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LETTER FROM THE CHAIR

I am pleased to report that the the new program effective Fall 2010, un­ History Department had a stimulating and der the guidance of the incoming Gradu­ productive year. After conducting national ate Director, Paul Hagenloh. INSIDE searches, we hired two outstanding new TH I S faculty members. Martin Shanguhyia, who To complement the new graduate ISSUE: specializes in the environmental history of program, a committee composed of Nor­ Kenya and Africa, received his Ph.D. from man Kutcher, Samantha Herrick, and the University of West Virginia. Andrew Roger Sharp revisited the department Lipman, who studies relations among Na­ workshops. The department approved 1. Letter from the tive Americans, Dutch, and English in colo­ their proposal to create a unified work­ Chair nial America, received his Ph.D. from the shop. Each year, the chair will appoint a University of Pennsylvania. The History workshop coordinator, responsible for 3. Undergraduate Department also hosted several distin­ soliciting recommendations, inviting out­ Student News guished speakers, including Pulitzer Prize­ side speakers, and scheduling presenta­ winning historian Daniel Walker Howe; tions and related events. The intention is 5. Graduate Stu­ Edward Muir, the Clarence Ver Steeg Pro­ to meet six times a year to hear presenta­ dent News fessor at Northwestern University; Dwai­ tions by our faculty, graduate students in payan Bhattacharyya, Fellow and Profes­ the final stages of dissertation writing, 8. Faculty Notes sor in Political SCience, Center for Studies and guest speakers. in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and Fulbright 12. Books Pub­ Scholar in Residence at Claremont Gradu­ Our undergraduate and graduate ate University; and Helene Quanquin of lished students also contributed their intellectual the University of Paris 3-Sorbonne Nou­ energy to our department. This year, velle. seven graduating seniors wrote Distinc­ 13. Faculty Direc­ tion Theses in History. One student, Jenni­ tory The Department has focused fer Gramer, not only received the depart­ much of its energies on reform of the ment's Frederick Marquardt prize for the Graduate Program, a process that began best Distinction TheSis, but she also won under the previous chair Craige Cham­ the arlin prize for the best Honors project pion. I deeply appreciate the hard work of at Syracuse University (please see the the summer committee, Graduate Com­ letter from Undergraduate Director Scott mittee, and the entire History Department Strickland for more information about our in considering these changes. The revised majors). In graduate news, the History graduate program, which includes three Department held its second annual con­ required courses, a unified language re­ ference for the Future Professoriate Pro­ quirement for all students, and an oral gram (FPP). The conference was organ­ comprehensive examination, met with the ized by two graduate students, Molly Jes­ enthusiastic approbation of faculty and sup and Sravani Biswas, with the help of graduate students. See the letter from the FPP faculty advisors, Junko Takeda outgoing Graduate Director Elisabeth and Albrecht Diem. Seven graduate stu­ Lasch-Quinn for more details. The History dents presented their papers to a mixed Department will begin implementation of audience of faculty and graduate stu­ P AGE 2

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR (CONTINUED )

dents. This event was a great success and the Depart­ ment plans to continue this conference as an annual event. All of this work relies on the outstanding sup­ port of the History Department staff: Patti Blincoe, Fran Bockus, Patti Bohrer, and Nicole Sanford.

I am always happy to hear from History De­ Carol Faulkner partment alumni and friends. Please stay in touch! Associate Professor of History Department Chair

Sincerely,

Thank you to our donors!

Mr. Matthew F. Anderson Dr. Paul T. Mason

Mr. Robert R. Biemer Dr. Robert M. Maxon

Dr. Linda H. Biemer Mr. Allan G. Minsky

Dr. William N. Bonds Mr. Nozomi Nara

Ms. Carolyn Marie Butler Dr. David L. Nass

Mrs. Elizabeth T. Clough Martha G. Rollins, Esq.

Mrs. Andrea S. Donald Mr. Gary R. Smith

Mr. Ronald N. Ferguson Mr. Eric T. Swartz

Mr. Asher J. Harley Mr. C. Victor Szendi

Dr. Jean E. Hunter Dr. Paula Ann Treckel

Dr. Mary C. Kelly Dr. Betty M. Unterberger

Mrs. Helen L. Klein Mr. David J. Volkin

Mr. Gani Manelli P AGE 3

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT NEWS

Undergraduate studies in the History Depart­ tions will be resolved with absolute precision and empa­ ment are vibrant and accomplished. For the third year thetic concern. in a row, graduating history majors achieved the high­ est honor Syracuse University offers, the SU Scholar. Sincerely, Twelve are chosen from the entire graduating class and this year 2 history majors received the honor: Jen­ nifer Gramer, a dual major in History and Art History, and Sara Scribner, History and Inclusive Education. No other department or program had more than one stu­ dent selected as a Scholar. Gramer and Scribner also Scott Strickland won the Hotchkiss and Ketcham Prizes from the De­ Associate Professor of History partment and Gramer earned Distinction with her es­ Director of Undergraduate say on Nazi art (see below), which the Honors Program Studies selected as the winner of the Orlin Prize for the best honors project in all undergraduate programs. The De­ partment chose Gramer's essay for the Marquardt Prize for best Distinction essay. Michael Ebner de­ serves credit as director of this project. Gramer also became a Remembrance Scholar for 2009-2010.

Among other departmental awards, Sean O. Undergrad uate Ach ievements Braun earned the Bernice Hogan Prize for his essay on the popular music impresario in the 1960s, written in History Department Prizes Scott Strickland's History 401 class. There were seven recipients of Distinction for essays that covered topics as diverse as Gramer's and Dan Long's study of the Ketcham Prize - Sara L. Scribner politics of the Kennedy and McCarthy presidential cam­ Awarded to student who combines academic excellence paigns of 1968 (see the list below). Twelve juniors and with contribution to the life of the Department seniors were inducted into Phi Alpha Theta, the na­ tional honor society. Kelsey Kobik earned an Elman Scholar's award for research on her Senior Thesis and Hotchkiss Prize - Jennifer A. Gramer Jennifer Gramer, Chelsea Jones, Daniel Long, Nicholas Awarded to student with overall academic excellence Ross and Alexander Schmidt received Wortman Schol­ arships for their research on various topics related to their capstone projects. Bernice Hogan Prize - Sean O. Braun Awarded to student who wrote best undergraduate Even with faculty on leave reducing the num­ paper ber of classes taught, the Department still has over 260 majors and graduated more than 100 seniors. Our "numbers" may be slightly down from last year, but Frederick Marquardt Prize - Jennifer A. Gramer there are excellent seniors in our program returning to Awarded to student who wrote best Distinction Thesis begin a new academic year as I write. You will read about them in next year's newsletter, I am sure. Their honors and distinctions promise to be as extraordinary Elman Scholar - Kelsey l. Kobik as this academic year's exalted group. I look forward to relating their accomplishments. Wortman Scholars I would be remiss if I didn't close with a word Jennifer A. Gramer of appreciation to the people who make the under­ Chelsea E. Jones graduate program work. Patti Blincoe's administration Daniel R. Long of the office makes it one of the best departments in Nicholas A. Ross Maxwell without a doubt. And once again, Fran Bockus Alexander H. Schmidt has made everything about my work an uncomplicated pleasure. I can always recommend to "go see Fran" without the slightest doubt that the student's ques­ (continued on next page ...) P AGE 4

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT NEWS(cONTINUED)

Undergraduate Achievements

Remembrance Scholars Jennifer A. Gramer

Phi Alpha Theta Members

Robert S. Blanchard * Kelly J. Bogart * Kelly A. Emmons Kaitlin M. Fitzgerald * Kate M. Gieser * Juan A. Lujan * Caitlin P. Mahoney * Julie A. Rich Nicholas A. Ross * Emily M. Sax * Alexander M. Stowe * Joclyn M. Wallace

* Denotes May 2010 Graduate

Phi Alpha Theta Induction Dinner, held at Kitty Hoyne's Resturant on January 21, 2010

Distinction in History

.:. Jennifer A. Gramer - "Backwards Romanticism or a Glimpse of the Future: The Visual Language of the Reactionary Modernism in National Socialist Landscape Painting"

.:. Chelsea E. Jones - "Disease and Moral Panic and the AIDS Epidemic in Syracuse, New York, 1987-1992"

.:. Daniel R. Long - "Disparate While Making a Difference: Eugene McCarthy's and Robert Kennedy's Student Supporters in the 1968 Democratic Preliminaries"

.:. Jonathan T. Peres - "The History of the Armed Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust"

.:. Ashley L. Poulin - "Gender in Italian Films During the Transition from the Fascist Regime to the Republic: 1943-1946"

.:. Nicholas A. Ross - "Science of Hope, Culture of Despair: German Eugenics, Sexology and the Policing of Desire from World War I through Weimar Germany"

.:. Alexander H. Schmidt - "Emigre Anti-Imperialists and America's Phillipines, 1898-1899" P AGE 5

GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS

This year brought extraordinary challenges to she does, but she continually helps make hard work the Graduate Program. The Graduate Committee was lead to great results and even joy. charged with the task of rewriting the Graduate rules to While this would have been enough for one incorporate the desired changes coming out of the de­ year, our students rose to their own challenges and partmental and outside reviews. The energy of the achieved truly stellar results, so much so that just a few graduate students and a superb graduate committee of those can be listed here as examples. helped us reach this goal. The Department approved of Departmental awards went to Jonathan Wilson the changes and this August the new rules go into effect (Hotchkiss Scholar Prize to the most highly deserving for all entering students. Those already in the program graduate student; endowed by Dr. Angelo C. Grazio in can elect to continue under the old rules or to adopt the honor of William P. Hotchkiss); Robert Clines (Alan K. new. Smith Paper Prize); and Sravani Biswas (Nelson Blake Special thanks go to the 2009-2010 Graduate Prize for research). Two of our graduate students were Committee for their patience and labor above and be­ honored as Outstanding Teaching Assistants by the T.A. yond the usual heavy annual workload for the commit­ program: Molly Jessup (Prof. Thompson, advisor) and tee: Professors Basu, Champion, Ebner, and Hagenloh; Judd Olshan (Prof. Webb, advisor). and John Stegeman, Senior Graduate Representative, Two fine dissertations were completed this and Adam Parsons, Junior Graduate Representative. year: Samarpita Mitra (U.C. Davis Prof. Sen and Prof. Highlights of the changes to the doctoral pro­ Basu) defended her "Literary Radicalism: Aesthetics, gram include: replacement of the three separate written Politics and Anti-Colonial Struggle, Bengal, 1908-39"; comprehensive exams with a single oral exam event on Michelle Orihel (Prof. Sharp, advisor) defended with the three fields; the addition of exciting new temporal! distinction her "Citizen Readers: Democratic­ geographical and thematic fields; two new required Republican Societies and the Reading Revolution in the courses for first-year students (Research and Methods/ Early Republic," which won the Maxwell Dean's Out­ Theory) in addition to Historiography; enactment of a standing Dissertation Award. single formal language exam requirement across all of Seven students were awarded the MA degree the fields (even where more language study is required and two completed the M.A. thesis: Shane P. Avery in particular fields); automatic award of the M.A. degree (Prof. Lasch-Quinn, advisor) defended with distinction to students who successfully complete the doctoral oral his "Physicians of the Soul": Erich Fromm and the Sci­ exam; award of the M.Phil. degree to students who suc­ ence of Ethical Psychology"; and Nicholas Stamato, cessfully complete all of the requirements for ABD (Prof. Cohen, advisor) successfully defended his status; and the institution of a new 3-credit "Consolidating the New Position (1938-40): A Study of "Comprehensives Preparation" course, six credits of the Tenure of Robert H. Jackson: March 5, 1938 to which can be applied toward the required course credits January 18, 1940." for the degree. The high quality of the work of our graduate Changes to the M.A. program include the re­ students has gained increasing outside recognition: quired courses above, the replacement of the M.A. writ­ Martin Gutmann received the CLiR Mellon Dissertation ten exam option with the oral exam; the institution of Grant; Michelle Orihel received a one-month fellowship one required language exam for students in all fields; at the Jefferson Library in Charlottesville, VA; and Matt and, for students going on to the doctoral program, the Smith received research grants from the Herbert Hoo­ application of six thesiS credits (for those electing the ver Presidential Library in West Branch, lA, and the thesis option) to the required course credits for the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Ph.D. Arbor. Erik Chaput had articles published, and others Numerous other details were altered or cor­ secured jobs and fellowships beyond their doctoral rected, in the spirit of providing more consistency for studies. Rachel Cope (Prof. Thompson, advisor) was students across different fields, removing unnecessary awarded a tenure-track position in Church History at obstacles to progress for both faculty members and Brigham Young University; Bradley Franco (Prof. students, and providing greater intellectual interest and Romano, advisor) was awarded a tenure-track position coherence. in Ancient and Medieval European History at the Univer­ All of this could not have been accomplished sity of Portland in Portland, Oregon; Samarpita Mitra without our Graduate Coordinator, Patti Bohrer. Her received a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Center for work is characterized by an eye for detail, superb record Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta, India; and Mi­ keeping, and her personal touch. It goes without saying chelle Orihel received a Visiting Assistant Professorship that the Graduate Director's job was immensely im­ in Early National history at Southern Utah University. proved by her presence. Three years of working side-by­ Congratulations are certainly in order. side drove home that Patti is not only superb at what P AGE 6

GRADUATE STUDENT I\lEWS(CONTINUED)

These capstone accomplishments speak vol­ umes about the caliber of our students, but they only History Graduate Program partially capture the gifts individual students bring to New Students (with Field of Study) our intellectual community with their unique contribu­ 2010-2011 tions and character. Likewise, our previous students are brought to mind, as much for other memories along the way as for Mark Dragoni - Early Modern Europe their own considerable accomplishments. For just a Charles Goldberg - Ancient History hint of the latter: the book of Reinhard Johnson (Prof. Yossina Hurgobin - Internal admit from MA program, Sharp, advisor), The Liberty Party 1840-1848: Anti­ Modern France and South Asia slavery Third-Party Politics in the United States, was William Jackson - South Asia published, as was that of William Kuracina (Profs. Sen Robert Nicholson - Religion and Society and Basu), The State and Govenance in India: The Con­ Lei Zhang - Internal admit from MA Program, China gress Ideal; Edward Ragan (Prof. Webb, advisor). who works at the Richmond History Center, won the 2009 Francis Jennings Prize in Early American Ethnohistory from SUNY Press; and the book of Matthew Rhoades Documentary Film & History Program (prof. Webb. advisor), Long Knives and the Longhouse: New Students Anglo-Iroquois Politics and the Expansion of Colonial 2010-2011 Virginia, is due out this fall. Congratulations to all along with best wishes for your continued flourishing. Looking ahead. in fall 2010, we will be joined Laura Desmond by five new doctoral students: Mark Dragoni (Early Christian Garzone Modern Europe), Charles Goldberg (Ancient). William Zheng He Jackson (S. Asia). and two of our own M.A. students, Jacqueline Hurwitz Yossina Hurgobin (Intellectual; Modern France and S. Laura Jakubowski Asia) and Lei Zhang (China). We look forward to wel­ Stephanie Yang coming them, along with one new MA student. Robert Nicholson (Religion and Society), who is completing a concurrent J.D . degree in S.U.'s College of Law. This letter ends my time as Graduate Director, a time of crisis and creativity for the program. We have Documentary Film & History Program worked hard together. To the faculty members, staff 3rd Graduating Class members, and graduate students with whom I worked Summer 2010 so closely. I had no idea I would ever enjoy an adminis­ trative post, but this was far more than that, something exceptional. To say I learned a lot is an understate­ Rebaz Ali ment; my experience during these three challenging Eric Altieri years has been personally and professionally transfor­ Timothy Dye mative. For the gifts so many of you have given me of Roberto Gonzalez-Homs yourselves during this time. I am deeply grateful. Thomas Lupackino Josh Meny Warmest wishes. Brendan Reilly Elizabeth Teager Ashleigh Watson

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn Professor of History Graduate Director (Outgoing) Honorary Graduate Student * (conferred by History Grads)

*1 am proud to list this most meaningful award! P AGE 7 Graduate Achievements

Graduate Awards - 2009/2010

Hotchkiss Scholar - Jonathan Wilson (E. Lasch-Quinn, Advisor) Awarded to the most highly deserving graduate student Endowed by: Dr. Angelo C. Grazio in honor of William P. Hotchkiss

Alan K. Smith Paper Prize - Robert Clines (D. Romano, Advisor) Awarded to the graduate student who wrote the best paper in History

Nelson Blake Prize - Sravani Biswas (S. Basu, Advisor) Awarded to support research by our graduate students

Outstanding Dissertation Award - Michelle Orihel (J.R. Sharp, Advisor) "Citizen Readers: Democratic-Republican Societies and the Reading Revolution in the Early Republic"

Outstanding Teaching Assistants - Molly Jessup (M.S. Thompson, Advisor) and Judd Olshan (S.S. Webb, Advisor)

Degrees Granted - 2009/2010

Samarpita Mitra - Ph.D. - August 2009 "Literary Radicalism: Aesthetics, Politics and Anti-Colonial Struggle, Bengal, 1908-39" S. Sen/So Basu - Advisors

Michelle Orihel - Ph.D. - May, 2010 "Citizen Readers: Democratic-Republican Societies and the Reading Revolution in the Early Republic" J.R. Sharp, Advisor

Bradley R. Franco - Ph.D. - August, 2010 "Family, State, and Church: The Bishopric of Siena, 1282-1371" D. Romano, Advisor

Shane P. Avery - MA - August, 2009 E. Lasch-Quinn, Advisor

Catherine Burke - MA - December, 2009 S. Herrick, Advisor

Bradley R. Franco - MA - May 2010 D. Romano, Advisor

Molly Jessup - MA - May 2010 M.S. Thompson, Advisor

Gregory A. Lee - MA - December, 2009 J.R. Sharp, Advisor

Frank Panarisi - MA - May, 2010 D. Bennett, Advisor

Nicholas Stamato - MA - December, 2009 A. Cohen, Advisor P AGE 8

FACULTY NOTES

Craige Champion presented a pa­ Edition of the Histories of Polybius search in the Humanities at the Uni­ per based on his current book pro­ (New York: Pantheon Books), which versity of Madison, Wisconsin. Last ject. Priests and Politicians: State­ he is co-editing with Arthur M. Eck­ year he taught for the first time HST craft and Religion in the Roman stein. 210, the survey lecture class on An­ Republic, as part of the Religion in cient History and a Graduate course Scholarship symposium held at the Andrew Wender Cohen was awarded on Perfect communities and the de­ Tolley Humanities Center (9 April a fellowship from the American Coun­ velopment of early medieval monas­ 2010). He taught a two-credit cil of Learned Societies, which will ticism. He published one article, a course with Brad Franco, Ancient, allow him to spend the 2010-11 aca­ revised version of a previously pub­ Medieval, and Renaissance Rome, demic year finishing his current pro­ lished text on Beauty, Friendship with on-site lectures and student ject, Contraband: Smuggling and the and male love in the Tristan novel of presentations in Rome, Ostia, Birth of the American Century, to be Gottfried of Strassburg (in German). Naples, and Pompeii (17 May-2 published by W.w. Norton & Co. In He submitted three articles on Who June 2010). He has written two 2009, Cambridge University Press is allowed to pray for the king? Saint­ forthcoming book chapters: published the paperback edition of Maurice d'Agaune and the creation "Polybius on Political Constitutions, his first book, The Racketeer's Pro­ of a Burgundian identity; The end of Interstate Relations, and Imperial gress: Chicago and the Struggle for the monastic experiment: love, con­ Expansion," Blackwell's Companion the Modern American Economy. fession and silence in the Regula to Ancient Greek Government, H. Cohen's article, "Smuggling, Global­ cuiusdam ad virgines (in German) Beck (ed.), Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell ization, and America's Outward State, and On opening and closing the Publishers; and "Polybius and the 1870-1909," will appear in the Jour­ body: Techniques of discipline in Punic Wars," Blackwell's Compan­ nal of American History in September early monasticism. Two articles are ion to the Punic Wars, B.D. Hoyos 2010. He is also completing a chap­ currently in print and will come out (ed.), Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Pub­ ter, entitled, "Unions, Modernity, and this calendar year. He gave a lecture lishers; as well as several book re­ the Decline of American Economic at the Center for Medieval Studies of views: Roman Imperialism and Lo­ Nationalism" for the volume, Ameri­ the University of Toronto on Who is cal Identities, by L. Revell can Right and U.S. Labor: Politics, allowed to pray for the king? Monas­ (Cambridge, 2009), forthcoming in Ideology, and Imagination, to be pub­ ticism and ethnical boundaries in Scripta Classica Israelica; Origins of lished in 2010 by University of Penn­ the Early Middle Ages. At the Univer­ Democracy in Ancient Greece, by sylvania Press. He has been asked to sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, he gave KA Raaflaub, J. Ober, and R.W. contribute an essay to a forum on the a lecture on Who wrote the Rule of Wallace (Berkeley, 2007), forth­ history of union corruption in LABOR: St. Benedict? and a workshop on coming in Hermathena; Rome the Studies in Working Class History of Inventing the desert - or: How Pa­ Greek World, and the East, vol. 2: the Americas. In the past year, Cohen chomius learned to speak. Last sum­ Government, Society, and Culture has spoken at U.C. Santa Barbara, mer he organized three sessions on in the Roman Empire, by F. Millar the American Society for Legal History Vita vel regula. Norm and conflict in (Chapel Hill, 2004), forthcoming in Annual Meeting in Dallas, and the hagiographic texts at the Interna­ The International Journal of the Organization of American Historians tional Medieval Congress in Leeds, Classical Tradition. Two reviews Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. UK. In April he organized an interdis­ were published in the past aca­ He continues to sit on the editorial ciplinary colloquium on Passions and demic year: Philip II of Macedonia, board of the journal Law and History Transgression in Medieval and Ren­ by Ian Worthington (New Haven and Review. And finally, he has been aissance Studies in cooperation with London, 2008), International His­ quoted or mentioned in several undergraduate and graduate stu­ tory Review, vol. 31.3 (2009) 593­ places, including National Public Ra­ dents. As one of the two co­ 95; Rome Enters the Greek East: dio's Planet Money, Dissent, The coordinators of the Future Professo­ From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and In rial Project he was involved in orga­ Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230­ These Times, where one prominent nizing this year's history graduate 170 BC, by Arthur M. Eckstein historian called The Racketeer's Pro­ colloquium on Voices of Dissent. He (Oxford and Malden, Mass., 2008), gress , the "last, best book" he had will spend parts of the summer as Classical Philology, vol. 104.2 read. guest scholar at the Institute for Me­ (2009) 253-57. He continues to dieval Research of the Austrian work on two large editorial projects: Albrecht Diem received a research Academy of Sciences. Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Ancient fellowship of the Solmsen Foundation History, for which he serves as a to work for the academic year Michael Ebner completed his book, General Editor; and The Landmark 2010/2011 at the Institute of Re­ Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy, P AGE 9

FACULTY NOTES (CONTINUED) which will be published this fall by the topic of state violence and mass medieval ecclesiastical communi­ Cambridge University Press. repression in the Soviet Union in the ties. Support from the Piggott fund era of Lenin and Stalin. His article, enabled her to hire a research as­ Carol Faulkner is co-editor of a new "Juvenile Delinquency, Soviet Polic­ sistant for summer, 2010, who will series from the University of Roches­ ing, and the Stalinist State in the contribute to this research. In June, ter Press titled Gender and Race in 1930s," was accepted for publica­ Herrick will present a paper entitled American History. To launch the se­ tion by Europe-Asia Studies, and his "Apostolic Bishops and Their Ri­ ries, she helped organize a confer­ book, Stalin's Police (Johns Hopkins/ vals" at the Studium Conference in ence at the University of Rochester on Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Tours, France. In January, she gave April 16-17, 2010. The conference 2009), is receiving positive reviews an invited talk on Mary Magdalen at featured keynote addresses by Deb­ in both the academic and popular the Liverpool Public Library. She orah Gray White (Rutgers University) press. His review article, "Terror and also taught a new graduate course and Michele Mitchell (New York Uni­ the Gulag," will appear in the journal this spring on history, memory, and versity), and the keynotes and confer­ Kritika (Summer 2010). In the sum­ identity. ence papers will be published in an mer of 2010, he is again attending edited volume by the University of the annual Archival Workshop of the George Kallander was a Junior Fel­ Rochester Press. She completed work Soviet Era Archives Research Project low at the Academy of Korean StUd­ on a textbook titled Women in Ameri­ at the Hoover Institution of Stanford ies during the academic year 2009 can History to 1880: A Documentary University, and then he is travelling -2010. While there, he worked on Reader, which will be published in the to Leeds University, UK, to partici­ his current book An Eastern God: "Uncovering the Past" series, edited pate in a conference on "Stalin's Tonghak in Early Modern Korea, by Steven Lawson and Nancy Hewitt Terror, 1936-1938." completed an article entitled for Wiley-Blackwell, in 2011. She also "Eastern Bandits or Revolutionary completed the manuscript for her Samantha Herrick published three Soldiers? The 1894 Tonghak Upris­ biography of Lucretia Mott, now tenta­ articles this year: "Between ing in Korean History and Memory," tively titled Lucretia Mott, Beloved Neighbors and Saints: Waleran I of and began research on his second Heretic. After she completes final revi­ Meulan and the Allegiance of Lesser book tentatively titled Korea in East sions this summer, the book will be Lords in the Eleventh Century," Asian and World History. He was published by the University of Penn­ Haskins Society Journal 20 (2009, invited three times to Europe where sylvania Press in spring 2011. Her for 2008): 78-93; "Remembering the he presented "Mystical Talismans article, '''A New Field of Labor': Anti­ Vikings in the Duchy of NormandY," and Sacred Texts: The Circulation of slavery Women, Freedmen's Aid, and Studies in Medieval and Renais­ Tonghak Ritual from 1860," at the Political Power" will appear in Paul A. sance History 3rd ser. Vol. 7 (2010): Association for Korean Studies in Cimbala and Randall M. Miller, eds., 1-25; and "Studying Apostolic Hagi­ Europe, Leiden, The Netherlands, The Great Task Remaining Before Us : ography: The Case of Fronto of June 2009, and "Knowledge Hori­ Reconstruction as America's Continu­ Perigueux, Disciple of Christ," Specu­ zons of Tonghak Followers" at a ing Civil War, Fordham University lum 85 (2010): 235-270. The first conference entitled "Epistemic Press, in June 2010. In October article considers the career of a par­ Change in the Late Choson as Con­ 2009, she gave a talk titled ticularly fiesty, upstart eleventh­ text for Western Learning," at Bo­ "Theodore Dwight Weld : Romantic century count; the second examines chum University, Germany, August Love in the Anti-Slavery Movement," the ways in which authors in Nor­ 2009. He also was an invited visit­ at the National Abolition Hall of Fame mandy kept alive memory of Viking ing researcher at Le Havre Univer­ induction ceremony at Colgate Univer­ attacks on their region; and the third sity, Normandy, France in May sity, October 24, 2009. She is a pan­ argues that scholars need to give 2010 where he held seminars on elist on the President's Plenary Ses­ more attention to strange legends East Asian-U.S. relations and gave a sion on "Women and Women's Rights presenting founding saints of French research talk entitled "History and in the Early Republic" for the annual churches as close associates of Je­ Memory in Northeast Asia." In the meeting of the Society for Historians sus. All three articles stem from Her­ summer 2009, he was invited to of the Early American Republic to be rick's work on hagiographical leg­ give lectures on Tonghak in Korean held July 22-25, 2010 in Rochester, ends, particularly apostolic legends history at Yonsei University. The New York. long dismissed by historians as journal Asian Politics and Policy worthless tales. She continues re­ invited Kallander to serve as Asso­ Paul Hagenloh received tenure and search for a book about apostolic ciate Editor for the Koreas, Mongo­ was appointed the incoming Director legend in medieval France, while lia and Japan. In the journal, he of Graduate Studies for the History investigating the particular question published book reviews of Andrei Department. He continues to work on of how legends circulated among Lankov's North of the DMZ: Essays PAGE 10

FACULTY NOTES (CONTINUED) on Daily Life in North Korea and Alex­ seminar (women's and gender history), the annual meeting of the Renais­ ander Diener's One Homeland or prepared an article for submission to sance SOCiety of America which met Two: The Nationalization and Trans­ journals, and attended several confer­ in Venice, Italy. He organized four nationlization of Mongolia's Kha­ ences. This summer, she will travel to sessions on markets for that con­ zakhs as well as a blog review on the archives in Berlin and Munich with the ference. Finally, in Spring 2010 he Korea Economic Institute, a website support of the Appleby Mosher fund. taught for the first time a history of on contemporary Korean economics She is looking forward to putting to­ Venice covering the period from the and politics. ABC-CLIO publishers gether a new graduate class next year founding of the city to the present. invited him to serve on the Academic on race, sex, and the body in modern Board to consult on Asia in the Mid­ world history. David H. Stam, Senior Scholar and dle Ages for their world history pro­ University Librarian Emeritus, has ject. He contributed an encyclopedia Gladys McCormick's essay, "The Poli­ published a short piece on "Polar entry: "Mongol Conquests and Em­ tics of Frustration in 1940s Rural Mex­ Libraries" in the Oxford Companion pire" to World History: Ancient and ico," will appear in an edited collection to the Book (Oxford 2009). He also Medieval Eras. ABC-CLIO, 2009. titled Authoritarianism in Twentieth contributed three articles to a New Women Make Movies invited him to Century Mexico, to be published by York Times experimental program review a new documentary on North Duke University Press later this of historical journalism called Times Korea entitled Tiger Spirit. They year. In January, she presented a pa­ Topics Online which is intended to used his review in promotional cam­ per based on research for this chapter discuss historical events covered by paigns. While in Seoul, he traveled at the American Historical Association the NYTimes between 1859 and eighteen hours via an overnight bus meeting in San Diego. Harvard Univer­ 1920. His articles on the Interna­ and two boats to visit Tokdo, a small sity's David Rockefeller Center for tional Polar Year of 1882-1884 island in the East Sea/Sea of Japan Latin American Studies in Boston in­ appeared online from January to that Korea and Japan both claim and vited her to give a talk titled "The Logic March and may be found through stirs up heated nationalism. of Compromise: Popular Mobilizations google, using his name and key­ and Political Representation in 1940s words Howgate, International Polar Norman Kutcher paid visits to two of Rural Mexico," in February. She has Year, and Adolphus Greely. He and his alma maters this year. In May, also accepted an invitation to join the his wife are now preparing publica­ he returned to Yale for a conference local advisory board of the Journal of tion of an unpublished diary from organized in honor of his dissertation Women 's History (based at Bingham­ 1909 by Robert Bartlett, Robert advisor Jonathan Spence. As part of ton University). Finally, she taught two Peary's navigator and ice master on the conference, Kutcher presented a new courses, HST 323/LAS 313 Mod­ the North Pole expedition of that paper entitled "The Three Loves of ern Latin America and HST 401 The year. The diary and another diary Eunuch Wang Jinxi." In November, Mexican Revolution. by a participant were found at the he returned to Wesleyan to present American Geographical Society. "Eunuchs and Rulership in Late Im­ Dennis Romano, the Dr. Walter C. David was a guest of the new Na­ perial China." Kutcher accepted a Montgomery and Marian Gruber Pro­ tional Archivist, David Ferriero, at fellowship offer this year from the fessor of History, received a contract the swearing-in ceremony in Wash­ Institute for Advanced Study, Prince­ from Yale University Press for his forth­ ington in January. He ended his ton NJ, and will spend the 2010­ coming book, The Mirror of the City: term as a Board member of the 2011 academic year in residence The Market in Medieval Italian Cities, Seward House Museum in Auburn, there. He also won fellowships from c.ll00-c.1440. In addition, he com­ but continues on the Boards of vari­ the National Humanities Center, Re­ pleted two articles and published sev­ ous organizations including Cham­ search Triangle Park, NC and the eral reviews, including a review of the ber Music America, the Keats­ Institute for Historical Studies, Uni­ exhibition "Art and Love in Renais­ Shelley Association of America, the versity of Texas, Austin. In Decem­ sance Italy," which was mounted at Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, ber, Kutcher will publish "Unspoken the Metropolitan Museum of Art and and the Society for New Music of Collusions: The Empowerment of the Kimbell Art Museum in Dallas. He Syracuse. Yuanming Yuan Eunuchs in the Qian­ presented a paper entitled "Venetian long Period, " in the Harvard Journal Exceptionalism? Lay and Religious in Junko Takeda's most notable ac­ of Asiatic Studies. Venetian Communal Government" at a complishment for this school year conference on religion and public life was her securing a book contract­ Laurie Marhoefer enjoyed her first in medieval Italy at the University of St with Johns Hopkins University year at Syracuse. She developed a Andrews in Scotland and another pa­ Press, for her manuscript, Between­ new lecture class (Modern Germany, per entitled "Fraud and Deception: Crown and Commerce: Marseille 1871 to the present) and a new 401 Ambivalence in Market Relations" at and the Mediterranean. During her P AGE I I

FACULTY NOTES (CONTINUED) leave in Fall 2009, she gave a num­ ber of invited lectures: on her up­ coming book at Northeastern Illi­ nois University, on French histori­ ans and the history of gender at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and on Habermas and the public sphere for the Rhetorics Department at Syracuse University. She received the Appleby-Mosher grant for this upcoming summer to work on two article projects: one on domestic warfare and the construction of local memories in 17th-century France, and another on Alexis de Tocqueville's liberal republicanism in Algeria.

Margaret Susan Thompson has NEW FACULTY MEMBERS! recorded a series of lectures on the history of American Nuns for Now YouKnowMedia.com (formerly part of the Teaching Company). The 18­ CD series is described more fully at, and can be ordered from, The History Department in the Max­ The History Department in the Max­ www.nowyouknowmedia.com/ well School of Citizenship and Public well School of Citizenship and Public History_of_Women_Religious_in_ Affairs at Syracuse University is de­ Affairs at Syracuse University is also the_United_StatesJJ/0039.htm. lighted to announce the successful delighted to announce the success­ She also has been invited to give conclusion of its search in Sub­ ful conclusion of its search in Early the Koch Lecture in Catholic Saharan African History. Dr. Martin American History. Dr. Andrew Lipman Thought and Culture at Minnesota's Shanguhyia will be joining the depart­ will be joining the department in the College of St. Benedict in October ment in the fall of 2010. fall of 2010. 2010. In addition, she continues to teach her courses on the Modern American Presidency and US Women's History, as well as a vari­ ety of seminars each fall for the Crown Honors Program. Some of the Honors courses are offered to both SU students and senior citi­ zens from Syracuse's "Oasis" pro­ gram, and one of these, on "The 2008 Election and the New Media," received a national innovation award from Oasis USA. PAGE 12

BOOKS PUBLISHED (2009-PRESENT)

THl! DEADlOCK!D JiLECTION Of 1800

James Roger Sharp The Deadlocked Election of 1800: Jefferson, Burr, and the Union in the Balance (University Press of Kansas: 2010)

Reinhard O. Johnson The Liberty Party, 1840-1848: Antislavery Third-Party Politics in the United States (Louisiana State University Press: 2009) Former student of Roger Sharp

Bill Kuracina The State and Governance in India: The Congress Ideal (Routledge: 2010) Former student of Subho Basu PAGE 13

FACULTY DIRECTORY

Subho Basu [email protected] 315-443-3802 Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., University of Cambridge, UK) Modern South Asian history: labor history; history of contemporary social movements, nationalism and post-colonial politics.

David H. Bennett [email protected] 315-443-5872 Meredith Professor of History, Syracuse University Scholar-Teacher of the Year, Chancellor's Citation for Academic Excellence (Ph.D., University of Chicago) 20th century U.S. history: political extremism in America, modern military history.

Susan L. Branson bra [email protected] 315-443-8685 Associate Professor, History (Ph.D., Northern Illinois University) U.S. women's history, U.S. social history, and U.S. political history.

Craige B. Champion [email protected] 315-443-2871 Associate Professor (Ph.D., Princeton University) Ancient history: Roman Republic and Hellenistic World, classical historiography, Greek epigraphy.

Andrew W. Cohen [email protected] 315-443-4415 Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Chicago) U.S. history: 20th century, legal, labor politics and class.

Albrecht Diem [email protected] 315-443-0785 Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Utrecht) Early medieval history: history of monasticism, saint's lives and gender/sexuality.

Michael R. Ebner [email protected] 315-443-4063 Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Columbia University) Modern Europe: Italy, fascism and political violence.

Carol Faulkner (Chair) [email protected] 315-443-2594 Associate Professor (Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton) U.S. history: American Civil War and Reconstruction, 19th century Women's history, and slavery and emancipation.

Paul M. Hagenloh (Graduate Director) [email protected] 315-443-4144 Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) Modern Europe: modern Russian and Soviet history. PAGE 14

FACULTY DIRECTORY (CONTINUED)

Samantha Kahn Herrick [email protected] 315-443-4387 Associate Professor (M.Phil., Oxford University; Ph.D., Harvard University) Medieval history: history and culture of high medieval Europe, saints and hagiography, memory. literacy and power.

Amy Kallander [email protected] 315-443-5883 Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) Middle Eastern history: social and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire particularly women, gender and family in the 18th and 19th centuries.

George L. Kallander [email protected] 315-443-4832 Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Columbia University) East Asian history: late 19th and early 20th century Korean and East Asian history.

Norman A. Kutcher [email protected] 315-443-1264 Associate Professor (J.D., Boston College; Ph .D., Yale University) East Asian history: cultural, social, and intellectual history of China.

Chris R. Kyle [email protected] 315-443-5634 Associate Professor of Humanities and History (Ph.D., University of Auckland) Modern Europe: history of British Parliaments.

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn [email protected] 315-443-2700 Professor (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst) U.S. history: American social, cultural and intellectual history; race, family, civil society, social thought.

Andrew Lipman [email protected] 315-443-4639 Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2010) Colonial North America and the U.S. to 1877, Native Americans to Present, Material Cultures of Early America.

Laurie Marhoefer [email protected] 315-443-4415 Assistant Professor, History (Ph.D., Rutgers University) Modern European history (Germany), gender history.

Gladys McCormick [email protected] 315-443-9325 Assistant Professor, History (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) Latin American and Caribbean, 19th and 20th century Mexico. PAGE 15

FACULTY DIRECTORY (CONTINUED)

Dennis Romano [email protected] 315-443-5456 Dr. Walter Montgomery and Marian Gruber Professor of History (Ph.D., Michigan State University) Early Modern European history: Renaissance Italy, early modern social history, Venice.

Martin Shanguhyia [email protected] 315-443-3829 Assistant Professor (Ph.D., West Virginia University, 2007) Colonial and postcolonial Africa, African political, economic, and cultural history, African environment and sustainability.

J. Roger Sharp [email protected] 315-443-9649 Professor, University Scholar-Teacher of the Year, Gateway Fellow for Teaching, Chancellor's Citation for Academic Excellence (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) U.S. history: American political history, early national and middle period, 1789-1860.

J. Scott Strickland (Undergraduate Director) [email protected] 315-443-5875 Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of North Carolina) U.S. history: American South, African-American religion and culture, United States social history, 1700-1900.

David Stam [email protected] 315-443-5364 Senior Scholar and University Librarian Emeritus (Ph.D., Northwestern University) Polar Studies.

Junko Takeda [email protected] 315-443-5868 Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Stanford University) Modern Europe: intellectual and political history of early modern France, history of medicine, race and gender in early modern Europe.

Margaret Susan Thompson [email protected] 315-443-5882 Associate Professor (Ph .D. , University of Wisconsin-Madison) U.S. History: modern American history, government and politics, religion, women's history.

Emeriti Faculty

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