Faculty:

Laura Kamoie received an NEH Summer Stipend (only 14% of applications funded).

Alan Kraut served as a commentator on a session at the annual OAH meeting on Immigration and Medical Inspections. He also consulted on the film, "Partners of the Heart," a documentary that just won the prestigious Erik Barnouw Award from the OAH. Alan will accept the award on behalf of producer Andrea Kalin.

Peter Kuznick gave the following interviews: to USA Today (Enola Gay protest effort, past use of nuclear weapons, current nuclear threat); Associated Press (on recently unearthed documents revealing Eisenhower's 1958 emergency plans for 10 hand-picked civilians to run the government in the event that official leadership was wiped out in a nuclear attacked).

Allan Lichtman gave a presentation on his book, The Keys to the White House for the Bishop C.C. McCabe Lecture Series for the CAS Alumni Chapter.

Kevin Matthews published Fatal Influence: The Impact of Ireland on British Politics (University of Dublin Press, 2004).

Pamela Nadell chaired a panel on Helmut Smith's "The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town" at the annual AHA meeting. She also gave a lecture entitled, "America's Jewish Women," at the Adas Israel Congregation, Washington, D.C. She was appointed for a three-year term to the Program Committee, Association for Jewish Studies, and was quoted on the nature of the Jewish community in Washington in Washington Jewish Week.

Students:

Undergraduate Students:

Tiffany Baker, Nile Blunt, Christine Curley, Meghan Gelardi, Claire Gershon, Kirsten Kaufman, Joshua Kraushaar, Alexandra Lohse, George Melissinos, Tara Ormond, Jonathan Otto, James Scanlan, David Seymour, and Jennifer Tullman all presented original research papers at the 2004 CAS Student Research Conference. George Melissinos won the award for the best presentation by a junior or senior in history.

Nile Blunt received full tuitition and a stipend for the PhD program in history at the University of Illinois.

Sherry Funches was accepted as a member of the McNair Scholars Program.

Makeda Okolo was accepted as a member of the McNair Scholars Program.

Graduate Students:

Teresa Brown, Michael Giese, Lorna Loring, Ryan Shapiro, and Rodney Young all presented original research papers at the 2004 CAS Student Research Conference.

Brenda Gaydosh presented a paper entitled, "Caftan vs. Cravat: Shaping Jewish Identity in Modern Europe, an Historiographic View," at the Fifth European Social Science History Conference, Berlin.

Alisa Kramer presented a paper entitled, "White Resistance on the West Coast: The LAPD Response to the Civil Rights Movement in Los Angeles," at the annual meeting of the OAH, Boston.

Katrin Paehler was appointed Assistant Professor of History at Illinois State University.

Alumni:

Joe Henning (PhD) was appointed Associate Professor in U.S. Foreign Relations at the Rochester Institute of Technology.