Research News Archive 2006 - 2007
Faculty News
Conference Presentations
Berkhofer, Robert. “Forgery and Historical Consciousness.” History Colloquium, September 2006, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio.
Berkhofer, Robert. “Forgeries and Historical Consciousness in Medieval France.” International Medieval Society, June 2007, Paris.
Beyan, Amos J. “The Rice Growers and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.” Liberian Studies Association Conference, March 25, 2007, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana.
Beyan, Amos J. “Contacts and Social Transformations: The Case for the Windward Coast’s New Social Arrangements and Making of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.” Great Lakes History Conference, October 2007, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Beyan, Amos J. Great Lakes History Conference-Panel Chair and Commentator-Session, Legal and Environment Influences on the Conduct of the Slave Trade, October 2007, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Borish, Linda. “Gender, Jews, and American Sports.” Association of Jewish Studies Annual Conference, December 18, 2006, San Diego, CA.
Borish, Linda. “Research, Writing, Teaching and (Co)Authorship in Sport History.” North American Society for Sport History, May 27, 2007, Lubbock, TX.
Chiarappa, Michael. “Fieldwork Initiatives Committee Roundtable: Rethinking the
‘Scholarship of Fieldwork’.” March 28-31, 2007, Savannah, Georgia.
Chiarappa, Michael. “American Society for Environmental History.” February 28-March 3, 2007, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Chiarappa, Michael. “Shared Waters: A Symposium on the Great Lakes,” September 14-15, 2006, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Coryell, Janet. Chair, “Southern Women and the Law in the Nineteenth Century,” and Participant, “Mentoring Workshop.” SAWH Seventh Conference on Southern Women’s History, June 2006, Baltimore, MD.
Dooley, Howard J. "1956 in World History: Global Perspectives of 50 Years," at 15th Annual World History Association Conference, June 24, 2006, California State University Long Beach.
Dooley, Howard J. “1956: The Year that Shook the World.” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 12, 2007, Honolulu, HI.
Dooley, Howard J. “The Battle of Algiers+50: A Re-appraisal of Film, History, and Analogy.” World History Association Conference, June 30, 2007, Milwaukee, WI.
Faires, Nora. Commentary: “Faith, Gender, and Nation: Religion and the Definition of Male and Female Citizenship in the Progressive Era.” Organization of American Historians, April 2007, Minneapolis, MN.
Faires, Nora. Co-Facilitator of Session on "Borderlands" at joint meeting of the Michigan and Ohio Canadian Studies Roundtable, March 2007, Monroe Community College, Monroe, MI.
Gray, Marion W. “Place, Environment, Historical Experience, and Historical Memory.” Midwest German Historians’ Workshop, 3-4 November, 2006, Toronto, Ontario.
Heasley, Lynne. Organizer and symposium program chair, “Shared Waters: A Symposium
on the Great Lakes,” and the companion photographic exhibit “The Great Lakes Close Up:
Spirit and Science,” Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2005-2006.
Kachun, Mitch. Chair and comment, panel on “Black Political Identities in the Atlantic World.” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic, July 22, 2006, Montreal, Quebec.
Kachun, Mitch. ““Big Jim” Parker, Leon Czolgosz, and the Assassination of William McKinley: Black Patriotism and Black Nativism at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901.” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, March 29-April 1, 2007, Minneapolis, MN.
Kachun, Mitch. Moderator (also session organizer), Roundtable Discussion, “Julia C. Collins’s The Curse of Caste; or, the Slave Bride: Implications of the First Novel by an African American Woman.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, October 14, 2006, Oakland, CA.
Kachun, Mitch. “’Doing the great work of freedom’: Regional Political
Mobilization at 19th-century African American Emancipation Celebrations” (also panel
organizer), Organization of American Historians Midwest Regional Conference, July 8,
2006, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Lyon-Jenness, Cheryl. “’The One Great Thing We Think and Talk Of:’ The Civil War Letters of an Illinois Family.” Seventh Annual Conference on Illinois History, October 2006, Illinois State Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield, Illinois.
Lyon-Jenness, Cheryl. “Petunias by Post: The Post Office and America’s Nineteenth-Century Horticultural Boom.” First Annual Blount Symposium on Postal History, November 2006, Smithsonian Institution, National Postal Museum, Washington, DC.
Martini, Edwin. "Agent Orange: Constructing Landscapes of War and Memory," American Society for Environmental History, March 2007, Baton Rouge, LA.
Martini, Edwin. "Agent Orange and (Trans)Nationalism."Association for Asian Studies, March 2007, Boston, MA.
Martini, Edwin. "Agent Orange as International History." New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, June 2007, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario.
Martini, Edwin. "Bringing the War Home: Agent Orange, Vietnam, and Times Beach." Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations, June 2007, Reston, Virginia.
Martini, Edwin. "Agent Orange: Toward an International and Interdisciplinary History." Great Lakes History Conference, October 2006 Grand Rapids, MI.
Palmitessa, James. "Towards a Bibliography of East Central Europe." Round Table Discussion, International Medieval Congress, July 9-12, 2007, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
Palmitessa, James. "Overlapping and Intersections Networks in Prague at the Time of the Passau Invasion of 1611." Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, November 30-December 2, 2006, Prague.
Rubin, Eli. “Material Memory, Intergenerational Transmission, and the ‘GDR
Generation’” as part of panel on “Childhood and Socialism.” American Historical
Association Annual Conference, January, 2007, Atlanta.
Rubin, Eli. “In der Schule des Geschmacks,” Panel Presentation; “Representing Dictatorship” (Roundtable Associated with the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies). German Studies Association Annual Meeting, October 2006, Pittsburg, PA.
Rubin, Eli. Great Lakes History Conference, Panel on Holocaust and Memory, Grand Valley State University, October 2006, Grand Rapids, MI.
Simon, Larry. “Alfons Bonhom? Alfonsus Bonihominis, O.P., and His Manuscripts in the Lands of the Crown of Aragon.” XIIè Colloqui de la North American Catalan Society, 11-13 May 2007, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Szylvian, Kristin. “The Failure of the Postwar Prefabricated Housing Industry.” Urban History Association, October 2006, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Warren, Wilson J. “Teaching American History Grant Initiatives in Michigan.” Michigan Council for History Education Conference, October 2006, Lansing, MI.
Warren, Wilson J. and Jianping Shen. “Measuring Perceptions and Behaviors Related to Teaching History: Developing and Using an Instrument.” Teaching American History Regional Project Directors’ Conference, Oct. 5, 2006, Eastern Region, Cleveland, OH.
Warren, Wilson J. “Adding Authenticity to the Teaching of Middle and High School American History.” Organization of American Historians Midwestern Regional Meeting, July 2006, Lincoln, NE.