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Letter from the ChairDiane KoenkerOur faculty arethe heart of ourenterprise.It is always a pleasure to review with our alumni and friends the state of the departmentand the role we play in creating and sharing knowledge through our researchand teaching. History holds a unique place in the academic universe as the crossroadsof the liberal arts. A history degree also positions our graduates at the crossroads ofemployment possibilities. We celebrate the success of our students who have leveragedtheir history undergraduate degrees into careers as teachers, museum curators, defenseanalysts, lawyers, public servants, and so much more. Our history Ph.D.s have likewisebecome leaders and teachers in colleges and universities and also in other pursuitsincluding the professions of medicine and finance.I invite you to read about the achievements and successes of our current facultyand students in the pages of this newsletter. Here let me bring you up to date with somenews of the department, where the academic year 2012–13 has brought tumult as wellas opportunity. Gregory Hall has been undergoing major reconstruction to upgradeits heating and cooling systems, and this year the project required the majority of ourfaculty to vacate their offices and move to temporary quarters on Springfield Avenue.The rest of us endured eight months of dust, noise, and construction delays. Our exilesreturned in January to newly efficient office lighting and heating, and we are happyto welcome them back home. The department also had to face the departure of twostalwart staff members: Janet Langendorf retired in May 2012 after seventeen years ofservice to the department; and Elaine Sampson retired in June 2012 from her positionas graduate secretary. We welcome Stephanie Landess to the department as Elaine’sreplacement, and we wish her the same satisfactions in serving our graduate studentsthat her predecessors enjoyed. There was turnover in department faculty leadership aswell: I am delighted to be assisted in coordinating our curriculum by John Randolph asDirector of Undergraduate Studies for 2012–14 and by Adrian Burgos, Jr. as Director ofGraduate Studies and Associate Chair for 2012–14.Retirements and resignations have taken their toll on our faculty strength, and weare excited this year to be authorized to search for a new assistant professor in pretwentieth-centuryAfrican-American history and to fill the Thomas M. Siebel ChairFront Cover: Dessalines Ripping the White from the Flag, by Madsen Mompremier(1995), oil painting on canvas. In this highly colorful and symbolic image, the contemporaryHaitian painter Madsen Mompremier depicts one of the foundational moments inthe Haitian Revolution: on May 18, 1803, General Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a revolutionaryhero and first President of the independent “Black Republic,” uses his saber to cutout the white stripe—symbolizing ancient monarchy—from the French tricolor flag. Onthe right, Dessalines’ goddaughter Catherine Flon, who is often called the Haitian BetsyRoss, sews together the two remaining pieces, thereby creating Haiti’s blue and red stateflag. In the background of the painting, Haitian soldiers wear French-style bicorn (ortwo-cornered) hats and epaulettes while in the foreground a large, tropical tree referencesthe “liberty trees” of the American Revolution. Every May 18th, Haitians stillcelebrate le jour du drapeau as their national day of independence.On the interconnections between the three Atlantic revolutions of the late eighteenthand early nineteenth centuries, see pp. 2–3 of the newsletter, as well as Philippe R.Girard, “Birth of a Nation: The Creation of the Haitian Flag and Haiti’s French RevolutionaryHeritage,” in The Journal of Haitian Studies, 15 (2009), 135–150.History @ IllinoisEditors:Mark S. MicaleDana RabinDesigned byGretchen WieshuberStudio 2DPhotographs byJerry Thompson2 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Contentsin the History of Science. We will report on the results of these searches in next year’sHistory@Illinois. We know that we can make to our chosen candidates extremely attractiveoffers, which include the opportunity to work with outstanding graduate studentsand to participate in the lively intellectual life centering around our reading groups andcoordinated by our programming group, the planned Center for Historical Interpretation.We can also offer them the opportunity to teach their specialties to history majorsand to those hundreds more who may make a history course one of the stops on theiritinerary to their university degree. Excellent teaching and pioneering scholarship havealways gone hand in hand in the Department of History.Our faculty are the heart of our enterprise. They teach and inspire undergraduates.The histories they write engage reading publics of great diversity: they write for broadgeneral audiences, for university and college students, and for specialists in their fields,creating the knowledge that informs public life and academic endeavors alike. Ourfaculty come to the University of Illinois because here they can pursue their passion forthe creation of historical knowledge, they can help transmit knowledge and train thenext generation of scholars through our vibrant graduate program, they can participatein the lively intellectual life of a campus whose lectures, conferences, workshops, filmseries, concerts, and much more provide an abundant intellectual and cultural atmospherethat rivals any university anywhere.As many of you know, public support from the State of Illinois for university educationhas been declining, and the difference is being made up with increased tuition andthrough private gifts. We rely now on the generosity of our alumni and friends as neverbefore. This year, the department has launched a special campaign to create a prize forthe best undergraduate honors thesis, to be named in honor of Professor Mark Leff, amarvelous and inspiring teacher who retired in the spring of 2012. Please join Mark’sfriends and colleagues in giving to the department to establish this prize. You can findmore details on pages 9–10 of this issue.Many of you may also know about the nationwide decline in the number of historymajors, as young people respond to current economic uncertainty by seeking training inspecialties they perceive to be more immediately “marketable.” Yet history, at the crossroadsof the liberal arts, offers ideal training for life, honing skills in critical thinking,analysis, writing, and citizenship, and it should be in the center of a university education,not on the sidelines. I am sure that many of you, graduates in history at Illinois,can testify to the value that your degree has brought to your life. Please send us yourtestimonials, and let us appreciate together the critical contribution that history educationmakes to our public discourse.With warm wishes,DianePerforming the FrenchRevolution . .............2World Historyfrom Below .............4The Professor as PublicHistorian . ..............5Books by SeniorAmericanists . ...........7Mark Leff Retires ........9Faculty Promotions .....10Friends of HistoryUpdate . ...............11Department of HistoryDonors . ...............12Koslofsky’s Historyof the Night . ...........14New Faculty Hires ......15Kurhajec Wins CampusTeaching Award ........16Faculty Awards,2011–2013 . ............17DGS Letter ............18Graduate Job Placementsand Fellowships .........20New Graduate Class . ....20Recent Ph.D.s Awarded . . 21Annual AwardsCelebration ............22Undergrad Awardsand Honors . ...........23Senior Honors Theses ...23Fritzsche Investiture ....24Faculty Profiles . ........26Emeriti Updates . .......30Alumni News ..........32Alumni Form ..........33History @ Illinois 1

Performing the French RevolutionSome things never seem to change. Take theFrench Revolution. Every course in Western historyfeatures the French Revolution as an epic, transformationalevent, so pivotal in fact that it typicallyserves as the hinge event between the modern andearly modern worlds.But the way the French Revolution can betaught does change. Beginning in the spring semesterof 2012, Associate Professor Clare Crowstonoffered her first version of “History 349: The Age ofRevolution, 1775–1815,” which features a dramaticallyinnovative teaching practice: an eight-weeksession of historical reenactments performed by thestudents themselves.Chronologically, Crowston’s course extends wellbeyond the customary years of 1789–1795. Theforty-year span running from the 1770s to the firstdecades of the nineteenth century witnessed threeinterlocking revolutionary upheavals—in BritishNorth America, France, and the Caribbean islandof Saint-Domingue (the modern nation of Haiti).Together, the American, French, and Haitian revolutionsfundamentally and permanently changedEuropean—and indeed, world—history and left anongoing legacy of ideals and conflicts for today’sworld. Crowston’s course examines the political,social, economic, and cultural aspects of these overlappingrevolutionary movements as well as theirmajor events, ideas, personalities, and outcomes.Crowston also explores how fundamental “ordinarypeople”—such as peasants, sailors, women,enslaved Africans, and native Amerindians—wereto these revolutions.The really exceptional component of thenew course involves the historical reenactments.Crowston selected a key revolutionary institution,namely, the French National Assembly of1790–1791, which drafted France’s first constitution.Each of the 35 undergraduates in the coursewas assigned a role and became responsible forresearching his or her historical character andmaking oral and written presentations intended topersuade the other students to take their side in theissues and voting of the National Assembly. Someroles were of famous, real-life characters (includingLouis XVI, the marquis de Lafayette, MaximilienRobespierre, and Georges Danton) whereas otherswere of groups of people, such as aristocrats, Catholicclergy, Jacobins, and members of the Parisiancrowd. Each student was responsible for proposingnew laws from the perspective of their groupor faction and for debating the merits of theirproposals in speeches to the Assembly. Reflectingthe exclusionary voting laws of the time, membersof the crowd watched the debates from the sidelinesand had to seek informal ways to make theiropinions known, sometimes by staging impromptu“riots” in the streets of Paris. Issues debated inthe Assembly—such as human rights, the role ofthe church, the abolition of slavery, and the fateof the king—echoed the real legislative agenda ofthe country during the early 1790s. The winningfaction won a small bonus in their grades forthe course.Two years ago, while attending a conference,Crowston had seen a poster presentation aboutthe experimental use of student role playing inthe college classroom. The idea appealed to her atonce. Eventually, she set to work drawing on coursematerials developed as part of the Reacting to the2 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Past Series sponsored by Barnard College in NewYork City. A particular challenge was to providestudents with enough relevant information so theycould creatively perform their historical roles. Inthe opening weeks of the semester, she ran conventionallecture and discussion classes covering theAmerican Revolution and the background to theFrench Revolution. Students then received “rolesheets” outlining their character’s background andgoals, and they read a course set of primary sourcesfrom the period. Their written assignments took theform of newspaper articles couched in the voice oftheir character, which were distributed by studenteditors. Students had to incorporate the results ofclassroom debates into their articles as well as theirown research in relevant primary and secondarysources.So how did the trial run of History 349 go?Crowston acknowledges that at the outset she wasuncertain about the new pedagogical approach.By mid-semester, however, she was already verypleased with the results. The course, she concludes,was “extremely successful.” The students, shereports, were consistently much more involved withthe historical material than in any previous courseshe had taught in her career. “The shouting andcheering that accompanied class reenactmentsseemed like a good sign that the students werereally engaged—as well as the almost perfect attendanceduring the performances.” To gain morepoints in the game, a few students dressed for theirhistorical parts and members of the crowd sang arevolutionary song in French.Crowston adds that she had many more opportunitiesto interact with the students than in a“normal” course; she was alsoable to discover hidden talentsand unexpected aspects of theirpersonalities. A nice sense ofadventure developed in thecourse: “No one knew exactlywhat would happen each day,which was a little scary but alsoexciting.” Not unexpectedly, shenow plans to offer the courseregularly.And what about thoseultimate judges, the studentsthemselves? In an anonymousquestionnaire at the semester’send, undergrads reported thatthey enjoyed the experiencegreatly and in fact would rememberit much better than theirother courses. They commentedfurther that they especially likedgetting to know their classmatesby working with them in novelways. Several students statedthat they really appreciatedlearning about these past revolutionsby entering into the mindsetsand experiences of historicalactors.It would be difficult toimagine a better examplethan Crowston’s new course ofwhat educational theorists call“active learning.”Beginning in thespring semester of2012, Associate ProfessorClare Crowstonoffered her first versionof “History 349: TheAge of Revolution,1775–1815,” which featuresa dramaticallyinnovative teachingpractice: an eight-weeksession of historicalreenactments performedby the studentsthemselves.History @ Illinois 3

The Center for Historical Interpretation’s“World Histories from Below” Series, 2011–14“WorldHistoryfromBelow”registerstwo mainintentions:first, adesire anddeterminationtohighlightthe manymicroprocessesby whichhistoricalevents with“global”significancehave takenplace.by Antoinette BurtonThe case for studying and teaching world historyhas arguably been made, but how best to go aboutdoing it is by no means self-evident. Beginningin 2011–12, I organized an ambitious multi-yearproject in the History Department—including areading group, speaker series, a teacher’s workshop,conferences, and visiting scholars—aroundthe question of what a “bottom-up” view of worldhistory might look like: empirically, methodologicallyand pedagogically. Given the myriad interestsof our own faculty—which encompass cities, thebody, labor, revolution, law, war, empire, the visual,medicine, sports, slavery, media, religion, colonialism,technology, welfare, and nationalism, to namejust several—this capacious theme speaks to almostall of us in one way or another.As we have developed it, the rubric “WorldHistory from Below” registers two main intentions:first, a desire and determination to highlight themany micro processes by which historical eventswith “global” significance have taken place—inother words, to materialize a kind of “structuralbelow”; and second, a commitment to enlargingthe scope or scale of the terrain recognized as “theworld” by making visible a variety of geographicallocations outside the conventional West whereworld-historical events with wide-ranging impacthave happened but without registering on theconventional map of “world” history—to excavate,in other words, a kind of “geographical below,”primarily by studying histories produced in and bythe global south.Clearly, what appears to be “below” both structurallyand geographically depends very much onwhere the historian speaks, looks, thinks, writes,and teaches from. Among the aims of this projectat the Center for Historical Interpretation, then, isto explore the ways in which the centrality of ourown North American location, and the West as ageographical/civilizational concept more generally,might be rethought and revised by histories beyondthe U.S.In the first year of the project, our faculty andgraduate participants worked to define the possibilitiesand problems of the field through collectivereadings about global systems linked by oceans,comparative slavery, the uses of graphic history topresent global experience, and pre-modern globalworlds, among others. Under the able leadership ofKathryn Oberdeck during the 2012–2013 academicyear, we focused on issues of shelter, sanitation,water, and other basic services as these connectthe most fundamentally local issues of life at thestructural “below” to global themes of migration,exchange, and power. In our third and final yearof the project, we plan to engage in activities thatexplore the theme of “Grassroots Histories,” a categorywe will use to address both past politics andenvironmental history.The past few years, the U of I history department’s“World Histories from Below” initiativehas taken the feedback-loop between research andteaching very seriously. In practice, this has meantdeveloping syllabus-writing sessions for graduatestudents who are preparing a preliminary examinationfield in Global history or who may wanteventually to teach world history at any curricularlevel. We have also organized teachers’ workshopsfor local and regional secondary educators to sharethe fruits of our labors with them and help to bringcutting edge scholarship into middle and highschool classrooms. In addition to widely attendedreading groups, we mounted an “Empires fromBelow” international conference in the Spring of2012 and organized a week-long Visiting Professorresidence by South African scholar RichardPithouse during the spring semester of thiscurrent year.Thus far, we have been generously supported inour endeavors by the College of Liberal Arts andSciences, the Office of Public Engagement, the IllinoisProgram for Research in the Humanities, theProvost’s Initiative on Teaching Advancement, andthe Friends of History. We hope to secure commitmentsfrom inside and outside the University thatwill establish the Center for Historical Interpretationas a permanent institution that brings togetherhistorical work from across the campus and thatcontinues to deploy historical thinking in an effortto examine the critical issues of the day.For more information, including a calendar ofupcoming events, please consultworldhistoriesfrombelow.org/4 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Professor as Public HistorianIn September, 2012, U of I Swanland Professorof History Frederick E. Hoxie was named annualwinner of the American Indian History LifetimeAchievement Award. Hoxie’s achievement followsdecades of teaching and scholarship in the field ofNative American history. However, the honor alsorecognizes his wide-ranging service as a public historian,an important and highly admirable aspectof his career with which many members of theuniversity community may be unfamiliar.Public historians seek to create and shape thestudy of the past for people outside of the academy.Increasing in prominence and prestige since the1970s, the practice of public history typicallytakes place in settings such as museums, libraries,archives, and historical sites, as well as inthe making of films and documentaries. Anothervenue is courts and tribunals, where professionallytrained scholars bring their disciplinary expertiseto bear on contemporary legal issues.Hoxie’s extra-academic work began when hewas only 30 years old. Fresh out of graduate school,he was contacted in 1977 by the Justice Departmentunder the administration of President JimmyCarter. In the case of Solem vs. Bartlett, the U.S.Supreme Court was re-evaluating the meaningof several early twentieth-century laws that hadopened traditional Sioux Indian lands in SouthDakota for homesteading by non-Indians. JusticeDepartment lawyers had discovered Hoxie’s recentBrandeis dissertation—an examination of earlytwentieth-century federal U.S.-Indian land policyin the western states—so they hired him. Followingadditional archival research and extensive interviewswith Sioux tribal elders, Hoxie prepared andfiled a detailed historical brief. It must have beentremendously exciting for the young post-doc whenthe high court unanimously upheld his side of thecase—with an opinion written by Justice ThurgoodMarshall.Over the next three decades, Hoxie participatedin several other court cases concerning disputesover the status of tribal land. The rulings havesometimes been those for which he advocated andsometimes not. In the mid–1990s, he worked onsuits that challenged, unsuccessfully, the WashingtonRed Skins’ trademark over its racially derogatoryname. In the late Clinton years, he prepareda historical portfolio and then personally testifiedat the federal district courtlevel, in a case that successfullyextended the 1965 Voting RightsAct to Native Americans livingin Blaine County, Montana.Two other cases that he advisedoccurred in south centralMichigan during the GeorgeW. Bush administration, whenOttawa and Chippewa communitiesclashed with local officialsover treaty-based hunting andfishing rights.Building on these experiences,in the early 2000s Hoxiebegan regularly to assist theWashington-based National Frederick E. HoxieCongress of American Indians,the leading organization for the protection and promotionof the rights of Native American peoples.Hoxie’s latest work is for a case before the SupremeCourt involved the Narragansett Indian Tribe ofRhode Island, which sought to enlarge its reservationlands using a statute passed during the NewDeal. Unfortunately, in this case, only recentlysettled, the Court rejected the position outlined byHoxie and a group of historians in their Amicusbrief. Hoxie clearly has found his work in the legalworld to be fascinating; he notes with gratificationthat during his lifetime Native Americans havebecome a good deal more adept at defending theirrights legally and that understanding betweenthe two sides in most of these past disputes hasincreased significantly. Not surprisingly, Hoxietoday is an affiliate faculty member of the U of ICollege of Law.Another setting for Hoxie’s public service hasbeen museums. Prior to joining the Departmentof History, Hoxie had served as vice-president forresearch and education at Chicago’s NewberryLibrary. Reflecting his excellent record at theNewberry, in 1990 he was appointed a FoundingTrustee of the National Museum of the AmericanIndian, part of the vast Smithsonian Institutioncomplex on the Washington Mall. What a thrillingproject for a scholar! On and off during thenext decade and a half, he and other trusteeswere directly involved in formalizing the NMAI’smission, hiring the architect, overseeing the designHistory @ Illinois 5

The Professor as Public Historian, continuedof the main building, setting out the permanentinstallations, and participating in the opening ceremoniesin the fall of 2004. The one professionalhistorian on the board, his knowledge and expertisewere particularly important at the formativestages of the undertaking. Especially challenging,he recalls, was preserving the core identity of themuseum whilepower in Congressshiftedback andforth betweenDemocratsand Republicansduringthe foundingyears.Despitethe controversies along the way, the final resultwas a smashing success. The huge, bold, curvilinearbuilding that now adorns the southeasterncorner of the national Mall, in the shadow of theU.S. Capitol, was primarily designed by DouglasJoseph Cardinal, a Canadian architect of Métisand Blackfoot heritage. Natural light floods thestunning atrium space of the structure. Millionsof interested viewers, only a fraction of whom arehistorians, visit the NMAI each year. A storagefacility and library for scholars in nearby Suitland,Maryland complements the main museum. Hoxieis especially pleased that the museum maintainsregular working connections with many indigenouscommunities across the nation, a policy he soughtto implement.In court rooms, museums, libraries, athistoric sites and museum exhibitions,Hoxie has succeeded in makinghistory interesting and meaningfulfor great numbers of people outsideof academia.As if these activities weren’t enough, Hoxie hasalso chaired the Committee on Cooperation withthe National Park Service of The Organization ofAmerican Historians. In this role, he and his committeearrange visits by OAH members to Indiansites across the continent in order to evaluate themfor historic preservation and federal funding. Hoxiewas personally involved in evaluating programmingat the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument,in eastern Montana, a historic site previouslynamed after George Armstrong Custer and perenniallyengaged in interpretive controversies involvingwhite westerners and American Indians.Most recently, Hoxie curated an exhibition atthe Newberry Library in Chicago to commemoratethe bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition.Supported by the National Endowment for theHumanities and corporate sponsors, “Lewis andClark and the Indian Country” was on display forthree months in Chicago before embarking on arecently-completed five-year national tour.Beginning in the 2012–13 academic year, Hoxieis bringing his expertise to the U of I curriculum:he has designed a new course titled “PublicHistory,” which will introduce undergraduates tothe main varieties of public history work, includingmemorials, museum exhibits, and documentaryfilms. Students taking the course actually developcollectively a public exhibition.In court rooms, museums, libraries, at historicsites and museum exhibitions, Hoxie has succeededin making history interesting and meaningfulfor great numbers of people outside ofacademia.6 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Senior Americanists at the Top of Their GameJim Barrett and Bruce Levine—two of the department’sbest-known and most accomplished historiansof American history—published majorhistorical studies this past year, and both works arealready attracting acclaim. Barrett’s The Irish Way:Becoming American in the Multi-Ethnic City andLevine’s The Fall of the House of Dixie: The CivilWar and the Social Revolution that Transformedthe South deal with wholly different subjects, butthey share a key quality: both books are the workof master historians at the height of their careerswho recount their stories with the knowledge andauthority borne of decades of scholarly study.Did Ireland’s immigrants to the U.S. createthe American multi-ethnic city of today? Notsinglehandedly, of course. But Barrett’s Irish Waymakes a compelling case for the Irish not only asthe most important and prominent of immigrantsbut as “America’s first ethnic group” that charteda course later followed successfully by countlessother immigrant groups. Published in the highlyrespected Penguin History of American Life Series,Barrett’s study centers intensively on the historicalexperiences of Chicago and New York City, withoccasional collateral consideration of Boston, Philadelphia,and some smaller cities; his chronologyfocuses on the so-called heroic decades of Americanimmigration, meaning the late nineteenth andearly twentieth centuries.Barrett offers readers detailed accounts of Irishurban transplants in a fascinating series of settings:streets, workplaces, churches, union halls,and—perhaps most unexpectedly—on the vaudevillestage. In their early years in America, when povertyand stigmatization were greatest, the Catholicreligion served as the prime means of cohesion forimmigrant Irish communities. With time, though,came assimilation, respectability, and eventuallypower. Barrett brings out Irish success in particulararenas, like fire and police departments, onthe docks, in the sports of boxing and baseball, incertain types of popular entertainment, in railroadwork, and, of course, eventually in DemocraticParty city politics, where evermore assimilated Irishmen competed with rightwing nativists to becamea dominant political force. Irish immigrant womenfound opportunities to move up the social ladder inthe fields of teaching and nursing.Despite the author’s affection for this process,Barrett does not idealize his historical subjects. AsBruce Levine and Jim Barrettany viewer of Martin Scorsese’s 2002 film Gangsof New York will remember, nineteenth-centuryimmigrant groups were often quite inhospitableto one another, especially when burgeoning ethnicghettoes abutted one another. There was fiercecompetition for jobs and living space when newwaves of immigrants arrived in the late 1800s fromEastern Europe, to say nothing of African Americansmoving up from the South. Among the urbanIrish, anti-Chinese, anti-Italian, and anti-blackracism was rife.But Barrett’s book relates a remarkable transformation.As his subtitle indicates, out of thisvolatile,ever-changingconstellationemergedthe modernmulti-ethniccity. Reinforcingandcountervailingtendenciesprompted theIrish to tolerate, then accommodate, and eventuallywork closely with one new immigrant groupafter another. Some of the author’s most affectingpages document the growing number of ethnicintermarriages, especially of Irish men with Polishand Italian women, with whom they shared aCatholic background, but also with Jewish women.Did Ireland’s immigrantsto the U.S. create theAmerican multi-ethniccity of today?History @ Illinois 7

Senior Americanists, continuedEthnic images in songs and in jokes as well as onstage and screen stereotyped all these groups butdiffused animosities as mixed audiences laughedtogether at their own foibles. Furthermore, in anumber of reformist crusades—foremostly, themovements for workers’ and women’s rights in theearly decades of the new century—the Irish, Italians,and Jews worked together to became a formidableforce. Not least, the ascent to middle-classstatus over the generations became a shared forceof “Americanization.”In our nation’s history between the Civil Warand World War II, this is one of the most importantand memorable stories: a group of overwhelminglyrural peopleescaped a lifeThe increasingly costlyand bloody conflictshattered any number oftheir illusions.of materialimpoverishmentandpoliticaloppressionin WesternEurope and inhalf a centuryrose to wealthand power in the urban centers of the Americannortheast and midwest. Barrett’s Irish Way gives usthis classic story told classically.Bruce Levine’s Fall of the House of Dixietransports readers to an earlier generation whenAmericans were at war—with one another. TheCivil War of 1861-1865 remains probably the mostpivotal in all of U.S. history, and a huge numberof books have been written about it. Levine, the J.G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History atthe U of I, looks at this war from an unusual angle,highlighting the political and social revolution thatlay at its heart—the overthrow of the centuries-oldsystem of human slavery and the destruction of theworld that rested upon that system.Early in his narrative, Levine compares the oldSouth’s disintegration to Edgar Allan Poe’s famousshort story “The Fall of the House of Usher,” inwhich microscopic cracks in the mansion’s foundationgradually widen until the building implodes.Levine shows how, under the blows of Unionarmies, the political, social, and economic divisionswithin the South steadily widened, in waysunanticipated by Confederate leaders. The increasinglycostly and bloody conflict eventually shatteredany number of their illusions: that slaves werecontented and would remain “faithful” to theirmasters; that southern whites would remain united,that cotton would dictate terms to both Europe andthe North, that the North would not and could notfight, that God smiled upon slavery and would givethe slave owners victory. As the war toll mounted,many poorer non-plantation whites who did notown slaves resented fighting what they saw as aslaveholders’ battle. The war’s stresses and strainsalso created tensions between the Richmond governmentand the plantation-owning economic eliteover aspects of war policy. And as Union armiesmarched deeper and wider into Confederate territories,slaves in increasing numbers abandonedplantations, escaped to Union lines, went to work insupport of the Union war effort and in many casesjoined the Union armies as soldiers.Drawing heavily upon personal letters, journals,recollections, and diaries—including those writtenby whites and blacks, the free and the enslaved,civilians and soldiers, men and women, and proandanti-war white southerners—Levine is able torecreate a sense of these epic changes as experiencedby many “average” people living at the timeof the conflict 150 years ago.Nineteenth-century America was one of thegreat slave-owning societies of modern history, andLevine argues for slavery’s primacy in understandingthe war. The disintegration of southern ruralplantation culture brought the freeing of fourmillion enslaved blacks. It was two years into thewar, he emphasizes, before President Lincoln andUnion policy makers reached the historic conclusionthat this war of secession could not be wonwithout dismantling slavery itself. To Levine, thischange in the Union’s war policy and its consequencespoints to a compelling irony at the heartof the Confederate experience: by attempting tobreak away from the United States and create anindependent slave empire, slave owners acceleratedthe very things they sought most desperatelyto prevent: wholesale emancipation and the end oftheir pre-war form of society.Barrett’s and Levine’s books are deeply scholarlyyet highly readable, judicious in analysis andinterpretation, and they relate stories of profoundhuman interest about the national past. We can beproud that both are products of the U of I Departmentof History.8 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mark Leff, Beloved Teacher-Mentor, RetiresIt is common at retirement parties for celebrants toclaim that the guest of honor will be sorely missedand that colleagues can’t imagine the daily workplacewithout them. What happens, though, whenthese clichés are actually true?This was the dilemma one Saturday afternoonin early May of last year when historian Mark Leffbrought to a close a 27-year career of superlativeuniversity service. Mark’s stepping down lastspring elicited an outpouring of testimonials—fromfriends, colleagues, and graduate and college studentspast and present. The accolades highlightedhis signature contributions and distinctive style.People invariably talk first about Mark’s teaching.He was a remarkably dedicated teacher and anespecially gifted undergraduate lecturer. Year afteryear, he filled the largest lecture halls on the universityquad with students who actually wanted tocome to class. When asked why they became historymajors, many with a concentration in Americanhistory said it was because of Mark’s courses.Former Teaching Assistants Kwame Holmes andTom Mackaman note that grad students soughtto be assigned to his General Education courses,specifically to observe his teaching first hand. Hisconcern with fair grading, with TA workloads, andwith supervising first-time TAs was especially wellknown.Above all, there were the famous lectures:one lecture—on the interconnections between TheWizard of Oz and the Great Depression—was voted,by the students themselves, the best undergraduatelecture of 2004; another examined the role ofchewing gum in America’s waging of World WarII and the Cold War. Little wonder that Markwon every available teaching prize on campusand beyond.Teaching on the college and the graduatelevels requires significantly different skills, and it’sunusual to find a professor who is equally talentedin both pedagogical worlds. On this score, too, Markwas an exception. His graduate students adore him.Whether in seminar discussions, or commenting ondissertation chapters in draft, or observing a practicejob talk, Mark regularly combined great careand generosity with honest, penetrating critique.Low key but probing, he would intervene withgrad students to help them buttress their evidence,hone an argument, examine an assumption, orstrengthen an interpretation. At each stage of theireducation, he did everything in his power to helphis doctoral students advance. He was renownedfor treating them like colleagues-to-be, ratherthan underlings in training. Former student BuiLong calls Mark “an example of the ideal professor.”Others, after completing the program, reportthat Mark remains their most important modelas they launch their own careers in the academicprofession.If this weren’t enough, Mark was also an outstandingcitizen—a citizen, that is, of the department,LAS, the University, the history profession,and the nation simultaneously. Year after year,he worked tirelessly to promote the Departmentof History, its most important needs and priorities.Former Chair and close friend Jim Barrettcharacterizes Mark as “the heart and soul of ourscholarly community.” In the lecture hall, at a committeeroundtable, or in casual hallway conversation,Mark’s commitment to fairness and justicein all life arenas—from the local to the global, andwhether historical or contemporary—was powerfullyevident. His convocation speech to last year’sHistory graduating class was not just a brilliantYear afteryear, hefilled thelargestlecturehallson theuniversityquad withstudentswhoactuallywanted tocome toclass.History @ Illinois 9

Mark Leff, Beloved Teacher-Mentor, Retires, continuedfarewell but an example of Mark’s insistence onconnecting history, citizenship, and democracy. Nomatter how critical or cynical the national discourse,MarkHelp Continue theMark Leff TraditionWe invite you to join us in our effort to foreverhonor Professor Mark Leff’s career and contributionsto history education at Illinois. Asa tribute to his incomparable dedication tohis students, we are designating the annualprize for the Outstanding Honors Thesis inhis name. Recognizing our honors students’work in Professor Leff’s name will continuethe tradition that he established during hiscareer at Illinois. Please help us reach ourtotal goal of $25,000 to honor Professor Leffby making a gift today through our website:www.history.illinois.edu/giving/ or with theform included in this newsletter. Thank youfor your interest and support.never lost faithin the fight forsocial justicethrough a reasonedpoliticaland ethicalprocess. Likewise,even indark financialtimes, heknew that theU of I was partof what wasbest aboutthe Americannationalheritage.That Markmanaged,over nearlythree decades,to combineAt eachthis collection of qualities as agreat teacher/mentor/colleague/citizen is unusual enough. stagePerhaps the final aspect ofof theirthe Leff legacy, however, is hispersonal style. With these other education,virtues he combined wit, a wrylyself-deprecating demeanor, andhe didwhat Julilly Kohler-Hausmann— everythinganother former dissertationstudent, who is currently an in hisassistant professor at Cornell—power toaptly called Mark’s “almost irrationalhumility.” In a profession help hisso motivated by ambition andcareerism, this is indeed rare. doctoralAt the retirement partystudentslast May, as one speaker afteranother rose to reminisce, it was advance.difficult not to sound hyperbolicabout the guest of honor. But to do otherwisewould be to violate the historian’s core obligationto tell the truth as objectively as possible. All thingsconsidered, it was easy to state what has madeMark Leff exceptional at the U of I. It is impossible,however, to convey how much we will miss him.Recent Faculty PromotionsEugene Avrutin, Associate Professor of HistoryModern European Jewish History, Russian Empire, Legal HistoryAdrian Burgos, Professor of HistoryU.S. Latino History, Sport History, Urban History, African American HistoryCraig Koslofsky, Professor of HistoryThe Early Modern World (1500–1800), Early Modern Europe, the Reformation,the History of Everyday LifeMegan McLaughlin, Professor of History, Gender and Women’s Studies, andMedieval StudiesMedieval European social and religious history, the history of womenand gender10 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Friends of History Updateby Janet CorneliusThe Friends of History (FOH) have had a gratifyingand productive year! We continued to work closelywith the Department of History to give support tohistory students and to assist the Department. As aresult, we have been able to continue to build relationshipswith the Department and with students.In April, during History Weekend at the Universityof Illinois, we attended the Honors Colloquium,an engrossing presentation and discussionof the honors theses prepared by undergraduateseniors in the history program. The Awardsprogram for both undergraduate and graduatestudents followed, and we then had a chance totalk with the students and also faculty at a bountifulreception. We were glad to have helped with theexpenses for the Awards event, as well as fellowshipsand scholarships for graduate students andtravel expenses for their research and for theirattendance at conferences.To further increase our support for studentsand to honor a worthy professor, the Friends ofHistory initiated a prize for the best undergraduatehonors thesis in honor of recently retired ProfessorMark Leff. Professor Leff was particularly knownfor his effective work with undergraduates and theFriends agreed to join his many friends and formerstudents in honoring him with this named award.(See pp. 9–10 of this issue.)In addition to support for students and theDepartment of History, the Friends of History alsoaim to continue our own growth in awareness fora critical understanding of the past and to sharethis awareness with the public. To that end, wesponsored the first Friends of History Lecture,held at the University of Illinois on September 21,2012. Addressing a sizeable audience, the speakerwas longtime popular professor James R. Barrett,who discussed aspects of his recent book, The IrishWay: Becoming American in the Multi-Ethnic City.(See pp. 7–8 of this issue.) Using illustrations aswell as anecdotes from his book, Jim painted apicture of the newly arrived Irish and their interactionswith other minority groups, particularly inthe entertainment world of the time. Jim Barretthas been an active participant in the founding andorganization of the Friends of History, so his choicewas particularly appropriate.Jim’s FOH Lecture waspreceded by a graduate researchcolloquium, a great successfor the way that the work ofadvanced graduate students wasshowcased. As a representativefrom the FOH board, I foundit inspiring to see the innovativeand relevant topics and theimpressive accomplishments bythe hard-working students. Thegraduate colloquium will continueto be publicized and FOHattendance welcomed.The Friends of History alsoparticipated in the annualdiscussion of A Book in Common, which has beenheld for faculty and interested students at theDepartment of History for some years. Attendantsread The Memory Chalet by noted historian TonyJudt. Several Friends attended the discussion onthe University of Illinois campus, and ten moreparticipated in a Chicago discussion organized byFOH board member Steve Schulwolf. We hope tocontinue being part of A Book in Common eventsin the future. Steve has volunteered to organizeanother Chicago event next year, and we plan toattempt similar FOH Book in Common eventsin Washington, D.C. (home of a Friends boardmember, Liz Milnarik) and Springfield, Illinois.Some of you who are reading this magazinehave attended events or at least have been notifiedthat they were occurring. We cordially invite youto participate. In addition to our material in theHistory Department website, “History at UIUC”is on Facebook and LinkedIn. Those of you whocontribute any sum to the History Departmentautomatically become Friends of History. Let usknow who you are!To further increase oursupport for studentsand to honor a worthyprofessor, the Friendsof History initiated aprize for the best undergraduatehonors thesis inhonor of recently retiredProfessor Mark Leff.History @ Illinois 11

Department of History DonorsOnce again the Department hasbenefited from the generousFriends of History. We would liketo thank all of our donors forthis support and especially ourwonderful FOH board memberswho, as always, have been generouswith their time and talents:Alba, Dr. Patricia G.Allen, Dr. Debra J.Almy, Dr. NiniAmideo, Mrs. Joan M.Amideo, Mr. William F.Arroyo, Mr. Paul E.Barrett, Dr. James R.Barrett, Mrs. Jenny M.Baumler, Dr. Alan T.Beckett, Mrs. Barbara E.Beckett, Mr. J. StevenBegley, Mrs. Elizabeth G.Begley, Mr. James B.Bell, Mr. John EdBlatt, Mr. Morton B.Boothe, Mrs. KarenBoothe, Dr. Leon E.Boren, Dr. Henry C.Breihan, Mr. William C.Brown, Mr. Spencer H.Brynjolfsson, Dr. Kenneth L.Burkhardt, Mrs. Jayne A.Burkhardt, Prof. Richard W. Jr.Burton, Prof. Antoinette M.Butler, Mrs. Ann K.Butler, Mr. John R.Candeloro, Dr. Dominic L.Carey, Mr. R. PeterCervantes, Mrs. Constance A.Cherry, Mr. Thomas E.Clark, Dr. Charles E.Coleman, Dr. Heather J.Collins, JacquelinCollins, Natalyn A. DexterConlin, Dr. Michael F.Connors, Dr. Thomas G.Cooley, Dr. WillCornelius, Dr. Janet D.Crummey, Prof. Donald E.Crummey, Mrs. LorraineCunningham, Ms. Lois L.Davis, Mrs. Jacqueline W.Davis, Mr. Louis J.Dimond, Mr. Marc J.Dukes, Dr. Jack R.Dukes, Mrs. Joanne E.Edmunds, Mrs. GayleEggert, Mrs. Maura S.Eggert, Mr. Terry R.Erickson, Dr. Nancy L.Felsenthal, Mrs. Carol GreenbergFelsenthal, Mr. Steven A.Fitzgerald, Ms. Tricia BridgetteFleisher, Mr. Peter J.Frank, Ms. Tram-Anh TranFrank, Dr. Zephyr L.Fritz, Mrs. Julia A.Fritz, Dr. Stephen G.Gams, Mr. Lance S.Ganaway, Dr. Bryan F.Gaskill, Mrs. Sharon ClarkGehlbach, Mr. Kurt F.Giaquinta, Mrs. C. JoyceGigova, Dr. Irina G.Goldstein, Mr. Jeffrey I.Grahn-Isenberg, Mrs. Mardonna A.Greenberg, Dr. Allan C.Griffith, Dr. Harry D.Griswold, Mrs. Kathy J.Griswold, Mr. Thomas E.Haas, Dr. James M.Haas, Mrs. Mary JoHadsall, Ms. KierstenHall, Mrs. Natalie G.Hauser, Mrs. Linda S.Hauser, Mr. Robert J.Hodges, Dr. Adam J.Hoeveler, Dr. J. David Jr.Hoganson, Prof. Kristin L.Holden, Dr. ChristineHooper, Mr. James E.Hsi, Dr. Angela N.Hsi, Dr. George C.Hubbell, Dr. John T.Huddle, Dr. Thomas S.Huehner, Dr. David R.Huehner, Mrs. Sandra L.Hughes, Mr. George K. Jr.Jares, Mr. Daniel J.Johnson, Dr. David ScottJohnson, Dr. Molly WilkinsonJones-Wilson, Dr. Faustine C.Jordan, Dr. Thomas M.Jorgensen-Nudel, Mrs. SharonKalkhoff, Ms. Ann LynnKaminski, Dr. TheresaKem, Dr. Carol RitzenKem, Dr. William R.Kiburz, Mr. Arnold J. IIIKing, Dr. Keith L.Knuppel, Mr. Jack A. C.Knuppel, Mrs. Shelly L.Koenker, Dr. Diane P.Kruger, Mr. Richard K.Krugler, Dr. John DavidLeighton, Mr. Charles H.Leighton, Mrs. Kathleen T.Lewis, Dr. Gene D.Lilienstern, Ms. Rebecca DorrillLipton, Ms. Lois J.Lukas, Ms. Phyllis A.Madden, Mr. Paul A.Maner, Dr. Brent E.Martens, Mr. Carl W.Martland, Dr. Samuel J.McCarthy, Dr. Erin A.McDade, Ms. Linna M.McElligott, Ms. Mary Ellen T.McKenna, Dr. Jon F.Medford, Dr. Edna GreeneMiller, Mrs. Mary LouMiller, Mr. Stephen L.Milnarik, Ms. Elizabeth A.Mohraz, Dr. Judy J.Mondt, Ms. Laura A.Monk, Mrs. Mary AnnNudel, Mr. BarryOberdeck, Dr. Kathryn J.O’Brien, Ms. KathleenParker, Mr. Jonathan B.12 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Perry, Dr. Joseph B.Piscopo, Mr. Philip J.Plager, Ms. Deborah S.Platt, Dr. Brian W.Rauschenberg, Dr. Gretchen S.Reiter, Dr. Mark S.Rosenberg, Mr. Craig M.Schmidt, Dr. Catherine M.Schulwolf, Mr. StevenShepardson, Dr. Donald E.Silver, Mr. Richard B.Sledd, Mrs. Elizabeth S.Sledd, Mr. GregorySmith, Ms. Diana K.Smith, Dr. Louis ChristianSmith, Dr. Wilda M.Sprunger, Mrs. Aldine M.Sprunger, Dr. Keith L.Stotler, Ms. Edith A.Sullivan, Ms. Jennifer A.Syn, Mrs. AudreySyn, Mr. Jai S.Taylor, Dr. Thomas T.Tello, Ms. Jean C.Temple, Mrs. SunderineTemple, Dr. Wayne C.Tevebaugh, Dr. John L.Thoemke, Mr. GregoryTobe, Ms. Ida TamaraTousey, Mr. WalterTurner, Dr. I. BruceTyler, Mr. Ralph S. IIIValadez, Mr. FrankVenet, Mr. Allen L.Venet, Dr. Wendy HamandWagner, Mr. Robert L.Weiskopf, Mr. James M.Wernette, Mr. Gail R.Wernette, Mrs. Janice J.West, Dr. SallyWhite, The Reverend Roger B.Williams, Mr. Geoffrey P.Wilson, Mrs. Emily J.Wolf, Mr. Stephen A.Zimmerman, Dr. James A.Invest in the Future of the History DepartmentYour support for the Department of History at the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign will ensure continued excellence in education.Yes! I would like to support the Department of History with a gift of:$1000 $750 $250 $100 $50 Other $ _________I wish to designate my gift this year to:Mark H. Leff Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis Fund (341168)History Graduate Fellowship Fund (776843)Department of History Annual Fund (334879)Please print your name and address:Name(s):Address:City, State, Zip:Home/Cell Phone:Email:This gift is also from:Relationship:Payment options:My check is enclosed (payable to the University of Illinois Foundation)I wish to make my gift by credit card:Visa MasterCard Discover American ExpressName as it appears on card:Card Number: Expiration Date: CVV#Signature:Billing Address (if different from above):Please return this form withyour gift. Thank you.University of Illinois FoundationP.O. Box 3429Champaign, IL 61826-3429My company or my spouse’s company will match my gift:Company Name:Your gift is tax deductible as allowed by law. You will receive a gift receipt issued by theUniversity of Illinois Foundation. Thank you!334879/5NAHNHistory @ Illinois 13

Koslofsky Sheds Historical Light on Shadowy PastIt’s hard to imagine a time whenthe setting of the sun evokedwidespread fear. For many today,the night is a time for leisure,rest, and entertainment. But notso long ago, that wasn’t the case:for early modern Europeans, thenight was still a time to retreatinto the safety of their homes,away from potential vices,dangers, and temptations.In Evening’s Empire: AHistory of the Night in EarlyModern Europe (CambridgeUniversity Press, 2011) U ofI Professor Craig Koslofskyexamines the history of the nightduring the early modern centuries:he surveys the shifting attitudes, innovations,and social and cultural practices that expanded thelegitimate uses of the night. Using an exhaustivearray of unique sources—such as diaries, letters,and legal sources, as well as representations ofthe night in art, religion, and literature—Koslofskyreveals the origins, development, and impact of“nocturnalization” as it spread across Europe,from the glittering night life of Louis XIV’s Versaillesto London’s first coffeehouses and Europe’sfirst public street lighting. What triggered such amomentous shift in the way Europeans spent thehours from dusk ’til dawn?As Evening’s Empire reveals, the causes aremany: the landmark scientific discoveries ofCopernicus and Kepler; the rising popularity ofnonalcoholic beverages like coffee, tea, and chocolate;the perceived need for public street lighting;the influence of royal courts—to name only a few.Professor Craig Koslofsky examines thehistory of the night during the earlymodern centuries: he surveys the shiftingattitudes, innovations, and socialand cultural practices that expandedthe legitimate uses of the night.Expertly weaving together such seemingly disparatestrands, Koslofsky provides a detailed and complexpicture of how early modern Europeans used andperceived the night—one that was both devilishand divine; restful and restive; disciplined andungovernable. Saintly mystics, accused witches,lantern-smashers, prostitutes, courtiers, ghosts and“ghost-busters” all find their place in this rich narrativeof the night.Rooted in early modern daily life, Koslofskyargues that nocturnalization was a revolution. Theturn to the night changed how the people of earlymodern Europe ate, drank, slept, and worked,restructuring their daily lives and their mentalworlds. Through nocturnalization early modernmen and women found new paths to the Divine,created baroque opera and theater, formed a newkind of public sphere, and challenged the existenceof an “Invisible World” of nocturnal ghosts andwitches. And the imprint of nocturnalization on theearly Enlightenment helped reconfigure Europeanviews of human difference and the place of humankindin the universe.Evening’s Empire was the winner of the 2012Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award.14 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

New Faculty HiresThis year the department is excited to welcomethree talented new colleagues in the areas of SouthAsian, East Asian, and modern U.S. history. Eachof these faculty members has already contributedgreatly to the department’s intellectual life andeducational mission.Assistant Professor Tariq Ali earned his Ph.D.from Harvard University in 2012. His dissertation,titled “The Envelope of Global Trade: PoliticalEconomy and Intellectual History of Jute inEastern Bengal, 1853–1950,” is a study of peasantproduction of jute in the Bengal delta betweenthe 1850s and 1950s. He describes his project asa local history of global capital. In this project Aliexplores how the region’s integration into globalcircuits of commodity and capital shaped very localeconomic, political, and intellectual histories, andhow economic lives, social and cultural formations,and political processes in the delta were informedand influenced by the cultivation and trade of jute.Tariq is also working on a history of rural developmentin post-colonial Pakistan, which focuseson how rural development and agrarian modernizationinformed processes of nation and stateformation in post-colonial East Pakistan between1947 and 1971. Ali teaches courses in South Asianhistory, agrarian and peasant histories, and historiesof capitalism and commodities.In 2012 Assistant Professor Roderick Wilsonjoined the department from the University ofWisconsin-Whitewater with a joint appointment inEast Asian Literatures and Cultures. A historianof Japan and the environment, he has an M.A. inmodern Japanese history from the University ofOregon and a Ph.D. in East Asian history fromStanford University. Wilson’s research focuses onthe intersection of people and their local habitatsin early modern and modern Japan. His currentmanuscript, “Turbulent Stream: ReengineeringEnvironmental Relations along the Rivers of Japan,1750–2000,” crosses both temporal and geographicalboundaries to demonstrate the transnationalmobility of ideas and people. He is currentlycompleting an article “From Water to Wheels?The Reengineering of Tokyo’s Waterways and Bay,1868–1964” and a book chapter “Modern Routesthrough Old Japan: Yoshida Hatsusaburo’s Maps ofEight Views of Renowned Places in Japan.” At theUniversity of Illinois he looks forward to offeringa variety of courses on the history of Japan as wellas on the history of science, technology, and theenvironment in East Asia.Professor Kevin Mumford received his Ph.D.at Stanford in 1993. After a post-doctoral fellowshipat the University of California, Santa Cruz,he taught at Towson University in Marylandand since 2003 at the University of Iowa. He hasbeen a Fulbright Scholar at Erfurt University inGermany, a Fellow at the Charles Warren Centerfor Studies in American History at Harvard, anda Schomburg Scholar at the Schomburg Centerfor Research in Black Culture at the New YorkPublic Library. Mumford’s award winning workin African-American history has investigated therelationship between race and politics in modernAmerica with an emphasis on the urban experienceand the history of sexuality. His first book, Interzones:Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago andNew York in the Early Twentieth Century, publishedby Columbia University Press in 1997, examinedhow racial categories and inequalities were shapedthrough an investigation of vice districts in NewYork and Chicago. In Newark: A History of Race,Rights, and Riots in America, published by NewYork University Press in 2007, Mumford uses thehistory of Newark from its Puritan founding in1666 through the civil rights era as a lens throughcontinued on page 21New facultyhires KevinMumford,Rod Wilson,and Tariq AliHistory @ Illinois 15

Anna Kurhajec Snares Campus Teaching AwardAnna KurhajecAt the annual Celebration ofTeaching Excellence ceremonylate in April of this year, thehistory department was representedby Anna Kurhajec, winnerof the 2013 Award for Excellencein Undergraduate Teaching bya Graduate Student. The awardis the premier prize for collegeinstruction by a Teaching Assistantoffered at the University.Kurhajec’s award citationhighlighted her enthusiasm anddedication in the classroom aswell as the remarkably consistentstandards of teaching excellenceshe has achieved in course aftercourse over the past several yearsof instruction. The extensive nomination portfoliofor teaching award candidates includes studenttestimonials, reports from professors, the candidate’sstatement of teaching philosophy, and aformal letter of nomination from the Department.Professor Tamara Chaplin, who oversaw the preparationof Kurhajec’s portfolio, hailed Kurhajec as“a gifted, truly exceptional candidate” who hasbrought a unique background in history, politicalscience, philosophy, and critical race studies tobear on her work. “In our conversations with her,”Chaplin adds, “it was instantly evident that Kurhajectakes her students seriously, challenging themto stand up as intellectual peers in the joint explorationof critical questions—about racial prejudiceand economic inequality, about global resourcesand human rights—that we face today as a society.”The undergraduates from her courses concurred.Large numbers wrote on her behalf andsounded almost blessed to have gotten her as theirinstructor. One seminar member praised the idealof “free but responsible intellectual expression”that she fosters in the classroom. Another wrotethat she changed his entire attitude toward hismajor: “she helped with my own relationship withhistory and its importance to me and my place inthe world.”Kurhajec’s breadth of teaching experience atthe U of I has also been remarkable: since shebegan teaching for the Department in 2005, shehas taught General Education surveys, such as“U.S. History since 1877,” “Introduction to AfricanAmerican Studies,” “Western Civilization since1660,” and “Warfare, Military Institutions, andSociety.” Note that these so-called “Gen Eds”—challenging,large-enrollment courses taught on theintroductory level—fall in wholly different categoriesof history. Kurhajec has also developed andtaught to rave reviews topical courses in her fieldsof expertise, which are American social and politicalhistory in the decades following the SecondWorld War and modern race and gender studies.As a recipient in the spring, 2010, of the covetedWilliam C. Widenor Teaching Fellowship, sheoffered to a class of select history majors “1960sRadicalism in the USA and Beyond.”Paralleling the range in content of Kurhajec’steaching is the diversity of teaching venues inwhich she has worked. Most of her instructionalwork has taken place, at various academic levels,in the standard on-campus settings. In addition, anumber of times she has offered an online coursetitled “History 273: Illinois History,” a servicecourse for the University that is well outside herspecialties. Kurhajec’s course in fact was the firstonline course ever developed by the Department;not surprisingly, she has been asked to join anonline education committee recently formed bythe Department. Bolder still, Kurhajec was amongthe first graduate students to participate in thenew Education Justice Project: for a number ofsemesters, she worked as a writing tutor for studentinmatesat the Danville Correctional Center; in2009, she was invited to teach her own EJP course,“Social Movements of the 1960s.” (A formerinmate-student, in fact, was among Kurhajec’saward nominators!) The past several years, she hasalso been a prime mover in drawing other graduatestudents and department faculty into this highlysuccessful program.This is a striking portfolio of experience—interms both of the course content delivered and thepedagogical environments (i.e., college classroomslarge and small, in the state prison system, andin new online formats). We salute Anna on thisgreatly deserved recognition, which also honors theDepartment and the University.16 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

History Department Faculty Awards, 2011–2013Eugene Avrutin, Assistant Professor of History• Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, 2012,American Council of Learned SocietiesJames Brennan, Assistant Professor of History• Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, 2012,American Council of Learned SocietiesClare Crowston, Associate Professor of History• Collaborative Research Fellowship, 2012,American Council of Learned SocietiesJerry Dávila, Lemann Professor ofBrazilian History• Vice-President and President Elect of theConference on Latin American Studies of theAmerican Historical AssociationEric McDuffie, Associate Professor of History andAfrican-American Studies• The American Historical Association, 2012Wesley-Logan Prize, for the Study of African-American Life and HistoryEric McDuffie, Associate Professor of History andAfrican-American Studies• The 2011 Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize fromthe Association of Black Women HistoriansLillian Hoddeson, Professor Emeritus of History• Abraham Pais Prize for the History of Physics,2012, American Physical SocietyKristin Hoganson, Professor of History• 2012 Ray Allen Billington Prize from theWestern History Association for her article“Meat in the Middle: Converging Borderlandsin the U.S. Midwest, 1865–1900,” Journal ofAmerican History (2012)Kristin Hoganson, Professor of History• 2012 Wayne D. Rassmussen Award from theAgricultural History Society for her article,“Meat in the Middle: Converging Borderlandsin the U.S. Midwest, 1865–1900,” Journal ofAmerican History (2012)Frederick Hoxie, Swanlund Professor of History• American Indian History Lifetime AchievementAward, presented at the annual meeting of theWestern History AssociationDiane P. Koenker, Professor of History andChair, Department of History• Vice-President/President-Elect, 2012,Association for Slavic, East European, andEurasian StudiesCraig Koslofsky, Professor of History• Longman History Today Prize for Best First orSecond Book Published in History for 2011,Longman Publishers (UK)Mark S. Micale, Professor of History• Erikson Fellow, Austin Riggs Center,Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Fall 2013Leslie J. Reagan, Professor of History• Arthur J. Viseltear Award, given by the MedicalCare Section of the American Public HealthAssociation for outstanding contributions to thehistory of public healthLeslie J. Reagan, Professor of History• Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History,2011, American Historical AssociationDavid Roediger, Babcock Professor of History• Winner of International Labor HistoryAssociation Book of the Year Award forThe Production of Difference: Race and theManagement of Labor in U.S. History (OxfordUniversity Press, 2012)Carol Symes, Associate Professor of History• Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship forRecently Tenured Faculty, American Council ofLearned SocietiesRonald P. Toby, Professor Emeritus of Historyand East Asian Languages and Cultures• Prize for Outstanding Contributions toJapanese Studies by a Foreign Scholar, 2012,National Institutes for the Humanities (Japan)History @ Illinois 17

IGraduate Studies at IllinoisIMaking Diversity Practiceby Adrian Burgos, Jr.Diversity as a practice involvesmoving beyond pronouncinga belief in diversity as a valueand towards enacting measuresthat broaden the scope of andeffectively transform the cultureof an institution. The twelveyears I have been in the HistoryDepartment has borne abundantevidence how much diversitymatters in the creation andmaintenance of an intellectuallyvibrant, innovative scholarlycommunity. Importantly, duringthat span the Department hasAdrian Burgos, Jr.increasingly engaged in practicesthat have transformed thecomposition of the graduate program all the whileelevating the standards of excellence. It is a testamentto that practice of diversity that I now havethe privilege to serve as the Director of GraduateStudies (DGS)—the first faculty of color to hold theposition.In taking on the DGS position this fall semesterI have benefited from the tremendous work of mypredecessors who have exercised a commitmentto diversity which has increased the number ofAfrican American, Latino, Asian American, andAmerican Indian graduate students. Most immediately,Dana Rabin has made our transition muchsmoother than I could hope through her graciousness,level of organization, initiatives startedduring her tenure, and willingness to share herknowledge in matters big and small. Not only hasthe graduate program undergone a change in leadership,we also welcome a new graduate secretaryStephanie Landess, who assumed the position afterElaine Sampson’s retirement.Much excitement has been generated in GregHall by this year’s cohort of 20 graduate students,including five international students aswell as three Latino/as and two Asian Americanstudents. Drawn from colleges and universitiesfrom across the United States as well as Canada,China, India, Taiwan, and Turkey, this vibrantgroup has enlivened the faculty with their varietyof intellectual interests, academic backgrounds,and perspectives about approaches and methodologiesthat will facilitate collaborations across fieldsand along emergent lines of scholarly inquiry. Anapplicant pool of 212 students made the AdmissionsCommittee’s decisions extremely difficult.Out of those admitted, last year’s acceptance rateapproached a whopping 67%, a yield not seen inyears. Credit for this outcome is due to the excellentwork of our current graduate students, faculty,and the Diversity Committee, which is entrustedwith the planning of our annual recruitment event.Equally significant, five out of the six underrepresentedstudents accepted their offers of admission.For this I am grateful to the department chairDiane Koenker, Dana Rabin, and Augusto Espiritu(last year’s Diversity Committee chair) for theirleadership and to graduate students Kyle Mays,Veronica Mendez-Johnson, and Megan White fortheir tireless work in organizing our successfulrecruitment event.Last year was not only a banner year in diversityrecruitment but also in Ph.D. completion.Among the 20 students who earned their doctoratessince May 2011 are six African Americans: NicholasGaffney, Kwame Holmes, Ashley Howard, EdwardOnaci (Mills), Perzavia Praylow, and CarmenThompson. Moreover, despite the increasinglydifficult job market, thirteen of our recent Ph.D.ssecured new positions, nine of them tenure trackpositions at institutions such as Smith College,James Madison University, the University of WestVirginia, and Loyola University (New Orleans)while others secured multi-year visiting faculty positionsand postdoctoral fellowships.While the placement record and increased rateof Ph.D. completion is quite pleasing, the graduateprogram and faculty remain committed toaddressing matters of retention in order to forestallattrition and to engage in new ways of preparinggraduate students for the changing academicenvironment. To that end, we have planned eventsto address retention as well as alternative careerswith a History Ph.D. This Spring 2013 semesterwe hosted a visit by Valinda Littlefield (IllinoisPh.D., 2003), currently an Associate Professor in18 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

the History Department at the University of SouthCarolina, to share her research and also speak onissues about graduate life for underrepresentedstudents. Dr. James Grossman, executive directorof the American Historical Association, also visitedus to speak on “Alternative Careers with the Ph.D.”These events build on ongoing initiatives put intomotion by Dana Rabin and the Graduate StudiesCommittee and supplement continuing programmaticefforts such as the proposal writing workshopand dissertation chapter writing workshop tofacilitate more timely completion. As another partof this effort, we held a symposium in Septemberfeaturing grant and fellowship award-winninggraduate students Derek Attig, Genevieve Clutario,Diana Georgescu, David Greenstein, and StephanieSeawell who shared their writing experience andapplying for grants. As IPRH Fellows and DissertationCompletion Fellowship awardees, theyjoin fellow graduate students who have securedexternal and internal grants to fund their researchand writing. Our graduate students continue toobtain funding from the Fulbright Foundation, theMellon Foundation, the Social Science ResearchCouncil, the German Academic Exchange Service,the Social Science and the Humanities ResearchCouncil of Canada, the Council on Library andInformation, the Woodson Center at the Universityof Virginia, and the Association of AmericanUniversity Women.A hallmark of the Graduate Program’s successhas centered on revisiting our practices, in criticalself-assessment, and the willingness to designnew practices. This is what inspired the formationof the Women’s and Gender History Symposium(WGHS) in Spring 2000, which convened for the14th time from February 28 through March 2 withthe keynote delivered by Celine Parreñas Shimizu,Professor of Film and Performance Studies at theUniversity of California at Santa Barbara. WGHSemerged directly from collaboration betweenwomen faculty and graduate students, which raisedimportant questions about the necessity of studyingwomen’s lives and the value of gender as acategory of analysis in the scholarship we produceand in the training we offer graduate students.Organization of the annual event has remainedentirely within the purview of departmentalgraduate students, providing them the criticallyneeded space to engage and showcase scholarshipon women, gender, and sexuality being producedby leading scholars and graduate students fromIllinois and other universities.The formation of the Diversity Committee in2003 was similarly inspired by a desire to addressthe composition of the graduate program. Recruitinggraduate students from underrepresentedbackgrounds has been one of the major diversitypractices the Department has refined over the pastdecade. Importantly, the Diversity Committee hasexpanded its scope to include matters of retention.In Fall 2011 the Committee convened “BeyondAdmissions,” a forum which drew 40 participantsfrom across campus to discuss how departments,the Graduate College, and the University can betteraddress the challenges and opportunities of creatinga more inclusive community where underrepresentedgraduate students can thrive. More recently,the Committee hosted a Diversity Recruitmentand Retention conference with keynote speaker Dr.Donald Fixico, American Indian History Professorfrom Arizona State University. The conferencestood once again as the main recruitment eventdisplaying the department’s intellectual vitality tovisiting prospective students with current graduatestudents delivering responses to Prof. Fixico’skeynote address and facilitating panels on succeedingin graduate school.Interacting with our graduate students on adaily basis has proven quite invigorating, especiallyas I learn more closely the scholarly interests theyhope to explore, witness their engaging in deepstudy for preliminary examinations, see themexcited to head off to the field to conduct theirresearch, and welcome them back as they begin towrite and ultimately defend their dissertations. Thescholarship they produce inspires our faculty tocontinue our engaging in critical discussions in collaborationwith them on refining our practices toachieve a more diverse graduate program, enhanceour retention practices, and in preparing them asfuture members of the professoriate and educationalleaders.Last yearwas notonly abanneryear indiversityrecruitmentbutalso inPh.D.completion.History @ Illinois 19

New Graduate ClassFront Row: Daniela Parker, Lydia Putnam,Heather Freund, Beth Eby, Christina Peralta,Kelsey McClain, Raquel Escobar, Agata ChmielSecond Row: Milo Wang, Ben Bamberger,Ethan Larson, Alex Kies, Doug Jones,Kent Navalesi, John Marquez, Mark Sanchez,Utathya Chattopadhyaya, Zachary Riebeling,David LehmanNot Pictured: Ruth HoffmanGraduate Job Placements and Post-Doctoral Fellowships for 2011–2012Jeffrey Ahlman, Assistant Professor, Smith CollegeAndy Bruno, Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois UniversityFedja Buric, Assistant Professor, Bellarmine UniversityRandy Dills, Assistant Professor, University of LouisvilleMaria Galmarini, Assistant Professor, James Madison UniversityIan Hartman, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Alaska, AnchorageMaurice Hobson, Assistant Professor, Georgia State UniversityKwame Holmes, Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of VirginiaAshley Howard, Assistant Professor, Loyola University, New OrleansJason Kozlowski, Assistant Professor, University of West Virginia(Labor Institute)Kerry Pimblott, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of WyomingPerzavia Praylow, Assistant Professor, Augusta State UniversityTroy Smith, Visiting Assistant Professor, Tennessee Tech University20 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Recent Ph.D.s AwardedDavid Bates: “Between Two Fires: Race andthe Chicago Federation of Labor, 1904–1922” (August, 2012)Fedja Buric: “Becoming Mixed: MixedMarriages of Bosnia-Herzegovina duringthe Life and Death of Yugoslavia”(May, 2012)Amanda Eisemann: “The Human Horse:Equine Husbandry, AnthropomorphicHierarchies, and Daily Life in LowerSaxony, 1550–1735” (May, 2012)Nicholas Gaffney: “Mobilizing JazzCommunities: The Dynamic Use ofJazz as a Political Resource in theBlack Liberation Struggle, 1925–1965”(August, 2012)Lane Harris: “The Post Office and StateFormation in Modern China, 1896–1949”(May, 2012)Ashley Howard: “Prairie Fires: UrbanRebellions as Black Working-Class Politicsin Three Midwestern Cities” (August,2012)Ryan Jones: “‘Estamos en Todas Partes’:Male Homosexuality, Nation, andModernity in Twentieth-Century Mexico”(August, 2012)Gregory Kveberg: “Moscow by Night:Musical Subcultures, Identity Formation,and Cultural Evolution in Russia, 1977–2008” (December, 2012)Bryan Nicholson: “Apprentices to Power:The Cultivation of American YouthNationalism, 1935–1970” (May, 2012)Edward Onaci: “Self-Determination MeansDetermining Self: Lifestyle, Politics, andthe Republic of New Afrika, 1968–1989”(December, 2012)Kerry Pimblott: “Soul Power: The BlackChurch and the Black Power Movement inCairo, Illinois, 1964–1974” (August, 2012)Perzavia Praylow: “Re/Making Men andWomen for the Race: Coeducation,Respectability, and Black StudentLeadership at Fisk University, 1924–1970” (August, 2012)Carmen Thompson: “‘20 and Odd Negros’:Virginia and the International System ofSlavery, 1619–1660” (May, 2012)New Faculty Hires, continued from page 15which to reconstruct how political ideas circulated and formedAfrican-American consciousness.His new work on black gay history in the twentieth century hasalready earned the author accolades. In 2012 he was awarded theBinkley-Stephenson Award from the Organization of American Historians.The award recognized Mumford’s “The Trouble With GayRights: Race and the Politics of Sexual Orientation in Philadelphia,1969–1982” as the best article in the Journal of American History.The article also won the Audre Lorde Prize for the outstanding articleon LGBTQ history in the past two years. Professor Mumford teachescourses on African-American history, the history of race, and thehistory of the United States since World War II.Knights Jousting on an Escalator© The New Yorker Collection. All Rights Reserved.History @ Illinois 21

Annual Awards Celebration, 2012DepartmentalTeaching AwardsJohn G. and Evelyn Hartman HeiligensteinAward (for a Graduate Student Teacher)Scott HarrisonGeorge S. and Gladys W. Queen Excellencein Teaching Award (for Faculty Teaching)Clare CrowstonGraduate AwardsFrederick S. Rodkey Memorial Prize in Russian HistoryAnca MandruLaurence M. Larson Scholarship for Studies in Medieval orEnglish HistoryLance LubelskiTheodore Pease Scholarship for English ConstitutionalHistoryJulie LautJoseph Ward Swain Seminar Paper PrizeEvan Murphy, “‘A More Perfect System of Agriculture’: The KhedivialAgricultural Society, Science, and the Development of Egyptian‘Agri-Culture’, 1890–1905”Joseph Ward Swain Publication PrizeMaria Cristina Galmarini, “Defending the Rights of GulagPrisoners: The Story of the Political Red Cross, 1918–38,” in TheRussian Review, 71 (January, 2012).William C. Widenor Teaching AppointmentsJovana Babovic, “The Metropolis in History: Slums, Suburbs, andthe Global City”Janine Giordano Drake, “Sex, Wars, and Tea Parties: Religion inAmerican Politics, 1750 to the Present”22 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Undergraduate Awards and HonorsFriends of History Undergraduate Research GrantMargaret C. JodlowskiPhi Alpha Theta Epsilon Chapter AwardsBrian P. Iggins, “The Eighteenth Century American Jewish Man: APerspective”Taylor E. Pinion, “Race and Identity at the Century of Progress:African-American Experiences at the 1933 World’s Fair”Charles J. Vinci, “The Practicality of Abstraction”Walter N. Breymann ScholarshipYasmine L. KumarMisha M. VillatuyaRobert H. Bierma Scholarship for Superior Academic Meritin HistoryChristopher BaldwinNicholas M. RossiMisha M. VillatuyaLaura E. WindesMichael Scher Award for Outstanding Undergraduate PaperJohn D. Gargiulo, “The Mississippi-Thames-Chicago Delta: TheChicago Blues as Cultural Exchange and Urban Identity”Timothy M. Warnock, “Changing Methods of Dispute Settlement:Late Roman to Early Medieval”Robert W. Johannsen Undergraduate History ScholarshipPeter PellizzariCentenary Prize for Outstanding Senior in the Teaching ofSocial StudiesRyan A. SchmidtRyan M. StapinskiMartha Belle Barrett Scholarship for UndergraduateAcademic ExcellenceZayad Ifzal BangashAlex J. Garel-FrantzenMargaret C. JodlowskiHistory Department Prize for Outstanding Senior HonorsThesisAlex J. Garel-Frantzen, “‘How Low We Had Fallen’: Gangsters andCrime in the Chicago Jewish Community, 1900–1935”2012 UndergraduateSenior Honors ThesesZayad Ifzal Bangash, The Devolutionof the Civil-Military Relationship inPakistan from 1971–1978Caroline Clasby, French Children and theColonial ProjectAlex Garel-Frantzen, “How Low We HadFallen”: Gangsters and Crime in theChicago Jewish Community, 1900–1935Matt Jachimiec, The “Third World War”:Operation Condor and the Rise ofNeoconservatismMargaret C. Jodlowski, “Not for Any ManAlive”: Exploring the Identities of FemaleCross-Dressing Soldiers in the NineteenthCenturyMichael Kozlowski, Bowling in AmericaRandall Manoyan, A Misled Public: TheConfederate Press during the Last Year ofthe Civil WarAndrew O’Neill, Tearing Up the Tracks:Railroad Workers, Trade Unionism, andLabor Disputes in Nineteenth-CenturyAmericaTaylor E. Pinion, Andrew Johnson as Heroor Villain: Understanding the InherentLimitations of Binary OppositionalStructure in HistoriographyMatthew Quinn, Fitz and the Führer: ACartoonist’s Crusade against the ThirdReichDaniel W. Reiter, The Globalization of theNBA: Effects on the Racial and CulturalLines of the SportBrent Rosenstein, Soldiers by Treaty: TheRole of the Foederati in the Late RomanEmpireYuxi Tian, Transnational Nationalists:American-Educated Chinese and theParis Peace ConferenceJohn M. Vaught, The American Ghandi vs.the American Pharaoh: Martin LutherKing, Jr., Richard J. Daley, and the Battlefor Public PerceptionHistory @ Illinois 23

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Scenes from theInvestiture Ceremonyof Peter Fritzscheas the TrowbridgeProfessor of HistoryNovember 5, 2012History @ Illinois 25

Faculty ProfilesEugene M. Avrutin presented his work at Tel AvivUniversity, the Center for Jewish History, the Universityof Michigan, and the European Social ScienceHistory Conference in Glasgow. Three of his collaborativeprojects appeared in print: a translation andcritical edition of Anna Pavlovna Vygodskaia’s TheStory of a Life: Memoirs of a Young Jewish Woman inthe Russian Empire (with Robert H. Greene) as wellas two collections of articles, Jews in the East EuropeanBorderlands: Essays in Honor of John D. Klier(with Harriet Murav) and Russia in Motion: Culturesof Mobility since 1850 (with John Randolph). He is amember of an interdisciplinary research group thatreceived an INTERSECT Grant from the GraduateCollege for a two-year project on “Cultures of Law ina Global Context.” During academic year 2012–2013,Avrutin continues work on his new book project onritual murder and small-town life in Velizh, supportedby the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, theCenter for Advanced Study, and a Charles Ryskampfellowship from the American Council of LearnedSocieties.In 2012 Jim Barrett gave the first annual Friends ofHistory lecture, spent part of the summer as a fellowof the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science,and, as Visiting Professor at Osaka University, deliveredpublic lectures and seminars in Kyoto, Osaka,Tokyo, and Sapporo. The paperback edition of TheIrish Way: Becoming American in the Multi-EthnicCity appeared with Penguin Books in February while“Remembering David Montgomery (1926–2011), HisScholarship, and His Mentorship” appeared in theCanadian journal Labour/Le Travail. Other publicationsinclude “Irish Americanization on Stage: HowIrish Musicians, Playwrights, and Writers Created aNew Urban American Culture, 1880–1940” in theJapanese journal History for the Public and “TheHeritage of Social Class and Class Conflict on Chicago’sSouth Side” in On Location: Historic Cities andSites, edited by D. Fairchild Ruggles, (Spring, 2011).Reprinted articles appeared in Major Problems inModern American History (Cengage, 2011) and MajorProblems in American Immigration History (Cengage,2011). Spanish translations of earlier works on UptonSinclair’s novel The Jungle appeared in Catedráticode Sociología.Last year Antoinette Burton devoted much of hertime to organizing the first phase of our three-yearprogramming initiative “World Histories from Below.”With the help of graduate assistant Zach Sell she rana faculty/student reading group, several syllabuswritingsessions, and a teacher-training workshoparound our theme. The latter, which drew half adozen school-teachers from around the region, is agood example of how our recent thematic initiativeshave extended beyond the confines of the departmentand the university. History also participated in theIPRH spring conference “Empire from Below,” whichfeatured, among others, guest speaker Marcus Redikerand our former colleague (now in New Zealand) TonyBallantyne. “World Histories from Below” effortswere funded by the Provost’s Initiative on TeachingAdvancement and the Office of Public Engagement;they are part of on-going plans for developinga Center for Historical Interpretation with alumnisupport. In addition to traveling for research and conferences,she published A Primer for Teaching WorldHistory (Duke, 2012) and Brown over Black: Raceand the Politics of Postcolonial Citation (Delhi: ThreeEssays Collective, 2012).In 2012 James Brennan published his book Taifa:Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania (OhioUniversity Press) and became editor of the Journalof Eastern African Studies. He also won a Charles A.Ryskamp Research Fellowship from the AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies for 2012–2015, andhe was designated a Helen Corley Petit Scholar for2013–2014 by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciencesat the University of Illinois.Tamara Chaplin presented research from her newbook project, Sappho Comes Out: Lesbians and theMedia in Postwar France, at a conference on Feminismand the Audiovisual Archive at the FondationHartung Bergman in Antibes, France. She gavetalks in Paris (at the 9 th International Crossroadsin Cultural Studies Conference), in Chicago (at theAmerican Historical Association Conference), andin Portland, OR (at the Western Society for FrenchHistory). Last fall Chaplin spoke about lesbian life inToulouse as part of a visit that she organized featuringthe French lesbian-feminist filmmaker, JacquelineJulien. She was elected to a three-year term on thegoverning board of the AHA’s Committee on LGBTHistory; a letter she co-wrote with CLGBTH co-chairDon Romesburg defending California Senate Bill 48(known as the FAIR Act) was published in the November2012 issue of Perspectives. She has developed anew undergraduate course on Sexuality in ModernEurope. With support from the UIUC ResearchBoard, she is compiling a database of archival26 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

documents on French lesbian life that will be sharedwith the Archives cultures recherches lesbiennes,in Paris. Her article, “Lesbians Online: Gay Liberationand the French Minitel” is now forthcoming inthe Journal of the History of Sexuality. Chaplin hasbeen named a Research Associate by the Center forAdvanced Study at the U of I for 2013–2014.Ken Cuno published “Women with Missing Husbands:Marriage in Nineteenth Century Egypt” inObjectivity and Subjectivity in the Historiographyof Egypt: In Honour of Nelly Hanna (2012) and anupdated version of his article “Middle East” in theWorld Book Encyclopedia (2012). He gave severalpresentations on campus about developments inEgypt, Syria, and the Palestinian territories, the “ArabSpring,” the history of women’s rights in Islamiclaw, and religion and state in Turkey. He was interviewedseveral times on radio about events in Egypt.He presented papers at the annual meeting of theMiddle East Studies Association and at the HebrewUniversity and Ben Gurion University of the Negev on“Muhammad Qadri’s Code of Personal Status Lawin Egypt” and “How Legal Modernization Set BackWomen’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century Egypt.”This spring Jerry Dávila’s book Dictatorship inSouth America: Argentina, Brazil and Chile is beingreleased by Wiley-Blackwell. This is an exciting periodfor the study of the military regimes that dominatedthe last decades of Latin America’s twentieth century.Under military rule, scholars in Latin America facedharsh restrictions on what they could research andpublish. Many faced exile or detention. Some weretortured. In the process of redemocratization thatbegan with the collapse of the Argentine Junta in1982 and culminated in the No! vote against AugustoPinochet in Chile in 1989 (the subject of a new filmstarring Gael Garcia Bernal), the ability of LatinAmerican scholars to again write their own historiesand to interrogate the recent past has been recovered.As a result, in these countries there are vibrant newlines of historical inquiry that challenge long-heldassumptions about dictatorship and life in authoritarianregimes. Dávila’s Dictatorship in South Americadraws on these new currents to help readers in theUnited States understand this turn in the study ofLatin American histories.This year Augusto Espiritu is the acting head ofthe Asian American Studies Department. He presentedan essay, “La lengua española en Filipinas,” tothe The Illinois Club’s Grupo Español last April. Hewas invited to speak, chair, and serve as a discussanton several panels to assess the state of “TranspacificMigrations and Empires” at the conference of thePacific Coast Branch-American Historical Associationin San Diego in August. Out of this conference,he wrote an article, “Interimperial Relations, thePacific, and Asian Americans,” slated for summer2013 publication in the Pacific Historical Review. Heserves on the editorial board of Amerasia Journal. Hepresented “Hispanismo in a Transpacific Context:The Young Claro Mayo Recto” at the Association ofAsian American Studies in April 2013. This paper isdrawn from his current research on Hispanismo asdiscourse of resistance to imperial Americanizationin the Caribbean and Pacific. Finally, he leads twocampus reading groups, one on transnationalism andanother on Tagalog language, literature, and history.Ray Fouché published “Aren’t Athletes Cyborgs?:Technology, Bodies, and Sporting Competitions,” inWomen’s Studies Quarterly. He gave invited lectureson black inventors at the University of Massachusetts,Lowell and the “Changing Gears: The Birth of AmericanIndustry Lecture Series” at the Albert L. LorenzoCultural Center, Macomb Community College. Healso spoke about his new book project examining theevolution of technology in sport at Cornell Universityand Morrisville State College. CNN reporter MatthewKnight highlighted a portion of this research in thearticle “High-tech Kit Speeds Athletes into New Era.”Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert’s co-edited anthologyThe Indian School on Magnolia Avenue: Voicesand Images from Sherman Institute was published byOregon State University Press (2012). He also publishedan article entitled “Marathoner Louis Tewanimaand the Continuity of Hopi Running, 1908–1912”in the Western Historical Quarterly (Autumn, 2012)and completed a new Foreword to Don Talayesva’sSun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian(Yale University Press). In addition to his publications,he presented his research at the University ofNotre Dame, the University of New Mexico, and theUniversity of Illinois at Springfield. He is the recentrecipient of UIUC’s Helen Corley Petit Scholar Award,an award given to junior faculty with tenure cases ofoutstanding merit.Thanks to the generosity of the American Council ofLearned Societies, Kristin Hoganson made greatprogress on her global history of the heartland, draftingchapters on the Kickapoos’ struggles for place(home) and space (the ability to move freely, includingacross the U.S.-Mexican border) and another oncolonialism, postcolonialism, pork, and corn thatexplores the imperial histories of Anglo-Saxonist pigs.The Western History Association honored her withHistory @ Illinois 27

the Ray Allen Billington prize for the best article inWestern History for her recent Journal of AmericanHistory piece on cattle production titled “Meat in theMiddle: Converging Borderlands in the U.S. Midwest,1865–1900.” Her professional activities includedco-chairing the Society for Historians of AmericanForeign Relations’ annual conference, a gatheringthat drew over 400 participants.This Indian Country: American Indian Activists andthe Place They Made, by Fred Hoxie, was publishedas part of Penguin’s History of American LifeSeries. The book ranges from the American Revolutionto the present discussing how Native Americansdevised legal and political ideas that enabled themto survive within the boundaries of the United States.He received the Native American History LifetimeAchievement Award at the 2012 annual meeting ofthe Western Historical Society. This year he launcheda new course in “Public History,” which he hopes tooffer each spring. The course will not only introducestudents to critical writing about various genres ofpublic history (memorials, museum exhibits, documentaryfilms, etc.) but will involve a public exhibitiondeveloped collectively by students in the class.Diane Koenker completed work on two books thatwill appear in the spring of 2013: Club Red: VacationTravel and the Soviet Dream (Cornell University Press)is a history of Soviet tourism and vacations from the1920s to the 1980s. The Socialist Sixties: CrossingBorders in the Second World, co-edited with AnneE. Gorsuch (Indiana University Press), explores thethemes of popular culture, urban life, and transnationalflows in the USSR, the socialist countries ofEastern Europe, and Cuba. This volume grew out of aconference held at the University of Illinois’ Russian,East European, and Eurasian Center’s Fisher Forumin 2010. In addition to her duties as departmentchair and incoming president of the Association forSlavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Dianespent some quality research time in Moscow archivesand libraries during the summer of 2012, collectingmaterials on food culture, shopping, and leisuretime for her next book project on the Soviet Sixties.She was particularly impressed with the changes inworking conditions at the Russian State Library (formerlyLenin Library) in the decades since she beganworking there, with wi-fi in the reading rooms andthe ease of making photocopies and scans (with aniphone!). Its cafeteria remains a museum to the culinarystandards of the 1960s, a choice example of theclose relationship between research and everyday life.Craig Koslofsky’s book Evening’s Empire: AHistory of the Night in Early Modern Europe (CambridgeUniversity Press, 2011) was named by TheAtlantic one of the fifteen best books reviewed in TheAtlantic or published in 2012. (The Atlantic reviewappeared in the April 2012 issue.) He is continuinghis research on the role of Brandenburg-Prussia inthe Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies. He has also begun work on a historyof human skin in the early modern era. He has joinedthe Editorial Advisory Board of the UK journalGerman History.A brief discussion of “The Myth of Black ConfederateSoldiers” appeared in Race, Slavery and theCivil War: The Tough Stuff of American History andMemory, edited by Jim Horton and Amanda Kleintopand published in late 2011 by the Virginia Sesquicentennialof the American Civil War Commission.On November 7, 2012, Bruce Levine skyped intoan education class at Stanford University to discussthis myth. In December 2011, his essay “‘The VitalElement in the Republican Party’: Antislavery, Nativism,and Abraham Lincoln” appeared in the innovativenew Journal of the Civil War Era. Levine lecturedat Chicago’s Whitney Young Magnet High School andto U of I alumni at the Chicago History Museum. Heparticipated in a panel at the Left Forum held at PaceUniversity in New York City, and spoke to the AmericanSocial History Project in New York City and tothe Huntington Library’s Society of Fellows, in SanMarino, California. His latest book, The Fall of theHouse of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolutionthat Transformed the South was published byRandom House in January. It will also be offered as aselection by the History Book Club, the Military BookClub, the Book of the Month Club, and the QualityPaperback Book Club. Recorded Books will releasean audio version, and an excerpt will appear in themagazine America’s Civil War.Harry Liebersohn received the Humanities ReleaseTime leave for Fall 2012 to research a book on theglobalization of music from 1877 to 1940, a continuationof his studies of European/non-Europeancultural contact. A chapter of his previous book, TheReturn of the Gift: European History of a Global Idea(Cambridge University Press, 2011) was presented inApril 2012 at the conference “God and Mammon: TheReligious and Economic Fault-Lines of Liberalism,”Yale University. He was recently appointed co-convenerof an SIAS (Some Institutes of Advanced Study)Summer Institute, “Cultural Encounters: GlobalPerspectives and Local Exchanges, 1750–1940.” These28 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

post-doctoral seminars will be held in 2013 at the Wissenschaftskollegzu Berlin, Germany, and in 2014 atthe National Humanities Center in North Carolina.Ralph Mathisen published The Battle of Vouillé,507 CE: Where France Began (co-authored, co-edited,with D.R. Shanzer) (Brill: Leiden, 2012), for whichhe authored the articles “The First Franco-VisigothicWar and the Prelude to the Battle of Vouillé,”“Vouillé, Voulon, and the Location of the CampusVogladensis,” and “Clovis, Anastasius, and PoliticalStatus in 508 C.E.” Other articles published this yearinclude “Concepts of Citizenship in the Late RomanEmpire,” in S. Johnson, ed., Oxford Handbook of LateAntiquity (Oxford Univ. Press, 2012), “‘Alamanniammancipasti’: The Roman ‘Pseudo-Province’ of Alamannia,”in C. Witschel, ed., Römische Legionslagerin den Rhein- und Donauprovinzen (Bayerische Akademieder Wissenschaften, 2012), and “Les mariagesentre Romains et Barbares comme stratégie familialependant l’Antiquité tardive,” in C. Badel, M. Corbier,eds., Les stratégies familiales dans l’Antiquité tardive(De Boccard, 2012). He also published seven chaptersin a co-authored textbook, F. Kidner, R. Mathisen, etal., Making Europe: The Story of the West (2nd ed.)(Cengage, 2012). He delivered conference papersand lectures in Rostock (Germany), Vienna (Austria),Mainz (Germany), Limoges (France), Köln (Germany),and Leeds (England). He served as editor for twoissues of the award winning Journal of Late Antiquity,and continued to serve as editor for Oxford Studies inLate Antiquity and on the editorial boards of severalacademic journals.Megan McLaughlin was invited to speak at aconference on “Matrimonial Strategies among theAristocracy, 10th–13th Centuries” at the Center forMedieval Studies at the University of Poitiers and at aconference on “The Gender of Authority: Celibate andChildless Men in Power: Ruling Bishops and RulingEunuchs, 400–1800” at the University of Zurich. Herarticle “Disgusting Acts of Shamelessness: SexualMisconduct and the Deconstruction of Royal Authorityin the Eleventh Century,” Early Medieval Europe19 (2011): 312–31, was recognized as “article of themonth” by Feminae, the Medieval Women and GenderIndex.In the fall of 2011 Mark Micale introduced a newupper-level undergraduate course titled “Darwin andthe Darwinian Revolution.” In late September, heattended the World Psychiatric Congress in BuenosAires, Argentina, which was his first time to visit LatinAmerica. The following spring semester he was onsabbatical leave, living and working on Capitol Hill inWashington D.C. In May, 2012, he was designated theU of I Distinguished Teacher-Scholar for the upcomingacademic year.Bob Morrissey enjoyed his first full year at UIUCteaching courses on early America and American environmentalhistory. Outside of teaching, he presentednew work at the annual conferences of the AmericanHistorical Association, Omohundro Institute,and the French Colonial Historical Society. He alsoparticipated in a conference on Ohio Valley history atthe Filson Historical Society in Louisville. His essay“Kaskaskia Social Network: Kinship and Assimilationin the French-Illinois Borderlands, 1695–1735”appeared in the January 2013 issue of the Williamand Mary Quarterly. In May, he will travel to the HuntingtonLibrary for a conference on American History“Before 1607.”Kevin Mumford joined the Department of Historythis past fall. He served as chair of the Organizationof American Historians’ Lawrence Levine Prize,awarded for the best book in cultural history. Hepresented a paper at a conference at the Universityof Michigan to commemorate the fiftieth anniversaryof the Port Huron Statement, a major manifesto ofthe New Left. He also served as an external readerat a workshop for the Clements Center for SouthwestStudies.Kathryn Oberdeck has a fellowship from theIllinois Program for Research in the Humanities tosupport a developing project comparing perspectiveson urban blight from below in Chicago, Illinois andDurban, South Africa. She presented a preliminarypaper from that project at the American StudiesAssociation conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico inNovember 2012. She is currently coordinating thedepartment’s “World Histories From Below” initiativefor 2012–2013.David Prochaska is working on two projects: theArab Spring and the hacktivist group, Anonymous.He spoke on the Arab Spring at conferences in Cairo,Chicago, and Paris.Leslie J. Reagan was named University Scholarfor 2012–2014. Her book Dangerous Pregnancies:Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America(2010) has won a third book award, the 2012 ArthurJ. Viseltear Award for the outstanding book in publichealth history from the American Public Health Association.An article from her new research on AgentOrange, “Representations and Reproductive Hazardsof Agent Orange,” appeared in Journal of Medicine,History @ Illinois 29

Law, and Ethics 39:1 (Spring ,2011). “After the Sex,What? A Feminist Reading of Reproductive Historyin Mad Men” appears in Mad Men, Mad World: Sex,Politics, Style and the 1960s, edited by Lauren M.E.Goodlad et al., (Duke University Press, 2013). ProfessorReagan was invited to speak at CambridgeUniversity where she presented “‘Monstrous’ Babiesin the News,” about thalidomide, birth defects, andpublic policy. Her first publication, “’About to MeetHer Maker’: Women, Doctors, Dying Declarations,and the State’s Investigation of Abortion, Chicago,1867–1940,” Journal of American History 77:4 (March1991) was reprinted in the second edition of AmericanSexual Histories, edited by Elizabeth Reis (BlackwellPress, 2012). Reagan has also worked with the Ethnographyof the University Initiative (EUI), having herundergraduate students research their own universityand present posters or papers at the EUI conferences.Finally, Professor Reagan appeared on MSNBC’s, TheRachel Maddow Show as an expert on the history ofabortion law.David Roediger spent the spring 2012 as a visitingscholar at the University of South Carolina. Hehas spoken at a dozen universities about his newbook (with Elizabeth Esch) The Production of Differenceand his new project, a history of emancipationmarking the sesquicentennial of the general strikeof U.S. slaves. He is currently a Fellow at the IllinoisProgram for Research in the Humanities.While continuing work on his book about the RussianRevolution for “Oxford Histories,” Mark Steinbergwrote a number of book chapters or articles: “Bloodin the Air: Everyday Violence in the Experience of thePetersburg Poor, 1905–1917,” “Emotions History inEastern Europe” (for Doing Emotions History, forthcomingfrom the University of Illinois Press”), and“Modernity as Mask: Reality, Appearance, and Knowledgeon the Petersburg Street.” He also wrote aninvited blog post in May 2012 on “Picturing Putin’sRussia” for the OUPblog (blog.oup.com/2012/05/picturing-putins-russia/), which was re-posted at TheHuffington Post as a featured post.It has been over a decade since Carol Symes lastperformed on the professional stage, but in 2012 shefound herself appearing in a very different theatricalvenue: the Danville Correctional Center, a mediummaximumsecurity prison where incarcerated mencan take courses through the University’s EducationJustice Project (featured in last year’s issue of History@ Illinois). In January, students in her course on“Shakespeare’s Worlds” mounted a 90-minute selectionof scenes from the plays they had studied in class;a video of Our Play can be viewed online via the EJPwebsite. She now coordinates a new Theatre Initiativeat the prison, where a production of The Tempest tookplace in April 2013. Other highlights of the past yearinclude a conference on “The Medieval Globe” sponsoredby the Program in Medieval Studies, which hasbecome the launching pad for a new journal by thatname, of which she will be the founding editor; stagedreadings of her own translations of two medieval plays(originally scripted in Latin and Old French) directedby Kyle Thomas, a Ph.D. student in Theatre History;and a ten-day stay in Japan, where she worked withgraduate students and faculty at the Osaka CityUniversity and met with fellow medievalists. She ismaking good progress on a book that will showcasethe public, performative conditions in which medievaldocuments were made, contested, and kept.Emeriti UpdatesWalter L. Arnstein presented eight-week OLLI(Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) courses in Champaignin 2010 and 2011, and in 2012 he gave guestlectures at Clark-Lindsey Village (in Urbana) andat Oklahoma Central University (at Edmond, Oklahoma).He provided book reviews to The Historian,H-ALBION (Net Online), and Victorian Studies.Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr.’s contribution to anAmerican Philosophical Society conference on Frenchnatural history appears as: “Symposium KeynoteAddress: Civilizing Specimens and Citizens at theMuséum d’Histoire Naturelle, 1793–1838,” in OfElephants & Roses: French Natural History, 1790–1830, edited by Sue Ann Prince. Memoirs of the AmericanPhilosophical Society, vol. 267 (Philadelphia: APSMuseum and American Philosophical Society, 2013),pp. 12–28. Chip continues his research and writing onthe menagerie of the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle inParis, the history of evolutionary theory, and twentieth-centuryanimal behavior studies.In 2012, Vernon Burton was elected to the Societyof American Historians. He also presented his presidentialaddress, “The South as Other: The Southerneras Stranger,” at the annual meeting of the Southern30 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Historical Association. That essay is forthcomingin The Journal of Southern History, vol. 79, February,2013. For examples of teaching, C-Span tapedBurton’s two-hour lecture on Southern Identity atClemson University (live stream at www.c-span.org/History/). Burton is Director of the Clemson CyberInstitute and Professor of History and ComputerScience at Clemson University. He continues to chairthe Advisory Board for the University of IllinoisInstitute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, andSocial Sciences, (ICHASS) and to serve as vice-chair ofthe Board of Directors of the Congressional NationalAbraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. He wasone of ten historians asked to contribute an essayfor the 2013 Presidential Inauguration Portfolio:“Building the Transcontinental Railroad,” JointCongressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies,January 21, 2013. He also published several articles,including “Abraham Lincoln,” as part of the EssentialCivil War Curriculum, edited by James I. Robertsonand William C. Davis, www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com/;and “Lincoln at Two Hundred: Have WeFinally Reached Randall’s Point of Exhaustion?” inThe Living Lincoln: Essays from the Harvard LincolnBicentennial Symposium, pp. 204–25, edited byThomas A. Horrocks, et al. (Carbondale: SouthernIllinois University Press, 2011), pp. 204–25.Joe Love published The Revolt of the Whip (StanfordUniversity Press) in May, 2012. The book concerns aspectacular set of events in Latin American history.In November, 1910, shortly after the inaugurationof Brazilian President Hermes da Fonseca, ordinarysailors seized control of major new combat vessels,including two of the most powerful battleships everbuilt, and commenced shelling Rio de Janeiro. Themutineers, led by an Afro-Brazilian and mostly blackthemselves, demanded greater rights—above all theabolition of flogging in the Brazilian navy, the lastWestern navy to tolerate it. This form of torture wasassociated in the sailors’ minds with slavery, whichhad only been prohibited in Brazil in 1888. Theseevents and the scandals that followed initiated asustained debate about the role of race and class inBrazilian society and the extent to which Brazil couldclaim to be a modern nation. Love also gave papers inBogota and Buenos Aires.Much has changed since John Lynn last appearedin these pages. He returned from Northwestern thispast fall semester and taught as a visitor back at theUniversity of Illinois. He is currently under contractto write two books: Surrender: A Military History, forCambridge University Press, and Another Kind ofWar: An Introduction to the History of Terrorism, forYale University Press. In the last two years he haspublished seven articles and chapters, including“Fear and Outrage as Terrorists’ Goals” in the Spring2012 Parameters (the journal of the U.S. Army WarCollege); “Honorable Surrender in Early ModernEuropean History, 1500–1789,” in Why Fighting Ends:A History of Surrender, edited by Hew Strachan andHolger Afflerbach (Oxford University Press, 2012);“The Battle Culture of Forbearance, 1660–1789,”in Warfare and Culture in World History, edited byWayne E. Lee (New York University Press, 2011); and“Essential Women, Necessary Wives, and ExemplarySoldiers: The Military Reality and Cultural Representationof Women’s Military Participation, 1600–1815,”in Barton Hacker and Margaret Vining, eds., Companionto Women’s Military History (Brill, 2012).Evan M. Melhado retired from the University inJune, 2012. Since coming to the U of I in 1974, he hadheld a half-time appointment in History and, until1994, in Chemistry, which reflected his specializationin the history of science. In 1994, the appointmentin Chemistry was moved to the UI College of Medicineat Urbana-Champaign, a change that reflectedhis growing interest, sparked by both History andMedicine, in the history of medicine. He continues hisresearch in the intellectual history of recent Americanhealth-care policy. This year, he published “AmericanHealth Reformers and the Social Sciences in theTwentieth Century,” in A Master of Science History:Essays in Honor of Charles Coulston Gillispie. pp.297–325 and Archimedes: New Studies in the Historyand Philosophy of Science and Technology. vol. 30.edited by Jed Z. Buchwald (Dordrecht, Heidelberg,London, New York: Springer, 2012).Not Just Roommates: Cohabitation after the SexualRevolution (Chicago, 2012) appeared in June of 2012.Elizabeth Pleck spoke about “Why Cohabitationis Illegal” at the University of South Florida in St.Petersburg in November of 2012. She delivered akeynote address about “The Global History of DomesticViolence” at a conference on gender violence atFlorida International University. She serves as chairof the Darlene Clark Hine Book Prize Committee ofthe Organization of American Historians for 2012–2013. For her interview with Wisconsin Public Radioon the significance of Black Friday, go to www.wpr.org/webcasting/audioarchives_display.cfm?Code=dun&StartRow=1&keyword=Pleck&highlight=on.Winton Solberg’s manuscript is at the Universityof Illinois Press forthcoming next year. His article,“President Edmund J. James and the University ofIllinois, 1904–1920: Redeeming the Promise of theHistory @ Illinois 31

Morrill Land Grant Act” appeared in vol. 30 of Perspectiveson the History of Higher Education.Charles Stewart continues as a Visiting Scholarat Northwestern University’s Institute for the Studyof Islamic Thought in Africa where he is working ona multi-volume compilation of Mauritanian authorsand their works, funded by the Ford Foundation, tobe published in late 2013 or 2014 by Brill (Leiden).An Arabic edition is also planned, publisher pending.Alumni NewsAfter graduating in 2011, Jack Brofman spent thenext academic year in Slovakia completing a FulbrightEnglish Teaching Assistantship. After thentaking time off to travel to several great Europeancities (Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Paris, and Nice), heis now back living in Chicago and working in the completelyunrelated field of business valuation.After graduating with a B.A. in 2011, Carly Cusacknow attends law school at the University of Wisconsinin Madison. She is finishing her second year and willbe spending the summer working in Chicago for anonprofit specializing in civil poverty law.Andrew Demshuk, who graduated with a Ph.D.from the University of Illinois in 2010, is currentlyAssistant Professor at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. He published his first monograph, TheLost German East: Forced Migration and the Politics ofMemory, 1945–1970, with Cambridge University Pressin 2012. The book received an honorable mention forthe Smith Book Prize of the European History Sectionof the Southern Historical Association. In summer2013, he will be pursuing research for his new projectwith a Faculty Development Grant and a grant fromthe College of Arts and Sciences from UAB.Stephen G. Fritz (B.A., 1971; M.A., 1973; Ph.D.1980) is Professor of History at East Tennessee StateUniversity, where he continues to teach Germanand European History. ETSU will celebrate its 100 thanniversary this year. Stephen’s third book, Ostkrieg:Hitler’s War of Extermination in the East, was publishedby the University of Kentucky Press in October2011 and has been praised as “an achievement that islikely to be unequaled for some time to come.”Carolyn Joyce Giaquinta (neé Carolyn Harris,B.A., 1963) obtained her Masters Degree in LibraryScience from the University of Iowa in 1969. Shethen worked for many years as a librarian in IowaCity until her retirement in 1994 and afterwards forseveral additional years as a part-time librarian at theGlenside Public Library in Glendale Heights, Illinois.She now lives in the Chicago suburb of Warrenville,where she enjoys gardening, genealogy, and, of course,her grandchildren.Don Hickey (B.S., 1966; M.A., 1968; Ph.D., 1972)is Professor of History at Wayne State College innortheastern Nebraska. In the spring of 2013, heconcurrently held the Mark W. Clark Chair in Historyat The Citadel, in Charleston, South Carolina. Withthe bicentennial of the War of 1812, Don has beenbusy: over the past two years, he has published nofewer than four books—-The Rockets’ Red Glare: AnIllustrated History of the War of 1812 (Johns HopkinsUniversity Press), new editions of The War of 1812:A Forgotten Conflict and The War of 1812: A ShortHistory (both with the University of Illinois Press),and 187 Things You Should Know about the War of1812 (Maryland Historical Society). He also servedas Guest Editor for a special issue of the Journal ofMilitary History.Brian M. Ingrassia (Ph.D., 2008) is Assistant Professorin the history department at Middle TennesseeState University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. His firstbook, The Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Education’sUneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football (UniversityPress of Kansas, 2012) was recently named an“Outstanding Academic Title” by Choice Magazine.He also serves as the series editor of the Sport andPopular Culture series at the University of TennesseePress.Mike Kenwick, after graduating with doublemajors in History and Political Science in 2011, hasenrolled in the doctoral program for political scienceat Penn State. His research centers on the impactof foreign policy behaviors on international conflictprocesses, and the relationship between civil conflictand the stability of domestic political institutions.He has recently received the Miller-LaVigne/Paternoacademic fellowship and is preparing to defend hismaster’s thesis this summer.32 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Richard Kruger (B.A. 1967; J.D., 1971) is the foundingpartner of Kruger, Henry & Hunter, a law firm inoperation for over 35 years that is located in the historictown of Metropolis, Illinois. He is also the ownerand operator of Kruger Farms in Metropolis, which islocated on the Ohio River in southern Illinois.Rebecca Mitchell, after graduating with a Ph.D.from the University of Illinois in 2011, has been aHavighurst Postdoctoral Fellow at Miami Universityin Ohio from 2011–2013. During her time at Miami,she organized an international conference entitled“Music and Power in Russia, Eastern Europe andEurasia: Historical Problems and Perspectives.” Shecurrently has in press three articles dealing with therelation between philosophy, music and identity inthe late Russian Empire.After graduating from the University of Illinois in2010, Brian Pihuleac taught English to high schoolstudents in San Sebastian, Spain and Almeria, Spainthe past two years. In the fall of 2013 he will enrollin the doctoral program in Romance Languages andLiteratures at the University of California, Berkeley.Wayne C. Temple (B.A., 1949; Ph.D., 1956) continueshis work in Springfield as Chief Deputy Directorof the Illinois State Archives. On June 22, 2010,he flew by charter airplane on the Land of LincolnFlight from Springfield to Washington D.C. in orderto see the World War II Memorial and other historicsites. The Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College hasasked to republish a volume of Wayne’s best Lincolnarticles. For the forthcoming book Mary Lincoln:Enigma (Southern Illinois University Press) he wrotea lengthy chapter on Mary Lincoln’s extensive travels.He has currently also completed 15 chapters of a newstudy of Lincoln’s domestics and servants. His wifeSunderine recently retired as one of the supervisorsat the Old State Capitol after more than 40 years ofservice there.C. J. Watkins after graduating in 2011 went on towork in the family business of the fastener industry inthe Chicago area. He is now enrolled at Arizona StateUniversity for their Masters program in SecondaryEducation with a specialization in History. He shouldbe in the classroom as an educator by the fall of 2015.Let Us Know What You Are DoingEmail your information to HistoryatIllinois@illinois.edu or mail this form to the Department of History,309 Gregory Hall, 810 South Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801Name:Address:City: State: Zip:Email:Personal and professional news:Please indicate all U of I degrees:B.A. year M.A. year Ph.D. yearCurrent position and employer (if retired, indicatelast position prior to retirement):History @@ Illinois 333

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