MOMENTS IN HISTORY
NEWSLETTER
December 2023
Faculty Moments
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IN THIS ISSUE
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Media Moments
Current Students
Random Moments
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Photos: University of Maryland; History Undergraduate Association
Alumni
History Has Its Eyes On You
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Paul Landau has been awarded the Martin A. Klein Prize from the American Historical Association for his book Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries (Ohio University Press, 2022). The Martin A. Klein Prize in African History recognizes the most distinguished work of scholarship on African history published in English during the previous calendar year. The prize is named for Martin A. Klein, who is currently professor emeritus of history at the University of Toronto. The books considered must focus primarily on continental Africa. See article in MarylandToday HERE.
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history has its eyes on you
Photos courtesy of Audran Downing and University of Maryland
Lindsay Moynihan (BA, 2024), a History Honors student, History major, and president of the History Undergraduate Association, has been named one of 20 Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars for 2023-24. This program recognizes outstanding graduating seniors who have acknowledged the importance of mentors in their education experience. Lindsay's Mentor in the Department of History is Robyn Muncy. Lindsay also recognized teacher Ramona Puchalski-Piretti, from Conard High School, West Hartford, CT (pictured left), as one of her mentors. At the ceremony on Friday, November 3, 2023 at University House, Lindsay received her award and Robyn Muncy received a Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars Faculty Mentor Award for 2023-24. See the article in MarylandToday HERE.
Karin A. Rosemblatt was elected President of the University of Maryland's chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in September 2023. Karin is also currently serving as Past Chair on the Executive Committee of the Forum on Science and Knowledge in Latin America and the Caribbean. Thomas Zeller has been elected to the editorial committee of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) in a contested election. See more information HERE.
History has its eyes on you
Robert Freidel (Emeritus) had a conversation with Adel Aali, editor and host for the podcast History Behind the News. They discussed AI as a disruptive technology. The podcast conversation is now available in S3, E36 on major podcast platforms, e.g., Apple, Spotify, Google. A direct link to the podcast is HERE. Julie Taddeo was interviewed in a November 16, 2023 MarylandToday article titled "'The Crown' Says Cheerio" about the sixth and last season of the popular television series "The Crown." See the full article in MarylandToday HERE. Julie also appeared on the History Hack podcast with Katherine Byrne in November 2023. They were discussing British period drama from Pride and Prejudice to Downton Abbey. The podcast is available on Spotify HERE
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media moments
Janna Bianchini's chapter "Speaking Truth to Power: Authority, Social Status, and Gender in Thirteenth-Century Castilian Witness Testimony" was published in October 2023 in A Plural Peninsula: Studies in Honour of Professor Simon Barton, ed. Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo, The Medieval Mediterranean 138 (Brill, 2023). Janna says "Simon was a generous mentor to me and many other Iberianists, and we lost him much too soon; I'm honored to be among the contributors to this memorial volume." Zachary Dorner published a short piece titled "Ordering Medicines and Ordering People on Caribbean Plantations" in the November 6 installment of the Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720 blog. See his article HERE. Jeffrey Herf published on October 10, 2023 an essay titled "The Ideology of Mass Murder," a study of the ideas of Hamas. This essay can be found in the lively and increasingly cited online journal Quillette. Read the full article HERE. Sonya Michel (Emeritus) published a review of Martha Hodes, My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering in the Fall 2023 issue of The Jewish Review of Books. The book concerns the experience of Hodes and her sister (ages 12 and 13) on a plane that was seized by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1970. Jeremy Simmons published in the Journal of Global History 8, Special Issue 13: Travellers, Traders and Diaspora in Antiquity: Networks and Nodes Across the Indian Ocean and Eurasian World, an article entitled "Behind gold for pepper: The players and the game of Indo-Mediterranean trade," (November 2023): 343-64. Link to the open access article HERE. Julie Taddeo published a review of the book, #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture, ed. by Mary K. Holland and Heather Hewett (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) in the the Modern Language Review 118.4 (October 2023). Stefano Villani has published a chapter on the early modern history of Livorno in Twelve Cities – One Sea: Early Modern Mediterranean Port Cities and Their Inhabitants, Giovanni Tarantino and Paola von Wyss Giacosa, eds. (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2023), 37-54. The chapter is available via open access HERE. He also published an article in Italian about two books dedicated to the English ambassador Henry Wotton in 1598 and 1608 in the journal Bruniana & Campanelliana 29 (2023): 69-87. See the article HERE. Thomas Zeller has published a new article "Imaging Landscapes, Roads, Race, and Power" in Technology and Culture 64.4 (October 2023): 1261-73. See the full article HERE.
PUBLISHING
faculty moments
Antoine Borrut presented at The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies on October 19, 2023 as part of the program "History, Memory, and Oblivion in Medieval Islam." Michele Lamprakos, Architecture, University of Maryland, was also on the program. Robert Friedel (Emeritus) gave a lecture in Lisbon, Portugal in July 2023 at the Nova University of Lisbon on “The Intelligence of the Artificial: Composition and Creativity in Material Culture." Shay Hazkani was part of a panel discussion on the Developments in the Israel-Palestine Conflict on October 16, 2023. The panel was held at George Washington University, Washington, DC, and included several GWU faculty and journalists. Shay is currently a fellow at GWU's Institute for Middle East Studies. Marlene Mayo (Emeritus) was one of the panelists for "Women's Roles in Japan-US Educational Exchange: A Roundtable on Resilience and Connection," at the Mid-Atlantic Region/Association for Asian Studies conference in October 2023. Karin A. Rosemblatt, on October 26, 2023, delivered a talk at the University of Chile, Department of Anthropology, on "Investigating Cuauhtémoc's Remains: Truth, Politics, and Mestizo Nationalism in Mexico." On November 3, 2023, Karin was part of a panel discussing "Chile after 50 years" at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. On November 11, 2023 Karin was part of a panel at the History of Science Society Annual Meeting discussing "Building a Cohesive Career Narrative, sponsored by the Graduate and Early Career Caucus of the History of Science Society. David Sartorius on October 25, 2023 presented "How To Leave Cuba: Imperial Pasts and Passports" at an event titled "In the Wake of Empires: Critical Reflections on 1898 and Its Afterlives" at New York University. Julie Taddeo presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Northeast Popular Culture Association in October 2023 titled, "'Is your doctor sympathetic?': The National Health Service Physician in Call the Midwife." She presented a paper titled "Two BBC Adaptations of Poldark, Rape, and the Enduring Problem of 'the Bedroom Encounter'" in late November for the Popular Culture Research Network's Conference on Adaptation. She also presented several public history lectures on such British history topics as Victorian crime and scandal and Royal family history from the Georgian era to the twenty-first century. Stefano Villani at the Sixteenth-Century Society Conference in Baltimore, MD presented a paper titled "If we were elsewhere, the doctor and the printer would need to be punished, but here it is not even imaginable," based on the dedication of Fabio Glissenti's La morte innamorata to the English ambassador Henry Wotton (1608). In September 2023, he participated in a conference at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Jerusalem on Gender and Enslavement in Mediterranean Europe, 1250-1800." Here, he presented a paper titled "Collecting Boys: Cosimo III of Tuscany and His ‘Human Zoo’."
PRESENTING
Julie Choi (BA, 2020), a former History Honors student (Thesis Advisor Colleen Woods), has been selected as a Charles Rangel Fellow. The Rangel Graduate Fellowship Program is highly competitive with only 45 people chosen each year. As a Rangel Fellow Julie will receive two years of tuition and stipend support for graduate study to earn a Master's degree. Rangel Fellows who successfully complete the program and Foreign Service requirements are appointed as Foreign Service Officers in the US Department of State. She will start her Rangel Fellowship in Fall 2025. Sheldon Goldberg (PhD, 2012, Advisor Jeffrey Herf) continues to be the Docent/Historian at the National Museum of American Jewish Military History and continues to give talks to various professional groups, such as the Rotary Club of Washington, and Jewish congregations and day school students on the History of Jews in the Defense of the United States. He also continues to write book reviews on topics of Jewish interest for The Jewish Veteran, the quarterly newsletter of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA. Recently, Sheldon's review of William Taylor’s anthology, George C. Marshall and the Cold War, was published in Officer Review, the journal of the Military Order of the World Wars. He continues work on the Vietnam-War-era histories of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing and 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron. Gabrielle McCoy (BA, 2021) published an article in the October 26, 2023 AHA Perspectives titled "The Ross House Slave Quarters." She is currently working on her PhD at the University of South Carolina. See the complete article HERE. Reynolds J. Scott-Childress (PhD, 2003 Advisor James Gilbert) reports advances in two careers. He has been invited to lecture in the PhD course "Divided Societies: Polarisation and the Politics of Division" in Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 6-12, 2024. The invitation follows a successful presentation of a paper on using methods and concepts from cognitive theory in historical research at last summer's Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nations seminar in Zadar, Croatia. He won reelection in November 2023 as an Alderman in Kingston, NY. h
ALUMNI MOMENTS
Joseph Slaughter (PhD 2017 Advisors David Sicilia/Whit Ridgway) published an article, “A ‘True Commentary’: The Gendered Imagery of Harper’s Illuminated and New Pictorial Bible (1843-1846)” in the Winter 2021 issue of the Journal of the Early Republic. See the article HERE. Joe has also published his first book, Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic (Columbia University Press, November 2023). The Southern Historical Association has awarded Kimberly Welch (PhD, 2012 Advisor Ira Berlin) its 2023 Anne Braden Prize for her article, "The Stability of Fortunes: A Free Black Woman, Her Legacy, and the Legal Archive in Antebellum New Orleans" published in the Journal of the Civil War Era (December 2022). The Braden Prize recognizes the best article published in the previous year on a topic in southern women's history. See the prize citation HERE.
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Tyriana Evans (PhD student,Advisor: Quincy Mills) was quoted in a Novemeber 15, 2023 MarylandToday article about a course, "Lynching and the Press," in which she will be participating. See the article HERE. Caroline Angle Maguire (PhD student Advisors: Paul Landau and Peter Wien) and Mona Atia (George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs and Chair, AIMS Graduate Student Committee) organzed the 2023 AIMS Graduate Student Writing Workshop, Caroline is President of AIMS Graduate Student Association. The workshop was held October 5-6, 2023. It was generously supported by AIMS and hosted by the UMD Department of History. Workshop participants came from diverse disciplines, including Sociology, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, History, Population Health, and Political Science. Topics ranged from the Egyptian film industry, currency trafficking across Tunisian borders, solar energy in the Moroccan desert, the construction of racial terminology in early modern North Africa, and the clinical language used to describe the trauma of the Algerian War for Independence. The keynote address was delivered by Sara Rahnama (Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD), who gave a lively and engaging presentation on her new book, (Cornell UP, 2023). Alexandra Kadis (HiLS student Advisor Julie Taddeo) presented talks at two conferences. At the Northeast Popular Culture Association's 2023 Conference, Virtual, October 12, 2023 she presented a paper entitled “Japanese Acrobats on the Victorian Stage: Athletes or Popular Entertainments?." At the Victorians Institute's Hard Times 2023 Conference, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, October 7, she presented “Japanese Acrobats as Athletes on the Victorian Stage, 1867 - 1870.” Alan Wierdak (HiLS student Advisor Julie Greene) presented at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference in Saratoga Springs, NY with other UMD HiLS alums on "From the University of Maryland to...Everywhere?E xpectations v.s Realities From Early(ier) Career Archivists." Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens SPEAKERS: Alan Wierdak, University of Maryland, College Park, Jen Wachtel, History Associates, Ann Abney, University of South Carolina, Zachary Tumlin, Duke University Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
graduate moments
undergraduate Moments
The History Undergraduate Association hosted a very successful pizza and Jeopardy! event on September 19, 2023. A large number of students turned out to socialize, enjoy pizza, and flex their knowledge of history.
UNDERGRADUATE moments
The History Undergraduate Association (HUA) sponsored Rob Chiles' annual group reading of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol on December 5, 2023. The reading was well attended and had a number of History Students participating.
Rob Chiles, in Dickensian costume, with the History Undergraduate Association officers.
RANDOM moments
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