New Faces, New spaces:a welcome From the chairby Paul Kelton

If you come intothe Department ofHistory, andwe hopethat you do, you willnotice new faces andnewly configuredspaces. Ellen Garber,our longtime Admin-istrativeAssociate forGraduate Affairs, hasretired. We miss El-lenbutareenviousofher forher free timeshenowhasto spendwith her family and hobbies.We are fortunate,however,tohaveAshleyDurkee(BA,2008)joinus.ShewilloverseeGraduateAffairsanddeservesspecialpraisefortakingtheleadinorganizingthisnewsletterandseeingitthroughtoproduction.Thankyou,Ashley,andwelcomeaboard.SammyAdamsonjoinsusasournewstudentre-ceptionistandhasmaintainedourDepartment’slongstand-ingtraditionofgreetingvisitorswithasmile.Shehasre-placedTarynGilbertwho is now inGraduate School atWichitaStateUniversity.Good luck to you,Taryn.AlsojoiningthedepartmentisDavidNickol,whoservesasourundergraduateadvisor.Asalargedepartmentwearefor-tunate to have an “in house” advisor and he has done agreatjobforus.Thefacultyrankshavechangedaswell.RobertDeKoskyhasretiredafter33yearsofserviceintheDepartment.Bobhasnowenteredtheemeritiranksandwewishhimwellinhisretirement.JoiningourDepartmentisRobSchwaller,anassistantprofessorofLatinAmericanhistory.WearepleasedtohaveRobandyoucanreadmoreabouthiminthisnewsletter.

History on tHe HillUniversity of Kansas

Department of History

fall 2011 newsletter

1445 Jayhawk Boulevard, Wescoe 3650, Lawrence, KS 66045 • Ph (785) 864-3569 • www.history.ku.edu

Friday, September 30, 2011, 4 pmSimons Room at the Dole Institute of Politics

ProfessorHagithSivan,theHistoryDepartment’sex-perton theancientworld,willdeliver thisyear’sPivotalEvents inHistory talkon“ARomanCleopatra:PrincessGallabetweenAlaricandAt-tila.”Usingcoinsasillustra-tions, Professor Sivan willdiscussawoman,GallaPla-cidia, who should be as fa-mousasCleopatra.Afterall,both women lived throughan age of incredible trans-formation. When Cleopa-tra committed suicide in 31BCE, the Roman Republicwas about to disappear forgood, making way for theRoman Empire headed byCleopatra’smostruthlessad-versary, Octavian-Augustus,Rome’sfirstemperor.WhenGalladiedin450CEtheRo-manempirewasabouttobeinvadedbyAttilatheHunandtheempireitselfwasabouttovanishforever,makingroomformedievalkingdomsheadedbybarbarianmonarchs. Whowas thisunjustly forgottenprincess?Gallawasthe youngest daughter of the emperor Theodosius, whodiedin395whenshewasababy.ShewasbroughtupinRome,onlytodisappearfromviewin410duringtheGoth-icsackof thecity.By the timeshe turned25,Gallahadbeenmarriedandwidowedtwice.HerfirsthusbandwasaGothicchieftainwhosesoledesirewastodestroytheem-pire;hersecondwasaRomangeneralwhowasafavoriteofherbrother,theemperorHonorius.WhenHonoriusdied

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in423shefoundherselfarefugeewithtwoinfantsattheimperialcourtofConstantinople. TwoyearslatershereturnedintriumphtoRomeandRavennaasregent,motherofthenew,6-year-oldemperorofthewesternRomanempire. For a dozen years, between 425 and 437,Gallawasthevirtualruleroftheempire.Thesewereyearsofnever-endingbarbarianinvasions,asGoths,Vandals,Burgundi-ans,SueviandAlanssweptoverGermany,Gaul(France)andSpaininsearchofthefabulousshoresofnorthAfrica.ThesewereyearsthatthemightyRomanarmy,headedbyasuccessionofambitiousgenerals,hadtorelyonbarbar-ian recruits to fight other barbarians. These were yearsthat required careful handling of the budget, balancingwealthyaristocratswhoassiduouslyavoidedtaxationwithan increasinglydissatisfiedmiddleclasswhosememberspreferred to liveunderbarbarians rather than to face thegovernmenttaxcollectors.HowdidGallahandleallthese?Whathappenedwhenherdaughter, angryatherbrother,sentherringtoAttilatheHun,whothenusedthismarriageproposal to demand half of the empire?What happenedwhenGalla’sson,theemperorValentinian,killedhisbestgeneralandcommittedadulterywiththewifeofthemostpowerfulsenatorofhisrealm? Professor Sivan’s talk is based on her most recentbook,Galla Placidia: The Last Roman Empress,publishedthissummerbyOxfordUniversityPress.ProfessorSivanjoinedthehistorydepartmentin1993,havingbeentrainedin classics and ancient history in both theUnited Statesand Israel. Her research and teaching interests embracethe culturesof theGreeks, theRomans, and theAncientNearEast. She has spent a year each at the Institute forAdvancedStudiesatPrinceton,theInstituteforAdvancedStudyattheHebrewUniversityinJerusalem,andtheCen-terforAdvancedJudaicStudiesattheUniversityofPenn-sylvania. In2010she receivedKU’sHiguchiAward, theuniversity’shighestrecognitionofresearchexcellence.

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Department of History Staff: Sandee Kennedy (Office Manager), AmandaContreras (Undergraduate Program Administrator), David Nickol (AdvisingSpecialist),AshleyDurkee(GraduateProgramAdministrator),SammyAdamson(StudentReceptionist)

As for spaces,we havemade some changes, thankstothegenerouscontributionsthatouralumniandfriendshavemade.Sincemovingtothe3½floorofWescoe,wehavelackedacommonloungearea,whichwehadenjoyedinourpreviouslocation.Weconvertedaseminarroomthatwas toosmall toholdclass intoa lounge,completewithcozyfurniture.Ihavealreadyheldsomesmallcommitteemeetingsthereandlookforwardtohavinganicespacetointeractwithmycolleagues.Toreplacetheseminarroom,we converted the room that had contained the lecturers’carrelsintoaclassroom,completewithaconferencetablethat accommodates up to 20 people. (Do notworry.Wehavenotleftthelecturershomeless;theynowutilizevacat-edfacultyoffices.)Giventheshortageofstatefunds,do-nationstoourendowmentaccountshavecertainlyhelpedtake up the slack in our budget and allowedus tomakeimportantchangesthathaveimprovedourinstructionalen-vironment. Aswebeginanewacademicyear,wethankyouforallyoursupportyouhavegivenus.Yourgenerousdona-tionshaveallowedus togivenearly$40,000 in scholar-shipsandawardstoagroupofdeservingundergraduatesandgraduatestudents.Thismoneyhasnotonlygonetode-fraytuition,books,andlivingexpenses,butalsofurtheredtheresearchmissionofourDepartmentandtheUniversityofKansas.Studentshavetraveledtodistantarchivesandpresented papers at academic conferences. The Depart-menthasalsoplayeda leadingroleatKUinsponsoringpublicevents thatbring innotedspeakers todiscuss im-portanttopics.Welookforwardtocarryingonthisroleandinviteyouallthisyeartotakepartintheseevents,includ-

ingourPivotalEventsinHistoryprogramthatwillfeatureourveryownProfessorHagithSivanandtheFourthAn-nualTuttleLecturethatwillfeatureaguestandpreeminenthistorianofAfrican-AmericanHistory,ProfessorDarleneClarkHine.Moreinformationaboutthesetalksisinclud-edinthisnewsletter.WehopethatyouenjoycatchingupwiththeactivitiesofourDepartment.WehaveappreciatedhearingfromourmanyfriendsbeyondMountOread,andwehopetohearfrommanymoreoverthecomingyear.

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RequIReD ReaDIngCelebrating Kansasby Paul Kelton

In 1861 Congress showedgood judgment in bringingKansas into the Union, whichis something that cannot be said regarding other states,particularly that one to the east of us. This year wecelebrate the Sesquicentennial of our great state andencourage you to learn more about Kansas with ourrequired readings. We are particularly proud to includeworks by two of our current faculty –KimWarren andRita Napier – and another by a distinguished alum andcurrent Director for Publications for the Kansas StateHistorical Society and editor of Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains –VirgilDean, PhD1991. Rita napier, ed. Kansas and the West: New Perspectives (university Press of Kansas, 2003), 416pp. Drawing on scholarship that has transformedourunderstandingofthehistoryofbothstateandregion,Kansas and the Westintroducesreaderstoawiderangeofpeople,places,andthemesthatdemonstratethecomplexrelationshipsamongrace,class,gender,andenvironment.Insodoing,italsoputstorestmanyofthemythsthathavedominatedwesternhistoryforsolong,reflectingboththepositiveandthenegativeconsequencesofhumanactionsover150yearsofKansashistory. Kim Cary Warren. The Quest for Citizenship: African American and Native American Education in Kansas, 1880-1935 (university of north Carolina Press, 2010), 248pp. InThe Quest for Citizenship, KimCaryWarrenexaminestheformationofAfricanAmericanandNativeAmerican citizenship, belonging, and identity intheUnitedStatesbycomparingeducationalexperiencesinKansasbetween1880and1935.WarrenfocusesherstudyonKansas,thoughtbymanytobethequintessentialfreestate,notonlybecauseitwashometosizablepopulationsof Indian groups and former slaves, but also because ofits unique history of conflict over freedom during theantebellumperiod. Virgil Dean, ed. John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas History (university of Kansas Press, 2010), 422pp.Composedof 27 short biographiesby scholars, John Brown to Bob Dole brings an arrayof fascinating personalities, including reformers andpreachers,publishersandartists,vividlybacktolife.Theessays offer a fresh and engaging look at many of theimportantthemesofKansashistory–especiallythestate’sidentificationwith someof thegreat radicalmovements,including abolitionism, populism, and civil rights – andultimately recaptures the true spirit of Kansas and itsmeaningfortherestofthenation.

Craig Miner. Kansas: The History of the Sunflower State, 1854–2000 (university of Kansas Press, 2002), 416pp. This is the newest standard history. Written toenlighten general readers within and well beyond thestate’s borders, it offers coverage not found in previoushistories:greaterattentiontoitscities–notablyWichita–andtoitssouth-centralandwesternregions,accountsofbusiness history, contributionsofwomenandminorities,andenvironmental concerns. It presents thedarkaswellasthebrightsideofKansasprogressivismandisthefirstKansashistory todealwith thepost-WorldWar IIera inanysignificantdetail. Stephen Starr. Jennison’s Jayhawkers, (Louisiana State university Press, 1993 reprint). 405 pp.Forthoseinterested in killing two anniversaries (Kansas statehoodand the beginning of theCivilWar)with one book, thisis it. It’s a well-written account of the Seventh KansasVolunteer Cavalry, whose members included CharlesJennison,JohnBrownJr.,andSusanB.Anthony’sbrother–who,incidentally,wasraisedaQuaker.Thatdidn’tstophimortherestoftheunitfrombendingArmyrulesorjustplaincommittingtheirowndepredationsastheypatrolledKansas and Missouri. The regiment’s conduct was sobad and so embarrassing to Federal commanders that itwasbootedfromtheborderareainthespringof1862.Itwentontoparticipateinseveralmainstreambattlesinthewesterntheater.

history DepartmeNt co-spoNsors 2011 tuttle lecture The fourth Bill Tuttle Distinguished Lecture inAmericanStudieswillbedeliveredonOctober26,2011at 4:30 in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.This annual lecture was established to honor Bill Tut-tle and perpetuate his legacy of outstanding scholar-ship and teaching in American Studies and History.The 2011 Tuttle Lecture will be delivered by DarleneClarkHine,BoardofTrusteesProfessorofAfricanAmeri-

canStudies andProfessor ofHistoryatNorthwesternUni-versity.ThetitleofProfessorHine’s lecture is “Rehearsalfor Freedom: Black Profes-sionalWomen’s Health CareActivismbeforeBrown.” Darlene Clark Hine is aleading historian of the Af-rican American experienceand a pioneering scholar inAfrican American women’s

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New Facultyrobert sChwaller

My arrival at Mt.Oread is like that of aswallow returning toCapistrano.Althoughnota native Kansan myself,my family helped foundHays, KS, and many ofmy relatives are diehardJayhawks. My grand-father,aKUyellleaderandSigmaChipresident,metmygrandmother,aJayhawkerbeautyqueenandThetasister,onTennesseeStreet.Theyweremarriedontheporchofmygreat-grandfather’shomeonMississippiStreet.Myfather,hisbrother,andmycousinallattendedKUearningvariousundergraduateandgraduatedegrees.WithsomuchfamilyhistoryinLawrence,Ifeelprofoundlyproudtobecontinu-ingtheconnectiontoKU. The lifeofacollege town isone Iknowand love. IearnedmyB.A.atGrinnellCollege,nestled in thesmalltownofGrinnell, IA.Althoughmuch smaller thanLaw-rence,itwassimilarlysurroundedbyfieldsofgrain,blis-teringly hot in the summer, and cold and windy in thewinter.While earning a degree inAnthropology andArtHistory,IoccupiedmysparetimeplayingDiv.IIIfootball.After fouryearson theprairie,mygraduatestudies tookmeeasttothemuchlargercollegetownofStateCollege,Pennsylvania, homeofPennState. Inmanyways,Law-rence is aperfectmixofboth towns:awelcomingoasisontheplainsandhometoastoriedstateuniversity.ImustconfessIwillhavetoworkhardonadjustingtotheBig12andfavoringtheroundballoverthepigskin.WhileitmightbeimpossibleformetostopbeingaNittanyLion,IlookforwardtobecomingaJayhawk. MyresearchinterestsfocusonthehistoryofraceintheearlyAtlanticWorldwithaparticularemphasisontherela-tionshipsbetweenAfricansandindigenouspeoplesinLat-inAmerica.HowdidAfricansinteractwithNativeAmeri-cans?Weretheirrelationshipsfriendlyorconflictive?Howdid European empires inhibit, facilitate, or circumscribe

history.She is theauthoror editorof twenty-fivebooks,includingtheaward-winningBlack Women in White: Ra-cial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950(1989),Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History (1996);withKathleenThompson,A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America (1998); andBlack Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas (second edition,2003).ProfessorHineisalsotheeditor-in-chiefofBlack Women in America,threevolumes(secondedition,2005).Professor Hine’s scholarly accomplishments have beenwidely recognized. She has served as president of boththeOrganizationofAmericanHistoriansandtheSouthernHistoricalAssociation; shehasbeena fellowatboth theInstitute forAdvanced Study at StanfordUniversity andtheRadcliffeInstituteforAdvancedStudyatHarvardUni-versity;andin2006,shewasinductedintotheAmericanAcademyofArtsandSciences.Finally,ProfessorHineisanotedteacherandspeakerwhohaslecturedatcollegesanduniversitiesthroughouttheUnitedStates. ProfessorHine’s lecture represents the jointcommit-mentoftheDepartmentsofHistoryandAmericanStudiestobringtopscholarstoKUtodiscussimportantaspectsoftheAmericanexperience.PastlectureshavebeengivenbyLeon F. Litwack, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian ofAfricanAmericanhistoryandtheAlexanderF.andMayT.ProfessorofAmericanHistoryEmeritusattheUniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley;WilliamH.Chafe,theAliceMaryBaldwinProfessorofHistoryatDukeUniversityandoneofAmerica’smajorscholarsofcivilrights,women’shis-tory,andpoliticalcultureinthetwentiethcentury;andEricFoner,DeWittClintonProfessor ofHistory atColumbiaUniversityandoneofthiscountry’smostimportanthisto-rians.TheHistoryDepartmentispleasedtoco-sponsorthiseventandwehopethatyoucanattend.

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BorDer wars coNFereNce to Feature JoNathaN earle aND JeNNiFer weBer To commemorate the sesquicentennial of the CivilWar, more than a dozen scholars of the “BorderWars”thatragedfordecadesalongtheKansas-MissourilinewillmeetforapublicconferencethisNovember10-12attheKansasCityPublicLibrary.Professor ofHistoryEmeri-tusMichaelFellmanofSimonFraserUniversity (authorofInside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During

the American Civil War)willkick thingsoff theeveningofNov.10atthedowntown(main)branchoftheKCPL;eventswillcontinueoverthenexttwodaysatthelibrary’sPlazabranchandfeaturepresentationsbytwoKUHistoryfaculty:JonathanEarleandJenniferWeber.Thepublicisencouragedtoattend theconference. Formore informa-tion,contactProf.Earleatjonearle@ku.eduorHenryFor-tunatoatKCPL(henryfortunato@kclibrary.org).

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history matters: perspectives From receNt GraDuates

PatriCK luiz s. De oliveira, ba, 2010 I arrived at theUniversity of Kan-sas as a journalismmajor with no in-tention of graduat-ing inhistory.But Ienrolled in an earlymodern Europe sur-vey course to fulfillone of those peskygeneral requirements, andby the secondweekof class Iwas hooked. From then on the labyrinthine hallways ofWescoeHallbecamemy intellectualhome.Thewonder-ful faculty at theDepartment ofHistory taughtme howto think critically and contextualize the headlines thatwhooshedthroughThe Kansannewsroom. I flirtedbrieflywith journalismandwas an intern atNationalPublicRadioinWashington,D.C.Ialsoventuredalittleintopublishing,interningatVersoBooks, inNewYorkCity.Bothwere great experiences, but nothing en-ergizedmeasmuchaswritingmyhonors thesis. IwenttoLyon,France,where I spentdaysdigging through thearchives.At other places this kind of opportunitywouldonlybeavailabletoprofessorsandgraduatestudents,butthanks to anUndergraduateResearchAwardandNathanWood,anincredibleadvisorwhobackedmeuptheentiretime,a“lowlyundergrad”likemegotthechancetohandleimperialdecreessignedbyNapoleonIII. ThisfallIamheadingtoPrinceton,whereIwillbeginmypathtowardadoctoraldegreeinHistory.Iplanonpur-suingtheintereststhatappealedtomeasanundergraduate:modernFranceandurbanhistory.But Iamopen tonewpossibilities, since I’m also drawn to intellectual historyandtherapportbetweenliteratureandhistory.Iamthrilled

–butalsonervous–withtheprospectofstudyingatoneofthemostrigorousdepartmentsinthecountry.Nevertheless,IamcomfortedbythefactthatthetrainingIreceivedatKUhasthoroughlypreparedmeforthisnextstep,andthatnomatterwhatIwillalwayshavecaringmentorstohelpmeout.

on the Move:MaDDalena Marinari, PhD, 2009

I study migration be-cause,growingup,mydadnever talked about his 19yearsasamigrantworker.Iwantedtounderstandhisexperience. To do this, itturned out, required be-coming a migrant myself.Shortly after college, Imoved from Italy toLaw-rence topursueaPh.D. inAmericanimmigrationandethnic history.My time atKUwasincrediblyreward-ing. I worked with greatmentors,madeenduringfriendships,andmetmyhusband! Ialsogainedthepreparationandconfidencetopartici-pateactivelyinavibrantintellectualcommunity.Finishingmydissertationonthemobilizationofimmigrantsagainstimmigrationrestriction, Iworkedat theNationalHistoryCenterandtheAmericanHistoricalAssociationinWash-ington,DC,whereIworkedwithpublichistoriansat theSmithsonian,theDepartmentofState,theLibraryofCon-gress,theHolocaustMuseum,andCongress.Participationinalocalimmigrationroundtablegavemetheopportunitytomeetmanyof thescholarswhosebooks Ihad read ingraduateschool.ExposuretoDChasalsosomewhatshift-edmyresearchfocus,asIhavebecomemoreinterestedinthepolitical andpolicydimensionsof immigration.Thisnewfoundinteresthasresultedinanarticleonthepassageof the 1965 Immigration and NationalityAct, a crucialbut understudied law that changed the face ofAmericansociety. After three wonderful years in the nation’s capital,duringwhichIwasalsoaVisitingAssistantProfessoratAmerican University, I am now leaving again to take apositionasAssistantProfessoratSt.BonaventureUniver-sityinwesternNewYork.There,Iwillfinallybeabletoteach inmyareaofexpertiseandbring to theclassroomthepassionforhistoricalinquirythatmyprofessorsatKUinstilled inme.Onlyonequestionremains:afterbravingtornadoesintheMidwestandsurvivingsnowmaggeddoninDCin2010,cananItaliansurvivethesnowbelt?Let’shopeso!

theseconnections?SofarmyresearchoncolonialMexicohasshownthatAfricansandNativeAmericansfrequentlyformedfamiliesandcommunitiesdespiteSpanishattemptstoseparatethem.AtKU,IlookforwardtoexpandingmyresearchintoCentralAmericaandtheCaribbeaninordertobetterunderstandthediversityoftheserelationshipsandcommunities. JustasswallowsflyfarandwidebeforereturningtoCapistrano, Ifind itfitting thatKUhasnowbecomemyacademichome.IamhonoredandexcitedtojointheKUfamilyandlookforwardtoworkingwithitsamazingfac-ultyandoutstandingstudents.RockChalk,Jayhawk!

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LeslieTuttle,AssociateProfessorofHistoryatKU,wontheawardforherbook,Conceiving the Old Regime: Pro-natalism and the Politics of Reproduction in Early Mod-ern France,publishedbyOxfordUniversityPressin2011.Tuttlewill receive her award and deliver a lecture Sept.13at7:30p.m. in theHallCenterConferenceHall.Herlectureistitled:“MakingBabies,MakingtheNation-State:TheCaseofPre-RevolutionaryFrance.”Theeventisopento the public.A book signing and receptionwill follow.TheawardcommitteecommendedTuttleonherproseandscholarship:“Tuttlewritesbeautifully.Sheweavesthestoriesofspecificindividualsintoherwell-constructednarrative.Moreover,hersubjectisoriginalandthoroughlyresearched.”OnecommitteememberwrotethatTuttle’sbookstoodoutinastrongfieldofworthynominations:“Itisafineworkof historical scholarship, carefully researched in a widerange of sources, and engagingly written. The author’swell-constructed narrative traces the history of France’searly modern experiment in procreative engineering.”HereditoratOUP,SusanFerber,notesthatitisa“splen-did”honortoreceivesuchanawardonafirstpublication.Tuttle is a Kansas native herself. Her great-great-greatgrandparents claimed a homestead near White City inthe1850s.TrainedatPrincetonUniversity,shejoinedtheKUfacultyin1997andcurrentlyteachescoursesonEu-ropean history, women’s history and historical methods.TheByronCaldwellSmithAwardwasestablishedat thebequest ofKateStephens, a formerKU student andoneofKU’sfirstwomenprofessors.Asanundergraduate,Ste-phenslearnedtolovethestudyofGreeklanguageandlit-eraturefromProfessorByronCaldwellSmith.Inhisname,sheestablishedthisaward,givenbienniallytoanindividu-alwholivesorisemployedinKansasandwhohaswrittenanoutstandingbookpublishedintheprevioustwoyears

Jonathan earle wins 2011 J. Michael Young academic advising award Earle,whoservedasDirectorofUndergraduateStud-iesinthedepartmentbetween2001-2004,saidhelearnedtheartofundergraduateadvisingfromhislatecolleague,longtimehistoryprofessorLloydSponholtz,whowontheaward in 2000: “Lloyd always had a great rapport withhisstudents,andtherewasalwaysalineoutsidehisofficehours.Advisingisoneofthehardestpartsofourjob,andoneoftheleastrewarded.”Establishedin1991,theawardhonorsthelateJ.MichaelYoung,aKUprofessorofphi-losophy and director of theUniversityHonors Program.Theawardisbeenpresentedannuallytofacultywhoregu-larlyreachouttotheiradviseesandhelpKUstudentsmakegooddecisionsabouttheireducationalandcareergoals.

Ku historiaNs wiN maJor awarDsHall Center for Humanities Presents Book award to Jacob Dorman JacobDorman,assistantprofessorofhistory,receivedtheFriendsBookPublicationAward forChosen People: African Americans and the Rise of Black Judaism. Theforthcomingbook, tobepublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress,focusesonthediversehistoryandinfluenceofvari-ousreligiousmovementsontheriseof20thcenturyAfri-can-AmericanJudaism.“Iamhonored tobeselectedfortheFriendsof theHallCenterAward,whichonlymakesofficialmyveryrealdebttotheHallCenterforfosteringavitalintellectualcommunityoncampusandforprovidingthetimelyandtacticalassistanceneededtocompetesuc-cessfullyforoutsidefunding,”saidDorman.TheOfficeofResearchandGraduateStudiessponsorstheViceChancel-lor forResearch andGraduateStudiesBookPublicationAward.Itisintendedtoassistinthepublicationofmerito-riousbookmanuscriptsresultingfromhumanitiesresearchbyKUfacultymembers.AdditionalpublicationawardsaremadepossiblebytheFriendsoftheHallCenter,anorga-nizationoffaculty,communitymembersandstudentswhosupportthecenter’sprograms.

Hagith Sivan earns Higuchi-Ku endowment Research award Theawards,nowintheir28thyear,honoroutstandingaccomplishments in research by facultymembers atKUandotherKansasBoardofRegentsinstitutions.Therecog-nitionprogramwasestablishedbyTakeruHiguchi,adis-tinguishedprofessoratKUfrom1967to1983,andhislatewidow,Aya.Eachawardincludesaplaqueanda$10,000grantforongoingresearchefforts.Theawardmoneycanbeusedforresearchmaterials,summersalaries,fellowshipmatchingfunds,hiringresearchassistantsorothersupportrelatedtoresearch. Hagith Sivan is a professor of history at KU. Shejoinedthefacultyin1993andisregardedasaworldau-thorityonthetransitionoftheMediterraneanregionfromancienttimestotheMiddleAges.Her2008work,Pales-tine in Late Antiquity, integratesmultiple aspectsofhis-tory–religion,law,politicsandculture–andexemplifiesherscholarlyengagementandbreadthofknowledgeinallthesesubjects.SivanhasmadeamajorcontributiontothefieldofChristian-Jewishstudies,reflectinghermasteryofawiderangeofsourcesandherliteraryskillandanalyticaloriginality.

Leslie Tuttle awarded Byron Caldwell Smith Book award TheHallCenterfortheHumanitieshasannouncedthewinner of the 2011ByronCaldwell SmithBookAward.

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Ku History Department Partners with Olathe Public Schools and Visits the native american Rights Fund Aspartofaprofessionaldevelopmentprogramentitled“ConnectingLearningand Instruction inOlathe (CLIO):We the People – In Search of a More Perfect Union,”twentyteachersfromOlathe,KansasPublicSchoolsvisitedtheNativeAmericanRightsFundandtheNationalIndianLaw Library from June 21-23. CLIO is funded throughaTeachingAmericanHistorygrant awardedby theU.S.DepartmentofEducation.Throughthisprogram,teacherstakeaseriesofgraduatelevelcoursesKU’sDepartmentofHistory.Suchcoursesaimtoincreaseteachers’knowledgeand understanding ofAmerican history content and keyconcepts, broaden teachers’ understanding of history asdemonstratedintheirownhistoricalresearchandwriting,and enhance teachers’ confidence in teachingAmericanhistory. Theteachers’visittoNARFandNILLwasthehighlightof one of these courses, a research seminar on NativeAmericanhistoryofferedbyDr.MichaelTosee(PhD2010)ofHaskellIndianNationsUniversityandDr.PaulKelton.The teachers listened topresentationsbyNARFstaffontopics including the boarding school healing project,federalrecognitionprocess,andwaterrights.TheydevotedtherestoftheirtimetoconductingresearchonprojectsthattheycanusefortheirMaster’sdegreesoronlessonplansonvariousNativeAmericantopicsthattheycanimplementin

theirclassrooms.MaureenDonegan,ProjectCoordinatorandSocialStudiesCoordinatorforOlathePublicSchools,accompaniedProfessorsToseeandKeltonandconcludedthat the experiencewas highly positive for all involved.“ThelunchlecturesbyNARFstaffandtheresearchatthelibrariesprovideduswithmuchtothinkaboutintermsofhumanrights,constitutionalprotection,andsovereigntyofIndiannations,”shecommented.ProfessorKeltonechoessuch praise: “Through their interaction with NARF andNILLstaff,Olatheteachershaveanewfoundappreciationfor the complexhistoryanddiversepresentday realitiesofNativeAmericans,”hecommented.“IappreciateJohnEcho-Hawkandhiscolleagues’timewithusandonlywishthatallpublicschoolteacherscouldhavesuchavaluableexperience.”

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John alexander recently saw his book,Emperor of the Cossacks: Pugahchev and the Frontier Jacquerie of 1773-1775 (Lawrence:CoronadoBooks, 1973) translated intoRussianandpublishedinUfa,Bashkortostanwithalauda-tory introduction that citedmanyofhis otherbooks andarticles,intheseriesForeign Researches in Tatar History.Heknewnothingofthistranslationuntilapprisedofitandaskedforpermission topublish.Thisannouncementwasaccompaniedbyanelectroniccopyofthetranslationandapromisetosendhardcopies,whichwasfulfilledamonthlaterwithfour“hard”copiesofthetranslation.CoronadoBookswasthepressownedbyJohn(Jack)Longhurstandno longerexists.Alexander isverypleased thathis leastknownbookshouldberescuedforthisRussiantranslation.Wondersnevercease!anna Cienciala publishedareview,“WhatdidRooseveltandChurchillReallyAim toAchieve for Poland atYal-ta?WasYalta thePrice forPeace?ADiscussionofS.M.Plokhy,Yalta:ThePriceofPeace,”The Polish Review,v.LV,2010,No.4,pp.449-466.Shealsoauthored“TheFor-eignPolicyofJozefPilsudskiandJozefBeck,1926-1939:MisconceptionsandInterpretations,”The Polish Review,v.LVI,2011,No.1-2,pp.111-152.Richard Kay hasnearly2000downloadsof thePontifi-caliabibliographyfromKUScholarWorks.Healsopub-lished an article, “Elam Bartholomew: Kansas King ofFieldMycology,”Mushroom: The Journal of Wild Mush-rooming,27.3-4(Summer-Fall,2010),pp.6-8.

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Joseph BradleyauthoredanarticleonRussiancivilsoci-ety,“KistoriiformirovaniiagrazhdanskogoobshchestvavRossiiXVIII-XXvekov,”whichwastheleadarticleintheMoscowscholarlyjournalROSSIISKAIAISTORIIA,no.2,2011.Hisbookonvoluntaryassociationswillbepub-lishedinRussiantranslationinMoscowinfall2011.Katherine Clark presented“DefoeandtheDiscoursesofDreaming”attheDefoeSocietyconferenceattheUniver-sityofWorcester,UKthisJuly.

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Maureen Donegan (Olathe Social Studies Coordinator), with KU HistoryStudentsandOlathe teachers,KeriSchumacher,AmyWalker,JenniferYoksh,LyndsayCast,andKarenDavis.

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engagewiththeburdenofrememberingslaverywhilealsoattemptingtotranscendit.

Roberta Pergherwasonleaveduringthespringsemes-tertoworkonherbookmanuscriptwhichanalyzesfascistItaly’ssettlementpoliciesatthenation’sbordersandinitsAfricancolonies.Shealsocompletedandsubmittedaned-itedbookmanuscriptonItalianfascismtoPalgrave,whichiscurrentlyunderreview.Herarticleonthepopulationre-settlementprogramof1939stipulatedbetweenfascistItalyandNaziGermanywaspublishedinapeer-reviewedItal-ianhistoryjournal.Sheiscurrentlyco-organizingaconfer-enceon Italian fascismbetween traditionandmodernity,whichwillbeheldinItalythisfall.

eric C. Rath published two books in 2010, Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan(UniversityofCaliforniaPress),whichdescribestheoriginofJapanesecuisine,and Past and Present in Japanese Foodways, co-editedwithStephanieAssmann (University of Illinois Press), whichcontains14chaptersonfourcenturiesofJapanesefoodbyan internationalgroupofscholars. In2011hecompletedworkonaUSStateDepartmentfundedproject,whichen-abled a team ofKU faculty to travel twice toTibet andallowed 5Tibetan students to study atKU.He receiveda travel grant from theUniversity ofMichigan to beginresearch for a book on smoking in earlymodern Japan.HegaveaninvitedtalkattheUniversityofMichiganandchairedapanelandpresentedapaperonJapanesefoodattheannualmeetingoftheAssociationforAsianStudiesinHonolulu.

John RuryiscoeditorofanewbookseriestobepublishedbyPalgraveMacmillan,Historical Studies in Education,withWilliamJ.ReeseoftheUniversityofWisconsin.Healsopublished“History,TheoryandEducation”intheHis-tory of Education Quarterly,Vol.51,No.3,May2011,pp.218-228.

Jennifer L. Weber published a children’s book, Sum-mer’s Bloodiest Days, abouttheBattleofGettysburganditsaftermath.ItwasnamedaNotableSocialStudiesTradeBook forYoung People by theNationalCouncil for theSocialStudies.

nathan WoodisspendingfivemonthsinWarsaw,Polandon a Fulbright Scholarship, where he is conducting re-searchonearlyattitudestowardautomobilesandairplanesfor his next book,Backwardness and Rushing Forward: Technology and Culture in Poland’s Age of Speed, 1890-1939.Hisarticle,“SexualViolence,SexScandals,andtheWordontheStreet:TheKolasównaLustmordinCracow’sPopular Press, 1905-06” appeared inThe Journal of the History of SexualityinMay.

the“BorderWars” thatflaredalong theKansas-Missourilinebetween the1850sand1880s (andbeyond).Partici-pantsmetatKU’sHallCenterfortheHumanitiesinAprilfor aworkshop, andwill reconvene for a public confer-enceattheKansasCityPublicLibraryNov.10-12.Earlealso delivered the inaugural “Pivotal Events” lecture fortheHistoryDepartment,anddeliveredtheHallCenterinWichitaLectureinApril.HewasawardedtheCollege’sJ.MichaelYoungAcademicAdvisorAwardfor2010-2011,andhisfirstbook,The Routledge Atlas of African Ameri-can History,wastranslatedintoJapanese.

Christopher e. Forth contributedchapters to theeditedvolumes A Cultural History of the Human Body (Berg2010)andWriting the Holocaust(Bloomsbury,2011)andpresentedworkontheculturalhistoryoffatattwoacade-micconferencesandasaguestspeakerattheUniversityofArkansas.HeisalsopartofaresearchteamthatreceivedanA$138,000AustralianResearchCouncilgranttostudygenderandhonorkilling.

Paul Kelton presented a talk entitled “Expansion withHonor/Resistance with Spirit: Indigenous Peoples, theUnited States, and theWar of 1812” at theKansasCityChapter of theSons of theRevolutionGeorgeWashing-ton’sBirthdayluncheon.

elizabeth Kuznesof presented a paper at the ICHS (In-ternationalConferenceonHistoricalStudies)2010inAm-sterdamAugust 22-29 “Domestic Service andUrbaniza-tion in19thCenturyLatinAmerica.”ShealsopresentedapaperattheMediterraneanStudiesConferenceinSala-manca, SpainMay 26-29, 2010, “Perspectives onBrazilinthe19thcenturyMediterraneanWorld.”SheauthoredareviewofSefanieKorn,KarolineNoack(eds.)Que gen-ero tiene el derecho? Ciudadania, historia y globalizacion.(Berlin,editiontranvia,2008).Bulletin of Latin American Research,2011.

adrian Lewis has a forthcomingbook,The American Culture of War: The History of U.S. Military Force from World War II to Operation En-during Freedom(Routledge,2ndedi-tion).

elizabeth Macgonagle’s essay onimaginingthepastatGreatZimbabwewillbepublishedbyAfricaWorldPressinthevolumeAfrica & Its Diaspora: Memory, Public History, & Representations of the Past.ThisworkispartofaprojectthatexamineshowAfricans

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Mark Calhoun presented papers at the Hall Center’sPW&GCSeminarandatthe2011SocietyofMilitaryHis-toryconference,andheearnedaBronzeandaSilverPenAwardfromTheCommandandGeneralStaffSchoolforvariouspublications.HealsoearnedaresearchtravelgrantfromtheKUgraduatestudiesdepartment,andhisarticle“Clausewitz and Jomini: Contrasting Intellectual Frame-works inMilitaryTheory”appeared in thesummer2011issueofArmy History.HeworksfulltimeattheSchoolofAdvancedMilitaryStudieswhilecompletinghisdisserta-tiononthemilitarycareerofGeneralLesleyJ.McNair.

Phillip Fox presented a paper at themeeting of theAs-sociationforSpanishandPortugueseHistoricalStudiesinLisbon,Portugal,June30-July3,2011.HeispicturedwithProfessorLuisCorteguera.

Dezeree Hodish received a dissertation research fellow-ship from the Institute of International Education. TheBoren Fellowship will allow her to conduct research inUkrainefromSeptember2011-July2012.

Jeremy Prichard received the King V. Hostick Awardfrom the Illinois Historic PreservationAgency this pastyear.

Jason Roe isworkingonhisdissertation,“FromtheIm-poverished to theEntitled:TheExperienceandMeaningofOldAgeinAmericasincethe1950s,”whichexaminestheorigins,developmentandculturalimpactofold-ageen-titlementpoliciessuchasMedicareandSocialSecurity.HehasreceivedfundingfromtheRichardandJeannetteSiasGraduateFellowshipfromtheHallCenterfortheHumani-ties to complete his research in the2011-2012 academicyear.

Stephanie StilloreceivedtheEddieJacobsenFellowshipfor International Studies fromKarl Zobrist, President oftheHarryS.TrumanGoodNeighborAwardFoundation,

andactorGarySinise,the2011Honoree,ataceremonyinKansasCityonMay5,2011.

Lon Strauss recently presented his dissertation researchin June at abrownbag lunchat theU.S.Army’sCenterofMilitaryHistoryinWashington,DC.Healsopresented“ADomesticWayofWar:Paranoia,DisloyalWords,andMilitarySurveillanceofCivilians inWorldWarI”at theannual conference of the Society forMilitaryHistory inChicago; as well as “Requiring Loyalty inThought andDeed:TheU.S.ArmyandDomesticSurveillanceinWorldWarI”attheHallCenterfortheHumanitiesatKU.

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NicholasAdamsGreerAdkins-HeljesonAmandaAllenbrandAmandaAllisonKevinBaileyHannahBallardBrandonBecknerAndrewBernittLaurenBloodgoodCodyBoosShaunBrammerJordanBrownPrestonBukatyGarrettChildersAxelCohenChelseaCooleyKyleCourtneyMatthewCroisantMorganDeutschAnthonyDishmanSarahDoyleAlexandraEdwardsBrettElliottEvanEppersonMelanieEvansMattFalkenstienRebeccaFermKirstieFineDavidFoleyJasonFosterJohnFridlingtonJarrodGillMichelleGrahamThomasGravesNavreetGrewalBartonGunterMatthewHaleWilliamHardyScottHillDavidHodgesTylerHolmesSuzanneHuffmanAshleyHullingerLadiniJayaratneAndrewJohnsonTylerJonesSaulKantorJacobKeltnerBrianKhomsiWesleyKimmelCourtneyKincaidDanielKonertRogerLuedke

2011 DeGree recipieNts

uNDerGraDuatesEllenMakowskyAllysonMannyAmandaMatusekWilliamMcChesneyMarkMcGeeKentonMcKeeDrakeMcVeyMichaelNapierCooperOverstreetColinPateJacobPerryCalePetersenVoneitaPetersonSharonPetrieNathanielPikeKristinaPollardDemyPotterMarkPriceStephaniePugsleyMichaelRaaschErikRadowskiAmandaRamirezTimothyRasmussonJoshuaReidTravisRemmichEdwardRostetterIISethSanchezJoelSauerweinAndrewSaylorPaigeSchmidtJosephSchmisseurCharlesScholleCaraSeatsValerieShandsBaileyShepardJacobSilvermanPhetSonMichaelSpatzHeatherSpragueRebeccaSullivanChantzThomasJohnThorntonPatrickTotaroThomasTownsdinScottTunnellEliskaValehrachovaJacobVietsSamuelWeinbergNathanWestKevinWheelerKevinWorkmanAndrewWrightMargaretYoe

masters WinchellDelano KennethKolander AmandaSchlumpbergerJasonGladney HansKrueger NeilSchomakerDezereeHodish TeresaScalard AdamSundbergMichaelHogg

2011 awarD recipieNts

uNDerGraDuatesNicoleBinghamMemorialScholarship–MelissaMalcolmLilaAtkinsonCreightonMemorialScholarshipforaHistoryMajor

–AnnaAlexandrovitch&TrentBoultinghouseRobinson-PhiAlphaThetaAward forOutstanding JuniorHistory

Major–JuliaBarnardJamesC.MalinScholarshipforOutstandingJuniorHistoryMajor

–ThomasHiattJohnG.GagliardoAwardforOutstandingJuniorHistoryMajor–

SarahShierMelissaEvansStudyAbroadAward–LukeBrinkerCarlBeckerAwardforMostOutstandingPaperinaSeniorResearch

Seminar–JenniferBinnsAwardforMostOutstandingHonorsThesis–HannahBallardAnne Stewart Higham Award for Most Outstanding Graduating

Senior–BrandonGresham

ph.D.sKyleAnthony,“‘ToHesitateisCowardly’:RadicalismandAmerican

Manhood,1870-1920.”Advisor:JeffMoranKevinBenson, “AnElite ofCapability:TheSchool ofAdvanced

MilitaryStudiesandUSArmyDoctrinalReform,1980-1995.”Advisor:TedWilson

ThomasBradbeer,“‘AttackEverything’:TheBritishAirCampaignovertheSomme,1April1916-23November1916.”Advisor:TedWilson

RyanGaston, (Honors) “AssumingRoles:Gender,Crisis and theConservation of Spain in the Early 17th Century.”Advisor:LuisCorteguera

TroyHinkel,“JulesFerryandHenriMaret:TheBattleofChurchandStateattheSorbonne,1879-1884.”Advisor:LeslieTuttle

CrystalJohnson,“TheCoreWay:TheCongressofRacialEqualityand the Civil Right Movement, 1942-1968.” Advisor: JeffMoran

Marina Maccari-Clayton, “Global Migration in Transition: TheAmericas,Europe,andItalianDiaspora(1946-1960).”Advisor:LuisCorteguera

JamesQuinn,“‘WeHaveNoPlace’:TheCaptivityandHomecomingof French Prisoners of War, 1939-1947.” Advisor: LuisCorteguera

ChristopherRein, (Honors) “‘Properly andProfitablyEmployed’:The US Army Air Forces in North Africa, June 1942 toSeptember1943.”Advisor:AdrianLewis

KimberlySchutte,(Honors)“MarryingbytheNumbers:MarriagePatternsofAristocraticBritishWomen,1485-2000.”Advisor:KatherineClark

DarrickTaylor, (Honors) “L’EstrangeHisLife:Public&Personain theLife andCareerofSirRogerL’Estrange, 1616-1704.”Advisor:JonathanClark

SallyUtech,“‘CertainlytheProperBusinessofWoman’:Householdand Estate Management Techniques of Eighteenth-CenturyFrenchNoblewomen.”Advisor:LeslieTuttle

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GraDuatesArthur&JudithMcClureMemorialScholarship–AlexBoyntonAmbroseSaricksFamilyResearchScholarship–BenjaminGuyerEwert-CobbScholarship forResearch in theLiberalArts –Chris

CareyRobert&AndreaOppenheimerAward–JacobLongaker&Edma

DelgadoSolorzanoDonaldR.McCoyResearchAward–MaryMcMurrayMrdjenovicFamilyAward–RobMillerOswaldP.BackusIIIMemorialAward–DezereeHodishJohnG. GagliardoAward for OutstandingTeaching by a GTA –

JoshuaNygrenNormanE.&MaryAnnSaulAward forDissertationResearch –

StephanieStilloGeorgeL.AndersonAwardforOutstandingDoctoralDissertation–

“Marryingby theNumbers:MarriagePatternsofAristocraticBritishWomen,1485-2000,”KimSchutte&“AssumingRoles:Gender, Crisis and the Conservation of Spain in the EarlySeventeenthCentury,”RyanGaston

JerryStannardMemorialAward–AnInternationalAward–“ThePlagueCures ofCasparKegler:Print,AlchemyandMedicalMarketing in Sixteenth-Century Germany,” Erik AntonHeinrichs,PhDHarvardUniversity

NoN DepartmeNtal awarDsHallCenterScholarAward–LukeBrinkerCarrollPrizeforBestGraduateStudentPaperinMilitaryHistoryat

theMissouriValleyHistoryConference–GatesBrownForeignLanguageAreaStudies(FLAS)FellowshipfromtheCenter

forEastAsianStudies–DustyClarkCouncilofEuropeanStudies’Pre-DissertationResearchFellowship

–HarleyDavidsonForeignLanguageAreaStudiesforUkrainianLanguageStudies–

DezereeHodishKU-FMSOFellowship–RandyMastenLatinAmericanFieldResearchGranttoSpain–IreneOlivaresChickasawNationHigherEducationGrant–KrystlePerkinsHallCenterSiasGraduateFellowshipintheHumanities–JasonRoeHarryS.TrumanGoodNeighborAwardFoundationforaSherman

and IreneDrieseszen Scholarship for InternationalHistory –NicholasSambaluk

ForeignLanguageAreaStudiestostudyCzechlanguageatIndianaUniversity–AllisonSchmidt

HallCenterGraduateSummerResearchAward–JohnSchneiderwindMortarBoardSociety,1of5OutstandingEducatorsatKU–Kim

SchutteSociety forMilitaryHistoryRussellF.WeigleyGraduateStudent

TravelGrant–LonStraussEddie Jacobson Fellowship for International Studies – Stephanie

StilloKU-NewberryCenter forRenaissance StudiesConsortiumTravel

Grant–StephanieStilloLatinAmericanStudiesFieldResearchGrant–StephanieStilloTrumanFoundationGrantforSummerResearch–StephanieStilloFulbrightResearchGranttotheNetherlands–AdamSundbergGraduateStudentResearchCompetitionAward(ArtandHumanities)

–AdamSundbergKU National Science Foundation C-Change IGERT Program –

AdamSundbergMini Grant from the CHS Foundation for KU’s Wind Energy

Symposium–AdamSundbergJapan Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship in Japan –

MindyVarnerFulbrightIIEGranttoBelgrade,Serbia–ShayWood

alumNi NewsSeth andersen (Ba 1990) is currently the ExecutiveDirectoroftheAmericanJudicatureSociety,anorganizationthatpromotesafairandeffectivesystemofjustice.HeisaformerspecialassistanttothepresidentoftheAmericanBarAssociationandformerdirectoroftheHunterCenterforJudicialSelectionoftheAmericanJudicatureSociety.HenowresidesinDesMoines,IA.

Darrel e. Bigham (PhD 1970)retiredfromtheUniversityofSouthernIndianain2008after38years.HewasappointedbyPresidentClintonandserved10yearsasamemberoftheUSAbrahamLincolnBicentennialCommission.Heisnowatworkona“collectivebiography”ofthefiveDemocratswhomadeLincolnpresidentin1860,andisalsoworkingonastudyofVermont’simpactonthedevelopmentoftheoldNorthwest.

Robert L. Boyce III (Ba 1964) retired in 2009 fromLincoln(NE)CityLibrariesafter27yearsasaReferenceLibrarian.Previously,hehadworkedattheKULibraries,JohnsHopkinsUniveristyLibrary, and theUniversityofNebraskaLibrary.Hiswifeof41years,BarbaraEricssonBoyce(KUBA1965,PhiBetaKappa),diedin2007.

O. gene Clanton (PhD 1967) is Professor Emeritus atWashington State University. He has no news since hepublishedA Common Humanity: Kansas Populism and the Battle for Justice and Equality 1854-1903 several yearsback. Incidentally, freecopiesof this studyareavailableforclassroomuse.Contactauthor.

Kent Curtis (PhD 2001)wasrecentlyawardedthe2010OscarWintherAwardbytheWesternHistoricalAssociationfor the best article of the year in theWestern Historical Quarterly,2009-2010.

Paul F. Dunscomb (PhD 2001)hadabookbasedonhisdissertationpublishedbyLexingtonBooksin2011entitledJapan’s Siberian Intervention, 1918-1922: “A Great Disobedience Against the People.”

Karen Hunt exon (Ma 1982, PhD 1990)steppeddowninspring2010after21yearsatBakerUniversityasProfessorof History and Political Science. She spent 20 years asUniversityPre-LawAdvisorand11yearsasDepartmentChair. She continues on as thewomen’s golf coach (14years)andmen’sgolfcoach(6years).

Charles eyer (Ba 1997) published a historical novelof Nero’s Rome last year called First Citizen Emperor and iscurrentlywriting the sequel.Hiswebsite iswww.mossynoecy.com.

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Scott a. gartner (BgS 1987) recently started his ownregistered investmentadvisoryservice,GartnerFinancialGroup,LLC.They focusprimarilyon teachingscientificmethodsofinvestingthroughtheteachingsofacademia.

Virginia e. glandon (PhD 1976) is retired from theHistoryDepartmentatUMKCandsendsbestwishestoall.

Douglas S. Harvey (PhD 2008)hadamonographpublishedin2010byPickeringandChatto,entitledThe Theatre of Empire: Frontier Performances in North America, 1750-1860.

David Lloyd Jones (Ma 1965) isfullyretirednowwithemeritus status.He spends the harsherwintermonths inSouthCarolinawithhissonandgrandchildren,andalwaysthinksfondlyofLawrenceandKU.

Ryan M. Kennedy (BgS 2009) is currently attendinggraduateschoolatFortHaysStateUniversitypursuingaMaster’sdegreeinHistory.

Jim Lieker (PhD 1999)isnowinhisninthyearatJCCCastenuredProfessorofHistory.HeservesontheeditorialboardofKansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains,chairs thecommunitycollegecommittee for theWesternHistory Association, and is director of JCCC’s KansasStudies Institute. His dissertation, titledRacial Borders: Black Soldiers along the Rio Grande,hasbeenreissuedinpaperbackandwasawinneroftheFehrenbachawardforbestbookonTexashistory.Hissecondbook,co-authoredwith fellow KU alum Ramon Powers, is The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory,andisduefromUniversityofOklahomaPressin2011.

James S. Masters (Ba 1949, Ma 1950) is currentlywritingabookentitledBecoming American in New York.Atleastnineofhisancestorsandtheirfamiliesfrom1624to1851begantheprocessofbecomingAmericaninwhatisnowNewYorkState.WhatwereNewNetherlandandNewYork likeat the timesof theirarrivalsandhowdidthataffecttheirAmericanization?He’sbeencollectingdataforthisbookforthelastthirtyyears,andisgladhenowhasthechancetoputitall together,particularlysincehenowlivesintheregionofNewYorkwhereittookplace.HecanwalkthecoupleofmilesfromhishousedowntotheHudsonRiverandseetheplacewhereHenryHudson’sHalveMaen anchored, or themile or so south from hishousetotheNormanskill,atthemouthofwhichcreektheDutch built Ft. Nassau to provide protection for the furtraders.

arthel McDaniel III (Ba 1994) teaches “IndependentFilmFinance:TheArtoftheDeal”inKU’sFilm&MediaStudiesDepartment,inadditiontohisworkasanattorneyatPolsinelliShughardPCinKansasCity,Missouri.

Jeff Miller (BgS 1983) is currentlyAssistant Professorand Program Coordinator in the Restaurant and ResortManagementprogramatColoradoStateUniversity.Aftergraduating fromKU, hewent toNewEnglandCulinaryInstitute,earnedaMaster’sdegreeinHotelandRestaurantManagement from Kansas State, and received his PhDin Education from Colorado State University in 2006.In 2007, he received the Best TeacherAward from theColoradoStateUniversityAlumniAssociation.In2010,hepublished a book entitledFood Studies: An Introduction to Research Methods (BergPublishers:Oxford,UK).Heenjoyed his time in the history department and fondlyremembersthementoringthereceivedfromBobGreaves,JohnMcCauley,andLynnNelson.

ethan a. Schmidt (PhD 2007) isanAssistantProfessorintheDepartmentofHistoryatTexasTechUniversityandrecentlyreceivedtheTexasTechPresident’sExcellenceinTeachingAward.

Curtis V. Smith (Ma 1992)receivedanInterdisciplinaryPhD (2010) from UMKC in Urban Leadership andPolicy Studies in Higher Education/Social Science. Hisdissertation was “The Impact of Part-Time Faculty onStudent Retention at an Urban Community College.”KCKCC e-Journal published his articles “The Cause ofBlack Death” (Fall 2007) and “Syphilis and ContagionTheories” (March 2009). He is currently Professor ofBiological Science at Kansas City Kansas CommunityCollege.

Jennifer Day Tope (Ba 1997) has been teaching as anadjunct professor at several universities for the past sixyears.

adrian Zink (Ba 2005) works as an archivist at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he receivedhis Master’s in History in May 2011. He helped createthe March on Milwaukee Civil Rights Digital HistoryProject,anonlineresourcefordigitizedarchivalmaterialsfrom the Civil Rights era in Milwaukee, WI (www.marchonmilwaukee.uwm.edu). After KU, he receivedhis MLS with a focus onArchival Management at theUniversity of Maryland in 2008, and has worked as anarchivist at the National Archives, The National PressClub, Northwestern Memorial Hospital Archives inChicago,MarquetteUniversityandUW-Milwaukee.TheWisconsinArchivesCouncil recently gavehima $3,000granttocompleteamonographonthefutureofdigitizationofarchivalcollections.HecurrentlyresidesinMilwaukee,WI, and is so thankful toKUHistory for the professorswhoencouragedhimtoscourthearchives,wherehefoundhispassion.

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thaNK you For your supportWeareverygratefulforthegenerosityofourmanyfriendswhohaveoffered theirfinancial supportofourprogram.Theshrinkageofstatesupporthasledustodependmoreheavilyonourendowment funds tomaintain thevitalityofouracademicmission.Asaresearchoneinstitution,wemustgiveourfacultyandgraduatestudentsthehelptheyneedtocompletecuttingedgeprojectsthatwillkeepusinthetoptierofdepartmentsamongpublicuniversities.Wealsohaveaneverincreasingnumberofhard-workinganddeserving undergraduate studentswho need scholarshipstostayinschool.Pleaseconsiderhelpinguswithwhateveryoucangive.Wetrulyappreciatethesupportofourdonors.Aspecialthankyougoestoour2010-2011contributors:

SethS.AndersenNorrisG.ArtmanBarbaraBackusMcCorkleMarilynR.BelsheAnneWolfeBenjamin&GregBenjaminAlexanderJ.&EricaBensonDarrelE.Bigham&MaryHitchcockJohnR.BinderIIINancyBinghamCharlesC.BishopJr.StevenJ.BosCharlesS.BryanDorothyD.BuchholzDarrelRobertCady&LavonneGrossWilliamB.&RuthC.ChalfantMaryE.ClarkinDavidL.ColganRogerW.CorleyThelmaJ.CurlFrederickC.DahlstrandVinceE.DavenportStevenR.DavisAustinT.DeslauriersFlorenceCarreDeWittEthanB.DomkeC.StewartDotyTai&RyanEdwardsKarenHunt&RobertA.ExonBradleyE.FelsEugeneC.&DorothyO.FifieldStephanieFleisch&JasonR.HarvilleLorraine&StephenG.FoleyChristopherD.GardnerLisaC.GigstadArmanJ.HabeggerJosephT.HapakC.James&RuthJ.S.HaugKristenM.HewlettLarryM.&JeanaKayeHultquistJonJ.&MaryMotleyIndall

DavidL.JonesKearneyAreaCommunityFoundationMichaelV.KellerJonS.KeplerBruceL.LarsonWilliamBogartLewinMaryBeaLittrellCaroleL.&ToddJ.LovinJaneWoffordMalinJohnT.MapleRex&DonnaMartinJamesS.MastersPatrickMcGrath&MarthaMyersDavidH.MichenerKevinF.MorleyRolandM.MuellerBarbaraE.&Dr.MerrillF.MulchGlendaE.MurrayWilliamV.NooneDr.Phillip&Dr.TeriOppenheimerLeesaK.&ScottW.PalmerLarryG.&KristineF.ParkerJohnC.ParrishKathleenM.&JohnW.PartinNikolausJ.PaulyElmoR.RichardsonKennethW.RockDebraP.&DavidL.RoeChadJ.&LindsayPutmanRoeslerBruceD.RyderChristopherL.Saricks&JoyceGoeringNormanE.Saul&MaryAnnCulwellJudithGreenwald&G.JoeScatoloniEthanA.SchmidtPhillipR.Schmidt&PhyllisShankJanetS.SchurigJenniferL.SchwertfegerStevenSheddDavidC.ShinkleCurtisV.SmithDaphneEvonStannard&BertramC.H.SimonCharlesL.StansiferJonathanT.SternbergAudieD.ThompsonGeraldB.ThompsonClydeW.Toland&NancyHummelToddP.VicentStevenM.&JoanC.VincentCarolA.WalkerPaulWankeChristopherA.WarrenKendellJ.WarrenPauletteS.WatsonMichaelJ.WengerMichaelN.WibelAmyWilliamsonDanielS.ZevitzAdrianJ.ZinkJamesK.Zitnik

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Lawrence Public LibraryTown Ball was played in the United States beginning in the early 1800’s and is

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Professor Earle for a discussion and demonstration of this fascinating game. Participants and spectators welcome!

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