Congratulations

• Becky Dobbs won an Impact Award from the Graduate Education Advancement Board at UNC-Chapel Hill for “outstanding graduate student research of particular benefit to North Carolina.”
• Deb Gerish’s article entitled “The Second Crusade and Royal Identity” has been accepted for publication in The Second Crusade in Perspective, edited by Jason T. Roche and Janus Møller Jensen, Brepols Press.
• Ellen Hansen’s chapter, “Practical Feminism in an Institutional Setting,” has appeared in Feminisms in Geography: Rethinking Space, Place, and Knowledges, edited by Pamela Moss and Karen Falconer Al-Hindi (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008).
• Brian Miller reviewed A Confederate Chronicle by Pamela Chase Hain and Hell’s Broke Loose in Georgia by Scott Walker, Civil War History 53, No. 3 (September 2007): 323-5.
• Brian Miller reviewed The Bishop of the Old South: The Ministry and Civil War Legacy of Leonidas Polk by Glenn Robins, published by H-Net, October 2007.
• Phil Kelly presented a paper entitled "South America as a 'Zone of Peace': Facilitating a Geopolitical Model” at the the Midwest Association for Latin American Studies conference in St. Louis.
• Karen Smith participated in a colloquium on the 1960s at the Universit of Massachusetts on the same bill as Tom Hayden. She also led a graduate student colloquium in the UMass history department to talk with their current grad students about putting together an edited book.
• Joyce Thierer presented "Booming and Boostering, How El Dorado used Kaffir Corn to Promote a Community" at the Butler County Historical Society Fall Festival.
• A translation of Phil Kelly’s article ("Il sudamerica come zona di pace") has recently been published in the journal Eurasia in Parma, Italy.
• Becky Dobbs got a faculty study abroad travel grant of $2000, for travel within Australia next summer to plan for the field course she and Karen Smith are developing, plus promoting direct exchange agreements with ESU at various institutions.
• Joyce Thierer’s Ride into History, the Kansas Humanities Council, and the Nebraska Humanities Council have received a three-year grant for their Chautauqua tour from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
• Becky Dobbs has been awarded a $100,000 five-year contract with the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation for her project entitled "California Regional Water Recreation - Population Spatial Interaction Study." She will develop and test a GIS model of spatial interaction between communities and water recreation facilities in California.
• Ron McCoy will present a paper on creation of images of Indians in nineteenth-century photography at the Western History Association conference in Oklahoma City.
• Joyce Thierer and Ron McCoy attended the Mid-America Conference in Tulsa, OK. Joyce will present a paper and comment on papers; Ron will be commenting on papers.
• Karen Smith contributed to the Kenya Scholar Athlete Project at Eldoret, Kenya. This is a college prep program designed to help the country's top high school graduates gain acceptance (and full scholarships) to U.S. universities. She also visited officials at Kenyatta University to begin the process of setting up student exchanges between them and Emporia State University.
• Ed Emmer’s article, “The Flower and the Breaking Wheel: Burkean Beauty and Political Kitsch,” has been published in International Journal of the Arts in Society.
• Michael Smith’s co-authored chapter (with Brenda Erickson), "It's All About the Turnover: Term Limits in Citizen Legislatures," will appear in Legislating Without Experience: Case Studies in State Legislative Term Limits, edited by Rick Farmer, Christopher Z. Mooney, Richard J. Powell, and John C. Green (accepted for publication by Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield).
• Brian Miller’s chapter “The Reconstruction Amendments” will appear in The Civil War and Reconstruction Era: 1850s–1877, edited by Brian L. Johnson and Edward J. Blum (in press with Manly, Inc.).
• Adam Rust and Michael Smith are conducting a research project studying the political theory embedded in the letters (Gospel) of Paul. They will present a paper on this topic at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meetings in spring 2008.
• Joyce Thierer was interviewed by Channel 49 ABC, airing September 10 and available on their website.
  
  

Last Updated November 29, 2007