2004-05

Wehrle Featured in The Historian

Edmund F. Wehrle, History, recently had an article, "Guns, Butter, Leon Keyserling, the AFL-CIO and the Fate of Full-Employment Economics," featured in The Historian, 66 (Winter 2004): 730-748. (March 2005)

Barnhart Contributes a Chapter

Riccio Exhibit Services Designs New Exhibit at the Witte Museum

Rick Riccio, History, of Riccio Exhibit Services recently designed an new exhibition, "World of Water," at the Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas, which opened Thursday, March 3, 2005. (February 2005)

Bailey Young Lectures at Cornell University

Bailey K.Young, History, delivered a lecture on February 3 to Quodlibet, the association of graduate students in the Medieval Studies Program at Cornell University. The invitation was proposed by Chris Bailey (winner of the EIU best MA thesis award in 2002, now a PhD candidate in history at Cornell). The topic was "Digging a Castle in Belgium," EIU's joint project with the University of Louvain, in which Mr. Bailey took part in 2000. Dr. Young also recently co-authored “Etude archeologique du chateau du Walhain-saint-Paul. La transformation du paysage et le Chateau. Rapport de Fouilles et Projets de Recherche (English title: Landscape Transformation and Walhain Castle: Excavation Report and Research Project), by Raymond Brulet, Laurent Verslype, Bailey Young, William I. Woods, and collaborators, co-ordinated by Laurent Verslype. (CRAN, Louvain-la-Neuve, 2004) (February 2005)

Reid and Small Participate in the American Historical Association's Annual Conference

Debra A. Reid organized and chaired a panel presentation entitled, "Historic Site as Prothetic Memory." Nora Pat Small presented her paper, "The Five Mile House in Local Memory," for the panel. The American Historical Association's Annual Conference was held on January 9th in Seattle, WA. (January 2005)

Martin Marty Speaks on "The First Amendment and Religion: Subordinate but not Subservient"

Martin Marty gave a lecture for the Barry D. Riccio memorial series, Wednesday, January 19th, at 7:00 pm in Lumpkin Hall. Dr. Martin Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity in the Divinity School; also in the Committee on the History of Culture, University of Chicago, is one of the most eminent interpreters of religion and culture today, and we were extremely fortunate to have him on our campus. (January 2005)

Terry Barnhart Publishes on History of American Anthropology and Antiquities

Terry A. Barnhart, Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology, will be published in May 2005, as a volume in the Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology series edited by Regna Darnell and Stephen O. Murray. Barnhart also has an article in the Journal of the History of Collections (May 2004), "In His Own Right: Dr. Edwin Hamilton Davis and the Davis Collection of American Antiquities." (November 2004)

Smith, Wehrle, and Mazumder Participate in Panels for the Public Policy Institue, November 29, 2004; Eastern Illinois University

David Smith, Ed Wehrle and Rajit Mazumder participated in two panels on November 29th for the Public Policy Institute at Eastern Illinois University.

Panel #1: "Asian View of U.S. Foreign Policy" November 29, 3:00-5:00, Charleston-Mattoon Room, University Union. Speaker: Li Tan, News Editor, Radio Free Asia. Resondents: Panel of Faculty, including David Smith.

Panel #2: "Middle Eastern and European Reactions to U.S. Foreign Policy" November 29, 7:00-9:00, Charleston-Mattoon Room, University Union. Speaker: Mohammed Zabarah, Professor of International Relations at Sanaa University (Yeman), 1979-2002. Respondents: Panel of Faculty, including Ed Wehrle and Rajit Mazumder. (November 2004)

Debra A. Reid Awarded 2004 Candace Tangorra Matelic Award

Debra A. Reid, History, whose article, "Living History's Long Row to Hoe: A Life-Cycle for Open Air Museums and Historic Sites?" appeared in the ALHFAM Bulletin (Winter 2004), won the 2004 Candace Tangorra Matelic Award, presented by the Midwest Open Air Museums Coordinating Council (MOMCC). The award recognizes Dr. Matelic's role in founding MOMCC and serving as the organization's first president. It is presented annually to the best essay on a topic related to MOMCC's purpose, "to promote excellence and to provide a forum for the interchange of materials, information, ideas, and consideration of professional issues within the open air, interactive, and historical museum professions." (November 2004)

Midwest Open Air Museums Coordinating Council

Newton Key Contributes to Oxford DNB

Newton Key has written ten biographies of 17th-century clerics and politicians--Samuel Annesley, William Assheton, John Birch, Sir Job Charlton, Paul Foley, Richard Gardiner [Gardyner], Francis Gregory, Sir William Gregory, John Lightfoot, Adam Littleton--which were recently published in the massive Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 60 vols. and online (2004, completely revising and expanding the original DNB, 1884-1900). (October 2004)

Justin Thomas presents at the Mid-American Conference on History

Justin Thomas, MA in History student, recently presented a paper at the Mid-American Conference on History in Springfield, MO. The paper was, "U.S. Policy on the Path to Pinochet's Chile," at the conference hosted by Southwestern Missouri State University, September 30- October 2, 2004. (October 2004)

2004 Mid-America Conference on History

25th Annual Eastern Illinois University History Teachers Conference

On Thursday, October 28, 2004, Eastern Illinois University hosted the History Teachers Conference, "Transforming Teaching for Tomorrow- New Approaches to History and Social Studies Education." The Conference helps promote excellence in history and social studies teaching by providing teachers with information about imaginative avenues to history and social studies teaching as well as an opportunity to network and learn from other teachers across Illinois. The Conference sessions explored: examining conflicting values in teaching social studies and history; unique approaches to involve students in the excitement of history such as cemetery walks and community lecture series; a new website for exploring social, economic, and historical connections of the Mississippi River Basin; involving social studies and history students in purposeful service learning projects; meeting the challenges of integrated history and English classrooms through the Essential Questions and Understanding Strategy; and a “Swap Shop” where teachers can exchange their own techniques and methods. (September 2004)

last updated on September 12, 2005