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2007 Publication News

Malcolm J. Rohrbough, Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850 Revised and Expanded Edition (Indiana, 2007).

Shelton Stromquist (editor), Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context (Illinois, 2007).

Megan Threlkeld, “The Pan-American Conference of Women, 1922: Successful Suffragists Turn to International Relations,” Diplomatic History 31:5 (2007), 801-828.

Lisa Heineman, “Weltweit Einzigartig: Das Beate-Uhse-Archive,” in Forshungsstelle fur Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg (FZH), October 2007

Sarah Hanley, “La Primaute Masculine en Question: Longueville Contre Nemours,” in Femmes et Pouvoir Politique(Editions Breal, 2007).

Paula Michaels, “Childbirth Pain Relief and the Soviet Origins of the Lamaze Method,”  NCEEER Working Paper (October, 2007).

Connie Berman, “Women’s Work in Family, Village, and Town after 1000 CE: Contributions to Economic Growth?Journal of Women’s History 19:3 (2007): 10-32.

Catherine Komisaruk, "Juicios de violencia sexual en la Guatemala tardía colonial" ["Trials for Sexual Violence in Late Colonial Guatemala"] in Los rostros de la violencia: Guatemala y El Salvador. Siglos XVIII y XIX [The Faces of Violence: Guatemala and El Salvador, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries], ed. Ana Margarita Gómez and Sajid Alfredo Herrera (San Salvador: Universidad Centroamericana Editores, 2007), 47-78.

Omar Valerio-Jimenez, “Latinos in the American West” in Benjamin H. Johnson, ed., Making of the American West: People and Perspectives(ABC-CLIO, 2007).

Elizabeth Heineman, “’The History of Morals in the Federal Republic’: Advertising, PR, and the Beate Uhse Myth,” in Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth Century Germany, edited by Pamela Sweet, Jonathan Wiesen, and Jonathan Zatlin (Duke, 2007), 202-229.

Connie Berman, “Beyond the Rule of St. Benedict: Imposition of Cistercian Customs and Enclosure on Nuns in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries,” Magistra 13 (2007): 3-40.

Colin Gordon (with Jevon Europe and Elaine Ditsler), The State of Working Iowa, 2007 ( Iowa Policy Project, 2007).

Kevin Mumford’s Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America(NYU Press, 2007), has received a great deal of attention—on its merits, and as a marker of the 40 th anniversary of the summer 1967 riots. Press coverage has included an interview with the New Jersey Star Ledger and radio interviews with WCTO in New Brunswick, WGBO in Newark, and KCUI radio in Irvine, CA. Kevin has also given (or scheduled) book signings and/or public lectures at the Newark Public Library, Ramapo College, Bryn Mawr College, and Columbia University.

David Schoenbaum published Music: Another Ovation for Joachim (Who?) in the New York Times (12 August 2007).

Leslie Schwalm, “’Sweet Dreams of Freedom’: Freedwomen’s Reconstruction of and Life and Labor in Low Country South Carolina” in The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights Since Emancipation, edited by Eric Arnesen ( Illinois, 2007).

Carroll Engelhardt (PhD, 1967) Gateway to the Northern Plains: Railroads and the Birth of Fargo and Moorhead( Minnesota, 2007).

Harold L. Smith (PhD, 1971) has published a revised and expanded edition of his book,The British Women's Suffrage Campaign 1866-1928 (Longman, 2007).

Yunxiang Gao (Phd, 2005), now an Assistant Professor at Ryerson in Toronto, has published an article “Nationalist and Feminist Discourses on Jianmei (Robust Beauty) during China's ‘National Crisis’ in the 1930s” in the latest issue of Gender and History.

The companion volume to the PBS documentary Through Deaf Eyes has just been published by Gallaudet University Press. Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic History of an American Community (2007) is co-authored by Doug Baynton, Jack R. Gannon, and Jean Lindquist Bergey.

Connie Berman has published, “Distinguishing Between Humble Peasant Lay Brother and Sister, and the Converted Knight in Medieval Southern France,” in Emilia Jamroziak and janet Burton, eds, Religious and Laity in Western Europe, 1000-1400 (Brepols, 2007).

Our alum Mark Depue (PhD, 2004) has just published Patrolling Baghdad: A Military Police Company and the War in Iraq (Kansas, 2007).

Susan Lawrence has published an important article on the implications posed by the privacy provisions of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA): “Access Anxiety: HIPAA and Historical Research,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (Fall 2007); advance access web version published on January 4, 2007.

Lisa Heineman has published “The Economic Miracle in the Bedroom,” Journal of Modern History 78:4 (December 2006).

Our alum, Chris Gerteis (PhD, 2001), gave a talk at the AHA entitled "Gender Struggles: Radical Women and Male Dominated Unions in Postwar Japan."   He has an article coming out this Spring: "The Erotic and the Vulgar: Visual Culture and Organized Labor's Critique of U.S. Hegemony in Occupied Japan," Critical Asian Studies, (39:1), March 2007.

Lawrence J. McCaffrey (PhD, 1954) has published "Irish Americans," Multi-Culturalism in the United States, editors John D. Buenker and Lorman A. Ratner (Greenwood Press, 2005); "Sean O'Faolain and Irish Identity ," New Hibernian Review (Volume 9, no.4, Winter 2005); and "Drifting Into the Mainstream: Catholic Irish America ," Irquas-Insight (Number 3, Spring 2006).

Connie Berman has two articles, “New Light on the Economic Pactices of Cistercian Women’s Communities,” and “Land, Family, and Women in Medieval Rome: Reassessing a Mentor’s Classic Article,” in the Medieval Feminist Forum 41 (Summer 2006).

Our alum Chris Schabel (PhD, 1994) has published “Philosophy and Theology Across Cultures: Gersonides and Auriol on Divine Knowledge,” Speculum 81 (2006):1092-1117.

Shelton Stromquist, “Railroad Labor and the Global Economy: Historical Patterns,” in Jan Lucassen (ed.) Global Labour History: A State of the Art (Peter Lang; International Institute for Social History, 2006).

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