Department of History - Northwestern University

More documents

Recommendations

Info

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
Page 1: 2010History@ NORTHWESTERNThe Newsle
Page 6 and 7: 2010continued from page 5News of th
Page 8 and 9: 2010Faculty News continuedRegina Gr
Page 10 and 11: 2010Faculty News continuedJock McLa
Page 12 and 13: 2010ALUMNI NewsDavid A. Armour (PhD
Page 14 and 15: 2010SEND US YOUR BOOK TO SHOWCASEIN
Page 16: DO YOU KNOWWhich Departmentat north

Department of History - Northwestern University

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?