UNIVERSITY OF UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 2013-2014

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K L I OMessage from the Chair of the Department

215 South Central Campus Drive - Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building Suite 310 - Salt Lake City, UT 84112

O. MEREDITH WILSON LECTURE

We are pleased to announce that Harvard College's Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Dr. Ann Blair, has accepted our invitation to

speak in our 2013 O. Meredith Wilson Lecture. The title of her lecture is: "In the workshop of the mind: methods of collaboration in early modern Europe."

The lecture will take place September 19, 2013 in CTIHB 109 at 4:00pm.

Today we are well aware of the collaborative nature of intellectual work: the majority of scientific papers are co-authored; in the humanities interdisciplinary initiatives and digital methods of research have all encouraged collaboration. We generally have the sense that collaborative work is a recent development, that in the past scholarship was a solitary activity. Indeed in paintings and descriptions of the early modern period scholars were typically depicted working alone, but the working papers and letters that survive tell a different story. Through these sources we can appreciate how

early moderns worked collaboratively through correspondence and in person, with peers, with patrons, and with helpers (amanuenses, students, family members). Collaborations worked differently in early modern Europe, and with different conceptions of credit and authority from ours today, but in this talk illustrated from early modern paintings, manuscripts, and printed books I will argue that collaboration was even more widespread and essential to scholarship than it is today.

~ Ann Blair, Harvard University

"In the workshop of the mind: methods of collaboration in early modern Europe"

The History Department has had a busy, changeful year in 2013 and can look forward to exciting prospects ahead. This year has seen the retirement of our colleague of 45 years, Professor Larry Gerlach, a former Chair of the History Department, scholar, teacher, and from 1989 to 2007 the University’s Faculty Athletic Representative to the NCAA. This Fall we welcome two new faculty members, Lauren Jarvis (Africanist) and Danielle Olden (US West), and start preparations for recruiting a South East Asianist to join the faculty in 2014. The new courses these new faculty can offer will further expand the department’s already extensive national and international reach.The department continues its participation in the Utah History Tuning program, a faculty-driven disciplinary self-assessment initiative focusing on helping students articulate learning outcomes. The American Historical Association, the professional organization for historians in the United States, has now taken the lead in expanding this discussion to the national level. Our department, alongside History departments in the other institutions of higher education in the state, has been at the forefront of this self-assessment process and the positive results are already underway.Major events in the department’s calendar this year:The annual O. Meredith Wilson Lecture will be presented by Ann Blair, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University, on September 19, at 4 pm in CTIHB 109.

Professor Blair’s book, “Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age,” confronted the notion that “information overload” is a purely modern phenomenon.Her book investigates information management in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, an era that also saw the challenge of technological advances in information production. The theme of her Wilson Lecture is scholarly collaboration, and the role of amanuenses in the production of knowledge in the early modern era.The Department of History joins with the Department of Communication to host the annual Frontiers of New Media conference, September 20 and 21, with the theme “The Beginning and End(s) of the Internet: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Future of Cyber-Utopia.”The Department of History will host its third annual faculty/student conference, “Practicing History,” in Spring 2014.With the support of the friends of the department we are looking forward to an exciting year ahead.

Isabel MoreiraProfessor and Chair

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History Student Adrian Bushman Honored by College of Humanities

A d r i a n B u s h m a n (HBA '13) graduated l a s t M a y w i t h a n H o n o r s d e g r e e i n History and minors in German and Classical Civi l iza t ion. He participated actively within the History Department. He served

as the President of H-SAC, the History Department MUSE Intern, and as a member of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society. He helped H-SAC organize its successful presentation and faculty discussion of the film "The Help,” department recruitment, and online course development.He also completed his History Honors thesis, titled "Achaemenid Redemption: The Greek Historical Tradition and the 'Theory of Persian Decadence,” under the supervision of Professor Adams.

He presented this work, and other history papers, at the 2013 Practicing History Conference at the U and the Undergraduate Research Symposium. He also published a paper in the Utah Historical Review and an abstract in the Undergraduate Research Abstract Journal. Amid these and other other academic pursuits Adrian is a wildland firefighter, sailor, rock-climber, and musician. Congratulations, Adrian!

Meet the New Academic AdvisorMany of you already know, but for those of you who don't, our Academic Advisor Karleton Munn was accepted to Ohio State University to pursue a Ph.D and departed in July. He will be missed by students and staff alike. However, we're pleased to announce that the department has hired a new and dynamic advisor, Denise Brenes. We are pleased to have her onboard with us in the department. Denise is originally from Amarillo, Texas, and before moving to Salt Lake City in 2003 she lived in Vasto, Italy.

Denise moved to Salt Lake City to complete her BA in Middle Eastern Studies with an emphasis in Persian at the University of Utah. In 2010, Denise completed her Masters in Educational Leadership and Policy with an emphasis in Administration in Higher Education. She has two daughters: Isabelle (who is 7 years old) and Penelope (who is 13 months).

She is excited to join the History Department and get to know and work with all of you!

Denise Brenes

Recent Faculty PublicationsMatthew Basso, Men at Work: Rediscovering Depression-Era Stories from the Federal Writers' Project, University of Utah Press, 2012Matthew Basso, Andrew Farnsworth, Ralph Powell, and Judy Blunt, Wo/Men at Work, Red Butte Press, 2011Eric Hinderaker, The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery, Harvard University Press, 2010Colleen McDannell, The Spirit of Vatican II: A History of Catholic Reform in America, Basic Books, 2011Isabel Moreira and Margaret Toscano, (eds.), Hell and Its Afterlife: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Ashgate Publishing, 2010Isabel Moreira, Heaven's Purge: Purgatory in Late Antiquity, Oxford University Press, 2010.Bradley J. Parker and Catherine P. Foster, (eds.), New Perspectives on Household Archaeology, Eisenbrauns, 2012.Bradley J. Parker, R. Boytner, L.S. Dodd, (eds.), Controlling the Past, Owning the Future: The Political Uses of Archaeology in the Middle East, University of Arizona Press, 2010Susie Porter, Nora Jaffray, Ed Osowski, (eds.), Mexican History: A Primary Source Reader, Westview Press, 2010W. Paul Reeve and Ardis E. Parshall (eds.), Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2010W. Paul Reeve and Michael Scott Van Wagenen, (eds.), Between Pulpit and Pew: The Supernatural World in Mormon History and Folklore, Utah State University Press, 2011Peter Sluglett and Stefan Weber (eds.), Syria and Bilad al-Sham under Ottoman Rule: Essays in Honour of Abdul-Karim Rafeq, Brill, 2010Peter Sluglett and Hakan Yavuz (eds.), War and Diplomacy: the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 and the Treaty of Berlin, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2011Peter Sluglett, and Jordi Tejel, Riccardo Bocco and Hamit Bozarslan (eds.), Writing the Modern History of Iraq: Historiographical and Political Challenges, World Scientific Publishing/Imperial College London Press, 2012.Peter von Sivers, Charles Desnoyers, and George Stow, Patterns of World History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011

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NEW FACULTYThe University of Utah Department of History Welcomes New Faculty

Lauren Jarvis is delighted to join the facu l ty th i s year. She completed her BA in History at Duke University in 2005 and her PhD in History at Stanford University in 2012. Her re search

interests relate to the history of religion in Africa and the African Diaspora. She is currently finishing her first book, a social and cultural history of the Nazareth Baptist Church (NBC) in southern Africa in the twentieth century. One of the largest churches in the region founded by Africans, the history of the NBC sheds new light on how Africans navigated the profound transformations of the twent ie th centur y, f rom the entrenchment of settler colonialism and, later, apartheid to the struggle for democracy and the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This project has been generously funded by a Fulbright-Hays DDRA Grant and a Mel lon -ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Jarvis is also in the early stages of research for a second book- length project on how interpretations of the Bible have shaped understandings of race in Africa and the African Diaspora since the nineteenth century. At Utah Jarvis teaches classes on African history, world history, and the history of Christianity. In her free time, she en joys h ik ing in Utah's many mountains and watching almost any sport--even cricket.

Danielle Olden joins the faculty as an Ass i s tant Professor of U.S. West His tor y. Danielle will very soon rece ive a Ph.D. in Modern U.S. History from Ohio Sta te Univers i ty. She holds an M.A. from Ohio State and a

B .A . f rom the University of Wyoming. Daniel le ’s research interests include the history of race, comparative racialization, social movements, gender, and women’s history in the urban U.S. West. Having grown up in Laramie, Wyoming, Danielle has always had a special interest in examining the role of the U.S. West in broader understandings of U.S. history. This fall she will be

teaching HIST 4650—History of the US West , and HIST 1700—Amer ican Civilization. Danielle is excited to be joining our department and she is looking forward to settling in and discovering what Utah has to offer.Her current research, titled, “Whiteness in the Middle: Mexican Americans, School Desegregation and the Making of Race in Modern America,” investigates the battle over school desegregation in Denver, Colorado in the 1960s and 1970s. It looks at both the grassroots activism that shaped the case and the case itself as it moved through the cour t s . Un l ike most desegregation cases, Keyes involved white, black and Mexican-American students. School officials, the courts, various organizations and local citizens struggled to define the racial categories that grounded the case. Mexican Americans were central to these debates. If Mexican Americans were white, then many Denver schools were not segregated. If they were nonwhite, then those same schools were segregated. “Whiteness in the Middle” exposes the ma l l eab i l i t y o f r ac ia l constructions and the centrality of Mex ican Amer icans to schoo l desegregation litigation, as well as the problems and possible solutions associated with questions of equal educational opportunities when school desegregation is not a black and white issue.

Faculty Awards

University Awards

Elizabeth Clement - University Faculty Fellow

Hugh Cagle - University Faculty Fellow

Matthew Basso - Sabbatical

College Awards

Bradley Parker - Post-Tenure Research Assignment

Emeritus Status

Larry Gerlach - Professor Emeritus

Tenure

Matthew Basso

We begin the second year of our Carlson Hall Scholarship Fund on the tragic demolition of this historic home of the Department of History. Please consider a contribution to t h i s f u n d b y g o i n g t o www.history.utah.edu, click on “Give to the Department” and go to the “History” link. Please designate your contribution by filling in the honoree line with “Carlson Hall Scholarship Fund.” You may also send checks to the department payable to the “U of U History Department,” and note the scholarship in the memo line. Many thanks to those of you have contributed already.

Photos of Demolition of Carlson Hall Summer 2013Photos Courtesy of Jim Lehning

Department of History 2013 Student Awards/Scholarships

The Gregory C. Crampton Scholarship

Kristine Savage

The James H. & Mary Ann Gardner Scholarship

Hayden Smith

The Harvard David Hanks Scholarship

Emily Glende

The John Williams James Family Scholarship

Christopher Facer

The Essay AwardDavid Shackelford

Senior with the Highest GPA AwardKelley HanksKathy Tran

Hans Morrow Junior Student Award

Aaron Dallin Grimm

Hagander Book Award (College Award)

Aaron Dallin Grimm

Smith-Pettit AwardJohn Alexander

Best Thesis DissertationElynn Beck, MA Thesis

Tuition-Waiver Scholarship for Transfer and Continuing Students

Samantha KernShavauna Peterson

Danielle Marie TrujilloAdrian Kallinger

Kathleen O’Donnell

John Williams James Family ScholarshipChristopher Facer

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