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of Department meeting, June 6, 2007, by Lisa Ding ‘08
Leslie Butler’s book Critical Americans: Victorian
Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform was published by University
of North Carolina Press in 2007. The History News Network selected her for its
list of “Top Young Historians” who have “made outstanding contributions to the
discipline in their area of research through their commitment and achievement
to scholarship and teaching”: http://hnn.us/roundup/49.html. On
Professor Butler’s current research, go to page 4 of the Rockefeller Center
newsletter for Fall 2006: http://rockefeller.dartmouth.edu/assets/pdf/newsletterf06.pdf.
 Colin Calloway 's book The Shawnee and
the War for America was published in 2007 by Viking/Penguin: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dartlife/archives/17-5/calloway.html.
It will shortly be out in paperback and on audiotape. The third edition of his
textbook, First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian
History, has just been published. His book White People, Indians, and
Highlanders: Tribal Peoples and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and
America will be published by Oxford University Press in June. In 2007 he
received the distinguished book award of the Society of Colonial Wars in the
State of New York for The Scratch of a Pen (Oxford UP, 2006), and the
New England History Teachers Association selected him for its 2008 Kidger
Award, “given to a most outstanding history scholar-author-instructor in the
country annually.” He is also serving as president of the American Society for
Ethnohistory.
 Pamela
Crossley’s book What Is Global History? has just been
published by Polity Press. The second edition of Global Society: The World
since 1900, which she co-wrote with Lynn Hollen Lees and John W. Servos,
was published by Houghton Mifflin in July 2007. She has accepted an invitation
to be the John Lax Memorial Lecturer at Mount Holyoke College in the fall of
2008. Previous lecturers have included Jonathan Spence, Fritz Stern, Carolyn
Bynum, Thomas Laqueur, and Dipesh Chakrabarty.
Margaret Darrow's article “In the Land of Joan of Arc: The
Civic Education of Girls and the Prospect of War in France, 1871-1914” will
appear in the Spring 2008 issue of French Historical Studies.
The article explores how elementary school teachers tried to make the mandatory
civics curriculum relevant to girls who would be excluded from two of the
fundamental civic duties—voting and military service. One of the
strategies was to tell girls stories of French war heroines in order to claim
that, although women were exempt from military service, they were still
expected to risk their lives for their country. The most interesting part
of this research was reading the notebooks of schoolgirls from the late 19th
century, complete with teachers' comments.
Steve Ericson and Allen Hockley of the Art History
Department edited a volume of papers from the Portsmouth Treaty centennial
conference held at Dartmouth in September 2005; the book, titled The Treaty
of Porstmouth and Its Legacies, is scheduled for publication by the
University Press of New England in the fall of 2008.
 Cecilia Gaposchkin’s book, The Making of
Saint Louis: Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages,
supported by a Medieval Academy subvention grant, is scheduled for publication
by Cornell University Press in June 2008. She has an article appearing in the
Journal of Medieval History, vol. 33, no. 1 (2008), entitled “Louis
IX, Crusade, and the Promise of Joshua in the Holy Land.” She gave papers
related to Louis IX at the 42nd International Congress of Medieval Studies in
Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May 2007; at the International Medieval Society in
Paris and at the Sixteenth International Colloquium of the Medieval Sermons
Studies Society in Saint-Maurice d’Aguane, Switzerland, in the summer of 2007;
and in Saint Louis in October. She will be speaking at the Society for French
Historical Studies in April 2008 and again at Kalamazoo in May and in
Saint-Maurice d’Aguane in July. With Christopher MacEvitt of the Religion
Department, she is organizing the annual meeting of the New England Medieval
Conference, which will be held at Dartmouth on October 3-4, 2008; the
conference theme is “Crusade, Jihad, and Identity in the Medieval World,” and
the keynote speakers will be Benjamin Kedar (Hebrew University) and Maria Rosa
Menocal (Yale): http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/nemc/conferences.htm.
In March 2007 Marlene Heck was awarded the Dartmouth
Student Assembly's Profiles in Excellence Award for teaching. In April 2008 she
will present a paper at the Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting
in Cincinnati titled “At Home in the British-Atlantic World: 18th-century
American Palladianism.” The paper is part of the panel “Operating on the
Margins: Interdisciplinary Challenges in Pre-Modern Architectural History.”
Jean Kim co-convened a regional symposium, “Critical
Dialogues in Asian American Studies,” at Dartmouth in May 2007. Since April
2007, at six national and three international scholarly venues, she has
presented papers on U.S. colonial medical discourses, Korean adoption,
entomology, nursing and colonialism, and U.S. imperial public health. In March,
she will present on plantation architecture and the reproduction of citizen and
alien colonial identities on Hawai’i’s sugar plantations. She has submitted a
chapter on plantation nursing for a forthcoming anthology, the first
comparative volume on both Asian and African diasporas.
Rich Kremer has been named book review editor of the
Journal for the History of Astronomy and has joined the advisory
editorial boards of two other journals, Studia Copernicana and
Isis, the flagship journal in History of Science. In August 2007 he
delivered an invited lecture to the History Division of the American Chemical
Society. He and his former Presidential Scholar, Latif Nasser '08, both
gave papers at international conferences on historical scientific instruments,
held at the University of Mississippi and at Harvard. At Dartmouth, Professor
Kremer is sitting on an ad-hoc committee charged with revising and updating
Sources, the college's statement on plagiarism and citation
practices.
Celia E. Naylor’s book, African Cherokees in Indian
Territory: From Chattel to Citizens, will be published by the University
of North Carolina Press in May 2008. Her recent publications include the
chapter “’Playing Indian’?: The Selection of Radmilla Cody as Miss Navajo
Nation 1997-1998,” in Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African
Diaspora in Indian Country, edited by Tiya A. Miles and Sharon P. Holland
(Duke UP, 2006). In August 2006 she was a Visiting Professor at the University
of Ibadan in Nigeria (in Dartmouth’s faculty exchange program with that
institution). During her 9-day visit in Nigeria, she gave a public lecture and
spoke with groups of undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty
members at the University of Ibadan and at Lagos State University. She was an
invited speaker at the November 2006 conference “’The First and the Forced’:
Indigenous and African American Intersections,” part of the Shifting Borders of
Race and Identity Project (funded by the Ford Foundation and sponsored by the
University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University). In October 2007
she presented a paper entitled “’One Ever Feels His Two-Ness’:
African-Cherokees’ Conceptions of Blood, Culture and Nationality in
Nineteenth-Century Indian Territory” at the Biannual Conference of the
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora in Bridgetown,
Barbados. Also that month she was an invited speaker at the German-American
Frontiers of Humanities Annual Symposium in Potsdam, Germany, and in November
2007 she presented a paper at the Annual Conference of the American Society for
Ethnohistory in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
In December 2006 the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and
Human Rights named Annelise Orleck’s book Storming
Caesar's Palace among its ten new books outstanding in showing the
possibility for social change and resiliency in the face of obstacles: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2006/12/13.html.
Also, the Class of 2007 selected Professor Orleck for the Jerome Goldstein '54
Award for Distinguished Teaching: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dartlife/archives/17-5/awards.html.
On Walter Simons’ work in 2006-07 with a Presidential
Scholar research assistant on a 13th-century manuscript, go to http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dartlife/archives/16-5/story.html.
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