Faculty:

Valerie French was interviewed for C-SPAN's Saturday Washington Journal on Greek imperialisms and possible lessons for thinking about contemporary U.S. foreign relations.

Alan Kraut published Goldberger's War: The Life and Times of a Public Health Crusader (Hill and Wang, 2003). He gave a presentation entitled, "After Ellis Island: Providing Healthcare to the Immigrant Poor," at the International Society of Travel Medicine Conference. He was quoted in the Boston Globe on the front lines of war on disease and wrote a long book review in the New York Times. Alan served as a consultant to the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Department of Homeland Security on the revision of the history and government portions of the citizenship examination and creation of the "U.S. History Guide for Naturalization Applicants." He also served as a historical advisor on the advisory panel that issued "America's Challenge: Domestic Security, Civil Liberties, and National Unity After September 11," a report compiled by the Migration Policy Institute, as well as advisor on the new Ethnic History Exhibit at the Public Museum of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Alan was also appointed chair of the William Osler Medal Committee of the American Association for the History of Medicine for 1994/95, which is awarded for the best essay in the history of medicine by candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine.

Peter Kuznick gave interviews on the following subjects: campus tensions during time of war (Hartford Courant), Harry Truman's antisemitic statements in his recently discovered 1947 diary (Agence France), "Political Conversion Was the Great Aphrodisiac" (in Christopher Appy, Patriots: An Oral History of the Viet Nam War). He also served as a panelist on Appy's book. He wrote an OpEd piece, "Still Wild About Harry?" for the Los Angeles Times, and his summer course in Japan received extensive media coverage by Asahi Shimbun, Kyoto Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, Hagasaki Shimbun, Nishi Nihon Shimbun, and Al Jazeera.

Allan Lichtman was quoted in the New York Times in an article about Clinton's plans for the future, in Newsweek about the upcoming presidential election, and also about the Supreme Court, new revelations about Nixon, governor races, and campaign fundraising. He published an article entitled, "What Really Happened in Florida's 2000 Presidential Election," in the Journal fo Legal Studies, and wrote an OpEd piece entitled, "Why is George W. Bush President," for the Counter Punch.

Eric Lohr published Nationalizing the Russian Empire: The Campaign Against Enemy Aliens during World War I (Harvard, 2003).

Pamela Nadell edited American Jewish Women's History: A Reader (NYU Press, 2003), and was appointed to the Executive Committee of the Academic Council for Celebrate 350.

Katharine Norris commented on the panel, "Twentieth-Century European Nationalism and Youth" at the bi-annual meeting of the Society fo the History of Childhood and Youth. She also wrote encyclopedia articles on Alfred Binet and Cesare Lombroso for the History of Childhood (Paul Fass, ed., MacMillan, forthcoming 2003).

April Shelford won the annual Selma V. Forkosch Prize for the best article, "Thinking Geometrically in Pierre-Daniel Huet's Demonstratio evangelica (1679)," published in the Journal of the Histoyr of Ideas in 2002.

Karin Wulf was appointed Book Review Editor for the William and Mary Quarterly, the first woman to hold an editorial position with that prestigious journal.

Roger Brown, Emeriti, published "The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Before the Revolution," in American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature (ABC-CLIO, 2003).

Robert Beisner, Emeriti, served as Editor-in-Chief for American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature (ABC-CLIO, 2003).

Students:

Caridad de la Vega published "Cuban Diaspora: The Washington Community," in Heritage Matters.

Anne Rush received an Honorable Mention in the 2002 Walter D. Love Prize competition for "Imperial Identity in Colonial Minds: Harold Moody and the League of Coloured Peoples, 1931-1950." The Love Prize, awarded by the North American Conference on British Studies, recognizes the best article in any journal on any topic of British history and is the most prestigious of that organization's annual awards.

Alumni:

Angela Blake (PhD '97) accepted a position as Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Toronto. The Johns Hopkins University Press will publish the book that grew out of her dissertation.

Debbie Doyle (PhD '03) successfully completed her dissertation, "'The World's Playground': Tourism and Mass Culture in Atlantic City." She also published "'The Salt Water Washes Away All Impropriety': Mass Culture and the Middle Class Body on the Beach in Turn-of-the-Century Atlantic City," in GenderScapes: Renegotiating the Moral Landscape (Routledge, forthcoming).

Anne L. Foster (BA) published "The United States, Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa, 1899-1919," in American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature (ABC-CLIO, 2003).

Matthew Harty (BA '03) accepted a tenure-track position as a teacher of global studies at Kings Park High School in New York.

James E. Lewis (MA) published "From the Confederation through the Jeffersonian Era," in American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature (ABC-CLIO, 2003).

Kevin Malecek (BA '02) announced his candidacy for the Willoughby Hills (Ohio) City Council, District 3.

Maureen Miller (BA '83, PhD McGill) was appointed Professor of Medieval History at the University of California Berkeley. She is the author of two books: The Formation of the Medieval Church: Ecclesiastical Change in Verona, 950-1150 (Cornell, 1993), and The Bishop's Place: Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy (Cornell, 2000).

Joe Walwick (PhD '94) accepted a position as Assistant Professor of U.S. History at the American University in Cairo.