Messiah College History Majors Win Undergraduate Research Grants
Friends of Murray Library is pleased to announce the recipients of the 8th Annual Library Research Grant Awards. The grants are awarded to Messiah students whose research projects require resources at off-campus libraries and whose proposals are selected for funding by a panel of judges.
*Caitlin Babcock, Senior, History major; fully funded at $750 for "A Woman's Place: Feminism and the Assemblies of God in the 1970s" (Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center--Assemblies of God Archives, Springfield, MO)
Faculty reference: Dr. James LaGrand, associate professor of American history
*Melissa Hogan, Junior, History major, concentration in Classical & Medieval Studies; fully funded at $750 for "Puzzling over History," focusing on mosaic art found in Cyprus that was created during the period of Late Antiquity (Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute)
Faculty reference: Dr. David Pettegrew, assistant professor of history
Congratulate these students on their achievement as you have opportunity! Their completed projects will be catalogued and archived in Murray Library. The panel of judges included: Jonathan Lauer, library director and chair; Catherine Lawrence, co-owner of The Midtown Scholar Bookstore; Gary Page, associate professor of accounting. Sincere thanks to the judges for their service, and to faculty members who encouraged students to apply.
SPRING 2010 COURSES
HIST 132: European Missionaries in Africa; Gene Ed: European History, J-=Term (Stoner-Eby)
HIST 134: Knights, Peasants, and Bandits: A Social History of Medieval England Gen Ed: European History (J-Term)
HIST 102: Western Civilization, 1500-Present. Gen Ed: European History. (Stoner-Eby)
HIST 141: U.S. History Survey to 1865. Gen Ed: U.S. History.
(Snyder)
HIST 319: Topics in Classical and Medieval History: The Crusades (Huffman)
HIST 323: Europe in the 20th Century (Wilson)
HIST 347: Modern America: U.S. History, 1945-Present (LaGrand)
HIST 353: Immigrant America: Gen Ed Pluralism (Fea)
HIST 372: Modern Civilizations of Asia Gen-Ed Non-Western Studies (Michael)
HIST 391: Historical Study of Peace (Stoner-Eby)
HIST 407: Secondary Social Studies Curriculum and Design (For HSST students only)
LATN 102: Fundamentals of Latin II. Gen Ed: Languages and Cultures
HIST 319: Topics in Classical and Medieval History: History and Archaeology of Cyprus--May Term (Pettegrew).
ARCHAEOLOGY TRIP TO CYPRUS
This summer Dr. David Pettegrew led nine students from the history and art departments on a three-week archaeology dig in Cyrprus. You can read more about the trip here or you can get caught up by examining the staff and studentblogs from the project or check out the project YouTube channel.
History Professor Blogs
History Professors John Fea and David Pettegrew have now begun blogging careers! Dr. Pettegrew is contributing to a staff blog related to current archaeological work in Cyprus.
Dr. Fea is a regular contributing editor to the group blog, Religion and American History which provides a medium for the exchange of ideas about religion in American history and American religious history. The blog received the Cliopatra Award for the "Best New History Blog" of 2007. He also blogs at "The Way of Improvement Leads Home" ( www,philipvickersfithian.com)
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 2010 by University of Notre Dame Press.
Joseph Huffman
Joseph will be returning to the history department in January 2009.
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.
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 will be on sabbatical in the 2008-2009 school year.
Since Fall 2006, Bernardo has been the Director of the Center for Public Humanities at Messiah College, and has held a Scholar Chair (2007-2009) which has allowed him to prepare for publication a manuscript on social histories of cartography.
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
David gave a lecture, “Corinthian Suburbia: Patterning Settlement at the Crossroads of Roman Greece,” for the Mediterranean Archaeology Lectures Series at the University of Pennsylvania, April 2008.
David published (with W. Caraher and R.S. Moore)
"Surveying Late Antique Cyprus" in Near Eastern Archaeology, 2008.
David published "The End of Ancient Corinth? Views from the Landscape" in Archaeology and History in Roman, Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece: Studies on Method and Meaning in Honor of Timothy E. Gregory, 2008.
David published "The Busy Countryside of Late Roman Corinth: Interpreting Ceramic Data Produced by Regional Archaeological Surveys," in Hesperia 76.4 (2007), pp. 743-784.
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.
