MOMENTS IN HISTORY
NEWSLETTER
September 2023
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History Has Its Eyes On You
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Julie Taddeo was one of 33 recipients of annual awards celebrating excellence in teaching, service, and research at the Fall 2023 Faculty and Staff Convocation. She was awarded the Provost's Excellence Award for Professional Track Faculty. Julie is a leading scholar and public intellectual in a field her work has helped define: the study of British period dramas. Her work focuses on gender, relationships between men and women, and sexual violence in shows like “Downton Abbey,” “Poldark,” “Bridgerton” and “Outlander.” She has provided recontextualization for these kinds of shows by analyzing their engagement with the female gaze, as well as the ways gender, race, and class intersect in British popular culture. Her other research has explored British modernism through the lens of queer studies as well as Victorian and neo-Victorian sexuality. Julie Taddeo received her BA and PhD in History from the University of Rochester and arrived at UMD in 2006. She has co-edited nine collections, including Writing Australian History on Screen, released earlier this year. Read more details in MarylandToday.
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Richard Bell served as faculty director for a Summer Teacher Institute where K-12 teachers work toward professional development. The summer institute was held July 17-23 in conjunction with the Maryland Center for History and Culture in Baltimore, MD. The theme this year was "Liberty and Justice for All?: Freedom and Citizenship in the New Republic." Richard serves as a Trustee for MCHC. In late August, Sarah Cameron served as a faculty mentor for the Kazakh-German University's Aral Sea summer school. This field-research based summer school brought a group of twenty Central Asian students together to learn first-hand about the environmental challenges facing the Aral Sea region. Together, the group visited sites throughout the Aral Sea region and heard lectures by Cameron and other regional experts. Karin Rosemblatt helped organize a week-long doctoral school for the Latin American Association for the Study of Science and Technology (ESOCITE), which took place July 24-28 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Thanks to funding from Rosemblatt's NSF funded project, US-based students were able to attend the doctoral school for the first time. Julie Taddeo is a leading scholar and public intellectual in a field she’s helped define: the study of British period dramas. The first faculty member in the history department to hold the title of research professor, Taddeo primarily examines gender, relationships between men and women, and sexual violence in shows like “Downton Abbey,” “Poldark,” “Bridgerton” and “Outlander.” She has recontextualized these kinds of shows by analyzing how they engage with the female gaze, and the ways in which gender, race and class intersect in British popular culture. Her other research has explored British modernism through the lens of queer studies as well as Victorian and neo-Victorian sexuality. Taddeo is a frequent commentator on popular culture, appearing in the media to talk about the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, and television shows like “Peaky Blinders.” “Many major media outlets have learned to expect thoroughly informed, engaging and prompt commentary from Taddeo,” says David B. Sicilia, Henry Kaufman Chair and associate professor of history at the University of Maryland. Taddeo received her B.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Rochester and arrived at UMD in 2006. She has co-edited nine collections, including “Writing Australian History on Screen,” released earlier this year. She is the author of one monograph and co-author of another, and has written eight peer-reviewed articles and seven chapters in edited collections. She has served as guest editor for special editions of prestigious journals in her fields, such as the Journal of British Cinema and Film and History, while also regularly reviewing books and manuscripts for leading academic publishers. Elke Weissmann, a reader in film and television at Edge Hill University in England, lauds the insightful, cross-disciplinary nature of Taddeo’s work and her mentorship of less experienced researchers. “My own experience of being edited by her shows that she is extremely supportive through constructive feedback.” Taddeo has maintained this “remarkable” level of research activity and productivity, says Ahmet Karamustafa, chair of the history department, while teaching, overseeing the department’s internship program and serving as faculty adviser for the History Undergraduate Association. He calls her “an esteemed member of her professional community with her admirable work as referee, reviewer and organizer.” https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#inbox/FMfcgzGtwztxlsVtVBVvMZSXcDXhqVrP
Shay Hazkani has been awarded a Knowing the World Sabbatical Fellowship at the George Washington University's Institute for Middle East Studies. Shay adds this fellowship to a 2023-2024 NEH Fellowship for Scholars Conducting Field-Based Humanities Research in Palestine. Learn more about IMES here. Earlier this summer, Thomas Zeller received a Scholars Award from the program in Science and Technology Studies at the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research on "Automotive Fatalities: Making and Unmaking a Scandal, 1950-90." This research builds on the research he conducted at the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History as the Arthur Molella Distinguished Fellow during the spring 2023 semester. With support from the NSF, Zeller will be on leave during the spring and fall semesters of 2024. This is Zeller's second NSF Scholars Award. In the financial year 2022, the NSF funded 28% of submitted proposals.
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Rick Bell was interviewed live for 90 minutes on Monday, September 17 at 9pm for the first episode of CSPAN's new 10-week series on "Books That Shaped America." Rick will be talking about Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. See the video HERE. Antoine Borrut was interviewed on August 24 by RFI, a French news-radio station, that broadcasts worldwide in French and 16 other languages. Antoine was featured in a show talking about the Arabian Peninsula, history writing, and astrology in early Islam. Listen to the broadcast in French HERE. An article written by Shay Hazkani was discussed in Israel's daily newspaper, Yedioth, on July 6. The article by Shay is "'Our Cruel Polish Brothers': Moroccan Jews between Casablanca and Wadi Salib, 1956–59." Jewish Social Studies 28, no. 2 (2023): 41-74. See the full interview with the newspaper HERE. Shay was also interviewed by Peter Beinart about "Myths and Realities of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War" for his podcast. Listen to the podcast HERE. Piotr Kosicki was interviewed in the August 11, 2023 issue of Newsweek's Polish edition. The article is titled "Do Americans care about PiS? Expert: Biden has changed policy." See the full artticle HERE. Thomas Zeller was quoted in a news story in the June 9 edition of Danish weekly Weekendavisen. The feature story deals with the legacy of urban highways destroying poor and African-American neighborhoods and current efforts by the Biden administration to undo the damage. Read the artiicle HERE.
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Julie Taddeo appeared on the Amorous Histories podcast with her co-author Katherine Byrne discussing their 2022 monograph on rape in period drama, and historical and contemporary studies about sexual violence in the UK and US. Rape in Period Drama Television (Lexington, 2022) received a very positive review in the June 2023 issue of the Journal of Film & Television. Watch the video of the broadcast at right.
PUBLISHING Shay Hazkani published an article "Our Cruel Polish Brothers": Moroccan Jews between Casablanca and Wadi Salib, 1956–59" in Jewish Social Studies 28. 2 (Spring/Summer 2023): 41-74 Jeffrey Herf has an essay in The Routledge History of Antisemitism, which has just been published. The book contains 40 essays by scholars on the subject. See more on the publishers website HERE. McKeldin Library now has an electronic version available that includes a list of the authors and chapter titles at this LINK. Read Jeffrey's essay, "The Long Term and the Short Term: Antisemitism and the Holocaust," HERE. Jim Gilbert has just published his sixth novel, a legal thriller titled The Legacy. The story is set in Chicago where Jim was born. .
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PUBLISHING Mikhail Dolbilov’s monograph, Life of a Novel Being Created: From the Avantexte toward the Context of Anna Karenina (“Zhizn' tvorimogo romana: Ot avanteksta k kontekstu ‘Anny Kareninoi’”), has been published by the Moscow publishing house New Literary Observer (Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie). Leo Tolstoy’s famous novel is justifiably associated with a massive swath of Russian social, political, intellectual, and cultural life in the aftermath of Alexander's transformative reforms. Combining historical approaches and literary genetic criticism, the book historicizes Anna Karenina by demonstrating how its long writing and serialization (1873–77) were affected by, and, in turn, exerted their own influence on, diverse events of the time. Most thoroughly discussed are such societal developments as shifts in gender relations in aristocratic society, emerging new forms of emotionality, the spread of religious revivalism in Russian Orthodoxy, and the rise of politically charged Russian Pan-Slavism.
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PUBLISHING Madeline Hsu celebrated the publication of Cambridge History of Global Migrations, Volume 2: Migrations, 1800–Present. She co-edited the volume, published by Cambridge University Press, with Marcelo J. Borges. See more information on the publisher's website HERE. Piotr Kosicki published an article in the July 2023 issue of Foreign Affairs. The article is titled "Don’t Give Poland a Pass: Warsaw’s Support for Ukraine Should Not Obscure Its Assault on Democracy at Home." This article led to an extended interview with Piotr in the pages of Newsweek's Polish edition. Read the Foreign Affairs article HERE. See the interview in Newsweek in Media Moments HERE.
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This summer, Julie Taddeo delivered multiple public history lectures on such topics in British history as Edwardian England, the First World War, and the Jazz Age; Bridgerton and Regency history; and Victorian crime and scandal. At the 12th meeting of the European Society for Environmental History held in Bern, Switzerland August 2023 Thomas Zeller presented a paper. The paper was titled "Deep Time Along the Highway: The Nazi Glacier Garden and the Making of Tourist Landscapes."
Evan Richardson (BA 2022) recently published an essay in the Columbia Journal of History based on the research he completed for his HIST 408 seminar (Advisor Katarina Keane). The essay, which examines the international adaptations of "Sesame Street" in the 1970s, drew on materials held by the UMD Special Collections Archive. Evan has just completed his Master's degree in Modern British History at Oxford University. He is writing a thesis focused on the development of Euro-skeptic views in the British Labour Party in the 1960s. Joseph P. Slaughter (PhD 2017 Advisors Whitman Ridgway and David Sicilia) has accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of History at Wesleyan University. This fall, Columbia University Press will publish his monograph Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic in its series Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism. An article by Kimberly Welch (PhD 2012 Advisor Ira Berlin) has been awarded the George and Ann Richards Prize for the best article published in the Journal of the Civil War Era in 2022. Kim is an associate professor at Vanderbilt University. Her prize-winning article is titled "The Stability of Fortunes: A Free Black Woman, Her Legacy, and the Legal Archive in Antebellum New Orleans." See the announcement HERE. Jonathan White (PhD 2008 Advisor Herman Belz) had his new book, SHIPWRECKED: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) reviewed in the New York Times. A link to the review is HERE. The publisher's website is HERE. . .
ALUMNI
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The first annual graduate students vs. faculty kickball game was held on Saturday, September 9 at Calvert Park in College Park, MD. Photo next page. Lauren Cain (PhD candidate, Advisor Robyn Muncy) and Brice Bowrey (PhD candidate Advisor David Sicilia) on June 2 presented on a roundtable "Doing Digital History in Public: Accessibility, Sustainability, and Platform Affordances in Digital Projects," at the Society for History in the Federal Government's annual meeting, Brice organized the panel, and Victoria Van Hyning, UMD College of Information Studies. chaired the panel. Jordan S. Sly, (PhD candidate Advisor Stefano Villani) has co-published a book of essays. titled Libraries Without Borders: New Directions in Library History, with co-editors Steven A. Knowlton, Ellen M. Pozzi, and Emily D. Spunaugle (ALA Editions, 2023). The book "explores the roles that libraries have played in the communities they serve, well beyond the stacks and circulation desk." Jordan is also a BA alum from the Department of History and also holds the MLS. He is currently employed with UMD Libraries. Find more information about the book on the publisher's website HERE.
First annual graduate student and faculty kickball game
UNDERGRADUATE
History Majors visit the sailing ship "Sultana"
The History Undergraduate Association held an event on September 19. They presented an edition of History Jeopardy! More than 30 History Majors attended the event, which also included free pizza. HUA has also sponsored an ice cream social and scavenger hunt this semester. The photo at left is from the scavenger hunt.
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Book Launch for Julie Greene's new book Global Labor Migration. Wednesday, September 27, 2023 4:00 pm-5:30 pm Taliaferro Hall, 2110, The Berlin Room.
Barbenheimer! What is it all about? Co-sponsored by Cinema and Media Studies, Department of English, Department of History, and the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Friday, September 29, 2023 12:00 pm-1:00 pm St Mary’s Hall, Multipurpose Room and Online Zoom.
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