A world center of art and music JMU’s summer program in the Netherlands

BY MARY LOUISE LOE, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

s historians we are on a constant voy- Contents A age of discovery as we research the past and find new places, people and Not the way you studied history 4 events that enrich our under- standing and knowledge. Travel serves a similar pur- pose, taking us away from Letter from a history alumna 5 our daily routine and placing us in new, unfamiliar places. In 1967, while we were graduate students at Colum- Department head’s letter 6 bia University, my late hus- band and I traveled through- out Europe, getting as far as My Peace Corps adventure 8 Istanbul on a shoestring, and never spending more than $4 a night for sleeping quar- ters. Madison Historians take 10 history beyond the classroom Those experiences have remained with me over the years, and my students have Dr. Loe and students in the 2008 Netherlands Program often heard me tell of one The JMU history major 12 adventure or another that

happened during that summer or during my extended stay doing research in Moscow in 1971 and 1972. I believe that time is enhanced when you travel so that you remember in much more vivid detail Remember that Tuesday in 14 events in foreign or unfamiliar places. A couple of years ago, on my way to Scotland with a group of February? JMU students, we changed planes in Amsterdam. I had not returned to the city for over 40 years al- though I had the fondest memories of it. The question that quickly popped into my mind was: wouldn’t it be nice to organize a JMU trip here? In May of 2008, six JMU students, my daughter and I went to the The Madison Century 15 Netherlands for almost three weeks. While certain things had changed — the prices being the most obvious — I was pleased to find that the Netherlands was as delightful as I remembered. To prepare myself for the trip, I read numerous books on the history and art of the Netherlands, and Student News 19 watched films as well as an extensive art history program, Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt by Profes- sor William Kloss. Students were required to read several books on Dutch history and culture before- hand, keep a daily journal while there and submit research papers upon their return. Before departure I Alumni News 23 gave them a crash course on the Netherlands and showed them some of the art lectures and films.

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Our trip got off to a slow start. The plane was cle, taking infant children and dogs along with canceled for more than 24 hours, and we had to them in boxes and baskets. (Surprisingly, nobody spend the night in Herndon. That was fine except wears helmets.) Major streets can still be hectic there was a massive thunderstorm that night with three lanes for bikes, cars and trams in each leading to a power failure. Luckily, I am not super- direction. Nonetheless, automobile traffic in Am- stitious, but I was very relieved when we finally sterdam, as well as other Dutch cities, is limited. arrived in Amsterdam a day later. Our hotel is in The high cost of parking and of owning a car per- an ideal location in the museum district, on a suades most urban residents to ride their bikes; quiet street around the corner from the Van Gogh there are approximately one million bicycles in Museum, one block from the Rijksmuseum and Amsterdam for three quarters of a million people. about two blocks across an open field — The Mu- Over the next few weeks I noticed many people — seum Plein — from the magnificent Concert Hall. including those in their 60s and 70s — riding along with great gusto. “I believe that time is We spent the first few days in Amsterdam fa- miliarizing ourselves with the city before venturing The use of bicycles and electric trams means enhanced when you travel out to visit other places. On the second day, a that the city is quite free of air and noise pollu- so that you remember in guide gave us an architectural and historical tion. Moreover, as we all noted, everyone looks walking tour of the city. It turned out that he was healthier and few seem overweight. (Despite my much more vivid detail an historian who had written on John Adams. He admiration for the public use of bicycles, I must events in foreign or told us a great deal about the architecture and confess that I declined to join our students in a history of Amsterdam enhanced by many interest- four-hour bicycle tour through the city. Hopefully unfamiliar places.” ing stories that deepened our understanding of next year I’ll be in better shape.) Another impor- Dutch society and culture today. During our last tant transportation note is that one can hop on a week, he gave us a guided tour of the city of Haar- train and go anywhere, which of course is also lem. We also took a guided boat tour on Amster- true in other European countries. We certainly could use a network of public transportation in the United States to cut down on both our con- sumption of oil and the consequent air pollution. Amsterdam and the Netherlands is a very tour- ist-friendly place. Everyone speaks English. The Dutch begin studying English in elementary school and because they do not dub American movies and television programs — using subtitles instead — they have plenty of practice hearing English. Amsterdam is a truly international city with people living and working there from all over the world. It has a long history of tolerance and acceptance of people of different backgrounds, religions and cultures. I had expected, however, to observe signs of ethnic tension, after my read- ings about the tensions between Europeans and the recent immigrants. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the Dutch people I spoke with were Students in the JMU Netherlands Program walking through Haarlem, 2009 far more accepting of the new immigrants than I had anticipated. The Netherlands is a social wel- fare state and attracts many immigrants looking dam’s canals that offered us a different perspec- for work and a better life. To be sure, there are tive and provided interesting facts and figures inevitable tensions, but the process of integration about the construction and care of the canals and seems to be going along quite smoothly largely the harbor. because of their historical tradition of tolerance. Amsterdam is one of the most beautiful cities I It’s also true, as some immigrants, working in our have ever visited and even though the population hotel and the restaurants we frequented, told me, has increased along with the traffic, the main that once people move to the Netherlands, they advantage in Amsterdam, in contrast to Paris, rarely want to return home. Milan or Moscow, is the comparative paucity of Even though the historical high point of the automobile traffic. Nearly everyone rides a bicy- Dutch Empire and of Dutch painting was in the

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17th century, the Netherlands has emerged once again as a world center of art and music. In Am- sterdam, Leiden, The Hague, Haarlem, Delft and other places, we visited the magnificent art muse- ums, history and science museums, churches, and an old Portuguese synagogue, as well as some of the former mansions of the Dutch empire builders. We were able to visit important sites such as Rembrandt’s former residence, the Anne Frank Museum, the World War Two Resistance Museum and the Amsterdam Historical Museum. But we didn’t visit only historical places and art museums — we spent a delightful day at the Artis Zoo in Amsterdam, which houses a vast array of exotic animals and birds as well as an aquarium. We also went to the Keukenhof gardens near Leiden. Even though most of the tulips were no longer in bloom, there were acres and acres of other beautiful flowers and outdoor modern sculpture, much of it humorous. We took a day trip to Zaanse Schans, a small village, equivalent to our Williamsburg, although not as large, with working windmills, old-style shops, and craftsmen, who actually live in the The 2009 Netherlands Program in Leiden village, engaged in their trades. And the pancakes we had for lunch were delicious. Dutch pancakes seum van Oudheden in Leiden, we started stroll- are mixed with meat, cheese, fruit or sweets and ing around to see the city. There had been a are one of their specialties. As for the Dutch cui- marathon race in Leiden when we had arrived sine, I found the food and variety very good, al- and it now was over. As we approached the main “It’s also true, as some though not inexpensive; most of the cities had canal, as far as we could see, were hundreds of lots of foreign restaurants as in any large Ameri- people, mostly university students, but older peo- immigrants, working in can or European city. A bottle of beer cost the ple and children as well, sitting in front of cafés our hotel and the same as a bottle of water! Some of our students and on makeshift café/ barges along the canal, were put off by the use of mayonnaise on French eating, drinking, singing, with live bands playing. restaurants we frequented, fries. One student even bought a bottle of Ameri- The canals were also filled with boats carrying told me, that once people can ketchup, which she carried along on our daily families and their pets, including a jolly white- move to the Netherlands, outings in her large handbag. You can imagine haired old man with a long beard. He had two the bewildered expression of the Dutch security long braids, descending from his beard, tied at they rarely want to return guard at the entrance to the Franz Hals Museum the end with miniature Dutch wooden clogs! The home.” in Haarlem, when he pulled a large bottle of one observation we all kept making was that the American ketchup out of her bag. He must have Dutch know how to enjoy life. thought, “These crazy Americans!” All in all, the trip was a real pleasure and a The classical and contemporary music world is great experience. The students learned a lot very vibrant in the Netherlands, and during our about Dutch history, art and culture. Luckily, our stay, we attended several concerts. Young people students were lots of fun to travel with, nobody under 26 are able to purchase tickets for roughly complained, and a great time was had by all. My $12 by showing up at the Concert Hall ticket of- enthusiasm for the Netherlands is based, to be fice 45 minutes before any performance, while sure, on a short visit as a tourist, but I believe students and seniors automatically get discounts that it is a society that works very well. I certainly to most events and transportation. Dutch society will not wait another 41 years to return. offers lots of similar benefits including free health care and education, which is certainly one of the reasons why the people seem a lot more relaxed and content. One Sunday afternoon, after viewing an impressive Egyptian exhibit in the Rijksmu-

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The digital age Not the way you studied history

BY DANIEL KERR, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

n the last several years, formed the discipline at all lev- Image Database. This in-house the JMU public history pro- els. JMU history students, for platform allows researchers to I gram has adapted digital example, can now conduct re- view the fine details of the technology in its courses in search that would have been maps and also offers unique exciting ways that will help posi- unimaginable a decade ago. tools to compare them across tion our students to play an Unlike their predecessors who years on the computer screen. integral role in history’s future were limited by Carrier Library’s Students used these maps to on the Web. collections, they can tap into unearth a rich history of cigar the vast array of primary source making factories, tanneries, “Over the past decade In the early days of the Inter- documents major repositories mills, and livery stables. They net, many historians worried and a half, the largest around the world have digitized. presented their findings in a about the proliferation of unex- public tour. archives and museums as amined histories, and we As museums, archives, well as the smallest warned our students to steer parks, and other institutions Students in Dr. Gabrielle clear of the Web when conduct- expand their Web presences, Lanier’s Introduction to Public historical societies and ing research. It increasingly greater attention needs to be History course worked on a community history became apparent, however, paid to the unique strengths project to present Carrier Li- projects have established a that the Internet was here to and weaknesses of presenting brary’s collection of late 19th- stay. Rather than resisting it, history in this medium. To meet and early 20th-century chil- presence on the Web. In professional and amateur histo- this need, the JMU Public His- dren’s books in a Web-based the process, they have rians have made concerted tory Program has sought to exhibit. Some examples include efforts to raise the bar. Over the expand students’ understand- Tanglewood Tales for Girls and transformed the discipline past decade and a half, the ing of the best practices in the Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne at all levels.” largest archives and museums field of digital history. With the (1879), The Hunting of the as well as the smallest histori- support of the department, the Snark by Lewis Carroll (1897), cal societies and community program has purchased its own Illustrated Natural History by history projects have estab- Web server and built up a col- Rev. J.G. Wood (1897), and lished a presence on the Web. lection of digital cameras and Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by In the process, they have trans- professional quality audio re- E.V. Lucas (1906). When com- corders. In a variety of courses plete, the Web site will be students have been engaged in posted on the new public his- a series of digitization projects, tory server. conducted and edited digitally Students in my U.S. Urban recorded oral histories, and Social History course have be- designed interpretive Web gun a long-term project to digi- pages. The early results have tize materials pertaining to Har- been impressive. risonburg’s Urban Renewal In courses that examine the program in the 1960s. In an- industrial and business histo- other class that explores the ries of Harrisonburg and Staun- history of the poultry industry in ton, Dr. Kevin Borg’s students Rockingham County, students have digitally scanned and pho- have begun preparing an inter- tographed large numbers of pretive Web site supplemented Sanborn fire insurance maps with historical documents, inter- from the late 19th and early views, and photographs that the 20th centuries. To make these students gathered and digi- maps more widely available to tized. This site will also soon Dr. Kerr and students interviewing David Coffman at the farm where his family has bred chickens for the poultry industry for nearly half a century. researchers, they have been make its appearance on the added to the Madison Digital new server.

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The digital project that has tion to recording the interviews, public history Web site at made the most headway is the students in the oral history http://web.jmu.edu/history/ Shenandoah Valley Oral History course learn how to use digital public.html. You will find Project. Over the past few years, editing tools, meet with radio enough .mp3s to fill a good the complete recordings and producers at WMRA portion of your iPod or your transcripts of more than 50 (Harrisonburg’s NPR station), computer’s hard drive. When interviews have been posted on and create their own audio you finish listening to those the project’s Web page. Con- documentaries. interviews, check the site again ducted for my environmental to see the exciting new re- Take a moment to browse and oral history courses, the search JMU history students are the materials already posted on interviews present a unique conducting and preparing for the public history server at bottom-up view of the Shenan- the Web. http://publichistory.jmu.edu/ doah Valley’s history. In addi- svohp/, which is linked to the

Staying in touch A letter from a JMU history alumna

When I graduated from Madison College in 1967, I thought it was the end of term papers, reading assignments and lectures. As a double major in social science and history with a double minor in political science and psychology, I had the confidence of a newly minted “expert” in my field of study. Then reality set in as I began to teach an assortment of social studies classes over the next 10 years. I had completed a master’s in education at Virginia Commonwealth University, yet I still felt there was more to do. “JMU history faculty I stayed in touch with several of my undergraduate history professors, and I sought their members have been a advice. They suggested I return to JMU as a teaching assistant and graduate student. What constant source of a joy it was to come to campus for my 8 a.m. class and see the sun rise over Massanutten support throughout my Mountain. There are times in your life when you know you are home. My days on campus have been like those special moments. I graduated with a master’s degree in 1978. Three academic and days before school began, my hometown school district hired me. I taught grades 7–12 professional career. there for the next 26 years. I was fortunate to have assignments in Advanced Placement American History and Psychology. I retired in 2004. They made it possible Throughout my teaching career, I was frequently in contact with members of the JMU for me to make a life as history faculty. I always knew I could ask them reference questions or seek an opinion about well as a living.” a book or author that would provide information and perspective on a topic I was working on. JMU history faculty members have been a constant source of support throughout my academic and professional career. They made it possible for me to make a life as well as a living. Many of them have passed on, but the instructional standards they established and maintained have been an inspiration to many generations of students. In 2006, I met with Dr. Michael Galgano to determine what criteria would be necessary to establish a history scholarship in honor of Dr. Sidney Bland, my graduate school adviser and one of my undergraduate professors. It is my joy and privilege to support current history majors in the hope that one day they will return with their financial support for the next generation of JMU history students. Be the Change, Anne Collins (’67)

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Graduates and friends: A letter from the department head

BY MICHAEL J. GALGANO, DEPARTMENT HEAD

or the JMU Department querque, N.M., (one of two cial assistant to the president of History 2008–09 was prizes awarded nationally). Be- for faculty diversity, and Dr. F a banner year. Students, cause of your generosity, the Raymond Hyser assumed new faculty members and the de- department was able to fund duties as coordinator of General partment gained significant student travel to this and sev- Education Cluster Four. The recognition for a high level of eral other conferences where College of Arts and Letters rec- achievement. There is much to JMU history students distin- ognized Dr. Sidney Bland with celebrate as well as new chal- guished themselves. the Distinguished Service lenges to face. The undergradu- Award, and Dr. Michael Seth Thanks to your efforts, new ate program achieved was named the college’s Madi- scholarships were endowed and national recognition son Scholar. Dr. Michael Gubser five new alumni scholarships during a televised spe- received a Provost Award in funded. Your timely gifts are cial throughout Janu- International Beliefs and Values helping a new generation of ary’s national meeting for his “research, teaching and majors progress toward their of the American His- service.” degrees. Though times are torical Association in tough for all of us, we ask for Dr. Nükhet Varlik, Ph.D., New York where it was your continued financial sup- University of Chicago, joined us featured. The docu- port. Three scholarships last year as assistant professor mentary detailed the reached endowment levels last of early Islamic history. Dr. program’s emphases year and the Alumni Scholar- Christopher Versen, Ph.D., Flor- on undergraduate ship Fund gains new support ida State University, joined the research and public each month. We ask that you department as Visiting Assistant history. The special give what you can to bring our Professor of U.S. Intellectual offered a good descrip- fund drive to a successful con- and Native American History tion of some of our clusion in the coming years. this fall. Godfrey Vincent has current students along Gifts to the James Madison been added to the depart- with what they have University Foundation, Inc. ment’s faculty cohort. Vincent is been able to achieve. should be earmarked to the the recipient of the first disser- Dr. Galgano, Dr. Owusu-Ansah, and Dr. Palmer of Morgan View the film at http:// History Alumni Scholarship En- tation fellowship awarded by State University signing agreement supporting annual web.jmu.edu/history/. JMU dissertation and teaching fellowship. Ph.D. dowment. If you prefer and are the department and will join us candidate Godfrey Vincent (standing at right), the first JMU students en- able, you may wish to contact from Morgan State University recipient of the fellowship, is teaching classes for the department this fall. rolled in history the Foundation at http:// where he is completing a Ph.D. classes continue to www.jmu.edu/foundation/ in history. This year the depart- excel in research and writing, about establishing a separate ment entered into an agree- presenting the fruits of their scholarship endowment to ment with Morgan State that scholarship at the campus, honor a professor, classmate or will bring an advanced Ph.D. regional and national levels, your graduation year. All monies student to the program each and winning praise and prizes. received are dedicated to un- year. The individual will teach Students completing the pro- dergraduate scholarships and two classes and be mentored grams continue to gain admis- support for students to travel to by our faculty members during sion to prestigious graduate or collections or conferences away the first semester and have law schools or begin meaningful from JMU. time to complete the disserta- careers in the public or private tion with assistance from the This past year also saw pro- sectors, despite the recession. departmental and Morgan State motions and recognitions for Anna Klemm (’07) won the Lynn faculty members. This is the some of our senior faculty W. Turner prize in European beginning of what promises to members. Dr. Chris Arndt is now History at the National Phi Al- be an exciting and fruitful rela- associate dean of the college, pha Theta Conference in Albu- tionship. Dr. David Owusu-Ansah is spe-

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The department is also ac- tent with best practice recom- lighted to assume a more active diligently to complete their de- tively involved in a new partner- mendations of the American role in their education. We have grees. The opportunity to men- ship with the JMU Outreach and Historical Association and the added extra sections and seats tor our majors inspires us all, Engagement program in offer- discipline’s subfields. All in diplomatic history and the and we look forward to an even ing a new degree in individual- courses emphasize content, history of Virginia to meet the better future. ized study in conjunction with methodology, historical inter- needs of other programs. In If that future is to remain the New College Institute in pretation and the development short, the department is main- bright, we need your continued Martinsville, Virginia. The pro- of critical skills in the discipline. taining its commitment to its help and encouragement. gram offers adult students in own majors, students enrolled This past year, the program Please consider a donation in the region an opportunity to in other programs and to the also continued its commitment any amount to the History earn their degrees in residence general education of all JMU to support interdisciplinary and Alumni Scholarship Endow- at New College Institute. History students. disciplinary programs across ment. Each gift is critical to our is one of the four areas of the college and university, add- Benjamin Disraeli, conserva- students. study, and this fall HIST 395 will ing new sections and offerings tive 19th-century prime minister be offered for the first time on Finally, we ask as always to meet growing demands espe- of Britain, described the liberal that campus. that you keep in touch and let cially from other areas. For in- government of his rival William us know how you and your fami- In the area of programs, the stance, this past year, the pro- E. Gladstone as resembling a lies are doing. If you are ever in department continued its ongo- gram assumed a shared re- “bunch of exhausted volca- Harrisonburg, our door is always ing efforts to streamline and sponsibility to prepare secon- noes.” We are tired, yet exhila- open. construct a richer curriculum for dary teachers. Many students rated. We have great expecta- both undergraduates and formerly majoring in interdisci- tions for the Class of 2013, who Best regards, graduates and to keep all plinary social sciences are now began their studies in August, Michael J. Galgano, classes and programs consis- history majors, and we are de- and for those already working department head Department of History Gift Card

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My Peace Corps adventure in Ukraine A Q&A with Kimberly McCray (’06)

While Kimberly McCray was Peace Corps volunteer can af- use the advanced vocabulary completing a two-year stint in fect the way a teacher will in- necessary to allow me to con- the Peace Corps teaching Eng- struct her students for the re- vey my exact thoughts. For me lish in Ukraine, she offered this mainder of his or her career, this is exasperating! response to a series of ques- there is an opportunity to leave I also have trouble under- tions about her Peace Corps much more of a long-lasting, standing what others say, as experiences there: sustainable impact than is likely most people in my village speak if the volunteer simply works Ukrainian, not Russian. I want with school pu- What made you join the Peace pils for two Corps? years. nfortunately, I don’t remember specifically What was your when or why I made U worst experi- “For a person who is a bit that initial decision that the ence? of a homebody, heading to Peace Corps was for me — but it was my plan since I was 13 or ll volun- the other side of the globe 14 years old. I do remember teers for more than two years that in my 10th-grade geogra- A have phy class we had a unit on Rus- different chal- hasn’t always been easy, sia, and for whatever reason, I lenges, but for and homesickness has been was instantly captivated by the me there have culture of that part of the world. been two equally a regular companion.” Of course many Peace Corps challenging is- volunteers do not get assigned sues. The first is their first choice country or even simply being region, but I was lucky enough away from home to wind up exactly where I and missing my wanted to be. family and friends. I grew

up near Staun- Describe your best experience ton, Virginia and Kim McCray (right) with one of her graduating in the Peace Corps students, who is wearing the traditional outfit worn then traveled on “Last Bell” or the last day of school. lthough my day-to-day right up the road work is teaching Eng- to Harrisonburg for college. I to be as immersed in my com- A lish to the students at had not been away from the munity as I can be, and I cannot my school, my most rewarding Valley a lot before I joined the help but feel left out and a little effort has been my work with Peace Corps. For a person who sad when everyone around me Ukrainian secondary school is a bit of a homebody, heading is singing a song or laughing at teachers. In response to the to the other side of the globe for a joke that I don’t understand. many challenges faced by more than two years hasn’t Ukrainian teachers, I started an always been easy, and home- Did JMU aid you in becoming English Teacher’s Club, which sickness has been a regular who you are today? allows the teachers of my re- companion. gion to come together in a re- ince I was planning on My second challenge has to laxed environment and learn joining the Peace Corps do with the language barrier. about teaching methodology. long before I came to Although I’ve been here long S The club is also a great opportu- JMU, I cannot say that it was my enough to have learned a fair nity for them to practice their Madison experience specifically amount of Russian, I still can- English, share ideas, and de- that pushed me to apply to the not express complex ideas or velop camaraderie. I believe if a Peace Corps, but JMU definitely

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did help cement my interest in Can you sum up your service work. For example, I Peace Corps experi- worked at JMU’s Community ence? Service-Learning office my sen- y overall view ior year, where I had daily con- of my Peace tact with many students who Corps experi- wanted to volunteer their time M ence can be summed up and talents to give back to the by something that the local community — it’s obvious character Atticus Finch that the JMU environment says in To Kill a Mock- breeds civic-minded students. ingbird. He says that Also, although now of “you can’t ever really course I live and breathe Peace understand a person The village of Sak Zavode, Kim’s Ukrainian home Corps, I intend to enter grad until you step inside his school after I return to the skin and try to walk States, and I feel that my aca- around in it.” That idea always Study Abroad program in demic work within the history sounded simple to me before, Ghana, where our group studied department at JMU prepared but now, having served in the and traveled around the country me well for this next step. Peace Corps, I understand how for a month. Experiencing this loaded that statement truly is. time in Ghana further rein- In my opinion, the Peace Corps “I cannot put into words forced my interest in serving the is special and necessary not so What are you doing now? Peace Corps and living abroad, just how deeply I feel about much because of the develop- am a TEFL (Teaching Eng- and if I ever travel overseas for ment work and aid that volun- how living in Ukraine and lish as a Foreign Language) service again, I would love to teers give to developing na- trying to see the world volunteer, so my primary return to West Africa. I tions, although of course these assignment is to teach English through the eyes of are significant, but because of to students in a secondary the opportunity it gives Ameri- Ukrainians has changed school. I currently teach 5th- What are your plans after you cans to “walk around in the grade through 11th-grade Eng- finish your service? Will you me for the better...I skin” of people who hold very lish and 6th-grade through continue teaching English? different worldviews from them- wouldn’t trade my 11th-grade American Country selves. I cannot put into words ithout a doubt I Studies. I also host an English experience as a volunteer for just how deeply I feel about how want to continue Club for students once a week, living in Ukraine and trying to teaching English as anything.” an English teachers’ club once W see the world through the eyes a volunteer teacher or tutor, but a month, and work with my of Ukrainians has changed me for a profession I want to con- Ukrainian counterpart to plan a for the better. The Peace Corps’ tinue with my study of history at region-wide English teachers’ motto says it all — “It’s the hard- the graduate level. I ultimately seminar once a semester. I est job you’ll ever love.” It has hope to achieve masters de- have recently finished working been difficult, but I wouldn’t grees in public history and li- with my school to write a grant trade my experience as a volun- brary information science, the to receive funds to create a teer for anything. combination of which will pre- teachers’ resource center, and I pare me for my dream job of just hosted an awareness ses- working in an archive and doing sion about human trafficking Have you studied or traveled historical documentary editing and the international sex trade, elsewhere? work. as this is a huge danger for Ukrainians, especially for he only other country women coming from poor vil- outside of Ukraine lages or orphanages where T where I have spent time awareness levels are low and is Ghana. In the summer of the economic hardships are 2005, I participated in the his- great. tory department’s summer

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Madison Historians take history beyond the classroom

BY MICHAEL J. SETH, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

he Madison Historians is ety whose student members club has also offered its re- JMU’s history club. It have won many awards at con- sources to assist other groups T was founded in the ferences. This is an honors soci- and commemorations such as spring of 2000 as an opportu- ety limited to history majors Women’s History Month, Black nity for students to have fun with sufficient credits and high History Month and Asian Aware- doing history-related activities grades. The Madison Historians, ness Week. Members are cur- and to perform history-related in contrast, is open to all stu- rently planning to tutor Harri- dents including freshmen, his- sonburg public school kids in tory minors as well as majors, history. and to any student interested in Among the service projects, history. The two organizations the most important one for the complement each other, and club has been its work at Mont- some students are active in pelier, the ancestral home of both. The club meets biweekly James Madison. Each semester on either Monday or Tuesday members devote at least one evenings (times vary) in Jack- Saturday assisting in the resto- son Hall. The meetings are usu- ration of the fourth president’s ally attended by 15 to 25 stu- home. Usually students help the dents. archaeologist, however, they The Madison Historians have have done other chores from engaged in numerous service washing windows to digging up projects. They have helped with shrubs. Mad Historians helped the university’s annual James move the furniture from one of Madison Day celebration in the sections of the mansion March, including sponsoring that was to be demolished. On essay contests and helping the another work trip, a student James Madison Center at JMU. who was raking leaves discov- The James Madison Center has ered two graves that were be- been generous in assisting the lieved to be those of freed club. During the JMU Centennial slaves. In 2007, archaeologists Celebration, the Mad Historians discovered a trash pit that con- (as they sometimes are called) tained discarded tableware helped compile an official his- including part of the set of tory of the school. This included Marie Antoinette’s china that going through decades of year- Jefferson had acquired and books and hundreds of old pho- given to the Madisons. History Madison Historians on a field trip to the Frontier Culture Museum tos. club volunteers with their little (top) and in the archaeology lab at Montpelier (bottom) brushes were busy in November In 2003, club members of that year cleaning the broken noted that there were no state pieces of this important find. service projects. The philosophy historical markers connected Each volunteer day ends with a behind the club is that history is with the school so they wrote a visit to the graves of James and always interesting and goes proposal for one, had JMU Dolley (prostrating oneself be- beyond the classroom to in- President Linwood H. Rose ap- fore them is optional), and then clude a wide range of venues prove it, and then took it to the a stop at a Dairy Queen. and endeavors. Virginia Department of Trans- portation. Now, there are his- During most semesters, the The JMU Department of His- torical markers at the Main club sponsors a field trip. In the tory has a chapter of the Phi Street and Port Republic en- past eight years these have Alpha Theta history honor soci- trances of the university. The included Antietam, Gettysburg,

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looked like a scene from a Jane Austen novel. A dance master went through the steps before each dance, and after a bit of confusion, most people got the hang of it, (one unnamed his- tory professor being an excep- tion). Other activities include a historical movie night, which the Madison Historians present jointly with Phi Alpha Theta. The students select a movie with a historical theme, and then ask a history faculty member to provide an introduction with a

Jamestown, Richmond, Wil- rian home adjacent to Jefferson liamsburg, the Outer Banks, Rock with a commanding view Philadelphia, and Washington, of the area. D.C. Some of these trips have In March 2007, students included tours conducted by hosted a Dolley Madison Ball JMU alumni working at historic with live period music, cos- sites. In addition to these week- tumes which they made, and end trips, the club has under- dances with a professional taken some one-day excursions dance master. It was so suc- such as attending a historical cessful that the Mad Historians drama at Ford’s Theatre. The decided to make it an annual Madison Historians have also event with a 1799 dance in started organizing a winter March 2008. Students and the weekend at Harpers Ferry, and public are welcome to attend they stay at High Acre, a Victo- these dances. The last one

little background to the film. Each April the Madison Histori- ans host a spring picnic at Pur- cell Park, which is usually well attended by faculty members, and graduate and undergradu- ate students. Phi Alpha Theta organizes a history picnic each September. Money for all of these activities comes from membership dues paid each semester, by cleaning up after athletic games, and by various fundraising schemes including selling JMU History T-shirts and mugs. They may love history but the Madison Historians are not merely a bunch of history nerds. They have repeatedly defeated Madison Historians at the Dolley Madison Ball (top and center) and visiting other student organizations in the Frontier Culture Museum (bottom) club sports contests.

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The JMU history major Has your diploma held its value?

BY MICHAEL J. GALGANO, DEPARTMENT HEAD

wo years ago I was invited to revise a pub- niques. Technology has also offered new opportu- lication of the American Historical Associa- nities to research and write online and the study T tion titled “Liberal Learning and the His- of history has become more interdisciplinary. tory Major” (2007). The pamphlet addressed the At the same time, there remain some enduring “values, principles and practices of the study of characteristics fundamental to our history major history.” The original report appeared in 1990, at any time. The major calls upon all of us to and the revision illuminates how the major has “The subjects open to know and understand the past, to develop basic changed over the past two decades. At the same thinking, analytical and communication skills, and students and the time, the document emphasizes the enduring to better appreciate historical contexts, cultures qualities found in the study of history and I approaches and methods and traditions. Further, the study of history re- thought it might be appropriate to reflect upon quires that our arguments be rooted in evidence used for historical the changes and continuities in the history major and that we seek to understand rather than judge at JMU during the last quarter of a century. analysis have expanded the actions, thoughts and worlds of our ancestors exponentially in recent In light of the many changes outlined in these (or our contemporaries for that matter). Histori- years.” pages and in previous newsletters, some of you ans strive always to be honest, fair and balanced. may wonder how the major you completed years These aspects of the major are foundational and ago compares to the history major in place today? permanent. Certainly there are obvious differences, which For many of you, the passion for the study of include but are not restricted to, matters of scale, history nurtured in Jackson Hall classes, Carrier curriculum, and historical approaches and tech- Library, and in residence hall and apartment con- versations across Harrisonburg has not dimin- ished though it may be channeled in different directions. Many of you still read history avidly, relish visits to historic sites, or relax with the His- tory Channel or watching other history-based films. Many of you have applied the knowledge gained in classes taken long ago about Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, or our own country to better understand or appreciate current events. For some, this knowledge informs your careers directly while others employ their knowledge in more personal ways. Other students may have learned patience from a better appreciation of examining the long sweep of history instead of being overcome by what may seem momentous changes at a particular time. In ways too numer- ous to mention, we all apply the elements of the major to our everyday lives and these applica- tions enrich us and those we encounter. The first major difference between today’s major and the major offered in the 1980s relates to scale. In 1984, there were 15 full-time faculty members in the department. Today, there are 33. Dr. Galgano awarding diplomas to History majors at 2009 graduation ceremony In 1984, the overwhelming number of our profes- sors offered classes in Europe and the United

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States. Today, there are at least two faculty mem- their undergraduate programs than was common bers responsible for each broad global region and in 1984. There is greater access to original mate- many offerings each semester reach far beyond rials and students have more opportunities to the West. There is today a greater balance be- conduct independent research based upon their tween western and non-western classes. In 1984, own questions in standard classes and in di- the largest history classes numbered no more rected research experiences. The library’s hold- than 40 students and almost all were face-to-face ings and online services provide students with lectures. Today, some classes have reached 110 links to a world of resources impossible to con- students; others are offered online, and many no template in 1984. longer meet in traditional classrooms. Many more What remains firm for every class educated at students than in 1984 are involved in practica, JMU, earlier, in between, and today are a dedi- travel studies, Study Abroad and/or internships. cated faculty, interested and disciplined students, The numbers of majors and graduates have also a shared learning environment, a love of history, increased substantially. More majors learn history a desire to understand the past, and a willingness by practicing it and much more of the program is to work together to reach a deeper knowledge. project-driven. “Aspects of the The names of these professors may be different The subjects open to students and the ap- as many of you remind me when you visit Jackson major may have proaches and methods used for historical analy- Hall or examine our faculty roster online. Their changed sis have expanded exponentially in recent years. dedication mirrors that of those with whom you Perhaps the most notable addition has been the may have studied. Student commitment has also significantly, but its courses in public history. The department has remained constant and each class challenges us fundamental three full-time faculty assigned to the public his- to dig deeper into the evidence, explain more tory concentration, and that program also makes clearly, and mentor each student’s intellectual elements still hold.” extensive use of adjunct instructors to meet the growth. As I hear from many former students and growing demand from students. There are learn of your individual achievements in virtually courses in archives management, oral history, every walk of life, I appreciate even more what material culture and many others. Complement- you accomplished here and how the JMU history ing earlier offerings in Japan, China and India, the program helped establish a firm foundation for department now also offers classes in Korea and each of you. Afghanistan. To enrich these offerings and better Aspects of the major may have changed signifi- prepare students, the university has included cantly, but its fundamental elements still hold. instruction in several additional Asian languages. The degree you earned here has held its value The same pattern follows for the Middle East, and will continue to do so in the coming years Latin America and Africa. Options are both more because of your efforts, curiosity and hard work numerous and more varied. In a typical semester, shared with a dedicated faculty. That combination students may select from about 30 classes at the remains at the program’s core. upper level, and each is likely filled to capacity. In the more traditional areas of the United States and Europe, the emphases have also changed. While many courses retain a political or diplomatic focus, many others embrace religious, social, economic, intellectual or cultural history. We offer several classes that relate to gender, the family, technology and everyday life. Some courses delve into the economic and industrial history of Harrisonburg, while others are global in scope. There have also been substantive changes in how courses are taught and what students are asked to do. While lecturing remains common in some classes, there are more seminars in which the emphasis is placed more on individual discov- ery. As the AHA film about the JMU Department of History stresses, students do more history in

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Remember that Tuesday in February? Changes in history assessments

BY J. CHRIS ARNDT, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

o you remember that Tuesday in Febru- student abilities in major categories such as stu- ary of senior year when there were no dent research, analysis and writing. Additional D classes, yet you had to make your way to information is also collected from faculty member Jackson Hall on a dreary winter morning to com- and alumni surveys that include many of the plete the assessment test? What was that thing? same survey questions used in the senior survey. It seems certain that many Madison students and The information collected from these various alumni have repeated that question many times sources is then examined for trends. If, for exam- over the years. As unimportant as assessment ple, student assessment examination results and activities may seem to the average JMU student, faculty member evaluations of student papers assessment is the means by which the Depart- over a three-year period reveal that student criti- ment of History collects information about the cal-thinking skills have declined, professors will undergraduate major in history. Over the years, make an effort to place more emphasis on critical we have used that information to improve the thinking in the classroom. Information gleaned student experience. “...survey results have from surveys has also been useful in determining Assessment began at JMU in the 1980s, and what students think we do well and less well. helped us to improve history was one of the first departments to imple- While results over the years have pointed to a student academic and ment an assessment program for undergradu- strong department with student satisfaction at a career counseling and to ates. For those first seniors, the assessment in- high level, survey results have helped us to im- strument was an essay test that probably did prove student academic and career counseling, provide better access to more to confuse us about what our students and provide better access to library and computer library and computer learned than to provide the department with any resources. useful information. After a few years of trial and Technological improvements have made it resources.” error, the department developed a series of as- possible for departments to improve the way in- sessment measures that have remained fairly formation is collected. The most important im- consistent over the years. provement can be seen every assessment Tues- Most students are familiar with the assess- day when history majors complete the depart- ment test administered to senior majors on a ment assessment instrument. Students no longer mid-February Tuesday each year. The two-part go to Jackson Hall on that dreary mid-February “test” consists of an exam that tests students’ morning. Why? Because that test is now adminis- knowledge of historical content by using multiple- tered online in the Ashby Hall Computer Lab. Stu- choice questions from World and U.S. History dents now take the test and survey during the two courses; document analysis and critical-thinking weeks before assessment day. So, while other questions consisting of multiple-choice questions majors are trekking across campus on a cold from HIST 395); research/library skills questions February Tuesday to complete their assessment (consisting of multiple-choice questions from HIST requirements, history majors can now take full 395 and global geographic knowledge. The sec- advantage of having the day off. ond part of the exam is a survey of student atti- tudes concerning the program’s strengths and weaknesses. In addition to the test, the department also collects information from other sources. HIST 395 students provide some of the most useful information. Each paper is evaluated to assess

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The Madison Century

BY SIDNEY R. BLAND, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

On Aug. 24, 2007, Dr. Sidney Bland delivered the following remarks to a joint meeting of JMU fac- ulty and staff members to kick off the JMU Cen- tennial Celebration:

resident Rose, Vice President Brown, col- leagues, guests, friends: P I invite you to join me this morning for a quick trip back through the Madison Century. To start, take a moment and look around you. Look to your left! Erase the entire row of Blue- stone buildings that you see, together with the structures behind those that honor former presi- dents Burruss, Duke and Miller. Now, come back to the top of the Quad. Elimi- nate the hall to my right (Keezell Hall) named for the six-foot-six giant of a man, Senator George Dr. Sidney Bland addressing the faculty and staff at the start of the JMU Centennial Celebration. Keezell, whose political maneuverings were abso- lutely crucial for Madison’s beginning. Take away Wilson Hall, opened with great fanfare in 1931. seeking to develop “a strong, noble womanly The twenty-eighth U.S. president’s widow, Edith character” and to inspire them “to do as well as Bolling Wilson, headed the celebrity list in atten- to think.” Burruss interviewed every entrant, care- dance that day. fully reviewing all academic program cards. Giving specialized, individual attention to its students Now, look to your right and blot out everything has always been a feature that has set this Uni- except the two blue/gray limestone buildings with versity apart. It began early. It continues to this Spanish-tiled red roofs here at the top of the very day. quad. Dormitory 1 (now Jackson Hall) and Sci- ence Hall (now Maury Hall), together with uneven From the beginning, then, this institution was boardwalk running between them and stretching identified as unique, and during the first year the diagonally across the muddy, grassless field, student body was repeatedly reminded of its re- constituted the State Normal and Industrial sponsibility as pioneers. They were building for School for Women at Harrisonburg which opened the future, and they were creating a school that September 27, 1909, initiating the Madison Cen- would be different! That distinctiveness was cap- tury. Right over there. That’s where it all began! tured in the prayer of historian John Wayland to the opening Normal school assembly. His words Dormitory 1 housed students, three to a room, have resonance to faculty and staff as we gather and served as the first dining hall, with the up- today: stairs western end of the dorm containing a suite of three rooms and a bath for President and Mrs. “Bless ALL who have labored for this school Julian Burruss. Science Hall contained several hitherto, and ALL who shall labor for it classrooms, the library, a small office for the HENCEFORTH in any capacity. Bless the President and the office of the registrar. school; may it become a sacred place — a shrine, as it were, devoted to liberty and to While a reserved man, Julian Burruss took a truth.” personal interest in his 150 entering students,

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Great drama and celebration preceded this Numerous key changes occurred during this historic beginning. Olympic-style bidding in the journey. A major one came under President Duke spring 1908 General Assembly among 28 towns in 1938, when the State Teachers College at Har- and cities for the designated site for Virginia’s risonburg became Madison College, honoring the next normal (teacher training) school brought nation’s fourth president. Duke favored the name forth all sorts of cajoling, strong-arming, wining in part because he felt it would be appropriate for and dining. Harrisonburg competed with the best a coeducational institution, and with the G.I. Bill of them. City fathers allayed all safety, health and right after World War II he moved the school in accessibility concerns of the visiting legislative that direction, enrolling men as day students. committee, and, together with Fredericksburg, he Founding Father connection remains a emerged as the sites for new state normals. A crucial one. James Madison was an early sumptuous feast for the visitors beginning with advocate of education for women. More caviar and including fish, roast beef, fried chicken T importantly, Madison championed “an intelligent and spring lamb might have had something to do “This University and educated citizenry” as the bedrock of human with the decision too. throughout its history has freedom and popular government. President Rose The State Normal and Industrial School for has strengthened those ties by developing sev- consisted of an alliance of Women at Harrisonburg came into being at a time eral cooperative programs with Madison’s birth- many, a community, a of remarkable educational innovation and experi- place, Montpelier, and by forming the Madison mentation and during a major reform era in Center to further study of the philosophy and “fellowship of doers,” to American History known as the Progressive pe- ideals of the Father of the Constitution. riod. It was an era of optimism, excitement and borrow a phrase from Even greater change occurred in the last half exuberance. No one embodied this more than the of the twentieth century. G. Tyler Miller led the Theodore Roosevelt, all energetic, often frenetic chief executive of the charge for full coeducation and the construction United States, Theodore Roosevelt. The toothy, committed to a common of men’s dorms. He also initiated a graduate pro- ebullient president gave hope to the ideal that in gram. Taking over in 1971, Ronald Carrier chan- purpose.” education, as in other reforms, the individual neled the institution long recognized as the could still take charge of his/her destiny and ef- leader in the training of teachers for the public fect personal and societal change. The moment schools through an educational metamorphosis of creation for the future university was a propi- that resulted in the naming of James Madison tious one. University in 1977. The first students also entered at a critical Always mindful of the student and the future, moment in women’s history. Young women were Carrier fueled academic, artistic and athletic ex- empowered, able now to enter college by the cellence, initiated a doctoral program, and cre- front door, not the side door. They could pursue ated the College of Integrated Science and Tech- an education relatively comparable to that of nology, a separate campus located on the other men, and make their mark, not just as teachers, side of Interstate 81. Under current president librarians or nurses, but increasingly in the public Linwood Rose the institution is in the midst of sphere. Many would go on to address local, state reshaping itself once more, insuring that JMU and national issues affecting their homes, their students are fully prepared to become effective, communities and their lives, joining record num- informed members of a technologically-based bers in clubs and organizations. conjoined world. Julian Burruss was the first in a series of But James Madison University is much more strong and visionary leaders in the Madison Cen- than the sum of its administrative leadership. tury. Following Burruss were the three decades of When Madison’s peers spoke of him as “The Fa- the Samuel Page Duke presidency (1919-49), the ther of the Constitution,” he made it clear that the G. Tyler Miller years (1949-70), the Ronald Carrier document was “the work of many heads and era (1971-98) and the virtual decade that Lin- many hands.” The same can be said for this insti- wood Rose has been at the helm. This institution tution which bears his name. This University has had only five leaders in one hundred years, throughout its history has consisted of an alliance fewest among most all Virginia colleges over the of many, a community, a “fellowship of doers,” to past century. This continuity, commitment and borrow a phrase from Theodore Roosevelt, all dedication have benefited thousands and thou- committed to a common purpose. It is those fac- sands of our students. ulty and staff who have gone before, and those

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who sit in this audience now, whom we celebrate ics professor, James Johnston, and a short teach- and honor as the lifeblood of the Madison Cen- ing hiatus, Althea Johnston returned to head the tury. physical education department from 1919-47, but for one year. She created a powerhouse in Numerous faculty members have been recog- women’s basketball, with six undefeated teams. nized by having buildings named for them. These Her undefeated 1929 team doubled its oppo- include Professors Anthony and Seeger, Chappe- nent’s score in every game, ending the season lear, Cleveland, Converse, Eagle, Frederickson, with a blistering 90 — 6 victory over rival State Garber, Gifford, Hanson, Hoffman and Huffman, Teachers College at Fredericksburg (now the Uni- the Ikenberrys, the Johnstons, Logan, Moody, versity of Mary Washington). Johnston was one of Shorts, Varner, Warren and five individuals named to Wayland. But the efforts of the JMU Athletic Hall of many have gone unsung. Fame in its first year. Many have not been thanked enough. Johnston Hall honors both wife and husband. Only one building on Althea Loose Johnston, campus, for example, hon- who died in 1984 at age ors a staff person—the Frye 99, was the last member of Building—named for Lou the original Normal School Frye, longtime operations faculty. Her legacy includes supervisor of the Physical a succession of accom- Plant. Yet who among us plished women in Madison does not appreciate, on a sports, outstanding physi- daily basis, and just now, cal education leaders, in- the setting in which we find cluding Lee Morrison, Pat ourselves. Parents and Bruce and Marilyn Craw- students alike consistently identify the beauty of ford, and numerous Johnston descendants, in- the surroundings, the attention and detail to up- cluding Alison Montgomery Johnston, a member keep of campus, as impacting the choice to at- of the Class of 2006, who have kept alive Althea tend this university. One of the enduring images Loose’s accomplishments and her spirit. of the Carrier years is that of the president and Junior Higgs, perhaps more responsible than any ven closer to a dynasty at James Madison other for the natural beauty of this campus, stroll- University has been the Dingledine family, ing the grounds, vigorously engaged in flower and E with the lives of four generations of Din- tree planting decisions. Higgs has a grove of trees gledines leaving a mark on the formation, direc- on the CISAT campus named for him. tion and character of the institution. The first Din- gledine lobbied the General Assembly for better We have always celebrated teaching at this teachers before there was a State Normal and University. Two examples will suffice to illustrate Industrial. Father and son were history profes- the exceptional ability, dedication, energy and sors, though Dingledine Senior started at the achievement that have been the hallmark of Normal in 1913 in mathematics. Both also held Madison faculty throughout its history. These several positions of leadership in Harrisonburg examples also speak to love of school, loyalty, city government. Dingledine Junior was instru- continuity and an intangible which we can label mental in establishing the Madison College Honor Madison family. System. He became head of the History Depart- The link between the State Normal and Indus- ment when it separated from the social sciences trial School for Women at Harrisonburg and in 1965, serving until his retirement in 1984. In James Madison University is personified by Althea shaping these remarks, I gratefully acknowledge Loose. Present at the first faculty meeting of the my debt to Dingledine’s authoritative history: Normal, she was also here seven decades later Madison College: the First Fifty Years, 1908-58. when Governor Mills Godwin signed the bill creat- But it was Dingledine Senior’s wife, Agness ing James Madison University. Loose taught Stribling, known affectionately to generations of physical education, Latin and German. After her students as “Mama Ding,” who may have had the marriage to popular Normal chemistry and phys- most lasting influence. As a student Stribling was

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president of the school’s first student government staff, with one another through the decades. We organization. The Normal’s youngest faculty mem- are, in the words of the current university theme, ber when she came in 1917, her first duties in- All Together One. The Johnston and Dingledine cluded meeting arriving students at the train sta- histories are but part of our larger story. We have tion. For years she served as dormitory hostess, all been at times, to quote from one of Theodore sorority house mother and, from 1952 until her Roosevelt’s more famous addresses, “the man retirement in 1967, alumnae secretary. The Din- who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred gledine Senior home was a gathering place for by dust and sweat and blood; who strives val- “It is this Johnston and professors and students alike. In 1919 the two iantly…who knows great enthusiasms, the great Dingledine spirit and began offering an annual $10 prize (the prize the devotions; who spends himself in a worthy equivalent of an average week’s pay for a public cause.” dedication, this school teacher) to the best senior essay in Eliza- o as we gear for battle once again, pre- beth Cleveland’s Literary Epochs class. Dingle- connectedness that pared to fight the good fight, spend our- dine Hall was named for “Mama Ding” in 1970. selves in a worthy cause, work our special uniquely binds Madison “Whether you knew her or not,” wrote grandson S magic with students—the magic of learning, let us Tom Dingledine, recent donor (with his wife community members, remember the rich heritage that has brought us Karyn) of $2.6 million for Endowed Scholarships to this place. And later in the morning, when we faculty and staff, with bearing the family name, “you are a part of her all share in cake and celebrate the Madison Cen- family — her Madison Family.” one another through the tury, we might echo Mayor O.B. Roller’s toast decades.” It is this Johnston and Dingledine spirit and when the city’s lobbyists returned in triumph in dedication, this connectedness that uniquely 1908, a toast to “the proudest moment in the binds Madison community members, faculty and history of Harrisonburg.”

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Student News

HISTORY DEPARTMENT AWARDS Madison Achievement Justin Fiedler, “Queen Elizabeth I: Hadley Bassett, “Belle Isle and Scholarship Why Didn’t She Marry” Libby: Perceptions in the North and the Reality” Carleton B. Smith Award William Hayes, “The English Concer- 2009 tina: A Cultural Journey” Justin Boshers, “A Convoluted Con- 2009 — Timothy Van Schaick, “‘The Kacy Bassignani spiracy: The U.S.-Iranian Arms Sun Do Move,’ But Who Moves the John L. Hughes, “Mosby and Ma- Deals” Highway? Urban Renewal, Commu- Patrick Folliard hone: Conflicts in the Civil War nity Activism, and the Preservation Memory of Virginians” Tiffany Dann, “The Social Implica- of Richmond’s Sixth Mount Zion 2008 tions of the 1348 Black Death in Corey LeCompte, “The French Army Baptist Church” England” Patrick Folliard and the Artois Offensives: Summer 2008 — Amy Larrabee, “African 1915” Sarah Friedfeld, “Statelessness and Kate McFarland American Female Shipyard Workers U.S. Policy to Afghanistan: The Anne Toms, “Anthony Johnson and in the San Francisco Bay Area” Problems of the Opium Economy 2007 Slavery in the Early British Ameri- and Weak Border with Pakistan” 2007 — Daniel J. Buxhoeveden, can Colonies” Alexander J. Carroll “The Hellenic Ideal of Hegel’s Bern Kathryn Kearns, “The Contribution Period” of Separation to the Troubles in 2008 George C. Marshall Northern Ireland” Amanda Bowman, “Historical House Mary A. Jackson Award Undergraduate Scholars Kyle Lawrence, “American Indian Tours: A Change in American Reservations and the Homelands of 2009 — Corey LeCompte 2009 Ideals”

South Africa: A Comparative Study 2008 — Kathryn Manning John Hughes, “The Life and Work of Kevin Elliker, “A Decision Deferred: in Internal Colonialism” Hanson W. Baldwin of the New York The Virginia State Convention of 2007 — Joshua D. White Mallory Lopata, “Terrorists or Mar- Times, 1937-1968” 1861”

tyrs? England, Jesuits, and the Caitlin McPartland, “The Evolution Raymond C. Dingledine Kyle Hart, “Palestine and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605” of Propaganda and its Influence on Nak****: Migration as the Essence Jessica Norman, “The Knights Tem- Scholarship American Families at the Conclu- of National Identity”

sion of World War II” plar: Scapegoats of Crown and 2009 — Alexander J. Carroll Michael Kelly, “Thornton Stringfel- Papacy”

2008 low: Defender of Slavery” 2008 — Corey LeCompte Lisa Pannucci, “The Oregon Trail: Stephen Powers, “The Air War Over 2007 — Kathryn Manning Kristie Kendall, “‘The Stereotypes Where Her Life Was Changed” the Northern Caucasus and Eastern Do Not Apply’: Reconstructing the Elyse Poinsett, “Military and News Crimea: July 1942 through July African-American Community of Photography and the Creation of Demetric Walker Memorial 1943” Newtown in Harrisonburg, Virginia, the Wartime Still Photographic Scholarship Samuel Riley, “The Partition of 1945-1965” Pool” 2009 — John L. Hughes Palestine: An Issue in Dispute Reso- Hilary Pauli, “Medical Understand- Julia Pfaffenberger, “A Sublime lution” ings, Responses to and Epidemiol- 2008 — Theodore Dubinsky Mediator Between Old and New ogy of the 1665 Great Plague of 2007 Worlds: Revolution and the Virgin of 2007 — David L. Allen London” Guadalupe” Sarah A. Carver, “Joseph Stalin and the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939” Stephen Powers, “Here Lies Suvo- Sidney R. Bland Scholarship rov: The Military Accomplishments W. Michael Yarborough, “U.S. Army of Alexander Suvorov” Best Undergraduate Honors 2009 — Benjamin Earman Civilians in Germany” Andrew Waring, “A Comparative Thesis 2008 — William Hayes

Study of the Cross-cultural Interac- 2007 — W. Michael Yarborough Undergraduate Theses: tion between the Jesuits and the 2009 — Lorraine White, “A Forgot- Graduating with Distinction Native Inhabitants in New France: ten Community: The African Ameri- in History 16th through the 18th century” can Presence in Highland County, History Alumni Scholarships, Virginia” 2009 2009 W. Michael Yarborough, “Flung to the Four Corners of the Globe: Brit- 2008 — Kristie Kendall, “‘The Sarah H. Berlinger Thomas Bluestein, “Henry Knox and ish and American Expeditionary Stereotypes Do Not Apply’: Recon- the Native American Policy of structing the African-American Gabriel M. Hochstetler Logistics in World War I”

George Washington’s First Admini- Community of Newtown in Harrison-

John L. Hughes stration” burg, Virginia, 1945-1965” 2007 Katherine K. Smith Adam Dec, “The Origin and Motiva- 2007 — Tiffany Dann, “The Social tions of the American Colonization David Allen, “Robert McNamara Implications of the 1348 Black Society in Early 19th Century and the Establishment of Flexible Death in England” America” Response”

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Alyssa Fisher, “The Lowell Mill Com- Master of Arts Degrees Matthew S. Woodard, “Satan Justin Dunning, Non-thesis option munities: Regulation and Freedom Among the Children of God: Radical 2009 Joshua Durbin, “Tainted Temptress, in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massa- Reformers, Rebellious Peasants Virtuous Virgin: Polar Perceptions of chusetts” Betsy J. Anderson, “Policy, Punish- and the Shaping of Martin Luther’s Women and the Reign of ment and Perspective: Ohio Prisons Small Catechism during the Years Holly Hartman, “The Dangers of and the 1993 Lucasville Riot” Elizabeth I” of the German Peasants’ War” Paddy and the Pope: Nativism and

Jennifer Farkas, “From the Outside Anti-Irish Sentiment in America Andrew C. Baker, “Uplifting the Zachary A. Zuro, “A Muscular Millen- In: Understanding Initial Encounters 1820-1860” ‘Small Farm Well Tilled’: The Pro- nium: The Rhetoric of Masculinity, Between the English and Non- gressive Farmer, the Southern Militarism, and Conservative Politi- MaryAlyse Klement, “Backbone of Planter and Agricultural Reform in European Cultures, 1533-1585” cal Action in Dispensational Premil- the Capital: Activism of Richmond the Progressive Era Upper South” lenialist Prophecy Writings 1968- Kathryn Hall, “The War Fought on Women During the Civil War, 1861-

Jeffrey M. Bennett, “A Real Small 1984” Paper: The Examination of Chroni- 1865” clers and their Accounts of the War: The U.S. Marine Corps Advi- Shannon Kudlick, “The Moon to the Battle of Bosworth Field, 1485- sory Mission to the Nicaraguan 2008 Rescue: John F. Kennedy's Personal Guardia Nacional from 1927-1933” 1550” Agenda in the Apollo Program” Emily Beeson, “‘Successes of the Amy Larrabee, “African American Heather M. Browne, “The Records 504 Demonstrations: Overcoming Tyler Stuart Maupin, “The Duel in Women Shipyard Workers in the of Project Concern, Inc.” Disability as Definition in the Public Early Modern England: Dueling for San Francisco Bay Area: Utilization Heather Crabtree, “The Victimiza- Birth of the Disability Rights Move- False Honor and for Reputation” of the Fair Employment Practices tion of Appalachia: Unraveling the ment, April 1977” Committee” Kimberly Parsons, “December 16, Stereotype; An Oral History Project: Matthew Cain, “The First Crisis in 1773: The Ultimate Refusal” Joseph Locke, “Shielded by Neutral- Coal Towns of the New River Valley, the Commonwealth: Virginia’s Salt ity: A Look at Moravians in Wacho- Emily McCarty, “Female Workers West Virginia” Scarcity during the American Revo- via During the Revolutionary War During the 1950s: The Overlooked John C. Erdos, “Submission vs. lution” Years” Movers and Shakers Who Empow- Stewardship: The Quaker Contribu- J. Michael Jeffries, Non-thesis op- ered the Women’s Rights Move- Stephani Moore, “The Mysterious tion to American Environmental tion ment of the 1960s” Ethics” Path to Fame: An Examination of Craig Lawhorne, Non-thesis option the Historical Legacy of Charles Caitlin McPartland, “The Impact of Walter A. Ghant, “Colored Teachers Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace” Submarines on American Interven- Michael Lewis, “Power and Humility: in Harrisonburg and Rockingham tion in the Great War: Focusing on County, Virginia, 1900-1940: Build- the Interplay of Violence and Re- Merryn Pinch, “World War II Films th the Attack on the Lusitania” ing Lives for Community Improve- straint in the 4 Century Church” and Propaganda in American Soci- ment and Societal Progression” ety: 1942 to 1946” Yousef Rabie, “The Transformation Shawn Skinner, Non-thesis option of the Nation of Islam: Wallace Michael Raskys, “The Grand Base- Stephan P. Harutunian, “Kennedy Paula Smith, “Transformative Tech- Muhammad vs. Louis Farrakhan” ball Tour: An American Event” and Khrushchev: Personal Corre- nology in ‘The Joy of Cooking,’ Mary Lynne Smith, “Powell, Plecker spondence and Signs of Détente” 1931-1951” Joseph Russell, “Nineteenth Cen- and Unprecedented Power: The tury Diplomacy: Don Pacifico, The Julianne M. Herczeg, Non-thesis Michael Stanton, Non-thesis option Institutionalization of Scientific Trent Affair, and the Laird Rams” option Racism through the Racial Integrity Timothy Van Schaick, “‘The Sun Do Annie Lorsbach, Non-thesis option Act of 1924” Move,’ But Who Moves the High- STUDENT CONFERENCE PAPERS way? Urban Renewal, Community Erin Stevenson, “Solidarity Through Kenneth A. Mason, Non-thesis op- Activism, and the Preservation of Civil War: The Development of Class tion 2009 Richmond’s Sixth Mount Zion Bap- Consciousness in the Coal Fields of

Christopher P. McCoy, “Thou Art tist Church” Colonial Academic Alliance West Virginia, 1912-1922”

That: Schopenhauer’s Philosophy Brandon Williams, “The Pedagogical Conference Kelly Weber, “The Effects of the Civil and the Chandogya Upanishad” Inquisition: Purge of the Local 555 War on the Confederate Women of Erin Stevenson, “Solidarity Through John A. Miller, “Jalalabad and the New York Teachers’ Union” the Shenandoah Valley” Civil War: The Development of Class World” Consciousness in the Coal Fields of 2007 James A. T. Modlin, Non-thesis West Virginia, 1912-1922” National Conference on

option Ricardo Chellini, “Constitutional Undergraduate Research Problems Shared By the Virginia Mid-Atlantic Regional Confer- Charlotte M. Petty, Non-thesis op- John Hughes, “Mosby and Mahone: Secessionists and the Antifederal- ence of Undergraduate tion ists” Conflicts in the Civil War Memory of

Scholarship Virginians” Michael H. Taylor, “James Wilson: A Heather Campbell, “The Tightrope Willing Target in the Battle for Rati- Walker: An Examination of Max Alexander Carroll, “‘Natural Order’ fication of the Constitution: The Beckmann as Artist and States- to ‘Economic Evangelism’: The State House Yard Speech, October man” Christian Defense of Slavery in 6, 1787” Virginia, 1785-1831”

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Phi Alpha Theta Regional 2008 Hilary Pauli, “Medical Understand- Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference ings, Responses to and Epidemiol- Conference ogy of the 1665 Great Plague of Colonial Academic Alliance London” GRADUATE DIVISION Conference Amy Cerminara, “St. Francis of William Poole, “The American Colo- Assisi and the Gothic Revival” Amanda Bowman, “Historical Inter- Emily Beeson, “‘To Take the Calcu- nization Society during Reconstruc- lated Risk’: Overcoming Disability Alyssa Fisher, “The Lowell Mill Com- pretation in the Old Dominion: Influ- tion and its Implication on Modern as Definition in the Independent munities: Regulation and Freedom ential Virginians and their Homes” Race Relations” Living Movement, 1962-1972” in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massa- Anna Klemm, “Pulpits, Pews, and Stephen Powers, “The Allied Inter- chusetts” Patronage: The English Protestant Michael Taylor, “The Two Faces of vention in the Russian Civil War” the Fight Over the Bill of Rights: John Hughes, “Hell is busted back Reformation’s Effect on Architec- James Wilson and James Madison” thar!” ture” Daniel Prendable, “Cautious Cour- age: President Kennedy’s Decision Second Place, Graduate History Corey LeCompte, “Exceptional Vio- Making During the Cuban Missile Zachary Zuro, “Children of the Elec- lence: Wars of the Vendee, 1793- Florida State University Crisis” tric Church: Televangelism, Chris- 1795” 2008 Graduate Student tian Nurture, and the Evolution of Kate McFarland, “America and the Religious Symposium Christian Education” Second Place, National Conference on Un- Barbary States: A Critical Review of J. Michael Jeffries, “History Prolifer- dergraduate Research Graduate History Diplomatic Events During the Arti- ated by Theoretical Interpretation: A cles of Confederation” Brief Study of Karl Marx and Max Kristie Kendall, “The Color of Urban Phi Alpha Theta Regional Renewal: The Removal of Harrison- John Napier, “The Contribution of Weber in the Interest of Historical burg, Virginia’s African-American Conference Imperialism and Extended Terms of Truth” Community” Command on the Fall of the Roman UNDERGRADUATE DIVISION Republic” First Place, Undergradu- Hilary Pauli, “The Great Plague of Mercyhurst Colloquium on Molly Campbell, “The Powhatan ate Europe and World London, 1665: An Analysis of the the Americas: Environmen- Indians and Jamestown Colonists: A Medical Understandings and an David Robinson, “‘As Safe in Battle talities Clash of Two Cultures” Epidemiological Evaluation of the as in Bed…’ The Impact of Christian Disease” Amy Cerminara, “Lincoln Cathedral: Faith on the Military Command of John Erdos, “Call and Response: Defining What it Means to be Eng- Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson” The History of the American Envi- ronmental Ethos in the Context of North Carolina State Univer- lish” Ashley Sako, “Cultural Assimilation Global Warming Advocacy” John Hughes, “An Unparalleled in the Seleucid Empire” sity Graduate Student His-

tory Conference Feat: Mosby’s Raid on Fairfax Court Amanda Scheffer, “Symbolism in Mid-Atlantic Regional House, 1863” First Place, U.S. Eighteenth Century Revolutions: A Conference of J. Michael Jeffries, “Food, Fun, and History Undergraduate Division Comparative Study of the Liberty Drink—Ordinaries on Colonial Vir- Stephen Powers, “The Effects of the Cap in America and France” Undergraduate Scholarship ginia’s Frontier: A Brief Study of Allied Intervention in Russia” Ordinary ‘Gentlemen,’ Thomas Erin Stevenson, “Solidarity Through Amanda Bowman, “Historical House Jefferson, John Madison, and Wil- Anne Toms, “Conservatively Radi- Civil War: The Development of Class Tours: A Change in American Ide- als” liam Russell” cal: Abigail Adams and Women’s Consciousness in the Coal Fields of Education” Second Place, U.S. West Virginia, 1912-1922” John Hughes, “An Unparalleled Zachary Zuro, “In the Arms of Sa- History Undergraduate Division tan: Salman Rushdie, Ayatollah Kelly Weber, “The Effects of the Civil Feat: Mosby’s Raid on Fairfax Court Khomeini, and the Stratified Re- William Hayes, “The English Concer- War on the Confederate Women of House, 1863” sponse Within Islam to Blasphemy” tina: A Cultural Journey through the Shenandoah Valley” Jeffrey Joyce, “How the Battle for Nineteenth Century England” First Hetch Hetchy Affected American Phi Alpha Theta National place, European History Under- Environmentalism” graduate Division Virginia Social Science Conference Association Conference Anna Klemm, “Pulpits, Pews, and W. Michael Yarborough, “Sustaining Patronage: The English Protestant Amanda Bowman, “The Appala- the Force: U.S. Army Civilians in John Hughes, “Mosby and Mahone: Reformation’s Effect on Architec- chian Trail: The Inspiration and Germany, 1954 to 2007” Conflicts in the Civil War Memory of ture” Design of MacKaye and Avery” Virginians” Laura Lloyd-Braff, “The People’s John L. Hughes, “An Unparalleled Southern Regional Honors Lorraine White, “A Forgotten Com- Temple: From Paradise to Prison” Feat: Mosby’s Raid on Fairfax Court Conference munity: The African Ameri- House, 1863” Kathryn Manning, “Southerners at can Presence in Highland County, Kristie Kendall, “Economic Develop- Heart: The Motives of Virginia Sol- Anna Klemm, “Pulpits, Pews, and Virginia” ment in Augusta County, Virginia, diers in the Civil War” Patronage: The English Protestant 1880-1920” Reformation’s Effect on Architec-

ture”

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University of Memphis— Phi Alpha Theta Virginia Con- Nicole Caroline Snyder, “The Ampli- WRITING CONTEST AWARDS Graduate Studies in African ference, Graduate Division fication of Injustice in New Orleans” 2009 American History Joseph Russell, “The Trent Affair: A Michael Stratmoen, “Arson on Vail Civil War Interlude” Mountain: A Case Study of the Peter Fogarty Timothy Van Schaick, “Ribbon of Earth Liberation Front” Second Place, Junior/Senior Roadway or Racial Maginot Line?” “The Issue of Representation at the Phi Alpha Theta Virginia Con- W. Michael Yarborough, “The Army Constitutional Convention of 1787” ference, Undergraduate Divi- Behind the Army: U.S. Logistics and Virginia Military Institute— sion the Services of Supply in the First Ibrahim Kikale Lamay VSSA 2008 Annual Meeting World War” Second Place, Under- Honorable Mention, Junior/Senior Amanda Bowman, “The Appala- graduate U.S. History, Presentation “East, West and Cuba: An Analysis Emily Beeson, “‘To Take the Calcu- chian Trail: The Inspiration and Award of the Cuban Missile Crisis” lated Risk’: Overcoming Disability Design of MacKaye and Avery” as Definition in the Independent Corey LeCompte Presentation Award Living Movement” and “Successes Mid-Atlantic Regional Confer- First Place, Junior/Senior of the 504 Demonstrations: Over- Scott Burwell, “Where has Mother ence of Undergraduate “Exceptional Violence: Wars of the coming Disability as Definition in Jones Gone? Coal Mining in Appala- Vendee, 1793-1795” st Scholarship the Public Birth of the Disability chia in the 21 Century” Presenta- Rights Movement” tion Award Joseph Beatty, “Bilali: African Mus- 2008 lim Patriarch of Sapelo Island, Geor- Daniel Carleton, “From a Corrupti- John Erdos gia” Virginia Tech—2008 Bertoti ble to an Incorruptible Crown: The Second Place, Graduate Graduate History Confer- Trial and Execution of King Charles Kevin Elliker, “A Decision Deferred: “The Philosophy of History” I” Unionists in the Virginia State Con- ence William Jeffcoat vention of 1861” Amy Cerminara, “The Other 1492: A Honorable Mention, Junior/Senior Emily Beeson, “‘To Take the Calcu- Look into the Relationship between Laura Fitzgerald, “Remember the “The Colonial Sudan: A Region in lated Risk’: Overcoming Disability the Spanish Jews, Muslims and Titans, But Don’t Forget the Big Turmoil” as Definition in the Independent Christians on the Iberian Peninsula” Picture: School Desegregation in Living Movement” Anne Toms Alexandria, Virginia, 1950-1980” Michael Taylor, “James Wilson’s Lauren Clark, “Land and Lords: The Honorable Mention, Junior/Senior Constitution” Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland” J. Sloan Kuykendall, “The 1919 “Conservatively Radical: Abigail Chicago ‘Black Sox’: A Scandal Adams and Women’s Education” Timothy Van Schaick, “Sixth Mount Aaron George, “The Nylon Revolu- Revealed” Zion Baptist Church and Community tion: A Historical Assessment of the 2007 Resistance in Richmond, Virginia” Cultural and Social Circumstances Lisa Pannucci, “The Overland Trail: of Nylon Technology” Where Her Life was Changed” Matthew Cain

2007 Adam Gosney, “Getting the Job Joyce Presley, “Virginia’s Reaction Second Place, Graduate Done: Atomic Atmospheric Testing to the Brown Decision” “Preempting Tyranny: American Colonial Academic Alliance in Nevada” Executive Role 1775-1786”

Kristen Schoenberger, “Family and Conference Kristie Kendall, “Bound by Their Culture in Internment Camps: Elyse Poinsett Second Place, Junior/Senior Mallory Lopata, “Terrorists or Mar- Labor and Plunged into War: A Changes and Consequences” “Stereotypes, Persecution and tyrs? England, Jesuits, and the Comparative Study of Antebellum Matthew Small, “Alexander Hamil- Exclusion: Marginality in Medieval Gunpowder Plot of 1605” Augusta and Franklin Counties” ton and the Deterioration of Franco- Society” Anna Klemm, “Pulpits, Pews, and American Relations, 1792-1800” Southern Regional Honors Protestants: The Protestant Refor- Michael Stratmoen Jenna Stephenson, “The Lavender mation and its Effect on English First Place, Freshman/Sophomore Conference Menace” “Arson on Vail Mountain: A Case Architecture” First Place, Under- Kristie Kendall, “Bound by Their graduate European History Joshua D. White, “Black Swan Re- Study of the Earth Liberation Front” Labor and Plunged into War: A cords: An Experiment in ‘New Ne- Jessica Norman, “The Trial of the Comparative Study of Antebellum gro’ Ideology” Augusta and Franklin Counties” Templars: Absolved but Not Con- demned” Presentation Award W. Michael Yarborough, “The Army Matthew Kennedy, “Science Fiction: Behind the Army: U.S. Logistics and Hilary Pauli, “Health Care in Zim- A Mirror for Gilded Age America” the Services of Supply in the First babwe from British Missionaries to World War” Structural Adjustment” National Conference on Un- dergraduate Research Julia Pfaffenberger, “A Sublime Mediator Between Old and New Tiffany Dann, “The Social Implica- Worlds: Revolution and the Virgin of tions of the 1348 Black Death in Guadalupe” England”

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Alumni News

1980s dents from the Elliott School on elections in Africa, collecting eco- national security issues in Russia nomic information for international Linda Aileen Ryder Wolf (’84, M.A.T. Aaron George (‘07) is pursuing his and Eurasia to the Defense Intelli- research centers and funding agen- ‘87) works as a fitness instructor for Doctor of Osteopathy degree at the gence Agency, and also presented a cies, and providing critical commen- the Summit, New Jersey-area YMCA Philadelphia College of Osteopathic collaborative project at the ISA tary on government politics across and also works as an EMT for the Medicine. National Convention in New York Africa. Jeff was charged with collect- Summit Volunteer First Aid Squad. Lauren Gniazdowski (‘06) finished City. ing relevant information for the She is married to Steven S. Wolf her graduate program in journalism Center, and in some cases wrote and lives in Summit with their two Lisa Riley (‘06) works at Montpelier CDD reports. He subsequently en- in May 2008 and works as an edito- as a Research Assistant. children, Rachel and Matthew. rial assistant with Reader’s Digest. rolled in the Graduate Program in Jeffrey Stottlemyer (‘04) won the Middle East and African Studies at

Matt Hogan (’01) received his Mas- 2004 Phi Kappa Phi award for his the University of London and re- 1990s ter’s in Public Policy degree from B.A. thesis, “Erosion of Will: Concen- turned to Africa under a Fulbright. Harvard’s Kennedy School of Gov- tration Camps, Safe Areas and the Roger Strother (‘06) works as a John Summers (‘93), who holds a ernment and worked in the Obama Realities of Ethnic Cleansing in policy analyst for government trans- Ph.D. from the University of Roches- campaign’s headquarters in Chi- Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1995.” parency issues concerning home- ter, published “The Epigone’s Em- cago. He also completed an internship at land security, national security, and brace, Part II: C. Wright Mills and Anna Klemm (‘08) worked at the the Center for Democratic Develop- environmental issues for a govern- the New Left” in the latest issue of Virginia Department of Historic ment in Ghana. CDD (Ghana) is an ment watchdog organization called Left History, an interdisciplinary Resources before moving to Slova- internationally respected Non- OMB Watch. journal of historical inquiry and kia to teach English for a missions Governmental Organization with an debate. organization. established record of monitoring Mitchell Bell (M.A. ‘96) served as a Ken Mason (M.A. ’08) was selected Marine in Kabul, Afghanistan. as the James Madison Memorial David Günther Bloom (M.A. ‘96) and Foundation Fellow for the state of Jennifer Ellen O’Connor were mar- Virginia. Ken received a scholarship ried in September, 2007 in Man- to help defray the cost of his gradu- chester, Vermont. They met at and ate education, and attended the graduated from the State University James Madison Memorial Founda- of New York at Oswego. tion’s summer institute at George- town University. Patrick Creed (’93) published the book Firefight: Inside the Battle to Kim McCray (‘06) completed a stint Save the Pentagon on 9/11 in the Peace Corps in Ukraine and is (Random House, 2008). a student in the dual degree pro- gram in Archives at North Carolina The JMU Faculty Emeriti State/University of North Carolina 2000s at Chapel Hill. Association chose Dr. Raymond

Jeff Brundage (‘05) interned with John McKay (’01) lives in Colorado “Skip” Hyser as the winner of their the Museum management section and uses his historical research of the Smithsonian’s National Mu- skills in his job as a legislative edi- Legacy Award in 2007. The award seum of American History in Wash- tor at the state capitol. is given annually to a deserving ington DC, where he was able to Elyse Poinsett (‘07) received her combine his history skills with his M.A. from the Winterthur Program in tenured faculty member with an interest in learning to manage a American Material Culture in 2009, large organization. He began at- and works as Development Assis- exemplary record of teaching, tending the University of Richmond tant for Winterthur Museum and scholarship, and service. School of Law in 2007. Gardens in Winterthur, Delaware.

Craig Daigle (M.A. ‘00) completed Jason Richards (‘06) enrolled in the his Ph.D. at George Washington M.A. program in Security Policy University and is now Assistant Studies at the Elliott School of Inter- Professor of History at the City Col- national Affairs at George Washing- lege of New York. ton University. His article, “Denial- of-Service: The Estonian Cyberwar John Davis (‘00) works as Project and Its Implications for U.S. Na- Manager in the Customer Relation- tional Security” was published in ship Management department of the March 2009 issue of Interna- Six Sigma Black Belt in Atlanta, tional Affairs Review. He made a Georgia. presentation with a group of stu-

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