Faculty:

Deborah Cohen, after receiving offers from multiple publishers, has chosen to publish her upcoming book, Household Gods: A History of the British and Their Possessions, with Yale University Press.

Robert Crews gave a lecture entitled, "Violence, Islam, and the State in Modern Central Asia," at the Center for Historical Studies, University of Maryland, Forum on "Religion, Oil, and War in Central Asia: The Afghan Conflict in its Contexts."

Valerie French published a "History of Parenting in the Ancient Mediterranean," in the Handbook of Parenting, 2nd ed., Marc Bornstein, ed.

Laura Kamoie gave a lecture entitled, "Reconstruction in Washington, D.C., and the Nation" for Operation Understanding D.C.

Alan Kraut published a review essay, "A Tale of Two Cities," in Reviews in American History (Winter 2001/02). He also lectured on the "Bias at the Bedside: the Jewish Hospital, an Institutional Response to Anti-Semitism in American Healthcare Institutions," at the University of Denver, and gave a paper, "Dr. Joseph Goldberger and Human Experimentation: The Mississippi Prisoners," at the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science meeting. Kraut also moderated a post-concert panel of immigrant composers for the Kennedy Center and was quoted in the Washington Post in the article, "Area Afghan Americans Turn Hope into Action."

Peter Kuznick made a variety of media appearances and interviews: CSPAN broadcasts of Smithsonian panel on "American in Mourning"; TV2 Denmark interview on US public response to anthrax threats; Wolf Blitzer on CNN interview about 1970s terrorism; Agence France Press on history of US views of the Islamic religion.

Students:

Matt Clavin received a research grant from the Cosmos Club Foundation for a week's work in the John Hope Franklin collection at Duke University.

Jennifer Winter received a grant from the Society of Military History for travel expenses to present her paper, "'The Civil Religion of Patriotism': Inculcating Loyalty and Nationalism at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century," at its upcoming meeting.

Alums:

Marshall Stopher Kiker is publishing an exhibit review of "The View from Here: Images of Early Georgetown" (Dumbarton House) in Washington History and had an article on Loyalists in Revolutionary Alexandria accepted for publication by the Historic Alexandria Quarterly.