Current News

William Childs, History, will present "Duchamp's Nude: Refractions on the State of Modern U.S. and Business History," in the College of Humanities' third Inaugural Lecture of the academic year, 4:30 pm, January 10, OSU Faculty Club. He will place his scholarship within the last two generations of modern U.S. and business history. While both fields appear to be "fractured" and without direction, Childs will suggest that employing (old style?) narrative approaches helps bring understanding to these multifaceted fields and how they relate to the present and the future. RSVP: 292-1882.

Governor Bob Taft has appointed alumnus John Ong (B.A./M.A. History, 1954; DRH 1996), of Hudson, to a new position on the Board of Trustees. Ong earned his law degree from Harvard University. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Norway from 2001 until this past November. Mr. Ong is the former CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the BF Goodrich Company. He is a former Chairman of the national Business Roundtable and the National Alliance of Business. Mr. Ong is a trustee of the Musical Arts Association of Cleveland.

Graduate student Yigit Akin, History: "New Sources, New Perspectives: A Contribution to the Early Republican Labor History" in Tarih ve Toplum-Yeni Yakla mlar [History and Society-New Perspectives], no. 2, (Autumn 2005): 73-111. [Original title (in Turkish) "Yeni Kaynaklar, Yeni Yakla mlar: Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi Emek Tarihçili ine Katk ."]

David Cressy, History: "Remembrancers of the Revolution: Histories and Historiographies of the 1640s," in a special issue of the Huntington Library Quarterly on "The Uses of History in Early Modern England"68, No. 1-2 (2005): 257-268.

Stephen G. Hall, History: "Revisiting the Tragic Era and the Nadir: Interrogating Individual and Collective African American Lives in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era," in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 4 (2005): 409-415.

Geoffrey Parker, History: "Od domu ora skiego do domu Bushów: czterysta lat ‘rewolucji militarnej'," Pregl d historyczny 96 (2005): 217- 43 ("From the House of Orange to the House of Bush: 400 Years of Military Revolutions." The article appeared in a special issue of the journal dedicated to the memory of the Polish historian Antoni Maczak.

Dale Van Kley, History: "On the Religious Origins of the French Revolution," in The Origins of the French Revolution, ed. Peter R. Campbell (Basingstoke and New York: PalgraveMacmillan, 2005), pp. 160-190, notes, 325-8, and further reading pp. 349-53.

Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities and Their Landscape (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), co-edited by Steven Conn, History, won the 2005 Pioneer America Society, Allen Noble Award for the best edited book in the field of North American material culture.

Carter Findley, History, has been elected an Honorary Member of the Turkish Academy of Science.

Graduate student Glenn Kranking, History, received the 2006 Malmberg Scholarship from the American Swedish Institute, based in Minneapolis, to conduct dissertation research in Sweden. He will be the honored guest at the ASI Second Annual Malmberg Award Banquet in April.

Graduate student John Maass, History, has been named one of the History News Network's "Breaking News" Editors.

Margaret Newell, History, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for the calendar year 2006 for her book-length study "Race Frontiers: Indian Slavery in Colonial New England."

Chan Park, East Asian Languages and Literatures, will receive the Republic of Korea's Civil Merit Medal of Honor for her work in promoting Korean studies and culture in America. Kuk-min po-jang is the highest of the 12 ranks of Merit Medals, which are the second highest groups of awards, next to Orders, that the Republic of Korea issues. She attended the award ceremony at the Korean Consulate in Chicago on January 5.

Nathan Rosenstein, History, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for the academic year 2006-2007, for his book-length study "Imperial Republic."

Kevin Boyle, History, was quoted in an article about civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks and her life in Detroit after she moved there from Alabama (Chicago Sun-Times, November 3).

Bernd Fischer, Germanic Languages and Literatures, was quoted in an article about the popularity of Ohio State's German "language immersion" house, in which resident students are expected to speak German nearly all the time (Associated Press, November 15). Fischer said he receives many calls from other schools that want to set up their own programs.

Allan Millett, History, was quoted in an article about how the war in Iraq has affected the Army and Marine Corps stationed there (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, November 20).

The Baltimore Sun featured an article about how colleges are focusing more attention on studying suburbs and mentions that Ohio State's Department of English has offered a course titled "The Suburbs: From Chaucer to South Park" (November 8).

Richard Shiels, History-Newark, was quoted in an article about the controversy surrounding a golf course near Newark that is built on an ancient mound site built by the Hopewell Indians about 2000 years ago (New York Times, November 28).

Carter Findley, History, presented "Opinion publique dans l'Empire ottoman, deux grands courants en concurrence pour faire l'histoire," by invitation at a colloquium on "Fabriquer l'opinion publique dans le monde arabe et musulmane, Figures de savoir et espaces d'influence (18e-21e siècles)," University of Aix-Marseille, France, December 15.

Alan Gallay, History, provided comment and a final summation for a two-day session, "Mapping the Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and the Southeastern Indians," at the annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory," Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 16-20.

Robin Judd, History, presented "Moral, Clean Men of the Jewish Faith: Jewish Rituals and their Male Practitioners," at Jewish Masculinities in Germany (San Diego, December 2005) and chaired a session concerning "Imagining 19th Century European Jewish Culture," at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference (Washington DC, December 2005).

Steven Gross (Georgetown University) will present "Knowledge of Meaning: Conscious and Unconscious," 3:30 pm, January 6, 347 University Hall. Contact: Department of Philosophy, 292-7914.

Lee Martin and Michelle Burke, English, will hold a Student/Faculty Reading, 7:00 pm, January 12, 311 Denney Hall. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.

Michael Frisch (University at Buffalo, State University of New York) will present "Oral History and the Digital Revolution," 11:30 am, January 13, George Wells Knight House, 105 East 15^th Avenue. A light lunch will be served; RSVP lantz.38@osu.edu. Sponsored by the OSU Literacy Studies Working Group. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265.

Brian Donahue (Brandeis University) will present "Mapping The Great Meadow: GIS as a Tool for Local Environmental History," 4:00 pm, January 13, 168 Dulles Hall, for the History Cartographic Working Group of the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities. Contact: Philip Brown, OSUHistoryProf@columbus.rr.com.

Robert Boyers (Skidmore College) will give a Reading, 7:00 pm, January 17, 311 Denney Hall. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.

Ruth Tompsett (Middlesex University) and Clary Salandy (Mahogany Arts Ltd.) will present "Perspectives on London's Notting Hill Carnival," 4:00 pm, January 18, Drake Union. Contact: Center for Folklore Studies, 292-1639.