In June, Ken Cmiel was one of seven UI faculty to receive the prestigious 2006 Regents Award for Faculty Excellence. The $1,000 associated with Ken’s award will go to the Center for Human Rights internship program.

Linda Kerber assesses recent controversies surrounding the National Archives and the Smithsonian in Protecting the Nation's Memory (Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 May 2006).

Our alumnus John Sommerville (PhD, 1970) has an article, The Exhaustion of Secularism, in the Chronicle (June 9, 2006).

The Department congratulates our 2005-06 honors graduates:
Stephen Bowden , "Plowshares to Swords: The Development of Zionist Militarism in Palestine, 1881-1947, Professor Shira Robinson; Danielle Bradley , "Remaking Mandeville: The English Printed Edition and Their Audiences", Dr. Kathleen Kamerick; Ross Fackrell , "Miscalculations and Misconceptions: Tensions Between East and West and Their Culmination in the Fourth Crusade," Professor Katherine Tachau; Matthew Friedel , "Some Differences Between Urban and Rural Christianity in Contemporary China", Professor R. David Arkush; Ethan Grundberg , "Confronting the Perils of Globalization: Nicaraguan Banana Workers' Struggle for Justice,"  Professor Michel Gobat; Mary Hicks , "The Coverage of World War I by the Radical Black Press: 1917-1919," Professor Leslie Schwalm; Katherine McNulty , "Nineteenth Century Irish Temperance: A Comparative Analysis of the Movements of Theobald Mathew and James A. Cullen", Professor Jeffrey Cox; Megan Roy, "The Divis Flats: The Social Implications of a Modern Public Housing Complex in Belfast, 1968-1998", Professor Jeffrey Cox; Matthew Stone , "The Two Taiwan Straits Crises: U.S. Options and Actions", Professor Colin Gordon

The following honors students have won scholarships for thesis research in 2006-07:
Aaron Myers : William Eugene Wolters Scholarship; Sebastian Mercier : William Eugene Wolters Scholarship, Flora Belle Houston Memorial Scholarship; Charles M. T. Hagin : Alan Spitzer Scholarship; Jameson Ryley :  William L. M. and William E. Burke Fellowship; Stephanie Schulz :  William L. M. and William E. Burke Fellowship

Linda Kerber has been elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS), the oldest learned society in the United States. Link to UI news release.

Paul Greenough is the recipient of the 2005-06 Hancher Finkbine Faculty Medallion.  The award is in recognition of his tireless and innovative leadership of the Global Health Studies and Crossing Borders programs. Link to UI news release.

The Association for Israel Studies has awarded the Ben Halpern Dissertation Award, for the best doctoral dissertation in Israel studies (2004-2005) to Shira Robinson.  The award will be presented at the upcoming annual AIS meeting in Banff.

Leslie Schwalm’s essay “‘Overrun with Free Negroes’:  Emancipation and Wartime Migration in the Upper Midwest,” originally published in Civil War History, has been selected for The Best American History Essays 2006, edited by Joyce Appleby for the OAHs.

The daily report in the April issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education singles out Mark Peterson’s recent essay in Common-Place, an online journal.

The new issue of Church History features two essays by members of the department: Dwight Bozeman, “John Clarke and the Complications of Liberty,” and Jeff Cox, “Provincializing Christendom: The Case of Great Britain.”

The April 2006 special issue of Common-place is co-edited by Mark Peterson and includes contributions by Mark, Mac Rohrbough, and Rudi Colloredo-Mansfield of the Department of Anthropology.

Glenn Penny has received a George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship. It is one of only eleven 2006-07 fellowships in the fields of Anthropology, Sociology, and Political Science. Glenn competed in the field of anthropology, which made the challenge even greater than usual.

Lisa Heineman and Glenn Penny have received International Programs Summer Research Fellowships Awards to support travel, material and other research needs. Glenn also received a travel grant from the IP's Committee on International Travel.

David Schoenbaum was featured on National Public Radio on Saturday, April 15 for a piece on "America's History of Violins" about a new exhibit at the Library of Congress.

Three of our graduate students -- Dana Quartana, Anna Bostwick, and Justus Hartzok -- gave papers at the recent Jakobsen Conference.  As one observer noted: “Their presentations were formidable; the discussion afterward lively.”

Shira Robinson, “Commemoration under Fire: Palestinian Responses to the 1956 Kafr Qasim Massacre,” In Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa ( Indiana University Press, 2006).

The latest AHA Perspectives includes a memorial to Ken Cmiel.

The UI Museum of Art announced the opening of an exhibit featuring a collection of American prints and drawings donated by Alan January [PhD in History, 1976] and his wife, Ann. The Daily Iowan ran a story about the exhibit titled "Subject Matters: The Alan and Ann January Collection of American Prints and Drawings" in a story on March 23. For the complete story, click here >>.

Shira Robinson’s wonderful essay, “My Hairdresser is a Sniper” has been reprinted in The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993—2005, edited by Joel Beinin and Rebecca L. Stein (Stanford University Press, 2006).

Elizabeth Heineman, “Der Mythos Beate Uhse: Respektabilität, Geschichte und autobigraphisches Marketing in desr frũhen Bundesrepublik,” [The Beate Uhse Myth: Respectability, History, and Autobiographical Marketing in the Early Federal Republic of Germany] WERKSTATTGESCHICHTE 40 [HISTORY WORKSHOP] (December 2005).

Our alum, Michelle Rhoades, has an essay, "Renegotiating French Masculinity: Medicine and Venereal Disease during the Great War" in the latest issue of French Historical Studies.

David Schoenbaum’s review of Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945 by R.J.B. Bosworth appeared in the New York Times Book Review on March 3.

Charles A. Hale, Professor of History Emeritus, received the Distinguished Service Award from the Conference on Latin American History at the recent AHA meeting in Philadelphia. The award was established in 1969 and is conferred upon a person whose career in scholarship, teaching, publishing, librarianship, institutional development or other fields demonstrates significant contributions to the advancement of the study of Latin American history in the U.S.

The Department mourns the loss of our colleague and friend Ken Cmiel. Ken is survived by his wife Anne Duggan, and their children Willa, Cordelia, and Noah. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to a charity of choice or to a memorial fund for Ken's children: Cmiel Children Memorial Fund, UI Community Credit Union, P.O. Box 2240, Iowa City, IA 52244-2244. >> Click here to read a memorial note and links to many of Ken’s recent publications, as well as a clip from the Memorial Service held on Feb. 11.

"Bringing History Home," a history curriculum for K-6 students developed in Washington County, Iowa, is now featured on the Library of Congress website. Cath Denial, Annie Parker, and Colin Gordon have served as historical consultants to this project.

Malcolm Rohrbough, "American and French Forty-Niners: Varied Reactions to the California Landscape, 1484-1854," in Nature et Progrè: Interactions, Exclusions et Mutations (Presses del Université-Paris Sorbonne, 2006).

Jason Duncan (PhD, 2001) Citizens or Papists? The Politics of Anti-Catholicism in New York, 1685-1821 (Fordham University Press, 2005).

James Giblin, A History of the Excluded: Making Family a Refuge from State in Twentieth-Century Tanzania (Ohio University Press, 2006).

James Giblin, In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority and Dissidence in Tanzania (co-edited with Gregory H. Maddox; Ohio University Press, 2006).