Faculty:

Laura Kamoie presented a paper entitled, "Diversifying Plantership: The Business Activities of Virginia Planters in the Eighteenth Century," at the Social Science History Association annual meeting in St. Louis. Kamoie also moderated a session at the D.C. Historical Studies Conference on "Streets, Subdivisions and Neighborhoods in Washington, DC, 1854-1902." In November, she taught a full-day workshop called "Doing Oral History" for the Historical Society of Washington, DC. Her most recent issue of Washington History has been published.

Ira Klein published "Medicine and Culture in British India," in Explorations, edited by Sandeep Sinha (Calcutta: Corpus Research Institute, 2002).

Alan Kraut presented a paper entitled, "Immigrants, Refugees, and Federal Public Health Policy: An Historical Perspective," at the American Public Health Association annual meeting in Philadelphia. Kraut was also quoted by the media on immigration policy for Haitian refugees.

Peter Kuznick chaired the Nuclear Forum, which was covered by Kyodo News Service, Pacifica Radio Network, and Yomiuri Shimbun.

Allan Lichtman made multiple media appearances and was quoted on Maryland elections, turmoil in the civil rights commission, and congressional action on authorization of use of force in Iraq.

Anna Nelson was the featured speaker at the Golden Key Reception at AU. Her talk was entitled, "Intelligence in the 21st Century."

Karin Wulf presented a paper entitled, "Death and the Ancestral Connection: Genealogy, Grief, and Commemoration in British America," at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Colloquium at the College of William and Mary and at the Workshop in the History of Technology and Culture at the University of Delaware.

Students:

Christina Gessler successfully defended her dissertation in November.

Anne Rush presented a paper entitled, "Modern Raleighs: Royalty and British Imperial Identity in the West Indies, 1900-1962," at the North American Conference on British Studies.

John Schmitz was quoted by the Miami Herald about his research on WWII West Texas internment camp.

Elizabeth Stewart presented a paper entitled, "A Friend of the Education of the Freedmen: Trustees of the African American Schools in Maryland's Segregated System," at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Meeting in Orlando.

Frankie Winchester's research on medical history ("Jim Crow Medicine") was featured in a story in American Weekly.

Alumni:

Marshall Stopher Kiker was appointed Assistant Editor of the William McLeod Papers at the Corcoran Museum. McLeod was the first curator of the Corcoran in the 1870s. Marshall will be transcribing his papers, research the people and art works he mentions, contextualizing his life, and writing introductory essays.

James Marchio is current Commander of the U.S. Transportation Command's Joint Intelligence Center (U.S. Air Force). He has published two articles: "Risking General War in Pursuit of Limited Objectives: U.S. Military Contingency Planning for Poland in the Wake of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising," Journal of Military History 66 (July 2002): 783-812; "The Planning Coordination Group: Bureaucratic Casualty in the Cold War Campaign to Exploit Soviet-Bloc Vulnerabilities," Journal of Cold War Studies 4(4) (Fall 2002): 3-28.