Current News
January 26, 2006
Send Current News items to: lorbach.1@osu.eduPublications
Franco Barchiesi, African American and African Studies:
"Classes, Multitudes, and the Politics of Community Movements in
Post-Apartheid South Africa," in Challenging Hegemony: Social
Movements and the Quest for a New Humanism in Post-Apartheid South
Africa, ed. Nigel C. Gibson (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2006):
211-246.
James Bartholomew, History: essay review, "One Hundred
Years of the Nobel Science Prizes," ISIS 96.4 (December
2005): 625-632.
David Brewer, English: review of Paul Baines, The Long 18th Century in The Scriblerian 37.2-38.1 (Spring and Autumn 2005): 128-29.
David Brewer, English: review of Paul Baines, The Long 18th Century in The Scriblerian 37.2-38.1 (Spring and Autumn 2005): 128-29.
C. Magbaily Fyle, African American and African Studies, wrote a
chapter as forward to M. Dixon-Fyle and Gibril Cole (eds), New
Perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio (New York: Peter Lang,
2006).
Mark Grimsley, History: co-authored with Steven Woodworth,
Shiloh: A Battlefield Guide (University of Nebraska Press,
2006).
Barbara Hanawalt, History: "Reading the Lives of the
Illiterate: London’s Poor" (presidential address for the Medieval
Academy of America), Speculum, 50 (October 2005: 1067-1086; and
"The Dilemma of the Widow with Property," in The Medieval Marriage
Scene: Prudence, Passion, Policy, ed. Cristelle Baskins and Sherry
Roush. (Phoenix: Arizona State University Press, 2005):
135-146.
Norman Jones, English: "There’s Usually Common Ground If We
Will Look for It," The Mansfield News Journal, January
6.
Karen Leick, English: review of The Modern Androgyne
Imagination: A Failed Sublime, by Lisa Rado. James Joyce Literary
Supplement 19.2 (2005): 17-18.
Patrick Mullen, English: "The Greenwood Encyclopedia of
World Folklore and Folklife," edited by William M. Clements, Vol. 1
(Westport: Greenwood, 2006); 4 Vols.
Awards, Grants and Honors
Daniel Prior, History, received a National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowship for 2006-07 to do research on "Tribal War,
Holy War, and Raiding in Kirghiz Culture, 1846-1916."
Presentations
Frank Donoghue, English, presented "Prestige," Modern
Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C., December 27.
Kenneth W. Goings, African American and African Studies, presented
"Dr. King, Memphis, and Civil Rights," an OAH Distinguished
Lecturer presentation as part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
celebrations at Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia, January
12.
Graduate student Nathan Kozuskanich, History, presented
"’Defending Themselves’: Understanding the Right to Bear Arms
in Revolutionary Pennsylvania" at the American Historical
Association annual meetings, Philadelphia, January 5-8.
Amy Shuman, English, presented "Tracing Trauma in
Undocumented Bodies: Competing Discourses in the Political Asylum
Process," Ethnography and Literature: Theory, History and
Interdisciplinary Practice Conference, Hebrew University Institute of
Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, January 11.
David Staley, History, was chair and panelist in the session
"Video Games and Historical Representation," American
Historical Association annual meetings, Philadelphia, January
5-8.
Events
The Center for Folklore Studies will hold its
4th
Professionalization Workshop of the year, 10:00 am, January 27, 308
Dulles Hall. The topic is "Research Design for Theses and
Dissertations." All students are welcome. The Center also
invites all faculty, staff, and students to the monthly Final Fridays
lunch, immediately following the workshop. Contact: Center
for Folklore Studies, 292-1639.
Sydney Lea will give a Reading 7:00 pm, January 30, 311 Denney
Hall. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.
Nancy Fraser (New School for Social Research) will present "Abnormal
Justice," 10:30 am, February 3, Knight House, 104 East
15th
Avenue. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and
Public Humanities, 688-0265.
Stephen Elliott will give a Reading from Stumbling and
Raging, 7:00 pm, February 8, Wexner Center for the Arts. A book
signing by Elliott and other contributors (Courtney Brkic, Michelle
Herman, Stefan Keisbye, and Jeff Parker) will follow.
Contact: Department of English, 292-6065.
Chester Dunning (Texas A&M University) will present "New
Research on the Fall of the Gudonov Dynasty and the Mysterious Tsar
Dmitrii" in the Anniversaries Lecture Series of the
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1:30 pm, February 10, 122
Main Library. Contact: Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies, 292-7495.
Katherine Burkman, English, will appear in a staged reading of
GERTRUDE STEIN GERTRUDE STEIN GERTRUDE STEIN, by Marty Martin and
directed by Jane Cottrell, 2:00 pm, February 12, Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Community Center, 1125 College Ave. Tickets: $15 or $10 for
students/seniors and members of the JCC: Group rates available.
Contact: 451-9906.
