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Faculty NewsFEBRUARY 2008 Marjorie Becker’s Setting the Virgin on Fire: Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan Peasants and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution has gone into its fifth printing. Judith Bennett’s “The Curse of the Plowman,” has just appeared in Yearbook of Langland Studies, 20 (2006), 215-226. (Yes, it’s a 2006 date but came out in 2008.) Lisa Bitel and Lori Meeks (Religion) have been awarded a Borchard Foundation grant to host an international conference on "Religious Women in the Premodern World" in Brittany this coming July. Lisa’s article, "Period Trouble:The Impossibility of Teaching Feminist Medieval History," appeared in Paradigms and Methods in Early Medieval Studies, eds. Celia Chazelle and Felice Lifshitz (Palgrave, 2008). Phil Ethington’s “Placing the Past: ‘Groundwork’ for a Spatial Theory of History,” with critical responses to Ethington’s essay by Thomas Bender, David Carr, Edward Casey, Edward Dimendberg, and Alun Munslow, appeared in Rethinking History 11:4 (December 2007). He also published “Master of the Modern," introductory essay (in English, French, and German) to the large-format, three-volume collection, Julius Shulman: Modernism Rediscovered, 1939-1958, (TASCHEN). Jason Glenn's article, “Political History,” appeared in Paradigms and Methods in Early Medieval Studies, eds. Celia Chazelle and Felice Lifshitz (Palgrave, 2008). Sarah Gualtieri has been awarded the ACLS, Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship for next year. The title of her project is "The Lebanese in Los Angeles: Migration and Transnationalism in a Multi-racial Landscape." In addition, Sarah’s article “Becoming ‘White’: The Foundations of Syrian/Lebanese Ethnicity in the United States,” has been republished in a collection of essays entitled Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present (University of Georgia Press, 2008). Karen Halttunen has been awarded a small fund from the Stevens Institute for Innovation—in support of her new History 498, to be taught next fall, on the Sam and Harriet Freeman House—a Frank Lloyd Wright house in the Hollywood Hills that is owned by our School of Architecture. It's essentially a course in public history. Deb Harkness appeared in an interview on BBC Radio Lincolnshire to discuss The Jewel House. The book has been reviewed in the New Yorker, The Sunday Times, The Independent on Sunday, Science, BBC History Magazine, Time Out London, and American Scientist. Paul Lerner was awarded a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania for Fall Semester 2008. Peter Mancall has published "Savagery in Jamestown" in Huntington Library Quarterly 70 (2007), 661-670 and (with Joshua Rosenbloom and Thomas Weiss), "Exports and the Economy of the Lower South Region, 1720-1770," in Research in Economic History, 25 (2008), 1-68. He has also accepted the invitation to write volume one of the Oxford History of the United States; the series, edited by David Kennedy of Stanford, includes two Pulitzer Prize winning volumes. Maria Elena Martinez gave a talk titled "El discurso de la limpieza de sangre en la Nueva España: continuidades y rupturas" at the Colegio de México, Mexico's most prestigious research institution. It was by invitation and as part of a symposium on the topic of "purity of blood" in Mexico and Spain organized by scholars from Mexico, Germany, and South America. Steve Ross appeared on the Today Show talking about the impact of Oprah’s endorsement of Barack Obama and on GMTV’s (Good Morning TV is the UK’s main morning news show) segment for Super Tuesday on the impact that celebrity endorsements can have on elections. Vanessa Schwartz has won the 2007 Gilbert Chinard Prize for her book It's So French!: Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture. The Chinard Prize is awarded jointly by the Society for French Historical Studies and the Institut Français de Washington for the field’s most distinguished scholarly book of the year. DECEMBER 2007 Judith Bennett has just published an essay (co-authored with Christopher Whittick) on “Philippa Russell and the Wills of London’s Late Medieval Singlewomen,” The London Journal, 32:3 (2007): 251-269. She also organized and participated in three sessions on premodern women (in seaports; before the law; and in parishes) at the early November meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies in San Francisco. On November 22, she gave the Aylmer lecture at York University, UK, and on December 4th she delivered a public lecture on "Death and the Maiden in Chaucer's England" at the Huntington Library. Steve Ross was Mr. Media for the past month, appearing on the Today Show, CBS News, Marketplace, and various newspapers here and abroad discussing the impact of Oprah’s endorsement of Barack Obama. Vanessa Schwartz gave a talk, “It’s So French: The Cannes Film Festival and Paparazzi Photography,” at the Getty Research Institute Works in Progress series on November 29, 2007. NOVEMBER 2007 Charlotte Furth published “Medicine and Culture: Chinese Western Medical Exchange (1644-ca1950)” [Symposium Summation] in the Pacific Rim Report (July 2007). Robin D. G. Kelley's book, Yo Mama's DisFunktional! Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America was translated into Japanese by Kosuzu Abe and Katsuyuki Murata and released this year by Hanmoto Publishers (2007). It includes a new foreword by Kelley written specifically for Japanese readers. Kelley was invited to take up the Visiting Harmsworth Chair at Oxford University (St. Catherine's College), for the academic year 2009-10. Philippa Levine has been elected as Vice-President and President-Elect of the North American Conference on British Studies, which is the main British studies organization in the US. She will serve as VP from 2008-2010, and as President from 2010-2012. Vanessa Schwartz’s book, It’s So French! Paris, Hollywood and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture has just been published by the University of Chicago Press. Vanessa has been invited by the Mayor of Paris to serve on the newly-formed Commission for the History of Paris. She will also participate in a Plenary Roundtable about Interdisciplinary Approaches at the Modernist Studies Association Meeting. Vanessa also participated in a successful California Council for the Humanities Grant, "My Spaces - Homeless Youth Explore the Geography of Disconnection" to support the "Digital Dove" Project of Covenant House which engages homeless youths in filmmaking. OCTOBER 2007 Judith Bennett’s History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (2006) has just come out in paperback from the University of Pennsylvania Press. George J. Sanchez completed two reports in summer 2007, “The History of Segregation in Los Angeles: A Report on Racial Discrimination and Its Legacy,” Scheff & Washington, PC, in the legal case American Civil Rights Foundation v. Los Angeles Unified School District, Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, Central Division (2007), and “Confronting a Crisis in the Historical Profession” on racial/ethnic diversity in the historical profession, which will appear in the American Historical Association Perspectives in October 2007. In addition, his comments on a roundtable on “Regionalism: The Significance of Place in American Jewish Life,” were published in American Jewish History (June 2007). He has also recently been appointed to the National Advisory Board of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. SEPTEMBER 2007 Jason Glenn’s book, Politics and History: The Work and World of Richer of Reims (Cambridge, 2004), came out in paperback this summer. Deborah Harkness has just published her book, The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution (Yale University Press). Philippa Levine will be a Visiting Fellow at King's College, University of Cambridge for Lent Term 2008. In addition, her article, “What's British about Gender and Empire? The Problem of Exceptionalism”, has just been published in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 27, no. 2 (2007), 271-280. The Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press have published The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624, edited by Peter Mancall. Since the spring Peter has published essays on Richard Hakluyt and/or the 400th anniversary of Jamestown in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Common-Place, and Historically Speaking. Ayse Rorlich has been invited to take part in a Round Table(scholars, film directors) at the International Eurasia Film Festival [Almaty, Kazakhstan, September 23-29]. Steve Ross recently appeared on NPR’s “Day to Day” and “On the Media” discussing the importance of celebrity endorsements of presidential candidates. Carole Shammas has an article, “The Housing Stock of the Early United States: Refinement Meets Migration” published in the William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, Volume LXIV, Number 3, July 2007. APRIL 2007 Judith Bennett has been appointed as the R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library for 2007-8. Roger Dingman has published "Kurihara Ken: Patient Teacher" in "The Seventieth Anniversary of Nihon gaiko shi bunsho [Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy]" which appeared in Gaikoshiryokanpo [Journal of the Diplomatic Record Office] (October 2006). Charlotte Furth has co-edited (with Judith T. Zeitlin and Ping-chen Hsiung) Thinking with Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History (University of Hawai'i). She wrote the Introduction, and a chapter entitled, "Producing Medical Knowledge through Cases: History, Evidence, and Action." She also has an article published in German, "In Fallen denken: das Wissen von Experten in der vormodernen chinesischen Geschichte" in Fallstudien: Theorie - Geschichte - Methode. Kyung Moon Hwang has published “Nation, State and the Modern Transformation of Korean Social Structure in the Early Twentieth Century,” History Compass, 5/2(2007), 330–346. History Compass is an online peer-reviewed journal. Philippa Levine has published The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset (Pearson Longman, 2007). She has also co-edited (with Kevin Grant and Frank Trentmann) Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire and Transnationalism, c. 1880-1950 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) which contains a chapter written by her entitled, "Sovereignty and Sexuality: Transnational Perspectives on Colonial Age of Consent Legislation." Joan Piggott announces that the bilingual Dictionnaire des Sources du Japon Classique has been published by the College de France. She co-edited it with five colleagues from France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. It is a listing of Japanese primary sources—for the study of history, literature, art history, and religion—up to 1200, and with very detailed annotation, including where to find translations into Western languages. George Sanchez has received a 2007 USC-Mellon Award for Excellence in Mentoring in the category “faculty mentoring graduate students.” MARCH 2007 Elinor Accampo announces the publication of the fifth edition of Western Civilization: Beyond Boundaries (Houghton Mifflin, January, 2007). She has permanently joined the team of authors, having contributed five substantially revised chapters on the nineteenth century originally authored by the late Bill Cohen. Marjorie Becker’s most recent article on revolution, "Longing for Dance: Maria Enriquez, Assault, the World She Re-made" has been accepted for publication by the journal Rethinking History. Bill Deverell has been awarded a long-term research fellowship at the Huntington Library for 2007-2008. A review symposium of Paul Lerner’s book, Hysterical Men, was published in Metascience, a British journal on the history and philosophy of science. Steve Ross' article "The Politicization of Hollywood Before World War II: Anti-Fascism, Anti-Communism, and Anti-Semitism,” has just appeared in The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review, 5 (2007), 1-28. JANUARY 2007 Bill Deverell has been invited to give the 2007 Whitsett Lecture in California History at Cal State Northridge and the 2007 Tanner Lecture on Mormon History to the Mormon History Association. Bill is also pleased to announce that a recent gift to the Institute on California and the West will result in a fellowship competition for USC graduate students who wish to pursue summer thesis research at the Huntington. The Chinese translation of Charlotte Furth’s A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History, 960-1665 has been published as part of the "Foreign Research on China Series" edited by Liu Dong. Prof. Furth also has an article, "The Physician as Philosopher of the Way: Zhu Zhenheng (1282-1358)," published in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (Vol. 66.2, December 2006). Yale University Press has published Peter Mancall's Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America. In addition, he has published, with Joshua Rosenbloom and Thomas Weiss, "Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade, and Productivity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina: A Reply" in Journal of Economic History (December, 2006); and Routledge has just published the second edition of Mancall and Merrell, eds., American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers from European Contact to Indian Removal, 1500-1850. Finally, aproposal co-sponsored by Prof. Mancall to the Mellon Foundation has resulted in a major grant to fund postdoctoral fellows in the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. DECEMBER 2006 An interview with Charlotte Furth entitled, “Gender, History, and Medicine in Feminist Scholarship: An Interview with Charlotte Furth” was published in The Chinese Historical Review (Vol. 13, Number 2, Fall 2006). Sarah Gualtieri has won a General Education Teaching Award for the Arts and Letters course she taught last year. Karen Halttunen has been elected Vice-President of the Teaching Division of the American Historical Association. She will begin serving her 3-year term in January 2007. Deb Harkness appearedon the History Channel in an episode of "Decoding the Past" on November 19. The episode is called "The Real Sorcerer's Stone." Paul Knoll's article, "Jan Dlugosz, 1480-1908," which originally appeared in The Polish Review, XXVII (1982), has been selected for inclusion in a volume of collected studies, Fifty Years of Polish Scholarship: The Polish Review 1956-2006 (New York, 2006), pp.259-295. The volume was publicly presented at a session honoring the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Polish Review at the Polish Consulate in New York City on 19 November 2006. Urban History has published a special electronic issue that includes “Urban Icons”, created and edited by Vanessa Schwartz and Phil Ethington, with the assistance of graduate student Megan Kendrick. Kevin Starr is one of ten recipients ofthe 2006 National Humanities Medals and National Medals of Arts presented by President Bush on November 9 during a ceremony in the Oval Office. NOVEMBER 2006 Judith Bennett’s "The Lost Pasts of Women's History," has just appeared in the Medieval Feminist Forum (41: Summer, 2006), pp. 88-98. Peter Mancall has produced a 48-part lecture series, “Origins and Ideologies of the American Revolution” (2006) in CD and DVD versions through The Teaching Company. George Sanchez has been asked to deliver the George A.V. Dunning Lecture of the Historical Society of Southern California. This annual endowed lecture will be given on Sunday, November 5th at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy of the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles. The topic will be: "Remembering Boyle Heights: Race and the Politics of Historical Memory in Los Angeles."OCTOBER 2006 Judith Bennett's "Lesbian-Like' and the Social History of Lesbianisms" (2000) has been reprinted in The Feminist History Reader, Sue Morgan, ed. (Routledge, 2006), 244-259. Her History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism has just come out from the University of Pennsylvania Press (for North America) and the University of Manchester Press (for Europe and elsewhere). Bill Deverell is pleased to announce that the Institute on California and the West has received grant support from the Haynes Foundation for a new volume of collected essays on Los Angeles history edited by Bill and Greg Hise, and for a new lecture/panel series with the Zocalo public forum that will discuss Los Angeles in comparison with other global cities. The Institute is also the academic sponsor of a new volume of essays on California history edited by Bill and David Igler of UC Irvine. Paul Lerner has published "Consuming Pathologies: Kleptomania, Magazinitis, and the Problem of Female Consumption in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany," in Werkstatt Geschichte 42 (Summer 2006), 46-56. Peter Mancall is pleased to announce that the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute has received a major grant from the Mellon Foundation. For details about Institute events please visit the website: www.usc.edu/emsi. Steve Ross will be delivering a paper, "Little Caesar and the HUAC Mob: Edward G. Robinson, the Red Scare, and the Decline of Liberal Hollywood," to the American History Seminar, Columbia University, on October 16, and to the Center for the Study of the Cold War, New York University, on October 17. He will also be discussing "Movies and Politics in the 'Golden Age' of Hollywood," at the History of Hollywood panel, Parent's Weekend, USC, Oct. 6.SEPTEMBER 2006 Marjorie Becker is chair of the Conference of Latin American Historians Tibesar Prize Committee and will comment at the AHA in Atlanta this winter. She has again been invited to serve as one of the referees on the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program. Finally, she presented a commissioned reading of her historical/poetic/fictional assessments of Santa Monica at the Santa Monica Library this past June. This reading is to be reproduced on one of the local NPR outlets, KPCC, at some unknown future date. Maria Elena Martinez has been appointed co-director of USC's Latin American Studies Initiative for 2006-2007. Deborah Harkness has signed a contract with McGraw-Hill to be the lead author on a new Western Civ textbook with Paul Dutton and Suzanne Marchand (forthcoming, 2010). Roger Dingman has published an op-ed essay, "Atomic Bombs' Lessons Unheeded" - reflections on the way we commemorate the atomic bombing of Japan based on his visit this summer to Tinian - in the South Bay’s major newspaper, the DAILY BREEZE, on Sunday August 6. Elinor Accampo’s book, Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France, has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press. AUGUST 2006 Karen Halttunen has been named the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington, one of three endowed positions offered annually. Kevin Starr has been awarded the 2006 Centennial Medal from Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. APRIL 2006 Lois Banner has just won a Mellon Mentoring Award for her superb work over the years with our students. Lois will be honored at a reception on Tuesday, April 18, 4:30-6:30pm at the University Club (i.e. Faculty Center). Judith Bennett's History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in June 2006. Philip J. Ethington and Vanessa R. Schwartz, Urban Icons, a special issue of the journal Urban History (Cambridge University Press), with an online Multimedia Companion, Cambridge Journals Online, release date 1 May 2006. Karen Halttunen has received a Long-Term Huntington Research Fellowship for the 2006-2007 academic year. Deb Harkness has been commissioned to write an article by the Royal Society for their historical journal, Notes and Records, on how science in Elizabethan London influenced early Royal Society members. She has also received a Long-Term Huntington Research Fellowship and a Kanner Fellowship in British History from the Clark Library. Both are for her book project, Living the Experimental Life in Early Modern Britain. Paul Lerner’s Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930 has just been awarded the Cheiron Prize for best book in the history of social/behavioral/human sciences this year. Philippa Levine has just received a Borchard Foundation Fellowship for 2007, and a Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching Award for her new GE course on evolution. She will also be the Samuel Lyman Hooker Distinguished Visiting Fellow at McMaster University in Canada in March 2007 and the Derek Brewer Visiting Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (Cambridge University) in spring '07. Joan Piggott’s new edited volume, Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300-1180: Japanese Historians Interpreted in English, will be out April 10, 2006, in time for the big Association for Asian Studies national meeting in San Francisco. It is 550 pages, and is published by the Cornell East Asia Series. Joan Piggott’s co-edited Dictionary of Sources of Classical Japan was published initially in an online edition in Spring, 2005. The paper edition (550 pages) is due out in May 2006 from the College de France, Institut des Hautes Etudes Japonaises in Paris. Steven Ross delivered the Henry A. Salvatori Distinguished Lecture at Chapman University, March 27, 2006. MARCH 2006 Michael Carter (who expects to finish his dissertation this spring or early summer) has accepted a tenure track position at the University of Dayton. He also has a forthcoming article in the Journal of the Early Republic on the “Emergence of Catholic Print Culture and the publication of the Douai Bible in America.” Tillman Nechtman (now an Assistant Professor at Skidmore College) has three papers accepted for publication: "Nabobinas: Luxury, Gender, and the Sexual Politics of British Imperialism in India in the Late Eighteenth Century," in the Journal of Women's History; and "Nabobs Revisited: A Cultural History of British Imperialism and the Indian Question in Late Eighteenth Century Britain," in History Compass; and “Untamed Empire: Domesticating Imperial Animals in Metropolitan Britain, 1759-1830,”in a volume entitled Animals in History published through the German Historical Institute. George Sanchez has been elected to the Nominating Committee of the Organization of American Historians for a three-year term. FEBRUARY 2006 Deb Harkness’ first book, John Dee's Conversations with Angels, is being released in paperback by Cambridge University Press this month. Peter Mancall’s Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery (Oxford University Press) has been picked up by the History Book Club and the Discovery Channel Book Club. In addition, he also published "Becoming Atlantic," the epilog to Allan I. Macinnes and Arthur H. Williamson, eds., Shaping the Stuart World, 1603-1714: The Atlantic Connection (Brill). Peter Mancall is happy to announce that the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute has received two grants from the Salvatori Forum of USC to support programming in early American history, including a partnership with the William and Mary Quarterly; and a grant from the Borchard Foundation to fund a conference in Brittany in June on "The European Collecting of America." Ayse Rorlich has just published “Rizaeddin Fahreddin and the Debate over ’Muslim Dress' among the Volga-Ural Muslims,” in International Journal of Turkish Studies, vol 11, #1&2, 2005 JANUARY 2006 Bill Deverell's co-authored middle school text U.S. History: Beginnings to 1877 is out from Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Doug Greenberg represented the department and USC Digital Archives at the opening of the 120th annual meeting of the American Historical Association when the Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Public Service Award was presented to the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education. Jack Wills’ former student, Paul A. Van Dyke has published The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005. DECEMBER 2005 Bill Deverell is pleased to announce a grant from the campus Salvatori Fund of $13,000 that will assist with the programs of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. NOVEMBER 2005 Lois Banner and Nancy Lutkehaus have written new forewords for Margaret Mead’s Ruth Benedict: A Humanist in Anthropology, 30th anniversary edition (Columbia). Marjorie Becker has been invited to chair the Conference of Latin American Historians (CLAH) TIBESAR PRIZE COMMITTEE. Phil Ethington has two works in a show currently at the Getty Research Institute: “Julius Shulman: Modernity and the Metropolis,” running until 22 January 2006. He did the audio exhibit, drawn from his oral histories with Shulman. Phil's large panoramic portrait of Shulman is also in the show. Karen Halttunen will be inducted as President of the American Studies Association at their upcoming convention in November 2005. Steve Ross has received a General Education Teaching Award for his work in History 225g: Film, Power, and American History. George Sanchez has received a General Education Teaching Award for his work in AMST 101: Race and Class in Los Angeles. Tom Cox has received a grant from the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas for work in the Kansas Collection, Spring 2006. George Sanchez's article, "'What's Good for Boyle Heights Is Good for the Jews': Creating Multiculturalism on the Eastside during the 1950s," has just won the 2005 Constance Rourke Prize Committee of the American Studies Association for the best article to appear in Volume 56 (2004) of American Quarterly. Vanessa Schwartz is serving as a member of the AHA 2007 Program Committee and will be a keynote speaker in Amsterdam at an International City Museums Conference and an invited guest at a conference sponsored by the Centre d’Histoire de Sciences-po et le Centre d’Histoire du XIXe siècle (Paris 1 – Paris 4) organise around her work and that of Dominique Kalifa, historian of 19th century France at the Sorbonne in November. Carole Shammas has co-edited, with Elizabeth Mancke, The Creation of the British Atlantic World (Johns Hopkins, 2005). She also wrote the Introduction for the book. Kevin Starr’s California: A History (Modern Library) was reviewed favorably by Jonathan Kirsch in the Los Angeles Times Book Review for 25 September 2005. Starr is currently serving as chair of the provost’s committee on the future of the USC libraries and will this month be lecturing at Stanford and UC Berkeley on the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 1906. The Washington Post has commissioned Starr to review Simon Winchester’s A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 for its Sunday book review. SEPTEMBER 2005 Marjorie Becker was interviewed this summer on NPR (KCRW and KPCC) about historical and contemporary issues of race, ethnicity, and popular culture in the Mexico and the U.S. Lois Banner has been awarded the American Historical Association’s Bode Pearson Award for lifetime achievement in American Studies. Bill Deverell and Greg Hise are pleased to announce publication of their co-edited volume Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles, published as part of the University of Pittsburgh Press series on the environmental history of United States cities. Roger Dingman served as consultant to a Japanese reporter for the Yomiuri shimbun, Japan's largest circulation newspaper, this summer. An article featuring his work on the US Navy and Marine Corps Japanese language officers appeared in the Yomiuri on August 15 - the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II- as part of the commemorations in Japan. Philippa Levine’s graduate student, Dave Sheridan, has just published "'Singing While England is Burning': Women Musicians as Working Music Travelers in Wartime Britain, 1940-43", in Krista Cowman and Louise A. Jackson, eds., Women and Work Culture: Britain c.1850-1950 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), 229-45. Philippa has also accepted an invitation from Pickering & Chatto publishers to edit a monograph series for them entitled 'Empires in Perspective'. Peter Mancall has been appointed to a three-year term on the editorial board of the Journal of American History. Bill Deverell and Deborah White (Rutgers) are pleased to report that their 8th grade US history text has just been published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Roger Dingman published “Language at War," in the Journal of Military History (July 2004). He recently got the good news that the article was selected as the best article in military history published during 2004. He will travel to Charleston, South Carolina to the Society’s annual meeting to be awarded the prize. His last book, Ghost of War, formed the basis for an hour long documentary broadcast nation wide at prime time on NHK, the Japanese government television network. The film-makers came to campus and did an extraordinarily long (nearly 8 hours!) interview. The program also included shots of the Social Sciences Bldg taken from atop the parking structure. Claudio Fogu has published two essays, "Fascismo-Stile and the Posthistorical Imaginary" in Fascism and Neofascism: Critical Writings on the Radical Right in Europe, edited by Angelica Fenner and Eric D. Weitz (Palgrave Macmillan) and "To Make History Present" in Donatello among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy edited by Claudia Lazzaro and Roger J. Crum (Cornell University Press). Jason Glenn’s Politics and History in the Tenth Century: The Work and World of Richer of Reims (Cambridge University Press, 2004) is out. Steve Ross’s commentary on D.W. Griffith’s early work has just come out on a new DVD. Griffith in Context: A Multimedia Exploration of The Birth of a Nation is now commercially available from W.W. Norton & Company (2005). Kevin Starr has been appointed by President Sample to the advising committee for the selection of the new Provost. JANUARY 2005 Paul Knoll has published an article "Literary Production at the University of Cracow in the Fifteenth Century," in The Development of Literate Mentalities in East Central Europe, edited by Anna Adamska and Marco Mostert (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2004), pp. 217-247. DECEMBER 2004 Bill Deverell of The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West will receive funding from the Salvatori Forum for the Institute Working Groups
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