SEPTEMBER 2022
moments in history
University of Maryland Department of History Newsletter
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Freedmen and Southern Society Project receives $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
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In August, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced a three-year grant of $300,000 to the Freedmen and Southern Society Project for work on two volumes of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. The grant, which will run from July 2023 to June 2026, will support completion and publication of Family and Kinship, the edition's eighth volume, and editorial work on Church, School, and Community, the ninth and final volume. Leslie Rowland is the project director. The project's other editors are Steven Miller and James Illingworth.
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Hazkani Book Subject of Film and Wins Book Award
The film, The Soldier's Opinion, is based on Shay Hazkani's book, Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War (StanfordUP, 2021). Shay is credited as a co-creator and script writer. The film was directed by Assaf Banitt and was produced for Israel's main cable network, Hot Telecommunication. The Soldier's Opinion premiered at the Jerusalem Film Festival in July 2022 and will air on Israeli TV in late October 2022. There will be U.S. screenings of the film as well. . The film addresses a more than 50 year period when Israeli military censorship secretly copied Israeli soldiers' personal letters, extracting their views on the most contentious issues facing Israeli society. The findings were presented to leaders in a top-secret report identified as “The Soldier’s Opinion.” The film raises some important questions about privacy and the attempts of Israeli elites to control public narratives for many decades. The Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv, and the State of Israel chose Shay's book as the recipient of the 2022 Korenblat Book Award in Israel Studies. This award promotes exceptional scholarly contribution in the field of Israel Studies, and honors each year a book of outstanding merit in either Hebrew or English by scholars at all stages of their career.
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New Department of History Officers
Holly Brewer, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ting Zhang, Associate Chair
Ahmet Karamustafa, Chair
Quincy Mills, Director of Graduate Studies
ACHIEVING
At the UMD Faculty & Staff Convocation on September 14, 2022, Rick Bell received the Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize for 2022. The award honors a faculty member for a highly significant work of scholarship completed in the last three years. The award recognized Rick’s recent book, Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home (Simon & Schuster, 2020), noting the recognition it has received in national media outlets, including prominent reviews in The Wall Street Journal and NPR. Holly Brewer is Chair of the USM Council of University System Faculty through 2024. She is also the continuing President of the College Park chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Holly is also incoming Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of History. In April 2022, she was named among the Top 30 most influential Marylanders in Higher Education by The Daily Record: Maryland. Daryle Williams (Emeritus) and Kristina Poznan hosted a cohort of ARHU Summer Research Opportunity Program student researchers from the Big10 Academic Alliance, local HBCUs, and the University of California system, and beyond. Their research focused on a list of "slaves for hire" from the estate of Thomas Cramphin, Jr., a relative by marriage of Maryland Agricultural College co-founder Charles B. Calvert, and the process of hiring out of enslaved people. Quincy Mills also mentored Summer Research Institute students in the 1856 project. David Sartorius was elected to a 4 year term on the editorial board of Hispanic American Historical Review.
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Robert Friedel's work, Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty (W. W. Norton, 1996) was recently featured in The Washington Post. Read the complete article HERE. September 5, 2022, ARTE-TV, (a German-French politics and culture television network) broadcast Terror, Tote, Voelkerfreundschaft: Die DDR und der Nahost-Konflikt (Terror, Deaths, and Friendship among Peoples: the German Democratic Republic [East Germany] and the Middle East Conflict). Jeffrey Herf was interviewed for the film because of his 2016 book, Undeclared wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German far left, 1967–1989. (CambridgeUP). The film broadcast in Germany on the 50th anniversary of the Black September terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. See the film HERE with password: wsOifh32ufer. This summer, Julie Taddeo was interviewed for a New York Times article on British masculinity and the TV series, "Peaky Blinders," and she was quoted in a Buzzfeed article on the current trend in nostalgia TV. that you can read HERE.
MEDIA MOMENTS
Julie Taddeo was also interviewed by BBC World News for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June 2022. In the past couple of weeks, Julie has commented on Queen Elizabeth II's passing in numerous media outlets, including W Colombia News, NBC Now with Joshua Johnson, WTOP, and in the Vietnamese press for her expertise on British history. See the NBC Now video HERE. Julie is at the 25 minute mark. Her commentary on the queen's passing was also featured in Maryland Today. Read the article HERE. You can also read about several of Julie's other appearances HERE, including her comments on ERII's visit to UMD.
In September 2022, Rick Bell published a new article in the Journal of the Civil War Era titled “Eels, Peepholes, and Pickett’s Charge: Doing Micro history Then and Now.” In June 2022, he published another new article, this time in the Journal of American History titled “’Principally Children’: Kidnapping, Child Slavery, and the Transformation of Antebellum Activism.” Holly Brewer published an article, "The Royal Geographical Pastime: A Game from 1770" on using an early American game in class. Read the article HERE. In February 2022, she published "Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire" in Law and History Review.See the article HERE. Jeffrey Herf published "Nazi Antisemitism and Islamist Hate" in The Tablet Magazine on July 5, 2022. Read the article HERE. Herf's Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949 was reviewed by John Strawson, University of East London School of Law in the July issue of Fathom, Read the review HERE. Piotr Kosicki published an article, "SCOTUS and the Catholic Authoritarian Vanguard" in The Nation (July 20, 2022) that considers Catholicism and the Supreme Court decisions of recent months. Read it HERE. David Sartorius was elected to a 4 year term on the editorial board of Hispanic American Historical Review. Stefano Villani's book, Making Italy Anglican was reviewed by Shaun Blanchard, National Institute for Newman Studies, for The Living Church in August 2022. Read the review HERE.
PUBLISHING
On June 2, 2022 Holly Brewer spoke about "Toward and Open Access HTR Program for Early Modern Paleography" at the American Philosophical Society. It reflects concerns about "human in the loop" AI models and how those intersect with technology that is crucial for historians. Video available HERE. On September 19, Holly spoke at the UMD Law School's 18th Annual Constitution Day observance. Her talk was "Dobbs & the Radicalism of Overreaching Originalism." Her talk focused on the Supreme Court's growing tendency to seek pre-Revolutionary precedents in the English common law to justify radical decisions in the name of returning to 'original intent.' On September 12, 2022. Jeffrey Herf joined scholars from Britain, Europe, and the US to participate in the inaugural conference of the London Center for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. The topic was: "21st Century Antisemitism." Jeffrey was part of a panel speaking about “Realities and falsehoods about the international context of the establishment of the state of Israel." See the program HERE. Piotr Kosicki spoke on "Understanding the Stakes of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" in the Merriweather Online Classroom of the Howard County Public Library System on July 28, 2022. Paul Landau spoke on September 19, 2019 at Harvard University's Center for African Studies. The topic of the talk was "Madela's ANC: PanAfricanism, a United Front, and Mass Insurgency." Paul will also be speaking at Howard University's Center for African Studies about his new book Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries (OhioUP, 2022) on September 27 as part of the Palaver series. Paul and Jon Walz presented a keynote paper at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa on August 18, 2022. The talk was on postage stamps and letterheads and empire for “Transience and the Image.” Julie Taddeo's most recent book, Diagnosing History: Medicine in Period Television Drama (Manchester UP, 2022), co-edited with Katherine Byrne and James Leggott, was celebrated by the British Association for Film & Television Studies in an online event July 8. Julie presented a paper on “Masculinity, Trauma, and Australian Period Drama Television” for the Critical Studies in Television Conference hosted by Edgehill University, UK, in June 2022. Julie's collection Diagnosing History: Medicine in Television Period Drama will be formally launched on September 23, 2022 by Northumbria University's Moving Image, Popular Media & Culture Department. Stefano Villani's book, Making Italy Anglican: Why the Book of Common Prayer (OxfordUP, 2022) was discussed in Verona on April 21, 2022, in Rome on June 22, and on April 28 in a seminar organized by the Centro Culturale Protestante of Florence. On May 18 the book was discussed in a seminar organized by the Revue Progressus and the Laboratoire Luhcie of the University of Grenoble, and on May 26 in a seminar organized by the Istituto Sangalli in Florence. On September 9, Stefano presented a paper discussing the research in his book to the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies at the Library of Congress. Sabrina Baron and Eleanor Shevlin organize the WAGPCS seminar. In June 2022, Peter Wien co-organized an international conference titled “Ruling the Waves”: Transnational Radio Broadcasting in the Middle East and the Mediterranean Between Production and Reception, 1920-1970" in Rome. Two-and-a-half days of presentations and discussions took place at the German Historical Institute, the Danish Academy, and Villa Mondragone of Tor Vergata University. In September, Peter traveled to Berlin to participate in the German Orientalist Convention (Deutscher Orientalistentag), where he led a round table discussion on "Building Synergies: The Future of Middle Eastern Regional Research Centers" with representatives of Danish, Dutch, French, and German research institutes. Peter represented TARII (The Academic Research Institute in Iraq).
PRESENTING
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Jessica Wicks-Allen (PhD, 2022 Advisor, Leslie Rowland) has accepted a tenure-track appointment at Arizona State University. She will be assistant professor of African American history at ASU's New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. Jessica has also been awarded a 2022-23 post-doc at Pennsylvania State University where she will continue her work on African-American women in the era of emancipation.
PRACTICING HISTORY
Zachary Bible (MA, East Asia) BA, University of Maryland, College Park, 2020 Danielle Bing (PhD, United States) MA, University of Delaware, 2022 BA, Washington College, 2017 Scott Dranginis (HiLS, United States) BA, University of South Carolina, 2021 Eleanor Drummond (HiLS, Technology, Science & Environment) BA, Cornell College, 2021 Jess Fenander (HiLS, Latin America) BA, Ohio Wesleyan University, 2020 Emily Foster (HiLS, Global Interaction & Exchange) BSN, Cedar Crest College, 2019 José Enmanuel Castellón Gutiérrez (Ph.D., Latin America) MA, Georgetown University, 2022 BA, Catholic University of America, 2020 Julia Hemphill (MA, United States) BA, Sonoma State University, 2021
TRAINING HISTORIANS
Emily Irvine (HiLS, United States) BA, George Washington University, 2022 Leo Johnson (PhD) MA, University of Maryland, College Park, 2022 BA, University of Pittsburgh 2017 Alexandra Kadis (HiLS, Britain) BA, Duke University, 2020 Chloe Kauffman (PhD) BA, Messiah University, 2022 Andy Lazris (MA, United States) MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1990 BA, History, Brown University, 1986 Angelina Lincoln (PhD, United States) MA, Villanova University, 2020 BA, Villanova University, 2018 Alexander Miletich IV (MA) M.Ed, University of Maryland, College Park, 2019 BA, University of Maryland, College Park, 2013 Ashley Nguyen (PhD, United States) BA, University of Florida, 2020 Grace Pettinger (HiLS, United States) BA, Hope College, 2021
Welcome New Graduate Students!
Rigby Philips (HiLS, United States) BA, University of Maryland, College Park, 2021 Leah Rasmussen (PhD, Europe) MA, Carleton University, 2022 BFA, Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU), 2019 John Sturc (PhD, United States) JD, Harvard Law School, 1975 BA, Cornell University, 1972 Clay Verkouw (MA, Military History) BS, United States Naval Academy, 2018 Liguan Wang (MA, East Asia) BA, University of Rhode Island, 2020 Ellison Warmath (HiLS, Global Interaction & Exchange) BA, Bryn Mawr College, 2022
LEARNING HISTORY
Christopher Roberts Receives Yoseloff Scholarship History and Education double major Christopher Roberts was awarded a Yoseloff Scholarship to attend the Society for American Baseball Research's 50th annual conference in Baltimore, MD. This competitive scholarship was awarded to only ten students nationwide. Chris's HIST 408 (Senior Capstone Seminar) research paper explored the causes and consequences of Disco Demolition Night at Chicago's Comiskey Park, long-time home of the Chicago White Sox. He also presented his research at last year's UMD Undergraduate Research Day.
RANDOM MOMENTS
Colleen Woods, director of the Center for Global Migration Studies, was awarded a $20,000 grant from the Teaching and Learning Center to redesign the capstone course for the IMMR transcript notation. The course redesign emphasizes project-based learning, digital humanities, community engagement, and cross-cultural learning. Students in the course will conduct an oral history interview with an immigrant to the United States, learn how to apply digital humanities methods to the metadata generated by the interview, and will have the opportunity to share their project with a public audience. This course redesign emphasizes experiential learning, with students using digital tools and creating their own project. It also introduces students to the ethics and practices of oral history.
CENTER FOR GLOBAL MIGRATION STUDIES
On November 9, 2022, the Center for Global Migration Studies will host a conference exploring climate and migration. Acclaimed journalist Todd Miller will offer a keynote address. Among other books, Miller is the author of Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security. The conference will also feature a panel of scholars including Sarah Cameron (UMD, Department of History) and Neel Ahuja (UMD, Department of American Studies and the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies).
FUTURE MOMENTS
Holly Brewer will be part of a round table at an upcoming conference, the first of five that will showcase Revolutionary Legacies. The conference is For 2026: Marking the 250th Anniversary of American Independence is co-sponsored by The Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, in partnership with William & Mary, and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. The conference will be held on October 28, 2002 in Williamsburg, VA. The round table is titled "Historians on the Constitution: The Past Faces the Present." To register for this conference click See the complete program HERE.
Future moments
Julie Taddeo's collection, Diagnosing History: Medicine in Television Period Drama (ManchesterUO, 2022), co-edited with Katherine Byrne and James Leggott will be formally launched on September 23, 2022 by Northumbria U,niversity's Moving Image, Popular Media & Culture Department. Use the QR code to register for the launch. It will be on Zoom.
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