MAY 2022
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Moments in history MAY 2022 contents History has its eyes on you Achieving MEDIA MOMENTS Publishing & Presenting Practicing History Training Historians Learning History Random moments FUTURE MOMENTS
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History has its eyes on you
Cameron Chosen Andrew Carnegie Fellow Sarah Cameron was chosen one of 28 Andrew Carnegie Fellows for 2022. The Fellowship will provide two years of support for Cameron's research into one of the most severe man-made environmental crises of the the twentieth century: the destruction of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. Cameron's work will result in "the first complete book-length account of the causes and effects of the disaster based upon archival materials and oral history interviews." Andrew Carnegie Fellowships are part of the mission of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The program was founded in 2015 to support "scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society." Sarah Cameron is the second faculty member in the Department of History to receive an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. Rick Bell received a Carnegie Fellowship in 2021. Cameron has also received fellowships for this project from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.; Princeton University's Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies; and a grant from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. Read the story in MarylandToday.
Shay Hazkani Assistant Professor of History Jewish Studies has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Erin Mosely has received an ARHU Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship. Erin will use the Fellowship to work on her book project "The Future of Rwanda's Past: History and Historians After Genocide. Karin Rosemblatt has been selected to receive the Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award for 2022. She wasnominated for the award by her graduate students. "The Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award recognizes faculty members who have made exceptional contributions to a student’s (or students’) graduate experience. David Sartorius received Honorable Mention for the Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth Century Section's Best Article Prize for his Journal of Social History article, "Transitory Trust: Falsified Passports, Circulars, and Other Speculations in Nineteenth-Century Cuba." Colleen Woods continues to collaborate with the Filipino Veterans Recognition and Education Project (FilVetRep). Woods is a project coordinator and serves on the executive board. This spring FilVetRep was awarded a $500,000 grant from Congress to support expanding Duty to Country, a website for students, educators, and the broader public. Since the official launching in November 2020, Duty to Country has won numerous awards.
ACHIEVING
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The Ethnic Foodways Festival put together by Rob Chiles's HIST 222 Immigration and Ethnicity in America was held yesterday to great success. The annual event is featured in the May 11, 2022 edition ofThe Diamondback. The Foodways Festival has been going strong since 2016 with the exception of the COVID-19 years 2020-21, This year's festival was in front of F. S. Key Hall on McKeldin Mall Some featured dishes included were pupusas, potato pancakes, apple cake, shakshuka, egg rolls, lasagna and jalebi. Students voted on their favorite foods and prizes were awarded on the basis of their vote. Read the full story in The Diamondback here.
MEDIA MOMENTS
Jeffrey Herf's new book, Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) has received a number of reviews, notably in The Wall Street Journal, Tablet, and Quillette. The book was also the topic of a conversation between Jeffrey and Jonathan Brent, Executive Director of the YIVO Insitute for Jewish Research shown in the video below.
PUBLISHING
Colleen C. Ho published "Overland trade in the Mongol world," in The Mongol World, Timothy May and Michael Hope, eds. (Oxon; NY: Routledge, 2022), 484-504. Paul S. Landau's new book, Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries has been published in the US by Ohio University Press. Reviewers have hailed the book as a "tour de force" which sheds much new light on the relationship between South African rebels against apartheid and violence. See the publisher's website here for a 20% discount. Julie Taddeo has published an edited collection with Manchester University Press, Featuring original chapters on period television from the UK, the US, Spain, and Australia, Diagnosing History offers a global and multidisciplinary contribution to both televisual and medical history. Julie's chapter uses neo-Victorian dramas to examine the relationship between psychiatry, gynecological surgery, gender and class in 19th century Britain. Details for the new book are on the publisher's website here. Colleen Woods' essay "Occupational Hazards in the Transwar Pacific: Imperialism, the US Military, and Filipino Labor" was published in Transwar Asia: Ideology, Practices, and Institutions, 1920-1960, Max Ward and Reto Hoffman, eds. (Bloomsbury, 2022). The Social Sciences Academic Press (China) has published the Chinese translation of Ting Zhang’s book Circulating the Code: Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China.
Sabrina Baron,, Anne Rush, and Julie Taddeo presented a panel discussion organized by the History Undergraduate Association and Julie Taddeo to discuss Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubliee. The panel attracted 70 attendees. See the video of the presentation here. Shay Hazkani spoke at the seventh and final event of the 2021-2022 ARHU Dean's Colloquium on Race, Equity, and Justice, on April 27, 2022, His topic was “The Intra-Jewish Struggle Against Racism.” Jeffrey Herf presented a number of talks relating to his new book Israel's Moment. On March 9, 2022 he spoke at Harvard's Center for European Studies, with Derek Penslar as commentator. See video of the presentation here. On April 12, he spoke at UMD's Miller Center for Historical Studies with comments by Philip Nord (Princeton) and Dariusz Stola (Warsaw, Institute of Political Studies). Jeffrey sends thanks to Saverio Giovacchini and Piotr Kosicki for organizing this webinar which was not recorded. April 20 Jeffrey gave a webinar at the London Centre for Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. Video is available here. On April 25 he spoke as part of the National History Center Series at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC with Carole Fink as commentator. Watch the video here. In April, Katarina Keane participated in the OAH's Virtual Assignment Charrette, a collaborative workshop focused on curriculum and assignment design principles. She presented an assignment created for an upper level course on women, gender, sexuality, and the law that asks students to consider the historical underpinnings of contemporary policy issues. Over the course of the semester, students conduct primary and secondary source research, write a policy brief, and design a website or video presentation. Ahmet Keramustafa presented two talks in April 2022: “Vernacular Islam: Historical Perspectives on Muslim Identity,” keynote address for the "2022 Mapping Islamic Studies Graduate Student Workshop" at Indiana University; and “A Path to Alevi Studies from within the Study of Islam,” as the keynote address for the Alevi-Bektashi Studies Workshop at the College of William & Mary. Piotr Kosicki spoke on "Making Sense of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine" on April 12, 2022 at the Baltimore County Public Library. On April 28, 2022 Mircea Raianu spoke about his receent book Tata: The Global Corporation that Built Indian Capitalism (Harvard University Press, 2021) at the Miller Center for Historical Studies. David Sartorius presented on May 17, 2022 "Decolonize (with) Wikipedia! Knowledge Equity and African Diaspora History" on a Wiki Education panel discussion about Wikipedia's politics of knowledge production. David Sicilia served as commentator for “Banking Matters,” a panel at the Business History Conference, Mexico City, in April. He presented a paper, “Multinationals and Technology Transfer in East Asia, 1850-1920,” at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Cultural Interaction in East Asia, Keimyung University, Korea, in May. In April, Julie Taddeo presented a paper at the annual Popular Culture Association meeting in April (PCA/ACA) on representations of post- World War II masculinity and male trauma in Australian TV programming, and she was a featured Speaker for the Alumni Association Faculty Series with her talk, "British History on the Small Screen: Why Period Drama Television Matters." See the video of this talk here. Julie continues to give public history lectures on such topics as Victorian culture, British period drama and History, and Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee in Context.
PRESENTING
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Jeremy Best (PhD, 2012, Advisor: Jeffrey Herf) was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Iowa State University. Robert Bland (PhD 2017, Advisor, Leslie Rowland) has been invited to join the editorial board of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Rob is Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University of Tennessee. Shane Dillingham (PhD 2012, Advisor: Mary Kay Vaughan) has accepted a tenure track Assistant Professorship in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He will be eligible for tenure in one year. Currently Assistant Professor at Albright College, Shane is the author of Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigenity, Development and Inequality in 20th Century Mexico published by Stanford University Press in 2021. Sheldon Goldberg (PhD, 2012, Advisor: Jeffrey Herf) continues to write book reviews for the Jewish Veteran, the quarterly newspaper of the Jewish War Veterans if the USA, the latest being "X Troop, The Secret Jewish Commandos of WW II, by Leah Garrett". He also wrote an endorsement to William Taylor’s (Angelo State University) new anthology, Peace, War, and Partnership: Congress and the Military since World War II. Sheldon is also in the process ofreviewing Taylor's last anthology, George C. Marshall and the Early Cold War: Policy, Politics, and Society for Officer Review the Journal of the Military Order of the World Wars. He also continues to do calssified research for and write an article for publication on "The Short, but True, History of the Owl FAC Program, September 1969-February 1970," his unit in Vietnam. For the last 12 years he has led the bi-annual “Law & Order” Youth Educational Seminar of the Maryland Court of Appeals. Debbie Goldman's (PhD, 2021, Advisor: Julie Greene) UMD doctoral dissertation, "Resistance in the Digital Workplace: Call Center Workers in Bell Telephone Companies, 1965-2005," has won the Labor and Employment Relations Association’s 2022 Thomas A. Kochan and Stephen R. Sleigh Best Dissertation Awards Competition. Steph Hinnershitz (PhD, 2013; Advisor: Julie Greene) has won the 2022 Taft Prize for her book Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). The award committee noted that Japanese American Incarceration "presents a true labor history of the prison camps set up for Japanese Americans during the War. Mining both legal and historical archives in innovative ways, Hinnershitz provides a fascinating comparison of the camps to prison labor and the most thorough “labor history” of the camps to date. Along the way, she sheds new theoretical and historical light on other groups and times when coerced labor was entrenched. Sara Ludewig (HiLS, 2021, Advisor: Robyn Muncy) published an article in the Journal of American Catholic Studies titled: "In the Habit of Resistance: Radical Peace Activism and the Maryland Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, 1968-Present." Link to the article here. Joseph Mannard (PhD, 1989, Advisor: David Grimsted) organized two conference panels in 2021-2022. The first “Scandal, Schism, and Enslavement: Women Religious Negotiating Race, Gender, and Authority in Nineteenth-Century American Catholicism,” was for a joint panel for the American Historical Association, 135th Annual Meeting, and the American Catholic Historical Association, 102nd Annual Meeting, in New Orleans, LA, January 6-9, 2022. His paper was titled “’She Is in a Dangerous Frame of Mind’: American Catholic Leadership and the 1831 Scandal of Sister Gertrude,” The second panel “After Leaving Religious Life: The Post-Convent Years of Three Ex-Nuns in 19th-Century America,” was presented at the Conference on the History of Women Religious 13th Triennial Meeting, held at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, June 26-29, 2022. His paper for this session was titled “’The Very Interesting Case of an American Lady’: An Ex-Nun’s Successful Financial Claim against Mexico, 1849-1852,” Both papers draw on research from his forthcoming biography “Georgetown Nun to Washington Socialite: The Two Lives of Ann Gertrude Wightt, 1799-1867” with Georgetown University Press. Samuel Miner (PhD, 2021, Advisor: Jeffrey Herf) in April published an article for the Journal of Contemporary History entitled "'Appeasement Gone Mad': The Riga Ghetto Case and the Politics of British War Crimes Trials." In the same month his dissertation "The Exiles' Return: Emigres, Anti-Nazis, and the Basic Law" was awarded the Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award by the University of Maryland. Megan Penn, (BA History Honors, 2019) has accepted a full tuition scholarship from Duquesne Law School. She wrote her honor thesis under the direction of Peter Wien, and will begin her legal studies in fall 2022. Joseph Slaughter (PhD, 2017, Advisors: David Sicilia/Whit Ridgway) published an article, “A ‘True Commentary’: The Gendered Imagery of Harper’s Illuminated and New Pictorial Bible (1843-1846)” in the Winter 2021 issue of the Journal of the Early Republic. See the article at this link.
PRACTICING HISTORY
Briceño Bowrey (PhD candidate, Advisor: David Sicilia) recently advanced to candidacy after passing his PhD comprehensive exams with Distinction and successfully defending his dissertation prospectus. Lauren Cain (PhD Student, Advisor: Julie Greene) in May completed a certificate in Foundations & Applications of Humanities Analytics from the Santa Fe Institute. She has been accepted to their selective NEH-funded Foundations and Applications of Humanities Analytics workshop this July involving the Santa Fe Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, and Princeton University. Sophie Hess (Ph.D. student, Advisor: Rick Bell) was awarded a 2022-23 dissertation fellowship from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Caitlin Kennedy (PhD Student, Advisor: Julie Greene) presented a paper entitled "‘A Continual Menace to the Good Order of Society’: Southern Perceptions of the Sicilian Mafia in the 1890s” at the Annual Graduate Conference of the Department of History of Syracuse University in April 2022 Lauren Michalak (PhD student, Advisor: Holly Brewer) and Jordan S. Sly (PhD student, Advisor: Stefano Villani) and Holly Brewer, have published an article about the Slavery, Law, and Power Project which Brewer directs. The article "The Slavery, Law, and Power Project: Curating Debates over Democracy and Justice in Early America and the British Empire," appears in the online open access journal Scholarly Editing 39 (2022). Read the complete article here. Lauren Michalak concluded a year long fellowship at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and started a short-term fellowship at the Library of Congress' Kluge Center as part of the Georgian Papers Programme Fellowship for which she will be conducting research in England in August/September 2022. In addition, she had a paper accepted for the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) annual meeting in July titled: “‘A Scheme Formed by the Americans & French’: Rumors, Conspiracies, and the 1780 Gordon Riots. Nicholas Misukanis (PhD student Advisor: Jeffrey Herf) has received year long fellowships from both the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and from the Humboldt Stiftung to conduct research in Germany for his doctoral dissertation: "The Debate over Nuclear Energy in West Germany: Expertise and Protest, 1973-1986." He will be examining the debates about nuclear energy and nuclear power in the West German public, parliament, press, and the relevant ministries of the governments of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Helmut Kohl. The dissertation raises issues of enduring historical importance. In view of recent events in Europe, it is and will be of even greater urgency and interest. Caitlin Schoen (PhD student Advisor: Piotr Kosicki) has won two separate prizes in the annual nationwide essay conference run by the University of Alabama's History Department for Best Graduate Student Paper on Power & Struggle. Caitlin's paper, ""Toujours La Question Des Examens": Examining Student Protest and Organization in Mai 1968" won the Best Paper for Phi Alpha Theta Prize and Honorable Mention for the Best Overall Paper category in the University of Alabama 2022 Power & Struggle Paper Contest. Jessica Wicks-Allen (PhD expected 2022 Advisor, Leslie Rowland) has accepted a tenure-track appointment at Arizona State University. She will be assistant professor of African American history at ASU's New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. Jessica has also been awarded a 2022-23 post-doc at Pennsylvania State University where she will continue her work on African-American women in the era of emancipation. Have photo
TRAINING HISTORIANS
LEARNING HISTORY
Marjorie J. Antonio (BA, 2022) just graduated with a double major in History and American Studies. In her senior year alonee, Marjorie has participated in a number of scholarly activities as well as campus service. In February, she curated a multi=media, interdisciplinary exhibit in the Stamp Gallery titled "alternate universe: visualizing queer futurisms." It featured the work of two artists reimagining the future of LGBTQ+ people of color. She completed a History Honors thesis exploring Filipino American activism in Washington, D.C., during the reign of Phiilipine dictator Ferdinand Marcos (1965-86). She also wrote an honors thesis for American Studies. During her time at UMD, Antonio has been active in the Asian American Student Union, Terpoets, Stylus: A Journal of Literature of Art, and Jimenez-Porter Writers’ House as well as curating a number of exhibitions. In 2021 she was an intern at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art’s “Because of Her Story” project. Most recently, Marjorie was chosen for the 2022 University of Maryland Model Citizenship Prize. The Prize is the most prestigious UMD award for graduating seniors who have “most nearly typified the model citizen and have contributed significantly to the general advancement of the interest of the university.” Read the full story from ARHU News here.
Photo: Marjorie Antonio
Marjorie Antonio '22 UMD Model Citizen
Department of History Honors student Lauren Krauskopf is a winner of the 2022 Library Award for Undergraduate Research. Krauskopf’s award-winning paper is entitled, “‘Discomfort and Unpleasantness: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement at the Supreme Court.” The paper is available on DRUM. Lauren also presented her research at the Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium at Johns Hopkins University. Emma O’Kane (BA, 2023), is a double major in History and English with a minor in Classics. Her History concentration is cultural and intellectural history. This semester, through the Department of History Internship Program directed by Julie Taddeo, O'Kanee was a publications intern at the White House Historical Association. She has studied the social and material culture of the Executive Mansion over its history. She is a native of Calvert County, MD. In October, 2021 at a UMD History Alumni Career Panel and Mentoring Night, she met History alumna Rebecca Durgin Kerr (BA, 2012), an editorial coordinator at the White House Historical Association. Kerr shared about the nonprofit educational association and its commitment to “enhancing the understanding and appreciation of the history surrounding the Executive Mansion,” as well as that the association was hiring for an intern. After hearing her talk, O’Kane decided to apply. Kerr was her supervisor at the Association. See the article from ARHU News here.
Emma O'Kane '23 White House Historical Association Intern
Photo: ARHU News
Photos: Kate Keane
Six History majors were presenteed their research at the University of Maryland's Undergraduate Research Day. on April 27, 2022 Five presenters shared research derived from their work in their capstone course, HIST 408F Senior Seminar; State Secrets: Writing the History of the Central Intelligence Agency taught by Colleen Woods. The students are: Emily Fox, Layla Hernandez, Rachel Jessee, Ellis McDonald, Rebecca Mollett, Christopher Roberts. McDonald's work is part of his Honors thesis.
Thee University of Maryland chapter of Phi Alpha Theta (ΦΑΘ) (Advisor: Patrick Chung), the American honor society for undergraduate and graduate students and professors of history., inducted new members on May 10, 2022. The new members are: Menachem Backman, Sylvia A. Cotten, Steven R. Gabler, Samuel P. Golumbek, Layla G. Hernandez, Ethan T. Hoadley, Rebecca M. Mollet, Lindsay E. Moynihan, Eve Philipson, and Kiera M. Tucker. In the photo: (L-R): Backman, Golumbek, Cotten, Moynihan, Tucker, Hernandez
Photo: Patrick Chung
The History Honors Showcase was held May 11, 2022. The Showcase is an opportunity for students in History Honors to present their work to peers, parents, professors, and others. The Honors thesis is the culmination of a four-semester sequence of courses, research, and writing conducteed under the close supervision of a faculty mentor. Students presenting at the Showcase were: Elizabeth Early (Advisor: Rick Bell), "Who Do You Believe?: Comparing Oral Histories of Formerly Enslaved Americans Conducted During the 1930s;" Samantha Hargis (Advisori: Anne Rush), "The Case of George Parrott: Memento Making as an Extension of Vigilantism in the Nineteenth-Century American West; Lauren Krauskopf (Advisor: Katarina Keane), “Resort to the Courts is Futile”: How the Vietnam Antiwar Movement used the Judicial System to Protest the War; Ellis MacDonald (Advisor: Colleen Woods), "Envoys of Empire: The 1917 U.S. Special Diplomatic Mission to Russia (Or the Root Commission), and the Road to Intervention in the Russian Civil War;" and Chad Slater (Advisor: Piotr Kosicki), "Abandonment of an Ally: The U.S. and Poland, 1916-1920."
Photo: Kate Keane
Maryland Day 2022 featuring History Jeopardy!
MARYLAND DAY 2022
Maryland Day is an annual event founded in 1999. Every year it attracts more than 50,000 people to campus. This year it featured more than 300 booths providing activities information, and interaction with the UMD campus community. The Departmeent of History's booth invited attendees to play History Jeopardy!
Gerardo Ienna New Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow Gerardo Ienna holds a BA and MA in Philosophy from La Sapienza University in Rome and a PhD in Sociology and History of Science from the University of Bologna. His work lies at the crossroads of the social history of science, historical epistemology, historiography of science, and sociology of science. His areas of specialization are Marxist debates on science and society, Marxist historiography of science, French historical epistemology, historical sociology of science, science and technology studies, and the history of twentieth-century philosophy of science. He is currently a Marie Skłodowska Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Verona and the University of Maryland (MISHA, Horizon 2020; GA: 101026146). His project aims to understand the transnational emergence and flourishing of radical science movements with a focus on physics communities in Italy, France, the UK, and the US. HIs project will reconstruct scientific networks from the examination of conference proceedings, programs and lectures of summer schools and seminars, and programmatic documents as well as institutional and informal networks (political militancy, correspondence, internal relations). The work will define the epistemological and political characteristics of the debate on non-neutrality in science at a transnational European level. Read some of Ienna's work here.
RANDOM MOMENTS
CENTER FOR GLOBAL MIGRATION STUDIES
In April, the Center for Global Migration Studies hosted a panel of regional experts discussing the migrant crisis created by the war in Ukraine. Three panelists (Sofia Dyak from the Center for Urban History in Lviv; Wojciech Konończuk from the Center for Easter Studies in Warsaw; and Dariya Orlova of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv) shared their experiences and their expertise. The panel was moderated by Piotr Kosicki and History major Chad Slater (BA, 2022). In April, the Center welcomed Lauren Hirshberg of Regis University, an event timed to coincide with the University's recognition of Asian, Pacific Islander, & Desi American Heritage Month. Hirshberg discussed her first book, Suburban Empire: Cold War Militarization in the U.S. Pacific (University of California Press, March 2022), an exploration of labor and segregation histories on a US military base in the Marshall Islands amidst a global context of Cold War imperialism
\Last day of class for Colleen Ho's HIST 111 The Medieval Word wiith TA Jonathan Bower and Sophie the service-dog-in -training, who was with the class for the semester. Photo: Colleen Ho
FUTURE MOMENTS
The Washington Early American Seminar, hosted by the University of Maryland, invites proposals from scholars wishing to present work in progress in the next academic year on any topic connected to Atlantic world or American history prior to 1865. We especially welcome proposals related to Black life in this period. Genuine work in progress is preferable to polished, already-accepted pieces. The seminar meets monthly during term time and our regular members include faculty and graduate students from a variety of DC-area institutions. Papers are pre-circulated and we expect that our face to face Friday afternoon (4-5.30pm) seminars will be followed by a dinner at a local restaurant. To propose a paper, please upload a brief, one-page cv and submit a title along with a 300-word description of the paper here. Deadline for submissions is June 17., 2022. Contact: Rick Bell, Chris Bonner, Holly Brewer, Zack Dorner, or Clare Lyons
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