Mark Peterson, "Boston Pays Tribute: Autonomy and Empire in the Atlantic World, 1630-1714, " in Allan I. Macinnes and Arthur H. Williamson, eds., Shaping the Stuart World 1603-1714: The Atlantic Connection (Brill, 2005).
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Jeff Cox has just published “Master Narratives of Imperial Missions,” as the lead essay in Jamie S. Scott and Gareth Griffiths (ed), Mixed Messages: Materiality, Textuality, Missions (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2005). |
Colin Gordon is the co-author (with Elaine Ditsler and Peter Fisher) of On the Fringe: The Substandard Benefits of Workers in Part-Time, Temporary, and Contract Jobs (The Commonwealth Fund, December 2005), and a companion report Nonstandard Jobs, Substandard Benefits (Iowa Policy Project, December 2005). |
Lisa Heineman has just published “’Trummerfrauen,’ ‘Ami-Liebchen,’ and National Identity in the Federal Republic,” in It Started with a Kiss: German-Allied Relations After 1945 (Jason Verlag, 2005). It was published in a remarkable Tri-lingual volume, a companion volume to the exhibition of the same title now on display at the Allied Museum in Berlin. |
In the spirit of the University’s “Year of Public Engagement,” we would like to highlight the efforts of our colleagues to lend their expertise and present their research to the wider community in Iowa and the Nation. |
Our colleague Jennifer Sessions made her first media appearance on KRUI's program "Global Compass" (Nov. 9th)! She was interviewed about the current rioting in France. |
The public is invited to visit the "History Through Deaf Eyes" exhibit on the first floor of the University of Iowa Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. Professor Doug Baynton did much of the preliminary research and script-writing for this important exhibit. |
Linda Kerber has just published “Towards a History of Statelessness in America” in a special issue of the American Quarterly (co-edited by our former colleague Mary Dudziak) dedicated to “Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders”(Sept. 2005). Full text via Project MUSE |
Marjorie Levine-Clark (Ph.D., 1997) is President-elect of the Western Conference on British Studies. That is one of the regional conferences of the North American Conference on British Studies, whose current president, Bill Lubenow, received his Ph.D. here under the direction of Bill Aydelotte. |
John Fry’s (PhD, 2002) The Farm Press: Reform and Rural Change, 1895-1920 has just been published by Routledge in the series “Studies in American Popular History and Culture.” |
| Lisa Heineman recently appeared on KRUI's "Global Compass" where she spoke about Angela Merkel and the situation of women in Germany. |
| List of 2005-06 Senior Theses in Progress >> |
| Announcement of 2005 Stow Persons Prize for the best senior thesis >> |
| Shelton Stromquist is co-author (with Hugh Cunningham) of "Child Labor and the Rights of Children: Historical Patterns of Decline and Persistence,” a chapter in Burns H. Weston (ed) Child Labor and Human Rights: Make Children Matter, pp. 55-83 (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005). |
| Sarah Hanley published a chapter on legal and political theory in France, 1600s-1700s, in Innesti. Donne genere nella storia sociale (Rome: Viella, 2005); and a chapter on the formation of political identity in that era in Princesses et pouvoir politique a l'epoque moderne (Paris: Breal, 2005). |
| Colin Gordon is co-author (with Elaine Ditsler and Peter Fisher) of the State of Working Iowa, 2005 --third in a biennial series on wages and working conditions published by the Iowa Policy Project. |
| Mark Peterson, "Cities on the Margins: New Amsterdam and Boston in 1653," de Halve Maen: Journal of the Holland Society of New York (Summer 2005) |
Kevin Mumford, "The Miscegenation Analogy Revisited: Same-Sex Marriage as a Civil Rights Story," American Quarterly (June, 2005) |
| Doug Baynton, "Defectives in the Land: Disability and American Immigration Policy, 1882-1924," Journal of American Ethnic History (Spring, 2005) |
| Colin Gordon, "Blighting the Way: Urban Renewal, Economic Development, and the Elusive Definition of Blight," Zoning and Planning Law Handbook (Thomson West, 2005) |
