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2010History@ NORTHWESTERNThe Newsletter of the Department of History at Northwestern UniversityJudd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and SciencesA New Look for Harris HallExcitement is mounting in the History Department at Northwesternas we await our return in August to a completelyrehabbed Harris Hall. Among the outstanding features of thenew building are a spacious outdoor plaza connected to Harris 108, anextension of the lower level to house the Chabraja Center for HistoricalStudies, new classrooms on that level, a longer and wider stairwayat the front of the building, office space for up to fifty faculty memberson the two upper floors, an elevator, a new history seminar room,and even a faculty lounge. Yet, the historic charm of the building willremain: Harris 107 and 108, the staircases and wrought-iron banisters,the marble floors and walls of the main floor, and the oak woodworkall are being preserved. In the next Newsletter, we’ll bring you picturesof our wonderful new home, but for now, here are some shots of thetop to bottom renovation.

Senior Honors Thesis Reaches the Top U.S. History JournalAIn 2004, Katie Turk completeda senior honors thesis entitled“Out of the Revolution, Into theMainstream: Employment Activism in theNOW Sears Campaign and the GrowingPains of Liberal Feminism.” It wonthe Department’s Grace Douglas JohnstonPrize for the best thesis submittedthat year and so impressed Turk’s advisor,Nancy MacLean, the she urged Katie topursue publication. Six years later, in September2010, a revised version will appearin the Journal of American History underthe title “Working for Change: ChicagoNOW, Women Employed, and the SearsCampaign.” The department congratulatesKatie, who is now finishing her Ph.D.dissertation at the University of Chicago.Here is her story.At NU, I was thrilled by the numberand variety of engaging courses offeredin WCAS. I decided on a history majorvery early, but even within the department,selecting among so many exciting paths ofstudy often proved difficult. I knew I wasmost interested in recent US women’s history,but I benefited from the departmentalrequirement to take a number of coursesoutside that field. I took history courseson Ancient Egypt, Japanese culture, earlymodern England, contemporary Ireland,and more. The experience sharpened myskills and helped me to conceptualize thecraft of historical study as distinct from theother liberal arts.Toward the end of my junior year, Iknew I wanted to write an honors thesisabout second-wave feminism, but wasunsure of a specific topic. I approachedProfessor MacLean, with whom I hadtaken a course on 20th century U.S. history.She agreed to advise my project andsuggested I look into Women Employed(WE), a Chicago-based second-wave organizationfocused on women’s workplacerights. From the Women’s Ephemera Filesin Deering Library, I learned that WEand the Chicago chapter of NOW hadcollaborated in the early 1970s to wage anemployment rights campaign against SearsRoebuck and Company, then the nation’slargest retailer and second largest employerof women. This campaign had helpedto precipitate the 1986federal district court caseEEOC v. Sears. Whereasthat case has been wellstudied, feminists’ Searscampaign had not. I wasintrigued by their militantstance and simultaneouspressure on the discriminatoryemployer and thegovernment enforcementagency. I wondered whythe seemingly successful Sears campaignwas dropped from NOW’s agenda in 1975(and WE’s in 1973), even though the courtcase dragged on for another decade. Inmy seminar paper, I argued that changeswithin NOW—in particular, its shift tofocusing on the ERA--cut off the lifebloodfrom grassroots campaigns such as theSears effort. NOW became a more effectivepressure group, but sacrificed the kindof local energy that had brought manyChicago NOW members to the movement.The seminar paper process was marvelous.I was thrilled to be in a small classwith other students who felt as passionateabout independent research and serioushistorical scholarship as I did. ProfessorPeter Hayes was a fantastic seminar leader,and his many lessons about good researchand scholarship have served me well ingraduate school. The honors seminarprovided for a healthy balance betweensustained, independent inquiry and guidanceand support from my advisors, ProfessorsHayes and MacLean. I learned howto offer and sustain an original argument,how to synthesize disparate archival andsecondary sources, and how to find andhone a historical narrative. I also learned tolean on peers for support, intellectual communityand proofreading—a very valuablelesson for graduate school. Of all of myundergraduate experiences, certainly thehonors seminar was the most importantin preparing me for and convincing me toattend graduate school.In the year after college, I moved toWashington, D.C., and worked for severalfeminist nonprofit organizations, but soonrealized that I wanted to resume studyingthe dynamics of feminist activism. At theUniversity of Chicago, I’ve studied workingwomen’s rights consciousnessin a number of times and places,but remained especially interestedin working women’s consciousnessduring the second wave. ThoughI did not expect to revisit myundergraduate thesis, my decisionto write a dissertation aboutpostwar activism among workingwomen took me back to myearlier research. I embedded mymaterial about Women Employedin an early chapter and revised my narrativeof NOW and the Sears campaignas a chapter all its own. An advisor at Uof C suggested I send it to a journal. Twoyears later, the JAH has accepted the piece.When I go on the job market in the fall,I know this legacy of my undergraduateyears will be a big point in my favor.NOTE: Katie’s senior honors thesis isnot her only remarkable achievement thatreflects well on her time as a History majorat Northwestern. She also received theWayne Booth Prize for Teaching Excellence,which honors the best graduatestudent instructor in the Social SciencesDivision of the University of Chicago.Call for contributions to theAlumni BookshelfRemember the days you couldn’t believeyou would complete your 570, muchless a dissertation or a book? Currentstudents still feel that way sometimes,and putting the published books thatstemmed from your dissertations ondisplay in Harris Hall will let them knowthey can do it, too. Please send Eric Westa copy marked ‘Alumni Bookshelf’ forthe new bookcase to be unveiled in yourhonor in September!3

2010History Majors Win Grants to Support HonorsThesis ResearchMax Clarke, WCAS Summer ResearchGrant for “Pipe Dreams: Reading Opium,Reading Disease in Victorian London.”Laura Colee, Summer URG for “TheEnd of the Millennium: Defining Christianitythrough a Jewish Messiah in the17th Century” (winner of the LassnerPrize in Jewish Studies).Ryan Erickson, WCAS SummerResearch Grant for “The Costs of GoodIntentions: The Metropolitan Housing andPlanning Council and Public Housing. “Ryan went on to a Northwestern PublicInterest Program Fellowship for 2009-10at the Center on Halsted to work on communityorganizing, a position that drawson his housing research knowledge.Megan Fitzpatrick, WCAS SummerResearch Grant for “A HistoricalWorldview: Winston Churchill and theMediterranean Strategy.”Alex Jarrell, WCAS Summer ResearchGrant for “Windham, Connecticutand the Origins of the AmericanRevolution.” Alex went on to Teach forAmerica for 2009-11.Jonathan Kent, WCAS Summer ResearchGrant for “Stronger than Bombs:The Strategic Partnership that Prevailedand Guided American Relations intothe 21st Century.”Michael Marsh-Soloway, WCASSummer Research Grant for “InteractionsAlong the Fault Lines of Civilizations: InvestigatingLiterary Transitions and Legaciesin Primary Source Russian Accountsof the Caucasian Conquest (1817-1864).”Michael is now working on a Slavic StudiesPhD at University of Virginia.Hannah Morris, WCAS Summer ResearchGrant for “Der Stürmer: Dismantlingthe Attack of Alljuda?”Toku Sakai, WCAS Summer ResearchGrant for “The Hatoyama Doctrine:‘Self-Reliant’ Independence and the JapaneseConstitution, 1951-1957.” Tokuhas won a Fulbright to Japan to conductresearch at an American military base onthe Japanese mainland.Eubhin Song, WCAS Summer ResearchGrant for “‘When Two KoreansMeet They Establish a Church’: TheRole of Christianity as an Arm of U.S.Hegemony in Korean Immigration tothe United States during the 20th Centurythrough Oral History Interviews.”Arianne Urus, Summer URG for“Body Business: Power Through Prostitutionin Eighteenth-Century Paris,”winner of the 2009 Grace JohnstonPrize for best senior honors thesis.Christopher Wagner, WCAS SummerResearch Grant and Provost’s OfficeImmersion Language Grant (German)for “But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise:A History of Walter Benjamin’s‘Melancholy.”Allison Hansen, WCAS SummerResearch Grant for “CzechoslovakianResistance 1938-1945: JustificationThrough History.”Alex Preller, WCAS Summer ResearchGrant for “United States v. Lopez:An Examination of the Traditional Assumptionsof Conservative CommerceClause Jurisprudence.”News of the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical StudiesThe Center for Historical Studies(CHS), established in 2006to enliven and deepen ongoingconversations among Northwesternhistorians about the core concerns of theirdiscipline, was named the Nicholas D.Chabraja Center for Historical Studies(CCHS) in winter 2010. Mr. Chabraja andhis wife Eleanor have made a significantgift to the Center endowment. A graduateof both Weinberg College and the LawSchool, Chabraja often has commentedon how much of lasting value he learnedfrom the legendary teaching of ProfessorRichard Leopold. Chabraja is currentlynon-executive chairman of the board ofGeneral Dynamics, which specializes inaerospace, combat systems, marine systems,and information systems and technology.Before he joined that firm in 1993, he hada distinguished career as a litigator at thelaw firm of Jenner & Block.The gift from Nicholas and EleanorChabraja allows the Center to continueand enhance its wide-ranging programs forfaculty, graduate students, and undergrads,as well as the general public. Annuallythe CCHS hosts eight to ten lecturesfor History Department audiences andinvited guests from other departments andorganizations. The lectures have spannedan array of topics and historical subfields,from Karen Wigen (Stanford University)examining Japanese history throughmaps to Annette Gordon-Reed (NewYork Law School) discussing how shetackled her Pulitzer prize-winning bookThe Hemingses of Monticello. The speakershave included Peter Brown (Princeton) on“Work, Alms and the Holy Poor betweenSyria and Egypt: A Parting of the Waysin Early Christian Monasticism”; ChristopherBayly (Cambridge) on “BetweenRepression and Reform: The BritishEmpire c. 1800-1960”; Laura de Melloe Souza (São Paulo) on “Rethinking thePortuguese Seaborne Empire From thePerspective of Colonial Brazil”; GlendaGilmore (Yale) on “The Nazis and Dixie:An Exercise in International ComparativeHistory”; David Levering Lewis (NYU)continued on following page4 The NewsleTTer of The DeparTmeNT of hisTory aT NorThwesTerN UNiversiTy

News of the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center forHistorical Studies continuedfaculty Bookshelfon “On Triangulating Seneca Falls, theNiagara Movement, and Reverend Wright:America in the Obama Era”; PatriciaLimerick (Colorado) on “A Ditch in Time:The City, the West, and Water”; DeborahCohen (Brown) on “Family Secretsin Britain: Children Who Disappeared,1870-1960”; William Sewell (Chicago)on “Capitalism and Social Hierarchy inEighteenth-Century France”; and ChristofMauch (Munich) on “A TocquevillianPerspective: Teaching American History inGerman Universities.”In addition, the eminent Englishhistorian John Morrill came from CambridgeUniversity to stay in Evanston fortwo weeks in Spring 2009 as the CHSDistinguished Resident Scholar, meetingwith our historians and giving a series ofthree lectures on “Living with Revolution:Rethinking 17th-Century Britain and Ireland.”Other Center events have includedpublic panel discussions by Northwesternhistorians on the state of the profession(one on the responsibilities of historians totheir society and another on the future ofhistory) and lectures especially designed tohelp graduate students deal with professionalchallenges. These last includedWalter Woodward, State Historian ofConnecticut, speaking on “Opportunitiesand Needs in the Field of Public History”and Olivia Mahoney, Chief Curator of theChicago History Museum, on “HistoryMuseums: Career Opportunities andChallenges.”The Center also co-sponsors relevanthistory events on campus, such as theconferences on “1968/2008: The Aestheticsof Engagement” and “From VillasMiseria to Colonias Populares: LatinAmerica’s Informal Cities in ComparativePerspective” (both in 2008) and “RememberingTiananmen: 20th AnniversarySymposium” (2009), as well as publiclectures, most recently by Moshe Rosman(Bar Ilan University and Yale) speakingon “How Jewish Is Jewish History?Jewish Metahistories and the JewishHistorical Experience” (March2010). An annual History of theBook lecture jointly sponsoredwith the University Library wasinaugurated in October 2009 witha talk by Robert Darnton, headof the Harvard University librarysystem, on “Old Books and E-Books” to an audience of about 120avid listeners. The CCHS booklaunch series started with a receptionand book-signing of the newDick Leopold biography, Steven J.Harper’s Straddling Two Worlds: TheJewish-American Journey of ProfessorRichard W. Leopold in January 2008,and in March 2010, ten bookspublished since December 2008 byfaculty of the History Departmentwere displayed and celebrated at areception in the Guild Lounge.Each year the Center selects twograduate students to serve as Fellowsof the Center, which entails organizinga one-day graduate conference ona significant historical topic pertinentto their research. An eminent historianfrom outside Northwestern is invited togive a keystone lecture and our own oroutside faculty comment on the papers. In2007-2008, we had sessions on environmentalhistory and social history, in 2009a conference on madness in history, and inspring 2010 gatherings on biography andon emotions in history.An innovative program of internationaldoctoral workshops, jointly sponsoredwith foreign institutions of higherlearning, was initiated by the CCHS in2008-2009. Competitively selected NUHistory graduate students meet with theirpeers in or from other parts of the world,network, compare notes on the state of theALLENUntil the Last Man ComesHome: POWs, MIAs, andthe Unending VietnamWar. chapel hill: universityof north carolinaPress, 2009.BORDOGNAWilliam James at theBoundaries: Philosophy,Science, and the Geographyof Knowledge.chicago: university ofchicago Press, 2008.BREENAmerican Insurgents,American Patriots: TheRevolution of the People.new york: hill and wang,2010.FISCHERA Poverty of Rights:Citizenship and Inequalityin Twentieth-CenturyRio de Janeiro. stanford:stanford university Press,2008.LASSNER(with michael Bonner)Islam in the Middle Ages:The Origins and Shapingof Classical Islamic Civilization.santa Barbara:Praeger, 2009.profession, and engage in discussions oftheir research during an intensive two-dayworkshop. Our workshops were in Galway,continued on page 65

2010continued from page 5News of the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for HistoricalStudies continuedIreland (Fall 2008), Munich, Germany(Spring 2009), and Cambridge, UK (Fall2009). Future workshops are planned forItaly, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Turkey,and India. We also schedule workshops inEvanston with our international partners.For undergraduates the Leopold Fellowshipprogram (named in honor of ProfessorRichard Leopold and funded in partby generous gifts from his former students)offers the opportunity to work closely withprimary historical materials under theguidance of faculty, doing actual archivalresearch and learning how to transformraw data into historical interpretation. Thefirst group of ten undergraduate LeopoldFellows started work in 2008-2009. Fortyundergrads applied for nine spots in 2009-2010, attesting to the popularity of thisprogram. Leopold Fellows have worked onsuch disparate tasks as exploring skepticismin early modern Venice on the basisof the hundreds of books and pamphletspublished over a thirty year period in theearly 17th Century by members of a debatingsociety called the Academy of the Unknowns;digging into archives on colonialunrest and vigilante groups in towns ofcoastal Maine in the run-up to the AmericanRevolution; analyzing documents onthe German “narrative of suffering” beforeand after World War II; and digitizingcolor-codedmaps ofgrocers inCincinnatiin the 19th C. in order to study small businessesin urban communities in America.Some Leopold Fellows have used theirforeign language skills, working with materialsin Latin, Italian, Spanish, German,Russian, Korean, and Chinese.Details of current and past events andprograms of the CCHS can be found athttp://www.historicalstudies.northwestern.edu/index.htm.Faculty NewsKen Alder has been busy on his “forensicself ” project--a history of the sciences ofpersonal identification from the Renaissanceto the genome--thanks to grantsfrom the National Science Foundation andGuggenheim Foundation. (Though he hasyet to watch an episode of CSI.) His TheLie Detectors (2007) is being translated intoJapanese and Czech, and the University ofChicago Press is republishing his Engineeringthe Revolution (1997). He admits tobeing baffled by the third person singular.Since returning to Northwestern in Fall2008, Michael Allen has moved officestwice, taught three new courses, and publishedhis first book, Until The Last ManComes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the UnendingVietnam War (UNC Press, 2009). Healso commenced work on two new projects(an article on Operation Babylift and abook-length study of efforts to rein in thepowers of the imperial presidency fromthe Vietnam War through the Iran-ContraAffair), accompanied five NU graduatestudents to Munich for the Center forHistorical Studies’ International DoctoralWorkshop, and said goodbye to his dogHarper, who passed away after twelvewonderful years.In the summer of 2007, Henry Binfordbegan working with Professors CarlSmith and Kasey Evans of the Englishdepartment to create the pilot coursesfor the new Kaplan Humanities ScholarsProgram. This program, under the aegisof the Kaplan Humanities Institute, hasenrolled a group of 48 talented freshmenin each of the past three fall quarters. Thestudents take two linked courses in the falland another two in the winter. The Evans-Smith-Binford team created a seminar anda lecture titled Brave New Worlds, whichexamined visions of a better (or worse)society in the western world from ThomasMore to Aldous Huxley and beyond. Theoffered this two-course package in 2007and 2008 and found the collaboration awonderfully enriching experience.In 2008 Francesca Bordogna waspromoted to Associate Professor, and herbook, William James at the Boundaries, waspublished by the University of ChicagoPress. Bordogna also edited an Italianversion of William James’s The Meaning ofTruth, for Nino Aragno press in 2010. In2008-2009, she was appointed Director ofthe Science in Human Culture program,a position she will resume this fall afterspending the academic year 2009-2010 atthe Max Planck Institute for the Historyof Science in Berlin, where she is draftinga new book entitled “The Pragmatist Hotel:Psychology and Philosophy as a Wayof Life.” She is also carrying on researchfor a third (long-term) book project on theepistemology and psychology of the “innersenses” in mystical practices. Bordognahas become an expert on Shawn Johnsonand gymnastics practices, as her daughteris determined to win the 2016 all-aroundOlympic title.T.H. Breen devoted much of the lastyear to transforming an experiment intoa permanent and well-funded Centerfor Historical Studies with the generoussupport of former University PresidentHenry Bienen and Trustee NicholasChabraja. In August 2011 the ChabrajaCenter will move into new offices and areading room in the space being created bythe extension of the lower level of HarrisHall to the south. While the Center wastaking shape, Breen managed to completea new book American Insurgents, AmericanPatriots: The Revolution of the People and togive endowed lectures at the University ofVermont and Notre Dame. The topic ofthe latter presentation was “Memories ofthe Siege of Derry: Irish Revolutionariesin Northern New England.”John Bushnell has in the last two yearsspent much time in Russian provincialarchives tracking down and trying tounderstand and explain variant marriagepractices: bride theft (usually elopement,but acted out as bride theft) in Russia’snorthern provinces and resistance todaughters’ marriage for religious reasons.He gave papers on both these subjects andis turning them into chapters of a book.6 The Newsletter of the Department of History at Northwestern University

Faculty news continuedGerry Cadava is finishing up his secondbusy year at Northwestern, and he can’tbelieve how fast the time has passed! Hefinished his dissertation at Yale, signed abook contract with Harvard UniversityPress, gave a few public lectures, andbegan developing courses on Latinos inthe United States and the U.S.-Mexicoborderlands. Since he moved to Chicago,he also has co-chaired the NewberryLibrary’s Seminar in Borderlands andLatino Studies. All this, plus planning tomarry Kathleen Belew, a Ph.D. candidatein American Studies at Yale, inGerry’s hometown of Tucson, Arizona onSeptember 25, 2010. Honeymoon ideas,anyone?Peter Carroll gave a paper, “Homicideand Lesbian Panic during the NanjingDecade,” at the “Third InternationalConference on the History of ModernChinese Urban Culture” at Huazhongshifan daxue, Wuhan, China, in July 2009.He then spent the next month eatingwell in Guangzhou (a sidewalk luncheonof stir-fried frog and greens for the sumof $1.80 was, perhaps, his favorite meal)and enjoying the pleasures of researchingRepublican era history in a beautifulRepublican era building, the Sun Yat-senLibrary.Dyan Elliott returned to teaching thisfall after a very productive year’s leave. Shecompleted a draft of her book manuscript,which examines the image of the Bride ofChrist from apostolic times through thefifteenth century. The general argumentis that the gradual superimposition ofthis image on religiously inclined womenanticipated the rise of witchcraft charges.The undoubted high points of her leavewere her inaugural lecture as Peter B.Ritzma Chair and a residential fellowshipbeside the Mediterranean Sea. Inthe former, she spoke on the medievalunderpinnings of the modern day sexscandal. The fellowship was at the LiguriaStudy Center in Bogliasco, a town locatedon the outskirts of Genoa. Here Dyanand ten other scholars and artists werepampered for thirty-five blissful days.Brodie Fischer was promoted to AssociateProfessor in 2008. Her book,A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship andInequality in 20th Century Rio de Janeiro,was published by Stanford in 2008 andpromptly received awards from the SocialScience History Association, the UrbanHistory Association, and the Conferenceon Latin American History. Since2007, she has been at work on a newproject on urbanization and migrationin post-abolition Brazil. The project hasled her down many side paths, includingexplorations of the work of early hungeractivist Josue de Castro and the roots ofracial silence in debates about Brazilianurban social policy. In recent years, she haspresented this new work at Harvard, Chicago,Michigan, Columbia, Illinois, andIndiana, as well as in LASA, BRASA, andseveral Brazilian universities. For 2010-11, Fischer has been awarded an ACLSBurkhardt Fellowship, and she will enjoythe time to read and think in residence atthe Newberry Library. She is hoping tospend most of the summers of 2010 and2011 researching in Brazil, so long as herfamily’s enthusiasm for beaches, futbol,and pão de queijo holds out!Benjamin Frommer won a FulbrightSenior Scholar Research Fellowship to theCzech Republic, where he is currently onleave for the academic year 2009-10. Heis studying the development, implementation,and enforcement of antisemitic lawsin Bohemia and Moravia during the Nazioccupation. It’s not a pleasant topic, butthe archivists are friendly enough and thematerials fascinating.Jonathon Glassman presented papersat Johns Hopkins University, the Universityof Michigan, and Northwestern’sSociology Department. His article onracial violence and historical memory hasappeared in Abolitionism and Imperialismin Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic, editedby Derek Peterson (Ohio UniversityPress, 2010), and earlier articles havebeen reprinted in volumes published byRoutledge (New Imperial Histories Reader)and the Fondazione Istituto Gramsci (atranslation of his very first publication, onSwahili slave resistance, in Studi Gramscianinel Mondo). His newest book is nowin press: War of Words, War of Stones: RacialThought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar(Indiana University Press).faculty BookshelfLIGHTThe Nature of Cities:Ecological Visions andthe American UrbanProfessions, 1920–1960.Baltimore: Johns hopkinsuniversity Press, 2009.LYNNWomen, Armies, andWarfare in Early ModernEurope. new york: cambridgeuniversity Press,2009.MACLEANThe American Women’sMovement, 1945-2000: ABrief History with Documents.Boston: Bedford/st.martin’s, 2009.MACLEAN(with Donald t. critchlow)Debating the AmericanConservative Movement:1945 to the Present.lanham, md.: rowman &littlefield, 2009.MOKYRThe Enlightened Economy:An Economic History ofBritain 1700-1850. newhaven: yale universityPress, 2010.7

2010Faculty News continuedRegina Grafe returned to Chicago inAugust after an intense twelve monthsat the Institute for Advanced Studies inPrinceton and has been enjoying quiet citylife even more since she escaped the stressof the New Jersey woods. Her sabbaticalwas almost entirely devoted to her newbook Distant Tyranny: Markets, Powerand Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800,which is now in the final stages. That isjust as well, since after almost five years oftrying to figure out why Spain never quitebecame a nation state or a national marketin the early modern period, she is lookingforward to her next project, which willcross the Spanish Atlantic and possiblyeven make a stopover in Manila.Peter Hayes spent 2008-09 preparingfor his term as department chair bybeing on academic leave. He finishedco-editing a mammoth compendium,The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies,and co-writing an almost equally largemanuscript, entitled Das Amt und dieVergangenheit: Die Deutsche Diplomaten imNationalsozialismus und in der Bundesrepublik,both of which will appear in 2010.He also wrote a new introduction for therepublication of Franz Neumann’s famousbook, Behemoth: The Structure and Practiceof National Socialism (Chicago: Ivan Dee,2009); presented lectures at SoutheastMissouri State, the German HistoricalInstitute in Washington, the University ofSouthern California, Colby College, Yale,Northwestern, and the Annual Conventionof the Association of Jewish Libraries;and served as director and chief instructorof the Silberman Seminar for College andUniversity Teachers at the U.S. HolocaustMemorial Museum. In 2009-10, his handswere full with administrative duties, but hecontinued to teach his large lecture courseon the history of the Holocaust and toco-teach a multinational and multilingualseminar with Michael Loriaux, this yearon The Future of the University in France,Germany, and the US.Laura Hein and her co-editor, RebeccaJennison, delivered a book about acontemporary Japanese visual artist whodeals with themes of war and remembranceto the Center for Japanese Studies,The University of Michigan Press, forpublication this fall. Imagination WithoutBorders: Feminist Artist TomiyamaTaeko and Social Responsibility will bepreceded by a gorgeous website, courtesyof the Academic Technologies group atNorthwestern University. Check it outat http://www.library.northwestern.edu/imaginationwithoutborders/ . She spentsix months in Japan in 2009, courtesy of aFulbright Senior Research award, happilyenjoying the illusion of living alone in atiny downtown Tokyo apartment until theweather warmed up and she discoveredthe hordes of cockroaches who thoughtthe place belonged to them. One of herrecent essays, “The Cultural Career of theJapanese Economy” was published in ThirdWorld Quarterly (no, Japan does not fit thatcategory), and, in abridged form, at AsiaPacific Journal: Japan Focus, an innovativeweb-based, peer-reviewed journal, whichshe helps coordinate.Rajeev Kinra spent several weeks in thespring of 2009 as one of two Virani Lecturersin Islamic Studies at the Universityof British Columbia. Soon after, he wasawarded a National Endowment for theHumanities research fellowship, whichwill support him during the 2010-11academic year, as he works to completehis a book tentatively titled Writing Self,Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahmanand the Cultural World of the Indo-PersianState Secretary. In the fall, he had an articlepublished in the Journal of PersianateStudies, and another article is forthcomingin a volume called Language, Culture,and Power: New Directions in South AsianStudies. Rajeev also led two seminars forhigh school teachers on various aspects ofmedieval and early modern South Asiancultural history through the NewberryLibrary Teachers’ Consortium, and he contributedin November to the Department’s“History behind the Headlines” round-tableon escalation in Afghanistan. In March2010, he was the guest lecturer at a benefitorganized by the Chicago chapter of IraqVeterans against the War, where he didhis best not to dampen the other presenters’humor and pathos by addressing theevent’s theme — “What the Hell do YouKnow about Afghanistan?” — from a deephistorical perspective.Henri Lauzière gathered all his belongings,which were scattered over threecities in Canada and the US, and officiallymoved to the Chicago area in the fall of2009. After a few mishaps, including anintentional short drive backwards on I-294during rush hour, he was able to settledown, to locate his office, and to startworking as the newest member of the historydepartment. Since then, he has taughtclasses on the Arabian Peninsula and theMiddle East in general. He also completedan article entitled “The Construction ofSalafiyya: Reconsidering Salafism from thePerspective of Conceptual History,” whichwill appear in the August 2010 issue of theInternational Journal of Middle East Studies.Tessie Liu is serving as Director ofGraduate Studies in the Gender StudiesProgram for academic years 2009-10 and2010-11. Her article on “Beauty” was publishedin The Palgrave Dictionary of TransnationalHistory, edited by Akira Iriye andPierre Yves Saunier (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009). Another article, “TheSecret Beyond White Patriarchal Power:Race, Gender, and Freedom in the LastDays of Colonial Saint-Domingue” willbe published in French Historical Studieslater this year. Tessie spent December 2009in Paris doing final research for her bookwhich is provisionally entitled Failure ofEnlightenment, Not of Darkness: Race, Freedomand Citizenship Between the French andHaitian Revolutions.Robert Lerner (Emeritus 2008) wasintrigued when one of his former graduatestudents called in early May 2008to say: “word has it that you’re retiring,no?” Since he couldn’t deny that, theconversation soon revealed that many ofhis former students had been planning aretirement festivity for two years and allhad kept mum until then. So a “Lernerpalooza”was held on the last weekend ofMay, including two magnificent banquetsand a daylong conference, including fourspeakers flown in from Europe, several ofLerner’s research colleagues from the U.S.,and a good number of his former graduatestudents. Despite some wildly erroneouscomments to the effect that he was ataskmaster, he could not have been moregratified and touched. In 2008-09, Lernerspoke at conferences in Modena, Milan,8 The Newsletter of the Department of History at Northwestern University

Faculty news continuedMunich, Budapest, Erlangen, and Girona;a second volume of his collected essayswas published in Italian translation asScrutare il futuro; Cornell University Pressput out a new paperback edition of his ThePowers of Prophecy (originally publishedin 1983; Amazon sales rank: #4,780,779);and essays by him appeared in the Journalof the Historical Society, Mediaeval Studies,Oliviana, and Utopies i alternatives de vidaa l’edat mitjana.Melissa Macauley spent the 2008-2009year as a member of the Institute for AdvancedStudy, where she managed to writea good portion of her next book in spiteof spending an inordinate amount of timedodging herds of wild beasts who insistedon wandering out of their assigned forest.An article appeared in the journal, LateImperial China, in 2009, as did a chapter inShared Histories of Modernity: China, India,and the Ottoman Empire (edited by HuriIslamoglu and Peter Perdue and publishedby Routledge) and a translation of a pieceshe published in 2001 in a collection of essaysby American, European, and Japanesescholars of traditional Chinese law (editedby Zhang Shiming, et al. and publishedby the Legal Press of China in 2010). Shepresented research on a range of topics inChinese and Southeast Asian history—smuggling, the transnational repercussionsof rural counterinsurgency campaigns inthe seventeenth and nineteenth centuries,the Chinese commercial mastery over theirBritish running dogs in the late nineteenthcentury—to audiences at Columbia,Princeton, Yale, Chicago, Northwestern,the Institute for Advanced Study, andthe Association for Asian Studies. Inrecent years, she has also emerged as a petcrank of the editorial board of the NewYork Times, which regularly publishes herletters-to-the-editor concerning politicalshenanigans of which she thoroughlydisapproves.Nancy MacLean is taking up a positionat Duke University in the fall of 2010, after20 wonderful years at Northwestern. She isdeeply grateful to colleagues and studentsfor filling those years with learning andlaughter. With all the exciting things happeninghere, leaving was difficult–-but lifewithout Chicago winters and in a homein the woods beckoned. Blame it all on aleave at the National Humanities Centerin 2008-2009, which led to involvementwith Durham for Obama, weekend tripsto the mountains and the ocean, andmore. When not hand-wringing withspouse Bruce Orenstein over how to makethe most of life after 50, she managed tolaunch a new project on the segregationistsources of American neo-liberalism andpublish two books designed for classroomuse: The American Women’s Movement,1945-2000: A Brief History withDocuments, and, with Donald Critchlow,Debating the American Conservative Movement,1945 to the Present.Kate Masur spent much of the last yearfinishing her book, An Example for All theLand: Emancipation and the Struggle overEquality in Washington, D.C., which theUniversity of North Carolina Press willpublish in the fall. She wrote an essay onthe meanings of social, civil, and politicalequality that will come out this summerin the Marquette Law Review, and her articleon a famous meeting between AbrahamLincoln and a delegation of blackWashingtonians will soon be publishedin Civil War History. Kate returned toher American Studies roots this year, coteachingwith English professor Ivy Wilsonan interdisciplinary graduate courseon antebellum black political culture. Thetwo hosted a symposium on the sametopic at Northwestern this spring. Shereceived a Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowshipfrom the ACLS to conduct research in2010-11 on her next book, which will lookat the social and political history of AfricanAmerican federal employees from theCivil War to the Wilson administration. Inher spare time (?), Kate has been workingwith other parents on getting healthierfoods into the Evanston public schools.Since the last newsletter, Sarah Mazaspent an idyllic year (2008-09) at theCenter for Advanced Study in the BehavioralSciences at Stanford, then a less idyllicyear (2009-10) as interim chair of thedepartment presiding over the move fromHarris Hall into our temporary quartersin downtown Evanston. (She can’t claimmuch credit for the smoothness of themove, which was entirely handled by Paulaand the rest of our amazing staff.) She isnow happily retired from “power” and hasfaculty BookshelfMOKYR(ed., with David s. landesand william J. Baumol)The Invention of Enterprise:Entrepreneurshipfrom Ancient Mesopotamiato Modern Times.Princeton: Princetonuniversity Press, 2010.PETROVSKY-SHTERNJews in the Russian Army,1827–1917: Drafted intoModernity. new york:cambridge universityPress, 2008.PETROVSKY-SHTERNThe Anti-Imperial Choice:The Making of the UkrainianJew. new haven: yaleuniversity Press, 2009.WILLSBomb Power: The ModernPresidency and the NationalSecurity State. newyork: Penguin Press, 2010recently completed a new book tentativelyentitled The Crime of Violette Noziere: AMurder in 1930s Paris, a hair-raising storyof parricide and incest (plus some socialand cultural history), which the Universityof California Press will publish in thespring of 2011.9

2010Faculty News continuedJock McLane is serving his final year asAssociate Dean for Faculty Affairs in theWeinberg College of Arts and Sciences. InAugust, he will end his 49 years of employmentat Northwestern and begin a studyof cattle in Indian society and politics.This March, he accompanied a group ofNorthwestern students to Rajasthan wherethey studied water resources in the desertnear the India-Pakistan border. Also inMarch, Oxford University Press publishedhis chapter on “Hindu Victimhood andIndia’s Muslim Minority” in FundamentalistMindset: Psychological Perspectives on Religion,Violence, and History, (ed. by CharlesB Strozier, David M. Terman, and JamesW. Jones, with Katharine A. Boyd).Joel Mokyr has had the dubious honor ofhaving his physician write a medical-scientificpaper about Joel’s misadventures withorthopedic surgeons who implanted, thenremoved, then implanted again a metal hip.The net result was many months of lostwork and unpleasant symptoms that mayPaula Blaskovits , History Department, NamedNorthwestern Evanston Campus 2008 Employeeof the Year. CONGRATULATIONS, PAULA!From left: Ann Ross, Feinberg School of Medicine (Finalist - Chicago); KennethVianni, Office for Research (Finalist - Evanston); Sachin Patel, School of ContinuingStudies (Employee of the Year Winner - Chicago); Paula Blaskovits, WeinbergCollege of Arts and Sciences (Employee of the Year Winner - Evanston);A. Sage Smith, Law Legal Clinic (Finalist -Chicago); Marsha Coffey, WeinbergCollege of Arts and Sciences (Finalist - Evanston)not be described in polite company. Duringthe various recuperation periods, hekilled time by finishing a 550 pp. monstercalled The Enlightened Economy, which YaleUniversity Press published this past winter,and co-edited The Invention of Enterprise(with William Baumol and David S. Landes),which appeared from Princeton UniversityPress even more recently. Armedwith a metal walking cane (to suppressany possible hostile questions), he andRobert C. Allen (Oxford) gave the closingplenary addresses to the World EconomicHistory Congress in the huge cathedral ofUtrecht in August 2010, each explainingthe Industrial Revolution in 20 minutes.Meanwhile, he continues to straddle theEconomics and History departments,trying unsuccessfully to blend into twonon-overlapping cultures and serving as anequal-opportunity nuisance to both, and heserves on a variety of committees.Bill Monter (Emeritus 2002) devoted2008 and 2009 to the pleasant task ofspending somebodyelse’s money -- aMellon EmeritusFellowship -- andis allotting 2010 tothe more challengingtask of turning muchextremely heterogeneousinformationinto a comparativeglobal history offemale kingship. Itwas supposed to endwith the inaugurationof Hillary Clinton,but unforeseen eventsintervened, so it nowends with an imageof Margaret Thatcherreviewing troops inBermuda in 1990.Edward Muir’stravels took himduring the past yearfrom Provo, Utah toSt. Petersburg, Russiaand lots of points inbetween. He feelsthat people expecthim to becomeemeritus any day now because he hasbeen receiving things that fall in your lapat the end of a career: he was just namedPresident-Elect of the Renaissance Societyof America, and the big surprise was theDistinguished Achievement Award fromthe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, whichwill keep him busy for the next few years.He is tempted to say he will never retireuntil the Cubs win the World Series, butthat is really asking too much of the Cubsand Ed.Alex Owen is at work on a third bookproject tentatively entitled Culture, Psycheand the Soul in Twentieth Century Britainwhich centrally investigates attempts toreconcile different forms of religiositywith a new and secular understandingof the mind and self. The project marksan intervention in the vigorous renewednational and international debate about thepurchase of religion in modern life. Shepublished “Sexual Politics,” in Women andReligion: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies,vol. iv, Pamela Klassen, ed. (London:Routledge, 2009).Susan Pearson completed work onher book, The Arm of the Law: ProtectingAnimals and Children in Gilded AgeAmerica, and looks forward to seeing it inprint soon. She also published an essayin the Journal of Social History, “InfantileSpecimens: Showing Babies in NineteenthCentury America,” for which she receivedthe Best Article Prize from the Society forthe History of Children and Youth. She’sbeginning work on a new project on birthregistration practices in the United Statesand is looking forward to attending a seminaron the History of Vital Registration inCambridge, England this September.Dylan Penningroth welcomed a soninto the world, August Chen-Penningroth,in March 2009. Over the past year ofso, his two research projects took himto Ghana, Mississippi, New Jersey, anddownstate Illinois. One of the projects, onAfrican Americans in local courts, receivedtimely support from the National ScienceFoundation. An article with preliminaryfindings from the other project was recognizedwith the EBSCOHost/America:History and Life Award.10 The Newsletter of the Department of History at Northwestern University

Faculty News continuedYohanan Petrovsky-Shtern last yearwas named by the Associated StudentGovernment to the Faculty Honor Roll,received the Weinberg College DistinguishedTeaching Award, won the firstprize of the Ab Imperio journal “for thebest article in 10 years introducing newdocuments in Russian history,” publisheda book, The Anti-Imperial Choice, withYale University Press, and was appointedDirector of the Crown Family Center forJewish Studies Center at Northwesternand Visiting Professor at Free UkrainianUniversity in Munich. He has been happyas never before.Carl F. Petry now holds the Hamad ibnKhalifa al-Thani Chair in Middle EastStudies. He has been informed that thismoniker sounds like a tongue twister,but the title refers to the member of theQatari royal family who had the idea toinvest some of the emirate’s wealth inhigher education. He continues to makeprogress on his study of medieval crimeand presented an example of his researchin June 2009 at a conference convenedby the Centre d’études supérieures de laRenaissance (Université François Rabelais,Tours, France). His paper comparedan espionage trial linking a Persian spyto Ethiopian Christian plans to invadeEgypt in the fifteenth century. Whateverthe substantive merits of this venture, theconference venue—a Loire chateau--wasspectacular. The French know how to handlethese affairs.Frank Safford is retiring at the end ofthe 2009-10 academic year. In September,he will present a paper in Salamanca onthe formation of national states in LatinAmerica, analyzing the role of eight variablesin five cases (Chile, Argentina, Brazil,Colombia, and Mexico). He and Joan willgo on from Spain to Turkey. In March2011, Safford will teach in the Facultadde Administración of the Universidad delos Andes in Bogotá. The real news is JoanSafford, who for some years now has beenhelping Mexico through the transitionfrom its version of the Napoleonic penalsystem to some version of the “accusatorial”system. With a Mexican and a CostaRican, she wrote a draft of a new penalprocedure code for Mexico. She is nowcritiquing another draft emanating fromthe Ministerio de Gobernación.David Schoenbrun spent 2009-10 asan NEH Fellow at the National HumanitiesCenter in North Carolina writing abook called Killer Kings and the Moralitiesof Power: Political Culture in East Africa tothe 19th century. He traveled to Ugandatwice to work at the Makerere UniversityLibrary and renew professional ties and oldfriendships. He also team taught a courseon “African Freedom, Black Justice” (withProf. Yari Perez-Marin of Spanish andPortuguese and Prof. Sherwin Bryant ofAfrican American Studies and History) inWinter 2009, as part of the Kaplan Scholarsprogram. He published “African Pastsfor African Futures in a Time of RadicalEnvironmental Change: Notes on Historyand Policy in Africa’s Reconstruction,”Program of African Studies Working PaperNumber 17 (2009), 43 pp. and “The Vicissitudesof Language in Writing PrecolonialAfrican History,” H-Net, (2010), 32paragraphs. His collaborative digital videoproject on glass trade beads (ExecutiveProduced with Kearsley Stewart, Anthropology,and Harlan Wallach, NUAMPS),“Controlling the Fire: Individuation,Industry, and Investment in West Africa,”reached final cut and was screened at the52nd Annual Meeting of the AfricanStudies Association in New Orleans.Michael Sherry became Medicareeligible;put new or long-neglected coursesinto the mix of his teaching; plugged alongwith researching, writing, and speakingabout his current project, Go Directly to Jail:The Punitive Turn in American Life, withinvaluable research assistance from twoof the department’s Leopold Fellows; andbasked in the glow of great achievementsby past and current graduate students.Amy Stanley finished her book manuscript,which is tentatively titled SellingWomen: Prostitution, Markets, and Moralityin Early Modern Japan, just beforegiving birth to her first child, Sam AlbertZakarin, in May.In the last two years, Garry Wills(Emeritus 2005) published two books:Martial: Selected Epigrams, and Bombcontinued from page 1Message from the Chair,Peter Hayes continuedWe’re also gratified to be doing better thanmany History Departments in holding the interestand loyalty of students. In 2009, 120 graduatingseniors majored in history, and the likelynumber this June is almost exactly the same.Enrollments recently have risen dramatically—from about 3300 in 2008-09 to almost 4200this year--not least because History Departmentfaculty have won more Northwestern teachingawards than any other department on campus,and we’re advertising in The Daily Northwesternto make sure students know that (see the backpage of this Newsletter). Equally significantis the rising number of research experienceswe are able to offer undergraduates, notablythrough the flourishing Senior Honors Seminarand Leopold Fellows programs.These successes and the others describedin these pages would be impossible withoutthe generous support of our alumni, WeinbergCollege, and the University. We thank you allvery much and assure you that we’ll continueto devote our best efforts to the Department’sscholarly and pedagogical missions.We also hope that you will enjoy reading theNewsletter and that you will heed our call fornews of YOU. Please let us know of your activitiesand accomplishments for the next issue!All best, PeterPower. He received honorary doctoratesfrom the University of Connecticut, BardCollege, and Knox College, and a LifetimeAchievement Award from the EnglishSpeaking Union in New York. He spokeabout the National Security State on theCharlie Rose Show, the Colbert Report,Morning Joe, and Fresh Air, and at theCommonwealth Club in San Franciscoand the University of California at Berkeley.11

2010ALUMNI NewsDavid A. Armour (PhD 1965, dissertation:The Merchants of Albany, NewYork: 1686-1760 directed by ClarenceVer Steeg) retired October 1, 2003,after 36 years as Deputy Director ofMackinac State Historic Parks, MackinacIsland, Michigan. There he restoredand reconstructed Fort Mackinac, FortMichilimackinac, and Historic MillCreek State Parks, which host 400,000visitors annually. At his retirement theGovernor of Michigan spoke, his staffpresented him with a silver bowl, andhe received awards from the MichiganMuseum Association and the HistoricalSociety of Michigan. Armour retired tohis hometown, Grove City, Pennsylvania,where he is currently an adjunctprofessor at Grove City College.Aaron Astor (PhD 2006) will publishhis revised dissertation on the grassrootspolitics in Civil War and ReconstructionKentucky and Missouri with LSU Pressin early 2011. Going native in East Tennessee,he is beginning his new project:a digital, GIS-based history of the CivilWar in Appalachian East Tennessee.Rick Ashton (PhD 1973) retired inearly 2006 as City Librarian of the DenverPublic Library, where he had servedsince 1985. He was recognized forleading the transformation of the libraryfrom a rule-bound local governmentagency into an active intellectual andcultural servant of the community. Newand expanded buildings, enriched collectionsand technology, increased levelsof use, high public approval ratings,and top-tier national rankings were theevidence of change. In June 2007, aftereighteen months of reading, travel, teaching,consulting, and crossword puzzles, hemoved to Chicago to begin work as ChiefOperating Officer of the Urban LibrariesCouncil, the leading organization committedto strengthening the public libraryas an essential part of urban life.Nicholas Baker (PhD 2007) is settlingback into life in Australia and is thoroughlyenjoying Sydney’s balmy winters(if one can call 60 degree temperatureswinter). He won the 2009 WilliamNelson Prize for the Best Articlepublished in Renaissance Quarterly for“For Reasons of State: Political Executions,Republicanism, and the Medici inFlorence, 1480-1560” (v. 62, no. 2). Withassistance from a Renaissance Societyof America/Istituto Nazionale di Studisul Rinascimento Research Grant, herecently finished transforming his dissertationinto a book manuscript, whilea grant from Macquarie University hasenabled him to commence a new projectexploring the concept of sovereignty andthe gap between the claims and limits ofpower in sixteenth century Tuscany.Jim Bergquist (PhD 1958) retiredfrom Villanova in December 2001, buthas kept busy in various professionalways, e.g., editing the newsletter of theImmigration and Ethnic History Societyand being active in various committeesof the American Association of UniversityProfessors. For his most recentpublication, see the Alumni Bookshelf.Wayne H. Bowen (PhD 1996), isProfessor and Chair of the Departmentat Southeast Missouri State University.Among his recent works (see the AlumniBookshelf ), Bowen is most proud ofUndoing Saddam, a war diary based onhis 2004 service in Operation Iraqi Freedom,where he served as a Civil Affairsofficer in the Army Reserve, responsiblefor higher education and antiquities innorthern Iraq. He earned the BronzeStar and Combat Action Badge for histour working to preserve archaeologicalsites and modernize universities andtechnical schools after decades of neglectand warfare. Bowen continues to serve inthe Army Reserve.Marisa Chappell (PhD 2002), anAssistant Professor at Oregon StateUniversity, celebrated the publicationof two books in the last year. Welfare inthe United States: A History with Documents,1935-1996 (Routledge, 2009) is aco-authored book designed for undergraduateclassroom use. The other is thelong awaited monograph based on herNorthwestern dissertation! The War onWelfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics inModern America is now available fromthe University of Pennsylvania Press.David C. Davis (PhD 1984) is nowVice President of Academic Affairs andDean of the College at Millsaps Collegein Jackson, MS. He has been there since1989, after teaching for four years atBrown.Sean Field (PhD 2002) was promotedin 2008 to tenured Associate Professorof History at the University of Vermont.He is currently working on a new bookproject entitled The Beguine, the Angel,and the Inquisitor: The Trial of MargueritePorete and Guiard of Cressonessart, whichis under contract with University ofNotre Dame Press.Chris Hodson (PhD 2004) is an assistantprofessor at BYU. He is finishinghis first book, to be published byOxford, and with Brett Rushforth ofWilliam and Mary, he is working on asecond project to be published by BasicBooks. They recently received an ACLSCollaborative Research Grant to fundtheir research and writing. Chris andwife Sarah have three children: Isaac, 9,Libby, 5, and Luke, 2. They enjoy livingin northern Utah for its natural beautyand its relentlessly progressive, leftleaningpolitical culture.Brian Maxson (PhD 2008) enjoysteaching first-generation college studentsin Appalachia. Currently he is sip-12 The Newsletter of the Department of History at Northwestern University

ALUMNI News continuedping a cappuccino in a cafe overlookingthe Arno as spends the spring semesterin Florence revising his dissertation intoa book.Guy Ortolano (PhD 2005) recentlyjoined several Northwestern alumni inthe History Department at NYU. Cambridgepublished an expanded versionof his 570 paper last year, so now he’srummaging through his desk trying tofind that 580.Graham Peck (PhD 2001) spent hisfirst summer after leaving Northwesternat Rhodes College in Memphisand since then has been at Saint XavierUniversity in Chicago. He has publishedthree articles on Lincoln and Douglasin the Journal of the Abraham LincolnAssociation and is now on a full-yearsabbatical completing his book manuscriptentitled Abraham Lincoln, StephenA. Douglas, and the Coming of the CivilWar. He and his wife have two daughters,Nicola and Sylvia, aged eight andfour, and watching them grow up is thehighlight of their parents’ lives.Amanda Seligman (PhD 1999) isworking on multiple projects, includingan article about block clubs, an Encyclopediaof Milwaukee, and an introductionto graduate school, the last inspiredby conversations with classmates fromNorthwestern. Now a tenured AssociateProfessor in the history department atthe University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,she also directs UWM’s Urban StudiesPrograms. She has two daughters, Irene(2) and Sophonisba (5), named afterSophonisba Breckinridge, whose scholarshipAmanda first encountered duringher time at Northwestern.Tobin Miller Shearer (PhD 2008)is eagerly waiting for the productionassistants at Johns Hopkins UniversityPress to send him the page proofs ofhis manuscript, Daily Demonstrators:The Civil Rights Movement in MennoniteHomes and Sanctuaries. Once hecompletes the onerous task of generatingan index, the book will be complete andavailable this fall. Shearer is an AssistantProfessor of History and the African-American Studies Coordinator at theUniversity of Montana.Naoko Shibusawa (PhD 1998) is anassociate professor at Brown, where she’sfound that post-tenure life means beingoverloaded with service. In additionto being on department and universitycommittees, guiding undergrads throughBrown’s open curriculum, and agreeingto sponsor a study group for some activiststudents, she is this year’s co-chairof the annual meeting of SHAFR. Sheneeds to start saying “no,” but foundherself saying “yes” to a request fromher former Northwestern professor tobe on next year’s OAH program committee.She has an essay overdue for aCold War anthology co-edited by PetraGoedde (PhD 1995) and a book overduefor Chuck Grench of UNC. But shecontinues to enjoy teaching; a highlightlast semester was having Tim Shannon(PhD 1993) video skype her class todiscuss his book, Iroquois Diplomacy onthe Indian Frontier.Robert Slayton (PhD 1982) is a fullprofessor in the Department of Historyat Chapman University in Orange, CA,and in 2005 became the Henry SalvatoriProfessor of American Values and Traditions.He is finishing a biography ofGeneral William Tunner, commander ofthe Berlin Airlift, for the University ofAlabama Press and is starting work on astudy of the Ashcan School artists.Joel Tarr (PhD 1963) is Richard S.Caliguiri University Professor of History& Policy at Carnegie-Mellon University.Timothy Walch (PhD 1975) is directorof the Herbert Hoover PresidentialLibrary Museum in the president’shometown of West Branch, Iowa. TheHoover Library is one of twelve suchlibraries that are part of the NationalArchives and Records Administration.He recently succeeded in raising close toa million dollars to produce a one-hourdocumentary film on Hoover for broadcaston public television in 2009. Healso was one of the featured commentatorsfor the inaugural episode of theC-SPAN series, “Presidential Libraries:History Uncovered” that was broadcastin 2007. He can be reached by e-mail at:timothy.walch@nara.gov.John S. Watterson (PhD 1970) haslived in Charlottesville, Virginia since1991. He continues to teach part-timeat James Madison University in nearbyHarrisonburg. In 2006, The Johns HopkinsUniversity Press published his mostrecent work, The Games Presidents Play,Sports and the Presidency. His earlierpublication with Johns Hopkins, CollegeFootball, History, Spectacle, Controversy,was also reissued with a new epilogueby the author. He can be contacted atjohnwatterson@comcast.net.James Wolfinger (PhD 2003)recently received tenure at DePaul Universitywhere he continues to teach inthe history department and the historyeducation program. His first book cameout in 2007 (see Alumni Bookshelf ),and his articles have appeared in Laborand the Journal of Urban History, amongother venues. He is currently workingon a history of mass transit in Philadelphiawith the working title of Capital’sQuest: Management, Labor, and the Searchfor Social Control in Philadelphia’s MassTransit Industry. He received a Franklinfellowship from the American PhilosophicalSociety to support this work.13

2010SEND US YOUR BOOK TO SHOWCASEIN THE NEW GRADUATE LOUNGE!And your news for the next newsletteralumni BookshelFJames M. Bergquist, Daily Life in ImmigrantAmerica, 1820-1870 (GreenwoodPress, 2008)Wayne H. Bowen, Spain during WorldWar II (University of Missouri Press,2006), Undoing Saddam: From Occupationto Sovereignty in Northern Iraq (PotomacBooks, 2007), A Military History of ModernSpain (co-edited with Jose Alvarez, Praeger,2007), and The History of Saudi Arabia(Greenwood, 2008)Marisa Chappell, Welfare in the UnitedStates: A History with Documents, 1935-1996 (Routledge, 2009), and The War onWelfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics inModern America (Pennsylvania, 2010)Sean L. Field, Isabelle of France: CapetianSanctity and Franciscan Identity in the ThirteenthCentury (Notre Dame, 2006)Adam Schwartz, The Third Spring: G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, ChristopherDawson, and David Jones (Catholic Universityof America Press, 2005)Amanda Seligman, Block by Block:Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago’sWest Side (University of Chicago Press,2005)Naoko Shibusawa, America’s Geisha Ally:Reimagining the Japanese Enemy (Harvard,2006)Robert Slayton, Empire Statesman: TheRise And Redemption Of Al Smith (The FreePress, 2001)Joel A. Tarr (with Clay McShane), Horsesin the City: Living Machines in the 19thCentury ( Johns Hopkins University Press,2007)David Weitzman, Pharaoh’s Boat(Houghton Mifflin, 2009)John R. M. Wilson, Jackie Robinson andthe American Dilemma (Pearson Longman,2009)James Wolfinger, Philadelphia Divided:Race and Politics in the City of BrotherlyLove (University of North Carolina Press,2007)Great Success for the Graduate Program, 2008-2010Our current and recent studentscontinue to bring honor to thedepartment’s graduate program.Once again Northwestern’s most prestigiousform of graduate financial support,the Presidential Fellowship, was awardedto one of our students, Meghan Roberts.Stephanie Nadalo won a Fulbright and theRome Prize and will be spending a yearat the American Academy in Rome; SuzanneLaVere was awarded the 2009 VanCourtland Prize for the best first article inmedieval studies in any discipline; MichaelMcCoyer received the Urban History Association’sprize for the best dissertation inU.S. urban history; Crystal Sanders wonfellowships from the Mellon-Mays andSpencer foundations; Andrea Seligmanwon a Fulbright to do work in Tanzania;and Will Cavert and Strother Robertsreceived ACLS/Mellon Fellowships. Inaddition, Gergely Baics snagged a verycompetitive post-doctoral fellowship at theEuropean University in Florence, and EliseLipkowitz took a position in the Society ofFellows at the University of Michigan.Institutions that recently awardedtenure or tenure-track positions to ourstudents include Princeton, Rice, NYU,Brown, Columbia, Barnard, Middlebury,Grinnell, Boston College, and the Universitiesof South Florida, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and California at San Diego.Among the presses that recently publishedour students’ revised dissertations areCambridge, Stanford, North Carolina,Cornell, California, Harvard, Johns Hopkins,Palgrave Macmillan, Oxford, andUniversity Press of Virginia.We received 298 applications for ourgraduate program in 2009-2010 and couldaccept only 32 in order to arrive at our goalof enrolling 14 first-year graduate studentsin September. Applicants are attractednot only by the quality of the program asreflected in the accomplishments of thosewho pass through it, but also by the opportunitiesprovided through the generosityof History Department alumni. Gifts haveenabled the department to supplementGraduate School funding of students’ researchand their travel to present papers atscholarly conferences. Our graduate offeringscontinue to expand, and we now acceptexcellent students in Latin Americanand East Asian history as well as in US,European, and African history. In the pasttwo years, several of our students have woncompetitive fellowships from the GraduateSchool’s new Interdisciplinary Cluster Initiative,funded by the Mellon Foundation,which has helped the department broadenits engagement in interdisciplinary andtransnational intellectual currents.14The NewsleTTer of The DeparTmeNT of hisTory aT NorThwesTerN UNiversiTy

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