Faculty:

Kathleen Franz  won Internships Programs Faculty of the Month! Internships Programs recognizes Kathleen Franz for her outstanding work with internships. Franz has been leading a team in developing academic standards for internship positions in history while creating a challenging syllabus with academically rigorous activities. She regularly makes site visits to better understand the learning her students are undergoing and to establish and maintain relationships with valuable employers. The Career Center thanks her and the history department for their continued support of experimental education for their students

David Ekbladh published a book chapter, “From Consensus to Crisis: The Postwar Career of Nation Building in U.S. Foreign Relations” ed. Francis Fukuyama, Nation Building (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). He also gave a presentation: “U.S. Foreign Relations Toward the Middle East” to the Delegation of the Republic of Georgia to the U.S. Department of State Training Program, Washington, D.C., January 2006. Finally, Ekbladh gave a presentation: “Finding Liberalism’s Spine: Modernization and the Threat of Totalitarianism, 1933-1960” to the Faculty Seminar, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University, January 2006
                                   
One of Robert Griffith's web syllabi finished 6th on the top ten of most viewed syllabi (among the half million or so searches conducted through the Center for History and New Media’s Syllabus Finder).

April Shelford had a book chapter accepted for publication in French History. “Of Scepters and Censors: Biblical Interpretation and Censorship in Seventeenth-Century France”.

Peter Kuznick presented on the Iranian nuclear crisis on the Mike Mendoza show on Sportstalk Radio in London, which is the largest commercial radio station in the UK. He also ppoke at the Ann Ferren Teaching Conference on “Using Guest Speakers in Class: You Too Can Get Attacked By the Right Wing and Investigated by the FBI”. Finally, Peter ws interviewed on the phone by students from Holicong Middle School in Pennsylvania about the atomic bombings of 1945 for the students’ National History Day project.

Graduate Students

Heather Heckler received a job at the Veterans History Project        

Robert Williams brought several new students aboard the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg project for the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The students are Alexandra Lohse, Nick Underwood, Tierra Jolly, and Brennan Hogan.

Public History Students: The first Adams Morgan Heritage Trail signs have been installed! This project was completed by public history students a few years ago under the direction of Laura Kamoie. The unveiling event was on January 28th.

Alumni/ae

Christina Gessler, a former PhD student, is now teaching US Women’s History at California State University, Channel Islands at Camarillo this spring quarter. CI is a new state university and there are great prospects for her there!

Robert Wilensky, a former PhD student, was very favorably reviewed in the December 2005 issues of the Journal of American History for his book Military Medicine to Win Hearts and Minds (2004) .

Joseph Henning, a former PhD student and current professor of history at the Rochester Institute of Technology, recently had his book Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, Civilization, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations published in Japanese.