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  Colin
Calloway has had two books published since the last newsletter: One Vast
Winter County: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark (Nebraska,
2003), which has won six “best book” awards, and The Scratch of a Pen:
1763 and the Transformation of North America (Oxford, 2006). He was
awarded an ACLS Fellowship for 2004-05 to pursue research on his next book,
Clan, Tribe, and Nation: Highland Scots, American Indians, and
Colonial Encounters. This June he was inducted into Dartmouth’s
chapter of Phi Beta Kappa as an Honorary Member.
Margaret Darrow returned to Koç University in Istanbul in
December 2003 to lecture on gender and the Enlightenment. In March 2004,
Professor Darrow was the invited speaker at two Women's History Month
celebrations; she spoke about the legacy of Mata Hari. A more scholarly
presentation took place in June 2004, when she presented some on-going research
at a conference in Paris.
Steven Ericson presented a paper entitled “Riding the
Rails: Military Transport on the Japanese Home Front, 1904-1906” at the
international conference “World War Zero: Reappraising the War of
1904-5,” held at Keio University in Tokyo in May 2005. He and Art History
Professor Allen Hockley co-organized “Portsmouth and Its Legacies: An
International Conference Commemorating the Centennial of the Russo-Japanese
Peace Treaty of 1905,” held at Dartmouth in September 2005; also participating
from the History Department were Ron Edsforth, who originally
proposed the conference, and Ed Miller.
Cecilia Gaposchkin spoke last year at the Princeton
University's Davis Seminar in November, "Defining the Ideal King:
Retrospective Interpretations of Saint Louis' Reign"; at a conference in
Saint Louis on the Crusades in February, "The Role of the Crusades in the
Canonization Dossier of Saint Louis"; at the Medieval Academy Meetings in
Boston in March, "Instructions on Kingship in the Moralized Bible of Louis
IX"; and at the 41st International Congress for Medieval Studies in May,
"Imaging Ideal Kingship at the Capetian Court." At that same
conference she served as a roundtable participant on G. Klaniczay's "Holy
Rulers and Blessed Princesses." An article based on the paper given
at Saint Louis is forthcoming, and she is finishing a volume on, not
surprising, Louis IX.
Gene Garthwaite: "I have just published The
Persians (Blackwell, 2005), a history of Iran from Cyrus the Great to
Khomeini, some 2,500 years of Iran's rich history; the second edition and
paperback are scheduled for publication in Summer 2006."
Marlene Heck was invited to give a lecture, "Mind the
Gap: Rewriting Sir John Summerson's American Architectural History," at a
June 2004 conference entitled "Sir John Summerson and Henry-Russell
Hitchcock: A Centenary Conference on Aspects of Architectural Historiography in
the 20th Century," held in London at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
British Art.
 Rich
Kremer received a National Science Foundation grant to help support an
international conference on university collections of historic scientific
apparatus held in June 2004. Co-sponsored by the International Scientific
Instrument Commission and Dartmouth, the conference reflected a growing
interest among historians and anthropologists of science in the material
culture of scientific practice. Over fifty papers were presented, with
more than half of the presenters coming from beyond North America.
Professor Kremer has organized an exhibit of 25 artifacts and books from
Dartmouth’s King Collection of Scientific Instruments entitled "Count on
It: Two Hundred Years of Computation," on display at Dartmouth’s Kresge
Library from May to September 2006. During the 2005-06 academic year, he
presented conference papers at the Utrecht University Museum, at the Museum
Boerhaave in Leiden, and at a Dartmouth Humanities Institute. He recently
co-authored Study, Measure, Experiment: Stories of Scientific
Instruments at Dartmouth (Terra Nova Press; distributed by University
Press of New England, 2005). He has received a grant from the Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation for a one-month working visit to the University of
Leipzig to collaborate with Falk Eisermann on a study of late medieval
astronomical manuscripts and a National Science Foundation grant for a one-year
research leave to complete a monograph on the “Copernican Revolution From
Below.” In March 2006 he led a Dartmouth Alumni Tour, “Solar Eclipses in
Science and the Imagination,” to observe a total eclipse of the sun in
Turkey.
David Lagomarsino was honored with three prizes during
2005-06. The Student Assembly named him Outstanding Faculty Adviser
and bestowed on him the Profiles in Excellence Teaching Award.
Additionally, the Class of 2005 awarded him the Goldstein Distinguished
Teaching Prize. This is the second time a graduating class has selected
him for that honor—the first was in 1984. On July 1, 2005 Lagomarsino was named
the first holder of the Charles Hansen Professorship and began his three-year
tenure as the new chair of the History Department.
Edward Miller has received a National Endowment for the
Humanities stipend to conduct archival research in Vietnam during the summer of
2006. The research will be incorporated into his forthcoming book on the
origins of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, entitled Grand Designs:
The Making and Unmaking of America’s Alliance with Ngo Dinh Diem,
1954-1963.
Celia E. Naylor's recent publications include the
co-authored articles "Rethinking Race and Culture in the Early
South" (with Claudio Saunt, Barbara Krauthamer, Tiya Miles and Circe
Sturm), Ethnohistory, vol. 53 (Spring 2006) and "African
Americans in Indian Societies" (with Tiya Miles), in Handbook of North
American Indians, vol. 14, ed. Raymond Fogelson (Smithsonian Institution,
2004). In addition, her paper "Born a Slave, Born Free and 'To Go
Free': African-American Experiences in the Louisiana Purchase Area during the
Antebellum Period," was published in The Louisiana Purchase and Its
Peoples: Perspectives from the New Orleans Conference, ed. Paul Hoffman
(Louisiana Historical Association and the Center for Louisiana Studies,
2004).
In September 2004, she presented a paper entitled "The Construction of
African-Indian Racial and Cultural Identities in Antebellum Indian
Territory" at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. In January
2005, she served as the panel chair and co-commentator of the panel
"Indian-African Interactions in the Early South: Race and the
Transformation of Native Cultures and Identities," at the Annual Meeting
of the American Historical Association in Seattle, Washington. In November 2005
she presented a paper, "Indian Territory: Site of Antebellum
Resistance," at the Annual Conference of the American Studies Association
in Washington, D.C. She was also invited to present a paper,
"Representing Race, Culture and Nation: Responses to the Selection of
Radmilla Cody as Miss Navajo Nation 1997-1998," at the University of New
Mexico in November 2005.
Professor Naylor was selected as Dartmouth College's Arthur M. Wilson and
Mary Tolford Wilson Faculty Research Fellow for 2005-06. In 2004-05 and
2005-06, she was named one of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Research Scholars.
 Annelise
Orleck’s book Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought
Their Own War on Poverty was published by Beacon in 2005. Since that
time, she has been invited to speak on poverty activism and welfare reform at
numerous colleges and universities, including Rutgers, Barnard, and the
University of Illinois, Chicago. She is now working on a co-edited collection
of new scholarship on local activism and the War on Poverty. In 2003-04
Professor Orleck was involved in co-organizing two conferences: one sponsored
by Princeton's Davis Center called “The OEO at 40: The War on Poverty in
America's Cities,” which brought together scholars from across the country
doing new work on poverty activism in the 1960s and 1970s; and the other at
Dartmouth on “Contested Memories of the Holocaust in the U.S. and Israel,” an
interdisciplinary, international conference showcasing new perspectives on
Holocaust memory and its role in shaping national and community identities in
Israel and the United States. This spring she was interviewed about her
latest book on CNN Sunday Morning and also did a workshop for New York City 7th
and 8th grade teachers on integrating women and immigrants into their American
history curriculum.
Chris Schmidt received his Ph.D. in the History of American
Civilization Program at Harvard in November 2004, completing a dissertation
entitled “Postwar Liberalism and the Origins of Brown v. Board of
Education.” In 2004 he participated in numerous events commemorating
the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, presenting
papers at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs,
Carleton College, Hood College, and the Annual Meeting of the Organization of
American Historians. During the 2003-04 academic year he was a doctoral
fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. His essays have appeared
in two recent collections: “J. Waties Waring and the Making of Liberal
Jurisprudence in Postwar America,” in From the Grassroots to the Supreme
Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy (2004);
and “The Children of Brown: Psychology and School Segregation in
Mid-Century America,” in Science Serves the Child: Education, Child
Welfare, and Parenting in Twentieth Century America (2006). He has
also published entries in African American National Biography and
Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law as well as book reviews
in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review,
Connecticut History, H-Law, and H-1960s. In addition to teaching
summer-term classes at Dartmouth, he is currently completing a J.D. at Harvard
Law School, where he is an Executive Article Editor for the Harvard Civil
Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
Leo Spitzer and Marianne Hirsch are making progress on
their book Ghosts of Home, and he and Ilan Stavans are in the final
stages of completing their edited volume, Against Oblivion: Latin America
and the Holocaust. Professor Spitzer was invited to lecture at the
University of Vermont and at the City University of New York. He was also
invited to Vienna to celebrate the publication of Hotel Bolivia in its
German-language translation and to participate in an international symposium at
the Literaturhaus on Exile and Second Generation Memory.
Two months before his passing in February 2004, Charles
Wood sent the editor the following note: “One article came out in May:
‘Joinville's Secret History,’ The Proceedings of the Pseudo Society, First
Series (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2003). Another article
is due out in January or February of 2004 in a Festschrift for Jeremy Adams of
SMU. The citation should be: ‘Joseph of Arimatha, From Biblical Obscurity to
New Age Fame,’ Authority, Morality and Patterns of Medieval
Community: Essays in Honor of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams, ed. Stephanie
Hayes[-Healy] (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).”
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