NOVEMBER 2022
moments in history
University of Maryland Department of History Newsletter
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Department of History Receives Historic Gift
The Department of History is extremely pleased to announce the Department has received a gift of just over $1,800,000, The bequest comes from the estate of M. Jean Farrell whose husband, Richard T. Farrell, was a faculty member in the Department from 1965 until his death in 1991. The endowment will fund “The Professor Richard T. Farrell Graduate Fellowship in American History.” Professor Farrell specialized in the history of nineteenth-century American. He served as Associate Department Chair 1974-1990. To honor her husband’s commitment to his students and his academic field, M. Jean Farrell established an endowed fund through her will to support graduate fellowships to students whose academic focus is in the field of U.S. History. Richard T. Farrell previously endowed the Department of History’s annual Hoosier Clio Award for the best undergraduate History Honors Thesis written by a History major. In his career, Professor Farrell also focused on the teaching of History and Social Studies in public schools. He was a public school teacher in Kokomo, IN before joining the History faculty at UMD. He also worked on curriculum issues with local school districts. He also served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Education as an adviser on Social Studies curricula, as well as the National Council of Social Studies, the Maryland Department of Education, and the Educational Testing Service. Additionally, Professor Farrell sat on the board of directors for National History Day, which brings high school students together to compete in history projects, and served as chairman of the College Park campus senate in 1988-89. He was also president of the faculty club from 1980-83 and chairman of the campus curriculum committee from 1985-87. At his death in 1991, Professor Farrell was chairman of the Council of University System Faculty (CUSF) and a member of the faculty advisory commission of the Maryland Higher Education Advisory Commission.
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History has its eyes on you
In the early days of January 2021, then-President Donald Trump was looking for ways to nullify the results of the recent presidential election, which he had lost. He was pressuring then-Vice President Mike Pence to ignore Electoral College ballots in the Senate. Pence's office reached out to the leagl community for opinions on whether he could take that action. His office consulted, among others, respected former appeals court judge J. Michael Luttig for his opinion. Luttig responded that Vice President had no power whatsoever under the terms of the US Constitution to alter election results in any way. Luttig now tells us via Twitter that his opinion was strongly influenced by two articles written by Burke Professor of History, Holly Brewer. The articles were published in Backbencher, an online journalism experiment addressing "politics, economics, domestic policy, and a smattering of culture," launched by Timothy Nash, a writer for The New Republic, two years ago. The articles were "No, Jefferson didn't rig the 1800 vote count," published December 31, 2020 and "More on this Jefferson nonsense," published on January 5, 2021. The first article was also published in Washington Monthly. Brewer's articles showed that the idea being floated that Thomas Jefferson as Vice President had interfered with the electoral ballots in the election of 1800 to defeat John Adams and elect himself as President. Her articles included images of a number of historical documents showing that this was absolutely not the case. Judge Luttig on November 5, 2022, thanked Professor Brewer for her articles, for her scholarship, and and for her influence on his opinion on Twitter.
Burke Professor of History Holly Brewer Saved The Republic!
ACHIEVING
Burke Professor of History Holly Brewer has been awarded the 2022 Sutherland Article Prize from the American Society for Legal History. The article, titled "Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire," was published in Law and History Review 39.4 (2021): 765-834. The Sutherland Prize is named in honor of the late Donald W. Sutherland, a distinguished historian medieval English law. The Prize is awarded annually "to the person or persons who wrote the best article on the legal history of Britain and/or the British Empire published in the previous year." Jeffrey Herf's most recent book, lsrael's Moment; International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) has received the Bernard Lewis Prize awarded annually by the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA). According to the Award letter, the Bernard Lewis Prize recognizes the work of scholars engaged in the study of issues on antisemitism that were of great importance to ASMEA's founding chairman, Bernard Lewis. "While Christian antisemitism is well-studied, a stigma remains around addressing antisemitism in the Muslim world. Beyond this, relatively few scholars focus on the Middle Eastern dimensions of Christian antisemitism in religious and cultural terms, much less the political impact in the West. ASMEA was founded 15 years ago by the historians Bernard Lewis and Fouad Ajami, both of whom made major contributions to the scholarship on the modern Middle East."
At the 2022 Convocation of the College of the Arts and Humanities (ARHU), service awards were presented to two Department of History members, Finance Director Lisa Klein, and History Advisor Nick Misukanis, who is also a PhD candidate in the Department. Lisa received the Staff Service Award for Service to the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU). Nick received the Graduate Student Service Award. Each year, ARHU honors faculty, staff, and students who have demonstrated excellence through service to their departments and the college. Read more about the awards HERE.
Karin Rosemblatt has been chosen for three editorial boards. The first board is for a new journal titled History of Social Science. She has also been chosen for the editorial board of the Colombian history journal Historia Crítica. Her third editorial board position is with the Palgrave McMillan book series on New Directions in Welfare History. David Sicilia has been appointed chair of a new committee of the Business History Conference--the field's leading scholarly organization--to oversee a major new grants and fellowships initiative in financial history, broadly defined. The program is perpetually endowed by a $5 million gift from retired Wall Street economist, Dr. Henry Kaufman. As reported to members of the BHC: "This unprecedented gift came to the BHC through the efforts of David Sicilia, former trustee and active member of the BHC for many decades." Kaufman grants and fellowships will support emerging scholars in financial history including doctoral students as well as those who recently completed a PhD.
Dr. Henry Kaufman
The Western Society for French History held its annual meeting in Victoria BC, Canada, on November 2 & 3, 2022. The Society honored Don Sutherland with two sessions that discussed his work. In the first session, scholars from Canada and the US discussed Don's contribution to popular counterrevolution in Brittany and the West of France in general; his arguments about how the counterrevolution shaped the Revolution, his studies of popular violence, lynching, and extremism in the south of France; and finally, his contributions to the economic history of France from 1780 to 1820. Two of the scholars were UMD Department of History PhDs: Jeremy Hayhoe and Denise Davidson. Among other things, they discussed Don’s enthusiasm for archives and his strategies for approaching inventories and command documents. The second session had three papers, Hayhoe (Université de Moncton); Jane McLeod (Brock University); and Tim Le Goff (York, Paris-Sorbonne), Don's great friend and collaborator since their youthful days at the University of London in the 1960s. Their papers were about agricultural productivity in Burgundy; royal censorship in the Old Regime; and financial scandal and suicide in 1789.
Sutherland Honored at Conference
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On October 30, 2022 Rick Bell was the guest for a 30-minute interview on KPFW Freedom Now. The topic was Rick’s article in the September issue of the Journal of American History, titled “’Principally Children’: Kidnapping, Child Slavery, and the Transformation of Antebellum Activism." Julie Taddeo was interviewed in November by NBC's Today Show (online) regarding the British Royal family and the Netflix series "The Crown." The show was interested in the relationship between Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend. See the interview here.
MEDIA MOMENTS
PUBLISHING
Rick Bell's prize-winning essay “Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland,” which first appeared in The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered, Charles W. Mitchell and Jean H. Baker, eds. (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2021), was reprinted in the most recent issue of the Maryland Historical Magazine. Hayim Lapin, with Shaye J.D. Cohen and Robert Goldenberg has published The Oxford Annotated Mishna, the first translation of that work, in three volumes, The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic law, indeed of rabbinic Judaism itself. It is overwhelmingly technical and focused on matters of practice, custom, and law. An expert group of translators and annotators have assemble da version of the Mishnah that can be read without specialist knowledge. See the publisher's website HERE. Stefano Villani has published a short article: “La «Lettera scritta dalla Regina d’Inghilterra al Principe di Galles suo figliolo tradotta nell’idioma italiano da Giovanni Francesco Biondo»: i manoscritti di una mazzarinata pseudoepigrafica di argomento inglese,” in Studi Secenteschi LXII, (2022): 309-17.
Sabrina Baron spoke at Profs & Pints on “Kings After Queens,” addressing the successions of James I, Edward VII, and Charles III to the throne of England. She has also been the discussant for two films, One film was shown at Reel & a Meal at The New Deal Cafe in Greenbelt, MD on migration in history. The second film was part of the Utopia Film Fesitval also in Greenbelt, and addressed education. Rick Bell debuted the first piece of scholarship to emerge from his new book project at two symposia, The Reeder Symposium on Transportation, Movement, and Mobility at Youngstown State University on October 27, and the Winterthur Research Fellowship Program on November 18 . The paper he delivered at each venue was titled "Taking Liberties: Street Fights and Streetcars in Jim-Crow New York.” On October13, 2022 Robert Friedel gave a lecture at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, entitled “What’s the Matter — and Why? Looking into Material Choices and Consequences.” On October 17 Robert spoke at the Deutsches Museum in Munich on "Saving Elephants – Understanding the Search for Substitute Ivory.” This talk was done jointly with the Department of History’s recently departed Fulbright Fellow from Lisbon, Artur Neves. Robert and Artur also gave a talk on this project in June 2022 at a Harvard University conference on Substitute Materials in History. Their talk was “Rescuing Elephants: Ivory, Scarcity, and Material Choice.” Paul Landau gave a talk about his recent book, Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries as part of Howard University's Palaver Series on September 27. The event was co-sponsored by the Howard University Center for African Studies, the Department of African Studies, and the Department of History. Discussant for the talk was DaQuan Lawrence, African Studies graduate student at Howard and human rights activist. Marlene Mayo presented a paper at the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania on October 1, 2022:. Her paper was titled "A Transpacific Village: Philadelphia and Japanese Quakers Rebuild the Tokyo Friends Girls School in Early Postwar Japan". Marlene also participated in a roundtable at the conference on "Modernity, Media, and Gender in Japan: Tracing the Impacts of Barbara Sato's Pioneering Scholarship." On October 28, David Sartorius presented (virtually) a paper titled "Passport Control: Mobility Infrastructure in Colonial Havana" at the Atlantic Port Cities and Global Connections (14th-21st Centuries) conference at the Universidad de Cantabria in Santander, Spain. Julie Taddeo moderated a panel on Regency history and British romance literature and film for the Northeast Popular Culture Association in October. In October and early November, she also gave multiple public history lectures on such topics as Victorian crime and scandal; Regency London's political and social life; and period drama TV and representations of class, gender and race in British history. Her book, Rape in Period Drama Television (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) was part of an online launch by the British Association of Film and Television Studies in September. Stefano Villani presented a paper on Amerigo Salvetti, the Tuscan diplomatic representative in England during the Civil Wars and the Interregnum, titled “Un abisso di guerre et confusione". Amerigo Salvetti, un esule toscano nell'Inghilterra della guerra civile e dell'Interregno, at an International conference on “L’incontro col ‘diverso’: il viaggio come scoperta dell’alterità in Occidente e tra Occidente ed aree extraeuropee 1600-2000,” organized by the University of Pisa in Italy, September 30-October 1 2022. He also co-organized with prof. Vittorio Frajese (University of Rome, La Sapienza) an hybrid conference on Paolo Sarpi: “L’antipapa. Nuove ricerche su Paolo Sarpi nel quadricentenario della morte”, October 14-15, 2022 (Rome and on zoom). See the conference on video HERE.
PRESENTING
On October 26, 2022 Sarah Cameron gave an invited presentation to members of the US State Department on the topic of Kazakhstan's Soviet past and the politics of history writing in Kazakhstan today. On October 28, she presented a paper related to her research on the Aral Sea at the Davis Center Seminar at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University.
Sarah Cameron Speaks to US Department of State about Kazakhstan
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Carl Abrams' (PhD 1981, Advisor: Keith Olson), next book, Missionaries in the Golden Age of Hollywood: Race, Gender, and Spirituality on the Big Screen will be available on December 29, 2022 from Palgrace Macmillan. See the publisher's website HERE. Ann Abney (HiLS MA 2016 Advisor: Piotr Kosicki) published an article co-written with Veronica Denison, Chris Tanguay, and Michelle Ganz entitled "Understanding the Unseen: Invisible Disabilities in the Workplace" in The American Archivist. See the article HERE. Ann is the South Carolina Political Collections' Special Project Archivist at the University of South Carolina. Naomi Coquillon (MA 2006 Advisor: Leslie Rowland) has been named to the Council of Advisors of the Women's Suffrage National Monument Foundation. Naomi is Chief of Informal Learning at the Library of Congress. A. Shane Dillingham, assistant professor of History, Arizona State University, has received the 2022 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize for Best Book from the American Society for Ethnohistory for his book, Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico (Stanford UP 2021). Allison S. Finkelstein (PhD, 2015, Advisor: Saverio Giovacchini) has been awarded the Arline Custer Memorial Award from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference for her first book Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917-1945 (University of Alabama Press, 2021).
PRACTICING HISTORY
In September 2022, she did a virtual book talk at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, which was moderated by another UMD History Alum, Stephanie Hinnershitz. (PhD 2013 Advisor: Julie Greene) Learn more and watch other previous virtual book events by visiting her website: HERE. Brooks Flippen (PhD 1994, Advisor: Keith Olson.) retired earlier this year from Southeastern Oklahoma State University and was granted status of Professor of History Emeritus. Sheldon Goldberg (Phd 2012, Advisor; Jeffrey Herf) was on the cover of the December issue of Washington Jewish Week. The accompanying story was abouthis volunteer job as docent/historian at the National Museum of American Jewish Military History in Washington DC. The focus was on him being a 30-year Air Force veteran with the “determination to keep the stories of Jewish military veterans alive” as well as lecturing to groups that tour the Museum, students at schools, and various Synagogue groups in the DMV. At the August 2022 National Convention of the Military Order of the World Wars, an article he wrote about British Colonel T.N. Grazebrook and Operation ECLIPSE, published in the January 2022 issue of Officer Review, the Order’s journal, was awarded second place. The award was accompanied by a $1,000 prize. In November, will be giving lectures to several Jewish groups, participating in the Order's annual Pershing ceremony at the WWI general’s gravesite in written about this mission was either wrong or misleading, causing me to take on the project to tell the truth, following the words of Leopold von Ranke. This history has been in the works for several years as it is based primarily on information from only recently declassified official histories of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing and 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron, which required several FOIA requests that took time being approved due to personnel shortages attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Richard P Hallion (1975, Advisor - Olson) has been voted in as Chair of the Okaloosa County Aviation Board. The eight-member Board oversees the management, administration, and operation of three regional airports in the Florida Panhandle, including local businesses, educational facilities, and industry supporting aviation more broadly within the region. Dr. Beatriz Hardy (1993, Advisor - Hoffman): 1. I co-authored a book chapter: Beatriz Betancourt Hardy, Amy Jones, and Mou Chakraborty. “Keeping the Focus on Patrons at the Salisbury University Libraries.” In Sustainable Online Library Services and Resources: Learning from the Pandemic, ed. Mou Chakraborty, Samantha Harlow, and Heather Moorefield Lang. Pp. 107-122. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2022. 2. I chaired the steering committee for “Chesapeake Studies: Change and Continuity in America’s Estuary,” an interdisciplinary conference held in Salisbury, Maryland, in June 2022. I presented at the same conference on “Popery on the Peninsula: Catholics on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the Late Colonial Period.” 3. Also—and honestly, I am prouder of this than the book chapter or the conference—the library I direct has gone from making regular appearances in the Princeton Review’s “This is a Library?” category (the worst college libraries—we peaked at no. 2 worst library) to being named to the top 25 this year (we were no. 23). Dr. Pamela Henson (1990, Advisor - Darden) published a book, Wild Flowers of North America: Botanical Illustrations by Mary Vaux Walcott, NY, Prestel, 2022. Matt Mason (MA Alumna, 1997, Advisor - Rowland) ,in collaboration with David Waldstreicher and the American Philosophical Society organized a conference, “Somerset v. Steuart @ 250: Facts, Interpretations, and Legacies," to be held Dec. 1-2, 2022, at the APS. https://www.amphilsoc.org/somerset-v-steuart-250 Alexandra Piper (HiLS Alumna, 2021, Advisor - Bonner) attendier her first in-person museum conference at Southeastern Museums Conference-SEMC. Piper at SEMC.jpg Dr. Joseph P. Slaughter (2017, Advisor - Ridgway), launched a research center focused on the history firearms in the U.S. this fall, along with his Wesleyan University colleague, Jennifer Tucker. The center’s first major event was a conference titled “Current Perspectives ln the History of Guns and Society,” held October 14-15 at Wesleyan University. The conference included panels on firearms and public history, visual/material culture, race, religion, and gender. Contact Joseph at jslaughter01@wesleyan.edu for opportunities to collaborate on researching the social and cultural history of firearms in the U.S. Jennifer Wachtel (HiLS Alumna, 2021, Advisor - Rozenblit) was appointed Chair of the Society of American Archivists Committee on Education in August 2022. In addition, she presented on a panel, "After the Finding Aid: Visioning Access Systems for Born-Digital Access" at the Society of American Archivists annual meeting on Saturday, August 27, 2022. Ann Abney (HiLS alumna, Graduated August 2016, Advisor - Kosicki) published an article co-written with Veronica Denison, Chris Tanguay, and Michelle Ganz entitled "Understanding the Unseen: Invisible Disabilities in the Workplace" in The American Archivist (here: https://doi.org/10.17723/2327-9702-85.1.88). Ann is the South Carolina Political Collections' Special Project Archivist at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Allison Finkelstein (Graduated May 2015, Advisor - Giovacchini) participated in a virtual conversation with the National WWII Museum (New Orleans). The event was moderated by the Museum's senior historian and alum Dr. Stephanie Hinnershitz (Graduated May 2013., Advisor - Greene). The link to the recording is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3hsLH0BERI Naomi Coquillon (M.A. 2006; advisor, Leslie Rowland) has been named to the Council of Advisors of the Women's Suffrage National Monument Foundation. Naomi is Chief of Informal Learning at the Library of Congress. Sabrina: Here's link for the press release announcing the the appointments: https://www.womensmonument.org/19-distinguished-leaders-named-to-the-foundations-council-of-advisors And here's link to a photo of Naomi and info about her: https://www.womensmonument.org/naomi-coquillon Body text
Arlington National Cemetery. Sheldon will be the MC for Jewish War Veterans Post 692’s 7th Annual Veterans Day program, and will be interviewed by students at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School. He is finishing a short history of the Owl FAC mission (October 1969-February 1970), the understudied and misunderstoon only night fast-moving forward air controllers in the Air Force. Richard P Hallion (PhD 975, Advisor: Keith OlsonO) has been voted in as Chair of the Okaloosa County Aviation Board. The eight-member Board oversees the management, administration, and operation of three regional airports in the Florida Panhandle, including local businesses, educational facilities, and industry supporting aviation more broadly within the region. Beatriz Betancourt Hardy (PhD 1993, Advisor: Ronald Hoffman) co-authored a book chapter: with Amy Jones, and Mou Chakraborty. “Keeping the Focus on Patrons at the Salisbury University Libraries” in Sustainable Online Library Services and Resources: Learning from the Pandemic, Mou Chakraborty, Samantha Harlow, and Heather Moorefield Lang. eds., pp. 107-22 (Santa Barbara, CA.: ABC-CLIO, 2022). She also chaired the steering committee for “Chesapeake Studies: Change and Continuity in America’s Estuary,” an interdisciplinary conference held in Salisbury, MD in June 2022. She presented at the same conference on “Popery on the Peninsula: Catholics on Pamela Henson (1990, Advisor - Darden) published a book, Wild Flowers of North America: Botanical Illustrations by Mary Vaux Walcott, NY, Prestel, 2022. Matt Mason (MA Alumna, 1997, Advisor - Rowland) ,in collaboration with David Waldstreicher and the American Philosophical Society organized a conference, “Somerset v. Steuart @ 250: Facts, Interpretations, and Legacies," to be held Dec. 1-2, 2022, at the APS. https://www.amphilsoc.org/somerset-v-steuart-250 Alexandra Piper (HiLS Alumna, 2021, Advisor - Bonner) attendier her first in-person museum conference at Southeastern Museums Conference-SEMC. Piper at SEMC.jpg Dr. Joseph P. Slaughter (2017, Advisor - Ridgway), launched a research center focused on the history firearms in the U.S. this fall, along with his Wesleyan University colleague, Jennifer Tucker. The center’s first major event was a conference titled “Current Perspectives ln the History of Guns and Society,” held October 14-15 at Wesleyan University. The conference included panels on firearms and public history, visual/material culture, race, religion, and gender. Contact Joseph at jslaughter01@wesleyan.edu for opportunities to collaborate on researching the social and cultural history of firearms in the U.S. Jennifer Wachtel (HiLS Alumna, 2021, Advisor - Rozenblit) was appointed Chair of the Society of American Archivists Committee on Education in August 2022. In addition, she presented on a panel, "After the Finding Aid: Visioning Access Systems for Born-Digital Access" at the Society of American Archivists annual meeting on Saturday, August 27, 2022. Ann Abney (HiLS alumna, Graduated August 2016, Advisor - Kosicki) published an article co-written with Veronica Denison, Chris Tanguay, and Michelle Ganz entitled "Understanding the Unseen: Invisible Disabilities in the Workplace" in The American Archivist (here: https://doi.org/10.17723/2327-9702-85.1.88). Ann is the South Carolina Political Collections' Special Project Archivist at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Allison Finkelstein (Graduated May 2015, Advisor - Giovacchini) participated in a virtual conversation with the National WWII Museum (New Orleans). The event was moderated by the Museum's senior historian and alum Dr. Stephanie Hinnershitz (Graduated May 2013., Advisor - Greene). The link to the recording is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3hsLH0BERI Naomi Coquillon (M.A. 2006; advisor, Leslie Rowland) has been named to the Council of Advisors of the Women's Suffrage National Monument Foundation. Naomi is Chief of Informal Learning at the Library of Congress. Sabrina: Here's link for the press release announcing the the appointments: https://www.womensmonument.org/19-distinguished-leaders-named-to-the-foundations-council-of-advisors And here's link to a photo of Naomi and info about her: https://www.womensmonument.org/naomi-coquillon Body text
Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the Late Colonial Period.” Beatriz is most proud that the library she directs has gone from making regular appearances in the Princeton Review’s “This is a Library?” category (the worst college libraries) to being named to the top 25 this year. Pamela Henson (PhD 1990 Advisor: Darden) published a book, Wild Flowers of North America: Botanical Illustrations by Mary Vaux Walcott (NY: Prestel, 2022). The book was published in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution which held an event focusing on Walcott on October 28, 2022. More information HERE. Eben Levey (PhD 2021 Advisor: Karin Rosemblatt) is Visiting Assistant Porfessor of Latin American History at Boise State University in ID. Matt Mason (MA 1997 Advisor: Leslie Rowland), in collaboration with David Waldstreicher and the American Philosophical Society organized a conference, “Somerset v. Steuart @ 250: Facts, Interpretations, and Legacies," to be held Dec. 1-2, 2022, at the APS. More information HERE. Alexandra Piper (HiLS MA 2021 Advisor: Chris Bonner) attendier her first in-person museum conference at the annual Southeastern Museums Conference-SEMC, Northwest Arkansa, October 26-28, 2022. Joseph P. Slaughter (PhD 2017, Advisor: Whit Ridgway) launched a research center focused on the history of firearms in the US this fall, August 2022. In addition, she presented on a panel, "After the Finding Aid: Visioning Access Systems for Born-Digital Access" at the Society of American Archivists annual meeting on Saturday, August 27, 2022. Ann Abney (HiLS alumna, Graduated August 2016, Advisor - Kosicki) published an article co-written with Veronica Denison, Chris Tanguay, and Michelle Ganz entitled "Understanding the Unseen: Invisible Disabilities in the Workplace" in The American Archivist (here: https://doi.org/10.17723/2327-9702-85.1.88). Ann is the South Carolina Political Collections' Special Project Archivist at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Allison Finkelstein (Graduated May 2015, Advisor - Giovacchini) participated in a virtual conversation with the National WWII Museum (New Orleans). The event was moderated by the Museum's senior historian and alum Dr. Stephanie Hinnershitz (Graduated May 2013., Advisor - Greene). The link to the recording is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3hsLH0BERI Naomi Coquillon (M.A. 2006; advisor, Leslie Rowland) has been named to the Council of Advisors of the Women's Suffrage National Monument Foundation. Naomi is Chief of Informal Learning at the Library of Congress. Sabrina: Here's link for the press release announcing the the appointments: https://www.womensmonument.org/19-distinguished-leaders-named-to-the-foundations-council-of-advisors And here's link to a photo of Naomi and info about her: https://www.womensmonument.org/naomi-coquillon Body text Body text
along with his Wesleyan University colleague, Jennifer Tucker. The center’s first major event was a conference titled “Current Perspectives ln the History of Guns and Society,” held October 14-15 at Wesleyan University. The conference included panels on firearms and public history, visual/material culture, race, religion, and gender. Contact Joe at jslaughter01@wesleyan.edu for opportunities to collaborate on researching the social and cultural history of firearms in the US. Jennifer Wachtel (HiLS MA 2021 Advisor: Marsha Rozenblit) was appointed Chair of the Society of American Archivists Committee on Education in August 2022. In addition, she presented on a panel, "After the Finding Aid: Visioning Access Systems for Born-Digital Access" at the Society of American Archivists annual meeting on Saturday, August 27, 2022.
TRAINING HISTORIANS
Saban Agalar (Ph.D. Candidate) recently published an article in The Journal of Ottoman Studies, titled "Conversion and Polemic in the Late-Fifteenth Century Ottoman Empire: Two Polemical Treatises Against Judaism.” https://doi.org/10.18589/oa.1145635 Lauren Cain (Ph.D. Candidate) was appointed as the 2022-2023 ARHU Graduate Student Representative to the Graduate Council, which advises the Dean of the Graduate School. Alan Wierdak (HiLS MA) manning the History Room at the Amalgamated Transit Union's International Convention in Las Vegas, NV (September 2022).
HUA (History Undergraduate Association) hosted two events in October: The "Success in the Major" event featured faculty, graduate students, and undergrads who talked to our History majors and minors about all aspects of the program, from History 208/408 to social and academic organizations. HUA also held their first Halloween Ghost Story Social Hour at dusk and it was such a good time, we agreed we will make this an annual event! In November, HUA sponsored a post-election pizza social and a movie night featuring the film Dunkirk.
Annual Department of History Picnic 2022
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