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From the Archives:
October 2002 Good News!

Faculty:

Laura Kamoie served as a consultant for a two-day reinterpretation meeting at Tudor Place Historic House and Gardens. Along with several graduate students, Kamoie was interviewed for a feature article on experiential learning for American Magazine.

Peter Kuznick gave interviews on students' experiences in Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the Japanese newspapers, Yomiuri Shimbum and Asahi Shimbum. He was also interviewed by Agence France Presse on the lingering effects of new laws on civil liberties and America's choice of heroes after 9/11. He was quoted in Monday Morning on the difficulty of offering criticism of Bush administration policies.

Allan Lichtman was quoted in a variety of newspapers on a number of current issues in presidential and electoral politics.

Anna Nelson was an invited participant in the conference, "The October Crisis: A Political Perspective Forty Years Later," co-sponsored by the Cuban government, the National Security Archive, and the Watson Institute for International Affairs at Brown. She also had an article accepted in the Journal of Military History entitled, "Anna M. Rosenberg, an 'Honorary Man'."

Students:

Aleisa Fishman received a travel grant from the AJS Women's Caucus to attend this year's AJS conference in Los Angeles.

Danielle Snyder is currently interning with the Holocaust Museum and has received an internship with Mount Vernon for the spring semester.

Alumni:

Brett Adams and Debbie Doyle had a panel accepted for the 2003 OAH meeting, "Fantasy Cities: Urban Locations, Pleasure, and Mass Culture, 1900-1960."

Nadia Barbarossa is working as a production assistant at the National Geographic Society.

Carrie Blough is working as assistant curator at the Old Economy Village, part of PA's Historical and Museum Commission.

Caridad Delavega is interning with the National Historic Landmarks Survey.

Joseph G. Ryan's "The Chapel and the Operating Room: The Struggle of Roman Catholic Clergy, Physicians, and Believers with the Dilemmas of Obstetric Surgery, 1800-1900," was the lead article in the September 2002 Bulletin of the History of Medicine.

Links to Past Good News! columns:

September 2001
October-November 2001
December 2001-January 2002
February-March 2002
April 2002

May 2002
September 2002