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G g f B b M. C Ch , f This spring and summer have brought a great deal of good news to the History Department. We’re delighted that three of the NEH grants awarded to Rutgers New Brunswick faculty this year were won by our very own Camilla Townsend, Andy Urban, and Paul Israel. The three very different projects NEH funded reflect the range of vital ac vi es in which our department e cels. Camilla Townsend’s Public cholar grant supports her to focus upon re ning her ongoing project, i h un A New History of the A tecs so that it will be ac cessible to the broader public. Andy Urban’s ummer Ins tute grant, eabrook arms ayered Histories of Displacement, igra on, and Rese lement, will enable him to host high school teachers from across the country in a series of workshops and seminars that e amine eabrook arms as a case study into differ ent histories of reloca on and rese lement during the World War II era. And nally Paul Israel has won a cholarly Edi ons grant that will support the comple on of the mul volume edi on of the papers of Thom as Edison long hosted here in the History Department. These projects give a good sense for the con nuing vitality of the research, teaching, and public engagement in the History Department; they also underscore the importance of con nued funding for the Na onal Endowment for the Humani es.
This year we celebrated the outcome of the U News and World Report rankings of History Departments. The report has us rst in the na on for African American History and Women’s History! Our prominence in both of these elds has been under threat as a result of the many re rements we have e perienced in re cent years. We are also grateful to President Barchi for providing support to the chool of Arts and ciences that will make it possible to address the re rements of dis nguished scholars in History, English, Philosophy and inguis cs. We are delighted to have been successful in hiring Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Kali Nicole Gross, well known scholars of both gender and African Amer ican History. We look for ward to similar searches this year in a n Ameri can history and Global History.
Rutgers con nues to be a dynamic and e ci ng place to study History, we hope you will enjoy read ing more of our news. FAREWELL TO LY S A KO Anthony DiBattista
ynn hanko’s re rement in eptember 2 will mark the end of one of the longest tenures of any profes sional connected to the Rutgers University Department of History. s. hanko began working with the department in 99 serving as the Associate Director of the Rutgers Center of Historical Analysis. he has helped organi e weekly seminars for the Center, as well as popular and successful public conferences.
ormer department Chair and RCHA Director, Rudolph Bell recalls hiring her
“ mart, e cellent listener, personable, highly capable – these were the uali es I as History Department Chair, along with a small search commi ee, saw in ynn hanko when we interviewed her for the post of “administra ve assistant at the fledgling Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. “ he accepted our offer, and since then her accomplishments have been legion selec ng weekly luncheons to meet the desires of any palate, showing the ropes to some 5 faculty program directors, working with maybe department chairs (of varying styles), coping with do ens of A administrators, welcoming an es mated visi ng fellows, organi ing more than 5 conferences here at Rutgers, producing annual newsle ers, overseeing arrangements for several thousand teachers a ending special educa onal programs, and travelling to The Netherlands for a reverse invita on RCHA conference. “ ynn has been a mainstay, a truly cri cal center, at the RCHA for some 25 years and it would be impossible to overstate her essen al role in placing RCHA among the premier research centers at Rutgers and, indeed, throughout the world. We will miss her greatly and wish her all the best in her future endeavors.
ajor research projects organi ed by the RCHA under ynn’s tenure as Associate Director have includ ed “Consumer Cultures in Historical Perspec ve with Victoria De Gra ia; “War, Peace and ociety with John Chambers; “The Black Atlan c with Deborah Gray White and ia Bay; “Ethical ubjects with eth Koven and Ju dith urkis; and “Networks of E change with James Delbourgo and Toby Jones.
s. hanko helped found, along with Professor usan chrepfer, the Rutgers Ins tute for High chool Teachers. The Ins tute enables collabora on between New Jersey s secondary teachers and the faculty of Rut gers University. As Co Director, ynn has helped organi e hundreds of seminars that have provided thousands of New Jersey teachers the opportunity to spend a day studying with eminent Rutgers faculty in the Departments of History, English, and American tudies. Providing both con nuity and ins tu onal memory, s. hanko has helped create one of the oldest and most popular providers of professional development to history teachers in the state. Emeritus Professor ichael Adas, a regular seminar presenter for the Teachers Ins tute since its founding, a ests to ynn’s importance
“ rom the outset, ynn worked closely with usan chrepfer selec ng topics that would be important to the teachers we hoped a ract, recrui ng faculty who would take this important mis sion of our tate University seriously, informing and enrolling teachers from New Jersey and be yond, and providing the materials, venues, and yet again, the appealing lunches that the program re uired. “E cept for years when I was on research leave, I par cipated at least once a year in the pro gram and found interac ng with the very smart and accomplished teachers of New Jersey schools among the most sa sfying educa onal ac vi es I engaged in during my decades at Rutgers. At eve ry daylong session I led, ynn had arrived long before me to make sure that everything needed was
2 ready. he also a end ed the sessions through most of the day, and was there to help me wrap things up at the end, o en staying a erward to discuss the day’s ses sion and offer sugges ons that made for be er ones in the years that followed. “As I believe all of our department colleagues who have led RCHA projects or served on the board would agree that ynn has been a superb co ordinator of all the different ac vi es that have made the center both a pivotal locus for the promo on of intellectual e change and scholarly produc vity in the depart ment and the broader discipline both na on ally and interna onal ly. rom the very rst mee ngs of the commi ee to oversee the center’s mul faceted projects, ynn’s interjec ons in policy shaping mee ngs served to temper the grandiose schemes of well meaning colleagues in ways that made them feasible, o en within steadily increasing budget constraints. he was uite remarkable in her ability to calmly, seemingly ma er of factly, provide informa on that had cri cal bearing on measures proposed and interjec ng comments on, for e ample, the ad vantages of having visi ng scholars who would spend me on campus beyond seminar sessions and engage with the graduate students and post docs who could gain immensely from their ad vice and encouragement. ynn proved me and again adept at handling last minute complica ons (including budget shor alls), di cult colleagues from Rutgers and afar, and above all tend ing to the needs of in house, graduates and post docs from other American universi es, and especially seeing to the needs of students and dis nguished scholars we fre uently a racted from abroad. I cannot imagine that the department will nd a single or even mul ple persons who can begin to replace her.
rom faculty to administra on, graduate students to secondary school teachers, ynn hanko’s work has touched the lives of the many par cipants in RCHA and Teachers Ins tute seminars. he has done that work with grace, pa ence, and enthusiasm – she will be sorely missed.
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On Thursday morning April 2 , 2 , merriment and best wishes greeted our colleague, Board of Gov ernors Dis nguished ervice Professor Virginia “Ginny ans, at a scholarly program to salute her contribu ons to Rutgers and to the historical profession over a career spanning more than four decades. Ronald Grele from Columbia University opened with a rare photo of Warren I. usman displaying his culinary skills to Judy and Herb Gutman back in their days as graduate students at Wisconsin. Ron drew intellectual threads from their heady conversa ons about new historical direc ons to Ginny’s path breaking essays and books, launching a career in which she e plored areas of historical in uiry largely ignored by earlier genera ons immigrants, women, popular culture, and the pu les of argaret ead. Two scholarly panels featured work by seven of Ginny’s students, each of whom displayed in stunning fashion the influence of her guidance into cri cal new avenues of historical in uiry Nancy Carnevale ( ontclair tate) on language and race in Italian American history; Ann arie Nicolosi (College of New Jer sey) on gender and ci enship; tacey Pa on ( organ tate) on wri ng black children into the master nar ra ve of American history; Nicholas olnar (Community College of Philadelphia) on historical inspira on in imagining the future; Ji Hye hin ( onsei University, outh Korea) on nding diversity in an une pected place; Evan Taparata (University of innesota) on American refugee law and policy; and Carmen Whalen (Williams College) on Italian immigra on, Puerto Rican migra on, and a na o studies. ome y guests then adjourned for a hearty luncheon at the Rutgers Club, where tributes from sever al of the assembled colleagues complemented the good food, topped off by a brief presenta on from Nor man arkowit on the cat cra e he shared with Ginny over the years. I am pleased to report that Ginny is nicely recovered from a bit of surgery last pring and as of the wri ng of this report is at her summer place in artha’s Vineyard. he con nues an ac ve life as a scholar, mentor, and friend –
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A B . The past year has taken me to some unexpected a the way to our own d ta under round o cypherpunks, hack- p aces. The h h ht o my summer research tr p to the r sh sts and ertar an dark net traders. e d d I suspect that y Is es was the chance to exp ore a ew o the reat Ir sh and En sh the end o the semester, I’d e watch n a tech sa y student Neo th c monuments. It’s a d fferent k nd o h stor ca work, demonstrate how to use a T rowser to sur the dark net s shu n a on , head stooped, throu h a passa e tom , n er ps ess that “ es stance” wou d sudden y ecome o more than aca- runn n across en ma c car n s or trac n out the deep urrows dem c nterest or that W k eaks wou d now mean someth n where once upon a me a peop e w thout wr n sharpened the r more than a re o u onary exper ment n rad ca transparency. It stone axes and marked the r andscapes. Me a th c monuments was a ery stran e, depress n a ut there was the odd sha o p ace nteres n demands on the h stor ca ma na on and—as ht am dst the oom. I’m a r y certa n that I hadn’t een a o y an an, I wou d ne er ha e no ced the mportance o ear y Stuart erse e s. It wou d not mer t a men on on the new No- e aureate’s c ta on, ut hours spent sten n to y an tau ht me how to hear the o ces o the dead. B w . Th s past academ c year e an n Au ust w th an n ta on to me and my co-ed tor Jud th y e d (Corne -H story) to aunch our new ook – A r ca and Wor d War II (Cam r d e U. Press, 2015) at a sympos um o South A r can scho ars n Johan- nes ur . We were then n ted to ree State Un ers ty y the Center or A r can Stud es or a s m ar aunch and a ta k w th hon- ors students a out How Ac sm In uenced ur Scho arsh p’. At that me students throu hout South A r ca were e nn n a se- r es o protests a out the r tu on--w th n weeks o our departure the un ers ty system exp oded w th m tant protests. C ear y there are s many educa ona e u ty ssues to e reso ed n at ear y morn n stop at Stonehen e, just ahead o the crowds— South A r ca. they can take the reath away. I o e the rary and the manu- The second exc n e ent th s year was the cu m na on scr pt, ut there’s someth n a out dr nk n a p nt o oca y o a pu c h story project G o a T m uktu Mean n s and Narra- rewed eer n “the wor d’s on y pu ocated ns de a preh stor c es o es stance n A r ca and the Amer cas.’ Th s has een an stone c rc e” (the amaz n monument at A e ury) to make you on o n ser es o educa ona scho ar y n a es ocused on the reth nk what you th nk you know a out do n (and exper enc n ) p ace o T m uktu, Ma n the h story, cu ture and ma na on o h story. Intended as a crash course n (re a e y) deep h story or A r ca and ts o a d aspora. The project was sponsored y mu - the open n chapter o my ook on the h story o the r tann c p e departments, GAIA, New Jersey Counc or the Human es, Is es, these encounters w th me a ths ra sed pro ound ues ons N.J. Am stad Counc , the ord ounda on West A r ca ce and a out the too s and m ts o the h stor an’s cra , and my read n the Chance or’s o ce. T m uktu (Tom ouctou) was a center o e ore and a er the tr p has ntroduced me to the amaz n , nno- Is am c scho arsh p and trade rom the 11th century. A UNESC a e, nterd sc p nary work on the deep (and not so deep) past her ta e s te, the c ty has not comp ete y reco ered rom the 2012 current y e n done y archaeo o sts whose methods and n- occupa on y Ansar een and a -Qaeda n the Is am c Ma hre s hts a too rare y nd the r way nto our h story curr cu a. (AQIM). The cho ce y ante- e um A r can Amer cans to use that A ew months a er my encounter w th the me a ths, name s an nteres n commentary on A r can and d aspor c nte - ack n the thorou h y contemporary se n o one o the new ectua connec ons. There are at east two A r can Amer can Honors Co e e’s ass-wa ed sem nar rooms, I ound myse n an se ements y that name n the U. S. one n ur n ton County, e ua y myster ous p ace as a pa r o under raduates ntroduced N. J. (1821) and the other n ake P ac d, New York (1846), the me (and the r e ow c assmates) to the dark net. We had ound a er e n assoc ated w th John rown. Pau o ejoy (York U. our way to the dark net a on a meander n path that had e un Canada), ruce Ha ( uke U.) and enee arr er ( ut ers) and I w th a hunch – that the prac ces o res stance I had spent a uar- he d a teacher’s workshop n Ju y 2016 to tra n NJ teachers n ter century trac n n the ear y Stuart “under round” m ht e prepara on or a S YPE project etween students n New Jersey compared w th other under round orms o res stance n other and students n amako, Ma . p aces and other mes. The sem nar on the “Arts o es stance” I In March we he d a two part nterna ona sympos um on put to ether or the honors pro ram e an w th my peop e, the the T m uktu phenomenon. In the rst part, he d at ut ers New e ers whose surrep ous y c rcu ated wr n s and son s erod- runsw ck, commun ty h stor ans rom a o er New Jersey en- ed the e macy o the ear y Stuart court, ut that was mere y countered scho ars rom South A r ca and Ma . We hosted a tra - the star n po nt on a journey that took us throu h the ph o- e n exh t y John rown es (a human r hts or an za on soph ca porno raphy o pre- e o u onary rance and the under- rom ake P ac d, N.Y). The second part was he d n ur n ton round sam zdat and mus c scene o 1970s’ Czechos o ak a, and County n order to nc ude a s te s t to T m uctoo, New Jersey.
5 Th s was co-sponsored y the Westampton County Mayor’s Com- m D b u . 2017 has een a usy year. My ook on Hans m ee on T m uctoo, the ur n ton County yceum, Under- S oane, the ound n o the r sh Museum and ts or ns n em- round a road Museum o ur n ton County and a num er o p re and s a ery, en t ed , finally came out other or an za ons. We were most apprec a e o the ord with Penguin in the UK and Belknap in the US. I first want to ounda on rant wh ch pa d or the par c pa on o s x scho ars thank all my colleagues at Rutgers, both in the history depart- rom A r ca. ment and beyond, or suppor ng this work or many years now. An on o n part o the project s a Student to Student’ So many people have helped in so many ways, all I can say is that pro ram a Skype, conducted throu h the soc a stud es coord - the book could not have appeared without you! The book was nator o Westampton Townsh ps M dd e Schoo and Mrs. Hawoye widely and posi vely reviewed in the mainstream Bri sh newspa- assoukoye, a h h schoo En sh teacher n amako. It ena es pers, rom the broadsheet le to the tabloid right, and was the students to en a e n d scuss on w th one another. We are named book o the week by T Gua ia , T Tim s, the Dai y p ann n add ona projects to connect the T m uktus o the U.S. Mai and T k (UK). I did interviews on BBC Radio 4’s T ay and Ma and are hop n to set up a s ster c es’ project and a P amm and or the BBC istory aga ine and the Bri sh o ow-up con erence n amako n the summer o 2018 that useum podcast, as well as or several Irish outlets. I also deliv- wou d r n New Jersey and New York teachers and commun ty ered several public lectures to non-academic general audiences, h stor ans to Ma . including a sold-out lecture at the Bri sh useum, a ended by the museum’s new director artwig Fischer and the Chairman o the Board o Trustees Sir Richard ambert. Interes ng e perienc- es all. I also gave public lectures at the Natural istory useum in Berlin and (as a keynote) or the week-long interna onal summer school on the history o collec ng hosted by ngen University, a wonder ul e perience mentoring graduate students rom many different schools. The book will be published in the US in Fall and I look orward to presen ng it at Rutgers at the immer- li useum on October 9. Leah DeVun . I’m happy to report that this summer I finished the first ull dra o my book manuscript, currently tled E S x: A lobal Timbuktu par cipants visit the Burlington County site. This is land that His y f H map i s f m G sis R aissa . I’ve has been held by one Timbuctoo amily since 8 5. uy also completed an ar cle, eavenly ermaphrodites Se ual eston ( ar le ) is the descendant o Timbuctu ounders. is mother is third Difference at the Beginning and End o Time,” or the journal rom the right in the ront row. p s m i va , and I’m in the middle o preparing an issue o the journal TSQ , co-edited with eb Tortorici, en tled u . . m . ast year I stated that my and Car a Yann 's T a s is i i s This volume e plores the history o gender ar c e on the ear y years o n ston Co e e was a out to ap- variance be ore the advent o the term transgender,” and it will pear that was a t premature, ut t has now een pu shed n be published by Duke University Press in 8. I’ve also been paper and an on ne ers on o the ut ers rary Journa . or busy at work on a visual art project en tled In the ge o e- me, th s s the ast wr n I' do a out ut ers h story. Car a, chanical Reproduc on,” which looks at technologi ed aspects o howe er, has a ook we a on on the h story o dorms/ birth and breas eeding, and which intersects with my scholarly res dence ha s wh ch uses se era ut ers u d n s as examp es work on the history o the body, medicine, and technology. This o trends n student hous n and the deas that ay eh nd them. project, which recently debuted at the Bemis Center or Contem- I'm e n ack to work on co on a a or systems and, n the porary rts, has been profiled in P p , Huffi P s , S a , modern era, the eopo d and oe case (1924). We now ha e R b k, F a u S , Dai y Mai , R fi y 29, Pa s , and n ne acu ty n the raduate pro ram work n on aspects o co o- Buzzf , among other publica ons. This summer I was also able n a or ear y repu c h story --- or me, t makes ut ers a rea y to a end a con erence in eeds, England and take a side trip to exc n p ace to e. At the under raduate e e , I' e redes ned a thens, reece, where I looked at ancient sculptures o hermaph- course on amous tr a s that I rst a e w th Warren Susman n rodites and finally got to see the cropolis! I look orward to shar- the ate 1970s -- we spanned the o e and the centur es--, and ing my e periences (and at least one selfie) with my students in then offered w th Ste en awson as a more ocused course on Development o Europe ne t year. Amer can c er es and c r hts. The redes n c rc es ack to Warren's or na nsp ra on, and hope u y w a ow me to Ann Fabian . I spent the last 8 months in Tokyo, studying some draw n many o my co ea ues to e ectures on tr a s outs de apanese and teaching a course on merican culture and poli cs the Amer can exper ence. I w a so teach a a n w th udy e in the North merican Studies Program at the University o To- our on ne course on ut ers h story t w e nteres n to see kyo’s Komaba Campus. I had students rom apan, China, Korea, how t oes now our 2016 ce e ra ons are eh nd us. The sum- Taiwan, and ustralia. Teaching them US history last all was chal- mer has m xed research work, sy a us des n, and h k n , the lenging, to put it mildly, but I learned a lot rom their curiosity h k n n the Smok es, Grand Teton, Ye owstone, and (s to and their ues ons. One o my greatest pleasures was working come) anff and Jasper. with Pro essor Fumiko Nishi aki, an e traordinary scholar o US oreign policy and ormer RC ellow. I made slow progress on 6 my book on merican naturalists, but I was mostly distracted by commitment o our alumni ac vists and the con nued struggles the wonders o Tokyo. Now I am back and will go back to work around issues o diversity and access to resources. uller de- on that book and take up my tasks as a board member o the scrip on o the event appears in the istory inter news- merican Council o earned Socie es and president-elect o the le er. Society o merican istorians. I contributed sec on introduc ons to the volume Imag- ining sia in the mericas, edited by elideth aría Rivas and Lilia Fernandez has recently completed edi ng 5 Events in a Debbie ee-DiSte ano and published by Rutgers University Press His y: A E y p ia f Am i a M sai with BC- last all. The anthology is the result o sustained dialogues at con- C IO. The -volume publica on is set or release in arch 8. erences, including a symposium hosted by Rutgers in 4, and also contains an essay by istory doctoral candidate ulia Kat . I David Foglesong . It’s been a turbulent year. The merican ren y con nue collabora ng with literary scholars Ignacio pe -Calvo over Russia contributed to a number o opportuni es or inter- and Debbie ee-DiSte ano as co-editor o the new interdiscipli- views ( rom RT to Radio iberty and NYC), lectures ( rom Ferris nary series with Palgrave acmillan, istorical and Cultural Inter- State to Columbia), and op-ed pieces ( rom the N wa k S a connec ons between a n merica and sia. to the In anuary I made a short trip to Cuba to par cipate in R vi w f the th anniversary o the Na onal ssocia on in Chih Tang B ks ). I can’t and or the public launch o the Spanish-language volume uellas claim that I had de China en este lado del tl n co, which was edited by my Cu- any impact on U.S. ban colleague it i Espinosa uis (Editorial os ar , ) and policy or the me- includes my essay on the impact o Chinese migra on to Cuba on dia hysteria. But Cantonese villages. The trip allowed me to visit the Chinese cem- at least I did not etery (s ll in need o restora on), a end a andarin language just gnash my class or Cuban youth, and discuss con nued efforts among teeth in silent members o the Chinese community in Cuba to sustain their cul- rustra on. tural tradi ons amidst social change and economic constraints. These e periences, as well as observing internet hot spots in public s uares and the proli era on o small businesses, inspired Despite the me spent on media appearances and han- me to offer a new course on contemporary Cuba this all in the dling some serious problems with my teenage son, I wrote sever- Department o a no and Caribbean Studies. al new chapters or a comprehensive history o merican-Russian rela ons that I am working on with two Russian scholars. Some Jim iessen ( orld istory ibrary in le ander ibrary, one o o the chapters may lead to new projects. For e ample, wri ng a the library liaisons to the department) is con nuing his research chapter that challenges the conven onal reat an” interpre- on ungarian re ugees in the 95 s. In the past year he gath- ta ons o the ending o the Cold ar has led me to be interested ered material in the na onal archives o ungary, ustria, and in doing a book on the roles o merican and Soviet ci en diplo- ermany as well as ashington, D.C. and the UN rchives in mats in ending the mutual demoni a on in the 98 s. New York and eneva, presented at three con erences, and add- ed two ar cles to the ones accessible via the Rutgers repository an e i (Dis nguished Pro essor Emerita) has spent the at http://soar.libraries.rutgers.edu/bib/James_P._Niessen/ . is last year comple ng the manuscript or her book Ra i a F i : ar cle od Brought the ungarians Re ugee Relie in the ight Amy i by P s a H A vis s It is now in copy edi ng o Cold ar Religion is orthcoming in the Hu a ia His i a at University o North Carolina Press and will be out in winter/ R vi w . spring 8. nd although many o you likely will not recogni e the name o my Kirby Post, she will hope ully soon become as Kris n rassill-Kulfan . The - academic year was a well known as Emily Post, to whom she is not related. I am also big one or public history in the Department. In both the Fall and working with Steven awson, who re red rom the Rutgers isto- Spring semesters, the Public istory Theory, ethod, and Prac- ry Department in 9, on a third edi on o our te tbook, Exp ce course visited several local historical sites, including the Cor- i Am i a His i s , or college students as well as an P edi- nelius ow ouse and enry uest ouse to evaluate techni ues on. year rom now we hope to be traveling cross-country with or community engagement in historic house museums, as well Scooter (now 4) and without any books or manuscripts in pro- as nearby archives and libraries to e pose students to the role cess. that they play in dissemina ng historical in orma on to the pub- Kath López . The past year began with a moment o re ec on, lic. student avorite was a field trip in the Spring semester, as several alumni panelists returned to campus or the Rutgers when we traveled to Philadelphia to visit the award-winning jail 5 th anniversary program I co-organi ed with Paul Clemens, museum Eastern State Peniten ary, to analy e their interpreta- Remembering the Rutgers Puerto Rican Student ovement o ve plan and new ground-breaking e hibit on mass incarcera- the 9 s,” a celebra on o the students who demanded change on. on campus. The panels and discussions with students and com- Perhaps most importantly, this Spring, public history munity members throughout the day demonstrated the enduring students had the opportunity to par cipate in a community-led
local history project at the New Brunswick Free Public ibrary in Sinkoff received the USC Shoah Founda on – 8 conjunc on with the New Brunswick rican merican eritage Interna onal Teaching Fellowship, which she will use to incorpo- Commi ee. They curated an e hibit on the legacy o slavery and rate tes monies into her course E ile under Na ism and Com- disen ranchisement in New ersey using a wide variety o primary munism” in the spring o 8. In uly, Sinkoff resumes her role as sources selected by the students. Students also wrote their own the director o the Center or European Studies at Rutgers. e hibit labels, and designed the layout o the e hibit, in the com- Julia Stephens joined the istory Department in the Fall o munity room at NBFP . t its opening, the commi ee and local and spent the academic year on an Inter- sian research ellow- community members held a public orum to discuss issues related ship rom the Social Science Research Council. During her ellow- to the theme, and a number o students marked this as an ‘ah-ha’ ship, she began work on a new book on death in the South sian moment in their history educa on, seeing their work directly con- diaspora. er research travels ound her immersed in various ma- nect to their intended audience. ore collabora ve projects are cabre archives, rom in store or ne t year, aiming to directly involve Rutgers history inventories o the students with the work being done in their communi es to share possessions o de- nuanced, cri cal histories with the public. ceased Indian inden- an Sinkoff spent the year as the Eli abeth and . Richardson tured laborers in Dilworth Fellow in istorical Studies at the Ins tute or dvanced South rica to oral Study, Princeton. er book F m Ri : u y S Dawi histories o the first wi z, N w k ua s, a P i s f wis His uslim uneral home y is under contract with ayne State University Press, as is her in the United King- edited volume (with Rebecca Cypess), Sa a vy’s : G , dom. She also ound u aism a Ba T a i i E i m B i , in the hersel wandering Eastman Studies in usic Series, University o Rochester Press local graveyards, in- (the book’s accompany c.d., In Sara evy’s Salon, is already avail- cluding taking the able https://www.amazon.com/Levys-Raritan-Players-Rebecca- photo (to the right) o Cypess/dp/B073MR1S1N/ref=sr_1_1? a statue o a Sikh ie=UTF8&qid=1501118592&sr=8-1&keywords=sara+levy ). She guard keeping watch presented the ollowing papers usical Enlightenment The over the ornate istorical and Social Conte t o the It ig Circle in ate Eighteenth- tombs o Chinese Century Berlin,” at the merican usicological Society and the merchants in Singa- Society or usic Theory, ancouver, Bri sh Columbia, and was a pore’s Bukit Brown Cemetery. During her travels, Stephens pre- discussant or the panel Remembering E ra endelsohn istori- sented on her work at the University o the itwatersrand in o- an o East European ewry,” at the 48th annual ssocia on or hannesburg, Delhi University, the Na onal University o Singa- ewish Studies con erence, San Diego, where she also chaired a pore, ong Kong University, the ssocia on o sian Studies in panel, The erli e o the arsaw he o Uprising.” She con n- Toronto, and at the Interna onal Con erence on sian Studies in ued her teaching ellowship or the ewish Theological Seminary Chiang ai. er a year o globetro ng, Stephens is looking or- o merica, giving talks in partnerships with synagogues and ew- ward to se ling into her new home in ighland Park, New ersey ish Community Centers in oboken, ivingston, Philadelphia, and and rolling out new courses on South sia, Islam, sian migra on, Chicago. She co-led a trip to Poland, The istory and Revival o and amily history during the academic year - 8. ewish i e and Culture in arsaw and Krak w,” rom une 5- Paola Tartakoff was a ellow this year at the Israel Ins tute or uly with Congrega on nsche Chesed in New York, be ore con- dvanced Studies in erusalem. She was simultaneously a ellow nuing on to ’viv, Ukraine, to give the lecture Enlightenment at the European Ins tutes or dvanced Study. In Israel, she com- igra ons Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, Paris, Podolia pleted a dra o her second book project, v si , i um i (Ukraine), and Providence” (with Rachael Rosner, Ph.D.), at the si , a Ri ua Mu i M i va Eu p er ar cle Center or Urban istory o East Central Europe, and at the Conversion and Return to udaism in igh and ate edieval Ukrainian Ins tute o Cogni ve-Behavioral Therapy. In Ukraine, Europe Chris an Percep ons and Portrayals” was published in Sinkoff traveled as ar east as ięd yb ż ( ed ibesh), a city in s v si i M i va (Routledge). er the province o Podolia in the 8 th century (now the Ukrainian ar cle Segregatory egisla on and ewish Religious In uence on oblast o Podolii) that was owned by the Polish magnate amily, Chris ans in the Thirteenth Century” was published in M i va the C artoryskis, home to Mi i s: aw a Mu f ssi a S i s i Mi A s the ounder” o asidism, (Brepols). hile living in Israel, she spoke on ‘Both the en and the Ba’al Shem Tov, and a the omen’ Toward a Fuller istory o edieval ewish-Chris an site o ideological contes- Conversion” at the Israel Ins tute or dvanced Studies on ta on between enlight- Beyond Conversion and Ritual urder The Norwich Circumci- ened ews and asidim— sion Case o , Reconte tuali ed” at Forum shkena ” at The the subject o her first ebrew University o erusalem on Toward a ore Inclusive book. ere’s the C ar- Framework or the Study o ewish-Chris an Conversion” at the toryski castle con erence The iddle ges Now!” at ai a University on
8 Conversion and Compe ng Iden es in edieval Europe The on or students, reading PhD disserta on dra s, and pushing ad- Case o a Contested Child” at the interna onal workshop visees to finish up disserta ons now that they have jobs. I am Conte tuali ing the Sel ” at Tel viv University on ews as working away on my project on us ces Scalia and lito. This pro- gents o Conversion to udaism in edieval Christendom” at the ject involves a totally unan cipated return to my original research Center or the Study o Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters on Italian immigra on, though with a very different twist. I am at Ben urion University and on E ile and Conversion in the e- interested in how white ethnics become conserva ves. Scalia’s dieval and Early odern editerranean” at ai a University. She ather, once a sulphur mine worker, was a commu ng student or chaired sessions at the con erences S f Hasi im in Con- years but finally got his B degree rom Rutgers and went on to get te t” ( ebrew University) and ewish omen’s Cultural Capital his PhD at Columbia. is son became a pro essor o Italian litera- under Islam” (Israel Ins tute or dvanced Studies). ture at Brooklyn College. It is an ama ing story, even or an e peri- enced immigra on history hand like me. Camilla To nsend . I have had a busy year. In the all o , Renova ng my guest co age on artha’s ineyard takes three contribu ons appeared in uick succession. First came the up about o my me and it is very chao c with carpenters third edi on o the US history te tbook I help author, O ord’s Of and landscapers, electricians and pond diggers appearing and dis- P p : A His y f U i S a s Then, just in me or the appearing (at their will, un ortunately, not mine). People who live university’s 5 th birthday, appeared the S a a B a k book on islands simply don’t operate on e ternal clock me, they pay (edited by arisa Fuentes and Deborah ray hite), in which I more a en on to seasonal me, but that is only because they have a piece on the intersec ng histories o Rutgers and the e- need to make money. This is very annoying to an urban academic nape (or Delaware) people. ast arrived a book I have been work- who is pre y much governed by the clock and calendar and has ing on or many years, A a s f Na v Am i a: H w Na uas had to develop personal rela onships with contractors. I am now f ia M xi p T i His y A iv (O ord, ). It is the witnessing the effects o a moment in labor history some o my first book ever wri en about all the tec historical annals taken beloved old riends and cra s people are orced to leave this place together, and I e pect it will be widely read in my field. The re- because land values have become beyond their reach and so called sponse has already been marvelous, and in the upcoming year I affordable housing” programs are not affordable. The e odus I am have been invited to e ico, Poland and apan to speak. witnessing is one e ample o Trumpville in microcosm. arch was the 4 th anniversary o Pocahontas’s ndy Urban’s parents (he has a joint appointment with merican death in England. Thus I was asked to give a keynote at a con er- Studies and istory) have a house here and ndy spent some me ence hosted by the Ins tute or istorical Research and the Bri sh growing up me on this island. I am delighted to maintain contact ibrary, and I appeared in a film about her li e made by the Smith- with my Rutgers colleagues and riends. This is a lovely place and I sonian Channel. I also ound mysel busy responding to comments hope people will let me know i they are visi ng between une and and ueries rom e ico. y book Ma i zi ’s i s appeared mid-September. there in late 5 and has received widespread no ce. Three I was so proud o my students’ presenta ons at the re re- filmmakers, or e ample, have contacted me about possible mov- ment event this past spring. It is difficult to describe how a pro es- ies. sor such as mysel eel at such a moment when all her work and y two sons are growing up. They are and now. I encouragement becomes palpable. Somehow, seeing a panel o will soon e perience university li e as a parent. students together reveals pa erns. I was especially delighted by
some fingerprints” o my style,” notably the interdisciplinary And Urban was the recipient o a Na onal Endowment or nature o my students' work which clearly evidenced my interest in the umani es Summer Ins tute grant, in the sum o $ 9,855, anthropological and generally interdisciplinary methods along with to support the project Seabrook Farms ayered istories o Dis- an emphasis upon a very long term vision o the issues they have placement, igra on, and Rese lement. In uly 8, Rutgers studied. will host high school teachers rom across the country in a se- I was also happy to see the department staff at my re re- ries o workshops and seminars that e amine Seabrook Farms as a ment event. ary De eo, who spent years helping me and all o case study into different histories o reloca on and rese lement the history department aculty, came out o her re rement to cele- during the orld ar II era, and how internees, migrants, and brate. Several o our wonder ul history bibliographers also came to re ugees were recruited and sponsored as laborers. the event. You have been wonder ul colleagues. Rudy Bell, who
has been by my suppor ve colleague or our decades, arranged Mark Wasserman . The ining istory ssocia on has awarded my and managed the event. llow me to use this newsle er to thank book P s s a P i s: Busi ss, E i s, F i s, a G v him and to acknowledge his nurturing role or me and all o the m i M xi , 1854 1940 (Stan ord University Press, 5) the department’s aculty. Finally, thank you, all o my dear colleagues, Clark Spence ward or the best book on mining history. Two or sharing the celebra on o my re rement. Your presence and o my students, Kenneth oss and David Reid, earned their doc- interest affirmed the value o a long and dedicated career at our torates, awarded at the ay, commencement. I have spent university. most o the year researching and wri ng a book on the e ican
Revolu on or the Cambridge University Press Essen als in istory Yael Zerubavel . This last academic year, I received a ellowship series. rom the Frankel Ins tute or dvanced udaic Studies at the Uni- Ginn Yans . Supposedly, I re red on une . This is re rement I versity o ichigan, nn rbor and spent all there as a am just as busy now as I ever was wri ng le ers o recommenda- Con nued on page 5. 9 Graduate Student Accomplishments in 2016-17 Fellowships, Grants, and Other Awards and Richard III Society; she was also awarded a Rutgers GSNB Special Study Grant Shaun Armstead, Neal Ira Rosenthal History Travel Fellowship ; she was also awarded a Rutgers GSNB Pre- isserta on Re- Charles Riggs, Warren and Beatrice Sus an isserta on o - search Travel Grant ple on Fellowship Dale Booth, The Society or Nau cal Research Grant Julia Bowes, e erson Scholars Founda on Na onal Fellowship Paul Sampson, he ical Heritage Founda on short-ter ) at UVA Fellowship; he was also awarded a Andrew W. Mellon Su er Research Grant Rachel Bunker, Sa uel Flagg Be is isserta on Research Peter Sorensen, Mellon Interna onal isserta on Research Award ro the Society or Historians o A erican Foreign Re- Fellowship; he was also awarded a Rutgers GSNB Special Study la ons SHAFR she was also awarded a Andrew W. Mellon Grant Su er Research Grant Ryan Tate, Andrew W. Mellon Su er Research Grant
Hilary Buxton, Andrew W. Mellon o ple on Fellowship Lance Thurner, Andrew W. Mellon o ple on Fellowship Pamela Walker, Rutgers GSNB Pre- isserta on Research Trav- Satyasikha Chakraborty, ouis Bevier isserta on o ple on el Grant Fellowship Meagan Wierda, Social Sciences and Hu ani es Research homas Cossen no, Andrew W. Mellon o ple on Fellowship ouncil octoral Fellowship Jessica Criales, A erican Acade y o History Research Fellow- Kyle Williams, Neal Ira Rosenthal History Travel Fellowship, he ship she was also awarded a Andrew W. Mellon Su er Re- was also awarded a ‘Grants to Scholars’ award ro the Uni- search Grant versity o Wisconsin-Madison Libraries and a Andrew W. Hannah Frydman, Neal Ira Rosenthal History Travel Fellowship Mellon Su er Research Grant Amy Zanoni, Rutgers enter or ultural Analysis Fellowship Marlene Gaynair, Rutgers igital Hu ani es Ini a ve igital Hu ani es Seed Grant raduate Student Con erence Presenta ons - 7 Patrick Harris, Andrew W. Mellon Su er Research Grant he Beatrice Adams , Associa on or the Study o A rican A erican was also selected to spend 2017-2018 as an exchange student Li e and History at the Ecole Nor ale Superieure in Paris Yarden Avital , Northeast Slavic, East European and Eurasian Alison Hight, Rutgers GSNB Special Study Grant Studies Conference Julia Katz, Andrew W. Mellon o ple on Fellowship Jesse Bayker, Trans Studies Conference, Tucson; Berkshire Con- ference on istor of o en, ender and Se uali es Eri Kitada, apan-United States Educa onal Exchange Pro o- on Founda on Research Grant Christopher Blakley, istor of Science Societ ; er an istor- ical Ins tute; A erican Societ for Environ ental istor ; Yale Raechel Lutz, Andrew W. Mellon o ple on Fellowship Environ ental istor Se inar; Earl A erican Republic Se i- Laura Michel, Na onal Society o The olonial a es o A eri- nar, CUNY rad Center ca Scholarship Andrea Blandford , A erican Societ of Environ ental istor aylor Moore, Ford Founda on Pre- octoral Fellowship Kendra Boyd, Associa on for the Stud of African A erican Timur Mukhamatulin, Neal Ira Rosenthal History Travel Fellow- Life and istor ; Business istor Conference; Berkshire Con- ship ference on the istor of o en Alexander Petrusek, Neal Ira Rosenthal History Travel Fellow- Julia Bowes , A erican istorical Associa on ship, he was also awarded a Rutgers GSNB Pre- isserta on Hilary Buxton, North A erican Conference on Bri sh Studies; Research Travel Grant odern Bri sh Studies Conference, Bir in ha Marika Plater, Andrew W. Mellon Pre- octoral Fellowship in Chris na Chiknas , A erican istorical Associa on Museu duca on at the Museu o the ity o New or Hannah Frydman, Societ for the istor of Authorship, Read- Jazmin Puicon, Warren and Beatrice Sus an isserta on o - in and Publishin (S ARP); S posiu on ork and Con- ple on Fellowship su p on, th to 2 st centuries, Université Paris-Est Créteil Melissa Reynolds, Schalle award ro the Medieval Acade y
Marlene Gaynair, Associa on for the Stud of African A eri- Svanur Pétursson, Berlin Pro ra Su er orkshop Confer- can Life and istor ence “Beco in Trans er an ; A erican istorical Associa- on Travis Jeffres , A erican Societ for Ethnohistor Marika Plater, A ricultural istor Societ : To n and Countr Tracey Johnson, African A erican Intellectual istor Societ Conference Conference Jazmin Puicon , Interna onal Con ress on o en s istor , William Kelly, La n A erican Studies Associa on, Li a Bo ota Raechel Lutz, Bri sh Societ for the istor of Science, the David Reid, A erican istorical Associa on Canadian Societ for the istor and Philosoph of Science and The istor of Science Societ , Alberta, Canada; “Science, Peter Sorensen, La n A erican Studies Associa on, Li a Technolo and the Poli cs of no led e in lobal A airs , Brenann Su er, e inist Consu p on Conference, c ill North estern Universit Ins tute of ender, Se ualit and e inist Studies Laura Michel, oluntar Ac on istor Societ Conference; Pamela Walker, Associa on for the Stud of African A erican Societ of istorians of A erican orei n Rela ons (S A R) Life and istor Conference Caitlin Wiesner , African A erican Intellectual istor Confer- Taylor Moore, aterial Culture of E plora on and Acade ic ence Travel, Universit of o n en; lobali a on of Science in the iddle East and North Africa, Colle e of the ol Cross Jasmin Young , A erican Studies Associa on ( assachuse s) Amy Zanoni , Berkshire Conference on the istor of o en; Ma hew Brien, Renaissance Societ of A erica Labor and orkin Class istor Associa on ee n
Graduate Student Milestones Proposal defenses and working tle Lauren Swi , “ ateriali in reatness: ar, o en, and Iden - Ju B , P H y U - t In Seventeenth Centur S eden y H 18 Danielle Willard-Kyle, “Livin in Li inal Spaces: Refu ees in Ital- K d B d, P - ian Displaced Persons Ca ps, 45- 5 P j R Kyle Williams, “The Corpora on s T o Bodies: Personhood and u D u , P C - Poli cs in the T en eth Centur C ; w Kevin Young, “No ads, E iles, and Slaves: The Invisible Indio in W w W C W Cuba, 750- 8 5 C w w y C - Ma or Field xamina ons
Beatrice Ada s (African American ), Laura Michel, Brenann u er an Mea an ier a (American ), Catherine Naeve (Early u / u Modern European ), Yar en Avital an Patrick Harris (Modern Dina Fainberg (c/o 2012) – a former advisee of David Fogelsong European ), Katherine Morris ( Women’s & Gender ) and Jochen Hellbeck: as Lecturer in Modern History at City, Uni- versity of London . ince gradua ng, she has held short-term post Minor ield E amina ons -doctoral fellowships at NYU and the University of Bremen and Moya Be war ( African ), Beatrice Adams ( taught at the University of msterdam from 201 un l taking the f i Di po ), Daniel Manuel (American ), Paul Sampson posi on at City. (Early Modern European), Pamela Walker (Women’s & Gender) Sara Black (c/o 2016) – a former advisee of Bonnie mith: Tenure Ph.D. Degrees Conferred -track posi on as ssistant rofessor of uropean History of ci- Kendra Boyd , ence and Medicine at Christopher Newport University in Virgin- ia. y Molly Giblin (c/o 2015) – a former advisee of Bonnie mith: Lund , C y C -Gill Chair of History in the Rosary College of rts and ciences at y W w ' L Dominican University (River Forest, IL) for the 2017-1018 aca- 1866-1 1 demic year. D d R d , W C R y C Felicia Thomas (c/o 2014) – a former advisee of Deborah White: C W x 1 61-1 7 Tenure-track posi on as ssistant rofessor of History at Morgan W tate University in Bal more, Maryland. Dora Vargha (c/o 201 ) – a former advisee of aul Hanebrink: Co D d -editor of the ocial History of Medicine Journal, published by y Oxford University ress. C W w W
The 39 th Annual Susman Conference – “Thinking With Empire” Paul Sampson
A blustery spring day failed to dampen a warm and lively intellectual ex- change which took place at “Thinking With Empire,” the 39 th annual Susman Con- ference hosted by the graduate students of the Rutgers History Department. Com- prising a dream-team of 9 Ph.D. students, all tested in the refining fire of Rutgers’ rigorous historical training, the Susman commi ee Catherine abikian, eagan Weirda, Pamela Walker, Alex Petrusek, Caitlin Wiesner, Tracey Johnson, Paul er- cande , Shaun Armstead, a e Sinclair, Paul Sampson worked relessly to in- sure that presenters and professors could mingle in a well-choreographed and collegial atmosphere well supplied with local New runswick delicacies and a modest selec on of alcoholic refreshments. The conference theme, “Thinking With Empire,” asked scholars to “re- think the conceptual, geographic, temporal and thema c boundaries of empire and the imperial.” This call was heeded by dozens of applicants from history, liter- ature, geography, and classics departments across the United States and Europe, and the final roster of presenters included students from the Université de Ge- nève, SUNY Stony rook, the University of Florida, UCLA, University of Pennsylva- nia, Yale, Harvard, and, of course, Rutgers. any professors kindly pitched in to moderate panels which included “Racial Jus ce as a Challenge to Empire” Walter Rucker , “Technologies of mperi- al ureaucracy” Judith Surkis , “Health, nowledge, and the mperial” James Del- bourgo and Johan athew , “Global Labor and igra on” Seth oven , “Language, Literature, and Na onal den ty” arbara Cooper , and “Transna onal Feminisms” elinda Davis, who also generously volunteered her office as a storage space for wayward chairs and tables . Jennifer Jones, Dawn Ruskai, a Leonaggeo, and Candace Walco -Shepherd, also offered invaluable assistance in making the conference a success. Aiming to maximize the poten al of these engaging panels, the Susman commi ee gave the conference an intellectual adrenaline shot by invi ng Rutgers alum Dr. Todd Shepard to deliver the keynote address. Now an Associate Profes- sor of History and co-director in the program for the study of women, gender, and sexuality at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Shepard delivered a detailed cultural analysis of French films, popular literature, and poli cal language which he dubbed “Sex Talk and the History of Post-Algerian France.” y examining French images of male Arabs as sexually ravenous and exploita ve, Shepard provided some much-needed context to the racist stereotypes that con nue to plague French poli cs in the age of acron. While a furious Nor-Easter ba ered the campus for much of the day, turn- ing umbrellas inside out and pu ng conference formalwear to the test, present- ers and moderators found hot coffee and a cozy atmosphere in Rutgers’ New Aca- demic uilding, which proved a welcome oasis for a conference that has in recent years taken a nomadic journey from Van Dyck to the New runswick Seminary and beyond. As we look forward to the for eth anniversary of the conference that will take place next Spring, we can be assured that this Rutgers History tradi on will con nue to bring engaging scholars, eager presenters, encouraging modera- tors, and excellent cuisine to College Avenue for many years to come.
12 Neoliberalism Working Group Melissa Feinberg & Jennifer Mittelstadt
n late 2 1 and early 2 1 , we found ourselves facing new research ues ons that forced us to consider seriously the concept of “neoliberalism.” We decided to form a working group, “Neoliberalism: Past and Present,” to allow us and other colleagues from anthropology, geography, English, and Women’s and Gender Studies to jointly explore the meaning and usefulness of the concept. We asked: What is neoliberalism? What, if anything, is new about it? What is its genealogy? What uses could long, cri cal histories of neoliberalism serve? With an ins tu onal home in the Center for Cultural Analysis and sponsorship from the Rutgers Center for Global Advancement and nterna onal Affairs, Histo- ry, and other departments and programs, we met in the fall of 2 1 to discuss some of the basic texts defining and historicizing neoliberalism. n spring 2 17 we held two symposia on some of the major problems we had iden fied in under- standing neoliberalism. Our first symposium took up the most recognizable feature of neoliberalism: global poli cal and economic changes. With scholarship from ndia to Africa and from the United States to Eastern Europe, the symposium examined how classical and neoclassical economic theory both molded and responded to global economic change, and how new regimes of labor, wages and racial hierarchy reshaped both local and global poli cal economies. Our par cipants included Angus urgin Johns Hopkins University ; anu Goswami New York University ; artha Lamp- land University of California, San Diego ; and Franco archiesi Ohio State Univer- sity . Rutgers historians Johan athew and Donna urch provided comments. Our second symposium examined a process we call “the economiza on of every- day life.” Neoliberal impera ves have had profound effects on everyday life all over the globe. Are these transforma ons genuinely new or callbacks to earlier moments in the history of capitalist development? This symposium addressed how neoliberalism reshaped labor, migra on, and housing, in locales from Asia to North America. Our par cipants included arisa Chappell Oregon State Universi- ty and Lalaie Ameeriar University of California Santa arbara, Asian Studies and Anthropology . Rutgers faculty members Asher Ghertner and aya ikdashi pro- vided comment. Together, the two symposia advanced our thinking about neoliberalism and the promises and perils of trying to approach it historically. The symposia were also great fun—meals and recep ons with the par cipants allowed us to extend our conversa ons and build solidarity in our interdisciplinary group. n fall 2 17 we will highlight the work of the graduate students par cipa ng in the working group. We will pre-circulate and discuss disserta on proposals, seminar papers, and or ar cles. n spring 2 18 we will hold two symposia. The first on discipline and social control and the second on how neoliberalism reshapes the divide between public and private, and defines par cipa on and ci zenship around the globe. We will seek scholarship that examines de- democra za on, urban planning and gentrifica on, priva za on, environment and resources, and humanitarianism.
13 CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR ALUMNI!
Bruce Chadwick Anna Clark
Law & Disorder: Alternative Histories of the Self: A Cultural History of The Chaotic Birth of Sexuality and Secrets the NYPD (Bloomsbury Academic, (Thomas Dunne Books, 2017) 2017)
Richard Ivan Jobs Kevin Dann Backpack Ambassadors: How Expect Great Things: The Life Youth Travel Integrated and Search of Henry David Europe Thoreau (University of Chicago Press, (Penguin Books, 2017) 2017)
Melanie A. Kiechle Kay Wright Lewis
Smell Detectives: An Olfactory A Curse Upon the Nation: History of Nineteenth-Century Race, Freedom, and Extermi- Urban America nation in America and the Atlantic World (University of Washington Press, 2017) (University of Georgia Press, 2017)
14 RECENT ALUMNI BOOKS
Sandra C. Mendiola Nicholas Trajano García Molnar Street Democracy: Vendors, American Mestizos, the Violence, and Public Space in Philippines, and the Mallea- Late Twentieth-Century bility of Race, 1898-1961 Mexico (University of Missouri Press, (University of Nebraska Press, 2017) 2017)
Tammy M. Proctor, Stacey Patton ed. Spare the Kids: Why Gender and the Great War Whupping Children Won’t
Save Black America (University of Illinois Press, 2016) (Beacon Press, 2017)
Tammy M. Proctor, ed. Erika Rappaport A Thirst for Empire: How Tea An English Governess in the Shaped the Modern World Great War: The Secret Brus- sels Diary of Mary Thorp (Princeton University Press, 2017) (Oxford University Press, 2017)
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L st y F t st y t . t t f 2016 y s 3-y t s f t D t- f s t R t s t t t @ s. . t f s & st y. D F ( / 2012) – Sarah Gordon . ' v t t t t t f - f v s f D v F s s 's st y s t t -Y st ty. 1 t v x t 's s s v s t s t ’s t t s t t GO s t D. . x t s f v s s s v ts G s f y B . t t st 00 y s f Y st y. O st t - Nichola Harri . s t t t s - y x t v s t t f s t f / t f st y . L st s G ’s t y R s y 30t t f t s - B st F L y s M v s M s f v f t E A st 18t M v E y M E The Sacre t t G an the Secular in Me ie al Healing Sites, Objects, an s t s v t t y s t Te ts (A A t s t st y f M v y 1917 y v . s s - A t) s. B . B s L M K ys t x ts s - y f ( Y R t 2016). A M y 2017 s s y v s. ' t - t U Y ’s A f Ex . R t s t st ts t y f A . M F s s 's st y; t -y t- Mike Heaney (2008). My st t f t s s t f s s s t -y f - s 201 . M t t s t . U ffi y st . f f t -Y s t t 2007. O j ts v v . 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L st y t t v s ty f v t t s t y t s - st f R t s' 250t v s y t Old Rut- t y s Journal o the History o Me icine er at An Anniver ary Co e ora on . an Allie Sciences ss t G y G f t s t R t s 250 s t s - s s ts f t y t s. t t t y f R . M D . t f t ss f 1938. st y s t s Stephanie Jone -Ro er (RU- B 2012) s t t t s t s s ts t v s s t s t s v - s s y. A t f y y - t t t Y U v s ty ss f y - s f s v G t t v t t y s v s t s f t s v y t t t t Et - - t j ts A v y t L t s f t s y L s t . v Af v ty y t M.A. f t t t 1970 .D. 1976. B t B s At . s t E t f t s F s f U v - Kenny Janken ( .D. 1991). s s t s s ty s s s st- t f s s f t F t f t U v s ty f t ’s t f t F t A Ass f U v s ty - t y f t A t s s s t t s s t s E t F - O st y t - v q t y j s f F ty s t f t s . - Southern ultures . My t The Wilmington Ten io- s s s ' s lence, njus ce, an the Rise o Black Poli cs in the 1 7 s (U st f t t f ' t M t s E s v ss 2016) t 2017 A s v t t s s’ v s L A v M ts t t st tst t t t ts t st y f t A 2017 ss f Sla ery an Aboli on ( // L F y t L F st - .t f . / t/ s DYQDU x M jZ /f ). ty. ( s f t t f t s’ s v t – t t y !) s t - Peter Lar on . A st st t v -y t s f t y t t t f t Journal o American U F st y D t t. s st y s v s t History f y v v – y t y - s v s v t f st y. s f t t j ’s t – t s v t t t. Y ’ ’v f t t y s sy t t s t f f . F t s y t s s s s s s f F s s t st f t U B f G v s’ x- t v A v t t s v t f ty - v t s t U . ss t t t f t s xt s t t s t s t U t s s s sfy ts y. t y s y t- syst . ( t t t s t s y s t s t s t f t v s ty f ty st ts t t .) x s t s Af t s. B t t s t . t s y ommu- y t t s A st. ’t nity an hange The Trans orma ons o a ortheastern Parish, t f U s s t s y. O c. 1383-c. 1662 t t s s f - E s t t ’s M.F.A. ’ v t sy s t v . v j t ’ s U v s ty L f t t s s . t s ’ t t t f t t . v s v t - t-t - st t f t s . ty s ty E s st y v - t y s t f F z - Richard Ivan Job . ’ y t t M y f s t t t A f B s f y Backpack Ambassa ors Ho Youth Tra el t s s s t v s s f M ntegrate Europe t t U v s ty f ss. t . y s s s t. t s f t s f t Times Higher E uca on . History To ay s Abi ail Lewi Ju n Lort . 2016-2017 s t s t t s t f t A st ss s y f t L s-L ts f y. O t A y M - t y Time . A ’v j st t v t t j t F tz A ( ss R Z t s ‘ ts’ t B y . G t-G t ’s 95 t t y). A L ts f R t s f s v t y t t f t t j s v t y t (R U R R ). K G t Ez t v t t t A Ass f U v s ty t OR t s t y t t t (AAU ) s t D . s t s t f . L s s & s v s. t B t y t 1905 Kathleen W. Jone (1988). t s y f t s t f s – t y ! ! Y f y ss t t s s. s s s f s s t s j y “ R f ss ” t t t s s y 10 t 18 stop-bea ng-black-children.ht l?_r=2 , is based on the new C S v – p P j k k b y d book, S K y g ' S v B k d y pp , eacon Press. The work is a con nua on of issues p v d p k raised in y disserta on which was wri en under the direc on B k N E d C fi y k G - of Ginny Yans, ackson ears, le Price, and David evering y! b x d d R d d - ewis. p d B B k Ta M. roc or . It has been a busy year as the World War I Kay Lewis (2011) My b k centennial con nues. I had the good fortune to co-edit two books for Oxford University Press that focus on the war. The will be published by the University of Georgia Press, August 15, first, g G v G S B 2017, and I will begin a post as Assistant Professor at Howard D y f M y with Sophie de Schaepdrijver , is an edited University in the Fall of 2017. diary that describes life in occupied elgiu fro the point of view of a iddle-aged nglish governess. The second, G Sandra Mendiola García . Since leaving Rutgers, I have taught at G with Susan R. Grayzel , is a state-of-the- two ins tu ons, the University of Alaba a in Huntsville UAH field edited collec on. In other news, I con nue to chair the and the University of North Texas UNT where I’ currently an depart ent at Utah State University in beau ful ogan. Todd assistant professor. I have been surrounded by terrific students and I have plenty of roo for guests! and excellent colleagues, including RU alu na Kate I y. I teach upper division and graduate courses in a n A erican history Erika Rappapor , s ll enjoying life at the beach at U S , has and a World History survey. I a very excited to announce that recently published a co-edited a volu e, g B v y book, S D y V V P b y P P - y B - S - y M incoln: University of loo sbury Acade ic, 2016 and f H Nebraska Press , ca e out in April. This su er, I a preparing S M will appear this August with y tenure file and traveling to central Mexico, where I will e - Princeton University Press. She is now e barking on a project, bark on a new project related to labor and health in two silver tenta vely tled: M f P b f ining co uni es. I look forward to seeing friends at Rutgers , which will explore i perial di ensions of the e er- during Mark Wasser an’s re re ent conference. gence of the field of public rela ons and then explore how PR beca e a neocolonial ins tu on that shaped the process and Nick Molnar published M P e ory of decoloniza on in the for er ri sh pire. M b y f 1898-1961 with the University of Mis- souri Press earlier in 2017. He's currently researching the Philip- Kevin Reill Ph.D. pines in World War II, aintaining the digital hu ani es con- 1 is s ll teaching at tent for the I igra on and thnic History Society, and gar- Raritan alley o u- dening with his wife and dog. nity ollege, beginning a year-long sabba cal this ri a akra ar M er c/o 2004 . This was a busy year su er. A ong other where planning the iolent Intersec ons: Wo en of olor in things, I will be wri ng a the Age of Tru p event took up uch of y e and energy. second edi on of y The one-day sy posiu which exa ined Isla ophobia and brief world history, violence against Musli wo en, sexual/in ate partner vio- H J y lence involving wo en of color in our local area, and state Row an i lefeld sanc oned violence against black wo en was capped o by a and an expanded Instructor's Manual. This year I co pleted the live strea ed panel discussion featuring historian Dr. Kali Gross sixth edi on of y reader, f H y edford/St. Mar- that was a ended by roughly 00 people. I then spent uch of n's . the spring se ester traveling around the South giving talks on both y current book project as well as on lack ives Ma er S ep en Ro er on PhD 1 . Two years on fro y last up- and issues of racial jus ce ore broadly. I a currently in the date for the newsle er, I’ co ple ng y fourth year as direc- idst of packing and ge ng ready to relocate. I was fortunate tor of the Roy Rosenzweig enter for History and New Media at enough to win an A S fellowship for this co ing year and I will George Mason University in irginia, and in the process of sign- spend that e as a visi ng researcher/fellow at the a es ing on for another four year ter . Relying as the enter does Weldon ohnson Ins tute at ory University. This will give e on grant funding, these are very uncertain es, but the need the en re year to devote yself to wri ng the new anuscript. for work at the intersec on of history and digital technology If anyone plans to co e through Atlanta in the next 12 onths, con nues to grow. For the last year, uch of y e has been please let e know. It’s always a pleasure to catch up with old devoted to working on and pro o ng y tropy.org , new friends! so ware to organize the photos researchers take in their ar- chival research being developed at RR HNM by a tea that S ace a on . The New York Ti es published a piece of co - Sean Takats and I are leading. It’s an easy to use, beau ful look- entary on y new book. The piece, Stop ea ng lack hil- ing tool that will transfor the research prac ces of hu ani es dren h ps://www.ny es.co /2017/0 /10/opinion/sunday/ on nued on page 25. 19 J h Wh cl y Ch mb II John Chambers Receives Ambrose Award b c m h 2017 c p h S - ph E. Amb l H y A h A l M h H y S c y N ck Ap l 2 . N m h l h h Band of Brothers and numerous other books, the award celebrates out- stand n contr bu ons to the rac ce o oral h story. Pr or rec ents nclude Studs Terkel, Tom Brokaw, Ken Burns, Steven S elber , Isabel W lkerson, Dav d Isay, M chael Beschloss and Jacquel ne Dowd Hall, amon others. D s n u shed Pro essor o H story and a ormer cha r o the Rut ers H story De- artment, hambers re red n , a er 45 years o colle e teach n . He tau ht John W. hambers II, w th ast and resent staff o R HA. : G. Kurt Piehler, Molly Graham, courses on Amer can h story and oral h sto- Sandra Stewart Holyoak, Shaun Illingworth, and Nicholas T. Molnar. ry, conducted nterv ews and used oral h stor es, n add on to other sources, n many o h s ubl ca ons. In 4, he hel ed u de Rut ers alumn n the crea on o the Rut ers ral H story Arch ves R HA . S nce then, he has cha red ts Academ c Adv sory Board and been ts academ c cham on as the R HA has become reco n zed as hav n one o the to oral h story webs tes n the world. More than 5 ersons a ended the ceremony, at wh ch hambers was lauded by arl Burns, Pres dent o the Rut ers v n H s- tory Soc ety James Masschaele, ecu ve ce Dean o the School o Arts and Sc ences SAS and ormer cha r o the H story De- artment and Peter March, ecu ve Dean o SAS, who resented the Ambrose Award laque and medal. o n that hambers had also rece ved awards n scholarsh , teach n and serv ce—the three ma n areas cons dered m ortant by the un vers ty or romo on—Dean March heralded h m “a model member o the aculty.” Undergraduate Events Senior Celebration Senior Celebration is the History Department's final celebration for our seniors. It provides everyone an opportunity to get together with fellow classmates, friends, staff, and faculty members in honor of their time at Rutgers University! The Siegel prize is awarded, and Public History Certificates are given to students as well.
M ch l D ff k I y h ll- l , J J , M l F b , l H b k
20 Ab v : Pro essors Don Roden and Rudy ell
Ab v : Pro essor enni er Mi elstadt with gradua ng senior Kamera oyd
Ab v : Gradua ng senior Richard Alleyne with Pro essor Donna Murch
R : Gradua ng senior milie roek (center) with her riends
21 Public History Certificate
The er cate in Pu lic History is a 1 credit hour rogram designed to train undergraduate or ost- achelor s students o any ma or in the rac cal a lica on, sco e, methodologies, and rocedures o u lic history. Most o the courses can simultaneously count or the History ma or and a Pu lic History cer cate. lasses o ered in the History De artment ro ide the theore cal and content ased or ons o the ro- gram. There will e me s ent o -cam us in internshi s which ro ide hands-on ex erience and create new o ortuni es or em loyment.
2017 Public History Cerficate Recipients
Richard Alleyne Maura Elmegeed Madeline Golden Ian Grayson Abigail Haresign Samantha Melisi Emily Mueller Mar n Mulligan Jay Tellini Ru ayyah To en
To e awarded the er cate in Pu lic History students must ass all their classes or the cer- cate with a grade o or higher. The cer - cate is awarded with the com le on o a ach- elor’s degree.
Kris n ’ rassill-Kul an, oordinator o the Internshi Program and Instructor o Pu lic History, awards cer cates to Mar n Mulligan (ab v ) and A igail Haresign ( ).
22 Honors Conference
Honors Program Students
Don Courter Mackenzie Fox Kelsey Haddorff Kelly Hannavi Christopher Layton Charles Melman Chelsie Riche Elisheva Rosen Zachary Sinkiewicz enni er S ce Patrick Travens Alexandra Williams ia Zhang
23 Phi Alpha Theta Naonal History Honor Society
Phi Alpha Theta (ΦΑΘ) is an American honor society or undergraduate and graduate students, as well as pro essors o history. The society has over 400,000 members, with some 9,000 new members joining each year through 970 chapters na onwide.
Phi Alpha Theta was established on March 17, 1921 at the University o Arkansas by Pro essor Nels Cleven. Cleven had become convinced in his me at the university that a raternity o scholars, which would accept men and wom en, was important or the study o history. He invited students to a mee ng to orm the society, then called the “University Historical Society”, on March 14, and the society was officially recognized on the 17th. In April o 1921, the decision was made or the society to be known by the reek le ers Phi Alpha Theta.
2017 Inductees
Angela Annaguey Faithe Gerol Christopher Kay Micah Bowden Waylen Glass Jenna Kershenbaum Rebekah Butler Kelly Hannavi Yaqarah Letellier Jordan Cohen Hannah Hasin Suchismita Lohani Genevieve Conway Kinza Hassan Jessica MacDonald Benjamin Currey Connor Ilchert Christopher Martini Savannah Demande Daniela Jaramillo Madison Molner
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Marna Moore Krystle Ramirez Gabrielle Tavacchia Martin Mulligan Matthew Rexroad Ruqayyah Totten Ian Pangasnan Chelsie Riche Lindsey Welch Sajan Patel Danielle Roman Joseph Westendorf Stephen Pemberton Caroline Safreed Benjamen Willans Katherine Poliakoff Natalie Saldarriaga Steven Wynen George Prior Alexandra Sutton Elise Zhou
Faculty News con nued rom page 9. Israel Studies. Two short pieces I published this year include member o a research group “Israeli Histories, Socie es, and esponse to Ian Lus c s The olocaust in Israeli oli cal Cultures Compara ve Approaches.” This leave made it possi Culture our Construc ons and Their Conse uences ontem- ble to complete the work on my manuscript Desert in the porar Jewr 3 ( ) 93- 96; and The Seed the Symbol and Promised Land (currently under review) and to advance my the Zionist enewal aradigm ” in For the Franklin enter for current research project Biblical Reenactments and the Perfor- J daic St dies nn al, summer . ebrew version of my mance of n it in sraeli lt re ar cle Numerical Commemora on and the Challenges of Col- During my stay at the University of Michigan I d eliv- lec ve emembrance in Israel ” which was published in Histor ered an invited lecture for the ran el Ins tute on the new an Memor 6 ( ) is about to appear in ebrew transla on. project and in spring I par cipated in an interdisciplinary I loo forward to teaching again my graduate course conference evisi ng the ues on of ewish rigins Myth on Cultural Memory this coming fall and to the public programs Construct eality” at Brown University and delivered a lecture that the Bildner Center will be offering this year including the The Desert the Island and the Wall Symbolic Landscapes and annual utgers ewish ilm es val (from ctober 9 to No- Space Metaphors in Israeli Culture ” for the esthe cs of vember ) which will be of interest to faculty and students Shared Space Wor ing Group at the utgers Center for Cultural from istory. nalysis. I presented a paper on Contested Visions of the De- sert Nature and the Bedouins in the Contemporary Tourist Discourse” at the annual conference of the ssocia on for
lumni News con nued from page 9. linit , 1830-1934 was published in 5 by the University of Minnesota ress and I was recently granted tenure with pro- scholars – please ta e it for a spin and let us now what you mo on to ssociate rofessor. I am currently wor ing on a new thin . Loo out also for the Center s new annual conference boo project on the 985 police bombing of the M VE organi- and peer-reviewed proceedings rrent Research in Digital za on in hiladelphia with an emphasis on race and memory. I Histor which I m organizing with Lincoln Mullen ; the first just completed a two-year s nt as the Teaching ssistant Coor- event is 3 8. erhaps unsurprisingly I s ll haven t found dinator for the department and a er my sabba cal will be much me for my ongoing research. I did give a eynote on spa al narra ves of the riot at a conference at the German is- serving as its Director of Graduate Studies. n the personal torical Ins tute last fall and reprised it at McMaster University side in 5 my wife elly and I were finally able to adopt the than s to an invita on from fellow utgers grad aren Balcolm. two amazing siblings whom we had already been fostering for nd this summer I m at the University of Leeds tal ing about two years by that point. Tomas and Isabella are now and 4 the in ertons and the paperwor of surveillance at a symposi- respec vely ma e us laugh every day and share their moms' um on private security. This fall Cleo will be a junior at Bryn love of baseball. Mawr College her eyes firmly set on graduate school in classi- Gadi Taub . The second volume of my collec on of essays cal archaeology and on leading the rebuilt bas etball team. gainst Solitude ( ebrew 6) was published at last. I have Delwyn is finishing up her second year as a children s librarian just finished shoo ng a new TV drama series which I co-wrote at aymar et-Gainesville ublic Library and is set to finish her and co-directed for Israel's Channel . It's about a cult and was MLS in ebruary. She loves the job even the frenzy of summer inspired by true stories of actual Israeli cults. My previous se- reading and organizing 6 teen volunteers. ries llenby Street was bought by Turner La n merica and is Melissa Stein ( 8). Since I have been teaching in the now being shot in Brazil in ortuguese. nd on the more schol- Gender & Women's Studies Department at the University of arly side I'm s ll wor ing on a boo on the rise and fall of the entuc y where I am also an affiliate in frican merican & postmodern paradigm in different fields and am hoping to fricana Studies istory and ealth Society & opula ons. finish it before the fall of postmodernism is too complete to My boo Meas ring Manhood: Race and the Science of Masc - interest anyone...
25 Thank You to Our Donors June 2016—June 2017
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6 Undergraduate Awards and Prizes Department Awards
Edward Romano Memorial Award in History and Public Service This award honors the memory of a History Honors student and Lloyd C. Gardner fellow in Leadership and Social Policy; it is awarded to a student who combines a passion for historical study with a commitment to ac ism and public ser ice. This year s winner was Rakim Solomon .
r Mar n Sie el History Pri e This pri e was established in honor of r. ar n Sie el a ut ers Colle e history ma or of the late 1940 s. The pri e is awarded annually to a student whose work in the History Seminar is ud ed to be the best that year. This year s pri e was awarded to Thomas Federowicz for his thesis Scarlet Knights, Red Crusade: An Analysis of the Great Red Scare at Rutgers-New Brunswick .
Michele S. Hirshman Scholarship This award provides valuable support so that four to six students can study abroad each year. This year’s funds supported Margo Broderick .
James Reed Award in Public Speaking . . Patrick Travens R v t g t F (1648-1653) .
Harold L. Poor Prize This award recognizes the top three honors theses each year. The prize is made possible through the support of Professor Emeritus Philip Greven and the History Department to honor the memory of a beloved professor and colleague, Har- old Poor. This year’s prizes were awarded to Patrick Travens for F (1648-1653) , Charles Melman for M M S I ’ -W S , and Alexandra Williams for .
Ceil Parker Lawson Prize p z - Charles Melman Racial Retrenchment: Morris Milgram and the Struggle to Integrate Philadelphia’s Post-War Suburbs and Christopher Layton for A History of Corporate Personhood: The Life and Liberty of Mere Property .
Society of Colonial Wars Prize This prize recognizes the top two honors theses on subjects associated with Rutgers University at the e prior to the c ose of the Revo u onary ra. This year s prizes were awarded to for p i d m d d p imp i up mi d- m p i m i u i d - 8 0 , and El sh va Ros for m mb i g N B idg L di g i d N J y’ C mp i y . U v s ty Awa ds H sto y
Margaret Atwood Judson Prize This prize, administered jointly by the School of Arts and Sciences and the History Department, is awarded to a female History major whose work is in keeping with Judson’s scholarly eminence and leadership. This year’s winner was Alexandra Williams .
Helen Praeger Miller Award in History This award is administered by Douglass esiden al ollege for the Douglass student who has shown excellence in historical studies. This year’s award was given to Kelsey Haddorff .
Maurice Dupont Lee, Jr. Fellowship This award is given to a History or Art History major who is part of the Douglass esiden al ollege to support their graduate educa on. This year’s award was given to Gabriela Shypula .
Henry Rutgers Scholar Award Several research awards, known collec vely as Henry utgers Scholar Awards, will be made to out standing SAS Paul obeson Scholars based on the quality of the students’ theses and overall academic record. This year’s awards were given to Charles Melman for Racial Retrenchment: Morris Milgram and the Struggle to Integrate Philadelphia’s Post-War Suburbs , for he transac ons o that period made a deep impression upon her mind- : he Female Experience o the merican Re olu on in er n Words - 8 0 , and Pat k T av s for he rm e o ordeaux: Popular Poli cs and rban Re olt during the Fronde ( 48- 53) .
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