Department of History - Northwestern University

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