Faculty:

Eileen Findlay was appointed as OAH Distinguished Lecturer and invited to be a member of the Journal of Women's History editorial board.

David Ekbladh presented a paper entitled, "A Survey of U.S. Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East" at the State Department's National Terrorism Executive Forum.

Laura Kamoie is serving as an oral history consultant on the Anacostia Museum's "Banding Together: Then and Now," in conjunction with CHIME-DC (Community Help in Museum Education). Her book, Neabsco and Occoquan was featured in "Local author irons out colonial Virginia's history: Professor sheds light on industrial plantations," Northern Virginia Journal. Laura was invited to serve on the editorial board for a new encyclopedia of D.C. history, and her most recent issue of Washington History commemorating the Brown and Bolling decisions, was published.

Alan Kraut was awarded the Arthur Viseltear Prize for Goldberger's War. The prize is for the best book on the history of public health and is awarded by the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association.

Peter Kuznick gave an interview for AP Radio about the Rape of Nanking.

Eric Lohr began his tenure as a research scholar at the Kennan Institute for Russian Studies. He gave a paper entitled, "Emigration Policy in Late Imperial Russia," at the Kennan Institute. He published "The Russian Press and the 'Internal Peace' at the Beginning of World War I," in Troy R. E. Paddock, ed., A Call to Arms: Propaganda, Public Opinion, and Newspapers in the Great War (Praeger, 2004). Eric was a discussant for an honors thesis at the U.S. Naval Academy: "Maxim Gorky and the Bolsheviks: An Assessment."

Allan Lichtman served as commentator during CNN's coverage of the inaugural ceremonies.

Pamela Nadell gave several lectures, including: "Guide to the Library of Congress's Exhibition, 'From Haven to Home,'" for the Religious Action Center; "America's Jewish Women," for the Jewish Studies & Hadassah Fall Brunch, Michigan State University; "Community, Diversity, and America's Jews: An Historical Perspective," for the national meeting of the Union of Reform Judaism's Commission on Outreach and Synagogue Community. She also presented "Encountering Jewish Feminism," for the conference, "Why is America Different?" at Boston University, and gave a seminar on "American Jewish Women's History: A Part of and Apart from American Women's History," at Michigan State University. She chaired "Constructing Their Own Spaces: Jewish Women in Latin America," at the annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, and gave a seminar on "Celebrating One Hundred Years of Sisterhood, 350 Years of American Jewish Life," for the Mid-Atlantic Regional meeting of the Women's Rabbinic Network. She is a historical consultant to the documentary And the Gates Opened: Women in the Rabbinate, produced by Diva Communications for the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Pam wrote "Women Weave Colors into Tapestry of Jewish Life" for Washington Jewish Week, December 16, 2004.

April Shelford published an article entitled, "Cautious Curiosity: Legacies of a Jesuit Scientific Education in Seventeenth-Century France," History of Universities 19(2) (2004).

Students

Cliff Schecter cohosted election night coverage for the Sinclair Broadcast Group. He was political analyst for Al Jazeera covering the Bush cabinet shakeup post-election and for Foxnews morning show and Fox & Friends. He served as a judge for "The Pollies," the political awards ceremony that picks the best political television/radio/internet ads of the political season and is a constant blogger for the online magazine The Gadflyer.

Kathryn Sukites presented a paper entitled, "Reading, Writing, and the New York World," at the American Journalism Historians Association meeting.

Alumni/ae

Robert Wilensky's book, Military Medicine to Win Hearts and Minds: Aid to Civilians in the Vietnam War, was just published by the Texas Tech University Press.