MOMENTS IN HISTORY
NEWSLETTER
January 2025 2024
Faculty Moments
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Media Moments
Current Student Moments
Future Moments Future
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Alumni Moments
History Has Its Eyes On You
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Elsa Barkley Brown Receives ARHU faculty Service Award
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Elsa Barkley Brown has received the 2024 ARHU Faculty Service Award. She has performed service work for the Department of History and the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, as well as serving the college and the campus. In ARHU she served two terms on the Dean’s Senior Scholar Selection Committee, as well as numerous search committees, the African American Digital Humanities Advisory Board, the Committee on New Technologies, and the Committee to Vet Online Teaching Proposals. For the Department of History and the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Barkley Brown served in several administrative positions inncluding Associate Chair of History. Among her other contributions is work in curriculum development and helping select student award recipientsy. Barkley Brown is especially passionate about securing support for underrepresented and minority students.
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Zach Dorner's book , Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2020) has won the 2024 Edward Kremers Award from the American Institute for the History of Pharmacy. The Kremers Award recognize the author(s) of a specific book, or a series of related articles, in the field of the history of pharmacy and pharmaceuticals that exhibits high standards of scholarship, superior quality, and distinguished merit. Yujie Li is a 2024 recipient of a John W. Kluge Center Fellowship at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. During her residency, she will be working on a project entitled “Silly Old Man Moving the Mountain: Labor and Technology in the Muscle-Powered Sphere of Maoist China.” The Kluge Center encourages humanistic and social science research that makes use of the Library of Congress' collections.
Sarah Cameron is quoted and her book, The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan (Cornell University Press, 2018), is cited in a November 2024 article on the Daily Yonder, a website devoted to rural news and rural issues. See the full article HERE. The Russian translation of Mikhail Dolbilov's book, Life of a Novel Being Created: From the Avantexte toward the Context of Anna Karenina is reviewed in the November 1, 2024 Times Literary Supplement. This review is notable since the TLS only infrequently reviews scholarly monographs in Russian. Read the review HERE. Shay Hazkani gave an extensive interview relating to his book, Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War (Stanford University Press, 2021), in the Isralei newpaper, Haaretz published September 27, 2024. His book has just been published in Hebrew, which sparked the interview. Read the interview HERE. Madeline Hsu was featured in the September 10, 2024 edition of MarylandToday. In the article titled "5 Topics the Presidential Candidates Should Debate Tonight," she discussed the importance of immigration as an issue in the election. Read the article HERE. Madeline was also interviewed by Brian Lehrer for WNYC's "100 Years of 100 Things: Immigration Law" podcast where she discussed the legislative history of immigration law in the US. Listen to the podcast HERE. Michael Ross's class, HIST134 Spies, Assassins, Martyrs, and Witches: Famous Trials in American History, was featured in the October 30, 2024 edition of MarylandToday. The article, titled "Take This Class! Spies, Assassins, Martyrs and Witches" was a fitting prelude to Halloween. Read the article HERE.
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MEDIA MOMENTS
Holly Brewer oublished an open-access article "Whose Fundamental Constitutions?: Locke, Slavery, & Manuscript Evidence" in Locke Studies 24 (2024). On October 4, 2024 Holly published in The New Republic an article titled "Jack Smith Exposed the Insanity of the Supreme Court’s Immunity Ruling." Read the complete article HERE. Jim Gilbert, Distinguished University Professor of American History and Culture Emeritus, has just published his seventh novel, Reunion by the Lake (Atmosphere Press, October 15, 2024. The novel chronicles a family in turmoil, recounting the impending death of the father and the consequences of the unkind and manipulative will that he proposes to leave behind. Rachael Schine has published her first book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race, released by University of Chicago Press. Julie Taddeo's book, co-athored with Katherine Byrne, Rape in Period Drama Television: Consent, Myth, and Fantasy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023, ) was just published in paperback September 2024, and is reviewed in the latest issues of The Modern Language Review and the Journal of Popular Film and Television. Her next co-edited volume (with Katherine Byrne and James Leggott) on "The National Health Service on Television" is now under contract with Routledge. Peter Wien published the article “Problematic Archives: Documentary Knowledge of Modern Iraq between Ex- and Repatriation” in The Middle East Journal 77 (2024): 350-71. It is part of a special issue “Iraq 20 Years after the US Invasion – Violent Memories and Contemporary Struggles,” edited by Achim Rohde and Eckart Woertz.
PUBLISHING
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Richard Bell delivered a luncheon lecture as part of a five-day celebration to mark the centennial of the Marquis de Lafayette's 24-state tour of the new republic of the United States during July-September 1824. Rick talked about Lafayette's progressive social views. The talk, sponsored by the American Friends of Lafayette, was held at the Maryland Center for History and Culture in Baltimore, MD. Rick also participated in a public education program that was part of the 250-year commemoration of the burning of the Peggy Stewart, also known as the Annapolis Tea Party, held at the city dock in Annapolis, MD October 19, 2024. (See photo at right.) Holly Brewer spoke on July 17, 2024 at the 250th anniversary commemoration of "The Fairfax Resolves" at Gunston Hall in Mason Neck, VA, the home of the Resolves' co-author (with George Washington) George Mason. She discussed what the framers of the US Constitution thought about presidential immunity. The talk was filmed fo CSPAN and you can watch it HERE. Holly also spoke at the Living Democracy Symposium on October 10, 2024 at UMD's Stamp Student Union. The Symposium is sponsored by UMD Libraries. This session was focused on civic discourse and how history informs the present and future. Deokhyo Choi presented a paper titled "Remembering Empire: A Search for 'Intertwined Histories of Postcolonial Korea and Japan" at the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual meeting in January 2025 in New Orleans, LA. On October 2, 2024 Madeline Hsu delivered a lecture at the Center for the Study of Democracy and the Asian Studies Program at St. Mary's College of Maryland titled "The Good Imimgrant: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model." The paper gave a historical overview of the Cold War origins of the Asian Model Minority Myth. (See photo at right.) In July 2024, Karin Rosemblatt and PhD student Andrea Gutmann Fuentes organized a week-long graduate workshop at UMD on the History of Science and Knowledge in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ten graduate students from institutions across the US and Latin America presented their dissertation work, received feedback from their peers and three faculty co-organizers, and visited several libraries and archives in the area. This workshop was organized as part of the Red de Estudios de Ciencias y Sabres in Latino America y el Caribe (RECSLAC) initiative funded by the National Science Foundation. Also in July Karin participated in a panel discussion on "Advocacy" as part of a workshop on "Experts, Politics, and Power: Scientific Narratives, Past and Present." The event was part of the centennial celebrations of the History of Science Society and was hosted by the John Kluge Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The panel considered advocacy inside and outside of science, including the experiences of practitioners of science and medicine pushing for change within their communities; the use of science by experts and laypersons in social movements; the interplay of social factors and politics in shaping scientific expertise and policymaking; as well as how historians of science have engaged in advocacy. In September 2024, Karin and Andrea organized a conference hosted at UMD entitled "Narration in and of Histories of Science and Knowledge: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives." The conference was attended by eleven scholars from across the US and Latin America who explored the narrative strategies used by historians of science and knowledge, popular and elite narratives of science in history, and the narratives embedded in the sources and archives historians use. This conference was organized as part of the Red de Estudios de Ciencias y Sabres in Latino America y el Caribe (RECSLAC) initiative funded by the National Science Foundation. Marsha Rozenblitt gave a talk for the Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies on October 21, 2024. This Five Points lecture was titled "Assimilated with Other Jews: How to Make Sense of Modern Jewish History." The focus was on Jewish populatios in nineteenth century Europe. Julie Taddeo and UMD Career Center director Kate Juhl held the Department of History's fourth annual History Alumni Mentoring Panel on October 14, 2024. The panelists included history alumni who graduated between 2015 and 2024 and who now work in a variety of fields, including law, teaching, non-profits, archival research, and government. Julie also chaired a Roundtable session for the annual Northeast Popular and American Culture (NEPCA) conference in October addressing how the period TV series Bridgerton engages with issues of colonialism and race; disability; queerness; sexual violence and consent; and how academics can use period drama as public history. Julie also gave public history lectures in September and October on the Victorian culture of domesticity; Regency England; and Victorian Scandal and Crime. Thomas Zeller was one of the invited speakers at the conference “Cultures of Automobility” at the University of Konstanz, Germany, October 10-12, 2024. The conference was organized by a research group in the Department of Literature, Art and Media Studies called “Off the Road: The Environmental Aesthetics of Early Automobility.” Tom's paper was entitled “Automobility and the Environment: Creating, Seeing, Changing, Polluting” and was part of a roundtable called “Road Narrative Infrastructures.”
PRESENTING
Shannon Duffy (PhD, 2008, Advisor Allison Olson) has been promoted to Professor of Instruction at Texas State University, San Marcos, TX UMD Department of History alumni Evan Friss (BA 2002) has published with Penquin Random House a new book titled The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore. The book is inspired by his love of bookstores, including those where his wife has worked. See the story about the book in the August 6, 2024 edition of MarylandToday HERE. Sheldon Goldberg (PhD 2012 Advisor Jeffrey Herf) has an article, "A Memoir and Short but True History of the Nite Owl FAC Program, October 1969-March 1970" that will be published in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal. With Mike Rugel, Director of Programs for the Museum of American Jewish Military History, Goldberg was interviewed in October 2024 by the local ABC affiliate Channel 7 about the Museum, its collections, and the recently opened Vietnam War exhibit, which features Goldberg's own military career and combat experience. He also now represents two chapters of Maryland’s Military Order of the World Wars in the Maryland Military Coalition. Claire Goldstene (PhD 2009 Advisor Gary Gerstle) co-edited (with Eric Fure-Slocum) and also has an essay in a new book Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History (Working Class in American History) (University of Illinois Press, 2024). The book was named among the "best higher education books of 2024" by Forbes. The book "is an interdisciplinary examination of the work of contingent faculty, a group that now makes up more than half of college and university faculty." Katie Labor's (PhD 2023 Advisor Holly Brewer) work on the "small histories" of the city of Baltimore was featured in MarylandToday. Labor's hyperlocal study examines the histories of houses in the city. Read the full story in the October 7, 2024 issue of MarylandToday HERE. Nicole Mahoney (PhD 2020 Advisor Richard Bell) accepted a new job as Public Historian at the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies at Iona University in New Rochelle, NY. She previously worked at the Center for Women's History at the New York Historical Society; the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the National Constitution Center; and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Scott O. Moore (PhD 2015 Advisor Marsha Rozenblit) has published a new book, The Witch of Pungo: Grace Sherwood in Virginia History and Legend (University of Virginia Press, 2024). Ayah Nuriddin (HiLS 2014 Advisor Sonya Michel), now assistant professor in the History of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, was awarded the Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Fund Early Career Development award at the 2024 American Association of the History of Medicine conference in Kansas City, MO. The award is given yearly for outstanding work in 20th century history of medicine or medical biomedical sciences to turn a PhD dissertation into a publishable monograph. Nuriddin will use the award towards the preparation of her eagerly awaited monograph project on Black eugenics. Amy Rutenberg (PhD 2013 Advisor Robyn Muncy), now associate professor of History at Iowa State University, won Iowa State's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2024 Award for Inclusive Excellence. .Justin Shapiro (PhD 2020 Advisor Thomas Zeller), currently postdoctoral associate in Climate Pedagogy at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, published an article in the Journal of Urban History titled "Infrastructure and Inequality in Washington, D.C.: Environmental Change and Federal Management of the District’s Forgotten River," (2024). Read the article HERE.
ALUMNI MOMENTS
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Lauren Cain (PhD Candidate Advisor Robyn Muncy) has been awarded a Digital History Seed Grant from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS). Lexi Kadis (HiLS Student Advisor Julie Taddeo) has published an article titled "Japanese Acrobats as Athletes on the Victorian Stage: The Victorian Reception of Japanese Acrobaic Troupes, 1867-70" in Victorians Institute Journal 51 (November 2024). Kadis also presented a paper "The Welfare of Children in the Fantastical Worlds of Diana Wynne Jones" at the 2024 Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association in October 2024 online and at Nichols College, Dudley, MA. Caitlin Kennedy (PhD Candidate Advisor Julie Greene) presented a paper "Lynching and Italian Immigrants in Southern Appalachia" on a panel entitled "Immigration Politics in the Postbellum South" at the Southern Historical Association Conference in Kansas City, MO on October 27, 2024. Yu-ling Lai (MA Student Advisor Ting Zhang) presented a conference paper titled "From ‘Rainy Night Flowers’ to Cherry Blossoms: Taiwanese Songs as War Tools” at the James A. Rawley Graduate Conference in the Humanities in October 2024 at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, NE. Nicholas Mitsukanis (PhD Candidate Advisor Jeffrey Herf) was published in the September 2024 edition of Sources and Methods blog of the Wison Center's History and Public Policy Program. Read the blog post titled "Helmut Schmidt’s Nuclear Ambitions: A Cautionary Tale" HERE. Leah Rasmussen (Phd Student Advisor Sarah Cameron) has won the John Snell Memorial Prize for best graduate seminar paper in European history from the European Section of the Southern Historical Association. Her paper is entitled: "The Art of Collapse: The 1988-Sotheby's Soviet Auction Pact." 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. 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.
undergraduate Moments
History Undergrads at the UMD First Look Fair 2024 Photo courtesy of Kate Keane
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HUA Advisor Julie Taddeo and Rob Chiles. Photos courtesy HUA
In September and October 2024, the History Undergraduate Association (Advisor Julie Taddeo) held their annual Welcome Back Ice Cream Social and their first ever "Wiki Speed Run" event as well as their popular History Trivia Night. HUA also sponsored the very popular annual reading of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol with Rob Chiles from the Department of History faculty leading the reading in which students also participated. See more photos on the following page courtesy of HUA. Lulu Long (2027) is working as an intern with the Slavery, Law, and Power Project housed in the Department of History under the direction of Holly Brewer. Long has been working with original documents that help in understanding early America. Read the full story HERE. Peter Smith, a double major in History and Computer Science, presented a paper at the 2025 Biennial Phi Alpha Theta Conference in Arlington, VA. His paper, "Transcendent Communities: Categorizing Transgender Communities in the United States, from the 1960s through the 1980s," drew on research completed in his HIST408 Major Capstone Seminar taught by Kate Keane.
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The UMD Department of History is hosting a Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska, from the University of Warszawa (Warsaw), Poland, working with Piotr Kosicki. Her research project explores the anti-abortion movement in Poland from the 1970s to the 1990s. Read more HERE.
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IN MEMORIaM
The Department of History is saddened to learn of the death of Professor Emeritus Marvin A. Breslow. He was a faculty member in the Department from 1962 to 2000. In retirement, Marvin served as parliamentarian of the University Senate for a number of years. He was also a former Chair of the University Senate. He will be buried in Lincoln, NE where he was born. The Department of History has also received sad news of the death of Professor Emeritus John Robert Lampe on September 6, 2024. He passed away after a brief illness at age 88. He was born December 7, 1935 in Duluth, MN and graduated from Harvard University in 1957. He also studied at the London School of Economics in the UK. He served in the US Army and then was a US Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State. He completed his PhD at the University of Wisconsin. He taught for many years at the University of Maryland, where he served as Chairman of the Department of History. He was also Secretary of the East European Program and a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Burial will be in Minnesota. More sad news comes to the Department of History with the death of Keith Waldemar Olson, Professor Emeritus. He was 92 and died peacefully at his home in Shelburne, VT on June 8, 2024. Keith was born on August 4, 1931 in Poughkeepsie and was raised in Hyde Park, NY, the son and grandson of Swedish immigrants. He was a US Army veteran of the Korean War. Subsequently, he earned degrees from the State University of NY (SUNY), Albany (BA 1957; MA 1959) and the University of Wisconsin (PhD1964). He taught at Syracuse University before coming to the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was a faculty member in the Department of History from 1966 to 2008. The Department of History has also received sad news of the death of Professor Emerita Mary Kay Vaughn, born in 1942, who died at her home in Mexico in December 2024.
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Top L tp R Keith W. Olson, Marvin A. Breslow Bottom L to R John R. Lampe, Mary Kay Vaughan (at left in the photo) (Photo courtesy Duke University Press)
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The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies will host a talk entitled "Benevolent Western Sponsors? Transnational Exchanges of the Polish Anti-Abortion Movement (1970s-1990s" by Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska, University of Warsaw (Poland), Visiting Fulbright Scholar; in conversation with Katarina Keane Thursday February 27, 12:30 - 2 pm, FS Key Hall 2120 Women in communist Poland had access to abortion on demand. But in 1993, after the democratic transition, the Polish Parliament passed a near-total abortion ban. The anti-abortion movement played a prominent role in this shift. Beginning in the mid-1970s, the Polish “right to life” movement worked in tandem with “pro-life” organizations from the United States, the hub of a transnational anti-abortion movement. Through their networks, they exchanged “pro-life” materials, activists, and strategies in the last decades of communism and during the Polish transition to democracy. Prof. Kuźma-Markowska probes Polish activists’ agency in relations with their “benevolent Western sponsors,” their adaptation of American ideas, and the tensions they illuminate among U.S. anti-abortion activists. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP by 12 noon February 24 HERE
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