Faculty:

Sabrina Baron presented a paper entitled, "'Seditious Pamphlets and Papers': State Control of the Press in Early Modern England," at the North American Conference on British Studies & Northwest Conference on British Studies, Portland, Oregon. Sabrina also received a book contract for Agent of Change: Twenty-Five Years of Print Culture Studies, which she is co-editing with Eric Lindquist and Eleanor Shevlin (University of Massachusetts Press in conjunction with the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress, forthcoming 2004).

Eileen Findlay presented a paper entitled, "Portable Roots: Community Building and the Meaning of Return Migration in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1960-2000," at the Oral History Association annual meeting. Eileen also commented at a panel on transnational historical analyses of sexuality at the Sexual Politics, Sexual Worlds Conference, Washington.

Robert Griffith is serving a chair of the Local Arrangements Committee for the 2004 AHA annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Laura Kamoie led two workshops entitled, "Getting Started with Oral History," at the Oral History Association annual meeting. Laura presented a paper entitled, "The Tayloe Iron Plantations in Prince William County, 1730-1830," at the Northern Virginia Studies Conference, and gave an invited lecture to Mary Washington College's history and historic preservation departments entitled, "The Tayloe Family's Enterprises in Northern Virginia." Laura is serving on the Local Arrangements Committee for the 2004 AHA annual meeting in Washington, D.C., and was featured in an article in American Weekly on history students working for the new City Museum.

Ira Klein is publishing an article entitled, "Modern Indian's Struggle for Population Control: Contraceptive Historical Perspectives," in the next issue of Journal of Indian History.

Peter Kuznick gave interviews with Agence France Press on the state of the American peace movement and with the Indianapolis Star on the legacy of the World War II generation. Peter is leading an effort to make the new Enola Gay exhibit an incentive for worldwide rethinking of policy on nuclear weapons through a statement signed by nationally and internationally recognized historians, scholars, and some Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners. He was quoted in and interviewed by the National Coalition for History Newsletter, History News Network, and The New York Times.

Allan Lichtman was quoted in The Christian Science Monitor and five additional outlets on Wesley Clark's entry into the presidential race; also quoted in The Monitor about public trust in a time of war. Quoted in USA Today article on presidential politics and in an AP article which was printed in 25 media outlets on how an upturn in the economy could help Bush's reelection campaign. Allan gavea talk entitled, "The Origins of American Conservatism" at American University.

Eric Lohr published an article entitled, "Patriotic Violence and the State: The Moscow Riots of May 1915," in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 4(3) (Summer 2003): 607-626.

Anna Nelson was quoted in the Ocala Star-Banner on the release of the name of a CIA agent.

Katharine Norris gave a paper entitled, "The Scientist at Home: Fatherhood and Scientific Research in Fin-de-Siecle France," at the Western Society for French History.

April Shelford gave a paper entitled, "Friendship and Formation in Jesuit Education: A Case Study," in a panel she organized for the Western Society for French History. April had an article accepted for publication entitled, "Cautious Curiosity: Legacies of a Jesuit Scientific Education in 17th-Century France" by History of Universities. She published a book review of Donald Kelley's The Descent of Ideas: The History of Intellectual History in The European Legacy.

Charles McLauglin edited and wrote the introduction for Frederick Law Oldmsted: Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England (Amherst, Mass.: Library of American Landscape History, University of Massachusetts Press, 2002).

Students:

Dennis Pool is serving as the staff assistant for the Local Arrangements Committee for the 2004 AHA annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Dana Schaffer presented a paper entitled, "Remembrances in Conflict: Historical Memory and the 1968 Riots," at the Oral History Association Annual Meeting. Dana was also featured in an American Weekly article on history graduate students working with the new City Museum.

Jim Wertz presented a paper entitled, "'Loving v. Virginia': The Abolition of Anti-Miscegenation Laws in 1960s America," at the Ohio Valley History Conference.

Alumni:

Jill Cairns-Gallimore is currently working as an independent research historian. She is conducting archival and photographic research for two book projects and for the New Millenium Press.