Past, Present & Future THE 2018 REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

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1 Letter from the Chair 2 Undergraduate Program Update 3 Undergraduate History Journal Grows UMass Amherst’s fall 2017. She gave two talks on her research on women, 6 Giving Back and Looking Forward Department of Histo- gender, and emotions in South American dictatorships. ry continues to thrive In April, we hosted our annual Writer in Residence, the 7 A Transnational History of Food’ amid challenges to historian, poet, and activist Aurora Levins Morales, who 8 Undergraduate Researcher Gets higher education gave public lectures on campus and in Holyoke and met National Showcase and the humanities. with students, faculty, and community members. 10 Honors Program Update We are delighted to We had several other distinguished visitors during 11 Profile: Devon King ’18 welcome two new the academic year. Scott Bruce (then at the University of 12 Graduate Program Update faculty members: Colorado at Boulder, now at Fordham University) deliv- 14 Critical Conversations at the GHA Kathryn Schwartz, a ered “The Dark Age of Herodotus: Shards of a Fugitive Conference historian of the mod- History in Medieval Europe,” the annual Distinguished 16 ‘The Dark Age of Herodotus’ ern Middle East, who Lecture of the UMass/Five College Graduate Program joined us this fall after a year of research leave in Tou- in History. Nancy McLean (Duke University) spoke on her 16 Open-Access Oral History Training Tools louse, France, and Diana C. Sierra Becerra, a specialist in book Democracy in Chains. Kendra Field (Tufts University) 17 Public History Program Update modern Latin America who will join us in the fall of 2020 offered “The Art of Family History” and read from her book 19 ‘Monuments, Memory, and White after a two-year postdoctoral fellowship across the river at Growing Up With the Country. And Tore Olsson ’04, now Supremacy’ Smith College. Kathryn’s research examines the history of assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee 22 UMass Historians Present at NCPH printing in nineteenth-century Cairo, while Diana focuses at Knoxville, returned to campus to give a talk, “Finding Annual Meeting on the role of women in revolutionary movements. We are Parallels and Intersections in U.S. and Mexican History.” 22 So ‘PHaB’! delighted to welcome them. We were also joined last year It drew on his 2017 book, Agrarian Crossings: Reformers 23 The Digital Life by Alon Confino, a distinguished scholar of the Holocaust, and the Remaking of the U.S. and Mexican Countryside. as the inaugural Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Stud- We also revived our department’s Brown-Bag Research 24 Community Engagement Update ies, director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Colloquium, with presentations from Cristina Wolff (“Tell- 25 2018 Writer in Residence: Aurora Levins Memory Studies, and professor of history. ing Bodies in the Memories of Dictatorship: South America, Morales Five of our faculty members were awarded tenure 1970s”), Heidi Victoria Scott (“The Mapping of Potosí’s 27 Our Newest Faculty Members last year: Julio Capó Jr., Alon Confino,Jason Moralee, Cerro Rico in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”), 28 Faculty and Staff Updates Samuel Redman, and Priyanka Srivastava. Julio, Sam, and Nathan Kapoor, a PhD student at the University of 33 A Chorus of Praises for Joye Bowman and Priyanka were also promoted to the rank of associate Oklahoma (“Grounding Empire: The Electrification of Min- 33 A History of Women’s Resistance professor; Jason was promoted to full professor, as was ing in Late-Nineteenth-Century New Zealand”). Petróleo en Bolivia, 1957 Jennifer Fronc. Congratulations to them all! Those are only some highlights from the past year. The 35 Celebrating Barry Levy Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) Our transitions this year included two retirements. rest—from new book publications to the many awards our 37 A Farewell to Suzanne Bell La Paz, Bolivia Professor Barry Levy stepped down after 30 years in the de- undergraduate and graduate students received—fill most 38 In Memoriam partment and Undergraduate Program Assistant Suzanne of this newsletter. 41 Student Updates This 1957 mural by Bolivian painter Miguel Alandia Pantoja captures the hopes that Bell left after 32 years on campus, including a decade in I would like to thank Associate Chair Sigrid Schmalzer, many Bolivians invested in the country’s oil and natural gas resources following the history department. They will both be missed and Graduate Program Director Anna Taylor, and Undergrad- 45 Alumni Updates the 1952 revolution. The expansion and industrialization of the hydrocarbons we encourage them to come back and let us know what uate Program Director Joye Bowman for serving with me. 49 Profile: Kelli Morgan ’17PhD sector, they believed, would allow Bolivia to break the historic cycle of dependence on mineral exports and the poverty that accompanied it. they’ve been up to. I would also like to thank our staff: Office Manager Amy 52 Reflections on a UMass Evening A final transition is that of Joye Bowman, who—after Fleig, Undergraduate Program Assistant Suzanne Bell, The life of Alandia Pantoja (1914–1975) reflected many of the traumas and struggles 54 New Books at the heart of modern Bolivian history. He was born in the department of Potosí, six years as chair and then two reprising the role of under- Graduate Program Coordinator Mary Lashway, Human 56 Our Donors site of what in the sixteenth century was the world’s most famous silver mine. graduate program director—has moved to South College Resources and Finance Assistant Adam Howes, Outreach He fought in the devastating Chaco War against Paraguay in the early 1930s, an as associate dean for research while maintaining her office Director Jessica Johnson, and Undergraduate Program event that galvanized Bolivian nationalist consciousness around the protection at Herter Hall. Congratulations, Joye! Assistant Enjoli Pescheta ’17 for keeping the department of subterranean resources. Later he became involved in the country’s influential During 2017–18 the history department kept up its usu- running smoothly and cheerily. Trotskyist movement and painted a series of murals like this one that were strongly influenced by Mexican muralism. al flurry of activities. We were delighted to host Cristina Finally, I would like to thank our alumni, faculty, and Like many of the Mexican muralists, Alandia Pantoja’s politics put him well to the Scheibe Wolff, professor in the Departamento de História, friends for their support, both moral and financial, of the left of a “revolutionary” regime that nonetheless sought to use murals as a way Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, in Brazil, and department’s activities. —Brian Ogilvie, chair of boosting its legitimacy. Bolivian visions of natural resource development are Fulbright Chair of Brazilian Studies at UMass Amherst in the topic of Kevin Young’s recent book, Blood of the Earth: Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia.

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Students, faculty, and staff had a busy year Bauer Scholarships to help cover their ex- U.S. Congress. This past year, six students— on the sixth floor of Herter Hall, as you’ll read penses on their internships: Alyssa Aloise, Mabrouka Boukraa, Leah Calabro ’18, Na- here. We continue to be grateful for alumni Lily Abrahams, Emilia Billett, Kathrine than Giacalone, Noah Graves, Benjamin support that allows us to support these ac- Esten, Frances Fleming ’18, Eathan Friend, Lerer ’18, and Dylan Mulvey ’18—worked tivities. My heartfelt thanks to this year’s Un- Nathan Giacalone, Brook Hansel, Devon closely with him on trade issues between the dergraduate Studies Committee: Brian Bunk, King ’18, Maya Levine, Clare McGladrig- U.S. and Mexico. They all enjoyed a unique Sarah Cornell, Jennifer Heuer, Alice Nash, an ’18, William Sennott, and Genevieve opportunity to hone their research and writ- Jon Olsen, and Joel Wolfe. They served tire- Weidner. ing skills. lessly as we updated our advising system, Many other students had internships as Our annual year-end celebration allows our requirements, and our program of study. well. The department hopes to see all stu- us to celebrate our students and their accom- In the spring term, with the help of the dents have multiple internship opportunities plishments. The Harold W. Cary Prize goes to History department peer mentors Tess Manderville and Leah On the last day of her four years as an undergraduate student staffer, Office of Institutional Research, several stu- before they graduate. Alumni support can the graduating senior history majors with the Calabro at an orientation and resource fair for new history majors. Kiyanna Sully holds the plant she helped revive. dents, both majors and nonmajors, partici- help make that possible. highest GPAs in their history classes. Profes- pated in a series of focus groups about their Thanks to Robert LaRussa ’76, who con- sor Cary joined the faculty in 1933 and wrote experiences in our classes. This year’s Un- tinues to work with students through a unique The University of Massachusetts: A History dergraduate Studies Committee will analyze program, the Robert J. LaRussa International of One Hundred Years (1962). This year four the responses as we try to serve our students Relations and Public Policy History Intern- students, all graduating seniors, shared the even better in the future. ship. It allows students to work with Shear- prize: Frances Fleming, Jacob Kosakowski, project. This year’s volume of the Undergraduate Internship and Career Advisor Mark Roblee man & Sterling LLP, a global law firm with 20 Dhimiter Qirjazi, and Tristian Tenerowicz. History Journal brought several exciting continues to help students prepare for their offices on five continents. LaRussa served as Jacob Kosakowski also received the developments to a growing student-run publication. future after they leave UMass Amherst. This commerce undersecretary for international Robert H. McNeal Scholarship for having Not only was the opportunity to submit to the summer, 13 students received Richard W. trade and as a former trade counsel for the the highest overall GPA. Professor McNeal, journal opened to the entire College of Humanities and Fine Arts, but this year’s edition was also the first to be compiled into a complete issue and printed for circulation. The 2017–18 editorial board, which included seniors Devon King ’18, Benjamin Lerer ’18, Justin Murphy ’18, and junior Kyran Schnur, all took an outsized role in achieving these goals for the journal. In the fall semester, Publicity Editor Justin Murphy and Acquisitions Editor Kyran Schnur organized a campus-wide poster and email campaign to send out the call to students. After The Undergraduate receiving submissions, the editors, with some help History Journal team: from their peers, reviewed and returned essays for (from left) Justin Murphy ’18 editing. By early April, production of the journal Kyran Schnur Undergraduate began, with Copy Editor Ben Lerer ensuring final Benjamin Lerer ’18 quality control and Production Editor Devon King Devon King ’18 creating the online and print editions. History Journal “The student leaders did all the work,” Professor Gordon states. “They functioned with remarkable initiative and independence.” The three out of Grows four editorial board members who graduated this year found the experience to be both gratifying Two years ago, Assistant Professor Garrett and bittersweet. The entire board is proud to have Washington conceived the idea of starting an taken part in a journal allowing UMass students to undergraduate history journal through the history present their best historical research, and they are honors society, Phi Alpha Theta. Professor Daniel excited to see what the future holds for this growing Gordon came on board to collaborate on the publication. —Devon King ’18

Richard Chu with students from his class “Asian/Pacific/American History” at the Vietnamese New Year’s celebration in Springfield.

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Members of the UMass History Club at an orientation and resource fair for new history majors: (from left) Luke Berquist ’18, Nathan Giacalone, and Kyran Schnur.

Karen Guillette (left) and Cheryl Evans visit Laura Lovett’s “U.S. Women’s History” class to share memories from their senior year at UMass in 1968. Alessandro Arena-Derosa, Sean Klimmek, Kaitlin Lam, and Justin Murphy ’18, students in Sigrid Schmalzer’s seminar on the Chinese Cultural Revolution, at Harvard to see Bahar Gokcek ’18 presents her honors thesis, the exhibition Red & Black Revolution: Dazibao and Woodcuts from 1960s China. They “The Chinese Exclusion Act Era.” enjoyed a rare opportunity to see examples of dazibao—handwritten “big-character posters” that Cultural Revolution participants created to engage in political criticism, denounce political leaders and opposing factions, and demonstrate their loyalty to a scholar of the Soviet Union, chaired the glad to report that Professor Alice Nash is which honors the life of James O. Redman, Chairman Mao. history department in the 1970s. continuing that tradition. who graduated from the University of Min- As many of you know from last year’s This year the Howard H. Quint Prize went nesota with a BA in history and became an newsletter, Professor Emeritus Louis Green- to Justin Murphy ’18. Professor Quint, a for- attorney. First-generation students, aspiring baum passed shortly before the 2017–18 mer chair of the department, joined Louis teachers, and veterans receive first consider- This year the history department’s Internship and Career Development Program won the attention school year began. We missed his pres- Greenbaum in establishing the university’s ation for this award. Emma received it for her Undergraduate of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts (HFA) as a model for alumni engagement and internship ence at this year’s award ceremony but felt honors program, now Commonwealth Honors work as a legislative aide and her research success. Career advisor/instructor Mark Roblee and history alumnus Robert S. LaRussa ’76 were privileged to have his wife, Dr. Hilda Green- College (CHC). The Quint Prize honors CHC on Montreal. She hopes to share her love of Internship and invited to participate in HFA Dean Julie Hayes’s roundtable discussion on Volunteer Day 2018 to share baum, with us to congratulate the four Louis students for their exceptional writing skills. history in the classroom. their experience with alumni-driven internship programming for history majors. Roblee also helped S. Greenbaum History Writing Prize winners. The History Opportunity Award, for histo- The Nicholas Carr Bergstein Scholarship Career Office produce “PHaB” (Public Historians around Boston), a networking event with UMass Amherst Public There were three winners in the long-essay ry majors who have made outstanding con- Fund remembers an undergraduate who, History alumni who, among other things, expressed interest in taking on history undergraduate division: Kerry Brock, for “The Creation of a tributions to the undergraduate program, just before his second year at UMass Am- interns at their sites. People” (Professor Sharrow); Justin Murphy was established to honor Professor Emeritus herst, passed as a result of a rare condition. ’18, for “The Genuineness of Experience: Ron Story, whose own contributions went He had hoped to become a history teacher. Mark represents the department on HFA’s Career Advisory Board and the Arts Extension Service Medical Success Stories and Western Un- beyond teaching and scholarship to include Nicholas’s family started this fund for students Curriculum Advisory Committee in order to learn of, share, and increase opportunities for UMass derstandings of the Chinese Health Care service as secretary of the faculty senate, who are interested in teaching history and history majors. As both historian and adviser, Mark supports our majors by helping them connect System during the Cultural Revolution” (Pro- president of the faculty union, and liaison are committed to inclusion regardless of race, their study of history to meaningful work and lifelong learning in the world. He continues to advise fessor Schmalzer); and Kara Westhoven ’18, to the UMass Foundation. This year’s recipi- sexual orientation, or other defining char- students, produce workshops, and teach a career-development practicum. The practicum focuses for “Getting on the Map: American Women ent was Jorge Marinez ’18, who served as a acteristics. This year’s recipients were Avia on basic skills such as strategic résumé writing, networking, and interviewing. It also teaches and Subversive Cartographical Practice” peer mentor in the department, an adviser for Ferrande and Joel Flores—Avia for her work students to articulate the important skills they’ve acquired as history majors that are valued by (Professor Scott). In the short-essay division, new and transfer students, and a residential in adult education at the Juntos Collaborative employers: critical thinking, research, writing, information processing, presentation, and empathy. Wenny Niu won for “Isolation in Internment” adviser. in Holyoke and her summer work at Snow If you are interested in sharing your career story as a UMass history major out in the world or would (Professor Fronc). Louis Greenbaum used to Emma Morrison received this year’s Farm with students with behavioral issues like to engage a history intern, please contact me at [email protected]. —Mark Roblee select books to present to each winner. I am James and Cynthia Redman Scholarship, and Joel for his work with students at Crocker

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Farm Elementary School and Jones Library. the Massachusetts militia in the American Kosakowski, Joseph Liporace, Alicia Morten- The David H. MacDonnell Scholarship Revolution. His son, Richard W. Bauer, was son, Justin Murphy, Dhimiter Qirjazi, Indira Giving Back and honors MacDonnell’s second cousin once a history major; his fund helps to sponsor Rao, Tristan Tenerowicz, Kara Westhoven, removed, Patrick MacDonnell, an officer in internships each summer. and Brianna Zimmerman; all but Barrett and the Irish Republican Army “shot and killed This year two students, James Kostick Klimmek were graduating seniors. Looking Forward by the British and the Black and Tans on 23 and Kyran Schnur, won the Robert & Jeanne My heartfelt thanks to Suzanne Bell, who March 1921.” Katherine McGann received Potash Latin American Travel Grant. James retired in May (see page 37) from her posi- This spring, Jorge Luis Marinez ’18 relief efforts. If it were not for Phi Alpha the award this year for her work on women will study at the Universidad del Paí Vasco tion as undergraduate program assistant. was nominated for a 21st Century Theta, I do not believe that I would have in British history. in San Sebastían, in Spain’s Basque region, As others in my position have said in years Leader Award in recognition of had these opportunities to give back Paul E. Giguere served in the U.S. mili- while Kyran Schnur will conduct research in past, Suzanne deserves all praise and credit his strong academic record and to my community. As a new-students tary from 1943 to 1963 before becoming a his- Bogotá, Colombia, on organized labor in the for making the program function. Her role his contributions to the campus orientation leader and residential tory teacher. He endowed the Paul E. Giguere Americas from 1900 to 1935. as an adviser for our students was a job in community. We’re delighted to assistant, I had the opportunity to work Scholarship in History to honor students, in- The late Krikor Ermonian established the and of itself. But she went beyond that: her Jorge Marinez ’18. share highlights from the remarks with incoming UMass students and cluding veterans, planning to teach or write. Simon and Satenig Ermonian Scholarship in attention to detail and desire to keep track he delivered at an HFA reception those living in our residence halls. Both This year, Nathan Giacalone received the honor of his parents, who arrived in Massa- of students served the department superbly in honor of his nomination. opportunities showed me the needs award. He hopes to use his training in his- chusetts from Armenia before World War I. over the years. She organized our records of the students and residents while tory to help him to make a living writing for Though Mr. Ermonian received his engineer- in such a way that her successor, onetime making sure that they are prepared a public audience. ing degree from UMass in 1952, his great history major Enjoli Pescheta ’17, will have I am a graduating senior getting a BA for their college experience. I was able Ryan Desrosiers, Elijah Goodman, Addie love of history continued throughout his life. an easier job. I welcome Enjoli and look for- in history with a minor in Chinese to give back to the university through Handricken, Amanda Lorenzo, and Molly This year the scholarship, which awards stu- ward to working with her, but I miss Suzanne language and literature. I am honored these positions and made sure that the McCusker received support from the Fred- dents in the department for their outstanding already and wish her all the best as she be- to have been nominated for such an students always knew that they had eric Gilbert Bauer fund and the history de- work, was presented to 17 students: Nicholas gins this next phase of her life. Infinite thanks, amazing award. someone on their side no matter the partment to study in England at the Oxford Barrett, Leah Calabro, Lauren Coombes, Suzanne, for your hard work and dedication Throughout my career as a student, situation. Summer Seminar. Bauer (1881–1964) was a Frances Fleming, Bahar Gokcek, Anna Hart- over the years. —Joye Bowman I have had many chances to excel and I plan to continue to provide a service lawyer who loved history and published on mann, Emily Keane, Sean Klimmek, Jacob give back at the same time. Some of the for people in need. I have decided to outlets that allowed me to give back to work toward educational reform and my community are the History Honors equality within the education system Society, Phi Alpha Theta, and my years for everyone. I aspire for college-level as a new-students orientation leader education to be affordable to the point and residential assistant. Through where a summer job will be able to pay COURSE HIGHLIGHT: Phi Alpha Theta, I was able to work for the whole year. I also hope to work alongside my fellow members at the with the state to fund more into higher ‘What’s on Your Plate? Amherst Historical Society to assist in education to make it more affordable. I archiving items they had stored away. plan to also help reform the education A Transnational History of Food’ One of the many things we encountered system so that there are no schools with during our time there was a stump from outdated textbooks and every school has Taught to 11 UMass students and three Fulbright students from Argentina, “What’s the original tree cut down years ago to the funding needed to keep its students on Your Plate?” focused on how our food systems developed and how national and keep the house from coming down. The in the education system. I plan on doing international migrations have transformed food throughout history. Among other curator was beyond excited for this find all of this through the help of City Year– challenges, students attempted to cook recipes from historical cookbooks in the and was very grateful. Boston and future connections I plan to Special Collections and University Archives at the W.E.B. DuBois Library. Another way I was able to give back, make with the Massachusetts Board of These being first attempts at cooking for many of the and something that touched home for Education, the Washington State Board students, they documented their experiences at blogs. me, was through organizing the Puerto of Education, and other possible sources umass.edu/history397tf-julied/. The results ranged from Rico Hurricane Relief Donation. It of assistance. —Jorge Marinez ’18 delicious to disastrous. Thomas De Souza cooked a raised over three boxes of materials banana meatloaf recipe in a 1941 cookbook, Bananas: How sent to Puerto Rico to help with the to Serve Them, produced at a time when the Meloripe Fruit Company attempted to convince Americans that bananas Thomas De Souza cooking (and already suspicious of his banana were a versatile fruit, suitable for all types of usages. meatloaf recipe). —Julie de Chantal ’16PhD

The final result.

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2018 UNDERGRADUATE AWARD WINNERS

The Department of History’s generous Nicholas Carr Bergstein Scholarships Maya Levine donors make these awards possible. For Avia Ferrande Clare McGladrigan ’18 more on these awards, their recipients, and Joel Flores William Sennott the named benefactors, see the articles in Paul E. Giguere Scholarship in History Genevieve Weidner this section. Nathan Giacalone Simon & Sateng Ermonian Memorial Scholarships Harold. W. Cary Prize David H. MacDonnell Prize Nicholas Barrett ’18 Frances Fleming ’18 Katherine McGann Jacob Kosakowski ’18 Leah Calabro ’18 Dhimiter Qirjazi ’18 Howard H. Quint Prize Lauren Coombes ’18 Tristan Tenerowicz ’18 Justin Murphy ’18 Frances Fleming ’18 Bahar Gokcek ’18 Robert H. McNeal Scholarship Frederic Gilbert Bauer Awards/Oxford Summer Scholarships Anna Hartmann ’18 Jacob Kosakowski ’18 Ryan Desrosiers Emily Keane ’18 Louis S. Greenbaum History Writing Elijah Goodman Sean Klimmek Prizes Four of this year’s 10 Phi Alpha Theta Addie Handricken Jacob Kosakowski ’18 Kerry Brock (Long Essay) inductees with Professor Garrett Washington: Amanda Lorenzo Joseph Liporace ’18 Justin Murphy ’18 (Long Essay) (from left) Michael Ruccolo Molly McCusker Alicia Mortenson ’18 Kara Westhoven ’18 (Long Essay) Justin Murphy ’18 Timothy James Belgrad Richard W. Bauer Scholarships for Wenny Niu (Short Essay) Dhimiter Qirjazi ’18 Garrett Washington Summer Internships Indira Rao ’18 Darlyn Diaz Lindsay Robert & Jeanne Potash Latin American Alyssa Aloise William Higgins Broderick. Travel Grants Tristan Tenerowicz ’18 From left: Lily Abrahams James Kostick Kara Westhoven ’18 Kendall Brinson, Emilia Billett Kyran Schnur Brianna Zimmerman ’18 Sean Blocher-McTigue, Kathrine Esten Allegra Dufresne, History Opportunity Award Frances Fleming ’18 Rochelle Malter, and Jorge Marinez ’18 Eathan Friend Nathan Giacalone Amanda Lorenzo, James and Cynthia Redman Scholarship Brook Hansel students in David Emma Morrison Glassberg’s public Devon King ’18 history course, pose with signage they created for the W.E.B. Du Bois birth site.

Undergraduate Researcher Gets National Showcase

In January 2018, Genevieve Weidner attended and presented at the Phi Alpha Theta Biannual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. On January 3-6, Genevieve joined hundreds of Phi Alpha Theta members from across the country to showcase their work. The conference included many panel sessions, where undergraduate students presented their research. There were also sessions on applying to graduate school, publishing books, and careers in history after graduating college. There were several keynote speakers as well.

Genevieve presented her paper “The Two Sides of ‘No Taxation without Undergraduate award recipients: Justin Murphy ’18 James Kostick Wenny Niu Representation.’” It compared the American and British perspectives on that (from left) Lauren Coombes ’18 Kathrine Esten Avia Ferrande celebrated American Revolution slogan. She was on a panel with two other Alicia Mortenson ’18 Frances Fleming ’18 Elijah Goodman Sean Klimmek undergraduate students who had written papers on similar topics. Afterwards, Emilia Billett Joseph Liporace ’18 Jorge Marinez ’18 Addie Handricken Katherine McGann Genevieve Weidner Brianna Zimmerman ’18 Genevieve Weidner delivers her speech, Alyssa Aloise audience members had a chance to ask the panelists questions. Overall, it was an Dhimiter Qirjazi ’18 Kerry Brock Emma Morrison “President Washington and I,” at the Phi Clare McGladrigan ’18 incredibly valuable and educational experience. —Genevieve Weidner Leah Calabro ’18 Tristan Tenerowicz ’18 Nathan Giacalone Alpha Theta inductee ceremony. Ethan Friend Indira Rao ’18 Kyran Schnur Kara Westhoven ’18 Molly McCusker Devon King ’18

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STUDENT HIGHLIGHT:

The history department’s Honors Program and economic reforms in the twentieth- and engages students from across campus twenty-first centuries. Faculty mentors in- Devon King ’18 through diverse course offerings. This year, cluded not only members of the history de- Jennifer Nye taught “Women and the Law,” partment but also faculty from journalism, History major Devon King ’18 successfully presented Sigrid Schmalzer “The Chinese Cultural classics, art history, political science, and his honors thesis, “Preserving History, Reviving Cities: Revolution,” Julio Capó Jr. “The Caribbean,” comparative literature. The Heritage State Parks of Massachusetts,” at both the and Laura Lovett “Sex in History.” In these Each year thesis writers have the oppor- history department’s Honors Thesis Presentations and the courses and others, history majors joined tunity to present their findings and address UMass systemwide Honors Student Research Conference. students from nursing, biology, computer questions at the history department’s Honors Among those King interviewed for this research project science, English, engineering, psychology, Thesis Symposium. Held this year on April 26, was former Massachusetts governor and U.S. presidential music, accounting, linguistics, sociology, ed- it included presentations by 11 students and candidate Michael Dukakis. ucation, political science, and other majors. its venue, Herter 601, was packed with friends, Devon’s thesis committee was chaired by public The Honors Program also engages his- faculty mentors, and family. This was an es- history Professor David Glassberg and included Sam tory majors in the hands-on work of writing pecially important event in that it marked Redman and John Mullin, professor emeritus landscape history. Every year several students, over- the retirement of Suzanne Bell, our under- architecture and regional planning. Devon spent the past seen by faculty mentors, produce a work of graduate program coordinator. For the last summer in Newport as a Buchanan Burnham Summer original scholarship culminating in an hon- decade, Suzanne’s meticulous planning has Scholar in Public History at the Newport Historical ors thesis. This year saw incredible interest made the symposium successful and memo- Society and is now employed by McGinley, Kalsow, and among students. Fifteen thesis writers visited rable for the students and their families. As Associates, a Somerville architecture firm specializing in archives in New York City, Washington, D.C., the students talked among themselves and historic preservation. —David Glassberg and Boston. They pored over documents, with guests following their presentations, Honors history students at the analyzed images, read memoirs and private Suzanne reflected that organizing this event Undergraduate Thesis Symposium: (from left) letters, and conducted interviews—in one and watching it unfold so smoothly were Indira Rao’ 18 case, with former Massachusetts governor sources of personal and professional pride. Justin Murphy ’18 Michael Dukakis. Their topics spanned the Indeed, for students, faculty, and staff this is a Frances Fleming ’18 globe, from early modern Britain and France highlight of the department’s end-of-the-year Benjamin Lerer ’18 Devon King ’18 conducts an oral history to nineteenth-century China and the United celebrations. — Jason Moralee Devon King ’18 interview with Governor Michael Dukakis. States, reproductive-rights law, migration, Kara Westhoven ’18 Lauren Coombes ’18 Stuart Foster Luke Bergquist ’18 Joseph Liporace ’18 Not pictured: Bahar Gokcek ’18 2018 HONORS THESES

Luke Bergquist ’18, “Making the New Deal: FDR Idealist? Cassidy McDonald ’18, “Corruption and Brutality Within the Or Pragmatist?” Magdalen Asylums: An Historical Analysis of the Catholic Lauren Coombes ’18, “Women of Fashion: Marketing Fashion Church’s Influence on Irish National Politics and Identity” and Gender in Eighteenth-Century France” Justin Murphy ’18, “A Question of Nationhood: Perspectives on Frances Fleming ’18, “‘The Gifts of Freedom Ill Assort with the China during the Hundred Days’ Reform” Condition of a Slave’: Women’s Reception of Classics in the Indira Rao ’18, “An Examination of Impact Litigation for American Abolitionist Movement” Reproductive Rights in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Stuart Foster, “The Rise of the Nation-State in Syria” Centuries and its Implications for Social Change” Bahar Gokcek ’18, “The Chinese Exclusion Act Era” Tristan Tenerowicz ’18, “The Men Who Sold the World: The House of Morgan and Germany, 1914–1945” Devon King ’18, “Preserving History, Reviving Cities: The Heritage State Parks of Massachusetts” Kara Westhoven ’18, “Wielding Artistry for the Vote: Three Women of the American Suffrage Movement” Benjamin Lerer ’18, “Tudor Treason or Stuart Stupidity: The Law and Politics of Treason and Sovereignty from Henry VIII to Charles II” Joseph Liporace ’18, “Migrant Farm Labor and the News: A Study of Media Coverage of Guest Worker Programs in the United States”

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Academic year 2017–18 was another great ers from our department were Alexandra year, our students presented at more than one for the Department of History’s Graduate Asal ’18MA, Austin Clark ’18MA, Nolan 25 conferences, including the Internation- Program. We welcomed a large, diverse class Cool ’18MA, Ragini Jha, John Roberts, Jack al Conference on the History of Chemistry of 17 incoming students, with 10 MAs and Werner ’18MA, Emma Winter Zeig, and Bing in Norway, the National Council on Public seven PhDs; two of the latter are recipients of Xia. The conference also welcomed present- History, the National Humanities Conference, the university’s new Research Enhancement ers from universities throughout the United the Oral History Association Conference, the and Leadership (REAL) diversity fellowship, States. Among the programs represented Southern Association for Women Historians, which provides PhD students with mentoring were the graduate division of Religious Stud- and Curating Resistance Punk as Archival and summer funding throughout their stud- ies at Brown University, the Department of Method at UCLA. ies. The fellowship was created by history History at Kent State University, and the John We celebrated our students in May with faculty member Barbara Krauthamer, now Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities the Graduate Awards Ceremony. We were dean of the Graduate School. and Cultural Heritage at Brown University. privileged to have three of our donors attend: During fall 2017, Five College Distin- History department faculty member Audrey Professor Emerita Joyce Berkman, Larry guished Lecturer Scott Bruce gave a fascinat- Altstadt was the one of four keynote panel- Gassan, and Dr. Charles Hyde ’66. ing talk, “The Dark Age of Herodotus: Shards ists, alongside Chelsea Miller ’16MA, Frank- Congratulations to our 2018 PhD gradu- of a Fugitive History in Medieval Europe.” In lin Odo, and David Tebaldi. Caleb Gonzalez ates—Daniel Allosso, Katherine Freedman, the spring, activist, poet, and historian Auro- of Colorado State University received the Katherine Julian, and Amanda Tewes— ra Levins Morales, our Writer in Residence, conference’s best-paper award for “What Do and MA graduates Alexander Asal, Austin presented a series of highly engaging talks We Call Author? Re-imagining Authorship Clark, Nolan Cool, Owen Kerrigan, and Jack and workshops to graduate students and the through Decoloniality Within Three Textual Werner.

wider community. Examples of Mexican Children’s Literature.” In 2018-19, we have 14 new students in History faculty with graduating MA and PhD students. The Graduate History Association Our donors’ generosity enables us to send the program, including two REAL fellowship organized a highly successful conference, our graduate students to conferences around recipients. — Anna Taylor “Critical Conversations: Breaking Barriers the U.S. and the world, opportunities essen- through Discourse and Dialogue.” Present- tial to their professional development. This GRADUATE STUDENT DEPARTMENTAL AWARDS GRADUATE EXTERNAL AWARDS

The Department of History’s generous donors make these awards—and students’ University of Massachusetts Amherst The Graduate History successful graduate careers—possible. We thank you. For more on these awards, Graduate School Dissertation Association fall outing visit www.umass.edu/history/graduate-awards. Fieldwork Grant at Randall Farms in Adeline Broussan Dr. Charles K. Hyde Intern Jumpstart Grants for Dissertation Ludlow, Massachusetts. Fellowships Research University of Massachusetts Amherst Tanya Pearson Adeline Broussan Graduate School Dissertation Far right: (from left) Kendall Taivalkoski Andrew Grim Fieldwork Grant Yuri Gama, Lindsey Woolcock Joie-Lynn Campbell Alex Asal ’18MA, Marvin Ogilvie Memorial Award for Emma Winter Zeig Scholar-in-Residence at the Robert Jack Werner ’18MA, Foreign Language Study Amelia Zurcher Adeline Broussan Gore Rifkind Center for German Austin Clark ’18MA, Expressionist Studies and Nolan Cool ’18MA Frederic Gilbert Bauer Research Richard Gassan Memorial Jenna Febrizio after Jack’s MA Fellowships Scholarships thesis defense. Jason Higgins Heather Brinn University of Massachusetts Michael Jirik Graduate School Dissertation Ragini Jha Fieldwork Grant Hands-On Grant Robert & Jeanne Potash Latin Andrew Grim Brittany Frederick American Travel Grant University of Massachusetts History Department Travel Grants Jorge Simoes Minella Graduate School Dissertation 2018 MA THESIS Yuri Kieling Gama Simon and Satenig Ermonian Fieldwork Grant Shay Olmstead Graduate Awards for Excellence in Jason Higgins Jack Werner, “Wanderers of Empire: The Tropical Tramp in Latin America, 1870–1930 Graduate Teaching Camesha Scruggs University of Massachusetts Amherst Jason Higgins Joyce A. Berkman Endowed Fund Graduate School Dissertation Jorge Simoes Minella 2018 PhD THESES in Women’s History and Women’s Research Grant Studies Michael Jirik Daniel Allosso, “Peppermint Kings: A Rural American History” Joie-Lynn Campbell University of Massachusetts Amherst Katherine Freedman, “A Tangled Web: Quakers and the Atlantic Slave System, 1625–1770” Graduate School Predissertation Kathryn Julian, “The Socialist Devout: Religious Orders and the Making of an East German Catholic Community” Grant Shay Olmstead Amanda Tewes, “Fantasy Frontier: Old West Theme Parks and Memory in California”

12 13 Micah Klayman, Ragini Jha, Bing Xia, and Shay Olmstead at the Graduate History Association annual conference.

Graduate History Association officers and prize recipients at the Graduate History Conference.

Keynote panel opening the 2018 Graduate History Association conference “Critical Conversations: AN ALUM’S PERSPECTIVE: Breaking Barriers through Discourse and Dialogue”: (from left) Audrey Altstadt, Chelsea Miller ’16MA, Critical Conversations Franklin Odo, and David Tebaldi. at the GHA Conference This year, I had the incredible honor of having been invited to participate in a keynote panel philosophy professor to working for state humanities councils, and the significance of developing at “Critical Conversations: Breaking Barriers through Discourse and Dialogue,” the Graduate public programs that invite people of many perspectives and backgrounds to discuss contemporary History Association’s annual conference, held March 23‒24, 2018. It invited presenters from across issues together. Professor Odo recounted how Asian-American studies came to be and how, in his disciplines to engage with various audiences and encourage critical commentary on the present. role as director of the Asian Pacific American Program at the Smithsonian Institution, he brought On Friday night, I joined fellow keynote panelists Audrey Altstadt, David Tebaldi numerous exhibits to the Smithsonian highlighting the wide-ranging experiences of Asian and (Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities), and Franklin Odo (Amherst College) to discuss Pacific Americans. how we have used our humanities training to critically engage with contemporary issues, interact From a discussion of teaching about immigration through historical artwork by Emily Esten with communities outside of academia, and foster dialogue with the public. ’16 to Ragini Jha’s analysis of memory and identity in the (un)making of Hauz Khas Village, the presentations at this year’s conference highlighted the myriad ways in which the past informs the present and how agents in the present reconstruct and reimagine the past. Presenters from UMass “... we have used our humanities training to Amherst were Alex Asal ’18MA, Austin Clark ’18MA, Nolan Cool ’18MA, Emily Esten ’16, Ragini Jha, Micah Klayman, John Roberts, Jack Werner ’18MA, Bing Xia, and Emma Winter Zeig. critically engage with contemporary issues, The conference included presentations from graduate students studying history, labor studies, philosophy, religion, sociology, and literature. In some ways, it served as an example of how to break down disciplinary boundaries within the humanities and social sciences and collaboratively develop interact with communities outside of academia, critical commentaries on the present. On Saturday, we enjoyed “Publish and Prosper: Careers and Advice for Graduate Students,” and foster dialogue with the public.” a lunch presentation by Matt Becker of the University of Massachusetts Press. It offered an opportunity to learn about scholarly publishing and what authors can expect when they seek to publish an article or book. As an aspiring university-press editor, I appreciated the chance to hear an Professor Altstadt discussed how historians can shape foreign policy by working as consultants established editor share his perspectives on scholarly communication and the publishing industry. and how we can influence public discourse by writing op-eds that provide historical context to Thank you to the Graduate History Association for organizing another successful conference. contemporary issues such as U.S./Russia politics. I talked about participating in public memory In particular, I would like to thank GHA officers Heather Brinn, Austin Clark ’18MA, Brittany projects, getting involved in local LGBTQIA politics and activism, and the role of publishing Frederick, and Jason Higgins for their exceptional work and for inviting me to return to in shaping conversations about critical topics. Professor Tebaldi discussed his transition from a UMass. —Chelsea Miller ’16MA

14 15 UMASS/FIVE COLLEGES GRADUATE PROGRAM IN HISTORY PUBLIC HISTORY PROGRAM UPDATE ANNUAL DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: ‘The Dark Age of Herodotus’ The 2017 UMass/Five Colleges Graduate Program in History Annual The Public History Program has advanced Placid (New York) Olympic Museum; Lindsey speakers. In the fall, Seth Denbo, director Distinguished Lecture was given by Scott Bruce, professor of medieval on a number of fronts. In September 2017 Woolcock at the Massachusetts Historical of scholarly communication and digital ini- history and director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies we welcomed our new group of certificate Society; Amelia Zurcher at the Old Manse in tiatives at the AHA, spoke about the role of at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Professor Bruce’s publications students with a picnic and boat ride on the Concord, Massachusetts; and Emily Winter professional organizations in shaping the reveal a wide range of interests in religious and cultural history, especially Connecticut River. We closed the year in June Zweig at the National Museum of American field of the digital humanities. Sam Redman’s monasticism. In addition to having written the monographs Silence and Sign 2018 with the annual Massachusetts History History. In addition, Ross Caputi interned at “Introduction to Public History” class featured Language in Medieval Monasticism: The Cluniac Tradition, Circa 900–1200 Conference in Worcester. The following sum- the Fitchburg (Massachusetts) Historical So- a number of speakers. Judith Barter ’91PhD, (2007) and Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet: Hagiography and marizes some of the highlights in between. ciety and Brittany Frederick at the Archives curator emeritus from the Art Institute of Chi- the Problem of Islam in Medieval Europe (2015), he coauthored The Relatio In November, we hosted Dr. Charles K. of American Art in Washington, D.C. Check cago, described careers and challenges in metrica de duobus ducibus: A Twelfth-Century Cluniac Poem on Prayer for the Hyde ’66 on campus to hear students report the history department Past@Present Blog or museum curatorship. Matt Ottinger of the Dead. Bruce is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred on their summer 2017 internships: Alexan- the Public History Program Facebook Page Bostonian Society shared his insights into Years of Supernatural Encounters from the Romans to the Renaissance, in dra Asal ’18MA, at the Archives Center, Na- for accounts of their exploits. historic preservation based on his experi- which he collected and translated sources on necromancers, hauntings, Scott Bruce delivers the 2017 UMass/Five tional Museum of American History; Austin Hyde Funds also enabled the Public His- ences managing care for the Old State House Colleges Graduate Program in History Clark ’18MA, at Mass Humanities; Nolan tory Program to invite a wide variety of guest in Boston. Mark B. Schlemmer, founder of ghouls, and zombies. Reviewers have described the book as “wonderfully fun,” Annual Distinguished Lecture, “The Dark Age creepy,” “scholarly,” and “unpleasant.” of Herodotus: Shards of a Fugitive History.” Cool ’18MA, at the Stone House Museum; In his fascinating talk, “The Dark Age of Herodotus: Shards of a Fugitive Jason Higgins, at UMass Amherst’s Special Hiswory,” Professor Bruce told of having reconstructed knowledge of a Classical Collections and University Archives; and Greek author, lost to western Europe in the Middle Ages, from fragmentary references in Latin writers. Despite the Perri Meldon, at the National Park Service absence of a Latin translation of the Historiae of Herodotus of Halicarnassus (d. c. 425 BC), western medieval authors Cultural Resource Office of Education and were familiar with many of his stories. Professor Bruce asked how this can be explained. Taking as a case study the tale Interpretation. Thanks to Dr. Hyde’s con- of King Cyrus’s vengeance against the Ganges River for drowning his favorite horse, his talk investigated the modes of tinuing generosity, five students completed transmission that carried the tales of Herodotus from Greek into Latin, from the eastern Mediterranean to Rome, and public history internships as Hyde Fellows from there across the Alps into northern Europe and into the cultural repertoire of Christian thinkers like Paul Orosius in summer 2018: Tanya Pearson at the Palm- and Peter the Venerable of Cluny. —Anna Taylor er-Warner House in East Haddam, Con- necticut; Kendall Taivalkoski at the Lake

Acclaimed contemporary artist Fred Wilson (right), with Whitney Battle Baptiste, talks to students about his art, curatorial practice, and the state of today’s art world at an event Open-Access Oral History Training Tools cosponsored by the Public History Program.

I recently developed open-access oral history training I want to express my gratitude to Emily Redman, who Public history fall tools designed to introduce oral history, from planning narrated and edited the modules, in addition to advising outing: (from left) and managing projects to interviewing and preserving the project. This project benefited significantly from the Perri Meldon recordings. Guided by the principles and best practices resources of the UMass Oral History Lab, Sam Redman’s James During Jon Olsen of the Oral History Association, these resources provide a oral history course, and the Oral History Lab Crash Course Alex Asal ’18MA foundational education in ethical oral history work. From workshops. Chris Appy provided valuable insights into Amelia Zurcher the insights of professional oral historians, the modules also oral history from his distinguished career. I also want to Emma Winter Zeig discuss advanced techniques, practical advice, and pro tips acknowledge the contributions of my colleagues Shakti Kendall Taivalkoski for navigating the complexities of doing oral history. Castro ’17MA, for her excellent advice on ethics and oral Jacob Boucher Lindsey Woolcock history, and Perri Meldon, current history master’s As part of a collaborative learning project between the Nolan Cool ’18 MA student, for her helpful feedback on interviewing David Glassberg UMass Oral History Lab and the Department of Psychological people with disabilities. Jason Higgins and Brain Sciences, the tools were first envisioned to train Alyssa Arnell of undergraduate students to interview people with disabilities On behalf of the UMass Oral History Lab, we hope that Greenfield Community and their families for Ashley Woodman’s course “Impact of educators and students find them valuable, instructive, and College Disabilities on Families.” Emily Redman conceived the idea readily adaptable. They can be accessed and shared Austin Clark ’18 MA to expand the purpose of the educational materials beyond at familynarrativesproject.umasscreate.net/training/. the scope of this course and provide an accessible, versatile —Jason Higgins resource for teaching oral history.

16 17 ‘Monuments, In the aftermath of the events at Charlottesville, Virginia, last year, the Memory, history department hosted a public forum, “Monuments, Memory, and White Supremacy: Historians Respond to Your Questions.” Before a packed audience in UMass Amherst’s Old Chapel, panelists Alon Confino, David Glassberg, and White John Higginson, Jon Olsen, and Alice Nash discussed the complex history of monuments, memory, and commemoration and the enduring legacy of white supremacy. The event was moderated by Brian Ogilvie, who also delivered Supremacy’ introductory remarks. Organized around questions from students and community members, the event included discussion of case studies from Germany and South Africa as well as such local examples as the confederate monument on Georges Island in Boston Harbor and the depiction of an indigenous man on the commonwealth and UMass seals. “The discussion allowed us to open up the conversation and Kiara Hill, PhD student contextualize the events in Charlottesville with other memorial debates around at the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro- the world,” explained Jon Olsen. “Many cultures have struggled with difficult American studies and pasts and there is much we can learn from each other.” public history certificate David Glassberg added, “The symposium raised timely questions in student, co-curated the wake of the incident in Charlottesville several months earlier. While a the exhibition Five historical perspective does not make contemporary events less disturbing for Takes on African Art at UMass Amherst’s students, it does offer a context to understand them.” University Museum of Lindsey Woolcock, an MA student who attended the event, noted, “Though Contemporary Art. From left: Brian Ogilvie, seemingly frozen in time, monuments continue to shape and influence our Alice Nash, John Higginson, world. As historians, it is our duty to find new ways to think, write, and teach Jon Olsen, Alon Confino, that address the legacies of racism and violence embedded in monuments.” and David Glassberg discussing monuments and #ITweetMuseums, helped students create a history methods into their groundbreaking Students and faculty also made their mark commemoration before successful “Tweet Up” social-media event at work on reproductive justice. Also in the fall, at regional and national conferences. Spe- a standing-room-only Mount Holyoke College’s Skinner Museum; the history department and Public History cial notice goes to Cheryl Harned, who led audience at the Old Chapel. via Skype, Trudie Cole of the Poole Museum Program teamed up to host a forum on mon- a scaled-down “Applied Humanities Learn- in the U.K. described challenges to and ben- uments, memorials, and white supremacy ing Lab Pop-Up” at the National Humanities efits of alternative educational programming (see facing page). During the spring, we were Alliance Conference in Boston in November, in museum contexts. Owen Rogers of the delighted to host Kendra Field’s talk “The Art and to Lindsey Woolcock, who was part of the Library of Congress described its Veterans of Family History” and various public and “Interpreting Slavery and Freedom in New Oral History Project. private events with this year’s Writer in Res- England” workshop in Providence in March In the spring, Sam’s students heard from idence, Aurora Levins Morales (see page 25). and gave a fascinating brown-bag presen- Tom Scheinfeldt, associate professor of digital The heart of the Public History Program tation to the department about it in April. humanities at the University of Connecticut remains our graduate courses, which com- That same month, at the National Council on and director of Greenhouse Studios. Students bine classroom instruction with field expe- Public History Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, in Christine De Lucia’s “Material Culture” rience through service projects. In fall 2017, public history students and alumni appeared course heard from Aaron Miller, curator of Sam Redman’s “Introduction to Public His- in sessions such as “Preparing Our Students material culture at the Mount Holyoke Art tory” class completed an oral history project for ‘Other Duties as Assigned,’” with Jill and Skinner Museums; Ellen Alvord, curator in collaboration with the Emily Dickinson Mudgett ’08PhD (Morristown Historical of education and academic programs at the Museum in Amherst and a community Society/Noyes House Museum); “Insider/ MHC Art Museum; and Mike Kelly, archivist conversation and a music concert to raise Outsider: Racial Bias and Positionality in at Archives and Special Collections at Am- awareness and debate access, sexism, and Interpretation,” with Shakti Castro ’17MA herst College. other issues related to historical entries on the (BOOM! Health, New York City); “Negotiat- The program was also enriched by the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia. At ing Power Lines: Economic Justice and the array of public programming at UMass the undergraduate level, David Glassberg’s Ethics of Public History,” with Na Li ’09PhD Amherst during 2017–18. During a fall event “Museums and Public History” course devel- (Centre for Public History, Zheijiang Uni- sponsored by the Institute for Social Science oped a living history tour of the Old Chapel versity); “Disability in Public: Creating Ac- Research and the Public Engagement Project and a poster for a kiosk at the intersection cessible, Community-Engaged, and Peda- and cosponsored by the history department, of Church and Main streets in Great Bar- gogically-Informed Exhibits on the History we were honored to connect with Rickie rington, Massachusetts, directing visitors to of Disability,” with Perri Meldon; “Cultural Solinger and Loretta Ross, two well-known the birth site of W.E.B. Du Bois and the river- Resources, Community Engagement, and activist intellectuals who incorporate public side park named in his honor. Climate Change,” with David Glassberg;

18 19 Nolan Cool ’18MA PUBLIC HISTORY PROGRAM UPDATE presents his Hyde internship report, From left: “A Stone’s Throw to 2018 Hyde fellows Belchertown: Interning Kendall Taivalkoski at the Stone House Emma Winter Zeig Museum.” Lindsey Woolcock Amelia Zurcher

Public History graduate student Emma Winter Zeig presents her poster to David Glassberg at the National Council on Public History meeting in Las Vegas.

“Filling the Gaps: Issues and Opportunities David Glassberg attended a convening of the Lefebvre ’09MA, director of the Natick (Mas- in Capturing Underrepresented Voices,” with public history programs that will collaborate sachusetts) Historical Society, and Richard Brian Whetstone; “Pop-Up: Theatrical Press on the next HAL project, an international Anderson ’11MA, a postdoctoral scholar at Agents and the Art of Promotion,” with Emma traveling exhibition on climate change and Penn State University’s Humanities Institute Winter Zweig; “The Public History of Labor,” environmental justice. Plans are well under- working on public humanities programming. with Richard Anderson ’11MA (Princeton way, and UMass public history students will Finally, congratulations to the talented University); and “Extending the Power of be participating throughout 2018–19. public history master’s degree students who Public History through Open-Access Digital Congratulations to current and former graduated in May: Alex Asal, Austin Clark, Publishing,” with UMass Press editor Matt students for their career advancements in and Nolan Cool. We especially wish to thank Becker. Volunteering behind the scenes to 2018, including Carrie Barske ’11PhD, direc- Austin for the many tasks he performed over keep the NCPH conference running smoothly tor of the Mussel Shoals (Alabama) National 2017–18 as public history program graduate were Lindsey Woolcock and Amelia Zurcher Heritage Area; Kelli Morgan ’16PhD, Weisen- assistant. We have been extremely fortunate Sam Redman’s “Intro to Public History” course visits the Skinner Museum as well as Austin Clark ’18MA at the UMass berger Curatorial Fellow of American Art at in having had extraordinary students in this for the #ITweetMuseums event, Press table. Last, but certainly not least, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields; position, including our current hire, Lindsey with featured guest speaker Mark the awards breakfast Marla Miller assumed Elizabeth Bradley ’12MA, program coordinator Woolcock. —David Glassberg Schlemmer: (from left) Cheryl Harned, her duties as NCPH president, which post she at the Emily Dickinson Museum; Amanda Sharon Mehrman, Jason Higgins, Aaron will hold through April 2020. Tewes ’18PhD, historian/interviewer at the Miller, Lindsey Woolcock, Ross Caputi, Kendall Taivalkoski, Yuri Gama, Amelia Looking toward the future, in October 2017 Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley; Nicole Zurcher, Sam Redman, Emma June Ayres, Mark Schlemmer, Emma Winter Zeig, and Nolan Cool ’18MA.

DR. CHARLES K. HYDE PUBLIC HISTORY FELLOWS AND VISITING PRACTITIONERS, 2017–18

Dr. Charles K. Hyde Intern Fellowships Owen Rogers, Library of Congress Veterans Oral History Project Tanya Pearson, Palmer-Warner House, East Haddam, Connecticut. Seth Denbo, American Historical Association Kendall Taivalkoski, The Lake Placid Olympic Museum Lake Placid, New York Graduating public Visiting Practitioners, Spring 2018 history MA students Emma Winter Zeig, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. Tom Scheinfeldt, Greenhouse Studios with public history Lindsey Woolcock, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts Aaron Miller, Skinner Museum faculty at the 2018 Amelia Zurcher, The Old Manse, the Trustees, Concord, Massachusetts graduate award Ellen Alvord, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum ceremony: (from left) Visiting Practitioners, Fall 2017 Mike Kelly, Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College David Glassberg Judith Barter ’91PhD, Curator Emeritus, Art Institute of Chicago Check out the Public History Program’s Facebook page and the history Marla Miller Matt Ottinger, Bostonian Society department blog, Past@Present, for accounts of the Hyde fellows’ adventures: Alex Asal ’18MA facebook.com/UMassPublicHistory, umasshistory.wordpress.com. Austin Clark ’18MA Mark B. Schlemmer, #ITweetMuseums Nolan Cool ’18MA Trudie Cole, Poole Museum Jon Olsen

20 21 3-D printed model of the Hockanum Schoolhouse. So ‘PHaB’! In April 2018, the Public History Program gathered alumni in and around Boston to launch a gathering happily being called “UMass PHaB” (Public Historians around Boston). Organized by internship coordinator and public history alumnus Mark

UMass public history students in Las Vegas, attending the Roblee and hosted by Lauren Aubut Prescott ’13, now executive 2018 National Council on Public History conference. director of the South End Historical Society, the event drew From left: Perri Meldon, Amelia Zurcher, Lindsey Woolcock, together a dozen or so graduates of our BA and MA programs— Alex Asal ’18MA, Emma Winter Zeig, Austin Clark ’18MA. professionals now, at Historic New England, Harvard University, Northeastern University, the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, the University of Connecticut, the Trustees of Reservations, the Natick Historical Society, and elsewhere—as FROM AMHERST TO VEGAS: well as some current students. They thickened ties and helped alumni make new connections, renew old ones, and just UMass Historians generally tap their fellow UMass grads as sources of collegiality DUNCAN IRSCHICK and professional support. A second gathering, this one in Present at NCPH September, was hosted by Meghan Gelardi Holmes ’06MA, the curator at the Gibson House Museum. It gave Gibson House staff Annual Meeting a chance to preview new programing in development and gave us a chance to peek behind the curtains there. If you are a graduate In 2018, one phase of the project “Using 3-D Modeling to Preserve the Architectural The Public History Program was well represented of UMass Amherst working in any way as a public historian, get Heritage of Massachusetts: Digital Preservation and Educational Outreach” was at last spring’s National Council on Public History’s in touch and we’ll put you on the list! —Marla Miller The completed and a new one began. The project, funded by a 2016 Creative Economy annual meeting in Las Vegas. After two semesters of grant from the University of Massachusetts Office of the President, was led by UMass studying and working in the Pioneer Valley region, biologist Duncan Irschick, with public historians Marla Miller and Gregg Mitchell the program turned its attention toward other public Digital ’17MA collaborating in this effort to pioneer new tools to document, preserve, and history work around the country. UMass Amherst interpret historic buildings across Massachusetts. students’ work was present throughout the meeting, Irschick developed the technology in order to create accurate models of a wide range from Emma Winter Zweig’s pop-up exhibition of living organisms in high-resolution 3-D color. Wanting to explore whether his tools “Theatrical Press Agents and the Art of Promotion” Life and approach could capture something as large as a building, he reached out to the to Perri Meldon’s facilitation of the panel “Disability Public History Program to see if it could help contemplate the implications of high- in Public: Creating Accessible, Community- resolution 3-D photogrammetry for the historic-preservation community. Engaged, and Pedagogically Informed Exhibits on We contacted Preservation Massachusetts, Historic New England, and other the History of Disability.” Alex Asal ’18MA and stewards of significant buildings around the commonwealth. We ultimately selected a Austin Clark ’18MA participated in a day of exciting handful of structures—including the Hockanum Schoolhouse in nearby Hadley and workshops. Lindsey Woolcock and Amelia Zurcher the Cisco Homestead, a site important to the history of the Nipmuc nation—to help us volunteered throughout the event. test this new apparatus. While Irschick and his team captured thousands of images to Nor were department faculty difficult to be stitched together to create high-resolution 3-D models, Miller and Mitchell drafted find.David Glassberg facilitated the discussion educational and interpretive texts to use in classrooms and online. “Cultural Resources, Community Engagement, The initial phase of the project drew to a close in April, when Irschick’s team and Climate Change” and Marla Miller began her unveiled not only the first completed digital model but also a small version produced on term as council president. Taking advantage of the a 3-D printer—something anyone with access to a printer could download and produce opportunities presented by both the conference (an innovation with implications not only for K–12 classrooms but also, for example, to and city, Public History Program members spent teaching architectural history to vision-impaired students). As we explore “next steps” several full days of exploring NCPH, sharing ideas for the larger project, digital historian Jon Olsen hopes to pick up the baton, working about the field, and connecting with other public Former and current public history students at the with the Emily Dickinson Homestead to test the technology on an interior space: historians. —Amelia Zurcher UMass PHaB event: (from left) Jennifer Kleinman ’11MA Dickinson’s bedroom. Stay tuned! —Marla Miller (now of the Northeastern University Library), Niki Lefebvre ’09MA (new director of the Natick Historical Society), and Cheryl Harned.

22 23 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT UPDATE

2018 WRITER IN RESIDENCE AURORA LEVINS MORALES:

As is apparent throughout this newsletter, Engagement and Outreach Office focused on by a mix of community members, students, academic year 2017–18 was rich in commu- transforming student- and faculty-focused staff, and faculty, Levins Morales hosted a Awakening New nity-engaged history. The evidence ranges events into programs reaching and serving public event in Holyoke organized by my from articles penned by faculty in nationally university and community audiences alike. office in collaboration with Maria Salgado circulating newspapers and other publica- They included those featuring this year’s Cartagena, the people’s historian of Holyoke; Ways of Being tions to such student/faculty collaborations Writer in Residence, the poet, historian, writ- a “bonework circle” workshop with women as internships, joint projects, grant-funded er, activist, and public intellectual Aurora community organizers; a storytelling work- The following remarks introduced Aurora Levins Morales collaborations and more, with local, national, Levins Morales, who was nominated by a shop bringing together scholars, artists, and before her public lecture in the UMass Student Union Ballroom and international historical organizations. community partner. In addition to her pub- community organizers; small-group meet- on Tuesday, April 17. My work in the department’s Community lic lecture on campus, which was attended ings with various university and community groups; a people’s history walking tour of I have read many books by the history department’s Writers Puerto Rican Holyoke; and open office hours in Residence over the past decade, but this is the first time one for students and faculty from the history de- of them has ever made me cry. It was “First Snow,” in Aurora partment and other co-sponsoring entities. Levins Morales’s collection Cosecha. This residency was offered in collaboration This, of course, is not a proper response for an academic with the UMass Five College graduate pro- historian, not what I’m supposed to say when introducing a gram, with major support from Five Colleges, speaker. We are taught to be distant and objective, and to write Graduate Program Director Anna Taylor, and to speak as though we were not personally affected or and Graduate Program Coordinator Mary personally involved in the matter of history. 2018 Writer in residence Aurora Levins Morales Lashway. Levins Morales, however, is not that kind of historian. delivers the 12th anniversary Writer-In-Residence Earlier in the semester, we experimented Despite having a doctorate in women’s studies and history Public lecture, “Memory is Our Soil.” with new event formats in collaboration with from the Union Institute, she doesn’t write like a traditional Historians for Peace and Democracy, a na- academic. Rather, she writes history the way she writes memoir tional organization with which UMass Am- and fiction: with language immediate, alive, and emotionally She unearths the narratives of those, as she puts it, “deemed herst faculty work closely; Kevin Young sits powerful. unimportant by the writers of official histories.” Sometimes—as on their steering committee and Christian Levins Morales sees her role as being like that of an herbalist in her evocation of the maternal human ancestor we all share— Appy is a member of their speakers’ bureau. “wildcrafting”—that is, gathering wild plants from abandoned she uses the tools of storytelling and imagination. At other We hosted an evening event with interac- gardens and creating medicine from them. The “medicinal times she draws on accounts from her own family and medical tive conversation with Code Pink cofounder powers of history” is a theme of her writing. She explains, in history. In each case, the reader is allowed no safe distance, but Medea Benjamin, Iranian-American activist her history of Puerto Rican women published in 1998, how the is instead embroiled in the messy, painful, hopeful business of Mojgan Haji, facilitator and anti-Islamopho- lives of women from the past gave her insight and strength to being human. bia activist Amer F. Ahmed, and Christian face her own experiences. Aurora Levins Morales is a Puerto-Rican Ashkenazi Jewish Appy. More than a dozen community groups But the telling of these stories at the intersection of literature feminist writer, poet, activist, environmentalist, and radical. tabled at and participated in the event, which and history is a medicine not just for the writer but also for She is the author of six books of poetry, prose, and history. readers, awakening them to the possibilities of different ways Her writings have appeared in numerous anthologies, have of being. Her broader aim, as she puts it, is to “reshape our been translated into seven languages; according to her CV, societies into sustainable, humane communities.” She writes they “have been honored to appear as graffiti on the walls of “the stories we tell about our lives shape what we’re able to higher-education institution bathrooms.” So perhaps you’d like imagine, and what we can imagine determines what we can do. to continue that tradition after her talk. My job is to change the stories we tell and help us imagine a Today she brings to us a talk titled “Memory is Our Soil: world where greed has no power, the earth is cherished, and all Bringing History into the Commons.” people get to live safe and satisfying lives.” Please join me in welcoming our writer in residence, Aurora Levins Morales thus occupies an intersection of activism, Levins Morales. —Anna Taylor art, and scholarship. Through her writing and a vast range of activities across her career—including museum work, You can read more about Levins Morales’s visit on page 24. Taylor notes oral history, documentaries, podcasts, and performance and also that the department owes a special debt of gratitude to Jessica Johnson who, with Mary Lashway, handled the complicated coordination of multimedia art—she centers stories that have been overlooked, Educators’ reflections on James Baldwin at the workshop “James Baldwin on Film, on Aurora’s visit and, along with Maria Salgado Cartagena, People’s Historian the Page, and in the Classroom” at the Holyoke Public Library. including those of Puerto Rican women, immigrants, and the of Holyoke’s Puerto Rican Diaspora, ensured the broad participation of disabled body. communities in our region.

Nancy McLean presents on her book Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America to a packed house of more than 200 people.

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also included small-group breakout sessions ed from her award-winning academic book is always one of the highlights of my year, to Our Newest with each of the presenters. This event was Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific bring students from other schools to campus. organized by my office, along with Kevin Farming in Socialist China. Working with With Sigrid Schmalzer and Kevin Young, Young, Sigrid Schmalzer, and Dan Chard. the Western Mass Writing Project and fea- I spent much of my year planning the 2018 Faculty Also during the fall and building on part- turing guest appearances by faculty in Af- Feinberg Series, which, like the initiatives nerships forged during the 2016–17 Feinberg rican American studies and the filmmakers outlined above, was developed to be commu- LaShonda Barnett has teaching interests Series, my office partnered with Northamp- who created the documentary The Price of nity-based. By the time you receive this news- Members in African American history; women’s, ton’s Forbes Library to develop a “communi- the Ticket, we hosted a two-part workshop letter, we will be more than midway through gender, and sexuality history; African ty-wide read” of historian Nancy MacLean’s on teaching James Baldwin. Together these the series, which we hope you attend. diasporic histories, especially Afro- award-winning Democracy in Chains: The sessions comprised our annual History In- I owe deep gratitude to department staff German and Brazil; and the history of Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth stitute and were organized in collaboration members Suzanne Bell, Amy Fleig, Adam Guillaume Aubert is a Afrodiasporic Expressive literature and Plan for America. In November, commu- with local educators and with the history Howes, Mary Lashway, and Enjoli Pescheta; historian of the French music. She is the author of the award- nity members attended public events with department’s communications assistant Ade- graduate student project assistants Adeline Atlantic, teaching winning novel Jam on the Vine and a MacLean organized by the history depart- line Broussan, herself a former K–12 teacher. Broussan, Austin Clark, and Mark Roblee; courses in Early collection of short stories. Her writing ment, the Political Economy Research Insti- For the third year in a row, we hosted department officers Joye Bowman, Brian American and Atlantic has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, tute, and the Department of Women, Gender, the High School History Academy, a day- Ogilvie, Sigrid Schmalzer, and Anna Taylor; history, most recently at Guernica Magazine, New Orleans Review, Sexuality Studies. Several weeks later, in a long history immersion with Easthampton undergrad work-study students Zahra Alam, the College of William SN Review, Juked, C4: Chamber Quarterly Andrea Estepa is a historian of the conversation that ended up lasting long past High School students. It included a historical Ben Daley, Colleen Kiely, and Kiyanna and Mary. While his Literary Review, Gemini Magazine, and modern U.S., especially the period its official end-time, dozens of local residents walking tour of campus, hands-on work with Sully; and all of the faculty, students, and research focuses on issues of race and elsewhere. 1945–1975. Her research and teaching packed into the basement of Forbes Library primary sources in Special Collections and community members with whom we col- belonging in early modern French colonies, A lover and scholar of the music of the interests include social movements, to discuss MacLean’s work. University Archives planned by archivist laborated. I would especially like to thank his teaching interests include the entangled African diaspora and an avid interviewer, women’s activism, feminism, I also organized several initiatives for and Caroline White, a lecture on the history of Brian Ogilvie and Sigrid Schmalzer for their social, political, and cultural histories of Barnett has conducted over one hundred motherhood, sexuality, race relations, with K–12 educators and students. With the baseball by Joel Wolfe, a Q&A with history support in overseeing this work, and Adeline North America and the broader Atlantic. interviews with women musicians and and the domestic politics and culture Five College Center for East Asian Studies undergrads, and lots of free candy, stickers, Broussan, with whom I worked closely on He has published essays on notions of edited the volumes I Got Thunder: Black of the Cold War era. She has published and the National Consortium for Teaching and all-you-can-eat food in the dining halls. all of these initiatives and who also edits “blood purity” in the French Atlantic, the Women Songwriters on Their Craft two articles: “Taking the White Gloves About Asia, we hosted a virtual book group PhD students Adeline Broussan and Marwa this newsletter and creates the department’s transatlantic theological underpinnings of (2007) and Off the Record: Conversations Off: Women Strike for Peace and ‘The and webinar on Sigrid Schmalzer’s children’s Amer worked closely on this project. We are social media and web communications. French slave law, and the politics of race and with African American and Brazilian Movement,’ 1967–73,” in Feminist book Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean, adapt- interested in expanding this initiative, which —Jess Johnson Frenchness in Gorée and Ndar (Saint-Louis- Women Musicians (2015). She has hosted Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on du-Sénégal). His current research includes a her own jazz radio program, taught Second-Wave U.S. Feminism (University history of the legal tribulations of more than “Women in Jazz” at New York City’s Jazz of Illinois Press, 2008), and “When a

Joel Wolfe talks with Easthampton High School students during one hundred men and women of African at Lincoln Center, and lectured on the ‘Sister’ Is a Mother: Maternal Thinking the third annual High School History Academy. and East Indian ancestry who served in the music nationally and internationally. and Feminist Action, 1967–1980,” in sole “black” military unit ever stationed Barnett is a graduate of the University U.S. Women’s History: Untangling the On the evening before this newsletter was submitted, in Ancien Régime France, and a study of of Missouri, Sarah Lawrence College, Threads of Sisterhood (Rutgers University the history department’s hardworking communications seventeenth- and eighteenth-century court and the College of William and Mary, Press, 2017). She is working on Mothers assistant and newsletter editor Adeline Broussan pushes cases over the inheritance and citizenship at which institutions she received a BA, of the Sixties: Women’s Activism and the an overflowing cart of materials from the 2018 Feinberg Series opening event—attended by more than 400 claims of children born of mothers of African an MA in women’s history, and a PhD in Making of a New Left, a book arguing people—through Haigis Mall and back to Herter Hall. or Amerindian ancestry in France, New American studies, respectively. She has that Women Strike for Peace—a group of France, Louisiana, Guiana, and Senegambia. taught history and literature at Columbia mostly middle-aged, white mothers and The latter study is part of an ongoing book University, Sarah Lawrence College, grandmothers who organized against project exploring the entangled genealogies Hunter College, Brown University, and the arms race with the Soviet Union and situational reframings of discourses Northwestern. and U.S. involvement in the Vietnam of race and nation over the longue durée, Barnett has received grants from the War—played a crucial role in destroying from late medieval France to the fluctuating National Endowment for the Humanities, the domestic Cold War consensus and French imperial geographies of the sixteenth, the New York Money for Women/ creating the New Left. seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and Estepa is a native New Yorker with This fall, French concerns are just one part the College Language Association. She degrees from Brown, Columbia, and of the story as Guillaume and his students has held residences at the Noepe Center Rutgers universities. Before beginning examine the experiences and aspirations of for Literary Arts–Martha’s Vineyard, the her doctoral studies, she worked as a a wide cast of historical actors from colonial Sewanee Writers’ Conference (where she reporter and edited a citywide paper North America through the era of the was a Tennessee Williams Fellow), and the written by New York City public high American Revolution. Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. school students.

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Audrey Altstadt reports: During 2017–18, I History Review that has since received the but as a regular history course. At UMass, he Julie de Chantal ’16PhD had a great 2017–18. After being on leave during 2016–17, David Jewish writer whose novels and sociological continued to focus on human rights and de- Audre Lorde Prize for outstanding article on converted his regular “Asian/Pacific/Amer- She was a research associate at the Five Glassberg returned to campus in fall 2017 treatises comprise a formidable body of work mocracy-building in countries of the former LGBTQ history. Along with Emily Hobson, I ican History” into an honors course with a College Women’s Studies Research Center, happy to discover that he still had an office in on colonialism, racism, Zionism, and other USSR, mainly Azerbaijan. I published op-eds was elected co-chair of the national Com- civic-engagement component: students in- where she continued to revise her book man- Herter Hall after his former one was convert- topics. His article on Hannah Arendt, pub- (one in The National Interest, in February) mittee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans- teracted with underserved Asian-American uscript Just Ordinary Mothers: Black Women’s ed into a kitchen in his absence. His activities lished two years ago, is being translated into and entries for the European website Emerg- gender History, an affiliated organization of communities in Springfield and Amherst and Grassroots Organizing in Boston from the in 2017–18 involved a mix of environmental Russian and Chinese. Gordon supervised ing Europe. In May, I testified before the U.S. the American Historical Association. I also undertook an oral history project to preserve Vote to the Busing Crisis and a new article, and public history, including an article, “The the students who edited the UMass Under- Congress’s Helsinki Commission in a briefing serve on the editorial board of the Journal of the stories of members of these communities. “‘Extra! Extra!’: Boston Regulates Child Labor Changing Cape: Engaging Coastal Com- graduate History Journal and notes that they on election manipulation and human rights American History and am part of the Organi- Chu won three awards during the year: a in the Streets, 1880–1895.” Julie organized munities in Conversations About Climate functioned very independently and collabo- violations in Azerbaijan. Because such pres- zation of American Historian’s Committee on Teaching for Inclusiveness, Diversity, and Eq- a panel and presented a paper on black Change” (George Wright Forum, December ratively to produce a fine journal, published ent-day problems as attacks on rights and the Status of LGBTQ Historians and Histories. uity Ambassadors faculty fellowship from the women’s internationalism at the AHA an- 2017); a panel discussion, “Cultural Resourc- in April 2018. Gordon is on sabbatical this the rule of law can best be understood in I am currently curating a new exhibit for His- Institute for Teaching Excellence and Faculty nual meeting in Washington, D.C. In spring es, Community Engagement, and Climate fall, and organized an October conference long-range historical context, I bring these toryMiami Museum and completing a book Development; the Community Hero Award 2018, she developed the course “What’s on Change” (National Council on Public History, on Alexis de Tocqueville and editing the topics into my classes. My Integrative Ex- situating the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Your Plate? A Transnational History of Food.” April 2018); and teaching the courses “Con- Anthem Companion to Tocqueville. He also perience class “Human Rights and Energy in the broader history of violence against Asian American Commission; and a Marion Finally, after teaching her summer course, servation of Nature and Culture” and “Land- hopes to complete a book on the banning of Stability,” in which I focus on the Caspian and the erasure and displacement of queer and Jasper Whiting Foundation travel grant “History of Modern Boston,” Julie left the his- scape and Memory.” In addition, Glassberg the Islamic veil in Europe and Turkey. Finally, region, is especially suited to these themes. Latinx communities. to conduct research in Panama, Trinidad and tory department for her new position as as- continued his regular trips to Great Bar- Gordon aims to continue his study of Albert Each time I teach it—my fall 2018 presenta- Tobago, and Cuba. sistant professor of African American history rington, Massachusetts, birthplace of W.E.B. Memmi. tion is my fifth—I incorporate new literature Academic year 2017–18 was challenging for at Georgia Southern University. Du Bois, to help local residents and visitors and analysis on specific cases and histori- Richard T. Chu as he continued to teach at interpret Du Bois’s life and legacy. John Higginson reports: On 4 December cal studies of human rights, rights oversight, various Five College campuses and revise 2017, I delivered the lecture “Why or Why corruption, international watchdog groups, his syllabi to meet each institution’s needs Daniel Gordon published two review essays Not Revolution?” for the Resistance Studies Richard Chu (right) with and considerations of energy security that and goals. By request, in fall 2017 he taught students at the Khmer on Albert Memmi, a Tunisian/French/ Arab/ Initiative, housed in the Department of can clash with individual rights. For spring Chinese diasporic history at Mount Holy- temple in Leverett during the 2018, I developed a new writing seminar on oke College as a writing-intensive first-year Khmer New Year in April 2018. Putin; next spring I will offer a new Gen Ed seminar; he also taught “Empire, Race, and Sakal Kim (left), a member of the Cambodian American course, “Spies and Spying,” to give historical the Philippines” at UMass Amherst. During John Higginson and Joye Bowman with students in Cape Town. community of Worcester, context to other current topics. spring 2018, at Amherst College Chu taught was their guide. the same Chinese diasporic history course Julio Capó Jr. reports: The University of North Carolina Press published my first book, David Glassberg introduces Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before keynote speaker Franklin Odo 1940, in November 2017. It has received six at the Massachusetts History major honors, including the Charles S. Syd- Conference in Worcester in nor Award for the best book on Southern June 2018. history from the Southern Historical Asso- ciation, three book awards from the Florida Historical Society, and a Florida Book Award; it was also a finalist for a Lambda Literary Book Award. I completed a visiting schol- ar position at Florida Atlantic University in spring 2018, in which I delivered numerous talks throughout southern Florida. In the fall, I served as an expert witness in support of a queer immigrant seeking asylum in the United States. I published a new piece in Time and have forthcoming pieces in the academic journal Modern American History and three separate edited volumes. I partic- ipated in a roundtable on HIV/AIDS history published in the Journal of American History Julio Capó on the red carpet at the Lambda and published a new article in the Radical Literary Awards.

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Sociology. It was videotaped and can be new cameras. We went on to fight an ap- seen on YouTube. Joye Bowman and I con- propriation of $250,000 toward riot gear for FACULTY AWARDS AND APPOINTMENTS, tinue to work on “Engineering Empire: The the Northampton Police Department. Despite 2017–18 Odyssey of American Engineers in South overwhelming public sentiment against this Africa’s Deep-Level Gold Mines, 1893-1970.” proposal, the council approved the appro- Joye Bowman She and I also cotaught a course in South Af- priation by an 8:1 vote. The work continues. Appointed Associate Dean of Research, UMass Amherst rican history at the University of Cape Town College of Humanities and Fine Arts, 2018 over summer 2018. Marla Miller reports: I enjoyed a relaxing Julio Capó Jr. but productive sabbatical year, one largely 2018 Rembert Patrick Award; 2018 Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award and 2018 Stetson Kennedy Jess Johnson reports: In addition to the dedicated to completing my book manuscript Award (Florida Historical Society); Florida Book Award projects detailed beginning on page 24, a on women and work in Federal Era Massa- (Bronze) and Lambda Literary Award finalist, for highlight of my year was my involvement chusetts. Along the way, I finished essays Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940; in a community effort to stop the City of on house museums dedicated to the history Audre Lorde Prize, Best Article in LGBTQ History in Northampton from installing high-resolution of the U.S. flag, on a whole-cloth quilt made 2016 and 2017, for “Sexual Connections: Queers and Competing Tourist Markets in Miami and the Caribbean, police surveillance cameras throughout its by West Springfield’s Hadassah Chapin 1920–1940,” published in the Radical History Review; downtown. While outside of my official duties Ely, and on the interpretation of America’s appointed to the Journal of American History as the history department’s outreach and “founders” for AASLH/NCPH’s forthcoming editorial board and the OAH Committee on the Status community engagement director, I mention Inclusive Historian’s Handbook. I gave a talk of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer it here because my personal involvement in on the interpretation of women’s artisanal Historians and LGBTQ Histories; elected co-chair of the American Historical Association–affiliated Committee organizing against mass incarceration and needlework in museums and historic sites on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History militarized policing emerged from my work at Yale University, spoke on public historians

Richard Chu here at UMass: it grew out of my experience and early American history as a member of coordinating the 2016–17 Feinberg series the presidential plenary panel of the Society

Community Hero Award from the Commonwealth HARRIS KENYA of Massachusetts Asian American Commission, 2018; on mass incarceration, as well as from my for Historians of the Early American Repub- At the Juneteenth celebration in Springfield:(from left) Brian Schultz (School of Natural Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation travel grant, participation in the States of Incarceration lic, and was honored to deliver the keynote Science, Hampshire College), Tatiana Cheeks (the “Mold Lady,” Springfield), Sigrid Schmalzer 2018; “Teaching for Inclusiveness, Diversity, and Equity exhibition, organized by the Public Histo- address at UMass Amherst’s 2018 Phi Beta (UMass History Department), Kaitlin Hollinger ’18 (former student in Sigrid’s “History of Ambassadors” faculty fellowship from the Institute for Science Activism” class), and Andrea Bordenca (director of Lead Yourself Youth). Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development, 2017 ry Program and numerous other university Kappa induction ceremony. Most exciting, partners with the Humanities Action Lab. at the April meeting of the National Council Barbara Krauthamer Several other members of the history de- on Public History I received the gavel as the 2017 Lorraine A. Williams Leadership Award from the Association of Black Women Historians partment were also involved in this effort; organization’s next president. together, we drew on our scholarly expertise and reading about holy mountains in the (Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean) based on Marla Miller Elected president, National Council on Public History, to bring a historical perspective to bear on Jason Moralee reports: My year was marked premodern world. (This summer, I had the that same research—the first realization of a 2018–20 local policy-making. Best of all, we were suc- by the January 2018 publication of my second thrilling opportunity to ascend two of them, lifelong dream to write for children. The book

Jason Moralee cessful! Northampton’s city council passed book, Rome’s Holy Mountain: The Capito- Monte Gargano in southern Italy and western of primary sources on the Science for the College Outstanding Teaching Award, 2018; appointed an ordinance banning the installation of line Hill in Late Antiquity (Oxford University Ireland’s Croagh Patrick.) People (SftP) movement I coedited with Dan director of Oxford Summer Seminar, 2018–19 Press). While I enjoyed writing and rewrit- Chard ’18PhD and Alyssa Botelho was also Brian Ogilvie ing the book, it was far more enjoyable to In addition to serving as department chair, published this year. SftP has been rekindled Co-chair, Program Committee, 2019 Annual Meeting of see its printed pages. Indeed, its publication Brian Ogilvie co-chaired the program com- in western Massachusetts and around the the American Historical Association landed me invitations to talk in June at the mittee for the American Historical Associa- country: we held our first national convention Sigrid Schmalzer Università di Roma “La Sapienza” and the tion’s 2019 annual meeting. He attended fall in Ann Arbor this past February and the local Joseph Levenson Book Prize, for Red Revolution, Green American Academy in Rome, where I saw and spring program-planning meetings in chapter is increasingly engaging in genuine Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China, 2018 old friends, connected with colleagues, and Washington, D.C. and now looks forward to solidarity work with Springfield-based or- Priyanka Srivastava ate far too much delicious food. I somehow seeing the results of the committee’s labor at ganizations. The students in my “History of Teaching for “Inclusiveness, Diversity, and Equity also managed to publish three articles, serve the meeting, to be held in Chicago, January Science Activism” course and I also took our Ambassadors” faculty fellowship from the Institute out my last year as president of the Western 3-6, 2019. Brian would love to hear from alum- seminar to Springfield for three meetings to for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development, 2017; elected member of the executive board of the Massachusetts Society of the Archaeolog- ni and friends who plan to attend. discuss what we can learn from the commu- Labor and Working Class History Association, 2017–20; Marla Miller is ical Institute of America, and assume new nity clinics organized by the Black Panthers, co-organizer, The International Conference on Caste inducted as president duties as a book-review editor for the Jour- Sigrid Schmalzer reports: I’ve enjoyed an- the coalition building around Flint’s water and Race: Reconfiguring Solidarities, May 4–6, 2018 of the National nal of Late Antiquity. In the coming year, other busy year. My 2016 book on the history crisis, and other relevant examples. I’ve also Council on Public I look forward to completing an anthology of agricultural science in socialist China won been serving as vice president and All In co- History at the 2018 of primary-source readings for courses in the Levenson Prize for best book on China ordinator for our faculty and librarian union. NCPH conference in Roman history (forthcoming from Routledge) post-1900, and I published a picture book The pieces all seem to be coming together! Las Vegas. DEVILLEABBIE

30 31 FACULTY AND STAFF UPDATES A Chorus of Praises for Joye Bowman is studying the politics of fatherhood, a proj- of critical animal studies and other fields of At this year’s history graduate award ceremony, the department warmly congratulated Professor ect which extends her research on fathers’ history, I suggest ways that medieval histo- Joye Bowman on her appointment as associate dean of research at the College of Humanities and activism around Title IX; the first paper from rians can embrace the humanities’ “animal Fine Arts. Several graduate students presented her with flowers and delivered speeches reflecting on this research is forthcoming in Public Opin- turn” to study the experiences of real animals the impact she’s had on them. ion Quarterly. Over the summer, Sharrow and the animal–human entanglements of the “Dr. Bowman has been instrumental to my success as a graduate student and as a woman of color pursued additional research in both of these Middle Ages. in academia,” noted PhD student Brittany Fredericks. “As a mentor, she has been a kind, patient, domains and worked on her book manuscript and calming presence, often providing words of wisdom in her office, with upbeat jazz playing in and several related papers about the histor- Garrett Washington reports: For me, aca- the background. Dr. Bowman has encouraged me to be my best self by remaining unafraid to seek ical development of sex-segregated athletics demic year 2017–18 was beautiful and busy. new opportunities and insisting upon the best education and enrichment possible.” under Title IX. She is concluding work on After a semester away from teaching, I was Camesha Scruggs added, “When I came to visit the campus as a prospective student, Dr. Joye the racial politics of Native American mas- glad to return to the classroom in the spring Bowman made me feel welcome. Her advice on how to navigate the academy has been tremendously Anna Taylor has been researching this cots in professional sports, the first article to teach “Traditional Japan” and the Junior helpful. Her caring nature and assuring presence have made my journey at UMass a pleasant Associate Dean Joye Bowman illustration of a “camel leopard” (giraffe) surrounded by students and from the fourteenth-century Dutch from which was published this past spring Year Writing Seminar “Race, Religion, and one. She takes time to inquire and remind me that everything is going to be okay. The formal and colleagues: (from left) manuscript Koninklijke Bibliotheek. in Social Science Quarterly. Sharrow also Nation in East Asia.” I also greatly enjoyed informal meetings have always been a pleasure and privilege, despite her busy schedule.” spent the year teaching courses cross-listed serving on the Graduate Studies Commit- Joye’s former TA, Joie Campbell, spoke fondly about “her steadfast dedication to the Joie Campbell Brittany Fredericks in political science and history and chairing tee and making admissions, reward, and education and progress of every student she encountered, whether undergraduate or graduate, Camesha Scruggs the Subcommittee on Equity and Diversity of research-support decisions about aspiring as well as to the Department of History as a whole while functioning as department chair. I am Joye Bowman Libby Sharrow published several articles in the Faculty Senate’s Athletic Council. historians in our department. As adviser personally grateful for her mentorship, upon which I have relied countless times.” Barbara Krauthamer scholarly journals during 2017–18 and wrote for our Phi Alpha Theta chapter, it was my The faculty and the staff of the history department joined in the chorus of praises and Priyanka Srivastava research reports for the Scholars Strategy Anna Taylor reports: In addition to serving thanked Joye Bowman for all she has accomplished as a former department chair, outgoing Network, the Washington Post, the Wom- as graduate program director, I published undergraduate program director, and beloved teacher and colleague. She will continue teaching, en’s Sports Foundation, the Social Science my first peer-reviewed article in my new From left: Garrett Washington, Jason Moralee, offering the ever-popular “History of Africa Since 1500.” Congratulations, Professor Joye Research Council, and the Gender Policy field, zoocentric animal history. “Where Are and John Higginson at the 2017 New Faculty and Bowman, and thank you for all that you’ve done for the department. —Adeline Broussan Report at the Humphrey School of Public the Wild Things? Animals in Western Medie- Graduate Student welcome reception. Affairs. Her scholarship continues to focus on val European History” appeared in History the policy history of Title IX of the Education Compass 16.3 (March 2018). It examines the Amendments of 1972 and the political impli- limited scope of scholarship on medieval cations of sport in the U.S. Sharrow conduct- non-human animals. Historians have largely ed a major survey, forthcoming in Political looked at animals for their symbolic mean- FROM FLORIANÓPOLIS TO AMHERST: Research Quarterly, of over 1,600 college ings or economic importance to humans but athletes to explore their opinions about sex have not been interested in the perspectives A History of Women’s Resistance equity practices. Along with collaborators or experiences of the animals themselves. in the Department of Political Science, she Drawing on the highly interdisciplinary field Last fall, the Department of History hosted Fulbright Scholar Cristina Scheibe Wolff. She joined us after hosting the 13th Women’s Worlds, the International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women—said to be the world’s largest global feminist event—at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, her home institution in Florianópolis, Brazil. Joel Wolfe with faculty and students from the Drawn to the department that hosted the largest U.S. women’s historians’ gathering—the 2011 Berkshire Conference University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru. on the History of Women—Professor Wolff taught a graduate class on her current research project, “Women’s Narratives in the Southern Cone.” Marked by the authoritarian regimes that appeared almost simultaneously in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, her oral interviews with women who challenged such regimes in the 1960s and 1970s helped energize student research and departmental conversations. In addition to presenting her work in the department, Professor Wolff was cohosted by the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies, where she opened up a lively discussion of the kind interdisciplinary research that allows us to understand the history of resistance to seemingly coercive dictatorships. Her work in Florianópolis, where she works with a team of multinational researchers, graduate students, and professors conducting almost 200 interviews, serves as a model for the number of students currently engaged in feminist oral history projects. —Laura Lovett

Laura Lovett and Cristina Scheibe Wolff at the 2017 welcome reception for new faculty and graduate students

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Celebrating Barry Levy’s pleasure to organize the induction ceremony Joel Wolfe reports: I had a busy year pre- pear in 2019. In my spare time, I worked with and dinner in March and see the work of senting some of the findings from the book a fabulous crew of colleagues to help plan Dan Gordon and the student editors of the I’ve been writing, The Global Twenties. At the department’s 2018–19 Feinberg Family Distinguished Career UMass Undergraduate History Journal come the University of Maryland, I presented “The Distinguished Lecture Series, “Another World to fruition in April. In terms of research, I have Global Twenties: Interconnectedness and Is Possible: Revolutionary Visions, Past and Barry Levy, historian of the U.S. Colonial Era and member of UMass Amherst’s history been hard at work on my monograph on Backlash in the Hemisphere.” At the Univer- Present.” Finally, I adopted JoJo, the best dog department for the past two decades, retired in May 2018. Barry received his BA in history from Tokyo’s largest Japanese Protestant church- sity of San Marcos in Lima, Peru, I gave two in the universe. Cornell University (magna cum laude, 1968) and his PhD, also in history, from the University es. In addition, I gave an invited lecture at talks: “Comercio y sociedad en el Hemisferio of Pennsylvania (1976). At Penn, he worked under the guidance of one of the strongest colonial Tokyo Woman’s Christian University in July occidental en la década de 1920” focused on history programs of its time; it included Richard Dunn, Michael Zuckerman, and Richard Beeman. 2017. This past March, at the Association for the book’s major findings; “La globalización Emeriti Updates Barry taught briefly at Rutgers and the University of Minnesota before moving to Case Western Asian Studies Annual Meeting in Washing- no es planetaria: historia global en las Améri- Reserve in 1981. Seven years later, he emerged as the top choice in a highly competitive search and ton, D.C., I organized a panel, “Education and cas” analyzed how studying the Western Joyce Berkman reports: In early May I was accepted a position in our department. Barry taught Women’s Empowerment in Modern Japan,” Hemisphere is a form of global history. I also excitedly looking forward to a new historical a rich menu of undergraduate course topics through and presented a paper, “Embracing Oppor- gave a talk at Vanderbilt University, “Order and scholarly experience: on May 29 I was to his long career, including early America, women in tunity and Envisioning ‘True Education’ for Before Progress: Getúlio Vargas and the give a talk on Edith Stein at the University of early America, the American family, and American Japanese Women: The Case of Yasui Tetsu.” Transformation of Modern Brazil.” It recon- Wroclaw, Poland, to philosophy and theology religion. He also directed the work of several In April, during the Five College History Sem- sidered the political legacy of Brazil’s Getúlio graduate students and faculty. This is the uni- doctoral students, including Susan M. Ouelette ’96, inar I collected much constructive feedback Vargas, who governed the nation from 1930 versity where Stein earned her BA; Wroclaw whose 1995 essay on agricultural husbandry in from colleagues on my article-in-progress on to 1945 and 1951 to 1954. (formerly Breslau) is the city where she was colonial Massachusetts won the Whitehall Prize in the Japanese YWCA and Japanese imperial- born and raised. I have been writing about American History. ism. I am also happy to have completed work Kevin Young reports: This past year involved Stein for almost two decades and have spent Starting with a fellowship from the Woodrow on a forthcoming edited volume, Christianity many projects and challenges for me. After time in all of the major German cities of her Wilson Foundation in 1969, Barry has earned his and the Modern Woman in East Asia, now teaching two new courses in the fall, I spent life, but this would have been my first time in own share of distinctions. These have included in production at Brill Academic Publishers. the spring on leave. I traveled to Bolivia to Poland. In May, however, my husband was fellowships from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Lastly, an article, “Campus Sustainability in begin researching a poorly understood co- diagnosed with lymphoma, thankfully a very the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford the U.S.: Environmental Management and alition between peasant unions and military treatable form that responds well to chemo- Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study, and Social Change Since 1970,” on which I am regimes in the 1960s and 1970s. I also edited therapy. We deferred our trip till next year the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University. second author, has been accepted for pub- a book, Making the Revolution: Histories of and my host at the university of Wroclaw has As these awards would suggest, Barry has been lication in the Journal of Cleaner Production. the Latin American Left; it is expected to ap- arranged for me to give my talk then. a prolific and distinguished scholar, an intellectual leader in his field. His work has always been on Barry Levy (center) with the the cutting edge, praised for its solid grounding in department chair archival sources, clear, crisp prose, and thematic daring. Author of nearly thirty essays and essay who hired him, reviews in leading journals, Barry also produced two major books: Quakers and the American Roland Sarti (left), Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley, 1650–1785 (Oxford University Press, 1988) and and current chair Town Born: The Political Economy of New England Towns from its Founding to the Revolution (Penn Brian Ogilvie at Barry’s retirement Press, 2009). The first traced the origins of the Early Victorian family to the affectionate temper lunch. of the early Quakers and was a runner-up for the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize and a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize. The equally provocative Town Born, on the protectionist policies of New England towns, has fundamentally altered academic thinking on the nature of colonial family relations and labor systems in our region. All told, Barry’s has been a fruitful and influential scholarly career. Nor will it end with his retirement: he plans to continue working on his manuscript on the Battle of Bunker Hill through a collective biography of the opposing sides. But Barry will not be writing from the familiar confines of his study in the Levy family home within sight of our campus. He and his spouse, Jackie Wolf Levy, are pulling up their Amherst roots and moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan, near their eldest son and his family and closer to their youngest son in Pittsburgh. The department will sorely miss Barry’s special intellectual presence and Amherst will miss Jackie’s spirited civic engagement. We wish the Levy family all the best in the next stage of their life. —Bruce Laurie

History faculty at the summer writing retreat in the Old Chapel.

34 35 FACULTY AND STAFF UPDATES A Farewell to

Joyce A. Berkman (center) at the Suzanne Bell Graduate Awards Ceremony. In May, the history department’s undergraduate program assistant of 10 years, Suzanne Bell, retired after more than 32 years of service to the university. Prior to joining the department in 2008, Suzanne worked in various locations across campus, including the W.E.B. Du Bois Library. During her tenure in the history department, she helped countless history majors achieve their goals and successfully graduate. Suzanne was admired and respected for the ease with which she related to the students she served as well as for her empathy and professionalism. She was peerless when it came to her attention to detail and her dedication to getting the job done correctly. We will be hard-pressed to replace someone of Suzanne’s caliber and feel extremely lucky to have Hilda Greenbaum, counted her as our colleague for so many years. widow of the late Louis Greenbaum, at the In retirement, Suzanne is enjoying time spent in History Undergraduate the great outdoors and mastering photography. Awards Ceremony. Perhaps most importantly, she now has time to be with her family, including two grandchildren she absolutely adores. We are happy for her and wish her the best. —Amy Fleig Meanwhile, I continue to work on Olive Bruce Laurie reports: As part of Amherst details or go to my website: www.geraldw- of military and civilian politics between 1928 Schreiner. The editors of a special Schrein- College’s upcoming bicentennial celebration, mcfarland.com. and 1973. Its Spanish translations were best er issue of the Journal of Commonwealth some 20 scholars have been invited to pre- sellers in Argentina. Literature invited me to contribute an essay, pare papers on the college’s impact on world Jeanne Potash reports: Robert Potash’s which I have done. Another older scholarly affairs. My contribution is an essay, “Some 2008 memoir, Looking Back at My First Jane Rausch presented papers at the XIII thread, the history of the concept of empathy, of the Sweetest Christians: The Education of 80 Years—A Mostly Professional Memoir, Congreso Colombiano de Historia, held in was the topic for my invited presentation at the Amherst Boys in Blue.” Also, since 2005 appeared this year in a condensed form Medellín, Colombia, in October 2017 and at Foulkeways, an unusual senior community I have served as co-academic director of translated into Spanish by Edhasa Press in the 123rd Annual Meeting of the American in Gwynedd, Pennsylvania. learning tours for international students and Buenos Aires under the title Memorias—Una Historical Association in Washington, D.C., For some years I have chaired the doctor- teachers, funded by the Educational and Cul- Mirada Retrospectiva. Bob lived to read the in January 2018. Her forthcoming publica- al committee for Amanda Goodheart Parks, tural Affairs Office of the Department of State translation of the first chapter before his tions include “Enrique Pérez Lleras and the my final graduate student. She defended and administered in Amherst by an NGO, passing. He approved the translator’s work, Revista Hispaña (1912–1916): An Overlooked her excellent dissertation on May 21. That the Institute for Training and Development. as he always insisted on doing with trans- Contributor to a Unique Colombian Periodi- same month, at our department’s end-of-term Over the summer I directed such a program lations of his scholarly works. Although this cal,” in Historia Crítica 68 (Abril–Junio 2018), ceremony, I presented my endowed award for 20 school teachers from as many nations abbreviated translation omits much of the and “Santiago Pérez Triana (1858–1916) and to this year’s recipient, the highly deserving across the globe. original—including the sections on Bob’s the Pan-Americanization of the Monroe Joie-Lynn Campbell. extensive work in Mexico, some of his army Doctrine,” in Historia y Sociedad 35 (Julio– My year has been filled with music-mak- Gerry McFarland reports: My major ac- experiences during World War II, and his Diciembre 2018). Rausch’s current scholarly ing (many more duet and solo performances complishment for 2018 was completing and experiences as a member and onetime chair project is a foray into sports studies, an inves- for The Piano Connection, and doing a bit of publishing another novel. T. T. Mann, Ace of the UMass history department—it includes tigation of the historical development of Co- composition), German language study, and Detective (Levellers Press) is a departure for his account of his careful investigative work lombia’s passion for bicycling. In her leisure committee work (e.g., I have been elected me, my first venture into detective fiction. It’s in Argentina, including his countless inter- time, Jane continues to play her flute with the Suzanne Bell with friends and colleagues. Front row, vice president of the Retired Faculty As- set in San Francisco in the 1950s, a different views with prominent Argentine actors in the Holyoke Civic Symphony, shelve books at the from left: Mary Lashway, Suzanne Bell, Amy Fleig, Enjoli sociation, having served as secretary this place and time from my previous novels, and historical periods he covered. Bob’s multivol- Jones Library, and serve as a “friendly visitor” Pescheta, Jessica Johnson. Back row: Jennifer Heuer, Austin past year). Political work, local and national, is based on bedtime stories my father told ume Army and Politics in Argentina gave at the Amherst Senior Center. Clark ’18MA, Brian Ogilvie, Garrett Washington, Priyanka has also claimed my effort. Turning 80 feels my brother and me when we were young the Argentine public its first comprehensive, Srivastava, Laura Lovett, David Glassberg, and Adam Howes. really good! boys. See the “New Books” section for more unbiased view of the tumultuous interactions

36 37 IN MEMORIAM

Jack Tager (1936–2017) John van Steenberg (1923–2017)

Only four days before turning 82, Jack Tager, professor emeritus three semifinalists for the University Distinguished Teacher Award. John van Steenberg, professor emeritus of modern European history, at the University of Michigan when World War II broke out, of American history, died at home on October 14, 2017, in the In addition, Jack was noted on campus for his service ranging died at his home in Leverett on August 25, 2017, after suffering a and, upon joining the Army, he learned that his eyesight was too company of Patricia St. John Tager, his wife of 30 years. Jack was from the departmental to the college levels and to the university as a heart attack following years of declining health. He was 93. faulty for him to be sent to fight. He went instead to a government a member of the UMass history department for 37 years, from whole. Over time he chaired or was a member of 34 university-level During his more than 30 years as a university professor, language program at Indiana University, where he learned Finnish. 1967 to 2004. He was an expert on American urban history and committees, including the Faculty Senate, where he chaired the John was popular among students for his lively lectures, eclectic He later became a military policeman guarding German POWs at a politics, especially those of Boston and Massachusetts. On his own, Faculty Senate Committee on Honors for three years and chaired reading assignments, and interesting classroom props. Outside the camp in Georgia. he wrote three books: The Intellectual as Urban Reformer (1968), the Program and Budget Committee in 1999–2000. Jack was noted university’s halls, he was a warm, funny, cultured man who wore his After the war, he went to the University of Chicago, earning Boston Riots: Three Hundred Years of Social Violence (2001), and for fighting for the rights of faculty, students, and employees of the erudition lightly yet always impressed people with his vast learning an MA in international relations in 1947. He began working at Massachusetts at a Glance (2004). Jack’s six coauthored or coedited university at the Faculty Senate, where it is said that administrators and salty sense of humor. the OSS, the predecessor to the CIA, and later served in the CIA books included Massachusetts in the Gilded Age (1985), Historical feared to make new proposals since they knew that Jack would be I took his “European History 1914-1945” and remember it as itself, which sent him to Sweden, deepening his lifelong interest Atlas of Massachusetts (1991), Massachusetts Politics: Selected Essays the first to question them; he was affectionately (or not) known as one of the finest courses of my time at UMass. We read great in Scandinavia. Yet his career as a civil servant did not last long. (1998), and Massachusetts: A Concise History (2000); he otherwise the Terror of the Senate and Black Jack Tager. Faculty members who scholarly histories, ones that I keep and consult today—Charles In 1953, John was one of several thousand federal employees wrote 38 articles and chapters and numerous reviews and other knew Jack respected his role in fighting to protect their rights and Mowat’s Britain Between the Wars, Georg von Rauch’s A History interrogated about their sexuality in the McCarthyite purge of publications. In 2005, Jack was awarded the Bay State Legacy to obtain improved research and teaching conditions. Jack claimed of Soviet Russia, among others—as well as fiction and memoir that homosexuals prompted by the so-called “lavender scare.” Hooked Award in recognition of his many distinguished contributions to that one of the main lessons he learned in his Army days was that broadened and leavened the reading list, including Christopher up to a polygraph but determined to keep his job, John denied that documenting the history of Massachusetts. the best defense is a good offense. Isherwood’s Berlin Stories and Robert Graves’s Goodbye to All he was a homosexual. He flunked the test and was fired. Jack was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 18, 1936, Jack remained involved with the department during his 13 That. One day he brought to class a large, framed etching of the John spoke often about that experience. Although he referred the third son of Alex and Mildred Tager, Jewish immigrants from years of retirement, in which he had the opportunity to do more assassination of Tsar Alexander II, in 1881. It showed an explosion to it without regret or bitterness, I knew it hurt. I encouraged Poland and Russia. Growing up on the streets of Brooklyn was a writing—including historical detective stories—and to travel obliterating the tsar’s carriage and blasting nearby soldiers into the him to write about it so that gay men today would understand the broadening experience as he struggled to become “street smart,” as and interact with family, friends, and former colleagues. He also air—a fine illustration for a lecture on the lead-up to the Russian terror and cruelty his generation faced. He always declined. In any he put it. His father ran a small candy shop and worked around the had time to become the artist he always wanted to be, mostly of Revolution. Other times he showed us vintage maps. He always case, his firing led to his academic career and the life he loved in clock; his mother sewed and embroidered in a clothing factory. Jack surrealistic Jewish historical motifs and scenes from his early family brought great analytic and informative power to his lectures and rural New England. He went to Harvard and completed his PhD had two older brothers: Aron, an actor/artist who lives in Toronto, life in Brooklyn. Some of Jack’s canvases were included in Art and was a tough grader. John made students want to strive to do their in history and began teaching at the University of Massachusetts and Bernie, an accountant/sculptor in California who passed away Religion, an exhibition at the Michelson Gallery in Northampton. best work, even if their best work was not always up to his high in 1958. He died with no immediate kin, leaving his estate to the last year. Jack early realized the importance of education. After Although Jack traveled extensively and enjoyed putting places standards. I finished his class a better writer and better thinker, town libraries in Leverett, Oneonta, and Amherst, a few other graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School (1954), he earned into an experiential/ visual perspective, he said he generally and I’m sure many others would say the same. local institutions, and several close friends, including his close his BA at Brooklyn College (1958) and a master’s degree from the preferred reading about places in historical context, where myriad After I graduated in 1984, John and I realized that we had several companion in his later years, Eric Masters, and a cousin. University of California, Berkeley (1959) before spending time in forces came into play. He was an avid reader of both fiction and close friends in common and began to write to each other. We soon John wrote very little for publication during his long career. the military (1959, 1961–62). Jack earned a PhD from the University nonfiction, especially in the latter. He never tired of reading about became close epistolary friends. We exchanged hundreds of letters. “Too many books out there already,” he would tell me—and, with of Rochester (1965), had his first academic position at Ohio State strategies and personalities of both the American Civil War and He would tell me about life in the town of Leverett, which he loved his voracious habits, he seemed determined to read them all. He University (1964–67), and came to UMass Amherst in 1967. World War II against the Nazis who had attempted to destroy dearly, and his many friendships and trips to cultural venues all over was at his core a teacher and a friend, and an example of strength, Jack was an exceptional teacher. He always opened his first Jewish culture and peoples, including many in his parents’ families New England. Every few years or so at his invitation I would visit decency, and class to everyone who knew him. lecture by telling the students, “I’m here to help take off your chains in Poland and Russia. Along similar lines, after retiring from him at the rambling colonial house where he had lived since 1962, — Roger Atwood ’84 and to free your mind and spirit.” Calling himself a time traveler UMass he loved to attend movies at least twice a week, especially with its creaking floorboards and chiming clocks, every room filled who would take them on a tour of history, Jack went on to tell his classic film noir from the 1940s and ’50s. with paintings, posters, and artifacts gathered over a lifetime of students: “Change is constant, and understanding the forces behind Finally, Jack treasured his wife, Patricia, and was proud of his world travel. John was a charming host who loved long walks with change is one of the most important things to learn at college. two children, David and Miriam, the three stepchildren he raised— his dogs and swimming in local ponds, which, he said, reminded Studying history puts that understanding into a global context.” David, Elisabeth, and Daniel Cantor—and the families of each him so much of his beloved Scandinavia. Eventually his eyesight Many students who took his “History of Boston” claimed that it was of the five, including seven grandchildren. Jack came to Amherst grew too bad to read my letters and we spoke instead on the phone, the best course on campus. loving to play backyard basketball with a broken hoop over asphalt for the last time a few months before he died. So successful was Jack at teaching his survey of American but ended up thriving in a more natural setting and loving his life John took a circuitous route to academia. He was born in Indiana history, the history of Boston, and other urban history topics that in the Happy Valley. on December 28, 1923, and spent part of his childhood in Panama, he was selected to be director of the UMass Honors Program from — Richard Wilkie, Professor Emeritus of Geography where his father was an engineer at the canal. John’s mother died 1978 to 1982. Between 1990 and 1993 he was a three-time winner of when he was a teenager and he went to live with an aunt in Oneonta, the Distinguished University Advisor Award; in 1994, he was one of New York, where he went to high school. He was an undergraduate

38 39 IN MEMORIAM STUDENT UPDATES

David S. Wyman (1929–2018) gland American Studies Association Con- In addition, I’ve recently published on my ference in Lowell, Massachusetts. Over the website two oral history interviews with Iraqi David S. Wyman, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, died Columbia was renowned for being an excellent editor but also for summer, Jacob took an internship to learn refugees. The website is a work in progress, on March 14, 2018, at the age of 89. He earned a PhD in History from being blunt and a bit harsh. He insisted on having a full first draft video and media editing at Lowell National as is another of my projects, a combination Harvard University and taught in the history department from 1966 of my thesis before he would give me feedback. After several years, Historical Park. There he built on interpretive of language documentation and cultural until his retirement in 1991. In 1986 he was named the Josiah E. I delivered the manuscript to him. When I got it back in the mail, skills he gained last year while incorporat- history in Grumento Nova, Italy. DuBois Jr. Holocaust Remembrance Professor of History. Professor every page was marked up and full of comments. All of that ing new audience-centered engagement Wyman was the author of Paper Walls: America and the Refugee I expected, but in the middle of the thesis I wrote about the sinking techniques. In January, Erica Fagen began a job at the Crisis, 1938–1941 (University of Massachusetts Press, 1968); The of a refugee boat at a loss of 900 lives. My discussion of the event Montreal Holocaust Museum working on Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941–1945 obviously affected my thesis director, because his comments after In 2017–18, Adeline Broussan defended its “Inter-Action: Beyond the Walls of the (Pantheon, 1984); and, with Rafael Medoff, A Race Against Death: that point contradicted some he had made on the first half of the her dissertation prospectus “Solidarity and Montreal Holocaust Museum” project. The Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust (The New Press, 2000). thesis. Warrior Femininity During the French and project was part of a grant from Canadian He was the editor of America and the Holocaust—13 volumes I was already teaching at Hampshire when this happened. I felt American Wars in Vietnam: The Long-Haired Heritage, a branch of the Canadian federal of documents used in The Abandonment of the Jews (Garland, trapped; every time I tried to revise the dissertation, I froze. Feeling Army and their Western Radical Sisters.” government. She is working with community 1990)—and The World Reacts to the Holocaust (Johns Hopkins that my career was over, I called David. To my surprise, he asked me Having received the Marvin Ogilvie Memo- partners across Canada on educational tools University Press, 1996). to send him the marked-up copy, which he soon returned. David Adeline Broussan learning about Edé rial Award for Foreign Language Study, she dealing with the Holocaust, mass violence In the following, Aaron Berman, professor of history at Hampshire had taken the trouble and the time to put a 1, 2, or 3 next to each matrilineal culture at the Viet Nam National spent five weeks in Hanoi taking intensive and genocide, and human rights. Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism. College, offers his reminiscences about Professor Wyman. comment. A “1” meant “Your thesis director is right; change it”; a classes in Vietnamese language and culture. “2” meant “He’s wrong. Change it for the dissertation defense and She plans to do archival work in California Brittany Frederick reports: During 2017–18, I I first met David Wyman in the fall of 1973, when I was a student at then change it back for publication”; a “3” meant “He’s wrong. Don’t during the winter break. enjoyed my time as co-chair of the Graduate Hampshire College and took his course “America Between the Two change it, and hope to god he didn’t keep a copy.” Dan Allosso ’18PhD is putting the final touch- History Association. Aside from coordinating World Wars.” Besides being my teacher, David went on to become a David, typically, didn’t think he’d done anything special. For es on Peppermint Kings, a manuscript for Ross Caputi reports: A manuscript to which I a successful conference at UMass Amherst, mentor, colleague, friend, and neighbor. years, he would thank me for taking his trash can from the carport Yale University Press’s Agrarian Studies Se- contributed, tentatively titled The Sacking of I presented my research at Stony Brook Uni- Both as a teacher and a writer, David’s goal was to be accessible to the street as I kept trying to explain that it was nothing compared ries. Based on his 2017 dissertation, it follows Fallujah: A People’s History, has been accept- versity’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Student to the largest possible audience. His books are beautifully written, to what he had done for me. the path of the peppermint-oil industry from ed by UMass Press for publication in 2019. Conference. In June, I traveled to Alabama to clear, informative, well-paced. As a student in his class you would To close, one more story—a small incident that I’m sure David western Massachusetts to western New York sit through his presentation feeling comfortable and relaxed, and forgot about just after it happened but which has stayed with me and Michigan and explores the lives and somehow you left knowing a whole lot more about the New Deal ever since. times of three families that dominated the than you did when you entered. I took David’s class in 1973 because I was part of a group of business in the nineteenth and twentieth cen- It would be easy to simply peg David as old-fashioned historian. Hampshire students who were starting a course on the Holocaust. turies. Allosso, now an assistant professor at If you asked him what the theoretical underpinning of his work For a Jewish teenager, studying the Holocaust usually encourages Bemidji State University in northern Minneso- was, he would have thought you were crazy. For him, the job of the a certain kind of ethnocentrism, seeing the world as being divided ta, reports that the book should be available historian was to figure out what happened and then tell the story into an “us” and a “them” who want to destroy “us.” One day after in time for the spring 2019 conference season. as clearly as possible. However, while David was certainly the most class I went up to David and asked him a question I suspect he often compulsive researcher I have ever met—if a document existed, he heard after the publication of The Abandonment of the Jews: “You’re This past June, Jacob Boucher presented his found it and read it—you miss his uniqueness if you simply say he not Jewish. Why do you study this stuff?” This seemed to be the paper “Maintaining a Historical and Cultural “told it like it was.” first time he had ever been asked that. He seemed taken back a bit Presence in a Changing City: The Finnish David approached his work on the American response to at first but then answered, “It’s true that the Holocaust was a Jewish Community in Fitchburg” at the New En- the Holocaust not simply with the mission of determining what tragedy, but it was also a human tragedy.” happened. He brought a strong sense of morality to his history. I mentioned this once to David many years later and he had Confronted with the failure of the Roosevelt Administration to no memory of it. For him, it was just a moment of being asked a respond to the extermination of the Jews, David, unlike many question and giving an honest response. But for me, without other historians, didn’t engage in apologetics or rationalizations being too dramatic, it was life-changing. His ability to see past about what was politically possible at the time. For him the issue divides and find the commonality that binds all of us together is was simple: people were being killed and other people and their unfortunately in short supply. I think of that encounter every time governments had a responsibility to come to the rescue. I teach or write about Jews and Palestinians and their particular As a mentor, David was beyond generous. My thesis director at but also mutual tragedies. — Aaron Berman

Ross Caputi’s web design for his Erica Fagen presents one of the Montreal Holocaust Museum’s project “A People’s History of Fallujah.” most prized artifacts, the Heart from Auschwitz.

40 41 From left: Yuri Gama, Jack Kathryn Julian ’18PhD STUDENT UPDATES Werner ’18MA, and Lara Furtado and Karen Sause (Landscape Architecture and at the graduate Regional Planning) at the National commencement Conference on Planning History in in May. Cleveland, Ohio.

John Higgins defending his dissertation, “Literary Culture in Early Christian Ireland: Hiberno-Latin Saints’ Lives as a Source for Seventh-Century Irish History.”

Perri Meldon at the Harpers Ferry Center for Media Services in Brittany Frederick presents her research at the Stony Brook West Virginia. University’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference.

Amanda Goodheart Parks with her committee after she Jason Higgins and successfully defended her dissertation, “‘No Seas Can Now Jorge Minella receiving Divide Us’: Captains’ Wives, Sister Sailors, and the New England the Ermonian Award Whale Fishery, 1840–1870.” From left: Barry Levy, Joyce for Excellence in Berkman, Amanda Goodheart Parks, and Marla Miller. Graduate Teaching.

present at the Southern Association for Wom- the history department and a Pre-Disser- Cheryl Harned reports: This past year I App or Not.” Finally, my article “Out of the gled Eyes’: Fortunate Son and the Problems Perri Meldon facilitated the roundtable “Dis- en Historians. During the summer, supported tation Grant from UMass Amherst’s Center was offered exciting opportunities to speak Box: Packaging Other Worlds as Toys for the of Resolution” in the fall 2018 issue of War, ability in Public” at NCPH in April 2018. She by one of the department’s Hands-On grants, for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino more publicly about my work and to share Nineteenth-Century Imagination” was pub- Literature, and the Arts. studied disability and public history this I worked as an intern the Smithsonian’s Ar- Studies. Yuri also published a book review my experiences as a first-generation college lished in the Dublin Seminar Proceedings summer while preparing research for her chives of American Art. in Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American student. For the latter, I have been involved in summer 2018. John Higgins ’18PhD reports: At the end of master’s thesis. Her work examines the histo- Studies and will publish another in Planning in the Graduate School’s First-Generation March 2018 I successfully defended my dis- ry of the National Park Service accessibility After being awarded a Potash travel grant, Perspectives Journal. Initiative to support students new to the col- Jason Higgins had a busy and productive sertation, “Literary Culture in Early Chris- program and how the federal institution im- Yuri Gama spent summer 2017 on a field trip lege experience and participated in a related year, balancing several projects. Since tian Ireland: Hiberno-Latin Saints’ Lives as plements programmatic and physical acces- to northeast Brazil researching U.S. influence In May 2018, Amanda Goodheart Parks panel at Graduate Student Orientation. Oth- launching the Incarcerated Veterans Oral a Source for Seventh-Century Irish History,” sibility for people with disabilities. As part of in the modernization boom in the states of successfully defended with distinction her erwise, in the fall with Mark Roblee I facili- History Project last year, he has recorded directed by Anna Taylor. In May, I gave a this research, she traveled to the Department Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Norte. He dissertation, “‘No Seas Can Now Divide Us’: tated an experimental “Pop-Up Humanities 20 oral history interviews. With the support paper, “Patrick’s Dreams and the Construc- of the Interior in Washington, D.C., Harpers presented his research in two conferences Captains’ Wives, Sister Sailors, and the New Lab” workshop at the 2017 National Human- of a Blended Learning Grant between the tion of Self,” at the International Congress on Ferry Center for Media Services in West Vir- in the fall of 2017, SACRPH’s 17th National England Whale Fishery, 1840–1870.” In addi- ities Conference in Boston, modeled on my UMass Oral History Lab and the Department Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo and followed ginia, and the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt Conference on Planning History in Cleve- tion to her work as director of education at work with students in the Mellon/Five College of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Jason that with a talk to the Classical Association of National Historic Site in New York. Meldon’s land, Ohio, October 26–29, and the New the New England Air Museum in Windsor Inc.–funded Applied Humanities Learning developed an eight-part online training tool Massachusetts, “The Book of Kells and Manu- research includes archival visits, interviews England Council of Latin American Studies Locks, Connecticut, Amanda continues to Lab. There we did pop-up humanities on the for doing oral history, from project-planning script Illumination in the Classroom.” Now that with subject matter experts, and oral histo- conference in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, serve as a member of the Westfield (Mas- Boston Common, engaging with the public to processing. These open-access resources I’ve written the dissertation, I am working on ry recordings with current and former NPS on November 4. He addressed U.S. influ- sachusetts) Historical Commission and was using such monuments as the Robert Gould are available online. Jason presented re- a couple of reviews and articles. On another accessibility specialists. Her thesis aims to ence in the construction of affordable housing recently appointed to the National Council Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment search on trauma and oral history at the 2017 note, I am president elect of the Classical Asso- serve as a tool for national park units, par- in northeast Brazil during the Alliance for on Public History’s 2019 Annual Meeting Lo- Memorial. This past year I also worked with Oral History Association (OHA) conference ciation of New England (and will be president ticularly historic sites, to enhance methods Progress economic agreement of 1961–71. cal Arrangements Committee. She will also the UMass Alumni Association and Special in Minneapolis. With colleagues Ross Caputi in 2019–20), so I will keep busy. of inclusion and participation with people Yuri also participated in the Organization co-chair a session on the next generation of Collections to create a UMass campus mon- and Kimberly Enderle, Jason helped organize with disabilities. Committee of the HASTAC (Humanities, museum leaders at the 2018 New England uments and memorials walking tour in Clio a panel for the OHA 2018 conference in Mon- Kathryn Julian ’18PhD, former associate Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Museum Association Annual Meeting and for the Class of 1967’s 50th anniversary gift treal. He also organized a Veterans Studies director of UMass Amherst’s DEFA Film Li- Shay Olmstead completed their doctoral Collaboratory) International Conference in remains active in the local public-lecture to the university and was invited to speak panel for the 2019 Organization of American brary, is now a visiting lecturer of history at coursework and spent the summer reading Orlando, Florida, November, 3–4, 2017. In circuit. about my use of Clio at the 2018 Mass History Historians Conference in Philadelphia. Jason Maryville College, a liberal arts college in for comps and conducting research. They re- spring 2018, he received a travel grant from Conference’s session, “Self-Guided Tours: To published his article “Through ‘Star-Span- eastern Tennessee. ceived the Graduate School’s Predissertation

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Grant, which they used to spend a week at Having successfully completed her third year OLMSTEAD SHAY Abel Alves’84MA, ’90PhD reports: In 2016 I degree in history, I founded the FDA Group, the ONE Archives in Los Angeles. They also in the history program, Camesha Scruggs Bathroom sign in support of nongendered began serving as chairperson of Ball State a consulting firm that helps pharmaceuti- received a History Travel Grant which they is now approaching candidacy. Her work restrooms at the ONE National Gay & University’s history department. That year I cal, biologic, and medical device compa- Lesbian Archives (University of Southern used to visit the Kinsey Archives in Bloom- from previous projects continues to provide was invited to present on my 2011 Brill book, nies deal with the FDA. I was inspired to California), where Shay Olmstead ington, Indiana. Their research examines opportunities to present to various audiences. conducted intensive archival work. The Animals of Spain: An Introduction to start the company because of a professor I transsexual employment discrimination and In February 2018, Camesha was an invited Imperial Perceptions and Human Interaction had in the Isenberg School of Management. activist efforts during the 1970s and ’80s. guest speaker at the Wistariahurst Museum in with Other Animals, 1492–1826, at University Fast-forward 11 years: for the third year in a Holyoke, Massachusetts, for the Black History Hamilton: The Musical and the larger tradi- College London’s international symposium row, INC Magazine has ranked us as one of In fall 2017, Mark Roblee taught “World History Month Series. Her talk focused on W.E.B. Du tions of commemoration surrounding the “Animals in Visual Hispanism.” In 2017, I pub- the fastest-growing companies in America. to 1500” at American International College in Bois’s connections to western Massachusetts. founding of America. Out of this research and lished Pets and Domesticated Animals in the Springfield, Massachusetts. His article “Per- In March 2018, Camesha presented work on their year of coursework, Lindsey has devel- Atlantic World (Oxford Bibliographies On- Eric Cartier ’04 reports: I began working forming Circles in Ancient Egypt from Mehen race and representation in gendered labor oped an interest in researching the colonial line). I currently contribute to Seshat: Global as the recorder of documents at the State to Ouroboros” appears in the fall 2018 issue of at the annual graduate student conference history of South Carolina and its connections History Databank and am under contract Library of Louisiana in early 2018. After five Abel Alves ’84MA, ’90PhD. Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on held at Stony Brook University. In June 2018, to the wider Atlantic world, native history, and with Walter de Gruyter to produce as essay, and a half years managing the Digitization the Preternatural. He presented two papers she presented research on resistance within the history of gender and sexuality. Over the “Domesticity: Co-Evolution,” for Handbook Center at the University of Maryland Librar- last May, one at the International Congress on gendered labor at the triennial Southern As- summer, they continued research on their the- of Historical Animal Studies. ies, I was excited to accept this new public Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on sociation for Women Historians conference at sis, read for their fields, and completed their in- I was extremely fortunate to have been librarianship responsibility. These opportuni- the ancient Egyptian temple library remem- the University of Alabama. For a third consec- ternship for the public history certificate at the a graduate student at the University of Mas- travel to Greece to teach a seminar course ties would never have been possible without bered by Greek historian Diodorus Siculus, utive summer season, Camesha gave guided Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS). As an sachusetts in the 1980s, studying with Rob- at College Year in Athens in June 2019. His the wonderful education I received at UT’s and another at Rice University in Houston on tours at the Du Bois Boyhood Homesite while intern for the Adams Family papers, Lindsey ert Potash, Jeffrey Cole, Roland Sarti, and annotated translation of Sepher Yosippon School of Information and at UMass Amherst embodiment and Neoplatonism in Late Antiq- educating visitors on that influential native worked on a number of projects: transcribing most especially Miriam Usher Chrisman, is currently being vetted by a major press. (where I worked for three years in Special uity. Roblee continues to chair the Five College son of Massachusetts. the diaries of John Quincy Adams and con- my mentor during and after my graduate Collections and University Archives at the Faculty Seminar in Late Antiquity, produce the tributing to workshops for secondary school school years. In November, I will give two Elizabeth Bradley ’12MA reports: I returned Du Bois Library). Five College Annual Lecture in Late Antiquity, During 2017–18, over the course of their first teachers; they also conducted researched for presentations at the Sixteenth-Century to the Pioneer Valley in 2017 to become the and serve as the history department’s intern- year, Lindsey Woolcock focused on develop- an MHS exhibition on Hamilton: The Musical Studies Conference—33 years after Profes- program coordinator at the Emily Dickin- Jonathan Cassie ’92 reports: I had a book on ship and career adviser/instructor. He plans to ing their fields and making steady progress on display at the during the play’s Boston run sor Chrisman guided me through my first son Museum. I am thrilled to have found a the education industry published by ASCD defend his dissertation this spring. on what they hope will be a master’s thesis on this fall. Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, in position in the field that unites my interests in 2016. Called Level Up Your Classroom, it October 1985. I will always remain grateful in place-based education, landscape, and won Association Media Publishing’s gold to her and UMass Amherst. literature. My work straddles education and medal as the best technical book of 2017. The public programs: I coordinate group tours book is a guide to doing gamified instruc- Camesha Scruggs in Phil Bergen ’68 recently retired from the Mas- and class visits as well as events like the tion and game-based learning in classrooms her third consecutive sachusetts Historical Commission, where he Amherst Poetry Festival, a multi-day celebra- from the pre-kindergarten to the university year of giving tours at the W.E.B. Du Bois worked for the past 20 years as a preserva- tion of the literary legacy and contemporary level. I’ve long been interested in the role Boyhood Homesite. tion planner associated with the National creativity of the Pioneer Valley. I also serve games have in building engagement and Lindsey Woolcock presenting their brown-bag talk “Interpreting Slavery and Freedom in New England.’” Register of Historic Places throughout the on the Museums10 Educator’s Committee and resilience. In the book, I provide a detailed commonwealth. One of his last assignments the Amherst Arts Night Plus Committee. After history of what games are, philosophies of was writing the National Register nomination four years as an environmental educator at for UMass Amherst’s Old Chapel. Wave Hill, I am pleased to continue to explore connections between people and nature. Daniel Boucher ’93 reports: I graduated with Favorite recent projects include sourcing ap- a double major in history and journalism propriate plants for Dickinson’s reconstructed and worked as a newspaper reporter for five conservatory and coordinating a program years before going back to school to learn series inspired by the Dickinson landscape, accounting at Bentley College. I now work as including a wildflower walk and pollina- a lead accountant/reviewer for BNY Mellon tor fair. This September, I joined other Five in Westborough, Massachusetts, but still use College museum professionals on Artificial my history training on a side project/hobby Selections: Art, Natural History, and the Tax- for a possible live musical stage presentation. onomy of the Museum, a panel organized for the UMass Art History symposium. Mark Roblee Professor Steven Bowman ’64 retired in 2015 presenting at the Jonathan Cassie ’92 published Level Up Your from his position as professor of Judaic Stud- Nicholas Capman ’03 reports: In 2007, only alumni dinner he Classroom: The Quest to Gamify Your Lessons co-organized. ies at the University of Cincinnati. He will four years after graduating with a bachelor’s and Engage Your Students in 2016.

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gamified-instruction education, and chapters specially targeted general education courses 2003 and was a founding member of the of how-to content. as a learning community. Cohort students Graduate History Association. After earn- study college composition, introduction to ing my PhD, I worked as an adjunct in a few Shakti Castro ’17MA lives in the Bronx and literature, and U.S. history. The history con- colleges, finally securing a full-time research remains active in public history and aca- tent focuses on ethical and social issues they position at the Center for Puerto Rican Stud- demia. Most recently she gave a presenta- are likely to encounter as future law-enforce- ies at Hunter College, CUNY. I’m currently an tion, “That Other Opioid Epidemic: Docu- ment, corrections, or probation officers and associate professor of history at Bloomfield menting the History of the Opioid Crisis in introduces the students to the historical roots (New Jersey) College and a public scholar for New York’s Puerto Rican and Latin Commu- of present-day conflicts. An embedded tutor the New Jersey Council of the Humanities. nities,” at the Drug Policy Alliance in New provides learning support; co-curricular ac- I’ve been able to publish in academic and York City. It focused on her research as a tivities complement students’ coursework. The nonacademic outlets, including the nation- graduate fellow at the National Museum of program is meant to give students a deeper al press and several academic blogs. My American History through the Smithsonian understanding of the communities they as- first book, Soldiers of the Nation: Military Latino Center. Shakti also helped co-facilitate pire to serve after graduation and to inspire Service and Modern Puerto Rico, 1868–1952 a working group, “Insider/Outsider: Racial further studies in history and literature. (University of Nebraska Press), is now out. Babette Faehmel ’09PhD with members of organizations Bias and Positionality in Interpretation,” at endorsing her project “Humanistic Approaches to Criminal Justice,” (Yes, dissertations do turn into books.) I’m this year’s NCPH conference in Las Vegas, including the local district attorney, police chief, and affirmative Joyce Follet ’81MA earned a PhD in women’s finishing my second book, Fighting on Two where she also received a New Professional action officer, all of whom endorsed the project. history at the University of Wisconsin–Madi- Fronts: The Experience of the Puerto Rican Travel Award from NCPH. She is currently son. Since then, she has worked as a public Soldiers in the Korean War, to be published the community engagement coordinator at historian, developing community education by Centro Press. Hannah Rose Grillo, first daughter BOOM!Health’s Harm Reduction Center in programs, practicing oral history, and pro- and fourth child of Matt Grillo ’98, the South Bronx, a syringe-exchange pro- Lloyd Crossman ’62 reports: I am an alive- Library, a community workshop, “Talking ducing historical documentary. At Smith Col- Leonard Gardner ’49 reports: This past year was born 1/31/18. gram where she advocates for community and-well Class of 1962 history major. Just re- About Race: Staying Curious, Moving For- lege’s Sophia Smith Collection, a national has been a busy one for a 96-year-old retiree. members impacted by substance-use dis- tired after teaching in China for the past 20 ward, and Being Part of the Solution.” Two women’s-history archive, she produced Step Its highlight: my trip UMass Amherst, where order. years. Started teaching after graduation in local African Americans talked about first by Step: Building a Feminist Movement, 1941– I received an honorary doctorate of public 1962 in Van Buren, Maine, population 2,000; realizing they were “the other,” getting “the 1977, coproduced Creating Women’s History: service. While in Amherst, I dined with the Matt Grillo ’98 would like to announce the concluded my career in Shanghai, China, talk” from parents, and experiencing racism. The Sophia Smith Collection, and directed university’s veteran organization and gave a birth of his fourth child and first daughter, population 24,000,000. It has been an exciting One remembered being called the N-word in the Voices of Feminism Project to preserve brief talk. I was also interviewed for a history Hannah Rose Grillo, on January 21, 2018; she life experience. I want to mention Dr. Louis school. The other recalled that as a kid, due to oral histories and organization records of project by a graduate student about World joins brothers Ben (14), Josh (12), and Eli (10). Greenbaum, my historiography professor, her different hair, she was nicknamed Medu- women typically marginalized in dominant War II. In addition, while there and taking Matt and his wife, the artist Sara Grillo, live who has had a lifelong impact on me in my sa, after the monster in Greek mythology with national narratives. Follet also codirected the advantage of a colleague’s contacts at the in Belchertown, Massachusetts, where for search for truth. snakes for hair. Eighty people attended (we Steinem Initiative, an experiment in activist/ university, we arranged for the university to a decade Matt has been a part of the local had hoped for 15) and we learned that many academic partnerships to draw on women’s take over a website that my colleague James branch of the Massachusetts Cultural Coun- James Davenport ’03 reports: Since gradu- white people want to talk about race and history to inspire contemporary campaigns Wilson and I built and have maintained for cil. The council partners with local vendors ating from UMass in 2003, I have continued better understand what life is like for people for change. In 2017 she launched the Repro- many years. It covers the life of the USS Reid, and artists at the weekly farmer’s market my love for history as a history teacher for of color. In October, two nearby communities ductive Justice History Project to create an the destroyer I served on in World War I; it during a town-wide ArtWalk and with a pop- the City of Springfield. I currently work at hosted “Talking About Race” workshops. My interactive digital toolkit providing movement was sunk in December 1944. James Wilson, ular series of Food Truck Fridays on the town the Conservatory if the Arts, Springfield’s dream is to get the American Library Asso- leaders with little-known stories and archival who has a doctorate from the university, is common. Matt works at Collective Copies in first public art school. I am also involved in ciation to launch a “National Conversation evidence of women’s organizing for sexual the son of a Reid shipmate and is the web- Amherst, a worker-owned cooperative that Veterans in the Classroom, an organization About Race.” Want to start a conversation and reproductive health, rights, and justice master of the site. While in Amherst, I also supports progressive and local causes by that has veterans come into classrooms to about race where you live? Contact me at from colonial times to the present. met with an assembly of graduating-class each year donating 10 percent of its annual tell their stories. [email protected]. members and others at Amherst High School, profits. Collective Copies also has a publish- Harry Franqui-Rivera ’10PhD reports: I start- from which I graduated in 1938. There I was ing branch, Levellers Press, which issues Allen J. Davis ’68 reports: Having been a Babette Faehmel ’09PhD, associate professor ed my PhD program in UMass Amherst at asked to speak about my experience in and small-print-run niche titles, many by local dean and faculty member in higher educa- of history at SUNY Schenectady, directs the recollections of the attack on Pearl Harbor on authors. Matt is glad that attending UMass tion and led three nonprofit organizations, I two-year program “Humanistic Approaches December 7, 1941. Beyond these events, fam- introduced him to the area where he now feel, 50 years after the assassination of Martin to Criminal Justice.” Funded by a grant from ily gatherings, doctors’ appointments, and has built his businesses and family. Luther King Jr., that institutionalized racism the National Endowment for the Humanities, other interviews took up much of my year. Shakti Castro ’17MA speaking at the “End Overdose New York” and racial resentment remain the principal it is designed to strengthen the teaching of Betsy Halpern Amaru ’69PhD reports: After rally and press conference issues dividing our society. In June I orga- the humanities in community colleges and receiving my PhD, I taught part time for a outside New York’s City Hall. nized, with the support of the assistant di- entails recruiting 20 students in the Associate number of years and raised a family. (Times

rector of the Peterborough (New Hampshire) in Criminal Justice Program to take three Harry Franqui-Rivera ’10 PhD. do change: one of my daughters is now a full-

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time MD with four kids!) When the youngest Jeff Lord ’89, ’94MA was recently honored ALUMNA HIGHLIGHT: of my own four was in middle school, I used with the HEMA Scholar Lifetime Achieve- an NEH grant to retrain, moving from Refor- ment Award. Presented by a panel of es- Kelli Morgan ’17PhD mation history to the study of ancient Judaism tablished international scholars, the award (Second Temple period studies). In 1981, I be- recognizes excellence in significant scholarly My time in the Public History Certificate Program gan teaching in the Department of Religion contributions to the expanding field of histor- at UMass revealed to me the extent to which at Vassar College and continued there until ical European martial arts. Jeff is an associ- American fine art objects, particularly those in 2001, when I retired. I currently live in Jeru- ate curator at the Massachusetts Center for traditional museum galleries, need reinterpretation. salem, where I frequently sit in one of the Renaissance Studies and currently serves Until recently, most art institutions presented an reading rooms at the National Library and Lori Ann Kran ’93PhD. on the Scientific Committee for the journal antiquated, static, and not entirely accurate narrative. continue with research and writing. Other Acta Periodica Duellatorum. His translation My public history education, coupled with my than that, I keep track of and enjoy the doings of Alexandre Valville’s nineteenth-century study in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of African of 13 amazing grandchildren, some of whom fencing manual Traité Sur la Contre-Pointe American Studies, accorded me the research and live here and some in the States. is forthcoming from Fallen Rook Press. interpretive skills to examine American art objects Richard Kenney ’08 was recently named one David Light ’93MA reports: I’ve hit 14 years with a very different eye. Susan K. Hamilton ’90 is working in em- of the Connect Association’s 2018 “40 Under as an editor with tech giant Accenture, fol- Emery Maddocks ’69 of Hanson, Massachu- I design galleries and formulate interpretations ployee/operations communications at Vertex 40” for the events industry. He works at the lowing nine years with Boston-area business setts, is enjoying life, having finally retired that allow audiences to discover American art in Pharmaceuticals. Her novel Shadow King University of Miami as director of conference and management publications. As editorial from a career in graphic arts sales and ways they would typically experience a science or was a Top 10 finalist in the 2016 Launchpad services. director of Accenture Research, the 300-per- marketing. He also retired from a 30-year history museum. My curatorial style centers on Manuscript Competition and was released son global research arm of this behemoth active duty and Massachusetts Army Na- the human experience to deliberately interrogate by Inkshares on October 3, 2018; a dark Lori Ann Kran ’93PhD has been a grade company, I lead a team of senior editors tional Guard career as a federal colonel and the ways American artists, art objects, art history, urban fantasy, it is available for order at school teacher at the Cincinnati Waldorf who write and publish on what “in the biz” Massachusetts brigadier general. He and his and art institutions challenge and sometimes reify Amazon.com and Inkshares.com. Laura’s School since 2000. She begins with her class is called “thought leadership.” If your skills wife, Joan, are busy with seven grandchil- various structures of oppression in the United States. next novel, The Devil Inside, was a Top 25 of students in first grade and stays with them, run more toward writing and reasoning than dren, lots of travel, and serving the church Audiences frequently ask how I came to such an finalist in the 2017 Launchpad Competition teaching all academic subjects, through the research, as was manifestly the case with with the Order of Malta and many parish approach. My response is always the and is in preproduction at Inkshares, with eighth grade. She also teaches an online me, I’d encourage anyone to look in this di- activities. Emery still does freelance writing same: “I’m not a traditional art an anticipated release in 2019. women and gender studies class at North- rection. My colleagues over the years have projects. historian. I am a critical race ern Kentucky University. In 2012, Lori gave been humanities grads from top schools in cultural historian trained a TEDx Cincinnati talk, “The Heart of Edu- the U.S. and U.K. When not working, I contin- John Mason ’56 reports: This is my first “re- in public history.” cation.” She also enjoys playing the banjo, ue to read in areas that interested me while I port,” so to sum up the past: 21 years in the —Kelli Morgan ’17PhD yoga, and spending time outdoors. was studying at UMass. My latest read: The Army, retiring as a colonel (with two tours in Whisperers, a long and distressing look at Viet Nam); 30 years with Science Applications Kristina Lentz ’90, ’02MA reports: I am “private life in Stalin’s Russia.” I’ve developed International Corp.; and CEO of Workhouse now Kristina Lentz Capano, having in 2015 the view that the study of Soviet history tells Arts Center. Lots of civic service, including 12 married a wonderful man, Mark Capano. I you everything you need to know about hu- years as mayor of the City of Fairfax, Virgin- remain in major-gift fundraising and cur- man nature—just on a “grander” scale than ia. Remain on the board of Mason Housing rently work for Sargent College, Boston Uni- we’re used to. Inc., a nonprofit providing faculty housing versity’s College of Health and Rehabilitation at George Mason University. Organized the Sciences. Sargent’s founder, Dudley Allen Lord Fairfax Charity Ride in September, a Sargent, created the field of physical thera- motorcycle rally that circumnavigated the Susan K. Hamilton ’90. py, prescribing exercise for all individuals, original Lord Fairfax Land Grant (5.8 million including women and the disabled. When his acres!) and raised funds for local charities. Harvard-based program was merged with Consulting with a firm that will be construct- This year brought two milestones for Fern BU, it became the women’s physical-educa- ing a $60 million arts conservatory using Lee ’81: induction into the Direct Response tion program. A word to anyone interested twenty-first century technology and innova- Hall of Fame’s Class of 2018 and celebrating in women’s history, the history of women and tive teaching methodologies. In November I her tenth anniversary as CEO of her market- sport, or women’s education history, not to will go to India to gather financial supporters ing agency, THOR Associates. mention the history of rehabilitation science under EB-5 program. Planning a group trip to Kelli Morgan ’17PhD, as it developed out of the world wars: we England—York, London, and Leeds Castle— associate curator of American art at are a ready-made project just waiting to be for next June that will include senior elected the Indianapolis researched and written! I love my job and officials. My wife, Jeanette, and I enjoy travel- Museum of Art at always miss UMass. David Light ’93MA. ing, especially with our traveling mates, the Newfields.

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“Six Pack.” Adult children and grandchildren Frank F. Russell ’89 has recently published Colleen Ward Thumm ’67 reports: I am in Fairfax and South Carolina. The nearby a history of his hometown of Malden, Mas- teaching and skiing in Denver and get to New boys are 12 and 11, still in the fun stage. sachusetts. An Early History of Malden was England many times a year. Get in touch, released in June 2018 by History Press. Cov- here or there: [email protected]. In March 2018, Chelsea Miller ’16MA re- ering Malden’s fascinating history from 1648 turned to UMass Amherst as a speaker on through 1900, it is the result of Russell’s 25- Bruce Watson ’95MA reports: After publish- the keynote panel at the Graduate History year hobby of studying, researching, and ing four American history books for gener- Association’s annual conference to talk about writing about local history. Russell credits al readers, I’ve gone more general with an publishing, local LGBTQIA politics and activ- Professor Milton Cantor with instilling his online magazine, The Attic. It now includes ism, and working on public history projects lifelong love of history. 50-plus short, readable articles about Amer- as an independent scholar. After two years as ican history, lit, arts, and men and women— an editorial assistant at the State University Marcia G. Synnott ’74PhD reports: This year everyone from Lincoln to Langston Hughes, of New York Press, Chelsea began a new I chose to donate $10,000 from my IRA as Jeannette Rankin to Judy Chicago. position as communications director at the part of my RMD to historical resources in the New York State Coalition Against Sexual As- UMass Amherst’s Special Collections and Mark Wilkinson ’94 reports: My film docu- sault (NYSCASA). Follow Chelsea on Twitter University Archives. I made this donation in mentary film American Tap premiered at @publichumanist! 2018 because 50 years ago, in August 1968, the Lincoln Center Film Society/Dance on I entered the university as a PhD student Camera Festival on July 20 in New York City. Selena Moon ’17MA reports: I’ve been in history. I appreciated being awarded a It traces tap dancing from its origins through working as a fact-checker for the Minnesota three-year University Fellowship in history, its evolution to the current form—a uniquely Women’s Press since October 2017. As of last which gave me $2,500 a year for living ex- American story that illustrates the vibrant, Selena Moon ’17MA on a tour at the Oak Alley Plantation in New Orleans in April. April, I became a contributing writer with my penses and free tuition. In 1972, I went as an powerful nature of our cultural melting pot. article about Minnesota’s efforts to increase instructor to the University of South Carolina Along the way, it reveals and informs many women- and minority-owned businesses, es- in Columbia on the recommendation of my of the very basic concepts and current themes

pecially in construction. I have continued my dissertation director, Professor Howard H. of the American cultural consciousness. It is a Mark Wilkinson ’94’s research on multiracial Japanese-American my friend, and my best man!), was to pur- Eli, 18, is a brainiac freshman at Rochester Quint, who had taught there before returning story told through dance, with literally hun- documentary American individuals and families, including attending sue a doctoral degree in the same field and Institute of Technology; and the stunningly to New England in the late 1950s. I defend- dreds of historical clips as well as premium Tap was released this the Critical Mixed-Race Studies Conference spend my life researching, teaching, and smart and lovely Tessa Nellis (16 going on 30!) ed my dissertation at UMass in April 1974. I footage of some of today’s best tap dancers. summer, premiering at the Lincoln Center in March, where I made some amazing con- writing about the Civil War. Fate (and Jimmy is a straight-A sophomore and cheerleader then had a successful academic career in The film also features interviews with Debbie Film Society/Dance on nections to other scholars in my field. I have Carter’s recession) intervened and I ended at one of the area’s leading high schools. I’m the history department at USC–Columbia, Allen, Cornel West, Dulé Hill, and a gallery Camera Festival in New also revived my research at the Minnesota up in marketing. Since 1988, I’ve owned or gonna be 69 soon but still try hard to rock it remaining there until I retired in 2005 as a of leading scholars and dancers. York City. Historical Society, found vast archives at been CEO of several marketing agencies (and kid myself) as if I were still 18. tenured full professor. I am grateful for the the University of Minnesota, and hope soon headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area. excellent graduate history courses I took and to publish a short piece about my research For the past 21 years, I’ve been a principal Austin Powell ’11 has been awarded a fel- for the mentoring I received from the history for the Minnesota History magazine. My re- owner of ROI, a full-service agency working lowship at the American Academy in Rome, department at UMass Amherst. search into Japanese-American disability with everything from Fortune 500 companies running from July 2018 to September 2019, history has also expanded as I have found down to small local accounts. The very best during which he is completing his doctorate Mark Vezzola ’00 reports: I am slowly but a collection of unexpected sources and con- thing that’s happened to me since leaving in history at Catholic University of America. surely working with three co-authors on Peo- tacts. Over the past few months, I’ve been UMass is my amazing family! My spectacular He will live at the academy on the Janicu- ples and Nations: A Brief History of the Native looking into PhD programs in California wife, Nycci, is one of the Washington area’s lum Hill, near the Vatican; his research, on Peoples of the United States and Canada, and am considering applying to the Ethnic foremost food and wine journalists. (Since popular preaching during the Middle Ages, a textbook on Native American history for Studies and Disability Studies Program at 2008, she and I have cohosted the area’s only will primarily be carried out in the Vatican Cognella Inc. Working on an academic text UC Berkeley or something similar. My tenth food and wine variety show, Foodie and the Library. His article “Writing Polemic as His- can at times be intimidating and challenging reunion at Smith is next year, so I hope to Beast, on a local radio station.) We have five tory…” appeared in Franciscan Studies last but overall the experience is very rewarding. see my colleagues and professors at UMass kids: Jason, 34, is a digital marketing maven fall. We hope to have a completed draft by the when I visit! in Silicon Valley; Max, 32, is a construction end of this year. In June I was sworn in as supervisor building data centers for Microsoft Barry Pritzker ’78, ’86G is revising his coed- chief judge of the court of the Chemehuevi David Nellis ’71, ’73MA reports: My original (he and his wife, Karina, have two awesome ited, four-volume American Indian History: Indian Tribe. I don’t yet have a robe but look goal, after publishing an article based on kids, Michael and Daniela); Sam, 30, is an An Encyclopedia of Culture, Issues, and forward to taking the bench. The rest of my my master’s thesis recounting the life and award-winning mixologist here in D.C. (and Tribes (ABC-Clio, 2008). He continues to run summer was filled with short trips and visits times of Union General Ben Butler (props married to the most excellent Alysa Turner, Skidmore College’s foundation and corpo- from East Coast family. to Professor Stephen B. Oates, my mentor, a restaurant PR maven in her own right); rate-relations operation.

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Joseph Youman ’03.

Alumni and history Four generations of family gathered in St. Lucia in June 2018 to majors at the 2018 celebrate the 60th wedding anniversary Norman S. Winnerman ’59, Alumni Dinner. ’60MA and his wife, Barbara. Reflections on a UMass Evening Some 36 years ago, an eager but aimless 18-year-old from a small Boston suburb enthusiastically joined the Norman S. Winnerman ’59, ’60MA reports: career, I was appointed department chair umentary nominated for a New England UMass student body with high hopes of embarking on a four-year intellectual adventure while simultaneously I arrived on campus in the fall of 1950 at age and then took over as director of athletics. Emmy and also had the opportunity to work engaging in regular doses of fun. The 200-page course catalog teased with an impossibly intriguing range of 17—seriously immature, as it turned out. After I was active in the community, was elected for some amazing local documentary film- courses, and steadily I gravitated to those offered out of Herter Hall: Dick Minear’s Vietnam (with older dudes a couple of less-than-stellar years, I worked to the city council for four years, and served makers. In 2006 I got an entry-level film job smoking cigarettes during class breakout sessions), Stephen Oates’s Civil War, Gerald MacFarland’s U.S. construction for a year, enlisted in the USAF on numerous boards and commissions. My as in the locations department on a Disney survey, Jane Rausch’s Latin America, Mario DePillis’s senior thesis, and so many more. Absent any conscious for four years during the Korean War, and in retirement years have been spent in exten- film,The Game Plan. I’ve been working in lo- direction towards a major, by junior year I simply was a history major; I had no other choice. 1957 returned to UMass on the GI Bill, met my sive travel, working for a sports league, and cations ever since. I am currently the location Plainly evident, now that I’m well past the half-century point, those scholar/mentors, as well as a good wife, and married in 1958. I graduated with a volunteering with a couple of nonprofits. And manager on Untitled Chris Keyser Project, number of tutoring sessions from Willie downstairs at the Drake, profoundly shaped the history educator daughter and a BA in history in 1959 and re- it all began at UMass! a Netflix TV series filming in Massachusetts that I have become. Indeed, in the same manner that Professor DePillis guided me through the process of ceived an MA in history in 1960. I taught two this fall. constructing an original history on the demise of the Shakers using the Mount Holyoke College archives, years in Tilton, New Hampshire, and moved Joshua Youman ’03 reports: After graduating I coach my Wayland High School history students to “make an argument about the past by telling a story to Danbury, Connecticut, in 1962. We had a from UMass, I thought I’d put my education accountable to evidence” (Lepore). The joy of inquiry and thrill of discovery instilled back in 1981–86 is at the second daughter in 1963. I taught at Danbury to good use working on documentaries in core of the Wayland High School History Project, a student-built digital archive of original history that traces High School until I retired in 1992. During my the greater Boston area. I produced a doc- national trends and developments in the Wayland area. Never one to turn down an invitation to return to campus, when Mark Roblee asked a handful of history department alums back to meet with undergrads now pondering their professional futures, I was happy to make the Pioneer Valley trek. That Tuesday evening was my fourth such event at the Campus Center Hotel, where we conversed with a few dozen exceptional millennials/ Zs while consuming truly delightful fare (definitely no rainbow roast beef from the Keeping in the Loop

Franklin DC of old). Following informal hellos and a buffet dinner, we power-dated Check out the history department’s YouTube channel Oral History Lab @oralhistorylab of sorts, engaging in a series of quick but often deep conversations with Herter Hall’s to see and hear this year’s public talks: youtube.com/ Graduate History Association @GHAUMass current finest. UMasshistory. If you’d like to give to the department, simply visit To say these men and women were impressive is an understatement; they were This marks the fifth year of our department’s blog umass.edu/history/giving or send a check made poised, articulate, thoughtful, and curious, far more advanced in their general ways Past@Present, which features posts by faculty, out to “UMass Amherst” to: than I was at that same life juncture. Interestingly, most were not on the teacher students, emeriti, and alumni. Follow us at umasshistory. Records and Gift Processing track but instead contemplate futures as archivists, librarians, museum curators, wordpress.com. Memorial Hall 134 Hicks Way and lawyers. And another observation: how would one know after only brief Are you following us on Facebook? “Like” us at UMass Amherst conversations, but I had to wonder if the rat race of our current world, the hyper- facebook.com/umasshistory and facebook.com/ Kevin Delaney Amherst, MA 01003-9270 umasspublichistory. talks with history focus on career opportunities, and the undergrads’ imminent status as indentured servants to a bank, have made Be sure to note “History Department” on the majors at the 2018 their UMass journeys considerably more stressful—but hopefully no less joyful—than my days in the early ’80s. Follow us on Twitter: memo line. We appreciate your support! Alumni Dinner. Thirty-six years from now, how will these alums reminisce with future history majors? On the backside of History Department @UMassHistory life, surely they too will consider their current professors, about whom they now most glowingly speak with Public History Program @UMassPH sincere inspiration, and recount life lessons imparted that only become clear with the passage of time. —Kevin Delaney ’86

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Anne Broadbridge Julio Capó Jr. Jennifer Fronc Gerald McFarland Jason Moralee Stephen Platt Sigrid Schmalzer Sigrid Schmalzer, Daniel S. Priyanka Srivastava Women and the Making Welcome to Fairyland: Monitoring the Movies: T. T. Mann, Ace Rome’s Holy Imperial Twilight: The Moth and Wasp, Soil Chard, and Alyssa Botelho The Well-Being of the of the Mongol Empire Queer Miami Before The Fight Over Film Detective (Levellers Press, Mountain: The Opium War and the End and Ocean (Tilbury House Science for The People: Labor Force in Colonial (Cambridge University 1940 (University of North Censorship in Early 2018) Capitoline Hill in Late of China’s Last Golden Publishers, 2018) Documents from America’s Bombay (Palgrave Press, 2018) Carolina Press, 2017) (Oxford Movement of Radical Twentieth-Century Six feet tall and weighing Antiquity Age (Alfred A. 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Opium War explores the early people Pu Zhelong influenced colonial India through the Using the extensive files of the of the Capitoline Hill from Science for the People, the This book positions women Miami is marketed as an Unlike the hard-boiled attempts by Western traders in his work. With further lens of well-being. Focusing National Board of Review of into late antiquity and most important radical science in their rightful place in the international tourist hub private investigators of and missionaries to “open” context from Melanie Chan’s on the cotton millworkers in Motion Pictures, Monitoring the early middle ages, movement in U.S. history. otherwise well-known story that embraces gender noir detective fiction, T. T. China, traveling mostly in historically precise watercolors, Bombay in the late nineteenth the Movies offers the first asking what happened to Between 1969 and 1989, Science of Chinggis Khan (commonly and sexual difference. is a gentle fellow, shy with secret beyond Canton, the this story will immerse young and early twentieth centuries, full-length study of the board a holy mountain as the for the People mobilized known as Genghis Khan) and This history of Miami’s women but not without single port where they were readers in Chinese culture, the the book moves beyond trade and its campaign against empire that deemed it American scientists, teachers, his conquests and empire. transnational connections resources—most notably his allowed—even as China’s natural history of insects, and union politics and examines motion-picture censorship. It thus became a Christian and students to practice a Examining the best-known reveals that the city has been excellent martial arts skills. imperial rulers struggled to the use of biological controls in the complex ways in which traces the board’s Progressive republic. It investigates socially and economically just women of Mongol society, a queer borderland for over With help from his girlfriend, manage their country’s decline farming. Back matter provides the broader colonial society Era founding in New York; its how the hill was used, science, rather than one that such as Chinggis Khan’s a century. In chronicling Rosie, and brother Flat Mann, from within and Confucian context and background considered the subject evolving set of “standards” imagined, and known served militarism and corporate mother, Hö’elün, and senior Miami’s queer past from its T. T. deals entertainingly with scholars grappled with how to for this lovely, sophisticated of worker well-being. 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Through research, wife, Börte—as well as 1896 founding through 1940, dangerous, daunting cases in use foreign trade to China’s picture book about nature, demonstrates how projects municipal officers, and seventh centuries CE and writing, protest, and organizing, others less famous but Capó shows the multifaceted San Francisco ca. 1955. advantage. science, and Communist China. for worker well-being unfolded citizens; its “city plan,” which how its ancient heritage members sought to demystify equally influential, including ways gender and sexual in the contexts of British called on citizens to report continued to shape the scientific knowledge and his daughters and his renegades made the city Empire, Indian nationalism, screenings of condemned lives and imaginations of embolden “the people” to take conquered wives—it reveals their own. extraordinary infant mortality, movies to local officials; and Rome’s urban population science and technology into the systematic, essential epidemic diseases, and uneven the spread of the board’s long after the fall of the their own hands. participation of women in urban development. influence into the urban Roman empire. empire, politics, and war. 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John Galluzzo ’93 Donald J. La Rocca ’79 The Game Has Come to Stay: How to Read European Armor (Yale University Harry Franqui-Rivera Press, 2017) ’10PhD The Evolution of the Maine State Golf Association (Maine State Golf Soldiers of the Nation: Offers an introduction to and overview of armor in Europe Association, 2017) Frank F. Russell ’89 Susan K. from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century, Military Service and Modern An Early History of Malden (The This full-color book chronicles not only Hamilton ’90 focusing in particular on the sixteenth century, when plate Puerto Rico, 1868–1952 History Press, 2018) the storied 100-year history of the MSGA Shadow King armor reached its peak of stylistic (University of Nebraska Press, beauty and functional perfection. but traces Settled in the 1640s and originally a part 2018) (Inkshares, Created by highly skilled armorers, the history of Charlestown, Massachusetts, Malden 2018) often in cooperation with noted Argues that the emergence of the game grew over two centuries into a thriving artists and commissioned by of strong and complicated back to 1894, In a world residential and manufacturing city. This wealthy patrons, armor was worn Puerto Rican national identities when golf where humans is the first history of Malden to cover for centuries on the battlefield, is deeply rooted in the long history of colonial first came to and faeries coexist, the Fae Patriarch the nineteenth century. It also addresses the city’s abolitionists and in festive tournaments, and for military organizations on the island. Franqui-Rivera the Pine Tree of Boston’s criminal underworld their role in the Underground Railroad. You will meet Harriet Hanson ceremonial events. examines the patterns of inclusion-exclusion State. must choose between a role he never Robinson, a leader in the woman suffrage movement; Sylvester within the military and the various forms of wanted, one that will change the Seelie Baxter, environmentalists and art critic; and Henry Winn, Malden’s citizenship that are subsequently transformed into Court forever, and the destruction of socialist mayor in the 1890s. socioeconomic and political enfranchisement. everything he loves.

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Public history students take a break from the New England Museum Association meeting in Falmouth, Massachusetts, to visit the ocean: (from left) Emma Winter Zeig Amelia Zurcher Lindsey Woolcock Peri Meldon Nolan Cool ’18MA Austin Clark ’18MA

On the cover: Tanya Pearson at the “tweet-up” at Mount Holyoke College’s Skinner Museum. The event was organized by public history graduate students in collaboration with Mark B. Schlemmer, founder of #ITweetMuseums.