Faculty:

Robert Griffith is a member of the Middle States Accreditation Team for SUNY Stony Brook.

Laura Kamoie published a book based on her dissertation entitled, Neabsco and Occoquan: The Tayloe Iron Plantations, 1730-1830 (Manassas, VA: Prince William County Historical Commission 2003). She also published an exhibit review of "Saving Mount Vernon: The Birth of Preservation in America" in CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship. The most recent issue of Washington History, which she edits, was published in December. Kamoie was interviewed for a Post article on the DC Archives, and appointed to the position of Program Chair for the 2004 DC Historical Studies Conference and to the Local Arrangements Committee for the 2006 OAH/NCPH annual meeting.

Alan Kraut won 2003 Henry Adams Prize, awarded by the Society for History in the Federal Government, for Goldberger's War. Kraut was also honored by the American University Library for the book. He served as a session chair for an AHA panel entitled, "Sterilizing the Welcome Mat: Immigration, Eugenics, and Contagion in the North."

Peter Kuznick was appointed to the Distinguished OAH Lectureship Program for 2004-2007. Kuznick was featured in many articles regarding his efforts to lobby the Smithsonian regarding the Enola Gay plane. He was interviewed by or quoted in dozens of newspapers around the world. He also gave interviews to Arete on "Creating Space for Controversy in the Classroom" and to Agence France on the reemergence of Vietnam as an issue in the presidential elections.

Alan Lichtman was appointed to the Distinguished OAH Lectureship Program for 2004-2007. He was interviewed by and quoted in dozens of newspapers around the country for articles relating to JFK, congressional redistricting in Texas, Saddam Hussein's capture, the democratic debates, presidential politics, and Bush's State of the Union address.

Eric Lohr won a Woodrow Wilson Center/Kennan Institute Fellowship for AY 04-05. Eric published two articles: "Russian Economic Nationalism during World War I: Moscow Merchants and Commercial Diasporas," in Nationalities Papers 31 (4) (Dec. 2003): 471-484, and "La transformacion rusa en su contexto historico," in La Vanguardia Dossier 9 (Jan./Mar. 2004): 6-13. He also organized and chaired the first meeting of the Washington Russian and East European History Workshop.

Pamela Nadell gave a lecture entitled, "Jews, Christians, and Antisemitism," a reflection on Mel Gibson's new film, "The Passion of the Christ."

Anna Nelson published an article entitled, "Caught in the Web of McCarthyism: Anna M. Rosenberg and the Senate Armed Services Committee," in Congress and the Presidency.

Robert Beisner's Guide to American Foreign Relations was named by Choice as an "Outstanding Academic Title for 2004." Beisner was also honored by the American University Library for his editorial work on the Guide.

Students:

Matthew Clavin received a fellowship at the Gilder Lehrman Center in New York City.

Katherine Nelson published an article entitled, "The Knights of Father Matthew," in Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History, Jack Blocker, D. Fahey, I. Tyrrell, eds. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003. She also gave a paper entitled, "Dr. Thomas Sewall, Temperance Advocate in an Urban Context" at the 2004 AHA.

Katrin Paehler accepted a tenure-track position in German history at Illinois State University.

Shannon Parsley had two articles accepted for publication: "'Intemperate in Speech': The Politics of Religion in Baltimore City, the 1928 Election" by Southern Historian, and "Courting the Ladies: The Political Mobilization of Women in Baltimore, 1928," by the Maryland Historical Magazine.

Alumni:

Kathleen Dalton (MA) was the featured speaker for the Books and Beyond Series, Center for the Book, Library of Congress, for her biography Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life (Knopf, 2002). Dalton teaches at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.

Josh Greenberg (PhD, '03) won the AHA's e-Guttenberg prize for 2003 dissertation.

Wendy Lower (PhD, '93) accepted a tenure-track position at Towson State University.

Matt Richardson (MA, '03) received an ORISE/Department of Defense/MIA/POW Research Fellowship for 2004.

Bernard Unti (PhD, '01) published a book entitled, Protecting All Animals: A Fifty-Year History of the Humane Society of the United States (Humane Society Press, 2004). He also published "Our Golden Anniversary: Helping Animals for Half a Century," in All Animals. Unti also gave a paper at the American Association for the History of Medicine meeting entitled, "Cruelty, Consumption, and Consequences: Boston Beef and the Reform of Livestock Transportation in the United States." He was a co-presenter at "An Evening with Van Cliburn" at the Humane Society of the United States's 50th Anniversary Celebration, Kennedy Center.