Current News

Franco Barchiesi, African American and African Studies: "Wage Labor and Social Citizenship in Colonial and Postcolonial Modernity: South African Perspectives in a Continental Context," in Review 2007 (Fernand Braudel Center, SUNY Binghamton), 30 (1).

Michael Les Benedict, History: "James M. Ashley, Toledo Politics, and the Thirteenth Amendment" in The University of Toledo Law Review, 38.3 (Spring 2007): 815-837.

Carole Fink, History: "Aristide Briand, la Société des Nations et la question des minorités," in Aristide Briand, la société des nations et l’Europe, 1919-1932, ed. Jacques Bariéty (Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2007): 214-222.

John Guilmartin, History: "The Earliest Shipboard Gunpowder Ordnance: An Analysis of Its Technical Parameters and Tactical Capabilities," The Journal of Military History 71.3 (July 2007): 649-669.

Susan Hartmann, History: "Gender and the Transformation of Politics" in The Columbia History of Post-World War II America, ed. Mark C. Carnes, pp. 285-310.

Carole Rogel, History: co-authored Historical Dictionary of Slovenia, 2^nd edition (The Scarecrow Press, Inc, 2007).

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, History: "From OSU to Amsterdam: Transformative Learning through Community-Based Multi-Media Research," in Talking about Teaching: Essays by Members of the Ohio State University Academy of Teaching (May 2007): 44-48.

Leslie Alexander, History, was nominated for the Distinguished Undergraduate Mentor Award, along with Dr. Walter Rucker in AAAS, for her work as co-advisor for Noël Voltz's research project on free women of color in Louisiana. Noel's research won 2nd prize at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum in May.

Graduate student Mindy Farmer, History, was awarded a Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant for her dissertation research.

Graduate student Kevin Fujitani, History, received a FulbrightHays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad award for his topic, "Spicebox Imperialism: The Role of Artificial Flavoring in Japan’s Modernization, 1890-1940."

Brenda Hosey, office administrative associate, Germanic Languages and Literatures, received a 2007 University Distinguished Staff Award.

Robin Judd, History, received a Faculty Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant.

Graduate student Brian Kennedy, History, received a travel grant from the Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library in order to conduct dissertation research.

Lucy Murphy, History-Newark, was elected to the Committee on Institutional Cooperation American Indian Studies Executive Committee, 2007, for a five-year term.

Graduate student Rebecca Barrett, History, was on the air with Alex Bennett on Sirius Satellite Radio during which they discussed the racial implications of Amos and Andy.

Kevin Boyle, History, was quoted in an article about how the possible sale of Chrysler to a private equity firm would be a major change that would cause of lot of anxiety for union workers and others in Detroit (New York Times, May 14; and he wrote an op-ed column in which he argued that the current immigration crisis, while difficult and serious, is not impossible to manage (Baltimore Sun, May 11).

Christopher Phelps, History, was interviewed about the revival of Students for a Democratic Society on "The Old Mole Variety Hour" for KBOO 90.7 FM, the Pacifica station in Portland, Oregon, June 9.

The Baltimore Sun carried an article (May 11) about New City Upon A Hill: A History of Columbia, MD, a book concerning the history of Columbia, Maryland, and written by David Stebenne, History. He was interviewed on WAMU-FM in Washington, DC on June 21st about this book, which has been mentioned in articles in the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, and the Baltimore Examiner.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, wrote a guest editorial, "Ousmane Sembene in Missoula: A Memorial Tribute," which appeared in The Missoulian (Montana), June 29.

Leslie Alexander, History, presented "To Leave the House of Bondage?: The Influence of the Haitian Revolution on African American Consciousness in the Age of Emancipation" for the Caribbean Studies Association, Bahia, Brazil, May 28-June 1.

Nick Breyfogle, History, presented "Baikal: The Great Lake and its People" at the American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship conference, Philadelphia, May 18. He was an invited discussant at the conference "The Caucasus: New Agendas in Scholarship" at the Kennan Institute/Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC, May 9-10.

John Burnham, History, Psychiatry, and Medical Heritage Center, was an invited commentator at a symposium organized to discuss his recent article, "The New Freud Studies," at the joint meetings in Dublin, Ireland, of the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences, and Cheiron, The International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences, June 26.

Graduate student Robert Denning, History, presented "The California Air Resources Board under Governor Ronald Reagan" at the Whitsett Graduate Seminar on California History at California State University, Northridge, on May 18.

Carole Fink, History, presented the keynote address, "Germany and the Arab-Israeli War of 1967; A Forty Year Perspective" at a conference sponsored by the Heinrich Boell Institute (the Scientific Organization of the German Green Party) and the Central Council of Jews in Germany, on the topic "Das Israelbild in Deutschland. Der Sechs-Tage-Krieg als Wendepunkt?," June 19.

Alan Gallay, History, made two presentations and conducted workshops for Ohio public school teachers on African Americans and the American Revolution, for the Teaching America program, in Fremont, Ohio at the Hayes Presidential Museum, June 14-15.

Harvey Graff, English and History, participated in the Society for the History of Children and Youth Conference, Biennial Meeting, University of Linkoping, Norrkoping, Sweden, June 27-30; he was Chair for "Session on Reading & Writing in Early Modern Europe," and Chair, Organizer, Participant for the session "How Can the History of Children and Childhood Grow Up? Revision and Redefinition?"

Robin Judd, History, presented "Jewish War Brides and their GI Husbands: Reconstruction and Romance in the Aftermath of Hitler's Genocide" at the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, June 13.

Graduate student Glenn Kranking, History, presented "Borderline Swedes: Minority Politics and Transnational Identification among Estonia's Swedish Population" at the conference Inter: A European Cultural Studies Conference (Norrköping, Sweden), June 12.

Graduate student Chris LaHue, History, presented "William Dawes and the Resurrection of John Wise: Congregational Republicanism and Popular Mobilization in New England, 1772" at the joint meeting of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture and the Society of Early Americanists at the College of William and Mary, June 7-10.

Lucy Murphy, History-Newark, presented "’They always looked to her for advice:’ American Indian Women and Mixed Fur-Trade Families in the Nineteenth-Century," at the Early American History, 1600-1877, in Global Perspective: An International Conference in Tianjin, China. The Conference was sponsored by the Fulbright Foundation and the Institute of American History and Culture and the Research Center for the History of the Modern World, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. She also presented "After the Fur Trade: New Institutions," to the Newberry Library Fellows Seminar, March 5; "Prairie du Chien’s ‘Frenchtown,’ and Albert Coryer’s Map," for the Chicago Map Society, April 19; and "The Lead Rush and the Black Hawk War," for Apple River Fort Historic Site, Elizabeth, Illinois, April 30.

David Staley, Manager, Goldberg Project, History, curated the art exhibition, "Bela Petheo: Images of The Rise of the West," which was displayed at the World History Association Conference, June 28-30.

David Stebenne, History, presented "Columbia, Maryland at Forty" as part of a session entitled "Local Entrepreneurial Communities," at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference in Cleveland, Ohio; and "Columbia, Maryland: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead" at Vantage House in Columbia, Maryland, June 16.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, attended a conference on Writing the Self in the Americas: Diaries, Letters, Life Stories, 17-20th century, at the Université de Versailles, St. Quentin en Yvelines, France. She presented "Old Wine in New Bottles?: Puerto Rican Memories and New York Lives" in the session on Immigrant and Ethnic Autobiography, which she also moderated, June 21.

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, History, presented "Global Sisterhood, the Anti-War Movement, and Radical Orientalism: The Indochinese Women's Conference of 1971" at the New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness Conference held at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, June 13-16; and "Warmongers and Peacemakers: New Biography and Informal Diplomacy," at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Conference held in Chantilly, Virginia, June 21-23 17-20.