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I have been on leave this year, finishing up research for a book tentatively titled: "Catholic Ladies and Culture Wars: Gender,the Church, and Mexican Politics, 1750-1940." I made several trips to Mexico City, Morelia, Guadalajara, Zamora, andCelaya using church archives, for the most part, to test my hypothesis that women's various relationships to the church--theirleadership of devotional associations, their role in religious education, their role as activist nuns--had an important impact onpolitics throughout this period.Thomas DandeletThe past year was marked by the publication of "Spain in Italy, 1500-1700," a volume that I co-edited with John Marino. Itbrings together nineteen essays by leading Italian, Spanish, German, French and American historians in the field, and includesmy essay entitled "Paying for St. Peter's." I was also invited to give a paper on the Colonna family, the present topic of myresearch, at a conference at the Spanish Academy in Rome this past May. In that same month, I traveled to New York toreceive a Guggenheim fellowship that I was awarded to continue work on the Colonna project.Jan de VriesJan de Vries returned this year to full-time teaching after serving seven years as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. Hisbook, The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present, is scheduled forpublication in April by Cambridge University Press.Beshara DoumaniBeshara Doumani is spending 2007-2008 academic year as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, HarvardUniversity. He is working on a book on gender, law, and the political economy of family life in the Eastern Mediterraneanduring Ottoman times. His recent publications include the production of a special issue of the Jerusalem Quarterly, "SocialBiographies and Family Histories." and an article, "Palestine Versus the Palestinians? The Iron Laws and Ironies of a PeopleDenied," in the Journal of Palestine Studies.Paula FassAs a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, Paula Fass was able to spend the last academic year at the Centerfor Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. While there, she worked on her book on parents and children in Americanhistory since 1800 and led an international group of scholars in conversations on the history of children and youth. Her bookof essays, Children of A New World: Society, Culture, and Globalization (New York University Press) was published earlierthis fall. Several of the essays that appear in the collection have appeared in journals published in Chile, France and Turkeyduring the past two years. She also made an appearance at an international symposium on public fears about children at theNew School in New York, which aims to bring scholars and the general public together to talk about subjects of generalconcern.Victoria FredeMy most exciting pedagogical experience in the academic year 2006-2007 was a freshman seminar I taught on Heresy andBlasphemy in Modern Europe (including Russia): the charisma of Berkeley's first-year students is impressive. I was alsodelighted by the inquisitiveness of students in my lecture survey of Imperial Russia. This academic year, I am on leave,finishing my book on atheism and other forms of unbelief among educated Russians in the nineteenth century. Next year, Ilook forward to teaching a course on Russian intellectual history.
Kathleen FrydlI spent fall of 2006 on leave in Washington DC working on my book; looking back, I have memories of a beautiful autumnreplete with long walks, relaxing dinners with friends, and enough time to get productive work done. I'm sure this is thenostalgic effect that a busy teaching schedule has on memories of sabbatical. Still, all of those things happened for at leastsome of the time I was away.When I returned to Berkeley in the spring of 2007, I returned to the classroom. I lectured for the first time with amicrophone, something I will do again in spring of 2008 when I teach history 7b, the large lower division lecture taught formany years by Leon Litwack. Another first for me last spring: after my move to San Francisco in January of this year, I cameto campus via BART. I am now part of a small but energetic and growing band of Berkeley history faculty who live in SF.Like the others (I daresay), I am extremely satisfied with my life in the city, but of course campus and the halls of Dwinellecontinue to be another sort of home and, as it sometimes seems, my real residence.Samuel HaberI've thoroughly enjoyed teaching my Freshman/Sophomore Seminar, Concept & Image: Movies as Historical Documents forUnderstanding of United States' History, 1920-1945. The students are lively and some of the discussions have been exciting.I have continued my research in American Jewish history and have gone public with two articles for the just publishedEncyclopedia of American Jewish History (Stephen H. Norwood and Eunice Pollack, eds.). The first article is on HoraceKallen, the creator and advocate of the notion of cultural pluralism, and the second is a study of the thought of Robert KingMerton, the perpetrator of the new subdiscipline, the sociology of science.Roger HahnI helped plan, chaired and spoke at Humanities West's weekend program on Voltaire and the French Enlightenment lastOctober in San Francisco. My talk was focused on reconciling Voltaire's strong belief in religious toleration, even as hewrote and spoke against Judaism and Islam.David HenkinI have spent a fair amount this past year speaking about my book, The Postal Age: The Emergence of ModernCommunications in Nineteenth-Century America (Chicago, 2006), in a wide variety of venues -- at the Berkeley PostOffice, the American Philatelic Society, the National Postal Museum, various bookstores, a bar in the Mission District, onthe radio, and wherever else people have seemed disposed to listen. I also participated in a recent conference at NewsweekMagazine entitled "Bookishness: Reading and Writing After Print Culture."Carla HesseThis past year I taught two courses--a lecture course and a graduate seminar--both focused on the French Revolution. Thestudents in both courses were absolutely fantastic, I learned a huge amount from them, and they remind me every day justhow lucky and privileged I am to teach at Berkeley. Two undergraduates in the lecture course have become my researchassistants and they are helping me to finish my book about the infamous Revolutionary Tribunals and the problem of politicaljustice during the French Revolution. I also have a graduate student research assistant who is close to completion of a 10year project we have been working on with the Bancroft Library, to catalogue and make accessible about 10,000 FrenchRevolutionary pamphlets. We have discovered that a significant number (in the 100s) of these pamphlets were previouslyunknown anywhere in the world--including at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Allez les ours! And, oh yes, vive la
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