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NMSU Department of History Newsletter
Spring 2017
Participants in the Spring 2017 NMSU FLIP Trip to China take a ride on someBactrian camels
Professors Elvira Masson and Meg Goehring (Art History) took17 students faculty (including Dr Bronstein and her family)and community members on a Faculty-led InternationalProgram (FLIP) to western China over spring break Theytraveled to Xian eastern terminus of the
ancient Silk Road where inaddition to visiting the TerraCotta Warriors of the QinEmperorrsquo Tomb theyfeasted on lamb dishesand bargained forgoods in the Muslimquarter of the cityThey headed west toGansu Provincewhere they visitedimmense Buddhist
grottoes (Binglingsi andDunhuang) dating back
over 1000 years and showingevidence of a mixing of cultures
from east and west They traveled to one of the largestTibetan monasteries (Labrang at 9500rsquo) and to the westernend of the Great Wall of China
Oh The Places Youll GoChina FLIP Trip March 2017
The group traveled by planestrains boats buses andcamels Along the waythey encountered avariety of cultures thatmake up modernChina and whohave contributed toChinarsquos civilizationStudents madepresentations at allthe sites they visitedpracticed their Chinese
and explored the manytextures of Chinese history
Dr Nathan Brooks
Our Faculty
Dr Jamie Bronstein
I published a chapter in Early Responses to thePeriodic System published by Oxford University Press onthe reception of Dmitrii Mendeleevs Periodic Law inRussia I also attended a National Endowmenr for theHumanities Summer Insritute on The Mongols and theEurasian Nexus of World History sponsored by the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii When I returnedto NMSU I collaborated on a class with ProfessorHammond on the Mongol Empire This spring I taughtanother class with Professor Hammond on the History ofCentral Asia
My fifth book Two Nations A History ofAmerican Inequality was published by Praeger in October2016 It traces the history of social and economic inequalityfrom the American Revolution through the end of the GreatRecession looking at some of the neglected opportunities tocreate real equality throughout American history She iscurrently working on her sixth book about the history ofemotions in industrializing Britain I have also been selectedto attened a National Institute for the Humanities summerinsitute for 2017 entitled Whatever Happened to the CivilRights Movement This institute hosted by the HutchinsCenter for African and African American history at Harvardbrings faculty from across the country together to discussissues in African American history and to craft curricula forcourses I plan to add African American History to myteaching repertoire when I return in 2018
This past summer I stepped down after six years as Director ofthe Center for Latin American and Border Studies to return full-time to theHistory Department During my tenure as Director I organized over 80public lectures and events that brought together members of the universitythe Las Cruces community and the Border Region I completed my bookmanuscript Pragmatic Revolutionary Haya de la Torre and the Pursuit ofPower in Peru and Latin America 1926-1979 a political biography of oneof Latin Americarsquos most influential twentieth century politicans I alsocompleted a book of oral histories titled Entre la Democracia y laInsurgencia Testimonios Apristas 1930-1950 In collaboration with theJournalism Department I prepared a segment in Spanish for the weeklystudent-run news program Noticias 22 on current events in Latin America Ipresented portions of this research in April at conferences in Salt Lake CityUtah and Lima Peru In addition to teaching a variety of Latin Americanhistory courses I taught the graduate seminar Borders Boundaries andFrontiers and is teaching the undergraduate research methods course for
history majors
I was on sabbatical for the 2015-16 academic year workingon a project concerning the history of urban cartography in earlymodern China My research investigates how Chinese cities werechanging from the Song through the Ming dynasties from the 11ththrough the 16th centuries and how this was reflected in the ways citieswere visually portrayed in a variety of formats and genres This was atime of rapid commercialization in the Chinese economy and ofsignificant transformations in social and cultural life Images of urbanplaces especially maps expressed and articulated new ways ofenvisioning the city and the changing lives of urban residents I receiveda research grant from the China and Inner Asia Council of theAssociation for Asian Studies to travel to Japan for this project I will bepresenting papers reporting the results of his research at conferences inToronto Canada and Leiden the Netherlands in 2017
Now that I have returned to teaching I have offered classes onGlobal History the history of the Global Political Economy and thegraduate research seminar themed on Central Asian history I am alsocurrently working with seven MA students completing theses in Asianhistory
I have had two recent publications ldquoShared Heritage DifferentPaths Wang Shizhen and Wang Shimaordquo in Ming Qing yanjiu XIX(2015) published by the Oriental Institute of the University of Naplesand ldquoRevolutionary Politics in Twentieth Century Chinardquo in the journalHistorical Materialism 241 (2016) I am also currently co-editing TheRoutledge Handbook of Imperial Chinese History and serve asAssociate Editor for the Ming and Qing periods for the Journal ofChinese History published by Cambridge University Press
Dr Ken Hammond
Dr Inigo Garcia-Bryce
I had an unusual sabbatical last fall I drove 20000 milesacross the country visited over 100 historic parks and sites and tookover 20000 photos He blogged about his travels atdrivenbyhistoryblogspotcom Now I am writing a history of the UnitedStates from those places where history actually happened Many of theseplaces are part of the National Park Service and so this history is also alook at the NPS as it turned 100 years old last year I am happy to beback teaching and had a productive semester
After finishing my first book Hoptopia A World ofAgriculture and Beer in Oregonrsquos Willamette Valley (University ofCalifornia Press 2016) Irsquove been giving a variety of readings and talksacross the country Irsquove also started working on my next book tentativelycalled ldquoFabiaacuten Garciacutea and the Chile Pepper that Changed the Worldrdquo Publichistory endeavors also keep me busy as I continue to collaborate withstudents and members of the community on the Murals of Las CrucesProject and initiatives that celebrate the centennial and next century of theNational Park Service
Dr Peter Kopp
Dr Jon Hunner
I completed two other books in January ldquoThe VenetianDiscovery of America Geographic Imagination and Print Culture in theAge of Encountersrdquo and ldquoVirtual Encounters Interpreting the NewWorld in Early Modern Italyrdquo both of which will be published byCambridge University Press I have also been awared a NationalEndowment for the Humanities grant along with Dr Alexander Nagelto research how painters cosmographers printmakers and writerscontinued to depict America as Asia up to 1600 and after We will betravelling to libraries and archives to examine historical documents Iwill focus my research on texts and travelogues
Dr Elizabeth Horodowich
During the last academic year I published my thirdbook African Americans and the Classics AntiquityAbolition and Activism with London independent academicpublisher IB Tauris I continue to give invited talks themost recent in February 2017 for the InterdisciplinaryHumanities Center at UC Santa Barbara The next talk willbe in September at the University of Freiburg in Germany Ispent a delightful 4 weeks traveling around the Mediterraneanlast May and June visiting Sicily Lampedusa and Cyprus Ihave immensely enjoyed my position as Director of GraduateStudies as well as my teaching here at NMSU
Dr Margaret Malamud
Dr Andrea Orzoff
I have completed a set of articles on the German-speaking chapters of the International PEN Club and amresearching and writing Music in Flight my book aboutmusicians who fled Nazi Europe for Latin America I havepublished on PEN in German History another article hasbeen accepted by New German Critique and is forthcoming Ispent 2016 on an ACLS Fellowship I will spend summer2017 on a Fulbright fellowship to Germany and will continuethe Fulbright award in summer 2018 in Mexico and Peru Iwas asked to contribute an essay on interwar Europeandemocracy and democratic internationalism to the OxfordHandbook of Europe 1900-1945 (2016) I gave invitedlectures at Vanderbilt University Tel Aviv University theUniversity of New Mexico the University of Memphis andat the Landscapes of Displacement conference sponsoredby the US Holocaust Memorial Museum at Mesa College inSan Diego I participated in the 2016 German StudiesAssociation yearly conference and at a conference onrefugees at Yad Vashem (Israel) in December 2016 I am thedepartments Phi Alpha Theta adviser Through her work withthe campus group Standing With Our Students I haveorganized a set of campus wide talks this semester on issuesdrawn from current events I continue to work on her bookmanuscript and on an article about the Austrian-Germanconductor Erich Kleiber
Some of Our Graduate Students
I am a Public History Graduate Student I am working on apublication about the national parks in New Mexico in collaboration withHeidi Iverson I will graduate in May 2017
Alyssa Brillante
My last published journal article Forging a NationalPark Service the Necessity for Cooperation (2014) and mySpring courses at NMSU will bring an end to my academiccareer As I approach my 1 July retirement date I will havepublished 10 articles and books concerned with the National ParkService and US Forest Service and taught 265 courses (529courses in my entire academic career) at NMSU As an NMSUgraduate (BA-Philosophy) it has been a pleasure and privilegeto teach in my hometown (part of the first Mayfield High Schoolclass-1965) university A fond adieu and auf wiedersehn as Isettle in Hillsboro New Mexico for a new phase in my life Bestwishes for the Department of History
Dietmar Schneider-Hector
A fond adieu and auf wiedersehnAfter long and successful career at NMSU Dr Dietmar Schneider-Hector will be retiringJuly 2017 The faculty staff and students wish you all the best in your retirement
I just finished my thesis titled The Dissent of WomanBritish and American Female Popularizers of Science ReinterpretDarwin 1859-1915 In April I was awarded the Monroe BillingtonEndowed Graduate Thesis Award In March I gave a talk at theMuseum of Nature and Science called Cannibal Spiders WarringAnts and Murderous Plants Mary Treat Language andEvolutionary Theory I will graduate May 2017
I am a public history graduate student I am working onediting and publishing a book on the national parks in New Mexicoin colaboration with Alyssa Brillante I will graduate in May 2017
Kiki Keane
Heidi Iverson
Christina Montero
I am currently working on my public history article Itexamines why and how Hispanics do genealogy which will help meto create an article that encourages Hispanics to take up the activityof doing genealogy I will graduate in May 2017
Some of Our Emeritus Professors
Has a new book out from University of Iowa Press co-edited with the Canadian scholar Linda Ambrose Women inAgriculture Professionalizing Rural Life in North America and Europe1880-1965 It has two of her essays Good Farms Markets andCommunities Emily Hoag and Rural Women as Producers andFrances Densmore and Mary Warren English Indigenous KnowledgeCross-Cultural Collaboration and the Politics of Food She is co-editinganother collection tentatively titled From Janos to Zuni Exploring WestCentral New Mexico A reflection on her own work Go West YoungWoman is scheduled for publication in the New Mexico HistoricalReview
Joan Jensen
William Eamon
I am a Regents Professor Emeritus I published severalarticles and book chapters and have others in press including ldquoCornCochineal and Quina The Zilsel Thesis in an Iberian SettingrdquoCentaurus (in June 2017) ldquoAfterward Lost in Translationrdquo inTranslating Nature A Transcultural History of Early Modern Science inthe Atlantic World edited by Jaime Marroquiacuten Arredondo and RalphBauer (University of Pennsylvania Press forthcoming 2017) ldquoSpanishScience in the Age of the Newrdquo in Companion to the SpanishRenaissance edited by Hilaire Kallendorf (Leiden Brill forthcoming in2017) ldquoA Theater of Experiments Giambattista Della Porta and theScientific Culture of Late Renaissance Naplesrdquo in The Optics of GiovanBattista Della Porta (1535ndash1615) A Reassessment Archimedes NewStudies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology(Dordrecht 2017) ldquoThe Scientific Education of a Renaissance PrinceArchduke Rudolf in the Spanish Courtrdquo in Alchemy in the Time ofRudolph II (Prague 2016) ldquoLa Revolucioacuten Cientiacutefica y los ritmos de lavida cotidianardquo Revista de Occidente (forthcoming 2017) ProfessorEamonrsquos essay ldquoSix Centuries of Secularismrdquo appeared in the webmagazine Aeon (22 June 2016 URL httpsaeoncoessayssix-centuries-of-secularity-began-with-the-first-how-to-books) I continue toteach occasionally while in retirement my ever-popular course ldquoMagicand Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Europerdquo which in Spring2017 enrolled over 40 students
Some of Our Alumni
Julie Wojtko
I teach dual credit in the history department atArrowhead Early College High School I alternate classes ndashspring semester I teach Modern Europe fall semester is USHistory Itrsquos a blast ndash the students are wonderful
Ben Craske
I work as a ranger in the Historic Sites Division forthe New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs I am based atthe El Camino Real Historic Trail Site near Socorro My rolesinclude doing research for other historic sites writing accessiblematerial working with volunteers groups planning specialevents and overseeing collections care One of the best tasks sofar was rewriting the Fort Selden historic walking tour My timein the NMSU public history program gave me the tools toaccomplish these tasks confidently and enter straight into aprofessional history environment as soon as I graduated
Barbara Bogucki
I am currently theCurator for the TahoeMaritime Museum where myprincipal responsibilities arethe management of theMuseumrsquos collections andthe development ofexhibitions which includesall research and writing Inthe last two years I havecompleted three 5000 squarefoot exhibitionsThis year I am developing anart exhibition as well as anhistorical exhibition Thehistorical exhibition is calledWhatrsquos in a Name and willfeature the stories behindboat names It will also
highlight the many superstitions and myths which surround this deeplypersonal moniker Visitors can also expect to delve into the complexnautical history behind the female persona of ships and boats
Signage for the Tahoe Maritime Museum art exhibitionInk amp Ivory which will feature two nautical art forms scrimshaw anart form of intricate etchings attributed to sailors and the origins ofsailorrsquos tattoos Visitors will discover tattoos that were meant to bringsailors luck see skin-deep evidence of their travels and feel the senseof longing behind sentimental tributes to wives and sweethearts backhome It is developed by Bogucki
With all this of course comes the inevitable ldquoduties asassignedrdquo which includes forklift driver artist photographer boat hauler tourguide lecturer editorhellipin short everything a curator ldquoworth her saltrdquo must do
NCPH 2017
L-R Alyssa Brillante Christina Montero Dr Pitcaithley HeidiIverson and Joesph Seagrove Not featured Luke Manders
The National Council on Public History 2017 Annual Conference was held April 19-22in Indianapolis The conference was titled The Middle Where Did We Come FromWhere Are We Going Students attended several sessions on topics such as digitalhistory and usingfinding digital primary sources public engagement Asian publichistory accuracy of interpretation changing civil war interpretations and the need tobalance censorship in these changing political times This last topic was actually thesession in which Dr Pitcaithley was on the panel
Dr Pitcaithley alongwith a Smithsonianemployee a formerNational Archivesemployee and acurrent museumprofessional presentedon different projectsover time that havebeen impacted bycensorship ofchanging politicaltimes making theconnection to howhistorians can
negotiate the need to present good history with thepresidential administrations limitations on what can bepresented to a public audience
We also had the opportunity to visit the Indiana Historical Society thatfeatured several cutting edge interpretationtechniques As public history students we wereextremely impressed with the living historyexhibits on the Ball Canning Factory in 1948 thebeginning of the Lilly Pharmaceutical companyin 1877 and an Italian POW camp in Indianaduring WWII (1943) We also found theirinteractive exhibit on conservation and theirconservation lab to be really impressive Wetoured the city on our own visiting MonumentCircle (an iconic war memorial in Indianapolis)and several other war memorials whileexperiencing the amazing architecture ofIndianapolis
Besides attending lecturs NMSU graduate student Heidi Iverson also volunteered atthe conference Here she holds up her identification lanyard given to all atendees
Alumnus Works for Progress
Lucus Hernden NMSU History Deptartment alumnus and reciepiant of theDeptartment of History Department Star for the 2017 A Starry Night now works at
ProgressNowNM as theCommunications ManagerLucas also works incommunity enagagementfor the non-profit non-partisan communicationsadvocay organization
Lucas opened twobussinesses before hebecame more aware of aneed for greaterinvolvement in socialissues in and around LasCruces and New Mexicoat large In 2011 hebecame inovoled with LasCruces Green Chamber ofCommerce and was hiredas the Executive Directorfor the Organ MountainsNational Monumentcampaign
Advice from Lucas forhistory graduates Lookfor those intersectionalities
of where history plays intowhat you are doing even if it is just working at bookstore or as a barrista (both jobsLucas has had) Look for what your passion is find how history plays into thatand how you can make a difference in that thing
Photo courtesy of ProgressNowNM
Student projects Spring 2017
Graduate Student Articles and Projects in Public History
Alyssa Brillant - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Heidi Iverson - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Christina Montero - Article Hispanics and Genealogy Why How Who andIdentity Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017Joseph Seagrove - Articel Remebering the Holocaust An AmericanPerspective Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017
Graduate Students Thesis and Projects in the Traditional Track
Tom Burnham - Thesis Raskolniki A Comprehensive Analysis of the Sino-Soviet Split and its Place in Sino-Russian RelationsKiki Keane - Thesis The Dissent of Woman British and American FemalePopularizers of Science Reinterpret Darwin 1859-1915 Also gave a lectureentitled Cannibal Spiders Warring Ants and Murderous Plants Mary TreatLanguage and Evolutionary Theory at the Museum of Nature and Science inMarch 2017Kyle Mery - Thesis The Rise of Mao 1921-1935Irene Unpingco - Thesis Sumemima The Historically Powerful Manipulationof Shinto by the Japanese Government Then and Now
Some of Our Undergraduate Research
Chad Adams - ldquoThe Growth of Los Alamos Under the Shroud of Nuclear Weaponsfrom 1943 to Presentrdquo
James Coburn - Economic Impact of Holloman Air Airforce Base Flying Units onthe City of Alamogordo 1942-1969
Steven Garciacutea - ldquoThrough Mountains and Valleys A History of the Catholic CampusMinistry to New Mexico State Universityrdquo
Nora Muro - ldquoLoretto Academy Catholic School History in the Southwest of NewMexico From 1870 to 1943rdquo
Galen Skibyak - ldquoStagecoach and High Noon How Two of New Mexicorsquos MostFamous Westerns Represent the Political Issues of their Times 1903-1952rdquo
Austin Verret - ldquoHow the Military Forged New Mexico State University 1888-1946rdquo
By - Kiki Keane
Editor in Chief -- Dr Inigo Garcia Bryce
Professors Elvira Masson and Meg Goehring (Art History) took17 students faculty (including Dr Bronstein and her family)and community members on a Faculty-led InternationalProgram (FLIP) to western China over spring break Theytraveled to Xian eastern terminus of the
ancient Silk Road where inaddition to visiting the TerraCotta Warriors of the QinEmperorrsquo Tomb theyfeasted on lamb dishesand bargained forgoods in the Muslimquarter of the cityThey headed west toGansu Provincewhere they visitedimmense Buddhist
grottoes (Binglingsi andDunhuang) dating back
over 1000 years and showingevidence of a mixing of cultures
from east and west They traveled to one of the largestTibetan monasteries (Labrang at 9500rsquo) and to the westernend of the Great Wall of China
Oh The Places Youll GoChina FLIP Trip March 2017
The group traveled by planestrains boats buses andcamels Along the waythey encountered avariety of cultures thatmake up modernChina and whohave contributed toChinarsquos civilizationStudents madepresentations at allthe sites they visitedpracticed their Chinese
and explored the manytextures of Chinese history
Dr Nathan Brooks
Our Faculty
Dr Jamie Bronstein
I published a chapter in Early Responses to thePeriodic System published by Oxford University Press onthe reception of Dmitrii Mendeleevs Periodic Law inRussia I also attended a National Endowmenr for theHumanities Summer Insritute on The Mongols and theEurasian Nexus of World History sponsored by the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii When I returnedto NMSU I collaborated on a class with ProfessorHammond on the Mongol Empire This spring I taughtanother class with Professor Hammond on the History ofCentral Asia
My fifth book Two Nations A History ofAmerican Inequality was published by Praeger in October2016 It traces the history of social and economic inequalityfrom the American Revolution through the end of the GreatRecession looking at some of the neglected opportunities tocreate real equality throughout American history She iscurrently working on her sixth book about the history ofemotions in industrializing Britain I have also been selectedto attened a National Institute for the Humanities summerinsitute for 2017 entitled Whatever Happened to the CivilRights Movement This institute hosted by the HutchinsCenter for African and African American history at Harvardbrings faculty from across the country together to discussissues in African American history and to craft curricula forcourses I plan to add African American History to myteaching repertoire when I return in 2018
This past summer I stepped down after six years as Director ofthe Center for Latin American and Border Studies to return full-time to theHistory Department During my tenure as Director I organized over 80public lectures and events that brought together members of the universitythe Las Cruces community and the Border Region I completed my bookmanuscript Pragmatic Revolutionary Haya de la Torre and the Pursuit ofPower in Peru and Latin America 1926-1979 a political biography of oneof Latin Americarsquos most influential twentieth century politicans I alsocompleted a book of oral histories titled Entre la Democracia y laInsurgencia Testimonios Apristas 1930-1950 In collaboration with theJournalism Department I prepared a segment in Spanish for the weeklystudent-run news program Noticias 22 on current events in Latin America Ipresented portions of this research in April at conferences in Salt Lake CityUtah and Lima Peru In addition to teaching a variety of Latin Americanhistory courses I taught the graduate seminar Borders Boundaries andFrontiers and is teaching the undergraduate research methods course for
history majors
I was on sabbatical for the 2015-16 academic year workingon a project concerning the history of urban cartography in earlymodern China My research investigates how Chinese cities werechanging from the Song through the Ming dynasties from the 11ththrough the 16th centuries and how this was reflected in the ways citieswere visually portrayed in a variety of formats and genres This was atime of rapid commercialization in the Chinese economy and ofsignificant transformations in social and cultural life Images of urbanplaces especially maps expressed and articulated new ways ofenvisioning the city and the changing lives of urban residents I receiveda research grant from the China and Inner Asia Council of theAssociation for Asian Studies to travel to Japan for this project I will bepresenting papers reporting the results of his research at conferences inToronto Canada and Leiden the Netherlands in 2017
Now that I have returned to teaching I have offered classes onGlobal History the history of the Global Political Economy and thegraduate research seminar themed on Central Asian history I am alsocurrently working with seven MA students completing theses in Asianhistory
I have had two recent publications ldquoShared Heritage DifferentPaths Wang Shizhen and Wang Shimaordquo in Ming Qing yanjiu XIX(2015) published by the Oriental Institute of the University of Naplesand ldquoRevolutionary Politics in Twentieth Century Chinardquo in the journalHistorical Materialism 241 (2016) I am also currently co-editing TheRoutledge Handbook of Imperial Chinese History and serve asAssociate Editor for the Ming and Qing periods for the Journal ofChinese History published by Cambridge University Press
Dr Ken Hammond
Dr Inigo Garcia-Bryce
I had an unusual sabbatical last fall I drove 20000 milesacross the country visited over 100 historic parks and sites and tookover 20000 photos He blogged about his travels atdrivenbyhistoryblogspotcom Now I am writing a history of the UnitedStates from those places where history actually happened Many of theseplaces are part of the National Park Service and so this history is also alook at the NPS as it turned 100 years old last year I am happy to beback teaching and had a productive semester
After finishing my first book Hoptopia A World ofAgriculture and Beer in Oregonrsquos Willamette Valley (University ofCalifornia Press 2016) Irsquove been giving a variety of readings and talksacross the country Irsquove also started working on my next book tentativelycalled ldquoFabiaacuten Garciacutea and the Chile Pepper that Changed the Worldrdquo Publichistory endeavors also keep me busy as I continue to collaborate withstudents and members of the community on the Murals of Las CrucesProject and initiatives that celebrate the centennial and next century of theNational Park Service
Dr Peter Kopp
Dr Jon Hunner
I completed two other books in January ldquoThe VenetianDiscovery of America Geographic Imagination and Print Culture in theAge of Encountersrdquo and ldquoVirtual Encounters Interpreting the NewWorld in Early Modern Italyrdquo both of which will be published byCambridge University Press I have also been awared a NationalEndowment for the Humanities grant along with Dr Alexander Nagelto research how painters cosmographers printmakers and writerscontinued to depict America as Asia up to 1600 and after We will betravelling to libraries and archives to examine historical documents Iwill focus my research on texts and travelogues
Dr Elizabeth Horodowich
During the last academic year I published my thirdbook African Americans and the Classics AntiquityAbolition and Activism with London independent academicpublisher IB Tauris I continue to give invited talks themost recent in February 2017 for the InterdisciplinaryHumanities Center at UC Santa Barbara The next talk willbe in September at the University of Freiburg in Germany Ispent a delightful 4 weeks traveling around the Mediterraneanlast May and June visiting Sicily Lampedusa and Cyprus Ihave immensely enjoyed my position as Director of GraduateStudies as well as my teaching here at NMSU
Dr Margaret Malamud
Dr Andrea Orzoff
I have completed a set of articles on the German-speaking chapters of the International PEN Club and amresearching and writing Music in Flight my book aboutmusicians who fled Nazi Europe for Latin America I havepublished on PEN in German History another article hasbeen accepted by New German Critique and is forthcoming Ispent 2016 on an ACLS Fellowship I will spend summer2017 on a Fulbright fellowship to Germany and will continuethe Fulbright award in summer 2018 in Mexico and Peru Iwas asked to contribute an essay on interwar Europeandemocracy and democratic internationalism to the OxfordHandbook of Europe 1900-1945 (2016) I gave invitedlectures at Vanderbilt University Tel Aviv University theUniversity of New Mexico the University of Memphis andat the Landscapes of Displacement conference sponsoredby the US Holocaust Memorial Museum at Mesa College inSan Diego I participated in the 2016 German StudiesAssociation yearly conference and at a conference onrefugees at Yad Vashem (Israel) in December 2016 I am thedepartments Phi Alpha Theta adviser Through her work withthe campus group Standing With Our Students I haveorganized a set of campus wide talks this semester on issuesdrawn from current events I continue to work on her bookmanuscript and on an article about the Austrian-Germanconductor Erich Kleiber
Some of Our Graduate Students
I am a Public History Graduate Student I am working on apublication about the national parks in New Mexico in collaboration withHeidi Iverson I will graduate in May 2017
Alyssa Brillante
My last published journal article Forging a NationalPark Service the Necessity for Cooperation (2014) and mySpring courses at NMSU will bring an end to my academiccareer As I approach my 1 July retirement date I will havepublished 10 articles and books concerned with the National ParkService and US Forest Service and taught 265 courses (529courses in my entire academic career) at NMSU As an NMSUgraduate (BA-Philosophy) it has been a pleasure and privilegeto teach in my hometown (part of the first Mayfield High Schoolclass-1965) university A fond adieu and auf wiedersehn as Isettle in Hillsboro New Mexico for a new phase in my life Bestwishes for the Department of History
Dietmar Schneider-Hector
A fond adieu and auf wiedersehnAfter long and successful career at NMSU Dr Dietmar Schneider-Hector will be retiringJuly 2017 The faculty staff and students wish you all the best in your retirement
I just finished my thesis titled The Dissent of WomanBritish and American Female Popularizers of Science ReinterpretDarwin 1859-1915 In April I was awarded the Monroe BillingtonEndowed Graduate Thesis Award In March I gave a talk at theMuseum of Nature and Science called Cannibal Spiders WarringAnts and Murderous Plants Mary Treat Language andEvolutionary Theory I will graduate May 2017
I am a public history graduate student I am working onediting and publishing a book on the national parks in New Mexicoin colaboration with Alyssa Brillante I will graduate in May 2017
Kiki Keane
Heidi Iverson
Christina Montero
I am currently working on my public history article Itexamines why and how Hispanics do genealogy which will help meto create an article that encourages Hispanics to take up the activityof doing genealogy I will graduate in May 2017
Some of Our Emeritus Professors
Has a new book out from University of Iowa Press co-edited with the Canadian scholar Linda Ambrose Women inAgriculture Professionalizing Rural Life in North America and Europe1880-1965 It has two of her essays Good Farms Markets andCommunities Emily Hoag and Rural Women as Producers andFrances Densmore and Mary Warren English Indigenous KnowledgeCross-Cultural Collaboration and the Politics of Food She is co-editinganother collection tentatively titled From Janos to Zuni Exploring WestCentral New Mexico A reflection on her own work Go West YoungWoman is scheduled for publication in the New Mexico HistoricalReview
Joan Jensen
William Eamon
I am a Regents Professor Emeritus I published severalarticles and book chapters and have others in press including ldquoCornCochineal and Quina The Zilsel Thesis in an Iberian SettingrdquoCentaurus (in June 2017) ldquoAfterward Lost in Translationrdquo inTranslating Nature A Transcultural History of Early Modern Science inthe Atlantic World edited by Jaime Marroquiacuten Arredondo and RalphBauer (University of Pennsylvania Press forthcoming 2017) ldquoSpanishScience in the Age of the Newrdquo in Companion to the SpanishRenaissance edited by Hilaire Kallendorf (Leiden Brill forthcoming in2017) ldquoA Theater of Experiments Giambattista Della Porta and theScientific Culture of Late Renaissance Naplesrdquo in The Optics of GiovanBattista Della Porta (1535ndash1615) A Reassessment Archimedes NewStudies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology(Dordrecht 2017) ldquoThe Scientific Education of a Renaissance PrinceArchduke Rudolf in the Spanish Courtrdquo in Alchemy in the Time ofRudolph II (Prague 2016) ldquoLa Revolucioacuten Cientiacutefica y los ritmos de lavida cotidianardquo Revista de Occidente (forthcoming 2017) ProfessorEamonrsquos essay ldquoSix Centuries of Secularismrdquo appeared in the webmagazine Aeon (22 June 2016 URL httpsaeoncoessayssix-centuries-of-secularity-began-with-the-first-how-to-books) I continue toteach occasionally while in retirement my ever-popular course ldquoMagicand Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Europerdquo which in Spring2017 enrolled over 40 students
Some of Our Alumni
Julie Wojtko
I teach dual credit in the history department atArrowhead Early College High School I alternate classes ndashspring semester I teach Modern Europe fall semester is USHistory Itrsquos a blast ndash the students are wonderful
Ben Craske
I work as a ranger in the Historic Sites Division forthe New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs I am based atthe El Camino Real Historic Trail Site near Socorro My rolesinclude doing research for other historic sites writing accessiblematerial working with volunteers groups planning specialevents and overseeing collections care One of the best tasks sofar was rewriting the Fort Selden historic walking tour My timein the NMSU public history program gave me the tools toaccomplish these tasks confidently and enter straight into aprofessional history environment as soon as I graduated
Barbara Bogucki
I am currently theCurator for the TahoeMaritime Museum where myprincipal responsibilities arethe management of theMuseumrsquos collections andthe development ofexhibitions which includesall research and writing Inthe last two years I havecompleted three 5000 squarefoot exhibitionsThis year I am developing anart exhibition as well as anhistorical exhibition Thehistorical exhibition is calledWhatrsquos in a Name and willfeature the stories behindboat names It will also
highlight the many superstitions and myths which surround this deeplypersonal moniker Visitors can also expect to delve into the complexnautical history behind the female persona of ships and boats
Signage for the Tahoe Maritime Museum art exhibitionInk amp Ivory which will feature two nautical art forms scrimshaw anart form of intricate etchings attributed to sailors and the origins ofsailorrsquos tattoos Visitors will discover tattoos that were meant to bringsailors luck see skin-deep evidence of their travels and feel the senseof longing behind sentimental tributes to wives and sweethearts backhome It is developed by Bogucki
With all this of course comes the inevitable ldquoduties asassignedrdquo which includes forklift driver artist photographer boat hauler tourguide lecturer editorhellipin short everything a curator ldquoworth her saltrdquo must do
NCPH 2017
L-R Alyssa Brillante Christina Montero Dr Pitcaithley HeidiIverson and Joesph Seagrove Not featured Luke Manders
The National Council on Public History 2017 Annual Conference was held April 19-22in Indianapolis The conference was titled The Middle Where Did We Come FromWhere Are We Going Students attended several sessions on topics such as digitalhistory and usingfinding digital primary sources public engagement Asian publichistory accuracy of interpretation changing civil war interpretations and the need tobalance censorship in these changing political times This last topic was actually thesession in which Dr Pitcaithley was on the panel
Dr Pitcaithley alongwith a Smithsonianemployee a formerNational Archivesemployee and acurrent museumprofessional presentedon different projectsover time that havebeen impacted bycensorship ofchanging politicaltimes making theconnection to howhistorians can
negotiate the need to present good history with thepresidential administrations limitations on what can bepresented to a public audience
We also had the opportunity to visit the Indiana Historical Society thatfeatured several cutting edge interpretationtechniques As public history students we wereextremely impressed with the living historyexhibits on the Ball Canning Factory in 1948 thebeginning of the Lilly Pharmaceutical companyin 1877 and an Italian POW camp in Indianaduring WWII (1943) We also found theirinteractive exhibit on conservation and theirconservation lab to be really impressive Wetoured the city on our own visiting MonumentCircle (an iconic war memorial in Indianapolis)and several other war memorials whileexperiencing the amazing architecture ofIndianapolis
Besides attending lecturs NMSU graduate student Heidi Iverson also volunteered atthe conference Here she holds up her identification lanyard given to all atendees
Alumnus Works for Progress
Lucus Hernden NMSU History Deptartment alumnus and reciepiant of theDeptartment of History Department Star for the 2017 A Starry Night now works at
ProgressNowNM as theCommunications ManagerLucas also works incommunity enagagementfor the non-profit non-partisan communicationsadvocay organization
Lucas opened twobussinesses before hebecame more aware of aneed for greaterinvolvement in socialissues in and around LasCruces and New Mexicoat large In 2011 hebecame inovoled with LasCruces Green Chamber ofCommerce and was hiredas the Executive Directorfor the Organ MountainsNational Monumentcampaign
Advice from Lucas forhistory graduates Lookfor those intersectionalities
of where history plays intowhat you are doing even if it is just working at bookstore or as a barrista (both jobsLucas has had) Look for what your passion is find how history plays into thatand how you can make a difference in that thing
Photo courtesy of ProgressNowNM
Student projects Spring 2017
Graduate Student Articles and Projects in Public History
Alyssa Brillant - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Heidi Iverson - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Christina Montero - Article Hispanics and Genealogy Why How Who andIdentity Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017Joseph Seagrove - Articel Remebering the Holocaust An AmericanPerspective Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017
Graduate Students Thesis and Projects in the Traditional Track
Tom Burnham - Thesis Raskolniki A Comprehensive Analysis of the Sino-Soviet Split and its Place in Sino-Russian RelationsKiki Keane - Thesis The Dissent of Woman British and American FemalePopularizers of Science Reinterpret Darwin 1859-1915 Also gave a lectureentitled Cannibal Spiders Warring Ants and Murderous Plants Mary TreatLanguage and Evolutionary Theory at the Museum of Nature and Science inMarch 2017Kyle Mery - Thesis The Rise of Mao 1921-1935Irene Unpingco - Thesis Sumemima The Historically Powerful Manipulationof Shinto by the Japanese Government Then and Now
Some of Our Undergraduate Research
Chad Adams - ldquoThe Growth of Los Alamos Under the Shroud of Nuclear Weaponsfrom 1943 to Presentrdquo
James Coburn - Economic Impact of Holloman Air Airforce Base Flying Units onthe City of Alamogordo 1942-1969
Steven Garciacutea - ldquoThrough Mountains and Valleys A History of the Catholic CampusMinistry to New Mexico State Universityrdquo
Nora Muro - ldquoLoretto Academy Catholic School History in the Southwest of NewMexico From 1870 to 1943rdquo
Galen Skibyak - ldquoStagecoach and High Noon How Two of New Mexicorsquos MostFamous Westerns Represent the Political Issues of their Times 1903-1952rdquo
Austin Verret - ldquoHow the Military Forged New Mexico State University 1888-1946rdquo
By - Kiki Keane
Editor in Chief -- Dr Inigo Garcia Bryce
The group traveled by planestrains boats buses andcamels Along the waythey encountered avariety of cultures thatmake up modernChina and whohave contributed toChinarsquos civilizationStudents madepresentations at allthe sites they visitedpracticed their Chinese
and explored the manytextures of Chinese history
Dr Nathan Brooks
Our Faculty
Dr Jamie Bronstein
I published a chapter in Early Responses to thePeriodic System published by Oxford University Press onthe reception of Dmitrii Mendeleevs Periodic Law inRussia I also attended a National Endowmenr for theHumanities Summer Insritute on The Mongols and theEurasian Nexus of World History sponsored by the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii When I returnedto NMSU I collaborated on a class with ProfessorHammond on the Mongol Empire This spring I taughtanother class with Professor Hammond on the History ofCentral Asia
My fifth book Two Nations A History ofAmerican Inequality was published by Praeger in October2016 It traces the history of social and economic inequalityfrom the American Revolution through the end of the GreatRecession looking at some of the neglected opportunities tocreate real equality throughout American history She iscurrently working on her sixth book about the history ofemotions in industrializing Britain I have also been selectedto attened a National Institute for the Humanities summerinsitute for 2017 entitled Whatever Happened to the CivilRights Movement This institute hosted by the HutchinsCenter for African and African American history at Harvardbrings faculty from across the country together to discussissues in African American history and to craft curricula forcourses I plan to add African American History to myteaching repertoire when I return in 2018
This past summer I stepped down after six years as Director ofthe Center for Latin American and Border Studies to return full-time to theHistory Department During my tenure as Director I organized over 80public lectures and events that brought together members of the universitythe Las Cruces community and the Border Region I completed my bookmanuscript Pragmatic Revolutionary Haya de la Torre and the Pursuit ofPower in Peru and Latin America 1926-1979 a political biography of oneof Latin Americarsquos most influential twentieth century politicans I alsocompleted a book of oral histories titled Entre la Democracia y laInsurgencia Testimonios Apristas 1930-1950 In collaboration with theJournalism Department I prepared a segment in Spanish for the weeklystudent-run news program Noticias 22 on current events in Latin America Ipresented portions of this research in April at conferences in Salt Lake CityUtah and Lima Peru In addition to teaching a variety of Latin Americanhistory courses I taught the graduate seminar Borders Boundaries andFrontiers and is teaching the undergraduate research methods course for
history majors
I was on sabbatical for the 2015-16 academic year workingon a project concerning the history of urban cartography in earlymodern China My research investigates how Chinese cities werechanging from the Song through the Ming dynasties from the 11ththrough the 16th centuries and how this was reflected in the ways citieswere visually portrayed in a variety of formats and genres This was atime of rapid commercialization in the Chinese economy and ofsignificant transformations in social and cultural life Images of urbanplaces especially maps expressed and articulated new ways ofenvisioning the city and the changing lives of urban residents I receiveda research grant from the China and Inner Asia Council of theAssociation for Asian Studies to travel to Japan for this project I will bepresenting papers reporting the results of his research at conferences inToronto Canada and Leiden the Netherlands in 2017
Now that I have returned to teaching I have offered classes onGlobal History the history of the Global Political Economy and thegraduate research seminar themed on Central Asian history I am alsocurrently working with seven MA students completing theses in Asianhistory
I have had two recent publications ldquoShared Heritage DifferentPaths Wang Shizhen and Wang Shimaordquo in Ming Qing yanjiu XIX(2015) published by the Oriental Institute of the University of Naplesand ldquoRevolutionary Politics in Twentieth Century Chinardquo in the journalHistorical Materialism 241 (2016) I am also currently co-editing TheRoutledge Handbook of Imperial Chinese History and serve asAssociate Editor for the Ming and Qing periods for the Journal ofChinese History published by Cambridge University Press
Dr Ken Hammond
Dr Inigo Garcia-Bryce
I had an unusual sabbatical last fall I drove 20000 milesacross the country visited over 100 historic parks and sites and tookover 20000 photos He blogged about his travels atdrivenbyhistoryblogspotcom Now I am writing a history of the UnitedStates from those places where history actually happened Many of theseplaces are part of the National Park Service and so this history is also alook at the NPS as it turned 100 years old last year I am happy to beback teaching and had a productive semester
After finishing my first book Hoptopia A World ofAgriculture and Beer in Oregonrsquos Willamette Valley (University ofCalifornia Press 2016) Irsquove been giving a variety of readings and talksacross the country Irsquove also started working on my next book tentativelycalled ldquoFabiaacuten Garciacutea and the Chile Pepper that Changed the Worldrdquo Publichistory endeavors also keep me busy as I continue to collaborate withstudents and members of the community on the Murals of Las CrucesProject and initiatives that celebrate the centennial and next century of theNational Park Service
Dr Peter Kopp
Dr Jon Hunner
I completed two other books in January ldquoThe VenetianDiscovery of America Geographic Imagination and Print Culture in theAge of Encountersrdquo and ldquoVirtual Encounters Interpreting the NewWorld in Early Modern Italyrdquo both of which will be published byCambridge University Press I have also been awared a NationalEndowment for the Humanities grant along with Dr Alexander Nagelto research how painters cosmographers printmakers and writerscontinued to depict America as Asia up to 1600 and after We will betravelling to libraries and archives to examine historical documents Iwill focus my research on texts and travelogues
Dr Elizabeth Horodowich
During the last academic year I published my thirdbook African Americans and the Classics AntiquityAbolition and Activism with London independent academicpublisher IB Tauris I continue to give invited talks themost recent in February 2017 for the InterdisciplinaryHumanities Center at UC Santa Barbara The next talk willbe in September at the University of Freiburg in Germany Ispent a delightful 4 weeks traveling around the Mediterraneanlast May and June visiting Sicily Lampedusa and Cyprus Ihave immensely enjoyed my position as Director of GraduateStudies as well as my teaching here at NMSU
Dr Margaret Malamud
Dr Andrea Orzoff
I have completed a set of articles on the German-speaking chapters of the International PEN Club and amresearching and writing Music in Flight my book aboutmusicians who fled Nazi Europe for Latin America I havepublished on PEN in German History another article hasbeen accepted by New German Critique and is forthcoming Ispent 2016 on an ACLS Fellowship I will spend summer2017 on a Fulbright fellowship to Germany and will continuethe Fulbright award in summer 2018 in Mexico and Peru Iwas asked to contribute an essay on interwar Europeandemocracy and democratic internationalism to the OxfordHandbook of Europe 1900-1945 (2016) I gave invitedlectures at Vanderbilt University Tel Aviv University theUniversity of New Mexico the University of Memphis andat the Landscapes of Displacement conference sponsoredby the US Holocaust Memorial Museum at Mesa College inSan Diego I participated in the 2016 German StudiesAssociation yearly conference and at a conference onrefugees at Yad Vashem (Israel) in December 2016 I am thedepartments Phi Alpha Theta adviser Through her work withthe campus group Standing With Our Students I haveorganized a set of campus wide talks this semester on issuesdrawn from current events I continue to work on her bookmanuscript and on an article about the Austrian-Germanconductor Erich Kleiber
Some of Our Graduate Students
I am a Public History Graduate Student I am working on apublication about the national parks in New Mexico in collaboration withHeidi Iverson I will graduate in May 2017
Alyssa Brillante
My last published journal article Forging a NationalPark Service the Necessity for Cooperation (2014) and mySpring courses at NMSU will bring an end to my academiccareer As I approach my 1 July retirement date I will havepublished 10 articles and books concerned with the National ParkService and US Forest Service and taught 265 courses (529courses in my entire academic career) at NMSU As an NMSUgraduate (BA-Philosophy) it has been a pleasure and privilegeto teach in my hometown (part of the first Mayfield High Schoolclass-1965) university A fond adieu and auf wiedersehn as Isettle in Hillsboro New Mexico for a new phase in my life Bestwishes for the Department of History
Dietmar Schneider-Hector
A fond adieu and auf wiedersehnAfter long and successful career at NMSU Dr Dietmar Schneider-Hector will be retiringJuly 2017 The faculty staff and students wish you all the best in your retirement
I just finished my thesis titled The Dissent of WomanBritish and American Female Popularizers of Science ReinterpretDarwin 1859-1915 In April I was awarded the Monroe BillingtonEndowed Graduate Thesis Award In March I gave a talk at theMuseum of Nature and Science called Cannibal Spiders WarringAnts and Murderous Plants Mary Treat Language andEvolutionary Theory I will graduate May 2017
I am a public history graduate student I am working onediting and publishing a book on the national parks in New Mexicoin colaboration with Alyssa Brillante I will graduate in May 2017
Kiki Keane
Heidi Iverson
Christina Montero
I am currently working on my public history article Itexamines why and how Hispanics do genealogy which will help meto create an article that encourages Hispanics to take up the activityof doing genealogy I will graduate in May 2017
Some of Our Emeritus Professors
Has a new book out from University of Iowa Press co-edited with the Canadian scholar Linda Ambrose Women inAgriculture Professionalizing Rural Life in North America and Europe1880-1965 It has two of her essays Good Farms Markets andCommunities Emily Hoag and Rural Women as Producers andFrances Densmore and Mary Warren English Indigenous KnowledgeCross-Cultural Collaboration and the Politics of Food She is co-editinganother collection tentatively titled From Janos to Zuni Exploring WestCentral New Mexico A reflection on her own work Go West YoungWoman is scheduled for publication in the New Mexico HistoricalReview
Joan Jensen
William Eamon
I am a Regents Professor Emeritus I published severalarticles and book chapters and have others in press including ldquoCornCochineal and Quina The Zilsel Thesis in an Iberian SettingrdquoCentaurus (in June 2017) ldquoAfterward Lost in Translationrdquo inTranslating Nature A Transcultural History of Early Modern Science inthe Atlantic World edited by Jaime Marroquiacuten Arredondo and RalphBauer (University of Pennsylvania Press forthcoming 2017) ldquoSpanishScience in the Age of the Newrdquo in Companion to the SpanishRenaissance edited by Hilaire Kallendorf (Leiden Brill forthcoming in2017) ldquoA Theater of Experiments Giambattista Della Porta and theScientific Culture of Late Renaissance Naplesrdquo in The Optics of GiovanBattista Della Porta (1535ndash1615) A Reassessment Archimedes NewStudies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology(Dordrecht 2017) ldquoThe Scientific Education of a Renaissance PrinceArchduke Rudolf in the Spanish Courtrdquo in Alchemy in the Time ofRudolph II (Prague 2016) ldquoLa Revolucioacuten Cientiacutefica y los ritmos de lavida cotidianardquo Revista de Occidente (forthcoming 2017) ProfessorEamonrsquos essay ldquoSix Centuries of Secularismrdquo appeared in the webmagazine Aeon (22 June 2016 URL httpsaeoncoessayssix-centuries-of-secularity-began-with-the-first-how-to-books) I continue toteach occasionally while in retirement my ever-popular course ldquoMagicand Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Europerdquo which in Spring2017 enrolled over 40 students
Some of Our Alumni
Julie Wojtko
I teach dual credit in the history department atArrowhead Early College High School I alternate classes ndashspring semester I teach Modern Europe fall semester is USHistory Itrsquos a blast ndash the students are wonderful
Ben Craske
I work as a ranger in the Historic Sites Division forthe New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs I am based atthe El Camino Real Historic Trail Site near Socorro My rolesinclude doing research for other historic sites writing accessiblematerial working with volunteers groups planning specialevents and overseeing collections care One of the best tasks sofar was rewriting the Fort Selden historic walking tour My timein the NMSU public history program gave me the tools toaccomplish these tasks confidently and enter straight into aprofessional history environment as soon as I graduated
Barbara Bogucki
I am currently theCurator for the TahoeMaritime Museum where myprincipal responsibilities arethe management of theMuseumrsquos collections andthe development ofexhibitions which includesall research and writing Inthe last two years I havecompleted three 5000 squarefoot exhibitionsThis year I am developing anart exhibition as well as anhistorical exhibition Thehistorical exhibition is calledWhatrsquos in a Name and willfeature the stories behindboat names It will also
highlight the many superstitions and myths which surround this deeplypersonal moniker Visitors can also expect to delve into the complexnautical history behind the female persona of ships and boats
Signage for the Tahoe Maritime Museum art exhibitionInk amp Ivory which will feature two nautical art forms scrimshaw anart form of intricate etchings attributed to sailors and the origins ofsailorrsquos tattoos Visitors will discover tattoos that were meant to bringsailors luck see skin-deep evidence of their travels and feel the senseof longing behind sentimental tributes to wives and sweethearts backhome It is developed by Bogucki
With all this of course comes the inevitable ldquoduties asassignedrdquo which includes forklift driver artist photographer boat hauler tourguide lecturer editorhellipin short everything a curator ldquoworth her saltrdquo must do
NCPH 2017
L-R Alyssa Brillante Christina Montero Dr Pitcaithley HeidiIverson and Joesph Seagrove Not featured Luke Manders
The National Council on Public History 2017 Annual Conference was held April 19-22in Indianapolis The conference was titled The Middle Where Did We Come FromWhere Are We Going Students attended several sessions on topics such as digitalhistory and usingfinding digital primary sources public engagement Asian publichistory accuracy of interpretation changing civil war interpretations and the need tobalance censorship in these changing political times This last topic was actually thesession in which Dr Pitcaithley was on the panel
Dr Pitcaithley alongwith a Smithsonianemployee a formerNational Archivesemployee and acurrent museumprofessional presentedon different projectsover time that havebeen impacted bycensorship ofchanging politicaltimes making theconnection to howhistorians can
negotiate the need to present good history with thepresidential administrations limitations on what can bepresented to a public audience
We also had the opportunity to visit the Indiana Historical Society thatfeatured several cutting edge interpretationtechniques As public history students we wereextremely impressed with the living historyexhibits on the Ball Canning Factory in 1948 thebeginning of the Lilly Pharmaceutical companyin 1877 and an Italian POW camp in Indianaduring WWII (1943) We also found theirinteractive exhibit on conservation and theirconservation lab to be really impressive Wetoured the city on our own visiting MonumentCircle (an iconic war memorial in Indianapolis)and several other war memorials whileexperiencing the amazing architecture ofIndianapolis
Besides attending lecturs NMSU graduate student Heidi Iverson also volunteered atthe conference Here she holds up her identification lanyard given to all atendees
Alumnus Works for Progress
Lucus Hernden NMSU History Deptartment alumnus and reciepiant of theDeptartment of History Department Star for the 2017 A Starry Night now works at
ProgressNowNM as theCommunications ManagerLucas also works incommunity enagagementfor the non-profit non-partisan communicationsadvocay organization
Lucas opened twobussinesses before hebecame more aware of aneed for greaterinvolvement in socialissues in and around LasCruces and New Mexicoat large In 2011 hebecame inovoled with LasCruces Green Chamber ofCommerce and was hiredas the Executive Directorfor the Organ MountainsNational Monumentcampaign
Advice from Lucas forhistory graduates Lookfor those intersectionalities
of where history plays intowhat you are doing even if it is just working at bookstore or as a barrista (both jobsLucas has had) Look for what your passion is find how history plays into thatand how you can make a difference in that thing
Photo courtesy of ProgressNowNM
Student projects Spring 2017
Graduate Student Articles and Projects in Public History
Alyssa Brillant - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Heidi Iverson - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Christina Montero - Article Hispanics and Genealogy Why How Who andIdentity Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017Joseph Seagrove - Articel Remebering the Holocaust An AmericanPerspective Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017
Graduate Students Thesis and Projects in the Traditional Track
Tom Burnham - Thesis Raskolniki A Comprehensive Analysis of the Sino-Soviet Split and its Place in Sino-Russian RelationsKiki Keane - Thesis The Dissent of Woman British and American FemalePopularizers of Science Reinterpret Darwin 1859-1915 Also gave a lectureentitled Cannibal Spiders Warring Ants and Murderous Plants Mary TreatLanguage and Evolutionary Theory at the Museum of Nature and Science inMarch 2017Kyle Mery - Thesis The Rise of Mao 1921-1935Irene Unpingco - Thesis Sumemima The Historically Powerful Manipulationof Shinto by the Japanese Government Then and Now
Some of Our Undergraduate Research
Chad Adams - ldquoThe Growth of Los Alamos Under the Shroud of Nuclear Weaponsfrom 1943 to Presentrdquo
James Coburn - Economic Impact of Holloman Air Airforce Base Flying Units onthe City of Alamogordo 1942-1969
Steven Garciacutea - ldquoThrough Mountains and Valleys A History of the Catholic CampusMinistry to New Mexico State Universityrdquo
Nora Muro - ldquoLoretto Academy Catholic School History in the Southwest of NewMexico From 1870 to 1943rdquo
Galen Skibyak - ldquoStagecoach and High Noon How Two of New Mexicorsquos MostFamous Westerns Represent the Political Issues of their Times 1903-1952rdquo
Austin Verret - ldquoHow the Military Forged New Mexico State University 1888-1946rdquo
By - Kiki Keane
Editor in Chief -- Dr Inigo Garcia Bryce
Dr Nathan Brooks
Our Faculty
Dr Jamie Bronstein
I published a chapter in Early Responses to thePeriodic System published by Oxford University Press onthe reception of Dmitrii Mendeleevs Periodic Law inRussia I also attended a National Endowmenr for theHumanities Summer Insritute on The Mongols and theEurasian Nexus of World History sponsored by the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii When I returnedto NMSU I collaborated on a class with ProfessorHammond on the Mongol Empire This spring I taughtanother class with Professor Hammond on the History ofCentral Asia
My fifth book Two Nations A History ofAmerican Inequality was published by Praeger in October2016 It traces the history of social and economic inequalityfrom the American Revolution through the end of the GreatRecession looking at some of the neglected opportunities tocreate real equality throughout American history She iscurrently working on her sixth book about the history ofemotions in industrializing Britain I have also been selectedto attened a National Institute for the Humanities summerinsitute for 2017 entitled Whatever Happened to the CivilRights Movement This institute hosted by the HutchinsCenter for African and African American history at Harvardbrings faculty from across the country together to discussissues in African American history and to craft curricula forcourses I plan to add African American History to myteaching repertoire when I return in 2018
This past summer I stepped down after six years as Director ofthe Center for Latin American and Border Studies to return full-time to theHistory Department During my tenure as Director I organized over 80public lectures and events that brought together members of the universitythe Las Cruces community and the Border Region I completed my bookmanuscript Pragmatic Revolutionary Haya de la Torre and the Pursuit ofPower in Peru and Latin America 1926-1979 a political biography of oneof Latin Americarsquos most influential twentieth century politicans I alsocompleted a book of oral histories titled Entre la Democracia y laInsurgencia Testimonios Apristas 1930-1950 In collaboration with theJournalism Department I prepared a segment in Spanish for the weeklystudent-run news program Noticias 22 on current events in Latin America Ipresented portions of this research in April at conferences in Salt Lake CityUtah and Lima Peru In addition to teaching a variety of Latin Americanhistory courses I taught the graduate seminar Borders Boundaries andFrontiers and is teaching the undergraduate research methods course for
history majors
I was on sabbatical for the 2015-16 academic year workingon a project concerning the history of urban cartography in earlymodern China My research investigates how Chinese cities werechanging from the Song through the Ming dynasties from the 11ththrough the 16th centuries and how this was reflected in the ways citieswere visually portrayed in a variety of formats and genres This was atime of rapid commercialization in the Chinese economy and ofsignificant transformations in social and cultural life Images of urbanplaces especially maps expressed and articulated new ways ofenvisioning the city and the changing lives of urban residents I receiveda research grant from the China and Inner Asia Council of theAssociation for Asian Studies to travel to Japan for this project I will bepresenting papers reporting the results of his research at conferences inToronto Canada and Leiden the Netherlands in 2017
Now that I have returned to teaching I have offered classes onGlobal History the history of the Global Political Economy and thegraduate research seminar themed on Central Asian history I am alsocurrently working with seven MA students completing theses in Asianhistory
I have had two recent publications ldquoShared Heritage DifferentPaths Wang Shizhen and Wang Shimaordquo in Ming Qing yanjiu XIX(2015) published by the Oriental Institute of the University of Naplesand ldquoRevolutionary Politics in Twentieth Century Chinardquo in the journalHistorical Materialism 241 (2016) I am also currently co-editing TheRoutledge Handbook of Imperial Chinese History and serve asAssociate Editor for the Ming and Qing periods for the Journal ofChinese History published by Cambridge University Press
Dr Ken Hammond
Dr Inigo Garcia-Bryce
I had an unusual sabbatical last fall I drove 20000 milesacross the country visited over 100 historic parks and sites and tookover 20000 photos He blogged about his travels atdrivenbyhistoryblogspotcom Now I am writing a history of the UnitedStates from those places where history actually happened Many of theseplaces are part of the National Park Service and so this history is also alook at the NPS as it turned 100 years old last year I am happy to beback teaching and had a productive semester
After finishing my first book Hoptopia A World ofAgriculture and Beer in Oregonrsquos Willamette Valley (University ofCalifornia Press 2016) Irsquove been giving a variety of readings and talksacross the country Irsquove also started working on my next book tentativelycalled ldquoFabiaacuten Garciacutea and the Chile Pepper that Changed the Worldrdquo Publichistory endeavors also keep me busy as I continue to collaborate withstudents and members of the community on the Murals of Las CrucesProject and initiatives that celebrate the centennial and next century of theNational Park Service
Dr Peter Kopp
Dr Jon Hunner
I completed two other books in January ldquoThe VenetianDiscovery of America Geographic Imagination and Print Culture in theAge of Encountersrdquo and ldquoVirtual Encounters Interpreting the NewWorld in Early Modern Italyrdquo both of which will be published byCambridge University Press I have also been awared a NationalEndowment for the Humanities grant along with Dr Alexander Nagelto research how painters cosmographers printmakers and writerscontinued to depict America as Asia up to 1600 and after We will betravelling to libraries and archives to examine historical documents Iwill focus my research on texts and travelogues
Dr Elizabeth Horodowich
During the last academic year I published my thirdbook African Americans and the Classics AntiquityAbolition and Activism with London independent academicpublisher IB Tauris I continue to give invited talks themost recent in February 2017 for the InterdisciplinaryHumanities Center at UC Santa Barbara The next talk willbe in September at the University of Freiburg in Germany Ispent a delightful 4 weeks traveling around the Mediterraneanlast May and June visiting Sicily Lampedusa and Cyprus Ihave immensely enjoyed my position as Director of GraduateStudies as well as my teaching here at NMSU
Dr Margaret Malamud
Dr Andrea Orzoff
I have completed a set of articles on the German-speaking chapters of the International PEN Club and amresearching and writing Music in Flight my book aboutmusicians who fled Nazi Europe for Latin America I havepublished on PEN in German History another article hasbeen accepted by New German Critique and is forthcoming Ispent 2016 on an ACLS Fellowship I will spend summer2017 on a Fulbright fellowship to Germany and will continuethe Fulbright award in summer 2018 in Mexico and Peru Iwas asked to contribute an essay on interwar Europeandemocracy and democratic internationalism to the OxfordHandbook of Europe 1900-1945 (2016) I gave invitedlectures at Vanderbilt University Tel Aviv University theUniversity of New Mexico the University of Memphis andat the Landscapes of Displacement conference sponsoredby the US Holocaust Memorial Museum at Mesa College inSan Diego I participated in the 2016 German StudiesAssociation yearly conference and at a conference onrefugees at Yad Vashem (Israel) in December 2016 I am thedepartments Phi Alpha Theta adviser Through her work withthe campus group Standing With Our Students I haveorganized a set of campus wide talks this semester on issuesdrawn from current events I continue to work on her bookmanuscript and on an article about the Austrian-Germanconductor Erich Kleiber
Some of Our Graduate Students
I am a Public History Graduate Student I am working on apublication about the national parks in New Mexico in collaboration withHeidi Iverson I will graduate in May 2017
Alyssa Brillante
My last published journal article Forging a NationalPark Service the Necessity for Cooperation (2014) and mySpring courses at NMSU will bring an end to my academiccareer As I approach my 1 July retirement date I will havepublished 10 articles and books concerned with the National ParkService and US Forest Service and taught 265 courses (529courses in my entire academic career) at NMSU As an NMSUgraduate (BA-Philosophy) it has been a pleasure and privilegeto teach in my hometown (part of the first Mayfield High Schoolclass-1965) university A fond adieu and auf wiedersehn as Isettle in Hillsboro New Mexico for a new phase in my life Bestwishes for the Department of History
Dietmar Schneider-Hector
A fond adieu and auf wiedersehnAfter long and successful career at NMSU Dr Dietmar Schneider-Hector will be retiringJuly 2017 The faculty staff and students wish you all the best in your retirement
I just finished my thesis titled The Dissent of WomanBritish and American Female Popularizers of Science ReinterpretDarwin 1859-1915 In April I was awarded the Monroe BillingtonEndowed Graduate Thesis Award In March I gave a talk at theMuseum of Nature and Science called Cannibal Spiders WarringAnts and Murderous Plants Mary Treat Language andEvolutionary Theory I will graduate May 2017
I am a public history graduate student I am working onediting and publishing a book on the national parks in New Mexicoin colaboration with Alyssa Brillante I will graduate in May 2017
Kiki Keane
Heidi Iverson
Christina Montero
I am currently working on my public history article Itexamines why and how Hispanics do genealogy which will help meto create an article that encourages Hispanics to take up the activityof doing genealogy I will graduate in May 2017
Some of Our Emeritus Professors
Has a new book out from University of Iowa Press co-edited with the Canadian scholar Linda Ambrose Women inAgriculture Professionalizing Rural Life in North America and Europe1880-1965 It has two of her essays Good Farms Markets andCommunities Emily Hoag and Rural Women as Producers andFrances Densmore and Mary Warren English Indigenous KnowledgeCross-Cultural Collaboration and the Politics of Food She is co-editinganother collection tentatively titled From Janos to Zuni Exploring WestCentral New Mexico A reflection on her own work Go West YoungWoman is scheduled for publication in the New Mexico HistoricalReview
Joan Jensen
William Eamon
I am a Regents Professor Emeritus I published severalarticles and book chapters and have others in press including ldquoCornCochineal and Quina The Zilsel Thesis in an Iberian SettingrdquoCentaurus (in June 2017) ldquoAfterward Lost in Translationrdquo inTranslating Nature A Transcultural History of Early Modern Science inthe Atlantic World edited by Jaime Marroquiacuten Arredondo and RalphBauer (University of Pennsylvania Press forthcoming 2017) ldquoSpanishScience in the Age of the Newrdquo in Companion to the SpanishRenaissance edited by Hilaire Kallendorf (Leiden Brill forthcoming in2017) ldquoA Theater of Experiments Giambattista Della Porta and theScientific Culture of Late Renaissance Naplesrdquo in The Optics of GiovanBattista Della Porta (1535ndash1615) A Reassessment Archimedes NewStudies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology(Dordrecht 2017) ldquoThe Scientific Education of a Renaissance PrinceArchduke Rudolf in the Spanish Courtrdquo in Alchemy in the Time ofRudolph II (Prague 2016) ldquoLa Revolucioacuten Cientiacutefica y los ritmos de lavida cotidianardquo Revista de Occidente (forthcoming 2017) ProfessorEamonrsquos essay ldquoSix Centuries of Secularismrdquo appeared in the webmagazine Aeon (22 June 2016 URL httpsaeoncoessayssix-centuries-of-secularity-began-with-the-first-how-to-books) I continue toteach occasionally while in retirement my ever-popular course ldquoMagicand Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Europerdquo which in Spring2017 enrolled over 40 students
Some of Our Alumni
Julie Wojtko
I teach dual credit in the history department atArrowhead Early College High School I alternate classes ndashspring semester I teach Modern Europe fall semester is USHistory Itrsquos a blast ndash the students are wonderful
Ben Craske
I work as a ranger in the Historic Sites Division forthe New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs I am based atthe El Camino Real Historic Trail Site near Socorro My rolesinclude doing research for other historic sites writing accessiblematerial working with volunteers groups planning specialevents and overseeing collections care One of the best tasks sofar was rewriting the Fort Selden historic walking tour My timein the NMSU public history program gave me the tools toaccomplish these tasks confidently and enter straight into aprofessional history environment as soon as I graduated
Barbara Bogucki
I am currently theCurator for the TahoeMaritime Museum where myprincipal responsibilities arethe management of theMuseumrsquos collections andthe development ofexhibitions which includesall research and writing Inthe last two years I havecompleted three 5000 squarefoot exhibitionsThis year I am developing anart exhibition as well as anhistorical exhibition Thehistorical exhibition is calledWhatrsquos in a Name and willfeature the stories behindboat names It will also
highlight the many superstitions and myths which surround this deeplypersonal moniker Visitors can also expect to delve into the complexnautical history behind the female persona of ships and boats
Signage for the Tahoe Maritime Museum art exhibitionInk amp Ivory which will feature two nautical art forms scrimshaw anart form of intricate etchings attributed to sailors and the origins ofsailorrsquos tattoos Visitors will discover tattoos that were meant to bringsailors luck see skin-deep evidence of their travels and feel the senseof longing behind sentimental tributes to wives and sweethearts backhome It is developed by Bogucki
With all this of course comes the inevitable ldquoduties asassignedrdquo which includes forklift driver artist photographer boat hauler tourguide lecturer editorhellipin short everything a curator ldquoworth her saltrdquo must do
NCPH 2017
L-R Alyssa Brillante Christina Montero Dr Pitcaithley HeidiIverson and Joesph Seagrove Not featured Luke Manders
The National Council on Public History 2017 Annual Conference was held April 19-22in Indianapolis The conference was titled The Middle Where Did We Come FromWhere Are We Going Students attended several sessions on topics such as digitalhistory and usingfinding digital primary sources public engagement Asian publichistory accuracy of interpretation changing civil war interpretations and the need tobalance censorship in these changing political times This last topic was actually thesession in which Dr Pitcaithley was on the panel
Dr Pitcaithley alongwith a Smithsonianemployee a formerNational Archivesemployee and acurrent museumprofessional presentedon different projectsover time that havebeen impacted bycensorship ofchanging politicaltimes making theconnection to howhistorians can
negotiate the need to present good history with thepresidential administrations limitations on what can bepresented to a public audience
We also had the opportunity to visit the Indiana Historical Society thatfeatured several cutting edge interpretationtechniques As public history students we wereextremely impressed with the living historyexhibits on the Ball Canning Factory in 1948 thebeginning of the Lilly Pharmaceutical companyin 1877 and an Italian POW camp in Indianaduring WWII (1943) We also found theirinteractive exhibit on conservation and theirconservation lab to be really impressive Wetoured the city on our own visiting MonumentCircle (an iconic war memorial in Indianapolis)and several other war memorials whileexperiencing the amazing architecture ofIndianapolis
Besides attending lecturs NMSU graduate student Heidi Iverson also volunteered atthe conference Here she holds up her identification lanyard given to all atendees
Alumnus Works for Progress
Lucus Hernden NMSU History Deptartment alumnus and reciepiant of theDeptartment of History Department Star for the 2017 A Starry Night now works at
ProgressNowNM as theCommunications ManagerLucas also works incommunity enagagementfor the non-profit non-partisan communicationsadvocay organization
Lucas opened twobussinesses before hebecame more aware of aneed for greaterinvolvement in socialissues in and around LasCruces and New Mexicoat large In 2011 hebecame inovoled with LasCruces Green Chamber ofCommerce and was hiredas the Executive Directorfor the Organ MountainsNational Monumentcampaign
Advice from Lucas forhistory graduates Lookfor those intersectionalities
of where history plays intowhat you are doing even if it is just working at bookstore or as a barrista (both jobsLucas has had) Look for what your passion is find how history plays into thatand how you can make a difference in that thing
Photo courtesy of ProgressNowNM
Student projects Spring 2017
Graduate Student Articles and Projects in Public History
Alyssa Brillant - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Heidi Iverson - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Christina Montero - Article Hispanics and Genealogy Why How Who andIdentity Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017Joseph Seagrove - Articel Remebering the Holocaust An AmericanPerspective Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017
Graduate Students Thesis and Projects in the Traditional Track
Tom Burnham - Thesis Raskolniki A Comprehensive Analysis of the Sino-Soviet Split and its Place in Sino-Russian RelationsKiki Keane - Thesis The Dissent of Woman British and American FemalePopularizers of Science Reinterpret Darwin 1859-1915 Also gave a lectureentitled Cannibal Spiders Warring Ants and Murderous Plants Mary TreatLanguage and Evolutionary Theory at the Museum of Nature and Science inMarch 2017Kyle Mery - Thesis The Rise of Mao 1921-1935Irene Unpingco - Thesis Sumemima The Historically Powerful Manipulationof Shinto by the Japanese Government Then and Now
Some of Our Undergraduate Research
Chad Adams - ldquoThe Growth of Los Alamos Under the Shroud of Nuclear Weaponsfrom 1943 to Presentrdquo
James Coburn - Economic Impact of Holloman Air Airforce Base Flying Units onthe City of Alamogordo 1942-1969
Steven Garciacutea - ldquoThrough Mountains and Valleys A History of the Catholic CampusMinistry to New Mexico State Universityrdquo
Nora Muro - ldquoLoretto Academy Catholic School History in the Southwest of NewMexico From 1870 to 1943rdquo
Galen Skibyak - ldquoStagecoach and High Noon How Two of New Mexicorsquos MostFamous Westerns Represent the Political Issues of their Times 1903-1952rdquo
Austin Verret - ldquoHow the Military Forged New Mexico State University 1888-1946rdquo
By - Kiki Keane
Editor in Chief -- Dr Inigo Garcia Bryce
This past summer I stepped down after six years as Director ofthe Center for Latin American and Border Studies to return full-time to theHistory Department During my tenure as Director I organized over 80public lectures and events that brought together members of the universitythe Las Cruces community and the Border Region I completed my bookmanuscript Pragmatic Revolutionary Haya de la Torre and the Pursuit ofPower in Peru and Latin America 1926-1979 a political biography of oneof Latin Americarsquos most influential twentieth century politicans I alsocompleted a book of oral histories titled Entre la Democracia y laInsurgencia Testimonios Apristas 1930-1950 In collaboration with theJournalism Department I prepared a segment in Spanish for the weeklystudent-run news program Noticias 22 on current events in Latin America Ipresented portions of this research in April at conferences in Salt Lake CityUtah and Lima Peru In addition to teaching a variety of Latin Americanhistory courses I taught the graduate seminar Borders Boundaries andFrontiers and is teaching the undergraduate research methods course for
history majors
I was on sabbatical for the 2015-16 academic year workingon a project concerning the history of urban cartography in earlymodern China My research investigates how Chinese cities werechanging from the Song through the Ming dynasties from the 11ththrough the 16th centuries and how this was reflected in the ways citieswere visually portrayed in a variety of formats and genres This was atime of rapid commercialization in the Chinese economy and ofsignificant transformations in social and cultural life Images of urbanplaces especially maps expressed and articulated new ways ofenvisioning the city and the changing lives of urban residents I receiveda research grant from the China and Inner Asia Council of theAssociation for Asian Studies to travel to Japan for this project I will bepresenting papers reporting the results of his research at conferences inToronto Canada and Leiden the Netherlands in 2017
Now that I have returned to teaching I have offered classes onGlobal History the history of the Global Political Economy and thegraduate research seminar themed on Central Asian history I am alsocurrently working with seven MA students completing theses in Asianhistory
I have had two recent publications ldquoShared Heritage DifferentPaths Wang Shizhen and Wang Shimaordquo in Ming Qing yanjiu XIX(2015) published by the Oriental Institute of the University of Naplesand ldquoRevolutionary Politics in Twentieth Century Chinardquo in the journalHistorical Materialism 241 (2016) I am also currently co-editing TheRoutledge Handbook of Imperial Chinese History and serve asAssociate Editor for the Ming and Qing periods for the Journal ofChinese History published by Cambridge University Press
Dr Ken Hammond
Dr Inigo Garcia-Bryce
I had an unusual sabbatical last fall I drove 20000 milesacross the country visited over 100 historic parks and sites and tookover 20000 photos He blogged about his travels atdrivenbyhistoryblogspotcom Now I am writing a history of the UnitedStates from those places where history actually happened Many of theseplaces are part of the National Park Service and so this history is also alook at the NPS as it turned 100 years old last year I am happy to beback teaching and had a productive semester
After finishing my first book Hoptopia A World ofAgriculture and Beer in Oregonrsquos Willamette Valley (University ofCalifornia Press 2016) Irsquove been giving a variety of readings and talksacross the country Irsquove also started working on my next book tentativelycalled ldquoFabiaacuten Garciacutea and the Chile Pepper that Changed the Worldrdquo Publichistory endeavors also keep me busy as I continue to collaborate withstudents and members of the community on the Murals of Las CrucesProject and initiatives that celebrate the centennial and next century of theNational Park Service
Dr Peter Kopp
Dr Jon Hunner
I completed two other books in January ldquoThe VenetianDiscovery of America Geographic Imagination and Print Culture in theAge of Encountersrdquo and ldquoVirtual Encounters Interpreting the NewWorld in Early Modern Italyrdquo both of which will be published byCambridge University Press I have also been awared a NationalEndowment for the Humanities grant along with Dr Alexander Nagelto research how painters cosmographers printmakers and writerscontinued to depict America as Asia up to 1600 and after We will betravelling to libraries and archives to examine historical documents Iwill focus my research on texts and travelogues
Dr Elizabeth Horodowich
During the last academic year I published my thirdbook African Americans and the Classics AntiquityAbolition and Activism with London independent academicpublisher IB Tauris I continue to give invited talks themost recent in February 2017 for the InterdisciplinaryHumanities Center at UC Santa Barbara The next talk willbe in September at the University of Freiburg in Germany Ispent a delightful 4 weeks traveling around the Mediterraneanlast May and June visiting Sicily Lampedusa and Cyprus Ihave immensely enjoyed my position as Director of GraduateStudies as well as my teaching here at NMSU
Dr Margaret Malamud
Dr Andrea Orzoff
I have completed a set of articles on the German-speaking chapters of the International PEN Club and amresearching and writing Music in Flight my book aboutmusicians who fled Nazi Europe for Latin America I havepublished on PEN in German History another article hasbeen accepted by New German Critique and is forthcoming Ispent 2016 on an ACLS Fellowship I will spend summer2017 on a Fulbright fellowship to Germany and will continuethe Fulbright award in summer 2018 in Mexico and Peru Iwas asked to contribute an essay on interwar Europeandemocracy and democratic internationalism to the OxfordHandbook of Europe 1900-1945 (2016) I gave invitedlectures at Vanderbilt University Tel Aviv University theUniversity of New Mexico the University of Memphis andat the Landscapes of Displacement conference sponsoredby the US Holocaust Memorial Museum at Mesa College inSan Diego I participated in the 2016 German StudiesAssociation yearly conference and at a conference onrefugees at Yad Vashem (Israel) in December 2016 I am thedepartments Phi Alpha Theta adviser Through her work withthe campus group Standing With Our Students I haveorganized a set of campus wide talks this semester on issuesdrawn from current events I continue to work on her bookmanuscript and on an article about the Austrian-Germanconductor Erich Kleiber
Some of Our Graduate Students
I am a Public History Graduate Student I am working on apublication about the national parks in New Mexico in collaboration withHeidi Iverson I will graduate in May 2017
Alyssa Brillante
My last published journal article Forging a NationalPark Service the Necessity for Cooperation (2014) and mySpring courses at NMSU will bring an end to my academiccareer As I approach my 1 July retirement date I will havepublished 10 articles and books concerned with the National ParkService and US Forest Service and taught 265 courses (529courses in my entire academic career) at NMSU As an NMSUgraduate (BA-Philosophy) it has been a pleasure and privilegeto teach in my hometown (part of the first Mayfield High Schoolclass-1965) university A fond adieu and auf wiedersehn as Isettle in Hillsboro New Mexico for a new phase in my life Bestwishes for the Department of History
Dietmar Schneider-Hector
A fond adieu and auf wiedersehnAfter long and successful career at NMSU Dr Dietmar Schneider-Hector will be retiringJuly 2017 The faculty staff and students wish you all the best in your retirement
I just finished my thesis titled The Dissent of WomanBritish and American Female Popularizers of Science ReinterpretDarwin 1859-1915 In April I was awarded the Monroe BillingtonEndowed Graduate Thesis Award In March I gave a talk at theMuseum of Nature and Science called Cannibal Spiders WarringAnts and Murderous Plants Mary Treat Language andEvolutionary Theory I will graduate May 2017
I am a public history graduate student I am working onediting and publishing a book on the national parks in New Mexicoin colaboration with Alyssa Brillante I will graduate in May 2017
Kiki Keane
Heidi Iverson
Christina Montero
I am currently working on my public history article Itexamines why and how Hispanics do genealogy which will help meto create an article that encourages Hispanics to take up the activityof doing genealogy I will graduate in May 2017
Some of Our Emeritus Professors
Has a new book out from University of Iowa Press co-edited with the Canadian scholar Linda Ambrose Women inAgriculture Professionalizing Rural Life in North America and Europe1880-1965 It has two of her essays Good Farms Markets andCommunities Emily Hoag and Rural Women as Producers andFrances Densmore and Mary Warren English Indigenous KnowledgeCross-Cultural Collaboration and the Politics of Food She is co-editinganother collection tentatively titled From Janos to Zuni Exploring WestCentral New Mexico A reflection on her own work Go West YoungWoman is scheduled for publication in the New Mexico HistoricalReview
Joan Jensen
William Eamon
I am a Regents Professor Emeritus I published severalarticles and book chapters and have others in press including ldquoCornCochineal and Quina The Zilsel Thesis in an Iberian SettingrdquoCentaurus (in June 2017) ldquoAfterward Lost in Translationrdquo inTranslating Nature A Transcultural History of Early Modern Science inthe Atlantic World edited by Jaime Marroquiacuten Arredondo and RalphBauer (University of Pennsylvania Press forthcoming 2017) ldquoSpanishScience in the Age of the Newrdquo in Companion to the SpanishRenaissance edited by Hilaire Kallendorf (Leiden Brill forthcoming in2017) ldquoA Theater of Experiments Giambattista Della Porta and theScientific Culture of Late Renaissance Naplesrdquo in The Optics of GiovanBattista Della Porta (1535ndash1615) A Reassessment Archimedes NewStudies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology(Dordrecht 2017) ldquoThe Scientific Education of a Renaissance PrinceArchduke Rudolf in the Spanish Courtrdquo in Alchemy in the Time ofRudolph II (Prague 2016) ldquoLa Revolucioacuten Cientiacutefica y los ritmos de lavida cotidianardquo Revista de Occidente (forthcoming 2017) ProfessorEamonrsquos essay ldquoSix Centuries of Secularismrdquo appeared in the webmagazine Aeon (22 June 2016 URL httpsaeoncoessayssix-centuries-of-secularity-began-with-the-first-how-to-books) I continue toteach occasionally while in retirement my ever-popular course ldquoMagicand Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Europerdquo which in Spring2017 enrolled over 40 students
Some of Our Alumni
Julie Wojtko
I teach dual credit in the history department atArrowhead Early College High School I alternate classes ndashspring semester I teach Modern Europe fall semester is USHistory Itrsquos a blast ndash the students are wonderful
Ben Craske
I work as a ranger in the Historic Sites Division forthe New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs I am based atthe El Camino Real Historic Trail Site near Socorro My rolesinclude doing research for other historic sites writing accessiblematerial working with volunteers groups planning specialevents and overseeing collections care One of the best tasks sofar was rewriting the Fort Selden historic walking tour My timein the NMSU public history program gave me the tools toaccomplish these tasks confidently and enter straight into aprofessional history environment as soon as I graduated
Barbara Bogucki
I am currently theCurator for the TahoeMaritime Museum where myprincipal responsibilities arethe management of theMuseumrsquos collections andthe development ofexhibitions which includesall research and writing Inthe last two years I havecompleted three 5000 squarefoot exhibitionsThis year I am developing anart exhibition as well as anhistorical exhibition Thehistorical exhibition is calledWhatrsquos in a Name and willfeature the stories behindboat names It will also
highlight the many superstitions and myths which surround this deeplypersonal moniker Visitors can also expect to delve into the complexnautical history behind the female persona of ships and boats
Signage for the Tahoe Maritime Museum art exhibitionInk amp Ivory which will feature two nautical art forms scrimshaw anart form of intricate etchings attributed to sailors and the origins ofsailorrsquos tattoos Visitors will discover tattoos that were meant to bringsailors luck see skin-deep evidence of their travels and feel the senseof longing behind sentimental tributes to wives and sweethearts backhome It is developed by Bogucki
With all this of course comes the inevitable ldquoduties asassignedrdquo which includes forklift driver artist photographer boat hauler tourguide lecturer editorhellipin short everything a curator ldquoworth her saltrdquo must do
NCPH 2017
L-R Alyssa Brillante Christina Montero Dr Pitcaithley HeidiIverson and Joesph Seagrove Not featured Luke Manders
The National Council on Public History 2017 Annual Conference was held April 19-22in Indianapolis The conference was titled The Middle Where Did We Come FromWhere Are We Going Students attended several sessions on topics such as digitalhistory and usingfinding digital primary sources public engagement Asian publichistory accuracy of interpretation changing civil war interpretations and the need tobalance censorship in these changing political times This last topic was actually thesession in which Dr Pitcaithley was on the panel
Dr Pitcaithley alongwith a Smithsonianemployee a formerNational Archivesemployee and acurrent museumprofessional presentedon different projectsover time that havebeen impacted bycensorship ofchanging politicaltimes making theconnection to howhistorians can
negotiate the need to present good history with thepresidential administrations limitations on what can bepresented to a public audience
We also had the opportunity to visit the Indiana Historical Society thatfeatured several cutting edge interpretationtechniques As public history students we wereextremely impressed with the living historyexhibits on the Ball Canning Factory in 1948 thebeginning of the Lilly Pharmaceutical companyin 1877 and an Italian POW camp in Indianaduring WWII (1943) We also found theirinteractive exhibit on conservation and theirconservation lab to be really impressive Wetoured the city on our own visiting MonumentCircle (an iconic war memorial in Indianapolis)and several other war memorials whileexperiencing the amazing architecture ofIndianapolis
Besides attending lecturs NMSU graduate student Heidi Iverson also volunteered atthe conference Here she holds up her identification lanyard given to all atendees
Alumnus Works for Progress
Lucus Hernden NMSU History Deptartment alumnus and reciepiant of theDeptartment of History Department Star for the 2017 A Starry Night now works at
ProgressNowNM as theCommunications ManagerLucas also works incommunity enagagementfor the non-profit non-partisan communicationsadvocay organization
Lucas opened twobussinesses before hebecame more aware of aneed for greaterinvolvement in socialissues in and around LasCruces and New Mexicoat large In 2011 hebecame inovoled with LasCruces Green Chamber ofCommerce and was hiredas the Executive Directorfor the Organ MountainsNational Monumentcampaign
Advice from Lucas forhistory graduates Lookfor those intersectionalities
of where history plays intowhat you are doing even if it is just working at bookstore or as a barrista (both jobsLucas has had) Look for what your passion is find how history plays into thatand how you can make a difference in that thing
Photo courtesy of ProgressNowNM
Student projects Spring 2017
Graduate Student Articles and Projects in Public History
Alyssa Brillant - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Heidi Iverson - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Christina Montero - Article Hispanics and Genealogy Why How Who andIdentity Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017Joseph Seagrove - Articel Remebering the Holocaust An AmericanPerspective Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017
Graduate Students Thesis and Projects in the Traditional Track
Tom Burnham - Thesis Raskolniki A Comprehensive Analysis of the Sino-Soviet Split and its Place in Sino-Russian RelationsKiki Keane - Thesis The Dissent of Woman British and American FemalePopularizers of Science Reinterpret Darwin 1859-1915 Also gave a lectureentitled Cannibal Spiders Warring Ants and Murderous Plants Mary TreatLanguage and Evolutionary Theory at the Museum of Nature and Science inMarch 2017Kyle Mery - Thesis The Rise of Mao 1921-1935Irene Unpingco - Thesis Sumemima The Historically Powerful Manipulationof Shinto by the Japanese Government Then and Now
Some of Our Undergraduate Research
Chad Adams - ldquoThe Growth of Los Alamos Under the Shroud of Nuclear Weaponsfrom 1943 to Presentrdquo
James Coburn - Economic Impact of Holloman Air Airforce Base Flying Units onthe City of Alamogordo 1942-1969
Steven Garciacutea - ldquoThrough Mountains and Valleys A History of the Catholic CampusMinistry to New Mexico State Universityrdquo
Nora Muro - ldquoLoretto Academy Catholic School History in the Southwest of NewMexico From 1870 to 1943rdquo
Galen Skibyak - ldquoStagecoach and High Noon How Two of New Mexicorsquos MostFamous Westerns Represent the Political Issues of their Times 1903-1952rdquo
Austin Verret - ldquoHow the Military Forged New Mexico State University 1888-1946rdquo
By - Kiki Keane
Editor in Chief -- Dr Inigo Garcia Bryce
I had an unusual sabbatical last fall I drove 20000 milesacross the country visited over 100 historic parks and sites and tookover 20000 photos He blogged about his travels atdrivenbyhistoryblogspotcom Now I am writing a history of the UnitedStates from those places where history actually happened Many of theseplaces are part of the National Park Service and so this history is also alook at the NPS as it turned 100 years old last year I am happy to beback teaching and had a productive semester
After finishing my first book Hoptopia A World ofAgriculture and Beer in Oregonrsquos Willamette Valley (University ofCalifornia Press 2016) Irsquove been giving a variety of readings and talksacross the country Irsquove also started working on my next book tentativelycalled ldquoFabiaacuten Garciacutea and the Chile Pepper that Changed the Worldrdquo Publichistory endeavors also keep me busy as I continue to collaborate withstudents and members of the community on the Murals of Las CrucesProject and initiatives that celebrate the centennial and next century of theNational Park Service
Dr Peter Kopp
Dr Jon Hunner
I completed two other books in January ldquoThe VenetianDiscovery of America Geographic Imagination and Print Culture in theAge of Encountersrdquo and ldquoVirtual Encounters Interpreting the NewWorld in Early Modern Italyrdquo both of which will be published byCambridge University Press I have also been awared a NationalEndowment for the Humanities grant along with Dr Alexander Nagelto research how painters cosmographers printmakers and writerscontinued to depict America as Asia up to 1600 and after We will betravelling to libraries and archives to examine historical documents Iwill focus my research on texts and travelogues
Dr Elizabeth Horodowich
During the last academic year I published my thirdbook African Americans and the Classics AntiquityAbolition and Activism with London independent academicpublisher IB Tauris I continue to give invited talks themost recent in February 2017 for the InterdisciplinaryHumanities Center at UC Santa Barbara The next talk willbe in September at the University of Freiburg in Germany Ispent a delightful 4 weeks traveling around the Mediterraneanlast May and June visiting Sicily Lampedusa and Cyprus Ihave immensely enjoyed my position as Director of GraduateStudies as well as my teaching here at NMSU
Dr Margaret Malamud
Dr Andrea Orzoff
I have completed a set of articles on the German-speaking chapters of the International PEN Club and amresearching and writing Music in Flight my book aboutmusicians who fled Nazi Europe for Latin America I havepublished on PEN in German History another article hasbeen accepted by New German Critique and is forthcoming Ispent 2016 on an ACLS Fellowship I will spend summer2017 on a Fulbright fellowship to Germany and will continuethe Fulbright award in summer 2018 in Mexico and Peru Iwas asked to contribute an essay on interwar Europeandemocracy and democratic internationalism to the OxfordHandbook of Europe 1900-1945 (2016) I gave invitedlectures at Vanderbilt University Tel Aviv University theUniversity of New Mexico the University of Memphis andat the Landscapes of Displacement conference sponsoredby the US Holocaust Memorial Museum at Mesa College inSan Diego I participated in the 2016 German StudiesAssociation yearly conference and at a conference onrefugees at Yad Vashem (Israel) in December 2016 I am thedepartments Phi Alpha Theta adviser Through her work withthe campus group Standing With Our Students I haveorganized a set of campus wide talks this semester on issuesdrawn from current events I continue to work on her bookmanuscript and on an article about the Austrian-Germanconductor Erich Kleiber
Some of Our Graduate Students
I am a Public History Graduate Student I am working on apublication about the national parks in New Mexico in collaboration withHeidi Iverson I will graduate in May 2017
Alyssa Brillante
My last published journal article Forging a NationalPark Service the Necessity for Cooperation (2014) and mySpring courses at NMSU will bring an end to my academiccareer As I approach my 1 July retirement date I will havepublished 10 articles and books concerned with the National ParkService and US Forest Service and taught 265 courses (529courses in my entire academic career) at NMSU As an NMSUgraduate (BA-Philosophy) it has been a pleasure and privilegeto teach in my hometown (part of the first Mayfield High Schoolclass-1965) university A fond adieu and auf wiedersehn as Isettle in Hillsboro New Mexico for a new phase in my life Bestwishes for the Department of History
Dietmar Schneider-Hector
A fond adieu and auf wiedersehnAfter long and successful career at NMSU Dr Dietmar Schneider-Hector will be retiringJuly 2017 The faculty staff and students wish you all the best in your retirement
I just finished my thesis titled The Dissent of WomanBritish and American Female Popularizers of Science ReinterpretDarwin 1859-1915 In April I was awarded the Monroe BillingtonEndowed Graduate Thesis Award In March I gave a talk at theMuseum of Nature and Science called Cannibal Spiders WarringAnts and Murderous Plants Mary Treat Language andEvolutionary Theory I will graduate May 2017
I am a public history graduate student I am working onediting and publishing a book on the national parks in New Mexicoin colaboration with Alyssa Brillante I will graduate in May 2017
Kiki Keane
Heidi Iverson
Christina Montero
I am currently working on my public history article Itexamines why and how Hispanics do genealogy which will help meto create an article that encourages Hispanics to take up the activityof doing genealogy I will graduate in May 2017
Some of Our Emeritus Professors
Has a new book out from University of Iowa Press co-edited with the Canadian scholar Linda Ambrose Women inAgriculture Professionalizing Rural Life in North America and Europe1880-1965 It has two of her essays Good Farms Markets andCommunities Emily Hoag and Rural Women as Producers andFrances Densmore and Mary Warren English Indigenous KnowledgeCross-Cultural Collaboration and the Politics of Food She is co-editinganother collection tentatively titled From Janos to Zuni Exploring WestCentral New Mexico A reflection on her own work Go West YoungWoman is scheduled for publication in the New Mexico HistoricalReview
Joan Jensen
William Eamon
I am a Regents Professor Emeritus I published severalarticles and book chapters and have others in press including ldquoCornCochineal and Quina The Zilsel Thesis in an Iberian SettingrdquoCentaurus (in June 2017) ldquoAfterward Lost in Translationrdquo inTranslating Nature A Transcultural History of Early Modern Science inthe Atlantic World edited by Jaime Marroquiacuten Arredondo and RalphBauer (University of Pennsylvania Press forthcoming 2017) ldquoSpanishScience in the Age of the Newrdquo in Companion to the SpanishRenaissance edited by Hilaire Kallendorf (Leiden Brill forthcoming in2017) ldquoA Theater of Experiments Giambattista Della Porta and theScientific Culture of Late Renaissance Naplesrdquo in The Optics of GiovanBattista Della Porta (1535ndash1615) A Reassessment Archimedes NewStudies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology(Dordrecht 2017) ldquoThe Scientific Education of a Renaissance PrinceArchduke Rudolf in the Spanish Courtrdquo in Alchemy in the Time ofRudolph II (Prague 2016) ldquoLa Revolucioacuten Cientiacutefica y los ritmos de lavida cotidianardquo Revista de Occidente (forthcoming 2017) ProfessorEamonrsquos essay ldquoSix Centuries of Secularismrdquo appeared in the webmagazine Aeon (22 June 2016 URL httpsaeoncoessayssix-centuries-of-secularity-began-with-the-first-how-to-books) I continue toteach occasionally while in retirement my ever-popular course ldquoMagicand Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Europerdquo which in Spring2017 enrolled over 40 students
Some of Our Alumni
Julie Wojtko
I teach dual credit in the history department atArrowhead Early College High School I alternate classes ndashspring semester I teach Modern Europe fall semester is USHistory Itrsquos a blast ndash the students are wonderful
Ben Craske
I work as a ranger in the Historic Sites Division forthe New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs I am based atthe El Camino Real Historic Trail Site near Socorro My rolesinclude doing research for other historic sites writing accessiblematerial working with volunteers groups planning specialevents and overseeing collections care One of the best tasks sofar was rewriting the Fort Selden historic walking tour My timein the NMSU public history program gave me the tools toaccomplish these tasks confidently and enter straight into aprofessional history environment as soon as I graduated
Barbara Bogucki
I am currently theCurator for the TahoeMaritime Museum where myprincipal responsibilities arethe management of theMuseumrsquos collections andthe development ofexhibitions which includesall research and writing Inthe last two years I havecompleted three 5000 squarefoot exhibitionsThis year I am developing anart exhibition as well as anhistorical exhibition Thehistorical exhibition is calledWhatrsquos in a Name and willfeature the stories behindboat names It will also
highlight the many superstitions and myths which surround this deeplypersonal moniker Visitors can also expect to delve into the complexnautical history behind the female persona of ships and boats
Signage for the Tahoe Maritime Museum art exhibitionInk amp Ivory which will feature two nautical art forms scrimshaw anart form of intricate etchings attributed to sailors and the origins ofsailorrsquos tattoos Visitors will discover tattoos that were meant to bringsailors luck see skin-deep evidence of their travels and feel the senseof longing behind sentimental tributes to wives and sweethearts backhome It is developed by Bogucki
With all this of course comes the inevitable ldquoduties asassignedrdquo which includes forklift driver artist photographer boat hauler tourguide lecturer editorhellipin short everything a curator ldquoworth her saltrdquo must do
NCPH 2017
L-R Alyssa Brillante Christina Montero Dr Pitcaithley HeidiIverson and Joesph Seagrove Not featured Luke Manders
The National Council on Public History 2017 Annual Conference was held April 19-22in Indianapolis The conference was titled The Middle Where Did We Come FromWhere Are We Going Students attended several sessions on topics such as digitalhistory and usingfinding digital primary sources public engagement Asian publichistory accuracy of interpretation changing civil war interpretations and the need tobalance censorship in these changing political times This last topic was actually thesession in which Dr Pitcaithley was on the panel
Dr Pitcaithley alongwith a Smithsonianemployee a formerNational Archivesemployee and acurrent museumprofessional presentedon different projectsover time that havebeen impacted bycensorship ofchanging politicaltimes making theconnection to howhistorians can
negotiate the need to present good history with thepresidential administrations limitations on what can bepresented to a public audience
We also had the opportunity to visit the Indiana Historical Society thatfeatured several cutting edge interpretationtechniques As public history students we wereextremely impressed with the living historyexhibits on the Ball Canning Factory in 1948 thebeginning of the Lilly Pharmaceutical companyin 1877 and an Italian POW camp in Indianaduring WWII (1943) We also found theirinteractive exhibit on conservation and theirconservation lab to be really impressive Wetoured the city on our own visiting MonumentCircle (an iconic war memorial in Indianapolis)and several other war memorials whileexperiencing the amazing architecture ofIndianapolis
Besides attending lecturs NMSU graduate student Heidi Iverson also volunteered atthe conference Here she holds up her identification lanyard given to all atendees
Alumnus Works for Progress
Lucus Hernden NMSU History Deptartment alumnus and reciepiant of theDeptartment of History Department Star for the 2017 A Starry Night now works at
ProgressNowNM as theCommunications ManagerLucas also works incommunity enagagementfor the non-profit non-partisan communicationsadvocay organization
Lucas opened twobussinesses before hebecame more aware of aneed for greaterinvolvement in socialissues in and around LasCruces and New Mexicoat large In 2011 hebecame inovoled with LasCruces Green Chamber ofCommerce and was hiredas the Executive Directorfor the Organ MountainsNational Monumentcampaign
Advice from Lucas forhistory graduates Lookfor those intersectionalities
of where history plays intowhat you are doing even if it is just working at bookstore or as a barrista (both jobsLucas has had) Look for what your passion is find how history plays into thatand how you can make a difference in that thing
Photo courtesy of ProgressNowNM
Student projects Spring 2017
Graduate Student Articles and Projects in Public History
Alyssa Brillant - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Heidi Iverson - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Christina Montero - Article Hispanics and Genealogy Why How Who andIdentity Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017Joseph Seagrove - Articel Remebering the Holocaust An AmericanPerspective Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017
Graduate Students Thesis and Projects in the Traditional Track
Tom Burnham - Thesis Raskolniki A Comprehensive Analysis of the Sino-Soviet Split and its Place in Sino-Russian RelationsKiki Keane - Thesis The Dissent of Woman British and American FemalePopularizers of Science Reinterpret Darwin 1859-1915 Also gave a lectureentitled Cannibal Spiders Warring Ants and Murderous Plants Mary TreatLanguage and Evolutionary Theory at the Museum of Nature and Science inMarch 2017Kyle Mery - Thesis The Rise of Mao 1921-1935Irene Unpingco - Thesis Sumemima The Historically Powerful Manipulationof Shinto by the Japanese Government Then and Now
Some of Our Undergraduate Research
Chad Adams - ldquoThe Growth of Los Alamos Under the Shroud of Nuclear Weaponsfrom 1943 to Presentrdquo
James Coburn - Economic Impact of Holloman Air Airforce Base Flying Units onthe City of Alamogordo 1942-1969
Steven Garciacutea - ldquoThrough Mountains and Valleys A History of the Catholic CampusMinistry to New Mexico State Universityrdquo
Nora Muro - ldquoLoretto Academy Catholic School History in the Southwest of NewMexico From 1870 to 1943rdquo
Galen Skibyak - ldquoStagecoach and High Noon How Two of New Mexicorsquos MostFamous Westerns Represent the Political Issues of their Times 1903-1952rdquo
Austin Verret - ldquoHow the Military Forged New Mexico State University 1888-1946rdquo
By - Kiki Keane
Editor in Chief -- Dr Inigo Garcia Bryce
During the last academic year I published my thirdbook African Americans and the Classics AntiquityAbolition and Activism with London independent academicpublisher IB Tauris I continue to give invited talks themost recent in February 2017 for the InterdisciplinaryHumanities Center at UC Santa Barbara The next talk willbe in September at the University of Freiburg in Germany Ispent a delightful 4 weeks traveling around the Mediterraneanlast May and June visiting Sicily Lampedusa and Cyprus Ihave immensely enjoyed my position as Director of GraduateStudies as well as my teaching here at NMSU
Dr Margaret Malamud
Dr Andrea Orzoff
I have completed a set of articles on the German-speaking chapters of the International PEN Club and amresearching and writing Music in Flight my book aboutmusicians who fled Nazi Europe for Latin America I havepublished on PEN in German History another article hasbeen accepted by New German Critique and is forthcoming Ispent 2016 on an ACLS Fellowship I will spend summer2017 on a Fulbright fellowship to Germany and will continuethe Fulbright award in summer 2018 in Mexico and Peru Iwas asked to contribute an essay on interwar Europeandemocracy and democratic internationalism to the OxfordHandbook of Europe 1900-1945 (2016) I gave invitedlectures at Vanderbilt University Tel Aviv University theUniversity of New Mexico the University of Memphis andat the Landscapes of Displacement conference sponsoredby the US Holocaust Memorial Museum at Mesa College inSan Diego I participated in the 2016 German StudiesAssociation yearly conference and at a conference onrefugees at Yad Vashem (Israel) in December 2016 I am thedepartments Phi Alpha Theta adviser Through her work withthe campus group Standing With Our Students I haveorganized a set of campus wide talks this semester on issuesdrawn from current events I continue to work on her bookmanuscript and on an article about the Austrian-Germanconductor Erich Kleiber
Some of Our Graduate Students
I am a Public History Graduate Student I am working on apublication about the national parks in New Mexico in collaboration withHeidi Iverson I will graduate in May 2017
Alyssa Brillante
My last published journal article Forging a NationalPark Service the Necessity for Cooperation (2014) and mySpring courses at NMSU will bring an end to my academiccareer As I approach my 1 July retirement date I will havepublished 10 articles and books concerned with the National ParkService and US Forest Service and taught 265 courses (529courses in my entire academic career) at NMSU As an NMSUgraduate (BA-Philosophy) it has been a pleasure and privilegeto teach in my hometown (part of the first Mayfield High Schoolclass-1965) university A fond adieu and auf wiedersehn as Isettle in Hillsboro New Mexico for a new phase in my life Bestwishes for the Department of History
Dietmar Schneider-Hector
A fond adieu and auf wiedersehnAfter long and successful career at NMSU Dr Dietmar Schneider-Hector will be retiringJuly 2017 The faculty staff and students wish you all the best in your retirement
I just finished my thesis titled The Dissent of WomanBritish and American Female Popularizers of Science ReinterpretDarwin 1859-1915 In April I was awarded the Monroe BillingtonEndowed Graduate Thesis Award In March I gave a talk at theMuseum of Nature and Science called Cannibal Spiders WarringAnts and Murderous Plants Mary Treat Language andEvolutionary Theory I will graduate May 2017
I am a public history graduate student I am working onediting and publishing a book on the national parks in New Mexicoin colaboration with Alyssa Brillante I will graduate in May 2017
Kiki Keane
Heidi Iverson
Christina Montero
I am currently working on my public history article Itexamines why and how Hispanics do genealogy which will help meto create an article that encourages Hispanics to take up the activityof doing genealogy I will graduate in May 2017
Some of Our Emeritus Professors
Has a new book out from University of Iowa Press co-edited with the Canadian scholar Linda Ambrose Women inAgriculture Professionalizing Rural Life in North America and Europe1880-1965 It has two of her essays Good Farms Markets andCommunities Emily Hoag and Rural Women as Producers andFrances Densmore and Mary Warren English Indigenous KnowledgeCross-Cultural Collaboration and the Politics of Food She is co-editinganother collection tentatively titled From Janos to Zuni Exploring WestCentral New Mexico A reflection on her own work Go West YoungWoman is scheduled for publication in the New Mexico HistoricalReview
Joan Jensen
William Eamon
I am a Regents Professor Emeritus I published severalarticles and book chapters and have others in press including ldquoCornCochineal and Quina The Zilsel Thesis in an Iberian SettingrdquoCentaurus (in June 2017) ldquoAfterward Lost in Translationrdquo inTranslating Nature A Transcultural History of Early Modern Science inthe Atlantic World edited by Jaime Marroquiacuten Arredondo and RalphBauer (University of Pennsylvania Press forthcoming 2017) ldquoSpanishScience in the Age of the Newrdquo in Companion to the SpanishRenaissance edited by Hilaire Kallendorf (Leiden Brill forthcoming in2017) ldquoA Theater of Experiments Giambattista Della Porta and theScientific Culture of Late Renaissance Naplesrdquo in The Optics of GiovanBattista Della Porta (1535ndash1615) A Reassessment Archimedes NewStudies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology(Dordrecht 2017) ldquoThe Scientific Education of a Renaissance PrinceArchduke Rudolf in the Spanish Courtrdquo in Alchemy in the Time ofRudolph II (Prague 2016) ldquoLa Revolucioacuten Cientiacutefica y los ritmos de lavida cotidianardquo Revista de Occidente (forthcoming 2017) ProfessorEamonrsquos essay ldquoSix Centuries of Secularismrdquo appeared in the webmagazine Aeon (22 June 2016 URL httpsaeoncoessayssix-centuries-of-secularity-began-with-the-first-how-to-books) I continue toteach occasionally while in retirement my ever-popular course ldquoMagicand Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Europerdquo which in Spring2017 enrolled over 40 students
Some of Our Alumni
Julie Wojtko
I teach dual credit in the history department atArrowhead Early College High School I alternate classes ndashspring semester I teach Modern Europe fall semester is USHistory Itrsquos a blast ndash the students are wonderful
Ben Craske
I work as a ranger in the Historic Sites Division forthe New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs I am based atthe El Camino Real Historic Trail Site near Socorro My rolesinclude doing research for other historic sites writing accessiblematerial working with volunteers groups planning specialevents and overseeing collections care One of the best tasks sofar was rewriting the Fort Selden historic walking tour My timein the NMSU public history program gave me the tools toaccomplish these tasks confidently and enter straight into aprofessional history environment as soon as I graduated
Barbara Bogucki
I am currently theCurator for the TahoeMaritime Museum where myprincipal responsibilities arethe management of theMuseumrsquos collections andthe development ofexhibitions which includesall research and writing Inthe last two years I havecompleted three 5000 squarefoot exhibitionsThis year I am developing anart exhibition as well as anhistorical exhibition Thehistorical exhibition is calledWhatrsquos in a Name and willfeature the stories behindboat names It will also
highlight the many superstitions and myths which surround this deeplypersonal moniker Visitors can also expect to delve into the complexnautical history behind the female persona of ships and boats
Signage for the Tahoe Maritime Museum art exhibitionInk amp Ivory which will feature two nautical art forms scrimshaw anart form of intricate etchings attributed to sailors and the origins ofsailorrsquos tattoos Visitors will discover tattoos that were meant to bringsailors luck see skin-deep evidence of their travels and feel the senseof longing behind sentimental tributes to wives and sweethearts backhome It is developed by Bogucki
With all this of course comes the inevitable ldquoduties asassignedrdquo which includes forklift driver artist photographer boat hauler tourguide lecturer editorhellipin short everything a curator ldquoworth her saltrdquo must do
NCPH 2017
L-R Alyssa Brillante Christina Montero Dr Pitcaithley HeidiIverson and Joesph Seagrove Not featured Luke Manders
The National Council on Public History 2017 Annual Conference was held April 19-22in Indianapolis The conference was titled The Middle Where Did We Come FromWhere Are We Going Students attended several sessions on topics such as digitalhistory and usingfinding digital primary sources public engagement Asian publichistory accuracy of interpretation changing civil war interpretations and the need tobalance censorship in these changing political times This last topic was actually thesession in which Dr Pitcaithley was on the panel
Dr Pitcaithley alongwith a Smithsonianemployee a formerNational Archivesemployee and acurrent museumprofessional presentedon different projectsover time that havebeen impacted bycensorship ofchanging politicaltimes making theconnection to howhistorians can
negotiate the need to present good history with thepresidential administrations limitations on what can bepresented to a public audience
We also had the opportunity to visit the Indiana Historical Society thatfeatured several cutting edge interpretationtechniques As public history students we wereextremely impressed with the living historyexhibits on the Ball Canning Factory in 1948 thebeginning of the Lilly Pharmaceutical companyin 1877 and an Italian POW camp in Indianaduring WWII (1943) We also found theirinteractive exhibit on conservation and theirconservation lab to be really impressive Wetoured the city on our own visiting MonumentCircle (an iconic war memorial in Indianapolis)and several other war memorials whileexperiencing the amazing architecture ofIndianapolis
Besides attending lecturs NMSU graduate student Heidi Iverson also volunteered atthe conference Here she holds up her identification lanyard given to all atendees
Alumnus Works for Progress
Lucus Hernden NMSU History Deptartment alumnus and reciepiant of theDeptartment of History Department Star for the 2017 A Starry Night now works at
ProgressNowNM as theCommunications ManagerLucas also works incommunity enagagementfor the non-profit non-partisan communicationsadvocay organization
Lucas opened twobussinesses before hebecame more aware of aneed for greaterinvolvement in socialissues in and around LasCruces and New Mexicoat large In 2011 hebecame inovoled with LasCruces Green Chamber ofCommerce and was hiredas the Executive Directorfor the Organ MountainsNational Monumentcampaign
Advice from Lucas forhistory graduates Lookfor those intersectionalities
of where history plays intowhat you are doing even if it is just working at bookstore or as a barrista (both jobsLucas has had) Look for what your passion is find how history plays into thatand how you can make a difference in that thing
Photo courtesy of ProgressNowNM
Student projects Spring 2017
Graduate Student Articles and Projects in Public History
Alyssa Brillant - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Heidi Iverson - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Christina Montero - Article Hispanics and Genealogy Why How Who andIdentity Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017Joseph Seagrove - Articel Remebering the Holocaust An AmericanPerspective Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017
Graduate Students Thesis and Projects in the Traditional Track
Tom Burnham - Thesis Raskolniki A Comprehensive Analysis of the Sino-Soviet Split and its Place in Sino-Russian RelationsKiki Keane - Thesis The Dissent of Woman British and American FemalePopularizers of Science Reinterpret Darwin 1859-1915 Also gave a lectureentitled Cannibal Spiders Warring Ants and Murderous Plants Mary TreatLanguage and Evolutionary Theory at the Museum of Nature and Science inMarch 2017Kyle Mery - Thesis The Rise of Mao 1921-1935Irene Unpingco - Thesis Sumemima The Historically Powerful Manipulationof Shinto by the Japanese Government Then and Now
Some of Our Undergraduate Research
Chad Adams - ldquoThe Growth of Los Alamos Under the Shroud of Nuclear Weaponsfrom 1943 to Presentrdquo
James Coburn - Economic Impact of Holloman Air Airforce Base Flying Units onthe City of Alamogordo 1942-1969
Steven Garciacutea - ldquoThrough Mountains and Valleys A History of the Catholic CampusMinistry to New Mexico State Universityrdquo
Nora Muro - ldquoLoretto Academy Catholic School History in the Southwest of NewMexico From 1870 to 1943rdquo
Galen Skibyak - ldquoStagecoach and High Noon How Two of New Mexicorsquos MostFamous Westerns Represent the Political Issues of their Times 1903-1952rdquo
Austin Verret - ldquoHow the Military Forged New Mexico State University 1888-1946rdquo
By - Kiki Keane
Editor in Chief -- Dr Inigo Garcia Bryce
Some of Our Graduate Students
I am a Public History Graduate Student I am working on apublication about the national parks in New Mexico in collaboration withHeidi Iverson I will graduate in May 2017
Alyssa Brillante
My last published journal article Forging a NationalPark Service the Necessity for Cooperation (2014) and mySpring courses at NMSU will bring an end to my academiccareer As I approach my 1 July retirement date I will havepublished 10 articles and books concerned with the National ParkService and US Forest Service and taught 265 courses (529courses in my entire academic career) at NMSU As an NMSUgraduate (BA-Philosophy) it has been a pleasure and privilegeto teach in my hometown (part of the first Mayfield High Schoolclass-1965) university A fond adieu and auf wiedersehn as Isettle in Hillsboro New Mexico for a new phase in my life Bestwishes for the Department of History
Dietmar Schneider-Hector
A fond adieu and auf wiedersehnAfter long and successful career at NMSU Dr Dietmar Schneider-Hector will be retiringJuly 2017 The faculty staff and students wish you all the best in your retirement
I just finished my thesis titled The Dissent of WomanBritish and American Female Popularizers of Science ReinterpretDarwin 1859-1915 In April I was awarded the Monroe BillingtonEndowed Graduate Thesis Award In March I gave a talk at theMuseum of Nature and Science called Cannibal Spiders WarringAnts and Murderous Plants Mary Treat Language andEvolutionary Theory I will graduate May 2017
I am a public history graduate student I am working onediting and publishing a book on the national parks in New Mexicoin colaboration with Alyssa Brillante I will graduate in May 2017
Kiki Keane
Heidi Iverson
Christina Montero
I am currently working on my public history article Itexamines why and how Hispanics do genealogy which will help meto create an article that encourages Hispanics to take up the activityof doing genealogy I will graduate in May 2017
Some of Our Emeritus Professors
Has a new book out from University of Iowa Press co-edited with the Canadian scholar Linda Ambrose Women inAgriculture Professionalizing Rural Life in North America and Europe1880-1965 It has two of her essays Good Farms Markets andCommunities Emily Hoag and Rural Women as Producers andFrances Densmore and Mary Warren English Indigenous KnowledgeCross-Cultural Collaboration and the Politics of Food She is co-editinganother collection tentatively titled From Janos to Zuni Exploring WestCentral New Mexico A reflection on her own work Go West YoungWoman is scheduled for publication in the New Mexico HistoricalReview
Joan Jensen
William Eamon
I am a Regents Professor Emeritus I published severalarticles and book chapters and have others in press including ldquoCornCochineal and Quina The Zilsel Thesis in an Iberian SettingrdquoCentaurus (in June 2017) ldquoAfterward Lost in Translationrdquo inTranslating Nature A Transcultural History of Early Modern Science inthe Atlantic World edited by Jaime Marroquiacuten Arredondo and RalphBauer (University of Pennsylvania Press forthcoming 2017) ldquoSpanishScience in the Age of the Newrdquo in Companion to the SpanishRenaissance edited by Hilaire Kallendorf (Leiden Brill forthcoming in2017) ldquoA Theater of Experiments Giambattista Della Porta and theScientific Culture of Late Renaissance Naplesrdquo in The Optics of GiovanBattista Della Porta (1535ndash1615) A Reassessment Archimedes NewStudies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology(Dordrecht 2017) ldquoThe Scientific Education of a Renaissance PrinceArchduke Rudolf in the Spanish Courtrdquo in Alchemy in the Time ofRudolph II (Prague 2016) ldquoLa Revolucioacuten Cientiacutefica y los ritmos de lavida cotidianardquo Revista de Occidente (forthcoming 2017) ProfessorEamonrsquos essay ldquoSix Centuries of Secularismrdquo appeared in the webmagazine Aeon (22 June 2016 URL httpsaeoncoessayssix-centuries-of-secularity-began-with-the-first-how-to-books) I continue toteach occasionally while in retirement my ever-popular course ldquoMagicand Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Europerdquo which in Spring2017 enrolled over 40 students
Some of Our Alumni
Julie Wojtko
I teach dual credit in the history department atArrowhead Early College High School I alternate classes ndashspring semester I teach Modern Europe fall semester is USHistory Itrsquos a blast ndash the students are wonderful
Ben Craske
I work as a ranger in the Historic Sites Division forthe New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs I am based atthe El Camino Real Historic Trail Site near Socorro My rolesinclude doing research for other historic sites writing accessiblematerial working with volunteers groups planning specialevents and overseeing collections care One of the best tasks sofar was rewriting the Fort Selden historic walking tour My timein the NMSU public history program gave me the tools toaccomplish these tasks confidently and enter straight into aprofessional history environment as soon as I graduated
Barbara Bogucki
I am currently theCurator for the TahoeMaritime Museum where myprincipal responsibilities arethe management of theMuseumrsquos collections andthe development ofexhibitions which includesall research and writing Inthe last two years I havecompleted three 5000 squarefoot exhibitionsThis year I am developing anart exhibition as well as anhistorical exhibition Thehistorical exhibition is calledWhatrsquos in a Name and willfeature the stories behindboat names It will also
highlight the many superstitions and myths which surround this deeplypersonal moniker Visitors can also expect to delve into the complexnautical history behind the female persona of ships and boats
Signage for the Tahoe Maritime Museum art exhibitionInk amp Ivory which will feature two nautical art forms scrimshaw anart form of intricate etchings attributed to sailors and the origins ofsailorrsquos tattoos Visitors will discover tattoos that were meant to bringsailors luck see skin-deep evidence of their travels and feel the senseof longing behind sentimental tributes to wives and sweethearts backhome It is developed by Bogucki
With all this of course comes the inevitable ldquoduties asassignedrdquo which includes forklift driver artist photographer boat hauler tourguide lecturer editorhellipin short everything a curator ldquoworth her saltrdquo must do
NCPH 2017
L-R Alyssa Brillante Christina Montero Dr Pitcaithley HeidiIverson and Joesph Seagrove Not featured Luke Manders
The National Council on Public History 2017 Annual Conference was held April 19-22in Indianapolis The conference was titled The Middle Where Did We Come FromWhere Are We Going Students attended several sessions on topics such as digitalhistory and usingfinding digital primary sources public engagement Asian publichistory accuracy of interpretation changing civil war interpretations and the need tobalance censorship in these changing political times This last topic was actually thesession in which Dr Pitcaithley was on the panel
Dr Pitcaithley alongwith a Smithsonianemployee a formerNational Archivesemployee and acurrent museumprofessional presentedon different projectsover time that havebeen impacted bycensorship ofchanging politicaltimes making theconnection to howhistorians can
negotiate the need to present good history with thepresidential administrations limitations on what can bepresented to a public audience
We also had the opportunity to visit the Indiana Historical Society thatfeatured several cutting edge interpretationtechniques As public history students we wereextremely impressed with the living historyexhibits on the Ball Canning Factory in 1948 thebeginning of the Lilly Pharmaceutical companyin 1877 and an Italian POW camp in Indianaduring WWII (1943) We also found theirinteractive exhibit on conservation and theirconservation lab to be really impressive Wetoured the city on our own visiting MonumentCircle (an iconic war memorial in Indianapolis)and several other war memorials whileexperiencing the amazing architecture ofIndianapolis
Besides attending lecturs NMSU graduate student Heidi Iverson also volunteered atthe conference Here she holds up her identification lanyard given to all atendees
Alumnus Works for Progress
Lucus Hernden NMSU History Deptartment alumnus and reciepiant of theDeptartment of History Department Star for the 2017 A Starry Night now works at
ProgressNowNM as theCommunications ManagerLucas also works incommunity enagagementfor the non-profit non-partisan communicationsadvocay organization
Lucas opened twobussinesses before hebecame more aware of aneed for greaterinvolvement in socialissues in and around LasCruces and New Mexicoat large In 2011 hebecame inovoled with LasCruces Green Chamber ofCommerce and was hiredas the Executive Directorfor the Organ MountainsNational Monumentcampaign
Advice from Lucas forhistory graduates Lookfor those intersectionalities
of where history plays intowhat you are doing even if it is just working at bookstore or as a barrista (both jobsLucas has had) Look for what your passion is find how history plays into thatand how you can make a difference in that thing
Photo courtesy of ProgressNowNM
Student projects Spring 2017
Graduate Student Articles and Projects in Public History
Alyssa Brillant - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Heidi Iverson - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Christina Montero - Article Hispanics and Genealogy Why How Who andIdentity Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017Joseph Seagrove - Articel Remebering the Holocaust An AmericanPerspective Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017
Graduate Students Thesis and Projects in the Traditional Track
Tom Burnham - Thesis Raskolniki A Comprehensive Analysis of the Sino-Soviet Split and its Place in Sino-Russian RelationsKiki Keane - Thesis The Dissent of Woman British and American FemalePopularizers of Science Reinterpret Darwin 1859-1915 Also gave a lectureentitled Cannibal Spiders Warring Ants and Murderous Plants Mary TreatLanguage and Evolutionary Theory at the Museum of Nature and Science inMarch 2017Kyle Mery - Thesis The Rise of Mao 1921-1935Irene Unpingco - Thesis Sumemima The Historically Powerful Manipulationof Shinto by the Japanese Government Then and Now
Some of Our Undergraduate Research
Chad Adams - ldquoThe Growth of Los Alamos Under the Shroud of Nuclear Weaponsfrom 1943 to Presentrdquo
James Coburn - Economic Impact of Holloman Air Airforce Base Flying Units onthe City of Alamogordo 1942-1969
Steven Garciacutea - ldquoThrough Mountains and Valleys A History of the Catholic CampusMinistry to New Mexico State Universityrdquo
Nora Muro - ldquoLoretto Academy Catholic School History in the Southwest of NewMexico From 1870 to 1943rdquo
Galen Skibyak - ldquoStagecoach and High Noon How Two of New Mexicorsquos MostFamous Westerns Represent the Political Issues of their Times 1903-1952rdquo
Austin Verret - ldquoHow the Military Forged New Mexico State University 1888-1946rdquo
By - Kiki Keane
Editor in Chief -- Dr Inigo Garcia Bryce
I just finished my thesis titled The Dissent of WomanBritish and American Female Popularizers of Science ReinterpretDarwin 1859-1915 In April I was awarded the Monroe BillingtonEndowed Graduate Thesis Award In March I gave a talk at theMuseum of Nature and Science called Cannibal Spiders WarringAnts and Murderous Plants Mary Treat Language andEvolutionary Theory I will graduate May 2017
I am a public history graduate student I am working onediting and publishing a book on the national parks in New Mexicoin colaboration with Alyssa Brillante I will graduate in May 2017
Kiki Keane
Heidi Iverson
Christina Montero
I am currently working on my public history article Itexamines why and how Hispanics do genealogy which will help meto create an article that encourages Hispanics to take up the activityof doing genealogy I will graduate in May 2017
Some of Our Emeritus Professors
Has a new book out from University of Iowa Press co-edited with the Canadian scholar Linda Ambrose Women inAgriculture Professionalizing Rural Life in North America and Europe1880-1965 It has two of her essays Good Farms Markets andCommunities Emily Hoag and Rural Women as Producers andFrances Densmore and Mary Warren English Indigenous KnowledgeCross-Cultural Collaboration and the Politics of Food She is co-editinganother collection tentatively titled From Janos to Zuni Exploring WestCentral New Mexico A reflection on her own work Go West YoungWoman is scheduled for publication in the New Mexico HistoricalReview
Joan Jensen
William Eamon
I am a Regents Professor Emeritus I published severalarticles and book chapters and have others in press including ldquoCornCochineal and Quina The Zilsel Thesis in an Iberian SettingrdquoCentaurus (in June 2017) ldquoAfterward Lost in Translationrdquo inTranslating Nature A Transcultural History of Early Modern Science inthe Atlantic World edited by Jaime Marroquiacuten Arredondo and RalphBauer (University of Pennsylvania Press forthcoming 2017) ldquoSpanishScience in the Age of the Newrdquo in Companion to the SpanishRenaissance edited by Hilaire Kallendorf (Leiden Brill forthcoming in2017) ldquoA Theater of Experiments Giambattista Della Porta and theScientific Culture of Late Renaissance Naplesrdquo in The Optics of GiovanBattista Della Porta (1535ndash1615) A Reassessment Archimedes NewStudies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology(Dordrecht 2017) ldquoThe Scientific Education of a Renaissance PrinceArchduke Rudolf in the Spanish Courtrdquo in Alchemy in the Time ofRudolph II (Prague 2016) ldquoLa Revolucioacuten Cientiacutefica y los ritmos de lavida cotidianardquo Revista de Occidente (forthcoming 2017) ProfessorEamonrsquos essay ldquoSix Centuries of Secularismrdquo appeared in the webmagazine Aeon (22 June 2016 URL httpsaeoncoessayssix-centuries-of-secularity-began-with-the-first-how-to-books) I continue toteach occasionally while in retirement my ever-popular course ldquoMagicand Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Europerdquo which in Spring2017 enrolled over 40 students
Some of Our Alumni
Julie Wojtko
I teach dual credit in the history department atArrowhead Early College High School I alternate classes ndashspring semester I teach Modern Europe fall semester is USHistory Itrsquos a blast ndash the students are wonderful
Ben Craske
I work as a ranger in the Historic Sites Division forthe New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs I am based atthe El Camino Real Historic Trail Site near Socorro My rolesinclude doing research for other historic sites writing accessiblematerial working with volunteers groups planning specialevents and overseeing collections care One of the best tasks sofar was rewriting the Fort Selden historic walking tour My timein the NMSU public history program gave me the tools toaccomplish these tasks confidently and enter straight into aprofessional history environment as soon as I graduated
Barbara Bogucki
I am currently theCurator for the TahoeMaritime Museum where myprincipal responsibilities arethe management of theMuseumrsquos collections andthe development ofexhibitions which includesall research and writing Inthe last two years I havecompleted three 5000 squarefoot exhibitionsThis year I am developing anart exhibition as well as anhistorical exhibition Thehistorical exhibition is calledWhatrsquos in a Name and willfeature the stories behindboat names It will also
highlight the many superstitions and myths which surround this deeplypersonal moniker Visitors can also expect to delve into the complexnautical history behind the female persona of ships and boats
Signage for the Tahoe Maritime Museum art exhibitionInk amp Ivory which will feature two nautical art forms scrimshaw anart form of intricate etchings attributed to sailors and the origins ofsailorrsquos tattoos Visitors will discover tattoos that were meant to bringsailors luck see skin-deep evidence of their travels and feel the senseof longing behind sentimental tributes to wives and sweethearts backhome It is developed by Bogucki
With all this of course comes the inevitable ldquoduties asassignedrdquo which includes forklift driver artist photographer boat hauler tourguide lecturer editorhellipin short everything a curator ldquoworth her saltrdquo must do
NCPH 2017
L-R Alyssa Brillante Christina Montero Dr Pitcaithley HeidiIverson and Joesph Seagrove Not featured Luke Manders
The National Council on Public History 2017 Annual Conference was held April 19-22in Indianapolis The conference was titled The Middle Where Did We Come FromWhere Are We Going Students attended several sessions on topics such as digitalhistory and usingfinding digital primary sources public engagement Asian publichistory accuracy of interpretation changing civil war interpretations and the need tobalance censorship in these changing political times This last topic was actually thesession in which Dr Pitcaithley was on the panel
Dr Pitcaithley alongwith a Smithsonianemployee a formerNational Archivesemployee and acurrent museumprofessional presentedon different projectsover time that havebeen impacted bycensorship ofchanging politicaltimes making theconnection to howhistorians can
negotiate the need to present good history with thepresidential administrations limitations on what can bepresented to a public audience
We also had the opportunity to visit the Indiana Historical Society thatfeatured several cutting edge interpretationtechniques As public history students we wereextremely impressed with the living historyexhibits on the Ball Canning Factory in 1948 thebeginning of the Lilly Pharmaceutical companyin 1877 and an Italian POW camp in Indianaduring WWII (1943) We also found theirinteractive exhibit on conservation and theirconservation lab to be really impressive Wetoured the city on our own visiting MonumentCircle (an iconic war memorial in Indianapolis)and several other war memorials whileexperiencing the amazing architecture ofIndianapolis
Besides attending lecturs NMSU graduate student Heidi Iverson also volunteered atthe conference Here she holds up her identification lanyard given to all atendees
Alumnus Works for Progress
Lucus Hernden NMSU History Deptartment alumnus and reciepiant of theDeptartment of History Department Star for the 2017 A Starry Night now works at
ProgressNowNM as theCommunications ManagerLucas also works incommunity enagagementfor the non-profit non-partisan communicationsadvocay organization
Lucas opened twobussinesses before hebecame more aware of aneed for greaterinvolvement in socialissues in and around LasCruces and New Mexicoat large In 2011 hebecame inovoled with LasCruces Green Chamber ofCommerce and was hiredas the Executive Directorfor the Organ MountainsNational Monumentcampaign
Advice from Lucas forhistory graduates Lookfor those intersectionalities
of where history plays intowhat you are doing even if it is just working at bookstore or as a barrista (both jobsLucas has had) Look for what your passion is find how history plays into thatand how you can make a difference in that thing
Photo courtesy of ProgressNowNM
Student projects Spring 2017
Graduate Student Articles and Projects in Public History
Alyssa Brillant - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Heidi Iverson - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Christina Montero - Article Hispanics and Genealogy Why How Who andIdentity Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017Joseph Seagrove - Articel Remebering the Holocaust An AmericanPerspective Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017
Graduate Students Thesis and Projects in the Traditional Track
Tom Burnham - Thesis Raskolniki A Comprehensive Analysis of the Sino-Soviet Split and its Place in Sino-Russian RelationsKiki Keane - Thesis The Dissent of Woman British and American FemalePopularizers of Science Reinterpret Darwin 1859-1915 Also gave a lectureentitled Cannibal Spiders Warring Ants and Murderous Plants Mary TreatLanguage and Evolutionary Theory at the Museum of Nature and Science inMarch 2017Kyle Mery - Thesis The Rise of Mao 1921-1935Irene Unpingco - Thesis Sumemima The Historically Powerful Manipulationof Shinto by the Japanese Government Then and Now
Some of Our Undergraduate Research
Chad Adams - ldquoThe Growth of Los Alamos Under the Shroud of Nuclear Weaponsfrom 1943 to Presentrdquo
James Coburn - Economic Impact of Holloman Air Airforce Base Flying Units onthe City of Alamogordo 1942-1969
Steven Garciacutea - ldquoThrough Mountains and Valleys A History of the Catholic CampusMinistry to New Mexico State Universityrdquo
Nora Muro - ldquoLoretto Academy Catholic School History in the Southwest of NewMexico From 1870 to 1943rdquo
Galen Skibyak - ldquoStagecoach and High Noon How Two of New Mexicorsquos MostFamous Westerns Represent the Political Issues of their Times 1903-1952rdquo
Austin Verret - ldquoHow the Military Forged New Mexico State University 1888-1946rdquo
By - Kiki Keane
Editor in Chief -- Dr Inigo Garcia Bryce
Some of Our Emeritus Professors
Has a new book out from University of Iowa Press co-edited with the Canadian scholar Linda Ambrose Women inAgriculture Professionalizing Rural Life in North America and Europe1880-1965 It has two of her essays Good Farms Markets andCommunities Emily Hoag and Rural Women as Producers andFrances Densmore and Mary Warren English Indigenous KnowledgeCross-Cultural Collaboration and the Politics of Food She is co-editinganother collection tentatively titled From Janos to Zuni Exploring WestCentral New Mexico A reflection on her own work Go West YoungWoman is scheduled for publication in the New Mexico HistoricalReview
Joan Jensen
William Eamon
I am a Regents Professor Emeritus I published severalarticles and book chapters and have others in press including ldquoCornCochineal and Quina The Zilsel Thesis in an Iberian SettingrdquoCentaurus (in June 2017) ldquoAfterward Lost in Translationrdquo inTranslating Nature A Transcultural History of Early Modern Science inthe Atlantic World edited by Jaime Marroquiacuten Arredondo and RalphBauer (University of Pennsylvania Press forthcoming 2017) ldquoSpanishScience in the Age of the Newrdquo in Companion to the SpanishRenaissance edited by Hilaire Kallendorf (Leiden Brill forthcoming in2017) ldquoA Theater of Experiments Giambattista Della Porta and theScientific Culture of Late Renaissance Naplesrdquo in The Optics of GiovanBattista Della Porta (1535ndash1615) A Reassessment Archimedes NewStudies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology(Dordrecht 2017) ldquoThe Scientific Education of a Renaissance PrinceArchduke Rudolf in the Spanish Courtrdquo in Alchemy in the Time ofRudolph II (Prague 2016) ldquoLa Revolucioacuten Cientiacutefica y los ritmos de lavida cotidianardquo Revista de Occidente (forthcoming 2017) ProfessorEamonrsquos essay ldquoSix Centuries of Secularismrdquo appeared in the webmagazine Aeon (22 June 2016 URL httpsaeoncoessayssix-centuries-of-secularity-began-with-the-first-how-to-books) I continue toteach occasionally while in retirement my ever-popular course ldquoMagicand Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Europerdquo which in Spring2017 enrolled over 40 students
Some of Our Alumni
Julie Wojtko
I teach dual credit in the history department atArrowhead Early College High School I alternate classes ndashspring semester I teach Modern Europe fall semester is USHistory Itrsquos a blast ndash the students are wonderful
Ben Craske
I work as a ranger in the Historic Sites Division forthe New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs I am based atthe El Camino Real Historic Trail Site near Socorro My rolesinclude doing research for other historic sites writing accessiblematerial working with volunteers groups planning specialevents and overseeing collections care One of the best tasks sofar was rewriting the Fort Selden historic walking tour My timein the NMSU public history program gave me the tools toaccomplish these tasks confidently and enter straight into aprofessional history environment as soon as I graduated
Barbara Bogucki
I am currently theCurator for the TahoeMaritime Museum where myprincipal responsibilities arethe management of theMuseumrsquos collections andthe development ofexhibitions which includesall research and writing Inthe last two years I havecompleted three 5000 squarefoot exhibitionsThis year I am developing anart exhibition as well as anhistorical exhibition Thehistorical exhibition is calledWhatrsquos in a Name and willfeature the stories behindboat names It will also
highlight the many superstitions and myths which surround this deeplypersonal moniker Visitors can also expect to delve into the complexnautical history behind the female persona of ships and boats
Signage for the Tahoe Maritime Museum art exhibitionInk amp Ivory which will feature two nautical art forms scrimshaw anart form of intricate etchings attributed to sailors and the origins ofsailorrsquos tattoos Visitors will discover tattoos that were meant to bringsailors luck see skin-deep evidence of their travels and feel the senseof longing behind sentimental tributes to wives and sweethearts backhome It is developed by Bogucki
With all this of course comes the inevitable ldquoduties asassignedrdquo which includes forklift driver artist photographer boat hauler tourguide lecturer editorhellipin short everything a curator ldquoworth her saltrdquo must do
NCPH 2017
L-R Alyssa Brillante Christina Montero Dr Pitcaithley HeidiIverson and Joesph Seagrove Not featured Luke Manders
The National Council on Public History 2017 Annual Conference was held April 19-22in Indianapolis The conference was titled The Middle Where Did We Come FromWhere Are We Going Students attended several sessions on topics such as digitalhistory and usingfinding digital primary sources public engagement Asian publichistory accuracy of interpretation changing civil war interpretations and the need tobalance censorship in these changing political times This last topic was actually thesession in which Dr Pitcaithley was on the panel
Dr Pitcaithley alongwith a Smithsonianemployee a formerNational Archivesemployee and acurrent museumprofessional presentedon different projectsover time that havebeen impacted bycensorship ofchanging politicaltimes making theconnection to howhistorians can
negotiate the need to present good history with thepresidential administrations limitations on what can bepresented to a public audience
We also had the opportunity to visit the Indiana Historical Society thatfeatured several cutting edge interpretationtechniques As public history students we wereextremely impressed with the living historyexhibits on the Ball Canning Factory in 1948 thebeginning of the Lilly Pharmaceutical companyin 1877 and an Italian POW camp in Indianaduring WWII (1943) We also found theirinteractive exhibit on conservation and theirconservation lab to be really impressive Wetoured the city on our own visiting MonumentCircle (an iconic war memorial in Indianapolis)and several other war memorials whileexperiencing the amazing architecture ofIndianapolis
Besides attending lecturs NMSU graduate student Heidi Iverson also volunteered atthe conference Here she holds up her identification lanyard given to all atendees
Alumnus Works for Progress
Lucus Hernden NMSU History Deptartment alumnus and reciepiant of theDeptartment of History Department Star for the 2017 A Starry Night now works at
ProgressNowNM as theCommunications ManagerLucas also works incommunity enagagementfor the non-profit non-partisan communicationsadvocay organization
Lucas opened twobussinesses before hebecame more aware of aneed for greaterinvolvement in socialissues in and around LasCruces and New Mexicoat large In 2011 hebecame inovoled with LasCruces Green Chamber ofCommerce and was hiredas the Executive Directorfor the Organ MountainsNational Monumentcampaign
Advice from Lucas forhistory graduates Lookfor those intersectionalities
of where history plays intowhat you are doing even if it is just working at bookstore or as a barrista (both jobsLucas has had) Look for what your passion is find how history plays into thatand how you can make a difference in that thing
Photo courtesy of ProgressNowNM
Student projects Spring 2017
Graduate Student Articles and Projects in Public History
Alyssa Brillant - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Heidi Iverson - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Christina Montero - Article Hispanics and Genealogy Why How Who andIdentity Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017Joseph Seagrove - Articel Remebering the Holocaust An AmericanPerspective Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017
Graduate Students Thesis and Projects in the Traditional Track
Tom Burnham - Thesis Raskolniki A Comprehensive Analysis of the Sino-Soviet Split and its Place in Sino-Russian RelationsKiki Keane - Thesis The Dissent of Woman British and American FemalePopularizers of Science Reinterpret Darwin 1859-1915 Also gave a lectureentitled Cannibal Spiders Warring Ants and Murderous Plants Mary TreatLanguage and Evolutionary Theory at the Museum of Nature and Science inMarch 2017Kyle Mery - Thesis The Rise of Mao 1921-1935Irene Unpingco - Thesis Sumemima The Historically Powerful Manipulationof Shinto by the Japanese Government Then and Now
Some of Our Undergraduate Research
Chad Adams - ldquoThe Growth of Los Alamos Under the Shroud of Nuclear Weaponsfrom 1943 to Presentrdquo
James Coburn - Economic Impact of Holloman Air Airforce Base Flying Units onthe City of Alamogordo 1942-1969
Steven Garciacutea - ldquoThrough Mountains and Valleys A History of the Catholic CampusMinistry to New Mexico State Universityrdquo
Nora Muro - ldquoLoretto Academy Catholic School History in the Southwest of NewMexico From 1870 to 1943rdquo
Galen Skibyak - ldquoStagecoach and High Noon How Two of New Mexicorsquos MostFamous Westerns Represent the Political Issues of their Times 1903-1952rdquo
Austin Verret - ldquoHow the Military Forged New Mexico State University 1888-1946rdquo
By - Kiki Keane
Editor in Chief -- Dr Inigo Garcia Bryce
Some of Our Alumni
Julie Wojtko
I teach dual credit in the history department atArrowhead Early College High School I alternate classes ndashspring semester I teach Modern Europe fall semester is USHistory Itrsquos a blast ndash the students are wonderful
Ben Craske
I work as a ranger in the Historic Sites Division forthe New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs I am based atthe El Camino Real Historic Trail Site near Socorro My rolesinclude doing research for other historic sites writing accessiblematerial working with volunteers groups planning specialevents and overseeing collections care One of the best tasks sofar was rewriting the Fort Selden historic walking tour My timein the NMSU public history program gave me the tools toaccomplish these tasks confidently and enter straight into aprofessional history environment as soon as I graduated
Barbara Bogucki
I am currently theCurator for the TahoeMaritime Museum where myprincipal responsibilities arethe management of theMuseumrsquos collections andthe development ofexhibitions which includesall research and writing Inthe last two years I havecompleted three 5000 squarefoot exhibitionsThis year I am developing anart exhibition as well as anhistorical exhibition Thehistorical exhibition is calledWhatrsquos in a Name and willfeature the stories behindboat names It will also
highlight the many superstitions and myths which surround this deeplypersonal moniker Visitors can also expect to delve into the complexnautical history behind the female persona of ships and boats
Signage for the Tahoe Maritime Museum art exhibitionInk amp Ivory which will feature two nautical art forms scrimshaw anart form of intricate etchings attributed to sailors and the origins ofsailorrsquos tattoos Visitors will discover tattoos that were meant to bringsailors luck see skin-deep evidence of their travels and feel the senseof longing behind sentimental tributes to wives and sweethearts backhome It is developed by Bogucki
With all this of course comes the inevitable ldquoduties asassignedrdquo which includes forklift driver artist photographer boat hauler tourguide lecturer editorhellipin short everything a curator ldquoworth her saltrdquo must do
NCPH 2017
L-R Alyssa Brillante Christina Montero Dr Pitcaithley HeidiIverson and Joesph Seagrove Not featured Luke Manders
The National Council on Public History 2017 Annual Conference was held April 19-22in Indianapolis The conference was titled The Middle Where Did We Come FromWhere Are We Going Students attended several sessions on topics such as digitalhistory and usingfinding digital primary sources public engagement Asian publichistory accuracy of interpretation changing civil war interpretations and the need tobalance censorship in these changing political times This last topic was actually thesession in which Dr Pitcaithley was on the panel
Dr Pitcaithley alongwith a Smithsonianemployee a formerNational Archivesemployee and acurrent museumprofessional presentedon different projectsover time that havebeen impacted bycensorship ofchanging politicaltimes making theconnection to howhistorians can
negotiate the need to present good history with thepresidential administrations limitations on what can bepresented to a public audience
We also had the opportunity to visit the Indiana Historical Society thatfeatured several cutting edge interpretationtechniques As public history students we wereextremely impressed with the living historyexhibits on the Ball Canning Factory in 1948 thebeginning of the Lilly Pharmaceutical companyin 1877 and an Italian POW camp in Indianaduring WWII (1943) We also found theirinteractive exhibit on conservation and theirconservation lab to be really impressive Wetoured the city on our own visiting MonumentCircle (an iconic war memorial in Indianapolis)and several other war memorials whileexperiencing the amazing architecture ofIndianapolis
Besides attending lecturs NMSU graduate student Heidi Iverson also volunteered atthe conference Here she holds up her identification lanyard given to all atendees
Alumnus Works for Progress
Lucus Hernden NMSU History Deptartment alumnus and reciepiant of theDeptartment of History Department Star for the 2017 A Starry Night now works at
ProgressNowNM as theCommunications ManagerLucas also works incommunity enagagementfor the non-profit non-partisan communicationsadvocay organization
Lucas opened twobussinesses before hebecame more aware of aneed for greaterinvolvement in socialissues in and around LasCruces and New Mexicoat large In 2011 hebecame inovoled with LasCruces Green Chamber ofCommerce and was hiredas the Executive Directorfor the Organ MountainsNational Monumentcampaign
Advice from Lucas forhistory graduates Lookfor those intersectionalities
of where history plays intowhat you are doing even if it is just working at bookstore or as a barrista (both jobsLucas has had) Look for what your passion is find how history plays into thatand how you can make a difference in that thing
Photo courtesy of ProgressNowNM
Student projects Spring 2017
Graduate Student Articles and Projects in Public History
Alyssa Brillant - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Heidi Iverson - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Christina Montero - Article Hispanics and Genealogy Why How Who andIdentity Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017Joseph Seagrove - Articel Remebering the Holocaust An AmericanPerspective Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017
Graduate Students Thesis and Projects in the Traditional Track
Tom Burnham - Thesis Raskolniki A Comprehensive Analysis of the Sino-Soviet Split and its Place in Sino-Russian RelationsKiki Keane - Thesis The Dissent of Woman British and American FemalePopularizers of Science Reinterpret Darwin 1859-1915 Also gave a lectureentitled Cannibal Spiders Warring Ants and Murderous Plants Mary TreatLanguage and Evolutionary Theory at the Museum of Nature and Science inMarch 2017Kyle Mery - Thesis The Rise of Mao 1921-1935Irene Unpingco - Thesis Sumemima The Historically Powerful Manipulationof Shinto by the Japanese Government Then and Now
Some of Our Undergraduate Research
Chad Adams - ldquoThe Growth of Los Alamos Under the Shroud of Nuclear Weaponsfrom 1943 to Presentrdquo
James Coburn - Economic Impact of Holloman Air Airforce Base Flying Units onthe City of Alamogordo 1942-1969
Steven Garciacutea - ldquoThrough Mountains and Valleys A History of the Catholic CampusMinistry to New Mexico State Universityrdquo
Nora Muro - ldquoLoretto Academy Catholic School History in the Southwest of NewMexico From 1870 to 1943rdquo
Galen Skibyak - ldquoStagecoach and High Noon How Two of New Mexicorsquos MostFamous Westerns Represent the Political Issues of their Times 1903-1952rdquo
Austin Verret - ldquoHow the Military Forged New Mexico State University 1888-1946rdquo
By - Kiki Keane
Editor in Chief -- Dr Inigo Garcia Bryce
Barbara Bogucki
I am currently theCurator for the TahoeMaritime Museum where myprincipal responsibilities arethe management of theMuseumrsquos collections andthe development ofexhibitions which includesall research and writing Inthe last two years I havecompleted three 5000 squarefoot exhibitionsThis year I am developing anart exhibition as well as anhistorical exhibition Thehistorical exhibition is calledWhatrsquos in a Name and willfeature the stories behindboat names It will also
highlight the many superstitions and myths which surround this deeplypersonal moniker Visitors can also expect to delve into the complexnautical history behind the female persona of ships and boats
Signage for the Tahoe Maritime Museum art exhibitionInk amp Ivory which will feature two nautical art forms scrimshaw anart form of intricate etchings attributed to sailors and the origins ofsailorrsquos tattoos Visitors will discover tattoos that were meant to bringsailors luck see skin-deep evidence of their travels and feel the senseof longing behind sentimental tributes to wives and sweethearts backhome It is developed by Bogucki
With all this of course comes the inevitable ldquoduties asassignedrdquo which includes forklift driver artist photographer boat hauler tourguide lecturer editorhellipin short everything a curator ldquoworth her saltrdquo must do
NCPH 2017
L-R Alyssa Brillante Christina Montero Dr Pitcaithley HeidiIverson and Joesph Seagrove Not featured Luke Manders
The National Council on Public History 2017 Annual Conference was held April 19-22in Indianapolis The conference was titled The Middle Where Did We Come FromWhere Are We Going Students attended several sessions on topics such as digitalhistory and usingfinding digital primary sources public engagement Asian publichistory accuracy of interpretation changing civil war interpretations and the need tobalance censorship in these changing political times This last topic was actually thesession in which Dr Pitcaithley was on the panel
Dr Pitcaithley alongwith a Smithsonianemployee a formerNational Archivesemployee and acurrent museumprofessional presentedon different projectsover time that havebeen impacted bycensorship ofchanging politicaltimes making theconnection to howhistorians can
negotiate the need to present good history with thepresidential administrations limitations on what can bepresented to a public audience
We also had the opportunity to visit the Indiana Historical Society thatfeatured several cutting edge interpretationtechniques As public history students we wereextremely impressed with the living historyexhibits on the Ball Canning Factory in 1948 thebeginning of the Lilly Pharmaceutical companyin 1877 and an Italian POW camp in Indianaduring WWII (1943) We also found theirinteractive exhibit on conservation and theirconservation lab to be really impressive Wetoured the city on our own visiting MonumentCircle (an iconic war memorial in Indianapolis)and several other war memorials whileexperiencing the amazing architecture ofIndianapolis
Besides attending lecturs NMSU graduate student Heidi Iverson also volunteered atthe conference Here she holds up her identification lanyard given to all atendees
Alumnus Works for Progress
Lucus Hernden NMSU History Deptartment alumnus and reciepiant of theDeptartment of History Department Star for the 2017 A Starry Night now works at
ProgressNowNM as theCommunications ManagerLucas also works incommunity enagagementfor the non-profit non-partisan communicationsadvocay organization
Lucas opened twobussinesses before hebecame more aware of aneed for greaterinvolvement in socialissues in and around LasCruces and New Mexicoat large In 2011 hebecame inovoled with LasCruces Green Chamber ofCommerce and was hiredas the Executive Directorfor the Organ MountainsNational Monumentcampaign
Advice from Lucas forhistory graduates Lookfor those intersectionalities
of where history plays intowhat you are doing even if it is just working at bookstore or as a barrista (both jobsLucas has had) Look for what your passion is find how history plays into thatand how you can make a difference in that thing
Photo courtesy of ProgressNowNM
Student projects Spring 2017
Graduate Student Articles and Projects in Public History
Alyssa Brillant - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Heidi Iverson - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Christina Montero - Article Hispanics and Genealogy Why How Who andIdentity Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017Joseph Seagrove - Articel Remebering the Holocaust An AmericanPerspective Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017
Graduate Students Thesis and Projects in the Traditional Track
Tom Burnham - Thesis Raskolniki A Comprehensive Analysis of the Sino-Soviet Split and its Place in Sino-Russian RelationsKiki Keane - Thesis The Dissent of Woman British and American FemalePopularizers of Science Reinterpret Darwin 1859-1915 Also gave a lectureentitled Cannibal Spiders Warring Ants and Murderous Plants Mary TreatLanguage and Evolutionary Theory at the Museum of Nature and Science inMarch 2017Kyle Mery - Thesis The Rise of Mao 1921-1935Irene Unpingco - Thesis Sumemima The Historically Powerful Manipulationof Shinto by the Japanese Government Then and Now
Some of Our Undergraduate Research
Chad Adams - ldquoThe Growth of Los Alamos Under the Shroud of Nuclear Weaponsfrom 1943 to Presentrdquo
James Coburn - Economic Impact of Holloman Air Airforce Base Flying Units onthe City of Alamogordo 1942-1969
Steven Garciacutea - ldquoThrough Mountains and Valleys A History of the Catholic CampusMinistry to New Mexico State Universityrdquo
Nora Muro - ldquoLoretto Academy Catholic School History in the Southwest of NewMexico From 1870 to 1943rdquo
Galen Skibyak - ldquoStagecoach and High Noon How Two of New Mexicorsquos MostFamous Westerns Represent the Political Issues of their Times 1903-1952rdquo
Austin Verret - ldquoHow the Military Forged New Mexico State University 1888-1946rdquo
By - Kiki Keane
Editor in Chief -- Dr Inigo Garcia Bryce
Signage for the Tahoe Maritime Museum art exhibitionInk amp Ivory which will feature two nautical art forms scrimshaw anart form of intricate etchings attributed to sailors and the origins ofsailorrsquos tattoos Visitors will discover tattoos that were meant to bringsailors luck see skin-deep evidence of their travels and feel the senseof longing behind sentimental tributes to wives and sweethearts backhome It is developed by Bogucki
With all this of course comes the inevitable ldquoduties asassignedrdquo which includes forklift driver artist photographer boat hauler tourguide lecturer editorhellipin short everything a curator ldquoworth her saltrdquo must do
NCPH 2017
L-R Alyssa Brillante Christina Montero Dr Pitcaithley HeidiIverson and Joesph Seagrove Not featured Luke Manders
The National Council on Public History 2017 Annual Conference was held April 19-22in Indianapolis The conference was titled The Middle Where Did We Come FromWhere Are We Going Students attended several sessions on topics such as digitalhistory and usingfinding digital primary sources public engagement Asian publichistory accuracy of interpretation changing civil war interpretations and the need tobalance censorship in these changing political times This last topic was actually thesession in which Dr Pitcaithley was on the panel
Dr Pitcaithley alongwith a Smithsonianemployee a formerNational Archivesemployee and acurrent museumprofessional presentedon different projectsover time that havebeen impacted bycensorship ofchanging politicaltimes making theconnection to howhistorians can
negotiate the need to present good history with thepresidential administrations limitations on what can bepresented to a public audience
We also had the opportunity to visit the Indiana Historical Society thatfeatured several cutting edge interpretationtechniques As public history students we wereextremely impressed with the living historyexhibits on the Ball Canning Factory in 1948 thebeginning of the Lilly Pharmaceutical companyin 1877 and an Italian POW camp in Indianaduring WWII (1943) We also found theirinteractive exhibit on conservation and theirconservation lab to be really impressive Wetoured the city on our own visiting MonumentCircle (an iconic war memorial in Indianapolis)and several other war memorials whileexperiencing the amazing architecture ofIndianapolis
Besides attending lecturs NMSU graduate student Heidi Iverson also volunteered atthe conference Here she holds up her identification lanyard given to all atendees
Alumnus Works for Progress
Lucus Hernden NMSU History Deptartment alumnus and reciepiant of theDeptartment of History Department Star for the 2017 A Starry Night now works at
ProgressNowNM as theCommunications ManagerLucas also works incommunity enagagementfor the non-profit non-partisan communicationsadvocay organization
Lucas opened twobussinesses before hebecame more aware of aneed for greaterinvolvement in socialissues in and around LasCruces and New Mexicoat large In 2011 hebecame inovoled with LasCruces Green Chamber ofCommerce and was hiredas the Executive Directorfor the Organ MountainsNational Monumentcampaign
Advice from Lucas forhistory graduates Lookfor those intersectionalities
of where history plays intowhat you are doing even if it is just working at bookstore or as a barrista (both jobsLucas has had) Look for what your passion is find how history plays into thatand how you can make a difference in that thing
Photo courtesy of ProgressNowNM
Student projects Spring 2017
Graduate Student Articles and Projects in Public History
Alyssa Brillant - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Heidi Iverson - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Christina Montero - Article Hispanics and Genealogy Why How Who andIdentity Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017Joseph Seagrove - Articel Remebering the Holocaust An AmericanPerspective Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017
Graduate Students Thesis and Projects in the Traditional Track
Tom Burnham - Thesis Raskolniki A Comprehensive Analysis of the Sino-Soviet Split and its Place in Sino-Russian RelationsKiki Keane - Thesis The Dissent of Woman British and American FemalePopularizers of Science Reinterpret Darwin 1859-1915 Also gave a lectureentitled Cannibal Spiders Warring Ants and Murderous Plants Mary TreatLanguage and Evolutionary Theory at the Museum of Nature and Science inMarch 2017Kyle Mery - Thesis The Rise of Mao 1921-1935Irene Unpingco - Thesis Sumemima The Historically Powerful Manipulationof Shinto by the Japanese Government Then and Now
Some of Our Undergraduate Research
Chad Adams - ldquoThe Growth of Los Alamos Under the Shroud of Nuclear Weaponsfrom 1943 to Presentrdquo
James Coburn - Economic Impact of Holloman Air Airforce Base Flying Units onthe City of Alamogordo 1942-1969
Steven Garciacutea - ldquoThrough Mountains and Valleys A History of the Catholic CampusMinistry to New Mexico State Universityrdquo
Nora Muro - ldquoLoretto Academy Catholic School History in the Southwest of NewMexico From 1870 to 1943rdquo
Galen Skibyak - ldquoStagecoach and High Noon How Two of New Mexicorsquos MostFamous Westerns Represent the Political Issues of their Times 1903-1952rdquo
Austin Verret - ldquoHow the Military Forged New Mexico State University 1888-1946rdquo
By - Kiki Keane
Editor in Chief -- Dr Inigo Garcia Bryce
NCPH 2017
L-R Alyssa Brillante Christina Montero Dr Pitcaithley HeidiIverson and Joesph Seagrove Not featured Luke Manders
The National Council on Public History 2017 Annual Conference was held April 19-22in Indianapolis The conference was titled The Middle Where Did We Come FromWhere Are We Going Students attended several sessions on topics such as digitalhistory and usingfinding digital primary sources public engagement Asian publichistory accuracy of interpretation changing civil war interpretations and the need tobalance censorship in these changing political times This last topic was actually thesession in which Dr Pitcaithley was on the panel
Dr Pitcaithley alongwith a Smithsonianemployee a formerNational Archivesemployee and acurrent museumprofessional presentedon different projectsover time that havebeen impacted bycensorship ofchanging politicaltimes making theconnection to howhistorians can
negotiate the need to present good history with thepresidential administrations limitations on what can bepresented to a public audience
We also had the opportunity to visit the Indiana Historical Society thatfeatured several cutting edge interpretationtechniques As public history students we wereextremely impressed with the living historyexhibits on the Ball Canning Factory in 1948 thebeginning of the Lilly Pharmaceutical companyin 1877 and an Italian POW camp in Indianaduring WWII (1943) We also found theirinteractive exhibit on conservation and theirconservation lab to be really impressive Wetoured the city on our own visiting MonumentCircle (an iconic war memorial in Indianapolis)and several other war memorials whileexperiencing the amazing architecture ofIndianapolis
Besides attending lecturs NMSU graduate student Heidi Iverson also volunteered atthe conference Here she holds up her identification lanyard given to all atendees
Alumnus Works for Progress
Lucus Hernden NMSU History Deptartment alumnus and reciepiant of theDeptartment of History Department Star for the 2017 A Starry Night now works at
ProgressNowNM as theCommunications ManagerLucas also works incommunity enagagementfor the non-profit non-partisan communicationsadvocay organization
Lucas opened twobussinesses before hebecame more aware of aneed for greaterinvolvement in socialissues in and around LasCruces and New Mexicoat large In 2011 hebecame inovoled with LasCruces Green Chamber ofCommerce and was hiredas the Executive Directorfor the Organ MountainsNational Monumentcampaign
Advice from Lucas forhistory graduates Lookfor those intersectionalities
of where history plays intowhat you are doing even if it is just working at bookstore or as a barrista (both jobsLucas has had) Look for what your passion is find how history plays into thatand how you can make a difference in that thing
Photo courtesy of ProgressNowNM
Student projects Spring 2017
Graduate Student Articles and Projects in Public History
Alyssa Brillant - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Heidi Iverson - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Christina Montero - Article Hispanics and Genealogy Why How Who andIdentity Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017Joseph Seagrove - Articel Remebering the Holocaust An AmericanPerspective Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017
Graduate Students Thesis and Projects in the Traditional Track
Tom Burnham - Thesis Raskolniki A Comprehensive Analysis of the Sino-Soviet Split and its Place in Sino-Russian RelationsKiki Keane - Thesis The Dissent of Woman British and American FemalePopularizers of Science Reinterpret Darwin 1859-1915 Also gave a lectureentitled Cannibal Spiders Warring Ants and Murderous Plants Mary TreatLanguage and Evolutionary Theory at the Museum of Nature and Science inMarch 2017Kyle Mery - Thesis The Rise of Mao 1921-1935Irene Unpingco - Thesis Sumemima The Historically Powerful Manipulationof Shinto by the Japanese Government Then and Now
Some of Our Undergraduate Research
Chad Adams - ldquoThe Growth of Los Alamos Under the Shroud of Nuclear Weaponsfrom 1943 to Presentrdquo
James Coburn - Economic Impact of Holloman Air Airforce Base Flying Units onthe City of Alamogordo 1942-1969
Steven Garciacutea - ldquoThrough Mountains and Valleys A History of the Catholic CampusMinistry to New Mexico State Universityrdquo
Nora Muro - ldquoLoretto Academy Catholic School History in the Southwest of NewMexico From 1870 to 1943rdquo
Galen Skibyak - ldquoStagecoach and High Noon How Two of New Mexicorsquos MostFamous Westerns Represent the Political Issues of their Times 1903-1952rdquo
Austin Verret - ldquoHow the Military Forged New Mexico State University 1888-1946rdquo
By - Kiki Keane
Editor in Chief -- Dr Inigo Garcia Bryce
Dr Pitcaithley alongwith a Smithsonianemployee a formerNational Archivesemployee and acurrent museumprofessional presentedon different projectsover time that havebeen impacted bycensorship ofchanging politicaltimes making theconnection to howhistorians can
negotiate the need to present good history with thepresidential administrations limitations on what can bepresented to a public audience
We also had the opportunity to visit the Indiana Historical Society thatfeatured several cutting edge interpretationtechniques As public history students we wereextremely impressed with the living historyexhibits on the Ball Canning Factory in 1948 thebeginning of the Lilly Pharmaceutical companyin 1877 and an Italian POW camp in Indianaduring WWII (1943) We also found theirinteractive exhibit on conservation and theirconservation lab to be really impressive Wetoured the city on our own visiting MonumentCircle (an iconic war memorial in Indianapolis)and several other war memorials whileexperiencing the amazing architecture ofIndianapolis
Besides attending lecturs NMSU graduate student Heidi Iverson also volunteered atthe conference Here she holds up her identification lanyard given to all atendees
Alumnus Works for Progress
Lucus Hernden NMSU History Deptartment alumnus and reciepiant of theDeptartment of History Department Star for the 2017 A Starry Night now works at
ProgressNowNM as theCommunications ManagerLucas also works incommunity enagagementfor the non-profit non-partisan communicationsadvocay organization
Lucas opened twobussinesses before hebecame more aware of aneed for greaterinvolvement in socialissues in and around LasCruces and New Mexicoat large In 2011 hebecame inovoled with LasCruces Green Chamber ofCommerce and was hiredas the Executive Directorfor the Organ MountainsNational Monumentcampaign
Advice from Lucas forhistory graduates Lookfor those intersectionalities
of where history plays intowhat you are doing even if it is just working at bookstore or as a barrista (both jobsLucas has had) Look for what your passion is find how history plays into thatand how you can make a difference in that thing
Photo courtesy of ProgressNowNM
Student projects Spring 2017
Graduate Student Articles and Projects in Public History
Alyssa Brillant - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Heidi Iverson - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Christina Montero - Article Hispanics and Genealogy Why How Who andIdentity Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017Joseph Seagrove - Articel Remebering the Holocaust An AmericanPerspective Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017
Graduate Students Thesis and Projects in the Traditional Track
Tom Burnham - Thesis Raskolniki A Comprehensive Analysis of the Sino-Soviet Split and its Place in Sino-Russian RelationsKiki Keane - Thesis The Dissent of Woman British and American FemalePopularizers of Science Reinterpret Darwin 1859-1915 Also gave a lectureentitled Cannibal Spiders Warring Ants and Murderous Plants Mary TreatLanguage and Evolutionary Theory at the Museum of Nature and Science inMarch 2017Kyle Mery - Thesis The Rise of Mao 1921-1935Irene Unpingco - Thesis Sumemima The Historically Powerful Manipulationof Shinto by the Japanese Government Then and Now
Some of Our Undergraduate Research
Chad Adams - ldquoThe Growth of Los Alamos Under the Shroud of Nuclear Weaponsfrom 1943 to Presentrdquo
James Coburn - Economic Impact of Holloman Air Airforce Base Flying Units onthe City of Alamogordo 1942-1969
Steven Garciacutea - ldquoThrough Mountains and Valleys A History of the Catholic CampusMinistry to New Mexico State Universityrdquo
Nora Muro - ldquoLoretto Academy Catholic School History in the Southwest of NewMexico From 1870 to 1943rdquo
Galen Skibyak - ldquoStagecoach and High Noon How Two of New Mexicorsquos MostFamous Westerns Represent the Political Issues of their Times 1903-1952rdquo
Austin Verret - ldquoHow the Military Forged New Mexico State University 1888-1946rdquo
By - Kiki Keane
Editor in Chief -- Dr Inigo Garcia Bryce
Alumnus Works for Progress
Lucus Hernden NMSU History Deptartment alumnus and reciepiant of theDeptartment of History Department Star for the 2017 A Starry Night now works at
ProgressNowNM as theCommunications ManagerLucas also works incommunity enagagementfor the non-profit non-partisan communicationsadvocay organization
Lucas opened twobussinesses before hebecame more aware of aneed for greaterinvolvement in socialissues in and around LasCruces and New Mexicoat large In 2011 hebecame inovoled with LasCruces Green Chamber ofCommerce and was hiredas the Executive Directorfor the Organ MountainsNational Monumentcampaign
Advice from Lucas forhistory graduates Lookfor those intersectionalities
of where history plays intowhat you are doing even if it is just working at bookstore or as a barrista (both jobsLucas has had) Look for what your passion is find how history plays into thatand how you can make a difference in that thing
Photo courtesy of ProgressNowNM
Student projects Spring 2017
Graduate Student Articles and Projects in Public History
Alyssa Brillant - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Heidi Iverson - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Christina Montero - Article Hispanics and Genealogy Why How Who andIdentity Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017Joseph Seagrove - Articel Remebering the Holocaust An AmericanPerspective Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017
Graduate Students Thesis and Projects in the Traditional Track
Tom Burnham - Thesis Raskolniki A Comprehensive Analysis of the Sino-Soviet Split and its Place in Sino-Russian RelationsKiki Keane - Thesis The Dissent of Woman British and American FemalePopularizers of Science Reinterpret Darwin 1859-1915 Also gave a lectureentitled Cannibal Spiders Warring Ants and Murderous Plants Mary TreatLanguage and Evolutionary Theory at the Museum of Nature and Science inMarch 2017Kyle Mery - Thesis The Rise of Mao 1921-1935Irene Unpingco - Thesis Sumemima The Historically Powerful Manipulationof Shinto by the Japanese Government Then and Now
Some of Our Undergraduate Research
Chad Adams - ldquoThe Growth of Los Alamos Under the Shroud of Nuclear Weaponsfrom 1943 to Presentrdquo
James Coburn - Economic Impact of Holloman Air Airforce Base Flying Units onthe City of Alamogordo 1942-1969
Steven Garciacutea - ldquoThrough Mountains and Valleys A History of the Catholic CampusMinistry to New Mexico State Universityrdquo
Nora Muro - ldquoLoretto Academy Catholic School History in the Southwest of NewMexico From 1870 to 1943rdquo
Galen Skibyak - ldquoStagecoach and High Noon How Two of New Mexicorsquos MostFamous Westerns Represent the Political Issues of their Times 1903-1952rdquo
Austin Verret - ldquoHow the Military Forged New Mexico State University 1888-1946rdquo
By - Kiki Keane
Editor in Chief -- Dr Inigo Garcia Bryce
Student projects Spring 2017
Graduate Student Articles and Projects in Public History
Alyssa Brillant - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Heidi Iverson - Article and publication New Mexicos Enchanted PastTraveling the State with the National Park Sites Also participated in the talkUntold Stories and History of New Mexicos National Parks at the BraniganCultural Center in March 2017Christina Montero - Article Hispanics and Genealogy Why How Who andIdentity Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017Joseph Seagrove - Articel Remebering the Holocaust An AmericanPerspective Also participated in the talk Untold Stories and History of NewMexicos National Parks at the Branigan Cultural Center in March 2017
Graduate Students Thesis and Projects in the Traditional Track
Tom Burnham - Thesis Raskolniki A Comprehensive Analysis of the Sino-Soviet Split and its Place in Sino-Russian RelationsKiki Keane - Thesis The Dissent of Woman British and American FemalePopularizers of Science Reinterpret Darwin 1859-1915 Also gave a lectureentitled Cannibal Spiders Warring Ants and Murderous Plants Mary TreatLanguage and Evolutionary Theory at the Museum of Nature and Science inMarch 2017Kyle Mery - Thesis The Rise of Mao 1921-1935Irene Unpingco - Thesis Sumemima The Historically Powerful Manipulationof Shinto by the Japanese Government Then and Now
Some of Our Undergraduate Research
Chad Adams - ldquoThe Growth of Los Alamos Under the Shroud of Nuclear Weaponsfrom 1943 to Presentrdquo
James Coburn - Economic Impact of Holloman Air Airforce Base Flying Units onthe City of Alamogordo 1942-1969
Steven Garciacutea - ldquoThrough Mountains and Valleys A History of the Catholic CampusMinistry to New Mexico State Universityrdquo
Nora Muro - ldquoLoretto Academy Catholic School History in the Southwest of NewMexico From 1870 to 1943rdquo
Galen Skibyak - ldquoStagecoach and High Noon How Two of New Mexicorsquos MostFamous Westerns Represent the Political Issues of their Times 1903-1952rdquo
Austin Verret - ldquoHow the Military Forged New Mexico State University 1888-1946rdquo
By - Kiki Keane
Editor in Chief -- Dr Inigo Garcia Bryce
Some of Our Undergraduate Research
Chad Adams - ldquoThe Growth of Los Alamos Under the Shroud of Nuclear Weaponsfrom 1943 to Presentrdquo
James Coburn - Economic Impact of Holloman Air Airforce Base Flying Units onthe City of Alamogordo 1942-1969
Steven Garciacutea - ldquoThrough Mountains and Valleys A History of the Catholic CampusMinistry to New Mexico State Universityrdquo
Nora Muro - ldquoLoretto Academy Catholic School History in the Southwest of NewMexico From 1870 to 1943rdquo
Galen Skibyak - ldquoStagecoach and High Noon How Two of New Mexicorsquos MostFamous Westerns Represent the Political Issues of their Times 1903-1952rdquo
Austin Verret - ldquoHow the Military Forged New Mexico State University 1888-1946rdquo
By - Kiki Keane
Editor in Chief -- Dr Inigo Garcia Bryce
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