RECENT NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS

Colleen O'Neill participated in an international workshop on "Indigenous Women, Colonialism and Labor," August 21-23, 2008. The meeting included indigenous women scholars from New Zealand, First Nations scholars from Canada, and American Indian women whose collaborative project will take final form in the first book on Native women's labor (University of Illinois Press).

Susan Shapiro was invited to give the Theodore Guerard Lecture on Latin Literature on April 4, 2008 at the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. The title of her talk was"Catullus Politicus."

Victoria Grieve's article,"Work That Satisfies the Creative Instinct: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Arts and Crafts," was published in the Winterthur Portfolio Vol. 42, No. 23, Summer/Autumn 2008.

Susan Shapiro's article, "Cicero and Today's Intermediate College-level Student," was published in The Classical Outlook, vol. 84, no. 4, Summer 2007, pages 147-152.

Nick Demas, director of the Utah History Fair, coordinated the projects of five dozen students who participated in the 2008 National History Day Competition held in June College Park, Md. With Nick’s assistance, three of the Utah participants placed in the top 10 of their individual categories. For the full story, click here.

Leonard Rosenband’s contributions to the historiography of French industrialization have been highlighted in François Jarrige’s essay, "Un chemin singulier? L'industrialisation française vue par les historiens américains" ("A Singular Path? French Industrialization as Seen by American Historians"), in Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle 36, 2008/1: 151-162. To see the essay, click here.

Lawrence Culver was interviewed on "Which Way, LA?," the evening news program on KCRW, a National Public Radio station that broadcasts across Southern California. He spoke about his research on the history of parks and recreation in Los Angeles and other American cities, commenting on the current state of parklands in L.A. To hear the broadcast, click here.

Check out the Utah State Alumni magazine, Summer 2008 (click here to see the article). Mark Damen, along with his former student Willy Lensch and current student Chuck Oughton, is interviewed about their research on a seventeenth-century medical treatise in Latin.

Timothy Wolters recently published the article "Electric Torpedoes in the Confederacy: Reconciling Conflicting Histories" in the prestigious peer-reviewed Journal of Military History 72 (July 2008), 755-783. This journal accepts just one in nine manuscripts that are submitted for publication.

In July 2008, Victoria Grieve (along with Nadra Haffar and Laurie Baefsky) received a Faculty Fellowship from the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies for 2008-2010. Prof. Grieve will use the grant to develop two curriculum modules about land use in the West based on the work of a visiting artist in Fall 2009.

In June 2008, Victoria Grieve was awarded a fellowship from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History to complete research in 1930's children's literature at the New York Public Library and Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Jay Anderson has received the John T. Schlebecker Award from the Association of Living History Farms and Agricultural Museums [ALHFAM]. This lifetime award is intended to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the growth and development of ALHFAM. It is given once a year.

Jamie Sanders has been awarded a University of Florida Library Travel Grant for use this summer in order to pursue his project on the Atlantic World in nineteenth-century Latin America. The University of Florida has one of the best Latin American research libraries in the world.

Jamie Sanders has written an article entitled “ ‘A Mob of Women’ Confront Post-Colonial Republican Politics: How Class, Race, and Partisan Ideology Affected Gendered Political Space in Nineteenth-Century Southwestern Colombia.” It was published in The Journal of Women’s History 20 (Spring 2008): 63-89.

Norm Jones has been named the Senior Visiting Fellow by the Governing Body of Jesus College, Oxford, for 2008-2009, his sabbatical year.

Jamie Sanders has written an essay, “The Ghostwriter’s Story,” which was published in the 24 January 2008 issue of The London Review of Books.

The Department of History offers its congratulations!

last updated on 21-Aug-2008