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Graduate student Kyounghye Kwon, English: "Kimchi and Corn: Asian American Liminality in Sung Rno's Cleveland Raining," Text & Presentation, ed. Stratos E. Constantinidis (London: McFarland, 2006): 132-144.

Kevin Boyle, History, has been elected a Fellow of the Society for American History; an affiliate of the American Historical Association, the Society was founded in 1939 to promote excellence in historical writing.

Brenda Brueggemann, English, and the American Sign Language Program have been awarded the 2006-2007 Colleges of the Arts and Sciences Diversity Leadership Award. The award was given in recognition of the many ways the ASL program works to enhance diversity for undergraduate students at Ohio State.

Graduate student Annelieke Dirks, History, was awarded the Gordon P. K. Chu Memorial Scholarship from the College of Humanities to support travel for her dissertation entitled "'For the Youth': Citizenship, Miscegenation, and 'Delinquent' Children in the Dutch East Indies, 1880-1940s." She also received a College of Humanities Small Grant for her dissertation research travel.

The Executive Council of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has awarded Charles Gribble, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, the Marin Drinov Badge of Honor, its highest distinction, for his overall contribution to Bulgarian Studies, for his work in making Bulgarian culture better known in the U.S., and for his prominent role in scholarly cooperation between the U.S. and Bulgaria.

Graduate student Brian Kennedy, History, received the Richard Miller Research Fellowship from the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Rebecca Wanzo, African American and African Studies, has been awarded a Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship for 2006; she will be in residence at UC-Berkeley for her Ford postdoctoral fellowship.

Judy Wu, History, received a Special Recognition Award from the Organization of Chinese Americans, Columbus Chapter for the OSU Asian American Studies Program, for the Winter 2005 Series of Programs "A Month of Remembrance: Japanese American Internment in Art and History."

Wendy Chrisman, English, presented "Memoirs, the Stories We Tell Ourselves, and a Conversation about Lying," ADA Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion, and Disability Annual Conference, The Ohio State University. Columbus, April 18.

Carole Fink, History, presented "Nation-States, Minorities, and the International System," Foreign Service Institute, Washington, DC, April 26; "Ostpolitik: The Middle-East Dimension" German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, April 27; and "Woodrow Wilson, Democracy, and International Human Rights," 2006 Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs, April 29. She presented "Conflicting Memories & European Integration," the Concluding Remarks, at an international conference at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University.

Steven Fink, English, taught an adult education class on Ethan Canin's novel Carry Me Across the Water as part of the program, "The Elderquest in Today's Movies and Novels," Lifelong Learning Institute of Columbus State Community College, in Partnership with University of Massachusetts, Boston, Martin Luther King Arts Complex, Columbus, April 24.

Harvey Graff, History, presented "Many Literacies? Reading Signs of the Times: Lessons from the History of Literacy" at Miami University (Ohio), April 28.

Kate Haulman, History, presented "Opportunity Costs: Marriage, Commerce, and Dependence in Colonial Philadelphia" at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Washington, D.C., April 19-22.

Graduate student John Maass, History, was the program chairman of a symposium on Gen. Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution in the South, Camden, South Carolina, April 21-23.

David Steigerwald, History-Marion, presented, "On Jane Jacobs," at Marian College, Indianapolis, April 26.

Dale Van Kley, History, presented "Classical Republicanism in Clerical Garb: Gallican Memories of the Early Church and the Project of Primitivist Reform, 1719-1791" for the fellows' colloquium of the Institute for Research in the Humanities, April 7.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, participated in three events at the Halic University international symposium on "The Theory and Practice of Life Writing: Autobiography, Memoir and Travel Writing in Post/modern Literature" in Istanbul, Turkey: with Sidonie Smith she presented a forum for students on issues in autobiography studies, April 19. On April 20 they co-presented "Say It Isn't So: Autobiographical Hoaxes and the Ethics of Life Narrative" and participated in a roundtable on "American Perspectives on Life Writing Issues and Prospects." She gave an invited presentation on "Autobiographical Beginnings in Theory and Practice" to members of the Swiss Association for North American Studies in Basel, April 27, April 28 in Geneva, and April 29 in Bern, Switzerland.

Judy Wu, History, presented "Revolutionary Travelers: People's Diplomacy, Third World Internationalism and American Orientalism," at the Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop, University of Chicago on April 13. She served as chair and commentator for a panel entitled: "Negotiating the 'Progressive Body': Immigrants, Ethnicity and the Care of the Body in Twentieth Century America" at the Organization of American Historians Conference in Washington, D.C., April 21. She joined the editorial board for the Journal of American History for a three-year term beginning in April.

Diane Musumeci (University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana) will present "Integrated Language Learning," 3:30 pm, May 8, 206 Hagerty Hall. Contact: Department of French and Italian, 292-4938.

Frederick Luis Aldama, English, author of Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia: Conversations with Writers and Artists and Daniel Olivas, author of Devil Talk: Stories, will present Celebrating Latino/a Literary Arts: A Reading & Book Signing at 4:00 pm, May 8, OSU Faculty Club. The event is sponsored by the Departments of English and Spanish and Portuguese, the Office of Minority Affairs, and others. Contact: Department of English, 292-6065.

André Hajdu: Musical Visionary from Jerusalem takes place at 7:30 pm, May 8, Weigel Hall, in the Jewish Music, East & West series. Contact: Melton Center for Jewish Studies, 292-0967.

Andrew Wachtel (Northwestern University) will present "Symbols and Expectations: The Sea Gull in Chekhov's Sea Gull," 4:00 pm, May 8, Hayes Hall 220, and "Remaining Relevant after Communism: The Role of the Writer in Eastern Europe," 12:30 pm, May 9, 122 Main Library. Co-sponsors include the Departments of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures and Theatre, and the Slavic Center. Contact: Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, 292-6733.

Lisa Zunshine (University of Kentucky) will present "How Jane Austen Learned to be Different; Or, Cognitive Science and Literary Explanations," 3:30 pm, May 9, Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue, co-sponsors include Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities and the Department of English and Project Narrative. Contact: James Phelan, phelan.1@osu.edu.

Michael Katz (University of Pennsylvania) will present "One Nation Divisible: What America Was and What It Is Becoming," 3:30 pm, May 10, Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue, for the Literacy Studies Working Group. Co-sponsors include Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities and the departments of History and Sociology. Contact: hanson.94@osu.edu.

Shirley Brice Heath (Stanford University and Brown University) will present "Vision, Language, and Learning: Why Literacy Depends on Much More Than We Can Ever Teach," 3:30 pm, May 11, Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue, for the Literacy Studies Working Group. Contact: hanson.94@osu.edu.

Barbara Rosenwein (Loyola University, Chicago) will present "Representing Peasant Wisdom: Folklore Genres in Late Medieval Literary Texts," 1:30 pm, May 12, 122 Main Library, in honor of Joseph Lynch (History) in the Anniversaries Lecture Series. Contact: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 292-7495.

The Folklore Colloquium, "Colonization and Narrative Migrations: Legends of Occupation from the Mediterranean to the Americas," takes place 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, May 12, Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue. Co-sponsors are the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, the Center for Folklore Studies, CIRIT, and the Department of Greek and Latin. Contact: Dorothy Noyes, noyes.10@osu.edu.

John Hawthorn (Rutgers University) will present "Singular Thought," 3:30 pm, May 12, 347 University Hall, in the Philosophy Department Spring 2006 Colloquia. Contact: Department of Philosophy, 292-7914.

Alexander Wendt, Political Sciences, will present "Sovereignty and the UFO," with responses by Nancy Ettlinger, Geography, and Eugene Holland, Comparative Studies, 1:00 pm, May 12, location TBA, for the Cultural Difference and Democracy Working Group. Contact: Barry Shank, shank.46@osu.edu.

The Third Annual History of Black Columbus Conference, "Education: Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow" convenes on May 13, at the African American and African Studies Community Extension Center, 905 Mount Vernon Avenue. The conference will feature photo exhibits, panel discussions and guest presentations. William E. Nelson, Jr., African American and African Studies, is a keynote speaker. Contact: African American and African Studies Community Extension Center, 292-3922 or visit aaascec.osu.edu.

Holly Near (singer/songwriter) and Amy Horowitz, International Studies, will present "Protest Music as Responsible Citizenship Pilot," 1:30 pm, May 15, location TBA, for the Cultured in Disputed Territory Working Group. Sponsored by the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities and the Mershon Center. Contact: Amy Shuman, shuman.1@osu.edu.

Kevin Boyle, History, will present "Josie's Story: Looking for History in Some Very Small Places" in the College's final Inaugural Lecture of the year at 4:30 pm, May 30, OSU Faculty Club. For a quarter century historians have used finely-wrought stories of obscure people a heretical miller, a long-lost soldier, a frontier midwife to explore the cultures of particular times and places. While this approach has flourished in some fields, it has made almost no headway in twentieth-century American history. This presentation discusses the challenges of doing micro-histories of the modern era and the joy of uncovering the past in some very small places. Contact: 292-1882.

All faculty and staff are invited to the College's 12th annual Baccalaureate at 3:30 pm, Saturday, June 10, in 131 Hitchcock Hall. Alumnus Brian Besanceney (B.A. History/Political Science) will give the Baccalaureate address. Mr. Besanceney is the assistant secretary for public affairs in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. RSVP: College of Humanities, 292-1882. Please encourage graduating students to participate. Visit: http://humanities.osu.edu/studentinfo/default.cfm.