UMass Amherst History: Past, Present & Future

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Telling Stories with Writer-in-Residence Adam Hochschild Each year the Department of History brings a writer of national prominence to campus for a weeklong residency to enliven the training of our students in writing for a range of audiences and venues. In March the Department of History and the Five College community welcomed award-winning writer Adam Hochschild, whose works include King Leopold’s Ghost, Bury the Chains, and To End All Wars. Hochschild is a writer as well as a lecturer in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

During his stay Hochschild visited several Five College classes, including our graduate seminar “Writing History.” “One of the most important lessons we learned from Hochschild’s visit,” reports M.A. student Matthew Herrera, “was his approach to writing history for popular audiences. He told us that his goal as a writer was to captivate the reader. Hochschild believes that in order to reach wider audiences, historians need to use the classic tools writers have been using for hundreds of years, such as narrative devices of plot and scene-setting.

Writing that makes use of these techniques appeals to audiences outside of academia, and using these in works that expand the field can only have a positive influence.”

On 28 March, Hochschild delivered the Writer-in-Residence lecture, “Rewriting the Spanish Civil War,” to an enthusiastic crowd. He focused on his latest project, a history of American volunteer fighters in the Spanish Civil War. Hochschild described the book and his research and writing processes. In order to make history more believable and personal, he recommended framing narrative through a handful of characters with whom readers can connect and through whom the story can be told.

“History, after all, doesn’t happen in the abstract,” Hochschild argued.

“It happens to individual people.”

For his sage advice on how to integrate literary methods into history in ways that all audiences can appreciate as well as for his congenial conversation and company, we thank Adam Hochschild for a full and valuable week.

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t’s a bit hard to fathom that yet another academic year has passed but, as the articles in this newsletter attest, it was an amazing one for our Department. Higher education is undergoing tremendous changes and we, like our peers across the country, are constantly evolving to meet new demands. Students and their parents are increasingly concerned about what a liberal arts education can do for them. We in the History Department know— and believe that we are demonstrating—that there is a vibrant role for history and the humanities in our world.

Adam Hochschild was our Writer-in-Residence this past spring. His week with us was stimulating for undergraduate and graduate students alike, as well as for faculty and community members. Many who attended his presentations had read one or more of his popular books, including King Leopold’s Ghost, Bury the Chains, and To End All Wars. For me, a high point of the week was introducing one of my undergraduates to Hochschild so that he could autograph her book. She was thrilled to tell him how his study of the Congo had changed her ideas about the world.

Professor Ned Blackhawk from Yale University gave the Annual Lecture, “Indigenous Reckoning: American Indians and the Remaking of U.S. History.” The event filled the Cape Cod Lounge with people from the campus community and beyond.

The Department also was honored to celebrate Barbara Krauthamer’s NAACP Image Award for her book Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery. Her discussion of the incredible photographs in this most timely book captivated the audience.

Another highlight of the year came in December 2013 with the celebration of Richard (Dick) Baker ’61 and his book The American Senate: An Insider’s History (Oxford Univer-

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sity Press, 2013) at the United States Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, DC. The UMass Amherst Libraries and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts co-sponsored the event, an engaging panel discussion with Baker and Professors Emeriti Bruce Laurie and Ron Story on the Senate and, more generally, the federal government. The evening included a lively discussion with alumni from the 1960s right up to fairly recent graduates.

We hope to be able to do something like this again in the near future.

Receiving a most generous pledge this year from Charles K. Hyde ’66 was a wonderful boon for the Department. His continuing support of our Public History Program has allowed us to plan things we once could only have dreamed of doing.

As I have pointed out in previous newsletters, our faculty and students continue to win fellowships, book contracts, and other awards, confirming my belief that our Department is one of the University’s hidden treasures.

Two new faculty members, Jason Moralee and Jennifer Nye, are joining us this year.

They promise to energize our course offerings and the Department as a whole, and we are excited to have them. Moralee’s work on the ancient world will give new depth to our offerings. Students remain curious

about Rome and the Mediterranean world, and Moralee will bring them alive for our students. He is also likely to expand our connections with Classics and Art History. Nye, a lawyer by training, will teach courses on women and the law. Her knowledge of the nonprofit and legal worlds will enable our students to learn more about how to navigate those arenas. Nye’s presence will enable us to further develop our connections with Commonwealth Honors College (where she will teach half-time) and Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies.

I continue to appreciate my colleagues for their dedication and support. I could not do my job without having such incredible people supporting me here in Herter Hall. My thanks go to Associate Chair Anne Broadbridge, Undergraduate Program Director Jennifer Heuer, and Graduate Program Director Marla Miller for agreeing to serve with me. Outreach Director Jessica Johnson continues to connect the Department with various community groups in meaningful ways. Without them and our staff—Suzanne Bell, Amy Fleig, and Mary Lashway—being chair would be virtually impossible.

We welcomed Adam Howes this summer to serve as our HR and finance assistant, and we look forward to working with him. He replaced Julie Rosier, who served as long-term

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temporary staff. Marla Miller is rotating out as graduate program director and spending the year on a prestigious Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship. I will miss her energy and wisdom and am happy that she will not be far away. I look forward, however, to working with Barbara Krauthamer, our new GPD, in the coming years. Thanks to all who make the Department run relatively smoothly. I abundantly appreciate their support each and every day.

Finally, the Department continues to build our relationships with alumni. I have enjoyed meeting many of you over the past four years and look forward to meeting more of you in the future. Your connections to the Department make it possible for us to grow and develop, especially in these changing economic times. As I’ve said before, alumni have an ever more important role to play as state support dwindles. Thank you for all that you do for us here in Herter Hall. Please be sure to stop by if you find yourself on campus.

Send us your news updates at newsletter@ history.umass.edu and feel free to contact me directly at chair@history.umass.edu.

—Joye Bowman

between their families. Also a specialist in French history, Gordon was hired by the History Department as Greenbaum’s replacement. Over the years, the two found many shared interests among their family members, including the education of talented undergraduates. Gordon also thanked the History Department for decades of support of honors education.

History Department Chair Joye Bowman said that more than twenty years after his retirement, Greenbaum’s legacy remains vibrant. She noted that many alumni from the 1960s through 1990s say that they wouldn’t be where they are today without Professor Greenbaum and his gift for challenging them to work hard and be open to new points of view.

“After all is said and done, it is the students that matter the most,” said Greenbaum. “We have students as good as those at Harvard, but they’re unique in one respect: in their gratitude.”

—Zac Bears

This article originally appeared on the Commonwealth Honors College website.

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At the 1 July dedication of Commonwealth Honors College’s Louis and Hilda Greenbaum Gallery and Louis S. Greenbaum Classroom: (from left) Joye Bowman, Provost James Staros, Professor Emeritus Louis Greenbaum, Hilda Greenbaum, and CHC Interim Dean Dan Gordon. See the story at the right for a report on the dedication.

“Look what happens when you plant the right seed,” said Provost James Staros at the July dedication of the Louis and Hilda Greenbaum Gallery and Louis S. Greenbaum Classroom. “Professor Louis Greenbaum founded the first Honors Program in 1960. Now, we have Commonwealth Honors College and the Residential Community.”

Professor Emeritus Louis Greenbaum taught history at UMass from 1955 to 1992, and together with the late Professor of History Howard Quint co-founded the Honors Program. Greenbaum served as the program’s first director. He dedicated 60 years to supporting undergraduate education at UMass Amherst. Professor Greenbaum and his wife, Hilda, made a $250,000 donation in support of the Residential Community, which, as CHC Interim Dean Daniel Gordon noted, is “one of the largest donations a faculty member has ever given back to the University.”

In addition to extending gratitude to the Greenbaums, Gordon highlighted their parallel careers and the close ties

Louis and Hilda Greenbaum at the dedication of the gallery and classroom named in their honor.

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PROGRAM REPORTS Rising Researcher Amy Armstrong ’14.

The Undergraduate Program After graduating, Newcombe was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

Amy Armstrong ’14 is one of four students in the University to have received the UMass Rising Researcher Student Achievement Award, sponsored by the vice chancellors for University Relations and Research & Engagement. It recognizes exceptional students who excel in research, scholarship, Twenty-first Century Leader Andrew Newcombe ’14. or creative activity. Amy was nominated by Laura Lovett who, among other things, was impressed by her work with the oral history of the founders of Safe shelters in Western Massachusetts, and with Passage, one of the first domestic violence Student Bridges in Holyoke, an organization dedicated to helping underrepresented students succeed.

Several other history majors also received University-wide awards for their writing and 2014 Honors Thesis Presentations research. Joy Silvey ’15 was the first long-text prizewinner in the Writing Program Best

Willis Chen “Does Party Activity or Party Organization Have a Text Contest for her essay “Spread the Word: Negative Impact on Strategic Decision-Making During Mid-20th-Century Printing and the Growth Times of War Crises?” of the Gay Press,” written for History 593T (Brian Ogilvie), “History of Technology.” Ce Andrew Clinton “Regime Change and the Legacy of the Communist Past— leste Guhl ’14 won the Friends of the Library A Comparative Application of Current Theoretical Models” Undergraduate Research Award, sponsored

by Special Collections and University Ar Nelson Lewis “Finding Labour’s Peace: The Development of ‘British chives, for “Baby, It’s Cold Outside: Curfews Socialism’ and the Politics of Post–World War II for Women at the University of MassachuReconstruction” setts,” written for History 593W (Emily Redman), “Food, Water, and Shelter.” Andrew

Samantha Loeb “Rwanda’s Place in Genocide History” Clinton ’14 received an honorable mention in Eamon McCarthy Earls “Twisted Sisters: The Great New England Hurricanes of 1954 the same category for “Yung Wing, the Chiand 1955” (published as a book by Appia Press in July 2014) nese Educational Mission, and the Politics of Chinese Exclusion,” written for History 592U,

Natalie McClung “An International Tug of War: The Dynamic Relationship “China and the United States.”

Between States and International Institutions” Within the Department we awarded two Louis S. Greenbaum History Writing Prizes.

Kenneth Mick “Gender and Heresy in Medieval Europe: Women’s Roles Molly Meehan, nominated by Alice Nash, in the Waldensian Movement” won for her short paper “Marie Laveau: The Voodoo Queen in American Horror Story:

Tyler Vachon “Surveillance and Radicalism in the United States” Coven,” written for History 388, “U.S. Wom-

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Now to the most significant part of this publication: our students’ accomplishments! The list of awards and fellowships our students garnered this year is impressive.

We were particularly thrilled to see Andrew J. Newcombe ’14 named as one of only ten students from throughout the University to receive a 21st Century Leader Award.

His work as a History major was exemplary, and our colleagues were impressed with the depth and range of his academic engagement. The award citation notes that he further “distinguished himself in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, supervising an 18-person staff as the Minuteman Battalion’s executive officer, and training more than 100 cadets from 12 colleges throughout New England. He also spent more than four months with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, working with mentally handicapped orphans and dying homeless men.”

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Jennifer Heuer.

New graduate Samantha Loeb ’14, right foreground, celebrating with her family at the Department’s annual Undergraduate Breakfast.

Willis Chen ’14 defending his honors thesis.

Thomas A. Sandberg, recipient of the Paul A. Giguere Scholarship in History, with Roland Giguere.

en’s History to 1890.” The research essay winner was Victoria Burns, nominated by Carlin Barton for “The Sacrificial System: Envy in the Roman Mind,” written for History 591G, “Ancient Roman Religions.”

We strongly encourage students to consider studying abroad and have been able to offer scholarships for some programs. History majors have gone everywhere from Ireland to Mexico, Australia to Japan. In particular, the wonderful UMass Oxford Summer Seminar is now run out of the History Department and was directed

by Anne Broadbridge this past summer, when we were able to award five scholarships to Oxford-bound History majors.

Christopher Benning has completed a wonderfully effective tenure as our internship director, and for 2014–15 Mark Roblee has taken the reins. The director helps History majors find internships and polish their résumés and teaches a career development class. We offer special workshops for students who are considering graduate school or are interested in careers in education or law. We also bring back alumni to show off the range of directions our majors have taken, from museum curating to government to publishing to business.

In conjunction with this program, we this year awarded three Richard W. Bauer Scholarships for students doing summer

internships. Emily Esten ’17 interned with U.S. History Scene, a multimedia education website dedicated to providing students and teachers with easy access to premier digital resources, live digital curriculum, and cutting-edge history scholarship. Joy Silvey ’15 interned at the Sexual Minorities Archives in Northampton, MA, organizing and promoting their collection of materials. And Celeste Guhl ’14 interned with the newly created Leverett Family Museum, devoted to local history.

Note to alumni: Internships can be just a few hours per week or a full semester; we look for options both during the academic year and over the summer. If you’d like to mentor a history intern or come talk to our students about career options, please let us know.

We also recognized myriad students for their academic achievements in history during the year. For the full list, see www. umass.edu/history/about/awards.html.

In other news, we were lucky to have three accomplished peer mentors to support Undergraduate Advising in 2013–14: Natalie McClung ’14, Zachary Zuber ’14, and Nelson Lewis ’14. Mentors have direct experience with the complexities of student life and can give firsthand advice on transfer credits, juggling multiple majors, and balancing study with work, athletics, study abroad, and other

competing interests and priorities. They offer a perspective that just isn’t available from faculty advisors or Suzanne Bell, our incomparable undergraduate program assistant.

We strongly encourage students to talk to next year’s peer mentors.

Our History Club continues to be an amazing asset, offering regular movie and trivia nights. This year it organized a Haunted Campus Tour and met with Writer-in-Residence Adam Hochschild. For more on the club, see www.facebook.com/ groups/2250671126/.

We have also instituted a new set of orientations to help majors discover all of the resources available to them. We look forward to meeting even more students with a passion for the past and a curiosity about what history might teach us for the future.

—Jennifer Heuer, director

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As usual, our year opened with a bang as incoming students toured the Five College libraries with Humanities Research Services Librarian Jim Kelly and engaged in orientations on studying and teaching in the Department. During September two exciting, high-profile exhibits and related lecture series, “Remembering Guantánamo” and “Du Bois in Our Time,” were held on campus.

In early October, Ned Blackhawk delivered the Annual UMass/Five College Graduate Program History Lecture. A professor of history and American studies at Yale University, Blackhawk is the author of Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West. His talk, “Indigenous Reckoning: American Indians and the Remaking of U.S. History,” drew a crowd of students, faculty, staff, and others to the Cape Cod Lounge. (If you missed it, you can check it out on the Department’s YouTube channel.)

Spring was just as active, with events designed to help build research and presentation skills. In March we welcomed Georgia Barnhill, curator emeritus of the American Antiquarian Society, who led the workshop “Prints and Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture.” History students, alongside friends and colleagues from across the Col-

lege of Humanities and Fine Arts, gathered in Herter 601 to learn about the production processes behind prints, the kinds of historical insight that can be extracted from visual sources, and how online databases (including some developed by the American Antiquarian Society, where Barnhill worked for many years) can help historians locate visual source material. Later that month, in anticipation of the spring conference season and our grad students’ annual conference, Alice Nash led two workshops on how to present conference papers.

We also gave sustained attention to preparing students for an increasingly competitive job market. In February we partnered with the Graduate School’s Office of Professional Development to offer a panel, “Exploring Alternate Academic (Alt-Ac) Careers”; it brought to campus Anne Mitchell Whisnant of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a national figure in emerging conversations about the “malleable Ph.D.” (as the American Historical Association terms it) and careers in higher education beyond the tenure track. In April I was honored to be asked to serve on another panel, “Navigating the Academic Job Search,” co-organized by the Office of Professional Development and the

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John Dickson “Against the Odds: Accounting for the Survival of the Berkshire Athenaeum amid the Evolution of Downtown Pittsfield, MA”

Jonathan Dusenbury “Motives of Humanity: Saint-Domingan Refugees and the Limits of Sympathetic Ideology in Philadelphia”

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Daniel McDonald “The City of Minas: The Founding of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Modernity in the First Republic, 1889–1897”

Jacob Orcutt “Mishoonash in Southern New England: Construction and Use of Dugout Canoes in a Multicultural Context”

Shuko Tamao “The Politics of Psychiatric Experience”

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The Graduate Program

Marla Miller.

Center for Teaching and Faculty Development. And in another event aimed at helping our students land their all-important first jobs, we arranged a brown-bag lunch panel at which the do’s and don’ts of interviewing were discussed by Jessie MacLeod ’12, assistant curator at George Washington’s Mount Vernon; Anne Digan Lanning, vice president for museum affairs at Historic Deerfield, and our own Ph.D. student Tony Repucci, a 12year veteran of K–12 teaching who came to history after a career in finance.

A consistent spring-semester highlight is the visit of the Writer-in-Residence. This year it was a thrill to welcome Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, and several other titles. His talk “Rewriting the Spanish Civil War” was given before a large crowd in the Cape Cod Lounge and offered a biography of Hochschild’s book-in-progress. He also visited several graduate and undergraduate classes at UMass Amherst and at Amherst and Hampshire Colleges, and left us all inspired about ways to use concepts like character and plot in the writing of nonfiction.

Rebecca Schmitt photo-documenting the Kathryn M. Lee, an oyster schooner undergoing restoration.

Daniel Chard on His Hands-On Grant:

“A 2014 Hands-On Grant enabled me to participate in the campus’s Social Justice Mediation Institute. In addition to earning me a certificate in social justice mediation, the training exposed me to important concepts applicable to my dissertation research on the FBI’s war with domestic leftist guerrillas during the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s.”

Spring also means awards season, always a delight given that the ongoing generosity of our alumni allows us to support so many students’ needs and aspirations. This year the Department presented three travel grants to support research. Dan Chard went to the National Archives to continue work on his study “The U.S. Government’s War with Domestic Leftist Guerillas, 1967–1985.” Felicia Jamison consulted the American Missionary Association Archives at Tulane to research the transition of freed people from slavery to emancipation. And Amanda Tewes ’14MA headed to Southern California to continue her research into Walter Knott’s “preservation” of Calico Ghost Town, an abandoned silver-mining community, as a part of California’s mythmaking process. The Jumpstart Award, available to students who have recently defended their dissertation pro-

spectus, supported Christopher Benning’s research in Oakland, CA, and Laconia, NH, on Progressive Era museum innovator Charles P. Wilcomb.

A Bauer-Gordon Summer Research Fellowship supported Kathryn Julian’s effort to track the persistence of religious ritual and tradition in East Germany between 1945 and 1961, while a Robert and Jeanne Potash Latin American Travel Grant and funding from the Bauer-Gordon Program helped Thamy Almeida visit Brazil to gather stories of people who migrated to the capital, Belo Horizonte, from the interior of Minas Gerais.

Support from the Joyce A. Berkman Endowed Fund in Women’s History and Women’s Studies allowed Marwa Amer to visit the Amistad Research Center at Tulane to deepen her study of gender in the civil rights movement and Felicia Jamison to continue her research

on the lives and cultures of enslaved African Americans in Liberty County, GA, between 1830 and 1867. With funds from the Ogilvie Memorial Grant for Foreign Language Study, Erica Fagen traveled to Berlin to hone her skills in German.

Charles K. Hyde ’66 Internship Scholarships went to support four excellent Public History Graduate Certificate students who are extending their training in public policy or historic preservation. Emily Pipes spent her summer in the housing and testing units of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, the state agency responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws regarding employment, housing, education, and other important topics. There she engaged her training in history with her passion for economic, racial, and gender equality. Rebecca Schmitt headed south to the Maryland Historical Trust, where she worked in the Historic Preservation Easement Program helping to document, map, and inspect properties protected by one of the nation’s oldest easement programs.

And Emily Hunter and Chuck Weisenberger worked in the W. E. B. Du Bois Library Archive and Special Collections, processing collections and making them more accessible for public use.

We were also pleased to congratulate the first-time recipients of our new HandsOn Grants to support learning beyond the classroom. These funds allowed three Ph.D. students to pursue specialized training that enriches their studies. Dan Chard enrolled in the Social Justice Mediation Institute, mastering skills that will serve his research interests while also facilitating his ability to extend his work beyond the traditional classroom. Brian Comfort participated in the Visual History Summer Institute at George Southern University to continue work on the documentary based on his doctoral dissertation, “Eminent Domain” (vimeo.com/39102882). And Cheryl Harned joined the American Antiquarian Society’s 2014 History of the Book Summer Seminar, “Books in the Larger World of Objects.”

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(“‘Greetings, I am an Immortal God’: Self-Deification in A nt iq ue Roma n North Africa, Second through Fifth Centuries CE”), and Christopher Benning (“Charles P. Jonathan Dusenbury ’14MA analyzing images at the “Prints and NineteenthCentury American Visual Culture” workshop.

Wilcomb and Modern Heritage Practo Dan McDonald ’14MA (now pursuing his tice in the United States, 1865–1915”).

Ph.D. at Brown University) for his thesis “The Students also gained support for their reCity of Minas: The Founding of Belo Horizon- search via the Graduate School Dissertation te, Brazil, and Modernity in the First Repub- Research Grant program: congratulations to lic, 1889–1897” and Samuel Dodge ’13MA Dan Chard, John Roberts, and Mark Roblee. (now at Lehigh University for his doctoral And four students received conference travel work) for his “Regional Influences of Reli- funding from the Graduate School to allow gious Thought and Practice: A Case Study them to present their work to audiences bein Mormonism’s Dietary Reforms.” (See the yond campus: Julie De Chantal (Berkshire article on Caldwell at the right.) The Ermoni- Conference on the History of Women, in Toan Award for outstanding work as a teaching ronto), Shuko Tamao ’14MA (to the conference assistant went to Ph.D. student Marwa Amer. “Undoing Health: States of Body and Mind” Two doctoral candidates defended their at Indiana University Bloomington), and Erdissertation prospectuses this year: watch for ica Fagen and Jacob Orcutt ’14MA (National more in future newsletters from Mark Roblee Council of Public History in Monterey, CA).

2014 Ph.D. Dissertations

Andrew Dausch “Discovering Brazil in Twentieth-Century France, 1930–1964: Franco-Brazil Cultural Politics in the Era of Decolonization”

Laura Miller “All-American Vacationland: African-American, Puerto Rican, and Italian Resorts in the Catskill Mountains, 1920–1980”

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Thomas Army “Engineering Victory: The Ingenuity, Proficiency, and Versatility of Union Citizen Soldiers in Determining the Outcome of the Civil War”

Richard Taupier “The Oirad of the Early 17th Century: Statehood and Political Ideology”

Lastly, we bade farewell to doctoral and master’s students stepping forth into the world. John Dickson, Jonathan Dusenbury, Veronica Golden, Andy Grim, Dan McDonald, Jacob Orcutt, Shuko Tamao, and Erica Tomoyase completed work toward the M.A. Completing their Ph.D.’s this year were Tom Army, Andrew Dausch, Laura Miller, and Rick Taupier.

At the end of my four exhilarating years in this position, this is my last column as graduate program director. I am happy to be passing the baton to Barbara Krauthamer, admissions director in 2013 and all-around good egg.

In my final official words as GPD, I would like to offer my thanks to all the folks who have served on the Graduate Studies Committee through the past four years for their hard work, good nature, and dedication to our students. I thank Department Chair Joye Bowman for offering me this opportunity to serve the Department and to get to know our students as well as I have over the past four years. Amy Fleig, Suzanne Bell, and Julie Rosier make the office run so smoothly that all of our jobs are made easier. And it has been a pleasure to work alongside Jessica Johnson who, in addition to expanding the Department’s capacity, keeps the needs of our graduate students front and center. Most of all, I would like to express my deep gratitude to Mary Lashway, who joined us in my second year as GPD. Mary has transformed the Graduate Program in many ways, from helping us establish and maintain basic recordkeeping procedures to improving exponentially our public face and ability to recruit and serve students. She has been a delight to work with, and I am very thankful for her ever-present support and good cheer. As happy as I will be to turn to new challenges, I will very much miss Herter 614.

—Marla Miller, director

Theodore C. Caldwell

(23 February 1904 – 1 January 1995)

In 1935 Theodore Cuyler Caldwell, having recently completed a doctorate in English history at Yale University, joined the faculty of what was then Massachusetts State College, an institution still outgrowing the decades-long structural and curricular limitations of its agricultural origins. A separate history department did not exist; history was combined with sociology and government as part of the Division of Social Sciences. Caldwell and fellow history instructor Harold W. Cary, whom Caldwell had known in graduate school, were required to teach subjects in addition to history until professors of sociology and government were eventually hired.

In 1948 the retirement of A. A. Mackimmie, longtime head of social sciences and professor of European history, made it possible for Cary and Caldwell—both of whom had by then risen to the rank of full professor—to assume leadership of the combined department. It took another seven years for history to become its own department.

Although Caldwell and Cary took turns serving as official head of the History Department, they operated as a team and almost always made joint decisions, an approach encouraged by the fact that they shared an office on the second floor of the Old Chapel. In beginning their leadership tenures shortly after Massachusetts State College was elevated to the status of a university in 1947, they contended with the hard realities that the University lacked fiscal autonomy, that all expenditures except for minor sums required approval from the State House in

Boston, and that all academic appointments had to be referred to Boston for confirmation. Moreover, the personnel policies developed for state institutions like prisons and hospitals were applied to University without regard for its different needs. A newly appointed instructor who was a veteran would automatically receive tenure if allowed to stay beyond three years. Realizing that this was too little time to adequately evaluate the scholarly potential of young instructors, Cary and Caldwell dismissed most of them before the deadline, only to see several go on to have distinguished careers elsewhere.

The appointment of Howard Quint as head of the History Department in 1960 relieved Caldwell and Cary of their administrative duties and enabled them to undertake other tasks. Cary completed his book The University of Massachusetts: A History of One Hundred Years, issued in 1962, in time for the centennial celebration of the Morrill Act. Caldwell taught graduate students with the same care and attention to detail that he had brought to teaching undergraduates, and wrote The Anglo-Boer War: Why Was it Fought? Who Was Responsible? (1965), published as part of D. C. Heath’s “Problems in European Civilization” series. For many years, Caldwell’s survey of English history had been a requirement for history majors, and until his retirement in June 1970, he taught several sections of it in addition to upper-level courses on Tudor and Stuart England.

Ted Caldwell was a teacher and gentleman of the old school, reserved in dress and speech, always available to his students. His interests went beyond the classroom and the Department. He liked to play bridge and was a fine photographer. Pictures he took on the frequent visits he and his wife made to the English countryside became the subject of slide shows that he occasionally prepared for friends and colleagues.

—Robert A. Potash

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The Public History Program During the 2013–14 year, the Public History Program further burnished its national reputation and expanded its capacity to serve communities across the Commonwealth. The school year began in September 2013 with a warm welcome to new faculty members Sam and Emily Redman and a delightful field trip to historic sites in Berkshire County. It ended in June 2014 with “Never Done: Interpreting the History of Women at Work in Massachusetts,” the annual Massachusetts History Conference we co-sponsor with Mass Humanities, UMass Boston, the Colonial So-

ciety of Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Historical Society. We packed a lot of exciting activities in between. Here are some of the highlights: September 2013 saw the opening of “Du Bois in Our Time,” an exhibit at the University Museum of Contemporary Art sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. David Glassberg served as one of the project scholars, advising Chicago artist Jefferson Pinder on a video Pinder developed, inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois’s historical pageant The Star of Ethiopia, which had premiered in New

York a hundred years earlier. Public History student Kelli Morgan was also involved in the exhibit, curating a small display of documents from the Du Bois papers. A series of public programs sponsored by Mass Humanities accompanied the exhibition; highlights included a public talk by Pinder and a visit to Sam Redman’s undergraduate “Intro to Public History” class.

That same month we hosted the “Guantánamo Public Memory Project,” a traveling exhibit which opened in New York in December 2012 and is still touring the U.S.

David Glassberg, Professor of Anthropology Bob Paynter, and exhibit designer Veronica Jackson at the Du Bois National Historic Site.

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Visitors to the “Guantánamo Public Memory Project” traveling exhibit discuss the “Where is Guantánamo?” panel curated by UMass Amherst students.

Historic Northampton Director Nan Wolverton (left) discusses historic clothing with “Material Culture” students (from left) Mike Holmes, Thomas Emerson, and Sarah Hastings.

Students in the “Material Culture” course learn about local basketry at Historic Northampton: (left to right) Mike Holmes, Katherine Garland, Marwa Amer, and Rebecca Schmitt.

It was on display for four weeks in the campus’s Herter Gallery. Between 2011 and 2013 several Public History students helped bring this project to fruition, including John Dickson ’14MA, Marwa Amer, Jill Dwiggins ’13MA, and Jon Haeber ’13MA, as well as Historic Preservation student Kathryn Wetherbee.

In the fall, students from Jon Olsen’s “Intro to Public History” course partnered with three local organizations to complete service learning projects. Working with the Amherst Historical Commission, Emily Pipes, Trent Masiki, Emily Hunter, and Mirjam Pultar created a docent manual for a walking tour of sites associated with famous authors who once called Amherst their home. At the same time, Matt Coletti, Veronica Golden ’14MA, Rebecca Schmitt, and Rosa Clemente-Delrow worked with the Educational Outreach Department at the Springfield Museums to develop a map and brochure about the historical significance of the institutions’ buildings on the Quadrangle. Meanwhile, Amy Breimaier, Kayla Pittman, Chuck Weisenberger, and Susan Caplan worked on an oral-history project with the Hadley Farm Museum, interviewing local farmers who discussed their memories of using items on display at the museum.

Two projects that began in “Intro to Public History” were expanded during Jon Olsen’s

spring-semester “Digital History” course.

Katherine Garland, Christine Borge, Gregg Mitchell, and Andy Grim took the docent manual developed for the writers’ walk and turned it into a smartphone walking tour (digital.history.umass.edu/amherst/).

Chuck Weisenberger, Celeste Guhl ’14, and Michael Holmes expanded upon the oral history interviews for the Hadley Farm Museum and helped develop a new web interface for the museum (digital.history. umass.edu/hadleyfarm/) that included several new curated online exhibits. For the course’s third project, Luke Cogan, Olga Kudriavtseva, and Katrin Bahr worked with Brian Bunk on the Soccer History USA project to create a data-visualization and online exhibit dealing with the recent history of the World Cup. They used an interactive timeline model (digital.history.umass.edu/ soccer/?page_id=1264).

Marla Miller’s “Material Culture” course met for a month in residence at Historic Northampton, looking closely at the collections there to understand how curatorial expertise informs scholarship. Director Nan Wolverton helped lead weekly discussions focused of the museum’s clothing, furniture, and basketry collections. Meanwhile, students working in teams planned micro-exhibits grounded in the collections. One team’s

exhibit identified artifacts from the costume collection that looked as though they could be found in today’s fashion magazines, illustrating how cyclical style can be; another examined furniture that had been altered and adapted over time, showing how artifacts are adapted to new needs; and a third explored ways that Northampton basketry preserved Native American history and culture. (Photos from the class can be found at www.facebook.com/UMassPublicHistory.)

Sam Redman offered three undergraduate Public History courses. In “Oral History Method and Theory” students learned about the history and theory behind the practice of oral history and conducted their own interviews, including some with prominent feminist activist Kaymarion Raymond, athletes at Amherst College, and longtime residents of Gardner, MA. The Raymond interview, done

by Veronica Golden ’13MA, will be deposited at both UMass Amherst and Smith College’s Sophia Smith Collection.

Redman’s undergraduate “Introduction to Public History” introduced students to basic concepts in public history archives and some of the contexts in which it is practiced—libraries, documentary films, historic preservation sites, and museums. In addition to their classroom work, students fanned out to visit nearby historic sites, museums, parks, and libraries.

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The “Public History Workshop” challenged undergraduate students to engage more deeply in public history topics. The class visited the special collections and archives of UMass Amherst, Mount Holyoke College, and Amherst College. Student projects included proposals for updated exhibits at the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, the Blue Hills Reservation, the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, and our campus’s Robsham Memorial Center for Visitors.

One of the highlights of the year came on 12 March, when Georgia Barnhill, former curator of graphic arts and director of the Center for Historic American Visual Culture at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, introduced UMass Amherst students and faculty to American prints. Participants learned about printmaking processes and rich collections of visual resources on the web, and scrutinized a dozen or so prints to consider how images can become evidence for historical study, not mere illustrations of a place, person, or historical moment.

Shortly after this workshop, Outreach Director and public historian Jessica Johnson and many current students took off for the National Council on Public History Annual Meeting in Monterey, CA. We were especially delighted to reconnect with former Public History graduate students now based on the West Coast—including Kristin Morris ’01MA, Jon Haeber ’13MA, Stephania Villar ’12MA, and Li Na ’09PHCert—and other alums from around the U.S. In April the Public History Program co-sponsored the “Science for the People” conference on campus organized by Sigrid Schmalzer. It brought participants from the 1970s group together with current students to reflect on science activism.

The Public History Program continued its work with the Upper Housatonic Valley African American Heritage Trail in Berkshire County. In April 2014, the exhibit on the life and accomplishments of Samuel Harrison developed the year before by Amanda Tewes ’14MA, Kelli Morgan, and Michael

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Rebecca Schmitt on her Charles K. Hyde Internship Scholarship:

“This summer I was fortunate enough to be one of two interns at the Maryland Historical Trust, the State Historic Preservation Office for Maryland. A Charles K. Hyde Internship Program Scholarship funded my experience.... As a budding preservationist, I am extremely glad to say that I accomplished quite a bit through my time at the Maryland Historical Trust.”

Holmes was installed at the Samuel Harrison House in Pittsfield, MA. And in July 2014, UMass Amherst Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy dedicated the new interpretive trail at the W. E. B. Du Bois Homesite in Great Barrington, MA, now called the W. E. B. Du Bois National Historic Site (www. duboisnhs.org).

Thanks to the generosity of UMass Amherst alum Charles K. Hyde ’66, we hosted a variety of fascinating public history practitioners over the past year, among them Seth Kamil, founder of Big Onion Tours; Laurie Block of Straight Ahead Pictures, founder of the Disability History Museum; Kathy Kottaridis of Historic Boston Inc.; Eric Breitkreautz of the National Park Service; Anne Whisnant, creator of the Digital Blue Ridge Parkway at UNC Chapel Hill; Dan Cohen, founder of the Digital Public Library of America; Jessie MacLeod ’12MA, assistant curator at George Washington’s Mount Vernon; Nan Wolverton, director of Historic Northampton; Kayla Haveles ’11MA, education coordinator at the American Antiquarian Society; and Emily Oswald ’12MA, independent scholar and National Park Service contractor for the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area.

In Summer 2014 we also honored our third group of Hyde interns: Emily Hunter, Charles Weisenberger, Emily Pipes, and Rebecca Schmitt.

Congratulations to the four History Department M.A. students who graduated in May with Certificates in Public History: John Dickson, Andrew Grim, Jacob Orcutt, and Shuko Tamao, as well as Kelli Morgan, a Ph.D. candidate in African-American Studies who also completed the certificate requirements. Morgan has accepted a position in the curatorial department at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama.

Finally, we wish to thank Public History Graduate Assistant Shuko Tamao ’14MA for the many tasks she performed over the past academic year. We have been extremely fortunate to have extraordinary students in this position, and look forward to having Kayla Pittman continue the tradition in 2014–15.

—David Glassberg, co-chair

Ned Blackhawk.

Ned Blackhawk on ‘Indigenous Reckoning’ On 2 October 2013, the Department of History and Five Colleges Inc. hosted the Annual Lecture, featuring Yale University Professor Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone). One of the nation’s leading scholars of Native American history, Blackhawk drew a standing-room-only audience for his talk “Indigenous Reckoning: American Indians and the Remaking of U.S. History.” Decrying the limited historiography of indigenous peoples in the U.S., he noted that while Native American Studies has grown substantially in the past decades, much remains to be uncovered.

In his groundbreaking historical narrative Violence Over the Land Blackhawk recounts the violent history of early seventeenth-century America and its lasting effects on the indigenous peoples of the Great Basin region.

It is commendable, he asserts, that scholars are filling in the numerous gaps in American historiography and asking new questions, such as: How does a nation make peace with its violent past? How does this history challenge or change more traditional narratives about the American past? How can we as historians play a role in challenging racism and changing the national discourse about Native American history?

Blackhawk challenged the audience to include more and better versions of indigenous experience in their own work. How, he asked, do we begin tackling the monumental task of altering stubbornly enduring stereotypes of Native American peoples? The academy has its work cut out for itself in researching, writing, and teaching this traumatic chapter of our nation’s history. One thing, however, is certain: Native Americans need to have a far greater place in American historiography.

—Felicia Jamison

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Left: Barbara Krauthamer.

Right: Krauthamer at her April 2014 campus talk, with Ph.D. students Marwa Amer (left) and Felicia Jamison.

Historian on the Rise Recently named a UMass Amherst Spotlight Scholar for her work on slavery and emancipation in the Americas, Associate Professor Barbara Krauthamer is on the rise. Her recent book Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery, written with Deborah Willis of New York University, garnered awards from Choice magazine and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and also received the 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Book of Nonfiction.

Krauthamer’s other recent book, Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South, is also breaking new ground as the first study of slavery in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations.

In April 2014, Krauthamer shared her work with the UMass Amherst community in a talk, “Picturing Freedom: Photography in the Age of Emancipation.”

It drew admiring scholars and students from across campus and beyond. And, as her students readily attest, she is as great a teacher as she is a scholar.

“Dr. Krauthamer does exceptionally well at balancing the rigors of academic scholarship with the demands of educating her students,” Chuck Weisenberger explains.

“Her ability to do both well makes her a valuable asset to the campus community.” Felicia Jamison adds, “Whether it was pushing her introductory class to think broadly about the content and structures of recent written histories or insisting that I contextualize my information (and read more books) for my independentstudy project, she has helped me to grow beyond what I had thought were my intellectual limits.”

Another of Krauthamer’s students, Destiney Linker, was especially excited by the award. “In the early hours of 23 February 2014,” she writes, “I checked Twitter for word from Dr. Krauthamer as to whether she and Deborah Willis had won the NAACP Image Award for their book, which deserves every award it receives, as it advances our understanding of what emancipation meant and did not mean to African Americans before, during, and after the Civil War. “Like many graduate students in the Department,” Linker continues, “when I heard the good news I felt a mixture of excitement, pride, and honor. I was excited to know someone who had walked a red carpet and rubbed elbows with some of my favorite black celebrities and academics. I suspected that for Dr. Krauthamer receiving the award represented validation beyond academic circles and demonstrated that her work renders the shape and texture of African American history in a way that few in our field have matched. I felt pride in knowing that our Department has invested in the work of Dr. Krauthamer and that she justifies that investment every day. In serving as her teaching assistant for two semesters, I have observed what it is to be an effective professor and have learned much about what kind of teacher I aspire to be.

When I saw the picture of Dr. Krauthamer holding that gold statue I was triply honored to call her my advisor.

I look forward to the feedback she will provide on my writing and to the day (fingers crossed) when I will publish a monograph acknowledging her impact on my trajectory as a historian.”

PROGRAM REPORTS

In 2013–14 I completed my first full academic year as History Department outreach director. As such I am tasked with promoting and expanding the Department’s long-standing mission of serving our broader local, state, national, and global communities. I work with faculty and other campus offices to develop new programs and initiatives for— and in partnership with—key stakeholders in these communities. This work builds on the History Department’s Public History Program and on the broad commitment across the faculty to community-engaged scholarship and teaching.

This year, outreach to K–12 teachers and schools was a significant focus of my work.

The Department’s signature offering for teachers is our annual History Institute (see page 28). My office also embarked upon new collaborations with the campus’s School of Education, the Five College Schools Partnership, the Northeast Regional Conference on the Social Studies, and the Western Massachusetts Professional Learning Community for Social Studies Chairs (which is hosted by one of our core partners, The Collaborative for Educational Services in Northampton, MA). As a result of conversations with teachers, we introduced new online graduate courses for Massachusetts teachers, enabling educators from the farthest reaches of the state to complete graduate-level coursework in history. Several faculty submitted grant applications to the National Endowment for the Humanities for new institutes and workshops for high-school teachers; others conducted professional development workshops for teachers, including a two-day in-service for teachers in the Springfield Public School District. I very much enjoyed my visits to local history classrooms, especially Kelley Brown’s AP U.S. history class at Easthampton High School, where I consulted with students on their original research projects.

Our K–12 outreach also involved bringing students to campus. This summer we hosted a dynamic and diverse group of high-school students who attended the Department’s first annual High School Summer Institute, “Documentary Filmmaking and Social

Change.” Developed with Commonwealth Honors College and the University Alliance for Community Transformation, this handson program introduced students to the art and craft of documentary filmmaking. Emphasizing how film has been used to make change in the world, it taught students about the history of documentary filmmaking and how to conceptualize, shoot, edit, and produce their own short historical films.

This year my office was involved in developing two new grant-funded initiatives. Co-PI’s David Glassberg and Marla Miller joined me in securing a grant from the Mellon Foundation via Five Colleges to address long-standing needs and harness significant resources at the intersection of museums, archives, and public history to strengthen and clarify pathways from undergraduate humanities education to careers in the public and applied humanities. In collaboration with faculty and museum directors from across the Five Colleges and with the support and leadership of the project’s graduate fellow, Ph.D. student Cheryl Harned, the next two years will witness the creation of two new January-term intensives for undergrads, a faculty course development series, a durable online library of campus-based resources, and a two-year public lecture series and faculty seminar with leading figures in the field. Already this year we’ve welcomed Dan Yaeger, executive director of the New England Museum Association.

We’re also well underway with a second grant-funded project, a partnership with the Sexual Minorities Archive in Northampton, MA. With support from the campus’s Creative Economy Initiatives Fund and in collaboration with Julio Capó Jr. and Mitch Boucher, this project created a paid internship program at the archive for UMass Amherst undergraduates, giving them an opportunity to learn community-based archival methods and providing crucial support for this volunteer-run initiative.

The grant also created a part-time archival assistantship held by Ph.D. student Marwa Amer. She is working with the SMA curator, the undergraduate interns, and the project

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Jessica Johnson.

directors to process, preserve, and digitize materials; develop an Amherst LGBTQ history walking tour; lay the groundwork for a new oral history initiative in Springfield; forge closer connections between the archive and the Public History Program, and establish greater national and international links for the archive’s historical materials.

Another focus of my office’s work is online education. The Department’s online classes are small and discussion-based, not the MOOCs that have garnered so much media attention. Reaching working adults, community members, students finishing their degrees from afar, and undergrads in University Without Walls and other programs, the Department offers a range of online courses, including several popular new offerings such as “Irish History,” “Social Change in the 1960s,” and “U.S. Environmental History.”

This spring we’re introducing a new course, geared to medical professionals, on the history of health care and medicine in the U.S. Our Department of History is nationally known for its commitment to community engagement and public scholarship, and for good reason. It is an honor and inspiration to work with such committed, community-engaged, publicly minded scholars.

—Jessica Johnson, director

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Audrey L. Altstadt reports: This past year was full of innovation and surprises. In the spring semester I started a new course, “Human Rights and Energy Policy in the Caspian Basin,” for the GenEd Integrative Experience requirement. We began with a study of Russia’s human rights record as it came to world attention during the Olympic Games in Sochi—a sad foreshadowing of later events in Ukraine.

The greatest surprise and honor was my receipt of a yearlong residential fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, DC. During the coming year I will be working on a project to analyze the struggles toward post-Soviet democratization, applying selected political science models to the historical and cultural realities (“ground truth,” as our alumnus Charles Sennott ’84 calls it) that I have observed in my 20 years of study and travel to Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic nestled between Russia and Iran.

The Honorable Hafiz Pashayev, former ambassador to the U.S., with Audrey Altstadt at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy in April 2014.

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This year Julio Capó Jr. was featured in the documentary The Day It Snowed in Miami, which traced that city’s role in the gay rights movement and aired on PBS stations throughout the country.

He also participated in a National Park Service media roundtable to promote and identify LGBTQ historical sites and was a co-recipient of two grants: a University of Massachusetts Creative Economies Initiatives Grant (with Jessica Johnson and Mitch Boucher) to Eamonn Edge, Priyanka Srivastava, Richard Shpuntoff, and benefit the Sexual Minorities Ar- Julio Capó after the screening of Julio of Jackson Heights. chive in Northampton, MA; and a Five College Digital Humanities Grant (with Javier Corrales, Kelcy Shepherd, mittee of the UMass/American Council on and Gretchen Gano) to build a timeline of Education Joint Task Force on InternationalLGBTQ landmarks in the Americas. ization and is a recipient of a Mellon Mutual In addition, Capó, Priyanka Srivastava, Mentoring Grant for International Faculty.

Tanisha Ford, and Laura Lovett won a Mellon Mutual Mentorship Grant in the research Sarah Cornell reports: I was on leave in and teaching of women, gender, and sexu- the fall but was delighted to see my article, ality beyond national borders. This initia- “Citizens of Nowhere: Fugitive Slaves and tive included campus visits by professors Free African Americans in Mexico, 1833– Marc Stein of York University and Davarian 1857,” published by the Journal of American Baldwin of Trinity College and a pre-re- History. It won the 2014 Binkley-Stephenson lease screening of the documentary Julio Award from the Organization of American of Jackson Heights with filmmaker Richard Historians (given annually for the best scholarly article published in the Journal of AmerShpuntoff. ican History) and the 2014 Emerging Scholars As a Five College faculty member during Award of the Nineteenth Century Studies 2013–14 Richard Chu taught at Smith Col- Association (NCSA). I delivered invited prelege, Mount Holyoke College, and UMass sentations at the Center for Crossroads in Amherst, at the last of which he offered the the Study of the Americas and at the annual courses “Empire, Race, and the Philippines” conferences of the Western History Associaand “Asian/Pacific/American History.” Chu tion and the NCSA. Over the summer, funded co-edited a special section on the Chinese by a UMass Project Fund grant, I completed diaspora in the Philippines for the online archival research in Louisiana. In the fall journal Kritika Kultura. His next book, More I was happy to teach a graduate seminar, Tsinoy Than We Admit, is scheduled to come “The United States and the World in the Age out this year (Vibal Publishing), while two of Emancipation,” and an undergraduate chapters of his Chinese and Chinese Mesti- course, “Reconstruction and Reunion.” zos of Manila are being translated into Chinese for publication by the China Overseas Besides engaging in several public histoChinese Press. Chu was also elected vice ry projects, described elsewhere, this year chair of the Philippine Studies Group of the David Glassberg chaired the Organization Association for Asian Studies, and serves as of American Historians (OAH) Committee co-series editor of Southeast Asian Diaspora on Public History and was appointed OAH to the Americas (Brill Publishers). He chairs representative to a joint task force (which the International Faculty and Staff Subcom- also included AHA, NCPH, and AASLH

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Our Newest Faculty Members

Jason Moralee is a historian of Late Antiquity, a period that focuses on the Mediterranean world between 200 and 800 CE. He completed his Ph.D. at UCLA in 2002. Before coming to UMass Amherst, he was associate professor of history and Greek and Roman studies at Illinois Wesleyan University.

His research focuses on places and the often-conflicting narratives they are made to tell.

Moralee’s first book, For Salvation’s Sake: Provincial Loyalty, Personal Religion, and Epigraphic Production in the Roman and Late Antique Near East, examines how local communities in the provinces of Palestine, Arabia, Phoenicia, and Syria talked about themselves and Roman authority through formulaic expressions found in dedicatory inscriptions. He also published articles on the reuse of inscriptions and buildings, racial hybridity, and the racialization of linguistic difference. Moralee’s second book, nearly completed and tentatively titled Capitol After Empire: The Capitoline Hill from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, traces the postclassical history of Rome’s Campidoglio, the original Capitol Hill.

Moralee has been honored by fellowships from the American Schools of Oriental Research, the Lady Davis Fellowship Trust at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at The Ohio State University, among others. Most recently he was a Rome Prize fellow at the American Academy in Rome.

At UMass Amherst, Moralee will teach ancient history, Late Antiquity, and the history of religions.

Jennifer L. Nye received her J.D. in 1998 from Boston College Law School. She has more than 12 years of experience as a practicing public interest attorney, most recently at the Arizona Center for Disability Law in Tucson, where she practiced health and mental health care law, litigating cases at the administrative, state, and federal court levels. Nye has successfully represented hundreds of adults, elders, and children with disabilities in individual and class action cases challenging Medicaid denials and cuts in services, including a major victory this year in a case filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She began her career at Southern Arizona Legal Aid, where she represented survivors of domestic violence in family law and immigration matters.

Nye previously taught at the University of Arizona in the Department of Women’s Studies and at the James E. Rogers College of Law. Given that history is critical to the methodology of the law—law being always rooted in precedent—majoring in history is a common route for students finding their way to law school. Nye sees the training of undergraduates—potential new lawyers—in history as integral to preparing them to use the law as a tool in achieving social justice. Her teaching interests include critical legal theory, feminist jurisprudence, LGBT law, disability law, critical race theory, and poverty law.

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“I taught an 11-day faculty training program at Shanghai Normal University,” reports David Glassberg. “It drew historians from a dozen universities from throughout China to learn how to teach public history and start public history programs. The event was organized by Professor Li Na ’09PHCert from Chongqing University, an alumna of UMass Amherst’s Public History Program.”

Na is shown above in the front row, fifth from the left and, like the other participants, proudly donning History Department togs.

representatives) charged with developing standards for training history graduate students for careers other than college teaching.

Glassberg’s research and writing focused on the social and cultural impact of climate change. During 2013–14, he contributed to a National Council on Public History Sustainability Task Force white paper and to a digital anthology, Public History in a Changing Climate (publichistorycommons. org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/PHCC-2014. pdf). Glassberg’s “Place, Memory, and Climate Change” appeared in the August 2014 issue of The Public Historian. He has become an affiliated investigator with the Northeast

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Climate Science Center, based at UMass Amherst, a post he hopes will lead to collaboration with other scholars interested in the human dimensions of climate change past and present.

Marla Miller reports: As is always the case, my year has been shaped by the activities of the Graduate Program and the Public History Program described elsewhere in these pages. Alongside those events, however, I was pleased to serve this past year as a juror of McGill University’s Cundill Prize Competition. I continued to edit the UMass Press series “Public History in Historical Perspec-

tive,” which this year published among other books Tammy Gordon’s The Spirit of 1976: Commerce, Community, and the Politics of Commemoration and the edited collection Remembering the Revolution: Memory, History, and Nation Making from Independence to the Civil War. I presented papers and led workshops at the Smith College symposium “Narratives of Dress” (“Hidden in Plain Sight: Histories of African-American Women in the Nineteenth-Century Clothing Trades”), the National Council on History meeting (“Wikipedia 101 for Women’s History and Other Underrepresented Subjects”), and the Organization of American Historians

(“NPS 101,” one of my duties as chair of the OAH’s Committee on NPS Collaboration). I also gave talks to several community groups based on my newest book, a short biography published in September of Revolutionary-era Hatfield gownmaker Rebecca Dickinson (Westview Press). I was honored this year to be elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society and had the pleasure of attending the society’s Public History Conference, where it was fun to see alumna Kayla Haveles ’11MA in action.

Probably the highlight of my year was my collaboration with doctoral student Laura Miller on our National Park Service (NPS) contract for the New Bedford Whaling National Historic Site on Pacific Islanders, the Jewish community, and the memory of whaling. We have learned a great deal in the course of this work and are very pleased with the study, which we will present to NPS next year. On a more personal note, it was just great fun to get to work so closely with Laura and two terrific undergraduates whose help we’ve enlisted along the way, Lauren Aubut ’13 and Emily Esten ’17.

Alice Nash is pleased to announce that the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $180K grant for a second offering of an NEH Summer Institute for K–12 Teachers in Summer 2015. “Native Americans of New England: An Historical Overview” reprises the successful 2013 program with our partners at Five Colleges Inc. Application information will be posted on neh.gov around November 2014.

Brian Ogilvie taught two new courses this year: “World History Since 1500,” which he hadn’t taught before, and a brand-new junior writing seminar, “The History of Technology.”

Joy Silvey ’15, one of his writing seminar students, wrote a prizewinning final essay on the printing technologies used in the early gay and lesbian press. Ogilvie completed his fourth and last year as co-director of the Digital Humanities Initiative in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts and looks forward to returning to full-time teaching in the fall

with “The History of Science Survey” and a graduate and honors seminar on the Scientific Revolution. His research project on insects in early modern European art, science, and religion continues to bear fruit, with three chapters published: “Order of Insects: Insect Species and Metamorphosis between Renaissance and Enlightenment,” in The Life Sciences in Early Modern Europe (Oxford University Press); “The Pleasure of Describing: Art and Science in August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof’s Monthly Insect Entertainment,” in Animals on Display (Penn State University Press), and “Beasts, Birds, and Insects: Folkbiology and Early Modern Classification of Insects,” in Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Geschichte des Wissens im Dialog (VandR unipress, Göttingen, Germany). Two further chapters of his are in press: one (written in French) on the German-born artist-naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian, among the most important woman scientists in early modern Europe, and another on the English naturalist and natural theologian John Ray. Ogilvie gave presentations at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society in November 2013 as well as three talks in spring 2014: at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris; in England at a meeting of the Willughby Project in Hassop, and at a University of Amsterdam–sponsored symposium on Maria Sibylla Merian, presented in the library of Amsterdam’s Artis Zoo. Over the summer he finished the manuscript for his current book project, Butterfly (in the “Animal” series from Reaktion Books). Ogilvie also read a pile of books nominated for the Davis Prize of the History of Science Society, which is awarded to the best book on the history of science and technology written for a general readership.

Outside of his professional life, Ogilvie continues to enjoy cycling in New England.

In August 2013 he did D2R2, the Deerfield Dirt Road Randonnée, a 100K (62-mile) tour of Franklin County and southern Vermont, mostly over dirt roads. And in October 2013 he did the 170K (106-mile) Great River Ride along the three branches of the Westfield River, from Westfield to Savoy and back via Becket.

Jon Berndt Olsen reports: I successfully navigated the tenure-review process and am now an associate professor here in the Department. I completed my book manuscript Tailoring Truth: Politicizing the Past and Negotiating Memory in East Germany, 1945–1990 (Berghahn Books, 2015). Together with my “Intro to Public History” and “Digital History” students, I coordinated four public history projects with local partner organizations. These included a new Writers’ Walk of Amherst, a brochure for the Springfield Museums, an interactive timeline module for Soccer History USA, and a new website for the Hadley Farm Museum that includes oral-history interviews with local farmers.

Beyond teaching I also attended some great conferences this past year, including that of the National Council on Public History, where I presented a paper examining the controversy over national monuments being built in Berlin and in Leipzig, Germany. And in the fall I took over as a co-director of the UMass Digital Humanities Initiative.

Libby Sharrow completed her first year as a UMass Amherst faculty member in both the Department of History and the Department of Political Science. She delivered the keynote address at the University of Michigan’s “Misfit Politics” conference in March of this year. Sharrow also presented elements of her book project on Title IX and non-discrimination policy in women’s sports at the annual conferences of the American Political Science Association and the Western Political Science Association. She has been active in developing workshops on using archival methods in historical social science for Department of Political Science and the campus’s Institute for Social Science Research.

Sigrid Schmalzer reports: The biggest change for me this year is that I am now director of the Social Thought and Political Economy (STPEC) Program. Splitting my time between History and STPEC is giving me many opportunities to build bridges among different programs on campus. The most exciting of these so far is “Science for the

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People: The 1970s and Today,” a conference that I organized and which was hosted by STPEC and co-sponsored by the History Department. It brought together more than 200 people to explore the history of the radical organization Science for the People (SftP), which mobilized scientists and engineers to fight militarism, imperialism, racism, sexism, and class oppression in science. Twelve students in an honors history seminar helped organize the conference and did research using primary sources on SftP, including a large cache of FBI documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. In other news, I welcomed the release

this fall of Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present, a volume I co-edited for use in college classrooms.

And I’m heaving a big sigh of relief after submitting to my publisher a full draft of my next book, Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Encounters with Scientific Farming in Socialist China.

Taylor taught courses on two of her particular interests, “Animals in Human History” and “Medieval Women.” She is working on two projects: the book manuscript A Cultural History of the Imaginary Book (something which, however improbably, almost certainly exists) and an article on the uses of animals in the ancient Roman arena.

Anna Taylor’s Epic Lives and Monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800–1050, published in September 2013, is widely believed to be the only medieval history monograph of the last two decades without a colon in its title. In addition to her usual medieval history classes,

Rob Weir ’90PhD had a busy spring. In addition to teaching at Smith College and in the UMass STPEC Program, he published “Tie Dye and Flannel Shirts: The Grateful Dead, Vermont, and the Battle Over the Long Sixties” (Journal of Popular Music 26:1 pp.

Farewell to Larry Owens We said goodbye this year to our dear colleague Larry Owens, who has retired after 30 years in the Department.

He will be sorely missed by everyone, but perhaps most of all by his fellow historians of science. Larry received Larry Owens. his Ph.D. in the history of science from Princeton in 1987, after first earning a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Rutgers. His approach to the history of science and technology is therefore grounded in an intimate understanding of the social practices of scientists.

A noted authority on Cold War America, Larry also has an impressive understanding of other times and places and an admirable commitment to globalizing his field. He is a serious thinker whose playfulness of mind sparkles throughout his writings and conversation. Larry’s students and junior colleagues have been inspired by his insistence that the history of

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science should be fun. His articles on the search for the perfect cup of coffee in the MIT labs during the 1930s and on the use of science fiction in the “mobilization of youth for science” in the Cold War U.S, both published in the popular magazine Quest, exemplify that spirit.

That same graceful, accessible prose made sense of the grisly details of wartime research on wound ballistics for readers of Larry’s Massachusetts Review article “The Cat and the Bullet: A Ballistic Fable.”

In the classroom Larry introduced thousands of students to the history of science in his signature survey course “Science and Technology in the Western World,” and scores more benefited from his upperlevel seminars “The Rise and Fall of the Rocket State” and “The Computer: History and Culture.” Graduate students and faculty will keenly feel Larry’s absence at the Amherst Brewing Company during the Fridayafternoon meetings of the history-of-science reading group he organized. We can only hope that he’ll join us from time to time.

—Sigrid Schmalzer and Brian Ogilvie

137–161). In April he delivered a paper, “Bitter Chocolate: The 1937 Hershey Sit-down Strike,” at the New England Historical Association (NEHA). It is now in revision and as been accepted for publication by Labor History. Weir has also chaired and commented on an NEHA panel on slavery and has written numerous book reviews since January 2014.

Joel Wolfe reports: I had a productive year working on a series of article manuscripts that are now with journals and editors. I also continued to research and write my third book, The Global Twenties. At the American Historical Association Meeting in Washington, DC, I gave a keynote address to the Brazilianists on the relationship between technology and politics, and I served as a commentator on a panel on recent works on popular culture and international politics in Latin America.

Emeriti Faculty Joyce Avrech Berkman reports: This first year of retirement resembled a sabbatical year except that, as planned, I began serious piano and music-theory study and took a number of trips to visit family in California, Vancouver, and Swarthmore. At the same time I continued my work as a professional historian. Besides ongoing scholarly research and writing as well as critiquing my doctoral students’ dissertation chapters, I spoke at Greenfield Community College, presented a paper at an Edith Stein conference in Toronto, and gave two talks at Freie University, Berlin. With keen pleasure I conducted oral histories, most excitingly those of retired music faculty, a sample of which are part of a 15-minute video created by my former student Rusty Annis ’12PHCert. A screening of the video was featured at the 75th Anniversary Gala of the University’s Department of Music. I do miss the classroom and interacting with undergraduate and graduate students, and so plan to offer a course in spring 2015. My goal is to teach one course a year for as long as I can.

Ten Years of GHA Excellence On 9 March 2014, the Graduate History Association (GHA) hosted its tenth annual Graduate History Conference, drawing presenters from across the country. The conference’s theme, “History in the Making: Pivotal Moments in Public Understanding,” sparked lively discussions and brought together papers from fields such as anthropology, art and architecture, religious studies, and, of course, history.

Keynote speaker Jeanne Theoharis discussed her book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, which garnered an NAACP Image Award and remains a New York Times bestseller. Her talk, “Hidden in Plain Sight: Rosa Parks and the Black Power Movement,” challenged historians to choose carefully how to frame their subjects. Theoharis explained how “the bookends we place on Parks’s life are integral to our understanding of her and the civil rights movement writ large,” recounted M.A. student Katherine Garland.

“The traditional narrative ignores the fact that Parks was well practiced in activism; her refusal to move that day [on a Montgomery bus] was not spontaneous. The typical story also ignores the facts that Parks moved to Detroit and continued to participate in the civil rights movement and other activist movements until her death in 2005.”

Many thanks to the participants, moderators, and volunteers who contributed to such a wonderful event. Thank you also to the Department of History and the Graduate Student Senate for sponsoring the conference and to the graduate students who helped with the yearlong fundraisers.

Finally, for all their hard work, a special thank-you to the GHA officers—Co-chairs Erica Fagen and Jacob Orcutt, Treasurer Karen Sause, and Secretary Katherine Garland—and GSS representatives Jonathan Dusenbury and Emily Pipes.

At the GHA Conference: (from left) Marwa Amer, Jeanne Theoharis, Erica Fagen, Jacob Orcut ’14MA, Katherine Garland, and Karen Sause.

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FACULTY NEWS

Mario De Pillis at the launch party for the Amherst Community Co-op.

Mario S. De Pillis attended the 70th anniversary reunion of the Class of 1944 of Saint Thomas Moore High School in Philadelphia—an extraordinary occasion, since that mythic institution has been closed since 1977. In September De Pillis delivered the endowed Howard Lecture to Mormon historians in Lamoni, IA. Locally, he supports the effort to launch the Amherst Community Co-op.

Gerry McFarland reports: I continue to pursue dual careers: historian and novelist. My first novel, The Brujo’s Way (2013), became available in various e-book editions in early 2014. Later in the year, Sunstone Press (Santa Fe, NM) published the second novel in the Buenaventura Series, What the Owl Saw. It combines a realistic portrait of early eighteenth-century society in Santa Fe with a narrative following the adventures of a powerful brujo, Carlos Buenaventura, as he explores esoteric forms of knowledge related to alchemy, magic, and Pueblo Indian spiritual practice. Putting on my historian’s hat, I gave several lectures in UMass Amherst summer institutes and, after many years of reporting my chapter on the depression of the 1890s as “forthcoming,” finally saw it published in Daniel J. Leab, ed., Encyclopedia of American Recessions and Depressions (ABC-CLIO, 2014).

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Robert Potash reports: Toward the end of last year, the Argentine newspaper Clarín invited me to contribute to a special issue commemorating the 1983 election of Dr. Raúl Alfonsín to the Argentine presidency after years of military rule. My article, “Recollections about Argentina’s Return to Democracy Thirty Years Ago,” was based on personal observations and appeared in a supplement to the 8 December 2013 issue.

In January 2014, I addressed students from four South American countries who were participating in a Fulbright-sponsored program at the Institute for Development and Training. Later this year I will be discussing Argentine political culture with a group of young Argentine professionals attending the Donahue Institute’s Civic Initiative Program.

The first chapter of my biography of a controversial Argentine military figure, “Alejandro A. Lanusse: de Cadete Militar an ex-Capitán, 1935–1955,” appeared in the March 2014 issue of the Argentine general-interest monthly Todo es Historia.

Jane Rausch: Inspired by the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, Rausch decided to focus her research on a subject largely overlooked by other historians: war-related developments in the Bolivarian countries of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. This investigation bore fruit in the form of papers she presented at the American Historical Association meetings in Washington, DC, and at the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies in New Orleans. Rausch’s book Colombia and World War I: The Experience of a Neutral Latin American Nation during the Great War and Its Aftermath, 1914–1921 (Lexington Books ). Rausch was a featured speaker at the congreso “Latin America and the One Hundred Years since the Beginning of the First World War,” sponsored by the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá. Her participation there marked her fiftieth year as an aficionada and investigator of Colombian history since her first research trip to that country in 1964 as an M.A. candidate at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Charles Rearick reports: Fall 2013 was a busy time for me. In Paris a high point was my invited participation in a colloquium on songs about Parisians’ excursions to recreation spots along the Marne River.

My presentation, made in French, focused on the dreams and nostalgia common to the lyrics. Several weeks later I presented a paper, “The ‘Most Parisian’ Quartier of Paris and Its Mosaic of Immigrants,” at a French history conference in Atlanta, GA. I also gave a presentation on Paris at UMass Dartmouth’s Boivin Center for French Language and Culture.

Memory and nostalgia are the subjects of my recent article “The Charms of Paris ... Yesterday,” published last winter in Historical Reflections/Reflexions historiques. I also wrote two reviews, one of a book on Breton migrants to Paris and another on the popular novel Paris Charles Rearick at the

by Edward Ruther- Caldwell Vineyards near furd (see the online Napa, CA. journal Fiction and Film for French Historians, March 2014).

Leo Richards’s manuscript Outlawing Slavery: The Fight Over the Thirteenth Amendment has been accepted by the University of Chicago Press. Begun well before Steven Spielberg’s movie Lincoln was released, the book tells a similar story from a different vantage point, mainly from the perspective of an unheralded congressman who fought to get the amendment through Congress; Lincoln helped him, but only at the last minute.

The book should be in print sometime in the winter—probably under a snazzier title, if the press has its way.

New Books from Our Faculty, Emeriti, and Alumni Chris Appy: In February 2015, Viking will publish American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity, which explores the war’s impact on American culture and foreign policy from the 1950s to the present.

Barbara Krauthamer: Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South (University of North Carolina Press, 2013) explores the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian ownership of African American slaves, the racial and gender ideologies it shaped, and the complexities of race and citizenship after the Civil War.

Gerald W. McFarland: What the Owl Saw (Sunstone Press, 2014), a novel set in early eighteenthcentury Santa Fe, N.M., features Carlos Buenaventura, a powerful brujo.

While maintaining a public identity as a respected member of Santa Fe society, Buenaventura secretly pursues esoteric levels of consciousness through a dangerous friendship with three itinerant entertainers, a magician and two seductive dancers.

Aimee Newell ’10PhD: A Stitch in Time: The Needlework of Aging Women in Antebellum America (Ohio University Press, 2014) draws from 167 examples of decorative needlework done between 1820 and 1860 by women aged 40 or older to explore how women in antebellum America experienced social and cultural change.

Jane Rausch: Territorial Rule in Colombia and the Transformation of the Llanos Orientales (University of Florida Press, 2013) tells the story of the fastgrowing, petroleumrich eastern plains of Colombia by examining government policies toward the region from 1946 to the present and showing its importance to the nation’s development.

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STUDENT NEWS

Daniel Chard reports: During the spring 2014 semester I completed my residency for an honorary Du Bois Library Fellowship in the W. E. B. Du Bois Library Special Collections, where I conducted research for my dissertation on the FBI, the U.S. left, and political violence during the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s. In May, thanks to the support of a History Department Hands-On Grant, I attended the campus’s Social Justice Mediation Institute, where I earned a certificate in resolving interpersonal disputes while considering any social privileges and inequalities they might entail. This training both informed my dissertation research and provided me with skills useful to my future career in academia.

Later I traveled to South Carolina, where I conducted research at Clemson University with the support of a UMass Graduate School research grant. I look forward to making substantial progress on my dissertation writing during the coming year.

Emily Esten ’17 reports: During the 2013–14 year, I worked with Marla Miller and Laura Miller ’14PhD on the study “Ethnohistory of Ethnic Whalemen and their Communities in the New Bedford Area.” Being from the New Bedford area, the opportunity to learn about hometown history brought my start on campus a little closer to home. In public history I dabbled in a little bit of everything from microfilm scans to oral-history transcription. The project truly expanded my view of working with historical and archival resources, as well as my passion for my home of southeastern New England. I documented the entire process (see www.sheishistoric. tumblr.com/history298).

Erica Fagen reports: I had a great time attending the National Council for Public History annual meeting in Monterey, CA. Along with Marla Miller and the late, celebrated Wikipedian Adrianne Wadewitz, I helped facilitate a workshop, “Wikipedia 101 for Women’s History (and Other Underrepresented Subjects).” We showed how women (both historical figures and contemporary

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Erica Fagen enjoying the beautiful conference location in Monterey, CA.

Wikipedia editors) are represented on the site, and explained how to edit entries. In June 2014, I facilitated this workshop again with Marla Miller at the Massachusetts History Conference in Worcester, MA. I received generous awards from the Graduate School and the Department of History to fund my scholarly activities. I was given a Graduate School Travel Grant to travel to Monterey for the NCPH Annual Meeting, and I also received the Marvin Ogilvie Memorial Award for Foreign Language Study.

I went to Berlin in July and August to work on my German-language skills.

Chris Fobare reports: This year I was interviewed on WAMC Northeast Public Radio for a story on Utica’s role in the abolitionist movement. I discussed history’s role in promoting local economic development.

Ph.D. candidate Amanda L. Goodheart continues to make progress on her dissertation while working full time in the Museum Ed-

ucation Department at the Springfield Museums. In November 2013 she led a session, “Who Needs Docents? We Do. The Building Blocks of a Successful Docent Program,” at the NEMA Annual Meeting. Finally, Goodheart is delighted to report that she and her college sweetheart, Michael Parks, were married on 12 July 2014, in Newport, RI. Kathryn Julian reports: During the 2013–14 academic year, I lived in Berlin as a Fulbright research scholar. I spent my time in Germany researching for my dissertation in archives and even in the occasional cloister.

I also participated in colloquia at the Freie Universität and presented in German on my topic, “The Socialist Sacred: Catholic Orders, Cloisters, and Sacred Space in East Germany, 1949–1989.” Outside of research, I was able to take advantage of Berlin’s cultural scene and traveled outside of Germany as well. I ran my first marathon, in Istanbul, in November 2013.

Kathryn Julian sipping tea in Istanbul.

Amanda Tewes ’14MA en route to Calico Ghost Town in the Mojave Desert.

Mark Roblee reports: Last year I coordinated the first annual Five College Annual Lecture in Late Antiquity, which featured Susan Ashbrook Harvey, a specialist in women, gender, and the body in Byzantine Christianity. Over the summer I gave a paper at the Association for the Study of Esotericism’s annual meeting at Colgate University, after which I got lost in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae et Graecae databases purchased with a Graduate School Dissertation Research Grant, and finished out the summer as a participant

in the UMass Summer Dissertation Writing Retreat.

Amanda Tewes ’14MA reports: The 2013–14 school year was an exciting one for me. In October I participated in a roundtable on oral history performance at the Oral History Association’s annual meeting in Oklahoma City. In March I presented a poster at the National Council of Public History’s annual meeting in beautiful Monterey, CA. June took me back to California for research at Calico

Ghost Town and the defunct theme park Frontier Village, a trip generously funded by a Department Travel Grant. And in August I traveled to Portland, OR, to present a paper on Old West nostalgia and urban anxieties in San José at the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Conference.

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ALUMNI NEWS

Rusty Annis ’12PHCert: In April 2014 UMass Amherst’s Department of Music celebrated its 75th anniversary with a series of events, including the introduction of Annis’s short video history of the department containing excerpts from 35 oral-history interviews conducted by Department of History faculty and graduate students. Annis’s intimate familiarity with the Department of Music gave him unique qualifications as researcher, interviewer, and video editor.

Following his graduation from UMass Amherst, Tim Fadgen ’98 attended the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, graduating in 2000 with an M.A. in international relations. He worked for two years in Massachusetts state government before returning to University of Maine School of Law, graduating in 2004.

Fadgen secured a Peggy Browning Labor Natalie Geeza ’13MA in her middle-school classroom.

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Law Fellowship to work as a law clerk and labor organizer for the United Mine Workers of America and afterward worked as a private attorney, disability civil rights attorney, and assistant attorney general in American Samoa. In July 2013 he received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and then completed a prestigious Fulbright-Clinton Fellowship in Samoa, where he was a special assistant to Samoa’s attorney general, tasked with heading the development of crime-prevention strategy and establishing the nation’s first-ever Community Law Centre, akin to a combined public defender’s office and legal services entity in the U.S. When not in Samoa, Fadgen lives on Waiheke Island, New Zealand, with his family.

John Galluzzo ’93 reports: I am the director of Education and Camping at the South Shore

Natural Science Center in Norwell, MA. I was recently awarded the Volunteer of the Year Award by the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary in recognition of my work on the history of the sanctuary. I also serve on their advisory council as an alternate chair in maritime heritage (shipwrecks). I definitely owe a piece of the award to my years with UMass Amherst’s History Department.

Natalie Geeza ’13MA reports: In August 2013, I was hired as a seventh-grade geography teacher at the middle school in my hometown of Brooklyn, CT. It was a vast change to go from discussing the Sonderweg theory and eugenics to simplifying current events and concepts such as nationalism in ways that 12-year-olds can understand. Having said that, I have greatly enjoyed my first year on the job. The skills, content knowledge, and passion I honed as a graduate student

2014–15 Feinberg Lecture Series: A Preview have made me a more effective and engaging educator. As a class we address basic but critical questions about economics, politics, and religions from around the world.

Perhaps most importantly, I’ve taught my students how to formulate and defend their strong opinions and arguments about certain topics (many of which they have long held and taken for granted) and to confront and sometimes accept counterarguments from other cultures and perspectives. In so doing I have made my job worthwhile and exciting, not only for myself but for a good number of my students. I also hope to have instilled in them a greater appreciation of social studies in a world where math and science largely predominate. I look forward to seeing what the next seventh-grade class brings!

Jonathan Haeber ’13MA reports: I enjoyed the NCPH conference with old friends in Monterey, and a few weeks later the California Preservation Foundation—my new employer—held its own conference, at Pacific Grove at Asilomar. This year was especially appropriate because for the first time the American Institute of Architects recognized a female architect for its annual honor—she, of course, being Julia Morgan. Her buildings were a big feature of the Asilomar conference grounds. The conference highlight for me was the annual Youth Film Competition.

We invited Monterey County youth to submit five-minute YouTube videos about places that matter to them. There were eleven entries and five winners.

Michael Koncewicz ’08MA reports: Last year I received my Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Irvine. While writing my dissertation, “Too Many Nice Guys: Republicans in the Nixon Administration Who Said No to the President,” I worked for the National Archives at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. I’m currently special assistant to the head of the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University.

Kevin Lombardi ’10 has teamed up with current UMass Amherst History major Jean-Phillipe Beaudet ’15 and local advo-

A brief glance at recent headlines shows that migration is a hotly debated topic. Yet the global movement of people in the Americas and elsewhere has had a long and complex history.

The 2014–15 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series will bring together scholars, activists, and policymakers to help understand the motivations, circumstances, and conditions that define migrant and immigrant experiences. The series, whose final form was incomplete as this newsletter went to press, will analyze questions surrounding intervention, reform, belonging, and the contested meanings of citizenship.

Joining us for the 2014–15 series will be keynote speakers Mae Ngai (Columbia University), Donna Gabaccia (University of Toronto), and many more. In addition to

cates to found YourStory International, an aid agency and educational organization in Leogane, Haiti. Primarily devoted to the empowerment of the historically oppressed, the agency sponsors research-based initiatives to identify the roots of poverty in rural Haitian communities and works with families to design locally meaningful pathways to success. It currently runs a community center in Leogane’s Morel neighborhood and gives small-business and education “grants” to impoverished families, especially those headed by single mothers.

YourStory International relies on student volunteers to perform vital research and help allocate resources in the community, and

Mae Ngai.

academic lectures, the series includes a conversation and concert with Grammy Award– winning singer-songwriter and activist Angélique Kidjo, a film screening, and a workshop series for teachers.

The Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series is made possible by the generosity of UMass Amherst Department of History alumnus Kenneth R. Feinberg ’67 and associates. For series updates, see www.umass.edu/history/ about/feinbergseries.html.

sponsors two volunteer missions to Haiti per year. In January and May 2015 it will once again host student groups from the Kappa Sigma fraternity at UMass Amherst and Brandeis University. For more information on the grant recipients and to donate, see www.gofundme.com/9itftw.

Margaret (Maggie) Lowe ’96PhD is teaching at Bridgewater State University while pursuing an M.A. in divinity at Harvard. Last spring her article “‘How Very Wrong They Are, How Little They Know’: Diary-keeping, Private Anguish, Public Bodies, and Modern Female Subjectivity” was published in the Journal of Historical Biography.

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Not Over Yet: Bringing History to Bear on Contemporary Issues Most people think that history is over—after all, it’s in the past—but UMass Amherst History faculty and grad students have been working to counter this misperception. This year the History Outreach Office partnered with the Northampton nonprofit Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) to offer our annual History Institute on contemporary events in historical perspective.

The Department’s signature offering for local K–12 teachers, the History Institute is a yearlong professional development series, each with its own theme. Throughout 2013–14, Audrey Altstadt, Christian Appy, David Glassberg, and Mary Wilson delivered lectures on subjects as varied as the conflict in Syria, climate change, American exceptionalism, and human rights in the Caspian Basin, all in historical perspective.

Following each lecture, expert CES teacher-trainer Suzanne JudsonWhitehouse worked with the 25 participating teachers to develop strategies for applying the content to the classroom.

To broaden the Institute’s impact, the Department’s website offers streaming video of the lectures for classroom use. To dovetail with the Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series and extend our commitment to weighing in on issues of contemporary concern, this year’s Institute focuses on immigration history. (For more on the current series and to see the videos, visit www.umass.edu/history/research/ history_institute.html.)

History Institute YouTube video, “Learning from American Environmental History,” with David Glassberg.

Faculty, students, and alumni are also exploring present-day issues through the Department’s popular new blog Past@Present. It features historically grounded analyses of contemporary events, issues, media, and social struggles. Past articles have explored subjects as diverse as math education, representations of voodoo, the Sochi Olympics, and the passing of Nelson Mandela. The blog is also a great place to read about campus happenings as students and faculty reflect on the many lectures, workshops, and conferences the Department sponsors every year. Check it out at umasshistory.wordpress.com/ and feel free to email your own posts to website@history.umass.edu.

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ALUMNI NEWS

Katie MacDonald ’09 reports: Recently I was named director of the 160-year-old Old Colony Historical Society in Taunton, MA. It maintains an active membership of more than 650 people throughout the U.S. and includes a museum of 13,000 objects, an archive, and a genealogical library.

I started there in April 2012 as the Ruby Winslow Linn Curator after graduating in May 2011 with an M.A. in history and museum studies from Tufts University. I am excited and extremely grateful to be able to modernize and expand the society’s programming, exhibitions, and publications. We recently launched a new website, www.oldcolonyhistoricalsociety.org.

John Mason ’56.

John Mason ’56: A career Army officer who retired as a colonel, Mason is currently president and chief executive officer of the Lorton Arts Foundation Inc., a nonprofit responsible for the adaptive reuse of the historic former Occoquan Workhouse prison in the District of Columbia, which is being turned into a multi-disciplinary arts center in Lorton, VA. Over the years, Mason has served both as a council member and mayor of the City of Fairfax, VA.

Kate Preissler ’10MA reports: Last November, after almost five years of doing public engagement and interpretation for historic sites and cultural landscapes, I made the move to the digital world by becoming digital media manager for the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, MA. It houses an extensive collection of cultural and historical artifacts but also has a focus on natural sciences, which allows me to continue to work in both of my areas of passion, history and the environment. The museum is also a local leader in integrating new technology into their on-site museum education programs and exhibits, and I’ve happily had a crash course in new ways to present content and deepen individuals’ understanding of objects and stories.

Working in the digital realm is enabling me to develop my photography, videography, and storytelling skills. Outside of the museum I continue to enjoy volunteering on local history projects and contributing blog posts to History@Work (NCPH) and Past@Present (UMass Amherst).

Charles Sennott ’84: A journalist and co-founder of GlobalPost, Sennott this year launched The GroundTruth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to training the next generation of international correspondents and providing reports on social justice issues around the world. In June 2014, Sennott debuted “The Eleventh Hour: Unlearned Lessons of World War I,” a GlobalPost report on the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which led to the First World War. Marcia Graham Synnott ’74PhD is professor emerita of history at the University of South Carolina. Her latest book, Student Diversity at the Big Three: Changes at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton since the 1920s, documents the challenges of recruiting and maintaining diverse student populations at these schools. While at USC, Synnott taught undergraduates and graduate students in the history of American women and United States history with a

focus on the twentieth century. She also taught a graduate course on historic-site interpretation.

Stephania Villar ’12MA reports: I never saw myself working in aerospace, but here I am surrounded by aircraft, unrolling their schematics and watching rockets fly every day. I have been working at the San Diego Air and Space Museum’s library and archives since February 2013. Though I wear many hats here (social media, education, editing, writing), my primary job is organizing and generating finding guides for our special collections, sharing them on our museum website and other venues to make them more visible to researchers and the general public.

Seeing other UMass alums at NCPH 2014 was invigorating, and I have tried to apply some of the ideas discussed there to my work. This year I’m most excited about developing a consultants’ table at the second annual Balboa Park Book Sale, at which librarians and archivists throughout the park will be available to anyone seeking information on how to preserve family documents and photographs.

If you fly into San Diego, don’t forget to say hola.

Bruce Watson ’95MA reports: With 2014 being the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, I was very busy. I was a talking head on the PBS American Experience documentary on the subject, which aired in June 2014 and was based on my book Freedom Summer: The Savage Season that Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy. I also spoke on the subject in Mississippi and Ohio. Meanwhile, I’m working on a “biography” of light and the evolution of light in human thought.

Keeping in the Loop Check out the History Department’s YouTube Channel to see and hear this year’s public talks by WriterIn-Residence Adam Hochschild and Ned Blackhawk, symposiums for the Guantánamo Memory Project, and much more.

This marks the second year of our Department blog Past@Present, featuring posts by faculty, students, emeriti, and alumni. Follow us at umasshistory.wordpress.com.

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OUR DONORS

The Department of History depends on contributions from alumni and friends for many of its essential activities. We sincerely thank this year’s contributors. The following list covers donations made between July 2013 and June 2014. If we’ve missed you, please contact the Department of History so that your name can be added to next year’s honor roll.

Susan & Frank Abarno Barbara Seda Aghamianz & Dikran M. Kaligian Barry M. Alman Melvyn W. Altman Jeffrey P. Andrews Francis J. Antonelli John J. Anzalotti Leon Aronson Leslie H. Atwood Alexander B. Austin Sylvia S. Avula Stephen F. Bae Patricia & Richard Baker Barbara J. Bartholomew Geroge N. Bauer Kellie A. Beals Beth A. Behn Susan & Albert Belsky Rebekah & Edward Benson Joyce A. & Leonard Berkman Therese & Donald Blood William E. Bond Thomas R. Borjas Amy K. Bosworth Daniel O. Boucher Bradley Bound Karen & Jonathan Bourn Emily & Robert Boutilier Joye Bowman & John Higginson Kathleen A. Bradbury Deborah A. Brennan & Andrew P. Rapp Thomas J. Brophy Jr. Gregory W. Brown Gina M. Brown-Vanburen James & Sylvia Buchanan Clarence A. Burley Kathryne A. Burns Hannah M. Butler Carole G. Buzun George A. Byers Jr. Arthur B. Cable

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Coyler Caldwell Judith B. Cameron Jayde E. Campbell & Kerry L. Conaghan Mr. Paul E. Canham Gerald L. Canter Thomas A. Cardamone Jr. Robert A. Cardwell Russell W. Carrier Patricia Carroll Jill & Erich Carroll Patricia Carroll Richard A. Carter Michael C. Cass Edward S. Chase Diana M. Chase Barbara Ciolino Edward J. Clancy Jr. Richard L. Cocivera Jill & Glenn Coderre Bruce E. Colton John S. Courtney Paul A. Creedon Clyde R. Davenport Catherine & Allen David Suzanne E. De Lesdernier Leonard J. Delmolino Albert & Zarri Dhembe Joseph F. Dillon Jr. Rosemary & Fausto DiTullio Francis X. Donnellan Jr. & Ernest R. Coulombe Brian E. Doucette Russell H. Edes Paul F. Ellis-Graham Akara Elsbach Judith Englander Krikor Ermonian Christopher T. Fang Donna & John Farrelly Kenneth R. Feinberg James R. Finkle Lee & Robert Formwalt

Jane & Eric Forsgard James E. Gage Carolyn Galambos Robert E. Ganley Michael D. Gerry Roland P. Giguere Estate of Paul Giguere Wendy S. Gilman Pierre-Philippe G. Girard James L. Gmeiner Gerard Golden Jr. Jeffrey L. Goldings Douglas R. Gould Richard J. Goulet Pamela Gray Ferguson Louis S. & Hilda Greenbaum Barbara C. Greenberg Keith J. Greene Joshua P. Grey Michael J. Grossman Stephen J. Gulo Jr. Flora & Richard Guzik Michael S. Hakanson-Stacy Else & Ronald Hambleton Susan K. Hamilton & Jeffrey R. DePiero Ms. Beth A. Harding Richard P. Harland William J. Harrington Margaret A. Harris Jennifer & Stephen Hart Stuart S. Heller Charles E. Heller Jennifer N. Heuer & Brian W. Ogilvie Cathleen E. Hodson John V. Hogan Jr. Marguerite E. Horn Charles K. Hyde John R. Hyslop Mary A. Jablonski Frank E. Johnson III Mark Johnson

Robert W. Joyce Marybeth M. Joyce Catherine D. Jurczyk Cynthia P. Kadzik Jesse D. Kamien Gail A. & John H. Wassell Gretchen & Michael Kelley Cathy Kelly Kim & David Kembel Daniel H. Kenney Maureen A. Kontrath Sandra & Christopher Krein Kenneth K. Kuske Lawrence J. Lane Jr. Joanne T. Laptewicz-Ryan William M. Lavallee Jeremy L. Laverdiere Francis J. Leazes Jr. Sean T. LeBlanc Kristina M. Lentz Mary E. Leonard Marc J. Lerman Mike J. Levins William F. Liebler Susan R. Lofthouse David A. Long Betty J. Longtin Allison E. Lupico Catherine E. Luther David H. Mac Donnell Paul E. MacDonald David W. MacLaughlan Denise & Roland MacLean Maxfield J. MacPhee Sharon and John Macuga Margaret Macuga Stephanie J. Maher Kathryn & Frank Marrero Timothy P. Martin Jr. Peter A. Mathison Catherine Mawn M. Marie Maxwell

Bernard E. McCourt Richard J. McCraw Jr. Gerald W. McFarland Mary E. McKenna Guy A. McLain Jr. Jacqueline McNeal Jeffrey T. McReynolds Reed T. Mellor William E. Mercer Barbara D. Merino-Mayper Jennifer L. Mitchell Marian B. Mollin Robert D. Moran John A. Morse John D. Morton Jennifer M. Mottolese Eileen Murphy David F. Murphy Anjuli & Gustavo Nascimento Alice Nash Network for Good Edward J. O’Day Jr. James P. O’Keefe Jared T. Orne David J. O’Shea Malcolm J. O’Sullivan Laura E. Pagington Veronica G. Panagiotopoulos

Jerold G. Paquette Donald F. Paquette Jerold G. Paquette Andrew J. Paraskos Interiors Andrew J. Paraskos Susan D. Parkhurst Martin Pasternak William K. Peirce Jill E. Perez Joseph A. Perrone Cynthia L. Perry Marie & Kenney Pesaturo Nicholas C. Phelps Dana L. Phipps Richard E. Pierce Mr. Gregory J. Pipes Robert A. & Jeanne Potash Sarah F. Pozmanter Andrea B. Price Barry M. Pritzker Dennis C. Quinn Eleanor D. Quint Mark E. Ramos Samuel J. Redman Maryanne Reed Stephen D. Reynolds Kathryn E. Ritzen Linda & David Roach

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