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Philip Brown, History: "The Foundations of Japan's Economic Transformation in the 19^th Century: Different Strokes for Different Folks," in Different Lands/Shared Experiences: The Emergence of Modern Industrial Society in Japan and the United States, Symposium Proceedings, eds., Joel Glassman and Masato Kimura (Tokyo, Japan: Shibusawa Ei'ichi Memorial Foundation, 2005); 45-64.

John Burnham, History: co-editor (with Joseph Spillane) of a memoir: William Richard Wilkinson, Prison Work: A Tale of Thirty Years in the California Department of Corrections (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2005).

Richard Dutton, English: "Jonson, Shakespeare and the Exorcists," Shakespeare Survey 59 (2005): 15-22.

Alan Farmer, English, and Zachary Lesser: "Structures of Popularity in the Early Modern Book Trade." Shakespeare Quarterly 56 (2005): 206-13.

Graduate student Ivonne García, English: review of "Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing" by Kirsten Silva Gruesz, American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography, 15.1 2005: 114-116.

Peter Hahn, History: Crisis and Crossfire: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945 (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2005).

Lee Martin, English: "Dumber Than," Creative Nonfiction (The Best of Brevity) 27 (2005): 74-75.

Graduate student Aaron McKain, English: "Not Necessarily Not the News: Gatekeeping, Remediation, and The Daily Show," Journal of American Culture 28.4 (2005): 415-430.

Martin Joseph Ponce, English: "Langston Hughes's Queer Blues," Modern Language Quarterly 66.4 (2005): 505-37.

Dorothy Noyes, English: "Rites de liberté, rites de contrainte: fête populaire et transition politique en Catalogne dans les années 1970." Bulletin d'histoire politique (Montréal) 14 (2005): 133-146.

Christopher Phelps, History: "Welcome to the Jungle: Meatpacking Then and Now," Canadian Dimension (Nov./Dec. 2005): 45-46.

Scott Schwenter, Spanish and Portuguese: "The Pragmatics of Negation in Brazilian Portuguese," Lingua 115 (2005): 1427-1456; and Salvador Pons Bordería: "Polar Meaning and "Expletive" Negation in Approximative Adverbs: Spanish por poco (no)," Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6 (2005): 262-282; and Patrícia Matos Amaral: "Contrast and the (Non-) Occurrence of Subject Pronouns," Selected Proceedings of the 7th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. David Eddington (Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 2005): 116-27.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies: "The Trouble with Autobiography: Cautionary Notes for Narrative Theorists," with Sidonie Smith, in A Companion to Narrative Theory, ed. James Phelan, English, and Peter Rabinowitz (New York & London: Blackwell, 2005): 356-71.

Graduate students Karen Huber and Emre Sencer, History, have won Presidential Fellowships from the Graduate School. Only fifteen of these prestigious awards are made in the autumn.

Mitch Lerner, History-Newark, and Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants to lecture or conduct research abroad. The Fulbright Scholar Program, America's flagship international education exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

Stephanie Shaw, History, was appointed to the Board of Editors for the Journal of Southern History. She was also appointed to the inaugural John Hope Franklin Prize for Service to the Profession committee.

Graduate student Yigit Akin, History, presented "Problems in Approaching State and Society during the Early Republican Turkey: Public Opinion and the Kemalist Regime" at the annual conference of Middle East Studies Association - MESA 2005.

Graduate student Patrícia Matos Amaral, Spanish and Portuguese, presented "Almost", Sinn und Bedeutung 10, Berlin, Germany, October 13-15; with Chad Howe, "Grammaticalization of the Present Perfect in Portuguese," XVIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, July 31-August 5; with Scott Schwenter, "Are approximatives stable? Hardly!," 9th International Pragmatics Association Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, July 10-15.

John Brooke, History, presented the Prologue and Chapter 5 of his book manuscript "Columbia: Civil Life in the World of Martin Van Buren's Emergence" to the History Department Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, November 7.

JF Buckley, English, presented "Tactical Sexuality as Pedagogical Strategy," 2005 NCTE Annual Conference, David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, November 18.

Cynthia Burack, History, conducted a workshop entitled, "The 3rd Wave of 'Ex-Gay' Ministries: LGBT Youth in the Crosshairs," for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in Oakland, California, November 12-13.

John Burnham, History, presented "Why 'Accident Proneness' Never Did Become Medicalized," Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, November 16.

Alice Conklin, History, participated (en francais!) in a round-table on the daily program "Tout arrive" on France Culture, France's leading public radio station. The week's programming was devoted to the theme of decolonization, November 17. She also participated in the French Empire Workshop at Oberlin College on November 17-18, where she presented "Interwar Ethnology: Ethnographies of Empire."

Graduate student Laura Michele Diener, History, presented "'Communes in Viventes:' Holy Women in Germany, 1080-1200," Yale University for the Florilegium Conference for Medieval Graduate Studies, October 28.

Jon Erickson, English, presented "On Mimesis (and Truth)," November 11, and "What is a Text? The Ghost of Literary Meaning in Theatrical Performance," November 12, American Society for Theatre Research, Toronto.

Helen Fehervary, Germanic Languages and Literatures, was a respondent to a screening of John Sayles's film Casa de Los Babys, Alliance for the Study of Adoption, Identity and Kinship, Conference on Adoption and Culture, University of Tampa, November 17-20.

Graduate student Ivonne García, English, presented "Contested Spaces in Colonial Places: 'Out-law' Form in Tomás Vargas Morales' Novelized Testimony, Señal de Primavera (Sign of Spring)," American Studies Association Conference, Renaissance Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C., November 3.

James Genova, History, presented "Cinema and the Struggle to (De)Colonize the Mind in French/Francophone West Africa (1950s-1960s)" at the Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 12, and again at the African Studies Association Conference in Washington, D.C., November 18, where he also chaired the panel "Cinema, Television, and Radio: Cultural Imperialism/Cultural Relations."

Graduate student Chad Howe, Spanish and Portuguese, presented "Reconsidering the (in)compatibility of Past Time Adverbials with the Present Perfect," 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Pennsylvania State University, State College, November 10-13; with Patrícia Matos Amaral, "Grammaticalization of the Present Perfect in Portuguese," XVIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, July 31-August 5; and "An 'Indirect' Account for the 'Direct' Evidential Features of the Spanish Perfect," 9th International Pragmatics Association Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, July 10-15.

Graduate student Kyoung-Min Han, English, presented "Hope Leslie: Novelistic Rewriting of American History," The Sixth Native American Symposium, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, Oklahoma, November 11.

Robert Hughes, English-Newark, presented "Badiou: from the Trauma of Truth to an Ethic of Art," 11th Annual Conference of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Rutgers University, New Jersey, November 6.

Graduate student Kyoung-hye Kwon, English, presented "The Ritual of Absurd Jokes in Harold Pinter's 'The Homecoming' and Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'" 46th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, November 12.

Lee Martin, English, presented "Speaking for the Dead and the Living" and "Dumber Than," Brevity Reading. NonfictionNow Conference, Iowa City, Iowa, November 10-12.

Linda Mizejewski, Women's Studies, presented "Lesbians and Cinema in Weimar," at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Exhibit on Homosexuals and the Third Reich, Florida Atlantic University, November 14.

Dorothy Noyes, English, was a discussant on a panel, "Women's Leadership and Religion," Afghan Women Leaders Speak: Conflict Mitigation and Social Reconstruction, Project for Afghan Women's Leadership, The Ohio State University, November 19.

Scott Schwenter, Spanish and Portuguese, presented, with Rena Torres Cacoullos, "Comparing Rates and Constraints in Present Perfect/Preterit Variation in Spanish: The 'Perfect' Road to Default Perfective" 34th New Ways of Analyzing Variation, NYU, October 20-23; and "What Makes Non-canonical Negation Non-canonical?"; and with Patrícia Matos Amaral, "Are Approximatives Stable? Hardly!," both at the 9th International Pragmatics Association Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, July 10-15.

Amy Shuman, English, presented "Speaking from Experience." Ethnography and Literature group of the Hebrew University Institute for Advanced Studies. Jerusalem, November 22.

David Stebenne, History, presented "Eisenhower and the Brown Decision" at the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, as part of a panel on "The 1950's at Home and Abroad," Cincinnati, Ohio, November 12.

Graduate student Dustin Walcher, History, presented "Missionaries of the Market: The United States and Argentina, 1958-1966 and 2005," Louisiana Tech University, November 16.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, presented "Convergences: Pre-Texts for an Autobiographical Reading of Charlotte Salomon's Life? Or Theatre?,"an invited presentation, Autobiography Across the Disciplines Conference, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, October 29; and "Tradition, Excision, and the African Globalized Village: Ousmane Sembene's Moolaadé," session on "Africans in Film: Revising History, Decolonizing Memory," Midwest Modern Language Association, November 12.