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Below is a select list of recent publications, papers,
and activities of professors and students of the History Department
of Eastern Illinois University, as well as forthcoming history functions
and events. For additions or corrections, please contact history@eiu.
For further information on faculty or graduate assistants, see Faculty.
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Jose R. Deustua Published
Jose R. Deustua published a review in Hispanic American Historical Review on a book by Carlos Arroyo Reyes about Peru in the 1910s, the Pro-Indian Association, the Rumi Maqui social uprising, and Modernist Incaism
He also published a chapter entitled, "Ingresar a la Catolica in 1972 y no Salir Nunca," in "Vida Universitaria" vol. II (Lima: Universidad Catolica del Peru, 2007) about the intellectual atmosphere and debates in 1970's Peru.
Professor Jinhee Lee to Present Paper to Panel in Atlanta, GA
Professor Lee is to present "A 'Ghostly Matter' in the Multiethnic Japanese Empire" in a panel "(De)Colonizing the Korean Body: The Colonial Politics of Malcontent, Miscegenation and Muscularity in the Japanese Empire" at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA on April 3, 2008.
Professor Lee was the winner of the 2007 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award (Graduate Student Advisory Council, The Graduate College, Eastern Illinois University).
She chaired and served as a discussant for panel discussion on "Interracial Relations: Asians in America" for the Asian Heritage Month Panel Discussion at EIU on April 12, 2007.
Professor Lee was a panelist for "Mentors/Mentees: The Faculty Circles Mentoring Connection" at the New Faculty Orientation at EIU on August 8, 2007.
On October 19-20, Professor Lee chaired a panel, "Body that Matters: History, Memory, and Corporeal Discourse in Twentieth-Century Japan and Korea," and delivered a paper titled "Malcontent Koreans (futei senjin): Colonial Representation of Korean Bodies in the Japanese Empire" at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Later that month, on October 31, she organized and moderated a panel discussion on "Graduate Mentoring: Challenges and Strategies" sponsered by the Graduate College and the Office of Faculty Development at EIU.
She was also an invited speaker for Korea Workshop 2007 Gender and Race in Korea at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she delivered a paper "Differentiating Korean Bodies in Twentieth-Century Japan" on November 2, 2007.
Her translation of a leading Japanese scholar's book on early twentieth-century Korea-Japan relationship will appear in March 2008 in Seoul, Korea under the title of Kwandongdaejijin tangshi ui Chosonin haksal (The Massacre of Koreans during the Great Kanto Earthquake). Additionally, Professor Lee's article "Commemorating the Great Kanto Earthquake: Futei Senjin and the Politics of Mourning in the Japanese Empire" will appear in The Journal of Asiatic Studies (Asea Yongu), a quarterly journal of the Asiatic Research Center of Korea, in March 2008.
Newton Key Delivered Papers at Two Conferences
Newton Key delivered a paper, "Mapping Aristocratic Sociability in the Restoration Metropolis," at the "London in Text and History, 1400-1700" Conference, September 13th through 15th at Jesus College, Oxford. He also attended the "Social Networks in Early-modern England" Conference, September 17th through 19th at New College, Oxford, as well as presenting a related paper "Politics of the Included: Aristocratic Sociability in the Restoration Metropolis" at the "North American Conference on British Studies," November 9th through 11th in San Francisco.
History Graduate Program Designated as "First Choice"
Eastern Illinois University's Graduate School recently awarded the History Graduate program the designation of "First Choice." The History Graduate program is the first program to receive the honor after an exhaustive review conducted by the graduate school seeking to identify programs that "articulate a standard for intellectual excellence that pervades all discussions and decisions about faculty, students, curriculum, and research direction."
See the DEN article here
Graduate Students Take Home Honors at
2007 Phi Alpha Theta Indiana regional conference
History graduate students Krishna Thomas and Robyn Carswell took first and
second place honors (respectively) in the category of “graduate student research
papers” at the 2007 Phi Alpha Theta Indiana regional conference held at the
University of Evansville.
Dr. Roger Beck named EIU's new Distinguished Professor for 2007
Krishna Thomas ties for First Place in Women's Studies Program Essay Contest
with paper written for Dr. Sace Elder
Krishna Thomas and Emily Ramage tied for first place in the graduate division
of the Women's Studies Program Essay Contest. Thomas's "Lustmord in Weimar
Germany" was written for Sace Elder. An awards reception is to be held at
6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, at the Tarble Arts Center. The event is open to
the public.
History Department faculty receive CAH travel awards
Congratulations to the following colleagues who have received travel awards
from CAH:
Dr. Anne L. Foster to speak at Phi Alpha Theta banquet:
"Peripheries and Centers: Thoughts on World History by a US Historian"
Dr. Anne L. Foster from Indiana State University will be the featured speaker
at this year’s Phi Alpha Theta banquet, scheduled for April 20, 2007. Dr.
Foster, whose specialties include U.S. Diplomatic and Southeast Asian History
has titled her talk "Peripheries and Centers: Thoughts on World History by
a US Historian"
Thomas Bender to Speak on the Modern Metropolis
Thomas Bender, professor of the Humanities and professor of
History, New York University, will give this year's Barry D. Riccio memorial
series lectureHistory, Theory, and the Metropolis, Thursday, March 1, 7:00
pm, Lumpkin Auditorium. Professor Bender is the author of many works, including
his most recent, A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History
(New York, 2006) and The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan
Idea (2002).
Dr. Deb Reid to Speak in Embarrass Valley Film Festival Conference: Burl
Ives, September 20-23 at EIU
Dr. Reid will be speaking Friday, Sept. 22nd, at 2p.m. in the Tarble Arts
Center Atrium on "Contextual History of the '50s" as part of the
Embarrass Valley Film Festival
conference on EIU Alumni Burl Ives. There will also be various exhibits on
Mr. Ives in Booth Library and several free films. An online
conference program is available. (September 2006)
Annual History Teachers Conference, Thursday, October 12, 2006 at Eastern
Illinois
The 27th
Annual History Teachers Conference will be held at the M.L. King, Jr.
Student Union on the campus of Eastern Illinois University, Thursday, 12 October.
Brochure
and Registration
available online. (August 2006)
Bailey K. Young chair of panel in Boston, Massachusetts
Bailey K. Young organized and chaired panel, “The Place of Archaeology
in Medieval Studies,” held at the 81st Meeting of the Medieval Academy of
America, Boston, Mass., on April 1. He also chaired the panel "The Archaeology
of the Village, From Medieval England to Colonial New England." (April 2006)
Newton Key speaker at EIU's HAPA Meeting
Newton Key spoke on "Digital Technology in the Museum: a Cautionary
Tale," at the Historical Symposium, EIU's Historical Administration Program
(Alumni) Association annual meeting, on April 1. (April 2006)
Newton Key to speak at the Courts Seminar, Newberry Library, 29 April
On Saturday, April 29, 2006, 11:00a.m., Newton Key will speak
on"The Duke of Monmouth's Lodgings as a Reversionary Court?: Hedge-Lane
Lords Feast in Exclusion Crisis London" at the Seminar in Courts, Households
and Lineages at the Newberry Library, Chicago. (April 2006)
History Department Honors Banquet, Friday, April 21, featured speaker Dr.
Scott Levi
The Spring 2006 annual History Department Honors Banquet and
Phi Alpha Theta initiation will be held at the Martin Luther King Student
Union in the University Ballroom on Friday, April 21. Refreshments will begin
at 6:00 p.m. Our featured speaker this year will be Dr. Scott Levi, formerly
assistant professor of history at Eastern Illinois University, and now assistant
professor of history at the University of Louisville. His talk is entitled
"The New Great Game: Central Asia at the Crossroads of Modern Empires."
Dr. Levi received his Ph.D in 2000 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
His first book, The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and its Trade, 1550-1900,
was published in 2002. He has published numerous articles and is currently
working on another book manuscript, tentatively titled, Central Asia at the
Crossroads of World History: Khoqand, from Khanate to Colony in the Farghana
Valley (1709-1876). (April 2006)
Martin Elzy, MA in History graduate 1969, now EIU Distinguished Graduate
Alum
Martin Elzy (MA History, 1969, Ph.D., Miami University of Ohio),
has been named the 2006 College of Arts & Humanities Distinguished Graduate
Alum. He was Associate Director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library,
in Atlanta. He and his wife will be on campus starting Thursday evening, and
we in the History Department will be hosting them both on Friday. He
will be leading a seminar on careers in presidential libraries and archives
for the grad students in the AM, and will be available to meet with the faculty
and interested members of the public in the seminar room, 2:00-3:00.
(April 2006)
Jin-hee Lee Invited Speaker for East Asia Workshop
Jin-hee Lee was an invited speaker for East Asia Workshop and
for the interdisciplinary East Asia Graduate Certificate Program seminar at
the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign on Jan. 30, 2006. Dr. Lee was featured as one of the leading
scholars in the field of colonialism and post-colonialism in East Asia along
with two other experts with whom she presented a workshop titled "Coming
of Age in Colonial Korea: Japanese and Korean Literary Vistas." (February
2006)
Newton Key's Nichols Prize-Winning Article Published
Newton Key co-wrote "Metropolitan Puritans and the Varieties
of Godly Reform in Interregnum Monmouth," with Joseph Ward, which has
been published in Welsh History Review/Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru 22,
4 (Dec. 2005). A version of the article won the Nichols Prize for the Local
History of England and Wales. (February 2006)
History Abroad/Study Abroad: Last Info Meetings Before Registration Deadline
Newton Key will hold two informational meetings about the Harlaxton/London
History Abroad Program for Summer 2006, in 2750 Coleman, Wednesday, 15
February, 12:00-12:20, and Thursday, 16 February, 6:00-6:20. It definitely
looks like we will be going this Summer (the first History at Harlaxton from
Eastern Ilinois, probably the first history program in the UK from here) Anyone
interested in learning about the program, especially those who have not yet
registered or submitted a pre-application
form are urged to attend, and learn more about program itinerary/syllabus,
opportunities and costs. (February 2006)
Ed Wehrle publishes book on relations between U.S.and Vietnamese Labor Movements
Edmund F. Wehrle has published Between
a River and a Mountain: The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War (Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 2005). Based on newly-opened Cold War records
from U.S., French, and British archives, the book tells the story of the AFL-CIO's
20-year struggle to mentor and aid a non-communist labor movement in South
Vietnam. (January 2006)
Essay on Mound Builders by Terry Barnhart published
Terry A. Barnhart has contributed "Early Accounts of the Ohio
Mounds" as a chapter in Ohio Archaeology: An Illustrated Chronicle of
Ohio's Ancient American Indian Cultures, ed. by Bradley T. Lepper'd (Wilmington,
OH: Orange Frazier Press, 2005), 237-249. (January 2006)
Professor Jeffrey Insko to speak on "The Logic of Left Alone: James Fenimore
Cooper and the Origins of American Privacy"
During the last forty years, privacy--or what Supreme Court
Justice Louis Brandeis famously called "the right to be let alone"-- has taken
on increasing importance in American civic life. From debates over abortion
and gay rights, the war on drugs, the regulation of new technologies such
as the internet, and most recently, the war on terrorism, the concept
of privacy appears to encompass almost everything and is thus, as legal scholar
Laurence Tribe has said, a concept in danger of conveying nothing. In this
talk, Insko argues that privacy as we know it today has not always been the
self-evident good it often seems today. In early America, rootless individuals
wishing to be left alone, like James Fenimore Cooper's iconic woodsman Natty
Bumppo, were more likely to be viewed with suspicion. In its depiction of
early American settlement life and the clash between Natty Bumppo and the
law, Cooper's 1823 novel The Pioneers looks forward to a right to privacy
from the perspective of a historical moment when no such right existed. As
such, The Pioneers registers many of the contradictions and incoherencies
that continue to vex legal. social, and literary conceptions of privacy. In
this examination of legal history (including recent Supreme Court rulings
in privacy law) in relation to Cooper's novel, Insko traces the historically
shifting sites of privacy: from its origins in property rights, to the home
as a haven free from the prying eyes of the public, to the modern liberal,
autonomous and rights-bearing self.
Professor Jeffrey Insko (Oakland University) will speak in
Booth Library Conference Room, Friday January 27, 3:30-4:40. This event is
cosponsored by the History and English departments. (January 2006)
In 1998, Andrew
Carroll founded the Legacy Project, a national, all-volunteer effort to
honor and remember those who have served this nation in wartime by seeking
out and saving their letters. From this project came Carroll’s bestseller
War Letters, the compelling correspondence of American military men and women,
as well as the PBS documentary of the same name. The book features 200 previously
unpublished letters from the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam,
the Persian Gulf, Somalia, and Bosnia. Studs Terkel said of the collection,
“These war letters are deeply moving, more revelatory and more powerful
than any dispatch from the front. It’s the truly felt history of what
war is all about.” This book came on the heels of Carroll’s national
bestseller Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters.
Mr. Carroll wil speak at Eastern Illinois University, Thursday,
January 26, at 7:00 pm in Lumpkin Hall 2030. His talk will be of real interest
to history students and history buffs since it is about the whole process
of gathering, preserving, organizing, editing, publishing, etc. documents
from history. This talk is sponsored by the History Department and is
open to the public. (January 2006)
What will I do with my B.A?; What will I do this Summer?:
Newton Key Provides Some Answers
Newton Key will offers his experience and thoughts on the use
of a History B.A., a B.A. in the Social Sciences, or a B.A. in the Humanities;
as well as information on a new opportunity to Study Abroad, Summer 2006 in
a History
Club informal talk, 16 November, 6:00 p.m, 2751 Coleman Hall. Based
in part on his own work experience abroad, from cleaning houses to writing
on computers in education, this meeting will also be a chance to learn about
history, History
Abroad: British Rulers and the British Ruled (Class and the History of the
British People since 1700), for Summer 2006. (November 2005)
John Bodnar to Speak on the American Memory of World War II
John Bodnar, Chancellors’ Professor & Chair of History
Department, Indiana University will give this year's Barry D. Riccio memorial
series lecture-"What
Americans Remember and Forget About World War II”, Monday, November 14,
7:00 pm, Lumpkin Auditorium. Professor Bodnar is the author of many works,
including Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People
in American Film (2003), and he is currently finishing a project on the
cultural assault on democracy in America. (November 2005)
Beyond Fences Opening Lecture in Rockton, Illinois
The next lecture in conjunction with the Illinois openings
of the Smithsonian Institution's Museums
on Main Street exhibit, "Between Fences" will be at Macktown Living History
Center, Rockton, Nov. 4, 2005. The lecture is entitled "'To Embrace or Breach':
Fence Meanings and Metaphors." Upcoming venues for the exhibit and lecture
will be: General John A. Logan Museum, Murphysboro, Dec. 2005; Bushnell Historical
Society, Bushnell, Feb. 2006; Jefferson County Historical Society, Mount Vernon,
Mar. 2006; Early American Museum, Mahomet, May 2006. (November 2005)
Frankenstein: Gore And Latin America
José R. Deustua, associate professor of history, will
address the influence of Frankenstein in Latin America, whether as a result
of literary, film, or popular culture references at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Nov.
3, in room 4440, Booth Library. The lecture will also deal with gore as a
result of European effects on Latin America or as a domestic creation or a
combination of both. After its independence from Spain and Portugal in the
1810s and 1820s, the image of Frankenstein and its symbolism were transposed
to Latin America. However, there were also symbolic domestic traditions of
fear of the unknown and especially of unholy beings, such as the Andean pishtacos,
who hunt human beings for their blood and fat. These connections are more
clearly drawn with the images of vampires and Dracula, as well as with a Catholic-based
imagery of devils and demons. (November 2005)
Eastern Illinois University to host 26th Annual History Teachers
Conference
On Thursday, November 3, 2005, the conference “Challenges and
Choices: Teaching History and the Social Studies in the Twenty-First Century”
will be held on campus. Dr. Charles Titus of the History Department has run
this successful meeting for educators for many years. The conference
is open to all those who teach history and social studies in a secondary or
middle level classroom. Speakers will present workshops on many current topics
including: The Oral e-History Project, Survival Advice for Beginning Teachers
and Improving History Students' Content Reading Skills. For more information,
please visit Teachers
Conference Website. (October 2005)
Grant awarded by Illinois Humanities Council for Mound Builders
exhibition
The Illinois Humanities Council has awarded a grant for the
Mound Builders exhibition, based on a proposal co-written by Terry A. Barnhart
(interim coordinator of the M.A. in Historical Administration Program and
project consultant) and Michael Watts (Director of the Tarble Arts Center).
Barnhart is the project consultant for the grant and Mr. Watts the fiscal
agent. Kit Morice, curator of education at the Tarble, is the project
director; Rick Riccio, who teaches the exhibits course in the History Department,
is the project manager. The Mound Builders exhibit opens at the Tarble
Arts Center on April 22nd, with a traveling component of the going to
participating libraries in the area thereafter. (October 2005)
Professor Deustua spent Summer of 2005 in Mexico researching in Mexican
Archives
José Deustua was hosted by the Instituto Nacional
de Antropologia e Historia (National Institute of Anthropology and History).
He also gave a lecture at the Colegio Mexiquense (Mexiquense University)
on the "social economies and ecological economics of 19th-century Latin America".
In September 2005 he also gave a lecture part of the Latino Heritage Month
at EIU. The lecture was a discussion and commentary on the Peruvian
State and the Amazon rainforest. The film, The Green Wall (La Muralla
Verde), part of the talk's topic, was shown the previous night.
The Green Wall is a 1970 Peruvian film made by cinema auteur, Armando
Robles Godoy. (October 2005)
Graduate Student speaks on Coal Mining History at the Conference on Illinois
History
Mary Barford, an EIU history graduate student, will deliver
her paper "Rural Radicals: Illinois Coal Minors and the Farmer-Labor
Party" at the 7th annual Conference on Illinois History. It is held at
the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, IL on October 27-28.
(October 2005)
Bailey Young Informs INRAP in Paris about Salvage Archaeology and the TVA
Bailey Young co-authored a paper on salvage archaeology and
the Tennessee Valley Authority, which he delivered by invitation at L'archéologie
préventive dans le Monde, International Symposium organized by
the Institut National de la Recherche archéologique préventive
(INRAP) and the Biblioth que Nationale, in Paris, Sept. 30-Oct 2,
2005. This Summer he had undertaken a research trip to McClung Museum of Anthropology
University of Tennessee/Knoxville to work with co-author Dr. Lynne P. Sullivan,
Curator of Archaeology and Bennett Graham, TVA Archaeologist, on this presentation.
(October 2005)
Excavations at Walhain Castle, Belgium, Bear Fruit for Bailey Young and
Others
Bailey Young co-authored the notice "Walhain-Saint-Paul:
le chateau. Présentation synthétique des campagnes 2003-2004.",
Chronique d'archéologie wallon, 2005, which itself is based on
their longer excavation report on Landscape Transformation and Walhain Castle.
Dr. Young currently is preparing for the 2006 Summer Archaeology Program in
Belgium. (October 2005)
Dark Ages and Misbehaving Mérovingiennes Discussed
at Eastern Illinois
Bailey Young and other members of Eastern Illinois Medieval
Studies Committee have organized the first Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary
Lecture on "Sainted Women of the Dark Ages and Misbehaving Mérovingiennes:
Grappling with Gender in Early Medieval Europe," by Danuta Shanzer, Professor
of Classics, University of Illinois-Urbana, October 25, 2005. (October 2005)
Monsters Before Frankenstein: The Medieval Heritage
Bailey Young, professor of history, will moderate a panel discussion
on "Monsters Before Frankenstein: The Medieval Heritage" at 7 p.m. Wednesday,
Nov. 2, in the University Ballroom, MLK University Union, with: David Raybin,
professor of English; Jan Marquardt, professor of art; Grant Sterling, assistant
professor of philosophy; and Bonnie Irwin, dean, Honors College. This panel
is offered as part of the Frankenstein:
Penetrating the Secrets of Nature traveling exhibition on display at Booth
Library until Nov. 22. There is a schedule
of other events online. (October 2005)
Sace Elder Discusses Early-20th Century Gendered Violence at German Studies
Association Conference
Sace Elder presented her paper, "Catastrophe, Crisis, and Conflict:
Gendered Violence, 1914-1924," at the German Studies Association Conference
in Milwaukee, WI, on October 2, 2005. (October 2005)
Ian Binnington to Speak on Southern Identity at the Southern Historical
Association
Ian Binnington organized a session on "Identity, Regionalism,
and Southerners in the Antebellum Period" (Annual
Meeting of Southern Historical Association) for the Annual Meeting of
the Southern Historical Association, in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 3-5,
2005. He will deliver a paper titled "We Must All Stand Together: Visions
of a Future Confederacy in Beverly Tucker's The Partisan Leader." (October
2005)
Jin-hee Lee to Deliver paper on Archives in the Japanese Empire
Jin-hee Lee will deliver a paper on "Narratives of Fear, Rumor
and Massacre in the Archives of the Japanese Empire," at at the inaugural
symposium of Comparing Colonialisms Workshop, The Thing Speaks for Itself:
Articulating Evidence and Discourse in Colonial Studies. It will be held at
the University of Chicago on November 17-18, 2005. (October 2005)
Jin-hee Lee to Speak on Violence in the early 20th-Century Japanese Metropole
Jin-hee Lee will deliver a paper on "Fear of Violence, Violence
of Fear: Vigilantes, Self-defense, and Colonial Violence in the Japanese Metropole,
1910s-1920s," at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting in San Francisco,
April 6-9, 2006. (October 2005)
Colonial Violence and Imperial Archives paper by Jin-hee Lee
Jin-hee Lee gave a paper on "Undisciplining the Archives of
Empire: Message, Medium, and Colonial Mayhem in the Japanese Metropole," at
the 54th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, in East
Lansing, Michigan, September 25, 2005. (October 2005)
Newton Key Examines the Politics of Drinking and not Drinking
Newton Key organized a session on "Politics are Good to Drink:
Use and abuse of alcohol in early modern politics" for the North American
Conference on British Studies, Denver, Colorado, October 7-9, 2005, and delivered
a paper on 'Eating the Health of the King': political drinking and political
temperance in Stuart Britain." (October 2005)
Great Fall Picnic
On September 17th, 2005 History faculty, staff, students and
family gathered at Fox Ridge State Park for the Fall History Picnic. A thank
you goes out to the cooks, and the social committee. It was a great opportunity
for many to gather and meet families, graduate students, and catch up with
the faculty. (September 2005)
Beyond Fences Opening Lecture
Nora Pat Small presented the opening lecture in the new Smithsonian's
Museums on Main Street
exhibit, "Between Fences," Sept. 17, 10:00 a.m. in Oakland at the Columbian
Building. The exhibit will be traveling to 6 sites in Illinois. Professors
Deb Reid and Nora Pat Small are serving as the Illinois Humanities Scholars
for the project and will be trading off giving the lecture at the various
sites. (September 2005)
From Tübingen, Christopher Harvie, Arrives to Give Us
a Historical View of Europe's Future
Christopher Harvie, Professor of Englisches Seminar, Abteilung
für Landeskunde Großbritanniens und Irlands, Universität Tübingen,
will talk on "Whatever Happened
to Regional Europe?," Monday, September 26, 4:30, at Tarble Arts Center.
Dr. Harvie is a well-published historian of Scotland, Wales, England, and
European affairs (see his useful and humorous website <http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/intelligent-mr-toad/>).
The talk is sponsored by Eastern Illinois's Departments of History, Geology/Geography,
Political Science, and History. (September 2005)
