Please join members of the history faculty, currentstudentsanddepartmentalalumniininauguratingournewpublicprogramonhistoricaleventsthathavetransformedtheworld.Thisyear’s eventwill be at4:30p.m.Friday,October22, in theSimonsRoomat theDoleInstituteofPolitics.Areceptionwillfollow.Thisyear’sspeakerishis-toryprofessorJonathanEarle,whowilldiscussthepresi-dentialelectionof1860–theelectionthatcatapultedAbra-hamLincolntotheWhiteHouse,usheredintopowerthenewRepublicanPartyandprecipitatedthesecessioncrisisandCivilWar. Lincoln’selectionexemplifiestheconceptof“histori-calcontingency”:theideathatthingsdonothavetohappenthewaythattheydid,andevenseemingly-smallchangesatpivotalmomentscananddoaffectlargehistoricalforces.This ispartofwhatmakeshistorysoinherentlyinterest-ing–nooneknowswhat twists andturns could turn ahumdrum story onits head. Empha-sizing the contin-gency of eventscan help us returnhuman action anddecision-makingto its central placein thewritingand teachingofhistory– and (onehopes)help revitalize historywriting and enlarge the audiencesfor our courses and books.Historical pivot points rangefromadoptionofChristianityastheofficialreligionoftheRomanEmpiretomomentsofcontactbetweenEuropeansandNativepeoplesintheAmericasandeventosplit-sec-ondeventsliketheassassinationofPresidentJohnF.Ken-nedy.Eachofthesehistoricalmomentschangedthecourseofeventsinunusual(andevencontradictory)ways.

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tHe newsletter of tHeUniversity of KansasDepartment of History

fall 2010

1445 Jayhawk Boulevard, Wescoe 3650, Lawrence, KS 66045 • Ph (785) 864-3569 • www.history.ku.edu

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As I begin mythird year as chair, Icontinue to be awe-struck by the abilityof my colleagues toaskquestionsthatoth-ers have yet to thinkof and am equallyimpressed with theirdedication to search-ing for the answersthroughtheirresearch.Over thispastyear,KUHistoryprofessorshavetraveledtheglobe,visitingarchives,presentingtheirresearchinavarietyofvenues,andindoingsoexpandingtheintellec-tualboundariesofhistoricalinquiry.KU’sstudents–bothundergraduatesandgraduates–benefitfromtheseendeav-ors.KUhistory classes involve active scholars engagingtheirstudentswithinnovativeresearchmethodsandwiththekeenestofinsightsintothemostimportantdebatesoverpivotalissuesandeventsofthepast.

Thescholarlyendeavorsofmycolleagueshavehelpedusmaintainourdistinctionasatopprogramamongpub-lic research universities. In 2010,U.S.News andWorldReportrankedourdepartment27thamongpublicresearchuniversities.Whilethisistwonotcheslowerthanthepre-viousyear,weare rankedbehindonlyTexasamongBigXIIhistorydepartments.WearealsoKU’shighestrankedhumanitiesdepartment. In theyears tocomewehope toregainourpastpositionandmoveevenhigher.Weareini-tiatingplans toaccomplishthis,andweneedthehelpofouralumniandsupporterstodoso.Lastspring,weaward-edmore than $50,000worth of scholarship and awards.Nearly$40,000wenttoourgraduatestudentsinamountsranging from$1,000-$2,000 to defray research expenses

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Professor Earle’s talk is based on his forthcomingbookon the election of 1860 (to be published next yearby Oxford University Press). One surprising thing thatEarle has discovered in his research is that no seasonedpolitical observer in any party consideredAbrahamLin-colnalegitimatecontenderforthepresidencyatthebeginningofthecampaign.Infact,one1859bookhe unearthed at the HuntingtonLibrary contained biographicalsketchesof21 likelyPresidentialcandidates – and didn’t even in-clude one on Lincoln! “Viewedfrom the vantage point 1850, al-mostnobodycouldhaveforeseena sectionally-based, antislaverypartyliketheGOPasacontenderforcontrolofasinglebranchoftheU.S.government,”hesaid.“CivilWar?Secession?MaybebetweentheIndustrialEastandtheAgrarianWest.OrProtestantnativistsversusCatholicimmigrants.ButarendingoftheUnionoverslav-ery?” Earlesaidthetalkwillgoontoexplainhowtheunlike-lyeventoftrulysectionalpresidentialelection–onethatbroughttotheWhiteHouseaone-termCongressmanwhohadnotwonanelectionsince1846–couldhaveoccurredatapivotalmoment inourhistory. “WhenI’mfinished,I hopeeachperson in attendancewill leavewith anew-foundappreciationofhowhistorical‘butterflyeffects’canmorphintoveryrealtornadoesthatchangethewayweliveourlives,even150yearslater.”Headdedthatallelectionshavecontingency,andtheyalsohaveconsequences.“Thisonecertainlydid.”

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associatedwiththeirdissertations.Theseawardswillhelpour graduate students travel to distant archives, producecutting-edgescholarship,andcompeteforacademicposi-tionsinanincreasinglydifficultjobmarket.Thepromiseoftheseawardsallowsustocompeteforthetopstudentsand increaseour statureamongourpeer institutions.Wemustcontinue tooffer this support ifweare tomaintainourdistinction,andweneedtoincreasewhatwecanof-ferifwearetocompetewithhigherrankedprograms.Wewould also like tomake research funds available to un-dergraduate students. Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Littlehasmade increasingundergraduate research involvementatoppriority,andIwholeheartedlyagree.Wouldn’titbewonderful if ourmostdeserving students could travel toWashington,D.C.,andconductresearchintheLibraryofCongressor theNationalArchivesanduse theirfindingsintheirseniortheses?Withstatefundsbecomingscarcer,wedependonourendowmentmorethanever.IfwecouldsendmoreKUstudentsintothelargerworldsearchingforanswerstosomeofthemostdifficulthistoricalquestions,ourpeerswouldcertainlymakenoteofouractivitiesandrateusmorehighly.

Anotherwaywecan increaseour stature isbymak-ing key additions to our faculty. For the past two years,academichiringhasbeendismalduetotheeconomyandstatebudgetcuts.KUhasbeennoexceptionto this.TheDepartmentofHistory,however,hasactuallygrowninthenumber of full time faculty.During the 2010-2011 year,wewilladdthreenewmemberstoourDepartment.ChrisForth,ProfessorofHumanitiesandWesternCivilization,istransferringpartofhisappointmenttoourDepartmentand will enhance our comparative gender studies field;AdrianFinucanewilljoinusinthespring2011semesterandwill lend valuable expertise in earlymodernBritishand Spanish colonization; and ProfessorAfshinMarashijoinsus this fallbringinganexpertise inMiddleEasternhistorythatwehavesorelylackedformanyyears.Thead-ditionofspecialistsinthehistoryoftheMiddleEastandCaribbean buttresses the department’s existing strengthsininternationalstudiesandprovidesthepeopleofKansaswithworld-classexpertsinpartsoftheworldwedesper-atelyneedtobetterunderstand.ThesenewadditionsalsoenhanceourleadershipevenmoreinKU’sefforttoglobal-ize itscurriculumandmovesus intoexcitingnewdirec-tionsasweprepareourstudentstoliveinanincreasinglycomplexandintegratedworld.Unfortunately,westilllagbehindinthenumberofendowedprofessorshipscomparedtohigherratedprograms.Asmanyofourseniorscholarswillretireinthenextfiveyears,wewillbeinneedofmoreexperiencedscholarswithimpeccableresearchandpubli-cationcredentialsinordertoattractthebeststudentsandmaintainourprofile.Havingendowedprofessorshipswillallowus to recruit scholars of national and international

prestigetoMountOread,thuselevatingourdepartmenttoanevenhigherlevelofexcellence.

Since our last newsletter, our facultymembers havewon teaching awards, published numerous articles andbooks, and earned the praise from their peers across thenation.Theseactivitiesandaccomplishmentswillbelistedinthepagesofthisnewsletter.Welookforwardtoanoth-ergreatyear andwelcomeany supportyoucangiveus.Contributionsfromouralumniandfriendssupportfacultytravel forconferencesand researchandsupport speakersandconferencestoenrichtheintellectuallifeofourdepart-mentanduniversity.Weappreciateallthatyouhavedone,andwehaveenjoyedtheopportunitytomeetmanyofyouthispastyear.WelookforwardtomeetingmoreofyouoratleasthearingaboutyourlifeafterKU,andwehopetoseemany of you during homecomingweekend,October22,whenwe have our inaugural pivotal events programscheduled.Wehopetoseeyouthere.

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REQUIRED READING:CHina’s riseby Megan greene

associate Professor of History

Today when Iwalk intoa classroomon thefirstdayofmycourseonmodernChi-nesehistoryIfindthatmy students think ofChinaasaneconomicand political pow-erhouse that wieldsconsiderable influenceoverourowneconomicandpoliticalfuture.LonggoneisthepictureofChinaasalandofpeopleinMaosuitsridingbicyclesandwavinglittleredbooks.Butjustagenerationagothesewereamongthemostcommonimagesthatcametothemindsofmystudentsonthatfirstdayofclass.HowdidChinagetfromthebicycletotheBird’sNest,fromtheMaosuittoVersace?Andwhathavebeentheexperiencesof individuals in thisprocess?Ihaveselected three textsas“requiredreading”thatilluminatetheindividualexperi-encewhilestilltelling,albeitinsomewhatunconventionalways,thestoryoftheriseofmodernChina. JungChang,Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China(Touchstone, 2003 [1991]). Chang’s autobiography tellsthestoryofthreegenerationsofwomen(hergrandmother,mother, and herself) whose lives spanned the twentiethcenturyandwhoseexperiencesrangedfromthoseofacon-cubinetoaMaoistcadretoaWestern-educatedwriter. SangYe,China Candid: The People on the People’s Republic(UniversityofCaliforniaPress,2006).SangYe’sbook isacompilationof interviewsheconductedwithawide array ofChinese people during the late 1990s andthe early 2000s. Through the interviews we learn aboutcontemporarysocial,cultural,andeconomicconcernsandvalues,aswellastheperspectivesofindividualsoneventsofearlierdecades. Peter Hessler,Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory(Harper,2010).Hesslerhasbeenwritingonhis observationsof contemporaryChinafor theNewYorker for some time. InCountry Driving,HesslerexploresChina’snewhighwaysystem,examineschangesinvillagelife,anddescribeslifeinafactorytown.HehasanengagingstyleandhisdescriptionsofChinaareinsightfulandinformed.

History Department to Co-sponsor tUttle leCtUre Given by eriC foner

The third Bill TuttleLecture in AmericanStudiesisscheduledfor7:00p.m.onOctober7,2010,inWoodruff Auditorium. Itwill be delivered by EricFoner, DeWitt ClintonProfessor of History atColumbia University andoneofthecountry’smostimportanthistorians.Thetitleofhistalkis“TheFieryTrial:AbrahamLincolnandAmericanSlavery.”

History Department at tHe top in teaCHinG exCellenCe

AssistantProfessorNathanWoodisthelatestdepart-ment facultymember to receive the prestigiousWilliamT.Kemperawardforexcellencein teaching.Thefellow-ship,whichcomeswitha$7,500check, isannouncedatthebeginningofeachschoolyearwithsurprisevisitstothewinners’classrooms.“Wow,I’mdeeplyhonored. Iabso-lutelyloveteaching,”Woodsaiduponreceivingtheaward.“Thank you to allmy students, thank you to thosewhonominatedme.Whatanhonor.” Wood teaches courses on modern European history.He begins his courses the sameway. He urges studentsto studyhistoryas if theywereSherlockHolmesand toapproach exams as if theywere lawyers.Be curiousbutdiscriminatinginseekinghistoricalcluesanduseevidenceeffectivelytomakeyourcaseonexams,hetellsstudents.Withreadingassignmentsandlecturespackedwithvisualimagesfromthe times,Woodteachesstudents todiscernwhatisrelevantandimportant. Thehistorydepartmentisoneofthemosthonoredintheuniversity.KUhistorianshavewonatotalof14Kem-pers,tiedwithpsychologyforthemostawardedtoanyde-partment.Asecretcommitteecomposedofsevenmembers,includinganundergradandagraduatestudent,reviewthenominationseachyearanddecideonthehonorees. Thisyearmarksthefifteenththatthefellowshipshavebeenhandedout.Onlytenfacultymembersfromacrosstheuniversityreceivedtheawardthisyear.Thefellowshipsaresupportedby$650,000ingiftsfromtheWilliamT.Kem-perFoundation(CommerceBank,trustee)and$650,000inmatchingfundsfromKUEndowment.

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JoHn curatola Sincegraduatingin2008,I’veusedmyHistorydegreebyworkingasaprofessorattheArmyCommandandGen-eralStaffCollegeatFortLeavenworth.Iprovidehistori-calperspectivestoactivedutyArmyofficerstoaidintheirprofessional judgment and decisionmaking.My experi-

enceatKUallowsmetoaddressnotjustmilitaryhistory,butalsoengageinsocial,political,andeconomicdiscus-sions.InthiscapacityImakeconnectionsbetweenwarandsocietyanddonotjustfocuson“drumandbugle”militaryhistory.Teachingintheclassroomisonlyonevenue;Ialsoconductstaffridestograduatestudentsandothermilitaryprofessionalsandvisitvariousbattlesites.Thesestaffrides

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Adrian FinucaneisournewexpertoncolonialAmer-ica(America,inthisinstance,beingbroadlydefined).Likemany transplants toLawrencebeforeher,FinucanehailsfromMassachusetts.ShewillarriveatKUinJanuaryaf-

ter defendingher disserta-tionatHarvard.Finucane’sworkfocusesonthesocialandculturalhistoryofearlyAmerica,fromthePuritansofNewEnglandtothepi-ratesoftheCaribbean.Herresearch interests includecontactbetweenpeoplesinthe early modern Atlanticworld, the history of raceand gender in early Euro-

peancolonies,andthehistoryofbeliefsaboutwitchcraftinearlyAmerica.HercurrentworkexploresinstancesofcooperationandtradebetweentheBritishandSpanishem-piresintheearlyeighteenthcentury.

Afshin Marashi, an expert on the modern MiddleEast, is the first specialistwe have had in that field.Anassociate professor, he joins the department from Cali-fornia State University, Sacramento. Marashi, who was

born in Iran and immigratedtoLosAngeles as a child, isinterestedinquestionsofna-tionalismintheMiddleEast.He earned his Ph.D. fromUCLA.Marashi’s first book,Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and the State, 1879-1940 (University of Wash-ington Press, 2008), focusedon Iran, but his next projectwill extend to issues of na-

tionalidentitythroughtheentireregion.Thissemesterheis teaching Modern Middle Eastern History, 1800-Pres-ent,anda researchseminar in internationalhistory.Nextsemester hewill be teaching courses onmodern IranianhistoryandpremodernMiddleEasternhistory.Marashiismarried,andhiswifeworksintheuniversity’sendowmentoffice.

Professor Christopher E. Forth holds the HowardChairofHumanities&WesternCivilization.Hisresearchand teaching interests revolve around the cultural his-tory of gender, sexuality, the body, and the senses (withanemphasisonmodernFrance,BritainandAmerica) aswellasEuropeanintellectualandculturalhistory.Forthis

the author or editor ofeight books, most nota-bly The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood (2004), Mas-culinity in the Modern West(2008),andtheco-edited volumes French Masculinities(2007)andConfronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle France(2010). He is currentlywriting a book called Flab: A Cultural History of Fat. ForthtaughtfortenyearsattheAustralianNationalUni-versitybeforetakinguphiscurrentpositionatKU.

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lookattheactualterrainofthebattlefieldanddiscusswhatthecommandersinthefieldwereseeingandthinkingdur-ingthe“heatofbattle.”Theseridesprovideauniqueper-spective that is impossible toduplicate in theclassroom.Moreimportantly,theybringhistorytolifeforthestudent.IalsoserveasamentorforstudentswritingMasterDegreethesesontopicsrelationtomilitaryhistory,nationalsecu-rity, andpolitics.Lastly, andaboveall, in thisposition Icontributetothesafeguardingofournationbydevelopingitsfutureleaderstobecomebetterthinkers,innovators,andcitizens.

Mary sorricK IgraduatedfromKUinthespringof2009withnoideahowIwantedtousemydegree.IonlyknewthatIlovedreadingandwriting—twoqualitiesthatdrewmetohistoryinthefirstplace—andthatI’dbeluckytofindajobthatal-lowedmetodoboth.AndwhenImovedtoNewYorkCityfora job inbookpublishing, thefifty-pagehonors thesisthatIslavedoverformylastyearasahistorymajorwasanaccomplishmentthatItoutedshamelessly.Maybeithelped

megetajobatOpenRoad IntegratedMe-dia,anebookstartupinSoho,whereInowspend my days hap-pily wading throughstacksofmanuscriptsand drafting end-less streams of de-scriptive copy. Butitwasn’t until a fewmonths into my jobat Open Road that Ibegan to grasp whatmy time in the his-tory department hadreally givenme.Be-yond writing copyand reading submis-

sions,myunderstandingoftheeffortrequiredtoproducejustfiftypagesofwritinghaslentmeagreatdealofadmi-rationforanyonewhosubmitsfivetotentimesthatinthehopesofbeingpublished.It’sthatrespectthatsustainsmewhenthepileofmanuscriptsonmydeskisespeciallytall. IlearnedalotinmycoursesatKU,andthoughoppor-tunitiesarerarenowadaystoreferencetheBoxerRebellionorsocialismin the1930s, theblood,sweat,andtears in-volvedinresearchingandwritingonthosetopicscontinuestopayoff,I’mgladtosay,nearlyeveryday.

KU Historian manaGes e.p.a. reGion AftertenyearsontheHistoryDepartmentfaculty,As-sociateProfessorKarlBrooksinFebruaryacceptedPresi-dentObama’sappointmenttoheadoperationsfortheU.S.EnvironmentalProtectionAgencyinRegion7. ThevastregionincludesthestatesofMissouri,Iowa,Nebraska,andKansas,aswellasninetribalnationswithinthosestates’boundaries.

“Our duties extend from the Mississippi Delta, insoutheastMissouri’sbootheel,toliterallythefoothillsoftheRockyMountainsinfarnorthwestNebraska,”BrookstoldDepartmentChairPaulKeltonrecently.“It’sabigthe-atreofoperations,butmyenvironmentalhistoricaltraininghelpsmeseehowtheregionisreallyinterconnected.” Also helpful are Brooks’s earlier experiences as anelectedofficial inhishomestateof Idaho,a trial lawyerrepresentingbothlargebusinessesandindividuals,andthemanagerofIdaho’slargestcitizensgrassrootsenvironmen-talgroup. Brooks’sappointmentasRegion7administratorlaststhroughthePresidentObama’scurrent term. Heispres-entlyon leavefromKU. Hisenvironmentalhistorycol-leagues Donald Worster and Greg Cushman, joined byKelton and visiting professor Sara Gregg, are coveringcoursesBrookswouldnormallyhavetaughtinAmericanenvironmentalhistory. “IamdeeplyhonoredtobeservingthiscountryasEPAadministrator,”Brookssaid.“I’menoughofanold-fash-ionedpatriottobelievethat,whenyourpresidentasksyoutoserve,youaccepttherequestreadilyandcheerfully.”HeisoneoftenEPAregionaladministrators(RAs),allreport-ingdirectlytoEPAAdministratorLisaJackson. JacksonexpectsRAstohelpexecuteherandthepresi-dent’senvironmentalpoliciesintheirregions,Brooksex-

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fortheScottishArtsCouncil.“JohnMuirisoneofhistory’sgreatest evangelists for thenaturalworld.Therevelationstriggeredby thebook’shugeinsight and relevance for to-day’s global society inspiredintense debate amongst thejudges,anditssheer‘worldli-ness’solidlysecureditsselec-tionasBookoftheYear.” Published by OxfordUniversityPress in2008,“APassion forNature”haswontheAmbassadorBookAwardfrom the English-Speaking Union of the United States,Scotland’sSaltireSocietyhomecomingliteraryaward,andKU’sByronCaldwellSmithBookAward. Itwasnamedoneofthetop10biographiesfor2009byBooklistandoneoftheWashingtonPostBookWorld’sbestbooksof2008. Worsterhasbeendescribedas“oneofthemostemi-nentenvironmentalhistoriansof theWest.”Hisbook“ARiver RunningWest: The Life of JohnWesley Powell”(2001) receivedaByronCaldwellSmithBookAwardatKU and the 2002CaugheyWesternHistoryAssociationPrize.“RiversofEmpire”(1985)wasnominatedforaPu-litzerPrize,and“TheDustBowl:AnAgriculturalandSo-cialHistory”(1979)wonthenationalBancroftPrize.

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plained, “but she leavesmuch of the tactical andmana-gerialresponsibilitytous.”Brookssupervisesabout550civilservantsintheRegion7officeinKansasCity,Kan-sas,alongwithabout150contractorsandothervendors. EPARAs’primarydutiesaretooverseestateenviron-mental agencies’ permitting of air and water emissions,toensurecompliancewithfederalandstateanti-pollutionlaws,and toencouragecitizensatevery level to takere-sponsibility for their environmental impacts. “It’s a fas-cinatingarrayofjobseachday,”Brooksreports.“NeveradullmomentsinceEPAhassomanytasksandfacessomanychallenges.”

History professor wins sCotlanD’s biGGest literary prize(KUNewsRelease,June25,2010)

Donald Worster, theJoyce and Elizabeth HallDistinguishedProfessorofU.S.HistoryattheUniver-sityofKansas,receivedtheScottishBook of theYearAward for his biography“APassionforNature:TheLife of John Muir” fromthe ScottishArts Council.TheawardisfundedbytheScottish Mortgage Invest-mentTrust. Worsterwillreceive30,000Britishpoundsinrecogni-tionofhisliterarytalentandthesignificanceofhisbiogra-phy,whichpositionsMuir,founderoftheSierraClub,asanationaliconforScotlandandafigureofglobalsignifi-canceforconcernabouttheenvironment. “JohnMuir,anativeofScotlandandanimmigranttotheUnitedStates,wasoneofthefoundersofmodernenvi-ronmentalism,”saidWorster.“Thisgenerousbookawardwill, I hope, help introduce his life and achievements tomodernScotsandinspireeverywhereadeeperconcernforsavingtheplanet’secology.” Worsterwaspraised forhis“subtleunderstandingofScottishsensibilities”bythepanelofjudges. “‘APassionforNature:TheLifeofJohnMuir’isbeau-tifullywritten, deeply accessible and should be in everyScottishhomeandclassroom,nexttothepoetryofRobertBurns,”saidawardjudgeGavinWallace,headofliterature

JUnior reCeives national sCHolarsHip to attenD proGram for History sCHolars (KUNewsRelease,June2,2010) AUniversityofKansasjuniormajoringinhistorywasoneof30students inthenationselectedforanintensiveone-weekprogramlastsummerattheGilderLehrmanIn-stituteofAmericanHistoryinNewYorkCity. HannahN. Ballard received a $1,500 scholarship toattend aGilderLehrmanHistoryScholars Program.Theweek-longGilderLehrmanprogramfostersaninterestinAmericanhistorythroughfieldtrips,discussionswithpro-fessionalsaboutcareersforhistorymajorsandlecturesbyleadingscholarssuchasDavidBrionDavis,ChristopherLeslie Brown and Pauline Maier. The Wellington HighSchoolgraduateisthedaughterofJoeBallardofWelling-tonandSharonBallardofWinfield. BallardhopestoutilizehertimeinNewYorktobeginresearchforanhonor’sthesisinhistorythatshewillwriteduringthisacademicyear.

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GraDUation stories: woUnDeD warriors proGram pUts Gates brown on new patH (KUNewsRelease,May4,2010)

WhenhisHumveerolledoveranimprovisedexplosivedevice inBaqubah, Iraq,Capt.GatesBrownwasn’t sureatfirsthowbadlyhewasinjured.Whenhewasrecover-ing,hewasn’tsurewhathisfuturewouldhold.Whenheenrolledat theUniversityofKansas,hewassureofonething:hehadafuture. Brownisoneofthemembersofthefirstclassofgrad-uatesof theWoundedWarriorsprogram.Theprogram,apartnershipbetweenKUandtheU.S.Army,giveswound-edsoldierstheopportunitytocontinuetheireducationandmilitarycareers.He’snowasaninstructorattheCommandandGeneralStaffCollegeatFortLeavenworth,knownastheintellectualcenteroftheArmy. TheLansingnativeearnedhismaster’sinmilitaryhis-toryfromKUinMayandteachesthesamesubjectatFortLeavenworth.BrownsaidheisthrilledhewillbeabletocontinuehisArmycareerbutneverthoughthewouldtakethispath. “Ihadtochangemygoals,”Brownsaidofhisexpe-riencefollowinghis injury.“IknewIwasn’tgoingtobeabletopursuecombatarmsanymore.That’sthegreatthingaboutthisprogram.ItgivesmeachancetotransitionfromtheArmytocivilianlife.”

A 2000 graduate of Lansing High School, BrownjoinedtheArmyaftergraduatingfromPittsburgStateUni-versityin2004.GrowingupnearFortLeavenworthwithhismotherandstepfather,DebraandRalphSorrell,hewasawareoftheArmyfromanearlyage. “Wewere always on post doing one thing or anoth-er.HisexperienceiswhatledmetoconsidertheArmy,”Brownsaidofhisstepfather,nowretiredfromtheArmy.

“HannahBallardisanexcellentambassadorforKU’shistorydepartment,”saidherhonorsthesisadviser,Jona-thanEarle,associateprofessorofhistory.“ShewillmeetfantasticscholarsinNewYorkandgetaheadstartonherarchivalresearchforherthesis.” Ballardplanstoselectanaspectofthereligiousreviv-alsandreformmovementsofthe19thcentury,alsoknownas theSecondGreatAwakening,asa thesis topic.She isinterested inhow thatperiodcreateda reformative spiritamongthemiddleclassasthenation’spopulationexpand-edandmovedwest.Theperiodsawariseinevangelismaswellassocialactivismthatproducedmovementsforaboli-tion,temperanceandsuffrage,andadvocatesforreformofprisons,careforthehandicappedandmentallyill. “IfinditparticularlyinterestinghowAmericanshaveutilized religion, expansion and gender norms to definethemselvesasdistinctfromothergroupsofpeople,”saidBallard. Ballardsaidshehaslovedhistorysincemiddleschoolandthatherultimategoalistoearnadoctorateandteachattheuniversitylevel. Ballard is in theUniversityHonorsProgramandhasreceivedtheEdithM.ClarkeScholarshipforoutstandingjuniorsinthehistorydepartmentandtheHarleyS.NelsonScholarship. Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute ofAmerican History is a nonprofit organization improvingand enriching American history education through pro-grams and resources for students, teachers, scholars andhistoryenthusiaststhroughoutthenation.Tofindoutmore,visitgilderlehrman.org.

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InAugust2006,BrownwasdeployedtoIraq,servingasacombatarmsofficer.InJanuary2007,hewasridinginaHumveewhenitdroveovera120-millimetermortarshell,buriedundertheroad.Thevehicleabsorbedthebruntoftheblast,butheknewhehadbeenhit. “Atfirst, it felt likewe felloff a cliff insteadofgo-ingupintheair,”Brownsaid.“Iknewmyfeethurt,andI thought, ‘whatamIgoing toseewhen I take thismapboardoffofmylap?’” Brown’srightlegwasseverelyinjuredbut,fortunately,hewasabletokeepthelimb.Hespentseveralmonthsre-covering in Iraq,Germany, andWomackArmyHospitalinFortBragg,N.C.Hehadfivesurgeriestoaddressbonedamageandtraumaticarthritisinhisheel,ankleandtoes.Hewasabletowalkagainbutwasunabletoreturntorun-ning.Brown’swife,Marty,across-countryrunnerwhomhemetatPittsburgState,gothiminvolvedinthesport,andhecompletedtheOklahomaCityMarathon. Whilerecovering,Brownweighedhiscareeroptions.He considered going back to school to studymathemat-ics.HissupervisoratMunsonArmyHealthCenteratFortLeavenworth told him about theWoundedWarriors pro-gram. “Mynamegotthrowninthehat,andluckilyIgotse-lected,”hesaid.

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booKs pUblisHeD by KU History faCUlty(allavailablethroughamazon.com)

Whilehistoryfacultypresenttheirresearchinavarietyofdifferentvenuessuchasacademicjournals,editedvolumes,scholarlyconferences,weallstrivetoproducebooks.Mostbookstakeyearstofinish.Theyinvolveendlesshoursinthearchivesfindingevidence,daysonendcomposingatourcomputermonitors,severalroundsofpeerreviewandfeedbackfromoureditors,andtheneventuallythefinalproductappears.CongratulationstoLeslieTuttle,KimWarren,andNathanWoodwhoallrecentlypublishedmonographs.CongratulationstoJonathanC.D.ClarkandJenniferWeberaswell.Profes-sorClarkeditedahistoryoftheBritishIslesandwroteoneofitssixsectionsandJenniferWeberauthoredachildren’sbook.

Alwaysafanofmilitaryhistory,Brownhadnevercon-sideredmakingacareerofitbeforehisinjury.AvisittotheEisenhowerPresidentialLibraryinAbilenehelpedinspirehisacademiccareer.Hismaster’sseminarpapersanalyzethe Eisenhower administration and the role that nuclearweaponsplayedinpost-WorldWarIIU.S.andEuropeanforeignpolicy and the implicationsof thosepolicydeci-sions. AtFortLeavenworth,he’llspendhisfirstyearobserv-ingteachersandcurriculum.Thesecondyear,hewillteam-teach,andthethirdyear,hewillbeafulltimeinstructoronhisown. AdrianLewis, professor of history atKUanddirec-toroftheOfficeofProfessionalMilitaryGraduateEduca-tion,thinksBrownhasafutureintheacademicsideoftheArmy. “He has a sharpmind and a strong desire to learn,”LewissaidofBrown.“Heisastudentinthetruestsenseoftheword.Iexpecthimtomakesignificantcontributiontothefieldofmilitaryhistory.” Brownsaidwhilehisplanschanged,he’sthrilledwiththe opportunity ahead of him.Hewill continue toworktoward a doctorate while teaching at Fort Leavenworth.HesaidheisproudtobeoneofthefirstgraduatesoftheWoundedWarriorsprogramandtoprovehowsuccessfulitsalumnicanbe. “Iwasn’treadytogetoutyet,”hesaid.“It’snicetostillbeabletoputontheuniformandstillbepartoftheArmy.”

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Anna M. Ciencialagaveabrieftalkinapanelon“Katyn:ThePotentialBenefits ofReconciliation,” at theConfer-enceonthe70thAnniversaryoftheKatynMassacreheldintheCoolidgeAuditorium,LibraryofCongress.Shepre-sentedapaperon“KatyninPolish-RussianRelationssince1990,”attheannualmeetingofthePolishInstituteofArtsand Sciences inMilwaukee and had publications inThe Polish Review,Cosmopolitan Review,andKwartalnik His-toryczny.

Ray Hinerco-editedwithJosephHawesA Cultural His-tory of Childhood and Family in the Modern Age (Oxford:BergPress).Inaddition,hepublished“ChildreninAmeri-canHistory,”inRethinking the History of American Edu-cation (NewYork:PalgraveMacmillan),and“Hidden inPlainView:TheHistoryofChildren(andChildhood)intheTwenty-FirstCentury,”co-authoredwithJosephHawes,intheJournal of the History of Childhood and Youth,Vol.1,No.1,43-49.

Richard Kay’sRepertory of Latin Manuscript Pontificals & BenedictionalshasbeenusedextensivelysincemountedontheKUScholarWorkswebsite,somuchsothatitwillbemadeavailableondemandinhardcopythroughtheKUBookstore.

Charles L. Stansifer taughtacourseonU.S.History inAsunción,Paraguay.Hegaveseveralinvitedlecturesandhisbookentitled“TheUniversityofKansasandtheUni-versidaddeCostaRica”co-authoredwithMariaEugeniaBozzoli”isduetobepublishedinSeptember2010inEng-lishandSpanishbytheUCRPress.HeiscurrentlyengagedinaprojectsponsoredbyKUScholarWorkstodigitizeallthesesanddissertationsonCentralAmericantopics.

FACULTY

Victor Baileybeganhisthirdfive-yeartermasDirectoroftheHallCenterfortheHumanities.

Jonathan ClarkeditedA World by Itself: a History of the British Isles (London,2010),andwrotethesectiononthelong eighteenth century, including some counter-factualanalysisof theAmericanRevolution.Aspart of a largerproject on theEnlightenment, hegave a plenary addresstoaconferenceonthatsubjectattheSorbonne,Paris.HisalsopublishedanessayonnationalidentityinBeing Brit-

ish,editedbythePrimeMinister,GordonBrown,andMat-thewd’Ancona.

Katherine R. P. Clarkpublished“GettingPlastered:Or-namentation,Iconography,andthe‘DesperateFaction’”inArchitectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Con-structing Identities and Interiors (editedbyDeniseAmyBaxterandMeredithMartin,AshgatePress).ThissummershepresentedalectureontheClaveringsofCallalyattheAlnandBreamishHistoricalSocietyandwasalsooneofsixteen scholars invited toparticipate at a conferenceontheworksofDanielDefoe.

Luis Corteguera co-organized the conference “ImageandDevotionintheEarlyModernSpanishWorld,”attheHuntingtonLibrary,Calif.,7–8May,2010.Hepublished“VisionsandtheSoul’sAscenttoGodinSpanishMysti-cism,” inLooking Beyond: Visions, Dreams and Insights in Medieval Art and History;“TheMadArbitrista:VulgarMen,MunicipalPoliticsandtheRhetoricofCounsel,”inElections and Decision-Making Processes in Early Mod-ern Cities;and“KingasFather inEarlyModernSpain,”fortheSpanishjournalMemoria y Civilización.

Greg Cushmanparticipated inaportionofa round-the-worldvoyageorganizedbyDutchtelevisiontoretracetheroutetakenbyCharlesDarwinandtheBeagle.Heprovid-edexpertcommentaryontheenvironmentalhistoryofthePacificCoastofSouthAmerica,whichoveramillionpeo-pleviewed(http://beagle.vpro.nl/#/widget/afleveringen/18andclickon“Toonalleafleveringen”).Helaterpublishedastoryofhisexperience(http://www.aseh.net/publications/aseh-news/).

Jonathan EarleconcludedhissixyearsasAssociateDi-rectorat theDoleInstituteofPoliticsand isdelighted toreturn full-time to history.He is finishing his book,The Election of Abraham Lincoln and the Revolution of 1860(OxfordUniversityPress).ThispastsummerhepresentedachapterofthemanuscriptattheU.S.CapitolHistoricalSociety’sannualsymposium,whichisavailableforview-ing:http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/293631-1.Paul KeltonwasselectedtoserveasoneofKU’sSeniorAdministrativeFellows.HeconductedresearchintheLi-brary of Congress inWashington,D.C. and theWilliamClementsLibrary,inAnnArbor,Michigan,wherehecom-pleted research for his next book, a study of theChero-keeNation and their experiencewith newdiseases priorto1839.

Elizabeth Kuznesof returns full-time to theHistoryDe-partment after 18 years as Director of Latin AmericanStudies. She is principal investigator for grants totaling$2.5million that support the Center for LatinAmerican

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Studies.ShepresentedapaperataconferenceinAmster-damandpublished“LaconstruccióndelnacionalismoylaciudadaníabrasileñaenunEstadomultirracial”inVerenaStolcke&AlexandreCoellodelaRosa(eds.),Identidades ambivalentes en América Latina (Barcelona:EdicionsBel-laterra,2008).

Eve Levinhaspublishedsixarticlesinthepastyear.Threeconcernpre-modernRussianhistoryand respectively fo-cusondemon-possession,folkhealerswhowereaccusedofwitchcraft,andthemedicinalusesoftobacco.AfourtharticleisastudyofarareRussianmanuscriptheldintheSpencerResearchLibrary.Twootherarticlesdiscuss theevolution of the field of Russian studies in the UnitedStatesandworld-wide.Shecontinuestoserveaseditor-in-chiefofThe Russian Review.

Adrian LewisbeginshislastyearasthedirectoroftheOf-ficeofProfessionalMilitaryGraduateEducationandwillnextyearreturnfulltimetotheDepartmentofHistory.HesignedacontractthismonthforthesecondeditionofThe American Culture of Warandisworkingonalargerproj-ect,The History of the United States Army.

Afshin Marashi published“ImaginingHafez:Rabindra-nathTagore in Iran, 1932” inThe Journal of Persianate Studies(Brill),Volume3,No.1,(2010),46-77.

Roberta PergherpresentedherworkateightconferencesintheU.S.,Canada,Italy,andGermany,andshepublished“BetweenColonyandNationon Italy’s ‘FourthShore,’”inNational Belongings: Hybridity in Italian Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures(PeterLang2010)aswellas“Enter-ingtheRace:FascismandtheBoundariesofItalianness”intheonlinejournalItalian Politics and Society (No.68,Fall2009).

Insummer2010,Eric C. Rath returned toTibet to leadateamofKUfacultyonaU.S.StateDepartment-fundedprojecttohelpdevelopaschoolforTibetannomads.ThisgrantwillalsoallowfiveTibetanstudentstostudyatKUforasemester.HepublishedashortarticleaboutfoodinaTibetanmonasteryandheanticipatestheforthcomingpub-licationoftwobooksonthehistoryofJapanesecuisine.

Leslie Tuttlepublishedherfirstbook,Conceiving the Old Regime: Pronatalism and the Politics of Reproduction, withOxfordUniversityPressinthesummerof2010.Sheis spending the 2010-2011 academic year as the GouldFoundationFellowat theNationalHumanitiesCenter inNorthCarolinatoresearchandbeginwritinganewbook-length project, tentatively titledDreaming in the Age of Reason: Oneirology and Knowledge in the Early Modern French-Speaking World.

Marta Vicente’smonographClothing the Spanish Empire: Families and the Calico Trade in the Early Modern Atlan-tic World (PalgraveMacMillan, 2006) was awarded the2010BestFirstBookPrizebytheAssociationofSpanishandPortugueseHistoricalStudies.InFebruary2010,shepresented thepaper“Sex,GenderandMedicine inEigh-teenth-CenturySpain,”fortheseminaronSexandGenderintheEarlyModernWorldatOhioStateUniversity.

Kim WarrenpublishedThe Quest for Citizenship: African American and Native American Education in Kansas, 1880-1935 with the University of North Carolina Press.ShealsodeliveredpapersonhistoricalconstructionsofraceandgenderatannualmeetingsoftheHistoryofEducationSocietyandtheOrganizationofAmericanHistorians.Jenny WeberreceivedtenureinApril,andherfirstchil-dren’sbook,Summer’s Bloodiest Days,abouttheBattleofGettysburganditsaftermath,waspublishedinJunebyNa-tionalGeographic.WiththesesquicentennialofthestartoftheCivilWarcomingupnextyear,hercalendarofspeak-ingengagementsonvariousaspectsofthewarisstartingtofillup.ShealsowillbespendingtimeinTexasthisfallteachingK-12teachersabouttheCivilWar.

Ted Wilson served in summer 2010 as co-director of aNEHSeminarforSchoolTeachersonthetopicof“Ameri-caandtheGreatWar:AnInterdisciplinarySeminarinHis-tory andLiterature.”He contributed “Gotterdammerung:War’sEndinEurope,1945,”toBetween War and Peace: Problems in American War TerminationtobepublishedbyFreePress.Having begun phased retirement, he is com-pletingstudiesoftheCombinedChiefsofStaffinWorldWarIIandtheU.S.Army’seffortstotraingroundcombattroopsinthatconflict.

Nathan Wood recentlywon aW.T.KemperAward forTeachingExcellence.ThankstoanIREXShortTermGrant,hewasabletospendfiveweeksthissummerconductingresearchinPolandandUkraineforhissecondbookprojectabouttheageofspeedinPoland.Hisfirstbook,Becoming Metropolitan: Urban Selfhood and the Making of Modern Cracow (Northern Illinois University Press, 2010), waspublishedinJune.

Donald WorsterwasnamedStrachanDonnelleyDistin-guishedVisitingScholaratYaleUniversity’sInstituteforBiospherical Studies. His book A Passion for Nature: The Life of John MuirwontheHomecomingAwardoftheSaltireSocietyand theNationalLibraryofScotlandandalsotheBookoftheYearawardgivenbytheScottishArtsCouncil.HegavethekeynoteaddresstotheAnglo-Amer-icanConferenceattheUniversityofLondon’sInstituteofHistoricalAnalysis.

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GRADUATE STUDENTS

Kevin BensonassistedIU.S.Corpsheadquartersinpre-paringwarplansforitsoneyearofdutyinIraq.HealsosuccessfullydefendedhisdissertationinMarch.

Mark Calhoun passed his portfolio exam in June, afterwhichheusedaresearchtravelgranttopayfora2-weekarchivetriptotheD.C.area.Atwork,theSchoolofAd-vancedMilitaryStudiesselectedhimas instructorof theyear,awardedhimaBronzePenAwardforvariouspubli-cations,appointedhimcourseauthorofamilitarytheorycourse, and promoted him to assistant professor. He re-mainsbusybalancingwork,dissertation,andfamily.

Tai Edwards defendedher dissertation, “OsageGender:Continuity,Change,andColonization,1720s-1870s,”withhonorsandacceptedatenure-trackpositionasanAssistantProfessorofHistoryatJohnsonCountyCommunityCol-lege.Kristen Eppsreceivedthe2010MarnieandBillArgers-ingerPrizeatcommencementinMayforherdissertation,“BoundTogether:MastersandSlavesontheKansas-Mis-souriBorder, 1825-1865,” a study that addresses slaves’andslaveholders’emigrationintotheborderregionandthesocialgeographyofslavelabor.Sheisnowavisitingas-sistantprofessoratColoradoStateUniversity-Pueblo.

Dezeree Hodishreceivedtworesearchgrants.Thefirstal-lowedhertoattendtheUniversityofIllinoisSummerRe-searchLaboratoryonRussia,EasternEuropeandEurasiathispastsummer.ThesecondwilltakehertotheUniver-sityofMinnesota’sImmigrationResearchHistoryCenterinSpring2011.Bothgrantswillbeusedforresearchthatsheplans to incorporate intoherdissertationfocusingonSlavicimmigration.

Chikako Mochizukiiscurrentlyworkingonadissertationentitled“AHistoryofBlindPeopleinModernJapan.”ThemainfocusofthisdissertationishowblindpeopleinJapanhavemadeeffortstobecomeactivecontributorstosocietyandhowtheiractionshaveinfluencedthemakingofmod-ernJapansince1868.SheisarecipientoftheRichardandJeannetteSiasGraduateFellowshipfromtheHallCenterfortheHumanities.

Lon Strauss received theU.S.ArmyCenter ofMilitaryHistory’s dissertation fellowship for the academic year2010-2011, as well as the Sherman & Irene DreiseszunScholarshipforInternationalStudiesbytheHarryS.Tru-manGoodNeighborFoundation.Lonalsopresented“Un-derWatch:TheAmericanPublicandMilitarySurveillanceinWorldWarI”attheannualconferenceoftheOrganiza-tionofAmericanHistoriansinWashington,D.C.

Mindy VarnerspokeonearlymodernteapracticeinJa-pan to theHeart ofAmerica Japan-AmericaSociety andwill make the same presentation to a wider audience atthe upcoming Greater Kansas City Japan Festival. SheworkedasareaderfortheAdvancedPlacementJapaneseLanguageandCultureexamination.ShealsocontributedavideolectureonJapaneseBuddhismandShintoforanon-linecourseofferedbytheNationalConsortiumforTeach-ingaboutAsia.

COURTESY FACULTY

Randal Maurice Jelksisoneoftheco-editorsofthejour-nalAmerican Studies.HeparticipatedintheArcusFoun-dationforumthissummerinNewYorkCitytitled“Race,Sexuality, and American Culture: The Black Church.”Jelksalsopublishedawidelycirculatedop-edpiecefortheHistoryNewsNetwork(HNN)titled“AnIlliberalEduca-tionandSouthernPolitics”(http://hnn.us/articles/128406.html).

John Rurypublished“ExpandingSecondaryAttainmentintheUnitedStates,1940-1980:AFixedEffectsPanelRe-gressionModel,”Historical Methods,Volume43,No.3,July2010,pp.139-152 (withArgunSaatciogluandWil-liamSkorupski).

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alUmni news

Bruce Berglund (Ph.D. 1999)isanassociateprofessorofhistoryatCalvinCollege(withanofficedownthehallfromourformercolleagueDanBays).Avolumeofessaysheed-itedwithBrianPorter-SzuesoftheUniversityofMichigan,titledChristianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe,isbe-ingpublishedin2010byCentralEuropeanUniversityPress.HecurrentlyresidesinGrandRapids,Michigan.

Peter V. Bieri, M.D. (B.A. 1967) retiredfromhismedicalpracticeandnowdevotesmore timetohishobbyofCivilWarmedicine.HecurrentlyresidesinLawrence.

Robert D. Bush (Ph.D. 1969) retired fromCareerSeniorExecutiveServicewiththeU.S.Governmentandiscurrent-lyteachingworldandU.S.historyasanadjunctprofessoratFrontRangeCommunityCollege andColoradoTechnicalUniversity.He currently resides inCommerceCity,Colo-rado.

C. Stewart Doty (M.A. 1955)isProfessorEmeritusofHis-tory,UniversityofMaine.Heiscurrentlywritinghismem-oirsand tellsus thatAmbroseSarickswasagreatmentorandthatKUgavehimawindowontheworldandstartedhimasahistorian.Hiseighthbook(secondbooksinceheretired) isnow in thequeueatSUNYPress.HecurrentlyresidesinAlbuquerque,NewMexico.

Ryan Fox (B.A. 2006) is in his third year teaching highschoolEnglishatWashingtonHighSchoolinKansasCity,Kansas,wherehealsocurrentlyresides.

Virginia E. Glandon (Ph.D. 1975)retiredfromtheUniver-sityofMissouri-KansasCityHistoryDepartmentandnowlivesinTulsa,Oklahoma.ShestillreadsandenjoyshistoryandgivesafewlecturesonCelticHistory.

Rachel Waltner Goossen (Ph.D. 1993)was promoted toProfessorofHistory,WashburnUniversity in2009.SheisaKansasHumanitiesCouncil Scholar andCoordinator oftheNationalHistoryDay-Kansas.Shecurrently resides inTopeka,Kansas.

Dixie Haggard (Ph.D. 2005)iscurrentlyassociateprofessorofhistoryatValdostaStateUniversityspecializinginColo-nialandRevolutionaryAmerica.Hehasrecentlypublishedhis first book titled,African Americans in the Nineteenth Century: People and Perspectives.Theeditedvolumeispartofa16-volumeseriesthatexploreshowordinaryAmericansstruggledthroughpivitolerasinU.S.history.HeiscurrentlyworkingonabookforFactsonFilecalledIndian Country, 1866-1933.HecurrentlyresidesinValdosta,Georgia.

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Michael Halleran (M.A. 1989) received his JD fromWashburnin1995andcontinuestobeanactivehistorian.The University of Alabama Press has published hisbook The Better Angels of our Nature: Freemasonry in the American Civil War (2010). He currently resides inEmporia,Kansas.

Doug Harvey (Ph.D. 2008) recently published a booktitled The Theatre of Empire: Frontier Performances in North America, 1750-1860 (London: Pickering and Chat-to, 2010).HecurrentlyresidesinLawrence,Kansas.

Gerlof D. Homan (M.A. 1956; Ph.D. 1958)hastaughtatdifferentcollegesanduniversities,includingalongcareeratIllinoisStateUniversity,whichheretiredfromin1994atage65.Hestilldoesresearchandwrites,especiallyonMennoniteHistory.Alice (Turley) James (B.A. 1989)iscuratoroftheTexasCapitol,remainsactiveinartsorganizations,andhasbeenmarriedsince2005.ShecurrentlyresidesinAustin,Texas.

Kent Lewis (B.A. 1984)recentlyjoinedQatarFoundationInternationalasDirectorofPrograms.HecurrentlyresidesinWashington,D.C.

Kristine M. McCusker (M.A. 1994), after receivingherPh.D.in2000fromIndiana,editedabooktitledBoy Named Sue(Miss.2004)andhaspublishedamonographtitled,Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels (Illi-nois, 2008). National Institutes ofHealth awarded her agranttocompletehersecondmonograph,whichfocusesonSoutherndeathritualsbetween1918-1945.ShecurrentlyresidesinMurfreesboro,Tennessee.

Jerry Dean Morelock (Ph.D. 2000) iseditor inchiefofArmchair General, a military history magazine that theChicagoTribuneselectedin2005asoneofitsannual“50BestMagazinesintheWorld.”In2002,aneweditionofhisbookGenerals of the Ardennes: American Leadership in the Battle of the Bulge waspublished,andmostrecentlyheauthored/editedthe“MiddleEastWars”chapterofthetwo-volumeU.S. Leadership in Wartime: Clashes, Controversy, and Compromise (ABC-CLIO, 2009). Look for his nextpublication(asassistanteditor)—U.S. Wars in the Middle East Encyclopedia (4volumes)—tobepublishedbyABC-CLIOin2010.HecurrentlylivesinFulton,Missouri.

Ann D. Niepman (M.A. 1949)publishedheressay“Gen-eralOrdersNo. 11 andBorderWarfare during theCivilWar” inbook form in2007with theMissouriHistoricalSociety. She was one of 15 chosen for an ExperiencedTeacherFellowship. She expresses her thanks toProfes-sorsAndersonandNelson,andofheryearatKUshesays“WOW!”ShecurrentlylivesinLiberty,Missouri.

Timothy R. Reidy (B.A. 2005)earnedaMastersofEdu-cation insecondarysocialstudies fromtheUniversityofNotreDame’sAllianceforCatholicEducationprogramin2008andcurrentlyservesastheSocialStudiesDepartmentchairatResurrectionCatholicSchoolinPascagoula,Mis-sissippi,wherehealsolives.

Mario Ramos Reyes (Ph.D. 1997) published a book ti-tled,La Republica Como Tres Etica. HecurrentlyresidesinOverlandPark,Kansas.Matthew Senior (B.A. 1975)iscurrentlyassociateprofes-sorandchair,DepartmentofFrenchand Italian,OberlinCollege.HecurrentlyresidesinOberlin,Ohio.

Emmet Terril(B.S. 1954)retiredfrombeingaC.P.A.andresidesinCatoosa,Oklahoma.

Clyde W. Toland (B.A. 1969)practiceslawandresidesinIola,Kansas.Hehascompletedover23yearsof servicetotheAllenCountyHistorySociety,nearly20yearsasamemberoftheboardofdirectors,includingmultipletermsaspresidentandvicepresident,andthepastthreeyearsasexecutivedirectorandcurator.

Barbara Nottage Wood (B.A. 1970) is direct salesmanager for the Bureau of Lectures, Lawrence,Kansas,andbringsChineseacrobatstoschoolsacrosstheUnitedStates along with other shows. She currently resides inLawrence.

EricFoner’spublicationshaveconcentratedonthein-tersectionsof intellectual, political, and social history.Hisbest-knownbooksareFree Soil, Free Labor, Free Men(sec-ondedition,1995);Tom Paine and Revolutionary America(1976); Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877(1988andwinneroftheBancroftPrize,ParkmanPrize, andLosAngelesTimesBookAward);The Story of American Freedom(1998);andOur Lincoln: New Perspec-tives on Lincoln and His World(2008). ProfessorFonerisalsooneofthenation’soutstandingcollegeteachers.Inaddition,heisanelectedfellowoftheAmericanAcademy ofArts and Sciences and the BritishAcademy,andheisonlythesecondpersontoserveaspresi-dentofthethreemajorprofessionalorganizationsinhistory:theOrganizationofAmericanHistorians,AmericanHistori-calAssociation,andSocietyofAmericanHistorians.

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