Gerald Betty is scheduled to present “The Ties that Bind: Railroads and Community Development in Early Twentieth Century Amarillo, Texas,” at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Western History Association, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, October 2007, and “A Shellcrete Society: The Aransas-Copano Bay Community, 1830-1880,” at the 112th Annual Meeting of the Texas State Historical Association, Corpus Christi, Texas, March 2008.
Vernon Egger’s second volume of Muslim history was published in mid-August. It is entitled A History of the Muslim World: The Making of a Global Community, 1260-Present (Upper Saddle Creek, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007)
Dr. Annette Laing received a Georgia Southern University Faculty Award for Excellence in Service at the University's Fall Convocation Ceremony on August 9, 2006. The award is designed to recognize and reward faculty who use their academic disciplines to provide non-compensated assistance to the region as well as to the academic community. Recipients participate in the "Focus on Excellence" Lecture Series during the academic year, and Dr. Laing's lecture, "Subversive Service: Challenging the Ethos that Ails Us," will take place at 4:00 PM on January 16, 2007, in Room 1908 of the Nessmith-Lane Building. Dr. Laing is the creator of TimeShop, a living history experience for children age 8-12.
Michelle Haberland presented a paper entitled, "Look for the Union Label: Organizing Women Workers and Women Consumers in the Southern Apparel Industry" at the Southern Association of Women's Historians Conference in Baltimore, Maryland in June, 2006.
Michelle Haberland's essay, "'It Takes a Special Kind of Woman to Work Up There': Race, Gender and the Impact of the Apparel Industry on Clarke County, Alabama, 1937-1980" was published as a chapter in Work, Family and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century , edited by Melissa Walker and Rebecca Sharpless and published by University of Missouri Press, 2006.
Sandra J. Peacock's article, "Struggling with the daimon: Eliza M. Butler on Germany and Germans," appeared in The History of European Ideas 32 (2006) 99-115.
Professor Tom McMullen gave a lecture series at the National University at Trujillo, Peru, called the "Actualización de las Grandes Interrogantes de la Ciencia" ("Current Thought on the Most Important Scientific Questions"). The series consisted of five lectures from the 13th to the 15th of June. The titles were "The Limitations of Science," "The Origins of Life," "The Big Bang," "Intelligent Design," and "The Fish-Land Fossil and Descent from a Common Ancestor."
Paul A. Rodell was a participant in an invited conference "Countering the Support Environment for Terrorism in Southeast Asia," sponsored and hosted by the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawai'i. The conference was held on January 31-February 2 at the APCSS facility in Honolulu. Conference participants included US & Southeast Asian government officials, US & Southeast Asian military officers, representatives of defense and strategic studies institutes in Southeast Asia plus the Rand Corporation in the US, prominent regional media representatives, and academics from Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Professor Rodell presented "Separatist Insurgency in the Southern Philippines" in Session IV "Country Case Studies in Southeast Asia."
John Steinberg received a five-month grant in March from the Center for
Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C. to continue his research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union. He will go there in the Fall of 2006.
John Steinberg published "The Operational Overview" in John W.,Steinberg, Bruce W. Menning, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David Wolff, and Shinji Yokote, eds. The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero ( Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2005).
Paul Rodell published "Inspiration for Nationalist Aspirations? Southeast Asia and Japan's Victory" in John W. Steinberg, Bruce W. Menning, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David Wolff, and Shinji Yokote, eds. The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero ( Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2005).
Kathleen M. Comerford published " 'The Care of Souls is a Very Grave Burden for [the Pastor]':Professionalization of Clergy in Early Modern Florence, Lucca, and
Arezzo," pp. 369-388 in Vol. 85 (2005) of The Dutch Review of Church
History , a special edition entitled The Formation of Clerical and
Confessional Identities in Early Modern Europe
