- Professor John Steinberg attended the International Society
for First World War Studies bi-annual conference that met at the
Imperial War Museum in London England from 9-12 September 2009.
As co-series editor of "Russia's Great World War and Revolution: The
Centennial Appraisal," he represented Russia (and his project) on a
round-table that discussed projects aimed at commemorating the World
War I's upcoming centennial anniversary.
- The Department is glad to welcome Dr. Zeb Baker as
Temporary Instructor for the 2009-2010 year. He is a graduate of
Georgia Southern University and recently completed his Ph.D. in
American Studies at Emory University. He is replacing Dr. JuanJuan
Peng, who is in Japan on a Social Science Research Council Fellowship
for the year.
- Dr. Laura Shelton's For Tranquility and Order: Family and Community ofn Mexico's Northern Frontier, 1800-1850, will be published by the University of Arizona press in Spring 2010.
- Dr. Bill Allison presented "Conflict and Memory in America
since World War II: War Memorials on the Washington Mall," to the
annual meeting of the Historians of the Twentieth Century United States
at Cambridge University, UK, in July 2009.
- Dr. John Steinberg's All the Tsar's Men: The General Staff and the Fate of the Empire, 1889-1914, will be published by the Woodrow Wilson Center Press in Spring 2010.
- Dr. Anastatia Hodgens Sims published a book chapter:
"Juliette Gordon Low: Late-Blooming Daisy" in Ann Short Chirhart and
Betty Wood, eds., Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, vol. 1 (University of Georgia Press, 2009).
- Dr. Paul Rodell's review
of Brokering a Revolution: Cadres in a Philippine Insugency, by Rosanne
Rutten (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2008), appeared in Contemporary Southeast Asia 31:2 (2009).
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