Faculty:
Deborah Cohen gave a paper entitled, "Personality on Display: Home and Self, 1870-1914," and was a roundtable speaker at the "British Studies in the Classroom" session at the North American Conference on British Studies. Deborah was also invited to give a public lecture for the National Center for the Humanities.
Bob Crews gave a presentation at the Teach-In on War and Terrorism: Widening the Dialogue, entitled, "Afghanistan, the Coalition, and Islam."
Laura Kamoie received a $4,000 grant from the D.C. Humanities Council for her work on the Adams Morgan Heritage Trail Project.
Alan Kraut gave the following presentations: "Ethnic Pluralism and Public Health: An Historical Perspective" (History of Medicine Society of the Oregon Health Sciences University), and "Deadly Deficiencies: Dr. Joseph Goldberger's War on Disease and Depravation" (Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine of the Oregon Health Services). Alan also chaired a panel on Chicago Immigrant History at the Social Science History Association and was a panelist on "Public Health after September 11th" at the National Press Club, sponsored by the Institute for Communitarian Studies at GWU. Finally, Alan was the keynote speaker at the University of Maryland University College's Diversity Week.
Peter Kuznick presented "The End of the 'American Century': Applying Some Lessioins of History to the Present 'War'" at the Teach-In on the War on Terrorism: Widening the Dialogue. He also presented a paper at the Society for the Social Studies of Science entitled, "Scientists and the Vietnam War."
Bernice Johnson Reagon's book If You Don't Go Don't Hinder Me was just published with the University of Nebraska Press. Bernice was also a featured speaker at the AU Library's Celebrating Scholarship panel.
Joseph White gave his paper, "Nazi Anti-Semitism in East Uppera Silesia: A Survey of District Newspapers," at the German Studies Association meeting.
Karin Wulf's book, Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia, won the Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.
Students:
Beth Keaney gave a paper entitled, "Sacred Landscape and Gravestone Iconography in Windsor, Connecticut, 1633-1800" at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies' conference, "Spaces and Places in Early America."
Katrin Paehler gave a paper in Hamburg, Germany, entitled, "SD-Ausland in Italy."
John Schmitz received a research grant from the German Historical Association.
Alums:
Joe Henning won the Quentin Schaut Faculty Award for Teaching and Professional Achievement, St. Vincent College, June 2001.
Marshall Stopher Kiker has a full-time temporary research position with the City Museum of Washington, D.C.