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Faculty Highlights

 

John Fea

  • John's book, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers and the Rural Enlightenment in America, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, is now out in paperback and available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

  • John recently received a summer stipend grant from the Louisville Institute for the Study of American Religion for work on a book entitled, Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A Historical Primer for Christians.  (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2011)

  • John's edited collection, Confessing History: Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation (with Jay Green and Eric Miller) will be published in October 2010 by University of Notre Dame Press.

 

 

Joseph Huffman

  • Joseph published "Freud's Impact on American Culture," in Encyclopedia of Jewish Popular Culture, ed. Jack Fischel (Greenwood Publishing, in process).

  • Joseph published "Travel and Mobility" and "Cologne," in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages ed. Robert E. Bjork, Oxford 2008: Oxford University Press.

  • Joseph published "Die sozialen Aspekte der Außenpolitik: Diplomatische Beziehungen zwischen englischen und deutschen Herrschern im 12. Jahrhundert," in Der Weg in eine weitere Welt: Kommunikation und "politisches Handeln" im 12. Jahrhundert ed. Hanna Vollrath, Münster 2008: LIT Verlag.  

  • Joseph has recently published book reviews in Choice and Francia: Studies in Western European History.

  • Joseph's book, Family, Commerce, and Religion in London and Cologne has been released in paperback by Cambridge University Press.

 

 

James LaGrand

  • Jim wrote a column entitled "Obama suggests moving past racial divide," in the April 7, 2008, Harrisburg Patriot-News.

  • Jim gave a presentation on the history of the American West to a group of international faculty as part of the State Department's Summer Institute for University Teachers in 2007.

  • Jim led a two-day seminar for local history teachers on how to teach themes in recent U.S. history in 2007.

  • Jim was asked by the Western Historical Quarterly and the University of Illinois Press to evaluate manuscripts during 2007

  • Jim will have an article entitled "Indian Work and Indian Neighborhoods: Adjusting to Life in a Midwestern Metropolis during the 1950s," in A People In-Between: Native Americans in the Midwest, to be published by the University of Illinois Press (2008).

  • Jim has recently published reviews in Ethnohistory, The Journal of American History, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, and American Studies.

 

 

Bernardo Michael

  • Bernardo published “Making Territory Visible: The Revenue Surveys of Colonial South Asia,” in Imago Mundi: Journal for the International History of Cartography, Volume 59, no. 1 (2007), pp. 78-95.

  • Bernardo presented “Nepali History as World History,” at the 19th Social Science Baha Lecture, Social Science Baha, Kathmandu, Nepal, June 2007.

  • Bernardo led a cross-cultural trip to Nepal in May of 2007.

  • Bernardo presented "Cultures of Governance and the Production of Space Along the Anglo-Gorka Frontier, 1780-1814" as part of a panel on "Historical Geographies and Embodied Practice," at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April 2007.

  • Bernardo published "Tarai: Mughalko Bagh va Gorkhako [in Nepali]," in Basant Thapa & Mohan Mainali, eds., Madesh: Samsya ra Sambhavana, Social Science Baha: Kathmandu 2006, pp. 8-27.

 

David Pettegrew

 

Anne Marie Stoner-Eby

  • Anne Marie published "African Clergy, Bishop Lucas, and the Christianizing of Local Initiation Rites: Revisiting ‘The Masasi Case’," in Journal of Religion in Africa, June 2008.

 

Norman J. Wilson

  • In 2005, the 2nd edition of Norm's book History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography was published by Prentice Hall.

  • In April 2005, Norm presented a paper entitled "Bürgerschaft and Bürgerrecht in the Free Imperial City of Regensburg" at the Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär (The Conference Group for Early Modern German Studies) Fourth International Interdisciplinary Conference on Orthodoxies and Diversities in Early Modern German-Speaking Europe. Durham, NC: Duke University.