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Michael Les Benedict, History: Preserving the Constitution: Essays on Politics and The Constitution in the Reconstruction Era (Fordham University Press, 2006).

Brenda Jo Brueggemann, English, and Susan Burch: Women and Deafness: Double Vision (Washington D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 2006).

Cynthia Callahan, English: review, "Noliwe M. Rooks. Ladies' Pages: African American Women's Magazines and the Culture that Made Them," African American Review 40.1 (2006): 175-177.

Jon Erickson, English: "Presence," Staging Philosophy: Intersections of Theater, Performance, and Philosophy, eds. David Saltz and David Krasner (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006): 142-159.

Wendy Hesford and Brenda Jo Brueggemann, English: Rhetorical Visions: Reading and Writing in a Visual Culture (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004).

Andrew Hudgins, English: "Gladly, The Cross-Eyed Bear: The Consolation of Comedy," Image, Fall (2006): 99-115; and translation, "Rezando Ebrio," Zulai Marcella Fuentes, Case del Tempo, September (2006): 32-37.

Stephen Kern, History: "When Did the Victorian Period End? Relativity, Sexuality, Narrative," Journal of Victorian Culture, November 2006.

Valerie Lee, English: "Lorraine Vivian Hansberry," 512-513; "Paul Laurence Dunbar," 472-474; and "Richard Wright," 493-494 in The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, eds. Christian Zacher, Richard Sisson, and Andrew R.L. Cayton (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007 [pub. 2006]).

Nathan Rosenstein, History: "Recruitment and Its Consequences for Rome and the Italian Allies Herrschaft ohne Integration?, Rom und Italien in republikanischer Zeit," in Martin Jehne and Rene Pfeilschifter, eds., Studien zur Alten Geschichte, Band 4. Verlag Antike (Frankfurt am Main, 2006: 227-42). He edited with Robert Morstein-Marx, A Companion to the Roman Republic (Blackwell Publishing, 2006).

Walter Rucker and James Upton, African American and African Studies: eds., Encyclopedia of American Race Riots, 2 Volumes, (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006).

Walter Rucker, African American and African Studies: "Crusader in Exile: Robert F. Williams and the International Struggle for Black Freedom in America," The Black Scholar 36:2-3 (Summer/Fall 2006): 19-34.

James Bartholomew, History, was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement (University of California Press, 2006), written by Tanya Erzen, Comparative Studies, won the annual Ruth Benedict Prize from the American Anthropological Association. The prize acknowledges excellence in a scholarly book written from an anthropological perspective about a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered topic.

Brian Joseph, Linguistics and Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Each year the AAAS Council elects "members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished." The honor of being elected a Fellow began in 1874 and is acknowledged with a certificate and rosette. Joseph is being honored for his distinguished contributions to the field of historical linguistics, especially in communicating the results of his research to generations of students and the scholarly community.

Nick Breyfogle, History, presented "Living Empire: Understanding Multiethnic Eurasia in the Modern Era," the keynote lecture, at the conference "Orienting the Russian Empire," sponsored by the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, October 28.

Carole Fink, History, presented "An American Jewish Diplomat in Paris: 1919" at a Conference in Syracuse, New York, an invited paper honoring Louis Marshall (the Jewish lawyer, communal leader, and human rights activist) on the 150th anniversary of Marshall's birth, sponsored by Syracuse University, SUNY Albany, and the Jewish Community of Syracuse.

Hasan Kwame Jeffries, History, presented "Freedom Rights: Reconceptualizing the Origins and Evolution of the Civil Rights Movement," an invited lecture sponsored by the Minority, Indigenous, and Third-World Studies Research Group at Cornell University, November 2.

Stephen Kern, History, presented "Modernism, Narrative, and World War I," plenary lecture at a conference on Spaces of War: France and the Francophone World, hosted by the European Studies Consortium, University of Minnesota, October 26.

Andrew Hudgins, English, served on the Editorial Panel of Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families, ed. Andrew Carroll (Random House, New York. 2006).

Katherine Burkman, English, performed a staged reading of Marty Martin's Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein at the Pump House Gallery, Chillicothe, November 3.

Cynthia Callahan, English, presented "'A Strange New Combination of Friends and Family': Transracial Adoption as Multicultural Coalition in Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven," Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 11.

Richard Dutton, English, presented "The States of Henry V: the Violence of Textual Editing," Ohio Shakespeare Conference, Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio. November 10.

Andrew Hudgins, English, presented "Gladly, The Cross-Eyed Bear," an invited lecture, Spring Hill College. Mobile, Alabama, July 16; gave a Poetry Reading at College of Charleston. Charleston, South Carolina, October 25; two poetry readings and three-day residency, The Westminster School, Atlanta, Georgia, October 3-November 1; and a Poetry Reading, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, November 9.

Pranav Jani, English, presented "Lenin's State and Revolution: A Post-Cold War Assessment," 2006 Midwest Socialist Conference, Center for Economic Research and Social Change, University of Illinois-Chicago, Illinois, November 5.

Graduate student Nicholas Steneck, History, presented "Fighting Twenty-First Century Terrorism with a Cold War Model" at the Midwest International Studies Association, St. Louis, Missouri, November 3.

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, History, presented "Revolutionary Travelers: People's Diplomacy, Third World Internationalism and American Orientalis," an invited paper for the "War, Intimacy/Trauma and Asian American and African American Crossings" Forum, Wesleyan University, November 10. She also presented "A Viet Namese Negro: Robert S. Browne, the Anti-War Movement, and the Global/Personal Roots of Black Inter/Nationalism," at the Ethnic Studies Research & Working Group at OSU, November 3. She served as a chair/moderator for the closing plenary for the East of California Asian American Studies Conference at OSU, November 4.

Susan Williams, English, presented "Forwarding Your Literary Interests: James Redpath and the Representation of Publishing in Alcott, Harland, and Bonner," Third International Conference of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 11.

Carl Lindahl (University of Houston) will present a lecture and a seminar: "Katrina Stories, the David Effect, and the Right to Be Wrong," 3:30 pm, November 20, 311 Denney Hall; discussant Amy Shuman, English; and "Faces in the Fire: Images of Terror in Appalachian Märchen and in the Wake of September 11," 10:00 am, November 21, 311 Denney. Sponsored by the Department of English and organized by the Center for Folklore Studies. Contact: Dorothy Noyes, noyes.10@osu.edu.

Peter Seitel (Smithsonian Institution) will present "Synchrotext: Using Digital Media to Preserve, Present, and Project Intangible Cultural Heritage into the Future," 2:30 pm, November 29, 145 Hagerty Hall, for the Cultures in Disputed Territories Working Group. Contact horowitz.36@osu.edu