Fall 2009
Presentations
Erica Hague
"Public Assassination on the Small Screen: A Shocking Murder Forgotten in Time?”
Panel: "Violence and Democracy in Twentieth Century Japan.”
Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA).
Miami University, Oxford, OH
October 16-18, 2009
[Erica's presentation also won the $200 Sidney DeVere Brown Prize and will be published in the Wittenberg East Asian Studies Journal.]
Summer 2009
Publications
Matthew Skiba
"The Role of Republican Spain and the Spanish Civil War in Reaffirming Mexican Hispano-American Identity, 1931-39." Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. 2009 George Watt Prize Winner, $500. http://www.alba-valb.org/participate/essay-contest
Jobs & Internships
Kawan Allen
Temporary Position: Park Guide at the National Mall and Memorial Parks, Division of Education and Interpretation, National Parks Service. Summer 2009.
Spring 2009
Presentations:
Tim Bracken
“Cold Steel: Retracing the Lineage of the Bayonet in the American Civil War”
Phi Alpha Theta Carolinas 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
“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
"Divided Loyalties: American Catholics, American Protestants, and the Spanish Civil War."
North Carolina Graduate Student History Conference
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
21 February 2009
Becky Zimmer
“All But Forgotten: The Battle of Wyse Forks”
Ohio Academy of History Conference
University of Akron, Ohio
April 3 - 4 2009
Accepted for Publication:
Greg Seltzer
"The American Ambulance in Paris, 1870-1871"
Madison Historical Review
Spring 2009
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
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
Forthcoming: Winter 2009
Awards:
Ralph Brauer Graduate Student Fellowship
Colleen Griffiths - $600
Taryn Cooksey - $600
Greg Seltzer - $600
For research in National Archives, May 2009
