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New Faces, New spaces:a welcome From the chairby Paul Kelton
If you come intothe Department ofHistory, andwe hopethat you do,
you willnotice new faces andnewly configuredspaces. Ellen
Garber,our longtime Admin-istrativeAssociate forGraduate Affairs,
hasretired. We miss El-lenbutareenviousofher forher free
timeshenowhasto spendwith her family and hobbies.We are
fortunate,however,tohaveAshleyDurkee(BA,2008)joinus.ShewilloverseeGraduateAffairsanddeservesspecialpraisefortakingtheleadinorganizingthisnewsletterandseeingitthroughtoproduction.Thankyou,Ashley,andwelcomeaboard.SammyAdamsonjoinsusasournewstudentre-ceptionistandhasmaintainedourDepartment’slongstand-ingtraditionofgreetingvisitorswithasmile.Shehasre-placedTarynGilbertwho
is now inGraduate School atWichitaStateUniversity.Good luck to
you,Taryn.AlsojoiningthedepartmentisDavidNickol,whoservesasourundergraduateadvisor.Asalargedepartmentwearefor-tunate
to have an “in house” advisor and he has done
agreatjobforus.Thefacultyrankshavechangedaswell.RobertDeKoskyhasretiredafter33yearsofserviceintheDepartment.Bobhasnowenteredtheemeritiranksandwewishhimwellinhisretirement.JoiningourDepartmentisRobSchwaller,anassistantprofessorofLatinAmericanhistory.WearepleasedtohaveRobandyoucanreadmoreabouthiminthisnewsletter.
History on tHe HillUniversity of Kansas
Department of History
fall 2011 newsletter
1445 Jayhawk Boulevard, Wescoe 3650, Lawrence, KS 66045 • Ph
(785) 864-3569 • www.history.ku.edu
Friday, September 30, 2011, 4 pmSimons Room at the Dole
Institute of Politics
ProfessorHagithSivan,theHistoryDepartment’sex-perton
theancientworld,willdeliver thisyear’sPivotalEvents inHistory
talkon“ARomanCleopatra:PrincessGallabetweenAlaricandAt-tila.”Usingcoinsasillustra-tions,
Professor Sivan willdiscussawoman,GallaPla-cidia, who should be as
fa-mousasCleopatra.Afterall,both women lived throughan age of
incredible trans-formation. When Cleopa-tra committed suicide in
31BCE, the Roman Republicwas about to disappear forgood, making way
for theRoman Empire headed byCleopatra’smostruthlessad-versary,
Octavian-Augustus,Rome’sfirstemperor.WhenGalladiedin450CEtheRo-manempirewasabouttobeinvadedbyAttilatheHunandtheempireitselfwasabouttovanishforever,makingroomformedievalkingdomsheadedbybarbarianmonarchs.
Whowas thisunjustly forgottenprincess?Gallawasthe youngest daughter
of the emperor Theodosius,
whodiedin395whenshewasababy.ShewasbroughtupinRome,onlytodisappearfromviewin410duringtheGoth-icsackof
thecity.By the timeshe
turned25,Gallahadbeenmarriedandwidowedtwice.HerfirsthusbandwasaGothicchieftainwhosesoledesirewastodestroytheem-pire;hersecondwasaRomangeneralwhowasafavoriteofherbrother,theemperorHonorius.WhenHonoriusdied
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in423shefoundherselfarefugeewithtwoinfantsattheimperialcourtofConstantinople.
TwoyearslatershereturnedintriumphtoRomeandRavennaasregent,motherofthenew,6-year-oldemperorofthewesternRomanempire.
For a dozen years, between 425 and
437,Gallawasthevirtualruleroftheempire.Thesewereyearsofnever-endingbarbarianinvasions,asGoths,Vandals,Burgundi-ans,SueviandAlanssweptoverGermany,Gaul(France)andSpaininsearchofthefabulousshoresofnorthAfrica.ThesewereyearsthatthemightyRomanarmy,headedbyasuccessionofambitiousgenerals,hadtorelyonbarbar-ian
recruits to fight other barbarians. These were yearsthat required
careful handling of the budget,
balancingwealthyaristocratswhoassiduouslyavoidedtaxationwithan
increasinglydissatisfiedmiddleclasswhosememberspreferred to
liveunderbarbarians rather than to face
thegovernmenttaxcollectors.HowdidGallahandleallthese?Whathappenedwhenherdaughter,
angryatherbrother,sentherringtoAttilatheHun,whothenusedthismarriageproposal
to demand half of the empire?What
happenedwhenGalla’sson,theemperorValentinian,killedhisbestgeneralandcommittedadulterywiththewifeofthemostpowerfulsenatorofhisrealm?
Professor Sivan’s talk is based on her most recentbook,Galla
Placidia: The Last Roman
Empress,publishedthissummerbyOxfordUniversityPress.ProfessorSivanjoinedthehistorydepartmentin1993,havingbeentrainedin
classics and ancient history in both theUnited Statesand Israel.
Her research and teaching interests embracethe culturesof
theGreeks, theRomans, and theAncientNearEast. She has spent a year
each at the Institute
forAdvancedStudiesatPrinceton,theInstituteforAdvancedStudyattheHebrewUniversityinJerusalem,andtheCen-terforAdvancedJudaicStudiesattheUniversityofPenn-sylvania.
In2010she receivedKU’sHiguchiAward,
theuniversity’shighestrecognitionofresearchexcellence.
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Department of History Staff: Sandee Kennedy (Office Manager),
AmandaContreras (Undergraduate Program Administrator), David Nickol
(AdvisingSpecialist),AshleyDurkee(GraduateProgramAdministrator),SammyAdamson(StudentReceptionist)
As for spaces,we havemade some changes,
thankstothegenerouscontributionsthatouralumniandfriendshavemade.Sincemovingtothe3½floorofWescoe,wehavelackedacommonloungearea,whichwehadenjoyedinourpreviouslocation.Weconvertedaseminarroomthatwas
toosmall toholdclass intoa
lounge,completewithcozyfurniture.Ihavealreadyheldsomesmallcommitteemeetingsthereandlookforwardtohavinganicespacetointeractwithmycolleagues.Toreplacetheseminarroom,we
converted the room that had contained the
lecturers’carrelsintoaclassroom,completewithaconferencetablethat
accommodates up to 20 people. (Do
notworry.Wehavenotleftthelecturershomeless;theynowutilizevacat-edfacultyoffices.)Giventheshortageofstatefunds,do-nationstoourendowmentaccountshavecertainlyhelpedtake
up the slack in our budget and allowedus
tomakeimportantchangesthathaveimprovedourinstructionalen-vironment.
Aswebeginanewacademicyear,wethankyouforallyoursupportyouhavegivenus.Yourgenerousdona-tionshaveallowedus
togivenearly$40,000 in
scholar-shipsandawardstoagroupofdeservingundergraduatesandgraduatestudents.Thismoneyhasnotonlygonetode-fraytuition,books,andlivingexpenses,butalsofurtheredtheresearchmissionofourDepartmentandtheUniversityofKansas.Studentshavetraveledtodistantarchivesandpresented
papers at academic conferences. The Depart-menthasalsoplayeda
leadingroleatKUinsponsoringpublicevents thatbring innotedspeakers
todiscuss
im-portanttopics.Welookforwardtocarryingonthisroleandinviteyouallthisyeartotakepartintheseevents,includ-
ingourPivotalEventsinHistoryprogramthatwillfeatureourveryownProfessorHagithSivanandtheFourthAn-nualTuttleLecturethatwillfeatureaguestandpreeminenthistorianofAfrican-AmericanHistory,ProfessorDarleneClarkHine.Moreinformationaboutthesetalksisinclud-edinthisnewsletter.WehopethatyouenjoycatchingupwiththeactivitiesofourDepartment.WehaveappreciatedhearingfromourmanyfriendsbeyondMountOread,andwehopetohearfrommanymoreoverthecomingyear.
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RequIReD ReaDIngCelebrating Kansasby Paul Kelton
In 1861 Congress showedgood judgment in bringingKansas into the
Union, whichis something that cannot be said regarding other
states,particularly that one to the east of us. This year
wecelebrate the Sesquicentennial of our great state andencourage
you to learn more about Kansas with ourrequired readings. We are
particularly proud to includeworks by two of our current faculty
–KimWarren andRita Napier – and another by a distinguished alum
andcurrent Director for Publications for the Kansas StateHistorical
Society and editor of Kansas History: A Journal of the Central
Plains –VirgilDean, PhD1991. Rita napier, ed. Kansas and the West:
New Perspectives (university Press of Kansas, 2003), 416pp. Drawing
on scholarship that has
transformedourunderstandingofthehistoryofbothstateandregion,Kansas
and the
Westintroducesreaderstoawiderangeofpeople,places,andthemesthatdemonstratethecomplexrelationshipsamongrace,class,gender,andenvironment.Insodoing,italsoputstorestmanyofthemythsthathavedominatedwesternhistoryforsolong,reflectingboththepositiveandthenegativeconsequencesofhumanactionsover150yearsofKansashistory.
Kim Cary Warren. The Quest for Citizenship: African American and
Native American Education in Kansas, 1880-1935 (university of north
Carolina Press, 2010), 248pp. InThe Quest for Citizenship,
KimCaryWarrenexaminestheformationofAfricanAmericanandNativeAmerican
citizenship, belonging, and identity
intheUnitedStatesbycomparingeducationalexperiencesinKansasbetween1880and1935.WarrenfocusesherstudyonKansas,thoughtbymanytobethequintessentialfreestate,notonlybecauseitwashometosizablepopulationsof
Indian groups and former slaves, but also because ofits unique
history of conflict over freedom during theantebellumperiod. Virgil
Dean, ed. John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas
History (university of Kansas Press, 2010), 422pp.Composedof 27
short biographiesby scholars, John Brown to Bob Dole brings an
arrayof fascinating personalities, including reformers
andpreachers,publishersandartists,vividlybacktolife.Theessays offer
a fresh and engaging look at many of
theimportantthemesofKansashistory–especiallythestate’sidentificationwith
someof thegreat radicalmovements,including abolitionism, populism,
and civil rights – andultimately recaptures the true spirit of
Kansas and itsmeaningfortherestofthenation.
Craig Miner. Kansas: The History of the Sunflower State,
1854–2000 (university of Kansas Press, 2002), 416pp. This is the
newest standard history. Written toenlighten general readers within
and well beyond thestate’s borders, it offers coverage not found in
previoushistories:greaterattentiontoitscities–notablyWichita–andtoitssouth-centralandwesternregions,accountsofbusiness
history, contributionsofwomenandminorities,andenvironmental
concerns. It presents
thedarkaswellasthebrightsideofKansasprogressivismandisthefirstKansashistory
todealwith thepost-WorldWar IIera inanysignificantdetail. Stephen
Starr. Jennison’s Jayhawkers, (Louisiana State university Press,
1993 reprint). 405 pp.Forthoseinterested in killing two
anniversaries (Kansas statehoodand the beginning of
theCivilWar)with one book, thisis it. It’s a well-written account
of the Seventh KansasVolunteer Cavalry, whose members included
CharlesJennison,JohnBrownJr.,andSusanB.Anthony’sbrother–who,incidentally,wasraisedaQuaker.Thatdidn’tstophimortherestoftheunitfrombendingArmyrulesorjustplaincommittingtheirowndepredationsastheypatrolledKansas
and Missouri. The regiment’s conduct was sobad and so embarrassing
to Federal commanders that
itwasbootedfromtheborderareainthespringof1862.Itwentontoparticipateinseveralmainstreambattlesinthewesterntheater.
history DepartmeNt co-spoNsors 2011 tuttle lecture The fourth
Bill Tuttle Distinguished Lecture
inAmericanStudieswillbedeliveredonOctober26,2011at 4:30 in Woodruff
Auditorium of the Kansas Union.This annual lecture was established
to honor Bill Tut-tle and perpetuate his legacy of outstanding
scholar-ship and teaching in American Studies and History.The 2011
Tuttle Lecture will be delivered by
DarleneClarkHine,BoardofTrusteesProfessorofAfricanAmeri-
canStudies andProfessor
ofHistoryatNorthwesternUni-versity.ThetitleofProfessorHine’s
lecture is “Rehearsalfor Freedom: Black Profes-sionalWomen’s Health
CareActivismbeforeBrown.” Darlene Clark Hine is aleading historian
of the Af-rican American experienceand a pioneering scholar
inAfrican American women’s
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New Facultyrobert sChwaller
My arrival at Mt.Oread is like that of aswallow returning
toCapistrano.Althoughnota native Kansan myself,my family helped
foundHays, KS, and many ofmy relatives are diehardJayhawks. My
grand-father,aKUyellleaderandSigmaChipresident,metmygrandmother,aJayhawkerbeautyqueenandThetasister,onTennesseeStreet.Theyweremarriedontheporchofmygreat-grandfather’shomeonMississippiStreet.Myfather,hisbrother,andmycousinallattendedKUearningvariousundergraduateandgraduatedegrees.WithsomuchfamilyhistoryinLawrence,Ifeelprofoundlyproudtobecontinu-ingtheconnectiontoKU.
The lifeofacollege town isone Iknowand love.
IearnedmyB.A.atGrinnellCollege,nestled in thesmalltownofGrinnell,
IA.Althoughmuch smaller
thanLaw-rence,itwassimilarlysurroundedbyfieldsofgrain,blis-teringly
hot in the summer, and cold and windy in thewinter.While earning a
degree inAnthropology
andArtHistory,IoccupiedmysparetimeplayingDiv.IIIfootball.After
fouryearson theprairie,mygraduatestudies
tookmeeasttothemuchlargercollegetownofStateCollege,Pennsylvania,
homeofPennState. Inmanyways,Law-rence is aperfectmixofboth
towns:awelcomingoasisontheplainsandhometoastoriedstateuniversity.ImustconfessIwillhavetoworkhardonadjustingtotheBig12andfavoringtheroundballoverthepigskin.WhileitmightbeimpossibleformetostopbeingaNittanyLion,IlookforwardtobecomingaJayhawk.
MyresearchinterestsfocusonthehistoryofraceintheearlyAtlanticWorldwithaparticularemphasisontherela-tionshipsbetweenAfricansandindigenouspeoplesinLat-inAmerica.HowdidAfricansinteractwithNativeAmeri-cans?Weretheirrelationshipsfriendlyorconflictive?Howdid
European empires inhibit, facilitate, or circumscribe
history.She is theauthoror editorof
twenty-fivebooks,includingtheaward-winningBlack Women in White:
Ra-cial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession,
1890-1950(1989),Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of
American History (1996);withKathleenThompson,A Shining Thread of
Hope: The History of Black Women in America (1998); andBlack
Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas (second
edition,2003).ProfessorHineisalsotheeditor-in-chiefofBlack Women in
America,threevolumes(secondedition,2005).Professor Hine’s scholarly
accomplishments have beenwidely recognized. She has served as
president of
boththeOrganizationofAmericanHistoriansandtheSouthernHistoricalAssociation;
shehasbeena fellowatboth theInstitute forAdvanced Study at
StanfordUniversity
andtheRadcliffeInstituteforAdvancedStudyatHarvardUni-versity;andin2006,shewasinductedintotheAmericanAcademyofArtsandSciences.Finally,ProfessorHineisanotedteacherandspeakerwhohaslecturedatcollegesanduniversitiesthroughouttheUnitedStates.
ProfessorHine’s lecture represents the
jointcommit-mentoftheDepartmentsofHistoryandAmericanStudiestobringtopscholarstoKUtodiscussimportantaspectsoftheAmericanexperience.PastlectureshavebeengivenbyLeon
F. Litwack, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
ofAfricanAmericanhistoryandtheAlexanderF.andMayT.ProfessorofAmericanHistoryEmeritusattheUniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley;WilliamH.Chafe,theAliceMaryBaldwinProfessorofHistoryatDukeUniversityandoneofAmerica’smajorscholarsofcivilrights,women’shis-tory,andpoliticalcultureinthetwentiethcentury;andEricFoner,DeWittClintonProfessor
ofHistory
atColumbiaUniversityandoneofthiscountry’smostimportanthisto-rians.TheHistoryDepartmentispleasedtoco-sponsorthiseventandwehopethatyoucanattend.
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BorDer wars coNFereNce to Feature JoNathaN earle aND JeNNiFer
weBer To commemorate the sesquicentennial of the CivilWar, more
than a dozen scholars of the
“BorderWars”thatragedfordecadesalongtheKansas-MissourilinewillmeetforapublicconferencethisNovember10-12attheKansasCityPublicLibrary.Professor
ofHistoryEmeri-tusMichaelFellmanofSimonFraserUniversity
(authorofInside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During
the American Civil War)willkick thingsoff
theeveningofNov.10atthedowntown(main)branchoftheKCPL;eventswillcontinueoverthenexttwodaysatthelibrary’sPlazabranchandfeaturepresentationsbytwoKUHistoryfaculty:JonathanEarleandJenniferWeber.Thepublicisencouragedtoattend
theconference. Formore
informa-tion,[email protected]([email protected]).
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history matters: perspectives From receNt GraDuates
PatriCK luiz s. De oliveira, ba, 2010 I arrived at theUniversity
of Kan-sas as a journalismmajor with no in-tention of graduat-ing
inhistory.But Ienrolled in an earlymodern Europe sur-vey course to
fulfillone of those peskygeneral requirements, andby the
secondweekof class Iwas hooked. From then on the labyrinthine
hallways ofWescoeHallbecamemy intellectualhome.Thewonder-ful
faculty at theDepartment ofHistory taughtme howto think critically
and contextualize the headlines thatwhooshedthroughThe
Kansannewsroom. I flirtedbrieflywith journalismandwas an intern
atNationalPublicRadioinWashington,D.C.Ialsoventuredalittleintopublishing,interningatVersoBooks,
inNewYorkCity.Bothwere great experiences, but nothing
en-ergizedmeasmuchaswritingmyhonors thesis.
IwenttoLyon,France,where I spentdaysdigging through thearchives.At
other places this kind of
opportunitywouldonlybeavailabletoprofessorsandgraduatestudents,butthanks
to
anUndergraduateResearchAwardandNathanWood,anincredibleadvisorwhobackedmeuptheentiretime,a“lowlyundergrad”likemegotthechancetohandleimperialdecreessignedbyNapoleonIII.
ThisfallIamheadingtoPrinceton,whereIwillbeginmypathtowardadoctoraldegreeinHistory.Iplanonpur-suingtheintereststhatappealedtomeasanundergraduate:modernFranceandurbanhistory.But
Iamopen tonewpossibilities, since I’m also drawn to intellectual
historyandtherapportbetweenliteratureandhistory.Iamthrilled
–butalsonervous–withtheprospectofstudyingatoneofthemostrigorousdepartmentsinthecountry.Nevertheless,IamcomfortedbythefactthatthetrainingIreceivedatKUhasthoroughlypreparedmeforthisnextstep,andthatnomatterwhatIwillalwayshavecaringmentorstohelpmeout.
on the Move:MaDDalena Marinari, PhD, 2009
I study migration be-cause,growingup,mydadnever talked about his
19yearsasamigrantworker.Iwantedtounderstandhisexperience. To do
this, itturned out, required be-coming a migrant myself.Shortly
after college, Imoved from Italy toLaw-rence topursueaPh.D.
inAmericanimmigrationandethnic history.My time
atKUwasincrediblyreward-ing. I worked with
greatmentors,madeenduringfriendships,andmetmyhusband!
Ialsogainedthepreparationandconfidencetopartici-pateactivelyinavibrantintellectualcommunity.Finishingmydissertationonthemobilizationofimmigrantsagainstimmigrationrestriction,
Iworkedat
theNationalHistoryCenterandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociationinWash-ington,DC,whereIworkedwithpublichistoriansat
theSmithsonian,theDepartmentofState,theLibraryofCon-gress,theHolocaustMuseum,andCongress.Participationinalocalimmigrationroundtablegavemetheopportunitytomeetmanyof
thescholarswhosebooks Ihad read
ingraduateschool.ExposuretoDChasalsosomewhatshift-edmyresearchfocus,asIhavebecomemoreinterestedinthepolitical
andpolicydimensionsof
immigration.Thisnewfoundinteresthasresultedinanarticleonthepassageof
the 1965 Immigration and NationalityAct, a crucialbut understudied
law that changed the face ofAmericansociety. After three wonderful
years in the nation’s
capital,duringwhichIwasalsoaVisitingAssistantProfessoratAmerican
University, I am now leaving again to take
apositionasAssistantProfessoratSt.BonaventureUniver-sityinwesternNewYork.There,Iwillfinallybeabletoteach
inmyareaofexpertiseandbring to
theclassroomthepassionforhistoricalinquirythatmyprofessorsatKUinstilled
inme.Onlyonequestionremains:afterbravingtornadoesintheMidwestandsurvivingsnowmaggeddoninDCin2010,cananItaliansurvivethesnowbelt?Let’shopeso!
theseconnections?SofarmyresearchoncolonialMexicohasshownthatAfricansandNativeAmericansfrequentlyformedfamiliesandcommunitiesdespiteSpanishattemptstoseparatethem.AtKU,IlookforwardtoexpandingmyresearchintoCentralAmericaandtheCaribbeaninordertobetterunderstandthediversityoftheserelationshipsandcommunities.
JustasswallowsflyfarandwidebeforereturningtoCapistrano, Ifind
itfitting
thatKUhasnowbecomemyacademichome.IamhonoredandexcitedtojointheKUfamilyandlookforwardtoworkingwithitsamazingfac-ultyandoutstandingstudents.RockChalk,Jayhawk!
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LeslieTuttle,AssociateProfessorofHistoryatKU,wontheawardforherbook,Conceiving
the Old Regime: Pro-natalism and the Politics of Reproduction in
Early Mod-ern
France,publishedbyOxfordUniversityPressin2011.Tuttlewill receive
her award and deliver a lecture Sept.13at7:30p.m. in
theHallCenterConferenceHall.Herlectureistitled:“MakingBabies,MakingtheNation-State:TheCaseofPre-RevolutionaryFrance.”Theeventisopento
the public.A book signing and receptionwill
follow.TheawardcommitteecommendedTuttleonherproseandscholarship:“Tuttlewritesbeautifully.Sheweavesthestoriesofspecificindividualsintoherwell-constructednarrative.Moreover,hersubjectisoriginalandthoroughlyresearched.”OnecommitteememberwrotethatTuttle’sbookstoodoutinastrongfieldofworthynominations:“Itisafineworkof
historical scholarship, carefully researched in a widerange of
sources, and engagingly written. The author’swell-constructed
narrative traces the history of France’searly modern experiment in
procreative
engineering.”HereditoratOUP,SusanFerber,notesthatitisa“splen-did”honortoreceivesuchanawardonafirstpublication.Tuttle
is a Kansas native herself. Her great-great-greatgrandparents
claimed a homestead near White City
inthe1850s.TrainedatPrincetonUniversity,shejoinedtheKUfacultyin1997andcurrentlyteachescoursesonEu-ropean
history, women’s history and historical
methods.TheByronCaldwellSmithAwardwasestablishedat thebequest
ofKateStephens, a formerKU student
andoneofKU’sfirstwomenprofessors.Asanundergraduate,Ste-phenslearnedtolovethestudyofGreeklanguageandlit-eraturefromProfessorByronCaldwellSmith.Inhisname,sheestablishedthisaward,givenbienniallytoanindividu-alwholivesorisemployedinKansasandwhohaswrittenanoutstandingbookpublishedintheprevioustwoyears
Jonathan earle wins 2011 J. Michael Young academic advising
award
Earle,whoservedasDirectorofUndergraduateStud-iesinthedepartmentbetween2001-2004,saidhelearnedtheartofundergraduateadvisingfromhislatecolleague,longtimehistoryprofessorLloydSponholtz,whowontheaward
in 2000: “Lloyd always had a great rapport
withhisstudents,andtherewasalwaysalineoutsidehisofficehours.Advisingisoneofthehardestpartsofourjob,andoneoftheleastrewarded.”Establishedin1991,theawardhonorsthelateJ.MichaelYoung,aKUprofessorofphi-losophy
and director of theUniversityHonors
Program.Theawardisbeenpresentedannuallytofacultywhoregu-larlyreachouttotheiradviseesandhelpKUstudentsmakegooddecisionsabouttheireducationalandcareergoals.
Ku historiaNs wiN maJor awarDsHall Center for Humanities
Presents Book award to Jacob Dorman
JacobDorman,assistantprofessorofhistory,receivedtheFriendsBookPublicationAward
forChosen People: African Americans and the Rise of Black Judaism.
Theforthcomingbook,
tobepublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress,focusesonthediversehistoryandinfluenceofvari-ousreligiousmovementsontheriseof20thcenturyAfri-can-AmericanJudaism.“Iamhonored
tobeselectedfortheFriendsof
theHallCenterAward,whichonlymakesofficialmyveryrealdebttotheHallCenterforfosteringavitalintellectualcommunityoncampusandforprovidingthetimelyandtacticalassistanceneededtocompetesuc-cessfullyforoutsidefunding,”saidDorman.TheOfficeofResearchandGraduateStudiessponsorstheViceChancel-lor
forResearch
andGraduateStudiesBookPublicationAward.Itisintendedtoassistinthepublicationofmerito-riousbookmanuscriptsresultingfromhumanitiesresearchbyKUfacultymembers.AdditionalpublicationawardsaremadepossiblebytheFriendsoftheHallCenter,anorga-nizationoffaculty,communitymembersandstudentswhosupportthecenter’sprograms.
Hagith Sivan earns Higuchi-Ku endowment Research award
Theawards,nowintheir28thyear,honoroutstandingaccomplishments in
research by facultymembers
atKUandotherKansasBoardofRegentsinstitutions.Therecog-nitionprogramwasestablishedbyTakeruHiguchi,adis-tinguishedprofessoratKUfrom1967to1983,andhislatewidow,Aya.Eachawardincludesaplaqueanda$10,000grantforongoingresearchefforts.Theawardmoneycanbeusedforresearchmaterials,summersalaries,fellowshipmatchingfunds,hiringresearchassistantsorothersupportrelatedtoresearch.
Hagith Sivan is a professor of history at KU.
Shejoinedthefacultyin1993andisregardedasaworldau-thorityonthetransitionoftheMediterraneanregionfromancienttimestotheMiddleAges.Her2008work,Pales-tine
in Late Antiquity, integratesmultiple
aspectsofhis-tory–religion,law,politicsandculture–andexemplifiesherscholarlyengagementandbreadthofknowledgeinallthesesubjects.SivanhasmadeamajorcontributiontothefieldofChristian-Jewishstudies,reflectinghermasteryofawiderangeofsourcesandherliteraryskillandanalyticaloriginality.
Leslie Tuttle awarded Byron Caldwell Smith Book award
TheHallCenterfortheHumanitieshasannouncedthewinner of the
2011ByronCaldwell SmithBookAward.
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Ku History Department Partners with Olathe Public Schools and
Visits the native american Rights Fund
Aspartofaprofessionaldevelopmentprogramentitled“ConnectingLearningand
Instruction inOlathe (CLIO):We the People – In Search of a More
Perfect
Union,”twentyteachersfromOlathe,KansasPublicSchoolsvisitedtheNativeAmericanRightsFundandtheNationalIndianLaw
Library from June 21-23. CLIO is funded
throughaTeachingAmericanHistorygrant awardedby
theU.S.DepartmentofEducation.Throughthisprogram,teacherstakeaseriesofgraduatelevelcoursesKU’sDepartmentofHistory.Suchcoursesaimtoincreaseteachers’knowledgeand
understanding ofAmerican history content and keyconcepts, broaden
teachers’ understanding of history
asdemonstratedintheirownhistoricalresearchandwriting,and enhance
teachers’ confidence in teachingAmericanhistory.
Theteachers’visittoNARFandNILLwasthehighlightof one of these
courses, a research seminar on
NativeAmericanhistoryofferedbyDr.MichaelTosee(PhD2010)ofHaskellIndianNationsUniversityandDr.PaulKelton.The
teachers listened topresentationsbyNARFstaffontopics including the
boarding school healing
project,federalrecognitionprocess,andwaterrights.TheydevotedtherestoftheirtimetoconductingresearchonprojectsthattheycanusefortheirMaster’sdegreesoronlessonplansonvariousNativeAmericantopicsthattheycanimplementin
theirclassrooms.MaureenDonegan,ProjectCoordinatorandSocialStudiesCoordinatorforOlathePublicSchools,accompaniedProfessorsToseeandKeltonandconcludedthat
the experiencewas highly positive for all
involved.“ThelunchlecturesbyNARFstaffandtheresearchatthelibrariesprovideduswithmuchtothinkaboutintermsofhumanrights,constitutionalprotection,andsovereigntyofIndiannations,”shecommented.ProfessorKeltonechoessuch
praise: “Through their interaction with NARF
andNILLstaff,Olatheteachershaveanewfoundappreciationfor the
complexhistoryanddiversepresentday
realitiesofNativeAmericans,”hecommented.“IappreciateJohnEcho-Hawkandhiscolleagues’timewithusandonlywishthatallpublicschoolteacherscouldhavesuchavaluableexperience.”
2011 activities aND accomplishmeNts
emeriti
John alexander recently saw his book,Emperor of the Cossacks:
Pugahchev and the Frontier Jacquerie of 1773-1775
(Lawrence:CoronadoBooks, 1973) translated
intoRussianandpublishedinUfa,Bashkortostanwithalauda-tory
introduction that citedmanyofhis otherbooks
andarticles,intheseriesForeign Researches in Tatar
History.Heknewnothingofthistranslationuntilapprisedofitandaskedforpermission
topublish.Thisannouncementwasaccompaniedbyanelectroniccopyofthetranslationandapromisetosendhardcopies,whichwasfulfilledamonthlaterwithfour“hard”copiesofthetranslation.CoronadoBookswasthepressownedbyJohn(Jack)Longhurstandno
longerexists.Alexander isverypleased thathis
leastknownbookshouldberescuedforthisRussiantranslation.Wondersnevercease!anna
Cienciala publishedareview,“WhatdidRooseveltandChurchillReallyAim
toAchieve for Poland atYal-ta?WasYalta thePrice
forPeace?ADiscussionofS.M.Plokhy,Yalta:ThePriceofPeace,”The Polish
Review,v.LV,2010,No.4,pp.449-466.Shealsoauthored“TheFor-eignPolicyofJozefPilsudskiandJozefBeck,1926-1939:MisconceptionsandInterpretations,”The
Polish Review,v.LVI,2011,No.1-2,pp.111-152.Richard Kay
hasnearly2000downloadsof
thePontifi-caliabibliographyfromKUScholarWorks.Healsopub-lished an
article, “Elam Bartholomew: Kansas King ofFieldMycology,”Mushroom:
The Journal of Wild
Mush-rooming,27.3-4(Summer-Fall,2010),pp.6-8.
Faculty
Joseph
BradleyauthoredanarticleonRussiancivilsoci-ety,“KistoriiformirovaniiagrazhdanskogoobshchestvavRossiiXVIII-XXvekov,”whichwastheleadarticleintheMoscowscholarlyjournalROSSIISKAIAISTORIIA,no.2,2011.Hisbookonvoluntaryassociationswillbepub-lishedinRussiantranslationinMoscowinfall2011.Katherine
Clark
presented“DefoeandtheDiscoursesofDreaming”attheDefoeSocietyconferenceattheUniver-sityofWorcester,UKthisJuly.
Jonathan
earleworkedcloselythispastyearwithProf.DianeMutti-Burkeof
theUniversityofMissouri-KansasCitytoorganizeandplanamajornationalconferenceon
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Maureen Donegan (Olathe Social Studies Coordinator), with KU
HistoryStudentsandOlathe
teachers,KeriSchumacher,AmyWalker,JenniferYoksh,LyndsayCast,andKarenDavis.
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engagewiththeburdenofrememberingslaverywhilealsoattemptingtotranscendit.
Roberta
Pergherwasonleaveduringthespringsemes-tertoworkonherbookmanuscriptwhichanalyzesfascistItaly’ssettlementpoliciesatthenation’sbordersandinitsAfricancolonies.Shealsocompletedandsubmittedaned-itedbookmanuscriptonItalianfascismtoPalgrave,whichiscurrentlyunderreview.Herarticleonthepopulationre-settlementprogramof1939stipulatedbetweenfascistItalyandNaziGermanywaspublishedinapeer-reviewedItal-ianhistoryjournal.Sheiscurrentlyco-organizingaconfer-enceon
Italian fascismbetween
traditionandmodernity,whichwillbeheldinItalythisfall.
eric C. Rath published two books in 2010, Food and Fantasy in
Early Modern
Japan(UniversityofCaliforniaPress),whichdescribestheoriginofJapanesecuisine,and
Past and Present in Japanese Foodways,
co-editedwithStephanieAssmann (University of Illinois Press),
whichcontains14chaptersonfourcenturiesofJapanesefoodbyan
internationalgroupofscholars.
In2011hecompletedworkonaUSStateDepartmentfundedproject,whichen-abled
a team ofKU faculty to travel twice toTibet andallowed 5Tibetan
students to study atKU.He receiveda travel grant from theUniversity
ofMichigan to beginresearch for a book on smoking in earlymodern
Japan.HegaveaninvitedtalkattheUniversityofMichiganandchairedapanelandpresentedapaperonJapanesefoodattheannualmeetingoftheAssociationforAsianStudiesinHonolulu.
John
RuryiscoeditorofanewbookseriestobepublishedbyPalgraveMacmillan,Historical
Studies in
Education,withWilliamJ.ReeseoftheUniversityofWisconsin.Healsopublished“History,TheoryandEducation”intheHis-tory
of Education Quarterly,Vol.51,No.3,May2011,pp.218-228.
Jennifer L. Weber published a children’s book, Sum-mer’s
Bloodiest Days,
abouttheBattleofGettysburganditsaftermath.ItwasnamedaNotableSocialStudiesTradeBook
forYoung People by theNationalCouncil for theSocialStudies.
nathan WoodisspendingfivemonthsinWarsaw,Polandon a Fulbright
Scholarship, where he is conducting
re-searchonearlyattitudestowardautomobilesandairplanesfor his next
book,Backwardness and Rushing Forward: Technology and Culture in
Poland’s Age of Speed,
1890-1939.Hisarticle,“SexualViolence,SexScandals,andtheWordontheStreet:TheKolasównaLustmordinCracow’sPopular
Press, 1905-06” appeared inThe Journal of the History of
SexualityinMay.
the“BorderWars” thatflaredalong theKansas-Missourilinebetween
the1850sand1880s
(andbeyond).Partici-pantsmetatKU’sHallCenterfortheHumanitiesinAprilfor
aworkshop, andwill reconvene for a public
confer-enceattheKansasCityPublicLibraryNov.10-12.Earlealso
delivered the inaugural “Pivotal Events” lecture
fortheHistoryDepartment,anddeliveredtheHallCenterinWichitaLectureinApril.HewasawardedtheCollege’sJ.MichaelYoungAcademicAdvisorAwardfor2010-2011,andhisfirstbook,The
Routledge Atlas of African Ameri-can
History,wastranslatedintoJapanese.
Christopher e. Forth contributedchapters to theeditedvolumes A
Cultural History of the Human Body (Berg2010)andWriting the
Holocaust(Bloomsbury,2011)andpresentedworkontheculturalhistoryoffatattwoacade-micconferencesandasaguestspeakerattheUniversityofArkansas.HeisalsopartofaresearchteamthatreceivedanA$138,000AustralianResearchCouncilgranttostudygenderandhonorkilling.
Paul Kelton presented a talk entitled “Expansion
withHonor/Resistance with Spirit: Indigenous Peoples, theUnited
States, and theWar of 1812” at theKansasCityChapter of theSons of
theRevolutionGeorgeWashing-ton’sBirthdayluncheon.
elizabeth Kuznesof presented a paper at the ICHS
(In-ternationalConferenceonHistoricalStudies)2010inAm-sterdamAugust
22-29 “Domestic Service andUrbaniza-tion
in19thCenturyLatinAmerica.”ShealsopresentedapaperattheMediterraneanStudiesConferenceinSala-manca,
SpainMay 26-29, 2010, “Perspectives
onBrazilinthe19thcenturyMediterraneanWorld.”SheauthoredareviewofSefanieKorn,KarolineNoack(eds.)Que
gen-ero tiene el derecho? Ciudadania, historia y
globalizacion.(Berlin,editiontranvia,2008).Bulletin of Latin
American Research,2011.
adrian Lewis has a forthcomingbook,The American Culture of War:
The History of U.S. Military Force from World War II to Operation
En-during Freedom(Routledge,2ndedi-tion).
elizabeth Macgonagle’s essay
onimaginingthepastatGreatZimbabwewillbepublishedbyAfricaWorldPressinthevolumeAfrica
& Its Diaspora: Memory, Public History, & Representations
of the Past.ThisworkispartofaprojectthatexamineshowAfricans
2011 activities ...continuedfrompage7
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Operation Enduring Freedom
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GraDuate stuDeNts
Mark Calhoun presented papers at the Hall
Center’sPW&GCSeminarandatthe2011SocietyofMilitaryHis-toryconference,andheearnedaBronzeandaSilverPenAwardfromTheCommandandGeneralStaffSchoolforvariouspublications.HealsoearnedaresearchtravelgrantfromtheKUgraduatestudiesdepartment,andhisarticle“Clausewitz
and Jomini: Contrasting Intellectual Frame-works
inMilitaryTheory”appeared in thesummer2011issueofArmy
History.HeworksfulltimeattheSchoolofAdvancedMilitaryStudieswhilecompletinghisdisserta-tiononthemilitarycareerofGeneralLesleyJ.McNair.
Phillip Fox presented a paper at themeeting of
theAs-sociationforSpanishandPortugueseHistoricalStudiesinLisbon,Portugal,June30-July3,2011.HeispicturedwithProfessorLuisCorteguera.
Dezeree Hodish received a dissertation research fellow-ship from
the Institute of International Education. TheBoren Fellowship will
allow her to conduct research
inUkrainefromSeptember2011-July2012.
Jeremy Prichard received the King V. Hostick Awardfrom the
Illinois Historic PreservationAgency this pastyear.
Jason Roe isworkingonhisdissertation,“FromtheIm-poverished to
theEntitled:TheExperienceandMeaningofOldAgeinAmericasincethe1950s,”whichexaminestheorigins,developmentandculturalimpactofold-ageen-titlementpoliciessuchasMedicareandSocialSecurity.HehasreceivedfundingfromtheRichardandJeannetteSiasGraduateFellowshipfromtheHallCenterfortheHumani-ties
to complete his research in the2011-2012 academicyear.
Stephanie StilloreceivedtheEddieJacobsenFellowshipfor
International Studies fromKarl Zobrist, President
oftheHarryS.TrumanGoodNeighborAwardFoundation,
andactorGarySinise,the2011Honoree,ataceremonyinKansasCityonMay5,2011.
Lon Strauss recently presented his dissertation researchin June
at abrownbag lunchat
theU.S.Army’sCenterofMilitaryHistoryinWashington,DC.Healsopresented“ADomesticWayofWar:Paranoia,DisloyalWords,andMilitarySurveillanceofCivilians
inWorldWarI”at theannual conference of the Society
forMilitaryHistory inChicago; as well as “Requiring Loyalty
inThought
andDeed:TheU.S.ArmyandDomesticSurveillanceinWorldWarI”attheHallCenterfortheHumanitiesatKU.
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NicholasAdamsGreerAdkins-HeljesonAmandaAllenbrandAmandaAllisonKevinBaileyHannahBallardBrandonBecknerAndrewBernittLaurenBloodgoodCodyBoosShaunBrammerJordanBrownPrestonBukatyGarrettChildersAxelCohenChelseaCooleyKyleCourtneyMatthewCroisantMorganDeutschAnthonyDishmanSarahDoyleAlexandraEdwardsBrettElliottEvanEppersonMelanieEvansMattFalkenstienRebeccaFermKirstieFineDavidFoleyJasonFosterJohnFridlingtonJarrodGillMichelleGrahamThomasGravesNavreetGrewalBartonGunterMatthewHaleWilliamHardyScottHillDavidHodgesTylerHolmesSuzanneHuffmanAshleyHullingerLadiniJayaratneAndrewJohnsonTylerJonesSaulKantorJacobKeltnerBrianKhomsiWesleyKimmelCourtneyKincaidDanielKonertRogerLuedke
2011 DeGree recipieNts
uNDerGraDuatesEllenMakowskyAllysonMannyAmandaMatusekWilliamMcChesneyMarkMcGeeKentonMcKeeDrakeMcVeyMichaelNapierCooperOverstreetColinPateJacobPerryCalePetersenVoneitaPetersonSharonPetrieNathanielPikeKristinaPollardDemyPotterMarkPriceStephaniePugsleyMichaelRaaschErikRadowskiAmandaRamirezTimothyRasmussonJoshuaReidTravisRemmichEdwardRostetterIISethSanchezJoelSauerweinAndrewSaylorPaigeSchmidtJosephSchmisseurCharlesScholleCaraSeatsValerieShandsBaileyShepardJacobSilvermanPhetSonMichaelSpatzHeatherSpragueRebeccaSullivanChantzThomasJohnThorntonPatrickTotaroThomasTownsdinScottTunnellEliskaValehrachovaJacobVietsSamuelWeinbergNathanWestKevinWheelerKevinWorkmanAndrewWrightMargaretYoe
masters WinchellDelano KennethKolander
AmandaSchlumpbergerJasonGladney HansKrueger
NeilSchomakerDezereeHodish TeresaScalard
AdamSundbergMichaelHogg
2011 awarD recipieNts
uNDerGraDuatesNicoleBinghamMemorialScholarship–MelissaMalcolmLilaAtkinsonCreightonMemorialScholarshipforaHistoryMajor
–AnnaAlexandrovitch&TrentBoultinghouseRobinson-PhiAlphaThetaAward
forOutstanding JuniorHistory
Major–JuliaBarnardJamesC.MalinScholarshipforOutstandingJuniorHistoryMajor
–ThomasHiattJohnG.GagliardoAwardforOutstandingJuniorHistoryMajor–
SarahShierMelissaEvansStudyAbroadAward–LukeBrinkerCarlBeckerAwardforMostOutstandingPaperinaSeniorResearch
Seminar–JenniferBinnsAwardforMostOutstandingHonorsThesis–HannahBallardAnne
Stewart Higham Award for Most Outstanding Graduating
Senior–BrandonGresham
ph.D.sKyleAnthony,“‘ToHesitateisCowardly’:RadicalismandAmerican
Manhood,1870-1920.”Advisor:JeffMoranKevinBenson, “AnElite
ofCapability:TheSchool ofAdvanced
MilitaryStudiesandUSArmyDoctrinalReform,1980-1995.”Advisor:TedWilson
ThomasBradbeer,“‘AttackEverything’:TheBritishAirCampaignovertheSomme,1April1916-23November1916.”Advisor:TedWilson
RyanGaston, (Honors) “AssumingRoles:Gender,Crisis and
theConservation of Spain in the Early 17th
Century.”Advisor:LuisCorteguera
TroyHinkel,“JulesFerryandHenriMaret:TheBattleofChurchandStateattheSorbonne,1879-1884.”Advisor:LeslieTuttle
CrystalJohnson,“TheCoreWay:TheCongressofRacialEqualityand the
Civil Right Movement, 1942-1968.” Advisor: JeffMoran
Marina Maccari-Clayton, “Global Migration in Transition:
TheAmericas,Europe,andItalianDiaspora(1946-1960).”Advisor:LuisCorteguera
JamesQuinn,“‘WeHaveNoPlace’:TheCaptivityandHomecomingof French
Prisoners of War, 1939-1947.” Advisor: LuisCorteguera
ChristopherRein, (Honors) “‘Properly andProfitablyEmployed’:The
US Army Air Forces in North Africa, June 1942
toSeptember1943.”Advisor:AdrianLewis
KimberlySchutte,(Honors)“MarryingbytheNumbers:MarriagePatternsofAristocraticBritishWomen,1485-2000.”Advisor:KatherineClark
DarrickTaylor, (Honors) “L’EstrangeHisLife:Public&Personain
theLife andCareerofSirRogerL’Estrange,
1616-1704.”Advisor:JonathanClark
SallyUtech,“‘CertainlytheProperBusinessofWoman’:Householdand
Estate Management Techniques of
Eighteenth-CenturyFrenchNoblewomen.”Advisor:LeslieTuttle
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GraDuatesArthur&JudithMcClureMemorialScholarship–AlexBoyntonAmbroseSaricksFamilyResearchScholarship–BenjaminGuyerEwert-CobbScholarship
forResearch in theLiberalArts –Chris
CareyRobert&AndreaOppenheimerAward–JacobLongaker&Edma
DelgadoSolorzanoDonaldR.McCoyResearchAward–MaryMcMurrayMrdjenovicFamilyAward–RobMillerOswaldP.BackusIIIMemorialAward–DezereeHodishJohnG.
GagliardoAward for OutstandingTeaching by a GTA –
JoshuaNygrenNormanE.&MaryAnnSaulAward
forDissertationResearch –
StephanieStilloGeorgeL.AndersonAwardforOutstandingDoctoralDissertation–
“Marryingby
theNumbers:MarriagePatternsofAristocraticBritishWomen,1485-2000,”KimSchutte&“AssumingRoles:Gender,
Crisis and the Conservation of Spain in the
EarlySeventeenthCentury,”RyanGaston
JerryStannardMemorialAward–AnInternationalAward–“ThePlagueCures
ofCasparKegler:Print,AlchemyandMedicalMarketing in
Sixteenth-Century Germany,” Erik
AntonHeinrichs,PhDHarvardUniversity
NoN DepartmeNtal
awarDsHallCenterScholarAward–LukeBrinkerCarrollPrizeforBestGraduateStudentPaperinMilitaryHistoryat
theMissouriValleyHistoryConference–GatesBrownForeignLanguageAreaStudies(FLAS)FellowshipfromtheCenter
forEastAsianStudies–DustyClarkCouncilofEuropeanStudies’Pre-DissertationResearchFellowship
–HarleyDavidsonForeignLanguageAreaStudiesforUkrainianLanguageStudies–
DezereeHodishKU-FMSOFellowship–RandyMastenLatinAmericanFieldResearchGranttoSpain–IreneOlivaresChickasawNationHigherEducationGrant–KrystlePerkinsHallCenterSiasGraduateFellowshipintheHumanities–JasonRoeHarryS.TrumanGoodNeighborAwardFoundationforaSherman
and IreneDrieseszen Scholarship for InternationalHistory
–NicholasSambaluk
ForeignLanguageAreaStudiestostudyCzechlanguageatIndianaUniversity–AllisonSchmidt
HallCenterGraduateSummerResearchAward–JohnSchneiderwindMortarBoardSociety,1of5OutstandingEducatorsatKU–Kim
SchutteSociety
forMilitaryHistoryRussellF.WeigleyGraduateStudent
TravelGrant–LonStraussEddie Jacobson Fellowship for
International Studies – Stephanie
StilloKU-NewberryCenter forRenaissance
StudiesConsortiumTravel
Grant–StephanieStilloLatinAmericanStudiesFieldResearchGrant–StephanieStilloTrumanFoundationGrantforSummerResearch–StephanieStilloFulbrightResearchGranttotheNetherlands–AdamSundbergGraduateStudentResearchCompetitionAward(ArtandHumanities)
–AdamSundbergKU National Science Foundation C-Change IGERT
Program –
AdamSundbergMini Grant from the CHS Foundation for KU’s Wind
Energy
Symposium–AdamSundbergJapan Foundation Dissertation Research
Fellowship in Japan –
MindyVarnerFulbrightIIEGranttoBelgrade,Serbia–ShayWood
alumNi NewsSeth andersen (Ba 1990) is currently the
ExecutiveDirectoroftheAmericanJudicatureSociety,anorganizationthatpromotesafairandeffectivesystemofjustice.HeisaformerspecialassistanttothepresidentoftheAmericanBarAssociationandformerdirectoroftheHunterCenterforJudicialSelectionoftheAmericanJudicatureSociety.HenowresidesinDesMoines,IA.
Darrel e. Bigham (PhD
1970)retiredfromtheUniversityofSouthernIndianain2008after38years.HewasappointedbyPresidentClintonandserved10yearsasamemberoftheUSAbrahamLincolnBicentennialCommission.Heisnowatworkona“collectivebiography”ofthefiveDemocratswhomadeLincolnpresidentin1860,andisalsoworkingonastudyofVermont’simpactonthedevelopmentoftheoldNorthwest.
Robert L. Boyce III (Ba 1964) retired in 2009
fromLincoln(NE)CityLibrariesafter27yearsasaReferenceLibrarian.Previously,hehadworkedattheKULibraries,JohnsHopkinsUniveristyLibrary,
and
theUniversityofNebraskaLibrary.Hiswifeof41years,BarbaraEricssonBoyce(KUBA1965,PhiBetaKappa),diedin2007.
O. gene Clanton (PhD 1967) is Professor Emeritus atWashington
State University. He has no news since hepublishedA Common
Humanity: Kansas Populism and the Battle for Justice and Equality
1854-1903 several yearsback. Incidentally, freecopiesof this
studyareavailableforclassroomuse.Contactauthor.
Kent Curtis (PhD
2001)wasrecentlyawardedthe2010OscarWintherAwardbytheWesternHistoricalAssociationfor
the best article of the year in theWestern Historical
Quarterly,2009-2010.
Paul F. Dunscomb (PhD
2001)hadabookbasedonhisdissertationpublishedbyLexingtonBooksin2011entitledJapan’s
Siberian Intervention, 1918-1922: “A Great Disobedience Against the
People.”
Karen Hunt exon (Ma 1982, PhD
1990)steppeddowninspring2010after21yearsatBakerUniversityasProfessorof
History and Political Science. She spent 20 years
asUniversityPre-LawAdvisorand11yearsasDepartmentChair. She
continues on as thewomen’s golf coach
(14years)andmen’sgolfcoach(6years).
Charles eyer (Ba 1997) published a historical novelof Nero’s
Rome last year called First Citizen Emperor and iscurrentlywriting
the sequel.Hiswebsite iswww.mossynoecy.com.
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Scott a. gartner (BgS 1987) recently started his ownregistered
investmentadvisoryservice,GartnerFinancialGroup,LLC.They
focusprimarilyon
teachingscientificmethodsofinvestingthroughtheteachingsofacademia.
Virginia e. glandon (PhD 1976) is retired from
theHistoryDepartmentatUMKCandsendsbestwishestoall.
Douglas S. Harvey (PhD
2008)hadamonographpublishedin2010byPickeringandChatto,entitledThe
Theatre of Empire: Frontier Performances in North America,
1750-1860.
David Lloyd Jones (Ma 1965) isfullyretirednowwithemeritus
status.He spends the harsherwintermonths
inSouthCarolinawithhissonandgrandchildren,andalwaysthinksfondlyofLawrenceandKU.
Ryan M. Kennedy (BgS 2009) is currently
attendinggraduateschoolatFortHaysStateUniversitypursuingaMaster’sdegreeinHistory.
Jim Lieker (PhD
1999)isnowinhisninthyearatJCCCastenuredProfessorofHistory.HeservesontheeditorialboardofKansas
History: A Journal of the Central Plains,chairs
thecommunitycollegecommittee for theWesternHistory Association, and
is director of JCCC’s KansasStudies Institute. His dissertation,
titledRacial Borders: Black Soldiers along the Rio
Grande,hasbeenreissuedinpaperbackandwasawinneroftheFehrenbachawardforbestbookonTexashistory.Hissecondbook,co-authoredwith
fellow KU alum Ramon Powers, is The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in
History and Memory,andisduefromUniversityofOklahomaPressin2011.
James S. Masters (Ba 1949, Ma 1950) is
currentlywritingabookentitledBecoming American in New
York.Atleastnineofhisancestorsandtheirfamiliesfrom1624to1851begantheprocessofbecomingAmericaninwhatisnowNewYorkState.WhatwereNewNetherlandandNewYork
likeat the timesof
theirarrivalsandhowdidthataffecttheirAmericanization?He’sbeencollectingdataforthisbookforthelastthirtyyears,andisgladhenowhasthechancetoputitall
together,particularlysincehenowlivesintheregionofNewYorkwhereittookplace.HecanwalkthecoupleofmilesfromhishousedowntotheHudsonRiverandseetheplacewhereHenryHudson’sHalveMaen
anchored, or themile or so south from
hishousetotheNormanskill,atthemouthofwhichcreektheDutch built Ft.
Nassau to provide protection for the furtraders.
arthel McDaniel III (Ba 1994) teaches
“IndependentFilmFinance:TheArtoftheDeal”inKU’sFilm&MediaStudiesDepartment,inadditiontohisworkasanattorneyatPolsinelliShughardPCinKansasCity,Missouri.
Jeff Miller (BgS 1983) is currentlyAssistant Professorand
Program Coordinator in the Restaurant and
ResortManagementprogramatColoradoStateUniversity.Aftergraduating
fromKU, hewent
toNewEnglandCulinaryInstitute,earnedaMaster’sdegreeinHotelandRestaurantManagement
from Kansas State, and received his PhDin Education from Colorado
State University in 2006.In 2007, he received the Best TeacherAward
from theColoradoStateUniversityAlumniAssociation.In2010,hepublished
a book entitledFood Studies: An Introduction to Research Methods
(BergPublishers:Oxford,UK).Heenjoyed his time in the history
department and
fondlyremembersthementoringthereceivedfromBobGreaves,JohnMcCauley,andLynnNelson.
ethan a. Schmidt (PhD 2007)
isanAssistantProfessorintheDepartmentofHistoryatTexasTechUniversityandrecentlyreceivedtheTexasTechPresident’sExcellenceinTeachingAward.
Curtis V. Smith (Ma 1992)receivedanInterdisciplinaryPhD (2010)
from UMKC in Urban Leadership andPolicy Studies in Higher
Education/Social Science. Hisdissertation was “The Impact of
Part-Time Faculty onStudent Retention at an Urban Community
College.”KCKCC e-Journal published his articles “The Cause ofBlack
Death” (Fall 2007) and “Syphilis and ContagionTheories” (March
2009). He is currently Professor ofBiological Science at Kansas
City Kansas CommunityCollege.
Jennifer Day Tope (Ba 1997) has been teaching as anadjunct
professor at several universities for the past sixyears.
adrian Zink (Ba 2005) works as an archivist at theUniversity of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he receivedhis Master’s in History in
May 2011. He helped createthe March on Milwaukee Civil Rights
Digital
HistoryProject,anonlineresourcefordigitizedarchivalmaterialsfrom
the Civil Rights era in Milwaukee, WI
(www.marchonmilwaukee.uwm.edu). After KU, he receivedhis MLS with a
focus onArchival Management at theUniversity of Maryland in 2008,
and has worked as anarchivist at the National Archives, The
National PressClub, Northwestern Memorial Hospital Archives
inChicago,MarquetteUniversityandUW-Milwaukee.TheWisconsinArchivesCouncil
recently gavehima
$3,000granttocompleteamonographonthefutureofdigitizationofarchivalcollections.HecurrentlyresidesinMilwaukee,WI,
and is so thankful toKUHistory for the
professorswhoencouragedhimtoscourthearchives,wherehefoundhispassion.
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supportWeareverygratefulforthegenerosityofourmanyfriendswhohaveoffered
theirfinancial
supportofourprogram.Theshrinkageofstatesupporthasledustodependmoreheavilyonourendowment
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thevitalityofouracademicmission.Asaresearchoneinstitution,wemustgiveourfacultyandgraduatestudentsthehelptheyneedtocompletecuttingedgeprojectsthatwillkeepusinthetoptierofdepartmentsamongpublicuniversities.Wealsohaveaneverincreasingnumberofhard-workinganddeserving
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scholarshipstostayinschool.Pleaseconsiderhelpinguswithwhateveryoucangive.Wetrulyappreciatethesupportofourdonors.Aspecialthankyougoestoour2010-2011contributors:
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CT.TOWN BALL
2nd20112-4pm
History Professor Jonathan Earle
Lawrence Public LibraryTown Ball was played in the United States
beginning in the early 1800’s and is
considered a stepping stone towards modern baseball. Today the
game is played by history buffs and baseball enthusiasts in parks
and fields across the country. Join
Professor Earle for a discussion and demonstration of this
fascinating game. Participants and spectators welcome!
For more information contact [email protected]
This event is co-sponsored by The Lawrence Public Library and
the Douglas County Senior Center
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciencesat the University of
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TheUniversityofKansasDepartmentofHistory1445JayhawkBlvd.3650WescoeLawrence,KS66045