Faculty News
This page is always under construction.
Vital News
Serena Zabin, Assistant Professor of History, and Christopher Brunelle, Carleton '89, introduced us to their delightful new baby, Julian Arthur Brunelle, born July 8, 2003.
Recent Academic News
Susannah Ottaway, Associate Professor of History, presented a lecture entitled: "Old Age in the Enlightenment: The Origin of Modern Views of Ageing?" at Newcastle University (Great Britain) in their "Insights" lecture series, sponsored by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
May 1st, 2007
Susannah Ottaway, Associate Professor of History, gave a seminar in March at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure on "Workhouses, Families and the Rights of the Poor under the Old Poor Laws."
March 26th, 2007
Andrew Fisher, Assistant Professor of History, recently returned from the annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, where he served as chair and discussant on the panel "Uprisings on the Mexican Periphery in the Twentieth Century" and presented his own paper entitled "Visions of Fray Juan Baptista Moya and the Hot Country of Guerrero, Mexico: A Spiritual Ecology of Colonialism." The paper came out of his recent work with colonial Augustinian hagiography, and was awarded the conference prize for best paper on Latin American or African history.
February 9th, 2007
Louis Fishman, Visiting Instructor in History, successfully defended his dissertation "Palestine Revisited: reassessing the Jewish and Arab National movements 1908-1914," which challenges existing Palestinian/Arab, Israeli/Jewish, and Ottoman/Turkish historiographies. His dissertation was defended at the University of Chicago.
Clifford Clark, Professor of History and M.A. and A.D. Hulings Professor of American Studies, co-authored the 6th edition of the American History textbook titled The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2008), which was published this week.
January 8th, 2007
Serena Zabin, Assistant Professor of History, presented "The Work-Life Tightrope in a Liberal Arts College," sponsored by the AHA Research Division, the AHA Committee on Women Historians, the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, and the Coordinating Council for Women in History. Professor Zabin's talk was held on Saturday, Jan. 6 for the American Historical Association Meetings Session: Balancing Work and Family in the Academic Workplace.
December 11th, 2006
Annette Igra, Associate Professor of History, published a book in June entitled Wives Without Husbands: Marriage, Desertion, & Welfare in New York, 1900-1935, more information about the book - along with details for ordering are available online at: http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/history/faculty/facpubs/biblioannette/.
December 11th, 2006
October 27th, 2006
Andrew Fisher, Assistant Professor of History, recently presented a working paper on colonial mercury mines in New Spain at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Professor Fisher is a faculty fellow at the Center for the 2006-07 academic year.
April 28, 2006. Professor Harry Williams has been selected as Carleton's faculty representative to the annual Technos International Week in Japan, June 3-17, 2006, with students William Morrison '09 and Zoe Schwartz '08. It is an exciting opportunity to meet people and experience Japanese culture. Harry will continue on to Beijing where he will be doing some preliminary research on the topic of Afro-Orientalism, the interest that China held for black American intellectuals such as W.E.B. Du Bois.
February, 2006. Congratulations to Professor Seungjoo Yoon, East Asian History specialist, who was awarded tenure in the History Department.
Spring, 2005. Professor Emeritus Robert Bonner published an article in Montana, the Magazine of Western History, "Elwood Mead, Buffalo Bill Cody, and the Carey Act in Wyoming."
Congratulations to Professor Harry McKinley Williams, the new David and Marian Adams Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and the Humanities, June 2005.
Andrew Fisher, Assistant Professor of History, has received a Summer Visiting Scholar Fellowship from the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Chicago to work on his book project July and August, 2005.
Bob Bonner, Marjorie Crabb Garbisch Professor of History and the Liberal Arts, Emeritus, along with his wife, Barbara, were recently honored by Sertoma Clubs of Northfield with their Service to Mankind Award for 2005.
Andrew Fisher presented a working paper in March 2005 on religious brotherhoods and ethnic identity in western Mexico at the Third Annual Workshop on Constructing Difference in Colonial Latin America, held at Connecticut College. At a slightly less formal venue, he gave a presentation on modern Chile for a couple of fourth-grade classes at the Blake School in Wayzata in January.
Shelby Boardman, Dean of the College, was pleased to announce that the Board of Trustees voted at its recent meeting to award tenure to the following eleven faculty members, including Susannah Ottaway of the History Department! Congratulations!
Jamie Monson had an article published in the December/January 2005 issue of the Boston Review entitled "Freedom Railway: The unexpected successes of a Cold War development project". Jamie will also give a paper at the upcoming European Society for Environmental History meeting in Florence (February 15-20) titled "Common Citizens or Citizens of the Commons? Conflicts over Resource Use in Tanzania."
Serena Zabin presented two papers this fall. In October 2004 she presented "Women’s Trading Networks and Dangerous Economies" at a conference entitled "Women’s Economies in Colonial British America" sponsored by the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia. In November 2004 she presented "'Cheats and Rogueries' in Eighteenth-Century New York City" at the Newberry Library Seminar in Early American History and Culture.
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Some Past News
Clifford Clark, Susannah Ottaway, Diet Prowe, and Parna Sengupta were honored for their recent publications on Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at the "Scholarship on the Carleton Campus Celebration."
Robert Bonner, the Marjorie Crabb Garbisch Professor Emeritus of History and the Liberal Arts. He was interviewed for a piece that ran Tuesday, August 26, 2003 on National Public Radio about John Wesley Powell. The NPR web site has the entire transcript or you can listen to the audio version: http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2003/aug/water/part1.html. He was awarded a research fellowship at Beinecke Library at Yale University and will be in residence during October 2003, finishing research on his book on Buffalo Bill Cody in Wyoming. His article, "Local Experience and National Policy in Federal Reclamation: The Shoshone Project, 1909-1953," appears in the spring 2003 issue of the Journal of Policy History. His article, "Buffalo Bill Cody and Wyoming Water Politics" in the winter 2002 issue of the Western Historical Quarterly was nominated for the James Madison Prize, awarded to the best article published each year on any aspect of the history of the federal government.
Clifford Clark received a Faculty Development Endowment grant to visit the major China Trade museums on the East Coast to research and write an article on "American Furniture, Cultural Borrowing, and the China Trade, 1750-1850. He also contributed four chapters on the late 19th century in the fifth edition (2003) of the textbook, "The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People."
Andrew Fisher gave a conference talk, "Contesting the Limits of Brotherhood: Interethnic Relations and Confraternities in the Tierra Caliente of Western Mexico." He presented it at the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, hosted by the University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 10-13, 2004. He was awarded a Faculty Development Endowment grant for travel to Seville, Spain, to search for documentation to supplement the findings in his dissertation, January 2004.
Kirk Jeffrey attended the annual summer conference of the Society for the Social History of Medicine at the University of Manchester, UK, in July 2003. The title of the conference was "Devices and Designs: Medical Innovation in Historical Perspective." Kirk presented a paper entitled "'When Life Depends on Medical Technology': The Strategy of Innovation at Medtronic."
Adeeb Khalid was awarded a Faculty Development Endowment Grant for a trip to Central Asia to gather materials for his book, January 2004.
Jamie Monson. In 2004-05 she will be a research fellow with the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Berlin Institute for Advanced Study), spending the year studying historical demography in relation to HIV/AIDS transmission along the TAZARA railway corridor in Tanzania. January 2004 awarded Faculty Development Endowment Grant for collaborative field research project in rural Tanzania. Recipient of the Carnegie Scholars Grant, organized the All-Campus Africa Symposium, "Sacred Ground: Memory, Ritual, and Place in Africa," in February, that included a public lecture, receptions, African food and music, panels and discussion. She published a chapter, "Maisha: Life History and the History of Livelihood Along the Tazara Railway in Tanzania, in Sources and Methods in African History: Spoken, Written, Unearthed, 2003: University of Rochester Press. She was featured in an interview by Tumaini Hill in History & Society. After returning from a short trip to Tanzania, she went to China in August to present a lecture in Beijing, make contacts with Chinese academicians, locate Chinese railway experts, and expand knowledge of Chinese-African historical relations. Lecture to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, on the topic "Freedom Railway to Ordinary Train: A Rural History of the TAZARA Railway," on August 23, 2003. Also, on June 5, 2003 presented a keynote lecture at a workshop on the Maji Maji rebellion at the University of Dar es Salaam, titled "Rethinking the Role of Medicine in Maji Maji: Rumors and Narratives of Conversion."
Victoria Morse received an 11-month post-doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship in Medieval Studies for 2003-04 at the American Academy in Rome. She also received a Mellon Faculty Fellowship and a Class of '49 Fellowship to complete a book manuscript on Opicino de Canistris and his theories about the reform of the Christian individual. She will be in Italy during 2003-04.
Bill North received a Mellon Faculty Fellowship in January 2004 to develop the conceptual foundations for a monograph-length study on the role of exegesis in the cognitive reform of clergy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. He invited Mary Stroll, University of San Diego, to present a talk for Medieval/Renaissance Studies and History, "Strange Bedfellows: The Pope & the Emperor in 1122" Friday, February 7, 2003.
Susannah Ottaway invited Dena Goodman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to present the Winter term 2002-03 Herbert P. Lefler Lecture, "A 'Cabinet' of One's Own: the Private Space of Letter Writing in Eighteenth-Century France." She also published Power & Povery: Old Age in the Pre-Industrial Past, Greenwood Press.
Diet Prowe continues to be the Editor of the German Studies Review. He also recently published "Kohl and the German Reunification Era," in The Journal of Modern History 74/1.
Parna Sengupta received both a Bush Fellowship and a Class of '49 Fellowship to complete a manuscript on the development of a colonial model of primary vernacular education in India. May 2, 2003, she was selected as a 2003 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. The fellowship was established to encourage outstanding researchers at the postdoctoral level to pursue critical education research projects, and provides $50,000 for release time from teaching and other costs associated with research. She also published an article, "An Object Lesson in Colonial Pedagogy" in Comparative Studies and History: An International Quarterly.
Carl D. Weiner invited T.J. Stiles, '86, to present the Fall 2002-03 Herbert P. Lefler Lecture, "When the War Came North: Finding the Meaning of Jesse James in Northfield," in October.
Harry Williams organized a May visit by Dr. Richmond Teye Ackam, a well-known Ghanaian artist and Associate Professor of Art at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. Dr. Ackam presented a Robert Lehman Art Lecture and met with past student participants in the Carleton Ghana Program and current students who will be going to Ghana in December. There was also a very elegant reception at Professor Williams' home attended by many students and faculty.
Serena Zabin received a Wallin Fellowship and Wallin Targeted Opportunity to complete her book manuscript on eighteenth-century New York City as a port city on the rim of the British empire and the Atlantic world, January 2004. She invited Daniel Richter, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies to give a presentation to history and American Studies faculty entitled "Native American History, North American History, Atlantic History: What's a Colonialist to Do?" in May.
Eleanor Zelliot, professor emerita, gave the annual Ambedkar Memorial Lecture at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, and spoke to the University of New Delhi's Department of Education and a young Buddhist Group at Ashoka Ashram. She also presented a paper titled "Caste and Discourses of the Mind" on the moods of Dalit Literature during a conference in Pune. She also chaired a panel of young scholars on "History and Identity: A Discussion of Dalait Perspectives" at the annualmeeting of the Association for Asian Studies. She gave a paper titled "Using the Voices of India's Untouchables" for the panel on "Fresh Material: Teaching about Asia with New Research and Technology" at the AsiaNetwork conference.