Department of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Annual Review No. 69 | 2020 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER Visit unc.history.edu to subscribe to our e-newsletter, The Department Historian Greetings from the Chair’s Office As historians, we may be particularly aware of living through a remarkable epoch in human history. The world came to grips with the COVID-19 pandemic as we, along with many others, worked to maintain our mission of scholarship, education, and public service. In this edition of the Annual Review, we chart the History Department’s activities in the academic year 2019- 2020, which began “normally” and then became extraordinary. The many accomplishments listed here of our department members and esteemed alumni are remarkable evidence of the importance of the study of history and the resilience of our community in pursuing it. Professor Ben Waterhouse served as acting chair of the department during 2019-20, and I enthusiastically thank him for his brilliant leadership, including shepherding us through the transition to online teaching. The department also expresses its gratitude to Professors Terence McIntosh and Eren Tasar for editing this Annual Review and to Sharon Anderson and her team of undergraduate assistants for putting it together. We also thank the many generous donors whose gifts sustain the intellectual and scholarly work of the department. Alumni and friends, please keep us informed about your professional accomplishments so we can share them in future editions of this review! Lisa Lindsay Chair, Department of History INSIDE THIS ISSUE Faculty News ...............................................................2 The Department of History does not Department News .......................................................13 want to lose track of you. If your email Emeriti News .............................................................14 address should change because you have retired or changed your place Alumni News .............................................................17 of employment, please remember to Graduate Student News ..............................................26 notify the department’s staff of your Graduate Program Report ..........................................29 new address. By doing so, you will Undergraduate Program Report .................................37 be certain not to miss future editions of the Annual Review as well as any Digital History Lab Annual Report ............................40 messages and invitations. Southern Oral History Program .................................42 Ancient World Mapping Center .................................44 In Memorium .............................................................46 Pictured on the Cover: Old Memorial Hall Folder 0360: Memorial Hall (Old): Exterior, 1890-1929: Scan 14 Courtesy of University of North Carolina Libraries Image Collection, 1799-1999 1 Faculty News CEMIL AYDIN completed a book chapter titled “Universalizing International Law: Ottoman Diplomacy during the Long 19th Century” for the edited volume Struggles for Sovereignty: Non-European Powers in the Age of Empire (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021). He published an article on the historical debates on secularism in Turkey titled “Osmanlı Hilafetinin Uluslararası Siyasetin Kutsal ve Sekülerin Müphemliği (Ambivalence of sacred and secular in the international politics of the Ottoman Caliphate),” Cogito, 94 (Summer 2019) (Yapı and Kredi Yayınları, Istanbul), p: 31-57. He presented papers and public lectures at Dartmouth University, National University of Singapore, Harvard University, University of Leipzig, Princeton University, Zaim University of Istanbul, Georgetown University, and Bilgi University of Istanbul. He has co- chaired the Carolina Seminar on Transnational and Modern Global History and served on the editorial boards of Modern Intellectual History and International Journal of Asian Studies. He joined the Program Committee of the American Historical Association, (2020-2022) and has been serving as a series editor for Columbia University Press’s list on International and Global Studies. Email: [email protected] FITZ BRUNDAGE served on the board of editors of the Journal of the Civil War Era, and on the executive council of the Southern Historical Association. He delivered talks at the Fabric Workshop and Museum exhibition of Sonya Clark’s Monumental Cloth in June; at a conference on torture in Verona, Italy in July, at a symposium on lynching and the press at the University of Minnesota in October; at Evergreen State University and Western Washington State University in October 2019; and as part of a panel on undocumented migrants and American state violence at the American Historical Association annual meeting in January 2020. He published an essay in the catalog for Sonya Clark’s exhibit, “Monumental Cloth, The Flag We Should Know” (MW Editions and The Fabric Workshop and Museum, 2020) and has forthcoming essays in a collection on Southern journalism and Jim Crow and in a collection on historical memory and social movements. He also published a brief commentary, co-written with David Blight and Kevin Levin, in The Atlantic on the disposition of “Silent Sam” as well as a piece in the Washington Post on the torture of undocumented migrants by federal agents. He is currently working on a book about Civil War prison camps. Email: [email protected] MARCUS BULL organized the annual international conference of the Haskins Society, the third iteration in a five-year tenure of the conference at Chapel Hill; the Haskins Society is among the foremost organizations devoted to the study of medieval European history. In the spring Bull served as Faculty Director of the Honors London program; in this capacity he was confronted with the challenge, first, of helping the forty students on the program to return home when travel restrictions from the UK were suddenly put in place in March, and then of converting the taught components of the program to distance-learning formats for the remainder of the semester. In his 2 MARCUS BULL (CONTINUED) research interests, his focus continues to pivot from the Middle Ages to the sixteenth century. In that vein, he participated in two events organized by Carolina Public Humanities: a lecture entitled “The Great Siege of Malta, Then and Now”; and a conversazione on “Brantôme: The Most Interesting Man in the World.” Email: [email protected] PETER A. COCLANIS published the following works in 2019-2020: “Too Much Theory Leads Economists to Bad Predictions,” Aeon, May 14, 2019 [reprinted in The Week and in Czech in finmag]; “Education: Give Late Bloomers a Chance,” The Straits Times [Singapore], May 24, 2019; “Why We Urgently Need a Real Alternative to GDP as an Economic Measure,” The New Statesman, June 10, 2019; (with Angelo P. Coclanis) “Global Crossroad: Colonial Rangoon as Immigrant City,” World History Bulletin 35 (Spring/Summer 2019); “Walmart Shouldn’t Be Selling Dildos,”The Spectator (USA), August 16, 2019; “Field Notes: Agricultural History’s New Plot,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 50 (Autumn 2019): 187-212; “Born in the U.S.A.: The Americanness of Industrial Agriculture,” in Food Fights: How History Matters in Contemporary Food Debates, ed. Charles C. Ludington and Matthew Morse Booker (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019), pp. 36- 60; “Donald Trump as Artist,” CounterPunch, October 16, 2019; (with Thomas Okie, Albert G. Way et al.), “Why Does Agricultural History Matter?” Agricultural History 93 (Fall 2019): 682-743; “The Geography of the (Southern Historical) Imagination,” The Southeastern Geographer 59 (Winter 2019): 336-339; “The 1619 Project Is the 2019 Project—and the 2020 Project,” The Spectator (USA), December 24, 2019; “Not His Kind of Town,” Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs 63 (January-February 2020): 52-57; “Waterland,” Mekong Review 5 (February-April 2020); “Close to Home,” New York Sports Day, February 18, 2020; “What if Jo Jo White’s Shot Counted Against Texas Western in 1966?” New York Sports Day, April 10, 2020; “How to Convince the Recalcitrant That This Time Really Is Different,”CounterPunch , April 13, 2020; “Men in White: The Singapore Musical,” New Mandala, April 21, 2020. In addition, he published two book reviews in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History and one in the Middle West Review. He presented papers and lectures in a variety of venues last year, including: a paper at the annual meeting of LAWCHA (Labor and Working-Class History Association), held in Durham in May 2019; a paper at the annual meeting of the Agricultural History Society, held in Washington, D.C. (June 2019); an invited lecture in Singapore at the Singapore Management University (August 2019); the keynote address at a conference on “Ports and People in Commodity History,” hosted by the University of Glasgow (September 2019); a paper in Paris at the biennial meeting of EURHO (European Rural History Organisation) in September 2019; two invited lectures in Japan in December 2019 (one at Tokyo University and the other at Keio University); and a paper on a session at the 2020 annual meeting of the American Historical Association, held in New York City (January 2020). He also did a presentation for Carolina Public Humanities (June 2019) and one for the UNC General Alumni Association (March 2020). He is completing work as Co-PI on a $238,075 3 PETER A. COCLANIS (CONTINUED) grant project sponsored by the North Carolina Department of Transportation is related