail- able. By offering a number of interdisciplinary courses in addition

10 New Faculty

MARK SWISLOCKI, who earned his PhD at Stanford University, joined the Department of His- tory last fall, following a two-year postdoctoral fel- lowship at Columbia University’s Society of Fellows. His research interests are in the cultural history of China’s later empires, the Republic of China, and the People’s Republic, and he is currently working on two works of food history. A Sense of Time and Place, a history of Restaurants in Shanghai since 1850, examines Shanghai restaurants as sites through which different interest groups have put forth competing visions of Chinese history. The manuscript thus raises broader questions about food and cultural memory, historical consciousness, and efforts to perpetuate a sense of cultural continuity during China’s turbulent nineteenth and twentieth centu- ries. Living Standards, a cultural history of nutrition in nineteenth- and twentieth- century China, examines the discourses and practices of Chinese medical dietetics and biomedical nutrition in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China. This year Swislocki also expects to complete “‘Fifty-Thousand Pigs Can’t Be Wronged!’,” an article on human-animal relations in Shanghai, and his translation of Yang Jiang’s 1987 novel, Xizao (Taking a Bath). Published in 1988, this satirical, historical novel depicts the daily life of intellectuals during China’s Three-Antis Campaign of 1951, when they were forced to undergo thought-reform for the first time and were challenged to reinterpret their life histories in terms of Chinese Communist Party orthodoxy. The novel, which is ideal for teaching the history of twentieth-century Chinese politics, illustrates the extent to which national political campaigns affected daily life, and the ways by which individuals shaped the scope and meaning of those same campaigns. to the traditional ones, such as courses cross-registered in the I think that Africana Studies, Urban Studies, and Education departments, the History department has allowed me to fully explore my interests studying history and the interplay among diverse fields. has helped I think that studying history has helped prepare me for the fu- ture, although I have yet to decide what that future might be. I prepare me for have learned to ask better questions and have gained research and the future… writing skills that will be valuable wherever I end up. I have found the openness and accessibility of the history faculty and the sup- port given to thesis writers to be major strengths of the concentra- tion. The encouragement of the faculty has also allowed me to spend two summers at Brown exploring my interests in the field.

11 Faculty Books Faculty Books Faculty Books

Omer Bartov, The “Jew” Mary Gluck, Popular in Cinema From the Bohemia: Modernism and Golem to Don’t Touch My Urban Culture in Nine- Holocaust (Indiana Uni- teenth-Century Paris versity Press, 2005) (Harvard University Press, 2004)

Paul Buhle, From the Tim Harris, Restoration: Lower East Side to Holly- Charles II and His King- wood: Jews in American doms (Penguin, 2005) Popular Culture (Verso, 2004)

Deborah Cohen, Com- Kurt Raaflaub, The Dis- parison and History: Eu- covery of Freedom in An- rope in Cross-National cient Greece (Chicago Perspective (Routledge, University Press, 2004) 2004)

Richard Davis, transla- Lea E. Williams, Voyag- tion/introduction, Histori- ing: An Inside Look at Sea cal Records of the Five Travel, or, The World Dynasties, Ouyang Xiu Through a Porthole (Hats (Columbia University Off Books, 2004) Press, 2004)

Carolyn Dean, The Fragil- Gordon Wood, The ity of Empathy after the Americanization of Ben- Holocaust (Cornell Uni- jamin Franklin (Penguin, versity Press, 2004) 2004)

12 Faculty Activities search project. This is an ambitious at- tempt to write the history of interethnic ENGIN AKARLI was an NEH fellow at relations in the city of Buczacz — located the Institute for Advanced Study in in what is now Western Ukraine but was Princeton in 2003-04, pursuing his project known in the past as Eastern Galicia — on “Law and Order in the Marketplace: from the establishment of the town in the Istanbul 1730-1840.” He gave talks on re- fourteenth century to the aftermath of lated subjects in the Institute for Advanced World War II. Made up primarily of Poles, Study, New York, Columbia and Harvard Jews, and Ukrainians, Buczacz serves as a Universities, and in the panel on “Violence microcosm of the complex and fascinating and Social Order in the Ottoman Empire” web of ethnicities and religions that char- at the 2004 AHA Annual Conference held acterized Eastern Europe. But during the in Washing- Soviet and German occupations of the ton, D.C. town between 1939-45, the entire Jewish His article population was murdered and the majority “Gedik: A of the Poles were deported to Western Po- Bundle of land. Research on this town entails travel Rights and to archives in numerous countries and the Obligations use of innumerable languages, a wide vari- for Istanbul Artisans and Traders, 1750- ety of documents, as well as written and 1840” is published in Law, Anthropology oral testimonies and interviews. Professor and the Constitution of the Social: Making Bartov also acted as Project Leader of the Persons and Things, ed. by A. Pottage and international collaborative project at the M. Mundy (Cambridge and New York: Watson Institute for International Studies: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 166- “Borderlands: Ethnicity, Identity, and Vio- 200. His article “Law in the Market Place lence in the Shatter-Zone of Empires since Istanbul, 1730-1840” will appear in Dis- 1848.” The project included some ten pensing Justice in Muslim Courts: Qadis, seminars featuring local and outside speak- Procedures and Judgments, ed. by M. Khalid ers during the year as well as a workshop in Masud, R. Peters, and D. Powers (Leiden May which brought together some fifteen and Boston: Brill, forthcoming). specialists in the field from the United States and abroad. The project will con- During the academic year 2003-4 OMER tinue with another seminar next year, while BARTOV was on leave with a John Simon Professor Bartov will resume his teaching Guggenheim Fellowship. Having com- duties at the university. pleted his book “The Jew” in Cinema: From The Golem to Don’t Touch My Holocaust, PHILIP BENEDICT continues his re- which will be published by Indiana Uni- search on the French Wars of Religion. He versity Press in the fall of 2004, he spent wrote an article on “Two Catholic Histori- much of his time working on a new re- ans of the Early Wars of Religion” and

13 worked with nal of Roman Archaeology, as the sixth in a graduate stu- series of review articles (co-authored with dents on several Jerzy Linderski) on the modern supple- editorial pro- ments to the volumes of the Corpus jects. On a Inscriptionum Latinarum for Italy. He also broader canvas, delivered papers on Roman tomb gardens he wrote a at the University of Michigan; on the role chapter on of the elements in Roman funerary ritual “The Second Wave of Protestant Expan- at Boston University, Wabash College, and sion” for the forthcoming Cambridge His- Brown’s Colloquium on the Religions of tory of Christianity, volume 6. With the Ancient Mediterranean; and on Myron Gutmann of the University of progress at the U.S. Epigraphy Project in Michigan, he edited a festschrift for developing a system to encode inscriptional Theodore K. Rabb, Early Modern Europe: texts electronically in Extensible Markup From Crisis to Stability, scheduled to ap- Language (xml) at New York University. In pear next year from the University of June, along with seven other ancient histo- Delaware Press. For this volume, he wrote rians, art historians, and archaeologists, he on “Religion and Politics in the European explored Roman catacombs and cemeteries Struggle for Stability, 1500-1700”. His in Rome and Tunisia (the Roman province 2002 book, Christ’s Churches Purely Re- of Africa Proconsularis) in preparation for formed: A Social History of Calvinism, won a conference at the University of Chicago prizes from the American Society for in 2005 on late Roman and early Christian Church History and the Renaissance Soci- funerary practices. ety of America. In the 2004-2005 aca- demic year he will be in residence in the During the past year, three of HOWARD fall at the Center for Advanced Study in CHUDACOFF’S works were published in the Visual Arts in Washington D.C., new editons: A People and a Nation, 7th where he hopes to complete his current edition (with five other authors); The Evo- book project, History through Images in the lution of American Urban Society, 6th edi- Sixteenth Century: The “Wars, Massacres, tion (with Judith Smith); and Major Prob- and Troubles” of Tortorel and Perrissin. He lems in American Urban History, 2nd edi- will then take up a new post at the Insti- tion (with Peter Baldwin). He also pre- tute for the History of the Reformation in sented two papers derived from his current Geneva. research on the history of children’s play in the United States, and continued his ser- JOHN BODEL published two articles: vice as faculty representative to the NCAA one, in an Italian book on ancient bank- and as a member of the Campus Life Task ing and finance, on money and the mon- Force. etary economy in the work of the Roman novelist Petronius; the other, in the Jour-

14 DEBORAH COHEN finished work on by Columbia University Press. The 748- Comparison and History: Europe in Cross- page hardback will be produced in National Perspective (Routledge, 2004), a abridged paperback in 2006. book that she co-edited with Maura O’Connor. Comparison and History brings CAROLYN DEAN’S new book, The together scholars who have worked either Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust, is cross-nationally or comparatively to re- forthcoming from Cornell University in flect upon their own research. In chapters November 2004. She also gave talks at that engage practical, methodological, and Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Northwest- theoretical questions, the contributors to ern Universities in the Spring. She is Comparison and History assess the gains – currently working on a project on the but also the obstacles and perils – of his- concept of victimization in France and tories that traverse national boundaries. Italy after 1945. Cohen will be on leave next year to work on her new book-project, Household Gods: ABBOTT GLEASON participated in an The British and their Possessions, 1840- international symposium on the Ukrainian 1950, which is under contract to Yale Famine 1932-33 at the Kennan Institute in University Press. Washington D.C. in November, 2003. He wrote articles on three Soviet modern art- DOUGLAS COPE is currently working ists of the 1920s for the Modern Encyclope- on a study of Mexico City’s “informal dia of Russian and Soviet History. He wrote economy” in the eighteenth century. In an essay on Hannah Arendt and Commu- June, he presented some of his research at nism for the Dizionario del Communismo the Historical Society Conference in and is completing articles on the history of Boothbay Harbor, Maine. anti-Communism and on Totalitarianism for the same volume. Together with RICHARD Vladimir Golstein of Brown’s Slavic De- DAVIS will partment he will teach a new course on the finish his History of Modern Russian Culture in the third and fall of 2004. final year as chair of For MARY GLUCK, the past academic East Asian Studies, in June. He took a year has been one of transitions, which saw group of five undergraduates on a group the final completion of her book Popular UTRA to Hong Kong over winter recess, Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in as part of the Freeman programming in Nineteenth-Century Paris (forthcoming East Asian Studies. His long awaited with Harvard University Press in the fall) translation of Ouyang Xiu’s HISTORI- and her promotion to full professor. She CAL RECORDS OF THE FIVE has also begun working full time on a new DYNASTIES was published in Feb. 2004 book on Jewish urban culture in Budapest,

15 which will continue many of the themes of Bangor). He would like to thank them all the Paris book in the context of East-Cen- for the support they gave to the graduate tral Europe. Within the department, she program in early modern British history. chaired the Academic Priorities Committee and helped bring to fruition an ambitious Since retiring from the History Depart- new vision for the future of the department ment, PATRICIA HERLIHY, currently that projects considerable faculty enlarge- Research Professor, Watson Institute for ment in the next few years. International Studies has published: Odessa Memories (University of Washing- ELLIOTT GORN wrote a short essay on ton Press, Seattle, 2003); The Alcoholic ethics and history for the Journal of Ameri- Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial can History, edited the fifth edition of Con- Russia (Oxford University Press, 2002); structing the American Past, packed off an “Commerce and Architecture in Odessa in edited collection of essays called “Chicago Late Imperial Russia,” Commerce in Rus- Sports” to the University of Illinois Press. sian Urban Culture 1861-1914, ed. Will- But mostly he thought about October in iam Brumfield, Boris V. Anan’ich, and Wrigley Field, and what might have been. Yuri A. Petrov (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002); four encyclopedia articles; In the fall, TIM HARRIS and several book reviews. In June 2003 taught a weekly seminar she lectured on a Brown Alumni Cruise at the Folger Shakespeare on the Volga and in May 2004 visited Library in Washington, Odessa, Ukraine, where she is an honor- DC, on “The Three ary member of the World-Wide Club of Kingdoms in an Age Odessans and was interviewed for a Mos- of Revolution, 1660-1720”. He was on cow TV documentary on Odessa. There leave in the spring. His Restoration: Charles Professor Herlihy also received the II and His Kingdoms, 1660-1685 will be DeRibas Society of Berlin’s International published by Penguin in early 2005; its se- Prize for her work on Odessa. In March, quel, Revolution: The Crisis of the British she gave the 2004 Backus Memorial Lec- Monarchy, 1685-91, will appear a year later. ture at the University of Kansas entitled” He traveled frequently to do research and “Where Have All the Russians Gone?” A gave talks in such exciting places as Cam- shorter version of the paper was published bridge (UK), Dublin (Ireland), Portland as an op-ed piece in the Providence Journal (OR), New York City, Schenectady (NY) on June 14, 2004. Professor Herlihy is and Egham (UK). He was able to welcome currently working on the biography of an a number of colleagues from the UK for American diplomat, Eugene Schuyler short-term visits to Brown: David Smith (1840-1890). (Selwyn College, Cambridge); Jeremy Gre- gory (University of Manchester); and Tony Claydon (National University of Wales,

16 EVELYN HU- cally circumnavigated the globe to present DEHART survived at international conferences in Denmark, her first year at Brown Hong Kong, Australia, and Italy. Of all the and thrived the sec- honors that she has received in her career, ond year, and learned perhaps the most special because least ex- a lot about the Brown pected, was to receive an Honorary Degree way of doing things! from Notre Dame University! Since she was As planned, she was as not an alum, nor a prominent Catholic in- involved with the His- tellectual or lay activist, and certainly not a tory Department wealthy potential donor, Professor Hu- (50% of appointment) as with developing DeHart says it was very rewarding to be Ethnic Studies and research projects at the recognized simply for her achievements and Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race contributions to scholarship and teaching! in America (CSREA), with these dual re- sponsibilities dovetailing and complement- During the academic year 2003-04 ing each other well in rich and productive NANCY JACOBS held a fellowship at the ways. For example, her history seminar on Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale Univer- the Mexican Revolution was also crosslisted sity, where she conducted research on the with Chicano Studies/Ethnic Studies, and history of people and birds in sub-Saharan drew a diverse class that was almost one- Africa. She presented papers on the inter- third Chicano/a. She was honored to chair change between European ornithology and the search for a senior Brazilianist, which re- African indigenous knowledge at the sulted in the hiring of Associate Professor North-East Workshop on Southern Africa, James Green. Along with other new addi- the North-East Conference on British Stud- tions to the History faculty, Professors Seth ies, The Boston University Walter Rodney Rockman, Robert Self and Naoko African Studies Seminar, and the Program Shibusawa, they all add intellectual diversity in Agrarian Studies Colloquium at Yale to the department and to our interdiscipli- University. Two articles by Professor Jacobs nary, comparative, cross-cultural, global and appeared during the past academic year. transnationally-oriented Ethnic Studies pro- The first, on collaborative research into as- gram. So even though Professor Hu-DeHart bestos-related disease in South Africa, ap- may seem frenetic at times as she races peared in The Journal of Occupational and across campus, she does not feel schizo- Environmental Health. The second, a review phrenic for the most part! Her own research article of the environmental historiography is also bearing fruit: two book chapters pub- of South Africa’s Cape Province and how it lished in Mexico in Spanish; various articles may be compared with that of settler societ- and chapters in the U.S.; and a book under ies or tropical Africa, appeared in Kronos: contract with Hong Kong University Press Journal of Cape History and will be repub- on Voluntary Associations in the Chinese lished at www.safundi.com Diaspora. During this summer, she practi-

17 KARL JACOBY published two essays dur- “Zambo Histories,” in an anthology on ing the past year, one on the global history Afro-American History. He continues as a of conservation, the other on the compara- Contributing Editor to Black Masks and as tive history of the American south and the a Contributing Writer to the Pepper Bird Mexican north in the late nineteenth cen- Magazine. Jones has been invited to serve as tury. He also lectured at MIT and intro- guest editor for a special issue of Black duced a new seminar for first-year Brown Masks. He serves as consultant to the undergraduates, entitled “The Many American Beach research project in Florida. Worlds of the California Gold Rush.” Jacoby is currently at work on a study of CARL KAESTLE the conflicting memories of the “Camp wrote three chapters Grant Massacre,” an event in which some and completed his co- 125 Apache women and children were editing tasks on a vol- killed on a reservation outside Tucson, Ari- ume entitled Print in zona, in 1871. Motion: Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880—1940. RHETT S. JONES published “From Co-edited with Janice Radway of Duke Uni- Unity to Complexity: Books on Northeast- versity, the book will be published by Cam- ern Black History,” an occasional paper in bridge University Press. Kaestle is enjoying the Trotter Institute series; “Playwright J.E. service on the advisory board of a project at Franklin: The Power of the Pen,” in Black the New York State Archives, designed to Masks; “Race, Ideas about Race, and the collect and discuss materials showing the in- Formation of Zambo Societies,” in The teractive nature of state and federal policies Griot; and “Sub-Africanities in Africa and in education. the Americas,” in The Western Journal of Black Studies. Now in press are “Civiliza- BRYCE LYON has edited and provided an tion and Its Discontents: Black Life in the introduction for the book The Wardrobe Eighteenth Century Cities of British North Book of 1296-1297: A Financial and Logisti- America,” in an anthology on blacks in cit- cal Record of Edward I’s 1297 Campaign in ies; “Malcolm X’s Normative Leadership,” Flanders Against Philip IV of France (Brussels, for an anthology on Afro-American leader- Commission Royale d’Histoire, 2004). The ship; “Methodology and Meaning: The So- following articles have appeared in 2003- ciology of Malcolm X,” in an anthology on 2004: “What Were the Expenses of the Malcolm X; “Orphans of the Americas: Kings Edward I and Edward III When ab- Why the Existence of Zambo Societies has sent from Their Realms?” Journal of Medieval been Denied,” in The Journal of African History, XXIX (2003). “An Account of the American Studies; “Sex and Sensibility: Provisions Received by Robert de Segre, Black Women in the Eighteenth Century Clerk of Edward I, in Flanders and Brabant Urban Americas,” in an anthology on Afri- in the Autumn of 1297,” Bulletin de la Com- can American women in cities; and mission Royale d’Histoire, CLXIX (2003).

18 “Henri Pirenne: Connu Inconnu?” Revue TARA NUMMEDAL is currently working Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire, LXXXI on revisions to her manuscript, Alchemical (2004) and “Memoir for Carlos Wyffels,” Fraud and the Battle for Authority in the Speculum, LXXIX (2004). Holy Roman Empire, which takes the prob- lem of fraud as a point of entry into the MAUD MANDEL spent the 2003/2004 world of alchemical practice in the sixteenth academic year conducting research on her and seventeenth-century central Europe. An new book project, Muslims and Jews in essay out of this project appeared in Shell France, 1948-2001: A Social and Political Games: Studies in Scams, Frauds, and Deceits History. She was awarded a summer stipend (1300-1650), edited by Mark Crane, Rich- from the National Endowment of the Hu- ard Raiswell and Margaret Reeves. She also manities in order to spend the summer gave talks at Johns Hopkins University, the gathering materials for this project. In ad- American Historical Association meeting in dition, she completed an article, “Trans- Washington D. C., and the University of nationalism and its Discontents during the Chicago on her second project, Anna 1948 Arab/Israeli War,” which has been Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: A Female submitted for publication. Alchemist’s Career in Reformation Europe.

Needless to write, JAMES MCCLAIN’S JAMES PATTERSON, who retired in many duties as Chair, from participating in June 2002, has continued to work with the review of the concentration program to graduate students completing their doc- overseeing multiple faculty searches, occu- toral dissertations and to assist earlier doc- pied a large share of his time this past year. toral recipients in their professional ad- Happily, such service to the department vancement. He was busy, especially in the also carries with it a sense of professional spring of 2004, as an invited speaker at satisfaction. On the scholarly front, Profes- conferences concerned with the 50th anni- sor McClain gave talks at places such as versary of the Connecticut College and Yale University, Brown v. Board of and organized a symposium, held at Brown Education deci- in April, on “Kyoto in the Seventeenth sion against Century” that brought together specialists school segrega- on art, history, literature, and Zen Bud- tion. He is also dhism. Ultimately, when those presenta- completing an in- tions are revised, they will be combined terpretive book about the United States, with another set of papers delivered at a 1974-2001, which is expected to be pub- parallel conference held at Leiden Univer- lished in 2005. It will appear as a volume sity and edited for publication. in the Oxford (University Press) History of the United States series, as a follow up to his earlier volume, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974.

19 KURT RAAFLAUB JOAN RICHARDS returned to teaching (Greek and Roman His- this year after two years of leave. In the fall tory) announces the she taught an Introduction to Science publication of The Dis- Studies as well as her usual history of sci- covery of Freedom in An- ence courses. In addition to advising and cient Greece (Chicago: organizing the departmental workshop, she University Press, 2004). was the program co-chair for the history of Several other research science meetings in Cambridge, Massachu- projects (on the origins setts. Whenever time allowed she contin- of democracy in ancient Greece, on war, ued writing her book on the Frend/De peace, and reconciliation in the ancient Morgan family using the materials she world, on archaic Greece) are close to com- gathered while on leave. pletion. A new course on “Writing History in the Ancient World” (focusing on Greece This year, KEN SACKS completed a term and Rome but comprising a broad compara- as Director of Undergraduate Studies and tive component) had a successful trial run as of the Honors Program for the Depart- a first year seminar in the spring of 2004 and ment and has been invited to continue on will be repeated as a seminar in the fall, for an additional three years. He says it’s a combined with a lecture series on the same great job, since he gets to work especially topic organized by the Program in Ancient with rising seniors as they begin to fashion Studies (featuring presentations on early their honors theses. Last summer, he devel- China, Mesopotamia, Israel, the early Islamic oped a new seminar world, and the Aztecs). Finally, together with for first year students, his colleagues in ancient history (John Bodel, “The World of Charles Fornara, Kenneth Sacks), Raaflaub Walden,” which stud- has designed a new interdisciplinary Ph.D. ies the Transcenden- program in ancient history that is expected talism of Emerson, to be initiated next year. Thoreau, Fuller, and others. The highlight In 2003-4 AMY REMENSNYDER fin- of the course was a ished up a three-year term as a Councilor of class trip to Concord, where they did ev- the Medieval Academy of America. She also erything from viewing original manuscripts returned to teaching after a two year re- of Emerson’s and Thoreau’s to spending search leave and became the History several hours conversing with an actor por- Department’s Graduate Advisor. When she traying Thoreau just after he had written was not busy overseeing the welfare of the “Civil Disobedience.” Sacks is on leave in graduate students, she wrote two articles the fall and beginning work on a study of and continued to work on her book about philosophy and religion in the ancient the Virgin Mary in medieval Spain and world. early colonial Mexico.

20 KERRY SMITH contributed a chapter to World through a Public Spheres, Private Lives in Modern Japan, Porthole. It is part 1600-1950 (Gail Lee Bernstein, Andrew Gor- autobiography and don, and Kate Wildman Nakai, eds.), forth- part maritime his- coming this fall with Harvard University tory. Press, and spoke at conferences in Singapore, Australia, and Japan. He continues work on a GORDON WOOD spent the fall term, book about the social and cultural histories of 2003, teaching the Revolution and the ori- the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. gins of the Constitution at Northwestern Law School. During the fall term he lectured JOHN THOMAS, in addition to teaching at the National Conference of Editorial Writ- the Graduate Students Writing Workshop and ers, which was held in Providence; at a con- directing three History Honors Theses, is ference of Massachusetts school teachers in nearing completion of his portrait of a Ne- Worcester; at the Society of the Cincinnati in braska Panhandle writer tentatively entitled Washington, DC; at the Chicago Humanities Mari Sandoz: Historian of the High Plains. Festival; and at Washington University. He taught at Brown during the spring 2004 se- MICHAEL VORENBERG spent the 2003- mester. Professor Wood lectured during the 04 academic year on a leave that was partly winter and spring at the University of Chi- funded by the American Council of Learned cago Law School; at Colonial Williamsburg; Societies. During the year, he completed most at the Aspen Institute; at Portsmouth Abbey; of the research for his next book project, Re- at Princeton University; at the University of constructing the People: The Impact of the Civil Kentucky; at a conference of federal court War on American Citizenship, and he pre- judges at Tucson; at Northwestern Univer- sented some of this new work in academic sity; at the Foreign Policy Research Institute meetings in Chicago, Baltimore, and Beaufort, in Philadelphia; at the New York Historical South Carolina. He completed a number of Society; and at a conference of school teach- essays to be published next year, from a study ers in Honolulu. He also acted as a commen- of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice tator at the Organization of American Salmon P. Chase to a discussion of Abraham Historian’s Convention and at the conven- Lincoln’s attitudes toward race and retributive tion of the Omohundro Institute of Early justice. Also, he signed a contract to publish American History. He wrote several reviews The Emancipation Proclamation: A Brief His- for the New York Times, the New York Review tory with Documents (Bedford Books/St. Mar- of Books, and The New Republic. In May he tin’s Press), which will be available in 2006. published a book entitled The Americaniza- tion of Benjamin Franklin. Professor Wood In addition to continuing to work as a ship- served as a consultant to the National Con- board lecturer, LEA WILLIAMS did manage stitution Center and to the US Capitol reno- to complete a book published this year, VOY- vation and continues to serve on the Board AGING, An Inside Look at Sea Travel or the of Trustees for Colonial Williamsburg.

21 Historical American Engineering Record, National Park Service (ASCE Press, 2003). He especially sends his regards to Professors James Patterson, Jack Thomas, and Gordon Wood.

Alumni Notes In the spirit of the cover of last year’s newslet- ter, Robert W. Parson (B.A. ’59) sent us a set of stamps minted in 1994 that feature Maejima Hisoka (1835-1919), the founder of the Japanese postal system and the great, great grandfather of his wife, Teruko Parson. Bob currently is a M.A. candidate in American history at the University of Arizona. He writes Several readers wrote to update us about that he is “happily challenged and stimulated” their professional and personal lives. We are by his studies, perhaps because his assignments always delighted to hear from you, and I have included books by Gordon Wood and encourage all of you to drop us a line and Karl Jacoby. visit whenever you are in the Brown vicinity. John R. Thelin (B.A. ’69) included in his let- ter a “Brown University Recollection” remi- Andrew C. Halvorsen (B.A. ’68) writes niscing about his studies with Anthony Molho, warmly about his former professors, especially Bryce Lyon, John Thomas, William Anthony Molho and Bryce Lyon. Retired after McLoughlin, and David Underdown. He also a successful business career, Andy is reading ex- was the department’s undergraduate research tensively in modern history and notes his great assistant and worked with Professor respect for Jim Patterson’s Grand Expecta- Underdown on research about the British Par- tions. He is also “proud” to say that his son liament in the seventeen and eighteenth centu- Ian (’06) has just declared as a history concen- ries. After graduating from Brown, Jack re- trator. ceived a Ph.D. in the History of Education from the University of California at Berkeley, Dean Herrin (B.A. ’81) writes that he is and he served as the Chancellor Professor at happy to speak with Brown history students the College of William and Mary and Professor who are interested in public history jobs. Dean of Higher Education and Philanthropy at In- has been a Historian with the National Park diana University before joining the University Service for more than a decade and currently of Kentucky faculty in 1996. Widely published, is the National Park Service Coordinator of Jack contributed an essay on “American Re- the Catoctin Center for Regional Studies, search Universities” to Elliott Gorn’s Encyclo- which he helped create as a regional history pedia of American Social History, and his center cosponsored by the National Park Ser- book A History of American Higher Educa- vice and Frederick Community College. In ad- tion is forthcoming from The Johns Hopkins dition, he recently authored America Trans- University Press. Jack was the commencement formed: Engineering and Technology in the speaker at Brown for the Graduate School cer- Nineteenth Century — Selections from the emonies in May 1995.

22 2003-200Ph.D.s Awarded 4 BOCKELMAN, Brian (BA, Dartmouth; AM, Brown) “Prophets of the Arrabal: Remak- ing Argentine Culture in Buenos Aires, 1880-1930”; lecturer, Harvard University

HUEBNER, Andrew J. (BA, Northwestern; AM, Brown) “The Embattled Americans: A Cultural History of Soldiers and Veterans, 1941-1982”; visiting asst. prof. Brown University

SNEIDER, Matthew T. (BA, University of Colorado, Boulder; AM, Brown) “Charity and Property – The Patrimonies of Bolognese Hospitals”; asst. prof. University of Massa- chusetts, Dartmouth

TRIVELLATO, Francesca (BA, Cá Foscari University, Venice, Italy; AM, Brown) “Trad- ing Diasporas and Trading Networks in the Early Modern Period: A Sepharadic Partner- ship of Livorno in the Mediterranean, Europe, and Portuguese India (ca 1700-1750)”; asst. prof. Yale University

WOODARD, James P. (BA, University of North Carolina; AM, Brown) “A Place in Politics: São Paulo, Brazil, from Seigneurial Republicanism to Regionalist Revolt”; lec- turer, Harvard University

Jenny A. Asarnow Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History Brian J. Baskin Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding Gaurab Basu Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding Jesse Cromwell UCS-DOC Diversity Honors Thesis Prize Aidan E. Evenski Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium in History

PRIZES Alexandra M. Fidler Pell Medal Alexandra M. Fidler UCS-DOC Diversity Honors Thesis Prize Janis T. Foo The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Ariana C. Green The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Jennifer E. Johnson Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding Elizabeth R. Lew The Gaspee Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Catherine R. Love Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding Megan A. Maley Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding Benjamin Persons The Anne S. K. Brown Prize in Military History Aaron B. Sokoloff Samuel C. Lamport Prize in International Understanding

2004

23 HONORS PROGRAMS

wenty-two students completed the honors program this year. The range of Ttopics was exceptionally broad. For example (just to take the first few al- phabetically): Jenny Asarnow wrote on “Dirty Books and the Avant-Garde: Merlin and The Paris Olympia Press”; Brian Baskin on “The Role of the Inde- pendent Press in Post-Independence Zimbabwe”; Nickhill Bhakta on “The Si- lent Explosion: International Response to India’s 1974 Nuclear Test”; and Jesse Cromwell on “A Second Haiti?: Nineteenth Century Afro-Cuban Militancy and United States’ Racial Thought.” In a significant departure from past prac- tice, only about half the theses were on U.S. history topics. During this com- ing academic year, however, in which we likely will have the largest honors class in recent memory, the preponderance of topics will once again be in U.S. history. Both within the honors program and among our concentrators generally, we had a great many prize winners this year. Of particular note, for her thesis “‘Breaking Boundaries’: The Lineage and Legacy of African-American Artistic- Activism,” Alexandra Fidler won two prizes: the Department’s Claiborne Pell Medal for Excellence in United States History and the UCS-Dean of the Col- lege Diversity Honors Thesis Prize. Bringing to bear an exceptional amount of archival research and a deep understanding of modern dance, Ali produced a highly original contribution to our understanding of the Civil Rights move- ment. As has become our custom (for the past two years, at least!), we had a re- ception for all thesis writers and senior concentrators at the Faculty Club. And, again, we were able to support thesis research with a travel stipend of $200 to any student who requested it. To those of you who have contributed to our honors fund and other undergraduate needs, we extend our deepest gratitude. — Ken Sacks

24 HONORS2004 RECIPIENTS

Asarnow, Jenny Ariel “Dirty Books and the Avant-Garde: Merlin and The Paris Olympia Press“ Baskin, Brian Jay “The Role of the Independent Press in Post-Independence Zimbabwe“ Bhakta, Nickhill Hitesh “The Silent Explosion: International Response to India’s 1974 Nuclear Test” Cromwell, Jesse “A Second Haiti?: Nineteenth Century Afro-Cuban Militancy and United States’ Racial Thought” Dominguez, Freddy Cristobal “Helping a Troubled Neighbor: Spanish Involvement in the French Wars of Religion 1559-1563" Eddy, Jared James “A Divided Profession: Theory and Practice in Ancient Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen” Fidler, Alexandra Macks “Breaking Boundaries: The Lineage and Legacy of African-American Artistic Activism” Goldman, Beth Ilana “Kickers of the Noiseless Revolution” Green, Ariana Carlyn “Poetry in Commotion: WBAI and the Black-Jewish Rift, NYC 1968 History through Radio, Radio through History” Hernandez, Vivian Denise “To Safeguard the Health and Well-Being of the Nation’s Children A History of the National School Lunch Program” Johnson, Jennifer Elizabeth “Frantz Fanon in History: Selective Readings in the Black Power Movement and Postcolonial Studies” Karwowski-Hoppel, Charles Joseph “Sir Robert Wilson and the Birth of British Russophobia: 1791-1832" Krause, Arielle “The Exclusionary Bar: The Genesis of Female Attorneys and their Professional Identity for Female, From 1880-1930" Lew, Elizabeth “Reexamining Irish-Chinese Relations in America: A Study of Belleville, New Jersey 1870-1886" Love, Catherine Reynolds “The Voice of Your Brother’s Blood: Clerical Reactions to Torture During the Brazilian Military Dictatorship, 1969-1973" Marshall, Rachel Rebecca “A Crumb of Equality: The Amendment Adding Gender to the Civil Rights Act of 1964” Phillips, Nicholas Francis “Training for Citizenship: Universal Military Training Legislation, 1945- 1952" Prasad, Sheela “Fire in the Multiversity: The ROTC Phase-Out at Brown University, 1967-1972" Sokoloff, Aaron “British Views of France and Germany from the Armistice to 1923" Stern, Anna Pauline “Conservative Judaism and the Challenge of the 1950s” Vanze, Judith Shaw “The Slender Harlem Girl and the Long-Legged Tigerbelle: Althea Gibson and Wilma Rudolph in the Black Press”

25 Reflections on the History Graduate Program

“The professor was of course excellent, In addition, all five students who com- but the TA was absolutely phenomenal.” pleted their Ph.D.s this year received of- fers of teaching positions, despite what ead through student evaluations of remains a very tight academic job market. RHistory courses and you’ll find that We congratulate them as they leave such comments aren’t unusual. You’ll also Brown to take up their faculty duties at be convinced of something President Harvard, Yale, and the University of Mas- Ruth Simmons has often said: the excel- sachusetts. lence of Brown’s undergraduate program It is quite gratifying to note that the depends directly on the excellence not news on that perennial problem front of only of the faculty but of our graduate graduate education – funding –is better students. As apprentice teachers and de- than it has been. Due to a reorganization veloping scholars, graduate students are of the Graduate School and its finances vital in fostering Brown’s intellectual vi- under the able leadership of its new dean, brancy. Karen Newman, graduate stipends have In my first year as Graduate Advisor, I improved considerably this year, even ex- am happy to report that the History ceeding those offered by some of our peer Department’s graduate program is stron- institutions. The Graduate School has ger than ever. The program remains large also made more funds available to sup- (60-80 active students at various stages) port graduate students attending national and continues to attract top-notch appli- and international conferences in order to cants from all over the country and the present their research, as ours often do. world, including places as far flung as Tai- Of course we wish that we could offer wan, Korea, France, China, and England. even more fellowship support to students A record number of applicants accepted in their first year and to students travel- our admissions offers this year, so that we ing to distant archives for their research. welcome an entering class of 21 very But we are optimistic that President promising Ph.D. candidates along with 3 Simmons and Dean Newman will con- very able MA students. Our current stu- tinue in their drive to improve the fund- dents are just as outstanding. They have ing situation for Brown’s graduate stu- done extremely well in this year’s univer- dents, thereby allowing the History De- sity wide competitions for dissertation partment to maintain its standing as one and research fellowships. They have also of the top-ranked Ph.D. programs in the been very successful in winning highly country. competitive external grants such as Javits, Amy G. Remensnyder Mellon, and Folger Institute fellowships.

26 The History Department held its annual barbecue on May 13 at Haffenreffer in Bristol. We clearly know how to have a fun time!

KEEPING IN TOUCH AND
WINNING A CONTEST We hope to feature more news and The 23rd William F. information about our graduates in Church Memorial Lecture future editions of the Newsletter. I hope all of you will write to us Lorraine Daston,Director, about your professional accomplish- Max Planck Institute for the ments and noteworthy personal developments. To encourage you to History of Science, Berlin do so, the Department will send a spoke on copy of one book featured in this Newsletter to the first five of you to “The Material Powers of identify the building that graces the the Imagination in cover of the Newsletter. Early Modern Europe” — Best, Tim Harris during the annual William F. Church Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, November 18, 2003

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