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History on the Hill
University of Kansas
Department of History
Fall 2011 Newsletter
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New Faces, New Spaces:
A Welcome from the Chair
by
Paul Kelton
Pivotal Events in History
Friday, September 30, 2011, 4 pm
Simons Room at the Dole Institute of Politics
If you come into
the Department of
History, and we hope
that you do, you will
notice new faces and
newly
configured
spaces. Ellen Garber,
our longtime Administrative Associate for
Graduate Affairs, has
retired. We miss Ellen but are envious of her for her free time she now has
to spend with her family and hobbies. We are fortunate,
however, to have Ashley Durkee (BA, 2008) join us. She
will oversee Graduate Affairs and deserves special praise
for taking the lead in organizing this newsletter and seeing
it through to production. Thank you, Ashley, and welcome
aboard. Sammy Adamson joins us as our new student receptionist and has maintained our Department’s longstanding tradition of greeting visitors with a smile. She has replaced Taryn Gilbert who is now in Graduate School at
Wichita State University. Good luck to you, Taryn. Also
joining the department is David Nickol, who serves as our
undergraduate advisor. As a large department we are fortunate to have an “in house” advisor and he has done a
great job for us. The faculty ranks have changed as well.
Robert DeKosky has retired after 33 years of service in the
Department. Bob has now entered the emeriti ranks and we
wish him well in his retirement. Joining our Department
is Rob Schwaller, an assistant professor of Latin American
history. We are pleased to have Rob and you can read more
about him in this newsletter.
Professor Hagith Sivan, the History Department’s expert on the ancient world, will deliver this year’s Pivotal
Events in History talk on “A Roman Cleopatra: Princess
Galla between Alaric and Attila.” Using coins as illustrations, Professor Sivan will
discuss a woman, Galla Placidia, who should be as famous as Cleopatra. After all,
both women lived through
an age of incredible transformation. When Cleopatra committed suicide in 31
BCE, the Roman Republic
was about to disappear for
good, making way for the
Roman Empire headed by
Cleopatra’s most ruthless adversary, Octavian-Augustus,
Rome’s first emperor. When Galla died in 450 CE the Roman empire was about to be invaded by Attila the Hun and
the empire itself was about to vanish forever, making room
for medieval kingdoms headed by barbarian monarchs.
Who was this unjustly forgotten princess? Galla was
the youngest daughter of the emperor Theodosius, who
died in 395 when she was a baby. She was brought up in
Rome, only to disappear from view in 410 during the Gothic sack of the city. By the time she turned 25, Galla had
been married and widowed twice. Her first husband was a
Gothic chieftain whose sole desire was to destroy the empire; her second was a Roman general who was a favorite
of her brother, the emperor Honorius. When Honorius died
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As for spaces, we have made some changes, thanks
to the generous contributions that our alumni and friends
have made. Since moving to the 3½ floor of Wescoe, we
have lacked a common lounge area, which we had enjoyed
in our previous location. We converted a seminar room that
was too small to hold class into a lounge, complete with
cozy furniture. I have already held some small committee
meetings there and look forward to having a nice space to
interact with my colleagues. To replace the seminar room,
we converted the room that had contained the lecturers’
carrels into a classroom, complete with a conference table
that accommodates up to 20 people. (Do not worry. We
have not left the lecturers homeless; they now utilize vacated faculty offices.) Given the shortage of state funds, donations to our endowment accounts have certainly helped
take up the slack in our budget and allowed us to make
important changes that have improved our instructional environment.
As we begin a new academic year, we thank you for
all your support you have given us. Your generous donations have allowed us to give nearly $40,000 in scholarships and awards to a group of deserving undergraduates
and graduate students. This money has not only gone to defray tuition, books, and living expenses, but also furthered
the research mission of our Department and the University
of Kansas. Students have traveled to distant archives and
presented papers at academic conferences. The Department has also played a leading role at KU in sponsoring
public events that bring in noted speakers to discuss important topics. We look forward to carrying on this role and
invite you all this year to take part in these events, includ-
Department of History Staff: Sandee Kennedy (Office Manager), Amanda
Contreras (Undergraduate Program Administrator), David Nickol (Advising
Specialist), Ashley Durkee (Graduate Program Administrator), Sammy Adamson
(Student Receptionist)
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ing our Pivotal Events in History program that will feature
our very own Professor Hagith Sivan and the Fourth Annual Tuttle Lecture that will feature a guest and preeminent
historian of African-American History, Professor Darlene
Clark Hine. More information about these talks is included in this newsletter. We hope that you enjoy catching up
with the activities of our Department. We have appreciated
hearing from our many friends beyond Mount Oread, and
we hope to hear from many more over the coming year.
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in 423 she found herself a refugee with two infants at the
imperial court of Constantinople.
Two years later she returned in triumph to Rome and
Ravenna as regent, mother of the new, 6-year-old emperor
of the western Roman empire.
For a dozen years, between 425 and 437, Galla was
the virtual ruler of the empire. These were years of neverending barbarian invasions, as Goths, Vandals, Burgundians, Suevi and Alans swept over Germany, Gaul (France)
and Spain in search of the fabulous shores of north Africa.
These were years that the mighty Roman army, headed by
a succession of ambitious generals, had to rely on barbarian recruits to fight other barbarians. These were years
that required careful handling of the budget, balancing
wealthy aristocrats who assiduously avoided taxation with
an increasingly dissatisfied middle class whose members
preferred to live under barbarians rather than to face the
government tax collectors. How did Galla handle all these?
What happened when her daughter, angry at her brother,
sent her ring to Attila the Hun, who then used this marriage
proposal to demand half of the empire? What happened
when Galla’s son, the emperor Valentinian, killed his best
general and committed adultery with the wife of the most
powerful senator of his realm?
Professor Sivan’s talk is based on her most recent
book, Galla Placidia: The Last Roman Empress, published
this summer by Oxford University Press. Professor Sivan
joined the history department in 1993, having been trained
in classics and ancient history in both the United States
and Israel. Her research and teaching interests embrace
the cultures of the Greeks, the Romans, and the Ancient
Near East. She has spent a year each at the Institute for
Advanced Studies at Princeton, the Institute for Advanced
Study at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2010 she received KU’s Higuchi Award, the
university’s highest recognition of research excellence.
Required Reading
Celebrating Kansas
by
Paul Kelton
In 1861 Congress showed
good judgment in bringing
Kansas into the Union, which
is something that cannot be said regarding other states,
particularly that one to the east of us. This year we
celebrate the Sesquicentennial of our great state and
encourage you to learn more about Kansas with our
required readings. We are particularly proud to include
works by two of our current faculty – Kim Warren and
Rita Napier – and another by a distinguished alum and
current Director for Publications for the Kansas State
Historical Society and editor of Kansas History: A
Journal of the Central Plains – Virgil Dean, PhD 1991.
Rita Napier, ed. Kansas and the West: New
Perspectives (University Press of Kansas, 2003),
416pp. Drawing on scholarship that has transformed
our understanding of the history of both state and region,
Kansas and the West introduces readers to a wide range of
people, places, and themes that demonstrate the complex
relationships among race, class, gender, and environment.
In so doing, it also puts to rest many of the myths that have
dominated western history for so long, reflecting both the
positive and the negative consequences of human actions
over 150 years of Kansas history.
Kim Cary Warren. The Quest for Citizenship: African American and Native American Education in
Kansas, 1880-1935 (University of North Carolina Press,
2010), 248pp. In The Quest for Citizenship, Kim Cary
Warren examines the formation of African American and
Native American citizenship, belonging, and identity in
the United States by comparing educational experiences in
Kansas between 1880 and 1935. Warren focuses her study
on Kansas, thought by many to be the quintessential free
state, not only because it was home to sizable populations
of Indian groups and former slaves, but also because of
its unique history of conflict over freedom during the
antebellum period.
Virgil Dean, ed. John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers
and Shakers in Kansas History (University of Kansas
Press, 2010), 422pp. Composed of 27 short biographies
by scholars, John Brown to Bob Dole brings an array
of fascinating personalities, including reformers and
preachers, publishers and artists, vividly back to life. The
essays offer a fresh and engaging look at many of the
important themes of Kansas history – especially the state’s
identification with some of the great radical movements,
including abolitionism, populism, and civil rights – and
ultimately recaptures the true spirit of Kansas and its
meaning for the rest of the nation.
Craig Miner. Kansas: The History of the Sunflower
State, 1854–2000 (University of Kansas Press, 2002),
416pp. This is the newest standard history. Written to
enlighten general readers within and well beyond the
state’s borders, it offers coverage not found in previous
histories: greater attention to its cities – notably Wichita –
and to its south- central and western regions, accounts of
business history, contributions of women and minorities,
and environmental concerns. It presents the dark as well
as the bright side of Kansas progressivism and is the first
Kansas history to deal with the post-World War II era in
any significant detail.
Stephen Starr. Jennison’s Jayhawkers, (Louisiana
State University Press, 1993 reprint). 405 pp. For those
interested in killing two anniversaries (Kansas statehood
and the beginning of the Civil War) with one book, this
is it. It’s a well-written account of the Seventh Kansas
Volunteer Cavalry, whose members included Charles
Jennison, John Brown Jr., and Susan B. Anthony’s brother
– who, incidentally, was raised a Quaker. That didn’t stop
him or the rest of the unit from bending Army rules or just
plain committing their own depredations as they patrolled
Kansas and Missouri. The regiment’s conduct was so
bad and so embarrassing to Federal commanders that it
was booted from the border area in the spring of 1862. It
went on to participate in several mainstream battles in the
western theater.
History Department Co-Sponsors
2011 Tuttle Lecture
The fourth Bill Tuttle Distinguished Lecture in
American Studies will be delivered on October 26, 2011
at 4:30 in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
This annual lecture was established to honor Bill Tuttle and perpetuate his legacy of outstanding scholarship and teaching in American Studies and History.
The 2011 Tuttle Lecture will be delivered by Darlene
Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and Professor of
History at Northwestern University. The title of Professor
Hine’s lecture is “Rehearsal
for Freedom: Black Professional Women’s Health Care
Activism before Brown.”
Darlene Clark Hine is a
leading historian of the African American experience
and a pioneering scholar in
African American women’s
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history. She is the author or editor of twenty-five books,
including the award-winning Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession,
1890-1950 (1989), Hine Sight: Black Women and the ReConstruction of American History (1996); with Kathleen
Thompson, A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black
Women in America (1998); and Black Victory: The Rise
and Fall of the White Primary in Texas (second edition,
2003). Professor Hine is also the editor-in-chief of Black
Women in America, three volumes (second edition, 2005). Professor Hine’s scholarly accomplishments have been
widely recognized. She has served as president of both
the Organization of American Historians and the Southern
Historical Association; she has been a fellow at both the
Institute for Advanced Study at Stanford University and
the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University; and in 2006, she was inducted into the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. Finally, Professor Hine is a
noted teacher and speaker who has lectured at colleges and
universities throughout the United States.
Professor Hine’s lecture represents the joint commitment of the Departments of History and American Studies
to bring top scholars to KU to discuss important aspects of
the American experience. Past lectures have been given by
Leon F. Litwack, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of
African American history and the Alexander F. and May T.
Professor of American History Emeritus at the University
of California, Berkeley; William H. Chafe, the Alice Mary
Baldwin Professor of History at Duke University and one
of America’s major scholars of civil rights, women’s history, and political culture in the twentieth century; and Eric
Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia
University and one of this country’s most important historians. The History Department is pleased to co-sponsor this
event and we hope that you can attend.
Border Wars Conference to
Feature Jonathan Earle and
Jennifer Weber
To commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Civil
War, more than a dozen scholars of the “Border Wars”
that raged for decades along the Kansas-Missouri line will
meet for a public conference this November 10-12 at the
Kansas City Public Library. Professor of History Emeritus Michael Fellman of Simon Fraser University (author
of Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During
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the American Civil War) will kick things off the evening
of Nov. 10 at the downtown (main) branch of the KCPL;
events will continue over the next two days at the library’s
Plaza branch and feature presentations by two KU History
faculty: Jonathan Earle and Jennifer Weber. The public is
encouraged to attend the conference. For more information, contact Prof. Earle at [email protected] or Henry Fortunato at KCPL ([email protected]).
New Faculty
Robert Schwaller
My arrival at Mt.
Oread is like that of a
swallow returning to
Capistrano. Although not
a native Kansan myself,
my family helped found
Hays, KS, and many of
my relatives are diehard
Jayhawks. My grandfather, a KU yell leader and Sigma Chi president, met my
grandmother, a Jayhawker beauty queen and Theta sister,
on Tennessee Street. They were married on the porch of my
great-grandfather’s home on Mississippi Street. My father,
his brother, and my cousin all attended KU earning various
undergraduate and graduate degrees. With so much family
history in Lawrence, I feel profoundly proud to be continuing the connection to KU.
The life of a college town is one I know and love. I
earned my B.A. at Grinnell College, nestled in the small
town of Grinnell, IA. Although much smaller than Lawrence, it was similarly surrounded by fields of grain, blisteringly hot in the summer, and cold and windy in the
winter. While earning a degree in Anthropology and Art
History, I occupied my spare time playing Div. III football.
After four years on the prairie, my graduate studies took
me east to the much larger college town of State College,
Pennsylvania, home of Penn State. In many ways, Lawrence is a perfect mix of both towns: a welcoming oasis
on the plains and home to a storied state university. I must
confess I will have to work hard on adjusting to the Big 12
and favoring the roundball over the pigskin. While it might
be impossible for me to stop being a Nittany Lion, I look
forward to becoming a Jayhawk.
My research interests focus on the history of race in the
early Atlantic World with a particular emphasis on the relationships between Africans and indigenous peoples in Latin America. How did Africans interact with Native Americans? Were their relationships friendly or conflictive? How
did European empires inhibit, facilitate, or circumscribe
these connections? So far my research on colonial Mexico
has shown that Africans and Native Americans frequently
formed families and communities despite Spanish attempts
to separate them. At KU, I look forward to expanding my
research into Central America and the Caribbean in order
to better understand the diversity of these relationships and
communities.
Just as swallows fly far and wide before returning to
Capistrano, I find it fitting that KU has now become my
academic home. I am honored and excited to join the KU
family and look forward to working with its amazing faculty and outstanding students. Rock Chalk, Jayhawk!
History Matters: Perspectives
from Recent Graduates
Patrick Luiz S. De Oliveira, BA, 2010
I arrived at the
University of Kansas as a journalism
major with no intention of graduating in history. But I
enrolled in an early
modern Europe survey course to fulfill
one of those pesky
general requirements, and by the second week of class I
was hooked. From then on the labyrinthine hallways of
Wescoe Hall became my intellectual home. The wonderful faculty at the Department of History taught me how
to think critically and contextualize the headlines that
whooshed through The Kansan newsroom. I flirted briefly with journalism and was an intern at
National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. I also ventured
a little into publishing, interning at Verso Books, in New
York City. Both were great experiences, but nothing energized me as much as writing my honors thesis. I went
to Lyon, France, where I spent days digging through the
archives. At other places this kind of opportunity would
only be available to professors and graduate students, but
thanks to an Undergraduate Research Award and Nathan
Wood, an incredible advisor who backed me up the entire
time, a “lowly undergrad” like me got the chance to handle
imperial decrees signed by Napoleon III.
This fall I am heading to Princeton, where I will begin
my path toward a doctoral degree in History. I plan on pursuing the interests that appealed to me as an undergraduate:
modern France and urban history. But I am open to new
possibilities, since I’m also drawn to intellectual history
and the rapport between literature and history. I am thrilled
– but also nervous – with the prospect of studying at one of
the most rigorous departments in the country. Nevertheless,
I am comforted by the fact that the training I received at KU
has thoroughly prepared me for this next step, and that no
matter what I will always have caring mentors to help me out.
On the Move:
Maddalena Marinari, PhD, 2009
I study migration because, growing up, my dad
never talked about his 19
years as a migrant worker.
I wanted to understand his
experience. To do this, it
turned out, required becoming a migrant myself.
Shortly after college, I
moved from Italy to Lawrence to pursue a Ph.D. in
American immigration and
ethnic history. My time at
KU was incredibly rewarding. I worked with great
mentors, made enduring friendships, and met my husband!
I also gained the preparation and confidence to participate actively in a vibrant intellectual community. Finishing
my dissertation on the mobilization of immigrants against
immigration restriction, I worked at the National History
Center and the American Historical Association in Washington, DC, where I worked with public historians at the
Smithsonian, the Department of State, the Library of Congress, the Holocaust Museum, and Congress. Participation
in a local immigration roundtable gave me the opportunity
to meet many of the scholars whose books I had read in
graduate school. Exposure to DC has also somewhat shifted my research focus, as I have become more interested in
the political and policy dimensions of immigration. This
newfound interest has resulted in an article on the passage
of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, a crucial
but understudied law that changed the face of American
society.
After three wonderful years in the nation’s capital,
during which I was also a Visiting Assistant Professor at
American University, I am now leaving again to take a
position as Assistant Professor at St. Bonaventure University in western New York. There, I will finally be able to
teach in my area of expertise and bring to the classroom
the passion for historical inquiry that my professors at KU
instilled in me. Only one question remains: after braving
tornadoes in the Midwest and surviving snowmaggeddon
in DC in 2010, can an Italian survive the snow belt? Let’s
hope so!
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KU Historians Win Major Awards
Hall Center for Humanities Presents Book Award to
Jacob Dorman
Jacob Dorman, assistant professor of history, received
the Friends Book Publication Award for Chosen People:
African Americans and the Rise of Black Judaism. The
forthcoming book, to be published by Oxford University
Press, focuses on the diverse history and influence of various religious movements on the rise of 20th century African-American Judaism. “I am honored to be selected for
the Friends of the Hall Center Award, which only makes
official my very real debt to the Hall Center for fostering a
vital intellectual community on campus and for providing
the timely and tactical assistance needed to compete successfully for outside funding,” said Dorman. The Office of
Research and Graduate Studies sponsors the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies Book Publication
Award. It is intended to assist in the publication of meritorious book manuscripts resulting from humanities research
by KU faculty members. Additional publication awards are
made possible by the Friends of the Hall Center, an organization of faculty, community members and students who
support the center’s programs.
Hagith Sivan earns Higuchi-KU Endowment Research
Award
The awards, now in their 28th year, honor outstanding
accomplishments in research by faculty members at KU
and other Kansas Board of Regents institutions. The recognition program was established by Takeru Higuchi, a distinguished professor at KU from 1967 to 1983, and his late
widow, Aya. Each award includes a plaque and a $10,000
grant for ongoing research efforts. The award money can
be used for research materials, summer salaries, fellowship
matching funds, hiring research assistants or other support
related to research.
Hagith Sivan is a professor of history at KU. She
joined the faculty in 1993 and is regarded as a world authority on the transition of the Mediterranean region from
ancient times to the Middle Ages. Her 2008 work, Palestine in Late Antiquity, integrates multiple aspects of history – religion, law, politics and culture – and exemplifies
her scholarly engagement and breadth of knowledge in all
these subjects. Sivan has made a major contribution to the
field of Christian-Jewish studies, reflecting her mastery of
a wide range of sources and her literary skill and analytical
originality.
Leslie Tuttle Awarded Byron Caldwell Smith Book
Award
The Hall Center for the Humanities has announced the
winner of the 2011 Byron Caldwell Smith Book Award.
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Leslie Tuttle, Associate Professor of History at KU, won
the award for her book, Conceiving the Old Regime: Pronatalism and the Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern France, published by Oxford University Press in 2011.
Tuttle will receive her award and deliver a lecture Sept.
13 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hall Center Conference Hall. Her
lecture is titled: “Making Babies, Making the Nation-State:
The Case of Pre-Revolutionary France.” The event is open
to the public. A book signing and reception will follow.
The award committee commended Tuttle on her prose and
scholarship: “Tuttle writes beautifully. She weaves the stories
of specific individuals into her well-constructed narrative.
Moreover, her subject is original and thoroughly researched.”
One committee member wrote that Tuttle’s book stood out
in a strong field of worthy nominations: “It is a fine work
of historical scholarship, carefully researched in a wide
range of sources, and engagingly written. The author’s
well-constructed narrative traces the history of France’s
early modern experiment in procreative engineering.”
Her editor at OUP, Susan Ferber, notes that it is a “splendid” honor to receive such an award on a first publication.
Tuttle is a Kansas native herself. Her great-great-great
grandparents claimed a homestead near White City in
the 1850s. Trained at Princeton University, she joined the
KU faculty in 1997 and currently teaches courses on European history, women’s history and historical methods.
The Byron Caldwell Smith Award was established at the
bequest of Kate Stephens, a former KU student and one
of KU’s first women professors. As an undergraduate, Stephens learned to love the study of Greek language and literature from Professor Byron Caldwell Smith. In his name,
she established this award, given biennially to an individual who lives or is employed in Kansas and who has written
an outstanding book published in the previous two years
Jonathan Earle wins 2011 J. Michael Young Academic
Advising Award
Earle, who served as Director of Undergraduate Studies in the department between 2001-2004, said he learned
the art of undergraduate advising from his late colleague,
longtime history professor Lloyd Sponholtz, who won the
award in 2000: “Lloyd always had a great rapport with
his students, and there was always a line outside his office
hours. Advising is one of the hardest parts of our job, and
one of the least rewarded.” Established in 1991, the award
honors the late J. Michael Young, a KU professor of philosophy and director of the University Honors Program.
The award is been presented annually to faculty who regularly reach out to their advisees and help KU students make
good decisions about their educational and career goals.
KU History Department Partners with Olathe Public
Schools and Visits the Native American Rights Fund
As part of a professional development program entitled
“Connecting Learning and Instruction in Olathe (CLIO):
We the People – In Search of a More Perfect Union,”
twenty teachers from Olathe, Kansas Public Schools visited
the Native American Rights Fund and the National Indian
Law Library from June 21-23. CLIO is funded through
a Teaching American History grant awarded by the U.S.
Department of Education. Through this program, teachers
take a series of graduate level courses KU’s Department of
History. Such courses aim to increase teachers’ knowledge
and understanding of American history content and key
concepts, broaden teachers’ understanding of history as
demonstrated in their own historical research and writing,
and enhance teachers’ confidence in teaching American
history.
The teachers’ visit to NARF and NILL was the highlight
of one of these courses, a research seminar on Native
American history offered by Dr. Michael Tosee (PhD 2010)
of Haskell Indian Nations University and Dr. Paul Kelton.
The teachers listened to presentations by NARF staff on
topics including the boarding school healing project,
federal recognition process, and water rights. They devoted
the rest of their time to conducting research on projects that
they can use for their Master’s degrees or on lesson plans on
various Native American topics that they can implement in
Maureen Donegan (Olathe Social Studies Coordinator), with KU History
Students and Olathe teachers, Keri Schumacher, Amy Walker, Jennifer Yoksh,
Lyndsay Cast, and Karen Davis.
their classrooms. Maureen Donegan, Project Coordinator
and Social Studies Coordinator for Olathe Public Schools,
accompanied Professors Tosee and Kelton and concluded
that the experience was highly positive for all involved.
“The lunch lectures by NARF staff and the research at the
libraries provided us with much to think about in terms of
human rights, constitutional protection, and sovereignty of
Indian nations,” she commented. Professor Kelton echoes
such praise: “Through their interaction with NARF and
NILL staff, Olathe teachers have a newfound appreciation
for the complex history and diverse present day realities
of Native Americans,” he commented. “I appreciate John
Echo-Hawk and his colleagues’ time with us and only wish
that all public school teachers could have such a valuable
experience.”
2011 Activities and Accomplishments
Emeriti
John Alexander recently saw his book, Emperor of the
Cossacks: Pugahchev and the Frontier Jacquerie of 17731775 (Lawrence: Coronado Books, 1973) translated into
Russian and published in Ufa, Bashkortostan with a laudatory introduction that cited many of his other books and
articles, in the series Foreign Researches in Tatar History.
He knew nothing of this translation until apprised of it and
asked for permission to publish. This announcement was
accompanied by an electronic copy of the translation and a
promise to send hard copies, which was fulfilled a month
later with four “hard” copies of the translation. Coronado
Books was the press owned by John (Jack) Longhurst and
no longer exists. Alexander is very pleased that his least
known book should be rescued for this Russian translation.
Wonders never cease!
Anna Cienciala published a review, “What did Roosevelt
and Churchill Really Aim to Achieve for Poland at Yalta? Was Yalta the Price for Peace? A Discussion of S.M.
Plokhy, Yalta: The Price of Peace,” The Polish Review, v.
LV, 2010, No.4, pp. 449-466. She also authored “The Foreign Policy of Jozef Pilsudski and Jozef Beck, 1926-1939:
Misconceptions and Interpretations,” The Polish Review, v.
LVI, 2011, No.1-2, pp. 111-152.
Richard Kay has nearly 2000 downloads of the Pontificalia bibliography from KU ScholarWorks. He also published an article, “Elam Bartholomew: Kansas King of
Field Mycology,” Mushroom: The Journal of Wild Mushrooming, 27.3-4 (Summer-Fall, 2010), pp. 6-8.
Faculty
Joseph Bradley authored an article on Russian civil society, “K istorii formirovaniia grazhdanskogo obshchestva v
Rossii XVIII-XX vekov,” which was the lead article in the
Moscow scholarly journal ROSSIISKAIA ISTORIIA, no.
2, 2011. His book on voluntary associations will be published in Russian translation in Moscow in fall 2011.
Katherine Clark presented “Defoe and the Discourses of
Dreaming” at the Defoe Society conference at the University of Worcester, UK this July.
Jonathan Earle worked closely this past year with Prof.
Diane Mutti-Burke of the University of Missouri-Kansas
City to organize and plan a major national conference on
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engage with the burden of remembering slavery while also
attempting to transcend it.
the “Border Wars” that flared along the Kansas-Missouri
line between the 1850s and 1880s (and beyond). Participants met at KU’s Hall Center for the Humanities in April
for a workshop, and will reconvene for a public conference at the Kansas City Public Library Nov. 10-12. Earle
also delivered the inaugural “Pivotal Events” lecture for
the History Department, and delivered the Hall Center in
Wichita Lecture in April. He was awarded the College’s J.
Michael Young Academic Advisor Award for 2010-2011,
and his first book, The Routledge Atlas of African American History, was translated into Japanese.
Roberta Pergher was on leave during the spring semester to work on her book manuscript which analyzes fascist
Italy’s settlement policies at the nation’s borders and in its
African colonies. She also completed and submitted an edited book manuscript on Italian fascism to Palgrave, which
is currently under review. Her article on the population resettlement program of 1939 stipulated between fascist Italy
and Nazi Germany was published in a peer-reviewed Italian history journal. She is currently co-organizing a conference on Italian fascism between tradition and modernity,
which will be held in Italy this fall.
Christopher E. Forth contributed chapters to the edited
volumes A Cultural History of the Human Body (Berg
2010) and Writing the Holocaust (Bloomsbury, 2011) and
presented work on the cultural history of fat at two academic conferences and as a guest speaker at the University of
Arkansas. He is also part of a research team that received
an A$138,000 Australian Research Council grant to study
gender and honor killing.
Eric C. Rath published two books in 2010, Food and
Fantasy in Early Modern Japan (University of California
Press), which describes the origin of Japanese cuisine, and
Past and Present in Japanese Foodways, co-edited with
Stephanie Assmann (University of Illinois Press), which
contains 14 chapters on four centuries of Japanese food by
an international group of scholars. In 2011 he completed
work on a US State Department funded project, which enabled a team of KU faculty to travel twice to Tibet and
allowed 5 Tibetan students to study at KU. He received
a travel grant from the University of Michigan to begin
research for a book on smoking in early modern Japan.
He gave an invited talk at the University of Michigan and
chaired a panel and presented a paper on Japanese food at
the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in
Honolulu.
Paul Kelton presented a talk entitled “Expansion with
Honor/Resistance with Spirit: Indigenous Peoples, the
United States, and the War of 1812” at the Kansas City
Chapter of the Sons of the Revolution George Washington’s Birthday luncheon. Elizabeth Kuznesof presented a paper at the ICHS (International Conference on Historical Studies) 2010 in Amsterdam August 22-29 “Domestic Service and Urbanization in 19th Century Latin America.” She also presented
a paper at the Mediterranean Studies Conference in Salamanca, Spain May 26-29, 2010, “Perspectives on Brazil
in the 19th century Mediterranean World.” She authored a
review of Sefanie Korn, Karoline Noack (eds.) Que genero tiene el derecho? Ciudadania, historia y globalizacion.
(Berlin, edition tranvia, 2008). Bulletin of Latin American
Research, 2011.
Adrian Lewis has a forthcoming
book, The American Culture of War:
The History of U.S. Military Force
from World War II to Operation Enduring Freedom (Routledge, 2nd edition).
The AmericAn
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SECOND EDITION
The History of U.S. Military Force from World War II to Operation Enduring Freedom
adrian r. lewis
Elizabeth MacGonagle’s essay on
imagining the past at Great Zimbabwe will be published by
Africa World Press in the volume Africa & Its Diaspora:
Memory, Public History, & Representations of the Past.
This work is part of a project that examines how Africans
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John Rury is coeditor of a new book series to be published
by Palgrave Macmillan, Historical Studies in Education,
with William J. Reese of the University of Wisconsin. He
also published “History, Theory and Education” in the History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 3, May 2011, pp.
218-228.
Jennifer L. Weber published a children’s book, Summer’s Bloodiest Days, about the Battle of Gettysburg and
its aftermath. It was named a Notable Social Studies Trade
Book for Young People by the National Council for the
Social Studies.
Nathan Wood is spending five months in Warsaw, Poland
on a Fulbright Scholarship, where he is conducting research on early attitudes toward automobiles and airplanes
for his next book, Backwardness and Rushing Forward:
Technology and Culture in Poland’s Age of Speed, 18901939. His article, “Sexual Violence, Sex Scandals, and the
Word on the Street: The Kolasówna Lustmord in Cracow’s
Popular Press, 1905-06” appeared in The Journal of the
History of Sexuality in May.
Graduate Students
Mark Calhoun presented papers at the Hall Center’s
PW&GC Seminar and at the 2011 Society of Military History conference, and he earned a Bronze and a Silver Pen
Award from The Command and General Staff School for
various publications. He also earned a research travel grant
from the KU graduate studies department, and his article
“Clausewitz and Jomini: Contrasting Intellectual Frameworks in Military Theory” appeared in the summer 2011
issue of Army History. He works full time at the School of
Advanced Military Studies while completing his dissertation on the military career of General Lesley J. McNair.
and actor Gary Sinise, the 2011 Honoree, at a ceremony in
Kansas City on May 5, 2011.
Lon Strauss recently presented his dissertation research
in June at a brown bag lunch at the U.S. Army’s Center
of Military History in Washington, DC. He also presented
“A Domestic Way of War: Paranoia, Disloyal Words, and
Military Surveillance of Civilians in World War I” at the
annual conference of the Society for Military History in
Chicago; as well as “Requiring Loyalty in Thought and
Deed: The U.S. Army and Domestic Surveillance in World
War I” at the Hall Center for the Humanities at KU.
Phillip Fox presented a paper at the meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies in
Lisbon, Portugal, June 30-July 3, 2011. He is pictured with
Professor Luis Corteguera.
Dezeree Hodish received a dissertation research fellowship from the Institute of International Education. The
Boren Fellowship will allow her to conduct research in
Ukraine from September 2011-July 2012. Jeremy Prichard received the King V. Hostick Award
from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency this past
year.
Jason Roe is working on his dissertation, “From the Impoverished to the Entitled: The Experience and Meaning
of Old Age in America since the 1950s,” which examines
the origins, development and cultural impact of old-age entitlement policies such as Medicare and Social Security. He
has received funding from the Richard and Jeannette Sias
Graduate Fellowship from the Hall Center for the Humanities to complete his research in the 2011-2012 academic
year.
Stephanie Stillo received the Eddie Jacobsen Fellowship
for International Studies from Karl Zobrist, President of
the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Foundation,
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2011 Degree Recipients
Ph.D.s
Undergraduates
Nicholas Adams
Greer Adkins-Heljeson
Amanda Allenbrand Amanda Allison
Kevin Bailey
Hannah Ballard
Brandon Beckner
Andrew Bernitt
Lauren Bloodgood
Cody Boos
Shaun Brammer
Jordan Brown
Preston Bukaty
Garrett Childers
Axel Cohen
Chelsea Cooley
Kyle Courtney
Matthew Croisant
Morgan Deutsch
Anthony Dishman
Sarah Doyle
Alexandra Edwards
Brett Elliott
Evan Epperson
Melanie Evans
Matt Falkenstien
Rebecca Ferm
Kirstie Fine
David Foley
Jason Foster
John Fridlington
Jarrod Gill
Michelle Graham
Thomas Graves
Navreet Grewal
Barton Gunter
Matthew Hale
William Hardy
Scott Hill
David Hodges
Tyler Holmes
Suzanne Huffman
Ashley Hullinger
Ladini Jayaratne
Andrew Johnson
Tyler Jones
Saul Kantor
Jacob Keltner
Brian Khomsi
Wesley Kimmel
Courtney Kincaid
Daniel Konert
Roger Luedke
Ellen Makowsky
Allyson Manny
Amanda Matusek
William McChesney
Mark McGee
Kenton McKee
Drake McVey
Michael Napier
Cooper Overstreet
Colin Pate
Jacob Perry
Cale Petersen
Voneita Peterson
Sharon Petrie
Nathaniel Pike
Kristina Pollard
Demy Potter
Mark Price
Stephanie Pugsley
Michael Raasch
Erik Radowski
Amanda Ramirez
Timothy Rasmusson
Joshua Reid
Travis Remmich
Edward Rostetter II
Seth Sanchez
Joel Sauerwein
Andrew Saylor
Paige Schmidt
Joseph Schmisseur
Charles Scholle
Cara Seats
Valerie Shands
Bailey Shepard
Jacob Silverman
Phet Son
Michael Spatz
Heather Sprague
Rebecca Sullivan
Chantz Thomas
John Thornton
Patrick Totaro
Thomas Townsdin
Scott Tunnell
Eliska Valehrachova
Jacob Viets
Samuel Weinberg
Nathan West
Kevin Wheeler
Kevin Workman
Andrew Wright
Margaret Yoe
Masters
Winchell Delano
Jason Gladney
Dezeree Hodish
Michael Hogg
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Kenneth Kolander
Hans Krueger
Teresa Scalard
Amanda Schlumpberger
Neil Schomaker
Adam Sundberg
Kyle Anthony, “‘To Hesitate is Cowardly’: Radicalism and American
Manhood, 1870-1920.” Advisor: Jeff Moran
Kevin Benson, “An Elite of Capability: The School of Advanced
Military Studies and US Army Doctrinal Reform, 1980-1995.”
Advisor: Ted Wilson
Thomas Bradbeer, “‘Attack Everything’: The British Air Campaign
over the Somme, 1 April 1916-23 November 1916.” Advisor:
Ted Wilson
Ryan Gaston, (Honors) “Assuming Roles: Gender, Crisis and the
Conservation of Spain in the Early 17th Century.” Advisor:
Luis Corteguera
Troy Hinkel, “Jules Ferry and Henri Maret: The Battle of Church
and State at the Sorbonne, 1879-1884.” Advisor: Leslie Tuttle
Crystal Johnson, “The Core Way: The Congress of Racial Equality
and the Civil Right Movement, 1942-1968.” Advisor: Jeff
Moran
Marina Maccari-Clayton, “Global Migration in Transition: The
Americas, Europe, and Italian Diaspora (1946-1960).” Advisor:
Luis Corteguera
James Quinn, “‘We Have No Place’: The Captivity and Homecoming
of French Prisoners of War, 1939-1947.” Advisor: Luis
Corteguera
Christopher Rein, (Honors) “‘Properly and Profitably Employed’:
The US Army Air Forces in North Africa, June 1942 to
September 1943.” Advisor: Adrian Lewis
Kimberly Schutte, (Honors) “Marrying by the Numbers: Marriage
Patterns of Aristocratic British Women, 1485-2000.” Advisor:
Katherine Clark
Darrick Taylor, (Honors) “L’Estrange His Life: Public & Persona
in the Life and Career of Sir Roger L’Estrange, 1616-1704.”
Advisor: Jonathan Clark
Sally Utech, “‘Certainly the Proper Business of Woman’: Household
and Estate Management Techniques of Eighteenth-Century
French Noblewomen.” Advisor: Leslie Tuttle
2011 Award Recipients
Undergraduates
Nicole Bingham Memorial Scholarship – Melissa Malcolm
Lila Atkinson Creighton Memorial Scholarship for a History Major
– Anna Alexandrovitch & Trent Boultinghouse
Robinson-Phi Alpha Theta Award for Outstanding Junior History
Major – Julia Barnard
James C. Malin Scholarship for Outstanding Junior History Major
– Thomas Hiatt
John G. Gagliardo Award for Outstanding Junior History Major –
Sarah Shier
Melissa Evans Study Abroad Award – Luke Brinker
Carl Becker Award for Most Outstanding Paper in a Senior Research
Seminar – Jennifer Binns
Award for Most Outstanding Honors Thesis – Hannah Ballard
Anne Stewart Higham Award for Most Outstanding Graduating
Senior – Brandon Gresham
Graduates
Arthur & Judith McClure Memorial Scholarship – Alex Boynton
Ambrose Saricks Family Research Scholarship – Benjamin Guyer
Ewert-Cobb Scholarship for Research in the Liberal Arts – Chris
Carey
Robert & Andrea Oppenheimer Award – Jacob Longaker & Edma
Delgado Solorzano
Donald R. McCoy Research Award – Mary McMurray
Mrdjenovic Family Award – Rob Miller
Oswald P. Backus III Memorial Award – Dezeree Hodish
John G. Gagliardo Award for Outstanding Teaching by a GTA –
Joshua Nygren
Norman E. & Mary Ann Saul Award for Dissertation Research –
Stephanie Stillo
George L. Anderson Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation –
“Marrying by the Numbers: Marriage Patterns of Aristocratic
British Women, 1485-2000,” Kim Schutte & “Assuming Roles:
Gender, Crisis and the Conservation of Spain in the Early
Seventeenth Century,” Ryan Gaston
Jerry Stannard Memorial Award – An International Award – “The
Plague Cures of Caspar Kegler: Print, Alchemy and Medical
Marketing in Sixteenth-Century Germany,” Erik Anton
Heinrichs, PhD Harvard University
Non Departmental Awards
Hall Center Scholar Award – Luke Brinker
Carroll Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper in Military History at
the Missouri Valley History Conference – Gates Brown
Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship from the Center
for East Asian Studies – Dusty Clark
Council of European Studies’ Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship
– Harley Davidson
Foreign Language Area Studies for Ukrainian Language Studies –
Dezeree Hodish
KU-FMSO Fellowship – Randy Masten
Latin American Field Research Grant to Spain – Irene Olivares
Chickasaw Nation Higher Education Grant – Krystle Perkins
Hall Center Sias Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities – Jason Roe
Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Foundation for a Sherman
and Irene Drieseszen Scholarship for International History –
Nicholas Sambaluk
Foreign Language Area Studies to study Czech language at Indiana
University – Allison Schmidt
Hall Center Graduate Summer Research Award – John Schneiderwind
Mortar Board Society, 1 of 5 Outstanding Educators at KU – Kim
Schutte
Society for Military History Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student
Travel Grant – Lon Strauss
Eddie Jacobson Fellowship for International Studies – Stephanie
Stillo
KU-Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium Travel
Grant – Stephanie Stillo
Latin American Studies Field Research Grant – Stephanie Stillo
Truman Foundation Grant for Summer Research – Stephanie Stillo
Fulbright Research Grant to the Netherlands – Adam Sundberg
Graduate Student Research Competition Award (Art and Humanities)
– Adam Sundberg
KU National Science Foundation C-Change IGERT Program –
Adam Sundberg
Mini Grant from the CHS Foundation for KU’s Wind Energy
Symposium – Adam Sundberg
Japan Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship in Japan –
Mindy Varner
Fulbright IIE Grant to Belgrade, Serbia – Shay Wood
Alumni News
Seth Andersen (BA 1990) is currently the Executive
Director of the American Judicature Society, an organization
that promotes a fair and effective system of justice. He is
a former special assistant to the president of the American
Bar Association and former director of the Hunter Center
for Judicial Selection of the American Judicature Society.
He now resides in Des Moines, IA.
Darrel E. Bigham (PhD 1970) retired from the University
of Southern Indiana in 2008 after 38 years. He was appointed
by President Clinton and served 10 years as a member of the
US Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. He is now
at work on a “collective biography” of the five Democrats
who made Lincoln president in 1860, and is also working
on a study of Vermont’s impact on the development of the
old Northwest.
Robert L. Boyce III (BA 1964) retired in 2009 from
Lincoln (NE) City Libraries after 27 years as a Reference
Librarian. Previously, he had worked at the KU Libraries,
Johns Hopkins Univeristy Library, and the University of
Nebraska Library. His wife of 41 years, Barbara Ericsson
Boyce (KU BA 1965, Phi Beta Kappa), died in 2007.
O. Gene Clanton (PhD 1967) is Professor Emeritus at
Washington State University. He has no news since he
published A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism and the
Battle for Justice and Equality 1854-1903 several years
back. Incidentally, free copies of this study are available
for classroom use. Contact author.
Kent Curtis (PhD 2001) was recently awarded the 2010
Oscar Winther Award by the Western Historical Association
for the best article of the year in the Western Historical
Quarterly, 2009-2010.
Paul F. Dunscomb (PhD 2001) had a book based on his
dissertation published by Lexington Books in 2011 entitled
Japan’s Siberian Intervention, 1918-1922: “A Great
Disobedience Against the People.”
Karen Hunt Exon (MA 1982, PhD 1990) stepped down in
spring 2010 after 21 years at Baker University as Professor
of History and Political Science. She spent 20 years as
University Pre-Law Advisor and 11 years as Department
Chair. She continues on as the women’s golf coach (14
years) and men’s golf coach (6 years).
Charles Eyer (BA 1997) published a historical novel
of Nero’s Rome last year called First Citizen Emperor
and is currently writing the sequel. His website is www.
mossynoecy.com.
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Scott A. Gartner (BGS 1987) recently started his own
registered investment advisory service, Gartner Financial
Group, LLC. They focus primarily on teaching scientific
methods of investing through the teachings of academia.
Virginia E. Glandon (PhD 1976) is retired from the
History Department at UMKC and sends best wishes to all.
Douglas S. Harvey (PhD 2008) had a monograph published
in 2010 by Pickering and Chatto, entitled The Theatre of
Empire: Frontier Performances in North America, 17501860.
David Lloyd Jones (MA 1965) is fully retired now with
emeritus status. He spends the harsher winter months in
South Carolina with his son and grandchildren, and always
thinks fondly of Lawrence and KU.
Ryan M. Kennedy (BGS 2009) is currently attending
graduate school at Fort Hays State University pursuing a
Master’s degree in History.
Jim Lieker (PhD 1999) is now in his ninth year at JCCC
as tenured Professor of History. He serves on the editorial
board of Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains,
chairs the community college committee for the Western
History Association, and is director of JCCC’s Kansas
Studies Institute. His dissertation, titled Racial Borders:
Black Soldiers along the Rio Grande, has been reissued in
paperback and was a winner of the Fehrenbach award for
best book on Texas history. His second book, co-authored
with fellow KU alum Ramon Powers, is The Northern
Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory, and is due from
University of Oklahoma Press in 2011.
James S. Masters (BA 1949, MA 1950) is currently
writing a book entitled Becoming American in New York.
At least nine of his ancestors and their families from 1624
to 1851 began the process of becoming American in what
is now New York State. What were New Netherland and
New York like at the times of their arrivals and how did
that affect their Americanization? He’s been collecting data
for this book for the last thirty years, and is glad he now
has the chance to put it all together, particularly since he
now lives in the region of New York where it took place.
He can walk the couple of miles from his house down to
the Hudson River and see the place where Henry Hudson’s
Halve Maen anchored, or the mile or so south from his
house to the Normanskill, at the mouth of which creek the
Dutch built Ft. Nassau to provide protection for the fur
traders.
Arthel McDaniel III (BA 1994) teaches “Independent
Film Finance: The Art of the Deal” in KU’s Film & Media
Studies Department, in addition to his work as an attorney
at Polsinelli Shughard PC in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Jeff Miller (BGS 1983) is currently Assistant Professor
and Program Coordinator in the Restaurant and Resort
Management program at Colorado State University. After
graduating from KU, he went to New England Culinary
Institute, earned a Master’s degree in Hotel and Restaurant
Management from Kansas State, and received his PhD
in Education from Colorado State University in 2006.
In 2007, he received the Best Teacher Award from the
Colorado State University Alumni Association. In 2010, he
published a book entitled Food Studies: An Introduction
to Research Methods (Berg Publishers: Oxford, UK). He
enjoyed his time in the history department and fondly
remembers the mentoring the received from Bob Greaves,
John McCauley, and Lynn Nelson.
Ethan A. Schmidt (PhD 2007) is an Assistant Professor
in the Department of History at Texas Tech University and
recently received the Texas Tech President’s Excellence in
Teaching Award.
Curtis V. Smith (MA 1992) received an Interdisciplinary
PhD (2010) from UMKC in Urban Leadership and
Policy Studies in Higher Education/Social Science. His
dissertation was “The Impact of Part-Time Faculty on
Student Retention at an Urban Community College.”
KCKCC e-Journal published his articles “The Cause of
Black Death” (Fall 2007) and “Syphilis and Contagion
Theories” (March 2009). He is currently Professor of
Biological Science at Kansas City Kansas Community
College.
Jennifer Day Tope (BA 1997) has been teaching as an
adjunct professor at several universities for the past six
years.
Adrian Zink (BA 2005) works as an archivist at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he received
his Master’s in History in May 2011. He helped create
the March on Milwaukee Civil Rights Digital History
Project, an online resource for digitized archival materials
from the Civil Rights era in Milwaukee, WI (www.
marchonmilwaukee.uwm.edu). After KU, he received
his MLS with a focus on Archival Management at the
University of Maryland in 2008, and has worked as an
archivist at the National Archives, The National Press
Club, Northwestern Memorial Hospital Archives in
Chicago, Marquette University and UW-Milwaukee. The
Wisconsin Archives Council recently gave him a $3,000
grant to complete a monograph on the future of digitization
of archival collections. He currently resides in Milwaukee,
WI, and is so thankful to KU History for the professors
who encouraged him to scour the archives, where he found
his passion.
Thank You For Your Support
We are very grateful for the generosity of our many friends
who have offered their financial support of our program.
The shrinkage of state support has led us to depend more
heavily on our endowment funds to maintain the vitality
of our academic mission. As a research one institution, we
must give our faculty and graduate students the help they
need to complete cutting edge projects that will keep us in
the top tier of departments among public universities. We
also have an ever increasing number of hard-working and
deserving undergraduate students who need scholarships
to stay in school. Please consider helping us with whatever
you can give. We truly appreciate the support of our donors.
A special thank you goes to our 2010-2011 contributors:
Seth S. Andersen
Norris G. Artman
Barbara Backus McCorkle
Marilyn R. Belshe
Anne Wolfe Benjamin & Greg Benjamin
Alexander J. & Erica Benson
Darrel E. Bigham & Mary Hitchcock
John R. Binder III
Nancy Bingham
Charles C. Bishop Jr.
Steven J. Bos
Charles S. Bryan
Dorothy D. Buchholz
Darrel Robert Cady & Lavonne Gross
William B. & Ruth C. Chalfant
Mary E. Clarkin
David L. Colgan
Roger W. Corley
Thelma J. Curl
Frederick C. Dahlstrand
Vince E. Davenport
Steven R. Davis
Austin T. Deslauriers
Florence Carre DeWitt
Ethan B. Domke
C. Stewart Doty
Tai & Ryan Edwards
Karen Hunt & Robert A. Exon
Bradley E. Fels
Eugene C. & Dorothy O. Fifield
Stephanie Fleisch & Jason R. Harville
Lorraine & Stephen G. Foley
Christopher D. Gardner
Lisa C. Gigstad
Arman J. Habegger
Joseph T. Hapak
C. James & Ruth J.S. Haug
Kristen M. Hewlett
Larry M. & Jeana Kaye Hultquist
Jon J. & Mary Motley Indall
David L. Jones
Kearney Area Community Foundation
Michael V. Keller
Jon S. Kepler
Bruce L. Larson
William Bogart Lewin
Mary Bea Littrell
Carole L. & Todd J. Lovin
Jane Wofford Malin
John T. Maple
Rex & Donna Martin
James S. Masters
Patrick McGrath & Martha Myers
David H. Michener
Kevin F. Morley
Roland M. Mueller
Barbara E. & Dr. Merrill F. Mulch
Glenda E. Murray
William V. Noone
Dr. Phillip & Dr. Teri Oppenheimer
Leesa K. & Scott W. Palmer
Larry G. & Kristine F. Parker
John C. Parrish
Kathleen M. & John W. Partin
Nikolaus J. Pauly
Elmo R. Richardson
Kenneth W. Rock
Debra P. & David L. Roe
Chad J. & Lindsay Putman Roesler
Bruce D. Ryder
Christopher L. Saricks & Joyce Goering
Norman E. Saul & Mary Ann Culwell
Judith Greenwald & G. Joe Scatoloni
Ethan A. Schmidt
Phillip R. Schmidt & Phyllis Shank
Janet S. Schurig
Jennifer L. Schwertfeger
Steven Shedd
David C. Shinkle
Curtis V. Smith
Daphne Evon Stannard & Bertram C.H. Simon
Charles L. Stansifer
Jonathan T. Sternberg
Audie D. Thompson
Gerald B. Thompson
Clyde W. Toland & Nancy Hummel
Todd P. Vicent
Steven M. & Joan C. Vincent
Carol A. Walker
Paul Wanke
Christopher A. Warren
Kendell J. Warren
Paulette S. Watson
Michael J. Wenger
Michael N. Wibel
Amy Williamson
Daniel S. Zevitz
Adrian J. Zink
James K. Zitnik
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The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
at the University of Kansas presents
TOWN BALL
CT.
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Lawrence Public Library
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2011
2-4pm
History Professor Jonathan Earle
Town Ball was played in the United States beginning in the early 1800’s and is
considered a stepping stone towards modern baseball. Today the game is played
by history buffs and baseball enthusiasts in parks and fields across the country. Join
Professor Earle for a discussion and demonstration of this fascinating game.
Participants and spectators welcome!
For more information contact [email protected]
This event is co-sponsored by The Lawrence Public Library and the Douglas County Senior Center
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