Good News About Graduate Students
Fall 2008
Mikaela Adams' master's thesis article, "Savage Foes, Noble Warriors, and Frail Remnants: Florida Seminoles in the White Imagination, 1865-1934" has been accepted for publication to the Florida Historical Quarterly. It will be included in the Spring issue.
Randy M. Browne published a review of Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry in the Era of Slavery, by James R. Young, which will appear in the Journal of the Early Republic 28, no. 4 (2008): 708-711. He also reviewed The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery, by Vincent Brown, and the review will be published in the Journal of the Early Republic in the spring of 2009.
Georgina Gajewski was awarded the Madelyn Moeller
Research Fellowship in Southern Material Culture for research at the
Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts. She also presented a paper
titled “’Adventurers in the Brush Line’: Itinerant Artists as
Entrepreneurs in Early North Carolina” as part of the Cleanth
Brooks Dissertation Forum at the annual meeting of the St. George
Tucker Society; and at the Triangle Early American History Seminar. She
presented a paper titled “High Art and Low: Artists and
Charleston Society, 1790-1840” at the Fall 2008 UNC Interdisciplinary
Conference for Graduate Research on the American South at The Center
for the Study of the American South.
Rachel Hynson has been awarded the 2008 Lydia Cabrera Award from the Conference on Latin American History to perform research in Spain over the summer.
Matthew Lubin has been awarded the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Dissertation Grant, Graduate Research Support Award, and Conference Travel Grant.
Robert Policelli is the first recipient of the
Ryan-Headley Dissertation Fellowship.
Benjamin Reed has been awarded the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Graduate Research Support Award.
Julie Reed received a graduate school fellowship for interdisciplinary work.
Katy Smith has been awarded the Medieval and Early
Modern Studies Dissertation Grant.
Philipp Stelzel published "Working Toward a Common
Goal: American Views on German Historiography and German-American
Scholarly Relations during the 1960s," Central European
History 41, no.4 (December 2008), 639-671.
James Franklin Williamson was awarded the Snell Prize for the best seminar research paper in European History. The award was presented by the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association at its annual conference in New Orleans in October, 2008.
May 2008
Emily Baran has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship and a Social Science Research Council fellowship for 16 months of dissertation research in Russia, Ukraine, and Moldova.
Waitman Beorn has been awarded a Fulbright Graduate Fellowship, a DAAD Graduate Fellowship, and an Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellowship. He also co-organized a panel "Contextualizing Geographies of the Holocaust" at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference.
Randy M. Browne has been awarded a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, awarded by the U.S. Department of Education, to begin in July 2008.
Enver M. Casimir was awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the academic year 2008-2009 for his dissertation, "Champion of the Patria: Kid Chocolate, Athletic Achievement and the Significance of Race in Cuban National Aspiration, 1928-1938. This marks the second year in a row that a student in the UNC History Department has won this award. Enver will also be presenting a paper titled "Proving National Fitness: The Career of Kid Chocolate and the Relevance of Sport to Cuban Nation-Building, 1928-1940" this June at the 2008 Conference of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Josh Davis presented “The Business of Getting High: Head Shops and Drug Paraphernalia Merchandising in 1970s United States" at the 2008 Organization of American Historians meeting in New York. He also published a review of Natasha Zaretsky's _No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980" that is forthcoming in the premier issue of the journal The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture.
Brit K. Erslev published a view of "A South Divided: Portraits of Dissent in the Confederacy" in the Spring 2008 issue of Parameters, the U.S. Army War College Quarterly.
Georgina Gajewski received a Summer Research Grant from the Center for the Study of the American South for research at the South Carolina Historical Society.
S. Marina Jones completed part of her dissertation research on a GHI doctoral fellowship (February-April 2008) in Washington, DC. She recently received a European Union Center of Excellence Graduate Student Research Travel Grant for the summer of 2008 and an Off-Campus Dissertation Research Fellowship for the fall of 2008 to do research in Germany.
Bethany Keenan presented three conference papers this spring: "'Those Rotten French': How the Left Used the Vietnam War to Challenge De Gaulle in France, April 1967," at the February Departmental Research Colloquium; "'At the Crossroads of Culture and Militancy': The Collectif Intersyndical Universitaire and Armand Gatti's V Comme Vietnam on Tour, January-June 1967" at the French Cultural Studies Group in March; and "'Flattering the Little Sleeping Rooster:' The French Left, de Gaulle, and the Vietnam War in 1965" at the Society for French Historical Studies annual conference in April.
Michael Mulvey presented a paper at the 2008 Chateaubriand Workshop at the University of Chicago Center in Paris. The Center for European Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill has awarded him a summer FLAS.
In January, Kathy Nawyn defended my dissertation titled "'Striking at the Roots of German Militarism': Efforts to Demilitarize German Society and Culture in American-Occupied Wuerttemberg-Baden, 1945-1949." And in April, she presented a paper, "From Dying for the Fatherland to Living for Peace: Demilitarizing German Youth in Wuerttemberg-Baden, 1945-1949," at the Society for Military History's annual meeting.
Jenifer Parks presented a paper entitled "Leveling the Playing Field: How Soviet Bureaucrats Reshaped International Sports in the 1950s" at the 39th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in November 2007. She presented another paper entitled "The Soviet Sports Administrator Abroad: How International Sports Exchanges Influenced Soviet Political Culture in the Post-Stalin Era" at the 46th Annual Meeting of The Southern Conference on Slavic Studies in March 2008.
Michael Paulauskas has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant from the US Department of Education to perform twelve months of research in Moscow, Russia.
Robin Payne presented a paper at the 2008 OAH Annual Meeting. The paper was entitled, "Reconciling Love with Liberation: Feminist Thoughts on Heterosexual Romance in the 'Mock Memoirs' of Erica Jong."
Laura Premack was awarded a Pre-Dissertation Travel Award from the UNC Center for Global Initiatives. She will spend a month in Nigeria this summer.
Julie Reed presented a paper "Editorializing Removal: Elias Boudinot, The Creeks, and the Cherokee Battle Against Removal" at the New Directions in American Indian Research Conference at UNC-CH in March 2008. She also presented “Clan, Kin, Nation: Orphan Care as a foundation for the Cherokee Nation-State, 1835-1872” at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference held in Athens, GA in April 2008. She will present the paper of the same title in London at King's College in May 2008.
David Silkenat has accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor of History and Education at North Dakota State University. He will be discussing his work later this month on WUNC's "The State of Things".
Sarah Summers received a full year research grant from DAAD to do her dissertation research in Germany next school year on the relationship between feminism and changes in the division of labor found in politics and society in West Germany 1968-1984. She also successful presented her paper "Rethinking Family and Work: Perceptions of the West German New Women's Movement in Stern and Spiegel" at the North Carolina German Studies Seminar Series Graduate Workshop on May 11th, 2008.
Sarah Thomsen Vierra received the German Chancellor Scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for her dissertation research in Germany this coming year.
Jackie Whitt defended her dissertation, "Conflict and Compromise: American Military Chaplains and the Vietnam War," in April. She also presented a paper titled "Cultural Contact Zones: How and Why Chaplains Interact with Local Civilian Populations" at the Society for Military History's annual conference in April. She also published a book review of David Settje's Lutherans and the Longest War for H-War and of Randall Woods' LBJ: Architect of American Ambition for American Diplomacy.
Tim Williams has accepted a Spencer Dissertation Fellowship for the 2008-09 academic year. He was also a recipient of a McColl Dissertation Completion Fellowship from UNC's Center for the Study of the American South. Tim has an article under review for publication with Perspectives on the History of Higher Education. This year Tim has also written an article about Wills "Congress" Alston, an important late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century politician from Halifax, North Carolina. In connection with this project, Tim has been invited to speak on Alston's life on May 25, 2008 at the Alston-Pleasants Scholars Fund 50th Anniversary Commemorative Program in Louisburg, North Carolina. Alston was an important late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century politician from Halifax, North Carolina. Tim will be a guest on UNC-TV's weeknightly public affairs show, North Carolina Now to talk about the commemoration and Alston's life.
February 2008
Devyn Spence Benson recently accepted a Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation Fellowship from Williams College for the 2008-09 school year. After the fellowship and her dissertation defense, Benson will begin a tenure-track Assistant Professor appointment in African Studies and History at Williams College.
Waitman Beorn’s article "Negotiating Murder: The 4th Panzer Signal Company and the Murder of the Jews of Peregruznoje, 1942" is forthcoming in the Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies He was recently awarded a 2008 Society for Military History/ABC-CLIO Research Grant.
Brit Erslev presented an evening talk to the New York Military Affairs Symposium on 8 February 2008 titled "Daniel Harvey Hill and the Shaping of Civil War Memory."
Hilary Green presented a conference paper entitled
“'Under Which Flag': Political Cartoons and the 1898 White Supremacy
Campaign in North Carolina” at the 122nd Annual Meeting of the American
Historical
Association held in Washington, DC.
Jennifer Walcoff Neuheiser published two articles last fall: "Von der Staatsbuergerin zur 'Volksbuergerin': Der Disput um die Rechtsstellung der Frau." In Volksgenossinnen: Frauen in der NS-Volksgemeinschaft. Beitraege zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus 23, ed. Sybille Steinbacher, 48-66. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2007 and "Buergerinnen fuer den Staat? Konflikte um weibliches Citizenship 1908-1928." ARIADNE - Forum fuer Frauen und Geschlechtergeschichte 52 (2007): 6-12.
Meg Devlin O'Sullivan successfully defended her dissertation ("'We Worry About Survival;' American Indian Women, Sovereignty, and the Right to Bear and Keep Children in the 1970s") in November.
Laura Premack will present a paper, "'The Holy Rollers Are Invading Our Territory': Southern Baptist Missionaries and the Early Years of Pentecostalism in Brazil," at the Brazilian Studies Association conference in March. She will also have two book reviews published in the Journal of Religious History this spring.
David Silkenat successfully defended his dissertation (“Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina”) in December. His work recently received an IMPACT Award from the UNC Graduate School.
Eliot Spencer presented a paper entitled "'Miracle-Working Satin:'Overcoming Class through Material Culture in Nineteenth-Century Mexico City" at the ILASSA XXVIII Conference on Latin America, February 7-9, 2008, at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. The paper derives from a chapter of his M.A. thesis.
November 2007
Emily Baran won the 2007 national award for best graduate student paper from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. The paper was entitled: "Communism or Armageddon?: Representations of the Jehovah's Witnesses in the Soviet Press, 1954-1985."
David Cline is starting at left midfielder for the department's intramural soccer team, and is self-nominated for the Antonio Gramsci Ribbon in honor of the counter hegemonic playing strategy he employs within the liminal space at midfield. He also presented a paper at the Oral History Association Conference in Oakland in October and got a Smith Graduate Research Grant from the UNC Grad School.
Elizabeth Gritter served as an invited speaker for the Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis; 50 Years Later, International Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas in September 2007; her paper was titled "'The Ballot as the Voice of the People': The Volunteer Ticket Campaign in Memphis and Local Black Electoral Mobilization in the Urban South, 1944-1959."
Kimberly Hill reviewed the book, "Little Zion: A Church Baptized by Fire," for the Oral History Review. It was published this October.
Anna Krome-Lukens received a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, awarded by the U.S. Department of Education, beginning in August 2007.
Rachel Martin presented "As the Rain Came Down: Hurricanes and the Fishing Families of Pleasure Island, Alabama," a chapter from her M.A. thesis, this past October at the the Eighth Maritime Heritage Conference in San Diego.
Lisi Martínez-Lotz and Enver Casimir both presented papers as part of a panel titled "Gender Ideology and the Construction of National Identity in 20th Century Argentina, Cuba and Mexico" at the 27th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Lisi's paper was titled "Placing Personal Ads and Other Modern Dating Practices, Cuba 1919-1929," while Enver's paper was titled "Legitimate Violence at the Service of the Patria: Kid Chocolate as a Paragon of Afro-Cuban Masculinity." Enver Casimir also chaired the panel.
Michael Mulvey presented a paper, enitled "What does a Grand Ensemble mean to Men?", for the September ASMCF conference at the University of Reading in Berkshire, England. The interdisciplinary panel explored social segregation, feminist movements, and masculinity in French suburbia.
David Silkenat won the William F. Holmes Award for the best paper presented by a graduate student or junior faculty member at the Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting in Richmond, Virginia. His paper was entitled "By His Own Hand: Suicide in Nineteenth Century North Carolina."
August 2007
Willoughby Anderson received an American Association of University Women American Dissertation Fellowship for July 2007 through July 2008. Also, the California Law Review accepted her Comment, "The Past on Trial: Birmingham, the Bombing and Restorative Justice," for publication.
Emily Baran published an article, "Contested Victims: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Russian Orthodox Church, 1990 to 2004," in the fall 2007 issue of Religion, State and Society.
David Carlson defended his dissertation "In the Fist of Earlier Revolutions: Postemancipation Social Control and State Formation in Guantánamo, Cuba, 1868-1902" 11 June 2007. He has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Latin American History at the University of Texas--Pan American starting 1 September 2007.
Elizabeth Gritter presented a paper on Barbara Fields and the construction of race at the American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, this past July. This past summer, her biography was selected for inclusion in Who's Who in America, 2008.
John Hall successfully defended my dissertation on 27 June and received my Ph.D. on 8 August. He is presently working with the University of Nebraska Press to publish his dissertation, "Friends Like These: The United States' Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War, 1832."
Jenifer Parks published a revised version of her MA thesis, "Verbal Gymnastics: The Soviet Sports Administration and the Decision to Enter the Olympic Games, 1947-1952," in Stephen Wagg and David Andrews, eds., East Plays West: Sport and the Cold War (London: Routledge, 2006).
For earlier Graduate Student Good News: 2006-2007.