INSIDE THIS ISSUE: From the Chair 1 2012 Newsletter

New Faculty 3 UNIVERSITY OF KENTUC KY HISTORY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES History Under- 4 grads Travel Bluegrass Sym- 5 posium From the Chair: In Memoriam 5

Arrivals and Departures including Camp Nelson in tion to his students, his in- Former Faculty 6 I am very happy to share . sights into Early Modern Rus- News with you the many exciting sian culture, and his mischie- vous grin. Current Faculty 7 things that have been hap-

News pening in the History De- partment this year, during There have also been some Current Student 11 my first year as department very significant changes to News chair. First of all, we are our staff. In January we said Awards, Degrees 12 poised to welcome two new goodbye to Carol O’Reilly, and Honors faculty members, plus have our extremely dedicated a third previous hire join us, budget officer of 12 years, Alumni News 13 making a total of seven won- who was so very helpful to derful new faculty members our faculty in myriad ways. in just two years! She was last sighted with a suitcase on her way to Flori- After three semesters away da, so retirement seems to on research, we look for- be agreeing with her. Dean of the College of ward to having Awet Weld- Arts and Sciences: Congratulations to Tina Mark. L. Kornbluh emichael, a specialist in East A specialist on Early Mod- African History, begin teach- ern History, especially early Hagee, our former graduate Chair of the History ing at the University of Ken- Modern Spain, Scott Taylor secretary who has been pro- Department tucky as an assistant profes- previously taught at Siena moted to the position of Karen Petrone Budget Officer. Tina was sor in spring 2013. This fall College in New York. He Editors: he will be conducting re- has just been awarded an recognized this spring for 25 Gretchen Starr-LeBeau search on piracy in the Horn American Council of years of service at the uni- Karen Petrone versity, and is an indispensa- James Albisetti of Africa, sponsored by a Learned Societies Fellow- Gerda Henkel Foundation ship to write a History of ble part of the History De- Design: Fellowship. Addiction in Early Modern partment team. She is al- Krystle Farman Europe. We are all really ways willing to help faculty We are also delighted to looking forward to working and students solve problems, welcome two new tenured with Awet, Amy, and Scott. and has created a warm at- associate professors; Amy mosphere of goodwill in the Murrell Taylor, a specialist But, there have been depar- History Department. on the Civil War era, comes tures as well. We wish a to us from the State Univer- fond farewell to Daniel We would like to extend a sity of New York at Albany. Rowland who has retired warm welcome to Bridget She will now be much closer after 38 years in the History Ash, our new Graduate Sec- to her research sites on the Department of the Universi- retary. Bridget was previous- social history of the Civil ty of Kentucky. We will es- ly the assistant to the princi- War’s slave refugee camps, pecially miss Dan’s dedica- pal of an elementary school P A G E 2 The Chair’s Message Continued in Boise, Idaho; she and her Eric Christianson received a are very proud of your accom- family moved to Kentucky Great Teacher Award from plishments and look forward to when her husband took a the UK Alumni Association. hearing about your future suc- job here. In the short time Dan Rowland has been cesses. that she has been with us, named “A Teacher Who Bridget has already im- Made a Difference.” Jeremy Many Thanks! pressed everyone with her Popkin has been awarded a helpful and friendly demean- fellowship at the National Hu- Most of the wonderful things or. manities Center, and Sophie that the department does could Roberts has received a fel- not have happened without the And this year we have had lowship at the United States support of the History Depart- new arrivals of a somewhat Holocaust Memorial Museum. ment staff, our energetic and different sort. Professors creative Director of Under- Dr. Mark Summers Hang Nguyen and Paul Our faculty have distinguished graduate Studies, Phil Harling; cradling little Leila. Chamberlin welcomed themselves in their research our incredibly dedicated and their daughter Leila Nguyen endeavors this year. Jeremy resourceful Director of Gradu- Chamberlin on January 19, Popkin published A Concise ate Studies, David Hamilton; 2012. She can be seen fre- History of the Haitian Revolu- our executive committee mem- quently around the depart- tion; Ron Formisano’s The bers Kathi Kern and Gerald ment, always surrounded by Tea Party: A Brief History also Smith; and our new Associate a bevy of adoring fans. On came out in 2012; Hang Chair, Gretchen Starr- June 17, 2012, Amari Book- Nguyen has been awarded LeBeau. I am indebted to all er Hampton Williams, son the Society for Military Histo- of you for making the job of the of Professor Jakobi and ry's 2012 Edward M. Coff- chair much easier. Cassandra Williams, man Prize for her first book “There is much came into the world. Hanoi’s War: An International Clifford and Jane Roy to be proud of in History of the War for Peace in We will all work hard to Vietnam. Several other books the History make Bridget, Scott, Amy, have been accepted for publi- Fellowship Awet (and Leila and Amari!) cation and are coming out Department this comfortable in their “new later in 2012 or in early 2013. Thanks to the kind generosity of Kentucky home.” We look forward to reading Clifford and Jane Roy of Green- year.” Paul Chamberlin’s The Glob- ville, , the History Achievements: al Offensive: The United States, Department will be able to There is much to be proud the Palestine Liberation Organi- award a new history scholarship of in the History Depart- zation, and the Making of the named in their honor. The Roys ment this year. I would like Post-Cold War Order; Jakobi both received their Bachelor’s to share a few highlights Williams’s From the Bullet to Degrees at UK in 1969; Mrs. Roy here. Congratulations to the Ballot: The Black Pan- received a BA in History Hang Nguyen, ther Party and Racial Coalition and Mr. Roy’s BS degree is in who has been Politics in Chicago from Fred Metallurgical Engineering and promoted to Hampton to Barack Obama; Materials Science. Mrs. Roy be- Associate Profes- and Awet Weldemichael’s came a high school history teach- sor with Tenure. Third World Colonialism and er and Mr. Roy is CEO of Roy Francie Chas- Strategies of Liberation Eritrea Metal Finishing . The sen Lopez was and East Timor Compared. scholarship will be awarded to an named Provost’s out-of-state senior or graduate Distinguished Since the last newsletter we student each year. We are deep- Service Profes- have had a bumper-crop of ly grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Roy 2012 MA and Ph.D. sor, Ron Eller graduates including ten who for their support. Mr. and Mrs. Graduates-May 6, 2012 served as Arts received Master’s degrees and Roy join a growing list of friends and Sciences Dis- ten (!) Ph.D.s. Congratula- of the department whose contri- tinguished Professor and tions to the graduates! We butions sustain both our under- graduate and graduate students.

2012 NEWSLETTER HISTORY P A G E 3 Our New Faculty the decision to earn a PhD in AMY MURRELL TAYLOR her first book, The Divided Family in Civil War America, published by History. He attended the Uni- the University of North Carolina versity of , intending to Press in 2009. study medieval history, but Her National Park Service while his prospective advisor work also connects to Amy’s was on leave he took several current project, a study of the courses in early modern history estimated 500,000 people (about and found his field of study. one-eighth the enslaved popula- Scott’s first book, Honor and tion) who began fleeing slavery Violence in Golden Age Spain, was starting at the beginning of the published by Yale University war. Amy is helping us under- Press in 2008. Currently, he’s stand this critical population by working on a book about the examining who these fugitives history of addiction in early “Amy Murrell were, what they experienced modern western Europe, for which he was awarded a fellow- As a prospective Math major during their flight, and how they Taylor never managed to co-exist with the ship from the American Council at Duke University, Amy Murrell of Learned Societies and an Taylor never thought she’d be a military while living in Union- thought she’d protected Army camps, such as NEH Summer Stipend. About History major. All that changed, his new project, tentatively ti- be a History though, when, intrigued by the Camp Nelson in Kentucky. This project will help to show how tled A Genealogy of Addiction: subject, she signed up for a class major. All that the end of slavery included a Stimulants in Early Modern Eu- on the history of women taught rope, he says, “, choco- prolonged, and chaotic, transi- changed, by Anne Firor Scott. “I’ve been late, sugar, coffee, tea, distilled hooked ever since,” Amy says. tion process during the war. Amy has spent a good deal of spirits like gin and rum, and opi- though . . ” As a graduate student at the um were all new to Europeans University of Virginia, she got in time in Kentucky researching this project, and she’s looking in the time period 1550-1800, on the ground floor of that de- or widely available for the first partment’s innovative digital forward to relocating here per- manently. time. Other historians have archive, “Valley of the Shadow: studied these new "soft drugs" Two Communities in the Ameri- SCOTT TAYLOR as commodities, but I am trying can Civil War.” This project— to get at the subjective experi- designed to compile, connect, Scott Taylor, our Associate Professor of early modern Euro- ence of using them. I am espe- and make searchable all the pri- cially interested in how early mary source document available pean history, hails originally from Minnesota. Most of his family still modern Europeans wrestled about one Virginia county and with the idea of addiction,” but one Pennsylvania county during lives outside Minneapolis, and he looks forward to being closer to he also notes that the topic the Civil War—gave Amy the reaches to themes opportunity to understand the them now that he’ll be living in Kentucky. including the morality promise digitizing offers for of using stimulants making sense of the past. More Scott earned his BA at the University of Chicago, where he (since some of them, recently, she has moved on to like sugar, involved the visualization of social and majored in medieval studies. He was particularly fascinated by a coerced labor), and political phenomena, specifically gender and class dif- through Geographic Information course on the Crusades taught by Robert Bartlett. That class, ferences in under- Systems (GIS). In the past few standing these prod- years, Amy’s worked with the which helped students under- stand the Crusades not only ucts. He’s looking National Park Service to help forward to pursuing create a series of maps docu- militarily, but as a window into medieval European society and this research, and menting the migration patterns teaching students, of men, women, and children culture, piqued his interest in history, and helped him make here in Kentucky, with who fled slavery during the Civil its own complicated historical War. This has connections to ties to bourbon and tobacco. P A G E 4 History Department Undergraduates Travel the World

History 595, Japanese Visual Culture, Students in Japan explored Tokyo on their That was a challenge getting own during independent through American cus- research days. toms.”

Matthew Burnett spent Martha Groppo traveled a semester in Australia. In around the world in a Se- this excerpt from a letter mester at Sea. What fol- he wrote to Prof. Albisetti, lows is an excerpt from her he says, “It was a truly blog about her experiences, amazing and unforgettable www.muliebrousmartha.co experience. I traveled ex- m. “Ever since I could first tensively and did very well manage to lug the family in school. Upon discover- atlas or leaf through the ing that the Australian Na- pages of a National Geo- tional University was graphic, I’ve wanted to go ranked among the top 24 around the world. Now best universities in the that my trip is wrapped up, world (and the 12th best you might expect that I In December 2011, history program), I made it would be hit by a huge let Akiko Takenaka was my goal to make a strong down, but no. Life is an awarded a grant of $35,790 showing in honor of the adventure. Running in the from the Japan Foundation American public school jungles of Cambodia bare- Center for Global Partner- system. I worked my butt foot in the rain to catch an ship. The grant enabled her off and received very good elephant ride before sunset to take her Spring 2012 marks (all the grades trans- is, and so is teaching your class HIS 595 “Japanese ferred back to the U.S. as little sister how to Visual Culture” to Japan A's). I took upper level drive. Getting lost in a Mor- during the spring break. courses which dealt with roccan souk at 1 a.m. is, She writes: We spent 7 the Cold War (from his- and so is going down to the “It was a truly amaz- nights in central Tokyo and torical and International basement that terrifies you one night in Nikko, a beau- ing and unforgettable Relations perspectives), the to let out a dog who is tiful city approximately 75 evolution of terrorism barking excitedly at a dark miles north of Tokyo and a experience. I traveled from the French Revolu- window at 3 a.m.. Rappel- home to numerous shrines tion to the present, the ling over a waterfall in Cos- and temples. We visited extensively and did Later Middle Ages, and ta Rica is, and so is being numerous sites both tradi- Post WWI Europe. The the maid of honor in your very well in school. . .” tional and contemporary honors courses I took at sister’s wedding. My life has including Yasukuni Shrine, UK definitely prepared me been made awesome by the Imperial Palace, the for the more rigorous/ some of the adventures I’ve National Diet Building, and different educational sys- had this past semester–but Asakusa in Tokyo, and the tem. The classes would it wouldn’t be complete mausoleum of break in to tutorial groups without the daily ones I’ve the first and which were very small and had my whole life. The third Tokugawa solely devoted to discus- catch is that you have to let shoguns in Nik- sion of the readings. I the things that happen in ko. The stu- would like to thank Prof. your life be an adventure. dents, most of Albisetti for pushing me in Now I’m back to daily ad- whom were those honors classes. I venture of dreaming where traveling abroad don't think I would have life will take me next. See- for the first done as well had I not been ing the world made me time, had a subjected to the higher want to change the sort of wonderful ex- standards of the honors person I contribute to it History 595 Undergraduates in Japan perience and program. And I actually did rather than just the things I courageously bring a didgeridoo home! can get out of it. See, I’ve 2012 NEWSLETTER HISTORY P A G E 5 Undergraduates Travel the World

come to the conclusion that ple I’ve met on the ship and at Mart while his mom buys the traveling can really be quite home–people with broken fami- necessities with food stamps selfish. If you don’t do anything lies, people insecure despite doesn’t make you feel a little with what you’ve experienced– absurdly spectacular giftings and ashamed of your full buggy, the let it change you in some way, talents and people scared of the little cutie holding out his hand create something to share with future. People all over the then motioning to his empty others from it–it’s really mean- world hurt. And if I can’t notice mouth in India probably won’t, ingless. If I forget about the ones closest to me, I have either. My new challenge to the malnourished children I saw little chance of helping the ones myself is to open up my eyes in Ghana, the impoverished half way across the globe. I rec- and heart to the world around families I saw in the South Afri- ommend travel. Of course. I’m me.” can townships, the leprous beg- a huge fan and advocate. But if gars in India–then I’m an abso- the stars in the back roads of “See, I’ve come to the lute fool. I’m missing my shot at Nicholasville, KY don’t make conclusion that traveling making a positive impact on the you catch your breath, the ones over the Himalayas in Tibet world I just circumnavigated–of can really be quite selfish having a life that counts for probably won’t, either. If the more than a passport full of kid hungrily eyeing treats in the [if] you don’t . . . let it stamps. But I’m equally stupid if check out line at Wal- I fail to notice the unhappy peo- change you in some way.”

Bluegrass Symposium

the Founders to Obama” on Friday; The twenty-first annual Blue- and Prof. Tatiana Seijas of Miami grass symposium was held on University of spoke on “Asian Feb. 24 and 25, 2012. Graduate Slaves and the Racialization of Slav- students from the University of ery in Colonial Mexico” on Satur- Kentucky and fourteen other day. Many thanks to the work of institutions presented papers on the Bluegrass Coordinating Com- historical topics ranging from mittee: Amanda Boczar orphaned children after World (coordinator), Dana Johnson, War II, to nineteenth-century Rachel Dixon, Meredith In Memoriam US foreign policy, to church- Gaffield, and Bethany Sharpe, state relations in Romania. In ably assisted by Profs. Christian- addition, on Saturday afternoon son, Herring, Nguyen, and Tina a panel of some of our most Emery Vernon Smith, MD. Hagee and Carol O’Reilly. Many promising undergraduates pre- On Sunday, October 23, 2011, thanks, too, for the support provid- sented their research papers in a Vernon Smith, 95, of ed by the History Graduate Student special session. Finally, attendees died at his home. A 1937 graduate Association, the Departments of were treated to two outstanding of the University of Kentucky, in History and International Studies, plenary addresses: Prof. Jeremi recent years he provided generous the College of Arts & Sciences, the Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished support to the University in a vari- Graduate School, and the Kentucky Professor at the University of ety of ways, including the E. Historical Society. Texas, Austin, spoke on Vernon and Eloise C. Smith Profes- “Liberty’s Surest Guardian: sorship in History. American Nation-Building from P A G E 6 Former Faculty News

E. Randolph Daniel’s re- mentary Traditions on 'De college) help keep us busy. cent publications include the nuptiis' in Context, eds. George has not completely following: Abbot Joachim of Mariken Teeuwen and retired from the academic Fiore and Joachimism: Selected Sinead O'Sullivan, Cultural world. He continues to write Articles. Ashgate Vario- Encounters in Late Antiquity (short pieces NOT long books) rum. 2011. This compila- and the Middle Ages, vol. 12 and do some speaking engage- tion includes four previously (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), ments. During the past year, he unpublished articles including pp. 193-220. participated in seminars for sec- one on Henry of Kirkstede's ondary school teachers in Min- De antichristo et de fine mundi; George Herring and neapolis, Lexington, and most E. Randolph Daniel and Da- Dottie Leathers enjoy recently at College of the Professor Emeritus, vid Burr, translators. He has good health, for which we Ozarks near Branson, MO. He Bruce Eastwood also published Angelo Clareno: are very grateful, and con- was in Branson just two days A Chronicle or History of the tinue to thrive on retire- before the tornado that devas- Seven Tribulations of the Order ment. Every year, we re- tated their downtown area. Da- of Brothers Minor. Franciscan treat to sunny Florida dur- vid Dalton, UK PhD from Institute, 2005; "Joachim's ing February and March. the1980s, was a splendid host in Unnoticed Pattern of Histo- Each visit we meet new . He and George had ry: The Second Diffinitio," to friends to socialize with. great fun reliving old times. appear in a volume honoring In February, we spent We send warmest greetings Marjorie Reeves that will be three delightful days visit- to readers of the newsletter. published by Ashgate, edited ing Theda Perdue and Mike by Julia Wannenmacher; and Green in Key West. Both Bob Olson’s Blood, Beliefs, and "Franciscan Missions," in The retired now also, they Ballots: The Management of Kurd- Cambridge Companion to Fran- camp there each winter. ish Nationalism in Turkey, 2007- cis of Assisi. Edited by Mi- We had a grand time and 2009, has been translated into chael J. P. Robson. Cam- they seemed to enjoy in- Persian. This is the third book of bridge Univ. Pr. 2012, pp. troducing us to the de- Bob’s to be translated into Per- 240-257. lightful quirkiness of the sian. Seven of Bob’s books have southernmost city in the now been translated fourteen Bruce S. Eastwood re- continental US. We were times into five languages: Arabic, cently published "The Power amused with but not the French, Kurdish, Persian, and of Diagrams: The Place of least tempted by the Turkish. the Anonymous Commen- porches with signs tary in the Development of “Clothing Optional. Adults Daniel Blake Smith published Carolingian Astronomy and Only.” American Betrayal: Patri- Cosmology," in Carolingian Dottie continues to ots and the Trail of Tears (Henry Scholarship and Martianus enjoy retirement. It has Holt, November 2011), which Capella: Ninth-Century Com- been thirteen years and has won the Oklahoma Book she has not gotten bored Award for non-fiction. with being lazy. At home, of course, five grandchil- dren ages 4 to 14 (oldest Andrew is now away at

Exciting Upcoming Events Paul Chamberlin, George Herring and Hang Nguyen are bringing the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Conference to the University of Kentucky in 2014. Professor Emeritus, Bob Olson

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Professor Thomas Paine Moses to add another command- Campbell writings, to be ment than it is to get a new published by Yale course approved by the UK bu- with his University Press. reaucracy. He is looking forward advisees, Back at UK, she to a sabbatical in the fall of 2012, James Sav- continues work on when he hopes to finish his book age and her John Dickin- on the Gateway Arch and to Amanda son Writings Pro- develop a new one on the U.S. in Higgins. ject, this past year the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. Jim Albisetti finished up three travelling to Phila- Before doing so, he will give a articles during summer 2011, delphia, Delaware, New York, paper on Eero Saarinen in Helsin- which will appear in the three and Rhode Island for research ki, Finland in May. leading educational history jour- and TEI/XML training. With her “He learned nals either later in 2012 or in small team, she has now identi- Paul Chamberlin completed 2013. He also did two extensive fied, collected, and organized the final work on his book manu- how much he tenure and promotion reviews almost everything this Founding script, The Global Offensive: The for other universities and Father wrote over the course of United States, the Palestine Libera- enjoyed served on the committee that his lifetime. Transcription and tion Organization, and the Making thinking of prepared the celebration of the proofreading, though often of the Post-Cold War Order, which th 50 anniversary of UK’s Hon- painstakingly slow, are progress- will be published with Oxford new ors Program, an event held in ing. In addition to the Dickinson University Press in October early September. This academic Project, Dr. Calvert is writing an 2012. He has a forthcoming arti- approaches to year has been extraordinarily essay on Thomas Paine’s attacks cle in Cold War History and chap- busy, including the teaching of on Quakers during the Revolu- ters in The Routledge Guide to the teaching an extra course during the fall tion, and another on Dickinson’s Cold War and a guide on U.S. freshmen . . .” semester and the belated con- religion for the volume Faith and foreign relations with Congres- version from slides to Power the Founders of the American Re- sional Quarterly. Point presentations for both his public, to be published by Ox- German history and his Honors ford University Press. She was Francie Chassen-López was classes. The Provost tapped him invited to speak by the Universi- named Provost’s Distinguished for a two-year term on the ty of Delaware (twice), the De- Service Professor in honor of her Humanities and Arts Area scendants of the Signers of the outstanding teaching, Committee that reviews pro- Declaration of Independence, research, and service to motion files at the campus-wide Kentucky Historical Society, the University of Ken- level. In addition, he has served Quaker Hill Historic Preserva- tucky. as chair of the Honors Program tion Foundation the Center for scholarship committee, on the Visions and Values, and the Other than remaining history graduate committee, Round ambulatory, Eric How- and on the University Senate Table of Delaware. She was in- ard Christianson is Hearing Panel. Last November, terviewed on a conservative also pleased to report he was elected to the Advisory Jewish talk radio program and that he received a UK Board of the Art Museum at she gave the 2011 Constitution Alumni Association UK. Day address at Southern Ad- 2012 Great Teacher ventist University in Tennessee. Award. Professor Christianson with Jane E. Calvert spent the his fellow UK Alumni Associa- spring 2011 semester at Yale Tracy Campbell spent a good Ron Eller was named tion Great Teachers University as a senior research deal of the year developing a Arts & Sciences Distin- fellow with the MacMillan Cen- new course for the UK Core, guished Professor for 2011-2012. ter for International and Area "The Making of Modern Ken- As part of his recognition he gave Studies and a visiting member of tucky." He learned how much a lecture entitled “Seeking the the History Department. There he enjoyed thinking of new ap- Good Life in America: Lessons she worked on a collection of proaches to teaching freshmen, from the Appalachian Past.” and also that it is easier to get P A G E 8 Abigail Firey has been board of French Historical the Association of Asian awarded $20,000 in bridge Studies (the major journal in Studies Southeastern Con- funding by The Office of French history). ference. the Vice President for This semester she has Research at the University been very fortunate to David Hunter published of Kentucky for the Caro- have excellent students in “Clerical Marriage and Epis- lingian Canon Law both of her classes. The copal Elections in the Latin Project. She is also a students in the HIS 499 West: From Siricius to Leo plenary speaker at honors section are superb I,” in Episcopal Elections in the International and have been a delight to Late Antiquity, 250-600, ed. Congress of Medie- teach, as have the motivat- Johann Leemans, Peter van val Canon Law in ed and highly intelligent Nuffelen, Shawn W. J. Toronto, . graduate students in HIS Keough, and Carla Nicolaye. 628. (Berlin and New York: Wal- Ron Formisano has ter de Gruyter, 2011): 183- one more semester Dan Gargola’s The Ro- 202. He also continues on of teaching to go-- mans: From Village to Empire the editorial board of the Spring 2013, but then will (Oxford University Press) Brill Encyclopedia of Early Alex Ledin, Professor be in residence 2013-2014 has just appeared in a re- Christianity. He has present- Denise Ho, and Pro- and planning a conference vised second edition. ed several papers, including fessor Dan Rowland. on social and political ine- “The Household of God: quality. He had an essay Phil Harling continues his The Family and Christianiza- appear in Obama, Palin, work on “An Empire of tion in the Early Church,” a and Clinton: Making History Troubles,” a book manu- plenary address at the Pap- in Election 2008, and is script that focuses on ethi- pas Patristic Conference, giving talks this spring cal dilemmas in the mid- Holy Cross Greek Ortho- based on his new book. In Victorian British Empire. dox Theological Seminary, in “She has been November he commented Within the last year he has October 2011; “1 Corinthi- on a paper presented by presented papers in Hong ans 7 in Jerome and His active in the Asian Gordon Wood at an Kong, Denver, and Terre Contemporaries,” at the studies community event sponsored by the Haute. He has an article international conference, R.I. Historical Publications forthcoming in an edited Askese und Exegese im frühen in the Society. collection, Empire State of Christientum, University of Mind, and another article Siegen, Germany, October Commonwealth Ellen Furlough is making under review on the end of 2011; and a public lecture at steady progress on her convict transportation to the Catholic University of . . .” book project France on Australia. Phil was recently Leuven, Belgium in October Vacation: Tourism and Con- elected a Fellow of the 2011 entitled “Priesthood sumer Cultures and will Royal Historical Society. and Sexual Continence: Ori- return to France for two He currently serves as Di- gins of a Western Tradi- weeks this summer to rector of Undergraduate tion.” access recently open ar- Studies. chives on both Club Med Over the past year, Kathi and Jean Balladur, the In the last year, Denise Kern has kept busy writing, Chief Architect of La Ho published her first arti- teaching, and directing the Grande Motte, a cle in The China Quarterly. In University’s CELT (Center major regional devel- addition to regular teach- for the Enhancement of opment project on ing, she has been busy with Learning and Teaching). the Mediterranean the University of Ken- With her colleague Linda coast. She will be on tucky's Year of China and Levstik, Kern published an sabbatical leave next started teaching in the article on teaching the trial year and will have Gaines Center for the Hu- of Susan B. Anthony in the the necessary prima- manities. She's been active most recent issue of the ry source materials, in the Asian studies com- Journal of the Civil War Era. and time, to finish munity in the Common- She also completed three Professor Myrup conversing with a the book. She is also wealth, and has just been other articles this year. Two winner of the Philo Bennett Award, on the editorial elected a board member of of those focus on her new Stephen Harper

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Professor Francie Chassen- López with her grandson and Professor Hang Nguyen with her daughter Gerald Smith, along with col- Coffman Prize for her book, leagues from the Kentucky Hanoi’s War: An International Historical Society, led a group History of the War for Peace in of Kentucky teachers on a Vietnam, an award named in Civil Rights Tour of the honor of the UK History De- South, including a walk across partment’s noted alumnus (PhD the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1959). She has also been pro- Selma (see photo). Finally, moted to Associate Professor Kern has enjoyed her second with tenure. year directing the CELT. This work on religious cosmopoli- year the Center focused on In September, Karen Petrone tanism and suffrage. The third, the theme, Re-imagining the with Francie Chassen-López which will appear in an AHA Classroom. At this point, co-organized the first symposi- pamphlet, assessed the impact Professor Kern hopes to um of UK's Working Group on of teaching students using ar- spend the summer re- War and Gender, hosting guest chival collections. Currently, imagining her tennis game, speakers Karen Hagemann and “A Charmed Kern is working on an article which has been sorely ne- Carolyn Nordstrom. Petrone is Life: The on religious opposition to glected. co-editing a collection entitled Mountain Top Removal with Everyday Life in Russia and will Autobiography her colleague Dwight Billings. debut her new research on the Kern has been having fun in her Erik Myrup has kept very struggles of returning Soviet of Dan undergraduate class, History busy this last year writing, Afghan veterans in an essay in 404 (US Women 1600-1900), teaching, and caring for four that collection. She is also par- Rowland” using an augmented reality pro- busy children. In April, he ticipating in a multi-volume pro- gram called Aurasma. Students presented a paper on Anglo- ject Russia's Great War and Rev- were charged with doing archiv- Portuguese relations at an olution, 1914-1922: The Centen- al research on a woman in Lex- international conference in nial Reappraisal. Her 2011 book, ington, mapping out a walking Lisbon, and in October par- The Great War in Russian tour of her life, and creating ticipated in a forum on the Memory won the Department “Auras”—historic images and history of education in Ken- of History's Hallam Book maps that are overlayed on a tucky. Concerned about the Prize. She looks forward to location and geo-tagged. Any- negative consequences of next year as one of the organiz- one with a smart phone can standardized testing in public ers of the College's Passport to take the tour and access the schools, he helped to found the World Series; student generated “auras” at Fayette Advocates next year the focus each location. She is looking for Balance in the Classroom of the series will be forward to her fall class, Histo- (FayetteABC) and presented "Reimagining Russia's ry 405, which will be team- the group’s concerns to the Realms." taught with Professor Hélène local school board in May. Quanquin at the Université Additionally, he is still work- Jeremy Popkin’s Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, ing on his book manuscript book, You Are All France. The two courses will be on Portugal’s colonial bureau- Free: The Haitian taught in tandem, synchronous- cracy, and continues to vol- Revolution and the Professors honor Dan Row- ly, using distance learning tech- unteer each week at Glendo- Abolition of Slavery nology. In addition, students will ver Elementary, where he (Cambridge University land by donning his personal work collaboratively on pro- provides first graders with Press) won the Ameri- attire of a sport coat and bicy- jects using social media, skype, dramatic interpretations of can Historical Associa- cle helmet. and other interactive technolo- Willie Wonka, Grandpa Joe, tion’s J. Russell Major gies. This year also marks the Charlie Bucket, and James prize for the best new book in last of Kern’s engagement with Henry Trotter. French history. Popkin’s Concise the Teaching American History History of the Haitian Revolution Grant program. In the summer Hang Nguyen was winner (Blackwell/John Wiley) was of 2011, Kern and colleague of the Society for Military released in November 2011. History's 2012 Edward M. Popkin was a member of the P A G E 10

advisory committee for the New old in a department of very young York Historical Museum’s ground- people. breaking exhibition, “Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn,” the Akiko Takenaka won a grant of first major American museum $36,000 to take students in her Japa- show devoted to the Haitian Rev- nese Visual Culture class on a study olution, and gave papers at inter- tour of Japan during Spring Break. national conferences in Estonia, Scott Taylor, who will be joining us the Netherlands and Jamaica in Professor Tammy Whitlock, Karen 2011. In 2012, he will be a visiting in Fall 2012, received an NEH Sum- Gauthier, and Christy Bohl scholar at Australian National Uni- mer Stipend for the summer of 2012, versity in Canberra, Australia for and an American Council of Learned one month and is then planning to Societies Research Fellowship for spend a sabbatical year at the Na- Gretchen Starr-LeBeau recently calendar year 2013. tional Humanities Center in North finished up her sabbatical year, fund- Carolina, working on a project on ed by a sabbatical fellowship from Awet Weldemichael has been “Freedom and Unfreedom in the the American Philosophical Society, awarded a Gerda Henkel Foundation Ca Age of Revolution.” just in time to be named Associate Fellowship in Fall 2012. His manu- pti Chair and Newsletter Editor. She script has also been accepted at Cam- on Sophie Roberts had a great first continues work on the defense bridge University Press. year in the History department strategies of female Judaizers and in Jewish Studies. She taught brought before inquisitions in south- Tammy Whitlock continues work several“To catch the reader'snew attention, courses place an and has en- ern Europe and the Americas. As on her contribution to the interdisci- interesting sentence or quote from the story part of this work, she is guest editor plinary Oxford Handbook on Gender, joyed getting to knowhere.” UK stu- dents. She presented at two con- of Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Wom- Sex, and Crime, edited by Rosemary ferences: the annual meeting of the en’s Studies for their special edition, Gartner and William McCarthy forth- Association for Jewish Studies as “Women, Jews, Venetians” due out coming in late 2012 or early 2013. well as an invitation-only confer- in Spring 2013. She is also co-editing She explored similar themes in her ence on New Approaches to Alge- a book with Charles H. Parker of presentation “Pretending to be a Man: rian Jewish Studies. The latter Saint Louis University titled Judging Retail Assistants, Public Personas and presentation will be published in a Faith, Punishing Sin: Inquisitions and the Undermining of Masculinity” in special volume of The Journal of Consistories in the Early Modern World. the North American Victorian Studies North African Studies. She has been This book brings together specialists Association Conference held Novem- awarded a U.S. Holocaust Memo- from four continents to analyze ber 3-6, 2011 at Vanderbilt Universi- rial Museum Fellowship for the comparatively, for the first time, ty. It was her good fortune to be able 2012-2013 academic year. these Catholic and Calvinist ecclesi- to present with one of our graduate astical courts. Her invited essay, students in British history, Jill Ab- Dan Rowland was awarded the “Heretics, Christians, Jews? Jewish ney, as the University of Kentucky Teacher Who Makes a Difference Converts and Inquisitors in the Early hosted the Interdisciplinary Nine- Award, and celebrated his retire- Modern World” also appeared in teenth-Century Studies Conference, ment with a department event print in Cross-Cultural History and the March 22-25, 2012. Her paper, which included an autobiographical Domestication of Otherness (Palgrave, “Professional Thieves? Shoplifting and Macmillian 2011), edited by Michal Property Crime in the Age of Victo- talk available at https:// Jan Rozbicki and George O. Ndege. ria,” is available on the web at http:// history.as.uky.edu/video/charmed incs.as.uky.edu/program. -life-lecture-history-professor- Mark Summers writes: I am busy daniel-rowland writing a survey of Reconstruction Jakobi Williams’s book, From the that is already a few thousand pages Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter Gerald Smith appeared on the long and will need to be trimmed; I of the Black Panther Party and Racial NBC show “Who Do You Think am still teaching overloads and ex- Coalition Politics in Chicago, is sched- You Are?” He helped NFL player pect to go on doing so; I haven’t uled to be released during the spring Jerome Bettis investigate his Ken- sent Big Tim & the Tiger to a publish- 2013 publication list by the University tucky roots. Lexington Herald- er yet, because I doubt whether of North Carolina Press under its Leader columnist Merlene Davis another big fat book will do society prestigious John Hope Franklin Series. also interviewed Prof. Smith about much good; I have given papers on He has also published “Nat Turner: the experience. corruption in the Gilded Age, and on The Complexity of His Religious paranoia in politics. I am feeling very Background,” Journal of Pan-

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African Studies, Vol. 4, No. 8, 2012 focuses on community organ- the prison industrial complex. and “‘Don’t No Woman Got to do izing rather than a traditional I have also been selected by Nothing She Don’t Want to do’: church model. (FYI: I am not the Dean of the College of Gender, Activism, and the Illinois a member of the church, Arts and Sciences to become Black Panther Party” in Black Women, heck, I'm not even a Chris- the Associate Director of the Gender, and Families (University of tian) MOA is a community African American and Africa- Illinois Press, forthcoming fall 2012). group of predominately Afri- na Studies Program. I am a He has served as faculty advisor for can American Men whose member of the Africana Stud- UK’s NAACP Student Chapter and purpose is to end violence ies Steering Committee as advisor for UK's Black Male Initiative and shootings in Lexington the college is in the process out of the UK Office for Institutional among the youth. UMC Net- of developing the program Diversity. This past year he has work to End Mass Incarcera- into a department that not worked with two community organi- tion is a national network of only will grant undergraduate zations, Nia Community of Faith Methodist ministers and pro- degrees but eventually will (NCF) and Men of Action (MA), here fessionals (judges, officers, also grant graduate degrees. in Lexington and one national organi- wardens, attorneys, profes- zation, United Methodist Church sors, etc.) whose goal is to Network to End Mass Incarceration. establish and enhance aware- NCF is a local Methodist church that ness of mass incarceration with the purpose of ending

Jill Abney caught a glimpse of Graduate Student News the Queen during her Vietnam” at the Uni- Jonathan Coleman: I was research versity of Bern in awarded two dissertation re- trip. Switzerland and an- search fellowships from the other entitled University of Kentucky: The Jill Abney presented a paper “Foreign Affairs: American Poli- Albisetti Dissertation Research titled “Revelations of British cy and the Making of Love and Fellowship from the History Masculinity in Political De- War in Vietnam, 1965-1968” at Department and the Bonnie bate: Working Men, Hegemo- the Queen City Colloquium at Jean Cox Research Award from ny, and Reform” at the Midwest the University of Cincinnati. She the Gender and Women's Stud- Conference on British Studies received conference travel ies Department. With this fund- in November 2011. The MCBS grants from the University of ing I spent the summer of 2011 was hosted by Indiana State Bern, the University of Ken- in various archives throughout University. She also presented tucky Graduate School, and the London, including the National a paper titled “Juvenile Crime in History Department. Archives at Kew, The British the Courts of London” at the Library, and Special Collections Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Dana Caldemeyer: I am a at the London School of Eco- Century Studies Confer- first year PhD student and I nomics. This archival work is ence. The INCS is hosted by have an article called the basis of my forthcoming the University of Kentucky this "Conditional Conservatism: dissertation, For Hire: Same-Sex year. Evansville, Indiana’s Embrace of Prostitution in Modern Britain, the Ku Klux Klan, 1919-1924" 1885-1957. I also present- Amanda Boczar studied in- that will appear in the Spring ed a conference paper, tensive Vietnamese at the 2011 2012 issue of Ohio Valley History, titled “Lambs and Panthers: Southeast Asian Studies Sum- a journal published by the Filson Same-Sex Prostitution in mer Institute supported by Historical Society. I also have a the British Press,” at the their institutional tuition schol- book review of Hanna's Town: A Midwest Conference on arship. She delivered a paper Little World We Have Lost pub- British Studies in Novem- ber of 2011. In addition, I entitled “Re-Presenting Agent lished in the Winter 2011 issue PhD student Jon have been awarded the 2011- Orange: The Legacy of War and of the same journal. Coleman on his- the Post-Memory Generation in toric Cleveland Street, England.

P A G E 12 the Ohio State University Year Fellowship, 2011-2012. He has 2012 Harry Ransom Dis- Center for Historical Re- Brent Award Winners sertation Research Fellow- search. a book chapter, ship from the University of “‘Build, Baby, Texas at Austin. This Krystle Farman present- Build,’: Conserva- award will allow me to ed a paper at the Ohio tive Black Nation- conduct research at the Valley Historical Confer- alists, Free Enter- Harry Ransom Center— ence entitled “‘Like Naked prise, and the Nix- the world's largest social and Very Kinky-Haired on Administra- and cultural archive—for Mulattos:’ Race and the tion,” forthcoming the summer of 2012. Devil in the Spiritual Jour- in Dan Williams nals of Sor María de San and Laura Jane John Davis presented a José (1656-1719).” Gifford, eds., The paper entitled “Tsarist Phy- Right Side of the sicians’ Perceptions of Mi- Joshua Farrington has Sixties: Reexamining norities during the Revolu- been awarded the following Conservatism’s Dec- tionary Movement of 1865: grants: Harry Middleton ade of Transformation (NY: Cultural Uplift or Ethnic Fellowship in Presidential Palgrave Macmillan, Cleansing?” at the 2011 Studies, 2010-2011; Gerald [August] 2012); an article, Ohio Valley Conference at R. Ford Foundation, 2010- “‘Even I Voted Republican: Murray State University. 2011; Rockefeller Archive African American Voters He was also awarded a Center, 2010-2011; Univ. and Public Accommoda- postdoctoral fellowship at of Kentucky Dissertation tions in Louisville,

This year witnessed the retirement of the department’s business officer Carol O’Reilly. We honored her with a party to thank her for her hard work . . .

Carol O’Reilly Professor Emeritus Bob Ireland, Professor Carol O’Reilly and Professor Emeritus Gretchen Starr-LeBeau, and Sandra Ire- Bruce Eastwood land David Hamilton and Carol O’Reilly

Jim O’Reilly, Eric Christianson, and Da- Professor Eric Myrup’s two youngest chil- vid Hamilton dren, Lars and Annika

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Kentucky, 1960-1961,” in the Spring 2012 issue of the Register of the Ken- Holman Hamilton Brent Award tucky Historical Society; and a confer- History Deptarment scholarship winner Seniors (for high ence paper, “Getting Off the ‘Welfare honors seniors: (to an outstanding cumulative GPAs): Plantation’: Conservative Black Nation- senior):

alism and Republican Politics in the Glenn L. Burton Mary S. Bauer Nixon Era,” at the New Perspectives David S. Coomer Richard T. Sellnow Todd R. Byrd in African American History and Cul- Ann M. Gordon Glenn L. Burton ture Conference. University of North Katherine E. Gruber Phi Alpha Theta John G. Caswell Carolina at Chapel Hill, February 2012. Caroline R. Howle History Honor David S. Coomer LaPorsha D. Jackson Society initiates: Ann M. Gordon Lauren Kientz (postdoctoral stu- Christine M. Kindler Katherine E. Gruber dent) published “A Nauseating Senti- Allison R. McVey Joseph B. Brown Caroline R. Howle ment, a Magical Device, or a Real In- Hannah M. Osborne Grant M. Epperson LaPorsha D. Jackson sight? Interracialism at Fisk University Richard T. Sellnow Kaitlyn E. Markert Christine M. Kindler in 1930” Perspectives on the History of Patrick C. Walsh Tyler S. McHugh Allison R. McVey Higher Education, special edition on Hayley M. Whitehead Brandon L. Thurman Hannah M. Osborne The African American Experience in Corey J. Wright Paul M. Glasser Richard T. Sellnow Higher Andrew K. Skip Education Before the Civil Rights Era, Philo Bennett award Patrick C. Walsh Roger L. Geiger, Christian Anderson, winner for Hayley M. Whitehead and Marybeth Gasman editors, vol 29. outstanding Corey J. Wright Forthcoming August 2012. undergraduate paper: Jeff Stanley presented a paper at the Ohio Valley Historical Conference Stephen Harper entitled “Free Blacks of Haiti: Racism on the French Caribbean Frontier.” Awards, Degrees, and Honors-Graduates

Graduate School Robert Turpin: I received the George Herring research fellowship. I Dissertation Year Jonathan Coleman Fellowship: presented at the International Cycling Dorothy Leathers History Conference in Paris, France, graduate fellow- Graduate School Disser- Joshua Farrington last May. The paper was titled, "'Our ship: tation Enhancement Best Bet is the Boy': Bicycle Marketing PhD recipients Schemes and American Culture after Joshua Powell World War I.” I will be officially pub- Carlye Burchett lished (for the first time) sometime Albisetti Disserta- around the end of March. It is an ency- John Davis tion Research Fel- Scott Eidson clopedia entry, "Cycling, USA & Cana- lowship: da," in a four volume set titled Sports Karen Gauthier Alayna Heinonen Around the World: History, Culture, and Jill Abney Practice; ABC Clio, 2012. Jeff Keith Patrick Lewis Charles P. Roland Joanna Lile graduate fellow- Sally Powell ships: Award: Amber Sergent

Robert Murray James Savage MA recipients James Savage Kevin Walters Graduate School Presi- Terri Blum Crocker John Wickre dential Fellowship: Danielle Dodson Jordan Dongell George C. Herring Joshua Powell Phi Alpha Theta Inductees Krystle Farman graduate fellow- Derek Green ship: Jason Howard P A G E 14 Alumni News

James Duane History. An Ontological Study of Bolin (PhD Humor.” 1988, MA 1982) Nicky Durham (1965) is professor of retired from Civil Service at Amanda Fickey (BA history at Murray Fort Knox in 2001. He is 2004) continues to pursue State University. the owner/operator of a PhD in the UK Geogra- He wishes that Hagerlan Farms. He spends phy Department. She was his biography of lots of time with his five recently awarded the Phi Adolph Rupp grandchildren, enjoys keep- Kappa Phi 2011 Love of (under contract ing up with the Wildcats Learning Award, one of with the Univer- and watching the grandchil- only 80 of the 1800 appli- sity Press of dren in their sport activi- cants to receive the award. Kentucky) was ties. MA Graduates, Lies out now that the Wildcats Carly (Mutterties) Lanckman and Mi- have won national champi- William E. Ellis (PhD Gesin (MA 2008) is teach- chael Kraemer onship number eight. In- 1974) I have been busy ing in the International Bac- stead, a long blog post on during the past months calaureate program at Rupp's Kansas years can be owing to the publication of Tates Creek High School. found at http:// my most recent book, A jamesduane- History of Education in Ken- Craig Hammond (PhD bolin.wordpress.com/. Bolin tucky, by the University 2004) continues to work at was named last year to the Press of Kentucky. I have Penn State New Kensing- Kentucky Oral History given several talks to ton in suburban Pittsburgh, Commission and he writes groups about the subject: where Craig and Hallie live a "Kentucky Profiles" col- “Whither Education in in Hallie’s hometown with umn for Kentucky Monthly. Kentucky." My wife and I their two daughters, Han- Next year will be particu- continue to spend a few nah and Addison, ages 5 larly challenging for Duane weeks in Florida as "snow- and 7. Craig’s second book: and Evelyn with both Wes- birds," travel to foreign Contesting Slavery, an edit- ley and Cammie Jo in col- places such as Eastern Eu- ed collection of essays on lege. Prayer is appreciated. rope and South America slavery and politics in the we could not have imagined early republic, will be issued Mac Coffman (PhD 1959) when I received my Ph.D. in paperback by the Univer- published three papers in in history at UK in 1974, sity of Virginia Press this 2011: “The Meuse-Argonne and take part in mission summer. An article in The Offensive: the Final Battle trips. I had intended that Journal of the Early Republic of World War 1” in Mat- my next major project will appear sometime this thew Moten (editor), Be- would have been A History spring. Craig is currently tween War and Peace; of Agriculture in Kentucky working on a third book “Marshall and the Emer- but found that two Ken- for the University of Virgin- gence of a New Generation tucky Farmers, Richie and ia Press, tentatively entitled of Leaders” in Charles F. Bob, had taken on the task “Slavery, States, and Em- Brower (editor), George C. previously (I hope you ap- pires: The Imperial Struggle Marshall: Servant of the preciate the humor). Actu- for the North American American Nation; and “The ally, my next project is to Continent, from the Seven Battle for Military History: write an academic study of Years War to the American Success or Failure”, Richard humor with the tentative Civil War.” In addition, S. Kirkendall (editor), The title, “ ‘That's Not My Dog:’ Craig is working on chap- Organization of American From Kentucky Country ters for two edited collec- Historians & the Writing & Humor to Inspector tions. The first, “The Ex- the Teaching of American Clouseau to Doc Martin; pansion and Triumph of a

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Slaveholding Republic,” W. Bush Presidential Library A revised version of Jamie will appear in The World of the and Museum since 2009. In Nicholson’s PhD dissertation Revolutionary American Republic, April, he was the featured (2010) has just been published which will be published by speaker at the University of by University Press of Ken- Routledge in 2014. The second Kentucky Libraries Annual Din- tucky. It's called The Kentucky article will be presented as a ner. Derby: How the Run for the paper at the Fourth Sons of the Roses Became America's American Revolution Annual Premier Sporting Event. The Conference on the American book has also been ex- Revolution, in honor of Lance cerpted in the Spring 2012 Banning, and will appear in a issue of Kentucky Humani- festschrift for Lance, to be pub- ties, a publication of the lished by the University of Vir- Kentucky Humanities ginia Press in 2015. Council. He is expecting some good news soon Larry Hood (PhD 1980) is a about another project on part-time instructor in the His- the origins of the global tory Department at the Univer- Tina Hagee and Carol O’Reilly Thoroughbred industry, but sity of Kentucky, teaching Ken- nothing official yet. tucky history and American Military History. He finds that Nick Sarantakes (MA 1991) the Donovan Scholars who is an associate professor of enroll bring different perspec- Paul Douglas Newman (PhD strategy and policy at the Naval tives to the courses and enrich 1996) is Professor of History at War College in Newport, the learning experience. Larry the University of Pittsburgh at Rhode Island. He has had three brought in three outside-the- Johnstown, and has been pro- books appear in the last four university presenters in the last moted recently to the position years: Allies Against the Rising year: one who lectured on of Assistant Vice-President for Sun: The United States, the British frontier Kentucky; one on his Academic Affairs. He lives in Nations and the Defeat of Imperi- latest book, an edited civil war Johnstown with his wife Betha- al Japan appeared in 2009 and diary of a Kentuckian who ny Winters, two sons Forrest placed first on two of Ama- fought under John Hunt Mor- (17) and Leo (12), Bailey (12) zon.com’s bestseller lists and gan, and one who gave a their “Heinz 57” terrier mix, third on two others. Dropping presentation on the Tuskegee and new addition Zoe (2) a the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Airmen. rescued Golden Retriever. Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War came out with Cambridge James K. Libbey (PhD 1976) David Nichols (PhD 2000) is University Press in 2010. His is in his seventh year of retire- an associate professor of histo- fifth book overall, The Patton ment from Embry-Riddle Aero- ry at Indiana State University. Project: The Making of a Legend- nautical University where he His first book was Red Gentle- ary American Film taught Russian-American rela- men and White Savages: Indians, comes out in 2012. tions and aviation history. His Federalists, and the Search for He is currently fin- latest article, "Alexander Order on the American Frontier ishing another book Kartveli: The Aircraft Designer (University Press of Virginia, on Richard Nixon Who 'Suffered’ Greatness," 2008). His second book, The and sports. He runs appeared in the Summer 2011 Engines of Diplomacy: The Rise a blog “In the Ser- issue of American Aviation Histori- and Fall of the United States’ Indi- vice of Clio” (http:// cal Society Journal. He has also an Factories, is under review by saran- begun work on his next book a university press. He recently takes.blogspot.com/) and finished writing a chapter began work on his third book, a which he uses to on Russian military aviation for study of the economic culture discuss professional an edited work on the air war of the Chickasaw Indians. He issues in the history during the Great War. welcomes correspondence via business, and it has email resulted in confer- Alan C. Lowe (MA 2008) has ([email protected]) or ence appearances New Staff member, Bridget been director of the George Facebook. and media interviews. Ash P A G E 16

Tourgée in North Carolina published under his direc- He was a mem- Historiography and Histori- tion since his arrival from ber of the AHA’s cal Memory,” Carolina Com- the Advisory Council on Paul Birdsall ments (January 2012); and Historic Preservation in Book Prize Com- “Reading the Language of 1988. He also continues to mittee from 2007 Reparations and the Mean- process some 900 hours of -2010, serving as ing of Emancipation, 1865- oral history interviews with the chair in his 1917,” Elon Law Review Reclamation employees and last year. He is (forthcoming 2012). He people affected by Reclama- also the history also had accepted a review tion’s Newlands Project in book review edi- essay, “Continuity v. Dis- eastern California and Professor Dan Row- tor for Presidential Studies continuity Redux: Life, western Nevada. More land and PhD gradu- Quarterly and always, al- Labor and Law in Jim Crow information on Reclama- ate Joanna Lile ways, needs reviewers. -Era Mississippi,” Journal of tion’s history program may the Gilded Age and Progres- be accessed at John David Smith, (MA sive Era (forthcoming www.usbr.gov/history 1973, PhD 1977), is the 2012). In addition to these where brief histories of Charles H. Stone Distin- publications, Smith contin- Reclamation projects and guished Professor of Amer- ues to serve as series edi- processed oral histories ican History at The Univer- tor for seven monograph may be found. sity of North Carolina at series for university and Charlotte. In 2011 he commercial presses. In Maryjean Wall (PhD served as president of the 2011 he guest lectured at 2010) had her book, How “How Kentucky Historical Society of North the following institutions: Kentucky Became Southern: A Carolina. He completed a University of North Texas, Tale of Outlaws, Horse Became Southern: monograph Seeing the New University of Indianapolis, Thieves, Gamblers, and A Tale of Outlaws, South: Race and Place in the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Breeders (University Press Photographs of Ulrich B. Phil- Freiburg, Germany, Ludwig- of Kentucky, 2011) named Horse Thieves, lips (Columbia: University Maximilians-Universität, an Outstanding Academic of South Carolina Press, Munich, Germany, Universi- Title for 2011 by Choice Gamblers, and forthcoming 2012) (with tät Regensburg, Germany, magazine in its January is- Patricia Bixel), a new edi- and Clark University. sue. It also received a fa- Breeders.” tion with an introductory vorable review in the Wall essay of George Washing- Rhonda Smith- Street Journal. ton Williams, A History of Daugherty (PhD 1999) the Negro Troops in the War presented a paper at the of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 Ohio Valley History Con- (Bronx: Fordham Universi- ference at Murray State ty Press, forthcoming University entitled “ ‘A 2012), and a special number Most Unconventional of The Register of the Ken- Force:’ JFK, the Green Be- tucky Historical Society on rets, and the War in South- The Civil War in Kentucky east Asia, 1961-1963.” (forthcoming 2013), that he commissioned, refereed, Brit Allan Storey (PhD and guest edited. He also 1968) continues to serve as published the following senior historian of the Bu- refereed articles: “The reau of Reclamation in Professor Dan Rowland’s retirement Study of Slavery at the Denver. He is in the pro- Johns Hopkins University, cess of publishing the se- speech: “A Charmed Life.” 1889-1914,” Maryland His- cond volume of the history torical Magazine 106 (Fall of the Bureau of Reclama- 2011): 316-43; “Albion W. tion—the sixth volume

2012 NEWSLETTER P A G E 17 HISTORY History Department Happenings PhD candidate James Savage

Every year the history department attends one of the Lexington Legends baseball games . . .

Graduate students Charles Johnson and Paul Glasser

The Annual Chili Cook-off! Professors Francis Musoni, Hang Nguyen, Sophie Roberts, Stephen Davis, and Jim Albisetti

Socializing at the cookoff

Professor Erik Myrup and his Myrup Erik Professor

Graduate students reclaimed the fish bowl for the chili cookoff. From left to right: Michael Kraemer, Robert Murray, Rachel Dixon, Charles Johnson, Lies Lanckman, Krystle Far- Lars son, man, Jason Boczar, Amanda Boczar, and Greg Seltzer.

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