A file is available in the department's main office containing Scoring Rubrics currently being used by faculty members here and teachers elsewhere.  These rubrics are the kinds of artifacts Social Studies Teaching Majors will need for their portfolios under the new state licensure system, which will be effective June 2002.  Departmental faculty are encouraged to examine these rubrics, make photocopies, experiment with them or modified versions, and develop their own rubrics.  See John Glen or Dean Cantu for further information.

Faculty Notes

Stephanie Beswick published a review in the Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 35 (2001) 264-5.

Michael Doyle's review essay of Peter Coyote's book, Sleeping Where I Fall:  A Chronicle (Washington, D.C.:  Counterpoint Press, 1998) was recently published in Utopian Studies, 12, 2 (2001), 287-290.  His research and teaching interests were also featured in an article for the "Faculty Spotlight" section of the Ball State Alumnus, (March 2002), 27-28 under the title, "Defining Counterculture."  In  addition, Dr. Doyle has been awarded a Faculty Research Grant by the Office of Academic Research and Sponsored Programs to support completing his book manuscript, Free Radicals:  The Haight-Ashbury Diggers and the American Counterculture of the 1960's, for publication by the University Press of Kansas.

Ken Hall presented a paper on "Civil Islam in Aceh, Indonesia," at the Annual Meeting of the Indiana Historical Society in Indianapolis, March 2 on a panel on "The Legacies of Imperialism in the Non-Western World.  He was also the discussant for a panel on "African Slavery."

John Koumoulides was invited by the editor of History:  Reviews of New Books (Washington, D.C.: Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation)  to review The Balkans:  From Constantinople to Communism (N.Y.:  Palgrave of St. Martin's Press, 2002) 496.  

Lorna Van Meter presented "Indiana's Architectural Legacy:  Greek Temples on the Frontier Landscape" a special lecture sponsored by the University's Greek Studies Programme on March 6.  

Nina Mjagkij introduced, screened and led a discussion on the film Two Dollars and a Dream:  The Story of Madame C. J. Walker and A'lelia Bundles at the Conley Library on February 16 and  Held in Trust:  The Story of Henry O. Flipper at the Kennedy Library on February 28.

Calendar

The Advisory Committee will meet on April 4 in BB 201 at 3:30 P.M.

Dr. Philip A. Stadter will present "What Made Pericles a Leader ?" on April 8 in BL 225 at 10:00 A.M. as one of the special lectures sponsored by the University's Greek Studies Programme.

The Graduate Programs Committee will meet on April 9 in BB 201 at 3:30 P.M.

Members of the History Department will meet for a faculty meeting on April 11 in BB 104 at 3:30 P.M.

The Organization of American Historians Annual Conference will be held April 11-14 in Washington, DC.  URL: http://www.oah.org/meetings/2002/call.html

A retirement reception for Dean Ronald Johnstone will be held at the Student Center Alumni Lounge on April 12 from 3:00-5:00 P.M.

Course evaluations forms for Spring 2002 semester classes will be distributed April 15.

The Great Lakes Regional Social Studies Conference will be held at the Indiana Convention Center April 17-20.  URL: http://www.bsu.edu/web/dcantu/glrcweb/glrccover.html

A retirement reception for Dr. John Barber will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 4800 W. Bradford Drive, Muncie on April 19 from 3:00-5:00 P.M.

Personal Notes

Happy Birthday wishes to Bruce Geelhoed on April 12.

Other Departmental Notes

Congratulations are in order for Katherine (Kuntz) Dill, who wrote recently that she's been hired as a full-time assistant in the Office of Local History Services at the Indiana Historical Society.  She earned her M.A. in spring 1998 with a thesis entitled "Toward a Religion of Humanity:  Frances Wright's Crusade for Republican Values."  Dr. John Glen served as her thesis advisor with Dr. Sharon Seager and Dr. Michael Doyle serving as committee members.  Katherine credited her summer 1997 internship at Historic New Harmony, Inc., co-supervised by then Assistant Chair Dr. John Weakland and Dr. Doyle, Director of the Public History Internship Program, with helping her to be qualified for her current position.  She urges all graduate students to follow suit and complete an internship to give them an edge in today's job market.  She has also generously offered to help place our Department's Option 2 majors in internships at the state Historical Society.