Member News
Appointments and Promotions
Retirements and Resignations
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Awards, Grants, Honors, and Leaves
Appointments and Promotions
University of Akron
Michael Carley and Steve Harp were promoted to the rank of full Professor.
Connie Bouchard was promoted to the rank of Distinguished Professor.
University of Cincinnati
Martin Francis was appointed to the Henry R. Winkler Professorship in Modern History effective September 2003.
Elizabeth Frierson was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure effective September 2003.
Thomas L. Sakmyster becomes Acting Head of the Department of History effective September 2003.
Willard Sunderland was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure effective September 2003.
John Carroll University
The department welcomes Maria Marsilli as Assistant Professor specializing in Latin American History.
Anne Kugler was granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor.
Miami University
Carla G. Pestana has been appointed W. E. Smith Professor of History, beginning in August 2003. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA, and was a member of the History faculty at the Ohio State University from 1987 to 2003. Her books include Inequality in Early America, co-edited with Sharon V. Salinger, published by University Press of New England in 1999, and Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts published by Cambridge University Press in 1991. Her newest book, The English Atlantic in an Era of Revolution, 1640–1661, is coming out soon with Harvard University Press. Her future research agenda includes a monograph on the origins of English imperialism in the seventeenth century. She will teach courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at Miami.
Arpana Sircar will be Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Women’s Studies during the 2003–04 academic year. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Arlington. Her book, Work Roles, Gender Roles and Asian Indian Immigrant Women in the United States was published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2000. She will teach the world history survey course and upper-level courses on South Asia.
Jennifer Stollman, Visiting Assistant Professor in 2003–04, received her doctorate from Michigan State University with a dissertation entitled “ ‘Building Up a House of Israel in a Land of Christ’: Jewish Women in the Antebellum and Civil War South.” She will teach survey and upper-level courses in U.S. history.
Marguerite Shaffer, member of the History faculty and Director of the American Studies program, was granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor.
Judith P. Zinsser was promoted to Professor.
The Ohio State University
The department welcomes the following new faculty:
Hasan Jeffries, Assistant Professor, African American History
Jennifer Segal, Assistant Professor, Modern Europe, Diplomatic and Military History
Stephanie Smith, Assistant Professor, Mexico, Latin American History
Cemil Aydin, Assistant Professor, (Marion), East Asian History
Molly Cavendar, Assistant Professor (Mansfield), Russian, Modern European, Culltural, Intellectual History
Alcira Dueñas, Assistant Professor (Newark), Latin American History
Otterbein College
Brett McCormick has been appointed Assistant Professor of Asian History. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2002, with a dissertation entitled “Democratic Ideology as a Foundation for Wartime Mobilization in Japan, 1889–1937.” His current research focuses on the role of democratic ideology in the 1920s and 1930s in conditioning the citizens of Japan for total-war mobilization.
Wittenberg University
The department is pleased to welcome Darlene Brooks Hedstrom as Assistant Professor of History to begin in Fall 2003. Brooks Hedstrom is a specialist in Coptic monasticism in Egypt in the late Antique period, and she brings teaching fields in Pre-modern World, Archaeology, Early Islam, and Modern Middle East in addition to her research specialization.
University of Cincinnati
Mona Siegel in Modern French History resigned to accept an assistant professorship at California State University at Sacramento.
Miami University
Jay Baird retired from full time teaching in December 2002. He will teach one semester each year for three years.
The Ohio State University
Eve Levin resigned and has taken a position at the University of Kansas.
Carla Pestana resigned and has taken a position at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
Leila Rupp resigned (June 2002) and has taken a position at UC-Santa Barbara.
University of Akron
Jane Kate Leonard edited Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs for the Cornell East Asia Program. She authored the chapter “Timeliness and Innovation: The 1845 Revision of the Complete Book on Grain Transport (Caoyun quanshu)” as well as the introduction for a conference volume from the Tubingen conference (March 30–April 3, 2003) on East Asian Studies.
Connie Bouchard published Every Valley Shall Be Exalted: The Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought, with Cornell University Press.
Greg Wilson is publishing “Deindustrialization, Poverty, and Federal Area Redevelopment in the United States, 1945–1965,” in Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization, Jefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott, eds, forward by Barry Bluestone, Cornell University Press.
Capital University
James Burke (Emeritus), Chronicle of Change: Capital University, 1950–2000 (Capital University, 2002).
Case Western Reserve University
David Hammack published two articles, “Nonprofit Organizations in American History: Research Opportunities and Sources,” in The American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 45 No. 11 (July 2002) and “Failure and Resilience: Pushing the Limits in Depression and Wartime,” in Lawrence Friedman and Mark McGarvie, editors, Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Additionally, Hammack joined the Social Science Research Council’s Committee on Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector in 2002, was selected to join the Editorial Board of VOLUNTAS, the journal of the International Society for Third Sector Research, and was elected President-elect of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.
Jonathan Sadowsky’s article “The Reality of Mental Illness and the Social World: Lessons from Colonial Psychiatry” appeared in Harvard Review of Psychiatry. Sadowsky also received a fellowship from the Howard Foundation to support his work on the history of electro-convulsive therapy.
Angela Woollacott published “The Metropole as Antipodes: Australian Women in London and Constructing National Identity,” in Pamela Gilbert (ed.), Imagined Londons (SUNY Press, 2002); “Creating the White Colonial Woman: Mary Gaunt’s Imperial Adventuring and Australian Cultural History,” in Hsu-Ming Teo and Richard White (eds.), Cultural History in Australia (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2003); and “The Meanings of Protection: Women in Colonial and Colonizing Australia,” Journal of Women’s History Vol. 14 No. 4 (Winter 2003). In addition to the above, Woollacott gave invited lectures at Texas Tech University and the University of Adelaide in Australia.
University of Cincinnati
Wayne Durrill and Christopher Phillips serve as co-editors of Ohio Valley History, a quarterly journal, that recently merged with the Filson History Quarterly of Louisville.
John Carroll University
Anne Kugler published Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper 1644–1720 (Stanford University Press, 2002).
Marian Morton published Cleveland Heights: The Making of an Urban Suburb (Arcadia Publishing, 2002).
Miami University
Yihong Pan, Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace: China’s Youth in the Rustication Movement (Lexington Books, 2003).
Rob Schorman, Selling Style: Clothing and Social Change at the Turn of the Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003).
John H. White, Jr., “Steam in Silhouette,” American Heritage of Invention and Technology, Summer 2003.
Allan M. Winkler, editor, Encyclopedia of American History, Volume IX, Facts on File, 2003. Associate editor was Susan V. Spellman, M.A. student in History in 1999–2000. A special part of this project was the writing of 120 entries by Miami University undergraduates as part of their Senior Capstone course, under the direction of Professor Winkler. In the Chronicle of Higher Education (April 18, 2003) Winkler recounts his experiences from a trip he took to Vietnam with his students on the eve of the war with Iraq.
David Wolcott, “Juvenile Justice before Juvenile Court: Cops, Courts, and Kids in Turn-of-the-Century Detroit,” Social Science History, Vol. 27 No. 1 (Spring 2003).
Edwin Yamauchi reprinted his book New Testament Cities in Western Asia Minor (Wipf & Stock, 2003). He also published “Athletics in the Ancient Near East” in Daily Life in the Ancient Near East, edited by R. Averbeck, M. Chavalas, and D. Weisberg (CDL Press, 2003), and, with co-authors Robert G. Clouse and Richard V. Pierard, The Story of the Church (Moody Press, 2002).
Judith P. Zinsser, “A Prologue for La Dame d’Esprit: The Biography of the Marquise Du Châtelet,” Rethinking History 7:1 (2003).
The Ohio State University
Following are books published. Articles are too numerous to mention.
Kenneth Andrien published the paperback edition (Cambridge University Press, 2002) of The Kingdom of Quito, 1690–1830: The State and Regional Development (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Mansel Blackford published A History of Small Business in America, 2nd edition (University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
Joan Cashin edited The War Was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War (Princeton University Press, 2002).
Carole Fink co-edited Human Rights in Europe Since 1945 (Bern: Peter Lang, 2003).
Matt Goldish edited Spirit Possession in Judaism: Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present (Wayne State University Press, 2003).
Mark Grimsley published And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May–June 1864 (University of Nebraska Press, 2002).
Barbara Hanawalt published The Western Experience with coauthors Mortimer Chambers, Raymond Grew, Theofore K. Rabb, Isser Woloch (McGraw Hill, 8th edition, 2003).
Jane Hathaway published The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdaglis, paperback edition (Cambridge University Press, 2002). She also published Osmanli Misir’inda Hane Politikalari: Kazdaglilarin Yhkselisi, a Turkish translation of her book The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdaglis, Istanbul: Tarih Vakfi Yurt Yayinlari (History Foundation Publications, 2002).
David Hoffmann edited Stalinism: The Essential Readings (Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 2003).
Allan Millett published Their War for Korea: American, Asian, and European Combatants and Civilians, 1945–53 (Brassey’s, Inc., 2002).
Ahmad Sikainga published “City of Steel and Fire”: A Social History of Atbara, Sudan’s Railway Town, 1906–1984 (Heinemann, 2002).
Dale Van Kley published Les origines religieuses de la Revolution francaise, 1560–1791, (Editions du Seuil, Paris, November 2002), a french translation of Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560–1791.
Marvin Zahniser published Then Came Disaster: France and the United States, 1918–1940 (Praeger, 2002).
Wittenberg University
James L. Huffman, A Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).
Tammy M. Proctor, Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War (New York University Press, 2003).
Awards, Grants, Honors and Leaves
University of Akron
Michael Graham was the James K. Cameron faculty fellow at the St. Andrews Reformation Studies Institute at the University of St. Andrews, January–June 2003. He was also elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Greg Wilson received the early career achievement award from the Buchtel College chairs.
Shelley Baranowski received all three research awards for which a historian is eligible at UA: the Alumni research award, the Buchtel College research award, and the Buchtel College chairs’ research award.
Connie Bouchard was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, during 2002–03.
Jane Leonard received the Manasseh Meyer Fellowship from the National University of Singapore for presentations to the history department during the period August 23 to September 6, 2003.
University of Cincinnati
John K. Alexander was named a University Distinguished Teaching Professor on June 13, 2003.
John Carroll University
Matt Berg was awarded a Grauel Fellowship to spend the Fall 2003 semester working on his book entitled Renewing Red Vienna: The Reconstruction of a Social Democratic Milieu 1945–1958.
Miami University
Sheldon Anderson will be on leave during Second Semester, when he will complete a book of essays, “Historical Analogy and Foreign Policymaking: The Nineteenth Century, Versailles, Munich, Yalta, Containment, and the Fall of Communism.”
Scott M. Kenworthy, a post-doctoral fellow at Miami University’s Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant. For the Fulbright, Kenworthy will lecture at Babes-Bolyai University in Romania in 2003–04 on the history and theology of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Allan M. Winkler will begin a two-year term as Chair of the Ohio Humanities Council in October 2003. He will be on leave during the 2003–04 academic year, finishing a commissioned biography of Franklin Roosevelt.
Edwin Yamauchi has been elected for a two-year term as the president of the midwest branch of the American Oriental Society. He will also serve on the national board of governors of the American Oriental Society.
The Ohio State University
James Bartholomew has been awarded a fifteen-month fellowship from the National Science Foundation for his book project “Japan and the Nobel Science Prizes: The First Half Century, 1901–1949.”
Michael Les Benedict was awarded the Frederick Binkerd Artz Summer Research Grant from Oberlin College for his project “The Constitutional Politics of Reconstruction, 1869–1895.” He has also been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Summer Fellowship at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Nicholas Breyfogle was awarded a College of Humanities Seed Grant as well as a short-term research grant from the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies for his project “Baikal: The Great Lake and its People.”
Saul Cornell was awarded a two-year grant from the Joyce Foundation to create a comprehensive Second Amendment Research Center. Cornell was also awarded an NEH fellowship.
David Cressy was awarded a grant from the Criminal Justice Research Center at Ohio State University to support his research “Lawless Behavior and Courts of Justice in a Time of Revolutionary Ferment: England 1640–1642.” He has also been invited by the Rockefeller Foundation to be in residence at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Italy, May 15 to June 13, 2003. Cressy has been offered a University of Auckland Foundation Visitor appointment in the Department of History during April/May 2003. He rceived a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his research project “The Revolutionary Origins of the English Civil War.” He will also direct “Cultural Stress from Reformation to Revolution,” a summer 2003 humanities institute for college teachers awarded to the Folger Institute by the National Endowment for Humanities. The institute will run June 23 through July 31 at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Carter Findley has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for 2003–04 for his project “Turkey, Nationalism and Modernity,” and was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Timothy Gregory has been awarded a continuing grant from the Packard Humanities Institute to support his continued conservation, study, and publication of materials from the Ohio State University excavations at Isthmia, Greece, June 1, 2002–May 31, 2003. Gregory has also been given the title of Honorary Associate in the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney (Australia) for the period July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2003, and is a Fellow at the Onassis Institute.
Mark Grimsley received funding from the Mershon Center for his proposal “The History of War in Global Perspective.”
Stephen G. Hall received a Gilder Lehrman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, a six-month fellowship at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities, all for 2003–04, to work on his book project, “To Give a Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America.”
Michael Hogan was honored by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) at its business meeting in Chicago on January 4. SHAFR announced the establishment of the Michael J. Hogan Fellowship which will be awarded annually to support foreign language training for a graduate student who is studying in the field of American international or diplomatic history. SHAFR is an international professional society composed of historians, political scientists, journalists, and government officials who specialize in international diplomacy and national security issues. The governing Council of the Society established the award to recognize Hohan’s fifteen years of service as Editor of Diplomatic History, an international journal of record for specialists in diplomacy, international relations, and national security studies. Dean Hogan served as Editor of that journal from 1986 through 2001. He was recently elected as President of SHAFR.
K. Austin Kerr: The Business History Conference has named a new prize in his honor (The K. Austin Kerr Prize) to be given annually to a beginning scholar in business history.
Joseph P. McKerns was awarded a $2,000 grant
by the Ohio Humanities Council to support a symposium, “Celebrating Thomas
Nast’s Contributions to American History and Culture” held at the Ohio
State University on the 100th anniversary of Nast’s death, December 7,
2002. The symposium featured presentations by Nast scholars Morton Keller
and Draper Hill. The symposium was part of an exhibit celebrating “Thomas
Nast: Prince of Caricaturists” which ran from September 9, 2002 to January
24, 2003 at the Ohio State University’s Cartoon Research Library. The
exhibit featured many Nast originals in the library’s collection. Also,
a Thomas Nast website (www.lib.ohio-state.
edu/cgaweb/nast) was created which includes examples of his work, biographical
information, and teaching and research aids. The symposium was sponsored
by the Cartoon Research Library. The exhibit and symposium planning committee
included McKerns, Lucy S. Caswell, curator of the CGA Library, and K.
Austin Kerr and Michael Les Benedict, professors of history at Ohio State.
Margaret Newell received an Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship from the Huntington Library for 2003–04.
Carole Rogel had conferred upon her the gold medal of The Order of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia at the annual meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 21–24, 2002, Pittsburgh. This honor is in recognition of her selfless scientific, pedagogic, and expert work devoted to awareness-raising within U.S. historical and political circles on Slovenes and their homeland.
Judy Wu was awarded a College of Humanities Seed Grant for her project “Radical Orientalism: Asia, Asian America, and American Social Movements.” She also received and NEH Summer Stipend for this project.
University of Toledo
Carol M. Bresnahan received a fellowship from the American Council on Education for the academic year 2003–04. She will spend the academic year with a university president, learning about issues of interest to both her home and host campuses.