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	Spring 2009 Presentations: Tim Bracken “Cold Steel: Retracing the Lineage of the Bayonet in the American Civil War” Phi Alpha ThetaCarolinas Regional Conference. Appalachian State University, Boone, NC March 28, 2009 Keith Clark “Redefining Empire: American Rhetoric and the First Indochina War” Panel Discussion “Sending Shockwaves Through the Periphery: The Repercussions of Post-Colonial Nationalism” North Carolina Association of Historians Annual Conference Appalachian State University, Boone, NC March 27-28, 2009 Chris Moreland "Resisting the Reformation in England: The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Prayer Book Rebellion” History Graduate Student Association Conference North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC February 21, 2009 Matt Shannon "In the Vanguard: The Iranian Student Movement and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1963." Graduate History Association Forum University of North Carolina Charlotte April 3-4, 2009. “’Are Your Students Infected?’: U.S. Foreign Policy, Iranian Students, and the Nixon Administration, 1969-1973” Panel Discussion “Sending Shockwaves Through the Periphery: The Repercussions of Post-Colonial Nationalism” North Carolina Association of Historians Annual Conference Appalachian State University, Boone, NC March 27-28, 2009 "American Foreign Policy and Iranian Student Dissent in the Age of Global Protest, 1967-1669." James A. Barnes Club Conference Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. March 21, 2009 Christine Jamet "Museum Going Habits of Community College Students" National Council of Public History Providence, RI 2-5 April, 2009 Matthew Skiba "Intervention as the 'Only Solution': Collective Self-Deception and the United States in the GuatemalanCoup of 1954" CIA & US Foreign Policy: Reform, Representations and New Approaches to Intelligence Conference University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland February 20-21, 2009 "Inevitable Intervention: Collective Self-Deception and the United States in the Guatemalan Coup of 1954" History Graduate Student Association Conference: "Conflict and Consensus" University of Maryland, College Park February 6, 2009 Matt Jacobs “Unforeseen Consequences: The Eisenhower Administration and Fidel Castro’s Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba, 1959-1961” Panel Discussion “Sending Shockwaves Through the Periphery: The Repercussions of Post-Colonial Nationalism” North Carolina Association of Historians Annual Conference Appalachian State University, Boone, NC March 27-28, 2009 “The Limits of Informal Empire: The United States, the Cold War, and Latin America, 1945-1959”History Graduate Student Association Conference: "Conflict and Consensus" University of Maryland, College Park February 6, 2009 Katie Perry "Detesting Brutality: British Parliament and the State of Emergency in Kenya, 1952-1960" History Graduate Student Association Conference North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC February 21, 2009 Greg Seltzer "The American Ambulance in Paris, 1870-1871" History Graduate Student Association Conference North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC February 21, 2009 Rob Morrison “Forging Identity: Hasan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, and the Roots of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Antagonism towards Jews in Egypt” Panel Discussion “Sending Shockwaves Through the Periphery: The Repercussions of Post-Colonial Nationalism” North Carolina Association of Historians Annual Conference Appalachian State University, Boone, NC March 27-28, 2009 "Divided Loyalties: American Catholics, American Protestants, and the Spanish Civil War." North Carolina Graduate Student History Conference North Carolina State University, Raleigh February 21, 2009 Becky Zimmer “Prayer, Bloodletting, and Horse Dung: Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century Prophylactics Against and Remedies For the Pestilence” Phi Alpha Theta Carolinas Conference Appalachian State University, Boone, NC March 28, 2009 “Prayer, Bloodletting, and Horse Dung: Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century Prophylactics Against and Remedies For the Pestilence” Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives in History Graduate Conference Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg March 20 - 21, 2009 “All But Forgotten: The Battle of Wyse Forks” Ohio Academy of History Conference University of Akron, Ohio April 3 - 4, 2009 Published or Accepted for Publication: Julia Yanetti "Late 20th Century Preservation in Wilmington" The Bulletin of the Historical Society of the Lower Cape Fear 52 (March 2009): 1-7. Keith Clark Book Review: Why Welfare States Persist: The Importance of Public Opinion in Modern Democracies by Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza. Chicago University Press, 2007. Political Studies Review. Forthcoming Fall 2009. Book Review: The Line: Combat in Korea, January to February 1951 by William T. Bowers, ed. University of Kentucky Press, 2008. On Point. Forthcoming. Encyclopedia Entries: "Red Scare," "Julius and Ethel Rosenberg,""Joseph McCarthy," "McCarthyism." The U.S. Justice System: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Forthcoming. Rob Morrison "Faith Fights Communism: The United States and Islam in Saudi Arabia During the Cold War" Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians 17 (April 2009): 81-115 Greg Seltzer "Situationism and the Writings of T.J. Clark" Journal for the Study of Radicalism Forthcoming this year. Jim D. Brisson Book Review:Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War by David J. Eicher. University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Southern Historian Forthcoming, Spring 2009 “How did Yellow Fever Invade Wilmington n 1862?” Tar Heel Junior Historian Forthcoming: Spring 2009. Matt Jacobs "Unforeseen Consequences: The Eisenhower Administration and Fidel Castro's Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba, 1959-1961" Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians 17 (April 2009): 53-80 Book Review: The Great War in the Heart of Dixie: Alabama during World War I. Edited by Martin T. Oliff. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2008. On Point magazine. Forthcoming, Spring 2009. Becky Zimmer Book Review: Battle: The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat. Edited by Kent Gramm. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2008. On Point magazine Forthcoming: Spring 2009. Matt Shannon “Are Your Students Infected? U.S. Foreign Policy, Iranian Students, and the Transnational Sixties, 1969-1973." Journal for the North Carolina Association of Historians 17 (April 2009): 23-52 Book Review: The Hot 'Cold War': The USSR in Southern Africa by Vladimir Gennadyevich Shubin. London, England: Pluto Press, 2008. Political Studies Review, Forthcoming Spring 2009. Book Review: Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons not Learned by Rufus Phillips. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2008. On Point: The Journal of Army History, Forthcoming Winter 2009. Book Review: The Army Command Post and Defense Reshaping, 1987-1997 by Mark D. Sherry. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2008. On Point: The Journal of Army History, Forthcoming Winter 2009. Encyclopedia Entries: “William O. Douglas,” The U.S. Government and the Environment: A Reference Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. Forthcoming Fall 2009. “Edmund Muskie,” The U.S. Government and the Environment: A Reference Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. Forthcoming Fall 2009. “Repression of Civil Liberties During World War I,” Conflict and the Fourth Estate: Media and Propaganda in U.S. Military History. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. Forthcoming Fall 2009. “Dorothy Thompson,” Conflict and the Fourth Estate: Media and Propaganda in U.S. Military History. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. Forthcoming Fall 2009. “1991 Persian Gulf War,” Encyclopedia of Global Terrorism and the War on Terror. Nashville: Diversion Press. Forthcoming Fall 2009. “National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA),” Encyclopedia of Global Terrorism and the War on Terror. Nashville: Diversion Press. Forthcoming Fall 2009. Awards - 2008-09: Ralph Brauer Graduate Student Fellowship Colleen Griffiths - $600 Taryn Cooksey - $600 Greg Seltzer - $600 For research in National Archives, May 2009 Department of History Graduate Research Awards: Maureen Enstice - $250 Matt Jacobs - $250 Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Fellowship Colleen Griffiths - $500 - Spring 2009 Historic Wilmington Foundation Fellowship Colleen Griffiths - $750 - Spring 2009 Julia Yannetti - $750 - Fall 2008 Fall 2008 Accepted for Publication: Matt Jacobs Encyclopedia entry for: “The Berlin Blockade/Airlift” American Espionage: A Historical Encyclopedia Slated for publication in spring 2009 Book Review: NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts. Edited by Mary Ann Heiss and Victor Papacosma. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2008. The Southern Historian Slated for publication in April 2009 Jobs & Internships: Jo-el Smith Part-time Job Collections Assistant Bellamy Mansion Wilmington, NC Internship Exhibit Development Old Baldy Lighthouse and Smith Island Museum Bald Head Island, NC Julia Yannetti Part-time Job Program Designer & Educational Program Instructor Battleship North Carolina Wilmington, NC Internship Historic Wilmington Foundation Wilmington, NC Christine Jamet Part-time Job Battleship USS North Carolina Assistant Education Programmer Spring 2008 Wilmington, NC Summer 2008 Publications: Matt Jacobs “Why Economic Sanctions Often Fail.” Op-Ed., History News Service History News Network http://hnn.us/articles/51797.html June 30, 2008. Spring 2008 Awards: Nina La Ferla Graduate Teaching Award UNCW 2008-2009 Nina La Ferla Brauer Award UNCW Funds to study in China 2008-09 Sharad Shad Graduate Summer Research Stipend $1000 UNCW Robyn Carofine Graduate Summer Research Stipend $1000 UNCW Presentations: Katie Perry "Mau Mau Revolt in Kenya between 1952 and 1959." Phi Alpha Theta/ North Carolina Assocation of Historians Conference University of North Carolina Pembroke Pembroke, NC March 28, 2008 Rob Morrison "Faith Fights Communism: The United States and Islam in Saudi Arabia During the Cold War" North Carolina Association of Historians Conference University of North Carolina Pembroke Pembroke, NC March 28, 2008 Rob Morrison "Faith Fights Communism: The United States and Islam in Saudi Arabia During the Cold War" Panel Discussion "Fighting for the Periphery - The Cold War and American Involvement in the Post-Colonial World During the Eisenhower Era" History Between the Hedges Conference University of Georgia Athens, GA April 5, 2008 Keith Clark "To the Brink and Back: United States Strategy in the Quemoy-Matsu Crisis of 1954-1955" Graduate Research Symposium The College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia March 28-29, 2008 Keith Clark "To the Brink and Back: United States Strategy in the Quemoy-Matsu Crisis of 1954-1955" Panel Discussion "Fighting for the Periphery - The Cold War and American Involvement in the Post-Colonial World During the Eisenhower Era" History Between the Hedges Conference University of Georgia Athens, GA April 5, 2008 Rebecca "Becky" Zimmer "All But Forgotten: The Battle of Wyse Forks" North Carolina Association of Historians Conference University of North Carolina Pembroke Pembroke, NC March 28, 2008 Rebecca "Becky" Zimmer Panel Commentator "Late Antebellum and Civil War America" History Between the Hedges Conference University of Georgia Athens, GA April 5, 2008 Greg Seltzer “Domestic Anxiety Projected: The New York Times Depicts the Paris Commune of 1871.” North Carolina Graduate Student History Conference North Carolina State University, Raleigh February 16, 2008 Chris Moreland "Challenges to Catholic Hegemony in the Philippines During the Early American Occupation." North Carolina Graduate Student History Conference North Carolina State University, Raleigh February 16, 2008 Laura Walters "Malibu Barbie: From Savvy Fashionista to California Girl.” Middle Atlantic American Studies Association (MAASA) and the Great Lakes American Studies Association (GLASA) Rochester, New York April 4-5, 2008 Matt Jacobs “Unforeseen Consequences: The Eisenhower Administration and Fidel Castro’s Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba, 1959-1961.” Graduate Research Symposium The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia March 28-29, 2008 Matt Jacobs “Unforeseen Consequences: The Eisenhower Administration and Fidel Castro’s Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba, 1959-1961.” Panel Discussion "Fighting for the Periphery - The Cold War and American Involvement in the Post-Colonial World During the Eisenhower Era" History Between the Hedges Conference University of Georgia, Athens. April 5, 2008 Publications: Sharad Shah “Operation TPAJAX and Blowback in the Middle East.” Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians 16 (April 2008): 1-33 Matt Jacobs Encylopedia entries for: "Jose Miguel Gomez" & "Ramon Grau San Martin" Encyclopedia of Caribbean History Slated for publication in 2009 Robyn Carofine "Congress Hall: A Mainstay in Upper Class Victorian America" Madison Historical Review (James Madison University) Slated for pubication in June 2008 Fellowships: Rebecca “Becky” Zimmer George M. Nethken Fellowship at The George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War Summer 2008 Shepherdstown, West Virginia Internships: Kawan Allen Home and Community Life Fellowship - "The African American Imprint" Smithsonian National Museum of American History Summer 2008 Washington DC Shannon Walker North Carolina Museum of Forestery Collections Specialists Summer 2008 Whiteville, NC Christine Jamet Lattimer House Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Summer 2008 Wilmington, NC Jesse Bricker Fort Fisher State Historic Site Educational Program Developer Fort Fisher, Norrth Carolina Shannon Sancartier Fort Fisher State Historic Site Educational Program Developer Fort Fisher, Norrth Carolina Shannon Walker Bellamy Mansion Assistant Collections Manager Spring 2008 Wilmington, NC Robyn Binns Onslow County Museum Digitizing Architectural History Project Jacksonville, NC 2008 Jo-el Smith Old Baldy Lighthouse & Smith Island Museum of History Research on Lighthouse keepers and use of kitchen area Bald Head Island, NC 2008 Laura Walters Wrightsville Beach Museum of History Research, develop & test docent tour and training manual Wrightsville Beach, NC 2008
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