Notes from the Chair

After seventeen years in the Department of History at Ball State University, I took over as department chair last July. The task was daunting. Not only did I have to succeed John Barber, one of the most respected and talented members of the Ball State family, but I also had to lead a department in the midst of a difficult transition, brought on largely by a transformation in personnel over the last few years. As you can imagine, 2002 was a busy year for both John Barber and me. I believe that it also was extremely productive.

I'd like to mention a few of the most outstanding of the many accomplishments of our faculty. In the area of teaching, several of our faculty led a National Endowment for the Humanities Outreach Workshop on "Terrorism and International Islam." Another colleague won a Ball State "Excellence in Teaching Award" (the fifth time a member of this department has done so). We also served on the boards of innumerable national and local professional associations, published too many articles to list, and authored books on teaching history in the digital classroom, Eisenhower and Macmillan, Ottoman-European relations, African-American life, and social studies strategies for the classroom.

I am even prouder of our alumni and current students.  One of the hidden pleasures of chairing this department is becoming more aware of the talents and accomplishments of our learner-scholars. Among the many undertakings of our alumni are Matthew Seelinger's work as a research historian at the Army Historical Research Foundation, Eric Farnsworth's exemplary career as Presidential adviser and for the Council of the Americas, and Yonder Gillihan's pursuit of knowledge at the University of Chicago and Yale University, where he is just finishing up a PhD. The important nexus between our graduates and our current students was kept alive this year through a number of events, most notably at UniverCity, where several of our alumni—Corrie Cook, Jennifer Noffze, Jeannie Regan-Dinius, Justin Sochacki, Marianne Butcher, Mark Freed, and Stephanie Riter—discussed "How Ball State's Public History Internship Program Helped Them Jump-Start Their Careers" and "What a History Major can do for Your Career."

This also has been a year in which some of our most respected colleagues retired. We will miss the service, wisdom, and comradeship of Professors John Barber, John Koumoulides, and Joan Schreiber. In the same year, however, we gained two new colleagues in Ronald Morris, who teaches and researches in the field of Elementary Education, and Scott Stephan, who specializes in nineteenth-century U.S. history. Both of these young scholars have gotten off to strong starts, and we expect them to contribute a lot to a department that already is so very strong.

This department is extraordinary committed to and proud of its students. It also is suffused with an uncommon curiosity and sense of intellectual adventure. Nevertheless, I have spent half of a professional lifetime at Ball State, and have decided that it is time to move on. Consequently, I announce to you all that I will take up a new position as chair of the Department of History at DePaul University in the fall of 2003. I know that the alumni, students and faculty of this department will thrive in the coming years, and I look forward to visiting often, and to hearing about its accomplishments.

Daniel Goffman, Chairperson

Professor Lawrence Birken, 1951-2003   

It is with great sadness that the Ball State University History Department reports the passing on Sunday, April 20, 2003, of one of its members, Associate Professor Lawrence J. Birken.  Professor Birken earned his B.A. from the University of Michigan, his M.A. from the University of Connecticut, and his Ph.D. from Rutgers University.  Before coming to Ball State in the fall of 1989, he taught at Monmouth College, Rutgers University, Hamilton College, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and New York University. An expert in modern German and European intellectual history, Professor Birken was a prolific scholar who published in a wide range of fields.  In 1988, he authored Consuming Desire:  Sexual Science and the Emergence of a Culture of Abundance, 1871-1914 (which was translated into Japanese), followed in 1995 by Hitler as Philosophe:  Remnants of the Enlightenment in National Socialism. In addition he published some two dozen scholarly articles on intellectual history, modern German history, the history of economic theory, Jewish history, the history of psychology, and the history of sexuality.

Larry's scholarship is remarkably eclectic, imaginative, and rigorous. He was one of those rare intellectual historians who was able to grapple with the most vital and controversial subjects, and examine them in novel ways. His colleagues and students marveled at the way he was able to wrestle with the history of gender and sexuality in one volume, and then produce a second on the utterly different topic of the intellectual origins of Nazism. In each case, his innovative arguments and controversial conclusions demonstrated an uncommon talent, even brilliance. Larry's intellectual integrity and uncompromising pursuit of excellence made his colleagues and students more creative and rigorous in their own work. He provided the type of intellectual spark that few departments have. We had one for fourteen years; we have now lost it.

Professor Birken was also a committed teacher who offered a variety of upper-level courses, honors colloquia, and graduate seminars in his fields of specialization, and created highly original courses that reflected his evolving research interests and pedagogical philosophy.  In addition, Professor Birken took on the critical burden of introducing thousands of undergraduates to history through his "The West in the World" survey.  Determined to keep up with the most recent scholarship in global history, he insisted on challenging his students and himself to think about history in new ways.  As a result, he continually revised the content and approach of the course to reflect his ever-expanding appreciation of the connections between the West and other regions and civilizations such as China and the Islamic World.  His desire to help his students grapple successfully with so vast a topic led him in 1999 to publish his own text for the course, European History in World Context:  A Comparative Approach.  Students who sought him out during--and often outside of--his office hours appreciated his willingness to turn brief visits into lengthy, wide-ranging conversations punctuated by his irrepressible humor. For many students, these sessions proved critical in developing their appreciation of scholarship. For several, they served as epiphanies, inspiring vocations and helping to transform lives.

As impressive as these achievements are, his friends, colleagues, and students will remember Larry most for his uncompromising ethics, his informality, his resilience, his kind and giving nature, his intellectual curiosity, his readiness to share a laugh and discuss virtually any subject (particularly current events), and the unique figure he cut as he cycled across campus and throughout the city.  He was a mensch—a principled, decent, irrepressible, and irreplaceable human being. We will miss him terribly; we will never forget him.

Current Members of the Department of History

Tenured and tenure-track members: Abel Alves, Richard Aquila, Stephanie Beswick, Blaine Brownell, Dean Cantu, Jim Connolly, Michael Doyle, Tony Edmonds, Bruce Geelhoed, John Glen, Dan Goffman, Ken Hall, Carolyn Malone, Rene Marion, Nina Mjagkij, Ron Morris, Glenda Riley, Sharon Seager, Kevin Smith, Scott Stephan, Fred Suppe, Gail Terry, Chris Thompson, Warren Vander Hill, and Phyllis Zimmerman.

Full-time and part-time contract faculty: Robert Hall, Charles McDonald, Judith Morris, Richard Neel, Mary Neese Reck, Scott Parkinson, Ike Rice, and Lorna Van Meter.

 Office Staff members: Denise Hile, administrative coordinator; Stephanie Lantz, secretary; and Juneyeta Gates, service center secretary

Professional News

Abel Alves delivered the paper "Can We Be Awe-Inspired without Thinking Hierarchically? The Problem of Early Modern European Pantheists and Panentheists" at the UCLA Center for Governance's Awe-Inspiring Experiences and the Saintly Life conference. He is a member of two working groups at the UCLA Center for Governance: the working group on Awe-Inspiring Experiences: Natural, Unnatural, and Supernatural and the working group on Information Commons and Corporate Enclosures: The Social Impact of Global Connectivity.  He also was invited in September by the American Historical Review, to participate in an online discussion of Ted Steinberg's "Down to Earth: Nature, Agency, and Power in History." The discussion can be found at www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/forum/steinberg_forum.html.

Richard Aquila continued this year as director of Ball State's interdisciplinary American Studies minor.  He continues work on his book project for Johns Hopkins University Press that is entitled Sh-Boom; Or, How Early Rock & Roll Taught Us To Stop Worrying And Love America's Cold War Culture.  Aquila reviewed Peter Stanfield's book, Horse Opera, for Western Historical Quarterly and refereed essays that were contributed to William and Mary Quarterly and Western Historical Quarterly.  He also evaluated book manuscripts for the University of Illinois Press and Penn State University Press.  In addition, he refereed a Pueblo Indians grant proposal that was submitted to the NEH.  He also served as a writer and historical consultant for My Generation: The 1970s.  Publications International, Ltd. will publish this coffee-table book on American life and thought of the 1970s.   Aquila gave two guest lectures, speaking to the Muncie Rotary about "September 11" and giving a talk on "Recent American History Through Popular Music" to the Lifelong Learners Association. He also was invited by National Public Radio to put together a pilot for a possible series that could be a regular feature of a new daily mid-day program that is being planned at NPR.  Entitled For the Record, the segment describes and analyzes the historical and cultural significance of important songs, artists, and events.

Stephanie Beswick has completed a book Blood Memory: War, Ethnicity and Slavery in Early South Sudan (in negotiation for publication) and has begun a book on the seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave trade in Southern Sudan entitled Abeed (Slaves)!: Slavery, the Slave Trade and Its Transformation in Southern Sudan (1650-1900).  She is an on-line book editor for H-Net Africa and has just completed a co-edited volume, Women and Conflict in the Horn of Africa, (forthcoming 2002/3 special volume of Northeast African Studies).  Her most recent articles include: "If you leave your country you have no life: Rape, Suicide and Murder; The Voices of Ethiopian, Somali and Sudanese Female Refugees in Kenyan Refugee Camps" forthcoming in Women and Conflict in the Horn of Africa; "Sudan" entry for The New Book of Knowledge Encyclopedia (forthcoming); "The Dinka: A Northern Sudanese People Spearheading the Southern Sudanese Civil War," forthcoming in Northeast African Studies; "'We Are Bought Like Clothes:' The War Over Polygyny and Levirate Marriage in South Sudan," forthcoming volume on Women in Sudan, Northeast African Studies; "The Dinka as 'Northern Sudanese," the Nuer as 'Luo' and the Genesis of Intra-Southern Sudanese Conflict," in forthcoming volume on Sudan: Dilemmas and Prospects, edited by Mohamed Mahmoud, Northeast African Studies; and "The Ethnicity of Bondage in the Valley of the Upper Nile: Slavery and the Slave Trade through the Eyes of the Possessed," Race and Ethnicity in the Nile Valley, edited by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, forthcoming, Red Sea Press, 2003. She has recently presented at national and international conferences: "Wealth, Marriage and Rapid Dinka Ethnic Expansion in Southern Sudan," at the Sudan Studies Association Conference in May 2002 in Reading, Pennsylvania, and "Early Systems of Bondage and Slavery in the Valley of the Upper Nile, Sudan" at the Indiana Association of Historians Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2002.

Dean Cantu is Director of Social Studies Education. He published the following two books: Take Five Minutes: Reflective and Critical Thinking American History Class Openers (Westminster, California: Teacher Created Materials), and [with Wilson J. Warren] Teaching History in the Digital Classroom (Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe).  Another book, The Vietnam War: A National Dilemma (Los Angeles, California: National Center for History in the Schools), is forthcoming.  Cantu also developed the following two lesson plans for The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition: "Wrestling with Title IX" 12, no. 2 (October 2002); and "Chipping Away @ AOL.com", 12, no. 4 (December 2002).  Cantu continued as editor of the International Journal of Social Education (IJSE).  The two issues of the IJSE published this year were:  Citizenship Education 17, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2002); and, Educational Challenges in a Politically Dynamic Europe 17, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2002-2003).  During the year, Cantu made two presentations:  "Classroom Teacher Web Page Design" at the Forest Dale Elementary School Faculty In-service, Carmel, Indiana; and, "International Studies using New Teaching Technologies" at the Terrorism and International Islam NEH Workshop, Ball State University.  He also served as the technology consultant for the PT Grant project:  "Hoosier Hall of Fame," with Ms. Sandie Stejskal's 4th Grade Class, Forest Dale Elementary School, Carmel, Indiana, (www.bsu.edu/web/dcantu/pt3/webpages/INDEX.HTM).  Cantu serves as president of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies and was program chair for the 2002 National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Great Lakes Regional Conference held in Indianapolis.  He is a member of the Social Studies Core-40 End-of-Course Assessment Review Committee for the Indiana Department of Education.  In addition, he is chair of the NCSS Publications Committee, and served as a delegate at the NCSS House of Delegates Meeting held in Phoenix, Arizona.  He serves on the History Discipline Team for the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching Project, California State University Center for Distributed Learning.

James Connolly signed a contract with Cornell University Press to publish a book entitled The Idea of the Machine: A Cultural History of Party Politics in Industrial America.  A portion of his first book, The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism (Harvard, 1998) was republished as "The Dimensions of Progressivism" in Glenda E. Gilmore ed., Historians at Work: Who Were the Progressives? (Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2002). He published "Space and Place: Rewriting the Urban History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era," Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 1:3 (Summer, 2002).  Three essays were revised and completed for publication: "Progressivism and Pluralism" in Michael Grossberg, Wendy Gamber, and Hendrik Hartog eds., American Public Life and the Historical Imagination (South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press); "The Last Hurrah and the Pluralist Vision of American Politics," James M. O'Toole and David Quigley eds, Boston Histories (Boston: Northeastern University Press) and "Beyond the Machine: Martin Lomasney and Ethnic Politics," Reed Ueda and Conrad Wright eds., Faces of Community: Immigrant Massachusetts, 1840-2000  (Boston: Northeastern University Press).  He published book reviews of  Nezar AlSayyad, Hybrid Urbanism: On the Identity Discourse and the Built Environment (London, 2001) in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 36:1 (Summer, 2002) and Timothy J. Meagher, Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class, and Ethnicity in a New England City (South Bend, 2001) in Journal of American History  89:1 (June 2002) and completed for publication a review of Heather Ann Thompson, Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City (Ithaca, 2001) for the American Historical Review.  He also presented "The Possibilities of Political History in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era," at the concurrent Society for the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and American Historical Association meetings in San Francisco in January. Connolly served on the Council of the Society of Historians of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, and as a member of the editorial board for the group's H-NET listserv.  He was a review panelist for the National Endowment of Humanities Summer Stipend Program and a member of the jury for the Urban History Association's annual Best Book in North American History Award.  With Chris Thompson and Ken Hall, he co-chaired the Fifth Annual Student History Conference.   He served on the Program Committee of the "Small Cities: Past, Present, and Future" Conference, held at Ball State in November 2002 and commented on one panel.  He also served as Director of the History M.A. program.

Michael Doyle's review essay of Peter Coyote's book, Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint Press, 1998), was published in Utopian Studies, vol.12, no. 2 (2001), 287‑290.  In addition, he completed a 1,000-word entry on "Indiana Canals" for the Encyclopedia of the Midwest (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, [forthcoming in 2003]).  He was awarded a $11,856 Faculty Research Grant by the BSU 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 1960s (under contract with the University Press of Kansas). His research and teaching interests were featured in an article he wrote for the "Faculty Spotlight" section of the Ball State Alumnus, vol. 59, no. 5 (March 2002), 27‑28, under the title, "Defining Counterculture."  He delivered three invited lectures at the University of Versailles San Quentin‑en‑Yvelines (France) on the topics of  "Professing History in, with and for the Public through Experiential Education," "The Dixie Diaspora: Upland Southerners in the Old Northwest and Their Influence on Midwestern Literature," and "Advertising, Consuming, and Surveying the American Dream during the Great Depression." He co‑organized and -chaired a set of workshops on "Visual Culture Analysis and Oral History Technique" at the Biennial Congress of the European American Studies Association at the University of Bordeaux. He chaired and commented on papers delivered at a session on "Making a Mess and Cleaning It up in Contemporary America" at the 5th Annual BSU Student History Conference. He presented an invited lecture, entitled "How Does a Counterculture ‘Counter' Its Host Culture? History Meets Sociology at Haight and Ashbury during the ‘Summer of Love'" as part of the BSU Dept. of Sociology Colloquium series. He delivered a keynote presentation, entitled "'Who's Your Daddy?': The Origin and Meaning of the Word ‘Hoosier'," to the History Spectrum, an in-service workshop for area social studies educators, at the Minnetrista Cultural Center, Muncie.  Dave Marini, an instructional designer at the BSU Teleplex, has asked Dr. Doyle to help produce a broadcast quality version for airing over the Indiana Public Television network. Christy Wauzzinski, Lead Educator at Minnetrista, has asked him to work with their staff to produce an interactive CD-ROM version. He served as a guest lecturer in four colleagues' courses. He served as Departmental advisor for the public history internship program, oriented three new option 2 majors, and advised another ten students enrolled in the internship program.  He supervised and evaluated the portfolio project of undergraduate History major Cheryl Vore, who completed the fourth and final 3-credit internship (Hist. 300-001) assisting Assoc. Prof. Nancy Carlson, BSU Telecommunications Dept. as associate producer for the documentary film project Laura Ingalls Wilder: Her American Journey.  He also helped find a placement for full-time Spring Semester 2003 intern Jennifer Bain, whose 12 credit-hour internship will be served working in the collections and education departments of the Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis.  He organized and moderated a panel discussion at the UniverCity Festival as part of the College of Science and Humanities' Day. "Presenting History in, with and for the Public through Ball State's Public History Internship Program" featured several of our recent alumni who focused on how this major helped prepare them for permanent employment upon graduation at such institutions as the Indiana Historical Society, the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, the Indiana Dept. of Natural Resources Division of Historic Preservation & Archaeology, and the Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana. He served as secretary of the History Dept.'s Library and Information Technology Committee and Faculty Advisor to the History Club and coordinated the History Department's Faculty Colloquium series with presentations by Professors Gail Terry and Ken Hall in September and October respectively.

Anthony Edmonds' article, "The Only Alternative:  Even Muncie Had an Underground Press," was published in Viet Nam War Generation Journal, Vol. 2, no. 1 (August 2002). He was elected chair of the University Admissions and Credits Committee for 2002-2003. In the spring of 2002 he served as a Virginia B. Ball Center (VBC) Fellow, leading a semester-long seminar entitled "Conversations Across the Generations and Centuries."  It was composed of four faculty, twelve freshmen, four seniors, and five members of the Muncie community discussing over 100 major literary and historical texts and films.  The position was funded by a $52,500 VBC grant.  In October 2002, he chaired a panel discussion about this seminar at the annual meeting of the Association of General and Liberal Studies (AGLS) in Louisville.  Based on positive evaluations of this panel by attendees, he has been asked to write an article on the VBC experience for the AGLS Newsletter.  In November he chaired two panels making presentations on the VBC seminar at the annual meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council in Salt Lake City.

Bruce Geelhoed completed his eleventh year as the director of the Center for Middletown Studies at Ball State.  He continued teaching the Honors 199 course and also resumed teaching the department's HIST 310 course, Introduction to the History of Business in the United States.  Along with Anthony O. Edmonds, he finished the writing of Eisenhower, Macmillan, and Allied Unity, 1957-1961, which was scheduled for publication by Palgrave Macmillan early in 2003.

John M. Glen continued work on his book-length studies of the War on Poverty in Appalachia and the history of Indiana since 1945. He co-authored "Indiana Archives: Sports History," Indiana Magazine of History 98 (September 2002): 226-35, and reviewed Robert S. Weise, Grasping at Independence: Debt, Male Authority, and Mineral Rights in Appalachian Kentucky, 1850-1915 (2001), in Filson History Quarterly 76 (Summer 2002): 339-42, and Elizabeth Yakel, Starting an Archives (1994), in Journal of the West 41 (Fall 2002): 99.  He served as a member of the Executive Council, chair of the Public Advocacy Committee, and member of the Program Committee of the Indiana Association of Historians; general editor of the Indiana Archives Section, Indiana Magazine of History; consultant to The Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project; and consultant to the Advanced Placement U.S. History Examination, Educational Testing Service.  He reviewed manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Appalachian Studies and History of Education Quarterly and was interviewed for, and quoted in, an Indianapolis Star article in December 2002 on the 1948 Dixiecrat presidential campaign.  He commented on papers presented at the department's Student History Conference in February 2002; organized a Teacher Quality Enhancement Workshop in April 2002; served as a member of the Teacher Education Reform Task Force, College of Sciences and Humanities; and served as the department's Director of Special Academic Projects.

  Dan Goffman's The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002. His "Ottoman Jews in International Commerce" appeared in Jews, Turks, and Ottomans: A Shared History, Fifteenth to Twentieth Centuries, edited by Avigdor Levy (Syracuse University Press). Dan delivered "Negotiating with the Renaissance State: The Ottoman Empire and the ‘New Diplomacy'" at the Folger Shakespeare Library Conference on the Impact of the Ottoman Empire on Early Modern Europe, Washington, D.C.; "Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in the Early Modern Ottoman World: Toward a Typology for Ottoman Expansion," at the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, Cambridge University Conference on the Ottomans and Trade; "Writing Ottoman History" at the University of Michigan; and "Empire as Composite: The Ottoman Polity and the Imperial Typology," at the meetings of the Modern Language Association, New York. He also completed his term as editor of the Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, for which he received an award at the meetings of the Middle East Studies Association, and was appointed book review editor for H-Turk.

  Kenneth Hall published an article, "Temple Networks and Royal Power in Southeast Asia c. 1000" in James Heitzman, ed., The World in 1000 A.D., a book sponsored by the Volkswagen Corporation.  He wrote book reviews on Prasannan Parthasarathi, The Transition to a Colonial Economy, Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720-1800 (Cambridge U.P.) for the Harvard Business History Review and on Claude Markovits, The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750-1947, Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama (Cambridge U.P.) for The Historian.  Responding to the 9/11/01 events, he presented a public lecture at Anderson University on "International Terrorism and Southeast Asian Islam" in November, and led a regional high school teachers' workshop at Ball State on "Terrorism and International Islam." He presented a paper titled "Islamic Legitimation in Early Southeast Asia" at the International Association of Historians of Asia Conference in Dacca, Bangladesh.  He also conducted field research on early Khmer temples in eastern Thailand and western Cambodia – in the region formerly controlled by the Khmer Rouge, funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities research grant.  Over the year he completed a National Endowment for the Humanities financed "Internationalizing the Curriculum" outreach project with the Blackford County Schools, assisted by other members of the History Department.  He also co-directed and co-taught a six-week National Endowment for the Humanities College Faculty Summer Institute on "Societal Transformation and the Legitimation of Power in Early Islamic States:  The Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa" at the University of Chicago.

  Robert Hall was the commentator for the panel ``Visions and Practices of Consumer Culture and Labor Reform in England, 1880-1910'' at the annual meeting of the Indiana Academy of Social Sciences, and delivered the paper ``A United People? Plebeian Intellectuals and `the People' in Chartism, 1838-43'' at the Midwest Conference on British Studies in Columbus, Ohio. His review of John Archer's Social Unrest and Popular Protest in England, 1780-1840 appeared in the Summer 2002 issue of Albion.                               

  John Koumoulides has been distinguished with a Sagamore of the Wabash by Governor Frank O'Bannon for his commitment toward making Indiana a better place to live and raise a family. He received a grant of $158,000 from the Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation for the South-Eastern Europe/Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has accepted an invitation to serve on the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - Études Sur la Grece Moderne et Contemporaine.  Upon his retirement, he was appointed Professor Emeritus of History, effective December 31, 2002. He has now accepted a two-year appointment as Senior Scholar beginning January 1, 2003 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.  He will also be a member of the Academic Advisory Council that guides the program's intellectual focus and assists in the selection of East European Studies Research Scholars, Short-Term Scholars, and candidates for the Junior Scholars' Training Seminar.

  Carolyn Malone's book, Women's Bodies and Dangerous Trades 1880-1914, is forthcoming with Boydell & Brewer in June 2003. It will appear in the Royal Historical Society's Studies in History Series. She also published an article deriving from her second major research project, "Campaigning Journalism:  The Clarion, The Daily Citizen, and the Protection of Women Workers, 1898-1912," in Labour History Review Vol. 67 No. 3 Dec. 2002. She presented two papers, "A Critique of Consumer Culture:  The Daily News' 1906 Sweated Industries Exhibition," at the Annual Meeting of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences and "Women on Display:  The Daily News and the 1906 Sweated Industries Exhibition in London," at the North American Conference on British Studies.

Nina Mjagkij completed Portraits of African American Life since 1865, a collection of biographies of African Americans, which will be published by Scholarly Resources in 2003. She continued editing volume 1 Portraits of African American Life to 1865 which is also scheduled to be published in 2003. Both books will be marketed as supplementary readers for undergraduate courses in African American History. Moreover, Mjagkij is serving as co-editor of Scholarly Resources' new book series in African American History. She presented "Japanese Relocation:  Reel Image vs. Real Experience" on November 5, 2002, in celebration of Asian Awareness Week.

Ronald V. Morris  co-authored the book 50 Social Studies Strategies for K-8 Classrooms published by Pearson Education.  He authored four articles, "Experiencing third grade at Simmons School" in Social Studies and the Young Learner, "How to use artifacts to teach ancient history in the elementary classroom" in the Social Studies Review, "Presidents' Day in second grade using first person historical presentation" in Gifted Child Today, and "Using primary sources to develop a soap opera: As the Civil War turns" in The Social Studies.  He co-authored one article, "Eighth grade study-travel trip to Washington, D. C." in the Social Science Docket.  His graduate student was named the National Council for the Social Studies Outstanding Elementary Social Studies Teacher.

Sharon Seager's review of Architects of Our Fortunes:  The Journal of Eliza A. W. Otis, 1860-1863, with Letters and Civil War Journal of Harrison Gray Otis, edited by Ann Gorman Condon, has been published in The Filson History Quarterly 76 (Summer 2002): 351-353.


Kevin Smith  is Assistant Chair of the Department of History. See webpages for his classes at:  http://www.bsu.edu/web/ksmith/. He has been interviewed in various media about international relations issues arising from September 11, 2001. He delivered a public lecture "Patriotism, Partisanship, and…Pearl Harbor: The Usefulness of Historical Analogies and Context," in the Carmel Clay Public Library's lecture series, "September 11 and Beyond: Issues of the 21^st Century." He spoke on "The Christian and Foreign Policy" to the Taylor University History Department spring banquet in May 2002. While on sabbatical leave in spring 2002, he began research on his second book, Hoosier Statesmen, which will explore the role residents of Indiana have played in shaping American foreign relations in the twentieth century despite stereotypes of Hoosier insularity. His research was partially funded by his receipt of the $10,000 Benjamin Cohen Peace Studies Faculty Fellowship. He presented "Hoosier Statesmen and the Coming of the Second World War: Louis Ludlow, Claude Bowers, and The Impact of Jeffersonian Democracy on American Foreign Policy," at the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Conference in Richmond, Indiana, October 2002. A revised version of that paper will soon be published in the Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences.

Scott Stephan came to Ball State from Indiana University, where he completed a two-year appointment as the book review editor for the Journal of American History.  In January he received his doctorate from Indiana University after successfully defending his dissertation, "Faith and Family in the Old South." Using the personal papers of antebellum southerners, he explores the ways in which white women struggled with their emerging moral authority within and beyond the southern household.  The dissertation has been named a finalist for the Lerner-Scott Dissertation Prize, an award the Organization of American Historians presents annually to the best dissertation in U.S. women's history.  He delivered a paper that originated from his dissertation research at the 2002 Great Lakes History Conference, while revising two articles for submission to scholarly journals.  

Frederick Suppe published two articles, "Roger of Powys, Henry II's Anglo-Welsh Middleman, and His Lineage," in The Welsh History Review (June 2002), pp. 1-23; and "The Persistence of Castle-Guard in the Welsh Marches and Wales:  Suggestions for a Research Agenda and Methodology," in the festschrift, The Normans and Their Adversaries at War, edited by Richard Abels and Bernard Bachrach and published by the Boydell Press.  He attended the annual conference of the Celtic Studies Association of North America at the University of Notre Dame, where he presented a paper, "Iorwerth Goch and 'the Dream of Rhonabwy'."  He reviewed A Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology by Kelly DeVries, in The Journal of Military History, volume 66 (October 2002), pp. 1190-91. He also presented a paper, "Iorwerth Goch, A Mirror of Twelfth Century Anglo-Welsh Relations," at the twenty-first international conference of the Haskins Society at Cornell University. He continues to serve as the elected treasurer and council member of the Charles Homer Haskins Society, an international organization of medieval historians, and has begun a three-year term serving on the University Senate.

Gail Terry made substantial progress toward completion of the book manuscript, Family Empires: History, Memory and the Making of an Elite in Early America, after returning from a leave made possible by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers. The project and the archival research that underpins it are profiled in Ball State's BeneFacta 2002. She published a review essay on women's writings in the early United States as revealed in Cynthia Kierner's Southern Women in Revolution, 1776-1800:  Personal and Political Narratives (University of South Carolina Press, 1998) and Amy L. Wink's She Left Nothing in Particular: the Autobiographical Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Women's Diaries (University of Tennessee Press, 2001) in the Journal of the Early Republic 22 (Fall 2002) and reviewed Philip J. Schwarz's Migrants Against Slavery:  Virginians and the Nation (University Press of Virginia, 2001) for the Journal of Southern History 68 (Nov. 2002).    Terry was invited to present "The Transition from 'Liberties and Privileges' to ' Rights' in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" to students enrolled in a course on "Freedom of Expression in the 21st Century" at the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry, and joined seven other scholars from universities across the country invited to the Virginia Historical Society's Summer Teacher's Institute in Richmond, Virginia, where she presented "Patrick Henry's Sister:  A Woman's Life in Letters" (based on archival research) to an audience of secondary school teachers.   During the fall semester she taught a new course, "Frontier Myths and Pioneer Legends," and delivered a research paper titled "Forging Family Identities: the Role of the Frontier in Family Narratives" to the Department's faculty seminar.   Terry also recorded the voice narration for the History Department's new graduate student recruiting CD-ROM and, much to her surprise, found that she actually enjoyed the process. 

Christopher Thompson gave a paper at the annual conference of the American Historical Association entitled "The Changing Frontiers of Twentieth-Century France:  The Tour de France Bicycle Race and the Construction of French Identities." He received a Ball State "Excellence in Teaching Award" for 2002-2003.   He published a chapter in Rudy Koshar (ed.), Histories of Leisure  (Berg Publishers, 2002)), entitled "Bicycling, Class, and the Politics of Leisure in Belle Epoque France."  He published a review on H-France of  Philip Dine, French Rugby Football:  A Cultural History (Berg Publishers, 2001). He completed a chapter entitled "The Tour between the World Wars:  Political Ideology, Athletic Excess, and Industrial Modernity," which will be published by Cass in an edited volume of scholarly articles on the history of the Tour de France on the occasion of the race's centennial this summer. He is on sabbatical for the 2002-2003 academic year as he completes his book manuscript on the cultural history of the Tour de France Bicycle Race, to be published by the University of California Press.     

Phyllis Zimmerman was interviewed by Sonny Kleinfield for his article, "The Real Story: Heroes, but Human," which appeared in the Sunday, February 3rd edition of the New York Times. Her review of Jon T. Hoffman's Chesty:  The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC appears in the October 2002 issue of Journal of Military History, along with a second review and Hoffman's response to both.