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Retirements and Resignations
The Ohio State University
Jack M. Balcer, December 2003
Academy Publications
Bowling Green University
Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, “Traditional Religions,” in AFRICA: Vol. 5: Africa in the Twentieth Century, ed., Toyin Falola (Carolina Academic Press, 2003).
Rachel Buff, “Listening to that Global Beat: Immigrant Musics and Preservation,” Journal of Popular Music (Spring 2003).
Robert Buffington, “Towards a Modern Sacrificial Economy: Violence Against Women and Male Subjectivity in the Turn-of-the-Century Mexico City Penny Press” in Victor Macías González and Anne Rubenstein, eds., Masculinities Uncut. (University of New Mexico Press, Fall 2003). A Spanish version of this article will appear in Elisa Speckman Guerra and Claudia Agostoni, eds., Discursos, prácticas y sanciones. Ensayos de historia social en una perspectiva comparada (México y Argentina, 1850-1950). (El Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Fall 2003).
Other articles include “Danzón and the Discursive Limits of Sex” in Gabriela Cano, Jocyln Olcott, and Mary Kay Vaughn, eds., “Las Olvidadas”: Gender and Women’s History in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (Duke University Press, Fall 2003); “Homophobia and the Mexican Working Class” in Robert McKee Irwin, Ed McCaughan and Michelle Nasser, eds., Centenary of the Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, 1901. (Palgrave, 2003); “Forjando patria: Anthropology, Criminology, and the Post-Revolutionary Discourse on Citizenship” in Chris Toffolo, ed., Emancipating Cultural Pluralism. (SUNY Press, 2003).
Lawrence Daly, “Constantius’ Appointment of Themistius to the Byzantine Senate: Élite Mobility in the Late Roman Empire,” Proceedings of Ohio Academy of History (2003).
James Forse, “The Expansion of Royal and Aristocratic Acting Troupes On Tour in the Reign of Elizabeth I,” SRASP, 26 (2003).
Douglas Forsyth, The Origins of Distinct National Financial Systems in the 19th Century: Alexander Gerschenkron Reconsidered, with Daniel Verdier (Routledge, 2003).
Kenneth Kiple, Editor, The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease (both hardcover and paperback, Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Donald Rowney, “Unversal Banking in Russia” in Douglas J. Forsyth and Daniel Verdier, eds., The Origins of National Financial Systems. Alexander Gerschenkron Reconsidered (Routledge, 2003).
Judith Sealande, The Failed Century of the Child: Governing America’s Young in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Peter Way,“Class and the Common Soldier in the Seven Years’ War,” Labor History (Dec. 2003).
Case Western Reserve University
John Grabowski co-edited, along with David Hammack and Diane Ewart Grabowski, Identity, Conflict and Cooperation: Central Europeans in Cleveland, 1870-1930, which was published in September 2003 by the Western Reserve Historical Society. He has also been named editor of “Voices of Diversity,” a new series from Kent State University that will include translated reprints of existing, non-English immigrant biographies and autobiographies as well as new books of the same genre. Earlier this year, Grabowski co-authored Cleveland: Then and Now, a new pictorial on Cleveland History published by Chrysalis Books and Thunderbay Press with Diane Ewart Grabowski.
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). Recently, Hammack co-edited, along with John and Diane Ewart Grabowski, Identity, Conflict and Cooperation: Central Europeans in Cleveland, 1870-1930 (Western Reserve Historical Society, 2003).
Kenneth Ledford published the article, “Codification and Normativity: Catalan ‘Exception’ and European ‘Norm,’” in Law and History Review 20 (2002) and had two articles accepted for publication, “Formalizing the Rule of Law in Prussia: The Supreme Administrative Law Court, 1876-1914,” Central European History 36 (forthcoming, 2004) and “Comparing Comparisons: Disciplines and the Sonderweg,” Central European History 35 (forthcoming, 2004).
Miriam Levin was published in the journal of the National Museum of Technology in Paris. Her work “Musees et enjeux socials” was the lead article in their spring issue. Levin also contributed an essay on “The End of Progress” to the special issue she co-edited of the journal History and Technology entitled “Rethinking Technology in the Aftermath of September 11th.”
Carroll Pursell published “Appropriate Technology, Modernity, and U.S. Foreign Aid,” Science and Cultural Diversity, Proceedings of the XXIst International Congress of History of Science, I: Plenary Lectures (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2003), 175-187.
Alan Rocke published “Origins and Spread of the ‘Giessen Model’ in University Science, 1826-1876,” Ambix, 50 (2003), 90-115. He also served as consultant and/or author for two major reference works: the Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (Oxford University Press, 2003), and The Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 5 (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Renée M. Sentilles published her first book, Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and her article “Catching it All on the Web: Crafting Cohesive Women’s History in the Age of the Internet,” appeared in the Journal of Women’s History (Spring 2003).
Jonathan Sadowsky’s article “The Reality of Mental Illness and the Social World: Lessons from Colonial Psychiatry” appeared in Harvard Review of Psychiatry.
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 (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).
University of Cincinnati
Roger Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882 (Hill and Wang, 2004).
Geoffrey Plank, (co-author) The “Conquest” of Acadia, 1710: Imperial, Colonial and Aboriginal Constructions (University of Toronto Press, 2004).
Barbara Ramusack, “The Indian Princes and Their States” in The New Cambridge History of India (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
David Stradling, Cincinnati: From River City to Highway Metropolis (Arcadia Press, 2003).
University of Dayton
Erving E. Beauregard has published three articles: “‘The Spiritual Father of the League of Nations: Leon V.A. Bourgeois,” The Quarterly Review of Historical Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1; “Judson College,” Upper Ohio Valley Historical Review, Vol. 26, No. 1; “Scio College,” Journal of the Alleghenies, Vol. 39. He also published three chapters: “University of Dayton,” “Wilberforce University,” and “Defunct Colleges and Universities,” in Cradles of Conscience: Ohio’s Independent Colleges and Universities, edited by John W. Oliver, Jr., James A. Hodges and James H. O’Donnell (Kent State University Press, 2003).
John Carroll University
Marian Morton has published Cleveland’s Lakeview Cemetery (Arcadia, 2004).
Miami University
Wietse de Boer, “Social Discipline in Italy: Peregrinations of a Historical Paradigm,” Archive for Reformation History, 94 (2003).
David M. Fahey, editor with Jack S. Blocker, Jr. and Ian R. Tyrrell, Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia (ABC-Clio, 2003).
Jeffrey Kimball, The Vietnam War Files: Uncovering the Secret History of Nixon-Era Strategy (University Press of Kansas, 2003). He discussed the book on C-Span in January 2004. He also published “The Panmunjom and Paris Armistices: Patterns of War Termination” in America, the Vietnam War, and the World, Andreas W. Daum, Lloyd C. Gardner, and Wilfried Mausbach, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Edwin Yamauchi, “Exilic and Post-Exilic Periods: Current Developments” in Giving the Sense: Understanding and Using Old Testament Texts, D.M. Howard and M.A. Grisanti, eds. (Kregel, 2003), and the reprinting of his book Pre-Christian Gnosticism (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2003). Also, “Banquets in the Biblical World,” Proceedings of the Eastern Great Lakes and Middle West Biblical Society (2003).
Ohio Northern University
Michael B. Loughlin published “Gustave Herve’s Transition from Socialism to National Socialism: Continuity and Ambivalence,” Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 38, No. 4, 515-538. He also published a short editorial reaction to the main editorial in USA Today on April 9, 2003, entitled “The War on Iraq and the Increase of Terrorism.” A long article on the same topic appeared in the ONU student paper, “The Northern Review.”
The Ohio State University
Following are books published. Articles are too numerous to mention
David Cressy, Space and Culture in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2003).
Robert Davis, Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003).
James Bartholomew co-edited Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (Oxford University Press, 2003).
Stephen Kern, a second edition of The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918 (Harvard University Press, 2003).
Jane Hathaway, A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen (State University of New York Press, 2003).
David Hoffmann, Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941 (Cornell University Press, 2003).
John Guilmartin produced the CD The Vietnam War (History 308, Syllabus, Lectures and Selected Readings).
Allan Millett edited two CDs, History of the United States Marine Corps and The Second World War.
Geoffrey Parker reissued his book Empire, War, and Faith in Early Modern Europe (Penguin Books, 2003).
Christopher Phelps edited Max Shachtman: Race and Revolution (Verso Press, 2003).
Vladimir Steffel, Proceedings of the 2002 Ohio Academy of History.
Warren Van Tine co-edited with Michael Pierce Builders of Ohio: A Biographical History (The Ohio State University Press, 2003).
Awards, Grants, Honors and Leaves
Bowling Green University
Rachel Buff, Faculty Improvement Leave 2003-04.
Lawrence Daly, Faculty Improvement Leave Spring 2004.
Douglas Forsyth, Faculty Improvement Leave 2003-04.
Case Western Reserve University
John Grabowski continues to serve as the acting director of the library of the Western Reserve Historical Society and will serve as the American director of the center for the study of early Turkish immigration to the United States, which is the result of a new partnership recently announced between CWRU and Ege University of Izmir Turkey. Once funded, the center will be located in the History Department at CWRU.
David 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.
Elizabeth Koll was nominated for the 2003 Carl F. Wittke Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and presented a paper entitled “The History of Corporate Ownership in China” at the second workshop conference on “The History of Corporate Ownership” organized by the National Bureau of Economic Research at Lake Louise, Canada, June 20-22. She also presented her work, “Studying Local History through Transportation Networks: The Case of Jinan City and Shandong Province,” at the workshop conference “Vernacular Modernity in South China and Beyond: Current Research in Local History,” Department of Anthropology, Yale University, April 4, 2003. Dr. Koll also organized the panel “China on the Move: Transportation and Communication in 20th Century Chinese History” at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, New York, March 2003 where she presented “Modernization on Track: Social Mobility and Economic Development along the Tianjin-Pukou Line in Republican China.”
Kenneth Ledford served as commentator on the panels, “German/Swiss and American Interaction in Higher Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries,” at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting in Chicago and “Citizenship in Comparative Perspective,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History in San Diego. In addition, he presented his own work, “Prussian Judges and the Rule of Law in Germany, 1848-1914” for CWRU’s Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities’ Works-in-Progress Series in the spring. In January 2003, Prof. Ledford was elected Editor of Central European History, published by the Conference Group for Central European History, for a 5-year term beginning July 1, 2004, and was a nominee for inaugural J. Bruce Jackson, MD, Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring, and was also nominated (for the seventh time!) for the Carl F. Wittke Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching at CWRU in 2003.
Miriam Levin presented an invited paper at a workshop on Gender and the Formation of Technical Elites at the CNRS center for sociological population studies (LASMAS) in Paris this past June. Next spring, Dr. Levin plans to spend a month doing research and presenting seminars after she was elected to an Invited Professorship by the faculty at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Carroll Pursell gave the invited Melvin Kranzberg lecture at the St. Petersburg, Russia, 2003 Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology, on the subject “(Technology) Gaps and (Brain) Drains.”
Alan Rocke spent the months of May and June of this year as a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin. In the spring of 2003, he gave invited presentations at the University of Wisconsin and Virginia Tech, and while in Europe he presented in Berlin, Hamburg, Giessen, and London.
Renée M. Sentilles gave a presentation on “Tomboys and Other Nineteenth-Century Girls” at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass., in July. Sentilles received an NERFC grant to conduct research in New England.
Jonathan Sadowsky received a fellowship from the Howard Foundation to support his work on the history of electro-convulsive therapy.
Gillian Weiss was invited last spring to give two talks about the end of Barbary slavery, one for CWRU’s History Associates and the other at Oberlin College. She also chaired a panel on Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox clergy in early modern Europe at the Ohio Academy of History annual conference. With the support of a W.P. Jones Faculty Development Grant, she spent the summer in Paris, conducting research about the captivity and liberation of French subjects in North Africa.
Angela Woollacott gave invited lectures at Texas Tech University and the University of Adelaide in Australia.
University of Cincinnati
Ann Twinam has been awarded an NEH Fellowship for the 2004-05 academic year.
Miami University
Jay W. Baird is a Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, during the current term.
Matthew Gordon, with co-editors Lawrence Conrad and Chase Robinson, has received an NEH Group Translation Grant for the Ya’qubi Translation Project to produce an annotated translation of the three extant works fo the late ninth-century Muslim scholar, Ahmad ibn Abi Ya’qub al’Ya’qubi (d.c. 905 c.e.). In addition to the editing work, Gordon is translating the final part of al-Ya’qubi’s History. Gordon will be on leave during the 2004-05 academic year to complete this project. He will also work on his monograph about courtesans in the ninth-century Abbasid court.
The Ohio State University
Mansel Blackford’s book History of Small Business in America 2nd edition (University of North Carolina Press, 2003), has been named an “Outstanding Book of the Year” by Choice.
Kevin Boyle has been named to the advisory board of the Walter Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University.
Samuel Chu (Professor Emeritus) was the recipient of the Hackson and Caroline Bailey Public Service Award which was presented to him at the May 2003 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs.
Mitchell Lerner’s book The Pueblo Incident won the 2003 John Lyman Book Award for the best work of American Naval History.
Randolph Roth was awarded a Faculty Research Small Grant from the University’s Criminal Justice Research Center for his proposal “Historical Violence Database: A Collaborative Research Project on the History of Violent Crime and Violent Death.” He received a grant for 2003-04 from the Criminal Justice Research Center at the Ohio State University to support work on the Historical Violence Database, a collaborative effort to collect data on violent crime and violent death from medieval times to the present. The grant will support the gathering of historical data on violent crime and violent death in Ohio.
Jennifer Siegel was awarded the 2003 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize for an outstanding monograph in Russian diplomatic history at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies meetings, Toronto, Canada, November 18-23, 2003.
Ahmad Sikainga has been elected to the Executive Board of the African Studies Association.
Birgitte Søland received a College of Humanities Seed Grant for research expenses associated with her book project The Rights of the Child: Children, Childhood, and Child Advocacy in European History, the 18th Century to the Present.