Faculty:

Richard Breitman gave the annual Bishop McCabe lecture and was the subject of "AU Features in the News," American Weekly.

Eileen Findlay was reappointed as a member of the McNair Scholars Advisory Board.

Valerie French was reappointed as a member of the McNair Scholars Advisory Board and of the CAS Mellon Committee.

Ira Klein will be publishing "The Colonial Roots of Mass Existence in Urban and Agrarian India," in Journal of Indian History.

Alan Kraut was the subject of "AU Features in the News," American Weekly, and gave an interview for a documentary on academic integrity filmed by the Children's Media Center news team from Kyrgystan. Alan gave two lectures: "Migration and Health," to a working group at the University of Pittsburgh, and "Doctors at the Border, Medical Inspection of Immigrants in Historical Perspective," for the C.F. Reynolds Medical Society at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School.

Peter Kuznick gave a number of lectures: "Nuclear History You Never Learned in School," at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research; "Why the US Used Atomic Bombs in WWII," at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto; "American Intellectuals and the Anti-Nuclear Movement in the US," at the World Congress Against A & H Bombs in Hiroshima; and, "The Enola Gay Protest Movement of 2003," at the Nagasaki Peace Research Institute. Peter gave interviews about the origin and meaning of the "Star Spangled Banner" (La Reforma) and about the Nuclear Studies Institute (Sapio). He organized the Whistleblowers Symposium, which was filmed and recorded by Democracy Now, German public television, Greek TV, WPFW, and a film crew from documentary film-maker Robert Greenwald. Peter was a panelist on Canadian Broadcasting TV News about the upcoming presidential debates, and published an article entitled, "Unacceptable Risk: The Scientists' Mobilization to Defeat Goldwater in 1964," in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Allan Lichtman was the sugject of "AU Features in the News," American Weekly, and was a political analyst for the BBC.

Eric Lohr was invited to become a member of the Hewett Forum on Russian Affairs at the Brookings Institution. He gave a book talk on Nationalizing the Russian Empire: The Campaign Against Enemy Aliens during WWI at the Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He consulted on the Project for InterMedia and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on its Russian language broadcasts, and was honored by the University Library for his book. He wrote articles for the Encyclopedia of Russian History on "Deportations," "Immigration and Emigration," "Myasoedov Affair," and "Volsky, Arkady Ivanovich" (New York: MacMillan, 2004).

Pamela Nadell gave two lectures: "From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America," at the American Library Association, and "From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America," at the Cohn-Haddow Center for Jewish Studies, Wayne State University. She published "America's Jewish Women," in From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America, Michael Grunberger, ed. (Library of Congress and George Braziller, 2004). She also served as a consultant on the Library of Congress exhibition of the same name. She was a scholar-in-residence at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion/New York campus Kallah on feminism and gave the lecture, "Facts on the Ground: Feminism and Judaism."

Philip Stern published "'Rescuing the age from a charge of ignorance': Gentility, Knowledge, and the British Exploration of Africa in the Later Eighteenth Century," in Kathleen Wilson, ed., A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity and Modernity in Britain and the Empire, 1660-1840 (Cambridge, 2004).

Graduate Students

Lorna Loring presented a paper at the Transatlantic History Graduate Student Workshop at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Ryan Shapiro presented a paper at the Transatlantic History Graduate Student Workshop at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Alumni/ae

Dana Schaffer (MA) was appointed to an administrative and research position at the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale.

Holly Werner-Thomas (MA) is doing research and oral history with Empower DC.

Bernard Unti (PhD) was appointed Senior Policy Advisor and Special Assistant to the President of the Humane Society of the United States.

Rodney Young (MA) has a short-term position doing oral history with Cultural Tourism DC.