Annual Newsletter 2007_Full.pdf - Department of History, UC Berkeley

Conference, meeting with the Golden Key Society chapter at UC, and speaking to the Regents and Chancellor's ScholarsAssociation (RCSA). In April, at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Minneapolis(commemorating its bicentennial) I participated in a panel, "The OAH and the Teaching of History in the Schools andColleges," and in the Plenary Session on "[OAH] Presidential Memories." I have also continued my work with high schoolteachers of history, speaking in the summer institute sponsored by the UC History-Social Science Project. During thesummer of 2007, I spoke at Stanford to the annual session of The Junior Statesmen Summer School, in September I gavethe James Herndon Lecture at the San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society, and in November Ilectured at Kent State University and Oberlin College. In November I also attended the annual convention of the SouthernHistorical Association in Richmond, Virginia, where I was installed as the new president. I was also deeply honored to bedesignated by the SHA the first recipient of the John Hope Franklin Lifetime Achievement Award. (I first met Franklin as hisreader in a course in U.S. social history at UC in the summer of 1957.) I will be giving the presidential address in October2008 at the SHA meeting in New Orleans, and that should coincide with the publication of How Free is Free? The BlackStruggle from Jim Crow to the Present (Harvard Univ. Press), based on the Nathan Huggins lectures. I am now writing thethird volume of my trilogy on the African American experience in the South, Never Turn Back: The Black South and WorldWar II.Maureen MillerAfter spending the entire spring 2007 semester empanelled on a jury in the most boring civil case ever heard in the HaywardCounty Court House, I fled the country. Just in the nick of time, too, since the Vatican Library had announced that it wasclosing for three years, beginning July 15th, in order to undertake a major structural renovation of its palazzo. Undeterred byobvious cracks in the ceiling over our heads in the Sala di Manoscritti and by construction equipment already lurchingmenacingly in the courtyard, I and hundreds of other scholars enjoyed last glimpses of medieval manuscripts from theVatican's incomparable collections. For all that, it was really quite pleasant. I returned with excellent material on vestingprayers and began writing my book on clerical clothing in medieval Rome on a welcome leave supported by a fellowshipfrom the American Council of Learned Societies.Carlos NoreñaI have been on leave this last year, completing my book, The Circulation of Imperial Ideals in the Roman West, on the figureof the Roman emperor as a unifying symbol for the western Roman empire.Sheldon RothblattMy book on the controversies over merit selection, elitism and affirmative action appeared in January 2007 under the title"Education's Abiding Moral Dilemma: Merit and Worth in the Cross-Atlantic Democracies, 1800-2006." The countriesinvolved in the study are England, Scotland and the U.S. I will be giving the keynote address to a conference on privatizationin higher education to be held in January 2008 at the Technion, Haifa, Israel. I have also been invited to give the annual SirDouglas Robb Lectures at the University of Auckland in New Zealand in March 2008. The University is celebrating itsJubilee, and the subject of the lectures will be Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California who died at age 92in 2003.Raphael Sealeytwo scripts of mine were published in the first half of 2007:1. an article: "Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 57.4: Trial of Animals and Inanimate Objects for Homicide," in Classical Quarterly56 (2006)475-485,